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off our show. Idiots, the kids are playing or Trail of the Countries
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They're supposed to be with your adults, but they're really not. Who's the
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Here's Nick Coffee. In this business that we call the radio business, there
are a lot of cliches that you hear regardless of platform, meaning AM FM,
news talk, sports talk, maybe FM music, country pop whatever,
uh. And some of them are you know, legit. Some of them
are not sense. But one thing I can tell you, regardless of what
type of gig you have in broadcasting on the radio, this one is true.
Play the hits right. People want to hear the hits, whether it's
music, if it's a talking point that maybe you feel like, hey,
I've heard myself talk about this and really say the same thing for the entire
show, But you know what, if it's a hit, that's what people
want. Play the hits and I'm convinced that Rick Patino will always be a
hit around here. People may not like it, some may disagree, but
he's just that type of figure to where when he says something, he does
something, something happens regarding him, it's a talking point. Calling him a
larger than life personality or figure. It does feel a little bit like an
exaggeration, but you know, he kind of is that around here. So
we have somewhat of an added development his perceived feelings towards the two schools here
in this state that he once worked for, and he both he won national
championships at both places. So we'll get into that because you know, maybe
it's the fact that it's July tenth, or maybe it's the fact that,
like when Rick Patino does things on social media, which it is crazy to
think about Rick Puttino even being on didn't I think he didn't call it rat
poison. I think that might have been Nick Saban that called like social media
rat poison. But Rick Putino had very h up, He was very upfront
about his thoughts about social media when he coached here many many years ago.
Now he's on Twitter and he's utilizing it right like He's sending things here and
there knowing the reaction that you know, someone like him can get, especially
when he's talking about Louisville basketball or Kentucky basketball. So uh, for those
that felt like, you know, maybe Rick was never going to show love
or gratitude towards UFL basketball or players he coached here, he did one of
those things. And we'll talk about it coming up here shortly. But welcome
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Man. I don't know what it is, but I I've mentioned this
here and there, but whenever I'm fighting traffic, panicking thinking maybe I'm gonna
barely make it in time for the show, it has me stressed in the
car and I'm thinking like, oh, here we do you know? I'm
thinking this is the But for some reason, once I do make it here
on time to get settled in and start the show, it's like I've already
got a victory under my belt before the show starts. And that's what happened
today. I don't know if you, John, if you or if anybody
listening free. When's the area that is outer Loop near Preston Highway. Yeah,
I'm familiar. I went and met somebody for lunch over in that area
today and they have a what I feel like is a small section of outer
Loop between when you get off outer Loop on sixty five heading north and then
you hit Preston Highway, and then if you keep going further down outer Loop,
you know Jefferson Malls there on your left. They have what I believe
to be a very small section of outer Loop where it's only one lane,
and for some reason that has led to that entire intersection being a complete mess.
Maybe there's further construction that caused it to be as big of a mess
as it was today. But I sat in traffic. At least I knew
what it was. It was construction, like they had a lane closed.
Sometimes you sit in traffic and you don't know why you're sitting in someone like
myself, I wouldn't claim that I have road rage, but like sometimes you
know, when you have I at least want to know why I'm stopped.
Not that I'm gonna do anything about it, not that I can change it,
but there's something about knowing why you're in traffic that at least makes it
a little bit less awful. I mean, I don't think I'm alone there,
wouldn't you agree, John? Yeah, that's fair, especially because whenever
you find out that maybe there's a terrible accident, you can kind of maybe
feel for the victims who are involved, even though at the same time you
may be angry that they made a stupid decision. Potentially you can at least
understand the situation that you're dealing with. I've always tried to tell myself as
much as maybe like I'm you know, and sometimes I'm not even late.
It's just being inconvenience, running a little bit behind, and you know,
just being held up. Like I have very little patience when driving. And
you know, I don't think I have road rage. I've never thought about,
you know, like chasing somebody down and you know, giving them a
talking to or you know, nothing like that. But I think it's a
very normal human reaction to be frustrated with traffic. Now, some people handle
it differently than others. But I've always told myself, like, once I
do see, okay, this just ran out of gas, so this person
got a flat tire or they rear ended somebody. I try my best to
lean on the side of saying, well, you know what, this really
didn't impact my day that much, and this person's clearly having a much worse
day than me. But it's like I got I got that guy on my
right shoulder, and my left shoulder is like, yeah, look at these
idiots who don't know how to drive, impacting all of our day. Just
a bunch of schmucks, you know. And I go back and forth sometimes
I don't, you know, I don't know. I don't know which side's
going to prevail. But I will say the most frustrating part about traffic in
general is I feel like it happens to me most often when I'm already running
behind, which isn't I'm not usually late to a lot of things. That's
what happened to me today, And so whenever I'm running behind and I get
caught in traffic, that just adds to the frustration that I'm already dealing with.
Yeah, I wasn't. I mean, I knew I was gonna be
a little busy before the show, so I feel like I probably, I
mean, I think I did my part to make sure that like as far
as the time I get here and you know, getting everything done, Like
I did everything I need to do. But as you said, like I
wasn't expecting I was coming from a different area, but I wasn't expecting to
hit that kind of traffic because one lane's closed. But again, because I
was able to make it here on time without you know, having to tell
John, hey, I may have to start the show on the phone.
I've already I already feel like I've overcome adversity today, which you know,
if that's the biggest amount of adversity that I hit today, and then I
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Coffee and Company Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, so let's just dive
right in, shall we, And we are going to be, you know,
pretty busy throughout the day. I certainly want to want to talk about
the challenge last night that Donald Trump put out there to the Joe Biden.
I'm talking politics, folk, I'm talking sports, because Donald Trump has challenged
Biden to an eighteen to eighteen holes a golf match and it won't happen.
But why won't Like? Why can't it? I mean I think I know
why it won't happen. I mean, for a variety of reasons. One
I'm not sure. I mean, I'm not sure that it would be possible
for Biden to play eighteen holes of golf. And I'm not saying that to
be funny. I'm not saying that to make a joke. I'm being quite
serious, and I think a lot of people probably agree. But that would
be the most watched thing ever. It definitely would it not be. It
would be It would be very uncomfortable to watch, too, because on one
side you have somebody who's there to just gloat and kind of when you say
uncomfortable though, and I hate to cut you off, but when you say
uncomfortable, I feel like you mean like you'd feel bad for Joe Biden.
I would just feel bad for the situation in general. Maybe a little bit
of Joe Biden. I really if Joe Biden were to agree to do something
like that, props to him, considering the decline that he appears to be
on with his health, But overall, I feel like it would just be
a very uncomfortable experience that when you look at the situation that they're both running
against each other for president at the age that they're at, and the clown
show that is this election cycle. Once again, it's you know, you've
said it before, Nick, It's just kind of a sad situation all the
way around. So you mean more so like it would be uncomfortable and sad
just because it would be kind of another reminder that, like, it's crazy
the two guys that are potentially going to be the president of the country,
and one of them, and both of them, by the way, have
been like the fact that we're here, that's what you mean, more than
it just being about Biden, like being sad that he probably couldn't do it.
Yeah, because but John, I'm already there, brother, I mean,
yeah, we're not that far removed from this. What what are you
talking about? You have the morals of an alley cat, Sir. I
didn't have sex with the porn star. That's an eight second exchange between the
current president of the country and a former president who's now convicted felon that is
trying to win the election. Once again, dude, the all but nothing
is going to make me, you know, sadder that we're in this position.
Then what's already happened. I'm just laughing at it now. There's nothing
we can do about it, right, Like, clearly, I'll give you
that Trump is is in position here, and you know, I don't mean
in position to win. He might win, I don't know, but I'm
just saying, like he's clearly going to be representing one side, and Biden
has made it clear he's not. Actually don't know if he's made it clear.
People have made it clear for him that he's not. He's not backing
down, like he's going to stay in the race. So like I mean,
with them playing golf and having like, you know, a competition,
I mean, it would be it would be far from what you'd ever expect
from like a presidential component to you know, an election. But man,
we've trumped the shark man. This is this has been a clown show for
quite some time. But in all seriousness, I mean, I don't think
Biden could play eighteen holes of golf. No, I don't think so.
I mean he I mean they did talk about it during the first debate where
he asked if Trump would would carry his own bags or something like that,
so at least he's up to humoring it. Which again, like I'm not
trying to take sides politically here, but I mean I think Biden was trying
to take a dig at Trump about like he's he's not a work you know,
he's what's the right word, Like he's too hoidy toity to carry his
own bags, like he'd need a caddy, and like because you know,
he's he's not willing to put in any work. He's not willing to roll
his sleeves up. John, That's that's what I feel like Biden meant.
But he probably didn't know what the hell he meant when he was talking.
But yet, like Biden couldn't carry his clubs because he might fall over and
die. Like I mean, I would certainly hope that that would never happen.
But like you know, and by the way, I'm one of many
people with a platform that discusses Biden in that way that does not make it
all about politics. It's just quite literally what's right in front of our face
here, So you know, actually have now I'm now finding this election to
be very entertaining, just the things that come with it because I'm because again
I'm now numb to the fact of like how do we end up here?
We're here and this is this is where we are. One of these two
guys for the next four years will be leading this country, and that's just
again, that's that's that's actually something none of us can control, to be
honest with you, right, And I'm just glad that when November comes around,
we'll be in the heart of crossover season with college football, NFL,
college basketball. We'll have so many different things with sports to talk about and
kind of take our minds off of the nonsense that no matter what it comes
to, I think you'll be able to, you know, cancel it out
if you want to. You're going to pay attention to it, You're right.
However, it'll it'll bleed into sports, and it will, You're right.
Coaches, some of them will have a hard time not speaking on it.
Other coaches will act as if they didn't know it was an election because
they're football robots. That's what college football coaches want us to believe. But
I think it's inevitable this time around that it'll it'll bleed into sports to where
because I think right now, with it with there being two candidates that you
know, clearly you'll find some major supporters on both sides. But like I
think, most most people that are not just a super fan of one party
or one person, they're just looking at it from like a level headedness,
if that makes sense, They realize, man, wow, like how do
we end up with these guys? Right? But they clearly, deep down
probably have a side, and whichever one, if the one that they hope
wins wins, they'll probably be celebrating, maybe not as publicly as you usually
would during an election. But those who, like you know, are anti
Biden if he wins, those are anti Trump if he wins. I think
those people are going to be as loud as they've ever been. And I
think that's going to include people within the sports world too. I mean,
I know people want to act as if politics will, you know, in
sports should never intertwine, and I understand why you say that, but you
know, it's also something that like is inevitable, Like I would never I
mean, I feel like if you have a platform, a talk show essentially,
I feel like if you don't at least acknowledge that that's something like that
we're voting on a new president, Like you don't have to break it down
and talk about each side's stance on certain situations and and and there, you
know, their other policies and all that, because that's that's not why you
tune in, But I mean, let's be real here when it comes to
like current events and like what's going on in the world, the fact that
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are running for president right now and it's gonna be
one of those two guys, Like that's that's a story politics aside that as
a story, I mean, that makes it really makes no sense, right
because clearly it's a political thing. But take all politics out of it,
which I actually, you know, not to pat ourselves on the back here,
I feel like we've done a pretty good job of that. When we
do discuss it, it has nothing to do with politics. It's just about
like what a situation we're in here. So anyways, we'll let you hear
that that clip from Trump last night, just because I again it's not me
gassing the guy up because because I think he's great. I don't. I'm
not a fan of Trump, but you know, he entertains me at times
with you know, him being the character that he is. Also, we'll
hear from Pat Kelsey today and I usually wouldn't want to do this, but
I'm gonna do it today because you know, it's it's good interview. He
was on with Andy Katz. I don't know when they recorded this, but
he was on with Andy Katz, did like a sixteen minute interview. We're
to play two parts of it, eight minutes probably probably in the four o'clock
and then the other eight in the five o'clock. It's just good. It's
good stuff. I mean, he he said something that I kind of understand
why he said it, and I'm not bothered by it. But I also
understand why the really like, die hard, passionate Louisville fans that hate Kentucky
on a level that like maybe some of us don't, they're bothered by it.
But he said he thinks it's impossible to hate Mark Pope, and I
get it, like I don't. I don't think Mark Pope is going to
be an easy guy to like, really hate, but maybe, you know,
maybe he proves us wrong. Hopefully he proves us wrong. But I
want you guys to hear it because it's a good interview. Again. Pat
Kelsey on with Andy Katz. Also, Jeff Bram has made a watch list,
and that usually is not an interesting talking talking point because you know,
it's watchless season, right, But there's there's something interesting about this watch list
that I want to take a look at, which we'll do that. So
again we'll mix it up. We'll have some fun today, but let's get
right into it. I know we got to get you a break before too
long. But Rick Patino tweeted earlier today and that's why I started the show
with in radio, regardless of what you do, if you have a platform
music, news, talk, sports, talk, you got to play the
hits. You may not think it's a hit, but there's proven evidence to
tell you what is a hit and what is not. Rather it be a
song, or rather it be a talking point, a story on the you
know, spoking word platform. And Rick Patino has always moved the needle in
this market. That's why when he shows up for press conferences when he was
here, you'll see more cameras at those than you ever would because he's just
he's that he something about Rick Patino, and I'm sure it's not just one
thing. There's a lot of things he he gets a reaction. So was
it, like, was it two weeks ago? I think it was when
he was on with the Pardon My Take guys, and that was of course
on Live KSR. I think it was two weeks ago. Regardless, timing
is not super important. But and by the way, I have been told
by somebody who I trust, that he did not know he was going on
KSR. He just thought he was going on with the boys Big Cat and
PFT. And you know, I don't know he would have said no had
he known. But like Rick Patino knows who Matt Jones is. He would
never tell people that, but he does, and he's well aware of like
things that KSR and Matt you know, ran with during his time here,
so you know he'd already been on with those guys. Apparently there is a
huge sponsor of that show. Pardon my take that Rick is like an investor.
Or. No, Rick owns horses with people who like started that company,
whatever the sponsor is, if that makes any sense. So that's connection
to how those guys because Rick Patino doesn't do those kind of interviews, let's
be real, you know what I mean. But he got in with Big
Cat and PFT, and I think he probably realized, Hey, did give
me a little bit of street cred being on with those guys, and he
did it a second time. But I was told he did not realize he
was actually going on KSR. But he was, and he talked about how
he loves Kentucky fans and that, you know, he donated money to the
football program through Innil. It's just it's you know, Rick be and Rick,
which I still even now that a little time has passed, I still
don't like why sharing that. I guess it's a way to like let Kentucky
fans know, Hey, I know a coach Lousill, but look, I
really do love you guys, you know, and to really let you know
how much I love you, I even donated to the NIL Collective for football.
Like to me, it's just such a random thing and it wasn't necessary.
And I have a hard time imagining like Mark Stoops or Eddie Grant,
who somehow is friends with Patino, asking Rick, hey can you give us?
It just seems weird to me. But anyways, Rick one of the
things Louisville fans brought up because I look, I tried to not only play
Devil's advocate, and really that wasn't it. Just Look, I was not
surprised that now that Rick is gone, and especially now that Cal is not
at Kentucky, Rick is going to be a little bit more in his feels
about his time in Lexington because his enemy, his rival, is no longer
coaching there, and he had a great run there. He left there to
go coach the Celtics. He didn't get fired. They loved him. He
was super successful. He had the best job in the country. He calls
it camelot, right, So when I hear him, you know, not
you know, acting as if Kentucky's arrival. I'm not surprised. He had
good days there and his former player who was a captain on his team that
won a national championship, is now the coach there. Like that is just
something that is like I think it would be very unusual for him to not
be happy about that. Now, again, the nil for football is just
a different Let's just Rick being Rick. But like naturally, he coached at
both schools in this state. One school fired him and treated him, in
his eyes, very fully, and Kentucky didn't do that. Now, they
their fans clearly didn't like him when he was at Louisville, and you know,
I think he understands that. He says he does so, Like I'm
not telling anybody they shouldn't be bothered by it. I just wasn't surprised to
see him really just leaning towards UK compared to U of L given what we
know. Again, think about how his career went at both places. I
mean, the only animosity that he would ever have towards u K would just
be the fact that fans, you know, didn't like him as much.
That's why I flipped him the bird on his way out of his last appearance
in Reperina. But you know it's because he was coaching the rival and for
Louisville. I think Rick is bitter. I think it's quite clear that that's
the case. And I don't really think he I think he his anger is
rooted towards people who we all know, and he has even mentioned when talking
about Louisville that it's people that don't matter anymore, like David Grissom's not around,
Papa John is no longer affiliated with, you know, U of L,
and way who's the other guy? Greg Postal like that, you know,
that's that's and Matt Bevin like these are people that Rick believes, you
know, conspired to bring him down. And I'm you know, I can't
tell you if that's true or not, but you know, I know a
lot of people believe that, So it's not directed towards fans. It's just
like he feels a certain way and he doesn't have a target to take out
that anger or frustration on. It's just a bitter situation all the way around
for him. But one thing that I think we all believed, and I'd
said it a couple of weeks ago when this became a story, he loves
his players. And I did think it was a week look for him to
not do anything on his Twitter to acknowledge that Peyton Siva, his former point
guard whin a national championship for him, had been hired to work for the
university's basketball program under Pa Kelsey. That's a special thing. Peyton's a special
guy to Rick Totino. I know that for a fact. So it did
just kind of seem like he was being selective when he was going to show
praise or gratitude towards former players, Like he's never going to praise you have
l basketball, but his players he should, especially one that's now working for
this staff and working for the program. So today he did that in a
way. So at two twelve, a little bit over an hour ago,
Rick Pattino tweeted out a picture that has Luke Hancock, Russ Smith, Shane
Bahannon, Earl Clark, Peyton Siva, Chris Jones, Reyese Gaines, Dylan
Avar and David Johnson. Now, David Johnson's the only player in the picture
that didn't play for Rick Patino. However, David Johnson did commit to Rick
Patino. Mack was all in on him at Xavier, and obviously David decided
to go to Louisville and then worked out well to where Mac took the job
at Louisville and David, you know, recommitted essentially. So he shared the
picture and said, this warms my heart to see my guys together. Let's
win this thing, and then he sent he he he at. He mentioned
Russ Smith's Instagram or on Instagram a Twitter handle which is at restdiculous, and
said, sell your great bourbon, no drinking it. And that's like a
funny dad joke, right, He's a you know, a boys, you
guys have a good time at Russ. He'll be drinking your bourbon, buddy,
like you know, he's just it's it's it's like he's being the dad
to these guys, so you know, weird, like I'm I'm, I'm
like any other fan, Like I don't know why, like that made me
happy to see it doesn't really change much, but like that's you know,
it's it's it's a fan. You watch these guys have great careers here and
the guy who was coaching them, Like the memories of those guys together,
players and coach is a fond memory. You don't want to feel bitter about
it. So I don't know if it ends here, but like if Louisville,
I put it. I think if Louislle, if this, if this
Louisville TBT team makes a deep run and they end up, like you know,
playing in the final four of the TBT. I bet Rick, But
I bet Rick shows up. I bet he does. I bet he shows
up for those guys, and that like could be you know, I don't
know if that would make fans feel even more like conflicted on how to feel
about him. But if that's the case, I would I would hope that
he shows up. And I don't think Pat Kelsey would care either, to
be honest with you, all right, quick break way too long here in
the first segment, But that's okay. I think we'll try to get the
clock back on track here, but it's Coffee and Company again where fueled by
Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety is this lost Lonely Boys? It
is good call, isn't Is this a and you may not know this and
I'm sure people listening don't give a damn. But my mind just can't let
me like move on from it because I'm thinking, like this was a group
put together, like one of the one of the three is like a really
known musician. I think if I'm wrong, in case I'm unaware, Yeah,
maybe I'm wrong. You might be right. This is more your time
anyway. When they became Yeah, so like Carlos Santana, that's a big
name, right, wasn't he a part of them? Or no? Maybe
I don't know. I don't think so, it says. The group's first
single, Heaven, reached number one on Adult the Adult Contempt Very chart and
number sixteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred, So it says here that they
were Yeah, I knew there was some affiliation here. In two thousand and
five, the group recorded I Don't Want to Lose Your Love with Carlos Santana
uh for for an album, so they had I knew there was some collaboration
there because I think they were kind of one hit wonders with this, but
they did parlay it into a you know, a chance to uh to.
I mean, Carlos Santana's a legend in music, right, I mean one
of the legendary guitarists. That's right for sure, That's right, all right,
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five O two six five three zero seven ninety. A couple people have asked
the same question here on the text line, and that is Earl Clark being
in this photo. So I talked about it on Monday, and I hate
to, you know, spoil what they assume. And maybe they already put
it out and I haven't seen it yet, but David Johnson has listed on
the TBT website as as as somebody that's going to be playing for the Louisville
team and the TVT and I would assume that that that that's one of the
players they've been teasing. However, Earl Clark, you know, I actually
looked this up yesterday because the Big Three, which I'm sure a lot of
you are somewhat familiar with, but you've probably never watched. The Big Three,
has a deal with CBS. It's a three on three basketball league that
has a lot of former NBA players, some guys that played a long time
in the league, and a lot of guys who actually I mean, for
example, Isaiah Briscoe from Kentucky and Jalen Johnson from Louisville, they play in
this and I'm thinking like, well, you know, when I think of
the Big Three, I'm thinking of dudes who are retired. They can't can't
play full court anymore, which is why they're playing half court three on three.
These guys, I mean, Briscoe and Jalen could be playing making a
lot of money overseas, so it's not a surprise when the young guys end
up balling out because you know, I mean, I'm pretty sure there's dudes
going in the Big Three that are probably ten to twelve years older than those
guys. But either way, Earle most recently played for IT played in the
Big Three. In fact, he's on a roster as we speak. So
I just assumed that that meant he wasn't going to be a part of the
TV TAM But he is in Louisville today, and he was on the team
last year but had to back out last minute because of a contract situation with
the team. He was playing four overseas, So if they had David Johnson
Androclark, I mean, that's you're adding a really good, experienced guy that's
a frontcourt player in E five, and then David Johnson obviously would be your
youngest player and a guy that's still playing at a high level in the G
League. So I have no clue for those asking like, does this mean
these guys are on the team? I don't know, but if so,
hell yeah, because that would make that'd make this group even better. A
couple of people have said once Rick, in fact, this is the text
that just came in. Once Rick said that he gave money to UK Football
that's all I needed for closure. That's fine, Like you can feel that
way. I mean, that is weird, but like Rick is different.
Rick doing things and saying things has always been treated differently than the average coach,
because I mean, how many times have you heard it said Rick being
Rick Rick? You know, RP theater, That's what his press conferences have
been referred to by some. So you kind of just have to take,
like, to be honest with you, Cali Perry's the same way, Like
how many times as Cali Perry said nonsensical things and everybody knows it's ridiculous.
Sometimes it's just a blatant lie. But you know what I mean, we're
gonna do. It's Cal being cal. So you know, if you can
think whatever the hell you want about Patino, because I'll be honest with you,
I really don't care because I'm I've been honestly content about Rick since the
day left right like it had to happen, it had run its course,
and he was going to be bitter about it. But you know, I
felt right away even if he never coached again and Louisville did get hit,
Like if Louisville got a two year postseason ban, like some people thought they
were going to get. I think there would have been a little bit more
heat thrown at Rick because it would have felt like, you know, he
was responsible for it, even though we kind of actually, to be honest
with I think more than anything, if that was to happen, which was
never realistic, people would just probably blame me in Stuba and say that they're
ridiculous because as things played out, especially with the Christian Dawkins documentary, like
it was quite clear Rick was nowhere near or really slimy at all in that
whole shoe company thing. And you can say, I mean, you know,
maybe I sound naive, but like, regardless of what you believe,
there's no evidence or fingerprints that Rick left behind. I mean, you could
think that he had everything to do with Brian Bowen getting paid and working with
Christian Dawkins to get money, but there's no proof of that and there's no
evidence at all that suggest that that's remotely true. And that's really what you
have to go by. So you know, as soon as as soon as
I knew that, like it was over and he's gone, and you know,
Louisville may end up being punished or he may end up coaching again,
although let's be real, as soon as that happened, I think we all
thought wee would never coach in college again, and now he's had two different
jobs in college basketball, you know. So I just think it's very unnatural
to feel strongly about a coach and be a fan. Like we were all
Rick Patino fans when he was here and Louislle was winning at a high level.
We were. I mean, I don't know how you couldn't be if
you're a fan. I mean, Louisville basketball was in a great spot for
a good chunk of his tenure, and there were some great times. So
to just automatically then turn it to hate because of what happened, I just
think that's an unnatural thing. It would be forced. So I'm not going
to be cheering for Saint John's. I don't really care what happens with them.
But I also think of Rick Patino, and I as a fan myself,
I think of the good and not the bad, and that fact that
Louisville had a great run for the most part when he was here, and
it came at a very important time. I could lie to you and say
and it might make for you know, maybe some people would call it good
radio. Like I could give you the pissed off, angry yell, and
he's dead to me because he gave Mark Stoops and Eddie Grant money. But
like it would it wouldn't be it wouldn't be real. Like I don't care.
It doesn't impact me at all, right, Like if Kentucky football ends
up beating Louisville next year, Like, are you gonna think Rick Patino's money
helped him do it? Like it you know, it's just it's whatever.
So you know, I liked seeing this kind of stuff because again, the
era of Louisville basketball that is the most special to me is this one.
You know, I wasn't alive in the eighties when they won championships. By
the time I was old enough to like know what Louisville basketball really was,
and it was like a religion with my family to where like I you know,
I didn't watch Gero Griffith play, but I could tell you probably everything
you need to know about him, right. I know which team were good
for Denny in the eighties, which ones weren't, you know, like it
was I was obsessed. I was a super fan, but like experiencing it
in real time, Like I didn't get to live those great days. The
best team Denny had in my lifetime was ninety seven and I love that team.
They made the Elite Eight. That was Dewan Weed, Alvin Simms,
those guys. So once Rick got here and Louisville wasn't a Final four within
what two three years after he got hired, maybe it was four years,
maybe three or four years, and then you had a great run from like
twenty twelve to twenty seventeen, to be honest with you, and that was
a hell of a run some all time great players like So that's a great
memory for me. So when I see the guy who was coaching during that
stretch showing love to these guys many years later, regardless of circumstance, it
makes me happy as a fan. But you can feel whatever way you want,
Like if you hate the guy, that's cool. I mean, I
mean I get it, I guess because the rivalries, you know, that
serious. But again, this is not It was never normal that Rick Patino
was our coach and John cali Perry was their coach. It was just never
normal, right because again Rick was here while still loving Kentucky because he had
a great run there and probably and again this is just this is just the
reality of it. I think Rick loved his time at Louisville because he did
great things and he did appreciate, you know everything. I mean, Louisville
was a huge part of his career. But I think to this day,
and he's even said it, not in a way that like is so matter
of fact, but like he regrets leaving Kentucky, you know. So that
when I discussed the tweet that we talked about where he shared the picture of
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and it was a pump that probably wouldn't have been the level of pump that
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super consistent about what you do as far as working out and eating, but
yet all of a sudden, you're not seeing those same results. You're kind
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on the other side, wrap up the three o'clock hour. Don't forget,
we've got Pat Kelsey sound coming your way. In fact, an interview he
was on with Andy Katz, I think there's some really good stuff there.
So we'll play half of that for you guys around four thirty. The other
half will probably do around five thirty today. I feel like that's the best
way to I don't want to give you just a full sixteen minutes of it,
but I think it's worth hearing. And you know, it's still it's
still the honeymoon, baby, and we should enjoy it. All right,
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As someone who claims to love the sport of basketball, which I believe
I do. I know I do, But there's a little bit of doubt
that kicks in when I say that, knowing that I probably will not watch
a whole lot of Team USA in the Paris Olympics. Does that make me
like, I mean it's I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of people
that will support the United States and hope they win as many Golds as possible,
but like that really isn't going to be entertaining, right, because they're
going to probably kill all these teams they play. I know that they're usually
supposed to. But if I and I don't pay too much attention to the
US men's national basketball team, but I feel like they've they've been underwhelming in
recent years whenever they've played in competitions and stuff, well, well, so
yes, there are years where they just they don't end up sending the you
know, like the cream of the cross. Yeah, you just there's sometimes
where you just don't have the best available, you know, American players that
are going to play, and they just choose not to. Maybe it's an
injury. But even with that, I mean, we still we still dominate.
I mean, let's see here the last time, I mean, let
me pull it up so I don't get it wrong here. But the reason
I'll bring the whole thing up, John, is because like they're going to
probably be dominant and there probably won't be that many close games. But then
again, and that's just you know, like I'm not watching for competition.
Like if I felt like, here we go, team USA is going to
be facing off again st I don't know France or Canada, which by the
way, Canada's got a good roster to a bunch of NBA players, and
I felt like there was a real threat to potentially lose as if, like
you know, you felt because if they and they have lost games, but
usually it's just because, like you know, you got upset, like there's
no excuse, like we're gonna always at least I hope we're gonna always be
the best country in the world when it comes to basketball. We always have
been. Obviously, there's been a big, big boom with international players joining
the NBA. In fact, the first two players this year were taken that
were drafted from France, and last year's number one pick was from France,
the guy who a lot of people believe is the future of the league and
win Minyama. But this is a really good like right now as it stands
in the NBA, I think we have the best of the best. I
mean I talked about yesterday. The fact that the worst player on the team
is probably Devin Booker or Tyrese Halliburton tells you how loaded we are. And
by the way, the news here is that the guy who's always hurt.
Kawhi Leonard has has opted out right before they take off to leave because I
guess of an injury. So Derek White has replaced him, and now he
come and he's a good player who had a great role for Boston when they
just won the championship. So, like, you know, he's a fine
player, but like he stands out distinctively different than everybody else on this roster
because he's just not a superstar in the league. Everybody else is. So
you know, with all that said, I'm gonna try to make it a
point to like make it an appointment, Like, Hey, they play,
they're on TV. I'm gonna watch because I feel like, if I love
basketball the way I think I do, like I'm not gonna get bored and
want to watch something different because it's the best players that we have. And
whenever you see the NBA All Star Game, I mean I can't, I
don't watch that. Like I used to just tell myself, Hey, I'm
gonna at least watch a little bit of it because these are the best players.
But that's that's that's not even that's not a game, Like they're just
out there running around. I don't blame him. It's not it's not a
real game, and it's not their fault. Like I understand why those guys
in the NBA All Star Game don't compete like it's Game seven, because again,
like it's not a real game. This is real, and I think
these guys clearly have not only the desire to win, they want to represent
their country and win a gold medal. And they're probably going to do that,
and it probably won't be close. So it's not like it's going to
be entertaining in the fact that you're seeing highly competitive action. But you know,
this team's loaded, and we are dominant in basketball compared to other countries
really, like I mean there's probably none any other sports. I mean,
the level of like American football that we that we view the NFL as does
not exist in the Olympics. So I'm sure we be dominant there too.
But I feel like I really need to watch it because like maybe down the
line, when I get older, I'll think, like, man, you're
telling me Steph Curry, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Anthony
Edwards. I mean, all these got Stephan Curry, They're all in the
same team, and I'll be like, wow, I don't remember that because
I just you know, didn't watch it because it wasn't going to be competitive.
But I'm going to make it a point to watch it. And one
thing that will always incentivize you to keep up and watch is when you bet
money. So I'm getting in on it. Whatever the spread is usays in
them all. In fact, I'm curious to see what the spread is in
some of these games. I bet it's like astronomical and some of these with
some of these opponents. But you know, I saw a video of them
walking out of the facility yesterday and that's what really kind of I don't know
why that did it, but that made me realize, Look, these are
the best players on the planet that are representing our country and we're dominant.
Let's not get bored with being dominant. And I'm talking to myself when I
say this. By the way, all right, we got two hours left.
Hopefully you guys don't get bored. If so, come back tomorrow.
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