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John Alden alongside today. As always on a Monday, it's busy, a
lot to react to. Today is no different, and we will, I
guess, pick up where we left off. So Louisville Basketball a lot of
visitors from over the last week or so. In fact, two of those
visitors have committed. But now we wait to see if those that took in
everything they could in a twenty four to forty eight hour window of time here
in louisvill Hopefully they were because Louisville needs players, and you know, I
think there's a lot to offer here. One of the things that I just
haven't seen many people mention as to why Louisville could have an advantage. A
lot of guys in the portal won a specific role because that's you know,
one of the reasons why they're leaving. I think a lot of times it
ends up being money and they know they can go make more money, and
hey, more power to them. As much as there are some that think
that this is just completely ruined college sports, I feel like if you were
in their shoes at that age, you probably do the same thing. But
Louisville, I mean, obviously in the back court, you've got some competition
now with some of the guys that have already committed. Terrence Edwards Junior,
which, by the way, he's gonna be on the show with us tomorrow
four thirty. We're gonna have fats On talk to him about his decision to
come to Louisville and we get to know him a little bit better. But
with him being the first commitment, and obviously I think at this point,
I think it's safe to say he's your best guy that you've added. I
mean, I'm sure there'll be other guys that maybe don't put up the same
numbers, but their role is just as important. But I mean, he
committed pretty early on in the process, which I think has actually led to
some people kind of enough forgetting about him. But he's a really, really
good player. I mean, this is somebody that, to be honest with
you, you know, I don't want to say he could have picked any
school to go to, but he's one of the top twenty caliber players in
the portal. So you've got him, and then you throw in Javon Hadley,
who's kind of like a positionless player, and I mean that like,
you could put him on the perimeter and he can knock down threes and we
saw that in highlights and obviously his percentage was pretty strong. But he could
also put him in the post and say, look, we need more help
in the interior. Go get us eight rebounds, and he can do that
too. So you know, I think you can play him in a variety
of spots, probably more so going to be the three, in the four,
but maybe at the two. And then Rain Smith another guard who's your
shooter, James Scott, the big who was one of the All Conference freshmen
last year on All Conference Freshman team last year at Charleston for Kelsey. And
then Ali Khalifa, who committed just last week, who has expected a red
shirt. So you know, they at least have, I guess a base
level of a roster, but for the most part. I mean, Louis
has got a lot of minutes to sell, right Like in certain players,
they may not look at anybody that's already committed and say they're worried about not
having a specific role because they feel as if they're they're gonna they're gonna be
hungry to compete, and they feel good about their ability to do so.
So you know, we'll see. But Jaden quants, that is the Jaden
quaintance. I'm terrible names, never gonna, you know. And now what
happens is once I say a name incorrectly, it's it's there's no salvaging the
situation because I'll be in my own head about saying it wrong before and then
constantly asking myself, what the hell is this person's actual name. I've said
this, I've said that, I've said that. Which one is that I
don't remember? So, you know, JQ that's what everybody calls him on
Twitter, Maybe that's what I'll call him. That's very easy for me to
remember how to pronounce. But his father, we talked about his tweet last
week where he or he liked a tweet that indicated that Kentucky essentially dropped the
bag and Mitch Barnhardt didn't pursue any of these kids that were committed to Caliperry
when they reopened the recruitment. And then of course that tweet also happened to
say that he's likely Louisville, which again I think I knew deep down that
him liking the tweet had really nothing to do with the Louisville stuff. It
was probably just confirming that Mitch Barnhardt didn't get involved with any of those players.
But I like a parent who will publicly like call out anybody who's online,
just acting like they know what's going on. And his father, which
is up his Twitter handle is up T like up t Q the letter T
and Q the number four life. But I just retweeted it because this is
this is the exact tweet I referenced earlier today, because I just see everybody
sharing it, you know, and it's it's got over one hundred thousand impressions,
and it's it's what looks to be a made up name, Xavier Ricks.
