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Now? Here's nick coffee? You know? On the way in today,
the drive in from my home to here four Street, Live, downtown
Louisville, at our iHeart Studios, beautiful drive, a little human outside,
but it looks like a beautiful day. So if I was just basing it
off of that drive in and what I can see outside, I don't know
if I believe you that we have severe weather heading our way, but it
seems like that's all anybody's talking about. The buzz is strong when it comes
to some potential severe weather. And I mean, let me give you an
example. John had a doctor's appointment today and I'm in the waiting room and
the two ladies at the receptions at the front desk, which I'm not sure
of their position. I'm not maybe they're not receptions. But you know the
lady who has a you know, tell arm here, I give her paper
sign in that kind of stuff. You know, they're just chatting amongst themselves,
and they're going back and forth about you know, which television station here
locally they rely on for weather because you know, they're they know severe weather
is coming. You want to take a guess at who they were, like
not a fan of I'm gonna say, like the channel or the person person.
Oh it's Mark Weinberg. Yeah, And look they're they're you know,
their words, not mine, but you know, they said what a lot
of people say, and I do agree with it at times. You know,
he seems like the guy who just really really wants to I wouldn't say
exaggerate, but I think one night and it might've been the last time we
had like, you know, really high alert as far as just people.
You know, you're checking on people. Hey, I'm seeing that tornado could
be touching down in this end of town. Let me call my friends who
live there, make sure they're okay. Like it was pretty serious and something
did happen. But going back and forth between j Cardo C. LKY,
which, of course our partners in uh In. I mean there are there
are business partners. Essentially, we are news partners with WKY, so we're
always going to to gas them up and support them because they're great. But
I was going back and forth between LKY and WDRB, and I noticed that
they were kind of saying the same thing Cardoc and Winberg, but man,
they were saying it differently if you know what I'm saying, like, and
it's not about what you say, it's how you say it. And I
didn't. I didn't feel as if I needed to to, you know,
talk to God. In the next thirty minutes before I die. When I
was listening to Cardosi with Weinberger, I mean I was already saying the goodbyes.
I mean letting my wife know, Hey, I hope you enjoyed the
life we had together as much as I did. We had a nice run,
so, you know, But to give him the benefit of the doubt,
maybe that's just, you know, maybe that's just his personality because he
does take a lot of things seriously, including himself, and maybe that just
leads to, you know, how he delivers it. And then went saw
the doc and I was leaving, and you know, he stopped me,
put put his hand on my on my shoulder, you know, kind of
not weird, not in a weird way that sounded weird. But I'm leaving.
He's walking me up to the front area or whatever I guess to welcome
back it's next patient. And he's got his hand on my shoulder and he
kind of stopped and I'm like, you know, I turned around and he
said, you better be careful today. Some strong storms coming in. Like
Doc wanted me to know, hey, take care of yourself, because look
I can if you got something going on, you know, some kind of
flew, some kind of bug, you come to me. I can't help
you with mother nature, my man, So be safe. That's essentially what
the doctor was saying. Then I go to the gym, you know,
the old dudes hovering around the water fountain. You know, I'm waiting to
get my water bottle filled up. They're talking about the weather. So it's
we've hit. This seems to be i'd say a level eight, you know,
one through ten. This is a level eight as far as the the
the hype level, Yeah, the hype. I hate calling it that,
but that's kind of what it is, you know what I mean, because
you don't want to mean the greater the hype and feel like the more underwhelming
it typically is. Sure, sure, no doubt about it. So hopefully
everybody you know is going to be in a safe spot if this thing does
get crazy. But I'm reading here from WLKY that it says after a busy
night of heavy rainstorms and tornadoes, the viewing area is getting some sunshine and
fortunately it's going to be short lived though as another round of severe weather.
It's possible late Wednesday, so it says timing of the storm looks to be
later in the afternoon into the late evening. The main concerns are damaging winds,
large hail, and tornadoes. The storm activity winds uh it winds down
overnight with dryer skies uh and returning for Thursday. So that's that's what we
know. Could be could be pretty severe, So just you know, be
prepared. And I do, I do feel like the I've come to a
good, a good balance here as far as the you know, a lot
of not a lot of them, but a handful of these people who work
in local news as meteorologists they're very nice people and I've I've got to know
them personally, and and you know, I don't want to I don't want
to make it sound like I'm claiming that they would be out here just you
know, hyping up a storm that isn't real so they got people watching him.
