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let's get it started here on a gloomy Tuesday afternoon. It is Tuesday,
right, It is Tuesday. Some reason I was thinking it was Wednesday,
and it maybe because after Friday, I'm out of here for a week to
go on vacation, so I'm wanting this week to go by faster. But
it is Tuesday. And again it's gloomy outside, and you know that usually
is a little bit of a buzzkill for the vibes for a lot of folks,
and I'm kind of feeling that way today. I've got my Monster Energy
drink, which I did about two weeks. I don't know if you noticed,
John, where I had no Monster Energy drinks, just trying to see
if it would make a difference. And I didn't notice any difference as far
as feeling better worse. I didn't notice anything. But today I needed it
in a major way. So you know, I say this every time I
look at the can because it says zero sugar all around it and it says
something l carnatine plus taurine. No clue what that is. But with it
wrapped around the top of the can with zero sugar, they're bragging that it's
in there, right like there was, Like, it's clearly not bad.
Yeah, it's clearly not bad for you. But these are delicious and they
do give me like just enough of a boost, but just you know,
the taste of them. I mean, I'm looking at the back of the
like these can't be good for me, right, probably an excess, Yeah,
not too much of a good thing, is is true? I feel
like, yeah, like I don't know, I just like I drink coffee.
They say it's good to have coffee. I believe like it has antioxidant
or something like that. But there's a point to where with me, at
least, if I have too much coffee in a day, it'll tear my
stomach up. Do you drink a lot of water? I try to,
So this is something like every so often I'm reminded that, you know what,
like I'm gonna always feel substantially better if I'm hydrated, Like if I'm
just chugging water throughout the day. And I don't mean like, you know,
just having like a contest to see how much I can drink without yacking,
but like, if I make it a point to every hour or so
have water, rather it be you know, half a bottle, sometimes a
whole, like everything's better. And I was doing that for a while and
then today I've been hydrated, but I needed a little bit of a boost.
So I'm probably gonna shotgun this monster energy drink after our first break here,
And it may seem as if I'm on cocaine the rest of the way,
which could be, you know, could be good for the show.
To be honest with you, I have a I have a feeling there's a
lot of radio done back in the day when people were highly highly hi on
cocaine. Maybe some people who work here wouldn't surprise me. I mean,
we all know who we're thinking about. Yeah, I'm not going to say
it, but anyways, let's let's do it. It's Coffee and Company.
We are fueled by Thornton's here also fueled by cocaine and Monster Energy drink on
Sports Talk seven ninety Nick Coffee. That is me the company man, mister
John all on alongside today and I'm gonna do this once per hour. Today's
show is dedicated to my wife John. Oh really, it's our thirteenth anniversary.
Well, happy anniversary, and well thank you appreciate that we have a
wonderful life together. She you know, as you guys have learned if you
listen to this show even a little bit, you know, she's kind of
me. She's my wife, she's the love of my life. But you
know, she kind of is the adult of the two of us. And
you know, thank thanks to her, I've never really had to fully grow
up maybe the way some others have, if that makes sense. I mean
some of this is a little tongue in cheek, but like literally like a
lot of the adulting that goes on, you know, when you become an
adult, like she takes care of it for me. That's one of the
many countless things she does that I appreciate in a major way. So happy
anniversary to my wife Tiffany. And this is one of those things where,
you know, just to say that I've been married for thirteen years is crazy.
But I'm also past the point of feeling like, wow, man,
you can't be this old, because like, I know, like I you
know, I don't know where I think mid thirties, which is where I'm
at. It's a point where like there's quite clearly a difference in being like,
I'm not young, but I'm not old, right, I'm in the
middle, but I'm closer to being old than i am being young, I
think, so again, I don't it's not like, man, how did
I get this old? It's now like in this not to be like sentimental
here, but life, when you get older, it goes by insanely fast,
and it scares the hell out of me because you know, one day
I'm gonna realize, damn, you're sixty. What happened? Like It's it's
crazy how fast life goes. And when I became an adult, you know,
when I you know, obviously you become an adult when you're eighteen,
I guess legally, right, But for me, once she and I moved
in together and we got engaged and we had you know, we bought our
house. You know, we had a good five six year run before we
decided to try to have kids and whatnot, and you know, it was
great. But once we were married, things went by faster. And then
once I had kids, everything has gone by insanely fast, and it you
know, there's nothing you can do about it, right, So each time
there's something like this, meaning you know, another anniversary, another birthday or
my kid's birthdays. Even I now find myself reminding myself, like, hey,
this stuff goes by quick. Like, don't be stagnant, you know,
get the most out of life. Don't don't be lazy. You know,
if you've been thinking about doing something, maybe taking a big risk,
I mean, you know, don't do something crazy, but like do it
right, because you wait long enough and then you won't be able to maybe.
