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TBT the Ville. I keep saying Louisville. I've never been a big fan
of just referring to Louisville as the vill like, I know, that's kind
of you know, I mean, I know, it's the thing. It's
just not something that's ever been you know, something I use a lot of.
But it's gamed Ay TBT the second game as the Bill will take on
Sideline Cancer at seven o'clock at Freedom Hall. Looking forward to being back out
there Saturday was awesome. Certainly a lot to unpack from that, and here's
to hoping they can they can keep it rolling along. So again, welcome
in. Hopefully everybody had a good weekend. I'm here for the next well,
I'm here for this week and then I'm out. I mean, I'll
be back eventually, but I've got my last vacation of the year. In
fact, I think only we'll have maybe two days left to use, so
you know, hopefully, I mean, here's the thing. I'm gonna be
gone while Louisville, of course, is playing in the Bahamas. You know,
the actual Louisville team, Pat Kelsey's first squad, which you know they'll
be I'll miss. I'll miss out on that. I can still watch it,
but you know, well, I say I can still watch it.
I'm not sure if anybody's gonna be able to watch it, but I would
imagine we'll find out for sure. Maybe I can reach out to somebody and
say, hey, is there any plan to try to get these games in
the Bahamas on television? And if not, then I really won't miss anything,
because you know, I'll just be reacting to highlights that they produce and
whatnot. But still that'd be fun to you know, to be able to
discuss and certainly I can discuss it when I get back, but I feel
like, for the most part, the goal of getting you know, all
the vacation days out of the way before we get to you know, the
real you know, whenever, you know, I'm trying to think of the
right way to describe it, because to me, it's like the best It's
not the best time of the year, but it's it's the new year to
me. Right, new year didn't start in January for me. New year
starts for me whenever we get another year of sports that are underway, which
first you get college football, then you get the NFL, then you get
college basketball, and then it all rolls on until early April when college basketball
concludes, and then you know, Derby, and then I feel like once
Derby ends, like that's when it's like all right, here we go there
the summers here, and you know, there's always stuff to discuss. Sometimes
big news breaks. I mean, heck, Louisville and Kentucky both had new
coaches once college basketball season ended. But yeah, I'll be gone next week,
just to give you a heads up. You'll hear me mention that throughout
the week, just to remind you. And you'll be in good hands because
I'm pretty sure we have now a regular plan when I'm not here, which
is we get Scott Fitzgerald to fill in whenever he's available to. I think
he's going to do it a few days and then the old, the old
underdogs will be uh will be filling in and whatever capacity they can. So
again you'll be in good hands. All right. Again, we are fueled
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the acc Conference media days are going on right now, and man, how
fitting is it that Jim Phillips, you know he had I mean, it's
pretty much the state of the union for the league. Whenever the commissioner is
talking at the annual Conference Football Media And they did not carry it live on
I mean, the decision not to carry it live on the ACC network has
to be because of a technical issue, because I don't see any scenario where
anybody, any spokesman Jim Phillips himself, like nobody from the ACC can claim
that it was a plan and it was a good idea to have him talk
and not have it live on their own network. So apparently you could have
found it on it and that's what makes me think, makes me think that
they really didn't have a plan to put it on the actual ACC network live
because it was available on a stream which I guess was the ACC Network Extra,
which is essentially the watch ESPN app, and it didn't work then because
of technical difficulties. So maybe they tried to throw it to the stream because
they didn't want to be on live television and have all those issues and it
still didn't work. I don't know. But you really did have incentive to
be there today because you're the only people that heard what the Commissioner had to
say. And I'm sure there were reporters media people that were there and they
probably recorded and filmed the whole thing because some people do that, So I'm
sure it'll serface at some point. But if you wanted to tune in today
to hear live what the commissioner had to say about the future of the ACC,
as that's of course been a big talking point for well over a year
now, the league itself could not provide that to you. I mean,
how fitting is that for the ACC? And I do know of some things
that Philip said, just because of some of the quotes out there, and
this guy still parading around like people need to be throwing a party for being
in third place in league revenue. I mean, it's just I've never heard
somebody brag about third place as much as Jim Phillips. And yeah, there's
no realistic path for the ACC to put themselves in a position where they're ever
going to make more money than the big ten of the SEC. We all
know that. But how about like a little how about a little fire,
like somebody get him a beer or something like. He needs to be motivated,
He needs some energy and some motivation to at least you lie to us,
right, like you know, lie to the league members and say,
look, we understand that that there's a gap there, and that GAP's only
going to get bigger and in fact, it's never been more important to make
sure you're putting away a lot of money each year as a university, because
now we're gonna have to pay the players. However, rest assure we're gonna
turn over every stone. We're gonna be innovative, We're gonna be creative.
