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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how many times Teddy Bridgewater has been
Speaker 2: back in Louisville since he left many years ago, but
Speaker 2: this will be I think his second trip back to Louisville,
Speaker 2: and about a six week time frame he was inducted
Speaker 2: into the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame whenever they had
Speaker 2: their annual induction. I think it was towards the end
Speaker 2: of the summer, and he came back and his mother
Speaker 2: was here, and I heard a little bit of the
Speaker 2: interview he did following the awards ceremony, and now he's
Speaker 2: going to be back. Maybe he's here as we speak,
Speaker 2: maybe he's listening right now. So welcome back to Louisville, Teddy,
Speaker 2: and I'm happy that you're going to be honored tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and certainly as deserve as anybody in my opinion, considering
Speaker 2: the great career he had, the timing of him showing
Speaker 2: up and dare I say putting Louisville on the map.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously Charlie Strong had had a couple of
Speaker 2: really special seasons at a time where it was really
Speaker 2: important to bounce back following a failed stint that was
Speaker 2: Steve Kragthorpe. But you know, I don't see it this way,
Speaker 2: but I know a lot of people do, and I
Speaker 2: get it. I think it was a It was a
Speaker 2: collective effort from Charlie and his entire staff, a lot
Speaker 2: of players that came to Louisville and believed in Charlie
Speaker 2: and Clint Hurt and what those guys were selling. But
Speaker 2: there are some people that, you know, look at it
Speaker 2: and say, hey, when you've got a special talented quarterback
Speaker 2: and you can really pull off some special seasons during
Speaker 2: his time there, that can you know, that can elevate you.
Speaker 2: So clearly Teddy was a huge factor. Some people think
Speaker 2: Charlie Strong would have never had any success at any
Speaker 2: level as a head coach if it wouldn't have been
Speaker 2: for Teddy Bridgewater. Clearly, he hasn't had much success or
Speaker 2: really any success as a coach without Teddy. But it
Speaker 2: was a special era, no doubt, and it's nice to
Speaker 2: see him getting honored tomorrow, gonna have his He's one
Speaker 2: of the many Louisville legends that you'll see up there
Speaker 2: across the stadium. And he's bringing some recruits with him.
Speaker 2: So he is, of course the head coach at his
Speaker 2: alma mater. He is at Miami Northwestern where he went
Speaker 2: to school, and he's one of many players that have
Speaker 2: come to Louisville from Miami Northwestern. And I don't know
Speaker 2: how good they are, but I would imagine, you know,
Speaker 2: they're probably still one of the better teams in South Florida.
Speaker 2: And Teddy's their head coach. So two visitors and I
Speaker 2: say he's bringing them with them. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: they aren't traveling together, but then again, I mean, it
Speaker 2: would be convenient, I would assume for these for everybody
Speaker 2: to just travel together. But Calvin Russell, he's the third
Speaker 2: ranked wide receiver from the twenty twenty sixth class and
Speaker 2: he plays for Teddy, and he'll be there as one
Speaker 2: of the visitors this weekend. And then also Javari Flowers
Speaker 2: is another kid who is a top one hundred recruit
Speaker 2: from the twenty twenty sixth class. He's going to be
Speaker 2: making the trip as well. So there's a lot of
Speaker 2: visitors that are going to be on campus tomorrow. Maybe
Speaker 2: they're here today, and it's the big weekend to do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's actually set up. I mean,
Speaker 2: the one thing that you wish was in a better
Speaker 2: situation is Louisville having two losses. I mean, in a
Speaker 2: perfect world, you'd be six and zero. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's not as if you're two and four. You're four
Speaker 2: and two and you've got a chance to pull off
Speaker 2: a win that could really send your season in a
Speaker 2: positive direction, maybe at a high rate of speed, and
Speaker 2: you'll also be doing it in front of a big
Speaker 2: crowd and some big time visitors. So I'm sure the
Speaker 2: staff if they were thinking, hey, which game on this
Speaker 2: schedule as far as the home slate would make the
Speaker 2: most sense to really try to sell what we have
Speaker 2: here as far as atmosphere, environment, that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: And it was this game, and here we are and Miami. Look,
Speaker 2: they're undefeated, they're the number sixteam in the country, and
Speaker 2: that makes it a tougher challenge, right, there's no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. But it also gives you a bigger opportunity
Speaker 2: to make the most of this entire situation. So big
Speaker 2: game tomorrow and I am certainly looking forward to. It's
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Speaker 2: We're going to be joined by Brian Edwards, a Vegas insider,
Speaker 2: and get his thoughts on this weekend's matchups. And then
Speaker 2: later on in the show, Jean and I are going
Speaker 2: to give you which picks we're really hot on when
Speaker 2: it comes to college football this weekend. So looking forward
Speaker 2: to that if you are just now joining us. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we talked a little bit about the Tony Bennett press
Speaker 2: conference today, and I really don't have any I mean,
Speaker 2: to be honest with It's not because I'm saying he's
Speaker 2: such a great guy and I love him so much
Speaker 2: to where I would never criticize him. I just don't
Speaker 2: really care that he's retiring. So it's not like I'm
Speaker 2: sad for his players or anybody like. I just don't care.
Speaker 2: But he is certainly proving to be a guy that
Speaker 2: has a lot of good will built up. But just
Speaker 2: about everybody, I mean, i'd say, the only people that
Speaker 2: are being pretty openly critical about the timing of his
Speaker 2: decision to retire are you know, probably people who don't
Speaker 2: like Virginia because you know, they're boring and they're lame.
Speaker 2: But they're good, or at least they were. But I
Speaker 2: think both things can be true, right, Like, I don't
Speaker 2: think he's a scumback. I don't think, you know, he
Speaker 2: did something unthinkable that will tarnish his legacy. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not that, but it's also true that you know,
Speaker 2: timming is not ideal, and he clearly without saying it directly.
Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't even have to say, we know
Speaker 2: he put his man in place here, meaning he maybe
Speaker 2: didn't plan this out. I'm going to assume that when
Speaker 2: he signed. I mean, this is something I didn't even realize,
Speaker 2: but he did. You know, he signed a contract extension
Speaker 2: in June.
Speaker 3: John, I think I heard somebody say that yesterday at
Speaker 3: some point.
Speaker 2: I mean that that makes it even more surprising, because
Speaker 2: you know, he didn't have to sign a new contract,
Speaker 2: but he did. And you would think that anybody signing
Speaker 2: a new deal, well I don't know again, coaches have it,
Speaker 2: I mean their contracts or whatever. Right, because they are
Speaker 2: really built to only benefit the coach and not the
Speaker 2: school or protect them financially at all. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think he did, maybe in the back of his mind,
Speaker 2: know that the game had changed a lot, the job
Speaker 2: had changed a lot, and he wasn't comfortable and him
Speaker 2: maybe not having the belief that he could really, you know,
Speaker 2: succeed at a high level given the new world. Maybe
Speaker 2: it just slowly built up to where he hit He
Speaker 2: hit the point of like, yeah, you know what, I
Speaker 2: can't lie to myself anymore. You know, I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to move on. But either way, like he wanted to
Speaker 2: give Ron Sanchez, his top assistant, the opportunity to at
Speaker 2: least show what he can do with a full year
Speaker 2: to coach this team, and without him doing it at
Speaker 2: this time, he probably would not have been able to
Speaker 2: do that. I mean, I don't know, you never know.
Speaker 2: Maybe they were always going to give the job to
Speaker 2: a Tony Bennett successor, because again, Tony Bennett brought Virginia
Speaker 2: basketball relevance they'd never really had before, and you know,
Speaker 2: won a national championship. And when he won a national
Speaker 2: championship at really any program, I don't care who you are. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Duke's only had one guy that's done it there, Kentucky's
Speaker 2: had multiple guys win championships there, louisvill'sd two guys win championships.
Speaker 2: So I think even if you've got multiple coaches or
Speaker 2: one coach you win a title somewhere, you're going to
Speaker 2: be all always somebody that is treated differently than guys
Speaker 2: who coached there that didn't do it. I mean, maybe
Speaker 2: Kevin Olly's the exception, but I mean what we're saying, John, if.
Speaker 3: This was more so about making sure Ron Sanchez takes over,
Speaker 3: what do you think the odds are that this was
Speaker 3: kind of in the works behind the scenes for a
Speaker 3: while now, and they just kept.
Speaker 2: It really really hush hush so that I could worry.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying the Virginia administration, but more so
Speaker 3: really between Tony Bennet and Ron Sanchez.
Speaker 2: I mean, it would I would think it would have
Speaker 2: to be those two guys if it was something that
Speaker 2: they felt they were gonna implement here, like Tony stepping
Speaker 2: down and Sanchez, you know, clearly just being the guy
Speaker 2: because of timing, I think they would have had to
Speaker 2: have kept it from the administration just guessing here. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I would feel like if I mean, again,
Speaker 2: it's not a good look for anybody that he did
Speaker 2: it this at this time, and I mean it's not
Speaker 2: a crime. And again I don't think it should change
Speaker 2: sort of how people view his legacy. But I mean
Speaker 2: if the administration knew all along and they were just waiting,
Speaker 2: I mean that that would be I think they'd look foolish.
Speaker 2: Now I think they can, you know, with a straight face,
Speaker 2: say yeah, it's not ideal. We wish we weren't in
Speaker 2: this situation where our guys leaving three weeks before the
Speaker 2: season starts. But you know, we understand and we respect
Speaker 2: his decision. We're forever grateful for him. But if they
Speaker 2: knew and they were just like, yeah, whenever you're ready,
Speaker 2: we'll just you know, we'll call a press conference, I mean,
Speaker 2: that would surprise me. But you never know. I mean
Speaker 2: there are conversations. I'm sure that that coaches are having
Speaker 2: thoughts that they're having that they've never had before because
Speaker 2: their job is different. There's no way around that. And
Speaker 2: I just have you know, this Bennett news has really
Speaker 2: not made me mad at him, but you know, just
Speaker 2: whatever these guys are saying behind the scenes to Jeff Goodman,
Speaker 2: Andy Katz, those that cover the sport at the highest
Speaker 2: level to get you know, those guys meaning those that
Speaker 2: cover the sport, the reporters, the big the talking heads
Speaker 2: to you know, speak on their behalf indirectly as if
Speaker 2: they're going through something that nobody would ever understand and
Speaker 2: it's so hard and it's just so tragic. Like that
Speaker 2: makes me want to pew because again, what I mean,
Speaker 2: think about this, let me just be a smart ass
Speaker 2: about it early quickly here, poor college basketball and college
Speaker 2: football coaches. I mean, clearly, they're the only job that
Speaker 2: is out there in any profession that the role changes, right. Businesses,
Speaker 2: industries evolve, The job changes over time for just about everybody.
Speaker 2: You think people are teaching school right now the same
Speaker 2: way they did back in nineteen sixty. No, they're not.
Speaker 2: I mean things like, it's not uncommon in any way
Speaker 2: to have a career and whatever that career is, whatever
Speaker 2: that job title is, whatever the responsibilities are in your role,
Speaker 2: they can fluctuate, it can change, right, I mean, that's life.
Speaker 2: Life evolves. So for it to happen to them and
Speaker 2: them be the biggest whiny complainers and cry about it.
Speaker 2: It's just it makes me sick. I mean not to
Speaker 2: the point where I'm you know, throwing up, but like
Speaker 2: it's just it's gross. These guys have no self awareness
Speaker 2: when it comes to how privileged they are. And it's
Speaker 2: not to say that they don't work their ass off,
Speaker 2: and it's not to say that they're not entitled to
Speaker 2: a really high paying job, because you know what, the
Speaker 2: sport that they coach, high level college basketball and college football,
Speaker 2: they those jobs produce a lot of money, right They're
Speaker 2: putting the product on the field, on the field, in
Speaker 2: the court that brings in a lot of money. So
Speaker 2: if the schools want to pay them that, then that's
Speaker 2: what they're going to do. But spare me with the
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have to walk away. It's just it's
Speaker 2: just so hard. It's unfair, like get over yourself, like
Speaker 2: shut the hell up, Like you sound ridiculous to complain,
Speaker 2: and you know, and I don't believe by the way
Speaker 2: that every coach is fine with players getting paid. I
Speaker 2: think they don't like it. I think they realize that
Speaker 2: now these guys can go get a new job at
Speaker 2: a new school if they don't like the way you
Speaker 2: know you are as their boss. I mean, that's really
Speaker 2: what it is. So, you know, I just these guys again,
Speaker 2: they've got nearly all of them. If you are coaching
Speaker 2: college football or college basketball, doesn't even have to be
Speaker 2: a doesn't even have to be a top tier job.
Speaker 2: It could be like mid major. You can be awful
Speaker 2: at your job, which you know it's a results based business.
Speaker 2: You can have terrible results where ninety nine percent of
Speaker 2: the population would get fired for those bad results, and
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be entitled to more paychecks after being fired
Speaker 2: forgiving that employer bad results. These dudes can walk off
Speaker 2: and collect millions upon millions of dollars for being terrible
Speaker 2: at their job. So like they've already got I think
Speaker 2: a situation that is it is you can't compare it
Speaker 2: to really any other profession in America that I could
Speaker 2: think of, And yet they're the ones that, like people
Speaker 2: like Jeff Goodman and Andy Katz are just distraught for
Speaker 2: like gosh, it's just you. You can't minimize the how
Speaker 2: much the game and how much the job has changed,
Speaker 2: Like get over yourself, Like if you don't like it,
Speaker 2: go do something else. Nobody's forcing you to do this.
Speaker 2: So again, like I have no simp and I think
Speaker 2: coaches that do play the poor me are ridiculous, but
Speaker 2: I can also acknowledge that they are correct in the
Speaker 2: fact that it's changed. But again, you don't like it,
Speaker 2: go do something else, which clearly that's what some of
Speaker 2: them are doing. That's what Tony Bennett is doing.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: If you're if you're really old, like Roy Williams and
Speaker 2: Mike Kozhewsky and even Nick Saban who walked away like
Speaker 2: you've got nothing to prove, you have nothing, like you know,
Speaker 2: you're not chasing something that you've been chasing for forty years.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure you want more than one. But
Speaker 2: if you've coached and you got a national championship or
Speaker 2: multiple of them, or a bunch of final fours, and
Speaker 2: you're and you and you kind of know that you're
Speaker 2: you know, your best days are probably in the rear view,
Speaker 2: then yeah, you would walk away because it turns into
Speaker 2: a job that you don't even want to do, Like
Speaker 2: you know, you're not that driven anymore to win at
Speaker 2: the highest level because you've got nothing to prove, and
Speaker 2: because the job is changed, you just don't like it.
Speaker 2: That's that's fine. But like Tony Bennett is somebody that
Speaker 2: you know, he's young, and I mean he's young for
Speaker 2: a for a I mean I don't think he's it's
Speaker 2: fifty five. Ye, Like if so, then I'm a baby,
Speaker 2: but like in that profession and really professionally, like if
Speaker 2: you're retiring at fifty five in any gig, any any role,
Speaker 2: unless you're like an athlete, where you clearly need to
Speaker 2: be young and spry and you know, in good, in
Speaker 2: great shape to play. But most jobs, I think retiring
Speaker 2: at fifty five would be looked at as an early retirement.
Speaker 3: I mean, Dan Hurley's fifty one, gosh, I kind of
Speaker 3: consider him as the new guard of legendary head coaches.
Speaker 2: Did you think that that Bennett was older or younger
Speaker 2: than fifty five, because I've never once thought about his age,
Speaker 2: but I would have guessed older. But it's just because
Speaker 2: he's been around a long time and he's always looked
Speaker 2: the same. But yeah, he's he's I mean, fifty five
Speaker 2: is young. I mean it's not as young as the
Speaker 2: guys that Louisville and Kentucky is tired, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's certainly not old, and well, it's young to retire.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't call him a young coach. It's a young coach.
Speaker 2: It's it's it When I say young, I just mean
Speaker 2: it's young for him to walk away at that age.
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Speaker 2: seven ninety. So when it comes to and this is
Speaker 2: a good question, it says Nick, you love putting people
Speaker 2: on the spot and asking them, asking them to predict
Speaker 2: the future. If Louisville basketball ends up being the eighty
Speaker 2: something the best team in the country, like Matt Noorlanders
Speaker 2: says they're going to be, how did we get there?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I don't have a whole lot of time
Speaker 2: to give you, like a long winded answer, but I
Speaker 2: would say if Louisville ends up being a team that
Speaker 2: at the end of the year you say was like
Speaker 2: in the eighties, I would say that certainly means they're
Speaker 2: not a tournament team and they were very underwhelming. And
Speaker 2: by the way, no offense to Matt in Orlander. I
Speaker 2: like him, but I don't. You know, everybody's guessing when
Speaker 2: it comes to these rosters now that are mostly built
Speaker 2: with portal guys, But I mean it's the ultimate guess
Speaker 2: with Louisville's roster in their situation, and that's why you
Speaker 2: see so many different results as far as where you
Speaker 2: think they're going to come in. Some people think they're
Speaker 2: top three, top four in the ACC. Some don't even
Speaker 2: think they're top ten. So you know, only time will
Speaker 2: tell as far as which of those two sides is
Speaker 2: more is more correct, But I would say if they're there,
Speaker 2: my guess would be that the system and the style,
Speaker 2: although I think it can work and I'm a big
Speaker 2: fan of it, Like maybe it was just a big
Speaker 2: adjustment for a lot of the new guys on this
Speaker 2: roster that had never played in that kind of a
Speaker 2: system before. Now I actually think Pat's done a good
Speaker 2: job of finding personnel that fits really well with what
Speaker 2: he wants to do. But I would say that and
Speaker 2: maybe an injury could have also been a factor as
Speaker 2: to why they were there. And this is something that
Speaker 2: you know, it didn't worry me as far as you know,
Speaker 2: like could this keep Louisville from winning a national championship?
Speaker 2: Because I'm not sure that that's realistic at this point.
Speaker 2: But they've got, I think a lot of good players,
Speaker 2: but I don't know who's gonna be the guy. And
Speaker 2: that's such a cliche And at times you don't really
Speaker 2: need somebody to be like I mean, you can make
Speaker 2: deep runs in the tournament without a guy on your
Speaker 2: roster that's gonna be a drafted in the NBA, But
Speaker 2: I do think you would need somebody to kind of
Speaker 2: emerge to where you feel like, more often than not,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go, We're gonna be going out there against
Speaker 2: some really good teams and every team in the ACC,
Speaker 2: and we've got a guy or maybe two that you
Speaker 2: feel like is as good as anybody they have. Now, again,
Speaker 2: you're gonna play Duke, You're gonna play Carolina, and that's
Speaker 2: gonna be a different conversation. I mean, you can't beat him,
Speaker 2: But like, can Casein Pryor be a top tier guy
Speaker 2: in this league? Can Chucky Hepburn be one of the better,
Speaker 2: you know, quarterbacks essentially in the ACC? And I know
Speaker 2: he doesn't play quarterback. I know that he's a basketball player,
Speaker 2: But you know what I mean, a floor general, a
Speaker 2: guy that can run your team, and can you make
Speaker 2: up for you know, you've got some good bigs that
Speaker 2: can stretch the floor, you can play five out, But
Speaker 2: if you play against a bollow for Indiana, that's a big,
Speaker 2: girthy guy. That's a guy who's gonna push people around. Like,
Speaker 2: do you have a physical presence that can match up
Speaker 2: with that? Like, So those are some things. Again, I
Speaker 2: don't want to act as if I'm totally worried about
Speaker 2: all those things I just mentioned, But your question was
Speaker 2: if we get to the end of the year and
Speaker 2: they are you know, closer to being a top one
Speaker 2: hundred team than a top twenty five team. Those are
Speaker 2: some potential scenarios I could see that got us there.
Speaker 2: All let's go to the phone lines five two, five,
Speaker 2: seven seventy nine hundred is the number. Let's welcome in, Jerry, Jerry,
Speaker 2: you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 5: Thanks Nick.
Speaker 4: There's that twitter that's I'm sure you've seen.
Speaker 5: It's called Phony Bennett.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have seen it, but I'm not
Speaker 2: surprised that there's a phony beIN int account.
Speaker 4: Okay, I always called him phony Tony because here here's
Speaker 4: the way I look. I'm you're spot on with the
Speaker 4: way I feel. I didn't realize it until today. Did
Speaker 4: you realize that his job that he got at Washington State,
Speaker 4: his dad did this exact same thing and handed him
Speaker 4: the keys.
Speaker 2: I do not know that. I knew that. I knew
Speaker 2: that he was there because of his dad, but I
Speaker 2: didn't know that his dad sort of finessed his son in.
Speaker 4: There equipped mid season, equip mid season and handed him
Speaker 4: the keys.
Speaker 5: So it's it's a key, you know.
Speaker 4: It's a play out of their playbook. The other thing
Speaker 4: is this I've always his interviews that he's had at
Speaker 4: halftime after games, et cetera. That always made me sick
Speaker 4: because I've always told all my buddies, I said, nobody's
Speaker 4: that nice.
Speaker 5: That guy's a phony. I've always felt.
Speaker 4: That way, and then I've heard people say that it
Speaker 4: had really good seats that are down on the sideline,
Speaker 4: that he you know, through all that all that nice
Speaker 4: guy cramp, that he's brutal on the rest, just like
Speaker 4: every other coach.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you, Jerry, Jerry, let me let
Speaker 2: me tell you this about that, because I remember I
Speaker 2: know exactly what you were talking about. He does it
Speaker 2: in a different way. He's he's always on him and
Speaker 2: he's working them, but he's doing it almost as if
Speaker 2: like he's a disappointed dad in them, which is a
Speaker 2: really weird thing to see, but like that's kind of
Speaker 2: his nature, is like he's he's not going to curse
Speaker 2: at him, but he's going to be you know, I'm
Speaker 2: really disappointed in you, Teddy. Like that's sort of like
Speaker 2: he's that guy, right, he like he kind of shames
Speaker 2: them more than just yells at him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me, but you know, yeah, he's
Speaker 4: kicked art, but I hate his style of ball's it's
Speaker 4: horrible and I'm glad he's going. But I'm glad that
Speaker 4: you see through it all and you're telling it because
Speaker 4: I feel like I feel exact same way. Like I said,
Speaker 4: he just that guy kills me.
Speaker 5: Mister nice guy. He's so full of it.
Speaker 4: Man, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: Brother, Go cars, Go cars. Thank you for the call,
Speaker 2: Jerry not not not terribly surprised that that's the way Jerry,
Speaker 2: That's the way he sees it. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: he can mean. And that's the thing is I think
Speaker 2: there would be again, I guess the best way and
Speaker 2: he might have set me up here, meaning Jerry to
Speaker 2: to really articulate, like Bennet's geting the benefit of the
Speaker 2: out more than most would because people think he's a
Speaker 2: great dude, like those who cover it and those who
Speaker 2: know him. But if it was any other coach, maybe
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be getting crushed, but they certainly others would
Speaker 2: be calling out the fact that he clearly timed this
Speaker 2: out so his guy Sanchez could get an opportunity, which
Speaker 2: isn't you know, it's not like it's never been done before.
Speaker 2: Like Greg Gard he got an opportunity at Wisconsin because
Speaker 2: in fact, didn't Tony Bennett's dad like come from Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Like maybe that's the whiskey. Maybe it's a playbook from
Speaker 2: that coaching tree because Bo Ryan quit so Greg Guard
Speaker 2: could get a chance, and Greg Guard's still their coach
Speaker 2: and last that check, they're still pretty underwhelmed with that.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, We'll talk to Brian Edwards on
Speaker 2: the other side as we get you set for a
Speaker 2: big time college football weekend. And that makes me very happy.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited. It's a Friday, We're feeling good. It's
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Speaker 2: some of the big matchups this weekend, not only in
Speaker 2: the NFL and college football Slate. It's the one and
Speaker 2: only mister Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider. Brian, how we
Speaker 2: doing on a beautiful Friday? My man doing great? Nick?
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's on your card or if
Speaker 2: it's a game that you're going to wager on, but
Speaker 2: I know you've got some interest because you are a
Speaker 2: Florida Gator fan. Just some quick thoughts. Again, you don't
Speaker 2: even have to talk with me or anything like that
Speaker 2: or total, but this Gators in Wildcats matchup. I feel
Speaker 2: like whatever happens here could send both teams in a
Speaker 2: different direction this season. Obviously, Florida has not had a
Speaker 2: whole lot of momentum, but I think at this point
Speaker 2: they've probably been a little dare I say, better than
Speaker 2: maybe some we're expecting, certainly after that lost to Miami,
Speaker 2: Kentucky beat Old Miss, but then turn around lost to Andy.
Speaker 2: So what do you think happens tomorrow in this game?
Speaker 5: At Florida minus one and a half.
Speaker 6: So I guess technically I lean to the Gators, but
Speaker 6: I'm not about to bet on Billy Napier. In fact,
Speaker 6: I did bet the understanding last week that was just
Speaker 6: catching a you know, a huge number. Napier's was painting
Speaker 6: his masterpiece and incompetence in the first half with his
Speaker 6: short yardage play calls and clock management. I mean, four
Speaker 6: red zone trips, three combined points, and it cost them
Speaker 6: a football game, and it's inexcusable.
Speaker 5: It's just more of the same. Nothing's getting better for
Speaker 5: the Florida Gators until a D.
Speaker 6: Scott Strickland and Billy Napier are belatedly pink slipped, and
Speaker 6: hopefully it'll be sooner than later. This one's a pass
Speaker 6: for me, though, because Kentucky's got its own issues.
Speaker 2: I'm stealing that painting his masterpiece of incompetence. That's beautifully said.
Speaker 2: That is a beautiful way to describe a coach who's
Speaker 2: in over his head, that does not does not know
Speaker 2: what he's doing. All Right, we'll get started with tomorrow
Speaker 2: Nights or Tomorrow's action, not just night which just it
Speaker 2: is college football all day. But Cincinnati and Arizona State,
Speaker 2: that's a game that obviously there's not a whole lot
Speaker 2: of local connection here with Saturfield anymore. But Cincinnati, I
Speaker 2: would you know, they their favorites here, but I think
Speaker 2: at this point, you know, I feel like you've had
Speaker 2: them on your card, maybe more often than most others have.
Speaker 2: But what do you like in this matchup here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Cincinnati has been really good to me.
Speaker 6: On Sunday morning, I've noticed in recent weeks fan duel
Speaker 6: has pretty much got their games up for the next
Speaker 6: week around eight am. And it was the one that
Speaker 6: really stood out to me on Sunday morning, and I
Speaker 6: tweeted it out that I thought that, you know, was
Speaker 6: my favorite play of the week. I got it too
Speaker 6: two and a half, and so on Tuesday night or
Speaker 6: late Tuesday afternoon it went to three and a half
Speaker 6: at a lot of books, and then later that night
Speaker 6: it was off the board. I knew something was going on.
Speaker 6: I was searching Twitter. I couldn't find an injury or anything.
Speaker 6: And then like mid Wednesday morning, it jumped to five
Speaker 6: and a half and eventually before launch, ESPN's Tamil tweeted
Speaker 6: that Levitt, the starting QB for Arizona State, is out,
Speaker 6: and so Jeff Simms, formerly of Georgia Tech and had
Speaker 6: a really bad year at Nebraska last season. He's gonna start.
Speaker 6: So you know, the line actually touched six and a half.
Speaker 6: It seems to have come back down and settled at five.
Speaker 6: I'm not against playing Cincinnati at minus five, but like
Speaker 6: I said, I'm in at two and a half. I
Speaker 6: think the way the numbers are right now, what I
Speaker 6: would recommend to your audience is since he minus three
Speaker 6: in the first half and or over on their team total,
Speaker 6: thirteen and a half in the first half, and or
Speaker 6: over twenty seven and a half on their team total
Speaker 6: as for the first half. Since these three home games,
Speaker 6: they've scored seventeen, twenty four, and twenty eight before halftime,
Speaker 6: and Arizona State's two road games they gave up twenty
Speaker 6: one and seventeen in the first half. And Brendan Sowersby
Speaker 6: is just playing outstanding football. The Indiana transfers has just.
Speaker 5: Lit it up for the Bearcats all year long.
Speaker 6: He's got got a sixty six point two complete percentage,
Speaker 6: one thy, seven hundred and twenty two passing yards, thirteen
Speaker 6: to three TDI and T ratio, and four rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 6: So I think you've met Cincinnati. You know, any of
Speaker 6: those ways that I that I just suggested.
Speaker 2: I would say there's aun of people who don't typically
Speaker 2: think of the service academies. Whenever they are, you know,
Speaker 2: they're putting their their card together, their picks. But you
Speaker 2: got a couple of good ones, both Army and Navy
Speaker 2: ranked for the first time collectively nineteen sixty or something
Speaker 2: like that. So Army's obviously off to a good start.
Speaker 2: They've got East Carolina tomorrow. What's the play here for Army?
Speaker 6: So when it the line was fourteen early in the week,
Speaker 6: I made a small play on Army, but it's ballooned
Speaker 6: up to seventeen, So I think the best play is
Speaker 6: Army's team total over thirty three and a half or
Speaker 6: thirty four and a half. It seems to be one
Speaker 6: of the one of those two different odds. So they're
Speaker 6: scoring out puts this year been forty two, thirty seven,
Speaker 6: forty two, forty nine, forty four, twenty.
Speaker 5: Four was the only outlier.
Speaker 6: Uh So, yeah, they've had thirty seven or more and
Speaker 6: five of six games or number one in the country
Speaker 6: in rushing yards, whereas East Carolina and a fifty five
Speaker 6: to twenty four loss at Charlotte it's last time out.
Speaker 5: Charlotte killed them on the ground with three hundred.
Speaker 6: And eleven rushing yards and Charlotte's only ranked one oh
Speaker 6: seven of one hundred and thirty four a FBS teams
Speaker 6: and rushing yards, So I think Army is gonna be
Speaker 6: able to run for north of three hundred against the
Speaker 6: Pirates defense this rank seventy six in the country and
Speaker 6: run defense, so I think Army gets to at least
Speaker 6: thirty five, probably more team total over.
Speaker 2: Brian Edwards, Vegas Insiders, our guest here joining us on
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety talking about the college football slate tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Some really good matchups and you know, no offense to
Speaker 2: the Indiana Hoosiers. My producer John is a big Indiana
Speaker 2: Hoosiers fan, but you know, it's it's it's not this
Speaker 2: is unfamiliar territory for me talking about big matchups that
Speaker 2: include Indiana, and it's because they're pretty good and they're favored.
Speaker 2: They are six and a half point favorites currently against Nebraska. Signetti.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like usually when you see teams
Speaker 2: they get off to this start with the new coach.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people just expecting, well, hey, they'll
Speaker 2: come back down to earth here pretty soon. You know,
Speaker 2: they're just taking advantage of a new coach who's pretty good.
Speaker 2: But their schedule has been favorable. But I don't get
Speaker 2: the sense there's a lot of people that think they're
Speaker 2: going to be slowing down anytime soon. Just to see
Speaker 2: them as a six and a half point favorite here
Speaker 2: against Nebraska really is telling to such a great start
Speaker 2: that they're off to any Any thoughts on this matchup
Speaker 2: between the Hoosiers and the Huskers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've had lots of thoughts here.
Speaker 6: First, if the Gators don't get Lane Kiffin, even though
Speaker 6: he's sixty three years old, I am not opposed to
Speaker 6: Kurt Signetti whatsoever.
Speaker 5: This guy is the real deal.
Speaker 6: And six and oh straight up five and one ats
Speaker 6: so Indiana has been playing football.
Speaker 5: I looked all this up like three or four weeks ago.
Speaker 6: I think since eighteen eighty seven they've won nine twice.
Speaker 6: I believe it was in nineteen forty five and nineteen
Speaker 6: sixty seven.
Speaker 5: They've never won ten games. They're favored by six and
Speaker 5: a half here.
Speaker 6: Their early line for next week at home against Washington
Speaker 6: at DraftKings is minus seven. They got a great chance
Speaker 6: to start eight to oh they could potentially be ten
Speaker 6: and Ozho with two weeks to prepare for a trip
Speaker 6: at Ohio State in mid November.
Speaker 5: Now you know they're not there yet.
Speaker 6: But I'm not as bullished on him this week as
Speaker 6: I have been in recent weeks. But I'm still taking
Speaker 6: the minus six and a half Curtis Rourke the Ohio
Speaker 6: transfer seventy three point eight completion percentage one thy seven
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty two passing yards fourteen to two TDI
Speaker 6: and t Ratio.
Speaker 5: I think Indiana wins by seven to ten.
Speaker 2: Give me the New Years all right? In the SEC.
Speaker 2: You know, Alabama obviously a couple weeks ago a loss
Speaker 2: that I never saw, I never thought would happen. I
Speaker 2: never thought i'd see Andy be Bama. But they pulled
Speaker 2: off the upset and then turn around and be Kentucky
Speaker 2: a week later. But then Bama didn't necessarily bounce back.
Speaker 2: They did in regards to beating South Carolina, but that
Speaker 2: was a game that easily you know, big play here
Speaker 2: and there late maybe they don't hold on to win.
Speaker 2: What do you think happens here? As Kaylen Debor, who
Speaker 2: clearly you know, still I don't think anybody's worried that
Speaker 2: he's going to be terrible there. But they're missing Nick Saban,
Speaker 2: I think a little more in these last couple of
Speaker 2: weeks than they anticipated. Do you think they can they
Speaker 2: can cover his favorites this weekend?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 6: I think both teams are struggling, but I think Tennessee
Speaker 6: is struggling more. Look, I don't think there's any shame
Speaker 6: in Alabama scoring twenty seven against South Carolina. South Carolina's
Speaker 6: front seven is very legit, especially it's front four with
Speaker 6: Kyle Kinnard playing like you know, one of the best
Speaker 6: pass rushers in the country, making himself out a lot
Speaker 6: of money.
Speaker 5: For the future.
Speaker 6: But I just trust Alabama's office more than I trust Tennessee's.
Speaker 5: I mean, Arkansas and Florida are not elite teams.
Speaker 6: Defensively, and the Vaults got bageled in the first half
Speaker 6: in Fayetteville and in the first half at home to
Speaker 6: at home against Florida last week. They are really so
Speaker 6: they ended up with fourteen for the game against Arkansas
Speaker 6: seventeen against Florida in regulation. My gamors defense has been
Speaker 6: struggling since twenty twenty, and so anyway, I think that
Speaker 6: Tennessee is struggling offense might be what the doctor ordered
Speaker 6: to get Alabama's defense straight. And I just I trust
Speaker 6: Jalen mill Road more than I trust Nico.
Speaker 5: I like Alabama minus three.
Speaker 2: All right, one more in the SEC Arkansas they're taking
Speaker 2: on LSU, two teams that are at this point seemingly
Speaker 2: having similar results. But obviously Arkansas and Sam Pittman need
Speaker 2: this a little need this one a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Is he's still somebody that despite their big upset a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, you know, his future is still
Speaker 2: a little cloudy there in Fayetteville. Any any action here
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on Arkansas plus the three.
Speaker 6: Pittman eight and four ats as a home underdog and
Speaker 6: has just been really good as an underdog. But regardless
Speaker 6: of home, away, neutral, what have you? His entire tenure
Speaker 6: at Arkansas. I think Arkansas is better than its record.
Speaker 6: Both of its losses.
Speaker 5: To A and M in Arlington and Oklahoma State.
Speaker 6: And Stillwater, they led those games in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 6: and I don't think the LSU is as good as
Speaker 6: this record.
Speaker 5: They could have.
Speaker 6: Easily lost a couple of those games.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the one.
Speaker 6: Last week they'd ever led to the last you know,
Speaker 6: last seconds there. But it's a great spot for Arkansas
Speaker 6: two weeks to prepare and LSU coming off, you know,
Speaker 6: a huge win, emotional late night you know game in
Speaker 6: red stick, and so I like Arkansas plus the three
Speaker 6: and one more thing.
Speaker 5: Arkansas always plays LSU tough. In fact, in the last.
Speaker 6: Four games in this rivalry, you have been decided by
Speaker 6: exactly three points.
Speaker 2: Give me the Hogs, all right. The NFL, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think the first few weeks of the season, it
Speaker 2: was it was tough to know who's terrible who's good.
Speaker 2: I mean, you had such a mixed bag of results.
Speaker 2: A team that looked like that maybe one of the
Speaker 2: better teams would turn around a week later and lose
Speaker 2: to a team that you thought was maybe in the
Speaker 2: bottom tier of the league. It's starting to even out
Speaker 2: a little bit more. Do you have anything this weekend
Speaker 2: on the NFL slate that you feel good about? Any
Speaker 2: picks that you'd recommend to our listeners.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm staying on the Commanders. I made them eleven
Speaker 6: and a half. I got them at seven early in
Speaker 6: the week, but I still like them at eight or
Speaker 6: even eight and a half. They've just been They've been fantastic.
Speaker 6: But I'm usually betting on Washington. This one's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 5: I'm betting against Carolina as well.
Speaker 6: One in five straight up, one in five ats their
Speaker 6: losses by margins of eighteen, twenty six, ten, twenty three,
Speaker 6: and thirty seven.
Speaker 5: I'm on Washington lay in.
Speaker 6: The points, and I'm also on their team total to
Speaker 6: go over thirty and one half.
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Brian. As always, we appreciate you
Speaker 2: making time for us. Enjoy another great weekend of college
Speaker 2: football in the NFL, and we will talk to you soon,
Speaker 2: my man.
Speaker 5: Thanks, Tank, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Take care. That's Brian Edwards from Vegas Inside or always
Speaker 2: appreciate his insight and appreciate his time. Yeah, it's weird, man.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about our picks me and John will
Speaker 2: in the five o'clock hour, because I've got a handful
Speaker 2: that you know I'm I mean, I'm already usually you
Speaker 2: know I know what I'm doing, and I don't actually
Speaker 2: bet it until a little bit later in the week
Speaker 2: or maybe even like day of. And I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people are like that because you never know.
Speaker 2: Things can change a last second. Injury or something like that,
Speaker 2: or maybe you find out somebody's out. But I already
Speaker 2: placed some of my bets, John, which is rare for me,
Speaker 2: but it's because I do feel like I've got some
Speaker 2: momentum that's confidence due.
Speaker 3: But I'm the opposite. I've kind of I know what
Speaker 3: I'm going to bet or want to bet, but I
Speaker 3: haven't made any actual wagers just yet.
Speaker 2: We're gonna speak it into existence. Brother, this is gonna
Speaker 2: be the weekend where we both come in on Monday
Speaker 2: and we're like, I mean, do we even need these
Speaker 2: jobs because we're cleaning out the sports books. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's again, we'll speak it into existence. I mean, I
Speaker 2: do want to keep my job because I'm well aware
Speaker 2: that even if I did have a great weekend, it
Speaker 2: would probably not be the same the next weekend. But
Speaker 2: we'll talk a little more about the action coming up
Speaker 2: around five thirty, but stick around a lot more to
Speaker 2: get into. We got to get to a break, but
Speaker 2: we're taking up till six o'clock. So hang out with
Speaker 2: us right here on a beautiful Friday afternoon on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety. It's always a good chat with our
Speaker 2: man Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider and the reason I
Speaker 2: asked him about this Kentucky and Georgia Kentucky in Florida
Speaker 2: matchup tomorrows because he's a big time Gators fan. But
Speaker 2: he's very honest about his team, very real, and he's
Speaker 2: made it clear throughout many conversations we've had in the
Speaker 2: last few months that Lane Kiffin should be the guy,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he still thinks that. I think he
Speaker 2: said that, but he also mentioned Kurt Signetti as the
Speaker 2: next guy when I asked him about the Indiana Nebraska game,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, I could see John's reaction in there.
Speaker 2: He was a professional, but there were some people in
Speaker 2: the text line wondering if you were just gonna hang
Speaker 2: up on him and just in the interview because you
Speaker 2: don't want that out there, you know, being spoke about that.
Speaker 2: I mean we talked about it.
Speaker 3: I think like yesterday, two days ago, all is Florida
Speaker 3: going to one if they don't get Lane Kiffin?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I mean Florida in this Actually,
Speaker 2: this is a good time to finish up the four
Speaker 2: o'clock hour and discuss this because the athletic has put
Speaker 2: out an updated It's really a mid season check in
Speaker 2: on the coaches that you assume we're gonna be on
Speaker 2: a hot seat this year, and there's some coaches that
Speaker 2: have that have you know, changed the temperature, if you will,
Speaker 2: of the seat that they're sitting in. And I think
Speaker 2: Billy Napier is is one that really probably again, I
Speaker 2: think they could. I think people could acknowledge and be
Speaker 2: fair here an objective that their start has probably been
Speaker 2: a little better than you would have expected. However, it
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you should be advocating that you keep
Speaker 2: doing this. And that was that actually gives me a
Speaker 2: little PTSD because you know, when people would look at
Speaker 2: one win or a loss where you weren't as pathetic
Speaker 2: under the Kinny Payne era, like the easy rebuttal every
Speaker 2: time was okay. Like let's say Kenney Payne went from
Speaker 2: winning four games to winning sixteen and you were sixteen
Speaker 2: and fifteen and you didn't make the tournament. I mean,
Speaker 2: he probably would have kept his job, But would anybody realistically,
Speaker 2: if they were honest with themselves, felt like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a lot better. We're going to really break through.
Speaker 2: Like if you don't think you've got somebody that could
Speaker 2: win at a really really high level and you just
Speaker 2: feel like, oh wow, we thought they'd win four games,
Speaker 2: but they ended up winning seven. Like, you still have
Speaker 2: to make the decision based off the future. And Florida's
Speaker 2: a program that is similar to Louisville and basketball, and
Speaker 2: I don't mean to make the comparison, but as far
Speaker 2: as accomplishments and foot ball for them and accomplishments in
Speaker 2: basketball for them. But what I'm getting at is, you
Speaker 2: don't just hire a guy who who doesn't suck as
Speaker 2: bad as you thought he might. You hire somebody that
Speaker 2: you want to take you to the top, and you
Speaker 2: have a vision that you know you could mess around
Speaker 2: and win a few championships during their tenure. Easier said
Speaker 2: than done, but still like Billy Napier could probably finish
Speaker 2: the season with with, you know, a record at least
Speaker 2: and by the way, Florida still has let's see here,
Speaker 2: we'll pull it up. Yeah, because in the SEC the
Speaker 2: two coaches that are currently looking as if they could
Speaker 2: potentially lose their job after this year is Sam Pittman
Speaker 2: at Arkansas, who what you know, the way that they
Speaker 2: describe it here, Bruce Beltman does it the athletic. He
Speaker 2: describes Sam Pittman from being very hot to now midway
Speaker 2: through hot but cooling off a bit, which I think
Speaker 2: is fair. They're four and two. They knocked off Tennessee.
Speaker 2: That's a huge win for Sam Pittman, Billy Napier. You know,
Speaker 2: they're still fighting for him, and they are. You know,
Speaker 2: they got pounded by Miami and their opener. They played
Speaker 2: Tennessee really close. Last week. They beat Central Florida in
Speaker 2: a game that you know, they were underdogs in at
Speaker 2: home and they beat them bad. They still have really
Speaker 2: good teams left on their schedule. But like my point is,
Speaker 2: he could finish with a record that is, like I
Speaker 2: don't know, seven and five, and still it would be
Speaker 2: a no brainer decision to make a move if you're Florida,
Speaker 2: unless you're just buying time to save some money, unless
Speaker 2: you're willing to just say, yeah, we'll give it another
Speaker 2: shot because maybe he does win eight or nine next year,
Speaker 2: but at that point the bio gets cheaper. But I
Speaker 2: just don't think that's how Florida operates. They want to
Speaker 2: be really really good in football, and historically speaking, they
Speaker 2: don't give any coaches anytime like that's why it seems
Speaker 2: like such a foregone conclusion that Billy Napier's out because
Speaker 2: Dan Mullen he won twenty nine games in his first
Speaker 2: three seasons, but he got the boot after going five
Speaker 2: and six. Jim mckawayan, there were clearly some other factors
Speaker 2: at play there, but he won nine in his first
Speaker 2: seasons and then went three and four in his third
Speaker 2: year and got fired mid season. Now, they wanted him
Speaker 2: out clearly, because if they didn't, they would have fought
Speaker 2: for him. But they used his making up a death
Speaker 2: threats as a chance to get him out, and they
Speaker 2: and it worked, I mean much. Champ got four years,
Speaker 2: ron Zook didn't even get three. So Billy Napier being
Speaker 2: eleven and fourteen in his first two seasons and now
Speaker 2: being three and three, like they're gonna get a new coach.
Speaker 2: But you're right, John, Like, I don't know, Like who
Speaker 2: do you? I mean? If they went after a Signetti
Speaker 2: type guy before he was at Indiana meeting an up
Speaker 2: and coming guy, that would be them doing what they
Speaker 2: just did with Billy Napier, and they that didn't work,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So I don't I don't
Speaker 2: really know who would be you know, Lane Kiffin, I
Speaker 2: still think makes the most sense. And with Lane Kiffin already,
Speaker 2: you know, I think there's still belief that Lane kiffn
Speaker 2: could be really, really good as a coach, but he's
Speaker 2: never really won anything of note, And maybe the belief
Speaker 2: is that at Florida he'd have better resources than he's
Speaker 2: ever had as a coach to where he'd really break through.
Speaker 2: But I think Lane Kiffin would clearly be a lot
Speaker 2: better than Billy Napier. But is he the guy that
Speaker 2: Floria mean, maybe Florida will learn that it was it
Speaker 2: was Urban Meyer and it was the old ball coach
Speaker 2: Burrier and without those two then like you're just your
Speaker 2: ceiling is not as high without elite coaches like that,
Speaker 2: and there's not any league coaches to go higher. So
Speaker 2: we shall see. But I hadn't really given that much thought.
Speaker 2: If you are a power program and you're making a move,
Speaker 2: you know, as far as guys that you just feel
Speaker 2: like would make the jump from G five to the
Speaker 2: higher level, I mean, like there's no there's no Luke
Speaker 2: Fickle out there right who was at Cincinnati and clearly
Speaker 2: he did great there and they got to the freaking Playoff,
Speaker 2: which is crazy to say, but him taking any job
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten or any job in the SEC
Speaker 2: can be considered a surprise because Cincinnati was an AAC team.
Speaker 2: So you know, I think unfortunately for Indiana fans, And
Speaker 2: it's really not unfortunate. I mean, it is if he leaves.
Speaker 2: But anytime somebody's coming after your coach, your coach is
Speaker 2: being talked about for a job, it usually means that
Speaker 2: you're doing really well, yes, and your coach has a
Speaker 2: chance to potentially, you know, kind of change the narrative
Speaker 2: a little bit and stick around at a job that
Speaker 2: everybody views as an inferior job compared to who's coming
Speaker 2: after him. But like, Signetti is a guy that I
Speaker 2: feel like any job that will and stuff like if
Speaker 2: if for some reason, Sam Pittman got canned or I
Speaker 2: don't know, let's say, in you know, in the Big Ten,
Speaker 2: I mean, who else is I mean, who's on the
Speaker 2: hot seat in the Big Ten? Mike Watson?
Speaker 3: Maybe James Franklin was, but they're they're six and oh
Speaker 3: right now I.
Speaker 2: Believe yeah, I mean he's James Franklin. Like, I mean,
Speaker 2: it'd be hard to fire him because yes, he's never
Speaker 2: won a big game like but he always wins like
Speaker 2: nine or ten, and that's just hard to see a
Speaker 2: coach getting fired for that. Ron Walters is a guy
Speaker 2: that is certainly getting a little warm and only his
Speaker 2: second year. But Signette would never go from Mediana to PURDUECE.
Speaker 2: So it's it's a it's a new world here Indiana.
Speaker 2: One being good but also having to worry about somebody
Speaker 2: coming and grabbing their coach. And I would say, just
Speaker 2: because it's one year, and because I would still say
Speaker 2: Kiffin will likely go to Florida. I think you're safe,
Speaker 2: but you know, I hope, so you never know. You
Speaker 2: never know how some coaches may be comfortable. And then
Speaker 2: an athletic director out there says, look, I was gonna
Speaker 2: keep you around, but I feel like I could go
Speaker 2: get this guy to Indiana, so you're out. Like again,
Speaker 2: you know, it's tough to know how any of that's
Speaker 2: gonna play out, but Signetti is off to such a
Speaker 2: great start. All right, let's talk about Jefferson Animal Hospital,
Speaker 2: shall we. They're big events tomorrow again tomorrow from ten
Speaker 2: am to two pm. If you haven't made plans to
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Speaker 2: procrastinated it, but that's okay, I do the same thing.
Speaker 2: But again it's Jeffersonannam Hospital. Tomorrow their event is pines
Speaker 2: for paws and people. They will give you demonstrations on
Speaker 2: how pet blood donation works. They will also have food provided.
Speaker 2: They will let you donate blood if you like with
Speaker 2: the American Red Cross. So anytime your pet donates blood
Speaker 2: or anybody's pet donates blood, you can save up to
Speaker 2: four to six lives. And if your dog is fifty
Speaker 2: pounds or more, they could qualify to be a pet
Speaker 2: blood donor. And if your cat is ten pounds or more,
Speaker 2: they could qualify. So it's for a good cause. Clearly,
Speaker 2: it can help save the lives of pets. And you
Speaker 2: can also just you know, get your foot on the
Speaker 2: door essentially over there at Jefferson Animal Hospital and maybe
Speaker 2: they could become your new provider when it comes to
Speaker 2: keeping your pets healthy. We obviously know that's important. Pets
Speaker 2: are like family members. They are family members to a
Speaker 2: lot of people out there. So again it's a Jeff's
Speaker 2: Animal Hospital and again tomorrow the event ten to two pm.
Speaker 2: Pints for pausing people at the location over their own
Speaker 2: outer loop, so hopefully you guys get on out there
Speaker 2: and enjoy yourself. Should be a beautiful day for it.
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