So yeah, today's been a day of reflection for me. And obviously,
if my wife's listening, I've been just doing nothing but thinking about all
the great memories we have together and we're going to have many more for the
rest of our lives. But just to say that we've been married thirteen years
is just it's you know, it's insane to me. Do you feel like
your life started going by faster like when you became you know, an adult,
Yeah, for sure. Like you mentioned thirteen, like it'll already be
five years for me next year, me and my wife, and that just
seems like a blur considering we got married at the beginning of the coronavirus,
which I hate bringing that up. Every time we got married is just a
fact. Yeah, and you'll always remember it. Yeah, I mean that's
just and the fact of like that's the timestampoint and I how that got started.
I don't mean you always remember your wedding. Everybody will, but my
point is like that's something that is going to absolutely always stand out when you
think of your wedding. Yeah, because it was something that happens once every
one hundred years. So yeah, like high school is a four year stretch
that seemed like it lasted fifteen years of my adult life. Yes, do
you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know why that's the case,
because you know they always say high school years. Man, you got
to live it up. You're gonna get older and it's not gonna be as
fun. You're gonna have responsibilities and all that stuff's true, But I don't
feel like high school went by fast. I feel like it lasted forever.
And I think there's so much to take in when you're in high school,
and there's so many different things that you experience for the first time. When
we were in high school, Yeah, all that stuff, and there's so
many people you meet that maybe you never see again after you graduate. So
there's a lot to that's that's why it feels like such a significant part of
people's lives. I feel like, I think the age range of our listeners
here, it's wide, right. I think there's clearly listeners that are younger
than me, closer to your age, maybe even some a little younger than
you. And there's obviously some that are my age, old enough to be
my parents, old enough to be my grandparents. To be honest with you,
I mean, I hate thinking about a demo just because it's just how
I'm wired mentally, which you know probably isn't a good thing. But for
me to like know, hey, this is who you're targeting these specific like,
I don't know if you know this. Have you ever been Were you
in the old studio where they had a picture hanging up of a person.
You've told me about this, but I don't think i've seen them. So
this this is very common in radio, and I get why. It's like,
I get it. It's part of the business, right, Like we're
selling to advertisers that there's a demo that really is active on this type of
content this station. And if you know, we really do well and said
demo men twenty five fifty four, then the advertisers who really want to reach
that group of people, they there's value there. So I understand. It's
not like I'm questioning why it's just for me. You know, I don't
want to think I don't want to do whatever this is. You know,
yapp in for three hours and feel like I'm I'm catering to one specific demo
and if if you don't fall in that, then you know, the hell
with you. I want to be very welcoming, right, you can come
from all walks of life and situation, age, whatever, gender, whatever,
and you could still find some enjoyment. Clearly, you're gonna be a
sports fan. If this is something you probably really enjoy, you're probably gonna
be a big Louisville fan or even a Kentucky fan because that's kind of where
you were. You know, that's we get deep into the weeds on that.
But I think the bulk of the listeners you're not, you know,
it's it's it's not really considered deep in the weeds because it's something you are
very knowledgeable and passionate about. That's U of L and UK. So anyways,
what I'm getting at is when it comes to, you know, looking
at that picture like I would just you know, they used to put a
picture in each studio that showed a person like what they look like, and
you know, for us, it was this dude with a goatee that looked
like he was forty five, and it listed his he works it, he
works it forward, he makes this much money. This is how much disposable
income he has each month, and this is what car he drives. These
are the restaurants that he frequents. And again, I understand why you do
all that, but I just I kept looking at this dude, I'm like,
I don't I don't even know if he's worthy of this show. I'm
gonna I'm gonna feel so narrow mind. It does. But again, there's
there's a reason for that, Yes, for what it's worth right now,
I mean that that that we don't have that going on here today. That
was years We have a picture of Stevie Nicks outside my studio, that's right,
And I'll get older than she could actually be. And I'll say this
that picture that I'm referring to in the old studios that was probably hung up
eight years before I got hired, no joke. So anyways, I'll bring
all that. I bring all that up to say we have a wide range
I think of listeners as far as age, situation, all that kind of
stuff. But I'm curious if you're somebody that is my age or older,
like would you agree, Like it's crazy how quickly things go when you're older,
and it times like that's good, right, Like you know I'm somebody
that you know because I'm weird. I don't love the sum or as much
as others. It's great for a variety of reasons, but I'm somebody that
like when when football and basketball season isn't going on, like I'm just there's
I need some fulfillment that I've never really been able to find when it comes
to other sports. So like if the summer went by quick and we got
to football season. Hell yeah, I'm ready to rock and roll. So
like that's somewhat of a benefit. But man, like I don't want I
don't want life to go by so fast, but you can't control it.
