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It's time for coffee and company,
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine

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day. Now here's nick coffee.
All right, let's get it started.

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Hour number two here on a Wednesday
afternoon coffee and company fueled by Thornton's appreciate

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you guys hanging out with us.
Also appreciate the one the only, mister

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Kent Spencer from WHS eleven who joins
us. Now been a couple of weeks

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since we chatted with our man Kent, and certainly a lot to get into.

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I'll just start with this the latest. There's a new era here for

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Louisville basketball. Kent. Pat Kelsey
is the guy. Just your thoughts on

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the search and just early impression on
one Pat Kelsey, Well, my thoughts

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on the search. I think you
and I probably talked even on the radio,

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and you know, I was pretty
out of it. I hope that

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they were gonna end up with a
really good coach. I thought people at

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some point were going to lose their
minds over it not being a big enough

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name for him. And I thought
at some point, you know, I

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didn't know when I thought the coach
would win the presser and then it would

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be. You know, we'll see
what happens from from there on. Well,

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let me say this, Ken,
everything you just set up to that

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point is exactly what has happened.
So you were spot on. People lost

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their minds, me included. But
you know what, we're excited and he's

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a good coach. You just got
to you know, I guess, now

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see if it works out. And
one of the things I think he's actually

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probably won over. You know,
social media is a tough gauge, right,

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but at least the social media part
of it, he's won over the

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fan base, I think quicker than
I thought he would. And I think

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it started with the presser. I
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the opening news conference. I think
it started with his energy that he clearly

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has provided. And you know,
at this time last week, Wolville didn't

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have or we at least knew he
was going to be the head coach this

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time last week, but you know
they didn't they didn't have any players.

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They've got three. So you know, a lot has happened in just a

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week's time, no doubt about it. Now. The player I mean,

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there's so many roster spots open right
now. Even if they were to get

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a couple of guys back from the
last last year's team, still many spots

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to fill. But you know,
speaking of last year's group, I mean,

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do you get a sense that you
know, I know, you were

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around a lot of these guys covering
this team for the last you know,

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couple of years, even the newcomers
this past year, just for the one

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year. But do you get the
sense that we could actually see an entire

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new team, meaning not a single
scholarship player. I mean, every one

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of them's in the portal. Now. I guess there's some thought that maybe

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a couple of them come back,
but I mean, it sounds crazy,

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but I'd say that's probably more likely
than not that you do have literally an

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entirely new team of scholarship players and
there's not a single guy back from last

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year. Yeah, And I you
know, I go back to the to

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the locker room in DC about what
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the kids after their final game,
and do you get a sense, you

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know, if I if I probably
like put my finger in it, like

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a sense for for some kids that
that maybe they would be open to a

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return. I would probably say,
like Sky Clark, Brandon Huntley, Hatfield.

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I don't know, you know,
I know, Hunty Hatfield's kind of

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narrowed his choices, and a return
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But but you know, for for
a couple of guys who have been

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here, you know, for multiple
seasons, you know, maybe a clean

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breaks the best thing for for them, sure, best thing for the program.

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Just kind of move on, have
a clean slate, and good luck

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and good luck to you and see
what happens. Yeah, I think anybody

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wanting just to fresh start wouldn't be
a bad look on Louisville or Kelsey would

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be just completely understandable. But I
do think it's odd that the team is

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just an odd dynamic with the team
being, you know, to be frank

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just really bad. Last year they
won eight games, But you know,

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there were some good pieces that I
think could really thrive with with Pat Kelsey

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if if you had it's show.
You know, I don't know this is

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hypothetical, but let's just say there
were two guys you could get back.

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Who would you prioritize? Who would
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could not only help in regards to
talent, but that you could see really

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being able to adjust to really a
new world, because that's what it's gonna

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be anybody that does come back.
I mean, they're gonna still be going

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to the same place and practicing playing
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that, it's gonna be totally different. Yeah, I mean, I would

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probably say Huntley Hatfield just because I
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was by far the best player on
that team, and I don't I don't

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think it was even close, So
I would I would say him, and

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maybe, you know, just just
throwing it out there, maybe a guard,

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maybe maybe Sky Clark, maybe you
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you know, you want bigs and
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who you want, and so that, I guess those three is what I

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would probably throw out there, just
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head. Definitely definitely be Hh though. Yeah, he's a talented guy and

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it was it was noticeable, but
it was just hard to really you know,

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there wasn't a whole lot to show
for it as far as team success,

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but man, he really turned it
on. And I think he's got

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every tool you'd need. Man,
he can run, he's got nice touch,

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good hands, good feet, you
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towards the end of the year why
he was somebody that you know, scouts

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and you know, those who cover
recruiting just saw so much potential in him.

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But and maybe he does come back. But obviously Yukon Inc State those

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are two final four teams that,
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blame him if he wanted to finish
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Ken Spencer's our guest here on Sports
Talk seven ninety let's switch gears to Kentucky.

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Obviously, their season came to a
very disappointing end in the first round

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the NSAA tournament. It seemed as
if the noise about cala Perry's future was

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was not only loud, but real, right there was I mean, I

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don't know if there was a real
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are we going to keep doing this? But it certainly seemed that way.

