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It's time for Coffee and Company,
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Holy crap, I don't know who
the hell we think we are.

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Get off our show, idiot.
The kids are playing or tail off.

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The countries are screwing it up.
Goldplay inner Murals, Brother, gold play

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Inner Murals. They're supposed to be
mature adults, but they're really not.

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Who's the kid here? Who's the
kid here? Are you kidding me?

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Now? Here's Nick Coffee? All
right, welcome man, Happy Friday,

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ladies and gentlemen. Let's get the
weekend started. Coffee and Company, fuel

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by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven
ninety. That's us. In fact,

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my name is Nicholas Anthony Coffee.
The company man that is John William Alden.

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Did I get it right? Correct? A subscript at the oh,

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there we go the third? How
about that? So we're gonna get yourself

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for the weekend, try to uh, you know, get our week ended

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the right way, which, of
course again we'll send us into the weekend

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the right way. And there's certainly
a lot to get into Day two of

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the NFL Draft. Obviously last night
there's a lot to recap from that,

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I think the rather obvious takeaways,
you know, are rather obvious as many

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quarterbacks that got taken the Michael Pennox
pick. But you know, the last

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few weeks and probably for the next
month or so, we'll continue to track

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the roster for Louisville basketball and I
think for the Kentucky So I'm not really

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sure what there is to track.
I mean, they've got guys visiting,

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but you know, sounds like the
guys who don't pick Kentucky. I mean

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they just, you know, they
didn't want to be the twelfth man,

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right like I mean, you know, I'll be really good players at all

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these other schools wanted. But Mark
Pope, you know, he only has

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one player on his roster that has
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So you think that maybe he'd just
be trying to kind of build some you

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know, build some STU build,
build a foundation. You get a foundation

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set and then start building. But
yeah, he's selling all these recruits that

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they'll be eleven twelfth man, so
they're just gonna go elsewhere, you know,

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go back to BYU. So we'll
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know, Friday, I want to
mix it up, have some fun.

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The last few days have really been
just you know, laser focused on the

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Louisville stuff for obvious reasons. There's
a lot that's happened in the last week.

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In fact, a lot that's happened, as I mentioned, in the

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last few days. So no guest
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before, this time I really mean
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again, forgive me for just getting
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a lot of you know, a
lot of things going on. But we

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So, John, I want to
tell you real quick about my day.

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Okay. So got up this morning
and took my daughter to school, which

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I typically do. Then I dropped
Moose off at daycare, and then I

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made my way to the Louisville Zoo
to be a part of my first field

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trip as a parent. That's pretty
awesome. Yeah, So my daughter's class,

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and I think some of the classes
from her elementary school had a zoo

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field trip and it was it was
kind of you know, it was awesome

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by the way, but it was
also one of those things that like,

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you know, here I am on
a field trip as as you know,

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as I don't know if I was
a chaperone. I mean, I didn't

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sign anything. They probably they probably
just let me tag along. They don't

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want to make me responsible for anything, which makes total sense. But it

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was awesome. I got to be
around my daughter and her classmates for a

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few hours and just kind of see
them all enjoy everything that comes with the

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zoo. We had lunch, they
played on the playground. And for those

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who don't know, my daughter is
special needs. She's intellectually disabled, and

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she has a class that she's in
for the majority of her school day.

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She does kind of have you know, a home room, but the majority

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of her day is spent in a
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And uh so it's been awesome overall. But you know, she never since

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she's been in the school system,
she's in second grade now, she's never

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she's never changed like it's been the
same the same crew of kids, if

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you know what I mean. So
you know, it's not like, you

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know, each year we're having to
learn about some new friends she's making.

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And she always makes new friends,
and there are some new kids every now

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and then that kind of move into
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But it's such a great group of
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that that are a part of it. Uh. And we've always my wife

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and I've always been super appreciative of
her teacher Ms. Samantha James, who's

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who's great, and everybody that works
alongside her. And just for me to

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be around it for you know,
three hours rather than just dropping her off,

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you know in the morning and whatnot. But uh, it was a

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lot of fun and it made me
feel kind of old. But it was

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cool and the weather was great,
and then you know, luckily the rain.

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Did you hit rain on your way
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my drive, we got some rain. Yeah, I didn't realize. I

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guess it's just going to I think
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cloudy the rest of the way.
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little breezy early in the morning,
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be I don't know, nine thirty
ten o'clock, it was perfect weather out

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there. And I went on a
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We never went to the zoo.
Did you ever go to the zoo on

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a field trip? I feel like
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it was the early years, like
kindergarten. Maybe did you where do you

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think you guys went the most?
So in elementary school. I lived in

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Indiana, so it was a lot
of places that people around, Yeah,

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familiar, totally different type of stuff. The one thing I do remember,

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though, is we went to the
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to guess that I was getting ready
to guess like that had to be the

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ultimate go to because we went on
some of those field trips there. Okay,

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And maybe you know, maybe my
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later is not it's it's you know, it's it's it's failing me. But

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I feel like we went to a
lot of the same places, like a

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bunch of times my old Kentucky home
in Barchtown, Bloomfield, I think is

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where that's at. We went there
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I think we were on a field
trip there when one eleven happened, and

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we were somewhere on a field trip, because I remember leaving and then coming

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back. We left to go on
this field trip, and at the time,

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you know, he could tell the
teachers were distracted and the TVs were

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on, and it was a big
deal. But you know, as a

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young kid, I didn't really know
exactly how big of a deal it was.

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But then we end up, you
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to the field trip and coming back, and at that time, you know,

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cell phones didn't really exist. That's
how old I am. John.

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Teachers didn't have cell phones whenever,
you know, in two thousand and one,

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and if they did, they weren't
smartphones or anything like that. Like

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you weren't checking for updates. Yeah, and maybe you were maybe playing Snake

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on your phone or making a phone
call. You probably even know what snake

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is, do you? I think
I know it? Is it that snake

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dot io is what it's turned into? Is it similar to that? I

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don't know. It was Snake.
Snake, to my knowledge, was the

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first game ever on any phone,
and it wasn't much of a game,

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but it was a big deal.
Because you know, it was new.

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So we came back and obviously you
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everybody that was on the field trip, students, teachers, chaperones, parents,

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all that stuff. Like at that
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and go back to the TV.
You realize, oh wow, like this

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is you know, this is crazy. So we went there a lot.

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We went to the Science Center,
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and saw plays occasionally, like at
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those were always those were always a
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science center is probably where we went
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were were always a lot of I
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was you know, I wasn't a
great student, and maybe this is maybe

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this is one of the reasons why
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where we were going. I was
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I mean, like we can agree
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Like that was a big part of
it. So I forgot about this because

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you know, some some kids that
that that had their parents go with them

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to the field trip today they ended
up just leaving with them whenever. You

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know, the field trip was wrapped
up, not everybody, but some of

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them. And then you know,
I had to come to work. My

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wife's at work, so my wife
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and I forgot all about that.
I remember the you know, just the

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waste of time that you have when
you get back to school after a field

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trip. Sometimes it's like an hour
maybe a little bit longer, and like

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there's gonna be no productivity, nothing's
gonna get done, Like you're not gonna

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start the school day when with that
much time left, and you just you're

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just waiting for it, Dan,
Like, what are we doing here?

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Can we just go home now?
Obviously my daughter's very young, so you

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know, they'll they'll they'll keep them
busy doing something, but it's probably more

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playing than it is, you know, learning stuff. But there was some

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nostalgia there today because despite it being
a much different situation than you know,

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what I than you know, when
I would be a part of a field

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trip thirty years ago, you know, the field trip vibes were there.

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I guess that's the uh the best
way to put it. And it was

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a lot of fun and it was
there were tons of uh tons of different

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schools there, different classes from each
school. I mean bus loads of kids

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coming in. Uh, But I'll
give the zoo credit. You know,

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they you know, clearly they do
this frequently, right, it's this one

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in the first time. They just
decided to have a day where they welcome

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in a bunch of different schools,
bringing hundreds of kids, seemingly, but

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they had it organized, you know, they let you in school by school,

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so we we had ourselves. We
had ourselves a great day. But

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again it's one of those days where
I'm feeling, you know, on the

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older side. Real quick, how
long has it been since you've been to

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the zoo? So I had not
been to the zoo in a few years,

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and then I went. Actually,
gosh, we went the weekend,

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the weekend that Pat Kelsey was hired. So we went for the first time

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as a family in a long time. So we used to go all the

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time with my daughter was really really
little, like a baby. My wife

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got the zoo the family Zoo pass. Oh yeah, remember, you know,

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and you know, sometimes it's the
last thing on the in the world

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I wanted to do. But you
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You know, we were new parents, and she was so into it and

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you know, I just you know, I'll tag along, but at times

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it you know, it was the
last place I wanted to be. And

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because she bought the zoo pass and
paid whatever she paid for it, like

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if we didn't go every now and
then, she'd feel like we were wasting

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it. And then COVID happened and
we didn't go back to the zoo,

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And I mean, I mean I
think when we went a few weeks ago,

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it was first time we'd gone since
pre COVID. So it is sad

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though the did you know the elephants, sir, I was going to bring

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that up, or they got rid
of them? Yeah, I mean they

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didn't like get rid of them.
Sounds like they put them down, that's

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what I mean. Yeah, but
yeah, they're moving them. Yeah,

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it's like a sanctuary, which is
really sad because of the of the animals

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that like just visually really just stand
out to you, because of the massiveness

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that you know, the like giraffes, elephants, the gorillas, and there's

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one other one we saw today that
was just like very you know, you've

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seen one before, but like each
time you see it for the first time

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in a while, it's like Wow, that's that is a monstrous creature or

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you beautiful animal. But the elephants
were certainly that, right. I mean

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they had, you know, probably
the biggest space of any any of the

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animals there, and they're no longer
going to be there, and that's uh,

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you know, that's sad. Did
you have a favorite animal when you

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went to the zoo? I don't
know that I did. I always liked

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elephants, like you mentioned, giraffes
are pretty cool. I did, but

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it was super boring. What wasn't
the turtles, which I don't even think

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they're there now. I think like
they've they're either either they weren't cool enough

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to get a spot or something similar
to the elements where maybe like there,

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I don't know, I don't think
there. Maybe certain types of turtles have

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become so rare that maybe they don't
have them in zoos. But yeah,

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shout out to Louisville Zoo. All
right, let's uh, let's dive in,

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shall we? I mean I want
to We'll get into the to the

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latest with the Louisville basketball roster,
because honestly, things have kind of calmed

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a little bit. There are some
visitors set up for the next week or

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so one that I know of this
weekend, and you know, we'll get

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into that. Some have already asked, Hey, is there going to be

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a new wave of of guys that're
in on and then you know, start

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scheduling visits bringing them in, and
then we kind of follow that same process,

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right, you know Louisville and Pat
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yesterday with with doctor Larry Ben's and
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chatting about Pat Kelsey and how how
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you know, filling this roster.
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mentioned about Pat whenever I was learning
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the coach was somebody told me that
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ever been around. And I I
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but in that role as a head
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of things. And you know,
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layers to what that means in regards
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I think they clearly have an organized
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how they're how they're going to go
get players. I mean, clearly there

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is an there is a process in
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going to fully pursue. And then
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there's a lot of probably phone calls
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that's done that's not in person.
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a visit. And if you get
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know, the vibes are good,
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and it doesn't appear that there's you
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that have an advantage over you.
I think at that point we sit and

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wait to see if you get you
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you know they've they've not gotten a
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to be the guy that claim that
they didn't want Maddox, the Toledo transfer

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who ended up at Xavier. I
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a liar to say that. I
that I thought they didn't want Nick Boyd,

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who transferred from fau to San Diego
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for a visit, and you know, they clearly wanted him, and they

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didn't get him, So it happens, right, you're not gonna get everybody,

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which you know Kentucky fans though,
if they didn't get if somebody didn't

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give me to Kentucky, it's clearly
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and you know they just said,
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probably just didn't want to be tenth
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gotten everybody, and they'll continue to
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him. And that's how this works. But so far, so good.

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But again, who that whole process
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check and see if there's any initial
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if two days go by and you

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know the visit went well and you
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it's not a full proof thing.
It's not a guarantee. But I think

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at that point you I think you're
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could get this commitment at any point. So again we'll get into all that

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stuff. In fact, there's some
big names that have already entered the portal

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today from college basketball and Hunter Dickinson
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don't you know, not that I
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time on that, but uh one, Kansas is going to be absolutely loaded

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again because I don't think anybody's done
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they brought back Hunter Dickinson, who
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in which Bill's self and Hunter Dickinson
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have been the corniest thing I've ever
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But I think they believe that it
was like a really cool like you

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know, like it was you know, it was, it was funny and

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it was lame. But anyways,
we'll get intoll that. Let's talk about

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the NFL Draft. So I was
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and you know, I didn't say
it first, but one of my

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close friends said, Hey, is
it just me or does this feel like

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the the like the Lamish draft ever, Like there's not a lot of buzz,

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there's not a lot of like,
it just kind of feels flat.

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There's not as much hype about it. You know, we all kind of

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collectively agreed we didn't realize the draft
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two days prior, and then I
realized we're all Louisville or Kentucky fans,

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like my group of friends, and
it could just be that we're so

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preoccupied by seeing how Mark Pope and
Pat Kelsey are putting things together that like,

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that's why we just haven't paid as
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like, do you guys think that
this was kind of just a not a

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ho hum draft? And look,
there's some really good players in this draft,

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but it just, I don't know, the lead up to it just

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kind of didn't seem to be what
it used to be. But I'm willing

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to believe that it may just be
because we're kind of in our own bubble

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here, because this is rare.
This is not normal for both of these

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basketball programs to be going through a
coaching change at the same time and building

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an entirely new team from scratch.
So again, back to the draft,

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no surprises, Kayleb Williams number one, and after Caleb Williams, Jane Daniels

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number two, which one of the
things that you know, Jadan Daniels was

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sensational at LSU put up some big
time numbers, I mean six, three,

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two, ten. I mean some
say he's got a lot of Patrick

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Mahomes traits to him, which you
know that I don't know if I necessarily

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believe that, but hey, others
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they believe it, so it's worth
something. But this dude's been in college

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forever, like this is let me
see if I can pull up the there

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was a play that somebody shared from
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By the way, did you even
know he went to Arizona State? John

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First, I didn't. He transferred
from Arizona State. And I'm pretty sure

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like there's, yeah, there's a
I'll find it later, but there's there's

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a highlight that mentions like two different
players from when he was at Arizona State

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that had been in the league for
like years now, and it just really

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you know, and again, I
don't think your age is as big of

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a deal when you're a quarterback in
the NFL, you know, compared to

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when you're like a basketball player,
Like if you're coming out of college and

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you're twenty four, like the NBA
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But you know, I'm not here
to say that, you know, Jane

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Daniels is going to be a bust, But to me, I just think

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he fell right into what these NFL
gms can't help themselves with is a quarterback

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who has the ability to not only
you know, showcase a big arm,

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put up big numbers, but he's
mobile, he's athletic. And these are

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guys that, you know, ten
years ago would never get a sniff,

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right, if you weren't built like
a refrigerator, quite literally, like a

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Ben Roethlisberger or a Josh Allen,
you weren't sniff in the NFL, right,

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you had to have that prototype.
And the game has changed. And

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I'm not here to say that it
was Lamar Jackson that changed it, but

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you know, around the time that
you know, you know, he's one

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of those guys that got to the
league. And honestly, Russell Wilson was

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another guy too. I mean,
I would not compare at all Russell Wilson

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to Lamar Jackson, but Russell Wilson, you know, he was the third

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round pick I think it was for
the Seahawks, and he was not a

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tip guy as far as his building
how he played, but it worked and

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he won. So Number three was
Drake May and could have been JJ McCarthy,

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but Drake May was the guy.
And when I say could have been,

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because there's a lot of folks that
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You know, there's been plenty of
guys who I thought would be total

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bust, would be complete failures,
and they were good. And the one

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that stands to mind most recently for
me is Josh Allen. I just didn't

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understan mean, he had to build, but you know, his statistics at

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Wyoming weren't even that good. And
I just felt like it was nflgms looking

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at a dude who was getting built
like a refrigerator and they and they love

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the thought of that, right,
And he's been phenomenal in Buffalo. I

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mean, he's not been the best
guy in the league, but he's been

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great. So then Marvin Harrison Junior, I knew he wasn't going to be

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a cult but it did make me
sad because I saw some of the graphics

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and just some of the you know, just hearing them talk about it after

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he got drafted. I'm a lifelong
cult fan. When I fell in love

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with the Indianapolis Colts. Was right
around the time that did Marvin Harrison Senior

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was drafted. You know, people
think I became a Colts fan because Peyton

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Manning. I became a became a
Colts fan because, you know, my

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dad decided he was a Colts fan. And at the time Peyton Manning wasn't

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there. It was Edrin James and
Harball. Harball was our quarterback when I

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first went and saw the Colts play
a game. So, you know,

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Marvin Harrison whole career there, Hall
of Famer, phenomenal, and I would

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have just like, this is insane, but I'm just gonna say it because

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I say some insane things sometimes,
like if a guy's a first ballot Hall

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of Famer who played his entire career, won a Super Bowl at one franchise,

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If his son, especially one who
has his same name, if he

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is in the NFL draft, if
he wants to go play for the team

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his dad played for, they should
let him. Is that crazy, John?

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If he wanted to play for the
Colts, the NFL should say,

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well, we can't stop him because
what his father gave to that organize.

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Like, I just think that you
know, selfishly thinking here, but like

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that's not I mean, why not, right? I mean I wish,

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I wish the Colts would make it
happen with the I don't know. I

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guess you can move your picks around
Finnagel a little bit, but obviously it's

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not important enough to him or else
it would happened. Yeah, I would

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have loved it. I would have
loved have seen him as an Indianapolis Colt.

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And look, I knew all along, like the way the way the

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draft was set up with as far
as where the Colts were picking, there

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was no chance it was gonna happen. But I would have loved to have

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seen them trade up and make a
move. But you know, they didn't.

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And I'm gonna always be a Colts
fan because you know, there's been

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times where I felt like, you
know, the opportunity was there to bolt,

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and I just couldn't do it,
because it's just not natural to just

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all this all of a sudden,
stopped having the emotional attachment to a team

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you've loved your whole life. But
I have no faith in their future at

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all. I mean I don't think
Anthony Richardson, I mean Anthony Richardson.

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You know, he started three games, never finished one because he got hurt

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in all of them. Then he
got injured, missed the whole year.

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You know, maybe he ends up
doing, you know, being something special.

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But I you know, I just
that that's who they picked as the

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first rounder last year. And the
guy they picked this year, who knows,

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maybe is great, but like you
know, I it's a guy they

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probably could have got in the second
round. I think so. Anyways,

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nobody cares about my colts though.
At number five was Joe Alt, the

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tackle from Notre Dame Harball, making
his first pick as an NFL coach with

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the Chargers. And this may not
have even have gotten as much attention as

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is I think it did. But
if you haven't seen the video where Joe

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Alt is in the living room or
wherever he was with a big group of

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people, his family and friends,
his sister was next to him, and

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the look on her face whenever the
camera pans to her was very very odd.

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That's I'll just put it that way. You can go look at it

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for yourself. Malik Neighbors with the
Giants. Some think he may be the

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best player in this draft. The
receiver from LSU j C. Latham,

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the ot from Alabama goes with the
Titans. And then this is the pick

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everybody is talking about. Michael PENNOCKX
Junior John's favorite NFL quarterback as of today

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because he's now in the league.
Former Hoosier who went on to Washington became

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a phenomenal player there, took them
all the way to the National Championship Game.

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He was drafted by the Falcons,
and I mean, it's safe to

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say that he's easily the most talked
about selection from last night. And what's

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happened here is it was for the
first I don't know, it hadn't even

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twenty four hours since the pick was
made, but it went from a universally

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criticized decision to where now nine out
of ten people are still saying, man,

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the Falcons a bunch of dumbasses making
those picks, Like what are they

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doing? And then the video of
the of their GM talking to the owner.

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You can't see what's being said,
but it looks as if is it

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Arthur what's the name of the I
can't think of the name of the Falcons

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owner. He's like the home depot
guy. And anyways, he's in like

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the war room as they call it, and you can see the GM and

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him talking, and I'm sure this
is not what it was, but somebody

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like quoted it and said, this
is when the GM had to just had

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to explain to his boss why he
picked a quarterback at the number eight pick

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when they just signed a lucrative four
year deal for Kirk Cousins. So again

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it's gone from it's still being criticized, but I do see people now kind

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of like it's it's this has happened
before, where something just becomes the most

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like bashed thing in sports, some
will just naturally gravitate towards defending it,

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just to kind of go against the
grain. And I've heard some people say,

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well, hey, no, this
makes total sense because you know,

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look at what happened with Aaron Rodgers
in Green Bay. Jordan Love. He

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sat there forever and then you know
then he was a pretty good quarterback,

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and you know he had Jordan Love
really broke out this past year. So

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I'm not ready to go there.
But it's one of those picks that I

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just think the optics make it look
as if you don't know what the hell

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you're doing. And Pennix junior.
You know, clearly they like him a

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lot, but they could They knew
when they were they were, They knew

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when they were going to be getting
their they knew where they were picking when

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they signed Kirk Cousins, right,
And maybe he didn't want to. But

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like I, if you're gonna draft
a quarterback at number eight, wouldn't you

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think that that's a guy that you
know more often than not, it's going

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to be your starter right away because
you're that bad and you need a quarterback.

410
00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:14.640
So I can't make a lot of
sense of it, but that's where

411
00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:17.960
he is. I don't know if
I can be a Falcon fan either,

412
00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:22.839
because he won't be playing. I
don't feel like, yeah, I mean

413
00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:27.720
eventually maybe, but this could maybe
get Kirk Cousins to like request the trade,

414
00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:30.519
that's true, I mean that could
see that happening. I really could,

415
00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:33.920
all right, a lot more to
get into. We'll keep it rolling

416
00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.359
along. I think it's more,
you know, more bad news for Mark

417
00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:41.400
Pope. But I'm convinced that no
matter what happens, no matter how many

418
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.920
guys decide they're not going to come
to play at Kentucky, for Mark Pope,

419
00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:47.720
it's not bad news. I mean
Kucky fans, there's we don't need

420
00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:49.599
him like he was gonna be like
he might have. We might have we

421
00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.079
might have let him wear a uniform
one one game. Other than that,

422
00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:56.920
he'd being street clothes. Because you
know, we got eighteen guys that are

423
00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.119
super secret guys not even in the
portal. Dudes who've already won Olympic gold

424
00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.200
for the Team USA that are nobody
knows about him. Yeah, but they're

425
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.640
entering the portal and they're coming here. All right, So some quick updates

426
00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.920
here on the on the roster tracker
situation is that is that? Is that

427
00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:15.640
okay to use that for you know, the way to describe it. That's

428
00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:17.839
the way it is. No.
Yeah, I mean we're tracking the roster

429
00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:21.880
here and that includes you know,
guys visiting and guys that have visited portal,

430
00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:23.960
that kind of stuff. So when
I say roster tracker, I assume

431
00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:26.400
people know what I mean. But
there is one that we can, uh

432
00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:33.319
we can pull off the board because
uh, Humrikus Humberk House. Humberk House,

433
00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.119
he has decided uh to h to
commit to Illinois. So he did

434
00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.640
visit Louisville this past week. Uh, he's somebody that I don't believe there

435
00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:42.519
was a I mean, I could
be wrong, trust me, and I'm

436
00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:47.079
I'm there's no doubt I could have
missed something. But I believe he's somebody

437
00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.400
that everybody found out was visiting because
he was here like that, you know,

438
00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:53.319
he was pictured and I think maybe
he put out a list of like

439
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:57.319
thirty schools when he first hit the
portal. The Evansville transfer, but he

440
00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:00.799
is committed to Illinois, so Bummer
would have been a good fit as far

441
00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:03.440
as just the way he plays,
because clearly, I think right now,

442
00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:07.079
if you look at the guys Pat
Kelsey has added, versatility is without question,

443
00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:11.440
uh, part of the plan here, right, I mean they still

444
00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.319
need I think maybe, I mean, they need more interior players for sure,

445
00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.240
and they've got a seven footer that
is visiting this weekend. We'll talk

446
00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:21.599
a little bit more about him later
on in the show. But uh yeah,

447
00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:26.960
uh hum, say it again,
Humberous. He started his career in

448
00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:30.400
NAI School, I believe, in
Indiana, went to Evansville for a year,

449
00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.519
and they were much better than they
used in Evansville. At one point

450
00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:36.400
was close to being the one of
the doormats of the of the country.

451
00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:38.559
Well it's probably an exaggeration, but
I mean they were really really bad for

452
00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:44.519
a long time, and uh,
they were better this past year and only

453
00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:48.119
and here I am saying they're better. They may have lost as many games,

454
00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:49.119
but they covered a lot more.
And I know that because I used

455
00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:52.240
to bet on him a lot.
I bet on him too. They helped

456
00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:55.039
me get a lot, Yeah,
because they I think that there are a

457
00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:59.680
level in college basketball that you can
if you if you, you know,

458
00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.119
if you really want to invest and
I don't mean money, I mean time

459
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:07.960
in watching and kind of studying a
team like that. You can't take advantage

460
00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:11.359
of lines that are set with people
really not understanding that, yeah they're not

461
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:12.799
good, but they're not going to
get beat by nineteen, you know what

462
00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:15.880
I mean. So he was a
part of that. He put up some

463
00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.640
big numbers. A guy that's just
a stretch forward that plays on the perimeter,

464
00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:22.079
can you know, can help you
space it out, can shoot it

465
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.559
and he'll be a good one in
Illinois. But you know, I honestly

466
00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:30.680
think that given what Louisvill's added everywhere
else, I could see why this kid

467
00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:33.039
would maybe want to, you know, probably fit a specific role they're looking

468
00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:37.119
for at Illinois. All right,
it is Coffee and Company. We are

469
00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:40.160
feeled by Thornton's here on a Sports
Talk seven ninety. We'll get back into

470
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:41.359
the NFL Draft stuff in just a
moment, because I forgot to mention a

471
00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:45.400
couple of things. The Buffalo Bills, I mean, the Bill's mafia.

472
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.599
I mean, they were on top
of the world for a few years.

473
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:49.480
It felt as if any moment now
they're going to get that Super Bowl.

474
00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:52.880
They were building towards it, and
I don't think the window is closed for

475
00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:56.359
the Bills, but it kind of
feels like if they were going to break

476
00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:57.799
through, it would have happened in
the last couple of years. And then

477
00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:00.640
last night, I thought they looked
completely foolish at the end of that first

478
00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:06.680
round with them trading away and getting
out of the first round with the two

479
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.079
teams in the last two picks picking
receivers, when quite literally the Bills are

480
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.519
desperate for receivers right now. So
there's some more takeaways. Say, we

481
00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:18.680
got to talk about a guy who
I believe is clearly the biggest clown among

482
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.920
NFL owners, who really showed his
ash yesterday. So trust me, we'll

483
00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:23.759
get back into the NFL, and
we've got night too to night of the

484
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:33.400
draft, which is exciting. But
let's talk about Kentucky because disclaimer, I'll

485
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.799
put this on the front of this
comment here and I'll put it on the

486
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.000
end of it just to be clear. Kentucky's going to get players. Their

487
00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:49.839
roster could end up being pretty good. But the inability to take the l

488
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:56.319
when you don't get a player is
from the cal era and it's something you

489
00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:00.759
haven't been able to shake off yet
because you did not lose very many players

490
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:07.640
at all to other schools when Cali
Perry was your coach. You didn't and

491
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.119
it gave you a sense of arrogance. Then honestly was justified. When it

492
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.039
comes to recruiting getting players, Kentucky
and Cali Perry dominated, and yes they

493
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.720
lost players. It's not like they
got everybody they wanted, but honestly,

494
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.599
they lost players to Duke. Like
I'd say, the majority of the guys

495
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:26.759
Caliperi went all in on and did
not get in the last I don't know

496
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:30.799
seven eight years were all guys that
committed to go to Duke. The majority.

497
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.839
I mean, there's others right that
have been it of elsewhere. But

498
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.640
that was something that I don't think
you can just, you know, in

499
00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:42.359
a month's time lose. And what
I mean is the you know, the

500
00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:48.039
the arrogance. But like Mark Hoe's
not Cali Perry, and I think you

501
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:51.240
say, and I believe these Kentucky
fans, I know a lot of them,

502
00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:53.759
they know that they're not going to
be recruiting in the same waters and

503
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:56.759
they're fine with that. I believe. I think it'll be weird if kl

504
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.039
just starts rolling in and he's let's
say he's killed it next year and you

505
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.759
know, you have a roster of
players that look as if they would have

506
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.319
never sniffed the floor for cal and
Arkansas is better than Kentucky. Like,

507
00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:10.799
that'll be a process, you know, and I think they'll lose their minds

508
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:12.640
like most passionate fan bases do.
But I think overall it, you know,

509
00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:15.799
Mark Pope is their guy, and
you know they're gonna give him enough

510
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.440
time to see if it works out. It's not like, you know,

511
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.119
next year, if they're not great, then they're gonna they're gonna say he

512
00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:22.400
needs to go. I mean,
maybe some will, but that'll be the

513
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:30.039
extreme, you know, minority,
not the majority, but Hope is gonna

514
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.480
lose players too, like he's going
to get turned down. And it doesn't

515
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.920
mean he sucks as a coach,
like this is the this is normal.

516
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:40.960
There are how many? I mean, look, Yukon Danny Hurley just won

517
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.279
back to back national championships. He's
on top of the world. I don't

518
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:47.599
know if he's missed out on anybody
yet right now, like since you know

519
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:51.839
he became this back to back national
championship winner. But you think in the

520
00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:53.799
last couple of years he hasn't lost
players to other schools. He probably has

521
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:56.519
lost him to schools you would like, I bet I bet Seton Hall's got

522
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.640
a player or two over him,
like it happens. But what was going

523
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:04.640
on in Kentucky was so rare.
And it's because you know, as much

524
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:08.319
as it isn't fun to say cal
Perry is the best recruiter that has ever

525
00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:14.200
existed in college basketball. That mean
he's best coach. We all know that.

526
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.279
But that's not something you just are
gonna get over, like that is

527
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.079
what you were used to for fourteen
years. And yeah, throughout those fourteen

528
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:27.039
years, some were great, some
were good, some were not so good.

529
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:33.640
One or two were bad. But
throughout all that, outside of the

530
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.640
wins and losses, when it comes
to just recruiting and bringing in players,

531
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:42.559
he was dominant. And nobody's gonna
do that, and I think, you

532
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:47.559
know, Mark Pope isn't. But
like the inability to just accept that you

533
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:49.400
lost a player because he didn't want
to go to Kentucky and play for Mark

534
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:55.920
Pope like that, Like, to
me, that's fascinating and maybe it's just

535
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.880
to be expected because again what I
just laid out like this is so different

536
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.599
than what they were used to for
fourteen years. But Richie Saunders, who

537
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:08.559
hit the portal as soon as Mark
Pope left scheduled to visit, showed up

538
00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:14.599
in Lexington. That was the big
you know, he's getting off the Mark

539
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:17.240
Pope showed up at the airport right
Mark Pope's Wife's there to greet him.

540
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.359
Big deal. Like you know,
he he seemed to be a shoe in

541
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:25.000
to go to Kentucky. Well last
night it comes out that he decided to

542
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:30.119
stay at at Byu, which,
by the way, if you follow those

543
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:34.880
who cover Byu Saunders, I think
through you know, talking to one of

544
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:39.319
the reporters of the Beat writers whoever
it was the nil situation at BYU in

545
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:43.279
Kentucky for him, was the same
thing, so he stayed. Now,

546
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.519
if Mark Pope advised the Nile Collective
for Kentucky not to spend more than this

547
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:51.799
because you know, he knows he's
gonna need money for bigger, better place,

548
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.559
that makes total sense. That's totally
fine. But those who look at

549
00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:59.599
this situation as if yeah, I
mean Pope probably told him, you know,

550
00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:02.480
he'd be the tenth man, might
give him a jersey, you know,

551
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:05.920
might let him get in the game
at the end with the walk ons,

552
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.680
right they're up fifty, they may
you know, hell, they may

553
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:13.400
let him do one of those contests
you know during the TV timeouts right where

554
00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:16.400
you shoot a layup, a free
throw, a three pointer, and if

555
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:20.400
you make the half court shot you
get a free car. No, not

556
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:22.640
for him, though he'd get playing
time. Maybe they let him play for

557
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.680
a couple of minutes. Like that's
just that is hilarious arrogance that I cannot

558
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:32.240
believe. Yeah, Mark Pope,
he wanted to bring a productive player for

559
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:36.880
him, who averaged ten points in
four rebounds per game as a sophomore in

560
00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:40.720
the Big twelve, best league in
the country. Shot fifty two percent from

561
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:46.359
the floor. But yeah, his
coach brought into election in for an official

562
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:52.640
visit and picked him up at the
airport to be a scrub when he only

563
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:58.880
has one player on his team with
a single second of college basketball experience.

564
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:01.200
Yeah, that's what it is.
Just makes it. Yeah, he's just

565
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:04.960
gonna stay back at yet and if
he just you know, he was cute,

566
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.279
but you know, he's just I
don't even know if they'd let me

567
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:10.199
be in the same gym with the
players Mark Pope's bringing in the monstars from

568
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:16.199
Space Gym, they may not even
let me around those guys. So to

569
00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:19.920
say that Kentucky didn't want him as
a lie and they know that. But

570
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:22.679
now what they've done, and this
may be true, but like it's always

571
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:24.440
something well, you know, he's
got a family, like he's you know,

572
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:27.960
he's grown, he's got a family
and wife and you apparently his wife

573
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:30.599
was in on the visit and he
wanted to come to Kentucky, but you

574
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:32.559
know, his wife didn't like Lexington, so you know he couldn't come.

575
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:38.280
Like it's it's it's the gymnastics mentally, to like tell to tell yourself that

576
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:44.119
like, well, no Biggie.
I mean, we told that guy could

577
00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.199
come here, but you know,
only if he if he'd clean up the

578
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:52.920
arena after the games. Because he's
a scrub. I mean, get over

579
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.159
yourself. You're gonna miss out on
players. It happens, it's normal.

580
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:05.519
And then Corey Brea, who was
the marksman from Dayton sharpshooter. He was

581
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.239
initially considering. We talked about him
earlier this week, Kentucky, Duke,

582
00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:15.519
Yukon, Carolina, and Kansas the
elites right as far as brands, well,

583
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:20.800
he's only going to be visiting Duke
and Yukon now he's no longer considering

584
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:22.159
the others. He's not visiting.
He's down to Duke and Yukon. Those

585
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:28.639
he's only two visits. But I'm
sure it's because you know, every elite

586
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:32.119
program in the country wanted him.
He was going to visit, but he

587
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:36.920
already heard Mark Pope again. I
mean, this guy can shoot so well,

588
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.920
they might actually let him. They
might have had him in the three

589
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:45.519
deep, would be twelfth man.
And then there's another guy, davey On

590
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:51.039
Smith from Utah, the transfer.
I don't know specifics here, he's a

591
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.280
really good player. We talked about
him yesterday. He's I think he's the

592
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.639
guy who had five triple doubles for
Utah last year. He was going to

593
00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:00.559
visit this weekend. Now he's not. I'll take you know, I've known

594
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:06.239
nothing about why he's not. Apparently
there's something and like something with his situation

595
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:08.800
that makes it to where he can't, like he can't come to Kentucky.

596
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:13.559
And I'm not saying that that's untrue. I have no clue that could be

597
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:19.159
the case. But but you know, if it fits with the it's always

598
00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:21.559
something right, because there's no way
that there's no way that this guy just

599
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.320
there's no scenario he would just decide
he didn't want to visit, right,

600
00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:25.960
And look, maybe it is out
of his control, but I'm convinced that

601
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.800
no matter what happens throughout this,
you know, throughout this process with Kentucky

602
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:34.519
and Mark Poper trying to go get
players, like, there's never going to

603
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.679
be a guy that doesn't go to
Kentucky because can you know, because he

604
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:44.320
just didn't want to becau It's always
going to be something else. And great

605
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.400
programs that have had a lot more
success than Kentucky in the last you know,

606
00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:52.000
seven eight years, they lose players
often. I mean maybe that's a

607
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.960
stretch to say often, but like
it happens, but they're not used to

608
00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:59.239
it because they because they never did
you really think about it, Kentucky was

609
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:06.320
Kyle did Who is the I mean
the closest second would be Duke, right,

610
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:09.079
I mean Duke and Kansas. Yeah, I mean in terms of like

611
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:13.800
the elite of the elite freshmen.
Yeah, but Kansas, yeah, I

612
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guess Kansas. You know, Kansas
is certainly up there, but the Kansas's

613
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roster was always a little bit more
fluid where they would bring in a great

614
00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:27.559
crop of freshman every year, but
probably not as many as as you know

615
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:30.360
Kentucky could, and they would always
have guys coming back, right like they

616
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:37.880
So it's just different. But I
just I think somebody and you produced KSR

617
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earlier today, and I don't know, he might have been a caller who

618
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:43.400
said it, and I think,
this is like, this is this is

619
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this is normal, and this is
fair, this is understandable. You're not

620
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:49.840
like worried, but you're not not
worried. I think then somebody say that

621
00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.000
earlier. And if you remember,
there was a caller who said about the

622
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:55.960
roster they were talking about being worried
and also like the uncertainty and nervousness that

623
00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:59.960
comes along with this kind of stuff. Yeah, like that makes sense.

624
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.559
But I think at times, like
when it's almost like whenever they lost,

625
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:07.679
when they lost Scott Drew and then
it was like, all right, make

626
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.239
Dan Hurley say no, like that's
actually a sign that you are you're worried.

627
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.199
So I think some of the deflection
of like, well, you know

628
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:16.840
his wife didn't like it. Here, Oh, he'd have been the he'd

629
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:21.400
have been the he might have got
in you know, he wouldn't be able

630
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:23.360
to go to road games. They
make him drive the bus though, if

631
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.800
he did go to road games for
the team, Like that's that's all like,

632
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.800
like that's that's that's a sign that
you're nervous, and it's okay to

633
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:32.360
be nervous. This is new.
We're all Nobody knows how good any of

634
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:36.000
these coaches are going to be.
When I say any of these coaches,

635
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.079
I mean Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey. But I just find it, you

636
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:44.920
know, it's just interesting to me
to see the inability to just acknowledge that,

637
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:46.480
you know, maybe Mark Pope wanted
a guy and the guy didn't want

638
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So real quick. Uh. The
visitor that's that's unless something's changed,

667
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that is gonna be on campus for
uh for Louisville this weekend is the seven

668
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:42.440
footer who has a cool name.
UH. And it is Keenan Fitzmorris.

669
00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:45.320
I was about to say fitz Simmons, but Keenan fitz Morris is a stony

670
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:50.679
Brook grad transfer. And I believe
he started his career at uh AT I

671
00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:54.440
think it's it's Sandford maybe, but
yeah, he's visiting. He's a seven

672
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:59.880
footer, you know, his his
production. In fact, I'm sorry,

673
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:01.280
Stanford not Sanford. I don't know
want I said Sandford, but yeah,

674
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:04.639
he started his career at Stanford,
you know, on the West Coast,

675
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:07.400
and then at Stonybrook. This past
year had you know, the best,

676
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:13.079
the best season of his of his
career ten points, roughly eleven points,

677
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.079
ten point nine, four and a
half boards, just over a block a

678
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:20.119
game. To me, this is
somebody that that you know, you could

679
00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:23.119
bring in that would give you some
good depth. I'm not sure what other

680
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:25.880
visits he has scheduled, but he's
seven foot, two hundred and fifty pounds,

681
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:29.679
an experienced guy. Uh And you
know, right now, when it

682
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:35.800
comes to interior players, you have
obviously James Scott, who followed Pat Kelsey

683
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:38.440
here, and then you've got Ali
Khalifa, who again another big fellow.

684
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:43.079
But the belief is that he is
going to red shirt, so you know,

685
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:47.239
this would be a really good addition, just so you have you know,

686
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.480
who knows, maybe this guy would
be a you know, an integral

687
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:52.679
piece that plays a lot and has
a big role. But to me,

688
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:54.400
he's somebody that that if you could
land him, and I don't know if

689
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:58.119
they will, right, I don't
know where they stand because I you know,

690
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:04.960
he's probably being prioritized by some other
schools and I would get it right,

691
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.199
this is a guy who has one
year left, he's not looking to

692
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:12.480
go and you know, wait over
time to get a big role. So,

693
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.039
uh, there were a lot of
schools I saw that he'd listed,

694
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:16.159
but as far as his visits,
I'm not quite sure. But look,

695
00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:21.559
there's no doubt right now when you
look at the overall roster as it stands,

696
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:25.719
still plenty of spots you need to
fill. But I'd say adding another

697
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:30.760
big is certainly you know key here. Now you also have two guys visiting

698
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:35.719
or one well one guy visiting,
and that's a sort uh Osbor, I

699
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:38.039
think I say it every different every
time I say it, Or is that

700
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:44.320
is that that's how it's tough to
get so Osbor the big from Utah State

701
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:47.719
that's transferring, and he will be
visiting Louisville next week after he visits Kentucky.

702
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:51.119
You knows, maybe maybe he pops
for Mark Pope and doesn't end up

703
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:53.440
making the trip here, uh to
to Louisville. But you know, that

704
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.360
would be a huge addition. It
would be massive. I mean, if

705
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:01.320
you've added Chucky, Hepburn and and
then along with all the other good pieces

706
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:05.880
that you've put in place here.
I mean, and the reason I mentioned

707
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:10.440
Chucky and Osibor is because those are
guys that are quite literally viewed as some

708
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:14.159
of the best players in the portal. Terrence Edwards Junior. You know,

709
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:15.559
it varies, man. I've seen
some rankings that have him as like the

710
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:19.280
fiftieth best player. I've seen some
that have him at like the top twenty.

711
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:24.599
So wishful thinking here, but if
you could get Osibor, I mean,

712
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:28.800
at that point, like you feel
pretty good about where you are,

713
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:30.920
and at that point, I think
you really just kind of are adding some

714
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.199
depth. And that's where it's gonna
get tough. As I've mentioned since Pat

715
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.400
Kelsey got the job, if it
is a complete roster rebuild, you got

716
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.679
thirteen scholarships to give and nil will
help in every way, but nobody wants

717
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:44.039
to come and be your depth.
They want to come and be a part

718
00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:45.800
of your team and know they're going
to have a role, like a big

719
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:51.760
role. So but even right now, I mean I think they're a guy.

720
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:53.719
I mean, you're going to be
super I mean two through four you

721
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:57.519
are in really good spot. And
Chucky that's why he was such a big

722
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.400
get because one he's a point guard. They will run your team. He's

723
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.199
a leader, He's proven that in
the Big Ten and he gives you.

724
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:05.639
I mean, having a point guard
that can really set the tone for you

725
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:09.320
defensively is huge. So we'll talk
a little more about Jaden Quainton's coming up

726
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:13.639
on the other side, because I
do believe fans have at least started to

727
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:16.519
kind of wonder, you know,
should we wait it out? I look,

728
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:21.079
I'll save my answer, but it's
rather obvious what I think Pat Kelsey

729
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:22.760
should do at this point with Jaden
Quaintan's and that is, you know,

730
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:29.320
wait it out right, don't pull
yourself out of the out of the pursuit

731
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:30.719
because you feel like he's just chasing
money. I mean, he may not

732
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:32.960
get what he thinks he's gonna get
elsewhere, and if that ends up that

733
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:36.880
means he ends up at Louisville,
then that's huge. All right, don't

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