But he Here's what it comes down to. I don't want to believe
and I don't truly believe that they would mislead people about this the potential severity
of something for viewership, because I just, you know, I don't I
give them the benefit of dob. I don't think they'd do that. But
I also just happen to know for a five that their entity that they work
for benefits substantially when this happens and there's everybody watching, you know what I
mean, Like it's not like they're but you know, but that's I think
why some people just claim that it's all about just getting people worried, so
they tune into their TVs and they're watching local news. And that's I mean,
I'm sure there's some truth in it because there are some people like myself.
I mean, most of the time, if I'm going to turn on
the news, it's because there's severe weather potential. Yeah, and I think
a lot of people your age that's the only time they ever watched the local
news. That's a fair assessment of it. And it has nothing to do
with how those in local news do their job. It's just the younger generation
consumes content, news whatever, just differently, right, I mean, gosh,
I mean how many how often in your life have you had to be
tuned into the TV to find something out? That's a good question because I
feel like the if the last time outside of something weather related that I was
watching the news for was in the middle of COVID or the beginning of COVID,
I should say, but even as a kid, like you're snow days,
they were probably not You didn't have to watch the TV. They did
that. They there was a point towards the end of me being in high
school where they would call I think, like a task or something like you
know, you could get like it. So like, for example, if
like if my kid's late to school because she's had an appointment or something,
or she's not at school, like and obviously my kid, my eight year
old daughter, doesn't just ditch school then we found out later. But if
for some reason she's not there, Like I get an automated text message.
If they're gonna potentially doing NTI, I get an automated text message. So
now like if you have a snow day, it's the same thing. I
don't know if that was around when you were you mean, no, that
wasn't a thing, and that was a long time ago. I mean you're
not, like you know, you're not fresh out of high school. But
yeah, I get. I mean I still occasionally like if there's nothing on,
and I'm I can only speak for myself, but I am someone that
just having live TV on when I'm in my home doing things has just always
been my nature, like background noise. I don't really like to sit in
silence and do much of anything. But maybe you know that maybe I'm the
weirdo, right, I don't know if so. What I'm getting at is
if in fact there's because I don't watch anything live other than sports. Nothing.
There's nothing I watch live other than sports. So if there's nothing,
clearly I don't have anything that's you know, that's that I'm on that I'm
watching that's sports. Like for example, like yesterday I was getting some stuff
down on my laptop in our kitchen area and my wife was making dinner,
and I knew there was nothing on live that I wanted to watch. I
mean, I wasn't. Instead of turning it on True TV to watch an
episode of Impractical Jokers for the fiftieth time, I just put it on the
local news. So you know, I guess I do occasionally still watch it.
But as far as how many people would be, like, I think
you hit it right on the head. There'll be people that will go out
of their way to find local news on one of these stations here in town
because they know that there's some crazy weather that could be coming this way.
So I hope it's it's all for nothing. And I don't say that to
you know, be able to come in tomorrow and dunk on everybody who tried
to scare us, because obviously you don't want it to happen, right,
So, uh. The one the one thing that that has always kind of
made me somewhat sided with all right, come on, you guys, are'll
be in a little mutch, but a little you're exaggerating a little bit.
Is the meteorologists across the country. I don't think it's happened locally that have
gone viral because you know they'll jump they'll they'll jump in on a Sunday or
a Saturday afternoon in Alabama to talk about a potential storm. And that means
that you know, the Crimson Tide aren't on because they've preempted your game to
show you whether comeing. People lose their minds, right like call, I
mean, people will go nuts. There was a meteorologist that you know,
he'd heard that that was happening because they weren't showing it, and he just
you know, cut cut like a w W E promo about how we're trying
to save people's lives, and it just it what it did for me seeing
that, and that's just one person, so you know, it's just one
guy, but it made me feel like, okay, yeah, you're telling
on yourself. Man. We always thought you took yourself a little too serious
and you're a little you know, it's you know in what you know,
your reaction to that kind of you know, kind of total on yourself.
