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He is 25 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.920 not going to take the Lakers job. I go back to last week when 26 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.319 the news broke. I just thought the timing of it made it seem as 27 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.359 if, you know, if he was if he was going to say no, 28 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.000 he already would have. Well, it turns out he hadn't visited La 29 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:02.159 yet. He did that over the weekend, and the longer it played out, 30 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.719 I felt like the more likely it was going to be that he ended 31 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:12.680 up staying at Yukon. But I just still had a hard time thinking that 32 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:16.159 he would turn down the Lakers given really everything. I mean, he's went 33 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:22.199 back to back national championships at Yukon. That's going to be hard to sustain. 34 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.879 You know, he's always wanted to coach in the NBA. A lot 35 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.000 of us, myself included, didn't know that, but that's something that if 36 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.360 you go back and a lot of people did a good job of pulling different 37 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:36.520 interviews that he has done over the years where he's never shot away from having 38 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.240 interest in the NBA and it's the Lakers job. So to me, it 39 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.800 just kind of felt like, yeah, this if he really wants to go 40 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.080 to the NBA, this is the time to do it, and this would 41 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:46.960 be a great opportunity for him. But he said no, He's going to 42 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.680 stay in college and that is good for college basketball. I don't think there's 43 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:57.759 many Yukon fans that are listening to this right now, but I feel like 44 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:02.199 college basketball die hards like my elf would agree that him staying at Yukon is 45 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:05.879 good for the sport. Maybe it's not going to be good if, you 46 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.120 know, he starts dominating it even more so, than he has in the 47 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:12.199 last couple of years, and everybody's just playing for second place. I mean, 48 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.000 if that ends up that ends up happening, then you know, that 49 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.400 wouldn't be good, That would not be ideal in anyway. But if it 50 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:21.840 was going to be such a hit to see him leave, I feel like 51 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.240 it's got to be looked at as a win for college basketball that he's decided 52 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:29.560 to stay. Maybe others don't agree, but I'm glad he's staying, and 53 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.039 he'll he'll make a lot of money. According to Matt Orlander, this will 54 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:37.240 put him north of eight million dollars annually at Yukon, and the new deal 55 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.800 will also up the ante for the assistant coaches on that staff, Kamani Young, 56 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.599 Tom Moore, and of course Luke Murray. So if he's making eight 57 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:54.039 million, he's right there with I believe Bill self and John Caliperi. So 58 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:59.319 technically, I guess that would make him you know, I guess maybe there's 59 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:01.159 a little bit more more money going towards cal and a little bit money going 60 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:05.919 towards Bill's self. But you know, if you're in the eight million range 61 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:09.439 and they're in the eight million range, but maybe there's one hundred thousand, 62 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:13.080 two hundred thousand dollars difference. I mean every penny counts, I suppose, 63 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.399 but that to me makes it seem a little bit more legit that you know, 64 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:19.920 Yukon really did what, did everything possible to get as much money rounded 65 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.639 up as they could to make him a very highly you know, make him 66 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:26.959 a very rich man, not that he already wasn't. And the reason I 67 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:30.600 bring that up is because there's some that think that this was all a plan 68 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.839 to get Yukon to fork out more money. In that Woje, who does 69 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:42.319 have a relationship with the Hurley family. He wrote a book featuring the Hurly 70 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:46.439 father, Danny and Bobby Hurley's dad. He wrote a book on him years 71 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.560 ago, and it's got enough traction where I continue to see different people discussing 72 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:57.399 it on my Twitter timeline that this was a plant from woj to get Yukon 73 00:04:57.519 --> 00:04:59.519 to give more money, and I just still don't see how. Like, 74 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.319 I mean, again, he went back to back national championships at Yukon. 75 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:06.560 He turned Kentucky down this offseason. If he needed to flirt with the Lakers 76 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:11.560 to get more money, it wasn't because they weren't willing to spend. It 77 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:14.519 would have to be that he was letting them know, you may not have 78 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:15.160 it, but you got to go find it. And I don't know, 79 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.439 I just don't. I don't think money was why he decided to stay Yukon. 80 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:20.519 I think I mean, obviously he wanted more money, and he deserves 81 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:24.319 more money. The guy's on top of the sport right now. But I 82 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:29.079 think it just comes down to him wanting to stay in college. Maybe he 83 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.240 really gave it some thought, more than he ever has now that an NBA 84 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:34.759 opportunity like this presented itself, and he just decided, you know what, 85 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:41.160 I'm I'm not fit for the NBA, not because I'm not a good coach, 86 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:44.040 not because I think I would fail. But let's be real, the 87 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:48.480 way Dan Hurley coaches Yukon one is super successful. It works, right, 88 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:53.360 look at the results. But you can't coach like that in the NBA. 89 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:57.079 I mean you can, but it's unheard of this day and age. And 90 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.399 I don't mean because he's a drill sergeant, you know, and he Bob 91 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.480 Knight or even Tom Izzo, but it's just a different world. I mean, 92 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:09.879 in the NBA, you're coaching, managing leading you're not. I mean, 93 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:14.079 I mean it's rare. You see any NBA coach you get fiery and 94 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:18.560 really, you know, heeded with one of their players. And in college, 95 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.279 a lot of these guys just you know, take