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All Right, so we've got we've had a busy show so far today.
That's going to continue to be the case in this third and final hour.
But we've got a backup, some reinforcements. We've gone to the bullpen,
and that's what we do whenever the company man John's on vacation, we
bring on Austin Montgomery, who were with us for the majority of this week.
That's right, And we've talked a lot about the big news today,
and that is that Dan Hurley is just is staying at Yukon. He is
not going to take the Lakers job. I go back to last week when
the news broke. I just thought the timing of it made it seem as
if, you know, if he was if he was going to say no,
he already would have. Well, it turns out he hadn't visited La
yet. He did that over the weekend, and the longer it played out,
I felt like the more likely it was going to be that he ended
up staying at Yukon. But I just still had a hard time thinking that
he would turn down the Lakers given really everything. I mean, he's went
back to back national championships at Yukon. That's going to be hard to sustain.
You know, he's always wanted to coach in the NBA. A lot
of us, myself included, didn't know that, but that's something that if
you go back and a lot of people did a good job of pulling different
interviews that he has done over the years where he's never shot away from having
interest in the NBA and it's the Lakers job. So to me, it
just kind of felt like, yeah, this if he really wants to go
to the NBA, this is the time to do it, and this would
be a great opportunity for him. But he said no, He's going to
stay in college and that is good for college basketball. I don't think there's
many Yukon fans that are listening to this right now, but I feel like
college basketball die hards like my elf would agree that him staying at Yukon is
good for the sport. Maybe it's not going to be good if, you
know, he starts dominating it even more so, than he has in the
last couple of years, and everybody's just playing for second place. I mean,
if that ends up that ends up happening, then you know, that
wouldn't be good, That would not be ideal in anyway. But if it
was going to be such a hit to see him leave, I feel like
it's got to be looked at as a win for college basketball that he's decided
to stay. Maybe others don't agree, but I'm glad he's staying, and
he'll he'll make a lot of money. According to Matt Orlander, this will
put him north of eight million dollars annually at Yukon, and the new deal
will also up the ante for the assistant coaches on that staff, Kamani Young,
Tom Moore, and of course Luke Murray. So if he's making eight
million, he's right there with I believe Bill self and John Caliperi. So
technically, I guess that would make him you know, I guess maybe there's
a little bit more more money going towards cal and a little bit money going
towards Bill's self. But you know, if you're in the eight million range
and they're in the eight million range, but maybe there's one hundred thousand,
two hundred thousand dollars difference. I mean every penny counts, I suppose,
but that to me makes it seem a little bit more legit that you know,
Yukon really did what, did everything possible to get as much money rounded
up as they could to make him a very highly you know, make him
a very rich man, not that he already wasn't. And the reason I
bring that up is because there's some that think that this was all a plan
to get Yukon to fork out more money. In that Woje, who does
have a relationship with the Hurley family. He wrote a book featuring the Hurly
father, Danny and Bobby Hurley's dad. He wrote a book on him years
ago, and it's got enough traction where I continue to see different people discussing
it on my Twitter timeline that this was a plant from woj to get Yukon
to give more money, and I just still don't see how. Like,
I mean, again, he went back to back national championships at Yukon.
He turned Kentucky down this offseason. If he needed to flirt with the Lakers
to get more money, it wasn't because they weren't willing to spend. It
would have to be that he was letting them know, you may not have
it, but you got to go find it. And I don't know,
I just don't. I don't think money was why he decided to stay Yukon.
I think I mean, obviously he wanted more money, and he deserves
more money. The guy's on top of the sport right now. But I
think it just comes down to him wanting to stay in college. Maybe he
really gave it some thought, more than he ever has now that an NBA
opportunity like this presented itself, and he just decided, you know what,
I'm I'm not fit for the NBA, not because I'm not a good coach,
not because I think I would fail. But let's be real, the
way Dan Hurley coaches Yukon one is super successful. It works, right,
look at the results. But you can't coach like that in the NBA.