So anyways, let's let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope everybody can can
stay safe. All right, welcome in ten minutes in well, we'll get
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Coffee the Company man John All on the alongside today and we've got a loaded
show today, and I mean it. I mean there's a lot of things
I want to get into. There's a lot of things I want to discuss
that aren't really sports related, which I always have fun with that, and
I choose to believe that a lot of people do. But you know you're
gonna get you know, you're gonna get the text line with a few I
thought this was a sports station. Who would care about this? It's that
time of year. Yeah, yeah, it's the sports season. Yeah,
and that time of year like that used to also be like and I know
you were just having fun with that. But whenever you hear someone in my
opinion, when you hear someone in radio like mention us it's that time of
year, man, it's nothing going on. It's just like, you know,
there's nothing going on. I mean, that's such a tell that you
don't one you don't have anything to talk about, which sometimes that happens,
but you're also like afraid to go outside of what you feel like is what
you know. Like Anyways, we'll move on, but we are loaded today,
and I really really mean that we've got a couple new names that we
can discuss as far as you know, the transfer portal. There's a debate
out there that I feel like happens every now and then among pro athletes that
I want to take a look at NBA players and NFL players arguing which which
profession would be able to transition to the other one, right, Like how
many NFL players could make an NBA team, how many NBA players could you
know, could could could make you know, could play in the NFL.
That kind of stuff, which I actually have a pretty strong opinion on that
that I feel like is different than most. So I look forward to getting
into that. And also, uh, I mentioned it yesterday but didn't really
get into it. But we are what forty five days away now. I
think from this this lawsuit going on in college athletics with the n c double
A to where I'm sorry forty days. So there's a there's a deadline here
to get this. You know, this this anti trust lawsuit situated, and
you know the amount of money that is being reported that each school will have
to you know, pay either annually or over a ten year period. I
mean, it's an insane amount of money. But the great write up that
I read from Ross Ellinger of Yahoo Sports was that you know, they're not
going to require schools to pay. You can kind of choose to do that.
And we all know if you don't choose to do that, you're never
you're not going to get players. But I mean, I feel like this
whole thing will be an unofficial divider among college athletics as far as like the
FBS, right, like if you're a Division one school, like for example,
the Big East, like they're they're just basketball, right, So like
they're they're they're gonna be doing things differently than power for schools that obviously football
drives the ship and makes all the money. But I think it's just gonna
We've talked a while for years now about how they should separate. You know,
there's all kinds of different scenarios that have been thrown out there at the
SEC and the Big ten should just merge and have their own you know,
NFL Light League, or you know, they should you know, Power A
G five teams shouldn't even be able to play Power five teams. So there's
all kinds of different things people have thrown out there, and I've never heard
one that necessarily got way more attention than the other as far as momentum,
meaning like really happening. But I think because of the different financial situations that
these universities are in, it's gonna work itself out, right. I mean,
you can probably still play each other, but Liken, you're gonna see
kids in the portal or kids that are being recruited at high school, and
I think we're gonna identify them. Okay, Yeah, there's somebody that will
will probably end up playing at a Power for school who has who is paying
student athletes as employees. And then there's others that are going to be doing
it too. But like, it's just it's gonna be a different world,
and it kind of already is now if you think about it. Right.
In fact, this is something I wanted to get too later. Let's just
do it now. So are we want three years into NIL roughly ISHU,
it's not right around that time, so still early, right, still relatively
early. But you know, I think we've had at least I don't know
enough time here to kind of assess how much NIL has changed the hierarchy of
of college sports. And I feel like what a lot of people myself included,
just assumed would happen has happened. And that's just the rich getting richer.
Like who is really gone from being pretty good to being elite tier because
they can now pay I can't think of anybody in football or basketball. The
one example that I always use is Miami making the Final Four with a team
that they literally went out and bought and paid a lot of money for.
But you know, the next year almost that same team stunk. So you
know, this is another example I wanted to like. So for high school
recruits, the twenty four to seven sports folks that cover recruiting, they put
their final class of twenty twenty four rankings together. So these guys that are
incoming freshmen for next season in college basketball, there were eighteen five star recruits
in this class. So let's see who got these players. Duke has four
of them. Yukon has one, Baylor has one, Miami has one,
North Carolina has two, Texas has one, Arizona State has one, Georgia
has one, Alabama has one. Syracuse that I already say them they have
one, Maryland has one and that's it. So, I mean, does
Miami count as a school because I feel like they were getting McDonald's All Americans
caliber players five stars before at Ile. I mean, they don't get a
lot of them, but it's not crazy that they got one. Same thing
with Texas, same thing with Baylor, same thing with Alabama, to be
honest with you, So in Syracuse, I don't know, what do you
think, John, Syracuse has a lot of tradition. I mean, they're
not like an elite on a blue blood, but like, it's not crazy
they get a five star, right, it's not unheard of of Maryland.
I don't know Maryland. I kind of feel like they went a long long
time without getting five star recruits. The guy that they got this year too,
is somebody from that area, Derreck Queen. Yep. So I'd say
Rutgers without question having to is a benefit is a product of nil right,
Yes, it's fair. And Arizona State with Jaden and Quainton's clearly that's a
product. I mean, that's that's I mean, he was I say he
again, it's his sixteen year old kid. It's I guess his parents and
his agent, whoever it was that was kind of running that recruitment. They
were very upfront and honest about like, I mean, as much as as
much as you could without you know, sounding like a complete, you know,
a hole, which I've been. I don't think you're an a hole.
If you clearly are going to try to go to a place they can
pay the most money. I think everybody's going to factor that in and it's
gonna matter a lot. But he was being I mean he was basically Hayes,
who's the highest bidder in Arizona State became that So I would throw them
in there. And then Georgia I would say they, I mean, Georgia
is a is a monster athletic program for football mostly but like they don't think
they ever were getting five star players, right. So for the most part,
again, of the of the eighteen, i'd say ninety two percent roughly,
it's still it's schools that have that one always get multiple or every now
and then they get one, like, it's not crazy. So maybe once
you know this new model that's out there as far as how college athletes are
now employees getting paid whatever, that actually looks like it's very obvious there's levels
within college athletics that are in much different financial situations than the other. But
that's always been the case, right, Like you know again Duke, and
you know Yukon in Connecticut, I mean at North Carolina, Like they've always
been elite before they could pay players legally and got so now they have money
and they're still sitting at the top. So it may not be something that
makes it look a whole lot different, but it will. I mean I
remember, I guess it was three summers ago, thinking like, man,
like this is crazy. You have guys that can just transfer now at any
point and they have to sit out and players can make money, Like this
is changing everything and it has now. I always argue, maybe this is
me being insecure about what I love changing for like the worst, and that's
I love college football college basketball. So like when I watch the sport on
Saturday afternoons, football and basketball, whenever I don't feel like it's a different
sport, I don't really notice much of a difference. The only thing that
really stands out every now and then is the occasion oh wow, I didn't
realize that guy played for this team. He was on the other team last
year. But everything else outside of it is totally different in every way.
So once we do have these athletes getting paid as employees, however they make
that work, I'm probably gonna be, you know, in denial, even
if it is changing everything for you know, for the you know, for
the worst. And I don't really know how it would right I mean,
unless I mean, if you get to the point where, like you you
know, you like, if they ever mess with the NAA tournament or something
like that, I mean, if they'll start getting a big influx of players
just sitting out because they're not getting paid on time or something like that,
Yeah, that could be an issue. I don't see that out and see
that happening. Maybe there'll be some instances where it does, but I don't.
I mean, that would still be crazy to see. Yeah, And
one thing that is that is quite clearly going to have to change moving forward,
and I don't know how off, I don't know how soon that can
happen, because you know, these coaches have a lot of contracts, but
coaching salaries and buyouts are currently responsible for nearly forty percent of athletic department budgets
within the FBS, facilities account for twenty percent. So that's going to have
to change because you won't be able to pay players like you're going to have
to to get players if forty percent of your budget is going to just coaches.
And when I say buyouts, that's Kenny Payne, who's being paid at
Louisville, or being paid by Louisville more than they're paying Pat Kelsey while he's
coaching at Arkansas as an assistant probably doing nothing. Sorry, every now and
then I just can't. I just gotta take a shot at Kenny just maybe
that'll fade one day, but probably not, Like he probably won't come up
ever down the line, but like, if he does, I'm probably gonna
It's like an impulse thing, right, you know, I can't help myself.