it and they understand 96 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:25.040 it's part of it, right, tough love, discipline, that kind of 97 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:28.720 stuff. I'd say, a lot of college players who are mature don't take 98 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.480 it personal. They just understand that that's what this is. Right. But 99 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.959 in the NBA, you know, and I saw a lot of really funny 100 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:39.920 stuff on Twitter where people would share little clips of Dan Hurley in practice, 101 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:43.639 like screaming at a player or saying something, and you know, the jokes 102 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.519 were there, like wow, this is Dan Hurley when he finds out Anthony 103 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.160 Davis is injured again, and just you know, like it's not that funny, 104 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:53.839 but it did make me at least think, like, you know what, 105 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.199 like, yeah, I mean that's just unheard of, Like you don't 106 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.279 talk to NBA players the way And I don't even mean when I say you 107 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:01.560 don't talk to them like that in a way it makes it sound as if 108 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.800 he's talking to the Yukon players like in a wrong way that he shouldn't do 109 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:09.279 it. No, he should do everything he's been doing in the last two 110 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.800 years because it is working at a very very good rate. But I don't 111 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:16.639 know. I wouldn't be shocked if Dan Hurley gave this a lot of thought 112 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:24.120 and just realized it's a compatibility thing. What I'm doing is working better than 113 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.360 it's ever worked before, meaning he's having more success than he's ever had as 114 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.879 a coach at any level. So one, why why rock the boat? 115 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:35.600 Why why change anything up? Let's just keep winning. But also if you 116 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:41.800 do take what you're doing, even with some minor adjustments from the college game 117 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.040 to the NBA game, I just have a hard time thinking that it would 118 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.079 you know, it would work unless he literally just completely changed sort of his 119 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:51.959 approach because it's just different, man. And it's not because you know, 120 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:57.480 like, for example, the Boston Celtics are about to win the NBA Finals, 121 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.639 right, They're going to knock off the MAVs, might sweep them. 122 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:05.480 I don't know. Joel Missoula. I mean, he's the coach. You 123 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.399 know, he's leading, he's you know, he's got his clipboard, he's 124 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:15.519 drawn up plays. But I wouldn't be shocked if the extent of Joel Mizzoula's 125 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:22.120 role is to kind of, you know, be the leader massage egos, 126 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.959 you know, balance things like, I mean, you need coaching. But 127 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:31.079 like it's just different, man, It's it is. I mean, Missoula 128 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.799 who's been successful since he's been in Boston. And if they break through and 129 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:35.320 win the title, I mean, he's gonna be I mean he's gonna have 130 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.360 he's gonna be an NBA coach. That's my age that has an NBA championship. 131 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.559 But fifteen years ago, the thought of him even being in the position 132 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.279 of having the job is unheard of. Like things have changed. Man. 133 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.840 The NBA is going after dudes who don't have any of the same principles and 134 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.240 demeanor of Dan Hurley. He just don't so like he would. He was 135 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:56.840 gonna have to probably be a lot different. And why would you want to 136 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.919 do that? Why would you want to change anything? Whenever you're doing what 137 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:05.240 you want to do your way, You've got your program set up the way 138 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.120 you want it right, You've been there long enough to where now your system, 139 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:09.919 your culture's fully in place, and you're on top of the freaking world. 140 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.879 Like makes total sense to just not see the real value in mixing it 141 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.200 up, it would have been I'm sure if you go to LA and you 142 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.080 start winning and you win some titles, like, yeah, that would make 143 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.720 you a legendary coach more so than you are already probably are right, you 144 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.320 win in titles in the NBA and winning titles and and you win titles in 145 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:33.000 college, that would be great. But to me just it's I don't don't 146 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.000 think it's compatible. And that doesn't That's not a knock on Hurley or any 147 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:41.519 other really good college coach that's doing it his way, But make no mistake 148 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:46.360 about it, the type of the type of person, the type of background 149 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.480 that the NBA is looking for this day and age when it comes to coaching 150 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.440 is not what Dan Hurley is not because he's not successful. Because again it's 151 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:00.919 not about that. Like Steve Nash got got a head coaching job, Steve 152 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:05.559 Kerr is still coaching Darvin Ham. I mean, he just got fired by 153 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.279 the Lakers. But like they're going with dudes who who can relate to NBA 154 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:13.960 players that have been in the locker room as a player before that really understand 155 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:20.120 what you know, what comes with being in the association and in certain instances, 156 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.039 it's worked really well, right, I mean you look at the title 157 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.919 that I mean, look at the title that all the titles that Steve Kerrs 158 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:28.080 won. I mean, that's that's sort of and that's the way he carries 159 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.120 himself. Joe Mizoula is that I mean, so you know it's and they'll 160 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.320 drop you quickly. I mean Budenholzer is that his name, the guy who 161 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.919 won the title with the Bucks Bucks. Yeah, he can midway through what 162 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:45.519 the next year? I mean so, And it's because again the NBA tells 163 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.720 on themselves a little too much, right, Like I don't I don't think 164 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.720 it's a good look for the NBA for that position head coach of really any 165 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.159 team to look so expendable, like to look just like it doesn't matter. 