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You know what we're let's just go
back a couple of weeks here, right,

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Did you feel this if there was
any scenario that he would not be

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the coach moving forward? We know
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did seem as if it became real
that maybe his future was in jeopardy.

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There, well, I think,
you know, and a prisoner of the

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moment after they lost to Oakland,
I was in Pittsburgh for that. I

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thought that there was a very real
possibility that they could fire. Now I

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wasn't then like well this is over. It's it's you know, they're gonna

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they're gonna get rid of him.
And then as you know, you start

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putting together the pieces, it's like, Okay, if you're going to fire

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somebody like him, then first off, you're gonna need the money. And

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you know, I have heard that
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it wasn't even close. So that's
a that's a real thing. I also

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And then and then you go into
who you gonna get? Yeah, and

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if you're going to fire him,
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equal or better. So who you're
gonna get? How's the market? The

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market? You know, and we've
talked about this, the markets it's not

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great this time around the cycle.
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And so for me, you know, to fill that job to feel,

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you know, for Mitch Barnhart to
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comfortable with, you know, I
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going to get, But if you're
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have somebody already lined up ready to
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anything was in place. So,
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think that you know, Caliperry needed
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I think just running it back with
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things, the same things that they
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the move. I don't know if
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they're going to make changes, I
would imagine what the portal being open.

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If you're gonna make some change,
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So so we'll see. But I
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the same staff, with the things, with the way things have been functioning

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the last couple of years, I
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move. We're kind of in a
waiting game. You know. The luxury

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that Pat Kelsey has is everybody from
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He can decide if he wants those
guys back or not, and he can

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go out and get a whole bunch
of fresh groceries and and look, I

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like that fresh groceries, that that
that could be, fresh, that that

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can be you know, that can
be frustrating at times too, Like it's

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it's it's a great luxury, but
at times you still got to get a

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lot of pieces. You know,
with Cal, he's getting Harold roster,

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but he's kind of at their mercy
right like are they gonna stay, are

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they gonna go? Are they gonna
go through the draft process? Are they

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gonna enter the portal? You know, there's there's just a ton of stuff

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that that he's kind of waiting on
before he could make a book. And

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that can be difficult considering the amount
of pressure that he has this year.

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Yeah, and I hadn't thought about
it that way, but that's true.

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Right now, Pat Kelsey's in full
control of kind of everything, whereas with

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Cal and obviously there's a lot of
guys if they would want to come back,

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he'd love to have him, but
you know, you just don't you

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don't really know. And when it
comes to a potential change, there's a

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lot of fans who would say,
well, look, yeah, we can

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go get somebody that isn't the name
of Cali Perry and they'll probably get us

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past Oakland and Saint Peter's, and
you know, I get it. You

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know, obviously, the results just
haven't been there for the standard of Kentucky,

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especially when you consider the investment that's
made for Cali Perry. But despite

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the embarrassing losses in the tournament recently, he's still somebody that is a big

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name, keeps you certainly relevant.
Kentucky's always gonna be relevant in basketball,

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but you know, he brings in
the top talent every year and he's one

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of those last guys left. Again, the results haven't been there lately,

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but you know, he's still I
think of the he's part of that old

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guard right where you'd mention guys that
everybody, even if you're not a big

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college basketball fan, you know who
this guy is. So you know,

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I just think it was the feeling
was there as if maybe there should just

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be a divorce more so than him
just you know, being canned for one

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specific result, but it just really
seemed unlikely because of a lot of factors.

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Now, he did say he wants
to get older, right, I

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mean, what do you make of
the portal for Kentucky because he's always relied

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on freshman He's going to continue to
do that. But this is the first

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time I've at least heard him mentioning
that you're going to have to get older.

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But Kentucky, I mean, they
should be the place where most transfers

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just want to go. And for
some reason, and maybe you have thoughts

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on what that reason is, they've
not really thrived at all. They've lost

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guys that I feel like they could
have easily had, you know there.

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I mean, obviously Reeves is a
really good player, and he was a

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transfer, but he's a guy who
was not a high level transfer when he

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first entered Oscar Sheebway National Player of
the Year, but that was kind of

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pre portal. That's a guy who
had to sit out a year. What

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do you think has led to Is
it maybe just not trying. I just

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feel like Kentucky's one of the bigger
brands in college basketball that cala Perry's always

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been able to kind of get whoever
he wants. But when it comes to

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just high level transfers in the portal, they've not had success well. But

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but now think about it, you
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They went and got Kellen Grady,
who was a nice addition. They

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went and got Savir Wheeler, so
he has going out and got older before.

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And then he went out and got
Sibe who had experience in one and

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one National Player of the Year that
year. Now, they they lost to

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Saint Peters, but you know that
was you know, two of your what

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three best players. Ty Ty Washington
was dealing with an injury, Kellen Grady

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was dealing with an injury going in
there. They still didn't want to Saint

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people, but you know there was
some there was some factors in that team

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as far as them them kind of
losing down the stretch that that kind of

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hurt them going to that tournament.
He's done it before. But I think

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that, you know, be quite
honest with you, Nick, I think

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we're kind of looking at a different
era, like can you pay him?

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Can you you know? Like who
were you? Like, guys don't just

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care about name brand, they care
about the bag now. And you know

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that was a story the other day
that you know, like Kansas was going

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to offer this kid like X amount
of dollars. He wanted a million.