But he tweeted out hearing hearing the bidding is about one and a half
to two million for Jaden Quaintance. Getting Memphis involved gives j q's camp leverage
to up the bidding for Arkansas to match smart move, and then he says,
prior to his commitment to Kentucky, Jaden Quaintons was asking schools for around
five hundred thousand dollars of his nil up front. Missouri wasn't willing to spend
that, which is why I ended up in Kentucky. Well, his father
has responded to that and and just said the fake news King, which you
know, this guy, you know, apparently he's been doing a lot of
this, like people just run with it and believe it, and that's just
a scary world to be in where and I could be wrong, but I
feel like a lot of it is a lot of it is based off of
It's just Twitter, right, Like I don't think you see as much of
this happening elsewhere. But then again, I feel like Facebook. Yeah,
but Facebook it's a different audience though, No, I'm not even talking about
the audience. On Twitter, you can easily within five to ten seconds put
together a profile that visually looks like you're a real reporter. Yeah, that
makes sense. On Facebook, it's different, Like, you know, I
think there's a bigger audience of more gullible people. Actually, yeah, but
it's not as easy to you know, to mask Yeah, yeah, yeah,
like you know that makes sense, so you know it, it still
happens, but just differently, you know what I mean. So I think
Louisville is still alive. You know, that's maybe wishful thinking on my end,
but I do get the sense that that there's just the you know,
the money here for this kid is gonna is gonna make it too, because
I don't believe at all that it's one and a half to two million for
him. But let's just say it's you know, half that, or you
know, two hundred k whatever, I don't know, just make up a
number as good as this kid is. I actually think that it's foolish to
spend that much money on a high school kid. And it's not my money,
right, if you've got to spend it. However, I assume every
program will have to monitor how much they spend here and there, like you
just because you know they don't. I don't think anybody has unlimited money,
unless you know, Jerry Jones is truly going to get involved and try to
help John Caliperry. But I think if Louisville kind of just you know,
felt good about their their pitch, what they could do for him, and
it ends up to where he gets to Arkansas and or maybe Memphis, and
it's because they were willing to pay more money. Like, I don't really
think that that's something that I would. I mean, I wouldn't be critical
of Pat Kelsey for that decision. You know, others you know probably wouldn't
agree. But I just I think the going rate for a high school kid,
I mean, I guess, you know you're worth what they're willing to
pay you. But as somebody who has never you know, spent in this
market, I just feel like I would use ninety percent of the money that
I have to buy players on proven transfers. I mean, to me,
that's a no brainer. But there's something about a five even though you know,
this kid's sixteen years old and I actually think he would be an impact
guy for anybody to an extent, but you know, he's that young.
In the last few years, we've seen the high impact freshman that you know
are some of the best players in the country. Like that that's fading away
a little bit. And I think one is because you can now through the
portal build a really old team and that'll fade a little bit whenever the COVID
stuff runs out. But even when that ends, you can still strategically go
out in free agency and just make sure you're not young. And if you've
got a team that your core is your three star freshmen and then some role
players, they're gonna be playing against grown men. So I just think the
game has changed to where I just don't you know, I don't think it's
that's a wise spend if you will, but fans haven't really, you know,
caught up yet. And what I mean by that is I think some
would agree with what I just said, like, hey, if it's one
point one and a half to two million dollars, then you know, good
luck to the young man. But maybe it's the intrigue of the unknown.
This is a five star kid, top ten, number eight in the country,
like if he was to commit to Louisville, let's say, let me
see. Let me just so, I'm looking at the rankings here, I'm
trying to look at like the best, like the best available player in the
portal who has not picked a new school yet. John L. Davis,
We'll use him, right, So John L. Davis. He is it.
Well, maybe he's not a good example, but I I feel like
just when I you know, as best I can check the pulse of Louisville
fans with this show, with social media and whatnot, I think fans would
actually have a bigger reaction, one more so of like extreme joy and excitement
if Jake h committed rather than John L. Davis. I think obviously you'd
love to have both. And maybe Davis isn't the best example, but like
there's guys who you know have played elsewhere, that you know put up good
numbers, that you've watched play, that you know would be probably a fifteen
to twenty point per game kind of guy, and you know you need that,
and you probably know that your freshman coming in is maybe gonna be double
digits per game at best. But there's just it's the intrigue of the unknown,
I think, and just you know, that's when it comes to power
programs, you know, sticking their chest out, you know, always wanting
to talk about where they stand in the hierarchy of college basketball, they had
true blue blood or not. You know, I think those fan bases really
do go back and forth about recruiting rankings. I mean, John, I'm
sure Indiana fans have done it too. I mean they care about that stuff.
