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Speaker 2: I try to go back and forth on the text
Speaker 2: line with a lot of folks whenever, you know, we
Speaker 2: get commercial break and it's something that maybe I'm not
Speaker 2: going to read on the air, but you know, I
Speaker 2: want them to know that, hey, thanks for or just
Speaker 2: you know, ask a question. Sometimes I'll respond to people
Speaker 2: who insult me, so you know, I think some people
Speaker 2: have texted and not expecting to ever get a response.
Speaker 2: But sometimes I'll go back and forth with people. And
Speaker 2: I did get some good feedback earlier from those of
Speaker 2: you that have been in my shoes before as far
Speaker 2: as learning how to be a sports parent, so I
Speaker 2: talked about it in the three o'clock hour. I feel
Speaker 2: like this weekend, this past weekend was my first time
Speaker 2: really experiencing, like you know, being a being a parent
Speaker 2: on the sideline when your kids in a competitive game.
Speaker 2: And yet that even sounds like a lie as I
Speaker 2: say it, because it's four.
Speaker 3: Year old football.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're playing flag football, but you know it's competitive,
Speaker 2: right They practice three days a week. You know, his
Speaker 2: team works hard at practice. You know they're there, They've
Speaker 2: come a long way. Every now and then they just
Speaker 2: want to lay in the grass and eat eat grass
Speaker 2: and whatnot. But you know, they had their first game
Speaker 2: and they won big, the Overdell Chiefs flag football team.
Speaker 2: So I was just for those who missed it, I
Speaker 2: was just like it was very brief, but like, you know,
Speaker 2: just I'm wired to be a competitor. That's just you know,
Speaker 2: that's my nature. And so far, like with baseball or
Speaker 2: team all, I should say. You know, he's hitting it
Speaker 2: off the tee. Every kid gets to bat once per
Speaker 2: inning and then they roll it over, so like you're
Speaker 2: not even keeping score. And then my daughter, you know,
Speaker 2: she's in a special needs baseball league, which is great,
Speaker 2: but you know it's not about score, it's just about
Speaker 2: having fun. Well, you know this was different on Saturdays,
Speaker 2: my son's first flag football game and they won big.
Speaker 2: And you know, he dropped one of the handoffs. He
Speaker 2: was looking around in space instead of listening to his
Speaker 2: coaches once and I'm like, well, I guess we're done here.
Speaker 2: Guess he's gonna have to, you know, go join the
Speaker 2: debate team or something. Hope he's a better student than
Speaker 2: I was, because clearly he's not gonna be an athlete,
Speaker 2: not with that attitude.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what are you doing.
Speaker 2: You're losing your mind, You're a lunatic, which I am,
Speaker 2: but you know, it's just brief, brief, very brief moments
Speaker 2: where I have those thoughts, and then I.
Speaker 3: Realized, what are you doing, don't be a psycho?
Speaker 2: And seeing its team win and seeing how much fun
Speaker 2: he's having made it to where like, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: in four years you can reassess your situation and determine
Speaker 2: if your kid's gonna your kid's gonna be into sports
Speaker 2: or not. Which thank you to those on the text
Speaker 2: line telling me, hey, it's normal to have that mindset.
Speaker 2: But also others have mentioned this, that's really young. He
Speaker 2: just turned four years old two months ago in June,
Speaker 2: and now he's you know, he's playing flag football. And
Speaker 2: you know, I did not start playing. I feel like
Speaker 2: I feel like when I was around probably six maybe seven,
Speaker 2: because I only played and I only played basketball. I
Speaker 2: didn't play any other sports. But when I played basketball,
Speaker 2: when I first when I first played on a team
Speaker 2: where it was like you know, ages, I think five
Speaker 2: through seven, when I was a five year old and
Speaker 2: the rest of the guys were seven. Like I mean
Speaker 2: I was, I could barely get the ball to the
Speaker 2: rim probably, and I don't remember much about it, just
Speaker 2: being out there. And then by the time I got
Speaker 2: to be six and seven, like, it became something all
Speaker 2: I did was play basketball. So for him to be
Speaker 2: playing me, he's already played t ball twice and now
Speaker 2: he's playing football. He'll be playing basketball for the first
Speaker 2: time coming up this winter.
Speaker 4: So you think that'll be a whole nother lefs, since
Speaker 4: you played basketball like a level of like parental anxiety
Speaker 4: of warning your kid to succeed.
Speaker 2: Yes, and no, I mean not at that age at
Speaker 2: least I wouldn't think so. But he he knows, like
Speaker 2: basketball is my favorite sport and it's the only sport
Speaker 2: that I played, so like he's when anytime basketball gets
Speaker 2: brought up, he asks me, are you going to coach me?
Speaker 2: And I have no choice but to, you know, to
Speaker 2: at least ask if they need a volunteer coach, because
Speaker 2: he you know, even if I'm not his coach for
Speaker 2: his team, I'll at least probably volunteer to help out
Speaker 2: because he'll want me to do that.
Speaker 3: And that would be mean of me not to do that.
Speaker 2: But I actually this past weekend, I'm glad you asked
Speaker 2: that question, John, because this past weekend actually made me
Speaker 2: realize that for basketball, like I need, it'll probably be
Speaker 2: better for me if I'm coaching so he can get
Speaker 2: every shot. And I'm kidding, but just because you know,
Speaker 2: it'll be you know, and if I'm not involved in like,
Speaker 2: you know, he's doing something and I trust me, I
Speaker 2: think I know way more about basketball than I ever will.
Speaker 2: But that's just because I played, and you know, I'm
Speaker 2: a an opinionated person about the sports. So like, if
Speaker 2: he if he's being coached by somebody and I know
Speaker 2: they're telling him wrong, like I'm probably gonna like correct them, which.
Speaker 3: Might as well.
Speaker 2: Just and again, let's be honest. It's not like people
Speaker 2: are beating down the door to volunteer to coach kids
Speaker 2: that age in any sport because it's it's tough.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: I love all of his coaches. They're all volunteers. They
Speaker 2: do such a great job in football, I mean, and
Speaker 2: he has practice for an hour and a half. These
Speaker 2: kids are four and five years old. Most of them
Speaker 2: on his team just turned four, So like just to
Speaker 2: get them to concentrate and not you know, run away
Speaker 2: and you know, sit on the ground or have a
Speaker 2: tantrum like it's it's at that age it's difficult to
Speaker 2: have a have any real organization for a long period
Speaker 2: of time because they're little bitty kids, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Like it's you got people who aren't school
Speaker 2: teachers at least not that I know of, that are
Speaker 2: now like, you know, kind of being teachers for an
Speaker 2: hour and a half with kids that they just met,
Speaker 2: you know. So but it has been it has been
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. And I want to give a
Speaker 2: big shot out to the Overdale Chiefs organization because when
Speaker 2: I was growing up in that area, you know, we
Speaker 2: had we had a we had and I didn't play.
Speaker 2: My sister was a cheerlead. A lot of my friends
Speaker 2: played football. But I feel like like participation was pretty
Speaker 2: low compared to some other schools or some other areas
Speaker 2: I should say, within Bullet County. And you know, they
Speaker 2: were always desperate for volunteers. And now here, you know,
Speaker 2: here we are twenty something years later, and Chris Gomez
Speaker 2: is the guy who is the he's the he's the
Speaker 2: director of the board and he's done a great job
Speaker 2: of getting some good volunteers involved, and they've got so
Speaker 2: many participations, so many people participating at all levels, from
Speaker 2: the oldest you can be for you the football, to
Speaker 2: the youngest, which is my son in flag football, the cheerleaders.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's uh, it's been. It's been exciting and
Speaker 2: they won big. But earlier in the game, whenever he
Speaker 2: wasn't on the field and he wasn't paying attention and
Speaker 2: he got a handoff and dropped it, I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: guess that's it, guesse.
Speaker 3: We tried, and we tried to play sports.
Speaker 2: I guess you're gonna have to figure something else out, son,
Speaker 2: which is just a lunatic type reaction, but sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: being a parent can make you a lunatic. So the
Speaker 2: first and it used to be called pee wee. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's what it's called steel, but they got different names
Speaker 2: for the ages and divisions now. But his nephew, well,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, his cousin, my nephew and my best friend's
Speaker 2: son play on the first level of where you can tackle.
Speaker 2: I think it's called pee wee. And they played earlier
Speaker 2: in the day and it was opening day for everybody
Speaker 2: on Saturday at the field and when we got there
Speaker 2: at noon, you know, he didn't play untill seven thirty,
Speaker 2: my son, but at noon it was the you know,
Speaker 2: there was some bigger kids tackle, kids that were, you know,
Speaker 2: a few years older than him, kids that were ten
Speaker 2: years older than him playing, And because we got there
Speaker 2: so early, he thought he was going to.
Speaker 3: Have to play against the bigger kids. So he was
Speaker 3: so scared.
Speaker 2: I didn't have the heart to like mess with him, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're about to put you in man, like they just
Speaker 2: didn't want you to I thought about, like, yeah, they
Speaker 2: just didn't want you to tackle in practice because they
Speaker 2: wanted to make sure you were healthy to be able
Speaker 2: to go out there and play. I think they're going
Speaker 2: to give you the ball as soon as you get
Speaker 2: Like I was thought about doing that and messing with
Speaker 2: him because I usually can you know, do that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff and have fun with him, but he was
Speaker 2: so scared.
Speaker 3: I didn't have the heart to mess with him.
Speaker 4: My parents to the car.
Speaker 3: It really is a big scaredy kid. It really would
Speaker 3: have been cruel to do that now that I'll think
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: But anyways, thank you for those sharing your experiences and
Speaker 2: you know, guidance as a as a sport parent, because
Speaker 2: you know it's just beginning. My son's four and if
Speaker 2: he's if he continues to play all sports, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just gonna be it's gonna be a process for me.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: It's coffee and company. We are feel about Thornton's here
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Speaker 2: We will talk with Alex Kupper talk some louisvill football
Speaker 2: with the former Louisville Cardinal himself coming up here at
Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes or so. Looking forward to getting his
Speaker 2: thoughts on a lot of things. Expectations for the upcoming
Speaker 2: season areas of concern. You know, he knows how coaches
Speaker 2: motivate players. And Jeff Brohm after the first scrimmage of
Speaker 2: fall camp on Saturday, I don't feel like he was
Speaker 2: going out of his way to do anything in regards
Speaker 2: to like strategically.
Speaker 3: Fueling his team.
Speaker 2: I just think he was being direct and honest and
Speaker 2: saying that he needs more guys to emerge as playmakers,
Speaker 2: and you can never have too many playmakers. I'm not
Speaker 2: I didn't hear that and begin to be concerned about
Speaker 2: the team. But you know this is this was a
Speaker 2: reminder for me that last year, man, it was all
Speaker 2: new for everybody, and I guess technically it is this
Speaker 2: year because you still have a brand new team in
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things, with a lot of I mean,
Speaker 2: you have guys back, a first team All American in
Speaker 2: Ashton Jalatti, but there's there's a lot of transfers on
Speaker 2: this team and how they how they do will be
Speaker 2: a big factor in the success this team will have.
Speaker 2: So I think last year it was just such a
Speaker 2: fun ride knowing that Bram was back home, the schedule
Speaker 2: set up nicely. Nobody was expecting ten wins in a
Speaker 2: trip to the ACC Championship game in year one, but
Speaker 2: that's what happened. So like instead of thinking like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: Alive was in the midst of something really special, they
Speaker 2: could find themselves in the playoff, which again they didn't
Speaker 2: and didn't belong in the playoff, but let's not forget
Speaker 2: that when they started the season five and zero with
Speaker 2: a big win against Notre Dame, that was special and
Speaker 2: they were in the conversation to be a potential, you know,
Speaker 2: if not a playoff team, a team that certainly would
Speaker 2: play in a New Year's six Bowl, and of course
Speaker 2: we know that didn't play out that way, but nonetheless,
Speaker 2: like instead of thinking big picture, like wow, this could
Speaker 2: be one of the most special seasons ever, which I
Speaker 2: guess technically it was. It's your first trip at the
Speaker 2: a SEC Championship. Louisville doesn't have many ten win seasons
Speaker 2: in the history of the program, so it was special.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't thinking about it. I was just living
Speaker 2: in the moment and so excited that Brawn was home
Speaker 2: and we finally had somebody that was going to not
Speaker 2: only win, but inject real life into this fan base
Speaker 2: because he's one of us. So now here we are
Speaker 2: entering year two, like it or not, Expectations are there.
Speaker 2: You won ten games, right, you know, you played in
Speaker 2: the championship game a year ago, you went out and
Speaker 2: did really really well in the portal once again, you
Speaker 2: brought back some really good players from last year's team,
Speaker 2: So you know, expectations are there, and I think they're
Speaker 2: going to be able to meet those expectations. And again
Speaker 2: that's not me saying they're gonna win ten games again,
Speaker 2: but I think this team can be pretty good and
Speaker 2: seeing them outside of the top twenty five after last season.
Speaker 2: Initially has me sort of thinking, like, what the heck, like,
Speaker 2: where's the love for Louisville.
Speaker 3: But then again, I can be objective.
Speaker 2: They lost their last three games, two of those games
Speaker 2: or games they really had no business losing. And you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't exactly leave a great impression on the national
Speaker 2: audience for college football with the way they looked against USC.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, that was a bad showing, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. So again, we'll talk some more Louisville football
Speaker 2: coming up here with cup in the next ten minutes
Speaker 2: or so. We also talked a little bit about Steph
Speaker 2: Curry earlier because I happen to believe that Steph Curry,
Speaker 2: his legacy as an all time great, has been in
Speaker 2: good position for quite some time. But I believe him
Speaker 2: winning another title without Kevin Durant and him being the guy,
Speaker 2: and he's always been the guy for Golden State. Let's
Speaker 2: be honest with you, but that was one of the
Speaker 2: things that and when you become such an established superstar
Speaker 2: in your sport, there's never going to be somebody not
Speaker 2: finding something to criticize about you and bring up as something. Well, hell,
Speaker 2: he needs to do this before he really is the legend, right.
Speaker 2: I mean that's normal, that's just part of being an
Speaker 2: insanely successful, accomplished professional athlete, especially when you play a
Speaker 2: mainstream sport. So you know he's been great, but you
Speaker 2: know he didn't have an MVP in the finals. Well
Speaker 2: now he does. When they knocked off Boston a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, he got another ring and he was
Speaker 2: the man. And then what he did for Team USA
Speaker 2: last week with his sensational performance against Serbia. If he
Speaker 2: doesn't do Steph Curry things, then they don't beat Serbia,
Speaker 2: they don't even get a chance to play for the
Speaker 2: gold on Saturday. Well, then it was him, once again,
Speaker 2: Steph Curry taking shots that nobody has any business even
Speaker 2: considering taking, and he makes them because that's what he does.
Speaker 2: And he was so clutch. And I feel like when
Speaker 2: you think of Louisville, or not Louisville, but Team USA
Speaker 2: winning the gold medal here like they always do, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is, let's be honest, that was the expectation. But
Speaker 2: now I have a moment that I can think back
Speaker 2: on and know that it was Steph Curry who really
Speaker 2: put the team on his back. He wasn't the only guy.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, there's the best players ever. Some of
Speaker 2: those guys are or on that current team USA team,
Speaker 2: but it was Steph Curry who willed them to I
Speaker 2: think two victories. I mean it was never really in
Speaker 2: doubt against against France like it was against Serbia, but
Speaker 2: still it was a close, competitive game, and Steph Curry
Speaker 2: put it away by doing Steph Curry things. He takes
Speaker 2: and make shots that remind me of somebody playing a
Speaker 2: video game and hitting the wrong button on the controller,
Speaker 2: like there's no way he meant to shoot that. Well,
Speaker 2: yeah he did, because he's Steph Curry and heat checks
Speaker 2: don't really exist with him. I mean they do, right,
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's made eight in a row and then
Speaker 2: he shot one from half court he missed it, But
Speaker 2: the heat check moment is just not the same for
Speaker 2: him as it as others because he's that special. And
Speaker 2: we had a good conversation earlier with Kendrick cass so
Speaker 2: I thought made a good point when it comes to
Speaker 2: people just having a hard time putting him up there
Speaker 2: in that elite tier of the most accomplished and successful
Speaker 2: basketball players.
Speaker 3: Of all time.
Speaker 2: The hesitancy is because of his stature. He is not
Speaker 2: somebody as far as his physical build and really his
Speaker 2: physical I mean, he's a good athlete, he's a great athlete.
Speaker 2: He's got NBA jeans, his dad was a good player.
Speaker 2: But you know, you can go to a competitive open
Speaker 2: run and find guys that have the same bill as
Speaker 2: Steph Curry might actually look a little more athletic, might
Speaker 2: actually look a little, you know, a little stronger. So
Speaker 2: I think the appearance of Steph Curry is is why
Speaker 2: some have a hard time putting him up there with
Speaker 2: the Jordan Kobe, Lebron, doctor j Magic, Kareem.
Speaker 3: Will.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that Steph Curry is better than
Speaker 2: all those guys, But when you're going to talk about
Speaker 2: the guys who've had the best career as far as
Speaker 2: accomplished mis which last I checked, we value rings, he's
Speaker 2: got plenty of those awards.
Speaker 3: He's got plenty of those.
Speaker 2: And I just don't see how you could do I
Speaker 2: don't see how you could exclude Steph Curry in the
Speaker 2: conversation of the best basketball players ever when it comes
Speaker 2: to what they've done. In fact, he's certainly in that list.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any debate about it, all right,
Speaker 2: For those of you that are just now joining us,
Speaker 2: the AP pole did come out today, and you know,
Speaker 2: I think it looks I haven't done a side by side,
Speaker 2: but to me, it looks pretty similar to the coaches poll.
Speaker 2: I mean, you got Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, and
Speaker 2: Alabama in the top five, and then rounding out the
Speaker 2: top ten is Old Miss Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan,
Speaker 2: and Florida State. So Louisville was at twenty six, meaning
Speaker 2: they were the first place team in the receiving votes category.
Speaker 2: I hate to like, you know, and that just sounds
Speaker 2: like you're really doing a lot of work to call
Speaker 2: yourself kind of ranked, and I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3: But here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: If they take care of business and they dominate the
Speaker 2: first two teams on the schedule, Austin p and Jacksonville State,
Speaker 2: there's a good chance they're going to be ranked in
Speaker 2: the top twenty five by the time they get to
Speaker 2: their first ACC matchup, which is Week three against Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: And you know that'll be their first chance to not
Speaker 2: really show if they're because Georgia Texas team that doesn't
Speaker 2: have a lot, you know, high expectations, but clearly Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech's a big step up from Austin P and Jacksonville State.
Speaker 2: So Notre Dame week seven. Let me pull up their schedule.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong here, but I think Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: When do they play Texas A and M. I know
Speaker 2: it's on their schedule. Yeah, they play them, that's their opener.
Speaker 2: I knew it was early. I didn't realize it was
Speaker 2: the opener though. Yeah, so they'll they'll have four games
Speaker 2: before they play Louisville, and I think that's the same
Speaker 2: with Louisville or no Louisville, No Louisville. Their fourth game
Speaker 2: is in fact Notre Dame. So you've got your bye
Speaker 2: week is after your first I could you have two
Speaker 2: weeks either. Your bye week is the second Saturday in September,
Speaker 2: so Austin P, Jacksonville State bye week than Georgia Tech,
Speaker 2: and then you got Notre Dames. So Notre Dame schedule at
Speaker 2: that point will be Texas A and M, which they'll
Speaker 2: be favored in that game that's in College station and
Speaker 2: I look text A and M has always had talent,
Speaker 2: But I are they in the top twenty five? Let
Speaker 2: me check here, I'm pretty sure number twenty Yeah, Like
Speaker 2: what are they basing that off off? Like they weren't
Speaker 2: very good last year and they had a lot of talent.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know that Jimbo fell apart, and it's
Speaker 2: hard to you know, fault them for firing him, especially
Speaker 2: given what they invested in him and he wasn't given
Speaker 2: him close to those results. Like people think that the
Speaker 2: duke coach is better than Jimbo Fisher. I mean maybe
Speaker 2: he is, but you know, to me, A and M, Miami, Oklahoma, Clemson,
Speaker 2: USC Iowa, those teams all may be really good this year,
Speaker 2: But to me, those are teams all ranked in the
Speaker 2: top twenty five that nobody like did they just they're
Speaker 2: just default gonna be in there in A and M
Speaker 2: is always gonna be in there because of talent. Same
Speaker 2: thing with Miami, Like what is what would make anybody
Speaker 2: think Miami is worthy of? Like maybe they do surprise
Speaker 2: teams this year? Maybe, and actually could you call it
Speaker 2: a surprise if Miami's good?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Anyways, back to the A and M notre Dame thing.
Speaker 2: I just like, why is A and M ranked like
Speaker 2: based off what? Well here here's another thing too. You
Speaker 2: mentioned USC.
Speaker 4: They play LSU in week one, and if they lose,
Speaker 4: Louisville will likely by default jump into the top.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, because there's gonna be yeah, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: losses Louisville with they could be because they're twenty six now,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked if they're If they're in there
Speaker 2: after the first week. Like you mentioned, John, that's a
Speaker 2: good point. But Texas A and M Northern Illinois perdue
Speaker 2: in Miami, Ohio. Those are the four games for Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna be pulling like crazy for Notre Dame
Speaker 2: to knock off Texas A and M because if they
Speaker 2: do that, you're you're looking at a Notre Dame team
Speaker 2: that will have a road victory against the top twenty
Speaker 2: team and then you know, wins against bums which will
Speaker 2: lead up to the end of September. And if Louisville,
Speaker 2: you know, they should be undefeated when they play Notre
Speaker 2: Dame as well, and that could be probably not a
Speaker 2: game day type of game. In fact, it can't be
Speaker 2: because well, I guess it could be, but it's going
Speaker 2: to be on Peacock, which is so weird to see.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to help me get used to watching
Speaker 2: sports on Peacock, John, because I know Big Ten they've
Speaker 2: had games on Peacock, right they have.
Speaker 4: I think it's every Friday night they have a Friday
Speaker 4: night Peacock game.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I'm not going to go to
Speaker 2: Notre Dame at least I don't plan on it, just
Speaker 2: because it's not you know, I've been there once and
Speaker 2: it was great. But I hope that there's a lot
Speaker 2: of louis fans that make the trip up there because
Speaker 2: I'm sure they've got revenge on their mind. I remember
Speaker 2: doing the vibe check prior to that game last year,
Speaker 2: and you know, I thought Notre Dame was deservedly the favorite,
Speaker 2: and I thought they were a good team last year.
Speaker 2: But the Notre Dame fans very very dismissive of Louisville,
Speaker 2: like they didn't think that there was a chance Louisville
Speaker 2: could compete with them in Louisville, to be honest with
Speaker 2: you beat them worse than the score indicated, Like Louisville
Speaker 2: bullied them and was just much better. And I'm what's
Speaker 2: his name, Sam Hartman. He's probably still having PTSD about
Speaker 2: coming to Cardinal Stadium after what happened when he was
Speaker 2: at Wake and at Notre Dame. All right, Uh, real quick,
Speaker 2: let's get to a time out. We'll come back talk
Speaker 2: some more football with the one and the only, mister
Speaker 2: Alex Cupper, looking forward to it. When Cup starts making
Speaker 2: his appearances once again on Coffee and Company, that means
Speaker 2: we're getting closer, folks, Football season will be here before
Speaker 2: you know it. All right, stick with us right here,
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Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys hanging out with us, and we're getting
Speaker 2: closer and closer to football season, which means it's time
Speaker 2: to bring in our guest, mister Alex Cupper, former Louisville Cardinal,
Speaker 2: who joins us to talk some Louisville football cup. First
Speaker 2: of all, before we get into it, how's your summer
Speaker 2: been going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Next, summer's been been good, went by really fast and
Speaker 5: you know, just like everybody else, tried to try and
Speaker 5: soak up as much as as much as we can.
Speaker 5: But know that football is right around the corner, so
Speaker 5: that's always good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So whatever you were playing, I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: it's every it's I think it's every program. I could
Speaker 2: be wrong, but like scrimmages that take place during fall camp,
Speaker 2: like a handful of them, Like that's normal everywhere, right,
Speaker 2: It's not just something that only certain coaches do, correct, No, And.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's something that they schedule and trying to you know,
Speaker 5: try and make it as much you know as a
Speaker 5: tune up or as a as a live game scenario.
Speaker 5: You know, build it, build up to it. Typically they're
Speaker 5: on the weekends, you know, there's a day off that follows.
Speaker 2: Like it's the closest thing you're gonna get to, like
Speaker 2: live action before you actually get to a real game.
Speaker 5: Right, correct? Correct? And you see in the NFL, they start,
Speaker 5: you know, meshing together and practicing together. I could I
Speaker 5: would anticipate colleges would find themselves in that scenario here
Speaker 5: pretty quickly. If we're if we follow everything else and
Speaker 5: connect all the other dots. But yeah, it's it's as
Speaker 5: live as you can get.
Speaker 2: So Jeff Bram after the scrimmage on Saturday, I don't
Speaker 2: think he was. I mean, I think he was just
Speaker 2: pretty direct as far as you know, being pleased with
Speaker 2: a lot of things that he saw, but acknowledging that
Speaker 2: he needs more guys to emerge as playmakers. You know,
Speaker 2: you know Jeff pretty well obviously, you know, I think
Speaker 2: he's always been a straight shooter. But is there any
Speaker 2: chance like he's just trying to motivate some guys. I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's some truth to what he said, you can
Speaker 2: never have too many playmakers, But I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: just this is a different It's much different this go
Speaker 2: around with Jeff because obviously last year it's the honeymoon.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even think people were given a
Speaker 2: whole lot of thought to big picture expectations in year
Speaker 2: one because it was just so exciting that he was
Speaker 2: here leading the program and there was a chance the
Speaker 2: team could be pretty good. Little do we know they
Speaker 2: could end up being as good as they were winnington games.
Speaker 2: But I'm just curious if you know you took anything
Speaker 2: from those comments from him on Saturday, just again not
Speaker 2: calling anybody out, specifically, but just kind of saying he
Speaker 2: expected and needs more guys to emerge.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, I think it's pretty standard for that. I mean,
Speaker 5: especially when you when you talk about early in the
Speaker 5: onset stages, you know, and getting into week two full
Speaker 5: week two training camp, you know, wanting guys to to
Speaker 5: push through and kind of separate themselves. That's a typical.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure there are guys are there's guys that are,
Speaker 5: but until until you can see it in those lives
Speaker 5: and they do it consistently in practice, and when they
Speaker 5: take that those practice reps and and they morph into
Speaker 5: game reps and you know, start producing at a high level,
Speaker 5: that's you. You're you're all all about potential at that point,
Speaker 5: you don't really have a confidence and and you know,
Speaker 5: a multitude of guys, which is what he's he's always
Speaker 5: been about. He doesn't want to he doesn't want just
Speaker 5: one bell coal running back. He wants multiple running backs
Speaker 5: that are that can produce same thing with wide receivers,
Speaker 5: so on and so forth. So and that's not just
Speaker 5: a skill position thing. There's probably places you know, across
Speaker 5: the defense and up front on the offensive line that
Speaker 5: that he's looking for for folks to step up and
Speaker 5: you know, grow really essentially and become better better for
Speaker 5: the team, so the team's more competitive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and before we get into some of of
Speaker 2: the I think that's one of the one of the
Speaker 2: many reasons that has me so optimistic about this upcoming
Speaker 2: season is I think they've got some good depth that a
Speaker 2: lot of places, which surely is going to bring a
Speaker 2: lot of competition in practice, which is gonna make everybody better.
Speaker 2: But before we move on to that last year, you know,
Speaker 2: didn't wasn't a great finish to the season. Obviously, tough
Speaker 2: loss in the bowl game to usc UH. You lost
Speaker 2: to one of the best teams in the country in
Speaker 2: Florida State in the a SEC Championship game was the
Speaker 2: game you.
Speaker 3: Could have won.
Speaker 2: But you know, even without their quarterback, they were still
Speaker 2: the better team that night, and obviously lost to Kentucky
Speaker 2: was a real punch to the gut. But outside of that,
Speaker 2: I mean, still a special season overall. Is there one
Speaker 2: is there one thing that stands out in those last
Speaker 2: few games cup that you feel like was the was
Speaker 2: the biggest factor in why they kind of just kind
Speaker 2: of fell off there towards the end. I mean, I
Speaker 2: know competition, all those teams I mentioned are super talented,
Speaker 2: but just anything that stood out to you that kind
Speaker 2: of led to them kind of you know, falling off
Speaker 2: there towards the end.
Speaker 5: I mean, if if anything, I mean really and now
Speaker 5: it's there for the Florida State game. So I watched
Speaker 5: every single one of those offensive snaps, you know, not
Speaker 5: with the baited breath, but you know, knowing kind of
Speaker 5: expecting that there was going to be much to some
Speaker 5: but always having the excitement that you know, if something could.
Speaker 5: But it was it was the lack of what we
Speaker 5: just talked about, that there's somebody to separate themselves and
Speaker 5: make a play, make a big time play. Yeah, you're
Speaker 5: you're at you're out of wide receiver, you're getting locked
Speaker 5: up by by really good players. You know, you're you're
Speaker 5: trying to move, you know, first round, second round draft
Speaker 5: picks off the ball up front, Like that's what what
Speaker 5: else do you want? You know, you need what you
Speaker 5: want and need guys that want to step up and
Speaker 5: rise to that occasion in those big moments. So that's
Speaker 5: essentially what what we lacked down the stretch there had
Speaker 5: really I mean I felt like the team came together. Jaeled, well,
Speaker 5: we're able to persevere, you know when when games, you know,
Speaker 5: have the balls bounce, you know, do the little things
Speaker 5: to have those bounces go your way kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: That did an excellent job of that in year one.
Speaker 5: Now it's about taking it to the next level, raising
Speaker 5: your expectations, you know, find finding uh that next step
Speaker 5: to move forward and build on what you did in
Speaker 5: year one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think obviously there are some games last year
Speaker 2: that could have easily gone the other way. And I
Speaker 2: know people will bring up luck and fortune and maybe
Speaker 2: there's some truth to that to an extent, but I
Speaker 2: also think that's a skill that a team can develop,
Speaker 2: the ability to win a close game when maybe you
Speaker 2: didn't play that well and you know you don't want
Speaker 2: to be in that position, but actually think you know,
Speaker 2: it was impressive for them to be able to find
Speaker 2: ways to win whenever it didn't look like it was probable,
Speaker 2: and yet they just had a tougher time doing that
Speaker 2: down the stretch when the competition.
Speaker 3: Got a little bit better.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say this, I don't want to put
Speaker 2: words in your mouth, and if you think I'm totally wrong,
Speaker 2: say Nick, you're an idiot.
Speaker 3: That's the stupidest thing I ever heard.
Speaker 2: But I think it's fair my opinion, to say last year, offensively,
Speaker 2: your quarterback play was good enough for you to be
Speaker 2: a good team, but at times quarterback play, in fact,
Speaker 2: a lot of times, might have been the weakness of
Speaker 2: your offense.
Speaker 3: Is that is that ludicrous? No?
Speaker 5: No, I think that's fair. There were there, Yeah, there
Speaker 5: were there were a few scenarios that, yeah, you would
Speaker 5: think the quarterback coach, you know, Coach Brown, all the
Speaker 5: coach staff would like to have back just when it
Speaker 5: comes to you know, selection and play selection, et cetera.
Speaker 5: And then I'm sure that there's probably a ton of
Speaker 5: plays that that Jack Plumber and some of the you know,
Speaker 5: it's not just one guy, and that's that's what coach preaches,
Speaker 5: and that's what every great coach should preach, is you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's not just the quarterback. But yeah, there were
Speaker 5: there were scenarios where it's like, man, if we can
Speaker 5: just make that throw, if we can really you know,
Speaker 5: if you can spread the field out and expand the numbers,
Speaker 5: you know, get get throws outside the numbers, so you're
Speaker 5: making you know, they're not just packing it in the middle.
Speaker 5: It opens up the middle so that you can you
Speaker 5: can throw the ball down the field and have those
Speaker 5: big explosive plays, which is what you know what you
Speaker 5: know fan bases and that's what everybody remembers, those big
Speaker 5: plays where the crowd goes crazy and you just score touchdowns.
Speaker 5: So yeah, having having a quarterback that can do that
Speaker 5: as does a ton of things and opens up opens
Speaker 5: up your playbook like you wouldn't imagine. So yeah, there
Speaker 5: there was There's limitations for sure, but again, until we
Speaker 5: see it, we we can't assume that this year is
Speaker 5: going to be any better. So we got we got
Speaker 5: to develop everything and hope that hope like the guy
Speaker 5: that we got, the signal caller we got, can make
Speaker 5: it happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tyler Shuck. I think a lot of folks know
Speaker 2: his story. He's been in college quite some time. He's
Speaker 2: played at Oregon, at Texas Texas Tech and had some
Speaker 2: success when healthy, but he just hasn't been able to
Speaker 2: stay healthy. That's sort of the that's the one thing
Speaker 2: you take away from his career at this point. And
Speaker 2: I know coach brom is probably not going to use
Speaker 2: him with his legs as much as he was used
Speaker 2: at Oregon in Texas Tech, But what are you here?
Speaker 2: And as far as what they what they think they have.
Speaker 2: Obviously they really like his arm, they wouldn't have pursued
Speaker 2: him the way they did. And and like you said,
Speaker 2: you really never know until you get out there and
Speaker 2: it's a real game and it's it's live action. But
Speaker 2: just have you heard much about Tyler Shuck and sort
Speaker 2: of what they think he can do.
Speaker 3: As far as upside here.
Speaker 5: No, I was told that it's you know, arm talent
Speaker 5: is definitely. I mean, you'll see a live arm, you know,
Speaker 5: versus what you saw last year. You'll have a guy
Speaker 5: that can do those things, has the ability to do
Speaker 5: those things. I mean essentially, if you can throw the ball,
Speaker 5: you know, one hundred miles an hour and you can't
Speaker 5: throw it over the plate, you're probably not going to
Speaker 5: play and them'll be So having a great arms one thing,
Speaker 5: but you got to be accurate. So you know that
Speaker 5: those are the things that you've got to prove. And
Speaker 5: and there's guys that got to get open. You got
Speaker 5: to have that timing down. So there's a lot of
Speaker 5: other elements. Versus we we got a pretty talented quarterback.
Speaker 5: But you know, from everything that I've heard and read
Speaker 5: up on is that there's you know, we should be
Speaker 5: in all things considered, and health being a big one,
Speaker 5: we should be in a much better spot.
Speaker 2: Alex covers our guest, former Louisville cardinal, joining us to
Speaker 2: talk some Louisville football. Isn't it crazy to think ten wins,
Speaker 2: first ever trip to the ACC Championship game in year
Speaker 2: one for Bram and yet you really weren't vertical with
Speaker 2: your passing game all a lot, and your quarterback play
Speaker 2: was not really ever the strength of your offense. In fact,
Speaker 2: it was really good defense for the most part, and
Speaker 2: a couple of really good running backs. Like, hey, I
Speaker 2: think last year was such a fun ride. I never
Speaker 2: really thought to myself, wow this, If you'd have told
Speaker 2: me that Jeff would have this early success, I would
Speaker 2: not have pictured it looking the way that it did.
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, I mean well rounded.
Speaker 3: Not really being a factor to it, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the whole. You got to get
Speaker 5: the field stretched so that you can open up the
Speaker 5: middle and they can't just pack it in. But yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I think, you know, with a great running game and
Speaker 5: what I'm you know, knowing or having played on a
Speaker 5: team where he coached and had such a major influence
Speaker 5: coach English. That's where I'm super excited is seeing that blossom.
Speaker 5: You know, the second year, you got guys that aren't
Speaker 5: having to learn a new playbook. They can start, you know,
Speaker 5: picking up on things faster. You would hope you could,
Speaker 5: You could jill a lot faster and really expand the
Speaker 5: capability of that unit, which which you know held way
Speaker 5: more of its weight and water last year. So that's
Speaker 5: that's something where you put all those pieces together and
Speaker 5: you get you get a guy under center that can
Speaker 5: that can move the ball around and really spread the field.
Speaker 5: You you have the potential of something, you know, especially
Speaker 5: when you how how you go on the road and
Speaker 5: win games are with those first two things. But nowadays
Speaker 5: you need to you need to be able to outplay
Speaker 5: the quarterback if you're gonna go if you're gonna go
Speaker 5: down to Clemson and beat him, you're gonna have to
Speaker 5: I have to outplay that that guy. And same things
Speaker 5: with Notre Dame, Kentucky, et cetera.
Speaker 2: When you played at Louisville, obviously you guys had a
Speaker 2: heck of a run and had talent all over the field,
Speaker 2: but obviously Charlie Strong and his guys they developed a
Speaker 2: pretty damn good defense. This year's team, I feel like
Speaker 2: on paper knowing what is coming back, I mean, you
Speaker 2: never know, but obviously Ashinjilotti's proven who he is as
Speaker 2: a player. Same thing for Quincy Riley. I love hearing
Speaker 2: the m J. Griffins now back to one hundred percent?
Speaker 2: Can you mix in some newcomers via the transfer portal?
Speaker 2: I think stan Kuwonk Clark's got a chance to really
Speaker 2: emerge this year, you know, I I guess I'll bring
Speaker 2: all that up to say, like, I feel like, from
Speaker 2: a defensive standpoint, louisll fans should feel pretty confident about
Speaker 2: what they have there. Again, you never know how any
Speaker 2: of the transfers are truly going to work out, but
Speaker 2: it sounds like they really like their depth. I mean,
Speaker 2: they've got some stars that I mentioned, but I think
Speaker 2: they feel like they can go too deep and really
Speaker 2: not have much of a drop off here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, I mean the biggest, in my opinion,
Speaker 5: the biggest change from when I was playing, you know,
Speaker 5: multitude of years ago, and to name them all, but
Speaker 5: it is that what you just mentioned the depth and
Speaker 5: the quality of the depth. You know, we were pretty
Speaker 5: thin back. I mean really good players, first round, second
Speaker 5: round talent, but we didn't have it. You know, there
Speaker 5: wasn't a second to third stringer that was ready to
Speaker 5: jump right in and play at that level. That's something
Speaker 5: you saw last year. We got banged up and we
Speaker 5: stood the productivity was there. It was the next guy
Speaker 5: up mentality, which is you know what coach English preaches,
Speaker 5: and they were able to shoot it. So it's yeah,
Speaker 5: it's like, I mean, you and you don't want to
Speaker 5: you don't you want everybody to stay healthy every position,
Speaker 5: but knowing that you've got guys to back them up
Speaker 5: and push them and it makes those those competitive those
Speaker 5: practices even more competitive. And I mean that's been really
Speaker 5: the Alabama way is making sure, you know, the first
Speaker 5: first ring guy knows that he's got a future first
Speaker 5: round or second round pick behind him, so he's there's
Speaker 5: no slip up. You need to be locked in, you
Speaker 5: need to be you know, given it your all every
Speaker 5: day because you've got a guy behind you that wants
Speaker 5: your job just as bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's where the portal really comes in because
Speaker 2: you can you know. I mean, you're gonna lose some
Speaker 2: guys because of it, because you can go out and
Speaker 2: make it a little more crowded at their position. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I I've not heard of coaching staff for
Speaker 2: Louisville talk so highly about knowing that, Hey, we've got
Speaker 2: guys that we feel really good about, but we know
Speaker 2: there's somebody on their heels. They could they could emerge
Speaker 2: and and kind of take their spot at any moment
Speaker 2: right now. For those who don't know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to make Cups sound like he's an old man, but
Speaker 2: you know, has been a little while since he played
Speaker 2: a very memorable run that Cup had with that Charlie
Speaker 2: Strong crew. But there are guys every year at seem
Speaker 2: like that have a story similar to yours.
Speaker 3: Cup.
Speaker 2: So Cup played here locally Trinity Shamrock and was offered
Speaker 2: a chance to walk on it Louisville, ended up becoming
Speaker 2: a scholarship player, was a captain part of that Sugar
Speaker 2: Bowl team. We all know I'm guessing him up here,
Speaker 2: but just letting people know the resume of one Alex
Speaker 2: Cupper Ramome per year, he's kind of got a similar story.
Speaker 2: A guy who walked on locally here from Eastern High School,
Speaker 2: defensive lineman six three, two seventy five. He's been a
Speaker 2: fixture within the defensive line for many years now, and
Speaker 2: it seems like every year there's there's something to think.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, he's a walk on. He gave us what
Speaker 3: he could.
Speaker 2: We're going to go to the portal and probably get
Speaker 2: somebody to come in and beat him out. And this
Speaker 2: is the second straight year. Not only has that not happened,
Speaker 2: some guys have left because they can't beat him out.
Speaker 2: He's a scholarship player. Now he's a heck of a player.
Speaker 2: That's got to make you happy.
Speaker 3: Cup.
Speaker 2: That's a similar story to yours.
Speaker 5: Very much so. And I get asked that's the new
Speaker 5: question that I get asked from folks that know, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of the backstory of what you know worked through
Speaker 5: and all that is what how would I have fared
Speaker 5: through the transfer a portal? And you know I would
Speaker 5: I would take the mentality of Puerier, but know that they're, yeah,
Speaker 5: they're they would be trying to recruit the next best
Speaker 5: thing if and if anything, it should make you work
Speaker 5: even harder and stayed determined, like like Ramone has, which
Speaker 5: is fantastic. I think the more local kids it just
Speaker 5: makes it makes it makes you know, the salts that
Speaker 5: much sweeter, I guess.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 2: If you, I mean, I can tell you from a
Speaker 2: fans perspective, there those those stories of walk Ons working
Speaker 2: their ass off or in a scholarship having a big
Speaker 2: role like those that.
Speaker 3: Never gets old.
Speaker 5: No, that character is what it's all about. There's teams
Speaker 5: that I mean, I'm Alabama's no different there, there's that
Speaker 5: yearn for kind of things they're they're almost uh, just
Speaker 5: an embarrassment of riches how much talent they have. They
Speaker 5: need that type of character to put things into perspective
Speaker 5: to know that it's like, hey, this it isn't always
Speaker 5: sunshine rainbows, you know, it's there's there's a whole lot
Speaker 5: of a whole lot of you know, tough times and
Speaker 5: hard times and hardships to go through as a team.
Speaker 5: So if you have real life examples like Purier and others,
Speaker 5: it's it just makes that message hits land home so
Speaker 5: much more effectively. And it's if you have that, you
Speaker 5: definitely definitely want to keep in chairshit.
Speaker 2: And it's not even that uncommon to occasionally hear those
Speaker 2: kind of stories during the NFL Draft this day and age,
Speaker 2: which again I'm you know, call me old school, but
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: I think it's it speaks to that.
Speaker 2: You know, regardless, especially so much glamour now and money
Speaker 2: nil five four star rankings and all that stuff's important.
Speaker 2: It gets fans excited, myself included. But there's nothing better
Speaker 2: than a guy who just works his tail off, especially
Speaker 2: somebody that's local that for him it's a dream to
Speaker 2: be a part of the program and to win at
Speaker 2: a high level because of all the work they put in.
Speaker 3: It's it's good stuff, no doubt.
Speaker 2: All right, Cup, I'm not going to put you on
Speaker 2: the spot and ask you what the what the record
Speaker 2: is going to be for this team this year, but
Speaker 2: just you know, you know, you're a fan now like
Speaker 2: all of us. Obviously you have a different perspective as
Speaker 2: somebody who's been there and achieves some great success with
Speaker 2: this program.
Speaker 3: Do you think think fans are are.
Speaker 2: Realistic to expect this to be a season that you know,
Speaker 2: maybe it doesn't look exactly the same, but another high
Speaker 2: level year where you're consistently being talked about as a potential,
Speaker 2: you know, acc contender where you could find yourself in Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Again, No, I think that's that's extremely reasonable. You know
Speaker 5: that the path to get there is is is tougher
Speaker 5: in my opinion. You got more and more challenges on
Speaker 5: the road for sure. So those are those are going
Speaker 5: to be games where you know you are you expecting
Speaker 5: to win them?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: Do you do? You need to have a need to
Speaker 5: put yourself in a position to win them. And you
Speaker 5: know if you peel them off, peel one or two
Speaker 5: of them off, then you're going to find yourself in
Speaker 5: that spot. You know. I've had conversations with folks thinking,
Speaker 5: you know, thinking our schedules light. I'm like, well, maybe
Speaker 5: the home part of it, but not on the road.
Speaker 5: So there's there's a lot of challenges up and down
Speaker 5: it and you just got to take care of your
Speaker 5: business one week at a time. But yeah, that's I think,
Speaker 5: you know, prediction wise anything, and it's very reasonable. Eight
Speaker 5: nine is not an unreasonable expectation for a team of
Speaker 5: this you know, quality and everything. So that's that's where
Speaker 5: I have it. And it's just it starts week one
Speaker 5: with Austin p and you just start, you start getting
Speaker 5: in a rhythm and knocking them off as they as
Speaker 5: we line them up.
Speaker 3: Cup, you are the man.
Speaker 2: Great to catch up. We'll do it again soon, brother,
Speaker 2: football will be here before you know it.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, can't wait, all.
Speaker 3: Right, take care.
Speaker 2: That's Alex Cupper, former little of a cardinalll always appreciate
Speaker 2: his time and his insight. He can give us insight
Speaker 2: that you know a lot of us don't have. And
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you, nothing better than I'll walk on
Speaker 2: working his ass off, getting an opportunity, good stuff and
Speaker 2: per year. Is that exact guy, By the way, just
Speaker 2: like Cup was, all right, quick break, we'll come back,
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Speaker 2: I'm foolish thinking that you guys miss me when I'm going.
Speaker 2: Maybe you prefer what I'm gone. But either way, I'm
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Speaker 3: But again, tomorrow, I gotta, uh, you gotta do the thing.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. I'll tell you about it after the fact.
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