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So he's going somewhere else, like
that's Kansas, that's Bill self. They

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had, I mean, other than
the injuries hitting them this year and some

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things going against them and them being
thin. You know, they they've had

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this thing hum in the last couple
of years, and this kid chose a

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different path because he wants to get
the bag. So it's a harder thing

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to maybe navigate now than it's ever
that it's ever been, because you know,

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your Kansas is your Kentucky's, you
know your Duke's. They could just

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they could just recruit you via you
know, name brand. It's it's not

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that way anymore. Yeah, And
and college basketball, I love it,

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but it's kind of crazy how we
view things because you you reminded me just

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sort of the different makeups of those
two teams that bounced in the first round,

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right with Kellen Grady and and Severe
Wheeler and obviously Oscar in this year.

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of really good veteran pieces with Reeves
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think two different ways to build a
team, and they were both really good

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teams. They just lost in the
first round to like, you know,

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teams that a lot of people have
never heard of and I think it makes

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it look as if Cali Perry has
no clue how to build a roster.

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Well, again, his roster was
good enough to be a good team to

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get a two and a three seed, but yet none of that seems to

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even matter at all because of what
happened in March. And again, it's

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crazy. I kind of wouldn't have
it any other way. But you know,

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if cal Perry makes the Sweet sixteen
in twenty twenty twenty two and this

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year they get to you and I
don't know, the Elite eight or something,

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I mean, well, never know. It's hypothetical, but it's crazy

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just to think exactly exactly. No, Look, it's kind of one of

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those things where you know, like
if you can close your eyes, look

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at their year and just you know, forget about what happened in the SEC

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tournament. In the NCAA tournament,
they had a really good year and they

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were fun to watch. They had
they had great movements, and they had

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a really fun team. But but
guess what, like that's not how it's

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judged. So yeah, the roster
was fine. They just absolutely laid an

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egg in the most important time.
Of year when you can't do that.

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So that's what you know. I'm
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kids in the locker room afterwards,
you know, and some of them,

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you know, they didn't they didn't
know if it was fair. But some

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of them said, like, look, we're at Kentucky, like it's okay

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that we have these expectations. You
know, our fans expect us to go

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deep in the tournament, and we
when we don't, it's a failure,

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you know. And look sometime soon
in the let in the next couple of

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years, it's Louisville basketball, Like
you know what I mean, Like you're

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you're, you're your fans want you
to go deep in the tournament, to

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make a to be in the conversation. And if you're getting you know,

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bounced by double digit seeds, then
you know there's there's gonna be some questions

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that have to be answered, no
doubt about it. All right, last

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question for you, Obviously, the
final four is set. I think we've

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got two of the best, the
two best teams in the country still left,

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and that's who I think is gonna
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and Purdue. But how do you
see this playing out, and who do

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you think is cutting down the nets
on on Monday, Yu Khan, easy

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answer. I'm with you. I
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mean, I thought it was there. There's to lose going into this thing.

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I thought they were the they were
the best team. It's it is

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funny though, I said, if
you took it before this tournament started,

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I said, if you gave me
Yukon and Kentucky or the field, I

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would take Yukon and Kentucky because I
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best team. And I said,
I don't think anybody has a gear that

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Kentucky has. On the first day
of the tournament, half of my picks

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were eliminated, but I still had
Yukon, who I think is the best

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team. And so man, they
just do everything so well, you know,

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and whether it's offense, whether it's
defense, however you want to play,

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they can play that way and they'll
be better. They just demand excellence

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of themselves, like I have an
appreciation for watching them play basketball at same

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here go about the business. Yeah, Dan Hurley looks like the next you

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know, all time great coach and
that may be premature right now because you

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know, he just has one title, which not many have even one,

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But man, this doesn't look like
something that's going to slow down anytime soon

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for Dan Hurley up there in Nycon. Let me say this, so I'm

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all you know, and I have
been for weeks since the since and honestly

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before the like when when m C
State came to the young Like, dude,

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I'm all in on DJ Burns.
I have been for a while.

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And the fact that nobody has put
his highlights set to the nWo Wolfpack scene,

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I think we have really started to
struggle with all of the oh,

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he's he's the star man and I
can't you know it's they're not a Cinderella,

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but they kind of are. But
man, they've got a guy that

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like a lot you know, ACC
fans and those who covered the ACC.

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You know, they're they're well aware
of of, you know, who he

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is. But man, if I
feel like he's like he's the darling of

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the tournament, is he not?
He he is? And and to be

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quite honest with you, like he's
so much fun. On Monday, before

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the a SEC tournament started, they
had their open practice and we went up

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there and went to their went to
their practice, and he was just fun

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to watch, like interact with his
teammates and coaches. And he didn't really

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do much as far as a practice
that day, and it was really just

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kind of like a shoot around to
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and Kevin Keiths came up and and
you know, we talked for a little

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bit. And then I saw him
again in Pittsburgh. I came out of

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I came out of the media room
and here comes Keats and and and DJ.

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He's they're walking down the hallway and
so I go up and and Keith

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and I start start talking and we
start going. The next thing, you

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know, DJ gets in the conversation
and I just flat out looked at him

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and I said, I said,
big man, let me ask you this.

