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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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here. I mean, the show
started an hour ago. If you're just

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now joining us, you are late, but it's okay, better late than

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never. What I mean is,
let's get hour number two started on a

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beautiful well. I think it's actually
gonna get gloomy. It may be gloomy

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now as we speak, but it
was nice earlier today. It's supposed to

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rain tonight, but Derby season is
certainly is in full effect. It just

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feels like Derby time and it doesn't
feel like it's about to happen, you

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know, like we're not. We're
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but Derby vibes man. I was
asked a few times by folks I

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met over the years, you know, through through work, you know,

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through you know, through through this. Honestly, just people I've gotten over

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the years that have come on my
show, and you know, people I've

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I've interacted with along the way.
People who aren't from Louisville that move here.

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They don't understand why Derby is such
a like Derby season is such an

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awesome thing to experience as a louivillion
and a couple of times I tried to

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like explain it and put into words
like why it's awesome, what makes it

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awesome, examples certain and I couldn't
do it. And it's something that I

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now have just decided to tell people, like if they don't know, you

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got to be here like you.
I can't put into words why it's awesome,

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But Derby season in Louisville, I
love it. It just always feels

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like the party's going on for like
a month, and you know, we

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have to work, but we're not
really working, right. I mean we

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are technically, but when you know
you've got events and all the stuff that

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comes with Derby, like you know, it's almost like even though you're working,

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some people take off work. But
it's just it's awesome. I think

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it was the Business First a Louisville
Business First editor to put this tweet out.

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The uh put the tweet out.
I don't know when it was,

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might have been last week, but
I just saw it come across my timeline

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on Sunday, and I mean,
he's exactly right, and that is that

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like right now probably even starting late
last week, it's like the official beginning

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of let's talk more after Derby season. In the work in the workplace,

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right like, if you've got clients, you're talking to you you know,

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you're you know, doing business whatever. It may be a lot of work

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stuff where your email and talking to
people like you can kind of just like

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we'll regroup after Derby. And I
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from Louisville but you live here and
you're new and maybe this is your first

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time being around it, you know, enjoy it, take it all in,

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go to all the events, the
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track itself, you know is awesome. Going to Derby is not an easy

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thing to do, but it's something
you should do once, I think.

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And then of course there's now,
you know, the week of Derby.

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I mean I think every year,
you know, there's a day that becomes

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like the new popular trendy day,
right like it used to be Derby.

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Well now Derby's kind of its own
thing. It's like as big as the

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oaks. And then last year Wednesday
to me seemed like you know, the

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ultimate day. Who knows, maybe
Tuesday of didn't they have something called five

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oh Tuesday last they did. You're
right, You're right, So I just

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think you know anything you can.
People who are not into horse racing like

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myself, I mean, I love
everything that comes with Derby. I really

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don't care that much about the two
minute horse race, although you know,

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I watch it and I really enjoy
learning about the you know, the stories

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of how the trainers and you know
ended up with a chance to run into

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Kentucky Derby. Like that stuff's cool
to me. But the actual sport of

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horse racing is not something I know
anything about, to be honest with you,

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and I could be wrong here,
but I don't really feel like in

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this market we're really exposed to the
sport of it. We're exposed to the

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event that is Derby, and it's
a humongous event. So despite not being

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horse racing fan and not really caring
a whole lot about the sport itself,

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I love everything about Derby. So
it's something that is a Louisville native,

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lived here my whole life, Like
you know, I care about It's part

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of what makes us unique Louisville.
So when they do an event that feels

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like it's our day, like people
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But I just I've learned this as
somebody who I mean, I've covered

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the Derby for our team here at
iHeart on h As for the last gosh

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last eight years. This will be
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I go to Oaks every year.
I've been doing that since I was a

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teenager. And now that I can
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you know, I have credential and
you know I used to do my show

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when I was on Mornings, I
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you know, I just have learned
it, like no matter what you do

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to make it local, Like it's
such a big event that there are people

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that come from across the world,
not just for the Derby, they come

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for the week. Now there's also
people that fly in on a private jet

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day of the Derby and make it
a day and they've got the ability to

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do that. But yeah, it
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hearing more and seeing more billboards up
around town about the events and and whatnot

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and Derby seasons awesome. So excited
to partake in some Derby events. Love

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going to the chow Wagon a lot
of good people watching there, some really

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delicious but awful food, you know, like it's great, delicious, but

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it's not good for you. But
shout out to Derby season Derby one fifty

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two, by the way, which
you know, I don't know what's going

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to be a whole lot different than
one forty nine or one forty eight,

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But just to be able to say
Derby one fifty, I mean that alone

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just makes it feel like, well, this one's different. It's one fifty

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all right. It's Coffee and Company. That's us. We are feeled by

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Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety
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man, mister John Alden alongside.
And we had a very busy first segment

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of the show today because there's a
lot of things that right as the show

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started we're developing, and we'll reset
that coming up here in just a moment.