So like I'm I'm I'm choosing to, you know, keep that in mind
more often and not sit around and get stagnant and get complacent and just you
know, keep personal improvement in mind, that kind of stuff. So anyways,
when when when's your anniversary? What March twenty first March? Yeah,
we uh again, I talked about this the other day. May is.
You know, it was perfect for us. We wanted to do spring,
it wasn't too hot, but uh, I never really considered it button up
with Mother's Day and how that makes it to where I got, you know,
I got to get a I gotta get you know, two gifts at
the same time, essentially. But I'm I'm holding my wife to this.
She did, She's she seems totally you know, content with doing every year
instead of getting her two gifts because they usually fall within a couple of days
of each other. Like whatever I give her as a gift is going to
be for Mother's day and for our anniversary. But I always get parently thinking
like she might just be saying that, but you know, she might be
going and telling her friends at work that her husband's lousy because he, you
know, he just thinks he can get by with one gift. Because I
said, that's fine. Anyways, we'll move on. I think we may
be on. Well. I don't want to say this because I don't want
to I don't want to push a narrative that I don't necessarily believe to be
true. But we could be potentially on commitment. Watch today for Louisville.
And I say that without doing any kind of a of a of a refresh
here to see if there has been a decision made. But there's a Georgia
transfer by the name of frank anselom Iby and not heard a whole lot about
it. I'm assuming a lot of you haven't heard a whole lot about him
either, And you know that's because this is not somebody that a lot of
schools are in on and right. This is not the kind of transfer that
fans across the country are hoping that their school lands. They're not checking the
Trilli Dawnovan discord to see if their chances are good to land these young men.
And I don't mean any disrespect, but this man, frank anselom Ivy,
which John, I'm assuming you've never heard of. No. Six'
ten. He is taking advantage of his fifth year for COVID, and he
played two seasons at Syracuse and he played two seasons at Georgia. In his
career four years at two schools, in twelve minutes per game, he averaged
two points in three rebounds. ESPN reported last week that he was going to
be making his decision today and he's down to Georgia Tech Louisville, n C
State in Wisconsin. It doesn't look like he visited, so I'm not really
sure what Louisville's interest level is. But this is one of the things that
I don't really know what you do about it, but it's it's kind of
annoying to me. And I know what you're thinking you think. I mean,
I'm annoyed that Louisville like may get this guy. No, they need
they need bodies now they don't have like it's not like they've got five six
spots left. I actually think there's a scenario where they could end up landing
three pieces that aren't you know, a great osibor, meaning he's not included
in one of the three, and maybe the you know, maybe not even
Colemanhawkins because I don't have a clue what he's gonna do. But like I
still think if you get Noah Waterman, who will talk about him coming up
here soon, because I believe he's gonna be visiting. That's the BYU transfer
who just hit the portal. And again reminder, if your coach leaves,
you get an extra month to decide what you want to do. So that's
what happened with you know, the day that Mark Pope left. It was
a month ago on Sunday, And that's when this young man hit the portal.
And I'm not going to accuse anybody of doing any tampering. How However,
it sounds like before he hit the portal there was clearly some mutual interest
somehow, some way that was conveyed to one another Noah Waterman in Louisville.
So anyways, what I'm getting at is when I say this annoys me,
is that like, if you don't get him and he goes to NC State,
there'll be people that run with it. As if Damn Pat Kelcey must
you know, big men must hate him. You know what they'll do.