I mean you can, but it's unheard of this day and age. And
I don't mean because he's a drill sergeant, you know, and he Bob
Knight or even Tom Izzo, but it's just a different world. I mean,
in the NBA, you're coaching, managing leading you're not. I mean,
I mean it's rare. You see any NBA coach you get fiery and
really, you know, heeded with one of their players. And in college,
a lot of these guys just you know, take it and they understand
it's part of it, right, tough love, discipline, that kind of
stuff. I'd say, a lot of college players who are mature don't take
it personal. They just understand that that's what this is. Right. But
in the NBA, you know, and I saw a lot of really funny
stuff on Twitter where people would share little clips of Dan Hurley in practice,
like screaming at a player or saying something, and you know, the jokes
were there, like wow, this is Dan Hurley when he finds out Anthony
Davis is injured again, and just you know, like it's not that funny,
but it did make me at least think, like, you know what,
like, yeah, I mean that's just unheard of, Like you don't
talk to NBA players the way And I don't even mean when I say you
don't talk to them like that in a way it makes it sound as if
he's talking to the Yukon players like in a wrong way that he shouldn't do
it. No, he should do everything he's been doing in the last two
years because it is working at a very very good rate. But I don't
know. I wouldn't be shocked if Dan Hurley gave this a lot of thought
and just realized it's a compatibility thing. What I'm doing is working better than
it's ever worked before, meaning he's having more success than he's ever had as
a coach at any level. So one, why why rock the boat?
Why why change anything up? Let's just keep winning. But also if you
do take what you're doing, even with some minor adjustments from the college game
to the NBA game, I just have a hard time thinking that it would
you know, it would work unless he literally just completely changed sort of his
approach because it's just different, man. And it's not because you know,
like, for example, the Boston Celtics are about to win the NBA Finals,
right, They're going to knock off the MAVs, might sweep them.
I don't know. Joel Missoula. I mean, he's the coach. You
know, he's leading, he's you know, he's got his clipboard, he's
drawn up plays. But I wouldn't be shocked if the extent of Joel Mizzoula's
role is to kind of, you know, be the leader massage egos,
you know, balance things like, I mean, you need coaching. But
like it's just different, man, It's it is. I mean, Missoula
who's been successful since he's been in Boston. And if they break through and
win the title, I mean, he's gonna be I mean he's gonna have
he's gonna be an NBA coach. That's my age that has an NBA championship.
But fifteen years ago, the thought of him even being in the position
of having the job is unheard of. Like things have changed. Man.
The NBA is going after dudes who don't have any of the same principles and
demeanor of Dan Hurley. He just don't so like he would. He was
gonna have to probably be a lot different. And why would you want to
do that? Why would you want to change anything? Whenever you're doing what
you want to do your way, You've got your program set up the way
you want it right, You've been there long enough to where now your system,
your culture's fully in place, and you're on top of the freaking world.
Like makes total sense to just not see the real value in mixing it
up, it would have been I'm sure if you go to LA and you
start winning and you win some titles, like, yeah, that would make
you a legendary coach more so than you are already probably are right, you
win in titles in the NBA and winning titles and and you win titles in
college, that would be great. But to me just it's I don't don't
think it's compatible. And that doesn't That's not a knock on Hurley or any
other really good college coach that's doing it his way, But make no mistake
about it, the type of the type of person, the type of background
that the NBA is looking for this day and age when it comes to coaching
is not what Dan Hurley is not because he's not successful. Because again it's
not about that. Like Steve Nash got got a head coaching job, Steve
Kerr is still coaching Darvin Ham. I mean, he just got fired by
the Lakers. But like they're going with dudes who who can relate to NBA
players that have been in the locker room as a player before that really understand
what you know, what comes with being in the association and in certain instances,
it's worked really well, right, I mean you look at the title
that I mean, look at the title that all the titles that Steve Kerrs
won. I mean, that's that's sort of and that's the way he carries
himself. Joe Mizoula is that I mean, so you know it's and they'll
drop you quickly. I mean Budenholzer is that his name, the guy who
won the title with the Bucks Bucks. Yeah, he can midway through what
the next year? I mean so, And it's because again the NBA tells
on themselves a little too much, right, Like I don't I don't think
it's a good look for the NBA for that position head coach of really any
team to look so expendable, like to look just like it doesn't matter.