Even though we now know that your freshman class is probably year by year
gonna have lesser impact just because of the way the game's changing. I still
think landing a big recruit is just it gets fans more excited than any transfer
for the moment, you know, other than you know, the the rare
transfers like a Hunter Dickinson or maybe Jhonalll Davis. Maybe he's that, maybe
maybe he's gonna be another example of that. But I can't remember there being
a visitor rather it be a transfer or a recruit that you know, fans
have been I shouldn't say obsessed with. And I think everybody heap Down knows
Louisville you know, it's probably not going to get this guy because it just
it just seems like he's gonna go to Arkansas. But I just, you
know, I think it's just the fact that Louisville fans are feening. Yeah
they are, there's no doubt about it being so long. And I don't
blame them. Yeah, I mean, look like Ali Khalif is somebody that
I wouldn't super familiar with and really didn't understand Louisville's interest level, but sure
enough they got him in the next day. I was ready to tell you
guys, he's the best player in America, because you know that's what we're
we're we're we're feening. As you said, John, all right, let's
switch gears to to football really quickly here, because Louisville football lost I think
four maybe three players in the portal earlier today. I know Luke Burgess is
one of them, the offensive lineman who came in a few years ago and
really just was never able to climb up the depth chart. There's some others
that have let me just see. Yeah, you've got linebacker Jalen Alderman,
who I think late last week it was announced he was going to hit the
portal. I guess they became official today. There's another defensive lineman, yeah
to Feke Thomas. He entered the portal too, And I think these are
guys that they expected. Sam Seacrest, another offensive lineman, he hit the
portal. These are all guys that post spring game have decided to transfer and
wish him nothing but the best. But I think that this is scholarships opening
up for Jeff Brohm to go get players, and you know, there's I
think from when I saw in the spring game, I know that they would
like to go get a running back and I think they're going to and you
know, you could never have too much depth there, But I do think
that from when I you know, I think they have some good pieces there,
right. I know, when you look at the what you lost last
year, I mean you lost a lot. You lost two really good running
backs, and Grindo I mean, and he became, you know, one
of your best run I mean, Girndo became really really good towards the end
there. Juar Jordan was great, was banged up. Lates Like, just
the fact that you're replacing those two guys, I feel like, you know,
those are big shoes to fill. And I don't think anybody on the
roster, to be honest, is as good as those guys were when they
were really on. But at the same point in time, like, I
think there's some guys that you like. I think they could utilize what they
have now, and if they keep everybody healthy, I think they'd be okay
at running back. I mean, what do I know, But I mean
I think, you know, the transfer from Miami. I think of his
name here, Donald Cheney. I mean he's he's somebody that was productive at
Miami. Wasn't their feature back, but you know, I think it was
a star freshman last year, be a sophomore that kind of emerged and became
the guy for Miami. But I thought Cheney looked pretty good. It sounds
like in the spring he was playing well. Kewan Brown, who red shirted
last year, I think, you know, he's a talented guy, really
really love his upside. Maurice Turner, he's made plays here for a few
years, so they're gonna need to add somebody. But I actually think the
guys that we saw are pretty impressive. Isaac Brown the freshman tough to know
what you could expect from a true freshman, but it sounds like he's been
the real deal. Now what I worry about a little bit at receiver is,
you know, do they have a Jamari Thrash? And I think there's
some good receivers that have been added that you know, fans should be really
excited about. But Jamarty Thrash was really really good, and I think you
really saw how much he mattered to you when he got hurt and wasn't himself
anymore. Chris Bell, We've seen him make plays, you know, he
had the first touchdown of the spring game. Big, physical receiver. Almost
looks like he could be like a two guard on the basketball floor. He's
talented, you know, But is he you know, is he can he
be your main guy? Colin Lacey, the transfer from South Alabama, really
highly regarded in the portal. A lot of big schools wanted him. Louova
got him. He was not really impressive in the spring game, to be
honest with you, and I know that doesn't mean anything because I can tell
you there are many guys who've over the years looked great in the spring game
and it never produced anything. And there's guys that look bad in the spring
game that became stars. He really just don't know, but you know,
I don't It didn't doesn't sound like he was, you know, dominant throughout
spring. I'm sure they still love having him, and maybe he makes some
big plays this year, but I don't know. It could be cha Cory
Brooks, but he did not play in the spring game. He's the transfer
from Alabama, and if you remember, he was not as productive for them
this past year. You know, he essentially got passed up in the depth
chart, which is never something you want to hear about a guy. But
then again, keep in mind, he did play at Alabama, but he
was there for he played thirty six games, caught ten touchdown passes throughout his
career, did have an injury that a limited limited his timeline last year.
