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Speaker 3: Rick Ryder alongside once again today and I guess we'll
Speaker 3: just dive right into the news that came out really,
Speaker 3: I think before six o'clock, but if you listened in
Speaker 3: the five o'clock hour yesterday, we were out a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier than we usually are because of a basketball game,
Speaker 3: So it actually worked out to where, like, I don't
Speaker 3: even really know what my reaction would have been if
Speaker 3: I was still on the air when I saw that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it wouldn't have been anything crazy. I wouldn't have,
Speaker 3: you know, like lost my mind or done anything you
Speaker 3: know that would get me fired. But I don't think
Speaker 3: I you know, there were times yesterday where thinking about
Speaker 3: how things played out with the lost to Stanford, like
Speaker 3: I just words couldn't come out of my mouth. I
Speaker 3: couldn't speak. I was trying to process what I wanted
Speaker 3: to say, and I just nothing was working. And it's
Speaker 3: just because of how you know, insane that loss was.
Speaker 3: But throughout the conversation we had yesterday and we talked
Speaker 3: to a lot of different callers and it was a
Speaker 3: pretty caller driven show, people just expressing their frustration sharing
Speaker 3: what they think is, you know, really worrisome about the
Speaker 3: way this season has gone, and it's not is if
Speaker 3: things are, you know, I mean, let's be real, it
Speaker 3: could be a lot worse. But it's also just been
Speaker 3: really frustrating this year and the loss to Stanford and
Speaker 3: the way it played out. I mean, that's probably the
Speaker 3: most frustrated fans have been all year. And at times
Speaker 3: you think to yourself, we can't make this up, no way. Well,
Speaker 3: what we didn't get to discuss yesterday, which I'm sure
Speaker 3: all of you are aware of now, is right in
Speaker 3: there with the other things as far as you can't
Speaker 3: make this up up. So Teyon Holloway, who is a
Speaker 3: sophomore defensive back for Louisville, and I and I you know,
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 3: Before this news of him getting arrested and charged with
Speaker 3: assault and strangulation, he was, until further notice, is going
Speaker 3: to be known as the guy who you know, committed
Speaker 3: the unthinkable penalty that cost you a game. Obviously a
Speaker 3: lot of other mistakes and really a consistent pattern there
Speaker 3: towards the end, just doing everything you could to give
Speaker 3: Stanford the ability to win that game in regulation with
Speaker 3: a field goal. I mean, as I said yesterday, I
Speaker 3: think you could have you could have made the case
Speaker 3: that they were strategically trying to do that. I know
Speaker 3: they weren't, but I mean that's that's the way that
Speaker 3: it played out. But he was flag for unsportsmanlike conduct
Speaker 3: for a sideline shove, and you know that was that
Speaker 3: was a big no no. I mean, that was one
Speaker 3: of again many things, but that's like all the things
Speaker 3: that seems to be maybe the most controllable. I don't know,
Speaker 3: you can make the case that off sides is controllable,
Speaker 3: but that's just a guy, you know, ready to go
Speaker 3: make a play and he timed it incorrectly. But Tayon
Speaker 3: Holloway again, we had somebody calling yesterday. This is actually
Speaker 3: just now coming back to me now. We had somebody
Speaker 3: calling yesterday that said that they're done with Louisville football
Speaker 3: maybe forever. I think it might have been more so
Speaker 3: just for they were done for the season. If that
Speaker 3: guy plays another second because of just how egregious that
Speaker 3: that mistake was and how silly it was. Well, this
Speaker 3: guy whenever Louisville got back to town. The team got
Speaker 3: back to town on Sunday evening, he then got himself
Speaker 3: arrested seemingly within like an hour or so of being back.
Speaker 3: So this is not something that came up yesterday on
Speaker 3: the show, But if you listened to Jet Brown's press
Speaker 3: conference yesterday, he talked about how they were not able
Speaker 3: to get back to Louisville that night. And it's a
Speaker 3: long flight anyway, but typically, you know, they load up
Speaker 3: from the stadium and they make their way to some
Speaker 3: airport to catch their chartered flight to get back to Louisville,
Speaker 3: really regardless of where they are, and they were unable
Speaker 3: to do that because the crew didn't have a full
Speaker 3: staff and they had to stay tonight, and they didn't
Speaker 3: land in Louisville till about eight o'clock. It sounds like, well,
Speaker 3: after the team landed, Tan Holloway ended up making his
Speaker 3: way back to I don't know if it was where
Speaker 3: he lives here near campus or on campus or whatever,
Speaker 3: but I'll just read for you the news that came out.
Speaker 3: He was arrested on charges of felony strangulation and misdemeanor
Speaker 3: domestic assault. He allegedly attacked a woman when she tried
Speaker 3: to stop him from smoking marijuana about nine pm on
Speaker 3: Sunday night. That's according to the police report, so they
Speaker 3: claim in the police report. The details in the police
Speaker 3: report claimed that he threw the woman off the bed
Speaker 3: and struck her in the face with his fists. When
Speaker 3: she tried to fight back, Holloway allegedly put a pillow
Speaker 3: over her face, smothering her for about ten seconds before
Speaker 3: attempting to throw her out the room.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: This is all according to the details in the police report.
Speaker 3: Police were dispatched to a call for service at an
Speaker 3: apartment where they were and it was because at around
Speaker 3: nine o'clock somebody called nine one one and hung up,
Speaker 3: So of course that's something they got to check out.
Speaker 3: They got to vet the situation to make sure everybody's okay,
Speaker 3: and they showed up and it says here in this
Speaker 3: right up from WDRB dot com. Again, this is all
Speaker 3: according to the police report. That all parties inside the
Speaker 3: apartment were initially uncooperative with officers, and the election victim
Speaker 3: had a laceration on her upper lip and puffy eyes.