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But I do want to remind you
that coming up at four thirty,

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we're going to chat with Terrence Edwards
Junior for future Louis of a Cardinal who

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has decided to transfer. He made
his decision earlier this month. Former James

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Madison star was the sun Belt player
of the year before deciding to hit the

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portal, and of all the pieces
they've added, and I think nearly every

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one of them, in fact,
all of them are are piece is worth

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being excited about. But you know, this is a guy that has you

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know, he's been a star.
And not to say the other guys that

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have committed here won't do the same
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committed a little early in the process, it's not that people are forgetting about

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him. But he's a huge He's
a huge piece thus far, and I

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wouldn't be shocked at no matter who
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I still think Fats, which is
his nickname, We're gonna find out

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why that's his nickname. I still
feel like he's gonna be a key piece

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to this team next year in the
debut season of the Pat Kelsey era.

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All Right, so we'll start with
the Jayden Quaintans update that came out from

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twenty four to seven Sports Eric Bossei, I believe put this out right before

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the show started today, and I'm
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somewhat of an encouraging update if you're
a Louisville fan, and it's a good

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update if you're a Kentucky fan,
and it gave us something to kind of

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dive right into. So Jayden quaint
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They're out of the running. Which
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If you'd have told me twenty four
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on Jaden Quaintance's situation by three o'clock
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means he's going to Arkansas. Well, no, he's actually not considering Arkansas.

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So there's no I mean, I'm
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tells you why Arkansas is not in
the mix. But it went from everybody

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just assuming that's where he's going to
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cal Cal goes to Arkansas. Arkansas
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to me it seemed like a no
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considered. And he did visit Louisville, which they're still being listed. I

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think the visit itself, knowing that
it went well, means they're in consideration.

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But now Memphis is in the mix
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weekend that Quaintans is going to make
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but Kentucky has now entered the race
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in home visit with Jayden Quainton.
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a Louisville fan, you're still alive. You don't have to worry about Cal

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in Arkansas. But Memphis and Penny. I feel like Penny's done really well

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at getting just about maybe not any
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getting a lot of them. In
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he was getting guys over over Cal. I think, I mean, I

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feel like there was more than just
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maybe it was just James Wiseman,
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I think it's fair to say that
it's a good update for both fan bases

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here. You know, we'll see
if Kentucky can, you know, can

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regain some ground here. But Kentucky, I'm sorry, Cal and Arkansas.

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It's still just normal. I just
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say Kentucky and Cal. But now
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But you know, the fact that
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good thing for everybody around here as
far as I'm concerned. As far as

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when we get update, I don't
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gonna see that many top tier programs
get in the race here for a quaintance,

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because despite him being a guy that
something could you know, he could

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be the number one pick in the
draft in two years. He's sixteen years

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old, he's already pretty polished,
but yet nowhere near developed as a full

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I mean, he's going to get
so much better, and yet he's already

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despite being sixteen years old or a
really good player. But the interest in

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freshmen is just not what it used
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when you only have maybe a little
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scholarship or two, and you want
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for next year. I think you're
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the portal but making a mistake about
it. That doesn't mean this kid couldn't

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make a huge impact for anybody next
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at Louisville, but we shall see. I mean, if it comes down

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to Kentucky, Memphis and Louisville.
I mean, maybe we get an update

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that is vision sooner rather than later. All right, So some other things

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to discuss here as far as you
know updates. Uh, there's more names

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entering the portal for Louisville football post
spring and optics. You know, not

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great. I think it's still natural
for fans to see a guy they were

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really excited about that committed and transferred
to your program in December, to then

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see them leave four months later.
I think again, human you know,

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human instincts take over. You're bummed, you were really excited, you never

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saw them play, and now they're
leaving, So you're sad, and I

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get it. But I hope that
eventually we will in fact learn to just

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you know, understand that guys moving
around in college sports is often as they

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as often as they do, you
know they I mean that there's there's not

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going to be people that you can
just blame for that. I mean,

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if you want to blame the kids, go for it. But you know,

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I don't mean, like, you
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But I'd say, to be honest
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to do whatever the hell they want. But I also think that it's I

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mean, they're the reasons they're leaving
nobody else right, Like, no,

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there's no checks that are not you
know, getting cleared. Uh, you

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know, there's nobody that's being misled. I just think most coaches surely will

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tell a transfer you got to come
in and compete, Like I doubt there's

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ever an arrangement that that you know
you're gonna be. Cause if you talk