So maybe he's that guy. But you know, I could see them going
after another receiver. I know they're going to try to go after another running
back, and I'm sure there's some other spots they want to go add depth.
They did lose a lot of old linemen to the portal, so maybe
they're going to go out and try to add some depth there. But make
no mistake about it, they've they've got scholarships available to use now. They
were over the scholarship limit around the time spring. You know, I don't
know if they were over it, but yeah, I think they were going
to have to figure something out before the next semester started. And now they've
got guys that have decided to leave, and hopefully they go out and fill
those spots with really good players. But one name I wanted to talk about
if you weren't with us in at the beginning of the show. Penny Boon,
he decided to transfer last week kind of became a bigger story than your
typical transfer because there were, you know, rumors on message boards and Twitter
and Discord and MySpace and you know everything Farmville on Facebook about Louisville not being
able to fulfill an il obligations as far as money checks weren't clearing or something
like that. And I don't know if it's been proven, but the belief
is that the source of that whole thing was Penny Boone's agent. And I'd
say Penny Boone is being advised, you know, poorly, just given how
this thing's played out. So he's transferring in the portal see you later,
right. He later deleted some stuff on his social media, but he indicated
that it was a money thing. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's exactly
what he said when he mentioned standing on business and that kind of stuff.
Well, now we hear that there's a chance he could come back to Louisville,
which, hey, if if Brahm's willing to take him back, then
you know, that tells me all I need to know, because I think
he would know how much his team needs Penny Boone, and if Penny Boon
maybe I mean, if Penny Boone is somebody that may be in a great
locker room kind of no clue of he is or not. I think I
would trust Jeff to know if that's a big enough deal to work, it
could really impact your team in a negative way. But I think his standing
on business comment, I guess that's like typical, like, you know,
it's just and I mean it's money, Like I don't think any of his
teammates will be bothered by that, but you know, some of the other
things that were later to lead it just kind of indicated that, you know,
he didn't really think a whole lot about Louisville and in this place and
maybe this team, And I just feel like that would be hard to walk
back. But it sounds like it may be Louisville or Kentucky where he ends
up, because he is visiting Kentucky, I think as we speak, so
that would be an all time I mean, Louisvill's got a guy on their
team right now, Isaiah Cummins, who transferred from Kentucky. So it's not
one of those things that's never happened. For in fact, it just happened
a couple months ago. But the way this played out where he didn't exactly
leave Louisville and you know, looking good on the way out, and he
didn't say good things about them on the way out. So now to know
that maybe he could come back, but he's also going to visit Kentucky,
like I just guessing here, and I mean literally just guessing. I haven't
talked to anybody, and the people that I do talk he wouldn't tell me
anything anyway, but I could see Jeff Brohm tell him this guy to kick
Rocks, like, you know, maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like
just the way he handled the whole situation, and to know that he's now
visiting Kentucky, like I'm just guessing here that the never I was gonna say,
the era, the Penny Boon era at Louisville, which again he never
played a game here, showed up, showed up, burn Christmas time,
took some money, practiced in the spring for a few weeks, and left,
So that that was the extent of the Pennyboon era. But I want
him to go to Kentucky just because again, you know, it'll it'll add
some fuel to the rivalry. You know that we need it. But anyways,
he was gonna visit Ole miss Now that visit's not happening. And he
was, i think this past weekend, expected to visit to visit Washington and
he never was able to make the trip. So this could be somebody resetting
the market thinking they're going to go get a lot of money, and they
didn't realize that the situation they had at Louisville was probably as good as they
were going to get. But we'll see, you never know. And look,
if he does end up back at Louisville, you know, I'll hope
he does well, but you know, you don't usually see that scenario play
out the way that it did. And then him come and a guy come
back to school. All right, quick break will come back. Keep this
thing rolling along again. Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's right here. On
Sports Talk seven ninety so at the end of the three o'clock hours, somebody
assumed, you know, making a joke, asked if Mark Pope is the
first coach to ever drive a recruit to the airport, which it is crazy
how big this has become. Online, so I guess it was yesterday.
