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Speaker 2: So I threw this out there yesterday and even maybe
Speaker 2: a little bit on Monday as well, and that you know,
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans, like I get why they feel really good
Speaker 2: about what their team did on Saturday against Georgia even
Speaker 2: though they lost. But you gotta worry a little bit about, Okay,
Speaker 2: is there gonna be more attention on the fact that
Speaker 2: we just played Georgia really really close, closer than maybe
Speaker 2: anybody will the rest of the way this year. Like
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be shocked at all if the closest
Speaker 2: game Georgia has the rest of the season after they
Speaker 2: potentially win the National Championship is that game against Kentucky
Speaker 2: because it was that close. But you gotta worry, like,
Speaker 2: is there as much attention on Kentucky really coming to
Speaker 2: play or is it more about how their coach wouldn't
Speaker 2: go for it? And I think as of now, you know,
Speaker 2: and it's all the Kentucky fans are going to decide
Speaker 2: which way they want to view it, right, are they
Speaker 2: gonna be optimistic or are they going to be like, damn,
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops, your conservative play calling. That's why we're never
Speaker 2: gonna be an elite program. Like again, you do what
Speaker 2: you want to do. But there's there's so much attention
Speaker 2: on that close game that I feel like Georgia, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're not even getting their fair criticism that you would
Speaker 2: get for a team that's supposed to be a lot
Speaker 2: better than what they showed Saturday, because it's all about
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops not going foot on fourth down. I mentioned
Speaker 2: Chris mad Dog Russo losing his mind having a rant
Speaker 2: about it on.
Speaker 3: Pardon the End. What's the show? First take?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Steven A. Smith, would they just yell that's that?
Speaker 2: That's what it's called. Right now, I'm a regular listener
Speaker 2: pardon my take on Barstool Sports to where I like
Speaker 2: get him mixed up. But first take is the show,
Speaker 2: and that's easily one of the most watched shows ESPN has.
Speaker 2: It might be the most watch show they had that's
Speaker 2: not a live game. And then now you've got the
Speaker 2: most listened to sports podcast out there. I guess outside
Speaker 2: of I guess maybe I shouldn't say this anymore because
Speaker 2: I don't know if it is still number one, but
Speaker 2: pardon my take with Big Cat PFT. It's been a
Speaker 2: dominant podcast in the sports landscape for many, many years,
Speaker 2: but now you've got the Kelsey Brothers who have a
Speaker 2: really popular podcast, and I think there's another one out
Speaker 2: there that's that's massively successful. But one of the guys
Speaker 2: I might have been PFT that said that if I
Speaker 2: was a Kentucky fan, I'd be so heartbroken because Mark
Speaker 2: Stoop's his decision to punt it eliminated the opportunity for
Speaker 2: a core moment as a sport, as a Kentucky fan,
Speaker 2: And that's a little much, but you think about it,
Speaker 2: it's kind of true because I'd be willing to bet
Speaker 2: that had they somehow pulled off the upset by going
Speaker 2: for me going forward, and because again that's another thing
Speaker 2: that gets lost here about that decision is that you're
Speaker 2: you are super conservative, and that is why you were
Speaker 2: in that position. But by going for it, because he's
Speaker 2: he's since taken criticism and he's I think handled it
Speaker 2: pretty professionally meeting Stoops like, I think he's dealing with
Speaker 2: it about as best as a coach can understanding that, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, people are crushing him he's still he's kind
Speaker 2: of doubling down on his decision, but he's at least
Speaker 2: handling it, I think without arrogance.
Speaker 3: But you know, he said that we're not built.
Speaker 2: To and I don't have the quote in front of me,
Speaker 2: but he essentially said, we're not built to go down
Speaker 2: the field vertically against Georgia, which most teams aren't. Right,
Speaker 2: So he's right in that regard. But that's all the
Speaker 2: more reason not to pun it away because even if
Speaker 2: you get the ball back, even if what you plan
Speaker 2: to happen happened, you'd have no timeouts, very little time
Speaker 2: left on the clock, and then you'd have to turn
Speaker 2: into this team that can go downfield with Georgia. So
Speaker 2: had they got the first down, killed as much clock
Speaker 2: as possible before hitting a game winning field goal, I
Speaker 2: bet every Kentucky football fan would remember that for the
Speaker 2: rest of their life. You'll beat number one very often.
Speaker 2: And I know you did it against LSU and that
Speaker 2: was a big moment. They actually showed highlights of that
Speaker 2: during that game. But LSU at that time is not
Speaker 2: what Georgy is now. I mean, like, let's be real,
Speaker 2: Georgia could win the next three National championships and nobody
Speaker 2: would be shocked. That's you know, never happened before. But
Speaker 2: they're on pace right now to be better than everybody,
Speaker 2: especially with that news yesterday where they had some legislation
Speaker 2: pass that makes it to where every Georgia university is
Speaker 2: allowed to pay players directly within IL. So like they're
Speaker 2: already ahead of people now again, it'll eventually everybody's gonna
Speaker 2: be there, I feel like. But anyways, just not just
Speaker 2: you know, not to pile on here, but like if
Speaker 2: I was a Kentucky fan, I would because I don't
Speaker 2: want to be miserable. I would try to find some
Speaker 2: positives which aren't hard to find, because you know, if
Speaker 2: you can play that well against Georgia, you should be
Speaker 2: able to beat a lot of teams on your schedule.
Speaker 2: I mean you probably won't, but like, you know, you
Speaker 2: feel like you could compete, give yourself a chance to
Speaker 2: win and still have a special season despite being one
Speaker 2: and two right now, but you're getting national attention like
Speaker 2: you really never get. And it's not because damn, how
Speaker 2: about that Kentucky team. It's because can you believe their
Speaker 2: coach didn't didn't go for it on fourth and eight midfield.
Speaker 2: Three minutes left against Georgia, so kind of kind of
Speaker 2: salt to the wound a little bit. All right, it's
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Speaker 2: We are gonna be joined coming up here at five
Speaker 2: thirty by a good a really good guy to talk
Speaker 2: to about the enemy, the opponent that's coming to town
Speaker 2: on Saturday, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Chad Bishop from
Speaker 2: the Atlanta General Constitution going to join us, coming up
Speaker 2: here at five thirty. We'll get his thoughts on this
Speaker 2: match up. He'll talk to us and educate us on
Speaker 2: this Georgia Tech team that is off to a off
Speaker 2: to a decent start. You know, I hadn't mentioned this yet,
Speaker 2: and I'm not acting. I'm not going to try to
Speaker 2: build them up as some big team that you know,
Speaker 2: like is way better than they really are.
Speaker 3: I mean, because you know I think.
Speaker 2: I mean right now, they're ten and a half point
Speaker 2: favorites or I'm sorry, ten and a half point underdogs.
Speaker 2: But and this is where I feel like I already
Speaker 2: regret going down this path, but I'm not going to.
Speaker 3: Eject just yet.
Speaker 2: Georgia State beat Vandy this pastlast weekend, and that is
Speaker 2: Vandy's first loss. Vandy, if you remember, beating Virginia Tech
Speaker 2: and was up two touchdowns on them. So I think
Speaker 2: Vandy's better than people expected. But they did just lose
Speaker 2: to Georgia Tech, so maybe that's wrong. Well, this Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech team beat the hell out of Georgia State when
Speaker 2: they played them right after their win against against Florida State.
Speaker 2: So their loss to Syracuse was certainly one that makes
Speaker 2: them no longer ranked. And if they were ranked in
Speaker 2: this then this game would have a little bit more
Speaker 2: juice to it. But nonetheless, it's Louisville's first test and
Speaker 2: they will be tested in a major way compared to
Speaker 2: what they were tested in the first two games against
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State and Austin p I have no clue really
Speaker 2: what to expect. Like I think Louisville will win, I
Speaker 2: don't know if they'll cover. That's one thing than in
Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours. It's not that I'm losing,
Speaker 2: you know, confidence in Louisville as a team. It's not
Speaker 2: that I'm thinking they're on upset alert, but ten and
Speaker 2: a half is a lot of points, and Georgia Tech
Speaker 2: is a pretty good team. Our man for Vegas Insider,
Speaker 2: Brian Edwards, who joins us each and every week, will
Speaker 2: join us tomorrow. He did mention this to earlier when
Speaker 2: he and I were chatting, and this is I mean again,
Speaker 2: this is you know, I'm not as big on trends,
Speaker 2: but I feel like with Brent Key being in what
Speaker 2: his second year there, I mean this is this is
Speaker 2: a notable, notable stat. He is thirteen and three against
Speaker 2: the spread with with ten outright wins as an underdog.
Speaker 3: So I mean.
Speaker 2: It's early on in the Brent Key era, but I
Speaker 2: feel like he is somebody that you can claim early
Speaker 2: on that like his teams are in a much better
Speaker 2: situation when they are really giving no chance to win.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to it on Saturday, and again
Speaker 2: we will join. We will be joined coming up here
Speaker 2: in about twenty minutes by Chad Bishop from the Atlanta
Speaker 2: Journal Constitution, who has Kentucky roots. I know there's plenty
Speaker 2: of people listening that know about Chad. He used to
Speaker 2: cover WKU back for WBKO down there in Bowling Green.
Speaker 2: Then he spent some time in Atlanta, I'm sorry, not Atlanta, Nashville.
Speaker 2: He worked for the sports information department at Vanderbilt, and
Speaker 2: now he's down in the AA as they say, covering
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech for one of the bigger newspapers in the country.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to catching up with Chad. All right,
Speaker 2: let's see here. Let me remind you, speaking of Saturday,
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Speaker 2: So distracted Driver dot Com. And uh, gonna be a
Speaker 2: busy day, gonna be a big day, and I'm hoping
Speaker 2: that our postgame show is really a celebration and it'll
Speaker 2: you know, I kind of feel like if we win
Speaker 2: big here I am saying we like I'm on the team.
Speaker 2: People hate when I do that. I did that this morning. Sometimes,
Speaker 2: oh sometimes I can't help my Sometimes I just do
Speaker 2: it to piss people off. But I used to be
Speaker 2: somebody that would catch myself because but now, like you know, look,
Speaker 2: you bring Jeff brom home, I'm gonna say we because
Speaker 2: he's one of us. So if Louisville does win big,
Speaker 2: we're probably gonna celebrate in a way that makes the
Speaker 2: win seem like it actually is worth more than what
Speaker 2: it is. I mean, it's a conference win, right, and
Speaker 2: it'll be your biggest win up to this point. But
Speaker 2: because this is a rare late September matchup where you
Speaker 2: haven't been tested yet and you've already had a bye week,
Speaker 2: like I think, a big time performance from the Cards
Speaker 2: and they cover or win big even, I think we're
Speaker 2: gonna be We're gonna be partying on that postgame show,
Speaker 2: and I hope you guys will well join us for that.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So Pat Kelsey, yesterday he was speaking at an event
Speaker 2: called Operation Revival at the Fraser History Museum. It was
Speaker 2: their event to really introduce him to the community, and
Speaker 2: he did a Q and A with somebody I'm not
Speaker 2: sure who the host was, but Kent not Kent Taylor,
Speaker 2: we love Kent Taylor, but Kent Spencer we love him too.
Speaker 2: He joins us each week as well. From WHS eleven.
Speaker 2: He was on site for the event and he got
Speaker 2: some clips that I wanted to play with you guys,
Speaker 2: because I think a lot of times when it comes
Speaker 2: to coaches being asked about a rivalry or a coach
Speaker 2: of the rival, or just the rival in general. And
Speaker 2: by the way, those all three different things, right, what
Speaker 2: you think about the coach who is your rival, who
Speaker 2: coaches the rival school, the rivalry itself meaning like fans,
Speaker 2: and then of course you know the rival program. So
Speaker 2: I think this is a really genuine and genuine answer
Speaker 2: for Pat, which not to say he's been not giving
Speaker 2: us genuine answers when asked questions, and he's even been
Speaker 2: on this show, so I think he's genuine. But like
Speaker 2: right now, there's no animosity between these two and I
Speaker 2: think just not that I know them personally, but I
Speaker 2: think both of them, like put it this way, this
Speaker 2: is the best way to describe it. I think they
Speaker 2: would actually be good buddies, and they might be good
Speaker 2: buddies like legitimately and just know that, Hey, we have
Speaker 2: to act like we hate each other so our fans
Speaker 2: get excited. And maybe they won't be able to do
Speaker 2: that because it'll be very hard to force that. But
Speaker 2: let's just say Pat Kelsey is coaching at Cincinnati and
Speaker 2: Mark Pope is coaching at Purdue, and they became they
Speaker 2: crossed paths and recruiting, they networked, and they ended up
Speaker 2: meeting each other. Like from what I get when I
Speaker 2: can gather, I can see these two dudes being pretty
Speaker 2: good friends. I mean, I think Mark Post probably gonna
Speaker 2: be a little more boring than Pat Kelcey, but you know,
Speaker 2: other than that, I think they they clearly respect one
Speaker 2: another at this point. And I just have a hard
Speaker 2: time seeing anything happening or transpiring where there's really genuine
Speaker 2: animosity between the two coaches. And we got spoiled because
Speaker 2: there'll never be that level of animosity like there was
Speaker 2: with Beatino and Cal that's a personal rivalry that was
Speaker 2: very heated and contentious with some pretty deep rooted history
Speaker 2: between those two individuals. And then you could you throw
Speaker 2: and now they're leading two different fan bases, two different
Speaker 2: programs that hate each other, that have a lot of history,
Speaker 2: and it is the best rivalry in my opinion, in
Speaker 2: college basketball, and yes I'm biased in that opinion. But
Speaker 2: here's what he had to say when asked about When
Speaker 2: asked about that, he did kind of play play dumb
Speaker 2: a little bit, like, oh, wait a second, you're saying
Speaker 2: we got a we got a big rivalry. I gotta
Speaker 2: I gotta make sure remember that.
Speaker 4: So let me write this down. We like to beat
Speaker 4: those guys, right, I just got to remember this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a lot of journalism because that was
Speaker 1: the depth of my questions.
Speaker 4: You know where you know, it's one of the great
Speaker 4: rivalries in collegiate sports.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: I know how important it is to the people of
Speaker 4: this town. You know. I've gotten to know Mark a
Speaker 4: little bit, you know, and I can't probably shouldn't say
Speaker 4: it very loud, but try not to like him. But
Speaker 4: he's a pretty good dude.
Speaker 3: I was like, why you.
Speaker 4: Got to be not why you gotta be a good dude.
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to like dislike you. But you know, Coach
Speaker 4: Prosser when he was at Xavier, Bob Huggins when he
Speaker 4: was at Cincinnati, you were there Andy then during that time.
Speaker 4: I mean that that that maybe not as well known nationally.
Speaker 4: But that is a nasty, nasty, nasty rivalry houses, you know,
Speaker 4: homes divided, all that stuff, and it's the city shuts down.
Speaker 4: It's nasty. But and those are two nasty competitive dudes,
Speaker 4: but they they had a good relationship, right, there can
Speaker 4: be honor among thieves, like can we say so? I'm
Speaker 4: just excited to be a part of it. It is.
Speaker 4: I think rivalries are what makes college sports great. And
Speaker 4: you know, they stop being rivalries if you don't win
Speaker 4: one every once in a while. So let's let's think
Speaker 4: and go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to play that not as if it's
Speaker 2: some juicy piece of sound that you know is going
Speaker 2: to really get things going. But that's my prediction is
Speaker 2: that those guys will have a lot of respect for
Speaker 2: one another, and they're not really like you know what
Speaker 2: what is similar is that they're starting at the same time.
Speaker 2: They're not inheriting the same thing, but they But then again,
Speaker 2: like Kentucky has been, you know, used to success recently,
Speaker 2: they just have been upset in the tournament. But they
Speaker 2: are both in their first year at a new school.
Speaker 2: Neither would have ever been on a list of ten
Speaker 2: like if you'd ask people a year ago today, give
Speaker 2: me ten names most likely to take over if these
Speaker 2: guys aren't here next year, Caliperry, and Pain. I don't
Speaker 2: think either of these guys would have been on the list.
Speaker 2: In fact, Pat Kelsey might have been. Pope might have
Speaker 2: been too, But Pope it would have just been because
Speaker 2: of the fact that he played there, and Barnhart, like,
Speaker 2: you know, you can see how he would really like
Speaker 2: Mark Pope, so you know there are some similarities, but
Speaker 2: then again there's not. You know, like Pat Kelsey, he
Speaker 2: could he could. Like again, if Louisville makes the tournament
Speaker 2: this year and you know, gets a sixth seed and
Speaker 2: you feel like, wow, that was you know, like if
Speaker 2: both schools did that, I think they are going to
Speaker 2: understand that they are you know, it's the first season
Speaker 2: in a new era and you know, coming out like
Speaker 2: gangbusters and making a deep run in the tournament, like,
Speaker 2: you know, although it could happen, you know, it's expecting
Speaker 2: that and saying that's the fail or pass, that's the
Speaker 2: pass or fail of the season is a little unrealistic,
Speaker 2: a little bit unreasonable honestly. But like with Pope, if
Speaker 2: they slip up and lose to teams that, like, you know,
Speaker 2: here's the thing, Mark Pope, I think you have a
Speaker 2: much much less likely chance of losing to Saint Peter's
Speaker 2: or Oakland with Mark Pope as your coach. But like,
Speaker 2: will you have a regular season consistently that you can
Speaker 2: find yourself with the top three four seed that remains
Speaker 2: to be seen, And like if Pope can't get to
Speaker 2: that standard, like he's his, he'll I don't want to
Speaker 2: say a good run out of town, but I just
Speaker 2: think Louisville fans still are going to have really high
Speaker 2: standards for their program and want to win at a
Speaker 2: high level and know that this is a program that
Speaker 2: if you've got a good coach and here he's got
Speaker 2: resources too, where you can win national championships. So like
Speaker 2: Louisville fans know that, but we we are going to
Speaker 2: not be able to control ourselves when it comes to
Speaker 2: getting excited about things that you didn't used to get
Speaker 2: excited about. It used to be just another day for Louisville.
Speaker 2: If you play a mid tier ACC team and you
Speaker 2: beat them by twenty, that was just life for a while.
Speaker 2: That ain't been life recently, so they're not really in
Speaker 2: the same situation, but there are some similarities to situations.
Speaker 2: I mean, both of them have entirely brand new teams,
Speaker 2: and you know it's because of the coaching change, and
Speaker 2: it's because places like Louislle and Kentucky can do that.
Speaker 2: They can utilize inile money and utilize their brand and
Speaker 2: utilize the fact that you know, they are one of
Speaker 2: the there are two of the top programs ever, and
Speaker 2: I clear I understand Kentucky's clearly ahead of Louisville in
Speaker 2: that regard, but they are both in that in that
Speaker 2: tier to where you can, you know, you can quickly
Speaker 2: put together a pretty good roster all from scratch and
Speaker 2: be pretty good, because you know, that's the world we're
Speaker 2: in now. But again, I think they will like each other.
Speaker 3: I really do. I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's something about Pope or something about Kelsey that
Speaker 2: it'll be easy for, you know, the two to dislike
Speaker 2: each other, but I do think it's genuine right now.
Speaker 2: And he meant you heard him talking about Cincinnati there,
Speaker 2: and that's I think we talked about it whenever we
Speaker 2: were getting into the whole conversation about where Louisville and
Speaker 2: Kentucky's rivalry ranks, and I think most people would put
Speaker 2: it at number two, and I wouldn't like tell them
Speaker 2: that they're insane. But I've always had the same stance,
Speaker 2: and that is that, if you know, I think what
Speaker 2: makes a rivalry great is fans, not anything else.
Speaker 3: Fans.
Speaker 2: Players come and go, coaches come and go. Fans and
Speaker 2: you have so many Louisville Kentucky fans in this city
Speaker 2: that coexist together to where like I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: to really evaluate how heated and crazy this thing is
Speaker 2: around here, you got to be here same thing as Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: There's not Xavier and Cincinnati fans throughout the state. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe there are as far as like a lum and
Speaker 2: maybe there are other random Cincinnati fans that live in
Speaker 2: you know, Cleveland or something, but the majority of the
Speaker 2: fans of both of those programs are all in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and that's why it's nasty there and that's just not
Speaker 2: as common, you know what I mean. Like and with
Speaker 2: Duke and Carolina, clearly like they are the best rivalry
Speaker 2: when it comes to just the success in the history
Speaker 2: and tradition of the two of those two programs, because
Speaker 2: those are the two of the best programs of all time.
Speaker 2: But Duke fans like, there's not that many of them, guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, you go to a Duke game and Durham
Speaker 2: I've been to one. It's mostly college students who grew
Speaker 2: up in the Northeast. Like n C State is more
Speaker 2: of a comparable rival to North Carolina than Duke is
Speaker 2: as far as the Louisville, Kentucky side of things. But
Speaker 2: again I'm biased. I understand like a lot of people
Speaker 2: would tune in across the country who like college basketball
Speaker 2: and say, this guy's an idiot. There there's no debate.
Speaker 2: Caroline and Duke here are the two best rivals in
Speaker 2: college basketball, and there's not even a close second. And
Speaker 2: you know you have your opinion. I have mine. You
Speaker 2: got people fighting at a Dallass clinic in their eighties.
Speaker 2: I don't think so we did, which I think that
Speaker 2: gives me a chance to play that again, because that
Speaker 2: was insane.
Speaker 5: The rivalry between UK and U of L fans runs deep.
Speaker 5: But police say they've never been called to a place
Speaker 5: like this to break up a fight between fans. Police
Speaker 5: are calling it a flagrant foul.
Speaker 3: I think this is a first out a dialysis.
Speaker 5: Clinic officers were called after a UK and U of
Speaker 5: L fan gave each other a full court press during
Speaker 5: treatment Monday.
Speaker 6: You just happened to think that l U of L
Speaker 6: would beat the UK, and he started running his mouth.
Speaker 6: That's what That's what started.
Speaker 7: I ain't talk to him about the ball again. I'll
Speaker 7: talk to another guy about the ball. He meant it
Speaker 7: and told me shut up, then give me the thing.
Speaker 7: I said, what I'm not talking to you both.
Speaker 5: Mean admit they were in the zone, but never anticipated
Speaker 5: there'd be a power forward.
Speaker 7: I wasn't gonna take no more of him.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm setting there, hooked up to a machine
Speaker 6: and I can't do anything, and.
Speaker 1: I wonn't told and I hit him and he made
Speaker 1: her but I hit.
Speaker 5: By the time police arrived, the fight was over.
Speaker 6: I'm just sorry it even happened. Hopefully they just he
Speaker 6: won't come in the same time I do anymore.
Speaker 5: Wilson does say that he won't be pressing any charges
Speaker 5: against Taylor, but he does say that he helps the
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Speaker 2: First, anytime I get a chance to play that, I'm
Speaker 2: going to do it. It's that the puns, the two
Speaker 2: guys themselves talking the story itself.
Speaker 3: It's good stuff. So all right, quick time out.
Speaker 2: Chad Bishop from the Atlanta Journal Constitution is going to
Speaker 2: join us, coming up here on the other side to
Speaker 2: preview Saturday's matchup between the Cards and the Yellowjackets, So
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Speaker 2: And joining us now to discuss the matchup between Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech and Louisville is Chad Bishop from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Speaker 2: He covers Georgia Tech. Chad, how's life down there in Atlanta?
Speaker 3: My man, hey man.
Speaker 8: It's good. You know, I've still got some mild weather
Speaker 8: like you guys do up there. I've been looking at
Speaker 8: and you know, just just waiting for some fall weather
Speaker 8: to get here and waiting for a bye week because
Speaker 8: Georgia Tech has not had one yet. I'm not claiming
Speaker 8: I'm as tired as the football team is, but man,
Speaker 8: it's it's been a journey so far.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: Man, it's a grind, and you guys have certainly been
Speaker 2: busy starting it across the pond and having no week off.
Speaker 3: Louisill had the rare bye week.
Speaker 2: In September, which it won't be rare moving forward because
Speaker 2: there's now going to be two by weeks. But yes,
Speaker 2: Louisville coming fresh off of bye, Georgia Tech coming off
Speaker 2: of a bounce back victory against VMI. Before we get
Speaker 2: into the matchup between these two teams, let's go back
Speaker 2: to the opener. I mean, I remember, I can't claim
Speaker 2: that I predicted the upset. I can't claim that I
Speaker 2: thought it would be like a super close game, but
Speaker 2: I do remember kind of not realizing how well Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech finished the season a year ago, and they had
Speaker 2: a pretty good season, a really good debut for Brent
Speaker 2: Key down there, and you know, you guys at the
Speaker 2: time seem to have shocked the world. Now the wind
Speaker 2: looks a little bit different, but that has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with you, guys. You just I mean, you can't
Speaker 2: control that. Florida State has kind of fallen apart since
Speaker 2: that victory. I guess my question is did you feel
Speaker 2: like going into this season that Georgia Tech was maybe
Speaker 2: not getting the love that maybe they deserved.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, And part of that is the word continuity. This
Speaker 8: day in college football, that's so hard to come by.
Speaker 8: And when he looked at Georgia Tech's program, not only
Speaker 8: is Brent keyback for his second year, but so is
Speaker 8: quarterback Haynes King and running back Jamal Haynes, four of
Speaker 8: five starting offensive linemen, pretty much every leading wide receiver
Speaker 8: from a year ago, quarterbacks coach Chris Winki, offensive coordinator
Speaker 8: Buster Faulkner, offensive line coach Jeep Wade, even though they
Speaker 8: found a new defensive coordinator and Tyler Santucci had a duke,
Speaker 8: there were a lot of guys back on the defensive
Speaker 8: side of the ball. So the point for me there
Speaker 8: is is like, there's a lot of guys back who
Speaker 8: understood the expectations, understood what success looked like at the
Speaker 8: end of twenty twenty three, and then you're going against
Speaker 8: a Florida State program who's doing things a little bit differently,
Speaker 8: bringing in a lot of transfers kind of year and
Speaker 8: year out, and trying to build that way. So in
Speaker 8: the way that Florida State season ended last year, I
Speaker 8: think there was something to be said about that. And
Speaker 8: then I just got the sense that, you know, I
Speaker 8: don't know, I just felt like Jeordia Tech was maybe
Speaker 8: take making that matchup a little bit more seriously than
Speaker 8: Florida State. Was not to say that the Seminoles maybe
Speaker 8: took Georgia Tech lightly, but it seemed to be a
Speaker 8: little bit more of a vacation vibe for Florida State
Speaker 8: and more of a business trip for Georgia Tech. So yeah,
Speaker 8: I wasn't surprised that Georgia Tech won. I thought it
Speaker 8: would be a close game. Now, you know, I didn't
Speaker 8: know if they would necessarily, like I said, get out
Speaker 8: of there with a win, but I thought it would
Speaker 8: be a four quarter game, and lo and behold, Georgia
Speaker 8: Tech got out of there with a win. Now, Brent
Speaker 8: Keya said, often, you know that last field goal goes
Speaker 8: six inches one way or the other, it goes over
Speaker 8: time and who knows what happened, So it's a game
Speaker 8: of benches and then Georgia Tech got the break on
Speaker 8: that day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I'm not alone, britt Key.
Speaker 2: He's somebody that has really impressed a lot of folks
Speaker 2: and I think he's got a bright future there at
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech. And you know, last year, I just felt
Speaker 2: like they did enough to establish some momentum that really
Speaker 2: wasn't awarded to them preseason. And again, it all matters
Speaker 2: what you do when you actually get to games. But
Speaker 2: I feel like the ACC those that cover the league,
Speaker 2: they were looking for a team to prop up is
Speaker 2: one that could take a big leap. SMU seemed like
Speaker 2: a team people thought would really do well in this league,
Speaker 2: and so far that's not gotten off through a good start.
Speaker 2: And then obviously I think Virginia Tech got a lot
Speaker 2: of love and then they went and lost to and Andy.
Speaker 2: So I think Georgia Tech was a little more deserving
Speaker 2: of it. I can't claim, hey, I told you so,
Speaker 2: because it took them. It took them beating Florida State
Speaker 2: for me to look at him and say, Okay, they
Speaker 2: didn't lose back to back games at any point last year.
Speaker 2: They had two ranked wins. They played Georgia within within
Speaker 2: a one possession there is one possession game of Georgia
Speaker 2: last year. And then, oh, by the way, let's look
Speaker 2: at Haynes King, who was one of just four quarterbacks
Speaker 2: last year to have twenty five or more touchdowns through
Speaker 2: the air, ten or more on the ground. The other
Speaker 2: guys that did that Jaden Daniels, Caleb Williams, Dylan Gabriels.
Speaker 2: So and then you mentioned Jamal Haynes who was one
Speaker 2: of the best running backs in the league last year.
Speaker 2: I think this team has talent, They have a good
Speaker 2: coaching staff. And before we get to the specific matchup,
Speaker 2: you've now covered britt Key. This is his second season
Speaker 2: and you covered him during his debut season a year ago.
Speaker 2: What do you think makes him you know the way
Speaker 2: he is, because what would you say, what would you
Speaker 2: pinpoint makes him successful? Because I think he's got a
Speaker 2: bright future even if it isn't in Georgia Tech. Maybe
Speaker 2: he moves on down the line because he's that successful,
Speaker 2: but he seems to be a guy that has a
Speaker 2: bright future. What would you pinpoint that really makes him
Speaker 2: that guy that you know, people think could be one
Speaker 2: of the better coaches in this game moving forward?
Speaker 8: Well, He's been fortunate to come up under two great
Speaker 8: ones in Georgia Leary and Nick Saban. For those who
Speaker 8: don't know, Brent Key played at Georgia Tech. He was
Speaker 8: an offensive lineman in the nineties under Georgia Leary, then
Speaker 8: followed George down to UCF and was it UCS for
Speaker 8: about a decade before there was a transition down in
Speaker 8: Orlando and he was hired to Nick Saban's staff from
Speaker 8: twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen. So the guy has learned
Speaker 8: under two of the better college coaches of all time.
Speaker 8: I think that's number one, number two. I think he's
Speaker 8: pretty good at self assessment and honest assessment and understanding that, hey,
Speaker 8: I did this wrong, I did this right. Where can
Speaker 8: I get better?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 8: He comes from that school of Nick Saban of constantly
Speaker 8: trying to get better, constantly trying to change things. I mean,
Speaker 8: you look at the defense. You know, he knew he
Speaker 8: needed a new defensive coordinator and he went out and
Speaker 8: got one, and into this season he has learned how
Speaker 8: to navigate the transfer portal in terms of supplementing your
Speaker 8: roster and not changing it over a year and a
Speaker 8: year out he studies NFL teams. He talks a lot
Speaker 8: about roster management and studying teams like the Detroit Lions
Speaker 8: and the San Francisco forty nine ers and the Kansas
Speaker 8: City Chiefs in terms of how to build your roster,
Speaker 8: whether it's through the NFL Draft or free agency, or
Speaker 8: whether it's college through recruiting and the transfer portal. So
Speaker 8: I think he's pretty smart. He's pretty bright and understands
Speaker 8: that college football is an ever changing landscape, but he
Speaker 8: doesn't shy away from it, you know, he adapts. And
Speaker 8: then I think the other thing is is, you know,
Speaker 8: we mentioned identity a little bit, like he wants to
Speaker 8: have a team that has an identity sort of ground
Speaker 8: and pound three yards and a cloud of dust by
Speaker 8: the fourth quarter sort of identity tough and physical. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they can spread the ball around a little bit, and
Speaker 8: they can throw it a little bit, put some points
Speaker 8: on the board, but I think when they're really humming,
Speaker 8: they're gonna be a real physical team that runs the
Speaker 8: ball down in, then down out. And I think that's
Speaker 8: what made him successful and I think that's what is
Speaker 8: going to continue to make him successful in the future.
Speaker 2: You actually answered my next question, which is going to
Speaker 2: be what what would you how would you describe the
Speaker 2: identity as far as what he's aiming for? Is it
Speaker 2: fair to also say that he's he's a coach that,
Speaker 2: you know, because a lot of every coach wants to
Speaker 2: be able to motivate their guys, give them that bulletin
Speaker 2: board material, really keep them at all times, you know,
Speaker 2: energized and ready to prove something. I get the sense
Speaker 2: that and he did it last year in his first season,
Speaker 2: and just some of the things that have been said
Speaker 2: so far about this matchup coming up between the Cards
Speaker 2: and the Yellowjackets, I get the sense that he is
Speaker 2: a genuine coach, almost like Charlie Strong in a way
Speaker 2: to where no matter what, he's going to find a
Speaker 2: way to have these guys fired up to go prove themselves,
Speaker 2: even if nobody's really doubting them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt. I mean, Georgia Tech is five and
Speaker 8: zero against ranked teams and the ACC they love this
Speaker 8: underdog thing. Frank, he loves this underdog mentality. He relates
Speaker 8: it to being a Georgia Tech person.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Coming up makes sense.
Speaker 8: The school, Yeah, how difficult he needs to go to
Speaker 8: school there? Now they're aallenge day day in and day
Speaker 8: out academically, and he loves he loves that mantra. He
Speaker 8: loves that narrative. It'll be curious to see, however, once
Speaker 8: Georgia Tech, if and when they, you know, make it
Speaker 8: to the top fifteen or top ten, if they're still
Speaker 8: able to hold this underdog mentality, because it already is
Speaker 8: backfired a little bit this year being in the top
Speaker 8: twenty five and losing at Syracuse. But but yeah, I
Speaker 8: think he really relates to the players, I'm sure like
Speaker 8: Jeff Brahm does with his kids. Like I've walked this campus,
Speaker 8: I've been in these classrooms.
Speaker 3: I sure you're going.
Speaker 8: Through And so I think he again, I go back
Speaker 8: to the word honesty, like I think he's a great
Speaker 8: coach in terms of being honest with guys like, look
Speaker 8: you're not ready to play yet, or look you are,
Speaker 8: and we're going to throw you in there, whether you're
Speaker 8: a freshman, whether you're a six year transfer. And I
Speaker 8: think that's really appreciated by his kids as well.
Speaker 2: Chad Bishop is our guest, joining us here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety. He covers Georgia Tech for the Atlanta
Speaker 2: Journal Constitution. I mean generic question here, what do you
Speaker 2: make of the matchup? I mean, it's hard to know
Speaker 2: anything about Lousville. They've not been tested in any way.
Speaker 2: You've seen this Georgia Tech team play a couple of
Speaker 2: AC opponents. They had a nice win against Georgia State,
Speaker 2: a nice bounce back win against was it VMI that
Speaker 2: they just played? Yeah, so so, I mean again, we're
Speaker 2: going to find out where Louisville is on Saturday. They've
Speaker 2: It's the rare late September game where you really don't
Speaker 2: mean I think fans here in town feel good about
Speaker 2: their team coming off of a special season, and they
Speaker 2: bring back some good players from that special season, but
Speaker 2: obviously a lot of portal guys as well, and they
Speaker 2: looked good in the first two games. They just happened
Speaker 2: to come against teams Dame, Jacksonville State and Austin p
Speaker 2: What do you, at least at this point expect to
Speaker 2: potentially maybe give Georgia Tech some problems in this matchup
Speaker 2: from the Louisville side of things.
Speaker 8: Well, I like the phrase you use find out. It's
Speaker 8: a find out game for.
Speaker 3: Me, right, Like, we're going to find out if first
Speaker 3: test is good. Yeah, We're going to.
Speaker 8: Find out if they're as good as those first two scores,
Speaker 8: you know, if they can do it against an ACC team.
Speaker 8: We're going to find out if this Georgia Tech team
Speaker 8: has fixed their defense, because it was pretty good against
Speaker 8: Florida State and Georgia State, but they went back to
Speaker 8: their old ways against Syracuse. The same defense we saw
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty three that couldn't stop the pass, couldn't
Speaker 8: get off the field on third down, gave up a
Speaker 8: lot of red zone scores, and now you're going to
Speaker 8: get the high powered offense at Louisville. So which team,
Speaker 8: you know, is going to prove to their fans that
Speaker 8: hey we've changed, or hey we are as good as
Speaker 8: you think we are and as we think we are.
Speaker 8: You know, Georgia Tech. They you know, some people have
Speaker 8: thrown around the word special for this team, that they
Speaker 8: could have a special season. Well you've got to go
Speaker 8: on the road and win these matchups against ranked teams.
Speaker 8: So that would be a huge proving point for them
Speaker 8: to say, hey, we are going to be player in
Speaker 8: this ACC title race despite the loss at Louisville, excuse
Speaker 8: me at Syracuse And then on the flip side, right
Speaker 8: like if you're Louisville, you're saying, yeah, we hadn't played anybody,
Speaker 8: but it doesn't matter. We're still this good and we're
Speaker 8: still going to put up a ton of points and
Speaker 8: be a good Georgia Tech team. So it's a it's
Speaker 8: a very intriguing matchup between what I think is you know,
Speaker 8: outstanding offense from Louisville and Georgia Tech defense that is suspect.
Speaker 8: And until they can prove to me that they can
Speaker 8: stop anybody, that'll be what I'm watching for on Saturday.
Speaker 8: Can they show up and stop this big time Louisville.
Speaker 2: Offense because Q has only played two games, just like
Speaker 2: Louisville has, and it was an impressive showing against Georgia Tech,
Speaker 2: and then they took care of business against Ohio.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's tough to know.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna see a little more about who
Speaker 2: Syracuse is in their matchup coming up on Friday when
Speaker 2: they take on Stanford.
Speaker 3: But I know you watched the game.
Speaker 2: I mean I kind of felt like that was more
Speaker 2: about Syracuse being a team that everybody should look out
Speaker 2: for in the ACC more than it meaning that maybe
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech's win against Florida State was maybe not as valid.
Speaker 2: And again Florida State continues to make that loss. That
Speaker 2: win for Georgia Tech not look as good. But you know,
Speaker 2: the defense again they gave up thirty one to Syracuse.
Speaker 2: But I just have a feeling just in that game.
Speaker 2: And again it's small sample size. I think Syracuse may
Speaker 2: be putting up some points this year against a lot
Speaker 2: of teams.
Speaker 8: I think there were a couple of factors at play.
Speaker 8: First of all, you're right, props to Syracuse, man. They
Speaker 8: had an outstanding game plan. McCord hit pretty much every
Speaker 8: pass he threw, and the tight windows his wide receivers
Speaker 8: made out standing catches. Rondy Gatson had a monster game
Speaker 8: at tight end. They were motivated, you know. The coach
Speaker 8: fran Brown sort of made this mountain out of a
Speaker 8: mole hill, taking Brent Key's words and sort of twist
Speaker 8: him around, sort old school Michael Jordan like, I'm just
Speaker 8: we're disrespected. I can't believe they said that, And even
Speaker 8: Brent Key this week, I don't remember saying anything. I'm
Speaker 8: not quite sure what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 2: Not only that, he made it personal too, which again,
Speaker 2: anything to get an edge but yeah, it was his
Speaker 2: reaction after that was kind of puzzling to me because
Speaker 2: you know, and again, if you're gonna do that with
Speaker 2: your team, that's one thing, but to then take it
Speaker 2: to the podium just seemed odd misplaced energy.
Speaker 3: Is what I was what I felt it did.
Speaker 8: So but again, you know, props for Syracuse for doing
Speaker 8: it that way. The other thing that I thought a
Speaker 8: lot about, and this is nothing that you know, Georgia
Speaker 8: Tech has said, and they would certainly never make excuses,
Speaker 8: but from from an outsider's perspective, you know, Tech had
Speaker 8: to go all the way to Dublin and back. They
Speaker 8: had a home opener against an insant rivalry at eight
Speaker 8: pm the following week. Then they had to get back
Speaker 8: on the plane and go up to Syracuse, New York
Speaker 8: for a noon kickoff against a team who hadn't left
Speaker 8: its campus.
Speaker 3: And you could just.
Speaker 8: Sort of tell Georgia Tech came out flat, looked like
Speaker 8: they were walking through quicksand a little bit. They turned
Speaker 8: it on in the fourth quarter with fourteen points to
Speaker 8: make it a game. But but I do think the
Speaker 8: sort of the wear and tear of a long July
Speaker 8: August preseason camp coupled with a lot of travel had
Speaker 8: them a little bit flat early on in that game.
Speaker 8: So all those factors combined I think led to the loss.
Speaker 8: But yeah, you're right about Syracuse. I mean, we'll find
Speaker 8: out more about them. They look like a team that
Speaker 8: has some talent and has some pieces. It's you know,
Speaker 8: you know how it is, man, It's sure, Hember, we
Speaker 8: all think we know, we don't know, but again, Saturday
Speaker 8: is the day that we will start to find out
Speaker 8: for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, just hearing from Haines King
Speaker 2: on the ACC Network, also listening to to coach Keys
Speaker 2: press conference earlier, I mean, I'm sure he emphasizes every game,
Speaker 2: especially conference games, is having a lot of importance. I
Speaker 2: don't want to act as if they're dressing this level
Speaker 2: matchup as a chance to go shock the world, because
Speaker 2: that's not really what it is. However, you know, these guys,
Speaker 2: I know they all say let's take it one day
Speaker 2: at a time, but they're humans. They know what the
Speaker 2: schedule looks like. And if you look at Georgia Tech's schedule,
Speaker 2: even if the little end up being a team that
Speaker 2: is you know, borderline top twenty, which is where they
Speaker 2: are right now. I mean it's still more it's probably
Speaker 2: viewed as a better chance to win than some of
Speaker 2: the other games. I mean, you've already played Florida State,
Speaker 2: knock them off, but you also still have to go
Speaker 2: play Notre Dame, You've got to play Miami. You have
Speaker 2: Georgia again, You've got NC State, who still could end
Speaker 2: up being pretty good. Like if I'm Georgia Tech, I
Speaker 2: look at this it is one of the not rare
Speaker 2: opportunities to get a win left on the schedule. But
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to have a good season
Speaker 2: that is not just Bowl eligible, but maybe you know,
Speaker 2: eight wins, I mean you look at this as a
Speaker 2: big is a big chance because and that's not to say,
Speaker 2: you know, Louisville is one of the worst team we're
Speaker 2: gonna play, we better go win. But you know, you
Speaker 2: got Georgia, you got Miami.
Speaker 8: That's how I looked at this thing going in is
Speaker 8: Georgia Tech is going to reach that next level of
Speaker 8: eight and nine wins. They have to win the so
Speaker 8: called you know, fifty to fifty toss up games. So
Speaker 8: they've already lost one of them, not Syracuse in my mind,
Speaker 8: but you know they beat Florida State, which on paper
Speaker 8: was a game they were supposed to lose, So they
Speaker 8: sort of split those first couple of opportunities. Duke North
Speaker 8: Carolina looking at the game at Virginia Tech, and like
Speaker 8: you mentioned Saturday, are games that on paper, Georgia Tech
Speaker 8: should be in in the fourth quarter and has a
Speaker 8: chance to steal a win. You don't expect them to
Speaker 8: beat a notre dame, not necessarily, don't expect them maybe
Speaker 8: to beat Miami, who's looking like their world beaters right now,
Speaker 8: and you don't expect them, honestly to go on the
Speaker 8: road and beat Georgia at year's end. So you have
Speaker 8: to get some of these games where the matchup is
Speaker 8: a little bit more favorable, maybe a little bit more even,
Speaker 8: where you have a chance again in the fourth quarter
Speaker 8: to get it done. So yeah, again, like you said,
Speaker 8: Georgia Tech's not looking down the road saying, hey, we
Speaker 8: got to get this one, because we're not going to
Speaker 8: get this one. But you're right, this is a game
Speaker 8: I'm sure they're confident about. They're refocused, the retooled, they're
Speaker 8: refreshed coming off that fifty nine to seven win over
Speaker 8: VMI where they rested a ton of starters in the
Speaker 8: second half, and I'm sure they know in the back
Speaker 8: of the mind that, hey, you already got one loss
Speaker 8: in conference play, you can't afford another, so you got
Speaker 8: to go get this one on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually think from the Louisville side, you should be
Speaker 2: not that you should ever take them lightly, but I
Speaker 2: think them losing to Q is going to have them
Speaker 2: even more keyed up for this game. No pun intended,
Speaker 2: because obviously you know you've already lost one of those
Speaker 2: fifty fifty games as you mentioned, So yeah, should be
Speaker 2: a good matchup. Last question I've got for you chat.
Speaker 2: I know you spent a lot of time here in
Speaker 2: the state of Kentucky throughout your career. What do you
Speaker 2: miss the most, if anything, about this this fine place
Speaker 2: we call Kentucky.
Speaker 8: You know, I would say the accessibility to Bourbon.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a good answer.
Speaker 8: Not that not that it's hard to find in Atlanta
Speaker 8: by any means, but you know, it's funny, like I
Speaker 8: tell people, you know, I think I hit the Bourbon
Speaker 8: trail back and maybe I don't know, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 8: before bourbon became a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before the big boom.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I went to Willett and Makers and heaven Hill, and
Speaker 8: you know, it was so fun and I was into it,
Speaker 8: and man, I wish I would have known then what
Speaker 8: I know now. Are have been scooping up bottles left
Speaker 8: and right, and so I'm excited to get to the
Speaker 8: liquor barns of the world. There we go and hit
Speaker 8: some places and pick up some bottles that maybe you
Speaker 8: can't find down here in Atlanta. And then, you know,
Speaker 8: I'll say, the people, man, I love the people of Kentucky.
Speaker 8: You know, my father in law and my mother in
Speaker 8: law live up there and still got a ton of
Speaker 8: friends in the Bowling Green area and the Louisville area,
Speaker 8: and everybody's always so nice up in the Bluegrass. So
Speaker 8: looking forward to getting back up there for the weekend.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, Chad. Great to catch up with you, man.
Speaker 2: Keep up your great work and we will talk soon
Speaker 2: down the line, my man.
Speaker 3: All right, no, man, see you take care.
Speaker 2: That's Chad Bishop of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Good stuff there.
Speaker 2: We got to run quick break. We'll come back and
Speaker 2: tell you goodbye.
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Speaker 3: All right, that's it.
Speaker 2: We've concluded the two days where there's no football, and
Speaker 2: we come back tomorrow. We got some college football action.
Speaker 2: I'm excited about. We got Thursday night football in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I love it, man, and I'm probably doing I'm probably
Speaker 2: overdoing it as far as just, you know, emphasizing how
Speaker 2: much I love football season. But you know what, it's
Speaker 2: just the truth. Life's better when football season's going on.
Speaker 2: At least that's the way I see it. So you
Speaker 2: guys have a good night. We're back at it tomorrow,
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