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up a guy, how much you
like him, how much you think he'd

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thrive in your system, and how
he'd be a huge piece for you,

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that may be you know, some
of these that may be a tell for

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some of these kids that you're telling
them they're going to be they're going to

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be the guy, But I maybe
they don't understand that, like it's just

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a foregone conclusion that like you're going
to have to earn it. Like if

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you're practicing and you suck, you're
not going to be. And I'm not

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saying that's anything with these guys,
like that these guys were terrible, but

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what nobody wants when they're Like when
when you're in the portal and you and

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you are being pursued and obviously you
want to find a landing spot that's best

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for you. I highly doubt that
you know in your list of things that

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are most important for you on your
search for a new home, I highly

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doubt one of the things listed is
I want to be a part of the

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depth. No, you want to
be a part of the of the core.

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You want to be a guy that
is a key contributor that plays a

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lot of snaps. And I think
Jeff Brohm hit the portal like most coaches

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wanting to add depth. These guys
don't want to be depth, and they

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went through spring and they feel like
they're going to be depth. So Wesley

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Walker, a defensive back who transferred
from Tennessee, re entered the portal just

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like Tyler Baron, who was a
big git. I mean, he was

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somebody that really impacted Louisville's rankings in
the transfer portal rankings because he was a

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very productive player at Tennessee and good, good player. He didn't get hit

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the field during springbolt from an I
understand injury related. Don't know what the

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injury is, but he bounced and
Wesley Walker did play, and you know

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he was a part of the depth. He was not a key guy and

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that's nobody's fault. I mean,
I guess it's maybe his fault because he

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wasn't as good as maybe he needed
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But spy, look, I've never
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level or any level for that matter. That may surprise some of you,

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I know, But is it like
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like you mean, like that you
know where you are on the depth chart?

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Like I think the depth chart clearly
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do they even have depth charts?
I mean, obviously you're seeing who's getting

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the one reps. But I think, you know, I just maybe I'm

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wrong here. I just don't know
if that's if that's you know, if

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that is you know, a definitive
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there's no way I'll ever be a
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like do something about it. And
I know it sounds, you know,

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like something a Louisville fan would say
when you lose players like this, But

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I also think it's a reasonable conclusion
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you know, maybe it wasn't even
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they just realize they're playing behind.
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you're making an impact there in the
SEC, although Tennessee's not really known for,

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you know, having a good defense. But if you're making an impact

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in the SEC on on defense and
you transferred to Louisville in the ACC,

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I'm sure you are thinking you took
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you know of the almighty SEC.
But if you're thinking you may have a

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tougher time getting reps because there's some
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gonna hurt your pride a little bit. And I'm not saying that's what these

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guys did, but by all accounts, it's not NIL related. It's not

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that they think the team's gonna stink. It's just because they you know,

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specifically Wesley Walker Beharon never played,
so I don't know if I mean,

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I don't I mean, I'm not
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he just decided to leave because he
could. And there's nobody Like again,

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I don't know who you can be
mad at, Like, I don't know

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who, I don't know who you
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you know he was here and I
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anointed as the guy, and he
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loved to keep him. But now
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Kentucky and Joe w. J are
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here's what's you know, here's what's
wild to me. It's like, if

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you think you, I mean,
if you if you're worried about being able

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to, I guess, secure the
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Georgia You kidding me? I mean
Penny Boon, Let's be honest. Couldn't

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I mean he couldn't. He didn't
succeed at Maryland. Fine player there,

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but like he put up big numbers
and became a very notable player via the

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portal because he went down to the
MAC level after being you know, solid

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at best at Maryland. I think
he's gonna go compete and win, like

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win reps at Georgia and look at
Kentucky, he'd have a better chance.

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But Kentucky added an offense at Ohio
State running back in the portal, uh

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in the in the in the at
the end of the season. So these

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guys have the ability to make these
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And you know, as much as
I think it's weird, and it's just

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all you know, when I say
weird, to see a guy that transfer

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it in in December be leaving four
months later without ever playing a snap is

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just like it. It's it's stupid. It is what it is. But

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the end of the day, they
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their career and that's and that's what
they're doing. Also, another name to

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keep an eye on in the portal
that is not football related, but but

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basketball uh Ugo. I'm not going
to butcher his last name on Yinso I

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think is his last name, but
uh is Ugo is is the shorter version

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of his first name. Correct,
Yes, Ugana and Yinsu. I think

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I said that correctly or is it
close? It sounds good, okay Ugana

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and Yensu Ugo. Uh He hit
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all the way in on the on
the NBA draft. Maybe he got humbled

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because he's now going to transfer and
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and Louisville. According to Jamie SSHAWV
on three Sports, is the first,