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I said, if anybody called you
big sexy, put it start laughing.

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Keith, Keith and we all three
start laughing. And he said,

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man, that was that was back
in my AAU days, big sexy.

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I love it. Man, He's
he's the man. And I don't know

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if they've got much of a chance
to to to advance, but if they

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do, man, the the love's
only going to keep piling up for this

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guy. So yeah, good stuff. Can I appreciate the time brother as

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always. Uh, we'll talk to
you soon, all right, man,

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Hey baby, be good. All
right, that's Ken Spencer. W h

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A S eleven always appreciate his time. Good stuff. There, here we

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go, Thank you, Austin,
perfect perfect good stuff. All right.

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We'll take a quick quick time out. What we're gonna do. On the

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other side, Uh, we can
hear. We're gonna hear from Pat Kelsey

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because he is chin in with you
know. I don't think he can say

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some specifics about the new edition,
but we know who it is. It's

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James Edwards, the man they call
FATS, who's transferred in from James Madison

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and Pat Kelsey. You know,
he's gone to social media to you know,

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share some thoughts. I guess as
much as he can without you know,

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breaking INTAA rules. So I'll let
you guys hear that. On the

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other side, it's Coffee and Company. We are fueled by Thornton's right here

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on Sports Talk seven ninety. Now
back to Coffee and Company, fueled by

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Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. Man, the vibes have been good

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ever since Pat Kelsey was introduced to
us last Thursday, six days ago.

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Not only did he dominate the press
conference, and obviously a lot of folks

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expected that to be an opportunity for
him to thrive, but I think he

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exceeded what everybody expected. And again, it's something new, it's it's a

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new era, and I think we
already have some early results. We don't

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have a game, we won't have
a game to watch or anything like that

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for quite some time. But obviously
it's gonna be a brand new team.

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Essentially, maybe every scholarship, thirteen
of them. It's gonna be guys that

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are here from the portal. I
mean that. I'd say that seems likely

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right now. And he brought a
couple of players with him from the College

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at Charleston, which we discussed earlier
this week. But about two hours ago

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he landed Sun Belt Conference Player of
the Year Terrence Fatz Edwards, who was

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a really good player for a really
good team last year, who committed the

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Louisville on his visit. And I
don't think Louisville or Pat Kelsey can make

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any kind of a formal comment about
him until there's some paperwork signed again,

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it's a little different with the portal
because you know, there's not a letter

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of intent. But obviously I think
there's got to be some you know,

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some type of process here that you
have to go through before you can,

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you know, put out a statement, put out a release stating that you've

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added this young man to the program. But Pat Kelsey sharing his excitement as

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he's about to board a plane and
hit the road and start recruiting. But

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here's what he had to say after
the big news today, Cardination coach Kelsey,

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Here, big day, Hel's up
that you know what I'm talking about,

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the five ho two circle the match
campaign. But my man Rick has

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stepped up and done is huge.
I want to make sure I'm never delaying

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gratitude and saying thank you once again. Putting us in a position to be

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competitive with the biggest, a big, the best of the best, which

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is Louisville basketball, is what Cardination's
all about. Hey, happy hunting,

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hitting the road, Hels up,
go cards. Been a long time since

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I heard a Louisville basketball coach talking
get me fired up like that. I

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mean against just words, right,
but we knew all along the bar's low

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when it comes to getting us excited. But this guy's exceeding it. And

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I love this fan base and I
mean that right. I mean, obviously

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I'm a part of it, and
I think if you're a part of it,

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then you really do know what makes
it special. Obviously lately it's I

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mean there's a lot of toxicity,
a lot of infighting, a lot of

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division throughout the Kinny Payne era,
and I'm you know, just it was

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at times just man of sad.
But I always chose to just believe that

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that's just the product of the environment
in the situation, right, there's really

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not anybody specifically at FAULL. That's
just as fans. We were going through

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something we never thought we'd ever go
through, and it, you know,

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it was, it was toxic.
But this fan base, man, they

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care in a major way. You're
seeing that with the amount of money that's

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being raised through nil with a five
O two circle, that's what he was

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alluding to there. Rick Kieber obviously
from glob Brands, who's been a big

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time contributor and you know, supporter
of U of L Athletics, but he's

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gonna put up a million dollars.
If a million dollars can be raised by

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fans joining in or making donations,
and right now they're over five hundred thousand

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dollars. I mean, fans have
donated five hundred thousand dollars plus. And

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this man hasn't been on the job
for a week yet, but we care

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so much. And that's evident when
you look at social media. Right now,

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I'm on Twitter, and I'll give
credit where it is due. Kyle

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Spire, I believe, is how
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third banner, which I believe is
the name of his show, his podcast

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and big time Louisville Fan, and
you know they're doing the flight tracker stuff,

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right, I mean he is.
Pat Kelsey's getting on a plane over

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there in Jeffersonville, a chartered flight, and he's hitting the road. And

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it looks as if his schedule is
a stop in Toledo and then a stop

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in Boca Ratan, which you may
wonder why he'd be going there. Well,

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Deonte Maddox Junior, I believe,
is the young man's name who is

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transferring from Toledo. And obviously i'd
say he's still there. I'm not sure

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if he's from there. Yeah,
I think that's his name. Let me

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make sure I've got it correct here, because it's gonna be And by the

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way, I need to I need
to take my own advice because as I

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mentioned, it's going to be really
hard to keep up with with there so

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many new players that are going to
be on the roster. But here I

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am already struggling to remember some of
these guys they're recruiting that are in the

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portal. But yeah, the Toledo
transfer. We talked about him a little

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bit yesterday and again his name is
Dante Maddox junior, and he's down to

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six schools, Louis being one of
them, creat in Oklahoma, Xavier,

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Illinois, Kansas, TCU, Michigan. It's a really good player who averaged

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fifteen and a half points a game
last year, and Louisvill's in the mix.

