We now welcome in a guest here, a future Louisville Cardinal Terrence Edwards Junior,
the transfer from James Madison. Can I call you Terrence or do you
go by fat or fats? I gotta I gotta know about the nickname Terrence.
The nickname came about when I was like a young kid, I grew
up. I was I was fat when I was growing up as a kid,
and everybody used to just call me fat, and my parents just stuck
with it, and it just got around. So more people just call me
fat. But I prefer either Terrence fat. It really don't matter to me,
okay, but you're clearly you're not fat anymore. So I'm assuming when
people do learn that your nickname, they always want to know that. You
got to tell that story a lot, I'm sure, Yeah, for sure,
I hear that every every time I get someone always asks me get around
someone who knows me for real. They always ask them where I get the
nickname from, and I just have to tell them the same story every time.
It's clearly stuck. So I'm gonna start with your first impression of Pat
Kelsey. Obviously, once you decided to enter the transfer portal. Obviously a
lot of school's very interested in bringing you aboard, and you took the visit
to Louisville and clearly liked what you saw, like the pitch. But you
know, Pat Kelsey's a guy that we're still learning about here in Louisville,
and he's you know, I think we learned from the jump, very very
energetic, always on. You know, what were you what was your first
impression when you had your first conversation with coach Kelsey. I was most impressed
by by like what type of guy he was as far as like like things
that doesn't have nothing to do with basketball, you know what I'm saying.
His staff and the guys that you have around in the program have been with
him for a long time, Like he's GA, like he's he's He's played
for coach Pat Kelsey. So you know, I can tell that he keeps
he keeps in touch with a lot of people that that played with played for
him, and that's played around and just just just been in his program.
He always bring them aboard. So that's the first thing that stuck out to
me. And and I'm familiar with coach Pat Kelsey, so that's why was
a kind of easy decision because I used to play against him when he was
at Charleston when jam You was in the c A A two years ago,
So I'm familiar with his style. You know, I played against them,
so they familiar with my game. They seen me when I was really really
young, when I first came in to college. So when I met those
guys on campus, and I can just tell that they was decided. And
one thing I do know about coach Pat Kelsey is that he's going to win.
And I got one more year of eligibility, and I wouldn't want to
put my trust in nobody else but him as far as the winning so and
becoming NBA prospect. So you mentioned a connection that may that a lot of
people may not be, you know, familiar with, which is the fact
that before you guys that James Madison made the switch to the Sunbelt you so
they were you guys were very well familiar with one another, right like you.
You were aware of the way they play as far at style, the
way he coaches, and obviously he was familiar with your game, uh and
very impressed. But you mentioned, you know, he's he's gonna win,
and uh, that is That is what he said. Every chance he gets
when he talks about this opportunity that he has here at Louisville. He's won
everywhere he has been, but you know, Louisville is coming off of a
of a really bad year and this is a brand new team. I just
think it shows a lot of faith you have in him to, you know,
be the first guy to say, look, I'm all in, let's
let's see how this team kind of kind of comes together. Did you do
you have any idea as far as you know some other I'm not going to
ask you to to name names or anything like that, but as far as
you know style of play, like in the debut season of Coach Kelsey,
how do you think you guys will play? I assume it's going to probably
be pretty similar to the style that we saw at Charleston. Yeah, for
sure, and we're going to get out a run. And the most thing
I'm most excited about is it's kind of not a style, but it's just
dog. You know, you have to be a dog that plays for Coach
p K. And I've seen that in the in the past and just the
guys he have on his team. I think you really have to be a
dog to play for him. So I just can't wait the brain that I
can't wait to bring that to the Louisville culture, and and and get and
and get with coach PK and we get all the guys on board, and
and everybody just wanted and and stuff like that. That's what made me want
to play for them. Like when I got around them, it made me
want to It made me want it more. Yeah, I think that's that's
infectious, isn't it right? The competitiveness, you know, guys who want
to compete and get better and challenge each other. I mean culture At times
it sounds like a corny thing to some people, but I'm sure you know
as a veteran in college basketball, like that's that's super important. Mm h
Yep, it's super important. I think that's That's kind of the main thing
when you when you playing college basketball, because you know, college basketball have
a lot of outside noise, and but if you build a culture with within
the team and and and and the coaching staff, it can it can actually
be something great. And I've just seen that just building building what we built
here at James Madison. So yeah, I can't wait to be coach bomb
By coach PK and his staff, and and he made it, he made
it really clear on my visit that we're gonna win. We're gonna win,
and and and I've seen it in his eyes, his body language. Everybody
knows it's a big task coming in a littleville because they haven't had really have
been been successful in the last couple of years. So we are just ready
for the challenge. We're we're going at it head first, like we're not
saying we're just gonna win, like we're I feel like we're gonna win,
like we're gonna win when games for real, and and we can't wait to
prove everybody on what we can do at a high level because I feel like
all of us share that same age. He's coming from Charleston, I'm coming
from gm U, So I feel like everybody is saying sharing the same ads
as far as moving up playing the power Floud conference. So yeah, it's
it's very exciting. I can't wait. Terrence Edwards is our guest here joining
us on Sports Talk seven ninety future Loia Cardinal the transfer from James Madison,
the reigning Sun Belt A Player of the Year. So I know you're you're
from uh, you're from Georgia, and obviously you've spent the last four years
or so at JMU. But let's just go back in time. You know,
five six years ago, if somebody would have mentioned the city of Louisville,
Kentucky, what would come to mind for you? Have you visited before,
did you know much about it? Obviously it's going to be your home,
uh for the next year, and who knows, there's a lot of
people that play here, even if it's for a year or two, that
end up deciding to make it home, you know, when they get finished
playing basketball. But you know, years ago, if somebody would have brought
up Louisville, what would have come to mind for you? A great a
great a great school, a great basketball program. You know, like growing
up, I've always seen Louisville Lee eight win the national Championship final fours.