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it's the first player to reach out
to him, So that'd be a good

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addition, I think, just as
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You know, I remember watching one
Kentucky game where he bawled out and I'm

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pretty sure it was Florida. I'm
gonna look it up here because if not,

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it's just gonna drive me crazy.
But you know, he it was

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the game where Kentucky lost on the
they lost on the uh not on they

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lost in overtime, but it was
like, I don't know if it was

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a buzzer beater, but there was
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that took it to overtime. But
yeah, so in that game, thirty

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three minutes, thirteen points, sixteen
rebounds, and eight blocks. So I

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don't think he had another game close
to that. But he's a seven footer

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who can block shots and you know, offensively, not a whole lot to

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work with, it seems. But
again, you're going to you're gonna see

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Pat Kelsey pursue guys that have a
stat line that you're thinking, what are

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we doing here? But just remember
he's building an entire team, and teams

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need depth and role players and to
be fair, like UGO's a guy that

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you know, I don't know what
his interest is going to be because obviously

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he had a lot of hype coming
out of high school, but in two

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years, I mean, he never
really materialized for him. So you know,

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I wouldn't prioritize him if i'm Pat
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you could add him, I think
he'd be You know, you get thirteen

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scholarships to use here. I mean, technically six of them are now accounted

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for, but I don't think that'd
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right, let's do this. Let's
take a quick time out here. We

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will come back on the other side
and chat with Terrence Edwards Junior Louisville.

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He's transferring to Louisville hasn't happened just
yet, but we'll get to know him

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a little bit, talk about his
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want to ask him what his first
impression of Pat Kelsey was. High energy,

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clearly, But you know, if
you don't know him at all,

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and like you know you're meeting him
and you know you've never even heard his

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interview, just know he's the coach
at Louisville was previously at Charleston. Like

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you know, you probably would think
like, wow, this guy is on

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which again I would imagine leaves quite
the impress. All right, don't don't

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seven ninety. Appreciate you hanging out with

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us, and we now welcome in
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Terrence Edwards Junior, the transfer from
James Madison. Can I call you Terrence

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or do you go by fat or
fats? I gotta I gotta know about

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the nickname Terrence. The nickname came
about when I was like a young kid,

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I grew up. I was I
was fat when I was growing up

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as a kid, and everybody used
to just call me fat, and my

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parents just stuck with it and it
just got around. So more people just

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call me fat. But I prefer
either Terrence fat. It really don't matter

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to me. Okay, but you're
clearly you're not fat anymore. So I'm

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assuming when people do learn that your
nickname. They always want to know they

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you got to tell that story a
lot. I'm sure, Yeah, for

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sure. I hear that every every
time I get someone always asks me get

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around someone who knows me for real. They always ask them where I get

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a nickname a from? And I
just have to tell them the same story

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every time. It's clearly stuck.
So I want to start with your first

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impression of Pat Kelsey. Obviously,
once you decided to enter the transfer portal,

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obviously a lot of schools very interested
in bringing you aboard. And you

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took the visit to Louisville and clearly
liked what you saw, like the pitch.

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But you know, Pat Kelsey's a
guy that we're still learning about here

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in Louisville, and he's, you
know, I think we learned from the

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jump, very very energetic, always
on. You know, what were you

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What was your first impression when you
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I was most impressed by by like
what type of guy he was, as

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far as like like things that doesn't
have nothing to do with basketball, you

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know what I'm saying. His staff
and the guys that you have around in

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the program have been with him for
a long time, like he' ga,

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like he's he's He's played for coach
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can tell that he keeps he keeps
in touch with a lot of people that

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that played with played for him,
and that's played around and just just just

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been in his program. He always
bring them a board. So that's the

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first thing that stuck out to me. And and I'm familiar with coach Pat

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Kelsey, so that's why it was
a kind of easy decision because I used

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to play against him when he was
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A a two years ago, so
I'm familiar with his style. You know,

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I played against them, so they
familiar with my game. They seen

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me when I was really really young, when I first came in to college.

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So when I met those guys on
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that they was decided. And one
thing I do know about coach Pat Kelsey

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is that he's going to win.
And I have one more year of eligibility,

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and I wouldn't want to put my
trust in nobody else but him as

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far as the winning so and becoming
a NBA prospect. So you mentioned a

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connection that may that a lot of
people may not be familiar with, which

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is the fact that before you guys
at James Madison made the switch to the

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Sunbelt, you they were you guys
were very well familiar with one another,

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right like you. You were aware
of the way they play as far as

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style, the way he coaches,
and obviously he was familiar with your game,

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uh and very impressed. But you
mentioned, you know, he's he's

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gonna win, and uh, that
is that is what he has said every

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chance he gets when he talks about
this opportunity that he has here at Louisville.

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He's won everywhere he has been.
But you know, Louisville is coming

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off of a of a really bad
year and this is a brand new team.

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I just think it shows a lot
of faith you have in him to,

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you know, be the first guy
to say, look, I'm all

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in, let's let's see how this
team kind of kind of comes together.

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Did you do you have any idea
as far as you know some other I'm

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not going to ask you to to
name names or anything like that, but

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as far as you know style of
play, Like in the debut season of

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Coach Kelsey, how do you think
you guys will play. I assume it's

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going to probably be pretty similar to
the style that we saw at Charleston.

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Yeah, for sure. And we're
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the most thing I'm more most excited
about is it's kind of not a style,

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but it's just dog. You know, you have to be a dog

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to play for Coach PK. And
I've seen that in the in the past,

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and just the guys you have on
his team, I think you really

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have to be a dog to play
for him. So I just can't wait

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to brain that. I can't wait
to bring that to the Louisville culture.

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And and and get and and get
with Coach PK and we get all the

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guys on board, and and everybody
just wanted and and stuff like that.

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That's what made me want to play
for them. Like when I got around

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them, it made me want it. It made me want it more.

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you know, guys who want to
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I mean culture. At times,
it sounds like a corny thing to

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some people, but I'm sure you
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Like that's that's super important. Mm
yep, it's super important. I

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think that's that's kind of the main
thing when you when you playing college basketball,

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because you know, you college basketball
have a lot of outside noise,

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and but if you build a culture
within the team and and and in the

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coaching staff, it can it can
actually be something great. And I've just

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seen that just building building what we
built here at James Madison. So yeah,

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I can't wait the to be coach
Bob By coach p K and his

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staff and and he made it,
he made it really clear on my visit

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that we're gonna win. We're gonna
win, and and and I've seen it

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in his eyes, his body language. Everybody knows it's a big task coming

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in a littleville because they haven't had
really have been been successful in the last

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couple of years. So we are
just ready for the challenge. We're we're

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going at it head first, like
we're not saying we're just gonna win,

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like we're I feel like we're gonna
win, Like we're gonna win when games

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for real, and and we can't
wait to prove everybody on what we can

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do at a high level because I
feel like all of us share that same

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edge. He's coming from Charleston,
I'm coming from gm U, So I

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feel like everybody is saying sharing the
same ads. It's far as moving up

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playing in the Power Floud Conference.
So yeah, it's very exciting. I

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can't wait. Terrence Edwards is our
guest here joining us on Sports Talk seven

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ninety future louis of Cardinal the transfer
from James Madison, the reigning Sun Belt

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A Player of the Year. So
I know you're you're from Uh, you're

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from Georgia, and obviously you've spent
the last four years or so at JMU.

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But let's just go back in time. You know, five six years

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ago, if somebody would have mentioned
the city of Louisville, Kentucky, what

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would come to mind for you?
Have you visited before? Did you know

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much about it? Obviously it's going
to be your home, uh for the

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next year, and who knows,
there's a lot of people that play here,

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even if it's for a year or
two, that end up deciding to

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make it home, you know,
when they get finished playing basketball. But

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you know, years ago, if
somebody would have brought up Louisville, what

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would have come to mind for you. A great a great a great school,

407
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a great basketball program, you know, like growing up, I've always

408
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seen Louisville Lee eight win the national
Championship final fours. So a lot could

409
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have came to five years ago about
Lolville. That's one of the school that

410
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you know, it's hard to not
see what they're doing. Sure, you

411
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know what I'm saying. Even even
if you're you can be across the the

412
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:17.799
country, you will always know how
good Louisville is in East sports. So

413
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you know that's yeah. So I
was gonna ask you when when you look

414
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at the the production that you had
at JMU in the last few years.

415
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Uh, you know, obviously very
productive. Again, your stats speak for

416
00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:32.400
themselves, but is there something about
you yourself as a player, something about

417
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:34.799
your game that you you know can't
necessarily be seen on the stat sheet,

418
00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:38.000
maybe you can't even see be seen
in highlights, Like maybe something about you

419
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that you know you want fans to
know about before they get a chance to

420
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:45.880
see. On the floor of the
season. I'm always happy. I'm always

421
00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:52.480
happy for a teammate. Always.
I love to give teammates confidence. I

422
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.079
love chearing for my teammates. So
my teammate hit a three in a game,

423
00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.480
I might jump up and down and
and just just go a while,

424
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like you know, stuff like just
I just love to to to amp up

425
00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:10.119
the next guy. I love that. That's one of the biggest things I

426
00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:14.799
like about myself. I intentionally don't
do that when another teammates score. It's

427
00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:21.279
just something that that just happens.
I'm yeah, it's just naturally. I'm

428
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just always happy for the next guy. You know, That's something that doesn't

429
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:26.480
pop up in the statue. That's
just something that I have to do with

430
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.640
type of person you are. And
I feel like that's why I get I

431
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do what I do on the court, because I'm always happy for the next

432
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person. All Right, So let's
just you know, throughout a hypothetical situation

433
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here, Let's say you know,
there's some guys listening to this show that

434
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have Louisville in mind. They may
want to transfer here to their being pursued.

435
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.400
What would be your message to those
guys again, hypothetical situation. You

436
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know, if if, if,
if in fact, you know they were

437
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listening and you wanted to tell them
why Louisville would be a great option,

438
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.599
what would you say, We're going
to win. We're gonna win, and

439
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:04.799
we have to. We have the
best fan base in the country to bag

440
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:08.240
that up if when we win.
So when we get to win and everybody

441
00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:14.400
is going everybody's gonna know, everybody's
gonna feel it, and and everybody's gonna

442
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:18.119
fear it. So it's better to
get on board now than then then then

443
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.559
wait when we ask you, we
started doing it, and you're gonna look

444
00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:23.920
back and wish you wanted to be
a part of it. So that's the

445
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:26.799
message I got. All right,
Terrence, I got a few quick,

446
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.720
rapid fire questions for you. These
are just you know, this is just

447
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.240
questions that will let us get a
chance to know you a little bit better.

448
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.240
What's the last show that you watched
all the way through? Like bing

449
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:38.960
series. I don't know if you
watch much TV, Netflix, Hulu,

450
00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:41.440
that kind of stuff. What's the
last show you you watched all the way

451
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:48.559
through? Probably Power Goes. Okay, that's Stars, right, I'm familiar,

452
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.920
haven't seen them yet? Good stuff? Yeah, good stuff. Great,

453
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.400
It's just a lot of action.
It's just I just like it,

454
00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:03.319
all right. So favorite your favorite
meal? My favorite meal is probably friar

455
00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:07.279
rice. You can't go wrong there. That's good stuff, all right.

456
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.319
So when you were when you were
a kid, you know, growing up,

457
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:14.240
probably hoping to be in this position
that you're in now, an accomplished

458
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:17.640
college basketball player with one more year
left at a big time school. What

459
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.160
players did you maybe not pretend to
be, but maybe try to emulate a

460
00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:22.440
little bit. Guys you really looked
up to when you were when you were

461
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:33.279
younger. Probably Sabad Napier and Sabaz
Napier and Grayson Allen. Okay, those

462
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.279
are names. We're familiar with those
both, uh, well, acc Guy

463
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:38.920
and Grayson Allen. But I was
Sabaz Napier in the old Big East days

464
00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:42.599
in the American Conference. It was
somebody Louisville played, uh played played pretty

465
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:59.160
pretty frequently. What actor would play
you in a movie? Probably mm,

466
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:06.039
probably we like uh, I like
Martin Lawrence. Okay, Martin Lawrence is

467
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:10.000
absolutely hilarious. That's a great answer. Yeah, he's to me, he's

468
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:11.400
one of those guys and nobody would
say he's not funny. But like when

469
00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:14.839
people mentioned sort of you know,
those that are in that lane, I

470
00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:18.079
feel like he doesn't get mentioned enough. Mart Lawrence is hilarious, you know,

471
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.000
not only a stand up. But
yeah, no doubt, no doubt

472
00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:23.759
about it. That about so I
know you again. You were at James

473
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.559
Madison for the last you know,
four years, and and you know you're

474
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.000
heading to Louisville. I'm sure you
get to go home to Georgia, you

475
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.079
know, as much as you can. Obviously you're you're very busy, but

476
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:36.200
I'm sure you've been back and forth
whenever you get the chance. But whenever

477
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:37.960
you are away. What do you
miss most about where you grew up in

478
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:48.680
Georgia? Probably what I miss about
the area I grew up like. Probably

479
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:53.400
the rec center that we had,
like near our neighborhood. It was just

480
00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:57.640
that's where we did everything at We
played football in the grass, like we're

481
00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:00.079
going to team and play basketball,
just back and forth. For all they

482
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.720
switching sports playing baseball, it was
fight at Rice Center for sure. Well,

483
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.960
Terrence, I appreciate you making time
for us. I can't wait for

484
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:11.200
you to get here to Louisville.
And I know Pat Kelsey's going to get

485
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.680
this thing turned around and envision you
being a big part of that. So

486
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.720
appreciate the time, and we'll see
you here in Louisville soon. Yes,

487
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.119
sir, I appreciate you. All
right. That's Terrence Edwards Junior. Fat

488
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:26.480
that's the nickname. Really good conversation
there. He gave some really good answers

489
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.920
that you know, had me excited. As far as the competitiveness. You

490
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:34.519
know, a guy who you know
wants to compete and he knows that's the

491
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:41.240
culture that Pat Kelsey's had at his
previous employer, Charleston. And I'll admit

492
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.720
I forgot about the connection there where
they they're familiar with one another, like

493
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.400
this is a guy who knows what
Pat Kelsey's about. They were in the

494
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.880
same league for at least a couple
of years. So good stuff there,

495
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:52.640
right, will take a quick break, come back on the other side to

496
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.960
wrap up the four o'clock hour and
keep this thing rolling along again. Coffee

497
00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:01.160
and Company. Philbeth Thornton's on at
Sports Talk seven ninety I tell you the

498
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:06.279
transfer portal is insane to keep up
with. I really mean it. And

499
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.640
during that great interview, I mean, I don't know if you guys enjoyed

500
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.839
it. I enjoyed the conversation.
Hopefully you guys did as well. With

501
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.680
Terrence Edwards Junior. One of the
additions to the Louisville basketball program courtesy of

502
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:22.000
the Transfer Portal. But the young
man we talked about yesterday who is a

503
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:27.440
teammate of Karin Johnson's at Washington,
Wesley Yates red shirted this past year due

504
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.440
to an injury. But he is
a former top forty guard from Texas.

505
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:36.720
He's visiting seemingly right now. He's
posting stuff on Instagram, and the belief

506
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:40.039
is that he will follow Karan Johnson
and commit to Louisville. And then a

507
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.599
name you know that I did not
expect to see appear as a you know,

508
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:50.839
a candidate for Louisville is the you
make sure I've got it right here?

509
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:53.720
Good Luck? This is this is
good Luck? Do you know what?

510
00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:57.599
You know what I'm talking about?
His name is good Luck and he's

511
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.359
a transfer from Texas, I'm sorry, from Utah State, and I think

512
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:07.039
Kentucky's just been believed to be the
likely landing spot for this guy. A

513
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.240
sober great I want to say good
Luck still, I mean either way,

514
00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:15.079
Okay, wait a second, his
name is great, his name is just

515
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:17.279
great. Well, his first name
is Great, his last name is good

516
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:21.440
Luck. I mean, they're both. It would be easily to just they're

517
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:25.319
both not in typical names obviously.
Yeah, great Osubor. So he's a

518
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:30.119
really good player, and he is
somebody that again you never really know what's

519
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.680
true anymore when it comes to the
you know, online stuff about guys that

520
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.599
are in the portal, but you
know, the connection I guess would be

521
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.000
that you toss state. You know
they you toss state and BYU maybe they

522
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.079
played each other. I'm not really
sure, but seventeen point seven points a

523
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:49.759
game, nine rebounds was a really
really good player for Danny Sprinkle last year.

524
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.559
I believe he might have started his
career. Yeah, he started his

525
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.519
career at Montana State and was pretty
good there, but really had a great

526
00:33:55.599 --> 00:34:00.680
year in the Mountain West. And
again I believe that that Kentucky and Washington

527
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:06.000
because that's where Danny Sprinkle ended up. We're just assumed to be the two

528
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.400
potential spots for him. But now
Louisville is involved and they're going to get

529
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:15.039
a visit as well as Texas Tech. So he's going to visit Kentucky April

530
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:20.440
twenty ninth through May first, and
then he will be in Louisville also on

531
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:25.360
May first through May third, which
I mean they're gonna get the visit that

532
00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:30.079
you know leads up the Derby,
so he'll leave on the fourth, which

533
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:31.039
is you know, Derby Day.
But if he's in Louisville, I mean,

534
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:34.840
he's gonna be Louisville on you know, Oaks and Therby and whatnot,

535
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:39.480
which can't hurt Louisville's chances. But
I think this could end up being you

536
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:43.119
know, the real you know,
if all the visits end up happening.

537
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:45.239
I think this could actually come down
to being the first real battle between these

538
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.840
two schools. And Washington is clearly
going to be a factor as well.