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And I would say that that trip
that Kelsey's making right now is to

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go see him and put Louisville in
a good spot to probably get a visit

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from him, and then maybe,
who knows, maybe he commits to Louis

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I mean, Whilch with as good
of a salesman as Pat Kelsey appears to

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be, maybe he ends up making
a decision and pulling the trigger before he

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even comes to Louisville. I wouldn't
say that that's likely, but you know,

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wouldn't be shocked. I'm not going
to doubt him just yet because within

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you know, really less than twenty
four hours of being on campus. That's

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what happened with James James James,
the James Madison transfer. I'm sorry,

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Terrence Edwards Junior, so we'll see
that would certainly be a big addition.

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Again, this is a this is
a guard, meaning Dante Maddix junior.

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He's a six two junior guard who
again put up some big numbers in the

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MAC last year for Toledo. And
then the other trip, the other the

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other flight looks like it's heading to
Boca and that's where fau is John L.

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Davis uh just entered the portal earlier
today, and I would I think

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everybody just expects him to follow his
coach to Michigan, which no, wouldn't

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shock me at all. But again, Michigan, let's be honest, they

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struggle with transfers. I mean that's
what that's what really was a factor for

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Juwan Howard, right, they had
Terrence Shannon Junior, committed who transfer from

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Texas Tech well then ends up at
Illinois because of either n I L or

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some type of admissions thing with UH
with the university. And then Caleb Caleb

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Love that's his name right North Carolina
Guard, he transferred from Carolina initially chose

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Michigan, but an issue with academics
getting into the school that kept him from

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being able to go there. And
Hunter Dickinson he left because he could go

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make a lot of money at a
place like Kansas. So maybe John Old

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Davis doesn't follow Dusty made of Michigan. Maybe he decides to go elsewhere.

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And hey, I would imagine that
is where Kelsey's going, meaning FAU.

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And there's other guys that are transferring
out of FAU as well, So maybe

408
00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:37.559
it's not. Maybe it's not General
Davis. Maybe it's one of the other

409
00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:41.559
guys that has hit the portal for
them. But h man, this is

410
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going to be fun to watch.
And you know, I don't want to

411
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set expectations too high, and you
know, and put some pressure on on

412
00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.519
on Kelsey because you know, I
don't know how timely this is going to

413
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:55.960
be, right, I don't know
how how long it's going to take to

414
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get everything assembled. But man,
that guy's I mean he's working. And

415
00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.119
as kid Spencer who joined us in
the at the beginning of the hour here

416
00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.319
mentioned, you know, this is
this is he's got full control. I

417
00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.400
mean, this is I think every
coach technically has full control. Right,

418
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.119
you can't get anybody you want,
but like you can you can get rid

419
00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.759
of a player without like booting them
off the team or I mean, like

420
00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:22.599
it's quite clear guys are going to
have to manage their roster and make room

421
00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:25.839
for guys they want to go get. And that's just that's just the new

422
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:30.400
world that we're in now. But
with Kelsey, he's not waiting around on

423
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.279
anybody, right, Like he's got
thirteen scholarships, I guess technically he's got

424
00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:37.039
ten now to use, and he's
just he's going to work, going to

425
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.799
get players. He's not you know, trying to balance you know, hey,

426
00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:42.799
do we have a room for this
guy? You know? Do?

427
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.640
I am I going to wait on
the NBA decision from this player and that

428
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:51.480
player. So again, according to
the Athletic, here are the current rankings

429
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.279
for players that are in the portal. Terrence Edwards is the eighth best player

430
00:27:55.279 --> 00:28:00.440
in the portal right now. According
to the Athletic and the's see here,

431
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:04.440
number one is Tucker Devrees Deveries,
the son of the Drake coach who left

432
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:08.240
Drake to go to West Virginia,
and obviously Tucker is following his father there,

433
00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:12.640
and then Johnald Davis is number three. Pat Haggerty, who I'm not

434
00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:17.160
real familiar with, is a guard
from Tulsa. He's number three. Malik

435
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:22.079
Mack, a guard from Harvard,
is number four. Number five is Miles

436
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.920
Rice, a guard from Washington State. Canaan Carlisle is a transfer from Stanford.

437
00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.440
He's another guard. He's number six. Kate Tyson from Belmont, a

438
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:34.000
wing he's number seven. I mentioned
Terrence Edwards, who I mean Louisville right

439
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.720
now has the eighth best player in
the portal committed to join them next year.