So a lot could have came to mind five years ago about Louisville. That's
one of the school that you know, it's hard to not see what they're
doing. Sure, you know what I'm saying. Even even if you're you
can be across the the country, you are always know how good Louisville is
in Eastport, so you know that's yeah. So I was gonna ask you
when when you look at the the production that you had at JMU in the
last few years. Uh, you know, obviously very productive. Again,
your stats speak for themselves, but is there something about you yourself as a
player, something about your game that you you know can't necessarily be seen on
the stat sheet, maybe you can't even see be seen in highlights, Like
maybe something about you that you know you want fans to know about before they
get a chance to see you on the floor of the season. I'm always
happy. I'm always happy for a teammate. Always. I love to give
teammates confidence. I love chearing for my teammates. So my teammate hit a
three in a game, I might jump up and down and and just just
go wild, like you know, like just I just love to to to
amp up the next guy. I love that. That's one of the biggest
things I like about myself. I intentionally don't do that when another teammate's scorer.
It's just something that that just happens. I'm yeah, it's just naturally.
I'm just always happy for the next guy, you know, that's something
that doesn't pop up in the statue. That's just something that have to do
with type of person you are. And I feel like that's why I get
I do what I do on the court, because I'm always happy for the
next person. All Right, So let's just you know, throughout a hypothetical
situation here, Let's say you know, there's some guys listening to this show
that uh have Louisville in mind. They may want to transfer here to they're
being pursued. What would be your message to those guys again, hypothetical situation.
You know, if if, if, if in fact, you know
they were listening and you wanted to tell them why Louisville would be a great
option, what would you say. We're gonna win. We're gonna win,
and we have the we have the best fan base in the country to back
that up if when we win. So when we get to win, and
everybody is going everybody's gonna know, everybody's gonna feel it, and and everybody's
gonna fear it. So it's better to get on board now than then then
then wait when we ask him, we started doing it, and you're gonna
look back and wish you wanted to be a part of it. So that's
the message I got, all right, Terrence, I got a few quick,
rapid fire questions for you. These are just you know, this are
just questions that will let us get a chance to know you a little bit
better. What's the last show that you watched all the way through? Like
being series? I don't know if you watched much TV, Netflix, Hulu,
that kind of stuff. What's the last show you you watched all the
way through? Probably Power Goes. Okay, that's Stars, right, I'm
familiar, haven't seen them yet. Good stuff? Yeah, good stuff.
Great. It's just a lot of action. It's just I just like it,
all right. So favorite your favorite meal? My favorite meal is probably
friar rice. You can't go wrong there, hell botchi. Yeah, that's
good stuff, all right. So when you were when you were a kid,
you know, growing up, probably hoping to be in this position that
you're in now and accomplished college basketball player with one more year left at a
big time school. What players did you maybe not pretend to be, but
maybe try to emulate a little bit, Guys you really looked up to when
you were when you were younger, Probably Saba Napier and Saba Napier and Grayson
Allen. Okay, those are names we're familiar with those both, uh well,
acc Guy and Grayson Allen. But obviously Shabaz Napier in the old Big
East days, in the American Conference. He was somebody Louisville played, uh
played, played pretty pretty frequently. What actor would play you in a movie?
Probably mm, probably it's probably like, uh, probably like Martin Lawrence.
Okay, Martin Lawrence is absolutely hilarious. That's a great answer. He's
to me, he's one of those guys. I mean, nobody would say
he's not funny, but like when people mentioned sort of you know, of
those that are in that lane, I feel like he doesn't get mentioned enough.
Martin Lawrence is hilarious, you know, not only a stand up but
yeah, no doubt, no doubt about it. That about so I know
you again, you were at James Madison for the last you know, four
years, and and you know you're heading to Louisville. I'm sure you get
to go home to Georgia, you know, as much as you can.
Obviously you're you're very busy, but I'm sure you've been back and forth whenever
you get the chance. But whenever you are away, what do you miss
most about where you grew up in Georgia? Probably what I miss about the
area I grew up like, probably the rec center that we had, like
near our neighborhood. It was just that's where we did everything at We played
football in the grass, like we're going to team and play basketball, just
back and forth, all they switching sports, playing baseball. It was probably
the rec center for sure. Well, Terrence, I appreciate you making time
for us. I can't wait for you to get here to Louisville, and
uh, I know Pat Kelsey is going to get this thing turned around and
envision you being a big part of that. So I appreciate the time and
we'll see here in Louisville soon. Yes, sir, I appreciate you.
All right. That's Terrence Edwards Junior Fat that's the nickname. Really good conversation
there. He gave some really good answers that you know, had me excited.
As far as the competitiveness. You know, a guy who you know
wants to compete and he knows that's the culture that Pat Kelsey's had at his
previous employer, Charleston and I'll admit I forgot about the connection there where they
they're familiar with one another, like this is a guy who knows what Pat
Kelsey's about. They were in the same league for at least a couple of
years, so good stuff.