We're gonna find every opportunity we can out there to bring more revenue to our
league members. Do I sound like a commissioner? Do I sound like I'm
fit for the job, because he's an empty suit And I didn't hear him
today. I just saw the quotes, but I already know what he sounded
like. I mean, he's lifeless. So yeah, third place is better
than fourth. But man, I've just never seen someone just be so content
with that and basically be offended that people are questioning, like, hey,
what are you gonna do to you know, bring more revenue to the league.
But we're in third place. We make the third most revenue. I
mean, like we know that, but you're gonna probably drop to fourth if
you're not careful, And even if you are in third, like, how
about you become a closer third than you currently are and not get you know,
tripled up like it potentially could at some point. So again, I'm
not sure you never really know what to take from the ACC conference media,
I mean, any media days, to be honest with you, But Jim
Phillips talked earlier, and the ACC itself, the League could not give that
to us unless you were there. I mean, if you're just a fan
that wanted to hear it, you couldn't hear it. I mean, media
members can get credentialed and whatnot and make the trip, but like, let's
just say you just wanted to hear you wanted to turn on the ACC network
and watch it. The League failed at doing that also. I mean,
I don't know how much it'll come up today on the show because I really
don't have anything to add as far as like analysis. Certainly not a big
I don't have much of a reaction at all, but the fact that Joe
Biden has stepped out of the elect upcoming election, I mean, he's still
going to serve out his term as president. But that's like that's a huge
piece of news. I mean, I don't don't think anything like that's ever
happened in my lifetime. So I'm sure what I'll do, We'll just give
you the floor. John, how about five o'clock you just want to take
over and you share your thoughts on my political well yeah, yeah, tell
us what you think the Democratic Party should do moving forward. Who you feel
the most confident in. I'm kidding, but I mean that is a big
that's a big story. And once we actually have football basketball going on,
like it probably won't come up as much on the show, and it really
hasn't dominated the show by any stretch of the imagination. But let's be real
here, even though we're going to have the things we love to distract us
once we get to football season, this is an insane election coming up,
and it's gonna I mean, in fact, it's gonna bleed into sports like
we know that, right. I'll tell you one thing that would make it,
you know, bring more attention to this state, specifically as if Andy
Basher ends up being a running mate. Yeah, and I'm far from you
know, the best person to ask if that, but that would mean that
that's something I've at least looked into as far as what's being reported, not
that I'm making calls like I have any sources, and it sounds I know
he did say earlier today, he'd be open to listen that kind of stuff,
But I haven't actually heard. I've heard people around here throw it out
there because he is very popular within his party, and you know, I'm
a big fan of Vandybsheer, but I've not actually heard anybody covering you know,
the pole. You know, this is this election for one of the
big networks that has that has thrown his name out there. But that would
be something, wouldn't it. And I feel like even if that doesn't happen
this time around, like it seems like it's bound to have, like yeah,
like in twenty twenty eight, Like I could see him being it depending
on who wins this election. Yeah, that's that's certainly a big factor.
But yeah, so I just I I find myself reacting to the reaction,
but not like in anger or surprise, Like, but this is the kind
of thing that just people get nuts about. And I don't want act this
look like you couldn't you shouldn't care, because you know, should it's important,
you should vote right, Like, it's not that it's not important,
But like I guess, I just I just I don't want to say that
I have the ability because it's not really an ability. It's just something I
guess I choose to do. And I'm sure others would probably do it if
they could, because they'd probably be happier. But those that just lose their
mind on the internet about every little thing that one side does, I'm not
kidding you, and I tell you that I actually find that to be like
entertaining, Like I find it to be funny, like people losing their minds,
and you know, I just I sit back and find maybe not it's
amusing to me. It's not something that I'm you know, like celebrating.
Oh, people are nuts, but let's be honest. When people get nuts,
there's usually people that find themselves flocking to that because it's something to be
wholey, you know, something, it's something to see. So again,
I don't bring that up to say we're gonna you know, run through at
the next two and a half hours, but it is a huge story across
the country and of course the world. Also, we have some good news
when it comes to things we can consume until get to you know, football
season, because Netflix is once again going to give us three different sports documentaries
in the next month, and it's it's a part of their Untold series,
which is basically Netflix's version of thirty for thirty, And I haven't seen many
if actually, I can't think of a thirty for thirty that I've watched that
I didn't really enjoy. There are somewhereas you know, the subject, the
topic, subject matter, it just wasn't something that I was that interested in.
But they're so well done. And I say the same thing about the
Untold series I think they've had. I mean, the one they did on
man Titeo was phenomenal, The one on Johnny Manziel was really really good.
I know a lot of people were underwhelmed with the Tim Tebow Florida Gator era,
but like, actually, I mean even though it wasn't what you probably
wanted it to be as far as you know, people airing out dirty laundry
from the time that that team was at Florida when they had you know,
a murderer on campus led by you know, mister Jesus himself, Tim Tebow
at quarterback, Like it was just kind of weird, but it was still
well done. And now they're gonna give us one on Connor Stallions the Science
Steeler, and that's that is gonna be phenomenal. It's got to be the
first time he's been in front of a camera. But I mean, this
thing's already been done. I mean it's already been done, and I guess
now they're probably doing post production, finishing up, and it'll be out before
too long. They're also gonna do another They're also gonna do one on Steve
McNair, which I mean, that was a crazy story when that happened many
years ago, when he was murdered. But I kind of feel like,
have the new cycle and really the internet been you know then what it is
now that that would have been. I mean, that's if you're somebody that
really is. I mean, it's a very tragic and sad thing that happened.
But the true crime genre dominates this country in every way right now when
it comes to television, podcasts, I mean, it's it's huge movies,
documentaries, that kind of stuff. And I feel like, you know,
if you know the details, and I know, you know, I mean
I read about it when it happened, and I've read about it since then.
But I would imagine throughout this documentary, we'll find out more that we
didn't know. And I just think it's going to be really well done.
Of course, it's not a really sad situation, but that got me excited.
And then again, this is something that we'll certainly mention as far as
some of the numbers. But like Carl League Jones doing what he did,
putting up a triple double against Team USA for South suit Anne, like that
alone should get Car League Jones a guaranteed contract in the NBA. I mean,
he's a super talented guy who has had a really good pro career at
every level. He played for the Bulls briefly, I think on a two
way, spent time in the G League. I think he played in China
last year. And he delivers at such a high level no matter where he
plays. And that's been the situation that's been Carleague Jones since he was in
high school. I mean, he was a really really good player in Cincinnati
going up there. By the way, I think his high school coach where
he went to high school in Cincinnati, I can't think of the name of
it. I think he's actually a coach in Louisville now at Eastern High School.
But anyways, Carl League grades were an issue and nobody knew if he'd
qualify. Sure enough, he did. He ends up going to Radford,
had a phenomenal career there and came to Louisville. And you know, that
was one of another one of those guys that you didn't have to I mean
right away, I think you felt pretty good about not having to worry is
he going to be able to carry over the production from Radford to the ACC
because he did in a major way. And then again, since he's been
in the pros, he's been really good. And nobody's ever put up a
triple double against Team USA. And I'm glad that Team USA won because obviously,
you know, you want you want your country to win in anything.
But there's also part of me that was kind of sad for South Sudan because
they were right there, they had it, and it doesn't really it's not
a real game, right, I mean it, Well, this didn't have
any impact on the actual metal situation when we get to the Olympics, so
I kind of felt bad for them, But then again I felt awful,
like why would I feel bad if the United States wins? But it's because
of car League and some of the other things we'll get into later today.
Because actually think this was. What makes it such a great story is that
you know, lou all dang former mb A player, went to Duke.
I mean, he had a great pro career. I mean his work towards
you know, making basketball a bigger thing in his country and making it a
priority and helping get you know, kids interested in the game, giving them
resources to to learn and develop and play basketball. It's a great story.
And to see, you know, how far they've come just in you know,
the last ten years or so with with a lot of what lu Albing
did is is great. And that's why that's why I kind of felt sad
for them not to have that moment because it was right there. So we'll
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first what we'll do is we will we'll talk a little bit about Saturday's game.
You know, I do some thoughts on what we saw from the Ville.
We can also, you know, discuss tonight's matchup. I mean,
I won't lie to you like I've got a ton of information on the team
they played tonight. Although there were a couple of guys we talked about last
week that I mentioned that are from Louisville, that that are going to be
playing in this game tonight for Sideline is it Sideline cancer Cancer. So but
before we do that, I got to ask you, John, you last
night got to take in and I guess on Friday as well. I mean
that you, I mean, this was your first experience kind of going in
blonde, watching your former Hoosiers play in this kind of event. What did
what did you make of it? I thought it was pretty cool. The
first round they played Valparaiso, or you know, the alum of Valparaiso ended
up being a pretty a lot closer of a game than people kind of expected
to be. But Jogi Ferrell had himself a night. I think he had
about twenty four points in that first game, and that was just really cool
to see. And then in the second game you had a few more guys
play better. I think Juwan Morgan did pretty well. They played Men of
MACKI the Purdue a love. Yeah, I mean, it's essentially a game
in the TBT, is it not. Yeah, it was a little awkward
to watch, just because you know, it wasn't an actual rivalry game.
I mean it was because they you know, they all used to be on
their respective teams, but the environment wasn't the same. There were fans there.
It's not like it was an empty arena or anything like that, but
it was definitely a different style of environment to see all and it's just it.
I mean, I think awkward is an appropriate word because it's just something
you never would have envisioned ever happening. Like, yeah, it's almost like
something you would see be like a charity event or something. Yeah, but
it's better than that. Not to say that charity is not great, but
like this is something to where like it's high level, like I mean,
it's they're not just doing this for fun. It is fun. In fact,
I think that's where the awkwardness comes in for these guys is because you
know they want to win, because honestly, it's huge for their livelihood.
And I don't think they'd even be in the position to be in the situation
and have the careers that they've had if they aren't competitors that want to win
every time they hit the floor. But balancing that for as a player has
to be something that takes a little bit of time to get used to.
I would say by now these guys are it's it's normal. But I think
even Louisville on Saturday, and I'm not saying that that's why the Bellamont team
had them down at halftime. And honestly, I give those guys a lot
of credit. I mean, they were they came out, they were well
coached, they knew the way they needed to play in order to give themselves
a chance to win, and they did exactly that. So trust me,
I'm not acting as that those guys didn't come out and play their ass off,
but I think it's awkward for everybody involved because you would have I mean
it's just it's an unthinkable thing five six years ago, right, like maybe
not maybe I guess longer than that, because event, the event's been around
for a long time. But you you know, being there in person or
even watching on TV, all these former players, some that played together at
the same time, some that played in different eras, and it's on telling
me it's a full production, right like we're doing this at Freedom All,
still a phenomenal arena by the way, and you know you're watching it on
Fox or FS one, like that's that's that's a big deal. And it's
just I don't know, awkward, weird, Like I hate to use those
words because it does kind of sound like I like, you know, like
it's a negative thing to say about the event. It's just it's just different.
And I did enjoy it. But there were there were times during the
game, especially when they face the Men of Mackie in the second round,
where neither team could hit a shot. And you know, you've talked about
how this is kind of like pick up style basketball. There are a lot
of times during this where it really feels like this, well, see I
don't think it's pick up Well, it can get to be a little unorganized,
yes, but yeah, in that aspect, I guess it would mean
when you say pick up basketball, I feel like maybe that would mean that
it wouldn't be like it's not as competitive, it's kind of just whatever.
But as far as pick or unorganized, yeah, because even if these guys
have been working together for a couple of weeks putting some sets in, like,
it's not like they've been practicing for months and they've been you know what
I mean, Like it's so I mean, guys not making shots, silly
turnovers. I mean, there were some other games, not the not not
the games with local teams, but actually it might have been the game on
Friday night when Kentucky played. They had a guy from the team that they
beat that just decided he was going to get thrown out because he was mad,
and luck, you know, because it was over. So like it's
not like you're watching teams, you know, in the Big Dance that are
marching towards the national championship, but they're you know, I can't put into
I can't put into words why it's so awesome, but it is like Saturday
was so much fun at Freedham Hall. The nostalgia I mean seeing the players
get energized playing in front of fans once again. And I mean there were
roughly six thousand people there for Saturday's game. I mean, let's be real,
I bet these guys have played countless professional games in other countries or in
the G League with crowds there are nowhere near that big, so you know,
and these and the people that are there on Saturday, Freedom Hall are
there you know, for them specifically. So I love it and I'm hopeful
they can get a win the night, although it's gonna be tough. I
mean, I have no problems saying I'm glad they were able to pull it
together and make it work. But you know, I hope that they were
shaking off some rust, maybe getting rid of some nerves, because you know,
they're gonna have to play a lot better moving forward to Toil you get
past tonight's team, I mean, you know, and they can, they
have the ability to do so, but it just kind of fell a little
an organized at times. And you know, this is where this is where
it's weird for me, Like this is I have a hard time being critical
of the players in this game because it's not that that makes sense ye,
because this isn't like it's not real. It's not real as far as like,
you know, Louisville basketball, the program is going to significantly benefit from
anything that they do. But it's also unnatural to watch. You know,
guys you watch for years here and when they're when they're struggling or they lose
or something like, it's natural to be you know, unhappy and sad about
it. But like you know, for me to turn on the microphone all
man, I can't believe Peyton and see what played like craft last night,
Like like he's a grown up with a family who's just out here. You
know, he's you know, it's it's just different. That's where that's where
it's awkward for me. However, it's hard to turn that off. Like
the fans that that I was around, they weren't booing or anything, but
like, no, like this this is different than watching Louisville play on it,
you know, a Saturday in January when they're playing an acc team.
Certainly it's not the same thing. But you know, there's no way to
to to you know, rewire yourself to to to not react the way you
react when you watch your Louisville Cardinals play former Current whatever, right, Like
it's just it's the same thing. So fans were a little uneasy because Bellerman
was giving it to them. Now, if they win, this is the
next game Kentucky or is that the game after, so Louisville will have to
win two more Kentucky's already won two. So here's how it breaks down.
In the Louisville region, they'll play, you know, they play Sideline Cancer
tonight. If they win that one, then they'll play the winner of Team
d r C and Team for DET. So, just for what it's worth,
the number one seed Team Diesel lost their first game to Team d r
c UH and then Team for Debt knocked off Run DFW. Who is the
four seeds, So you know two of your top four seeds did not did
not make it past the first game. So Sideline Cancer and Louisville are are
the two highest remaining scenes left. So again the seating, as we discussed
last week, like you really don't know like how accurate it is, but
you know, I put it this way from what I've seen, and it's
not like I've watched every second, but I've seen In fact, I've seen
Sideline Cancer has been around for years. In this event. The belief is
that if you win tonight, like you can't coast and just expect to get
past these other two teams without much trouble. But sideline cancer is your toughest
opponent to get out of this pod. And here's the thing. If you
win these next two, easier said than done. And Kentucky wins their next
game, which will be which will be tomorrow at nine o'clock on FS one
against the Marshall team, then Louisville will host again at Freedom Hall and it'll
be Louisville and Kentucky. And there's no scenario where when that game takes place
that that's not when the records broke, no scenario. It's seven thousand.
You were about oney twelve hundred off of it on Saturday, like Kentucky fans
will show up like it'll be a big deal, which I'm hopeough that's the
case. But again, what's got to win two more games? I don't
go anywhere. It's coffee and company. We are fueled by Thornton's right here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, so I would say right now,
the biggest piece of news and I guess you can call it a piece
of news from the ACC media days that are going on in Charlotte, is
that the future of the league, as far as it not including Florida State
or Clemson, doesn't look like that's happening anytime in the immediate future because they're
I mean again, I call it a piece of news because it has been
talked about. These two schools are suing the league, and the league is
countersuing, which makes it just a mess. However, you know they're they're
not leaving at least not you know, not anytime soon, because they have
to notify the conference by a certain date. Yeah, so it says here
this is from Pete Tamil, and this is from earlier this morning. Since
I've been told by multiple sources that there's no expectation for Florida State or Clemson
to notify the ACC they intend to leave by the August fifteenth deadline to part
after the upcoming year. That's the deadline to declare intentions to exit for the
twenty twenty five to twenty six season. So those two schools will be in
the ACC this upcoming season, and they will be in the ACC the following
season and probably for many years after that, but you know, they're going
to fight it out in court for at least then, you know, for
the next couple seasons. And again, why why I hesitate to kind of
say is that really news? Is because where would they go? I mean
again, like they're not like, there's no invitation for them to go anywhere.
And I think if they were somehow able to get out of this deal
that they're in with the acc one, I mean, I feel like we
would, we would, there'd be some momentum heading towards that. And actually,
if in fact, they felt like they were about to win in court,
and even though it's going to take some time, they felt like they
were going to win, maybe they would notify the league, you know what
I mean, Like, maybe that's maybe that's a sign that they really don't
feel strongly about their case. I don't know how they could. Again,
it's a pretty straightforward arrangement, and I guess they're just going to spend a
ton of money with their lawyers. And we'll say this for Jim Phillips,
it's not a good look to have these schools suing the league, and I
think it is in his position, it's in his best interest to sort of,
you know, call out their legal action as something that is damaging to
the league, but also understand that your league needs them. Like, that's
not any when I give Phillips criticism in regards to like telling everybody to,
you know, chill out because we're in third place as far as revenue share,
I mean, third place is better than fourth, but there's only four
places to be there's four major conferences left in college football. You're in the
bottom half, and to be honest with you, that's not your fault.
There's not a single thing you can do to change that. And the grant
of rights that is currently in place till twenty thirty six is something you inherited.
It's nothing to do with Jim Phillips. But how about like just looking
like you care that the rest of your league is a little worried that they're
in third and that gap between one, two and three is going to grow
substantially. And there's a chance that if the Big twelve, if they're able
to you know, continue to be innovative and you know, not afraid to
throw sponsors on you know, the name of the league and that kind of
stuff, they may jump you and put you in fourth place. And what
is he gonna say, then, well, we're in fourth place. We're
in fourth place. Well yeah, out of four, you're dead last,
dude. I mean, here's what he said. Here's what he had to
say about the legal action that those two schools have taken against the league.
This is from Let's see here. Well, I thought I had it pulled
up here and I can't. I can't. Yah, here we go.
This is from Andrew Adelson, who of course is on site at the ACC
Football Media Days. For those who who missed it, The league network,
the AEC network itself, did not have Jim Phillips's you know, Annual State
of the Union on their network for reasons I don't know. I still haven't
been able to figure out if it was just because they didn't feel like it
was worth putting on the network, which to me seems odd. But they
were going to have it on a stream the ACC Network Extra, which is
essentially watch ESPN, and even that didn't work. They had technical difficulties.
So unless you were there, I don't think you heard anything that Jim Phillips
said. But again, this is from Andrew Edelson. Jim Phillips on the
Clemson FSU lawsuits. Quote, we will fight to protect the ACC and our
members for as long as it takes. These disputes continue to be extremely damaging,
disruptive, and incredibly harmful to the league. The ACC deserves better,
So that's from the leader, Jim Phillips. That's a tricky one though,
because again, if they dropped their lawsuit, that would probably make life easier
for Jim Phillips. But you also can't you know, I mean, I
don't know. That is where it would be tough to be a commissioner whenever
you're in charge essentially, but you also you know that you need them,
and anybody claiming you can just say all the hell with that, you guys
leave, we don't need you. Like that's not the reality. It's just
not true. So anyways, well, we'll get some more takeaways as far
as what's being said at ACC kickoff. I believe it'll be Wednesday when Jeff
Brohm and the players are there and they'll talk to the media, and I'm
sure there'll be some some things to take away from that. All Right,
It's Coffee and Company fuel by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety appreciate you
guys hanging out with us here on a Monday afternoon. Hopefully you had yourselves
a good weekend. Let's go to the text line five two six five three
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this text says, Nick, are you a little worried about the Jack Golkie
karma? I've been talking a lot of crap to Kentucky fans about this guy,
and I can absolutely see it happening tonight. He comes out, lights
us up and sends our boys home. I mean, if you believe in
if you believe in karma, then yeah, that's a scenario where right here
there are things that could could develop to where you get dealt a healthy dose
of karma. I'm not someone who truly believes in karma, you know,
at least not the way a lot of other people do. Would this truly
be considered karma? Because I mean, yes, yes, VAL's fault that
had happened, you know, Yeah, that's I mean, it depends on
how you looked at Jack Golkie. What I mean by that is, did
you clown Jack Golki like as a Louisville fan, Like look at this old
dude out there that looks like he should be doing your taxes instead of playing
in the DNSAA tournament. Like, can you believe this guy knocked out Kentucky?
They suck because that's the way you went about it. Then you know,
maybe he'll show you I don't suck, and I sent their team home
from the tournament. I'll send your beloved former players who were part of a
national championship packing too, Like I think we love Jack Golkie, so now
we just got to like, you know, like it's it's uncomfortable to play
him because you know we love him, you know what I'm saying, Like
I can get you know, so maybe it's not karma. But then again,
trust me, Kentucky fans, if they're watching tonight, they'll be cheering
for Jack Colchi to kill us, right, I mean that's just normal.
Which like, honestly, I thought to myselves, or I thought to myself,
I don't have to I'm one person. I thought to myself that I
would want Kentucky's team to win in the tvt because I don't care what I
don't. I don't care about those guys at all. Like watching them play,
it's not like, oh damn, there's you know, Kentucky's on.
I hope they lose, but yet, you know, when I watched a
little bit of their game on Friday, and then I watched a good chunk
of it yesterday, I'm like, it's it's it's the instincts are still there
when there's a team in white playing and up arena against a different team,
like, you know, it's just it's second nature to just start cheering for
the other team. But the reason I said I didn't think I would care
because actually would love for this game to happen, Like it would be so
awesome to see both of these teams come out of their regions and them play
Freedom Hall, Like it would be a huge un expected sports story in Louisville,
in the state, you know, randomly in late July or early August,
whenever the game happens. And maybe I'm expecting too much, but again,
first things first, they got to they gotta each win, Like Kentucky's
gonna have a tough game tomorrow against a Marshall team that's been really good in
this event. For quite some time, they looked like they were dead against
war already. The Auburn team and then the elam ending man that made it
a lot of fun where they went on a crazy run, came back and
won it. And now they're one game away from getting to the to the
sweet sixteen of this event. So for Kentucky, you know they're gonna have
a tough game and then Lowd's gotta win the night and on Wednesday, so
you know we're not there yet, but I feel like you'll get ten thousand
easy. At Freedom Hall. I thought they were going to be close to
the sellout. I think it was like fifty nine hundred is what they announced,
and I looked around and you know, it wasn't completely full, but
like from areas where you could buy tickets, like I wonder what full capacity
is to them as far as like what they're selling, like what they are
you know, staging the arena for because there's a lot of there's a ton
of empty space behind each goal and the lower bowl, I mean the lower
bowl's not full because the lower bowl doesn't have all I mean, like the
seats like behind the goals are not I mean that's what the lower bowl used
to look like to me. And I'm sure I don't even know if it's
what it looks like. Like. I don't know if what I saw on
Saturday is how they have it set up for Bellarmin games or not, but
I mean that would be huge. And I know they're recruiting, like Pat
Kelsey's been all over the place recruiting. If he's in town to night,
I'm sure he'll be there. I know a lot of the players were there.
In fact, I think the whole team was there on Saturday. But
if these two teams get to the next round and they're playing each other,
I just think it's going to be a really cool, kind of unexpected,
out of nowhere, you know, thing for basketball fans around here to experience.
And I think you hit it on the head. A couple people have
said this, John, like there's a little bit of awkwardness to it,
because you know, it's not like you're watching your Hoosiers or watching your Cardinals
or your or your Wildcats, but you also kind of are because they're always
going to be that to you. And you know that like if you if
you get upset, it's not going to lead Sports Center as if oh my
god, these prominent programs can you believe they lost to you know, sideline
cancer. I mean, cause it's I don't know's it's just hard to put
into words without like acting like the event isn't worth watching or anything like that,
because I love it, Like I was into it. I felt alive
watching them on Saturday because they had to come from behind. That Bellerman team
had them on the ropes. And you know, I still think the nostalgia
is the biggest factor. Also, you know, this team for Louisville should
be pretty good, and they were impressive enough to come from behind and win
without a whole lot of trouble at the very end there during the elam ending.
But also, you know, we haven't really felt alive as a fan
base watching Louisville basketball in any way. So this is, you know,
if Louisville's got it rolling and they're i don't know, consistently making second weekend
trips with the you know, well, maybe they get a Final four in
the first ten years of Pat Kelsey's time here. I mean, who knows,
that's a long way away. Then maybe there maybe this won't be something
that we're so amped up for, but right now it is and I think
it helps, you know, as far as these guys in this event.
So let's get too a quick break. We'll come back on the other side,
keep it rolling along. So answer your question on the text line.
I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't call it karma. But you know we've
seen what Jack Guilke can do if he gets loose, and you know he
did it just a few months ago. Whereas we have guys who haven't played
the NSTAA tournament in eleven twelve years. So, and I'll say that for
the four o'clock hour, we're all old. I'm just gonna say it.
It doesn't sound it doesn't sound normal to say that, because you know,
I watch these guys play. They're they're younger than me, but like we're
old. I think we're probably one of the older teams in this event,
if I'm being honest with you, All right, quick breaks, Coffee and
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I just saw here Bud Elliott, who does a good job covering college
football for twenty four to seven Sports. It looks like he got his cell
phone out and he was able to, uh, he was able to produce
a video of Jim Phillips talking at the ACC kickoff, which they just they
they chose not to put it on TV because I'm looking here from let's see,
yeah, Chris Fanini, who's also there covering the ACC football media days
for the Athletic. You know, he says the the ACC network, whoever's
in charge of it, I guess, opted to do analyst discussion from the
lobby while Jim Phillips was live at the Poet. So instead of hearing Jim
Phillips essentially do his state of the union in the league, they opted to
just have you know, the network guys no offense to them, maybe like
an Eric McLane or something like that, just you know, chopping it up
with a player who stopped by no offense to whoever that player was or that
coach, like press conferences for the commissioner at conference media days, I would
say more often than not, or wouldn't be something that you would just be
on the edge of your seat anticipating with excitement. But there's a lot of
questions and I think we all know that Jim Phillips isn't gonna be able to
give us the perfect solution to where everything is aokay in the acc looks like
the future is bright and everybody's getting along. There's no more lawsuits, there's
gonna be enough money for everybody. Like that's not realistic, but given the
fact that you know the league is in the situation that it's in, like
you want to hear something from your leader. And one of the things that's
always pissed me off whenever nobody was acknowledging what Louisville Basketball was going through with
with Kenny Payne was those that would say, well, what do you want
him to say? What was he supposed to say? What you want him
to say? I'm like, do you understand that? Like that job,
a job where you are in a position of leadership, A big part of
that job is when crap hits the fan, things are going wrong, you
gotta you gotta mess on your hands. You're gonna have to get out in
front of it and and and just eat it. And there's not gonna be
a perfect statement. There's not gonna be a perfect answer to make it all
okay, but you know what that comes with the job. And to be
fair, Phillips did show up today, he did take the podium, but
the league didn't want anybody to hear it because they decided to just only put
it on the ACC network stream and that didn't work. So now I'm curious.
I wonder if it does exist, is there any legitimate you know,
clips to uh to to pull from that. I mean again, I could
I could play the one that uh that we have from who is it?
Bud Elliott? But I mean it's from his phone and he's thirty yards away
from the commissioner. You can't hear him. I do have a quote here.
This is from the David Glenn Show. Who's there covering it? This
is from Jim phillips quote. Our footprint is now national, spanning coast to
coast. The ACC now has a presence in each of the five most populated
populated states California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. There
you go. No other power conference has more than two. Eat that SEC
and Big Ten. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Stanky was
the Big Ten commissioner's name. Petit Yeah, eat that pe Tit. They
do all have last names except for Jim Phillips. I guess for you because
because he's a dork, I shouldn't be so mean to Phillips because, to
be honest with you, he inherited everything. But again, like there's nothing,
there's nothing that he's ever said in regards to like the actual quote,
the way he said he just to me does not give all. Like I
don't see anybody in the league could feel like that their leadership is in a
good spot with this guy. And look actions matter more than anything. We
know that, but what action has he taken. It's like, actually,
you know, he to me still has the hey, everybody chill out,
nothing to see here. And I'm not saying that the league's on fire and
it's gonna burn to the ground, But how about the I mean, I
would just think he would he would want to be eager to get in front
of people and say, look, we understand that the climate's changing. Money's
never been more important to schools because you're gonna need to pay players now and
we're in third place and that GAP's gonna get bigger. But you know what,
we're gonna do everything we can to find as much revenue to split among
our conference members as possible, and we won't stop until we can. You
know, will never stop trying to be as competitive as we can with the
first and second place teams when it conferences when it comes to revenue. I
mean, that wasn't It wouldn't have been a great statement, but like something
along those lines, right, instead of just hey, we're in third place
out of four loser he