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Speaker 4: to you live from Charlotte, North Carolina for the ACC
Speaker 4: basketball tip off Media Day. That's what it is, second
Speaker 4: straight day here in Charlotte, my first day here broadcasting
Speaker 4: live from Radio Row. I mean, there's nothing here that's
Speaker 4: that calls this Radio Row, but I'm assuming that's that's
Speaker 4: what it is. There's about nine tables here where I'm
Speaker 4: set up, which is directly like if you're watching, I
Speaker 4: mean I hope you're not, because that would mean you're
Speaker 4: not listening. But if you were watching the live ACC
Speaker 4: Network coverage of this event, and you're looking. You know,
Speaker 4: the set to directly to the right of the set
Speaker 4: is where I'm set up at, so you can't see
Speaker 4: me on television, but behind them that.
Speaker 1: That's where we all are, all of us radio hacks.
Speaker 4: And this is the first time for me where I've
Speaker 4: set up where there's shows going on at the same
Speaker 4: time all across You know, it's gonna say the region,
Speaker 4: but seeing cal and SMU and Stanford here reminds me that,
Speaker 4: you know, it's not necessarily regional anymore, but for the
Speaker 4: most part, the league is. But there are shows going
Speaker 4: on right now everywhere. And what I mean by everywhere,
Speaker 4: it doesn't just mean that, you know, in Virginia and
Speaker 4: in many cities in North Carolina, I'm convinced that the
Speaker 4: city of the state, it's not a city. The state
Speaker 4: of North Carolina may have more sports talk radio shows
Speaker 4: than any state in the country.
Speaker 1: They're all here.
Speaker 4: But when I say everywhere, it's not just that, it's
Speaker 4: that they're everywhere. In front of me, Like directly in
Speaker 4: front of me, John, there's a show going on as
Speaker 4: we speak. The placard here says Rich take on Sports.
Speaker 4: That's the name of the show. To my right, I've
Speaker 4: got a station called ninety nine point nine the Fan.
Speaker 4: We've got WSJS, We've got FWF and Z, We've got
Speaker 4: WRNL nine ten the Fans. So the reason I'm bringing
Speaker 4: all this up is because I want you guys to
Speaker 4: be aware that I'm a little bit out of my
Speaker 4: comfort zone. Not because you know, I don't feel like
Speaker 4: I should be doing the show here, but anytime I've
Speaker 4: set up here, I used to be on in the mornings.
Speaker 4: When I would start at seven o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 4: there may be one other show that would be going
Speaker 4: live at that time. I don't know why, but it
Speaker 4: didn't seem as if anybody would have their live shows
Speaker 4: here until like nine other than me. So I guess
Speaker 4: this is what afternoon looks like here when you're broadcasting
Speaker 4: live and we don't have a whole lot of space.
Speaker 1: So if you hear other shows.
Speaker 4: You know, along with this one, like in the background,
Speaker 4: you know, hopefully it doesn't impact your experience here as
Speaker 4: a listener. And if you can, if you hear me talking,
Speaker 4: you know, not as loud and maybe not you know,
Speaker 4: not projecting as much as I typically do. It's because
Speaker 4: I don't want to be yapping and you know, being
Speaker 4: on their airwaves. But I guess it's fair game. I mean,
Speaker 4: did you go up to.
Speaker 1: The other hosts and tell them you're taking them down today?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 4: In fact, right before I started the show, I went
Speaker 4: up to one of the guys over at wfn Z,
Speaker 4: I know, their morning got Bone. He's he's a good
Speaker 4: buddy of mine, and I wanted him to to take
Speaker 4: a message back to Bone from me, which that'll stay
Speaker 4: between the two of us. I mean, it wasn't anything crazy,
Speaker 4: and in fact, that sounded really weird and uncomfortable. But
Speaker 4: you know, he and I go back and forth about
Speaker 4: NBA jerseys and that's that's what the message was about.
Speaker 4: So you know, everybody's been friendly. You know, I've actually
Speaker 4: met John. I made some friends today. I went on
Speaker 4: a work trip and I made some friends. I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm I feel like I'm an adult. But you
Speaker 4: know usually I mean, I'm not kidding you when I
Speaker 4: say this. There is a live show going on in
Speaker 4: front of me where the host, like his microphone and
Speaker 4: mine are maybe six feet apart.
Speaker 1: Like inn't that?
Speaker 4: Like, I mean, I'm claustrophobic as it is, but like
Speaker 4: I just feel like if I start yelling, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be you know, and and you know.
Speaker 1: If it's an I can't hear him at all.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, But let me ask you this. Does it
Speaker 4: sound as if I'm not projecting like.
Speaker 1: I typically do? That would be true? Okay, I can.
Speaker 4: See, I know, I mean, I can tell like, and
Speaker 4: here's what I need to do. I need to turn
Speaker 4: my levels down. So if I turn so if I
Speaker 4: don't sound as loud in my own headset, then I'll
Speaker 4: be you know, then I'll be louder and it'll it'll
Speaker 4: it'll adjust essentially. But I mean, how about now, does
Speaker 4: it sound like I'm you know?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you don't. I'm not whispering. I
Speaker 1: get yeah, You're not whispering. You're just and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be aware of your surroundings. Yep.
Speaker 4: And this has been a crutch of mine, you know,
Speaker 4: ever since I did his show live anywhere, especially when
Speaker 4: they have like a speaker going like, I don't you know,
Speaker 4: I just that would Yeah, it's just it's just it's
Speaker 4: just you know, it's different.
Speaker 1: But I am.
Speaker 4: I am happy to be here and Pat Kelsey along
Speaker 4: with Javon Hadley and Chucky Hepburn. They just finished up
Speaker 4: their appearance at the podium, and uh, they'll be making
Speaker 4: their rounds within this hour doing other things.
Speaker 1: I think, maybe being on the ACC network.
Speaker 4: I know the players already were earlier, but Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 4: gonna stop in at four o'clock, so we'll have pat
Speaker 4: On rite at four, probably keep him ten twelve minutes,
Speaker 4: and then what I don't know is how I'm going
Speaker 4: to I mean, we're gonna get both Chucky Hepburn and
Speaker 4: Javon Hadley on, but I bought a I brought a
Speaker 4: third microphone here and it's not working. So I think
Speaker 4: we were gonna initially do the interview with those two
Speaker 4: guys together, but you know, I don't want I'm sharing
Speaker 4: a mic. Then he gets weird, so we'll figure something out.
Speaker 4: Datum Brown, the UFO basketball sid has has been very
Speaker 4: helpful and accommodating me in the show and getting these
Speaker 4: guys on. So we'll make it work. And again we'll
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Speaker 4: dot com. So what I want to do coming up
Speaker 4: here in just a minute, I'll kind of lay out
Speaker 4: what I feel have been the biggest talking points regarding
Speaker 4: ACC basketball as we head into this season and of
Speaker 4: course the first season of the Packkelsea era. And you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not really gonna walk back what I've said many
Speaker 4: times and what I really emphasized yesterday, but let me
Speaker 4: just go ahead and give you a heads up. No surprise,
Speaker 4: I would assume to anybody who follows college basketball, but
Speaker 4: the coaches and a lot of the people here covering
Speaker 4: the league, you know, it's all about the league being disrespected.
Speaker 4: And I just, you know, I kind of feel like
Speaker 4: an outsider because I don't have this internal instinct to
Speaker 4: defend the league as far as like, wait a second,
Speaker 4: the league's getting disrespected. You know, there's some there's some
Speaker 4: there's some conspiracy against them, and I just, you know,
Speaker 4: not any not that anybody has said that directly, but like,
Speaker 4: I think results are results, and the league needs to
Speaker 4: get a lot better. And it kind of worries me
Speaker 4: a little bit that instead of just acknowledging that, yeah,
Speaker 4: we are not what we once were, there's this talking
Speaker 4: point of like, hey, they need to show us more respect.
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, just kind of I kind of
Speaker 4: feel like I'm I'm an outsider here, like I don't
Speaker 4: belong because I'm you know, not to say that every
Speaker 4: person here covering this event that is broadcasting live or whatever,
Speaker 4: just somebody who's here with the credential to cover the league,
Speaker 4: not saying everybody is in agreement with the coaches, but
Speaker 4: like everybody that I've heard talking about it seems to
Speaker 4: think that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they need to show the ACC some more respect.
Speaker 4: And you know, if they do, that's great, But like
Speaker 4: I view it as the league needs to be a
Speaker 4: lot better to kind of get back to being one of,
Speaker 4: if not the most.
Speaker 1: Respected leagues in college hoops.
Speaker 4: But there's some other things from today and yesterday even
Speaker 4: that I'll get to coming up here shortly, But for
Speaker 4: the rest of the show, we are going to have
Speaker 4: a guest coming up here in about twenty minutes We're
Speaker 4: going to talk to a Virginia tech beat writer, Greg Madia,
Speaker 4: who is a beat writer covering the Cavaliers for the
Speaker 4: Daily Progress.
Speaker 1: We'll get his.
Speaker 4: Thoughts on this matchup coming up on Saturday. You know,
Speaker 4: I'll admit it, I've been completely checked out on college
Speaker 4: football overall since Saturday.
Speaker 1: Saturday was a sad loss for me.
Speaker 4: I was, you know, disappointed, frustrated, you know, just you know,
Speaker 4: I almost thought the Notre Dame game would eventually be
Speaker 4: able to be a game we could look back on
Speaker 4: and say, Wow, that was kind of a fluke, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: And then you come out against SMU knowing you need
Speaker 4: to be better, knowing you need to stop hurting yourself
Speaker 4: so much, knowing the defense needs to be more organized,
Speaker 4: and you know they didn't do that, and you know
Speaker 4: it just it's not that I've just completely you know,
Speaker 4: lost interest. Trust me, That's not the case at all.
Speaker 4: But what I'm getting at is, like this week, maybe
Speaker 4: part of it's because I've been traveling, or I traveled
Speaker 4: yesterday and I've just been you know, it's been not
Speaker 4: my normal week, But like I have not at all
Speaker 4: kept up with what's going on in college football coming
Speaker 4: up this Saturday. As far as the matchups, I mean,
Speaker 4: I know Louisville plays Virginia. I know there's some other
Speaker 4: decent games, but you know, I found myself not wanting
Speaker 4: to listen.
Speaker 1: To all the college football podcasts that I.
Speaker 4: Usually listened to and just not consuming college football content
Speaker 4: because you know why, I'm sad about my team, and
Speaker 4: that's that's sort of how it works. And it's been
Speaker 4: a while since, you know, since I've been there. So
Speaker 4: we'll talk coming up here in about again twenty minutes
Speaker 4: about this matchup in Virginia. The reason I've mentioned the
Speaker 4: whole just kind of being checked out a little bit
Speaker 4: as far as everybody else is because it didn't you know,
Speaker 4: it didn't hit me till today when I started looking
Speaker 4: at Virginia as far as what they've done so far
Speaker 4: this year. I'm not going to try to dress them
Speaker 4: up as some really good team that it's going to
Speaker 4: be really, really tough to beat, because I don't believe that.
Speaker 4: But they do have momentum. I mean, this is sort
Speaker 4: of playing out for Virginia in a way that is
Speaker 4: really best case scenario. They probably feel better about themselves
Speaker 4: than they have in a long time. I mean, they're
Speaker 4: four and one. They don't have a win we're speaking of,
Speaker 4: and their one loss is, you know, not a good one.
Speaker 4: I mean, wouldn't you say John Maryland's one of the
Speaker 4: worst teams in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3: They're definitely lower mid tier. I mean, they do have
Speaker 3: a loss to a Michigan State team that also lost
Speaker 3: to Boston College. I think they have a good offense,
Speaker 3: but outside of that, yeah, they're pretty mid or lower
Speaker 3: than that.
Speaker 4: So Maryland beat Virginia twenty seven to thirteen, and other
Speaker 4: than that, the wins for Virginia, they beat Richmond, who's
Speaker 4: an FCS school, They beat Wake Forest by one, they
Speaker 4: beat Coastal Carolina pretty bad, and then they won by
Speaker 4: ten last week against Boston College, which was an upset.
Speaker 4: Boston College is you know, I don't know how good
Speaker 4: they are overall, but they in the first year with
Speaker 4: and I already forgot their O'Brien coach O'Brien, like they've
Speaker 4: they've clearly been better than what you typically see from
Speaker 4: Boston College. And Virginia's beat them by ten. So again,
Speaker 4: I'm not telling you that they're great and Louisville's going
Speaker 4: to be in trouble on Saturday. I mean they will
Speaker 4: be if they don't come ready to play and they
Speaker 4: let two losses turn into three and really have every
Speaker 4: that happens. I mean, I mean again, I said it yesterday,
Speaker 4: I said it Monday. I think the overall noise and
Speaker 4: angst in regards to Louisville football, it's already kind of
Speaker 4: out there. Fans frustrated, disappointed with how the season's gone
Speaker 4: so far, understandably so. But a loss here, I think
Speaker 4: it turns that up a lot louder and I hope
Speaker 4: that we can avoid that. But Virginia, they now know
Speaker 4: Louislle's beatable. Yes, the teams that Louisville has beaten are
Speaker 4: both I'm sorry, the teams that have beat Louislle are
Speaker 4: both ranked. And I think Virginia knows if they played
Speaker 4: both those teams they lose, they probably would be double
Speaker 4: digit dogs to both SMU and to No Name. But
Speaker 4: Louisville is primed to get knocked off again because they're
Speaker 4: you know, they're struggling. I mean, I think if you've
Speaker 4: got one team that's just you know, coming off a loss,
Speaker 4: you kind of worry. Man. I wish we could kind
Speaker 4: of sneak up on them. Man, they're coming off a loss,
Speaker 4: and you know they're going to be ready to play
Speaker 4: to get that bad taste out of their mouth, I think.
Speaker 4: And it all depends on the mindset of the team,
Speaker 4: and that's impossible to know, but I kind of feel
Speaker 4: like if you've lost twice, you know, not to say
Speaker 4: that these guys are second guessing themselves. But the human
Speaker 4: element is a powerful thing, and Virginia is going to
Speaker 4: be at home. They've got momentum as a team, probably
Speaker 4: the first time in a long time. They've started four
Speaker 4: and one, and they know that the team that they're
Speaker 4: bringing in has already dropped below expectations. So I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm still confident that Louisville will win because I just
Speaker 4: think that they're better. But you don't want to play
Speaker 4: with fire here, I mean, you don't. I mean, I
Speaker 4: know we said it last week, and if we keep
Speaker 4: saying it every week and it doesn't happen, I mean,
Speaker 4: I guess they'll just be chalked up as a huge
Speaker 4: waste of time. But you've never needed to come out
Speaker 4: ready to play more so than than this game. For
Speaker 4: everybody involved. Now, at the end of the day. Fans
Speaker 4: are fans, But like, again, if you keep playing sloppy
Speaker 4: like this, I mean, it's not like there's some big consequence, right,
Speaker 4: It's not as if like nobody's gonna go to any
Speaker 4: game anymore the rest of the season. But you know, again,
Speaker 4: I just think it the the the the anger I
Speaker 4: think it, and I think it turns to anger. Like
Speaker 4: maybe some people already are angry, and I'm not doing
Speaker 4: a great job of describing sort of what I what
Speaker 4: I hope is not the vibe next week, but a
Speaker 4: loss here, I mean, I just I think it could
Speaker 4: get it could get nasty within this fan base as
Speaker 4: far as just really starting to be, you know, super critical,
Speaker 4: because here's what here, here's here's the root of I
Speaker 4: think the disappointment and frustration from fans is that we
Speaker 4: all know this team shouldn't shouldn't have these issues.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: It's not a it's not a talent issue, it's not
Speaker 4: a you know, it's not an injury issue.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it's coaching.
Speaker 4: And I don't say that to act as if you know,
Speaker 4: we need to worry about who's coaching this program, because
Speaker 4: I still think Jef Bram has shown that he's clearly
Speaker 4: a really good coach and any thought of him not
Speaker 4: being here is nonsense. But you know, he's in charge,
Speaker 4: and this team is three and two, coming off with
Speaker 4: two straight losses. That you know, if you just a
Speaker 4: little bit more sharper, if you're just a little bit sharper,
Speaker 4: you're a little bit more ready to play, you eliminate
Speaker 4: a few mistakes here and there, even with all the
Speaker 4: issues you have with defense and not being organized and
Speaker 4: all that, you'd probably be sitting at five and zero.
Speaker 4: And I was talking to somebody earlier here just about
Speaker 4: louisvill football struggles earlier, one of my buddies who covers
Speaker 4: Wake Forest, and he said that he really thought Louisville
Speaker 4: would be the best.
Speaker 1: Team in the ACC this year.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was telling them that they just
Speaker 4: you know, they've not played well, they've been disappointing, but
Speaker 4: a play here or there in each of those last
Speaker 4: two games, they might win. And you know, it's what
Speaker 4: could have should It's not to say that, hey, everything's okay,
Speaker 4: We don't need to be worried, because when you line
Speaker 4: up and your team plays, they win or they lose.
Speaker 4: And obviously one result is better than the other. But
Speaker 4: he reminded me of last year's Louisville schedule, which is true.
Speaker 4: You know, they had a lot of games where one
Speaker 4: play here or there. If it the other way, they
Speaker 4: probably don't win. So you know, I don't, I don't
Speaker 4: believe in like you know, you're it's now balancing out,
Speaker 4: like as far as it's karma or something like that.
Speaker 4: But you know, it was a reminder to me that
Speaker 4: just maybe throughout the entire brom era thus far, they've
Speaker 4: just been in a lot of really close games and
Speaker 4: they found ways to win, they had some breaks go
Speaker 4: their way, and now you know they're not now what
Speaker 4: we're seeing as far as the defense being disorganized and
Speaker 4: you know, some of the questionable play calling at times,
Speaker 4: that that's new. I don't remember that being you know,
Speaker 4: a real frequent thing last year. But again, Saturday, Louisville
Speaker 4: and Virginia, it's it's a big one and I'm hopeful
Speaker 4: that they can avoid a three game losing streak. All right,
Speaker 4: some other things we'll get into here today. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know how much people really are
Speaker 4: following the the nil stuff anymore, Like it's it's still
Speaker 4: relatively new. But I think for a while, you know,
Speaker 4: hearing all these different creative ways NIL was being utilized
Speaker 4: and how much money was being offered to certain players,
Speaker 4: I think because it was new and it was just
Speaker 4: you know, not really regulated, there was a lot of
Speaker 4: interest in it. But now what you're seeing is that
Speaker 4: there are companies, you know, trying to to get in
Speaker 4: the NIL space to do what make money, not to
Speaker 4: you know, help college athletes. They want to cut They
Speaker 4: see that. I mean, it's it's the free market. They
Speaker 4: see this as an opportunity to you know, to really
Speaker 4: get into business with college athletes and take some of
Speaker 4: their money. And there's a really good write up at
Speaker 4: ESPN in regards to a new company that has been
Speaker 4: founded recently here and one of them, in fact, yeah,
Speaker 4: the front man of it is Kendrick Perkins, former NBA
Speaker 4: player who now works for ESPN. But it's a it's
Speaker 4: a company that's going to give you upfront money in
Speaker 4: exchange for a portion of your NIL earnings. And I
Speaker 4: mean this is I mean what this is. I mean
Speaker 4: this is basically high interest payday loan kind of stuff. Right,
Speaker 4: Like the people who are who are you know, desperate
Speaker 4: for money because they got to bill to pay and
Speaker 4: their paycheck's not coming until two days late, two days away.
Speaker 4: And when they do get their paycheck, they got to
Speaker 4: get them a lot of money back because they borrowed it.
Speaker 4: And like, I just I mean, I'm sitting here thinking,
Speaker 4: like who would do that? But a lot of people
Speaker 4: probably will. They'll get preyed upon, and it's you know,
Speaker 4: all this could have been avoided if the nc double
Speaker 4: A at one point just just decided to not be
Speaker 4: so stubborn and actually budge from their you know, archaic
Speaker 4: model of amateurism. And I don't really want to say
Speaker 4: this in their defense because it's not really defending them,
Speaker 4: but I guess it could give somewhat of a reason
Speaker 4: as to why they've never once, I mean, Congress had
Speaker 4: to get involved and tell them, yeah, you can't keep
Speaker 4: these people from making money, and that's why we're in
Speaker 4: the situation we're in now. But the ncuble A doesn't
Speaker 4: have the resources of the manpower to actually, you know,
Speaker 4: if they did put a system in place in regards
Speaker 4: to like, okay, we're gonna we're gonna have an nil
Speaker 4: you know, nil model that we regulate it all goes
Speaker 4: through the NC double A and players can make money,
Speaker 4: you know, in a perfect world if they did put
Speaker 4: that plan together, they don't have the bodies, the manpower,
Speaker 4: the you know, the resources to actually you know, govern that.
Speaker 4: And maybe they knew that all along, and that's why
Speaker 4: they've just tried to you know, stick with what they know.
Speaker 4: But I don't see an end insight to college back
Speaker 4: college sports when it comes to you know, just and
Speaker 4: I have no problem with money being involved, but it
Speaker 4: not being regulated in any way. It's just a mess.
Speaker 4: And again I don't see you know, I don't see
Speaker 4: it ending this. You know, the House bill that that
Speaker 4: that we learned yesterday they actually settled on it. I mean,
Speaker 4: that has really nothing to do with n IL. Like
Speaker 4: that's just that's that's a lawsuit. The NAA was sued
Speaker 4: because they didn't get you know, they kept earnings from
Speaker 4: players for many many years illegally, and.
Speaker 1: That's why they lost the lawsuit.
Speaker 4: So with that said, like that doesn't mean it like
Speaker 4: that just means that, like the schools are now gonna
Speaker 4: you know, probably they're gonna have to pay unless they
Speaker 4: don't want to win, and they don't want to succeed
Speaker 4: and everybody's you know, I don't want to say everybody,
Speaker 4: but I think a lot of schools that are, you know,
Speaker 4: trying to compete at a high level, they're going to
Speaker 4: do the maximum amount. And that means everybody's on the
Speaker 4: same place, just as if you weren't paying anybody, right,
Speaker 4: everybody's got the same money. So NIL is still gonna
Speaker 4: be utilized, and it's going to be really the cherry
Speaker 4: on top, Like you're gonna these college athletes are going
Speaker 4: to walk in knowing they're going to make a certain
Speaker 4: amount of money just because the school now pays. But
Speaker 4: every school is going to be able to say that, hey,
Speaker 4: come here are schools going to pay you?
Speaker 1: Well, so is this school? So is that school? Every
Speaker 1: school recruiting.
Speaker 4: Me is going to pay me because they have to
Speaker 4: now essentially, so what are you going to So what's
Speaker 4: the NIL look like?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: NIL is not going away at all.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's been such a talking point here
Speaker 4: today and I'm no longer like fascinated by it. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's clearly a huge component to the overall world of
Speaker 4: college athletics, but it's just it's a mess, and that's
Speaker 4: not good for anybody, all right, So other other than
Speaker 4: nil still continuously being, you know, a big talking point
Speaker 4: around here in college athletics, not just here at the
Speaker 4: ACEC media days, but just in college sports in general
Speaker 4: as far as the ACC no surprise, John Cooper.
Speaker 1: Flag a big talking point of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's you know, there's belief that that
Speaker 4: he's going to be the best freshman in college basketb
Speaker 4: since Zion Williamson. And I kind of feel like, even
Speaker 4: you know, even before he's played a game, like I
Speaker 4: think his hype does kind of match what Zion habit.
Speaker 4: If you remember Zion by the time, and I always
Speaker 4: it's easy to forget this and it's not really relevant,
Speaker 4: but by the time Zion got to Duke and was
Speaker 4: and starting his college career, he'd already been a celebrity
Speaker 4: for like two years because of the insane highlight reels
Speaker 4: you would see from this guy in high school, Like
Speaker 4: it made no sense that a guy with that stature,
Speaker 4: had feet as quick as he did, could jump out
Speaker 4: of the gym like he could, Like he was a specimen.
Speaker 4: Still is to this day, by the way, but you
Speaker 4: know him as an NBA prospect, like he was clearly
Speaker 4: always going to be in a mock draft, looked at
Speaker 4: as a lottery pick. But if you remember, he was
Speaker 4: the third highest ranked freshman in on that Duke team initially.
Speaker 4: Once the seasons like once he got there, sound sealed delivered.
Speaker 1: RJ.
Speaker 4: Barrett and Cam Reddish were ranked higher than Zion, but
Speaker 4: Zion was still clearly like a top five, top ten player.
Speaker 4: But then of course the season starts and you realize
Speaker 4: this guy, you know, looks like he was created in
Speaker 4: a video game. So you know, Zion was really really special.
Speaker 4: He's had so many injuries in the NBA and he
Speaker 4: plays for the Pelicans, So like, I've always been a
Speaker 4: Zion fan, but you know, I kind of feel like
Speaker 4: his career thus far, when healthy, he's been productive, but
Speaker 4: he's not always healthy, and he plays for an irrelevant franchise.
Speaker 4: But hearing that, you know, people around here, people who
Speaker 4: cover Duke, people who have access to Duke, people who
Speaker 4: know John Shire say that, like Cooper Flag is quite
Speaker 4: literally going to be the best freshman they've ever had. Maybe,
Speaker 4: I mean that's pretty telling. And look, sometimes we're wrong
Speaker 4: about freshmen as far as what they're going to be
Speaker 4: able to do when they first get there, what the
Speaker 4: expectation should be Like that happens all the time, all
Speaker 4: the time, but rarely does it happen for somebody who's
Speaker 4: had this kind of hype. I mean, I'm trying to
Speaker 4: think of the last guy who entered high school or
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, entered college basketball with the five star reputation,
Speaker 4: you know, larger than life superstar, even before they've played
Speaker 4: on national television. Most of the guys who have that
Speaker 4: elite level of of you know, following they usually work out.
Speaker 3: I mean, is bas Mouhammad who ended up going to UCLA.
Speaker 3: I feel like he was number one in his class
Speaker 3: or close to it, and not that he was bad,
Speaker 3: but he didn't. I don't feel like he lived up
Speaker 3: to the expectations.
Speaker 1: Maybe necessarily yeah, I mean, so that's a good one.
Speaker 4: He was at UCLA for what a year maybe, and
Speaker 4: then he went to the NBA played for a little while,
Speaker 4: you know, And I'm by the way, I'm just talking
Speaker 4: like college, I'm not necessarily talking NBA.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's a good one.
Speaker 4: But I don't think he had the same level of
Speaker 4: what we're seeing here with Cooper Flag. Like Cooper Flag
Speaker 4: played against you know, Team USA before they went to
Speaker 4: the Olympics, and like he held his own against dudes
Speaker 4: who literally are the best basketball players on the planet.
Speaker 4: So he'll have off games at Duke, he'll have a
Speaker 4: bad night. He may not be, you know, the national
Speaker 4: player of the year in college basketball, but I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be shocked if he is. And it's kind of a
Speaker 4: reminder that, you know, the freshman impact has kind of
Speaker 4: faded in recent years because dudes stick around in college
Speaker 4: a lot longer now because they can make money. But
Speaker 4: even though there's gonna be twenty five and twenty six
Speaker 4: year olds, I'm sure playing college basketball maybe on a
Speaker 4: nightly basis. Maybe that's an exaggeration because that's you know,
Speaker 4: that's very old, but I still wouldn't be shocked with
Speaker 4: this eighteen year old kid from Maine ends up being
Speaker 4: the star of the sport this year. All right, quick break,
Speaker 4: we'll come back on the other side again. Don't forget
Speaker 4: four o'clock. Pat Kelsey gonna join us live here on
Speaker 4: the show here at acc tip off in Charlotte. But
Speaker 4: on the other side, we'll talk some football. Greg Madia,
Speaker 4: I think I'm saying his name correctly, but we'll figure
Speaker 4: it out for sure, but he's gonna join us. He
Speaker 4: taught he covers Virginia for the Daily Progress. He joins
Speaker 4: us next right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right,
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Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety, coming to you live from Charlotte for
Speaker 4: the ACC basketball tip off, and Pat Kelsy gonna join us,
Speaker 4: coming up here at four o'clock. But we now are
Speaker 4: gonna talk some college football Louisville and Virginia coming up
Speaker 4: this Saturday as the Cards make the trip to Charlottesville.
Speaker 4: And joining us to discuss this matchup, a very important
Speaker 4: game for Louisville is Greg Media, who covers Virginia for
Speaker 4: the Daily Progress. How are we doing this afternoon, Greg?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4: Certainly appreciate you making time for us, And I guess
Speaker 4: I'll start with, you know, just kind of a vibe
Speaker 4: check on Virginia football and their fan base and really
Speaker 4: the program overall off to a good start for and
Speaker 4: one on the season two and ohero in the ACC.
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly how long you've been covering Virginia,
Speaker 4: but you know, I kind of feel like this is
Speaker 4: somewhat of a rare start, kind of an unexpected start
Speaker 4: for these guys, and they've got some momentum right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're You're exactly right, Nick, It's it's it's encouraging,
Speaker 2: and the players are excited, the coaches are excited. I
Speaker 2: think the fan base is starting to feel a little
Speaker 2: a little more optimistic than they've been coming into the
Speaker 2: season last year, the year before. It's it's it's been
Speaker 2: a hard rebuild for Tony Elliott given what what kind
Speaker 2: of the little that Pronco menden Hall left behind, and
Speaker 2: then you throw in the horrible tragedy late in the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two seeds he's in the shooting on campus
Speaker 2: at Uvah that left three players dead. Uh, that that
Speaker 2: that fronted the rebuild of the program, and and beyond
Speaker 2: everything that was was tragic that was going on, you know,
Speaker 2: definitely definitely hurt all the things that's Tony Elliott start
Speaker 2: to put in place. So, uh, it's it's been you know,
Speaker 2: they haven't had a normal off season basically until this
Speaker 2: past winter under this this coaching staff, right the first
Speaker 2: year Elliot's getting in from Clemson, his staffs getting acclimated.
Speaker 2: Players aren't learning new systems. Uh, So there's that to
Speaker 2: deal with. Then the next offseason it was just trying
Speaker 2: to overcome and deal with, uh that that tragedy that
Speaker 2: that ended up canceling the last two games of Virginia's
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two season. So then you come into this offseason,
Speaker 2: it's normal, there's football, it's it's it's kind of pick
Speaker 2: up where you leave off at the end of the
Speaker 2: season and try to build from there. Uh most of
Speaker 2: the team is back from last year, coaching staff still
Speaker 2: in place. Uh So it felt like it was a
Speaker 2: normal offseason. They could lead to a little bit more success.
Speaker 2: I think if they would have been told they would
Speaker 2: have been told for and won through the first five,
Speaker 2: they would have signed up for that. For Sture, it's
Speaker 2: been an encouraging start. First time since twenty nineteen. UVAS
Speaker 2: is four and one, are one four of their first
Speaker 2: five games, so impressive start for UVA.
Speaker 4: Well, last year when these two teams played, it was
Speaker 4: it was a close game. Louisville big favorites, but they
Speaker 4: were down for the majority of that one and one
Speaker 4: of the reasons was because of quarterback Anthony Calandria. I
Speaker 4: remember watching him thinking, Okay, this guy, he's going to
Speaker 4: be special. So far this year, his numbers are pretty solid.
Speaker 4: How would you evaluate his play thus far? Does he
Speaker 4: seemed to be the QB of the future there for coach?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. He's played turnover free the last
Speaker 2: two weeks, which that's been the big area of emphasis
Speaker 2: for him since he played and started six games as
Speaker 2: a freshman a year ago. Is as kind of the
Speaker 2: backup to Tone he musket. They reopened the job in
Speaker 2: the offseason and and Calandry won the battle. Uh. But
Speaker 2: the thought going in was that he'd have to cut
Speaker 2: down on the interceptions, cut down on on those freshermen
Speaker 2: minis mistakes that you saw at times the season ago. Uh.
Speaker 2: And if he could do that, there was enough, there
Speaker 2: was enough talentce Flash last season that the team could
Speaker 2: start to build around him. And that's what they've done.
Speaker 2: And and he's he's been He's been very good. It's
Speaker 2: helped it. The offensive line has been better. Uh that
Speaker 2: that he's taking fewer stacks per game uh than he
Speaker 2: did a season to go. Uva allowed h three point
Speaker 2: five stacks per game last year. It is down to
Speaker 2: one point six per game this year, so there's been
Speaker 2: less pressure on him. Uh, he's he's taking care of
Speaker 2: the ball, which is the biggest thing in the last
Speaker 2: two wins over both Boston College and Coastal Carolina. And
Speaker 2: now you know that that's that's that was the first step.
Speaker 2: And and he still makes the the the wild play
Speaker 2: at times, but there's been fewer the fewer the head
Speaker 2: scratching mistaked by him, which that's that's what you want
Speaker 2: to see. If you're a Virginia fan. You you wanted
Speaker 2: to see if if he could become a little bit
Speaker 2: more mature of a quarterback, and he's done that through
Speaker 2: the first five games this year.
Speaker 4: Greg madiaz Our guest joining us here talking some Louisville
Speaker 4: and Virginia football on Sports Talk seven ninety. He covers
Speaker 4: Virginia for the Daily Progress. When it comes to this
Speaker 4: Louisville team, expectations pretty high. I mean, they played in
Speaker 4: the ACC Championship game last year and got off to
Speaker 4: a decent start, but competition wasn't all that challenging, and
Speaker 4: they've now lost two in a row, close games, games
Speaker 4: that could have could have really gone either way. How
Speaker 4: how do you think coach Elliott is viewing this matchup.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's some things he's seen on film in
Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks that maybe they could exploit.
Speaker 4: What do you think would be would be ideal to
Speaker 4: go to go right for Virginia on Saturday in this matchup,
Speaker 4: something maybe they could take advantage of as Louisville seemingly
Speaker 4: still trying to figure some things out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think the one thing on offense
Speaker 2: for Virginia is they're gonna have to run, callandry a
Speaker 2: little bit right Louisville and then you know this, probably
Speaker 2: better than I did. Louisville's been a little susceptible to
Speaker 2: absolutely the mobile quarterback Kevin Jennings SMU had a day
Speaker 2: and and Calandria ran the ball well the last time
Speaker 2: the two played, so I would think Virginia wants to
Speaker 2: involve him in the running game some There's been less
Speaker 2: of that this year from UVA than last season, probably
Speaker 2: because they don't want him taking as many hits. But
Speaker 2: I think in this matchup, in order to move the
Speaker 2: ball against Louisville and maybe control time of possession a
Speaker 2: little more because Louisville was so good on offense, maybe
Speaker 2: they involved Kalandria a little bit more in the running game.
Speaker 2: And I think on defense for Virginia, it's so interesting.
Speaker 2: I was talking to the defensive coordinator John Raginsky yesterday
Speaker 2: and I was asking him and he, you know, look,
Speaker 2: the personnel's changed, is the system and everything Louisville's doing
Speaker 2: feel the same. He said, you know, it makes it
Speaker 2: kind of interesting because you look back at last year
Speaker 2: and quarterbacks different, the receivers are different, the running backs
Speaker 2: are different. Because it really makes for an interesting preparation.
Speaker 2: But knowing Jeff Brohm and his tendencies, he said, a
Speaker 2: lot of that is still similar. He said, it's more
Speaker 2: just trying to get to know their personnel. I think
Speaker 2: they're concerned a little bit with ja Cory Brooks and
Speaker 2: what he can do because because he's been so good
Speaker 2: so soon for Louisville, catching touchdowns and long passes and
Speaker 2: the big play too, Virginia hasn't seen a passing offense
Speaker 2: like this yet, and considering that the Cavaliers will be
Speaker 2: down a few key members of the secondary, that's a
Speaker 2: big concern. They're leading Cackler and starting safety Antonio Clary
Speaker 2: is likely going to miss the game with a knee injury.
Speaker 2: So that's that's something to watch going in going into Saturday.
Speaker 2: With with the way Louisville control the football around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned letting Calandria get loose with his legs
Speaker 4: and make plays, and he certainly has the ability to
Speaker 4: do that, and you are right, that has been something
Speaker 4: that really even before Louisville got into real games. I mean,
Speaker 4: there was an an FCS team they played. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I guess they're not FCS anymore, but when they played
Speaker 4: Jacksonville State, their quarterback got loose and made some plays.
Speaker 4: And you're thinking, Okay, if you're looking at Louisville in
Speaker 4: these first two games, and although it's against very inferior competition,
Speaker 4: you know, they seem to have a vulnerability at letting
Speaker 4: quarterbacks run. And the last three games they were able
Speaker 4: to get a win against Georgia Tech, but Haines King
Speaker 4: certainly made some plays, and then Riley Leonard did the
Speaker 4: same thing, and then last week it was Jennings. So
Speaker 4: you would think Louisville would have been able to tighten
Speaker 4: that up at this point, but they have not. So
Speaker 4: if I'm coach Elliott, I would certainly try to try
Speaker 4: to exploit that. So when it comes to this Virginia program,
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know a whole lot about their
Speaker 4: you know, the atmosphere that you see at games. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think they have a unique setup on campus and
Speaker 4: it usually looks pretty cool on television with the students
Speaker 4: kind of sitting behind one of the goalposts and whatnot.
Speaker 4: But I guess my long winded question is what are
Speaker 4: you expecting the atmosphere to be like in Charlottesville?
Speaker 1: Again?
Speaker 4: This Virginia team, first time they've gotten off to a
Speaker 4: four and one start since twenty nineteen, and Louisville's a
Speaker 4: team that you know is favored here, but obviously they've
Speaker 4: shown in recent weeks they're vulnerable. What do you think
Speaker 4: the atmosphere will be like here for this game on Saturday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. I thought a week ago Virginia would
Speaker 2: have a better crowd with Boston College coming to town.
Speaker 2: You know, Virginia sitting at three and one, a good
Speaker 2: ACC opponent coming in. You know, Boston College was getting
Speaker 2: votes to the top twenty five, and I think they
Speaker 2: only had thirty eight thousand and thirty nine thousand for
Speaker 2: that game in a sixty thousand seat stadium, so plenty
Speaker 2: of good seats were still available. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was a noon start or what the deal was,
Speaker 2: but definitely a lighter crowd. I would think maybe after
Speaker 2: the Boston College game you'll see an uptick in attendance,
Speaker 2: just at least a touch, but I don't I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I haven't heard anything about a sellout
Speaker 2: or anything like that. It's an interesting fan base, the
Speaker 2: Virginia one, and you know, they tend to start jumping
Speaker 2: on when when the team gets good. Right now they're
Speaker 2: four and one. I don't know if there's an excuse
Speaker 2: there or what, but maybe they're still they're still out
Speaker 2: waiting to see if it get if it can be
Speaker 2: sustained success for for UVA. I don't know if the
Speaker 2: fan base is more in wait and c mode than
Speaker 2: anything else, but I would expect probably a little bit
Speaker 2: better crowd than than than what Virginia had for Boston
Speaker 2: College with this this past Saturday.
Speaker 4: At least in their defense, it has been a rough
Speaker 4: few years with coach Elliott just trying to get acclimated
Speaker 4: and obviously the tragedy that happened, and then you know,
Speaker 4: with the way Bronken Brouckle menden Hall moved on. I mean,
Speaker 4: was that something people were expecting.
Speaker 1: In any way?
Speaker 4: I mean he he had a good foundation established, and
Speaker 4: you know, they weren't an elite team, but certainly they were.
Speaker 4: I mean they were in fact, you know, twenty nineteen
Speaker 4: they won the Coastal you know, he was going to
Speaker 4: bowl games pretty consistently. In twenty eighteen they won five games,
Speaker 4: So you know, I kind of feel like if that
Speaker 4: was somewhat of a surprise, you know, it can be
Speaker 4: kind of hard to kind of start from scratch with
Speaker 4: a new coach and really get things in place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that that certainly was part
Speaker 2: of it. Even in twenty one, you know, they were competing,
Speaker 2: you know, for for a Coastal division, right they went
Speaker 2: to pitt and had a chance to beat Fit and
Speaker 2: stay in the race late in the year, ended up
Speaker 2: dropping that game and then losing Virginia Tech. And and
Speaker 2: that's kind of how menden Hall's ten year ended with
Speaker 2: you know, that season started promising and just ended poorly
Speaker 2: for them. And there was there was, you know, a
Speaker 2: roster overhaul over the last couple of years. Offensive Lineman
Speaker 2: departed through the transfer portal. Right, they lost a really
Speaker 2: good center ended up winning the Rimington Award, and Olulla
Speaker 2: with Timmy went to Michigan and and played on a
Speaker 2: team that that went to a national title game. They
Speaker 2: lost some other talented transfers to the Power four programs,
Speaker 2: and uh, it was it was it was tough. You know,
Speaker 2: the only thing that remained in place. You know that
Speaker 2: the team in twenty one was you know, the big
Speaker 2: names Brennan Armstrong and some of those receivers. And it
Speaker 2: was a very difficult adjustment to go from that that
Speaker 2: air raid offense that Virginia ran with with Menden Hall
Speaker 2: and Robert and I to what they were wanting to
Speaker 2: do with with Tony Elliott and the new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: Uh then does Kit chains right, It was more pro style,
Speaker 2: more run oriented. So there was some adjusting and it
Speaker 2: seems like they finally have got that going. Uh this year.
Speaker 2: He started to see it at times last year, I
Speaker 2: think particularly in the Louisville game, right when when Anthony
Speaker 2: Clandrew was moving around and they were they were able
Speaker 2: to run the ball a little bit. Get the bottom
Speaker 2: of leak Washington. This year, the offensive line has much improved.
Speaker 2: The group's played together now for for you know, on
Speaker 2: their second season as a starting offensive line, Uh, together,
Speaker 2: and you're starting to see them move the football and
Speaker 2: be really comfortable with some of the stuff they do
Speaker 2: off play action, Uh, the zone run scheme. So I
Speaker 2: think it's just taken. It's just taken some time.
Speaker 1: All right, One more question for you.
Speaker 4: Let's say we get to you know, into the game
Speaker 4: five minutes left, and Virginia looks as if maybe they're
Speaker 4: not in total control, but Louisll's gonna have to really
Speaker 4: make some plays to maybe tie it up. What scenario
Speaker 4: would you say got us there? Is it them taking
Speaker 4: advantage of Louisville's inability to stop a running quarterback?
Speaker 1: Is it? You know, just just kind of curious.
Speaker 4: I guess what what what could be a you know,
Speaker 4: what could be something that really puts Louisville on their
Speaker 4: heels here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I would I would think it's probably limiting the
Speaker 2: big plays and making Louisville earn their yards like that
Speaker 2: to me is a big question in in this game.
Speaker 2: For the Virginia defense. Their run defense has been much
Speaker 2: improved this year. Uh, they're now top forty in the
Speaker 2: country and run defense after being so bad last year,
Speaker 2: not really be able to stop anything on the ground. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be tested this week with Louisville. Right, they
Speaker 2: taking top offs some big plays, whether it's through through
Speaker 2: the air or on the ground. So to me, I
Speaker 2: think that would be a big reason. And then Calandrius
Speaker 2: stays clean with the football while making plays. Right, you
Speaker 2: can't have the turnover cheka as a team by Louislle
Speaker 2: against a team like Louisville, who you know, after a
Speaker 2: turnover could take a shot and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden your far down. You know you've already given up
Speaker 2: some points after giving up the turnover with how quickly
Speaker 2: Louisville can can get down the field. So to me,
Speaker 2: that would be the two keys is keeping the keeping
Speaker 2: the football clean for Calandria and then also you know,
Speaker 2: limiting the big plays and slowing Louisville down on the ground.
Speaker 4: Well, Greg, I appreciate you making time for us. I'm
Speaker 4: looking forward to the matchup on Saturday and hopefully we
Speaker 4: can catch up with you.
Speaker 1: Down the line.
Speaker 2: Sounds good, Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1: Take care.
Speaker 4: That's Greg greg Media who covers Virginia for the Daily Progress,
Speaker 4: good stuff there for this matchup. I can't I can't
Speaker 4: sit here and tell you that it's a you know,
Speaker 4: it's a big game when it comes to the Saturday
Speaker 4: slate for college football. It's probably not going to be
Speaker 4: a game of interest to too many that aren't fans
Speaker 4: of these two teams, but certainly a chance for Louisville
Speaker 4: to to avoid a three game losing streak and a
Speaker 4: chance for Virginia to move to five and one, which
Speaker 4: you know can't happen very often. I would assume, all right,
Speaker 4: quick break, we'll come back on the other side. Wrap
Speaker 4: at the three o'clock. I would forget Pat Kelston going
Speaker 4: to stop by here and join us on the show
Speaker 4: where the ACC basketball tip off in Charlotte on Sports
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