539
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:52.000
That's where his coach went. Maybe
that's where he ends up. But a

540
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.679
really good player. Another one to
add to the list of you know,

541
00:34:54.760 --> 00:35:01.119
potential additions to to both rosters Louisville
and Kentucky. There is another update on

542
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:05.239
Jayden and Quaint's because you know,
I guess that could technically end up being

543
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.519
the battle, right if it's if
Memphis is no longer involved, maybe it

544
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.360
comes down to louis of Kentucky.
Well, things could change. But now

545
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:15.599
that visit that that Jadan Quaints was
expected to have with Mark Pope is now

546
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:17.440
not happening. So I don't know
if that means they're out of they're not

547
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:21.239
in consideration, but the visit is
no longer going to happen, according to

548
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.599
twenty four to seven Sports. Therefore, maybe it's Memphis and Louisville. And

549
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.440
I have no real reason to just
believe Memphis is going to get him,

550
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:31.400
but I do. Maybe it's just
because I don't want to give a hopes

551
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:37.159
up. And you know, Memphis, they usually get really highly Penny usually

552
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:42.800
gets really highly regarded freshmen. But
you know, is the bag, you

553
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:46.840
know, the same level, right, Like Memphis has money because of their

554
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:52.920
connection to FedEx, FedEx of course
being headquartered in Memphis. But I don't

555
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.840
know. I mean, I I
Louisville may not be wise to spend an

556
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:04.480
insane amount of money for a sixteen
year old, but let's just say,

557
00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.440
and again, if you're also guaranteed
two years out of this guy though,

558
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.039
right, yes? And no,
because he could transfer him. Yeah,

559
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:14.639
that's true. So you know,
there's there's that. But I mean,

560
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:22.760
I get the sense that Louisville can
pay what really anybody would pay for a

561
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.000
freshman. Now, if they get
into a bidding war with somebody, that's

562
00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:29.840
you know, in two three million
dollar range, because they're superstars of college

563
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:32.119
back there, they're already superstars in
college basketball, and like their productions there

564
00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:35.719
then you know, trust me,
I'm not trying to say that that Louisville

565
00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:38.519
could outbid anybody for any player,
but I think it really just comes down

566
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:42.079
to what they're willing to pay for
a freshman, because I think it's quite

567
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.639
clear that the value there is not
what it is compared to a proven college

568
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:49.519
player that has hit the portal,
that knows what they're worth and knows they're

569
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.760
not going to be getting an NBA
contract that has a bunch of millions guaranteed

570
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:55.119
to it. It's it's you know, this is their chance to make money,

571
00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:00.360
all right, Your chance to become
a healthier and happier man. Is

572
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that the louis of Men's Clinic.
They they've helped me. Let them help

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of things, a variety of things that

574
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can help you. I mean a
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575
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joint pain, weight loss therapy,
hair restoration, uh, you know

576
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:17.039
that, and and others. I
mean that's not even the fullest of what

577
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they can do. And I'm sure
the thought of being happier, healthier,

578
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.719
having a better you know, having
having you know, I don't want to

579
00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:30.159
say a better sex life, but
you know, I guess being able to

580
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.800
be more intimate with your with your
loved one. I mean that would wouldn't

581
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.239
that be what you want to do? Like I think that would be something

582
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:38.360
that you would you would surely want. And I'm here to tell you that

583
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584
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if that is something you struggle with, then they've got a variety of

585
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different ways that they can treat that
for you. And I think just to

586
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you know, the amount of I
mean, I mean, they have an

587
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intimacy guarantee, meaning that if in
fact, you go through one of these

588
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options and it doesn't work, then
you won't have to pay like they that's

589
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that they stay by what they can
do for you. Now, for me,

590
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:04.599
it was low testosterone. I didn't
even really know what that was,

591
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:09.320
and then sure enough I heard I
heard one of the commercials here describing it,

592
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.760
and I'm thinking, you know,
maybe that is something that I'm that

593
00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.599
I have, Like maybe low t
is in fact why I'm just you know,

594
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:19.320
starting for really no reason to add
some pudge here and there. I'm

595
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.199
lethargic, I've lost my edge.
I'm tired and just want to end the

596
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.320
day and just lay on the couch
at seven o'clock like that's just not me.

597
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So it was low t and now
I've addressed it thanks to the Louisville

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Clinic dot com. All right,
end of aad read there, because you

601
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:42.519
know I didn't. I got to
be as professional as I can here.

602
00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:45.119
But you know they can. They
can help you when it comes to the

603
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.280
the ED. But you know that
doesn't mean you're going to have a great

604
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:52.159
sex life, right John, Like
you know that's that's that's a really a

605
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:53.360
different that's a different kind of thing. Yeah, I mean you can,

606
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:57.039
you know you could, they could
put you in the right direction, but

607
00:38:57.119 --> 00:38:59.440
you know, you got to have
that connection exactly, and you know,

608
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.679
you know everybody's you know, I'll
just stop because I might get in trouble.

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But I do know we've got one
more hour to go, and we're

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gonna have some fun. Stick with
us right here, it's coffee and company.

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Feel Bet Thornton's on Sports Talk seven
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