440
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.200
Number nine is Danny Wolf from Yale, and the number ten is aj

441
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:45.119
Store, who again is transferring from
Wisconsin. You heard can't bring this up

442
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.920
during our conversation. This is a
guy who apparently wanted a million dollars and

443
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:52.519
Kansas couldn't do that. They could
do you know, three fourths of it,

444
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:55.599
and he decided Nope, I'm gonna
keep, you know, so I

445
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:56.759
don't know if somebody's gonna give this
guy a million dollars. He's a really

446
00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.480
good player. But you know,
this is just's that's where we are.

447
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.759
I mean, maybe he doesn't get
a million and he tries to go back

448
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.119
to Kansas and they don't want him, so he takes five hundred k elsewhere.

449
00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:11.000
But you can buy players, and
that's what people are doing right now.

450
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.880
And for what it's worth, the
Louisville the Louisville players that are in

451
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.480
the portal. The highest ranked guy
on the Louisville side that is in the

452
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.559
portal is Brandon andly Hatfield, who's
at number twenty two. And then from

453
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.880
there, I'd say the let's see
here after that. I mean, I

454
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:32.200
think when it comes to the top, they have the top well, yeah,

455
00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:33.960
I guess they're ranked. I mean, gosh, they're ranking them all.

456
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:38.279
I'm looking here and they've got they've
got rankings all the way down to

457
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.880
I mean, yeah, they've got
ninety eight players. I guess they're doing

458
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.960
a top ninety eight, which is
a really weird number to do. But

459
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.319
yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna
be hectic. I'm gonna have to really

460
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.400
do better at remembering names on the
fly, because you know, it's just

461
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:55.200
gonna be ever changing. There'll be
a guy that maybe for three four days

462
00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:57.319
we're talking a lot about because Louisville's
in the top three to land him,

463
00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:00.440
well, then you know what things
move. He decides to go elsewhere.

464
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:04.319
Now it's somebody else. So uh
exciting, no doubt, but it's gonna

465
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:07.599
be hard to keep up with.
All right. Uh, five two,

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00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:11.160
five seventy nine hundred is the number. If you guys want to jump in

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00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:12.880
and join us, we'll get to
the phone. Nnes coming up here on

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the other side. Also the text
line, A few different people in the

469
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:19.079
last couple of days have asked this, and that's you know, Bronnie James,

470
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.400
should Louisville get in the mix?
Which, juck, I've got some

471
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:27.079
thoughts on that, and it's just
there's no I mean, he's gonna go

472
00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:30.319
to Ohio State, right, he
may have already committed, but either way,

473
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.039
like one, that's a circus you
don't want. He's not that good

474
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.279
of a player. But also I
mean he would never go to a school

475
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.640
but does not wear Nike No chance? All right, quick break we'll come

476
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.599
back, keep this thing rolling along, exciting times. The vibes super strong

477
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:49.200
right now with this new area of
Louisville basketball. It's Coffee and Company where

478
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:53.920
Piel Beth Thornton's right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety back to Coffee and Company

479
00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:59.720
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven
nine day. All right, so it

480
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:07.680
looks it's like Bronnie James has let's
see here. Yeah, this is crazy.

481
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:11.440
This is this is what we deal
with now that you know Twitter is

482
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.559
now x and and there's just no
real legitimate way to know. I mean,

483
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:21.200
there's a there's a Twitter account that
is at Bronnie James Junior. That's

484
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.519
the Twitter handle, the name shown
as just Bronnie. They have a blue

485
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:30.960
check mark, one hundred thousand followers. Very very misleading. But if you

486
00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:33.880
just look at the bio, it
says you're number one source for everything on

487
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.319
Bronnie James, not affiliated with Bronnie. So there's a bunch of photoshops of

488
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:45.400
Bronnie James in different uniforms, right
schools he could potentially transfer to. And

489
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:49.160
this has seven point six million views
on the one of Ohio State, and

490
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:55.599
you know, many people think that
that's Bronnie James. It's not him one

491
00:31:55.640 --> 00:32:00.880
hundred thousand people obviously. I mean
it's crazy. So anyway, we shall,

492
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:07.279
we shall see where he ends up. But Bronnie James, I do

493
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:13.200
think he's a talented player. I
think when I you know, I won't

494
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:15.359
claim to have watched him play a
whole lot. But one of the things

495
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:19.880
that I think is a is a
redeeming quality in Bronnie James is that he

496
00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:22.079
knows who he is as a player, and he doesn't try to play like

497
00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:23.839
his dad. He's a guy that
really if he's ever going to be a

498
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:29.000
pro player and actually make an impact, it's going to be just being a

499
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.200
defensive specialist. And he's really good
defensively, great athlete obviously, he's got

500
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:36.680
good genes when it comes to athleticism, he's got good size, he's actually

501
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:40.079
really strong, but you know,
decent player in really every other regard.