I'm sorry, No, it was earlier today. Matt Jones posted this,
Mark Pope has been personally picking up and taking recruits to the airport this weekend
for visits. I don't think I've ever heard of a coach doing this before,
which Hetty just left out the last sentence. This would probably be one
of Matt's you know, I wouldn't say that, it would be like one
of his least you know, least engaged posts, because you know, I
think seeing Pope there, I mean, Kentucky fans, they're excited about Mark
Pope, so like maybe anything he posted about Mark Pope would get a lot
of attention. But saying that he doesn't think he's ever heard of any other
coach doing this before has just led to like the basketball world like, what
do you mean everybody does that? Which I mean, it's got one point
two million views countless, you know, quote tweets and you know, other
people sharing pictures of other coaches doing this. In fact, apparently Cal did
it at one point as well. But this was I thought this was I
thought this was funny an Arkansas fan. Of course, you know, there's
there's you know a rivalry there now, So does Kentucky basketball even need to
bother with Nil when their recruits get a ride of the airport. The rest
of the SEC has been put on notice. Which Mark Pope is doing his
radio interviews nationally. I think he was on with Jim Rome earlier. Also
might have been on with Fonnenbaum here recently. And you know, he's he's
such a he's so different than Caliperry. And I feel like where Kentucky fans
just kind of became annoyed with cal and just his you know, can I
say behavior. I mean it's not like he was, you know, getting
arrested or being a terrible human being, but you know, he his personality,
Yeah, his personality, the callisms, and just his stubbornness. I
mean, it just it was quite clear that that thing would run its course
and it needed to end. So everything that I think made, you know,
outside of the obvious issues like losing in the tournament to teams like Saint
Peter's and Oakland, you know, outside of that, I think everything else
about him just kind of made it just not resent him. But let's be
real, towards the end, I think the majority of their fan base wanted
him gone and kind of felt like they didn't really like him anymore. I
think they knew they would always have a special spot for him because again,
he had a great run there all things considered, but everything that everything about
cal that bothered you. Again, outside of like the actual basketball results,
Mark Pope is so much different in a good way to where I feel like
it's not just about the fact that he seems like a really likable guy and
you know that he played there, but I think also it's just because he
is. He's such a breath of fresh air compared to what you used to
have. Now, will it be as good? Who knows. And here's
what's crazy. It can be really good, but not as good as Calipario
because calib Perry early in his time there was phenomenal. Now, I'd say
Mark Pope will probably not lose to those caliber teams in the NCAA Tournament.
But you know, it remains to be seen if Pat Kelsey or Mark Pope
are gonna be able to get both programs where they feel like they belong.
Louisville. You know, has has has a long way to go, just
given the fact that the last two years they were awful, but again,
as we now know, you can change things pretty quickly. And I think
one thing Louisville fans have going form is that we're not expecting Pat Kelsey,
you know, to be in the Final four next year or really anytime soon
probably, And even though we know we have high standards, what he's going
to do may not even be considered to be good for us right away,
but it's going to be a billion times better than what we just had,
which is going to make it more fun. And that's a good thing,
right, Like, clearly expectations are going to be high, but we're going
to experience things that you know, didn't used to give us really any feeling,
right like, oh yeah, we're supposed to beat team I've never heard
of on a Tuesday in December by forty because we're Louisville and you know they're
not. Well we went we started sweating those games last couple of years and
losing some of them. So like that that's something Pat Kelsey has working for
him. With Mark Pope, I do. I'm very curious to see with
cal being in the SEC still and probably you know, going to poke at
you here and there, try to get players that Mark Pope wants that kind
of stuff, Like, well, I think what it's probably going to end
up doing is it's going to make you in the moment say the hell with
cal and be like, you know, Pope's our guy, but will you
continue to do that? Like if the results that Pope has are way different
than the results Calipari has, that's I mean, I don't think anybody can
answer that until it actually happens. But one thing that we knew all along
was that he was not going to bring in the same caliber player that Cali
Perry does, because that's I mean, nobody does. Only Duke I feel
like in recent years can say that they recruit at the same level that Cali
Perry has for the most part during his time in Lexington. So the BYU
transfer who did not play for two years because of his Mormon mission, I
mean, that's a solid pick up in theory, But you know, it's
a guy that I think nearly any school outside of maybe three or four would
be thrilled by a top forty player. And now maybe they'd be worried about
the fact that he didn't play basketball for two years, But either way,
I mean top forty players, the group of schools and fans that would feel
as if they don't really need to be excited about that. It is very
small, wouldn't you agree? John A tough forty's a good player, like
Borderline mcdonald's'll American. Maybe, like that's a good player. But Kentucky they
used to be able to kind of laugh at people for getting excited about that,
because you know, that guy, if he ever earned a spot at
Kentucky, would be their worst recruit. Like it's just the waters they were
swimming in. So to see now that they've got an addition via the portal
solid player. I mean Amari Williams really good player. I don't think he's
great, but he's a top fifty caliber transfer is the reigning three time Colonial
Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Year. Put up some decent numbers. I
mean, that's a good pickup, but you know it's still it's it's just
not just sexy pickup that they're used to. Yeah, it doesn't mean that
he can't end up being somebody that is better than their expect I get the
sense that they want to be chesty, arrogant Kentucky, but they kind of
feel like hypocrites because even if they do feel a certain way about a player,
they know how they've behaved on the internet for the last fourteen years about
anybody being excited about any recruit ever because they were the elitists, and in
the end they were right. They got Cali Perry is the best, you
know. I think recruiting, actually, it can be viewed a lot of
different ways, and this is not a conversation for the current time we have
right now, but I think an elite recruiter is somebody that is getting good
players and does not care where they're ranked, and getting players that like fit
what they want to do and like understanding, you know. Like I think
that actually makes a great recruiter. But in how we view it as fans,
great recruiters are guys who have those high rankings every year, Like that's
that's the way it And it's really stupid that we evaluate great classes before they
play and not after. I think you should do it both, but either
way that's not really important. But my point is this, like they they
recruited, as far as just loading up every year with the best available players
in the country, I don't think you'll find anybody that ever did it as
good as Calipery or ever will because nobody's really gonna try to now because that's
really not the best way to go about building your roster from from you know,
from season to season. So I just I think I don't think they're
having a I don't think they're having an identity crisis because I think they know
that, like, this could still work because it's happening elsewhere. There are
really good teams that make deep runs in the tournament in the last couple of
years that you know, what was there one McDonald's All American in the entire
final four. I mean that that's that's where we are. But it's just
they you know, even when they didn't have a deep tournament run to fall
back on, because that stopped happening in Lexington. The one thing that never
ever let them down was where they ranked in recruiting, and they could talk
all that talk even after a loss to a Saint Peter's. They can talk
all that talk to other fans because they'll tell you we're loading up again next
year. We're like, now they don't have that, and now they could
be you know, over the moon about these players. But if they start
like expressing that as if these guys are great, like you know, they
just no deep down that just a year ago, maybe two years ago,
like they would make fun of people for being excited about that. And I
know that's not every Kentucky fan, right, Like that's the sick of fans
that are the most obnoxious, that are you know, constantly on the toxic
wasteland that is Twitter. But you know those are people that you know,
I see a lot, right because that's the world I'm in at times,
but in all seriousness, and mar Williams is a good pick up for them.