166 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.720 And when you win a title and then the next season, midway through you 167 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.600 can the guy who won you a championship. I mean Nick Nurse did it 168 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.039 in Toronto. He got canned a year or two later too. And it's 169 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.600 not to say that they were fired in it. They shouldn't have been. 170 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:18.080 But like the NBA doesn't really try to be discreet about how important they truly 171 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.120 view the head coaching position. Because again they it's a re tread league, 172 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:28.039 you know, and you know not clearly the NBA is doing just fine with 173 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.080 the way they're doing it. But like Danny Hurley had to look around right, 174 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:33.320 look, you know, had to read the room and realize, look, 175 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.080 I don't coach the way Tyron lou coaches, you know what I mean, 176 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:41.639 Like, I'm gonna be in my I'm gonna get after these guys and 177 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.159 We're gonna be competitive as hell, and you know, there's gonna be this 178 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.240 collective buy in. And I'm sure there are still some coaches in the NBA 179 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:52.120 that have a little bit of that to them, but not like Danny Hurley. 180 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:56.679 I mean, he's never even been an assistant in the NBA. And 181 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:01.720 I feel like you, you know, you have a better chance of adjusting 182 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.080 to that if you are an assistant that gets a promotion to being a head 183 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.440 coach, then you do a guy in college that's just always done things very 184 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:11.240 very very differently. Too bad, the Lakers can't go get Kenny Payne, 185 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.759 Yep. They if they got cal they could, ye he could finally be 186 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:24.080 swayed away from what it was always the Kentucky's the best job everything before that 187 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:28.639 all went to see, well, what if they did go after caliperiod Arkansas, 188 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:30.960 that would be interesting. I mean they won't, but like if they 189 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.159 did, that would be that would be hilarious. One of the things to 190 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:39.360 bring up one Hurley is and it just sounds like it seems like, I 191 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.440 don't know, I'm seeing the reaction online. It's like fifty to fifty half 192 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:46.840 or surprise because the last week it seems like everybody they knew they to offer 193 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.639 for Hurley would be coming soon. And of course, when you talk about 194 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:54.759 the pinnacle of NBA jobs, it's either got to be like the Lakers or 195 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:56.440 the Celtics, so that was one of them. Boston. It seems like 196 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:01.960 Boston's had a very much better infrastructure over the last few years or where it's 197 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.919 probably not as hard to turn down as you would the Lakers. Of course, 198 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.159 everything going on and surrounding it, the Lebron factor, but it's seen 199 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:11.440 that there was a lot of people that were advocating that that would have been 200 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.720 a good fit for Dan Hurley, and just after everything that you just laid 201 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.600 out, it's just not a fit. And I'm not surprised whatsoever. I 202 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:22.080 didn't even think that he would go just because of this. Simply he's been 203 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:28.080 dominating college basketball. He still has the old school type of he could yell 204 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.000 at his players during practice and he could get them all to buy in. 205 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.200 It's really hard to do that at the NBA level. So my brain is 206 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:37.919 what made everyone think that, oh, this was this is perfect for Dan 207 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.639 Hurley. Was it just the money? Was it just the Lakers thing? 208 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.480 I think it was because he really does like he could stop coaching all together 209 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.200 now and have nothing left to prove as a college coach because of how successful 210 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:54.799 he was, and I think timing typically like and it became clear he that 211 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:56.919 he did have interest in the NBA. So if you have interested in the 212 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.840 NBA, you've already done what you need to do at Yukon, right, 213 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:01.480 you could coach the Lakers. I mean, it's the freaking Lakers. So 214 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.159 I actually find it refreshing. Austin, and I'm glad you brought that up, 215 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.799 because there are certain jobs that come up, the Lakers being one that 216 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.120 you hear people. You know, even if you are in a great situation 217 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.480 and you've won, and you've had success in your content and you like where 218 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.000 you live, your family's comfortable. For a long time, it was just 219 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.399 well, you know, all that's great, but come on, it's the 220 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:30.360 Lakers or it's Kentucky, and it would just be almost impossible to imagine somebody 221 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.240 turning down a job of that caliber that is, you know, the all 222 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:37.159 time best, you know, depending on who you ask, but clearly, 223 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.960 let's be real, if you're a Lakers hater or a Lakers fan, the 224 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.960 Lakers organization, I mean, it's the Lakers, come on. But I 225 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.600 actually find it refreshing now that we're seeing coaches realize. And it's not just 226 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.399 in the NBA, it's not just in college basketball. It's in college football 227 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.480 too, where they say to themselves, look, yeah, that's great, 228 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.679 like that'd be phenomenal, But man, I got something going on so good 229 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.600 here I can't walk away from it. Not because you'd feel bad and you 230 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.279 you know, you feel like you'd be disc, you wouldn't be loyal to 231 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:09.720 those who have supported you and even like hired you. But it's when you're 232 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:16.399 in a phenomenal situation and you don't need anything because you are perfectly set in 233 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.200 everybody around you, your family, you have a great relationship with who you 234 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.200 work for. It really is insane to walk away from that, and some 235 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:26.919 people have done it and it's probably worked out. Some people have done it 236 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.440 and thought to themselves, like, what in the hell was I thinking? 237 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.200 Like, for example, Rick Patino, we can say it now, we 238 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.120 knew it all along, but he said it before and he has said it 239 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:41.440 in recent months, turning down leaving Kentucky was the biggest mistake he ever made, 240 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.039 and like, I'm glad he did because it led to him being a 241 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.120 Louisville and we had a lot of great teams and it was a lot of 242 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:48.200 fun and Louisville needed as somebody love great Patino in a major way at the 243 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:54.960 time was that he was that he was hired. But you know, he 244 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.159 could have made just as much money. He could have made as much money 245 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.440 as he wanted to Kentucky had he never left. He could have continued to 246 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:02.679 dominate, and he had everything. He was a made man. I mean, 247 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:04.399 Rick's kind of been a made man seemingly just about everywhere he's gone other 248 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:08.639 than Boston, at least for certain times. Obviously here there was some things 249 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.159 along the way that made it to where he wasn't exactly a made man. 250 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.240 But actually maybe he was a made man because he survived it all until he 251 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.679 didn't, you know what I mean. So being in a really comfortable content 252 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:26.080 situation and knowing that like this, this not only is great, but it's 253 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.480 sustainable, I can keep doing this and a and be forever, you know, 254 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:37.519 in a great spot. Like maybe there'll be another NBA opportunity for him 255 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:38.879 in a year or two and he'll end up taking it. Meeting early, 256 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:45.960 but I like to believe that he really just considered everything and understo like this 257 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.039 is for me, this is what I need to do Yukon. You know, 258 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.480 they're not going to pay me what the Lakers can pay me, but 259 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.679 they'll pay me enough money. And I don't need to rock the boat. 260 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:57.519 I don't need to shake anything up. Like there's nothing wrong with always wanting 261 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:02.720 to climb the ladder and that continuous growth in your career and your feel whatever 262 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:07.680 it is you do. But at some point you're doing it for I don't 263 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.960 know, probably to compete with yourself, like to you know, to really 264 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.240 challenge yourself. I've done it this, I've done it this successfully at the 265 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.839 college level. Let's see if I can translate it to the pros, like 266 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.400 there's something wrong with that. I'm a super competitive person with myself. That's 267 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:25.680 kind of how I'm wired. But I also like to think that I would 268 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.319 realize it's not worth doing that. Like I have everything I need and you 269 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:32.400 know, in no way I'll ever be in the position that Dan Hurley's in, 270 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:33.559 But you know what I mean. So anyways, I think it's good 271 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.720 that he came back to Yukon turn the Lakers down. And again, we 272 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.359 love college basketball around here, and I think this is a win for the 273 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.000 sport that we love. All right, so we don't run into the same 274 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.079 problem that we did in the last hour. I'm gonna go Aha and get 275 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:48.480 our first break here in the five o'clock hour, and we've got a lot 276 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.079 I want to try to run through before we run out of time. One 277 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.839 or revisit Kenny Payne's comments for those who didn't hear it, just just to 278 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:00.880 quickly let right or five o'clock crowd hear it, because it's fascinating to see 279 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:06.720 the level of delusion that this man has. Don't you miss not hearing that 280 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.799 voice all the time? I mean, do I miss hearing it? No? 281 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:15.200 Do you like? Don't you like miss don't you love not missing your 282 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.880 voice? I mean, I mean it would be, it would be. 283 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.119 Well, it's hard. It was so bad that when we do get good 284 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:23.920 vibes and we've got some good things going on, like it's at this point 285 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:27.039 it's impossible for me to just completely remove that era out of my mind. 286 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:32.400 Hopefully I will down the line, but so fresh. Yeah, also Kaylin 287 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:34.359 Clark being left off tam Usa. I can't act like I'm bothered by it 288 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:37.960 or that I really care, but it's another sign that like the WNBA, 289 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:44.039 you know, they claim they want and deserve a lot more attention and pub 290 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:48.960 than they get. But man, they're they're making it a lot harder for 291 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.839 themselves with a lot of things, including this. So we'll get into that 292 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.759 and a lot more in these next twenty five minutes, So stick around, 293 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:03.680 keep it locked right here. On Sports Talk seven ninety he ain't let that 294 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:12.680 think this myself. You ain't help me every week? Do come tell? 295 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:21.440 They say? See what now? Back to coffee and company, feel my 296 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:26.119 Thorntens on Sports Talk seven nine day. All right, so I'm proud of 297 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.400 myself. I know this. This is Morgan Wallen and Post Malone. Right, 298 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:34.759 Yes, that's right. So I don't dislike I actually do like post 299 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:38.039 Malone. I just think he's he's creative, and I think he's very much 300 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.599 not trying to be He's unique, right, I think he's sure. I 301 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:44.759 have to say that I loved every bit of his music. This is his 302 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:48.240 name is Austin, That's right. Yeah, so you know I like him. 303 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:52.400 I'm not like a super fan, but I like him. Morgan Wallen, 304 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.200 I don't really have a strong opinion on I liked him when he was 305 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.759 before he was like super famous, and you know, he's talented. But 306 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:00.680 I just I think a lot of his stuff sounds exactly the same and it's 307 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.000 just not like something I seek out. But again, it's not like I 308 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:06.759 don't like him. But whenever I heard these two were in the lab as 309 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:10.480 they say, yeah they were cooking. Yeah, Morgan Wallen and post Malone 310 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:14.079 were cooking something up, I thought to myself, Yeah, pretty confident I'm 311 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:15.880 gonna hate that. But I don't. I like that song a lot. 312 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:18.640 He's well done. Yeah, it is really good. It's it's gonna be 313 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.960 the song. It is the song of the summer right now, It's gonna 314 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.599 be the song of the summer, No doubt good stuff. I mean Morgan 315 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:29.559 Wall and his character kind of makes it easy to not necessarily hate. But 316 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:30.839 you know, what, do they say, pray on the downfall? Right? 317 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:33.119 Not not that I want him to lose any money or whatnot, but 318 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.680 he's been he's been involved in like several different incidents just kind of like acting 319 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:42.000 like a fool and using his popularity as as an excuse. Here's the way 320 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:47.359 I here's the way I look at it. None of us know him on 321 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:51.559 a personal level, but there have been some things that have happened to where 322 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.839 you tell yourself there's a good chance that you probably don't think he's a great 323 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:59.240 guy, and that you may not like him, and because you're never gonna 324 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:02.359 actually know him, that's just kind of what people run with. But also, 325 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.519 you know that's probably mostly dudes, because women, I mean, bro, 326 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.200 dude, women love him right, like he's what do you think the 327 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.799 ratio is at a concert like when he was at the Young Center? Uh? 328 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.240 Not that long ago? I mean, am I crazy to think it's 329 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.799 ninety percent women? No? No, you're probably just about right. There's 330 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.000 there's a dude following too, but that's just because they Yeah, and then 331 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.160 they want to go see the chicks. Yeah, you know that that would 332 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.519 be a strategic move. But is that I guess that's why they all like 333 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:36.279 do cosplay and like try to look like Morgan wall In two. It's their 334 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:37.759 best chance to get girls. Right. It's the look now right, I 335 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.480 mean he's he's one of the he was like the one kind of spearheading the 336 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.599 mullet movement back a couple of years ago at least, that's what I think. 337 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:51.400 And then that's that if you look at a lot of younger couples now, 338 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:55.200 you see them with a guy that sort of looks like is the mullet 339 00:21:55.440 --> 00:22:00.480 a statement and that's why it's popular with some? Or is the mullet like 340 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:02.880 I have a hard time thing. I don't have any hair, I got 341 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:04.759 a bus cut. I've been pretty pretty basic with my hair for a long 342 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.799 time now. Same. But when it comes to the mullet, I think 343 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.160 it's more of like a look than it is like, Wow, that hair 344 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.000 looks great. Yeah, like if you could pull it off and you can 345 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.079 look like you know, as I'm going to try not to use words that 346 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:22.279 may offend some that do have a mullet, but like you know, like 347 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.920 I think it's more so just to kind of fit with you know, your 348 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:30.079 your vibe, like you're, yeah, like if you were if you're rocket 349 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.440 a mullet and you're dressing you know, like a I don't know, like 350 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:37.400 a cowboy, Like you're just trying to let people know, like that's that's 351 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:41.400 that's your brand, right, that's your vibe. I kind of look at 352 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:45.440 it the way the ironic I always looked at now the mullet, how it's 353 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.039 gone back and how it's come back. Always thought the same thing for like 354 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.759 the you know people just got just a mustache or what was called the porn 355 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:55.880 stash, right, and people, Yes, I feel like people just wanted 356 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:57.680 that as a talking point. Hey you've got a mustache. It's it's a 357 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:00.960 mullet. Yeah, it's something to like, you know, make you stand 358 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:03.880 out compared to you know, to the to the boring people like you know, 359 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:10.000 like me and hate the mustang. So mullets. Mullets kind of phased 360 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.200 out when I was a kid, meaning like a young kid. There's a 361 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:17.920 lot of my friends that I grew up with where if you go to their 362 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:21.519 house, their childhood home, like their parents have pictures of them up as 363 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:23.240 little kids on the wall, you know, and I'd see my boys and 364 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:26.519 I'd be like, damn, you had a mullet. And you know they 365 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:29.319 at that point they're blaming their parents, like, yeah, you wouldn't, 366 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:30.319 like you know what I mean, Like it wasn't because it was stott like 367 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:34.240 the at that point when we're in high school, we're talking like mid two 368 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:38.359 thousands. I'm sure my friends who had mullets's kid whened all evidence removed that 369 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:41.440 they ever had a mullet, and then like I don't know where they kind 370 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.279 of came back. Remember the rat tail, Yeah, dude, rat tails 371 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.400 were big. I never had one, at least not that I remember. 372 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:49.799 And if there is, I hope if I did have one, I hope 373 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:53.039 that there's not. There's not video or not not any evidence that I had 374 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.079 a rat tail. But I don't even think I could pull that off like 375 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:02.519 I did have that. Like first grade in Ms. Dennison's class at Overdell 376 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:08.960 Elementary, I'm pretty Dennis, I'm pretty sure like eight of the sixteen dudes 377 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.680 in the class had a rat tail. Like it was a thing. It 378 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.519 was, it was it was a crazy And then I think like by second 379 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.720 grade, it was no more my dad can My dad used to rock a 380 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.680 sweet mullet back in the day. Nothing I mean, and I bet Morgan 381 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:26.319 Walland's mullet has got nothing on your pops's mullet. No, it was back 382 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:29.720 before you know, he was posting stories on his Instagram about it. Right, 383 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:32.160 he had the mullet because he was a true mullet man. The mullet, 384 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:34.640 the dunking Cardinal shirt, the uh, you know shorts are back in 385 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.480 style now, right? Oh yeah, these were the original like cut off 386 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.240 the Levi short shorts. Do you know? You know what else was a 387 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:45.720 really popular hairstyle for kids my age when I was young. The chili bowl. 388 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:49.200 Oh yeah, I've been just the chili bowl before, just the straight 389 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:56.319 Lloyd Christmas bowl cut just straight around and it never looked normal if you had 390 00:24:56.359 --> 00:24:59.559 like thinner, shorter hair, but if you had like a thick chili bowl 391 00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:02.480 meaning where you know, it's like layered almost looks like you know, you've 392 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:04.279 got like a like a helmet on or something. Yeah, I was, 393 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.880 I was a I was a victim of that era. But I thought that 394 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:11.960 looked kind of good, Like I thought chili chili bowl wasn't. It wasn't. 395 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:15.880 I mean even as a kid, I remember seeing other kids with a 396 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:18.920 rat tail and a mullet when I was a young young kid, thinking like, 397 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:21.759 God, my parents better not get any ideas here, because that is 398 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:23.720 not I don't want that. I mean, I always had like the flat 399 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:26.880 hair. Anyways. I never had any volume to my hair. I still 400 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.519 don't. It's kind of cold a sacking right now, but like it's I 401 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.720 don't know, for the time being, and for the time fit it was 402 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:37.240 it the the the bull hair was kind of like your way of I don't 403 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:38.880 know. It just seemed like all the the jocks that you looked up to 404 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:42.200 always had like the flippy hair. I wanted the bowl cut. I never 405 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.559 I never got it, though. I think my hair was too thin. 406 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:48.119 I love to see you love to see that face in a bowl cut. 407 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:51.599 Yeah, maybe I'll maybe I'll try to grow it out. Yeah, one 408 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:55.519 last hurrah. And I always you know, I'm not insecure about my hair 409 00:25:55.559 --> 00:26:00.839 because I've never I've never lost hair. But when I get a short haircut, 410 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:03.519 like I haven't had a haircut, and you know, it's really short 411 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:06.359 now compared to most. But when I get like the buzz cut to where 412 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:10.640 it's like nearly bald, like a fresh haircut. You know, there's some 413 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:14.000 people that think I do that because because I'm losing my hair. Yeah, 414 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:15.559 and I'm not. But then one day, like I'll try. I'm sure 415 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:19.200 one day, I'll probably get bothered and insecure enough to where I'll try to 416 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:23.480 prove people wrong and grow my hair out and then it won't come back, 417 00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:26.720 and then I'll be like, man, I could have had years with hair 418 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:29.359 and I just wasted it. But I couldn't imagine a full I mean, 419 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:33.319 you have hair, but I can't imagine like a hairstyle on you. Oh. 420 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:38.240 I used to have a blonde dye, an ugly urine looking blonde mop 421 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:42.200 on my head. It was not Nick. Nick didn't have good hair back 422 00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:45.160 in the day. This is the best thing that I ever did, was 423 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.039 just cutting it all off, keeping it simple, and I'm I'm very very 424 00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:52.000 glad that I did. When I had the bowl cut, I just thought 425 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.880 it was always cool, for whatever reason, to always do the with your 426 00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:59.000 haircut, like move it without using your hands and just kind of jerk your 427 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:02.839 neck and you move, because that's that's what like the like the high school 428 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:07.079 athletes did. They just and looked really cool. So me, little chubby 429 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:08.759 thirteen year old me, give me that ball. Cut let me, especially 430 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:11.759 when I'm sitting on the bench at one of my youth basketball games and sweating 431 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:15.640 from doing nothing. I could just hit him with that, hit my parents 432 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:21.279 with that. So this is an old listener story that some may remember, 433 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:25.720 but I imagine a lot of people don't. Roughly eight years ago, I 434 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:29.240 was at the I can't think of the name of the event, but it 435 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:33.160 was a golf scramble where I believe it was the Kentucky The Louisville Sports Commission 436 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.799 would have a golf scramble every year and they'd bring back a bunch of Kentucky 437 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.640 athletes. Rather it be guys who played at U of L at UK or 438 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.480 played here locally in high school, or coached, and they would honor those 439 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.039 guys. And I did the show there when I was on at noon, 440 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:52.079 and Howard Snellenberger came over and I got to interview him, which was really 441 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:56.519 cool. I'd never met the pipe before and had him on the show. 442 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.359 It was an honor to meet him. And I remember he came over right 443 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.039 as I was going to break and they set him down and shook his hand, 444 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.839 introduced myself to him, and he had a very strong handshake, and 445 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:10.400 I think I had just gotten a fresh haircut, you know, it's real 446 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.319 short buzz cut. Yeah, And he asked me if I was in the 447 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:17.039 service, and I said no, and then he told me, uh, 448 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:19.359 well, that's an aggressive haircut you have there, young man. And I 449 00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:22.880 always thought like, is that a good thing? Is it a bad thing? 450 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:25.079 Like? What's an aggressive haircut? Me? And I kind of think 451 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:27.880 I know what he was, what he was insinuating, but yeah, aggressive 452 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.720 haircut. So like now, when people ask me to describe the haircut, 453 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.079 I should just go back to what the pipe told me, right, yeah, 454 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:36.200 give me, give me a one all over, make it aggressive, 455 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:38.559 make it aggressive. So I always just thought that was easier for like my 456 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.319 barbers anyways, just give me, give me a one and like fade it 457 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.799 midway. Ever since once I got to high school in the fade was a 458 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:47.960 thing. That's when I'm like, all right, I think this is what 459 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.559 my hair is going to be. Yeah, I don't anticipate any any changes 460 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.400 to to to the simple style that I'm that I'm rolling with your brand. 461 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.119 Yeah, it is it is and hashtag. I've been committed to it for 462 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:02.839 a while to where if like I did, like decide to let it grow 463 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:07.160 out that like two month period where you know, it's not it's just it 464 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.279 just looks like I'm not well groomed. It looks like I've stopped taking care 465 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:12.799 of myself. That's why I don't grow facial hair, because I can't. 466 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:18.359 You know, if I didn't shave for for you know, two weeks, 467 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.279 I mean, I'd have some whiskers in there, but there'd be patches of 468 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.160 hair, there'd be you know, bald spots on my face. It wouldn't 469 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:29.640 be good. Have you ever desired to desired to really have like a beard 470 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.599 or did you kind of ever want to get the cornstas look. I wanted 471 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.599 to see what I would look like, but I couldn't ride it out long 472 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:40.200 enough to actually let it. But I don't think it would like. I 473 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.519 don't think it would. I don't think I would ever if I find never 474 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.119 shave, like there'd be hair there, but it would look again, I 475 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.200 would just look like I'm poorly groomed, kind of patching. You know. 476 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.039 I don't see any any changes to you know, to my appearance as far 477 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.599 as hair style or color or anything. I will say this though, I 478 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.160 am getting gray hair, not to where it's like I can't tell, but 479 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:02.599 yeah, because it's so short and it's light anyway, that's true. But 480 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.839 here's how I whenever I get a haircut and I look down at like I 481 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:10.119 know that that that there's gray there, and I had a gray armpit hair, 482 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:12.400 and it really really it shook me. He rocked me. Yeah, 483 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:15.359 it hit me like, damn, you're like you're old. Like if you 484 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.880 don't start, you know, you don't start watching the you know, the 485 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.480 hair on the chest and whatnot, like it's gonna be you know. I 486 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:23.599 don't want I'm not right. Look, I'm comfortable, mate. I don't 487 00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:26.480 want to be a silver fox just yet. You know what I'm saying. 488 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.559 I would love to have a nice gray beard. No, just a nice 489 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.160 I can see chest hair. I would love to have, you know, 490 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.480 like the Austin Powers Like yeah, furrness, my hair is just kind of 491 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:40.640 like scraggly on the chest, Like there's nothing sexy about it. Dude. 492 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:45.960 There was this high school teacher and she was she was retiring our senior year 493 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:51.480 and one of our buddies. Uh. He he he had facial hair long 494 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:55.160 before any of us, had chest hair long before any of us. Uh. 495 00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:57.920 In his names he goes by truck fitting right. He's a man's fan 496 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:03.960 when he when we're like yeah, and he had he had chest hair that 497 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.079 was like sticking out of his polo in nice So, I mean, my 498 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.279 man's got like a he's got a rug on the chest as a high school 499 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:14.480 kid, and we were giving him, you know, giving him crap about 500 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.240 it, kind of busting his chops or whatnot. And this teacher, she 501 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.759 was an English teacher. She overheard us, like, you know, kind 502 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:23.200 of ripping him about it. Nothing crazy. He's one of our best friends. 503 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:26.000 Like we're just busting you know what, like like like guys do. 504 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.880 But he had like he had one he had both buttons of the polo unbuttoned, 505 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:33.119 and he just had like like look like you know, it looked like 506 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.279 a long head of hair coming out of his chest. So we were ribbing 507 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.359 him about it, and she overheard it and came over there and she was 508 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:48.279 like letting everybody know how sexy that was and how like we those who were 509 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.039 busting his chops over it had no clue that he was gonna all the women 510 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.759 were gonna want him because that is so sexy. And I remember thinking like, 511 00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:57.200 damn, like one, I don't know if I believe that. That 512 00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:01.720 sounds crazy. Also, you're a teacher. And then she retired that year, 513 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:04.759 so like she probably had nothing to worry about, right, she wouldnt 514 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:08.319 worried about getting out the door. Yeah, but interesting, It's something I've 515 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:12.000 always wanted, you know. I think it'd be pretty cool. It doesn't 516 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.279 have to be like an absolute carpet. Now I feel like you can like, 517 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.720 no, you got to go Austin Powers. You could grow Yeah, 518 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:22.359 you could groom it up. Yeah, something about everyone's always Austin like Austin 519 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:27.839 Powers, right growing up, and like that's one every one I've had and 520 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.400 the mojo. Of course everyone thought that, but now you're now I'm gonna 521 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.759 think about her Austin like Austin Power. There's only one other Austin. Yeah, 522 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:38.559 it's funny. All right, let's get to our last break. We'll 523 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:45.319 come back and finish strong here. I uh, I wanted to share this 524 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:50.599 this bill that has been put in place in North Carolina that apparently passed through 525 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:53.799 the House committee there in Carolina very quickly, and I don't think we're gonna 526 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.640 see that happen here, but I just think it's wild that you basically have 527 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:02.759 politicians in the state trying to dictate what this, you know, the schedules 528 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:07.279 for these big universities, which again, if they're just trying to help the 529 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:09.079 state overall, like you know, I guess there's no there's nothing wrong with 530 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:12.559 that to me, just seems like, you know, overstepping a little bit. 531 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:14.960 But anyways, we'll take a quick break, come back on the other 532 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.640 side, finish this thing up. It's Coffee and Company. Fiel Beth Thornton's 533 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:38.960 on Sports Talk seven ninety right now, right now, now back to Coffee 534 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:47.279 and Company. Few my Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine. Dy, that's 535 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:50.960 right, we were wrapping up a Monday edition of Coffee and Company Field. 536 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.880 Beeth Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. So this came up last week. 537 00:33:55.759 --> 00:34:00.599 What Will Beat writers who covers the Carolina schools, shot that a bill 538 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:06.200 that would require North Carolina and NC State to play app State, East Carolina 539 00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:13.360 and Charlotte more often in football and basketball passed through the House committee in about 540 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:17.639 thirty seconds. So the bill also would put in into law that North Carolina 541 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:24.280 and NC State play each other every year. So I know there are some 542 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:31.199 that like playing the local schools, right like in basketball or football. I 543 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:37.159 mean, for example, every year when you play an FCS team, more 544 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:42.880 often than not the FCS team in football, for Louisville and Kentucky, I 545 00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:46.320 feel like is a team from the state. Now this year for Louisville, 546 00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:52.440 it's not because their FCS team is Austin p You know, Kentucky's played EKU 547 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:57.800 Murray. Like there's another FCS school in the state that I'm forgetting about. 548 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:02.639 But either way, I have no you know, I think those games shouldn't 549 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:06.079 exist anyway. But look, if you're going to play an FCS team, 550 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:09.119 I've got no issue. Don't care if it's Austin p or Austin Poop, 551 00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:15.119 I don't care. So you know, it's whatever. What about Austin Montgomery, 552 00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:16.559 Austin Montgomery, if you want to suit up, you know, let's 553 00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:20.679 do it. I mean, we'll see what happens. But in basketball, 554 00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:25.440 I mean, I just you know, I'm not anti playing any of those 555 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:30.199 kind of schools because of any personal reason. I think if you really give 556 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:36.159 it some thought, this is entertainment, and usually when you play a lower 557 00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:39.480 level school within your state, that is you know, miles and miles away 558 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:45.920 is not in regards to location, but just you know, competition, it's 559 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.639 you know, it's just a waste of time. I mean, I get 560 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:52.119 why they do it, but you know, I'm not against it. However, 561 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.599 there's always been something that's rubbed me the wrong way, and that is 562 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:00.159 the smaller schools having like this sense of entitlement that they're owe to game. 563 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:05.840 And it came up years ago and I used to you know, I still 564 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:08.440 have the same thoughts on it. That's Bellerman. So there are a lot 565 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:12.199 of people who would just say to you, Louisville Belloman should play every year. 566 00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:16.960 Why it doesn't benefit Louisville to play Bellerman. And they've lost to him 567 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:22.480 once, so you know, like, look, if you went to Bellerman 568 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:24.280 and you are a fan of both teams, then like that's cool. I'm 569 00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:28.639 not saying that like you should never play them. But you know, in 570 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:31.360 a perfect world, louis wouldn't have hired Kenny Paine and they would have had, 571 00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:35.800 you know, a competent coach, and you'd never lost to Bellerman and 572 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:37.559 Bellerman's new to D one and I love Scotty Devinbore. This is not a 573 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:43.039 knock on him or Bellerman's program, but just by playing Bellerman, you got 574 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.800 to beat them sometimes about like forty to jump up in the net rankings. 575 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:51.079 So you know, if you can go play another team that's you know, 576 00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.079 in a different situation as far as their net number and all that, Like, 577 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:57.159 I don't know, I just have always felt like like Western Kentucky, 578 00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.519 you know, they they they want to play Louisville and they want to play 579 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:02.280 Kentucky, and Louisvill's played them many times over the years. I think Kentucky 580 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:05.760 has here and there, and I think they're actually going to play them next 581 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.480 year. But what I'm saying is like, no, like it's a gift 582 00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:14.840 to you, Louisville and Kentucky. Playing any of these smaller level schools in 583 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:20.199 football or basketball is a gift. It is now again if you'd rather play 584 00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.280 them than play some similar team as far as competition that's from another state. 585 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:25.480 Like again, you know, I'm not against it, but I feel like 586 00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:29.440 some of these smaller schools feel like it's like an entire like they're entitled to 587 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.239 a game, and that if you don't schedule them, you're scared, Like 588 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:35.159 no, it's it's like you should be apprecied of if you ever get a 589 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.840 game. Anyways, we're out of time. You guys, enjoy your night. 590 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:45.360 This report is sponsored by Audible