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Nick coffee. All right, ladies and

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gentlemen, let's get it started.
The well, the show started a while

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ago, but we're starting the five
o'clock hour. This is where we mean

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business. I mean we mean business
and do our best all throughout the three

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hours of this program. But you
know, five o'clock's when you know it's

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it's when we're coming down the stretch
and I like to get everybody caught up

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who's just now joining in, and
also you know, set the table for

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the final hour here and we're continuing
to take in the new era of Louisville

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basketball with Pat Kelsey hasn't coached a
game yet, he's only been here for

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a week, but he continues to
uh to get fans excited in a variety

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of ways and Louisville right now.
And it's look, it's this is a

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little I wouldn't say misleading, but
you know it's not worth a whole lot

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as we speak, as most players
in the portal haven't picked a school yet.

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But with the two guys he brought
with them from Charleston, Rain Smith,

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who, of course, I mean
he's somebody that you kind of just

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not that you forget about him,
but he followed. There wasn't there wasn't

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a race, right, It wasn't
like you had to really just kind of,

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you know, sit back and see
who he was going to pick.

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I think it was pretty obvious when
he entered the portal. It was the

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day that Pat Kelsey was getting the
job. So nonetheless, it it's still

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a good addition. And then you
throw in James Scott, the young freshman,

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and then now Terrence Edwards Junior Fats
as they call him, who committed

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yesterday. Right now Louisville has the
second best portal class, And again I

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understand, like that's not really worth
a whole lot, given how early we

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are in this process. When's the
last time Louisville could reference like a ranking

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about something and feel good. So
I'm not going to knock anybody for really

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just going above and beyond here when
it comes to embracing this new era and

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the good vibes that have come with
it on you know, just a week's

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time. So John L. Davis
is the transfer we've talked about throughout the

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show today, somebody who will probably
end up at Michigan with Dusty May,

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but at Louisville, according to On
three, is in the mix here and

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really appears to be in you know, good shape essentially. If it's not

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Michigan, looks like it's gonna be
Louisville. So we'll see what happens.

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And I don't really think there's any
pressure to get him, because again him

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following Dusty made of Michigan just seems
like the most obvious thing. But as

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we've mentioned, you know, Michigan
is one of those schools that has not

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been able to really kill it on
the portal because they apparently don't have a

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great nil situation for basketball and it's
not an easy school to transfer to.

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Again, two of the best players
in college basketball this last season, Terret

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Shannon junior and Caleb Love, both
transferred to Michigan and couldn't stay. Caleb

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Love was this past season, and
it was because of an academic thing he

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couldn't I mean, I think he
had his four year degree at at North

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Carolina, but somehow he couldn't get
into like their graduate program or something.

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And then Terrence Shannon junior, he
transferred to Michigan two years ago and ended

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up going to Illinois because I don't
know if it was an academic thing,

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if it was money, and I
know the money thing is an issue because

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Michigan could not compete with a bunch
of schools who wanted Hunter Dickinson and he

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was able to go to Kansas and
make a lot of money, money that

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you know, Michigan couldn't I'm sorry, Yeah, Michigan couldn't match. So

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it's going to be hectic when it
comes to the portal for I think some

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weeks to come here because Louisville's got
a lot of spots to fill and there's

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countless players available. But the other
name that we've talked about here and there,

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there's no real update, But I
know Pat Kelsey was in to see

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him yesterday, which I think is
you know, a good sign making the

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visit to go see him, and
then I'm sure they're hoping to get him

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on campus for a visit. That
is the Toledo transfer Dante Maddox Junior,

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who again other schools involved for him
are some of the best schools in the

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country. So I think Trillie Donovan
is the one who put it out there

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that Louisville is is the believed leader
for Maddox junior. So good, good

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momentum, no doubt, some other
things that we've brought up here and there

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because it's breaking. It was breaking
news throughout the show. One Eric Musselman.

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He's leaving Arkansas. He finally got
out of Fayetteville, which has been

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trying to do for quite some time
now, and he landed probably a place

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where he's really comfortable. LA.
He's from the West Coast and us.

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He's a good job. They're now
heading to the Big ten, and he's

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a good coach. So I'm not
trying to do anything to take the shine

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on the attention away from our man
Pat Kelcey. But I said it over

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and over throughout the coaching search in
even when Louisville was in season still and

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we knew they were going to make
a change, they just hadn't done it

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yet. I didn't understand how Musselman
wasn't like the top guy for just about

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any job that opened up, because
he wanted out clearly. And he's a

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hell of a coach as results speak
for themselves. And I think there's some

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off the floor stuff, not to
say he's some you know, criminal or

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a terrible person, but you know, there's some stuff that comes with the

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Muscleman experience that I guess administrators would
want to bring into their university. But

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USC got them a good coach.
So now Arkansas's open. And Arkansas invested

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in basketball in a major way when
they hired Eric Musselman. I mean,

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I don't know if they gave him
like a huge but they invested in him

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once he got there, if that
makes sense, right, Like you think

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he had two different contract extensions and
raises because he started winning at a high

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level, brought in great players.
They went to the Elite eight twice in

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to Sweet sixteen. So Arkansas cares
about basketball, and I think they were

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kind of reminded that they've got a
huge fan base that will support it in

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a major way when there is success. They just went so long without having

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success. I mean, they were
phenomenal in the nineties and then once Richardson

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moved on, I mean they just
they didn't They were not relevant really at

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all until Muscot there. So the
belief is they're going to go after Chris

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Beard, and I think that'd be
a good fit for them, to be

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here real quick and go to the
nil stuff, because we know louisvell is

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off to a great start since Pat
Kelsey got here. I mean the Rick

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Keeber campaign where he's gonna put up
a million dollars once Louisville raises a million

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dollars, and I mean that's two
million to work with, which for the

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most part, I mean, that's
that's all. I mean. I don't

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believe some of the numbers you hear
about players as far as what they make,

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but you got to keep in mind
the collective resource is more so to

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I guess, disperse within your your
roster. Right, if you're a big

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name, like for example, DJ
Wagner, he had an NIL deal with

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Nike, right, I'm not sure
if they got a return on that investment.

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Might have been a wasted investment if
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that has nothing to do with the
collective for UK, that's just that's that's

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a brand, a company that's willing
to throw some money at players like Kenny

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Kenny Payne. I don't know who. It was a lot of his maybe

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his basketball connections is I don't know
who. I guess it couldn't because that

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would be against the rules. But
Kenny had his own NIL resources to get

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players like Sky Clark, Trey White, a lot of the freshmen that signed.

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But a lot of that money didn't
come from the collective, So you

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know, there's other ways to do
it. So again, I don't want

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to act as if when you see
these campaigns from different nils, a different

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schools and you see the amount of
money that they've raised and what they have,

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that's not all the money. So
I'm not going to act like Louisville

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being in this shape. In this
shape means that you know, nobody can

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compete because again we'll never get full
transparency on what kind of money through NIL

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each program has. But with all
that said, clearly Louisville is killing it

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right now, and I would never
indicate that Kentucky doesn't have the resources to

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compete at the high level when it
comes to money. But the optics of

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their current La Familia in Iile collective, and I know we just talked about

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this the other day, might have
been yesterday. They're trying to raise a

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million dollars they have under fifty thousand
dollars at forty eighth and forty three dollars

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right now, which is not good, and it's starting to get some attention

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from those who covered Kentucky. Like
the Cat's Pause, which is part of

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twenty four seven Sports, they put
together something just kind of highlighting that they

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announced this initiative and raised over thirty
five thousand dollars in the first twenty four

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hours, which I believe when they
launched it they'd yet to, you know,

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lose to Oakland. I'm trying to
see if there's a date on this

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website, but it doesn't look like
there is, at least from what I

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can see. But I'm pretty sure
this was announced right before NCAA tournament action

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and they raised a bunch of money
then and then since then not much money

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at all. So yeah, this
is from the Cat's Pause, says the

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Kentucky Law Familiar initiative raised thirty five
thousand dollars in the first twenty four hours.

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In the nineteen days since there,
it tells me how long it's been,

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so roughly three weeks since then,
they've raised less than fifteen thousand dollars,

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so comparatively speaking, again, this
does not mean Louisville has way more

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money than Kentucky when it comes to
nil overall. But Louisville did a campaign

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that launched I Believe on Monday,
and they're already over half of a million

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dollars from just fans donating money.
So the optics of it, again,

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it just is it's an odd look. But then again, like Kentucky fans,

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it's such a weird marriage. Man, it's it's it's a divorce that

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is inevitable and they just won't pull
the trigger and move on. And I

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kind of get it, because this
would not be an easy thing to do

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in any aspect, even if you
had the money, you wouldn't be easy

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to do. And you got to
keep in mind if somebody you if you

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rely on outside money, meaning not
money that's coming from the athletic department,

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from like revenue. I'm talking like
nil people. Rich folks will give you

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money to help out if you if
they give you a big chunk of money,

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you know, Let's say say one
person gives you twelve million to go

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towards the third what was it thirty
three million or something to get rid of

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cow. Let's say one person gives
you twelve million. That's not a good

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thing for you. It's nice that
somebody has that money to give you that,

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to give you that and help you
out, But that person that gave

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you twelve million, they're going to
think that they're entitled. I mean,

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it's just a It's not an ideal
situation in any aspect, but it also

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is something that I feel like a
lot of people just believe should happen,

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because again, it ain't working.
Cal doesn't seem to like it there,

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he doesn't seem to like his fan
base. I don't believe he's truly going

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to change like he says he was
going to. And Kentucky fans they're gonna

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still support and want it to work
out, but like they're over this dude.

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And yet Cal won't leave because he's
making too much money. He's too

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stubborn. And with UK and Mitch
Barnhart, I mean, I just I

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think the belief that I'm just just
my gut feeling. As far as Barnhart,

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I think he knows Cal is undefeated
in the offseason, never lost wins

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the off season. Every year,
he will gas up his team, He'll

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add some guys. He's got good
freshmen coming in already, I'm sure he'll

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do. He'll hit some guys in
the portal and he's built for next year,

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Yeah, exactly. And then they'll
they'll put you know, there'll be

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some videos of these freshmen dunking in
an empty gym with their shirts off,

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and it'll be shared millions of times
in Kentucky will claim, oh man,

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we're gonna be and I'm not.
I mean, yes, I'm kind of

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mocking you, but like I get
it, what are you gonna do not

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want your team to be good?
So I think with Mitch looked, the

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best, you know, the best
scenario is to just ride it out,

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avoid paying thirty three million, avoid
trying to get a coach that could match

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the you know, match count.
I mean, look the easy, the

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obvious statement from fans who want Caliperry
gone when they are asked who you want

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him to go get and they'll say
this, anybody that can beat Saint Peter's

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in Oakland, And I get it, and you're right. But then again,

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like Cal also has in those two
seasons where you got bounced and embarrassed

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and those look, this is what
makes college basketball crazy. That matters more

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than anything but it wasn't as if
you missed the tournament because you had an

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awful year. You had a two
seed in the three seed. In those

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years, the years weren't bad.
In fact, even though Kentucky has really

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high standards, I have a hard
time thinking that a two seed and the

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three seed would be viewed as a
regular season that was anything but successful.

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So I think it's you know,
I think Mitch knows they're going to win

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the offseason again and fans will get
excited, and then you just hold out

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hope and maybe once again you're holding
out hope until March, because again this

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past year, they had some rocky
stretches, right, I mean, they

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really didn't turn it on until at
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could potentially miss the tournament just because
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they were playing. And then they
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So I get it when it comes
to like the risk assessment, it's probably

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the wise move for Barnhart. But
either way, like Kentucky fans, I

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just think they have hit a level
of like at least right now, and

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again I have a hard time thinking
they won't buy in and think they're going

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to be great again next year,
but right now they're just kind of like

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they're over it. So this cat's
pause post about the thirty five thousand dollars

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raised nineteen days ago and now only
fifteen thousand rays since then. Here are

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some of the comments. It's from
Scott lat Familia doesn't hang banners, pretty

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simple, Ladies of BBN, which, by the way, totally a dude

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running that account all right right,
like Ladies of BBN if you go to

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the Twitter account at Kentucky Hot.
I don't know if he still does it,

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but at one point, like it's
just a bunch of like hot girls

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that are Kentucky fans wearing UK stuff
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admitted it was a dude and like
didn't have the self awareness to realize you

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look like the ultimate like horny dude
online. Wow. But yeah, it

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says, which which doesn't make sense. Rather or not someone likes cal we

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should all still want to be in
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What's wrong with them? Hashtag BBN
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of feel helpless because if he's the
coach, what are you gonna do not

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cheer for your team? No,
like Kentucky fans, I think feel helpless

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right now when it comes to basketball
because of that. They're not going to

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not root for cal in the team
because it would be unnatural. But I

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think you've you've never been this low
as far as just thinking there's going to

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be a big breakthrough to get back
to the early days of Caliperry. Let

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me see here are some uh see
if I can find some more of these,

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more of these comments here, this
is uh let's see, Well I

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just had him pulled up here.
Let's see, there were some good ones

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and I should have favored them on
the platform. Here it says when you

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have the best players in lose in
the first round, people tend to lose

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hope. Yes, like money is
here to buy players. Well, Cali

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Perry had some really good players this
year and they lost to Oakland. So

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again it's like, why would I
invest money whenever he already gets great players

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without my money. He's gonna get
great players, and I'm gonna be let

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down again. This is a great
one from Aaron. He says, I

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missed the old days when people cheated
behind closed doors. Like real Americans.

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This is from Allen. I don't
think Cal really understands how angry fans are.

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Rick says, losing to Oakland will
do that. Don't you think,

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Matt says, making zero changes in
the staff and fans are beyond tired of

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the piss poor performances for a nine
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this getting anywhere. Not to mention
to me, Nil isn't let's see who

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can pay the most for players.
It's ruining. Well, I think he

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just kind of like blocked out a
little bit and just started hitting buttons on

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his phone because it really went off
to deep end there on that tweet.

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Let's see. And then there's a
lot of people, like a lot of

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lovel fans commenting about how their their
match program right now is like killing it,

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which is true. Let's see,
let's see a lot of people just

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expressing their their disliking of Nil.
This is from Antoine, who says he's

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going to send all his NIL contributions
to the women's basketball team and not to

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cal h. This is from Travis. If Cal would have let have would

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have got let go, it would
have raised so much more. And that's

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I think that's probably the truth,
isn't it. Wow, Like, I

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mean, crazy thing to think about. I mean, Cal's clearly a really

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good coach that you know, from
from a longevity standpoint, He's had a

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good careers in the Hall of Fame. Like I know, in the rivalry,

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we like to clown him, and
I love being able to because now,

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I mean, it's not a rivalry
thing whenever you mentioned their embarrassments in

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the tournament, because it's a nationally
known thing that they've lost to those two

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teams in the last three years and
they've just clearly slipped a little bit.

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But overall, like the guy's still
a good coach that I'd say down the

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line, many years from now,
he'll still be remembered as one of the

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best that ever coached. Certainly not
the best or even in that top elite

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tier, but you know, something
new, like let's say Kentucky went out,

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Like if they would have got Scott
Drew, I don't know if he's

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a guy that really, you know, would mean he's kind of I don't

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know, he's kind of Mitch Barnhardt, right, Like Scott Drew would have

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just been an extension of their athletic
director, which last I checked, you

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know, has never ever seemed to
be energized in any way. So I'm

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just trying to think of a coach
that would have been a higher that they

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would have, that they would have
been excited about. Like maybe it's Will

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Wade. I don't know enough about
his personality, but if they could have

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hired somebody that because again I'm aware
Kentucky would never go to the mid major

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oute like little did trust me.
I know that. But let's just say

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there's a coach that exists out there
that it was at a Power six program,

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that was at a good job having
success. Chris Beard. We'll say

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Chris Beard. Let's use Chris Beard
and act like he didn't, you know,

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get arrested in Austin if he gave
some passionate plead to the state about

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nil the way Pat Kelsey has with
the five or two circle. You know

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how much money they would have raised. I mean, I don't know what

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it would have been. I mean, maybe it would have been more than

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Loisll, maybe it'd have been right
on par. But like they would have

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had because again, there's something about
just it being new and a new in

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that excitement and also just understanding that
this is now an important thing. You

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have to have a collective that has
a lot of money to share. You're

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not going to get really good players. But what makes it, I think

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even harder for callous that there's never
a scenario where Cali Perry could look at

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his fans and act as if you
got to give more money because I need

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better players. Dude, you have
NBA players. I mean, it's insane

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the amount of NBA players the Cali
Perry has had at Kentucky. So even

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when he lose, I'd say maybe
three times has he lost in the tournament?

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In it been because what are you
gonna do? You just don't have

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you don't you know, you couldn't
compete. Well, you could compete,

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but you know, like for example, when Kimba Walker beat them in the

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final four in twenty eleven, like
that was Kimba's tournament man. Nobody was

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stopping him. But when they lost
with John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins to West

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Virginia, that went a talent thing. Kentucky was way more loaded than West

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Virginia, not even close. Wisconsin
really good Wisconsin team, but you know

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there's dudes on the bench for Kentucky
that are NBA All Stars right now,

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Auburn in the tournament, Kansas State
once in the tournament. Actually think when

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they lost to Kansas State last year, those mean as drum Tank said,

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they got dudes. They lost to
Kansas State a couple of times. Yeah.

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So the one that they lost to
in the sweet sixteen, that was

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when Sister Jean she wrecked the party
and that bracket opened up to where Kentucky

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had their easiest draw because it ended
up being actually, no, it wasn't

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I think sister yeah, Sister Jen
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But what had happened was Kansas State
ended up having to play UNBC because Virginia

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lost to them, and then Kansas
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a good Bruce Weber Kansas State team, and Kentucky chokes in that game.

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Forgot about so when it comes to
just like you know, hey, man,

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we got to get nil because man, our team needs players, and

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you know, the coaches can't pay
for them, the school can't pay for

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them, so we got to do
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some of the Kentucky fans saying like
why why would we waste money. We're

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gonna get players regardless, and he's
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anyways, let's take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side.

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Keep this thing rolling along. A
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Here's getting ready for a big Final Four

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weekend and the men's and women's tournaments. News from women's basketball as LSU guard

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Hayley Van Lyth has entered the transfer
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looking for another school to play with. Van Liz, by the way,

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process. Erica Musselman is leaving Arkansas
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USC while in the NBA, Julius
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I think I just beat the buzzer, didn't I, Austin. I didn't

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walk back here in the room until
like right as soon as the uh yeah,

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right, as soon as the break
was in it as soon as it

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happened. So this is silly,
but I'm just going to share with you

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because the reason I was out of
the studio the entire commercial break is because

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I was chatting with, you know, the colleagues, the other professionals here,

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they're the real professionals, actually,
Ian Vertrees, who's doing this thing

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over on eight forty whas with Terry
Miners, you know, like Paul Miles.

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I mean the hardest working man in
show business who's sharing the news like

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no one else can. But we
were just shooting that, you know what

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about Louisville basketball and you know what's
going on. Obviously they're doing their show.

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I'm doing mine. So it's been
a long time since, you know,

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we just would chat about Louisville stuff. And it's about good stuff so

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as far as bad. So,
uh, yeah, it's exciting times,

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no doubt, all right, so
the uh, let me just make sure

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I've got that. Yeah. So
this is something that I didn't really given

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much thought, but I feel like
the ANSWER's got to be yes. For

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the person who asked this question on
the text line. Is Tyler Shuck the

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transfer quarterback for Jeff brom who started
his career at Oregon, they end up

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at Texas Tech and is now here
at Louisville. Is he the oldest football

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player at ever played for Louisville.
I doubt he's the oldest football player to

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ever played, but I cannot imagine
there's been other quarterbacks for Louisville that have

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you know, I mean, and
I think the belief is that he's going

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to be your guy this year,
probably start and hopefully he really really thrives

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when when healthy and playing for a
guy like Jeff Brom. But I think

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he's going to be twenty six this
year. Like there's no scenario we've had

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a starting quarterback that old, right, I mean, I can't remember,

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I don't know who. I mean, that's almost unheard of nowadays, though

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you can get COVID really made it
to where, I mean, got an

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extra year, So you've got like
it's not even that. Ten years ago,

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being a sixth year senior was unheard
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Now it's not that rare at all, to be honest with you,

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like it it's not super common.
But you know guys who got injured or

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you know, maybe they only played
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trainor he's been at Louisville four years, he has two years of eligibility left.

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He got hurt this year, and
I think he's got to go through

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the waiver process, but he'll get
it because he didn't play much. He'll

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get a fifth year for the red
shirt, and he'll get a sixth year

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because of COVID. So, like, you know, guys can do that.

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So that would make you if you
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I mean this will let me just
make sure. So the reason this has

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come up is because Tyler Shuck.
Of course again, you know, he's

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the quarterback and spring ball's going on, but he's getting married this weekend and

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it's during spring practice, so like
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the Saturday off they already did on
the schedule. But this is a This

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is from Jody Dimling's article at Cardinal
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find the quote here, because yeah, we already told the coaches, I

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guess talking about his wedding. We
already told the coaches, hey, we

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have this little thing. We told
them we could move it, but we

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definitely didn't want to. And it
worked out great because we were going to

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have a Saturday off during springball.
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time. But you only get married
once, I hope you can. Hope

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hope you mean that, young man, because unfortunately a lot of people don't

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get married once. They get married
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or maybe they don't get married at
all. So congrats to you and

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your fiance who you know, are
getting married. I think her name is

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Jordan, and you know, hopefully
you guys have a long and happy life,

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and hopefully your first year marriage is
memorable, not only because you guys

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are together and you're you know,
you're the first year. It's the honeymoon,

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right, but hopefully the honeymoon is
a memory. And I don't mean

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like the trip. I mean the
honeymoon early stages. It's not just great

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and memorable because your love birds and
you're starting your life together with the rings

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on the fingers, but it's also
because you're lighting up the scoreboard for Jeff

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Brom. I mean, I hope
that that's but it is funny though,

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like there are people commenting on this
like not a good look, that this

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00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:18.960
is his priority during and I like, I don't think people who say that

407
00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.960
are lunatics, because again, getting
married is a big deal. But you

408
00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:29.599
know, I just doing this whatever
you want to call this, yap in

409
00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:32.519
my trap for three hours a day, and you know, being somebody that

410
00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:38.160
does cover you know, college sports
to some extent, now, I've learned

411
00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:42.640
to humanize and I'm glad I have
that ability to and that's not like I

412
00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.039
have some ability that nobody else has, but like you know, being around

413
00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:48.559
some of the coaches and stuff over
the years. Not to say we're all

414
00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:52.480
close personal friends or anything like that, but like, you you know,

415
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:55.640
wrong with this dude gett married.
He's not doing it on a Saturday when

416
00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:56.599
we play Kentucky. He's doing it, you know, in the spring,

417
00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.480
which a lot of people get married
in the spring. So as to him.

418
00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:02.480
But to answer your question on the
text line, I would imagine,

419
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.319
I would imagine that he probably is
the oldest quarterback we've ever had here,

420
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:11.880
But I you know, I could
be wrong, and I'll double check on

421
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.079
the age. He's either gonna be
twenty six or he's gonna be twenty seven

422
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.759
this year, I think, or
maybe maybe he's like twenty five. Either

423
00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:22.400
way, it's still on the older
side. But uh yeah, congratulations to

424
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.599
those two love birds. When I
was twenty six, I was working at

425
00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.400
UPS for like my fifth year.
Let's talk about that. So there's a

426
00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:37.480
new trend on TikTok where there's a
two picture TikTok if that makes sense where

427
00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.279
it you know, you've got to
swipe to the right to see the But

428
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.640
people are showing pictures of their parents
getting married at like twenty one and twenty

429
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:51.599
and then you know, a swipe
left here, I am opening my Easter

430
00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:55.359
basket at thirty one years old at
my mom's house, Like, what do

431
00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:57.400
you I mean, I don't think
there's any right or wrong way to do

432
00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:02.720
it. It's really just personal preference. But clearly the previous era, you

433
00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:03.960
know, folks that are kind of
old enough to be like our parents,

434
00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:10.880
it was much more of a normal
thing to get married and have kids,

435
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.519
you know, really young, like
early twenties, and I don't know what

436
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:18.720
led to that not being as common, But again, you know, I

437
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.119
don't think it's a good or bad
thing. I think it's just whatever people

438
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:26.079
prefer. Like I got married when
I was. I got married in twenty

439
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.920
eleven, so I guess I was. I guess I was twenty one.

440
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.799
A way I was older than that. Wasn't I twenty one? No,

441
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:38.480
let's see here, I'm thirty five
now, two thousand and two, yeah,

442
00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:42.440
so thirteen years ago. So yeah, roughly around that age. And

443
00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:45.720
I didn't feel that young, but
I was young to get married. I

444
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:48.880
mean I've been married for you know, coming up in young Yeah, well,

445
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:52.160
thank you appreciate that. I'm not
old, but I'm not young.

446
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.720
Here's the thing. I think having
two children, one that is eight,

447
00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:00.920
another that is three, being married
for thirteen years coming up, this may

448
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:04.920
like that's not young. But I'm
also not fifty. I'm thirty five.

449
00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:07.480
Yeah, so I don't know,
Like I guess, I was still part

450
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.519
of that older generation that did it
at a younger at a younger age.

451
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.599
And I wouldn't I wouldn't trade a
thing. But you know, if I

452
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:22.440
was thirty four, thirty three and
I was single with no kids, lived

453
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.480
on my own, but I had
kind of the same life and career,

454
00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:29.400
you know, outside the family stuff. I mean, I think that would

455
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:32.480
be considered to be right. I
mean, to me, I think nowadays

456
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.400
that's not uncommon, you know what
I mean, Like, how old are

457
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.160
you now? Thirty about to be
thirty one this year, and you've got

458
00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:41.279
you're in a serious relationship now,
so you know, congratulations to you.

459
00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.000
I've been out of the dating game. In fact, I don't know if

460
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.920
everyone's ever really in it. And
you know, I've been with my wife

461
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.519
since we were fresh out of high
school. Yeah, so I mean,

462
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:57.759
I wouldn't understand anything about dating this
day and age. But not not only

463
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:02.359
do I do. I appreciate my
wife and the life we have together.

464
00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:06.240
I couldn't imagine it without her.
But seeing some of these numbers in this

465
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:10.279
Daily Mail article about like dating right
now, like it makes me even more

466
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.039
so appreciate that I found somebody that
puts up with me and you know,

467
00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:15.759
feeds me, and you know,
takes care of me, and she's the

468
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.599
adult in the relationship. You imagine
a young nick coffee on like dating sites

469
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:26.759
or hinge or hinge is hinge for
like? Is that for no hinges?

470
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:32.519
What I met on my significant when
a tender is much like the hookup culture.

471
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:34.200
I mean, I guess all of
them sort of. All I thought

472
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:37.880
hinge was for the other side.
Now the hinges, the it's it's the

473
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.279
app meant to be deleted. I
don't know if you've ever seen where they

474
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.440
had a little fuzzy h and then
like blows up, like every time it

475
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.319
shows, like the little people matching
and getting together and the little hinge thing

476
00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:51.680
is saying goodbye and it blows it's
it's that's it's brilliant marketing. You know

477
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:55.359
what I was thinking hinge was,
what's that grinder? Not the same thing,

478
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.039
right, No, No, grinder. I guess grinder and tender can

479
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:02.440
sort of kind of be this,
but grinder just depending upon what you're looking

480
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.480
for, yeah, right, which
you know, your preference you're putting from

481
00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.519
that side of the green, you
know. But this this says this is

482
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:11.599
the article said, there's there's a
delusional calculator that I don't know how they

483
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.839
put it together, but it kind
of tracks when you put out what you're

484
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.799
Yeah, it's your preference calculator,
and it just tells you how insanely hard

485
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.319
it would be to find exactly what
you're looking for, which I'm not sure

486
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:25.400
anybody ever finds exactly what they're looking
for. They find it and realize,

487
00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:27.720
oh, this is exactly what I
needed, and this is perfect. But

488
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:30.240
it reveals how picky people are.
So let me just give you a quick

489
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:34.240
example before we get to a break. So let's say you're a dude and

490
00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:37.400
you want to you know, and
you you're in your late twenties or something

491
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.839
twenty twenty six, twenty seven.
Let's say you want a data woman between

492
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.000
the ages of twenty five and thirty
five who does not smoke, she's not

493
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:49.839
obese, is at least five feet
tall, has a decent salary of fifty

494
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:57.160
thousand dollars at minimum, is college
educated. Once kids, you were looking

495
00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:06.240
at a zero point six eight percent
chance of finding that person because there's you

496
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.920
know, not as many women out
there that are that fit that stand.

497
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:13.920
And again, what really made me
go there is that I feel like that's

498
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:15.680
a very normal thing. Like I
don't know about the money thing or the

499
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.599
height, but like what was described
there, like that's not I think that's

500
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:22.279
a pretty base level as far as
what you you know, everybody has their

501
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.960
own preferences, but you know that
age range, doesn't smoke, is not

502
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:28.799
obese. That's not saying they're in
super great shape, but like obese is

503
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:30.960
a different level. And then you
know college educated. You know, I

504
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:34.039
don't know why people would care about
that other than you know, if somebody

505
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:36.240
got a good job, good career. I'm not I wouldn't be worried about

506
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:38.319
that. But you know, I'm
not trying to scare those in their late

507
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.880
twenties and thirties as far as finding
somebody, but man, like I would

508
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.000
not want to be out there right
now one because, like I wouldn't even

509
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:46.640
I wouldn't know how to talk to
a woman. Wow, other than like,

510
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:51.240
hey, hello, you listen to
sports radio. We think about Pat

511
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.319
Kelsey? Yeah, what do you
think about pack? That'd be my go

512
00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:54.720
to line on a first date.
How about that Pat Kelsey guy? What

513
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:58.400
do you think of him? So
I consider us both lucky. We have

514
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:00.680
found someone to share a life with
and we don't have to worry about it.

515
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:05.559
But man, as you know,
maybe this is just a reminder of

516
00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:09.319
people that they should potentially, you
know, not really have such an identified

517
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.480
standard and maybe just kind of,
you know, go with the flow.

518
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.599
You may meet yeah when you get
especially on those dating sites, And what

519
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.279
I've learned is you just you listen. You're already just kind of on the

520
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.000
I wouldn't say desperate side, but
you're there for a reason. Anyway,

521
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.920
Those things cannot be good for mental
health. I mean they really aren't,

522
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:28.319
trust me, I swear they can't
be. You just got to find your

523
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:30.640
person and see how you connect.
Then you just can't be picky picky picky

524
00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.880
before you even try out the menu. You know, did this just turned

525
00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:36.960
into the Doctor Phil Show? I
think they just did good stuff. Some

526
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.400
single people out there listening and they're
not losing hope right now. Yeah,

527
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:43.000
you'll find somebody, you'll find your
super Just let it happen, right,

528
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:45.680
Don't be so specific about what you
want, just kind of, you know,

529
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:46.440
go with the flow. You may
meet somebody and say, man,

530
00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:50.240
this isn't this isn't what I thought
I wanted, But man, this is

531
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.960
what I need and it's gonna be
great. Have fun and hang out.

532
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:55.279
That's right, quick break, we'll
come back and basically say goodbye. Actually

533
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.559
we're gonna have more time than we
usually do, so let's take with us

534
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:00.920
right here. On Sports Talk seven
ninety how back to Coffee and Company,

535
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:07.559
fueled by Thornton's On Sports Talk seven
nine day, we were talking about how

536
00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:12.280
Louisville quarterback Tyler Shuck is just going
to be a lot older than the majority

537
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.639
of the In fact, I'd be
willing to bet you probably won't see a

538
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:17.559
guy on the field for Louisville or
any of the opponents this year that'll be

539
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:20.960
older than him. And I don't
bring it up to be critical. It's

540
00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.960
just you know, it's it's rare, but also his age is rare to

541
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.199
be that old. But you can
this may end at some point as far

542
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.639
as you know, people being able
to take advantage of a fifth or sixth

543
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.000
year because of COVID or an injury. I mean, I guess the injury

544
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:42.119
situation could happen. But if you
look at the amount of players in the

545
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:44.920
in the final I mean, right
now, I'm just let me find this

546
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.920
this breakdown because this probably won't surprise
you, but right now, the starting

547
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:57.039
five for the final four teams,
there are twelve seniors, six sophomores,

548
00:34:57.239 --> 00:35:02.559
one junior, one freshman. So
college basketball players are sticking around in college

549
00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:07.599
basketball more because of nil and it's
not just because they're holding off on the

550
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.199
NBA or they're not NBA prospects.
You gotta keep in mind there were dudes

551
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:14.519
who'd play college basketball that knew they
weren't going to the NBA, but they'd

552
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:16.519
leave after two years because they wanted
to start making money overseas or somewhere.

553
00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:21.360
Because you know, the longer you
stay in college not making money, I

554
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:24.480
mean that's four years potentially that you
are going unpaid when you could be earning

555
00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:28.760
a living to kind of start your
next life after basketball, right what a

556
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:30.800
lot of us do for a job
we can do it till we're older,

557
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:35.119
a lot older. You're a basketball
player, an athlete like father, Tom's

558
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.639
going to get you at some point. So yeah, just Pat Kelsey.

559
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:40.719
I would imagine there's gonna be a
lot of guys that he adds on this

560
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:43.920
roster, and there's a lot of
spots that he still has to fill.

561
00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:45.639
And I think a lot of them
will be guys who've been in college a

562
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:50.199
few years and maybe they never would
sniff the NBA draft or anything like that,

563
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.760
but they're good players, and you
know you can win with those guys.

564
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:57.320
I mean, look at the tournament. I mean Mark sear is the

565
00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:01.840
best player for Alabama transferred started his
career I'm not even sure where, very

566
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:06.280
low level school. The other really
good player for BAM Mcgrant Nelson, he

567
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.920
transferred from I believe SAA South Dakota
State. Maybe we all know DJ Burns,

568
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:14.400
but did you know he started at
Tennessee then went to Winthrop. I

569
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.639
mean, so there's gonna be guys
that you're not that familiar with, and

570
00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:20.400
maybe their numbers aren't going to really
jump out at you, and they played

571
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:22.039
at a lower level, but it
does not mean it can't work. Out

572
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.559
in a major way. All right, you want that N I T action,

573
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:28.559
and I don't you. I can
tell everybody's been listening all three hours

574
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.679
here, just waiting for me to
give you the N I T. And

575
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:32.840
I play tonight, and I'm gonna
give it to you because right now,

576
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:37.320
I mean, this Seaton Hall team, they're getting disrespected. I'm taking Seaton

577
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:40.559
Hall plus two and a half.
Have everybody's all over like our buddy Billy

578
00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:44.559
all you know, cream cream Abdul
Jabbar. Yeah, I mean, look,

579
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:46.239
he's he's a good player, but
you know, people are falling falling

580
00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:50.400
in love with the gimmick of him
just being you know, a good player

581
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.039
that has an interesting look compared to
other college basketball players. And I give

582
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:57.000
and he has a lot of credit. They're a good team. But man,

583
00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:00.320
this Seaton Hall team they got some
dogs. People forget that they actually

584
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:02.280
or one of the two teams that
beat Yukon this year. Three teams to

585
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:07.639
beat them, and they beat them
bad. So the trio for Seton Hall,

586
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:10.760
Kadari Richmond, Ray Davis, Alamir
Dawes. I mean these guys are

587
00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:17.199
all averaging fifteen points or more per
game. And I think Sheen Holloway is

588
00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:21.559
going to thrive as an underdog,
and he knows they're underdogs. They're actually

589
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:23.760
on the road. This game is
played up at Hinkle, So Indiana State

590
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:28.519
fans this is a huge deal to
them because this winning the NI t for

591
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:31.760
them. Would it not be the
biggest accomplishment for Indiana State's program since Larry

592
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:36.159
Bird played there? Has to be
right, so you know they're gonna be

593
00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:40.199
a lot of fans there. But
I think overall, Seton Hall's just talented

594
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:46.199
dogs defensively, and I look,
I'm not even saying that Indiana State being

595
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:50.800
favorite is out of line. I
just really like the spot that Seton Hall's

596
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:53.480
in here because again their trio that
I mentioned former Louisville player Drey Davis being

597
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:58.480
one of them, Like they're all
playing really really well. I know Evansville

598
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:00.239
and not Evansville. Indiana State is
going to score some points. They're really

599
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:05.840
good offensively, but I think Seaton
Hall's team knows that that's the challenge and

600
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:08.280
they're gonna they're gonna thrive. I
mean, maybe an ugly slowed down game

601
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:13.639
compared to what you've previously seen with
Indiana State throughout the tournament and the n

602
00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:15.559
I T, I should say,
but yeah, I like it a lot.

603
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:20.000
So Seaton Hall plus two and a
half and we'll see, we'll see

604
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.599
what ends up happening. But it
is crazy because Indiana State's coach was offered

605
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:28.159
this job and he couldn't take it
because of the situation where he's already signed

606
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:32.119
with Saint Louis. But he would
I mean, he clearly agreed to still

607
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:38.280
coach Indiana State and the n I
T despite you know, him clearly leaving.

608
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:42.400
It's not public, but like everybody
knows, but what he had done

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that if Louisville offered like they wouldn't
have been able to tell him. I

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mean, I don't know what they
told him, but again, he had

611
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the job, was his to turn
down, meaning he had an offer,

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So I'm curious did they all There's
no way they would have allowed him to

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do what Saint Louis is allowing,
right because you know, imagine not having

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this week. And it's not just
because Pat Kelcey and the early results in

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regards to like the players that he's
added to from Charleston and the and obviously

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Fats who committed yesterday, but think
about the week and the money that has

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been raised with n IL like you
know, not to say another coach wouldn't

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be able to maybe do something similar, but it would have been late all

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things considered. So anyways, we're
out of time. Everybody, enjoy your

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night, Austin, have fun in
Philly, give him hell at WrestleMania.

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And thanks for having me on this
week. Ye it was a great time.

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You did a great job and I'm
sure we'll be back doing it again.

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Let's do it. Take care everybody,