502
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:44.839
But he could be a pro.
And I mean that not just because you

503
00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:45.599
know he's going to be a pro. We know that he's going to be

504
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:47.799
a pro because of his dad,
and he'll probably be a first round pick

505
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.119
whenever it's all said and done.
And I'm not kidding, because here's the

506
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.839
thing. You draft Lebron, you
draft Bronnie James, you get you get

507
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.480
Lebron James. I mean, he
is going to want to play with his

508
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:01.400
son. His contract, I believe, is already set up to where he'll

509
00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.039
have the option to kind of opt
out at that time whenever his son does

510
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:07.759
ent or you know, he enters
the draft, and there'll be a franchise

511
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:15.000
that knows they're not drafting an elite
guy. They'll know that Lebron James is

512
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.559
old. But the value you get
by having one of the all time greats

513
00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.799
on your team is something that I
think a lot of NBA franchises would just

514
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:27.960
do because it's business man and you
know, let's be real, the guy

515
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.279
is still a really good player.
We've hit a weird level of the NBA,

516
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:32.400
though, where there are really really
good players that put up big numbers,

517
00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:36.119
but they just don't win, like
you know, Lebron's. Lebron put

518
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:37.799
up a hell of a year last
year with not this current season but the

519
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:42.000
season before in LA, but like
they stunk. You know, he was

520
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:44.400
doing his thing hard to look at
his numbers and not think this guy,

521
00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:47.000
I mean, it's actually insane that
at this this level, this age,

522
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:52.240
he is still playing that well,
but it's just not resulting in, you

523
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:58.920
know, a whole lot of team
success. So overall, if you're a

524
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:05.119
college program, is that brand boost
worth it? Now? I think it's

525
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:09.719
silly to consider Brownie James at Louisville
because of a variety of things. Probably,

526
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:14.079
but more than anything, Nike Lowell's
not a Nike school. I mean

527
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.039
that man is. I mean,
let's be real. Has Nike invested money

528
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:21.400
into anybody like they've invested money into
Lebron James? I doubt it. I

529
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:25.320
mean certainly on the basketball side.
So if it was like somewhat realistic,

530
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:34.119
I do think it'd be worth it
for this reason, not because he'd help

531
00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:36.880
you in a major way. I
mean, he's a talented enough player to

532
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.039
where like he's not a guy that
you would say, no, he can't

533
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:40.960
play here. He stinks. Now
would he be a high impact guy?

534
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.960
I don't know. Certainly didn't look
like he was that type of player at

535
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:51.159
USC. But Pat Kelsey, we're
all super excited. Let's be real,

536
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:53.039
We're bricked up for our man Pat
right now, Like he's got us rolling.

537
00:34:53.760 --> 00:35:00.000
I mean, it's crazy and I
mean that in a good way.

538
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:05.719
But he's not a national name that's
going to bring like instant eyeballs to Louisville

539
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.000
basketball. It could happen once Louisville
starts winning, and there's gonna be a

540
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.800
spotlight on him that he didn't get
at Charleston at Winthrop, to where if

541
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:15.360
Louisvill wins at a high level,
regardless who of who's here playing and his

542
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:21.920
personality, his flair, his energy, it's going to be witnessed more than

543
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:24.239
it ever has been at the lower
level, and that could really help Louisville.

544
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:27.920
So my point is this, you
know, right out of the gate,

545
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.920
if you could get a guy like
Brownie James, and that's going to

546
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.280
bring more eyeballs to Louisville and maybe
that's needed now more than ever. No,

547
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.679
no offense to Pat Kelsey, has
nothing to do with him, but

548
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.320
it's just because Louisville has not been
relevant in a long time. Like Louisville

549
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:44.400
next year, they're not going to
probably be preseason top twenty five unless somehow

550
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:46.679
they end up putting together the best
portal class that has ever existed in college

551
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:50.639
basketball. But you know it's gonna
be probably a gradual build. Maybe they

552
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:52.320
get off to a really good start, they win a bunch of games.

553
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:54.199
They're going to be in the Battle
for Atlantis, so maybe they, you

554
00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:58.360
know, beat some really good teams
and start to generate some momentum, and

555
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:01.159
that would be great. But maybe
just because of how down we've been,

556
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:07.360
the eyeballs that would be on you
with Bronnie James and the mix would be

557
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:09.280
worth it. But again, I
just think it's so impossible given the fact

558
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:13.679
that the shoe company thing matters,
and I actually want to get to that

559
00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:16.159
coming up in the five o'clock hour, because shoe company execs are now,

560
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:22.679
you know, not as influential,
because again, nil is a bigger priority,

561
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:24.639
right, Like, Hey, I
wore Nike or Adidas all throughout my

562
00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:29.119
high school career and AAU. Therefore
I'm going to stay loyal. But oh

563
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.559
wait a second, this school,
they were a different they were a different

564
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:35.119
shoe, they were a different brand. But man, they got more money,

565
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.719
they got the bag, so you
know, thanks for everything, Nike.

566
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.280
I'm signing with Adida. It's like, you know, but again it's

567
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:45.320
different with Bronnie because of his father. So I actually think you would want

568
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.719
to avoid all that attention that comes
with it. That just feels fluff.

569
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:51.719
It feels not you know, just
feels I mean, honestly, I think

570
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:53.840
Bronnie James at USC this year it
was TMZ. I mean, that's what

571
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:59.719
it was, so much attention on
him. He farted in the layup lines

572
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.239
made headlines, right, you know, he debuted against Long Beach State and

573
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.719
it was a big, big deal. They lost the game, and like

574
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:10.159
nobody talked about that. It's just
about Brownie. To me, it's almost

575
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:14.760
like in a weird way, maybe
not a great comparison here, but you

576
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:19.360
know who the TMZ is of college
football, Deon Sanders. Deon Sanders can

577
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:23.239
say everything he's saying, do everything
he's doing, and be prime and it's

578
00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.239
going to always get a lot of
attention, a lot of interest, and

579
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:30.039
a lot of you know, eyeballs, and that's good for college football.

580
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:32.440
But he could keep he could keep
going three and three and nine, four

581
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:37.159
and eight, and there's no accountability
because again, his value to the sport

582
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:39.519
right now is not winning, at
least it hasn't been yet. It's because

583
00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:44.360
he's a big he's he's an entertainer, he's a big name. He brings

584
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.440
eyeballs and he may end up being
a really good coach. But like Deon

585
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:52.519
Sanders, you know, said following
his very underwhelming first season at Colorado,

586
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:57.119
that next year, you know they're
in the playoff. Well, most coaches

587
00:37:57.159 --> 00:37:59.760
wouldn't say that, but prime is
prime, he says it. But if

588
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.920
they end up going six and six
or something, it's not going to be

589
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:06.039
brought up like he you know,
because he he's he's a you know,

590
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.079
he's a character, and I mean
that in a good way, Like he's

591
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:13.679
a he's a guy that people care
about no matter what he does. And

592
00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:17.320
that's that's what happens with Brownie,
regardless of like how good he actually is.

593
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:20.719
So I don't know, I don't
know where he's gonna end up.

594
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:22.719
Woul say, Ohio State. There's
a there's actually some some belief that he

595
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:28.280
may end up at Decaine, which
I don't I mean, that would be

596
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:30.039
like that would be cool, But
then again you have to keep in mind,

597
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:32.119
like the connection's not really there anymore. For those who don't know,

598
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:37.239
Decaine's coach who broke through and made
the tournament this year, he was Lebron

599
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:42.920
James High school coach and he retired
though, like he stepped down and they've

600
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:45.440
elevated an assistant coach and maybe the
maybe the assistant coach that's now the actual

601
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:50.239
head coach of Decaine. Maybe he
has connections to Lebron and you know,

602
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.840
Saint Vincent, Saint Mary and whatnot. Is that I think that's that where

603
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:54.159
he went to school. Yes,
it sure is. So he's a kid

604
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:59.400
from Akron, just a kid from
Akron. Yeah, a man Austin's He's

605
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.840
good with the one He's good with
the one liners. I love it.

606
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:05.760
Are you still on cloud Non?
Not only because our man Pat Kelsey,

607
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:07.599
but you got to play the nWo
wolf Pack theme. Oh dude, I

608
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:09.760
just told you off air. I've
been waiting my whole life for that.

609
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It's it's a wrestling week, man, Russell Maney is coming up. That's

610
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right, Philadelphia, baby. I
know we're at the top of the hour

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here and we don't have much time, but I do want to play this

612
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because I mentioned it yesterday and I
completely forgot. But Ryland Griffin, who

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is at Alabama. They're taking on
Yukon. Obviously Yukon is the jugg or

614
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not, but this was his Uh, he's the he's I'll just read for

615
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you exactly what is on ABC three
three four oh. Here on Twitter,

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Alabama's Ryland Griffin on what wrestling event
would he compare to beating Yukon And this

617
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is what he had to say,
and only I mean, this is perfect

618
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timing because Austin could tell me if
this fits. And with the attention that

619
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this video has got, I assume
everybody thinks it's a great comparison. I

620
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think Olsiman Warrior would be Hulk Hogan. Like Hulk Hogan was big dog,

621
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he was like the highest, the
big time dude, like you know around

622
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the w WF at the time,
and Ultimate Warrior came in with a bunch

623
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of energy and beat him and he
got the belt, he got the championship.

624
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Hull Cogan was, uh, he's
just laying down on the floor like

625
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hurt and stuff. So I would
say that because Ohlle Cogan's like in the

626
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goat conversation for WWF and Yukon.
They're a really really good team like that,

627
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They're like the whole Cogan of college
basketball right now. So you know,

628
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Ultimate Warrior came in there and beat
him, So I would say it's

629
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like that, is that a good. You think that fits? Yes,

630
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that's perfect. WrestleMania six Toronto SkyDome, The Warrior and Holkster. Yeah,

631
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that was like the true passing of
the torch and wrestling, because you know,

632
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there's like a sort of near late
eighties where a lot of people the

633
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Ultimate Warrior was over right, everyone
liked the Ultimate Warrior, but there's still

634
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one guy on top. And when
they matched up, it was the passing

635
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of the torch. And maybe he's
got a good point. You got a

636
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hold beat of this, Austin,
And I know we got to get you

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a break. But next year,
when we know the roster next season,

638
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I should say we know the rosters
in is put together. You know,

639
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I'm gonna figure out if there are
any players on this team that have that

640
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are wrestling fans, and I'm gonna
get you credential and you're just gonna do

641
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.719
wrestling comparison. Let's do it to
basketball comparisons to these guys. That could

642
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.079
be fun. Couldn't it be good? Do it? All? Right?

643
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We got one more hour to go
and we're gonna make the most of it.

644
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Stick around a lot more to get
into as we roll along here.

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