And when you win a title and then the next season, midway through you
can the guy who won you a championship. I mean Nick Nurse did it
in Toronto. He got canned a year or two later too. And it's
not to say that they were fired in it. They shouldn't have been.
But like the NBA doesn't really try to be discreet about how important they truly
view the head coaching position. Because again they it's a re tread league,
you know, and you know not clearly the NBA is doing just fine with
the way they're doing it. But like Danny Hurley had to look around right,
look, you know, had to read the room and realize, look,
I don't coach the way Tyron lou coaches, you know what I mean,
Like, I'm gonna be in my I'm gonna get after these guys and
We're gonna be competitive as hell, and you know, there's gonna be this
collective buy in. And I'm sure there are still some coaches in the NBA
that have a little bit of that to them, but not like Danny Hurley.
I mean, he's never even been an assistant in the NBA. And
I feel like you, you know, you have a better chance of adjusting
to that if you are an assistant that gets a promotion to being a head
coach, then you do a guy in college that's just always done things very
very very differently. Too bad, the Lakers can't go get Kenny Payne,
Yep. They if they got cal they could, ye he could finally be
swayed away from what it was always the Kentucky's the best job everything before that
all went to see, well, what if they did go after caliperiod Arkansas,
that would be interesting. I mean they won't, but like if they
did, that would be that would be hilarious. One of the things to
bring up one Hurley is and it just sounds like it seems like, I
don't know, I'm seeing the reaction online. It's like fifty to fifty half
or surprise because the last week it seems like everybody they knew they to offer
for Hurley would be coming soon. And of course, when you talk about
the pinnacle of NBA jobs, it's either got to be like the Lakers or
the Celtics, so that was one of them. Boston. It seems like
Boston's had a very much better infrastructure over the last few years or where it's
probably not as hard to turn down as you would the Lakers. Of course,
everything going on and surrounding it, the Lebron factor, but it's seen
that there was a lot of people that were advocating that that would have been
a good fit for Dan Hurley, and just after everything that you just laid
out, it's just not a fit. And I'm not surprised whatsoever. I
didn't even think that he would go just because of this. Simply he's been
dominating college basketball. He still has the old school type of he could yell
at his players during practice and he could get them all to buy in.
It's really hard to do that at the NBA level. So my brain is
what made everyone think that, oh, this was this is perfect for Dan
Hurley. Was it just the money? Was it just the Lakers thing?
I think it was because he really does like he could stop coaching all together
now and have nothing left to prove as a college coach because of how successful
he was, and I think timing typically like and it became clear he that
he did have interest in the NBA. So if you have interested in the
NBA, you've already done what you need to do at Yukon, right,
you could coach the Lakers. I mean, it's the freaking Lakers. So
I actually find it refreshing. Austin, and I'm glad you brought that up,
because there are certain jobs that come up, the Lakers being one that
you hear people. You know, even if you are in a great situation
and you've won, and you've had success in your content and you like where
you live, your family's comfortable. For a long time, it was just
well, you know, all that's great, but come on, it's the
Lakers or it's Kentucky, and it would just be almost impossible to imagine somebody
turning down a job of that caliber that is, you know, the all
time best, you know, depending on who you ask, but clearly,
let's be real, if you're a Lakers hater or a Lakers fan, the
Lakers organization, I mean, it's the Lakers, come on. But I
actually find it refreshing now that we're seeing coaches realize. And it's not just
in the NBA, it's not just in college basketball. It's in college football
too, where they say to themselves, look, yeah, that's great,
like that'd be phenomenal, But man, I got something going on so good
here I can't walk away from it. Not because you'd feel bad and you
you know, you feel like you'd be disc, you wouldn't be loyal to
those who have supported you and even like hired you. But it's when you're
in a phenomenal situation and you don't need anything because you are perfectly set in
everybody around you, your family, you have a great relationship with who you
work for. It really is insane to walk away from that, and some
people have done it and it's probably worked out. Some people have done it
and thought to themselves, like, what in the hell was I thinking?
Like, for example, Rick Patino, we can say it now, we
knew it all along, but he said it before and he has said it
in recent months, turning down leaving Kentucky was the biggest mistake he ever made,
and like, I'm glad he did because it led to him being a
Louisville and we had a lot of great teams and it was a lot of
fun and Louisville needed as somebody love great Patino in a major way at the
time was that he was that he was hired. But you know, he
could have made just as much money. He could have made as much money
as he wanted to Kentucky had he never left. He could have continued to
dominate, and he had everything. He was a made man. I mean,
Rick's kind of been a made man seemingly just about everywhere he's gone other
than Boston, at least for certain times. Obviously here there was some things
along the way that made it to where he wasn't exactly a made man.
But actually maybe he was a made man because he survived it all until he
didn't, you know what I mean. So being in a really comfortable content
situation and knowing that like this, this not only is great, but it's
sustainable, I can keep doing this and a and be forever, you know,
in a great spot. Like maybe there'll be another NBA opportunity for him
in a year or two and he'll end up taking it. Meeting early,
but I like to believe that he really just considered everything and understo like this
is for me, this is what I need to do Yukon. You know,
they're not going to pay me what the Lakers can pay me, but
they'll pay me enough money. And I don't need to rock the boat.
I don't need to shake anything up. Like there's nothing wrong with always wanting
to climb the ladder and that continuous growth in your career and your feel whatever
it is you do. But at some point you're doing it for I don't
know, probably to compete with yourself, like to you know, to really
challenge yourself. I've done it this, I've done it this successfully at the
college level. Let's see if I can translate it to the pros, like
there's something wrong with that. I'm a super competitive person with myself. That's
kind of how I'm wired. But I also like to think that I would
realize it's not worth doing that. Like I have everything I need and you
know, in no way I'll ever be in the position that Dan Hurley's in,
But you know what I mean. So anyways, I think it's good
that he came back to Yukon turn the Lakers down. And again, we
love college basketball around here, and I think this is a win for the
sport that we love. All right, so we don't run into the same
problem that we did in the last hour. I'm gonna go Aha and get
our first break here in the five o'clock hour, and we've got a lot
I want to try to run through before we run out of time. One
or revisit Kenny Payne's comments for those who didn't hear it, just just to
quickly let right or five o'clock crowd hear it, because it's fascinating to see
the level of delusion that this man has. Don't you miss not hearing that
voice all the time? I mean, do I miss hearing it? No?
Do you like? Don't you like miss don't you love not missing your
voice? I mean, I mean it would be, it would be.
Well, it's hard. It was so bad that when we do get good
vibes and we've got some good things going on, like it's at this point
it's impossible for me to just completely remove that era out of my mind.
Hopefully I will down the line, but so fresh. Yeah, also Kaylin
Clark being left off tam Usa. I can't act like I'm bothered by it
or that I really care, but it's another sign that like the WNBA,
you know, they claim they want and deserve a lot more attention and pub
than they get. But man, they're they're making it a lot harder for
themselves with a lot of things, including this. So we'll get into that
and a lot more in these next twenty five minutes, So stick around,
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Thorntens on Sports Talk seven nine day. All right, so I'm proud of
myself. I know this. This is Morgan Wallen and Post Malone. Right,
Yes, that's right. So I don't dislike I actually do like post
Malone. I just think he's he's creative, and I think he's very much
not trying to be He's unique, right, I think he's sure. I
have to say that I loved every bit of his music. This is his
name is Austin, That's right. Yeah, so you know I like him.
I'm not like a super fan, but I like him. Morgan Wallen,
I don't really have a strong opinion on I liked him when he was
before he was like super famous, and you know, he's talented. But
I just I think a lot of his stuff sounds exactly the same and it's
just not like something I seek out. But again, it's not like I
don't like him. But whenever I heard these two were in the lab as
they say, yeah they were cooking. Yeah, Morgan Wallen and post Malone
were cooking something up, I thought to myself, Yeah, pretty confident I'm
gonna hate that. But I don't. I like that song a lot.
He's well done. Yeah, it is really good. It's it's gonna be
the song. It is the song of the summer right now, It's gonna
be the song of the summer, No doubt good stuff. I mean Morgan
Wall and his character kind of makes it easy to not necessarily hate. But
you know, what, do they say, pray on the downfall? Right?
Not not that I want him to lose any money or whatnot, but
he's been he's been involved in like several different incidents just kind of like acting
like a fool and using his popularity as as an excuse. Here's the way
I here's the way I look at it. None of us know him on
a personal level, but there have been some things that have happened to where
you tell yourself there's a good chance that you probably don't think he's a great
guy, and that you may not like him, and because you're never gonna
actually know him, that's just kind of what people run with. But also,
you know that's probably mostly dudes, because women, I mean, bro,
dude, women love him right, like he's what do you think the
ratio is at a concert like when he was at the Young Center? Uh?
Not that long ago? I mean, am I crazy to think it's
ninety percent women? No? No, you're probably just about right. There's
there's a dude following too, but that's just because they Yeah, and then
they want to go see the chicks. Yeah, you know that that would
be a strategic move. But is that I guess that's why they all like
do cosplay and like try to look like Morgan wall In two. It's their
best chance to get girls. Right. It's the look now right, I
mean he's he's one of the he was like the one kind of spearheading the
mullet movement back a couple of years ago at least, that's what I think.
And then that's that if you look at a lot of younger couples now,
you see them with a guy that sort of looks like is the mullet
a statement and that's why it's popular with some? Or is the mullet like
I have a hard time thing. I don't have any hair, I got
a bus cut. I've been pretty pretty basic with my hair for a long
time now. Same. But when it comes to the mullet, I think
it's more of like a look than it is like, Wow, that hair
looks great. Yeah, like if you could pull it off and you can
look like you know, as I'm going to try not to use words that
may offend some that do have a mullet, but like you know, like
I think it's more so just to kind of fit with you know, your
your vibe, like you're, yeah, like if you were if you're rocket
a mullet and you're dressing you know, like a I don't know, like
a cowboy, Like you're just trying to let people know, like that's that's
that's your brand, right, that's your vibe. I kind of look at
it the way the ironic I always looked at now the mullet, how it's
gone back and how it's come back. Always thought the same thing for like
the you know people just got just a mustache or what was called the porn
stash, right, and people, Yes, I feel like people just wanted
that as a talking point. Hey you've got a mustache. It's it's a
mullet. Yeah, it's something to like, you know, make you stand
out compared to you know, to the to the boring people like you know,
like me and hate the mustang. So mullets. Mullets kind of phased
out when I was a kid, meaning like a young kid. There's a
lot of my friends that I grew up with where if you go to their
house, their childhood home, like their parents have pictures of them up as
little kids on the wall, you know, and I'd see my boys and
I'd be like, damn, you had a mullet. And you know they
at that point they're blaming their parents, like, yeah, you wouldn't,
like you know what I mean, Like it wasn't because it was stott like
the at that point when we're in high school, we're talking like mid two
thousands. I'm sure my friends who had mullets's kid whened all evidence removed that
they ever had a mullet, and then like I don't know where they kind
of came back. Remember the rat tail, Yeah, dude, rat tails
were big. I never had one, at least not that I remember.
And if there is, I hope if I did have one, I hope
that there's not. There's not video or not not any evidence that I had
a rat tail. But I don't even think I could pull that off like
I did have that. Like first grade in Ms. Dennison's class at Overdell
Elementary, I'm pretty Dennis, I'm pretty sure like eight of the sixteen dudes
in the class had a rat tail. Like it was a thing. It
was, it was it was a crazy And then I think like by second
grade, it was no more my dad can My dad used to rock a
sweet mullet back in the day. Nothing I mean, and I bet Morgan
Walland's mullet has got nothing on your pops's mullet. No, it was back
before you know, he was posting stories on his Instagram about it. Right,
he had the mullet because he was a true mullet man. The mullet,
the dunking Cardinal shirt, the uh, you know shorts are back in
style now, right? Oh yeah, these were the original like cut off
the Levi short shorts. Do you know? You know what else was a
really popular hairstyle for kids my age when I was young. The chili bowl.
Oh yeah, I've been just the chili bowl before, just the straight
Lloyd Christmas bowl cut just straight around and it never looked normal if you had
like thinner, shorter hair, but if you had like a thick chili bowl
meaning where you know, it's like layered almost looks like you know, you've
got like a like a helmet on or something. Yeah, I was,
I was a I was a victim of that era. But I thought that
looked kind of good, Like I thought chili chili bowl wasn't. It wasn't.
I mean even as a kid, I remember seeing other kids with a
rat tail and a mullet when I was a young young kid, thinking like,
God, my parents better not get any ideas here, because that is
not I don't want that. I mean, I always had like the flat
hair. Anyways. I never had any volume to my hair. I still
don't. It's kind of cold a sacking right now, but like it's I
don't know, for the time being, and for the time fit it was
it the the the bull hair was kind of like your way of I don't
know. It just seemed like all the the jocks that you looked up to
always had like the flippy hair. I wanted the bowl cut. I never
I never got it, though. I think my hair was too thin.
I love to see you love to see that face in a bowl cut.
Yeah, maybe I'll maybe I'll try to grow it out. Yeah, one
last hurrah. And I always you know, I'm not insecure about my hair
because I've never I've never lost hair. But when I get a short haircut,
like I haven't had a haircut, and you know, it's really short
now compared to most. But when I get like the buzz cut to where
it's like nearly bald, like a fresh haircut. You know, there's some
people that think I do that because because I'm losing my hair. Yeah,
and I'm not. But then one day, like I'll try. I'm sure
one day, I'll probably get bothered and insecure enough to where I'll try to
prove people wrong and grow my hair out and then it won't come back,
and then I'll be like, man, I could have had years with hair
and I just wasted it. But I couldn't imagine a full I mean,
you have hair, but I can't imagine like a hairstyle on you. Oh.
I used to have a blonde dye, an ugly urine looking blonde mop
on my head. It was not Nick. Nick didn't have good hair back
in the day. This is the best thing that I ever did, was
just cutting it all off, keeping it simple, and I'm I'm very very
glad that I did. When I had the bowl cut, I just thought
it was always cool, for whatever reason, to always do the with your
haircut, like move it without using your hands and just kind of jerk your
neck and you move, because that's that's what like the like the high school
athletes did. They just and looked really cool. So me, little chubby
thirteen year old me, give me that ball. Cut let me, especially
when I'm sitting on the bench at one of my youth basketball games and sweating
from doing nothing. I could just hit him with that, hit my parents
with that. So this is an old listener story that some may remember,
but I imagine a lot of people don't. Roughly eight years ago, I
was at the I can't think of the name of the event, but it
was a golf scramble where I believe it was the Kentucky The Louisville Sports Commission
would have a golf scramble every year and they'd bring back a bunch of Kentucky
athletes. Rather it be guys who played at U of L at UK or
played here locally in high school, or coached, and they would honor those
guys. And I did the show there when I was on at noon,
and Howard Snellenberger came over and I got to interview him, which was really
cool. I'd never met the pipe before and had him on the show.
It was an honor to meet him. And I remember he came over right
as I was going to break and they set him down and shook his hand,
introduced myself to him, and he had a very strong handshake, and
I think I had just gotten a fresh haircut, you know, it's real
short buzz cut. Yeah, And he asked me if I was in the
service, and I said no, and then he told me, uh,
well, that's an aggressive haircut you have there, young man. And I
always thought like, is that a good thing? Is it a bad thing?
Like? What's an aggressive haircut? Me? And I kind of think
I know what he was, what he was insinuating, but yeah, aggressive
haircut. So like now, when people ask me to describe the haircut,
I should just go back to what the pipe told me, right, yeah,
give me, give me a one all over, make it aggressive,
make it aggressive. So I always just thought that was easier for like my
barbers anyways, just give me, give me a one and like fade it
midway. Ever since once I got to high school in the fade was a
thing. That's when I'm like, all right, I think this is what
my hair is going to be. Yeah, I don't anticipate any any changes
to to to the simple style that I'm that I'm rolling with your brand.
Yeah, it is it is and hashtag. I've been committed to it for
a while to where if like I did, like decide to let it grow
out that like two month period where you know, it's not it's just it
just looks like I'm not well groomed. It looks like I've stopped taking care
of myself. That's why I don't grow facial hair, because I can't.
You know, if I didn't shave for for you know, two weeks,
I mean, I'd have some whiskers in there, but there'd be patches of
hair, there'd be you know, bald spots on my face. It wouldn't
be good. Have you ever desired to desired to really have like a beard
or did you kind of ever want to get the cornstas look. I wanted
to see what I would look like, but I couldn't ride it out long
enough to actually let it. But I don't think it would like. I
don't think it would. I don't think I would ever if I find never
shave, like there'd be hair there, but it would look again, I
would just look like I'm poorly groomed, kind of patching. You know.
I don't see any any changes to you know, to my appearance as far
as hair style or color or anything. I will say this though, I
am getting gray hair, not to where it's like I can't tell, but
yeah, because it's so short and it's light anyway, that's true. But
here's how I whenever I get a haircut and I look down at like I
know that that that there's gray there, and I had a gray armpit hair,
and it really really it shook me. He rocked me. Yeah,
it hit me like, damn, you're like you're old. Like if you
don't start, you know, you don't start watching the you know, the
hair on the chest and whatnot, like it's gonna be you know. I
don't want I'm not right. Look, I'm comfortable, mate. I don't
want to be a silver fox just yet. You know what I'm saying.
I would love to have a nice gray beard. No, just a nice
I can see chest hair. I would love to have, you know,
like the Austin Powers Like yeah, furrness, my hair is just kind of
like scraggly on the chest, Like there's nothing sexy about it. Dude.
There was this high school teacher and she was she was retiring our senior year
and one of our buddies. Uh. He he he had facial hair long
before any of us, had chest hair long before any of us. Uh.
In his names he goes by truck fitting right. He's a man's fan
when he when we're like yeah, and he had he had chest hair that
was like sticking out of his polo in nice So, I mean, my
man's got like a he's got a rug on the chest as a high school
kid, and we were giving him, you know, giving him crap about
it, kind of busting his chops or whatnot. And this teacher, she
was an English teacher. She overheard us, like, you know, kind
of ripping him about it. Nothing crazy. He's one of our best friends.
Like we're just busting you know what, like like like guys do.
But he had like he had one he had both buttons of the polo unbuttoned,
and he just had like like look like you know, it looked like
a long head of hair coming out of his chest. So we were ribbing
him about it, and she overheard it and came over there and she was
like letting everybody know how sexy that was and how like we those who were
busting his chops over it had no clue that he was gonna all the women
were gonna want him because that is so sexy. And I remember thinking like,
damn, like one, I don't know if I believe that. That
sounds crazy. Also, you're a teacher. And then she retired that year,
so like she probably had nothing to worry about, right, she wouldnt
worried about getting out the door. Yeah, but interesting, It's something I've
always wanted, you know. I think it'd be pretty cool. It doesn't
have to be like an absolute carpet. Now I feel like you can like,
no, you got to go Austin Powers. You could grow Yeah,
you could groom it up. Yeah, something about everyone's always Austin like Austin
Powers, right growing up, and like that's one every one I've had and
the mojo. Of course everyone thought that, but now you're now I'm gonna
think about her Austin like Austin Power. There's only one other Austin. Yeah,
it's funny. All right, let's get to our last break. We'll
come back and finish strong here. I uh, I wanted to share this
this bill that has been put in place in North Carolina that apparently passed through
the House committee there in Carolina very quickly, and I don't think we're gonna
see that happen here, but I just think it's wild that you basically have
politicians in the state trying to dictate what this, you know, the schedules
for these big universities, which again, if they're just trying to help the
state overall, like you know, I guess there's no there's nothing wrong with
that to me, just seems like, you know, overstepping a little bit.
But anyways, we'll take a quick break, come back on the other
side, finish this thing up. It's Coffee and Company. Fiel Beth Thornton's
on Sports Talk seven ninety right now, right now, now back to Coffee
and Company. Few my Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine. Dy, that's
right, we were wrapping up a Monday edition of Coffee and Company Field.
Beeth Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. So this came up last week.
What Will Beat writers who covers the Carolina schools, shot that a bill
that would require North Carolina and NC State to play app State, East Carolina
and Charlotte more often in football and basketball passed through the House committee in about
thirty seconds. So the bill also would put in into law that North Carolina
and NC State play each other every year. So I know there are some
that like playing the local schools, right like in basketball or football. I
mean, for example, every year when you play an FCS team, more
often than not the FCS team in football, for Louisville and Kentucky, I
feel like is a team from the state. Now this year for Louisville,
it's not because their FCS team is Austin p You know, Kentucky's played EKU
Murray. Like there's another FCS school in the state that I'm forgetting about.
But either way, I have no you know, I think those games shouldn't
exist anyway. But look, if you're going to play an FCS team,
I've got no issue. Don't care if it's Austin p or Austin Poop,
I don't care. So you know, it's whatever. What about Austin Montgomery,
Austin Montgomery, if you want to suit up, you know, let's
do it. I mean, we'll see what happens. But in basketball,
I mean, I just you know, I'm not anti playing any of those
kind of schools because of any personal reason. I think if you really give
it some thought, this is entertainment, and usually when you play a lower
level school within your state, that is you know, miles and miles away
is not in regards to location, but just you know, competition, it's
you know, it's just a waste of time. I mean, I get
why they do it, but you know, I'm not against it. However,
there's always been something that's rubbed me the wrong way, and that is
the smaller schools having like this sense of entitlement that they're owe to game.
And it came up years ago and I used to you know, I still
have the same thoughts on it. That's Bellerman. So there are a lot
of people who would just say to you, Louisville Belloman should play every year.
Why it doesn't benefit Louisville to play Bellerman. And they've lost to him
once, so you know, like, look, if you went to Bellerman
and you are a fan of both teams, then like that's cool. I'm
not saying that like you should never play them. But you know, in
a perfect world, louis wouldn't have hired Kenny Paine and they would have had,
you know, a competent coach, and you'd never lost to Bellerman and
Bellerman's new to D one and I love Scotty Devinbore. This is not a
knock on him or Bellerman's program, but just by playing Bellerman, you got
to beat them sometimes about like forty to jump up in the net rankings.
So you know, if you can go play another team that's you know,
in a different situation as far as their net number and all that, Like,
I don't know, I just have always felt like like Western Kentucky,
you know, they they they want to play Louisville and they want to play
Kentucky, and Louisvill's played them many times over the years. I think Kentucky
has here and there, and I think they're actually going to play them next
year. But what I'm saying is like, no, like it's a gift
to you, Louisville and Kentucky. Playing any of these smaller level schools in
football or basketball is a gift. It is now again if you'd rather play
them than play some similar team as far as competition that's from another state.
Like again, you know, I'm not against it, but I feel like
some of these smaller schools feel like it's like an entire like they're entitled to
a game, and that if you don't schedule them, you're scared, Like
no, it's it's like you should be apprecied of if you ever get a
game. Anyways, we're out of time. You guys, enjoy your night.
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