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Coffee. That is me, the company man, mister John Alton the long
side today for a few hours. Then he's out of here. Are you
guys leaving tomorrow? We're leaving overnight tonight. It's like three am. So
are you someone who has done that type of travel before meeting where you'll just
get in the car and drive through the night. This is regular for me.
Yeah, I uh, it depends on where I'm going I made that
trip once, made a trip once, I should say, uh in the
middle of the night, and it was a lot of back roads, and
it spooked me out a little bit. I just started panicking, like if
I had a flat tire, if I got in a wreck, like,
you know, no service. So yeah, if it's just mostly interstate,
I can do it. But uh, yeah, it's really the best.
If you can manage to not be really really tired and dragging the first couple
of days, then it's the way to go because you save a lot of
time, right, Like, you're gonna get there probably tomorrow. You'll be
there what mid afternoon, Yeah, early midafternoon. That's it's a good way
to get it started. And if you would have if you would have left
in the morning tomorrow, you know, you probably get there closer to nighttime,
right, kind of waste your entire first day. So it's a savvy
move on your part, no surprise, you're a you're a very savvy guy.
So he'll be out next week. So we got to make sure this
is a phenomenal show to send you off for a nice vacation. Have you
noticed how busy downtown is? Yeah, I've noticed there was an accident on
sixty or at least there was an officer dealing with what could have been an
accident down sixty five. No, it was before downtown good. I came
in through seventy one, which means I might have avoided some traffic. But
there's a big weekend going on here. When it comes to, you know,
action, I don't know what you I don't think you would want to
put I don't think either would want to be in the same category together.
But tonight you have WWE, some professional wrestling SmackDown is going to be at
them Center, oh wow. And tomorrow you HAVEC event at the UM Center.
So busy, you know, just bloodying up the y a brawling weekend
or something like that. Mean, obviously wrestling is you know, entertainment,
whereas UFC is entertainment as well, but you know, like they're actually fighting
and hurting each other. So when I got here, I walked down to
the to the CVS that's across from the Seal Box, just a block over
and where I park you have to come down the elevator, or not the
elevator, but the steps to walk really all the way through for street for
the most part to get there, and there's I mean each restaurant is open,
which I guess maybe they open up during the spring or maybe on a
Friday, I mean during the winter, and really I feel like a good
chunk of the year the restaurants that are here at four Street are not open,
so like if we wanted to eat lunch here, and it's only like
there's like two options, like the Guy Fieri seems like it's usually open all
the time, as well as the TJ Fridays that's still there. It's there,
isn't it. I actually don't know if it is. I've never been
to I think it's still open in there. But anyways, there's a lot
of folks that are here, and I you know, the fact that they're
out, you know, drinking and socializing at you know, two point thirty
on a Friday makes me think that they're visitors and they're in town. They're
tourists and they're taking in Louisville because they're here for either some wrestling or some
I'm fighting UFC style. So I always like it whenever we have, you
know, tourists in town, and I hope that they enjoyed themselves. And
have a good time and maybe they come back. Right, it's good for
the city if you've got people that want to visit, and you know,
give your establishments, give your give your businesses some business. However, anytime
I try to guess up downtown Louisville, I get at least one and it's
usually from the same person on the text line that'll send me like a crime
map, you know what I mean. Like it'll show like like little dots
activity. Yeah, It'll show dots where each criminal activity took place. And
I'm like, well, you know, thank you for that. But I
mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm someone that just
thinks I'm invincible, but I don't. I don't. I mean there are
certain places, certain areas where if I, you know, felt like I
would head on a swivel kind of thing, right, like, Okay,
maybe I should make sure I'm looking over my shoulder because I'm all alone.
I'm in a vulnerable spot. It's laid outside, you know. But I
don't know, Like if I'm roaming around downtown, which I I got to
be honest, it doesn't happen often. But if I'm going block to block
walking you know, which again doesn't happen that often. I rarely ever think
like, hm, I better be careful, I might get mugged, which
even if there was like a there's always a chance that could happen anywhere,
Like I wouldn't be a fun way to live your life, always just assuming
that you're gonna be you know, somebody's gonna get you. So anyways,
I hope one day there's no longer this uh, this mindset from some that
like downtown Louisville is you know, a boarded up war zone and you can't
go you can't even come down here without getting stabbed or something, which clearly
that's an exaggeration. But and I know there are a lot of crimes and
carjackings and like that kind of stuff happens, and it's unfortunate. But I'm
sure a lot of cities are sized deal with like the exact same kind of
thing. Maybe some are a little bit better at not having as much crime,
maybe some are worse. But anyways, it's a beautiful day here in
Louisville. And again we're gonna get you set for the weekend. If you
guys want to take us with you wherever you're going whatever you may be doing.
You can listen live on the iHeart radio app Listen Live. It's seven
to ninety Louisville dot Com. And I guess we'll start with the big news,
and it's it's not great news, but it's not really you know,
bad news. And I feel pretty pretty happy with the way that I've discussed
the Coleman Hawkins situation throughout the entire week. In fact, let's just go
back a week ago today, whenever it seemed as if there might be a
chance that Louisville could could could get involved here, and despite having thirteen scholarship
players, they have some way in which they could potentially add someone. Still
don't know how they were going to do it, but I do know that
is something that they have the ability to do. But it didn't really seem
realistic. I don't know, it just it was hard for me to really
buy in, get excited and track this thing, and you know, keep
my fingers crossed. And then I believe it surely started to seem more and
more real and then we find it. We found out I guess it was
Monday or Tuesday of this week that he was going to be visiting Louisville,
and the visit was supposed to take place this weekend. In fact, I
think he was supposed to arrive today, and then it turns out that the
visit's not gonna happen. He is not going to visit Louisville. Louisville is
no longer in the mix for Colemenhawkins. And with the last minute cancelation,
which it was a last minute cancelation from from what I gather, I think
like right before he was set to to, you know, make the trip,
it all ended. And rarely am I ever someone that is, you
know, in the know, right. I mean I talked to some people,
and there's a few people that you know, keep me up to date
on things they feel like I should know. But you know, I'm not
that you know, my sources guy, or my my source within, because
I don't really have a whole lot of sources. I wish I did,
but I don't. But I did get a phone call earlier today from somebody
who made it clear, Hey, saw what you said, just wanted to
let you know that's not what happened. You know, Louisville is the one
who canceled the visit and decided not to pursue him. And it's not because
oh they don't want him, they don't need him, he's not any good.
They decided to back out. They don't have any money. It really
comes down to this, and this makes total sense. They feel really good
about where they are as far as personnel meeting the talent that they have.
Now, you can never have too much of it. So it's not as
if they're saying, well, hey, you know, we're so talented,
we don't want any other players. But they really like what they have.
And it's not just about the ability of these players, it's the chemistry.
And most of these guys just got here with them the last week, but
it's been they've been around each other NonStop. And some of these guys who've
never met before have been communicating with these guys their future teammates for weeks now,
prior to everybody arriving here in Louisville. So it's not as I mean,
maybe some of them just met in person for the last week or so,
but they have some good chemistry going right now, which clearly was going
to be step number one. I mean, get to know each other,
right, get to get to you know get close with your teammates, develop
established some chemistry, because all of this is brand new. I mean,
you do have you do have one guy. Actually you got two sets of
teammates. I suppose, yeah, two sets of teammates. You've got three
guys from Charleston and Rain Smith and Jordan Scott, not George Scott, James
Scott or the two that are gonna play. Kobe's gonna read share this year
because of his injury, and then Noah Waterman and Ali Khalifa also teammates,
but Khalif is expected to redshirt this year. So like as far as guys
that are playing, most of these guys are gonna have to get used to
each other, get to know each other right, develop and establish that chemistry.
So it's still a work in progress. But they feel really good about
where they are and that is why they decided to just, you know,
not pursue Coleman Hawkins. Maybe there were other factors as well. I don't
think it was. I don't I don't believe that they felt a certain way
about Coleman Hawkins and said, look, our chemistry is already pretty good.
This guy, he's the kind of guy that would ruin it. I mean
maybe they thought that, but I don't. I don't get the sense that
that was why they decided to just back out and you know, tell him
best to luck and move on. But you know, a lot of these
guys kind of have a similar background. You know, Terrence Edwards junior,
very underrated, recruited, under recruited kid, goes to James Madison really kind
of had to. I mean, he wasn't a guy who was a star
when he first got there. In fact, he redshirted I believe his first
year. A James Madison didn't start at JMU until last year. I mean
he was the sixth man of the Year in the Sun Belt in his junior
season and then last year was player of the year in that league and had
a big, big year. You know. Javon Hadley, the Colorado transfer,
I mean he came from Juco, I mean before he ended up in
Colorado. In fact, I think he actually played for a very small Division
One team before he ended up taking the Juco routes. Like, these guys
have kind of had to grind it out. They're you know, like I
don't know how to describe. I don't want to make it sound like you
know, they're all blue collar journeymen, but you know, they've had to
really work to get to where they are. And it's not as if they've
accomplished something insane like national championships or All American status, but they've really built
themselves up. And not to say Colemanhawkins wouldn't fit with that, but he's
just, you know, he's it's a little bit different. So I don't,
you know, I know some people will say, well, hey,
they must have solved the Shenanigans and you know the Colemanhawkins experience, Colemenhawkins experience
that was on social media, and just felt like, you know what,
he could really potentially cost some issues for us, Like I don't. I
don't know if they thought that. Maybe they did, but I think the
majority of the you know, the the biggest factor here, I should say
in this decision, I think was they just felt good about where they are,
like they didn't want to rock the boat. And when it comes to
how they were going to make it work again, I don't. I won't
claim to know how you know, what loopholes there could be for guys that
are going to be red shirting and not playing like obviously they still take up
a scholarship, but you know, maybe there is a workaround. But it
does sound as if they did bring in Colemanhawkins and he decided to come to
Louisville after his visit, that you were going to lose one but maybe two
guys that have already committed. And I don't know who that who those guys
are. I think it would probably make sense that it would be somebody that
is, you know, that plays in the front court. I don't really
know what kind of options they would have because if they're already enrolled in school,
I guess if you've enrolled in school but you haven't taken classes, like
maybe you can like maybe you don't have to enter the portal. But I
think they kicked the tires on it. I think they think highly of Colemanhawkins
as a player, and most people do. He's a talented guy. That
would be a good addition for most but Louisville's already full and I think,
and I don't know, not that it really matters because again it's over Colemenhawks
for those just not joining us is not going to visit, so that'll be
a name we probably rarely ever talk about it again, maybe never talk about
again, depending on where he ends up. But I would love to know,
Like, is that a conversation you have with your team, because this
isn't just Louisville. This is probably something that happens everywhere now, right,
Like, Hey, we really want you, We have you know, set
up nil to where you're being taken care of. We would love to keep
you, but we're gonna go get this guy, or at least try to
go get this guy who plays a similar position or maybe plays the same position
as you, and we want to make sure you're not gonna leave, Like
you have to balance that. Before players had no power, right, like
they could leave, but they weren't going to be playing for a new school
the next year. They were gonna have to sit out, so you know,
you could get recruited over and sometimes you'd have to just deal with it
and just you know, work your ass off and try to make sure that
whoever they brought in is not going to take minutes from you, which I
think is the right way to approach it. But now these guys have all
the power, like they can leave whenever they want, and I guess technically
not whenever they want, because there is a window of time. But I
go back to what I said ten minutes ago. I'm pretty happy with the
way I, you know, approached this because I didn't want to give my
hopes up about Coleman Hawkins, and for some reason, this never really felt
like it was going to happen. Even though things were lining up. The
visit was set, Louisville was believed to be the leader because there was nobody
else really in the mix at that time other than SMU, and it was
just hard for me to think that he would go to SMU over Louisville.
But for some reason, I just never felt like this was going to happen.
And sure enough, it's not going to happen. But even without Hawkins,
I still really really like the personnel on this roster. I do you
know, I'm not going to backtrack. I think the addition of Hawkins would
have made it to where instead of just looking like a team that could you
know, be borderline top twenty five, that could make the tournament and that
wouldn't be a shock. I think that's where you were you are now,
and if you added Hawkins, I think it would have given you a little
bit of a bump. I think you would have gotten some more recognition this
offseason from the college basketball national folks, So you know, they still,
I guess, have the chance to have at somebody if they if they want.
You know, there's a couple of freshmen out there that I think they've
been talking to. One we've discussed earlier this week. His name is Jiggy
Phillips. So we'll see what they end up doing. But I now feel
as if this is this is going to be the roster, and I'm I'm
cool with it. I mean, they've got a chance to be pretty good
and i'd like to know. And I you know, again, I'm not
trying to spin this is like, hey, Coleman Hawkins visits canceled, Louisville
doesn't want him and they're better without him. That's not my That's not how
I'm trying to sound, and I hope I don't sound like that. But
I am happy to know that they're already feeling really good about team chemistry,
because that's something that you really only bring up if things you know aren't going
well. Right, and you can have a team that has a really good
nucleus, that has continuity and chemistry can just be up and down. For
example, that North Carolina team that made the National Championship Game in twenty twenty
two. I mean, that team mediocre throughout the year, but they made
that run and really started playing well. They brought back everybody. The following
year. You remember that John Caleb Blove and yeah I were underwhelming, Yeah,
Bay Coot and RJ. Davis and the team chemistry was bad. It
didn't It just didn't work. Not to say that those guys were all jerks
and that you know, there was some crazy stuff going on behind the scenes,
but just the chemistry wasn't there, and it showed last year when RJ.
Davis ended up becoming you know, I mean, they didn't need ktle
Bluff. Carolina was much better without Love. Not to say he's not a
good player, but everything else worked better without Caleb Love, and RJ.
Davis ran the show and he had a phenomenal season, was he I think
he might have been a SC Player of the Year. And then Caleb Love
at Arizona and he's the man there. He wins Pack twelve Player of the
Year. So you know, chemistry is really important, but it's not as
if this group a week ago had good chemistry or bad chemistry, they had
no chemistry because they never, like they've never played together. So I'm encouraged
to hear that these guys, you know, because again they're all coming from
different styles, different systems, different backgrounds, but there is there is some
similarities between not all of them, but a lot of them, and that
is sort of this blue collar, you know, dog work, you know,
very motivated. But I mean, we brought Terrence Edwards on the show
a few weeks ago, and you know, he mentioned one of the first
things I asked him about what really attracted him to Pat Kelsey and his staff,
and you know, he talked about everybody's dogs. And I think I
knew what I mean. He wasn't talking about everybody's dogs meeting their pets,
but like he was saying that everybody on the team like their dogs. And
that's sort of I guess the culture that Pat Kelsey's had before. Everybody's gonna
what they get and it's easy to say those kind of things. But I
think, again, just knowing what we know about a lot of the players
you've added via the portal, I feel like that's kind of already part of
their DNA, which is a good thing. So again that's the that's the
big news that Coleman Hawkins experience, whatever you want to call it, is
over because he's now not going to visit and it sounds like he will end
up probably going to SMU. I mean, I feel like I don't know.
Here's the latest from Colemenhawkins. He tweeted out again this guy again doesn't
matter. But like he deletes tweets all the time. Did he delete the
tweet saying he was getting off the app? No, he kept that up.
But then earlier he tweeted out. Is that he tweeted out, I
guess everything happens for a reason, and like not a it was like kind
of a I guess a sad emoji, you know what I mean, which
again kind of confirmed what I guess. A lot of people are doubting that.
They just don't believe louisvill would would not would would would back out.
But that's that's exactly what happened, and I think that tweet from him insinuates
that. But then he deleted it. Now he read so now he's only
his latest I guess tweet on his timeline is not his. It's a retweet
from Jeff Goodman that says Colemanhawkins is set to visit Kansas State this weekend.
Now so last minute change, He's now going to visit Kansas State. And
uh this this other little tidbit here in the tweet from from Goodman says one
major misnomer with Hawkins. I'm told there's no asking price of two million.
He obviously wants to be compensated fairly for the current marketplace, but this is
more about fit, the chance to develop play for a winning program and for
a coach that will get the most out of him. So here's here's something
that I think is very realistic here. And I don't believe that. Again,
I don't know if Louisville was ever going to pay two million, I
don't. I don't believe that. I think they felt like they could pay
and offer him in an il situation that would have been attractive enough for him
to pull the trigger and say yes. I mean I never we'll never know.
So maybe I shouldn't act and say, hey, he was going to
visit, and he would for sure said yes, we'll never know. Now.
But Aaron Torres I think put it out earlier this afternoon, and it
makes sense. He says. He feels bad for Colemanhawkins came back for a
big nil bag, but he waited so late. Most marquee rosters are already
set and most anile money has been spent less than for next year's guys.
If you're going to withdraw from the withdraw the deadline, your agent better be
working behind the scenes to make sure there's a landing spot for you. So
look, Colemanhawkins. He'll find a spot, he'll make money, and he'll
probably probably be pretty good. But he did, I mean, he did
wait till the very last minute, and again he didn't have a whole lot
of conversations with programs from what I understand, until he officially pulled out of
the draft, which again it's been pretty I mean, he was out there
from day one. He didn't want to come back to school. He wanted
to go to the NBA, but the NBA, I think made it quite
clear that you may not get drafted, and obviously back being back in school,
making money and then entering the draft next year is probably what's best for
him and him being picky, saying he doesn't want to play in the Big
Ten or the Big East. Can't help either of him. Yeah, I
mean, I just you know, I don't want to act like anything he's
ever done and said on social media makes him like a you know, a
character risk or anything like that, or a guy who you know you wouldn't
want on your team. But it's just it's just unusual to see And I
can't even claim that like it's because he's childish, but I get why other
people would see it that way. Right, Like we had that clip we
played the other day from Sam Vassini discussing why NBA teams weren't as impressed with
him, and he said that it's because they do want to see more maturity
from him. So, you know, he'll probably end up at Kansas State
because I would imagine go to Kansas State before he go to SMU. But
I don't know if he ends up at SMU will be playing against him next
year because they're in the ACC now. All right, So a lot of
other things we need to get to throughout these next two hours and some change.
The Dan Hurley situation. Sounds like he's in LA today. His family
and I still have a hard time thinking then he won't be the Lakers coach.
But the longer it drags out, I guess I can see a scenario
where he does have a hard time pulling the trigger and leaving such a great
situation. We got a lot of other things we need to get into today,
so let's go ahead and take a quick time out, save some time
for the show so we can, you know, get into all these things.
I'm you know that I've got planned for us throughout these next two hours,
so stick with us. It's coffee and company. We are feel about
Thorton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety As picky of an eater as you
are, John, I'm gonna assume you don't like onions. I do.
I like onions. Really surprises me. I'm not an onion guy, but
it's mostly just because of texture. Onion flavor is good on stuff, and
I don't like you know, I don't despise onions, but onions stink,
man, they do. So my wife brought home some pizza last night,
and she doesn't eat a lot of leftovers. So sometimes if it's something I
would eat, she'll bring it home and it'll be my lunch the next day.
That's what I did today. So I had before I left, I
heat it up a piece of for pizza, and it had like little onions
on it, and I was trying to pull them off and I was able
to do that effectively. And I just put my hand near my face before
we're coming back from break, and I can smell the onion on my finger.
It is so disgusting. Now, I wouldn't do onions on pizza,
wouldn't you agree? Though? Like onions stink? Oh, I mean it
smells like in the right setting, though, it can smell good. Oh
my, what setting is that? I guess when you're about to eat more
or eat something with an onion, it just it's got I don't know,
attached them, something like that, like bo leftover onions that you were eating.
Body odor smells like onions like it. When I smell bad, Like
when I smell somebody that's got bo, it gives me I get a hint
of you know what onion smells like. Another thing that I feel like can
be comparable in terms of it can smell bad in the wrong setting is fish,
But if you're out in the seafood place, it smell pretty good.
Yeah, that's true, but yeah, I need a next break. I'm
gonna go wash my hands because very very gross. It's coffee and Company here
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can do it at Refreshment Awards dot com or download the app. So we
have an update on the Scotti Scheffler officer Officer Gillis, and I mean we
knew once the charges were dropped. The press conference took place and LMPD announced
via press release that they would be releasing more I guess, you know,
I don't remember what if they called it evidence or if they called it photo
or audio video, whatever it may be, but they were going to release
it once things are redacted. Well, I guess it's been redacted because we
now have some pictures of Officer Gillis after the fact, his pants, his
booboos, and we have audio. So apparently he turned on his body cam
but only audio, which I guess video wouldn't be it wouldn't be relevant after
the fact, but he turned it on after everything ended, and there's only
and there's audio from that which before we play it for you. I mean,
why would he have it off and then turn it on? Like I
mean, just even if it's not because he was trying to get away with
doing something shady, it's still not following protocol and you lose the ability to
say that it wasn't working, you know what I mean, like a malfunction.
You just literally weren't prepared to do your job because you're supposed to have
that on. But you you haven't heard this yet, have you. No?
I've seen the photos though, oh man. I mean, like I'll
go back to what I said the day that they announced that charges were dropped
and Romans did his thing, and really, you know, body bagged LMPD
every step of this entire situation. Every time there's an update, which today
there's an update, there's more more, you know, evidence from the whole
situation. It looks more and more bad for LMPD and specifically Officer Gillis because
the day that it happened, I remember thinking, well, surely, like
come on, like I get it, Like cops can get hot headed and
abuse their power and let emotions get in the way from actually doing their job,
But you know, I'm going to give them the benefit of it out
like probably shouldn't have happened where Scotty Scheffler goes to jail and gets arrested in
charge with a felony. But there's got to be something there that led for
it to get to this point, Like there's got to be more to it,
Like what are we missing? Are we going to find out that Scotty
Scheffler called him a bad name, talked about his mama, Like, like
what led to it getting to that level where he's thrown in jail for you
know, five minutes seemingly and we still have no evidence And I don't.
I don't because he didn't. Like this is exactly what everybody who doubted LMPD
for doing the right thing and handling it the way they were supposed to,
specifically Officer Gillis was right. What this is is a law enforcement officer who
got his feelings hurt, abused his power seemingly, and just made this thing
into something it did not need to be at all. We already knew that
with the evidence that has been presented to us and made public in recent weeks,
but the pictures of his pants we'll start there before you guys hear what
he had to say after the fact. I mean he has a small rip,
like a little hole on the back of his pants, and then I
mean that's pretty much it, is it not? So if you guys want
to, I just retweeted Paul Miles, who was in our newsroom, Paul
Miles of news Radio eight forty whas I just retweeted the picture that he posted
of the pants. But there's some other images as well. His knee.
I'm not kidding you. My son last night playing basketball, he's four.
My son last night outside fell down on his knee and he had a bigger
scab cut whatever you want to call it than Officer Jealous who acted like you
know, I mean, he this is I'm speechless, the injury to the
knee. My son had a bigger whelp, a bigger you know cut on
his knee last night and he's four, and he got up and kept playing.
This guy threw somebody in jail because of this what a I mean,
I'm it all got handled to where charges were dropped. And Scottie Scheffler is
the one who was, you know, caught up in this and he seems
to be handling it better than anybody possibly could, better than I would,
but it's still is just insane. I'm I'm, I'm speechless as to like,
like, how's this guy not fired? He already had issues as a
law enforcement officer before that probably doesn't warrant getting fired, but if it did,
it wouldn't surprise me. But like, this guy created this entire situation
and he's making LMPD all look bad because of him. And unfortunately, that's
you know, there could be a few bad cops in different law enforcement you
know, different police departments across the country. It doesn't mean that everybody's like
that, and that's unfortunate because if you have a few, or maybe just
one that does bad things they're not supposed to do, you know, it's
a black eye for everybody, which isn't fair, but that's just how it
works. Like, I know, there are many great law enforcement officers here
in Louisville that are that you know, do things the right way and wouldn't
have let this happen. But man, this guy is a clown. I
mean, go look at these pictures. It's crazy and I can't I don't
know how this works, but I can't tell if you know, he had
to prove that he was hurt, meaning they're like, okay, well,
if you're gonna if we're gonna throw these charges on and we need to see
like the injuries or is is this guy just such a clown, such a
delusional buffoon that he's like you come look, come look at come look at
my knee. I mean it looks like he scratched a bug bite. It
doesn't look it's not a wound. I mean, what a clown. And
then to release the statement that he released after the fact, like I did
get dragged, if that's one he didn't, because again, there were witnesses
that were willing to testify and told both the county attorney and Scheffler's attorney Romans,
that they saw it. They didn't have video, they weren't filming,
but they saw it and that he did not that that didn't happen. He
did not get dragged by Scheffler's vehicle, and Romans, I thought, you
know, said it best. If he was dragged, they wouldn't drop charges.
If he legitimately dragged an officer, mistake or not, they wouldn't drop
charges. And to be honest with you, they probably shouldn't. Now,
maybe you can lower the charge, but like you can't even if it's a
mistake. You can't be driving with a law enforcement officer attached to your vehicle.
But that didn't happen. So like I'm just I don't know. It
doesn't matter, makes no difference, but I am curious, was it is
this? I mean, I'm sure it's protocol, but just I can you
know, given how this thing's been handled, especially by Gillis since day one,
Like I can see him like wanting to show everybody his knee as if
the gonna you know, drop to any of themselves and say a prayer and
hope that he survives and hope that he has a speedy recovery. I mean,
what a clown. And now see one of the replies. Actually I
want to bring one of them. It's funny. Maybe it's childish, but
I think it's funny. That's a weird spot for poop to come out from.
Yeah, maybe he didn't, in fact poop his pants like I thought
he did. I could be wrong there, but you know Boo Boo's poopoos.
It's allah, I mean, it's I mean, in again, there
are four clips that our news team put together from Officer Gillis after the fact,
whenever Scheffler was in the police car. And here they are. So
I'm gonna have to play them individually because these are news cuts for our news
station. But uh, here is the first one. I think this is
when the officer, the other officer I guess was talking to Scheffler that we
did here, who I don't think handled that very well, to be honest
with you, but I mean, come here, they want to talk to
you too. Man, Yeah you are. I'm pissed. My pants are
ripped. I had this scrape on my knee and my wrist. I'm pissed.
I'm pissed. I mean, I feel like we should make that a
job. That's and that's again. I mean that is again you like you
let your you got your feelings hurt, like you let your emotions like I
mean, if that gets you pissed and worked up to where you you know,
have to file a felony charge. Like man, I don't know if,
if, if this is the right lane for you. My man,
It's like he went around everybody else. We already had a line of them
trying to come in, and he decided he's going to be recording. No,
was at a time was it wasn't expecting to run over. Wasn't expecting
to get run over? Is that? I mean? I mean, I
think he believes he got ran over, Like I think it's you know,
George Costanza type stuff, like it's not it's not a lie if you believe
it, like you didn't get run over? What are you talking about?
Especially with the statement where he reiterated, you know he took offense to see
Roman's comments and then wanted to let everybody know he did get run over.
I mean, no, you didn't like that didn't happen. What world are
you? Are you on? He goes, He goes, I want to
go. My hand's on, and like no, no, not he is,
I want to go. He floors it. You never floor and that
never happened. He didn't floor it like you're I mean, are you are
you the one that I ran? I mean my wrist, my angle,
my knee, and my rip my hand. I hope he's okay. I
mean, I can see even if it is a misunderstanding and you're not wanting
to take it to the level that he took it, I can see you
not being like chill about it. But again to say you got run over,
I mean, and if like, have you ever really like I'm just
trying to this is not a great comparison, but I've hurt myself before,
like you know, playing sports or whatever, or even just you know,
hit my shint on something, or like sometimes whenever you whenever you hurt yourself
and you're like really like in pain, like ah, like you're really hurting
because it's a Charlie horse or maybe I don't know what it is, like
you can have something that really does cause you pain and discomfort, but there's
no visual like proof that you're really hurt, you know what I'm saying.
So I mean, I just I wouldn't show anybody my knee. I wouldn't
show anybody my my my wrist because it would make you look as if you're
not very tough. But again, that's you know, maybe he was really
hurt. I mean clearly he was, because he was that emotional about it
and he was pissed, as he said. I just I feel like the
adrenaline in the situation probably caused him to overreact in this way, and he
wasn't thinking, well, I hate to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe I'm not by saying that, but he's still shouldn't fair. He
still shouldn't have made this what it was. Yeah, and you know,
I don't know why there wasn't a chance to talk it out, and they
did talk. You heard there that the you know that last clip I played,
you could hear Scheffler talking to him briefly, and I just feel like
in most instances that would have that would have at least calmed the situation a
little bit to where you could have still been upset but understood that what you
what you decided to do initially wasn't overreaction and doesn't need to happen. And
that never I guess crossed his mind. So yeah, I mean it's I
mean, you even heard the office or who asked him did you have your
body cam on? And he said no, because I didn't expect to get
run over. I mean, you know, I'm not gonna I can't read
anybody's mind, but he could have just been asking him because like, you
know, they're gonna need that, or also like you know, we're supposed
to it his policy, So like I hope you did have it on or
maybe he's thinking, like, I don't know if I believe what you're telling
me, because it's not adding up, like you don't look that hurt,
and I didn't see anybody floor it like you said, I didn't see you
get dragged. But maybe if you have it on cam, then we'll be
able to show that, like, I don't know. I mean, again,
I can't speak for the other officer who asked him that, but just
again, to go back to the first day this happened, I think it
was it three weeks ago today? Was it two weeks I think it was
three weeks ago today when this whole thing happened. It was the day before
you left for your trip, wasn't it. Yeah, so I think that
was three weeks ago. Yeah. I mean, unfortunate situation all the way
around, but there's no scenario it needed to go that far, and it's
just a bad look unfortunately. All right, quick break will come back and
wrap up the three o'clock hour and keep this thing rolling along. I'm curious
if we get any Danny Hurley updates today. I know he's visiting la Maybe
he falls in love while there and gives him the yes, or maybe you
know he comes back to Connecticut. I think the longer he drags out,
the better chance there is of him not going to the Lakers. But I
still believe as of now, he's going to be in the NBA, not
in college basketball next year. And that's a bummer. I really do think
that that's not a good thing for college hoops. Quick break, keep a
lock right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Who is this? I'm just
enjoying the SpongeBob cartoon. Okay, I don't I didn't recognize the voice.
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know, I could see it be in that in there somewhere. SpongeBob became
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was my prime cartoon as a child. Yep, you know about rug Rats?
What about Hey Arnold? Yeah, it's the football Head. Yeah.
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so here's the latest with with with Hurley. Apparently Yukon is prepared to
make him, you know, a higher you know, they're gonna pay him
more. And I've seen a lot of folks claiming that Yukon is like low
balling him because their offer will make him the third highest paid coach in college
basketball behind John caliperiod Arkansas and Bill's self at Kansas. That doesn't really surprise
me, because I don't I mean Yukon, you know, I think they'll
they'll figure it out, right, Like if he names a price that says,
hey, this is what it's gonna take to get me to stay part
of me says, they'll just say yes and agree to it, and they'll
find a way to make they'll find a way to to to have that money
available. People Connecticut tax tax, the people of Connecticut have people you know
sell their you know, Organs On the dark web to try me like,
that's how much Yukon wants to keep this guy. But I don't. I
don't think it's about money, So I don't really have a strong reaction to
him. Not because he just won two national championships in a row. So
you would think, given the trajectory that he's on and what he's accomplished,
that he deserves to be the highest paid coach in college basketball. I don't
think Yukon can can can do that unless again they got real creative and you
know, had some help on their end. But I don't, like,
it's not going to be about money. If he comes back to Yukon,
it won't be because they made him a rich man. I mean, he's
already going to be paid a lot if he comes back, and yeah,
the Lakers would put him in a different ballpark financially. You know, life
changing money is different for everybody. Meaning he's been coaching Yukon, he's been
a high level D one coach for some years now. I would imagine that,
you know, the life changing money for him probably happened when he signed
his contract with Yukon the first time, because I'm sure he was making a
lot more money there than he was at Rhode Island and at Wagner, So
I think he's probably already had life changing money, and then the Laker money
could probably make it to where it's even more life changing, because we're talking
about, you know, potentially making fifteen sixteen million dollars a year, which
is a lot of money. So I don't think it's going to be about
the money. I think it'll just come down to does he want to take
that challenge? And I still think he will go to the Lakers because of
the timing here, like what else does he have left to accomplish at Yukon?
And in fact, there are some that really struggle when they're in a
situation like this where they know that, hey, I've really proved that I
am one of the best of all time and I've already been at the top
two straight years. You know, you find yourself thinking, man, does
it really get better than this? Like you know what's next? You know,
I could win a title again and it'll feel great, But man,
like you know not that he would be unhappy if he keeps winning national championships.
But Billy Donovan after he won back to back titles at Florida. He
talked about this years ago where he battled with like depression because he sort of
felt lost, like he really did achieve something he probably never thought was realistic
for him. Maybe he did, I don't know, but the success he
had at Florida in those two years where he went back to back championships,
you know, you don't win a title the next year and it's like a
big leutdown and you can still be really good, but like you may never
win back to back titles again. You could be a great coach and never
win another title again. So I think moving on to the NBA makes a
lot of sense for him, and LA is the best job you can probably
get. But I really think it. You know, if it was me,
it would come down to, you know, just how much am I
going to be able to run this team? Like how much am I going
to have to? Let you know? How much is Lebron gonna dictate what
we do? Which you know it sounds crazy, but no, like,
let's be real, Like Lebron James, I mean, he's he's I mean,
he's the coach a lot of times when he's wherever he is. I
mean, I don't say that tongue in cheek literally like he used to make
fun of Tylo when he was the coach of the of the Calves whenever Lebron
was was there the last time like Tylou in the huddle, I mean like
Lebron would just kind of like irt, like nudge him out of the way,
like come on, I got like I got this. And I still
think Dan Hurley's the kind of guy they would want to coach basketball like that.
But we'll see, all right, two hours left. Stick with us
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