They'll make short jokes. I know I can sniff a short joke coming from
a mile away. John. I'm not very tall myself. I'm pretty short,
and I'm you're taller me, though, aren't you. I'm five seven
ish? Are you taller than me? I think we're pretty even. Yeah,
I'm five eight and I really not many people would brag about being five
eight, right, Like it's not very tall. But I've always thought I
was five to seven. And then when I went and got my last physical
at thirty four years old, they they measured me at five eight, and
I thought, well, you sure and I can do it again, and
I'm like, yeah, I just want to make sure, like don't lie
to me. And sure enough I was five eight. So like went from
feeling I was five to seven, found out I was five eight. So
now I feel like a big guy. But anyways, back to this frank
An slim, ivy guy. So if they don't get him, it could
be a blessing in disguise because maybe you end up landing someone else because although
this guy is big and he's played it for He's played four years at two
Power of five programs, two points and three rebounds in twelve minutes a game.
Like again, he would clearly just be a body and you need that.
So if they don't get him, it'll be put out there by some
some Kentucky fans, and I get it. That's what they're gonna do there,
that's the rivalry. But then even Louisville fans, like the ones who
are starting to kind of lose their mind a little bit. And as I
said yesterday, I'm trying my best to be to look at it differently than
just you know, gosh, you guys are insane. I'm looking at it
more so, Wow, what a reminder of how much weak care. We
got some crazy people because they're crazy about Louisville basketball. I'm trying to look
at it that way, but sometimes it's hard. So if they don't get
him, I'm not gonna care. And if they do get him, you
know, it'll be weaponized against Pat Kelsey. Wow, this is the best
you could do. And I guess I just need to realize, like,
no matter what, there's always going to be somebody taking a stance that's you
know, gonna try to make a big deal out of something that's really not
you know, look, I know they need big guys, trust me,
well aware, and they're gonna have to spend some money if they're gonna get
any of these guys that are available that clearly know they've got they've got leverage
on their side. But I think we it'll probably take us getting to closer
to the end of the month before i'd be really and I think they're gonna
have somebody by then. But like, for example, the young man who
visited on over the weekend, Kahani Rus who is a Michigan Committee's a and
I kind of never include him because because he's to me, it's just a
different situation. It's a true freshman who I'd love for Louisville Land, and
I think he probably mean clearly if you add him and you have a tough
time getting somebody else, he will play big minutes. However, you know
he's a freshman. So even if you are somebody that's a little more worried
about, Okay, this guy came from James Madison, this guy came from
I don't know, Long Beach State, and you worry about can they do
it at this level because the ACC is a better league than where those you
know, than the Sun Belt and the WCC. I think there's been enough
proof that you can plug those guys in. And it's happened the last three
or four years since the portal's been going on, You've had guys that have
been really really productive players. Some have been all Americans that have I mean
Dalton connect He's going to probably be a top five pick. You know,
he started his career I don't even in Northern Colorado, Colorado. Yeah,
and then did he go Juco. It's very weird. Yeah yeah, I
mean yeah, so you know, and he wasn't like he had his best
year playing basketball at the highest level that he's ever played, which is wild
to think about, right, same thing with Great Osibore. He was a
bench player at Montana State, goes to Utah State with with Danny Sprinkle and
one Mountin West player of the Year in his first year there. So you
know, there's been enough proof that you can and you never know how anybody's
gonna work out. But with that said, I still think we now look
at freshmen just differently because yeah, they can give you something. There can
be real value there. They can be guys that have an impact. It's
just it doesn't. It doesn't happen as much as as it used to.
And I think a part of that is the portal gives you a chance to
be older. You can choose not to be young, and most coaches are
choosing that. What I mean is, how many times have you seen in
years not recently, but in years past you'd watch a guy and clearly he's
playing twenty five minutes a game because he's in the rotation. He's a freshman.
He's maybe not a starter, but man, he's the sixth, seventh
man, eighth man maybe, and he has moments early on that make it
seem as if this guy's got a lot of upside. Well then he'll have
some growing pains, right or you realize, man, that's kind of what
we get when we have a true freshman out there in that position. But
then you'd wait till March or February, I should say, maybe even late
January. Wow, he's not a freshman anymore, not playing like a freshman
because you played through that guid experience and yeah, you're still young, but
you've really cut your teeth. That doesn't happen as often now unless it has
to, because again, the portal has given these coaches the ability to not
have to worry about, you, you know, having those growing pains,
which I actually don't know if that's the right way to go about it.
But the portal. As much as coaches that time's complain about it and it
is far from ideal, they also benefit it, benefit from it in a
major way. Like they're getting players who can come in and help them,
and all the development that was done is at the mid major level. With
that coach, you just lost that player. So I am not super worried
about the you know, I think there's a difference in understanding the urgency here
to go finish strong and get some big guys on the roster. But I'm
not to the point where I'm just thinking they're gonna have to, you know,
play extremely small all year. But again, frank anselom Iv, I
just I'm a worry I'm a warrior, that's my nature, right, and
I just feel like, no matter what happens with this, it's gonna be
put against Pat Kelsey, you know, as if like you know, oh
red flag here, somebody you know hit the panic button. All right,
quick break, we'll come back on the other side. I think I've decided
who I'm gonna pick to win the PGA Championship. John, I'll tell you
that is on the other side, and the reason behind it has nothing to
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I'm not kidding. I think the last time I ate cake was probably
when I got married, because it was like, you know, she shoved
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they came up to hey, listen to the show, and I thought maybe
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and Thornton's just stop in there, you I mean, they got all kinds.
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mess out of my car in my car with it, but it was you
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So anyway, shout out Thornton's. All right. So I mentioned earlier when
we started the show that I was today was our thirteenth anniversary, my wife
and I and I'm now to the point where I'm like wow, there's past
the point I should say of being like wow, how could I be this
old? I'm like, now, okay, you know what. The years
are passing you by. Let's let's live in the moment. And somebody wrote
something that I think. I thought it was very nice and I'm glad they
shared it here on the text line. But they say, Nick, there's
a reason people say time flies when you're having fun, when you are enjoying
things in life, it goes by at a rapid pace. As someone who
this is not a good part of the story, but it said as someone
who initially married right out of college for ten years that felt like eighty years.
It felt like the worst stretch of my life separating. I've now found
a new companion. We share life together and it's going by crazy fast.
That always reminds me that when things are going by super fast, it means
you are, in fact getting the most out of life. Well, thank
you. I don't know if you're like a life coach or whatever, but
that that hit, as the kids say, because you know, that makes
me not be as sad that things if that's true, And I'm just gonna
believe what you said on this text line because we got a lot of tech
you're on it. It doesn't even come through if you're lying because it's a
no cap feature on the text line, no cabin allowed. But that makes
sense, right, So whenever you do think about how quickly things go by,
just tell yourself it's because you're enjoying it. That's what I'm gonna choose
to do, all right. So a lot of folks speaking of enjoyment.
Great turnout yesterday at the at the PGA practice rounds out of Valhalla, you
know, not only because all of the local outlets were there and covering it
doing live hits. I know WDRB had a really good photo gallery of everything.
But you know, nationally, right, there's a lot ofeople who cover
golf nationally and they're here in town and they were just bragging on us about
how wow, man Louisville more more of an appetite for golf than you than
you would maybe some would have expected. So there's clearly some buzz for this
big event, and uh, I know it gets rolling here in a couple
of days and I'd never thought about the amount of people who will travel to
be here, right, Like, clearly not as much as you get for
like the Kentucky Derby. But even though you and I are both not golf
guys, John, like, this is this is a big event to where
you would think there'd be plenty of people, Like, it's not just gonna
be locals that show up all that. It would be plenty. There'll probably
be a lot of folks who, like, maybe they try to go to
a pg event every year, they're gonna come to Louisville. Yeah, I
remember I had a teacher in high school who took a couple of days off
just to go watch the PGA the last time I was here. So yeah,
there's people who will invest their time into it, for sure. So
as soon as I mentioned that, I've found out who I'm you know,
picking to win. And when I say, I mean, I'm not mean
me picking them to win, really, I mean it's just I mean,
I'm not going to bet on it because they'd be wasting money. But that
ended up with people saying, well, you better be Justin Thomas better be,
which I hope Justin Thomas wins it because he's a Louisville native. This
is actually the first time that he will be playing at Valhalla as a pro.
You know, last time they had the PGA Championship here. He he
you know, he didn't participate in it, and I really thought it was
cool because I don't know much about him other than he grew up in you
know, in Goshen and went to Saint X, went to Alabama to play
golf, and you know, has been a U of L fan. I
know he loves a Bama football is where we went to school, but you
know, he also likes U of L. And he's a big time you
have a basketball fan, and there it might have been like a game day
thing. I think he might have done something for Bama on maybe I don't
know. There was something he did on ESPN where he was asked as somebody
you know from the Louisville area, where like where did he fall in the
rivalry? And like he, you know, without hesitation, like made it
quite clear like he's all on Louisville. And you know, I don't know
if he said boo UK, but kind of felt like that. And you
know, he didn't live here, which doesn't mean he's not a liew of
like he's I mean, there's a lot of people that love Louisville that grew
up here that live elsewhere for variety of reasons. You know, he happens
to be a professional golfer that you know now lives in I think Jupiter,
Florida. But I thought it was really cool for him to be very emotional
when he got his hometown hero banner last week. And it's you know,
it's it's what you'd expect somebody to to do, right, show appreciation,
but like he had some emotion that I think kind of surprised him even which
made you know, I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff, right,
Like I think if you are someone who reaches the highest point you can in
your career, and you're in whatever you do, right, you're nationally known
as an entertainer, a musician, a athlete, whatever, and you know
you probably no longer call home home. But like getting inducted into like your
high school Hall of Fame probably not going to be an honor that's going to
stand out from like fans of yours, But that's got to be like that's
where that's like where it all started, so to see him be emotional about
because again, it's not like I've ever been ant. I just don't know
a lot about Justin Thomas other than what I've mentioned, right, I don't,
you know, I don't know if he's got a big personality. He
did have a show on Netflix that or he was involved in a show on
Netflix that I didn't get a chance to watch, but I heard it was
really good. But yeah, I hope he does well, and you never
know, maybe there's maybe he's feeling some pressure because he is here in his
hometown. But yeah, I'm pulling for Justin Thomas for sure. But I
also think think my man, Roy McElroy could be, could be really could
be the man to get it done in this event. So it was announce
and this is unfortunate, But it was announced earlier today by TMZ that he
has filed for divorce, and that's unfortunate, that's sad. But the last
time he went through a breakup, it really helped him on the golf course.
So in two twenty fourteen, he broke up with tennis star Caroline Wozniaki.
I think I'm not sure if I'm saying that correctly, and then went
on to win the tournament before the PGA Championship of Alhalla, then wins the
PGA. Yes, I mean it's this, this has happened before. I
mean, I don't think he was married to his his former tennis former.
I think he was his former girlfriend. But that led to him, you
know, I guess, blocking out that distraction and just you know, being
dialed in and ready to get it done. And it worked. So maybe
this, uh maybe this divorce could lead to him doing the same thing this
time around. As it stands, this is up. This was updated a
little bit earlier today. You know, the favorite obviously is Scottie Scheffler,
who's just been you know, who's been on fire, and then Rory so
Scheffler's at plus three hundred, McElroy's plus six hundred, and then Brooks Koepka
is at plus one thousand. So it seems as if one of the big
you know, I feel like one of the storylines. In fact, I
saw our man Kent Spencer, who is I tried to you know, we
probably will get him at some point this week, but he's been super busy.
I know, not only does he do a great job for the folks
at whas eleven. But you know, this is this is his time to
shine. He's I know, he's a big golf guy, very very informed
on the on the sport, and he's been a part of the coverage.
But one of the things I saw that he put together as far as one
of the big storylines is, you know, can anybody beat Scottie Scheffler.
And it seems like a lot of people think, you know, he can
be beat, but not many are seemingly expecting it to happen because he's been
you know, he's been on fire. All right. So yesterday we talked
about Noah Waterman and his his late addition to the portal because of again the
the the guys who lose their coach to transfer, they get an extra they
get an extra month. I guess, actually I don't know, So I
guess maybe you don't get ano. Actually I don't know. Like, for
example, if if something like Green Bay's coach left, which we'll talk about
who they hired, but Sundance Wicks with which what a name he's leaving green
Bay to go to? Is it Wyoming? Yeah, Wyoming who just randomly
lost their coach? So Wyoming in green Bay? Even though the portal window
closed on May first. I think they now have thirty days to decide if
they're going to if those players for those teams are going to go to the
portal. So that's what happened at BYU. Mark Pope left in you know,
not mid April, but you know between mid and early April, and
this guy waited the last minute to put his name in. He's a six
to eleven big who you know. I when I think of BYU last year,
like I knew they were good, and Mark Pope had himself a good
team. They knocked off some good teams along the way. They they ended
up. I'm not even really sure what the seed was that they got when
they got on the tournament. But as far as just personnel, like I
don't remember them having like a star player. So therefore, like some of
these dudes, like even Ali Khalifa, whose numbers were kind of you know,
all over the place and just didn't make a lot of sense if you
remember you just look at like his statistics and you know, watch some highlights,
like clearly you know his stats didn't really tell the whole story as far
as what kind of value he adds. But Noah Waterman's a guy that I'd
be a liar if I told you I've ever heard of him until he hit
the portal. But he averaged, you know, just under ten points a
game last year. Was a starter, started every game, played twenty four
minutes, so nine and a half points, five and a half rebounds,
thirty eight percent from three. I mean, a good piece for them.
And you know, in Mark Pope's first year in the Big twelve, I
mean they were pretty good. I mean they ended up losing to Decaine in
the n SAA tournament, which was a bit, which was an upset,
But it sounds like there was somehow, some way. I think it might
have just been magic, because I think tampering probably happens, but I don't
know, is it Like for example, let's say Noah Waterman has an assistant
coach that knows somebody on the Louisville and I mean like a former coach or
something like an AAU coach, and he talks to Noah Waterman regularly, and
that AAU coach happens to know somebody on the Louisville staff, if in fact,
they communicate to each other, that Noah Waterman might enter the portal that
there'd be some interest, like could the NC DOUBLEA do anything about that?
Like it almost makes it to where tampering like shouldn't happen, But this day
and age, with different relationships social like it's gonna happen. Right. The
only time we've seen the NC DOUBLEA put the hammer down so far was with
Florida State football this past all was that tampering that was more so just nil
stuff? Was it? Yeah? Like it was like and I'm telling you
I can just everybody who read what Florida State was accused of doing. I
think they all thought, oh crap, Like I thought, that's whatever,
Like I thought, that's what Like that's I thought, that's how this worked.
And that was there was an assistant coach who was asked by a recruiter
a player about anil and he told the player to go talk to the collective,
and like I guess, answering him and even acknowledging that there's a collective
was against there is so stupid and that's what led to you know, the
Tennessee and Virginia I mean right now, that's why I mean it's a free
for all because of the lawsuit that was filed basically claiming like you know,
you have no you have no authority to punish us for that. But anyways,
he's going to visit Louisville. It sounds like, and I wouldn't be
shocked if that's the only visit he makes and that's where he ends up.
I mean, you never know for sure, but I'd say tampering or not.
A big factor in this moving quicker than usual than you usually see with
a guy that's transferring is that he apparently is not just former teammates, but
he's close friends with Ali Khalifa, who you know has already decided to come
to Louisville, has visited Louisville right has has has talked to Pat Kelsey,
heard the pitch and decided to come and play here. So, I you
know, I don't know where he'll end up being ranked in the portal rankings
and all that. But last year in the Big twelve, a league that
everybody tells this is the best league in the country. You know, he
put up good numbers and started every game for a team that would it be
why you finished last year? I mean they were they were a six seed.
Yeah, twenty three and eleven they were tied for it looks like fifth
place in that league. So I mean again, it's not somebody that did
a bunch of and maybe he will, but this isn't somebody who you know,
five elite programs are in on and they're visiting, because that's the stuff
that builds up the buzz to where if you get somebody like that, man
here we go, or if you lose somebody like that and you feel like
you had a chance, it's a big punch of the gut. So this
is to me again, maybe others were well aware of this guy and thought
maybe he'd enter the portal. I don't know, but I look at this
as a if he was to come to Louisville, I would consider this a
really really good pickup. And it makes it to where, you know,
if you get him and the freshman Kahani Ruth's at that point, you're still
gonna have one scholarship to go use, and you know, maybe you end
up with a chance to go throw the big bag at Colin Coleman Hawkins or
something. So again, that's why I'm not as worried about Louisville's front court
as others seem to be. Now again, if this kid visits, doesn't
come to Louisville, goes elsewhere, same thing with Ruth the freshman, you
know, that wouldn't be ideal. And that's probably where I would think,
Okay, you know, I like all the pieces they have, but man,
there's clearly a glaring issue here, and that's just proven front core depth,
which you know you need. You need even if you want to play
small, you still have to have the ability to counter somebody who wants to
just go gigantic against you and you know, beat you that way. All
right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side. Wrap up
the three o'clock hour. It's coffee and Company. We are feel But Thornton's
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I think I'd mentioned this yesterday in the
five o'clock hour, So this is probably a different audience than at that point,
unless you're a podcast listener, or unless you're one of our elite listeners
that listens to you know, the entire show. And if so, thank
you appreciate that. I finish the show that I mentioned yesterday on Netflix that
is so good, so good, and I haven't binge a show that quickly
in a long Time. It's called A Man in Full and it's starring Jeff
Daniels and Diane Lane is in it as well, and it's a it's a
mini series, which you know, you know, it's it's it's only gonna
be for like, it's not something that they plan on doing, which I
don't really you know, I'm not somebody that's ever worked in you know,
television, But why would you label something a mini series before you know if
it's going to have like longevity? Does that make sense? John? Like,
I guess the thought is that you're only going to do a certain amount
of episodes, you want to tell a specific story. And then I guess
they just know they're not going to have planned be like if they get it,
if they get a big star to do it, it could just be
that like there, I won't be able to commit to doing this any more
than the six and like if you do it, there's like there's just no
way I'd be able to do it because of movies that I'm working on that
kind of stuff. Are there examples of mini series that had multiple seasons so
it's happened like for example, that's what There was a show on Showtime that
and Showtime has always, in my opinion, had really really good shows that
never got the same attention as the shows on HBO, and HBO has great
shows too. I'm not trying to say that Showtime is better, but some
of my favorite shows that I've watched, like drama, suspense, like crime
shows were on Showtime. And you know, it's not that nobody watched him,
it's just I never felt like they got the same level of hype.
But maybe it's just because I'm weird and like them more than most people.
But there was a show called Your Honor that has Brian Kranton. Of course
the I mean, he's mostly known for Breaking Bad, which is believed to
be one of the best shows ever made, and he did a mini series
with on Showtime called Your Honor, and it was really really good, so
they decided to give it a second see and in the second season, I
didn't think was very good, but it's more than anything was because the like
long story short, like it was an example for me to where I'm like,
okay, yeah, they probably should have just left that alone. So
I now find myself wanting a second season of this because it was so good,
so good and just really well done and I haven't watched like a Netflix
original that was you know that I felt like was just like, you know,
elite tier. When it comes to the cast, I mean the production,
the drama, it was really really it's just and you know, I'm
not going to give any spoilers, but it just it was perfect amount of
episodes, the story, you know, the way it wrapped up, Like
I just I love love the show. So if you're looking for a new
show to watch, I would recommend watching A Man in Full because it's phenomenal.
And I used to talk a lot more about this, you know,
in a previous life before I was on in the afternoons and one, but
so it hasn't come up a lot on this this you know, the afternoon
show. And we don't need to u but John don't know, I know
you don't watch a whole lot of TV. But the last time I was
just you know, couldn't help myself. But talking about a show, if
you remember, was was Beef. Yeah. I tried to watch some of
that and for some reason just dropped it off. And it's it's a you
know, it's its own show. Let me tell you a story. I
uh, when I was just in love with that show, talking about it
on here, and I think I tweeted about it or whatever. I ended
up getting Chris Mack to watch it because he and I would occasionally talk about
different shows and whatnot, and we have a lot of the same I guess,
uh prefer you know, same taste when it comes to television that kind
of stuff. And you know, he didn't seem intrigued by it, but
I'm like, look, man, you gotta watch it. You have to
watch it. It's gonna it's great. And he I later asked him,
like, hey, what did you think? He was like, I watched
the episode and a half like this show sucked. Man, Sorry, it's
terrible. So everybody's got their own taste. But that did end up some
awards Beef did. It was really good. I liked what I watched of
it, But for some reason I couldn't commit. Is there a point in
the show that's like once you get to it's like okay, yeah, I
want to finish this, uh, because I feel like I should go back
and give it another shot someday. For me, it was the end of
the first like each episode to me ended with like oh wow, like that
was huge, so it kept me hooked. I watched that, I think
in a day. I'm honest with you, Like that's how I mean I
was. I was obsessed and I like getting lost in a show, like
just getting completely consumed by a show. And I truly believe that the ability
to binge a show has really changed. Like, you know, I don't
think there's certain shows that I would have stuck around for if I have to
wait every week for a new episode, Like things have just changed and now
we'll probably get back to that at some point. But like a lot of
the shows that I've liked on Apple TV, they'll give you the first three
and then after that you gotta wait each week, which I still watch kind
of an it is annoying. Yeah, I mean I you know they do
that with ted Lasso. Yes, yeah, that's in. Yeah. I
wonder why, though, Like what's their benefits it they want to hook you
in in this? You see three episodes already, and it's like, Okay,
I've seen enough of this, I'm invested. I'll wait for the rest
of the season. If I like it and I watch it in one sitting,
or I watch it in ten weeks, I'm still going to keep my
subscription because I like what you're doing, you know what I mean, Like,
I just I don't know. I think that's silly, but I'm sure
there's a method, there's a reason why they do it. All right,
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