Speaker 3: So he's pleaded not guilty in court. His bond was
Speaker 3: set for ten thousand dollars. It's been posted, and UFL
Speaker 3: did release a statement Monday saying that they're aware of
Speaker 3: the arrest and that they're going to gather more information
Speaker 3: and while they do that, he has been suspended indefinitely
Speaker 3: from all team activities. He will be back in court
Speaker 3: on November twenty six. So, I mean, I know some
Speaker 3: people are trying and I really don't get this, to
Speaker 3: be honest with you, and if you you know, I
Speaker 3: trust me. In no way am I saying this is
Speaker 3: good news and not.
Speaker 2: A big deal. Why are people upset? That is not
Speaker 2: at all what I mean?
Speaker 3: Anybody with that opinion, I would I would love to
Speaker 3: hear how you came to that, because this is something
Speaker 3: that you know is terrible. I mean, again, to be
Speaker 3: fair to him, these are allegations made in a police report,
Speaker 3: and you know he is he's deserved due process here
Speaker 3: to see if he can. You know, maybe he's going
Speaker 3: to dispute what is alleged and maybe charges kid drop.
Speaker 3: We don't know, right and unfortunately this day and age,
Speaker 3: there's rarely a all right, let's wait and see what
Speaker 3: really happened kind of thing. And I look, I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe it's worse than what's in the police report.
Speaker 2: I have no clue.
Speaker 3: So you know, I wanted to give that disclaimer before
Speaker 3: I say this, because I'm as upset as anybody about
Speaker 3: the way things happen against Stanford. I mean, that was
Speaker 3: just its really demoralizing, you know. In fact, the more
Speaker 3: time that passes, the more you know, sad I get
Speaker 3: about it. I mean, it's not you can do about
Speaker 3: it now, and it is pretty pathetic that, you know,
Speaker 3: what happens between you know, two college football teams across
Speaker 3: the country impacts my morale so much. But you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a lunatic for this stuff, like a
Speaker 3: lot of you guys. So what I was dressing up
Speaker 3: there before I say it because I don't want to
Speaker 3: act in sensitive to the situation.
Speaker 2: It's terrible, But.
Speaker 3: Like, I don't think this makes that I don't think
Speaker 3: this means that we've got like major problems within the
Speaker 3: Louisville football program. Obviously, they've been pretty undisciplined this year,
Speaker 3: and they make big mistakes that you just can't make.
Speaker 3: I mean, clearly we talked all about that yesterday, and
Speaker 3: in fact, more often than not this year, those have
Speaker 3: been the conversations about the team and in the play
Speaker 3: on the field. But this is absolutely an isolated incident,
Speaker 3: right the things we've been complaining about when Jeff, since
Speaker 3: Jeff Brahms got here, which, to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: we really haven't done that much complaining in the grand
Speaker 3: scheme of things. Obviously losing games like they've lost this year,
Speaker 3: the way it's happened, this team being pretty undisciplined, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's been frustrating, But like as far as off the
Speaker 3: field stuff where you have to worry about, you know,
Speaker 3: like the culture, and I mean, this is this is
Speaker 3: an isolated thing, and that makes it to where like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this stinks, and who knows, wouldn't be shocked if this
Speaker 3: guy never plays here again, especially you know, if if
Speaker 3: he ends up pleading guilty in what was alleged in
Speaker 3: the police report is actually true and he pleads guilty
Speaker 3: to it, then maybe he never plays here again.
Speaker 2: I don't know, none of us know, but.
Speaker 3: I don't think that this means that, like Louisville football man,
Speaker 3: things just are getting terrible when it rains, it pours,
Speaker 3: because this really has nothing to I mean, again, I
Speaker 3: don't want to sound like the hey, what's the big
Speaker 3: deal guy, because that's not really what I mean. This
Speaker 3: is something serious, but I don't think this is a
Speaker 3: sign that you've got this kind of stuff to worry
Speaker 3: about moving forward. So again, not the kind of news
Speaker 3: you want your football program to be associated with in
Speaker 3: any way under any circumstance, but especially whenever you know
Speaker 3: you're coming off of a law that ripped the heart
Speaker 3: out of a lot of us like Saturdays did. But
Speaker 3: again really two completely separate type of things. But again
Speaker 3: never never good news if you really really think about it.
Speaker 3: All right, we are gonna be joined coming up around
Speaker 3: four thirty by mister C. L. Brown of the Courier
Speaker 3: Journal get his thoughts on a lot of things, like
Speaker 3: we do each and every week. Cels become now regular guests.
Speaker 3: You know, he he called me out whenever I was
Speaker 3: in Charlotte at the ACC tip off and he was there,
Speaker 3: and he was you know, I was, I was gassing
Speaker 3: him up on the air. How it just blew my
Speaker 3: mind that everybody who was anybody to know in Charlotte
Speaker 3: at the acc tip off the a SEC basketball media days.
Speaker 3: If you're not familiar with with what that is, they
Speaker 3: all knew cel. I mean, he's been around covering college
Speaker 3: hoops for a long time. He spent a lot of
Speaker 3: time covering North Carolina's program once he left Louisville.
Speaker 2: Now he's back in Louisville.
Speaker 3: But like he was, he was the guy to know,
Speaker 3: like coaches coming up, dapping him up, and you know,
Speaker 3: he was like, why don't you have me on the
Speaker 3: show anymore?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, okay, we can do that. I
Speaker 2: thought he was.
Speaker 3: I thought he was kind of big time for us.
Speaker 3: But if he's willing to give us his time each week,
Speaker 3: which he's been very nice to do in the last
Speaker 3: few weeks, we'll certainly bring him in. So he'll join
Speaker 3: us at four thirty and other than that, we've got
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Speaker 3: matchup against Bellerman.
Speaker 2: We'll certainly talk about that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's gonna be a whole lot
Speaker 3: of really previewing the game itself. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: think we kind of have a feeling for the way
Speaker 3: Scott Davenport's teams are going to play, and uh, they're
Speaker 3: having a rough start. Louisville is twenty eight and a
Speaker 3: half point favorites against Bellerman tonight, and I'll give you
Speaker 3: some things that I hope to see that'll give you,
Speaker 3: I guess, you know, some good pregame coverage if you will. However,
Speaker 3: this won't be much of a test, and if it
Speaker 3: is a really big test, then I would say that,
Speaker 3: you know, that would not be a good night. That
Speaker 3: will also lead me right back to where I often
Speaker 3: end up when it comes to games like this, and
Speaker 3: that is the fact that I hate games like this,
Speaker 3: because yeah, it's good, it's a good feel. You know,
Speaker 3: we're very familiar with Scott Davenport. He's a Louisville legend.
Speaker 3: And Bellerman. I'm not gonna act like I watch a
Speaker 3: whole lot of Bellerman games, but I want him to
Speaker 3: do well.
Speaker 2: I pull for him.
Speaker 3: I'm a big supporter, big fan of coach Davenport, and
Speaker 3: you know, that adds an element to it that you
Speaker 3: don't get when you play teams like Moorhead State or
Speaker 3: Popcorn State or whoever. But it's just really tough to
Speaker 3: know if you're getting better in a game like this,
Speaker 3: And that doesn't mean that you're not getting better. It's
Speaker 3: just impossible to know. You know, if the game's closer
Speaker 3: in Louisville doesn't cover, maybe that means that you're regressing,
Speaker 3: but you really have no way of knowing. So that's
Speaker 3: why I've always said that when it comes to teams
Speaker 3: that you know that are in the three hundreds in
Speaker 3: the kin Palm and the net or whatever, like, it's just,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't really don't know why you play
Speaker 3: those games, which actually that's a conversation I do want
Speaker 3: to get into a little bit later on. And I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna try to sway anybody's opinion, but I've always
Speaker 3: had this opinion and I've got pushback on it, and
Speaker 3: that is that, like I'm not against playing Bellerman at all.
Speaker 3: You know, why not you're gonna play morehead play Bellerman.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that they shouldn't play. I'm not upset
Speaker 3: about it, but I also would totally understand if whoever
Speaker 3: takes over this program, which now it's Pat Kelsey, and
Speaker 3: I have no way of knowing what he's gonna do.
Speaker 2: We'll let you guys hear a little bit about it.
Speaker 3: He did talk at his press conference yesterday just about
Speaker 3: his history with with coach Davenport, and of course Doug Davenport,
Speaker 3: his son who Pat briefly hired at Winthrop only for
Speaker 3: Rick Patino to offer Doug a job and and Doug
Speaker 3: made it right back here to Louisville. So we'll let
Speaker 3: you get We'll let you guys hear a lot about that.
Speaker 3: And I think there's always been talk about will the
Speaker 3: series continue, and I think the doubt of it happening
Speaker 3: was because of Chris Mack not really being for it,
Speaker 3: and that ended up being, you know, not a huge
Speaker 3: talking point. But I don't think he you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know if there was ever any press conference there
Speaker 3: anything where he talked about it and said, yeah, we'll
Speaker 3: never play them again or I never want to play them.
Speaker 3: But if a coach did say, look, I'm going to
Speaker 3: choose to schedule somebody other than Bellerman here, I would
Speaker 3: totally understand why, Like Louisville playing Bellerman to Bellerman is
Speaker 3: a gift to Bellerman.
Speaker 2: I mean it is.
Speaker 3: There's no and that's not I mean that that take
Speaker 3: take any emotion or feeling out of what I just said.
Speaker 3: It is a gift to play Bellermin. It's a gift
Speaker 3: to play Morehead State. It's a gift to play these
Speaker 3: other teams because again, they benefit from it, whereas you
Speaker 3: really don't and you could mess around and lose. Louisville
Speaker 3: lost to Bellerman a couple of years ago. We remember that,
Speaker 3: don't we. I mean that was that was a nightmare.
Speaker 3: And I think because of the situation, meaning the Kenny
Speaker 3: Payne situation being as bad as it was, it didn't
Speaker 3: really like live as I'll never forget when we lost
Speaker 3: to Bellerman, who was brand new to Division one, because
Speaker 3: Kenny Payne lost a team like that somewhat frequently. Therefore,
Speaker 3: like it just got lost in the mix of all
Speaker 3: the other bad losses that Kenny Payne had. So you know, again,
Speaker 3: I'm not anti Bellerman by any means, but like if
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey decided, Okay, after this this game, we're gonna
Speaker 3: move on and go in a different direction, and you know,
Speaker 3: schedule somebody differently. We're going to make sure we don't
Speaker 3: schedule teams that are in the three hundreds of the
Speaker 3: Ken Palm or the net. We're gonna go after teams
Speaker 3: that are more so, you know, in the mid two
Speaker 3: hundreds or better. Because what happens with Bellerman here. And
Speaker 3: I don't want to nerd out on the analytics, but look,
Speaker 3: analytics matter now when it comes to seating, and coaches
Speaker 3: are paying attention to that kind of stuff. You play
Speaker 3: a team like Bellerman at times, it makes it damn
Speaker 3: near impossible for you to do anything other than fall
Speaker 3: in these metrics and these analytics because you're supposed to
Speaker 3: beat them by this insane number, and if you don't,
Speaker 3: you're gonna fall. Now, maybe there's a chance that it
Speaker 3: ends up evening out when you get later on in
Speaker 3: the year. And you know, I mean again, I don't
Speaker 3: want to act like it's you can never do it,
Speaker 3: it'll kill your season, but coaches are going to continue
Speaker 3: to be more mindful of these numbers. And I just
Speaker 3: think teams that are that are in that range are
Speaker 3: gonna have a tough time getting Power five type opponents
Speaker 3: to schedule them because there's really no beneficial situation other
Speaker 3: than being able to say you added a win, but
Speaker 3: the win actually again, and that's that's that's my biggest gripe,
Speaker 3: and it's been my biggest gripe about these these different formulas.
Speaker 3: Rather it be college football, college basketball. You've got the FPI,
Speaker 3: the Football Power Index for ESPN, You've got the net
Speaker 3: rankings for the NC double A. I mean, hell, you
Speaker 3: still got BCS if you want to go there. I mean,
Speaker 3: people don't use it anymore as far as determining who
Speaker 3: makes the playoff or anything like that, but it's still
Speaker 3: out there. It still exists, the sagger and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: and they never factor in winning and losing enough, they
Speaker 3: factor in you know, how competitive it was. So you
Speaker 3: can get a W on your win column against a
Speaker 3: team of this caliber, but if you don't beat their
Speaker 3: brains in, then you actually don't. Mean again, the number
Speaker 3: shows that you added a win and not a loss.
Speaker 3: But in whatever formula you want a reference, when it
Speaker 3: comes to college basketball, you probably fell. So again, I
Speaker 3: just would love when people say it's good for the city.
Speaker 3: I don't really disagree because there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: that are feeling good today. This this game gives them
Speaker 3: more excitement and more anticipation to be there, to be
Speaker 3: a part of it than if Louisville was playing you know, Rio,
Speaker 3: Grand Valley State or something like that. But if a
Speaker 3: coach decided like, hey, I'm gonna not do it, and
Speaker 3: here's why, I think they have every right to do it.
Speaker 3: And I don't think it would be a huge issue
Speaker 3: to where you know, Louisville fans would be would be irate.
Speaker 3: But I do think some people would say, we why
Speaker 3: would you not play it? Well, I just told you
Speaker 3: that's why you wouldn't play it. And if you say, well,
Speaker 3: that's silly, that's your opinion, and that's fine, you know,
Speaker 3: because again I'm not telling you that you play a
Speaker 3: team like this, you won't make the tournament because they're
Speaker 3: just going to bring down your resume so much. It's
Speaker 3: not that, but man coaches are gonna fo coaches, especially
Speaker 3: coaches like Pat Kelsey. He's very much driven by numbers analytics,
Speaker 3: which is why he plays the style he plays. So
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to give anybody any kind of indication
Speaker 3: that I think it's going to end. But I would
Speaker 3: imagine the contract probably doesn't have a whole lot left
Speaker 3: on it. And it just wouldn't shock me if they're
Speaker 3: no longer a regular opponent for Louisville. And I think one,
Speaker 3: I think Louisville fans would be bummed by that.
Speaker 2: And if.
Speaker 3: And it wouldn't shock me either if coach Davenport, you know,
Speaker 3: made it clear in his own way that you know,
Speaker 3: he was very disappointed that they're not going to play
Speaker 3: the game anymore. But I would also understand the guy
Speaker 3: whose job it is to have success here, his livelihood
Speaker 3: is is certainly at stake. And and you know, and
Speaker 3: I already know there's going to be some people that say, well,
Speaker 3: it can't be that big of a deal to where
Speaker 3: you you maybe, look, that's your opinion, But it comes
Speaker 3: down to what the coach wants to do. And I would,
Speaker 3: you know, I would respect his decision if he decided. Yeah,
Speaker 3: love coach Davenport, love Bellerman, but we're just gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna, we're gonna schedule a team that in this
Speaker 3: late November stretch of the schedule, there's a better likelihood
Speaker 3: we could do something to really maybe not really improve
Speaker 3: your situation, but at least you know, not fall.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about that. Also, a lot of.
Speaker 3: College basketball games on tonight, Kentucky taking on is it Lipscomb?
Speaker 3: They're twenty one point favorites, which I'm not going to
Speaker 3: do it because I just I can't, but man, I
Speaker 3: feel like Kentucky minus twenty one right there is the
Speaker 3: best is the best bet of the night because they're
Speaker 3: a lot better than Lipscomb. And I think Mark Pohle
Speaker 3: he may be the best example. I mean I mentioned
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey being somebody that's going to pay attention to
Speaker 3: these kind of things, as far as knowing you need
Speaker 3: to beat an opponent a certain amount by a certain
Speaker 3: amount of points in order for you to not fall
Speaker 3: in metrics numbers, all that kind of stuff, rankings. Throwing
Speaker 3: all these words out there because again, like technically, it's
Speaker 3: a formula that indicates it. But there's all kinds of
Speaker 3: different ones. There's bark Torvik, there's the Ken palm, which
Speaker 3: I reference all the time. But like Peck, I think
Speaker 3: both coaches Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope are the kind
Speaker 3: of coaches that would in fact not try to embarrass
Speaker 3: an opponent, but also understand like every possession actually matters,
Speaker 3: and hey, we're going to do everything we can to
Speaker 3: make sure that we are improving our situation as best
Speaker 3: we can. Night in a night out. But again, a
Speaker 3: lot of good college hoops on this evening. Some other
Speaker 3: things we'll get into. We're gonna get another update when
Speaker 3: it comes to the college football playoff rankings tonight, and
Speaker 3: I really haven't given a whole lot of time to
Speaker 3: looking into the projections out there as far as what
Speaker 3: people are expecting the committee to do tonight, but one
Speaker 3: thing I do know is that it is really going
Speaker 3: to be awesome over these next couple of weeks. Now,
Speaker 3: obviously it'd be even more awesome if your team was
Speaker 3: in the mix for something, rather it be a scenario
Speaker 3: where they could find themselves competing for their conference championship
Speaker 3: or maybe they're still alive in the playoff race, that
Speaker 3: would be better. But just as a college football observer
Speaker 3: and someone who loves college football, there's so many teams
Speaker 3: that are going to play each other that hey, it's
Speaker 3: this game is going to determine if your conference championship
Speaker 3: appearance or your playoff appearance lives are. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: going to determine if it's living another week or if
Speaker 3: it's dead. And the twelve team playoff race has actually,
Speaker 3: at least in my opinion, we haven't even actually got
Speaker 3: the event yet, right, We're still in the lead up process.
Speaker 3: But everything that's come with it I think has been
Speaker 3: beneficial for college football. But I'll go back to what
Speaker 3: I said last week, because there's more and more evidence that,
Speaker 3: like the committee, you can with twelve teams and nobody
Speaker 3: having divisions anymore in the power leagues. Somebody within the
Speaker 3: committee that I think it's Ward Manually at the athletic
Speaker 3: director for Michigan. He's the one who usually speaks on
Speaker 3: ESPN after they update these rankings. They need to just
Speaker 3: emphasize that a lot of it is based off of
Speaker 3: their opinion and their belief more so than any specific
Speaker 3: piece of data or any specific result. Because now you're
Speaker 3: gonna need to throw in some things that kind of
Speaker 3: got you where you're at, but you're also just gonna
Speaker 3: need to clarify that this is just what we believe, because.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what it is.
Speaker 3: We all know that, and there's with twelve teams in
Speaker 3: the mix, and there're being so many teams with very
Speaker 3: similar records that both play in or you know, not
Speaker 3: just two teams, but there's all kinds of teams with
Speaker 3: similar records that play in power for conferences to where
Speaker 3: the committee is gonna have to pick which one they
Speaker 3: think is better, and there's really no way to do
Speaker 3: that other than you know, to know for sure, and
Speaker 3: so just tell us this is your opinion. People would
Speaker 3: still complain it would still be a flawed system to
Speaker 3: where there's gonna be some that don't get in that
Speaker 3: claim that they got screwed and all that. But you
Speaker 3: could get away with it a little bit better when
Speaker 3: it's just four. But at the twelve team spot, maybe
Speaker 3: it's this year where there being so much parody, not
Speaker 3: really knowing who in fact is the best team in
Speaker 3: college football. But I mean, it may be common to
Speaker 3: see them tonight try to answer questions about how they
Speaker 3: decided to do this and do that, and I'm looking
Speaker 3: forward to it also something we'll get to at some
Speaker 3: point that I want to let you guys here once again,
Speaker 3: this isn't even really about like Kentucky and Mitch Barnhart
Speaker 3: winning the breakup right now when it comes to the
Speaker 3: Calipari situation, but I think he's lost his mind. I
Speaker 3: know I said that a week ago, and maybe even
Speaker 3: a week before that, because he's just turned up, turned
Speaker 3: it up ten notches when it comes to him just
Speaker 3: saying things at a press conference, insulting people there covering
Speaker 3: Arkansas basketball, and I mean he's begging fans to come
Speaker 3: to their games. I mean he did that. We'll let
Speaker 3: you hear it. I mean he was saying, if you
Speaker 3: can't come, please give your tickets back to the school.
Speaker 3: We'll find a way to use them. So, you know,
Speaker 3: who knows, Maybe in a month we end up we
Speaker 3: end up looking at both of these two programs, Kentucky
Speaker 3: and Arkansas. Maybe Arkansaw's got a rolling and Kentucky's taking
Speaker 3: steps back. I doubt that's the case, but either way, like,
Speaker 3: who knows, it's still early. That is something we do know.
Speaker 3: But it just seems as if this is going to
Speaker 3: end up being a pretty a pretty not you know,
Speaker 3: I don't want to say it's going to be a
Speaker 3: disastrous stint for cal at Arkansas, but like the likelihood
Speaker 3: of him ever getting close to where he was when
Speaker 3: he was in his heyday at Kentucky. I just I
Speaker 3: don't think that's possible, But I don't know why. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's because now I'm more willing to see the amusement
Speaker 3: in it. But he's really doing the same thing in
Speaker 3: Arkansas that he was doing at Kentucky. But I think
Speaker 3: he's turned it up a little bit, maybe a lot, actually,
Speaker 3: But I find it hilarious this guy who covers Arkansas.
Speaker 2: He's doing these weekly.
Speaker 3: Montages of Caliperi's press conference with out of context things
Speaker 3: that he says, and it's hilarious to me. So I'll
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Speaker 3: dot com. All right, Uh, not a surprise here. A
Speaker 3: couple of text kind of saying the same things. If
Speaker 3: you're scared of play in Bellerman, you got bigger problems
Speaker 3: than worrying about any formula. That was what somebody just
Speaker 3: sent in about ninety seconds ago. It's not about and
Speaker 3: I kind of don't want to take the bait here
Speaker 3: because then I also don't want to get into like,
Speaker 3: you know, like I like Bellerman, and I'm fine if
Speaker 3: they play Bellerman every year, But I also would understand
Speaker 3: if a coach decided not to just because of wanting
Speaker 3: to make sure that you are playing teams to where
Speaker 3: there's some level of a benefit when it comes to
Speaker 3: your resume, even if it is a little bitty benefit.
Speaker 3: I mean, clearly fans want to see their team play Bellerman,
Speaker 3: probably more so than they would want to see him
Speaker 3: play another random team that's ranked in the three hundred.
Speaker 3: So that's my that's my whole point. But it's not
Speaker 3: about being scared, and that's that's that is that's a
Speaker 3: strategy that that is. I don't know how effective it is,
Speaker 3: Like I don't know if that would like if Pat
Speaker 3: Kelsey was and I'm not saying he is, but if
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey was the guy that was like, all right, I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to do it anymore. Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 3: We don't need to play him. It's just not worth it.
Speaker 3: But then Scott davinpor which this scenario would never play out,
Speaker 3: but humor me here or you scared? You scared scared
Speaker 3: Kelsey Like, then you know, maybe it would be effective.
Speaker 3: Like maybe he would be like, all right, well that
Speaker 3: that's the case, then bring it. Like, but let me
Speaker 3: give you another Let me give you an example of
Speaker 3: a school that that that doesn't do it publicly, but
Speaker 3: it's been a pretty well known thing. So Murray State
Speaker 3: obviously they've got some pretty good tradition when it comes
Speaker 3: to to to basketball, right, I mean, in fact, you know,
Speaker 3: Louisville Kentucky obviously are the two big programs here in
Speaker 3: the state. But Murray State has had some great seasons.
Speaker 3: They've got some great history. So does Western Kentucky for
Speaker 3: that matter. But Murray State, they they don't play Louisville
Speaker 3: or Kentucky in basketball, and they could. But the reason
Speaker 3: that they don't is because Murray State believes that Louisville
Speaker 3: and Kentucky and I don't even know how much they've
Speaker 3: tried to schedule Louisville, to be honest with you, but
Speaker 3: I know as far as Kentucky, Murray has not taken
Speaker 3: up the opportunities that e KU and Western have even
Speaker 3: have even had as far as you know, hey, we'll
Speaker 3: go play you, but we're not gonna We're not gonna
Speaker 3: get a return game Murray State has has. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to see if there's anything online. And by the way, again,
Speaker 3: phone on's open five x two, five seven, one seventy
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Speaker 3: in here. We'll get to you guys in just a second.
Speaker 3: But well, I scramble here to try to find some
Speaker 3: kind of a write up and I can't find one,
Speaker 3: and it's not worth it. But Murray won't take a
Speaker 3: game against Kentucky. And as I say that, maybe they
Speaker 3: are on the schedule this year, but in previous years
Speaker 3: Murray expected to have a return game where Kentucky would
Speaker 3: go play them at Murray that's just not happening, Like,
Speaker 3: why would they do that, Like that would be that
Speaker 3: would be charity. And in fact, it's already a gift
Speaker 3: and a charity to essentially host you, to pay you
Speaker 3: to come in for what is called a by game,
Speaker 3: and you know, if you're competitive, you've got a chance
Speaker 3: to really boost your resume. But going to play them
Speaker 3: there would make one It would take away a home
Speaker 3: game where you could open up your gates and make
Speaker 3: money as far as ticket sales and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So anytime there's been pushback, you know Murray State fans,
Speaker 3: you know, at least some of them. My wife went
Speaker 3: to Murray State though, so that that's why I'm a
Speaker 3: little more familiar with this than you might expect. But
Speaker 3: they'd be like, oh, why won't you come and play?
Speaker 2: Are you scared?
Speaker 3: That's no, we're looking out for ourselves, like we're we're
Speaker 3: not going to get into the weeds with you, and essentially,
Speaker 3: you know, punch down, And that's what I didn't want
Speaker 3: to do. I didn't want to make it come off
Speaker 3: as you're punching down when it comes to these kind
Speaker 3: of programs, but you really are, because you know, you
Speaker 3: don't need to play them. Them being able to play
Speaker 3: you is big for them. It's not like the biggest
Speaker 3: thing in the world. But like you know, those kind
Speaker 3: of programs need these kind of games, whereas power four
Speaker 3: power five type programs, they have the ability to be
Speaker 3: selective and play really who they want. So if you're
Speaker 3: just now joining us again, disclaimer, I'd be fine with
Speaker 3: Louisville and Beller been playing every year. And if you said, hey,
Speaker 3: it's up to you, Nick, what do you want to do?
Speaker 3: I don't think I would have the heart to say, Nope,
Speaker 3: not playing it anymore.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Scotty.
Speaker 3: But like if a if you know Pat Kelsey, Chris Mackick, Bettina, whoever,
Speaker 3: any coach that's going to coach here, if they just
Speaker 3: decided because of where, like where Bellerman is ranked, they
Speaker 3: just didn't see a benefit from it, then you know
Speaker 3: I would understand and I would say, yeah, I get
Speaker 3: that decision.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 3: This person says, Nick, don't you think there's a chance
Speaker 3: that maybe this is the outlier Bellman's really down this year,
Speaker 3: ZHO to four. Maybe potentially they'd end up being a
Speaker 3: much better team to where it would make sense. That's
Speaker 3: a good point. You know, I will say the conference
Speaker 3: and it's early right now, but if you go to
Speaker 3: kenpom dot com and look at how they have the
Speaker 3: conference is ranked. Bellerman is in the Atlantic Sun and
Speaker 3: there are let's see, they're thirty one Division one college
Speaker 3: basketball conferences out there, and the Atlantic Sun ranks twenty
Speaker 3: third at a thirty one. So currently Bellerman is sitting
Speaker 3: at in the Ken palm three hundred and thirty out
Speaker 3: of let's see how many are there now, three hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty. There was three hundred and sixty three I
Speaker 3: believe last year. Wouldn't shock me if there's even more now,
Speaker 3: because yeah, there's three unred and sixty four Division one teams.
Speaker 3: Belloman ranks three hundred and thirty ish, So that just
Speaker 3: makes it to where it'd be tough for you to
Speaker 3: benefit from beating them by fifty even. I mean, maybe
Speaker 3: that's the exaggeration. So and look, Louisville, do they have
Speaker 3: any other games like that? And we'll find out in
Speaker 3: the years to come. As far as what Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 3: strategy is going to be when it comes to non
Speaker 3: conference games really scheduling in general. I tried to ask
Speaker 3: him that when we had him on the show at
Speaker 3: the ACC basketball tip off. As far as this schedule,
Speaker 3: non conference, especially being so loaded, I mean, Louisville schedule
Speaker 3: from November fourth when they tipped off to January first,
Speaker 3: is insane. Now it does get much more manageable. They
Speaker 3: strull gonna play some good teams, and it's still tough
Speaker 3: to know just what we should expect from this Louisville
Speaker 3: team the rest of the way. But you know you've
Speaker 3: got You've already played Tennessee and we know that didn't
Speaker 3: go well. You're gonna go to next week. You're gonna
Speaker 3: go to the Battle for Atlantis and play some really
Speaker 3: good teams. Then you play Ole miss when you come
Speaker 3: back that Tuesday. Then you've got Duke that Sunday utep
Speaker 3: in the middle of the week, and then that Saturday
Speaker 3: you play Kentucky. Then you play Florida State December twenty first,
Speaker 3: and then you start the year January first taking on
Speaker 3: North Carolina at home. So that schedule itself is really
Speaker 3: not anything. I mean, Pat Kelsey, I don't know if
Speaker 3: he's I would imagine when it comes to the teams
Speaker 3: that got scheduled since he got hired, I would guess,
Speaker 3: I know Tennessee is on there, and that was that
Speaker 3: was something he did give us the you know, the
Speaker 3: details as far as how it all came together, and
Speaker 3: he was I don't know if he was encouraged, like
Speaker 3: if he needed to be like nudged to take the game,
Speaker 3: but it was Josh Hurd and assistant coach Brian Cloleman,
Speaker 3: who I guess we're kind of saying, hey, we should
Speaker 3: do this. And look, I hate that they lost by
Speaker 3: twenty two points, but I'm glad they did it because
Speaker 3: I would love to see every year Louisville play this
Speaker 3: kind of a non conference schedule. Now again, you got
Speaker 3: to be pretty good or you're going to be really
Speaker 3: hurting when you get to conference play, and that maybe
Speaker 3: a Louisville this year.
Speaker 1: We don't know.
Speaker 3: It's tough to say at this point, but I would
Speaker 3: rather see my team play legitimate opponents where you're going
Speaker 3: to feel like, Okay, there's something to really gain here
Speaker 3: by winning, and if you lose, it always sucks to lose,
Speaker 3: but maybe it doesn't really hurt much of your resume.
Speaker 3: And also when you're playing good teams, you're seeing kind
Speaker 3: of where you stand. Take the result out of it,
Speaker 3: but you get a chance to kind of just see
Speaker 3: how you stack up against other teams that are believed
Speaker 3: to be, you know, in your level or maybe better.
Speaker 3: Tennessee clearly was a lot better than Louisville when they
Speaker 3: played them. All Right, it's coffee and company. I feel
Speaker 3: about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you
Speaker 3: guys hanging out with us. We'll get back to the
Speaker 3: text line coming up here in just a moment, but
Speaker 3: real quick. The Ken Palm projected score for this evening
Speaker 3: is eighty four to sixty three in favor of the Cards,
Speaker 3: and that, of course, would be a game that did
Speaker 3: not result in Louisville covering. As currently they are twenty
Speaker 3: eight and a half point favorites. I wouldn't touch this
Speaker 3: game at all, but you know, I know a lot
Speaker 3: of people love to bet on Louisville, and that way,
Speaker 3: if Louisville wins, they not only get the satisfaction of
Speaker 3: seeing their team win, but maybe they can make a
Speaker 3: little bit of money as well. But yeah, twenty let's
Speaker 3: see twenty one point victory. According to according to kin Pom,
Speaker 3: all right, something I want to get to coming up
Speaker 3: here on the other side, when it comes to the
Speaker 3: and I hate to know I should have probably plan
Speaker 3: this a little bit better to where we're not just
Speaker 3: talking about formulas and rankings as much. But if you
Speaker 3: want evidence that like ESPN's FPI should no longer be
Speaker 3: mentioned or referenced at all, there is a there's in fact,
Speaker 3: two teams that I think you can look at and
Speaker 3: they're current top twenty and you look at the record,
Speaker 3: you look at me. If you follow college football, you know,
Speaker 3: well you're well aware of like how their season is
Speaker 3: going and the fact that they're still ranked as high
Speaker 3: as they are. I mean, it should be the absolute
Speaker 3: proof that this whole thing is flawed beyond belief and
Speaker 3: they need to just scrap it. But I find it funny,
Speaker 3: like I would love to like present this to whoever
Speaker 3: put this together, whatever AI they used to put this
Speaker 3: formula together, and say, like, you can't justify this like
Speaker 3: the I mean, please tell me how this checks out. Also,
Speaker 3: don't forget coming up at four thirty, we'll talk to
Speaker 3: cl Brown of the Courier Journal. Looking forward to our
Speaker 3: weekly weekly chat with him.
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Speaker 1: Now back to coffee and company fueled my Thorntins on
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Speaker 2: All right, so before we get into this this updated.
Speaker 3: Look at the twenty twenty four College Football Power Index,
Speaker 3: it's ESPN's rankings that they shove in our face all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: Before we do that.
Speaker 3: I'm distracted here because I'm seeing an ad and it's
Speaker 3: clearly because you know, I'm I let my kids use well,
Speaker 3: my wife she made the mistake early on when we
Speaker 3: when our kids were young, to like they could use
Speaker 3: her phone if they wanted to, you know, watch videos
Speaker 3: or something, or just if they're if they're bored and
Speaker 3: we're out doing something and they want to entertain themselves.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: They now they have their own tablets throwing devices, but
Speaker 3: those don't actually have service, so typically we have to
Speaker 3: connect our hotspot to it. But my wife, she made
Speaker 3: the mistake early on of like letting it be a
Speaker 3: thing to where they know they could get it. I've
Speaker 3: never given my phone to them like regularly, so they
Speaker 3: don't usually ask for mine. But occasionally, you know, I'll
Speaker 3: use my phone to show them something. And I'm so
Speaker 3: jealous of kids this day and age who can benefit
Speaker 3: from AI when it comes to Christmas. So this is
Speaker 3: not the app that I use. In fact, I'll give
Speaker 3: them a free plug here. I probably shouldn't do that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think they need me. But there
Speaker 3: is an app out there that we've used for a
Speaker 3: while the last two Christmases. I believe that lets you
Speaker 3: get like a customized video call from from Sanna. And
Speaker 3: I'm sure AI is used to make it, but like
Speaker 3: it's awesome. So like I can send them a little
Speaker 3: and it costs a little bit of money and it's
Speaker 3: well worth it if like your kids are really into Christmas.
Speaker 3: I've got an eight year old daughter and a four
Speaker 3: year old son, and it may I mean that Christmas
Speaker 3: is now back to like I was a kid as
Speaker 3: far as how much I enjoy it because my kids
Speaker 3: are now old enough to really understand it. There's so
Speaker 3: they're so into it to where it's it's a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. I feel like I'm a little kid again
Speaker 3: on Christmas. But P and P Santa is the app
Speaker 3: I use, and again free plug form because it works great.
Speaker 3: You can put into like a little custom message. You
Speaker 3: can't get like too detailed, but there's little things throughout,
Speaker 3: like a minute long video that will mention their name
Speaker 3: specifically or mention where they're from to where I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just it's awesome for kids. And uh we have
Speaker 3: calls with Santa every now and then and it's and
Speaker 3: it's great. But probably because I use that app when
Speaker 3: I go and you know, and I pop up in
Speaker 3: anything rather it be the internet, a browser or any
Speaker 3: of the apps on social media Instagram, Facebook, whatever. I'm
Speaker 3: now getting a an ad for an AI powered company
Speaker 3: called Santa Phone Calls dot com and it looks like
Speaker 3: it's very similar to what to what I've already been using.
Speaker 3: And like, if I was a kid and we got
Speaker 3: the call Sana, are you kidding me? Like I would
Speaker 3: it would be the best thing ever, Like I wouldn't
Speaker 3: sleep for until Chris this morning, or you know, I
Speaker 3: guess I wouldn't sleep them. But I wouldn't sleep till
Speaker 3: Christmas was over. I'd be so excited if I got
Speaker 3: to talk to Santa. So I'm jealous, And it looks
Speaker 3: so awesome. Like my kids at times they want to
Speaker 3: call my parents, uh, or my my wife's parents, you know,
Speaker 3: their grandparents or their aunts and uncles, and you know,
Speaker 3: they know what FaceTime is, so like they know what
Speaker 3: it looks like when somebody's on FaceTime, when you're calling somebody,
Speaker 3: when they're calling you, or whenever you know you're on
Speaker 3: the phone having a FaceTime call. So like they see
Speaker 3: that and it's almost the same thing that they see
Speaker 3: when they see family. But they see it with Sanna,
Speaker 3: who's you know, it's at the North Pole, or he's
Speaker 3: in his he's in his he's in his uh, he's
Speaker 3: with missus claws walking around.
Speaker 2: It's just it's it's super cool. But that's a really good.
Speaker 3: Idea to utilize AI to you could mean, not not
Speaker 3: that I would encourage them to do it, but like
Speaker 3: that's one of those things that parents would probably pay
Speaker 3: more than they need to for that because they know
Speaker 3: how happy it would make their kids. So if you've
Speaker 3: still got young kids that are into Christmas, you know,
Speaker 3: check out, and I'm telling myself to really, you know,
Speaker 3: get into the Christmas spirit. And I know, trust me,
Speaker 3: I'm well aware Thanksgiving hasn't happened yet, but it'll be
Speaker 3: here next week. Like it's it's crazy how quickly the
Speaker 3: I mean, it's crazy how time goes in general. I mean,
Speaker 3: how is twenty twenty four almost over? I mean it's
Speaker 3: crazy to me how quickly everything goes by. But I
Speaker 3: know I'll be really sad, like when my kids get
Speaker 3: older and they're not as into Christmas and Santa Claus.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna take advantage of it while i can.
Speaker 3: All right, real quick, back to this this updated ESPN
Speaker 3: College Football Power Index. So currently in the top fifteen,
Speaker 3: at number fifteen, you have a team in the Big
Speaker 3: ten that does not have a winning record. In fact,
Speaker 3: I believe they just became. Yeah, they just got a
Speaker 3: win that made them five hundred on the year. They
Speaker 3: are five and five in their league, they're three and
Speaker 3: and Yet the ESPN FPI says this team is the
Speaker 3: fifteenth best team in college football. And if you're looking
Speaker 3: at it, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: But I'm curious if you have like a guess, and
Speaker 3: you know, we're not going to open up the line,
Speaker 3: so you guys can guess. But I'm just like just
Speaker 3: humor me right now, Like think about who it could be,
Speaker 3: because it's a big brand, but it's not a team
Speaker 3: that anybody's been mentioning like they are in control of
Speaker 3: their own destiny. And well, you know, like this is
Speaker 3: a team that right now is three and five in
Speaker 3: their own league, a league that I feel like is
Speaker 3: insanely top heavy, and that's the big ten.
Speaker 2: This team is USC.
Speaker 3: The conversation at USC, more so nationally, has not been
Speaker 3: about them doing something special this year. It's been about
Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley being paid that much money to leave Oklahoma
Speaker 3: and how if USC does want to get rid of him,
Speaker 3: the amount of money it would cost is astronomical. Now,
Speaker 3: he's going to get another year for sure, but after that,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but maybe he does last a long
Speaker 3: time because it seems like coaches argue to be able
Speaker 3: to ride out another year or two, whereas in the
Speaker 3: previous I think, and I don't know of this for certain,
Speaker 3: but I feel like one of the reasons why you're
Speaker 3: seeing guys like Sam Pittman get another year. That hasn't
Speaker 3: been made official yet, I don't think, but there are
Speaker 3: a lot of folks who cover Arkansas that say he's
Speaker 3: going to get at least one more year. Obviously, billiy
Speaker 3: Napier is going to get another year, and that looks
Speaker 3: a little better now that they were able to knock
Speaker 3: off LSU over the weekend. But I think some coaches
Speaker 3: are going to get another year because financially, I think
Speaker 3: they can project what they're going to have to start
Speaker 3: paying these athletes, right twenty two million dollars annually. That's
Speaker 3: going to be dispersed among all your student athletes. But
Speaker 3: they don't really know what that looks like. And I
Speaker 3: don't think you know what kind of a hit that
Speaker 3: takes on you financially until like you're going through it.
Speaker 3: So I think it's going to give a lot of
Speaker 3: coaches another year to potentially salvage their situation, whereas previously
Speaker 3: they probably would have been fired. But yes, espns FPI
Speaker 3: has USC a three to five Big Ten team, a
Speaker 3: five and five team overall, with four of their last
Speaker 3: six games being losses. Their best went on the year
Speaker 3: looks like it's against I guess LSU, which that continues
Speaker 3: to look even worse as the season rolls along. I
Speaker 3: mean that alone should be proof that you're not factoring
Speaker 3: and winning and losing enough. And if this team could
Speaker 3: be three and five in their league, five and five overall,
Speaker 3: then you need to go back and retool whatever formula
Speaker 3: you're using. You need to rely you need to rely
Speaker 3: on AI a little bit better, maybe rely on the
Speaker 3: same AI model that made that you know, Santa Claus
Speaker 3: video thing I was talking about, because that's awesome, all right,
Speaker 3: Hopefully we have a couple of awesome hours the rest
Speaker 3: of the way. Stick around one hour down, we got
Speaker 3: two more to go, and we'll keep it rolling along.
Speaker 3: Don't forget cl Brown at this Courier Journal is going
Speaker 3: to join us, coming up here around four point thirty,
Speaker 3: So stick around right here on Sports Talk seven ninety