I just got he's eventually going to talk to the media in some former
fashion down at Arkansas, and surely he'll give us a SoundBite. That is
a shot. You would think I'd love that. I'd love for somebody at
Arkansas asking him about Louisville. Uh, just you know, because well,
never mind, we'll move on. You know, look, you were here
for every show for the last two years, like you know, how out
But anytime we get to I just can't help myself. Like I get it's
like a drug. Yeah, it's not good for you. It's what it
is. It's PTSD. Yeah, that's what happens. It just it kicks
in and I just, you know, I get to think, I get
to going back to like, you know, taking calls after a forty point
loss to a team. You know that wasn't good. You know, he's
just you just I start firing off. What I did for three for two
years was basically say the same thing every damn day. So and that's not
normal right in this in this world of radio. So anytime it comes up,
I just I'm wired to just go right back to you know, how
could I not fire you know that kind of stuff. So anyways, let's
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Alden riding shotgun as we as we await these severe storms. Hopefully they don't
end up making in their way here, but you know, it looks like
that is going to be the case, so stay safe everyone, all right,
real quick, I wanted to share something that I think is really cool
that I'm not sure if other athletic departments around the country are doing it,
but if not, they should because U of L is giving season ticket holders
for Louisville football the ability to request road game tickets, which I always tell
people, if you you know, if you if you can do it,
try to pick one road game a year and make it a road trip.
I just think it's cool to experience like the different cultures that you see in
different I mean, there's certain there's some years where you don't really have a
whole lot of Like you know, Clemson is obviously a destination trip for a
lot of people, but there's some acs like for example, like you know,
who's going to go to Boston, right, Boston's a great city,
but like you would it would almost be like you're you know, you don't
want to go to Boston. I'll tell you that I've been to their campus
and it's insane that they're a power for program. But that's just a cool
thing to do. So the price for them obviously varies, but for UK
it is going. Let's see here. So if the Notre Dame is the
most expensive and you can only get four, the Kentucky visitor tickets are ninety
five dollars, Stanford you can get tickets for that for forty bucks, and
for Clemson you can get tickets for eighty bucks. So of those four,
if you've been to Notre Dame, maybe you wouldn't be as inclined to go
because it's I'm sure it's I mean, I've been to their campus a couple
of times. You can tell it's historic, right, but man, South
Bend is not. I mean, it's not easy to get in and out
of that town and there's not a whole lot there other than Notre Dame,
and that time of year, it's usually like miserable. And I guess they've
updated the stadium since Louisville went there back in twenty fourteen, but I mean
for a legendary historic program. And yes, there's some sarcasm there because they
you know, clearly they are a big time program and a big time brand,
but like you know, they think they're a lot more than they actually
are. But their stadium was a dump then, I mean like bleacher seats.
I mean, I think they've made some changes to that since then,
but that's obviously like a bucket list kind of trip for a football fan,
I would assume, and not just the football stadium, but you know,
the campus itself. I don't think you'd want to go to Kentucky, you
know, I don't know. I mean, I would never go as a
fan to a Kentucky game at Kentucky, but that's just me. Stanford would
be cool, and you know, only forty bucks to get tickets there,
but you know, everything else about getting to the Bay Area San Francisco would
be insanely expensive, but it is always a place I would want to go
Clemson again, I bet that's probably the kind of experience that people will go
to more than once. I've never been, but I've heard that the atmosphere
and just everything about being at a game at Clemson is is awesome. And
obviously Louisvel's never won there, but yeah, the trip in twenty sixteen,
when when when, of course, the legendary game Lamar and Deshaun. Other
than the heartbreaking loss, I mean there, there may never be a Clemson
road game where more Louisville fans went to than that one. And again,
outside of the painful way that it ended, everybody else to me, I've
heard nothing. And as much as we kind of give Clemson fans a hard
time because they're kind of snobs and whatnot, and they really showed their ass
when they were so in denial that Lamar Jackson was a better quarterback than Shaun
Watson. But like, if you like, they really are like this kumba
y'ah, please come here to my tailgate have a beer, like we love,
We're so nice, but it's not. I don't know. I don't
know how genuine it is. But that's when I do want to get to
at some point, all right. So we have a new candidate here,
candidate eligible, bachelor. I don't know. It's it's a it's a new
name in the portal that Louisville is in on. It's a man who goes
by the name of Coleman Hawkins, six' ten from the Sacramento, California
area. He played four years at Illinois, taking advantage of his fifth year.
Potentially he is in the NBA Draft ladies and gentlemen, and I think
he wants to stay in the NBA Draft. However, if he doesn't get
good feedback, he's going to come back to college, and Louisville is one
of the schools that is already in the early stages of I guess establishing somewhat
of a relationship with him. So he's coming off of his best season twelve
points per game, six and a half boards, shot at thirty eight percent
from three, and he'd be a big time edition, no doubt. For
those who aren't the music we're trying to live in it up and we just
start naming off players who we may never talk about again. But hey,
they're in the portal and Louisville's involved, so you know, let's really sell
these guys, right, like you know, with the mute, with the
effect in the delivery there of me, just you know, me mentioning all
these great things about this man, Coleman Hawkins. I mean, I think
Louisville fans are even more interested and excited about this guy potentially joining Pat Kelsey
squad. And by the way, let me just say this, John Coleman
Hawkins whitest name I've ever heard in my life. That's not the vibe I
got from him. For whatever reason, Coleman Hawkins. He is white,
right, he's mixed. I would assume, Actually I don't know what race
he is, But if you told me somebody's name was Coleman Hawkins, I'm
just gonna be honest with you, I would have assumed that that's a Caucasian
man. I don't know why that doesn't That's not the way my brain's not.
I mean, you know who he is, right, he played for
Illinois. But for some reason I can't put a face on him. Oh
google him you'll know exactly who he is. He's the tall guy who shoots
a bunch of threes. He talks a lot of trash, and I you
know, I like that you know who Coleman Hawkins is. When you see
who he is, you're gonna say, oh, yeah, of course I
know who that is. He's played at Illinois for four years. Okay,
yeah, so that's not that has nothing to do with him as a player.
I just again like looking at the name, like Coleman Hawkins, I'm
thinking white, but I'm not sure what race he is and I don't it
doesn't matter who cares. He can ball, and I'd love for him to
not go to the NBA Draft and come and play at Louisville. In fact,
it was Matt Norlander, which I got to give Matt Norlander some credit
here. I mean, I think a lot of people know who he is.
He's one of the one of the bigger names in the college basketball media
world. He works for CBS Sports. A lot of these guys have bounced
around. He's been at CBS Sports for at least fifteen years, and he's
always done a good job. But he I feel like lately like he's broke
every big story I feel like in college basketball this offseason. He broke the
news about Dan Hurley, you know, finally having to get over straining order
on Kentucky fans and tell him like, leave me alone, you're a stalker.
He broke the Scott Drew news that he wasn't coming to Kentucky. He
broke the news that the basically the deal was. I mean, I don't
know what he said word for word, but Louisville and Pat Kelsey have come
to an agreement and now it's just a form and it's just a wait and
get it in front of the board. So he's been all over it.
And this is what he had to say about Coleman Hawkins. Coleman Hawkins,
it sounds like that is Arkansas Carolina, Louisville, Kansas State. There could
be others. He will command a very very high nil price and he really
does want to go the NBA route. But I'd say the buzz on Hawkins
at this stage is more likely than not that he would return to college,
although no sure thing, but yeah, Arkansas Carolina, Kansas State, Louisville.
I'm sure there are more, but that's a big one for sure.
So of those schools, you clearly have some some really stiff competition. And
you know, one thing that nobody thinks about that I want to mention here
and there just because I think it's worth mentioning. Pat Kelsey is not going
to be at fault if dudes don't want to come to Louisville, because they
would much they'd feel much more secure and safe with a program that has had
sustained success. Kels is coming from mid major and he could sell them.
They may love the guy, but they're just gonna think, Hey, you
know, I'd rather go play for you know, I'd rather go play for
I don't know whoever like a coach that has shown that he is, not
that they are doubting him. But you know, Louisville has not had any
buzz in basketball since any of these players in the portal have been playing the
sport, so surely they're familiar with Louisville and if they see the campus and
all that. I'm not acting like there's not a lot to sell here,
but that is something that I think is working against them that nobody seems to
think about because of the NIL stuff. But other schools have an il two
man like, it's not just Louisville. But what Louisville can sell here right
now that I don't think anybody else of those schools could sell is every minute
you want at the four or the five. I mean, that's that's you
know. I love James Scott. I think he's gonna play regardless of who
they add. But Colemen Hawkins would be walking into and apparently he doesn't want
to play in the big ten and he doesn't want to play the five.
Well, he can play four and and he can have all those four minutes,
and you know Lacy needs a break. So that's that, you know,
that helps them. So one of the guys I talked about yesterday the
transfer from South Florida, that is case In Pryor. He is the six
' ten kind of versatile hybrid big that is. Considering Louisville, Arkansas,
and Villanova. The belief is that Arkansas is in the best shape of landing
him. And if they land him, I don't think that they would even
pursue Coleman Hawkins. That didn't mean the you know, clearly it's not just
Arkansas you gotta worry about. But look, I'm of the opinion that Arkansas,
like when you see that you're going head to head or Arkansas and Caliperry
or it's more Calipariy than Arkansas. But like, I'm still viewing cal Perry
the same way I did at Kentucky. Am I wrong for that? John?
Like, I mean, he's still calipari and he still gets I mean
he landed John L. Davis, the number one player in the portal according
to like everybody, yep, So like him losing to Saint Peter's in Oakland
did not change anything about his ability to all. I mean, the class
that he would have brought in if he stated in Kentucky would have been insane.
So he would had Jade and Quainton's right, I mean, he would
have had the freshman that he's added at Arkansas at this point. So you
know, I don't act like Louisville will never get a player over Arkansas.
But like, let's you know, we've always clowned on cal for doing less
with more, and now Kentucky fans are kind of, you know, doing
the same thing, like, hey, he had all the talent here and
you know he lost to Saint Peters. But I'm still of the belief if
he's in the mix, Like, I'm gonna feel not as confident. That's
why I mentioned. You know, if they do land prior, then they
could be removed from the race and it'll be a little more competitive for everybody
else. All right, let's go to text line five two six five three
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I'm glad this text came in earlier today, says Nick. Is Matt Jones
just mentioning two of Kentucky's rivals because he knows the Noah kid is going to
Kentucky and he wants to sell it as a win for Mark Poop for those
who don't get the reform. My son calls Mark Pope, Mark Poop.
It's like his first It's like his first rivalry moment, John, You know
what I mean. It is because like if he hears somebody, if he
hears somebody say Mark Pope, he corrects him Mark Poop. So anyways,
and take, you know, yes, maybe I told him to do that.
You know, maybe in fact he heard Pope and said poop and then
I thought that was funny. So I was like, what you say,
And he said, did you do Mark poops and he just says it all
the time. It's like a joke he carries in his back pocket, like
it's like his party trick, like hey, I'm down, I'm down with
it. Yeah, Mark, he can say as many time as you want
to, so I will be honest with you. I thought about that as
well, because it would look as if that Mark Pope got the kid,
that that Pat Kelsey won it and Rick Barnes. I mean, those are
two rivals of Kentucky's Tennessee and Louisville. And if it's out there that it's
a three horse race and and Mark Pope gets it done, like it could
be looked at as like a you know, a layup for Mark Pope because
he doesn't dunk. But I will say Louisville from what I was told,
I don't know if they're like going all in. I don't think they're prioritizing
Trent Noah, but I don't I don't feel comfortable enough to say that,
like it's all a lie. They don't want him, like I think,
you know, they need players like like Kentucky does. And if somebody within
the state that there there was some belief, had some like he had interest
in Louisville. He wanted Louisville to want him when he knew Kentucky and Caliperry
didn't know his name seriously, Like, so if it comes down to Kentucky
and Louisville right now, he's picking Kentucky like he just is. And if
you know that, like if you're Kelsey, then I would just you know,
move on. And maybe they already have. I don't know, because
I think it's it's a much different situation because I do believe that there was
noise within this you know, the state high school basketball scene here that like
Kenny Payne and his staff need to go look at this kid because they could
probably get him, and they're not even they're not even you know, interested
at all. So but that was again him, you know, if he
wants to stay close to home, Louisvill will be closer than going to South
Carolina where he was going. But also again you know, keep in mind
like that was before Kentucky was in the mix. Well, now, Mark
Pope, like this kid could play, probably won't be an elite player there,
and he's good, Like if Louisville wanted him, I would be thrilled
if they got him, and I'm not saying they don't want him, but
I wouldn't be shocked up put it this way my prediction, just to prediction,
just to guess, I would imagine that like in the coming days,
you don't hear Louisville being involved much, just because I think it's going to
be pretty clear that Kentucky's the heavy favorite and that's probably where he's gonna end
up. But then again, some people have said that, you know,
they kind of already have one of him in Travis Perry, so like maybe
he would want to go somewhere where he could be you know, but you
know, both those two guys are not going to probably play a ton of
minutes this year for Kentucky Perry and Noah maybe in two years. That's you
know, that's their backcourt, those two guys. So I have no inside
info other than just somebody telling me that Louisville their interest level was, you
know, it wasn't just made up. All right, quick break, we'll
come back on the other side. Keep it rolling along. It is Coffee
and Company, and we are feel about Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven
ninety all right, as we wrap up the first hour. I've got a
trivia question here for the company man, mister John, give it to me.
Well, it's probably going to be a dead giveaway. It'd be a
good question to ask you, you know, maybe any week other than this
week. But okay, what's the busiest day of the year for restaurants?
The busiest day of that yeah, Nick asking me this, it must be
Mother's Day. It is, But I feel like a lot of people wouldn't
guess that. I wouldn't. I mean, I wouldn't if you there was
no conte. Yeah, so the top three are Mother's Day, Valentine's Day.
That'd be my number one guess in Father's Day, So Valentine's Day would
have been my guess as well. But I remember seeing I just saw something
come across my timeline here that showed that this this this study, and it
reminded me a few years ago whenever I realized this, because you know,
I don't even feel like I was. I mean, I never go somewhere
with reservations like I'm yet I'm I'm a poor like I'll you know, if
you have the reservations, I probably can't afford to eat there, and I
probably wouldn't, you know. And I also eat like I'm seven, you
know what I mean, Like they don't have you know, checking fingers and
maybe a burger that's playing. You know, then I'm you know, they're
not good enough for me. But you know, I remember one Mother's Day,
we tried to get in anywhere, and we chose times where we didn't
think it would be busy, but it was insane and then sure enough,
like that was one of the most busiest days ever for restaurants, and it
might have been like post COVID where you could actually like you know, you
weren't as worried, you know, word the wars and limitations that kind of
stuff. So when it comes down to is that Valentine's Day oftentimes does not
fall on a weekend, so people, you know, they'll do it on
a weekend before or a weekend after, and it's busy night that night.
If it's a Thursday night or a Wednesday night, people are gonna go out
for dinner, but they're working during the day. On Mother's Day, after
church, you know, there's never a downtime. It never ends, it
never stops. That's true because you already have the church crowd yeah, so
just be prepared. If you're wanting to take your mother, your wife,
your grandmother, anybody that's you know, somebody that is a mother to you
in some form or fashion, just be ready to wait or maybe, you
know, maybe make a reservation. But I feel like it's such a busy
day for restaurants that even if you have a reservation, you're probably still gonna
wait a little while. I mean, that's I think it's silly that that's
how it works, because you would think the reservation means you don't wait,
but that's you know, sometimes the people that were had a reservation before you
have left yet. So we're, uh, we're going to do uh what
I think is actually better to do anyway. We're actually going to grill out
and you know, do some stuff. I mean, I Mother's Day for
me is my mother, of course, my wife, my stepmother, my
mother in law, and my grandma my mama should say, and my sister
who's not my mom, but you know, she's she's a mother and she's
you know, we celebrate kind of all together. But it's a busy day,
but I love it. My wife, she plans things, you know,
I procrastinate and don't plan. Well, it's like we got it.
We already got an itinerary, John, Like we know we were you know,
we're doing this earlier afternoon, doing this kind of mid afternoon dinner.
Oh that's my life. That's that's my life. She'd appreciate you saying that
you don't have to think just to show up. Yeah, that's a life
kind of the life I live. Man, It's just worked out that way.
And somebody asked me, I was talking about this a while back,
and it just it's something I kind of remember because I'd never thought about it
because you know, I'm an idiot. But I was kind of explaining that
situation where like, you know, she kind of you know, takes care
of me right, like I'm kind of an adult kind of not. And
somebody, I guess was trying to like respond with it not being low.
Wow, you must be some bumb They were like, oh, it must
be because she's probably somebody really likes, you know, being in control kind
of control freak and you know you kind of and I was like, no,
actually, no, she just knows like if I'm in charge, plans
aren't happening. Something's gonna We're gonna forget something. You know just how it
works. So you know, I'm gonna keep riding this thing out as long
as I can. We have a great life together, and thank you,
honey. Happy Mother's Day. All right, one hour in the books,
two more to go, a lot more to get into. We'll die back
in when it comes to what they are projecting as far as this new model
where college athletes become employees, which still a lot of unknown but man,
it's gonna be crazy when that actually ends up happening. And we can discuss
this never ending debate among pro athletes right like could baseball players in the professional
ranks? Could they last in the NFL? Could NBA players go play baseball?
Because we'll never know. But again, I think I actually have a
different opinion than a lot of people on this, So you know, we'll
see if you guys agree. You probably won't, but that's okay. Stick
with us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety