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It's time for coffee and company,
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day. Now here's Nick coffee.
I'm gonna go ahead and do it now

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so I don't forget about it later. But I will say that I'll say

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happy birthday to my sister. I
guess we'll start the four o'clock hour with

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me saying Happy birthday to my sister
Emily, who I think for every year

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I've been on the radio on her
birthday, I always say happy birthday,

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of course, if you know,
if it's not on a weekend or whatever,

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but Happy thirty seventh birthday to my
sister Emily. And we are fifty

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one weeks apart. She's the fifteenth
obviously mine is. My birthday is the

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seventh, which was last Sunday,
So for eight days we are the same

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age. And you know, the
older I get, the more you know,

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the more I not that I've done
it a million times, I've done

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it twice as far as you know, going through having a child, Like

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clearly nobody would want to have two
kids that close to the same age because

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you would be pregnant for two consecutive
years, which most people don't want.

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So I was an accident. Anytime
I say that, my mom always corrects

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me and says I was more of
a blessing, And that's one way to

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look at it. But yeah,
happy birthday to my sister. I mean,

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I think they call that Irish twins. I was gonna ask, I

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was gonna say, I was worried
about sounding stupid. I fact I've heard

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I've heard Irish twins means something else
to where. It made me think,

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okay, that is that the case, But yeah, I just actually looked

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it up. Yeah, so it's
still Irish twins is those who you know,

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siblings who are who. Let's see. Irish twins is an informal term

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for children born to the same mother
within twelve months or less of each other.

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So the term has originated in the
eighteen hundreds as a derogatory way to

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describe our Rish Catholic immigrant families who
didn't have access to birth control. Today,

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the term is generally not intended as
an insult, and some families use

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it with pride. I don't know
how prideful we are about it, but

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yeah, I remember like a light
bulb went off when I was like,

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I don't know, fifteen it's like, wait a second, mom, and

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then you know she she had the
answer prepared for whenever I did realize that,

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you know, I probably was not
a planned wasn't a plant thing with

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me. Isn't that funny that they
have to think about that for your entire

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life until you finally asked that question. Yeah, I mean I think she

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you know, she wasn't stressed that
I was going to react in a certain

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way to where I would be,
you know, want to be removed from

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the family and you know, have
somebody adopt me. But you know she

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was ready. She was ready,
and it's had that one in the chamber

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Yeah. Anytime I successfully get through that

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without falling over verbally, I feel, you know, I feel like I've

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accomplished something but I wasn't able to
do at that time. So anyways,

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we'll get this party back on track
here. So the strength of schedule stuff

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there, I'm trying to find some
different numbers just to just to reference what

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what's here at Pro Football Focus and
Pro Football Focus is a very reputable analytical

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website that has really exploded over the
years and it's trusted by not only college

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football super fans NFL fans, but
organizations. I mean, there's there's analytics,

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uh that that they provide at PFF, that that NFL teams pay for

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because clearly we are in an analytic
world when it comes to sports now.

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I know some people have strong opinions
on it the other way, but regardless,

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it's it's it's a it's a big
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sometimes it's overly leaned on and there's
not enough talk about, like you know,

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actual results. However, there there's
been clear evidence for many years now

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that analytics are valuable and I reference
them, I followed them, but there

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are some that really only look at
it from an analytical standpoint. But anyways,

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according to Pro Football Focus, Kentucky's
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this upcoming season ranks twenty second nationally
in difficulty and I'll be honest, I

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can't disagree with that. I mean, again, we'll see there's obviously teams

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that'll probably end up being better than
you'd expected, teams that won't be quite

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as good as you would have expected. I mean, you really never know

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until you actually get results. But
if you remember, I think it might

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have been earlier in the spring.
I mean I saw someone had Kentucky's actual

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schedule that doesn't include you know,
their FCS opponent, and like it was

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up there as one of the most
challenging schedules in the country. So they've

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got Southern miss and Ohio and Murray
State as the three you know gimmes,

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those are the three games on their
schedule that by all accounts, those should

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be blowouts. So then you get
into the one game it's the rivalry game,

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and you know, I would imagine, to be honest with you right

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now, this isn't me. This
is I didn't bring this up to,

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you know, Pat Louisville on the
back here. But let's be real.

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Louisville finished as a top fifteen team
last year. They're gonna probably be borderline

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top twenty five this year. I
don't know if they're gonna be in the

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AP pole, but they should be. So if they're ranked twenty second or

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something, and that's one of Kentucky's
non conference games. That's a factor in

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why that schedule looks to be so
challenging now their conference schedule. I mean,

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i'd say outside of Vandy, the
worst team they play is probably I

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guess South Carolina, and that's who
they have in Week two. And South

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Carolina, you know, beat the
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So you then have Georgia and ole
Miss. You'll play Georgia at home,

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those are those are two really really
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Oxford and in Georgia, of course
there's still a powerhouse. And then they've

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got Florida in Gainesville that's on the
road. Florida is not in great shape,

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Billy Nape, You're probably going to
be coaching as last season in Gainesville

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unless they have a big breakthrough.
But you're still going to the swamp.

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And Mark Stoops has had success against
Florida much more than anybody else ever has

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in Lexington. Obviously, he's taken
some losses, there's no doubt about that.

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But I mean you got to keep
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thing. I mean, Florida streak. How long was that, I mean

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it was decades, So you know, Florida's gonna be down, but going

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in and winning in Gainesville is still
probably something that most would view as a

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big challenge, and I'm sure the
analytics view it that way as well.

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They've got Auburn at home, and
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I haven't heard a damn thing about
Auburn this offseason. Like, I feel

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like they're probably going to be looked
at as a team that's gonna be in

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that you know, in that tier
that's above Vandy, which is probably I

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guess you know where Kentucky's gonna be
viewed, which the tier above Vandy isn't

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a terrible Like you know, Mississippi
State and Arkansas and Vandy, those are

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probably gonna be the worst teams in
that league. So I guess the tier

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above those guys is where you'll find
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I mean that's a tough game.
I mean, Josh Hipel in the last

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two years specifically, I mean,
they've Tennessee I think right now has as

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much consistency is they I mean,
I feel like, since what's his name,

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the old guy who ended up working
is an athletic department associate and ended

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up getting him in trouble for cheating
with Jeremy Prue. I can't I think

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of his name. What the hell's
at old Tennessee football coach's name again,

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everybody's probably screaming it right now listening, thinking you dumb as, why can't

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you remember his name? But yeah, it's Phil Follmer. Former Tennessee coach.

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Phil Filmer since he left Tennessee has
been an absolute roller coaster. I

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mean, who's the longest tenured coach
they had there butch Jones. That thing

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fell apart bad when they became Champions
of Life. So now Jeremy not Jeremy

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Prude. He was the guy in
between that again got caught cheating. But

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Josh Hipel has given Tennessee a foundation, and last year they were not quite

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as good as they were in twenty
twenty two, but they still finished nine

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and four overall eleven and two.
Of course they before that when they knocked

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off Alabama, and you know,
now they're coming into a season where they're

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they're going to be expected to be
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with Georgia, who's clearly, you
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the league. Well, I was
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the East isn't a thing now their
divisions are no more, right is that

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this year? Yeah, it's correct. So you know, Tennessee is going

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to be a really, really tough
game for them, and it's in Knoxville,

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and then they've got Texas. They
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So I have no problem looking at
Kentucky's schedule and saying, yes, it

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is going to be a tougher schedule
than Louisville, And according to Pro Football

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Focus, it's not even close.
So the way they look at Louisville schedule,

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it's ranked one hundred and fifth,
and Pro Football Focus will tell you

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that at one hundred and five,
that is the easiest schedule among Power Conference

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programs. And I want to dispute
it, but I don't really know if

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I can, because you got to
keep in mind last year Louisville strength of

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schedule wasn't great, but it wasn't
as you know, you only played twelve

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games, and usually every power team
will play two of those twelve against teams

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that are going to completely drop your
strength to schedule ranking because they're an FCS

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school or they're a G five.
You know that that you know isn't isn't

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good, you know, like a
MAX school or something like that. So

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you know, like this year,
you have Jacksonville State, who is making

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their first appearance in the FBS this
season, Austin p and yeah, you

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got Notre Dame and that one certainly
helps. But you still play teams like

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Virginia and Boston College, who you
know, did play in a bowl game

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last year, but by all accounts
like those are not challenging games. And

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let's not forget Stanford. You know, this isn't this isn't the hardball Stanford

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program. Stanford, I'm pretty sure
was got. I think Stanford lost to

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two f's two No, no,
they lost to at least one FCS team

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last year. So you know,
I will give Rick bo Boset some credit

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because I actually read about the Pro
Football Focus numbers in an article that he

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put together over at WDRB dot com, where he you know, he went

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out of his way to try to
defend Louisville strength of schedule and acted as

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if it's there's not as big of
a gap as you might as you might

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see. So here's here's his ride
up. It says Kentucky plays eight home

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games while Louisville only plays six h
The article also he's referencing the PFF article,

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but it says the article also compares
oh yeah, the opponents on each

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team's schedule, noting that Louisville has
a tougher has tougher non conference games against

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Notre Dame, while Kentucky's SEC road
games against Ole, Miss, Tennessee and

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Texas will also be challenging. So
again, he just maintained that, meaning

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Bozich maintains that that the difference in
scheduled difficulty between the two is not as

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there's not as big of a gap
as the PFF formula will tell you.

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But you know, again, last
year, if you look at Louisville schedule,

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there's no way to do this without
it sounding like I'm telling you that

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they were Actually they did not have
a challenging schedule last year, but it

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was just weird. It was different, right, They only outside of Murray

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State, every other team they played
was a Power five Power five team.

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So that alone is going to make
it to where at the end of the

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year, if there's not an FCS
team or a G five or I guess

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there is an FCS team, but
if there's not a if there's not a

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G five team from the MAC or
the Conference USA or something like that to

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weigh you down. Like Indiana,
I mean, they weren't good last year

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by any means, but you know
what, Indiana also played a really really

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challenging schedule because they're in the Big
Ten. Georgia Tech, I can't claim

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they're good, but they won seven
eight games last year. Boston College,

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I think they were one of the
worst teams in the league, but they

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ended up actually going to a bowl
game and they beat simuita bowl game.

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NC State ended up finishing the season. It's a top twenty five team.

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Notre Dame. Same thing. Pittsburgh
sucked out loud Duke. You know,

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they didn't finish strong, but they
were a top twenty five team throughout the

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year here and there, and they
probably finished within the top thirty forty five.

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Whatever it may be. Virginia Tech
a team that Louisville demolished, but

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they actually ended up having a solid
season and had a winning record. Virginia

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stunk Miami you know, they were
kind of whatever. They clearly weren't as

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good as they should have been.
So this year, you know, you

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play teams that, you know,
if I'm being honest with you, I'd

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say three, maybe four, like
if Boston, if Stanford or Stanford or

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Boston College. I'll put it this
way, this is the best way.

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This is the best way to to
to throw it out there. At least

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I hope I'm making sense. Nobody
knows how good any of these teams are

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actually gonna be when it's all said
and done, But there's a chance that

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this year Austin p Jacksonville State,
Virginia, Stanford, and maybe Boston College.

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Like, is anybody going to be
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end up really just being bad this
year? Like four wins at max for

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those for those teams, like that's
not out of the question. And that's

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six of your twelve opponents. So
the difference this year is that you have

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some bad teams that are going to
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you didn't have that. So I
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again, Clemson teams still don't go
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It happens very rarely. I could
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Miami will actually have a much better
season this year with cam Ward. I

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think he's a really, really good
quarterback SMU. I don't buy the hype

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as much as some others. I
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SMU is about to make the playoff, but you know, they are coming

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off a pretty good year statistically.
They won a lot of games in the

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American but you know, they also
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who wasn't good Notre Dame. I
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be a huge year one way or
the other for Marcus Freeman. I think

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he's either going to have a breakthrough
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playoff spot, or maybe they put
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which you can't do it Notre Dame
very often and expect to keep your

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job. You know, I don't
believe that Georgia Tech's going to be great,

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but they did have a breakthrough season
last year and have momentum, and

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of course, you know Kentucky,
you probably will find them borderline top twenty

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five. Maybe not when they play
at the end of November. But you

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know, right now, if you're
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rankings whatnot, whether it be somebody's
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top thirties and that you know that
that that's a tough game and you got

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to go play them there. And
for reasons I don't know, Louisville just

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you know, isn't successful in this
rivalry anymore, and I'm hoping that that

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ends this year, but only time
will tell. All right, real quick,

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before we get to our next break
here, I've not watched a whole

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lot of the Summer League, but
I did find myself watching I think it

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was on was it? Yeah,
Friday night? I think it was the

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rockets first Summer League game out in
Vegas, and Reached Shepherd put on a

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show, and you know, he's
got a couple of good games under his

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belt. I don't know when the
Rockets play again, but you know,

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it's not that big of a surprise, And it's weird talking about reach Uppart

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as if like can you believe it? Because again, he was a top

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twenty five player nationally. He had
offers from just about everybody. He was

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a McDonald's All American. So like
him being a really good looking rookie in

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the Summer League after a one and
done season at Kentucky is really not a

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surprise at all if you think about
it. However, I just think because

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for so long it was Wagner,
it was Bradshaw, Like he wasn't the

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guy in that elite class that Cal
brought in last year that people thought right

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away would be having this kind of
an impact in the NBA. He was

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drafted number three overall, and right
now he's been the best rookie in the

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Summer League. And it's not close. Again, it's just two games,

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but twenty two and a half points
per game, and one thing. Reach

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Shepherd's always been insanely good at is. He's affishing, he didn't hurt you.

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He'll make mistakes, he'll have a
turnover here and there, but like

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he's he's smart man. I mean, here's his averages and here's his average

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in the two games, twenty two
and a half points, five rebounds,

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six assists, three steals and two
blocks per game while shooting fifty six percent

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from the field forty five percent from
three point range. I mean, I

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think even before the numbers, I
think he'd be a not a safe bet,

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but a good bet for NBA Rookie
of the Year. And what he's

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done in the Summer League has has
done nothing but make me think even more

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more so that he's he's probably gonna
have a really good season and have a

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good chance to win Rookie of the
Year. I still think Dalton Knneck could

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end up being a big factor for
lebron and the Lakers, unless you know,

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they give all the minutes to h
to Bronnie, which you know he's

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not playing well in the Summer League
if you guys haven't haven't noticed, which

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is not a surprise, right.
I mean, in fact, I'm actually

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pretty pleased because I don't think that
that's that's been as big of a talking

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point like that that Bronni's playing in
the Summer League, because I think everybody's

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well aware that, like we know
what this is. He's not an NBA

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caliber player yet and certainly may never
will be, and yet he's still getting

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Summer League minutes and he's been kind
of dreadful. So the Houston runs because

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I think for reach Evard to potentially
win Rookie of the Year. It does

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depend on like what kind of an
impact. Well, it depends on the

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rest of the rookies, but also
if you are making an impact for a

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team that actually does you know,
does get better and it's because of your

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involvement, that can really help you
as far as winning that award. But

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Jalen Green, I mean that's sort
of their their franchise guy. Cam Whittmore's

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coming off of a good season.
Dylan Brooks is there, Fred Van Vliet

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is sort of their lead guard.
They also have Jabari Smith Junior, the

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one of the Thompson brothers from last
year's class is still there. So you

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know, I don't think they're gonna
be good and you know, competing for

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the UH for the West next year. But you know, if they make

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a jump from last year and reach
you know, they if they make a

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jump to where they're potentially, you
know, fighting for one of those play

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in spots. And Shepherd is a
is not a key factor like to where

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he's leading them in scoring, but
if he's clearly a part of what they're

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doing and he's getting he's got a
legitimate role as a rookie, then I

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think he'd have a good chance of
winning it. I mean, the two

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guys that got drafted one and two, they may be stars down the line,

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but again they weren't able to be
productive as far as you know,

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stuff in the stat sheet when they
were playing last year. Wherever they were,

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I know one of them was playing
in a France like I think the

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other one might have been playing in
Australia, so you know, read Shepherd.

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I don't know what the odds are. Maybe I'll look into that,

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what current odds are for NBA Rookie
of the Year, because he may actually

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be the favorite now, which would
make it to where it wouldn't be you

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know. I mean, I guess
if you if you bet on that kind

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of stuff, then you know,
knock yourself out. But when it comes

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to futures, I like to take
one that you know is not that unlikely

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and the odds are maybe a little
surprising to you to where if it does

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work out, you can you know, put a little more money in your

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pocket. All right, let's do
this. Let's get to a quick break.

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We'll come back here on the other
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Speaking of sports gambling, I do
want to give you some some win

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totals that I am looking at here
in college football because Brad Power is one

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of my favorite handicappers. When I
say favorite, it's just because he's usually

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given me some pretty good not me
personally. I mean, I'm one of

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probably thousands of people that follows this
guy, but that's because he's good.

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But he has certain teams out there
that he doesn't have favorite. He doesn't

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have favorite in any game this year. He has a few teams that he

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has favored in every game, And
if you look at the win totals for

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some of these teams, there could
be some real value there because you know,

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if your win total, for example, is set at four and a

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half and you're not favored in a
single game, I mean, I mean

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take the under right, you never
know, but I trust brat Powers,

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all right. So we'll get to
that talk a little recruiting, and I'm

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sure there's some other takeaways from the
SEC media days going on right now that

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we can get to at some point. So stick around. It's coffee and

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company. We are fueled. Bouth
Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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No surprise. As I scan through
Twitter, there's a lot of folks

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sharing their gameplay as they are.
I guess some of the lucky few.

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Well, yes, if you bought
it, it's like deluxe EA Sports pack

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that includes Madden, then I guess
you have access to the new College Football

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EA Sports game today, whereas the
other I think have to wait until Friday.

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But I'm watching here as somebody just
ran in a touchdown here with Louisville

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and they're playing, of course,
at Cardinal Stadium. And I didn't assume

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that. I didn't know this was
included, but it makes sense. There's

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a huge Leen n FCU logo on
the field. I mean, I know

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there's one there in real life.
Obviously it's Ellenn Cardinal Stadium, but I

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don't remember it. Again, I
don't play video games at all, and

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even when I used to, it
wasn't much compared to a lot of people

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who are really into video games.
But I don't remember specific sponsors being included

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in the game. Maybe that's just
again my lack of experience as a gamer.

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But that's pretty cool because there's I
mean, there's added value there.

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I mean, I'm sure there's endless
amounts of value to have the naming rights

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to a college football stadium. But
this game is going to be played by

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an insane amount of people and they
may not know what the hell each of

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these sponsors are, especially if it's
if they're playing the game in another country

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or something. But hey, that's
brand exposure and that that matters when it

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comes to marketing. And no surprise. The last video game for me a

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sports that was college football many years
ago. And this looks real. Like

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a quick glance, I feel like
I'm If I didn't see the little circle

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around the guy running with the ball, like for a second, I might

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think it's a real game I'm watching, especially when they show it from the

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side angle, which they probably don't
do that very often. But when you

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see those shots of the game from
the side, it looks a lot more

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wrong when there's not as much movement, like, for example, some of

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the shots I've seen as they show
like like the fans in the crowd.

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Yeah, that looks real. I
mean it looks I mean, I mean

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I can tell by looking at a
little closer that it's clearly not And I

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know I'm looking at a video game, you know, graphic, but it's

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it's much much different than when I
played many many years ago, So happy

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release date to everybody who's playing.
And I can you know there are people

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right now that probably started downloading it
last night when it became available, I

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guess at midnight, and it didn't
didn't download because it takes forever and they

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had to go to work today and
they're just like they can't wait to get

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home and grab the sticks? Was
that a thing? Was that a saying

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grab the sticks? Like the joysticks? So whenever I whenever we would play

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like NBA Live or Madden or the
College Fall game, like whenever I was

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in high school, and at that
point I didn't play, but it was

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it didn't play often, but occasionally, like if you're with some boys and

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you know, you're hanging out and
you might get a few games in and

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like if you're getting beat really bad. It was a thing like people would

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say, pass the sticks. But
I haven't heard that since I played.

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And you know, I'm not even
sure if like that like the current world

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of gaming. Maybe me, I
don't even know what the hell that means.

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I've just heard controller, But do
you get though, like past the

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Yeah, I know it means somebody
told me i'd figure it out. Yeah,

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so I don't know if you're a
breaking controller when you play video games.

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No, but I know people who
did, and I never did a

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common I made someone breaking controller playing
FIFA one time. It's like an extra

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win, isn't it like an extra
win? That's that? Have you ever

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gotten like super angry when playing I
have. It's been a long time.

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I haven't and it and I guess
that's why. I just I've never really

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been able to get into it as
much as as as others. And it's

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really like I have a very addictive
personality, like things that I end up

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becoming really interested in, Like it
doesn't consume my whole life. I don't

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make it my whole personality. But
if I was, if I was a

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gamer, like I would, I
mean, it wouldn't be good for probably

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certain wouldn't be good for my marriage, that's for sure. And that's like,

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and I hate to act like if
you're playing this video game that you

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know you must be you know,
sacrificing time with your family, because everybody's

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situation is different. But I I
mean, I wouldn't say I'm the busiest

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guy in the world, but I
mean I have I would have no time

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to play this like I got too. I got a kid that's eight,

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I got a little one that just
turned four, and you know, I

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work full time. I just I
feel like, if you're really gonna just

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get lost in this game and play
it for hours on end, I would

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imagine you probably not. You know, you don't have to be single,

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but you may not have like a
wife who lives with you. Maybe you

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just have a girlfriend and you're casually
dating, and maybe you have a lot

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of free time on your hands.
But you know I don't. And by

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the way, that's you. Good
for you, there's nothing wrong with that.

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It's just I'm in such a different
phase of my life. I feel

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like, honestly, and you're an
old soul. I think a lot of

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people your age. Well, I
shouldn't say a lot. I don't know

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the actual because I don't know that
many people your age, But I feel

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like, you know, you married
younger and kind of settled down a little

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quicker than a lot of others in
your generation. Most of my friends still

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aren't married. Yeah, and that's
again, that's everybody, you know,

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people know. I don'tways say as
a joke, but it is weird to

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think about that. So I think
if you're ten, if you're closer to

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John's age, like, you probably
are in a position and everybody's situation is

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different, but you know, you
may have more free time on your hands

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to just, you know, do
whatever you want, like spend a few

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hours each evening playing a video game. I you know, I could do

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that, but I would be single, and I don't want to be single.

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I like my family and I want
to keep my wife. And I've

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seen people that I know who are
getting this game that like that have children,

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like they're going to try to at
least include sure, yeah, kind

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of pass it down, like,
hey, this is what I did whenever

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I was your age. Yeah,
you can get into it that type of

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a thing. Well, the hype
for this game was next level, and

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I haven't seen anybody who's shared their
thoughts on it say anything other than great

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things about it. So I guess
well done by the folks at Ada Sports.

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All right, let me talk about
my friends over at the Louisville Men's

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Clinic, because you know, they
can't help you with video games, but

418
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they can certainly help you with a
lot of other things fellas low testosterone.

419
00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:40.519
They can help you. They've helped
me with that. If you have a

420
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rectalitisfunction, that's probably something that you
would be very uncomfortable talking about to anyone.

421
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But the sooner you address it,
the sooner you get back to being

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happy or healthier with your partner.
I mean, ed, it's way more

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common than I ever anticipated. I
don't have that issue and hope to never

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have it, but if I do, it'll be a punch to the pride.

425
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But I won't stress too long because
I know who I can lean on

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to help me, and that's the
friends that I have at the Louisville Men's

427
00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.599
Clinic, specifically doctor Wood, who's
an absolute pro. And you know he's

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helped me. Let him help you. And it's not just low t or

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ed. You you want to lose
weight, I mean, I'm on the

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semi glut side program right now and
I've I mean, I'm down one hundred

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and sixty four pounds, which I
got to be honest, I haven't weighed

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that much in a long time.
And meaning that's a good thing. I'm

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losing weight, but also still you
know, benefiting from my workouts and whatnot.

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So I feel great and you can
too, and you may feel hey,

435
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I don't need any help. I'm
good. Well you could be better,

436
00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.480
so give him a call five two
four four four four thousand, or

437
00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:47.440
you can check them out online at
Louisville Men's Clinic dot com. All right,

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00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.119
so some some cruiting updates for you
guys out there. We'll start with

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00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.680
the latest commitment for Jeff Brahm,
who, by the way, this young

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man now happens to be the highest
rated recruit in Louisville's twenty two twenty five

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00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.440
class. It is CJ. May
who is from Alabama. He is ranked

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as the number seventeen edge. He's
a defensive end, but seventeen, he's

443
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ranked seventeenth that is positioned in the
country in twenty twenty five, and pick

444
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:18.039
Louisville over Auburn, Washington and Syracuse. He's a four star kid, and

445
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.000
that's a big get, you know. I think, you know, if

446
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:25.640
you have a class that is smaller
than the typical classes you had prior to

447
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:30.359
the portal, and you get you
know, maybe some high three stars and

448
00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:33.720
I don't know, maybe like a
decent a decent mixture of players of this

449
00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.119
caliber. You know, I think
that again, I've talked about it many

450
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:44.839
times to me. It's it's it's
here's the formula for programs like Louisville to

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00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:49.920
have high level success, you know, hopefully consistently, and that formula is

452
00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:55.519
do really well in the portal,
try not to lose guys that you know,

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00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:59.559
have proven to be able to help
you and recruit in the you know,

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the thirties and forties. I mean, everybody's gonna want to have the

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00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.720
best recruits in the country, there's
no doubt about it. But that's not

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00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.519
realistic. That's never been realistic for
programs like Louisville or Kentucky for that matter.

457
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.759
So the portal, I don't know. I see some people complaining about

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00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.359
the guys who have decommitted from Louisville
in this twenty twenty five class because right

459
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.319
now the class doesn't look great when
it comes to rankings. I mean,

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00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.759
it clearly got a bump from this
young man Cjay with the kid from Ohio

461
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:25.759
who ended up getting the offer from
Ohio State. He flipped to Ohio State.

462
00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:27.640
And then there was another kid who
flipped to Purdue who really wasn't that

463
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:33.119
highly regarded anyway. So people are
always going to be bummed about guys who

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00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:36.119
end up committing elsewhere or they decommit, and I'm not telling you that you

465
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:40.920
shouldn't, but the days of chasing
a top twenty class and being able to

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00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.359
live in a world where you can
consistently bring in that talent, it's not

467
00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:48.680
as important anymore because you can now
fill that gap with portal guys that are

468
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.119
ready to play as soon as they
get here, especially if they've already played

469
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.559
a season or two of high level
football. So again, I think the

470
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.119
formula is, retain your roster as
best you can. You're clearly going to

471
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:02.720
lose some guys. But when you
do lose guys to the portal, go

472
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:06.160
out there and get players who are
clearly better than the guys you lost.

473
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And that's exactly what Jeff Brohm just
did with this past recruiting class or this

474
00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:14.559
past portal class. So then you
know, maybe occasionally you can get a

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00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.960
few notable recruits that are picking you
over some big time schools. And I

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think that's a good formula to have
success at a high level. I mean,

477
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.799
sometimes you're gonna get burned by the
portal, right where you're gonna lean

478
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.400
on it and it'll be good to
you. And then sometimes it'll be bad

479
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:30.759
to you where you on paper had
a really good class, but man,

480
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.000
it just didn't translate that That happens
sometimes. But you know what, that

481
00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:38.359
also happened sometimes with high school kids
that you recruit. So you know,

482
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I haven't seen a whole lot of
it, but there have been some that

483
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:48.400
are, you know, bitching about
Louisville's lack of recruiting success here in twenty

484
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:51.359
twenty five. And I just don't
think it's warranted. I mean, I

485
00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:55.279
can't sit here and tell you that
they're killing it. But like when you

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00:30:55.319 --> 00:31:00.799
have a guy who is in the
last two seasons put together one of the

487
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.880
best portal classes in both of those
years, and by the way, the

488
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.680
first year he won ten games with
those guys, I just feel like that

489
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.279
would lead that would make people understand
that you don't need to be beating Alabama

490
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:15.079
in Georgia for recruits, and that
wasn't ever really realistic to do consistently anyway.

491
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:18.759
All right, on the basketball side, this is not a commitment by

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00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.440
any means. But a local kid
here we can say local. He's not

493
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.440
in Louisville, but he's right across
the river in Jeffersonville. Tray Singleton.

494
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:30.440
He is a twenty twenty five power
forward prospect from Jeff six seven, six

495
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:34.279
' eight, and you know,
really a hybrid big if you will.

496
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:37.880
I mean when I say hybrid,
I don't mean he's somebody that you know

497
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:41.599
can stretch the floor and knock down
threes. I mean, maybe he can

498
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:42.880
do that, But I think when
I say hybrid, maybe I'm using that

499
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:47.039
word incorrectly when it comes to basketball. But he's a really good passer.

500
00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:48.720
You can run things to the room
in the high post. He's tough,

501
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.880
he's physical, plays it. He's
a really good player. And I didn't

502
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:57.839
anticipate that he would end up being
a guy that ended up on the Louisville

503
00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:02.680
radar, But that is because he's
currently playing for I think it's Indiana Elite,

504
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:08.200
the Adidas one of the top Adida's
AAU programs, and he's playing for

505
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:13.119
a really good team. I think
Malachamorino, the big man from Scott County

506
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:16.559
here in Kentucky, is also on
that squad. But he he's had a

507
00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:20.359
really, really good summer and that
has led to some big offers come in

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00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.680
his way, Louisville being the most
recent one. But yeah, he's I

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00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:29.720
think Butler also recently offered. Clemson
is involved, so he doesn't have a

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00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.359
ton of you know, actually Notre
Dame has offered, but it's a pretty

511
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:35.119
good that's a pretty good offer,
I would say at this point. So

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what's likely gonna happen is he'll end
up taking a big jump in these rankings.

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00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:39.839
And I don't say that because you
know, Louisville is involved, but

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00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:45.480
those who cover high school basketball recruitings
say that on this Adidas circuit, he

515
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.039
has been a really really big you
know, not to say he's been the

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00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:52.400
best player out there, but his
current ranking, he's like two twenty I

517
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.200
think in the twenty four to seven
Sports composite, but I think Rivals and

518
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:59.799
twenty four seven Sports. I read
some stuff earlier today that they both have

519
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:01.200
having said where he's going to end
up, but they did act as if

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00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:05.480
he will take a significant bump in
the rankings. So it got me thinking,

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00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:09.440
you know, Jeffersonville, they've had
years, you know where they were

522
00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:13.119
really really good in basketball. A
lot of that was a long long time

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00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.160
ago, well like when I was
a little bitty kid. But I was

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00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:21.240
trying to think of other Jeffersonville kids
that of course now are grown ups,

525
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:23.079
but guys from jeff they ended up
playing basketball at U of L. Like

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00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:25.440
for some reason when I you know, when I thought of that, I

527
00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:27.920
was like, oh, yeah,
there's probably a bunch of them, but

528
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:30.519
I really can't think of that many. I know Brant Northern and he walked

529
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:34.720
on initially and ended up getting on
scholarship. There was a guy by the

530
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:38.519
name of Dennis Coute who signed and
I believe was like a pretty big name

531
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.759
recruit but didn't end up qualifying.
Somebody helped me out. I feel like

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00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:46.640
I'm blanking on dudes who played at
jeffersonvill High School. They ended up playing

533
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:51.279
at u of L. But anyways, that you used to live in jeff

534
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:52.400
you didn't you Jo? I did? If we never moved, I would

535
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:55.920
have gone jeff High School. When
did you move? My sixth grade years

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00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:58.839
so it would have been about eleven
years old. If that, I didn't

537
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:00.119
know if it was like right BEFO
High School or not. But I do

538
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.720
think since I think it's Jim Shannon
has moved on from New Albany. Not

539
00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:06.759
to say they just still don't have
good players. I'm sure they do,

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00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:10.639
but I think Jeff in recent years
has had I don't know how much they've

541
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.079
won, but I do know that
they've they've they've had some high level players

542
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:16.199
over there in recent years, which
for a while it kind of felt like

543
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:19.480
there was a gap like that it
was just everybody, you know, it

544
00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.440
seemed like New Albany was the southern
Indiana school that had all the you know,

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00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.400
high caliber basketball players. All right, quick break, we'll come back

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00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:29.400
here on the other side. Keep
this thing rolling along. Get to the

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00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:31.320
text line five O two six five
three zero sivin nineties the number if you

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00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:36.239
guys want to want to jump in
and join us, and something else I

549
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.920
want to get to. I mentioned
the list earlier from ESPN when it comes

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00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:45.639
to their top one hundred athletes since
two thousand, which we will get to

551
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:52.599
that later. But the yearly ESPN
poll about the best quarterback in the NFL

552
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.719
is now here. This is when
ESPN asks NFL coaches executive scouts to rank

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00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:01.559
the best quarterbacks in the NFL in
their mind, and some of the results

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00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:05.239
here might surprise you. So again
we are loaded the rest of the way.

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Keep it locked right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. All right,

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00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:10.800
let's go to the text line.
This comes in from Chris who says that

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00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:16.199
he believes that a lot of college
football programs will benefit because fans will have

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00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:20.800
the ability to know a lot more
about them by playing the game. I

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00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:23.719
suppose that's true. I mean again, the players themselves are in the game,

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00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:28.000
so you know, and I did
see that somebody shared that you cannot

561
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.840
make any you can create your own
player that kind of stuff and do what

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00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.920
do you call it the the road
to glory? Yeah, the road to

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00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:37.679
glory where you kind of start as
a high school recruit and you know,

564
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:42.760
work your way up or whatnot.
But you cannot make any edits, any

565
00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:45.880
customizations to the current players that are
in the game. So like, if

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00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:51.000
EA Sports gives you a ranking of
you know, eighty five, that's what

567
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.840
you are. So no, I
think you're right. I mean I again,

568
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:57.599
I I'm not the right person to
know if that's like, if that's

569
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.480
that's legit or not. But I'll
take your word for it. Meaning I'm

570
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:05.519
sure you know you'll be You'll have
some rando team on your schedule, and

571
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:07.159
you know you'll end up thinking,
Okay, wow, why can't I stop

572
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:10.760
this guy for ball State? Well, maybe because you know he's an All

573
00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:15.199
American, but you didn't know it
because he's playing at Ball State. So

574
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.599
I guess in that in that aspect, maybe maybe you are right. All

575
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.800
right, So again, if you
if you guys are interested in following somebody

576
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:28.119
who is always putting out some good
information when it comes to uh to sports

577
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:31.719
wagering, follow Brad Powers on Twitter. He's got sixty seven and a half

578
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:36.679
thousand followers because he's really good at
what he does. But at Brad Power

579
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.840
seven is his is his Twitter handle, and he is a handicapper and and

580
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:45.679
has gone through and and and looked
at his own I guess spreads that he

581
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:50.159
would put together for for these games
that ever, you know, for certain

582
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:52.280
skills. I guess probably every schedule
in the country, to be honest with

583
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:59.480
you, but he has just four
teams favored in every single game this year,

584
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.079
and that is teams you know that
you would expect to be really really

585
00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:06.119
good. Georgia and their closest game
spread. He has his minus two and

586
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:09.239
a half at Alabama or again,
which kind of surprised me. Their closest

587
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:15.360
their closest game is minus one and
a half at Ohio State and then Kansas

588
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:19.920
State is minus one point one at
Iowa State, but again favored in every

589
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.639
game, and then Notre Dame favored
in every game. They're closest spread is

590
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.320
when they go to Texas A and
M and they're favored by half a point.

591
00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:27.760
So he does analytics. He's got
his own formula. So that's why

592
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.480
you see spreads that are, you
know, minus one point four, which

593
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.280
you know makes no sense. So
I'm not going to touch any of those.

594
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:36.119
I just thought it was interesting to
see that's that's somebody who thinks that

595
00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:37.679
those four teams will be favored in
every single game they play. Doesn't mean

596
00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:39.800
they're gonna win them all. We
all know that. In fact, Louisville

597
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:45.159
last year, they were favored on
paper in every game before the season started.

598
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.440
By the time you got to the
end of the season, that wasn't

599
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:51.079
the case. In fact, I
think they were favored in every game but

600
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:52.599
one, and it was Notre Dame, wasn't it. I mean, I

601
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:55.159
can't think of any other team that
would have been favored over them, just

602
00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.679
because of how the schedules set up. So again, being favored didn't mean

603
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:00.079
you're gonna win it, but it
does put in prospect sort of that you

604
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.079
know, people who put money on
these things, meaning they're not doing it

605
00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:07.239
just because they're fans of a team. They just think that's that's how the

606
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:13.079
spreads would break down. So teams
that he has favored in zero games this

607
00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:19.519
fall, there's three of them,
Kennesau State, New Mexico, and Temple.

608
00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:23.360
So let's look at UH. Let's
see here. Let me try to

609
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.039
makebe make sure because there's some of
these teams that like you may not even

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be able to get a win total
for them because they're so obscure. But

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in Conference USA, Kennesaw State,
their total is two and a half.

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That's low enough to where like I
still would have a tough time taking it

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because at that level, like you
might mess around and win four games because

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you know, how much for example, how much worse can you be than

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you know, UTEP or Jacksonville State. Like Conference USA is I think the

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bottom of the barrel right now when
it comes to football at the at the

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you know, FBS level. So
that's my stay away from that one.

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But another team that that is UH, that has been bad for quite some

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time. I don't have the expectation
that they're going to be you know,

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uh any better this year is New
Mexico. So New Mexico another one of

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these teams that is not expected to
win a single game this year. Just

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as far as the spread, uh, their win total is also set at

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two and a half. I would
actually take that because I think they're their

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league is tougher and they're really really
bad and I can't I don't have it

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in front of me. But there, that's already one that I have bad

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because they're they're their non conference schedule, They've got a couple of Patsy's,

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which can there's. They're bad enough
they could lose to some of those teams.

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And I think the other they had
a notable non conference opponent that I

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feel like they're gonna get. They're
gonna get hammered and again in conference play,

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they're gonna be the worst team,
uh in their league. And then

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uh a school that you know,
I can't tell you a whole lot about

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their football program, but it's a
school I think a lot of you've heard

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of. That's Temple. So Temple
is in the American still and that league

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looks a lot different than it ones
did. But Temple, their win total

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is set at three, and they're
they're also not expected to be favored.

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So I took New Mexico. I
may take Temple just because, again like

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the Unders. But clearly there's a
reason these teams have win totals set so

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low. It is because they're supposed
to really really suck, all right,

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the other side of it here the
uh let's see, let's see here.

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Yeah, So these are teams that
are favored in eleven games this year.

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One of them is app State,
So app State, they're in the Sun

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Belt, and their win total is
eight and a half. A nine win

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app State team. I guess it's
possible, considering the league they're in,

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but I don't know if I can
do. That's a lot of wins.

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I probably would stay away from that
one. Another team expected to be favored

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in every game, but one is
Boise, and Boise's win total in the

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Mountain West is set at nine and
a half. Ten win. Boise probably

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gonna stay away. I mean,
they it could happen, but you know,

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that's that's a lot of wins.
What about this one, John,

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does this surprise you? Well,
we got Iowa. Iowa's expected to be

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favored in eleven games, this year, and again that probably won't end up

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playing out, but that's how the
formula has it here. And Iowa's win

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total is set at seven and a
half. Would that make you potentially take

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the over? I'd hammer that over. I might even hammer that over.

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Yeah, I mean, how did
I mean? Iowa? And again I

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don't have their records in front of
me, but I feel like they've been

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a consistent eight plus win team for
the last ten years well, and I

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think they've They've been made fun of
so much in recent years because of how

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dreadful they are on offense, but
yet they still usually have a good record.

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Yes, And when we looked at
that breakdown a couple of weeks ago,

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that showed sort of like are you
doing more with less or less with

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more? What really stood out to
me is that for like the last ten

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years, man, they're winning eight
or or more, I mean, and

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usually it's more than that. So
this year they've got Illinois State and Iowa

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State. That'll, yeah, that's
their rival game, they play Troy,

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and then of course all the other
games on their schedule are conference opponents,

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and they've got Minnesota, Ohio State, Washington, and Michigan State. Northwestern

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Wisconsin, UCLA, Maryland, and
Nebraska, So I could, I think

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eight and four is probably most likely
for this team, and that's why I'm

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with you. I would hammer that
one. So we've there's more of those

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we can look at before we get
to the to the to the start of

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college football season. But if you
are somebody that enjoys betting on some futures

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win totals, that kind of stuff, again I trust, I trust the

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