And I think Mark Pope has visits scheduled for transfers like every day this
week. I think I saw Matt Orlander post that earlier on CBS Sports.
Now, one of the guys they're gonna hope to get is Dayton transfer Who
let me see if I can pull up his because this guy right here,
I mean, this guy is picking from I mean, this may be the
most impressive list I've ever seen. Kobe Brea transferring from Dayton about ten points
a game last year, good shooter wing. His schools are Kentucky, Yukon,
North Carolina, Duke in Kansas. That is somebody that is picking from
like a five star freshman. I mean, that's that's I mean, that's
a guy picking from the blue bloods. I mean, that's it's impressive.
So this is somebody that you know, I'd say, all these places do
have anisle resources and all you know, everybody, everybody will take a really
good shooter with size. I mean, i'd say, if you could shoot
it and you've proven that throughout your career, especially multiple seasons. Uh,
if you're not a huge liability on the other end of the floor, but
you're a marksman, then I think you could find a spot at a lot
of places. I mean, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Yukon, Kentucky.
Those are the five schools this guy's considering. Imagine telling him that when
he picked Dayton coming out of high school, that's wild. That's why the
I mean, that's the portal is it changes everybody's lives. And you know,
for some it's for great thing. For it's for some it changes it
in such a positive way. Others, you know, maybe not maybe not
as much. All Right, here's here's something I know that can change your
life in a positive way, and that is the little of Men's Clinic because
they've been doing it for over ten years now. Foul upon thousands of men
have been treated to the Men's Clinic for a variety of different issues. Rather
it be a rectiletis function, low testosterone, weight loss therapy. They can
help you lose weight, hair restoration. They are a full all male clinic,
meaning everybody that works there is a male. You don't have to worry
about the awkward, uncomfortable stuff. I mean, you know they're they're there
to help you with things that you've probably put off for a long time because
it's not something that you're comfortable talking about or dealing with. And that makes
total sense. But the first step in getting beyond that and fixing it and
changing your life in a positive way is to give them a call. FABU
two four four four four thousand is the number. Louisvimen's Clinic dot com.
That is the website. And I promise you there are people listening right now.
I know that if listened to me say this for weeks now and know
that I'm right, but they just won't do it. Well, pick up
the phone and call them. Because if you had low testosterone, you probably
didn't even know it, especially if you're somebody that is, you know,
in your thirties or maybe even younger than that, because it's not something that
comes to mind you because you don't feel like you're old. But that's the
biggest misconception. You don't have to be old to have low testosterone. Really
has nothing to do with your age. Each a at every age we are
at, there's a range of where your testosterone should be as far as the
level, and it decreases over time as you get older, so it is
a part of it. But like you, again, I'm somebody that for
the most part, I've been a relatively healthy person in my whole life,
and you know, I felt like I'd lost my edge. I was lethargic,
you know, felt like I was doing the same type of workouts,
same stuff, and I just I wasn't getting the same results, and I
didn't feel I didn't feel like it was paying off. So I said,
you know, let's reach out. I know they've been a client here with
us at Ahart for a long time, so called doctor Wood went over,
chatted with him. They checked my levels and sure enough, they were not
anywhere near where they needed to be. And now I've addressed that, and
I feel better than ever. So you may not feel that, you may
not think that you feel awful because you just your pride gets in the way.
But it never hurts to at least get levels check because then they could
help you and you may feel better than you knew you could. So again,
FABO two four four four thousand as the number, it's the Louisville Men's
Clinic. Quick break will come back on the other side and keep this thing
rolling along again. It's coffee and Company. We are feel about Thornton's right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, so tomorrow at four thirty.
I mentioned this earlier, but I don't think I mentioned what time it
was. But we're gonna have one of the future Louisville Cardinals on the show
four thirty tomorrow. We're going to talk to Terrence Edwards junior James Madison transfer
and get to know him a little bit, talk about his decision to come
to Louisville. I know, you know he's he did an interview I believe
it might have been with twenty four seven Sports a couple of weeks ago,
and just really you know, from when I gathered in just you know,
an interview that was quotes right. It wasn't like I heard him or anything
like that. He seems like someone that is very competitive and really looking forward
to not only playing at Louisville and having success, but helping change the perception
of Louisville basketball. And I don't think anybody, despite how bad things were
the last couple of years, you know, think that Louisville will never be
good again. And but you know, it's it's what if you've done for
me lately? World? And you know, when Louisville was brought up in
real time in regards to you know, the college basketball seasons the last couple
of years, it was usually because they were being made fun of because people
couldn't believe how far they've fallen. So I think he's somebody that takes pride
and wants to be able to remind people that Louisville basketball can you know,
can be can be great. And I don't know they're gonna be great in
his one and only year here, but he certainly helps them get things turned
around. Given the fact that he's one of the top twenty ish players that
entered the portal, which, by the way, that gives me a chance
to bring this up. So I got bombarded in the text line by some
Kentucky fans who claimed I was just making up where where Amari Williams is ranked
in these portal rankings like top fifty. Come on and somebody's sent in,
and you know, I didn't know if they were, like, I didn't
think much of it. And then somebody sent in a screenshot of the on
three rankings, and on three he has Amari Williams as the twentieth best player
in the portal, which is like forty off of where everyone else has him.
The Athletic has him at number sixty two, CBS Sports has him at
Let's see here has him at number fifty seven, and ESPNS I believe is
behind a paywall, so I don't know where they have it. So you
know, I I laugh sometimes when Louisville fans claim that like On three Sports
is really biased against you know, against Louisville because their affiliation with UK,
because you know, On three Sports, to be fair, does own KSR.
But you know, they also have like thousands of other sites seemingly,
so they don't really stand to benefit a whole lot from Louisville not being good
in Kentucky being good. But you know, people run with that, and
that is an example of why people believe that because that, I mean,
I'm sure you can find other rankings out there that are you know that you
see certain players, even high school recruiting rankings, right Like, there's some
kids that you'll see four star, four star and then a two star,
Like you know, that's rare, but it happens. And sometimes, you
know, nobody pays attention to how frequently these things are updated, right Like,
they don't realize that what you're referencing was, you know before a player
you know had a great spring in the AAU circuit or whatever it may be.
But twenty four seven sports, let's see here. One thing I hate
about twenty four seven sports is that you can't like search within the page.
You ever do that on a Google tab? It helps me find what I'm
looking for, and it's great, but I can never can never seem to
get it to work on the twenty four seven sports page. But I'm gonna
guess that they have him. Yeah, here's another one though, Like Terrenceivers
Junior is the number sixty one and twenty four seven sports. In the athletic
he's like twenty something, so you know, it doesn't really matter, to
be honest with you. In fact, I think players in the portal are
actually even more difficult to rank, just because it's just almost I mean,
it's impossible to know. It's also impossible to know, like who, in
fact are the five best high school kids. But we've been doing that for
so long. It's you know, and most of the time you really trust
those rankings because you're not watching every high school basketball kid play, right,
You're not. It's not on TV. When you see these rankings, you
know you know who they are. You've watched some of these guys play and
you think, well, you know, how could that guy be ranked here
not there? So anyways, apologies to BBN if I've offended them, because
you know, I guess he is technically top twenty in one, but you
know all the others have him closer to sixty. So when we just call
those are the top forty, can we meet there? Maybe? All right?
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got another hour to go. We will try to finish strong. I got
a baseball game to get you after this, looking forward to it. When
when Moose plays at six at six o'clock, John, I really like to
challenge myself because he's you know, it's probably about I don't know, fifteen
to eighteen minutes away from here right now where he plays, and you know,
the show ends at like what fifty three. So if I have my
stuff like ready and the show ends and I just jet out of here,
if I can get on sixty five North before it actually hits six o'clock,
I can get there for at least one of the times he gets to bat,
which is always my goal. That's a superpower, right yeah, And
I feel like such a badass dad when I make it, because one,
it just is great to be able to be there for his game, and
he when he does see me show up, he gets really happy. It
makes me feel happy to be a dad because it's the best thing that ever
happened to me. But you know, other people are like, wait a
second, didn't you just get off the radio? And I'm like, yep,
I'm super dad made it here that quickly, all right, stick around
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety