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Speaker 2: So I was looking at some of these Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 2: highlights that are being shared all over social media by
Speaker 2: the UFL social media accounts because they are honoring Teddy tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Just a reminder how special he was.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't even know for sure where he
Speaker 2: ranks when it comes to like the record books and whatnot,
Speaker 2: but certainly a talented guy, no doubt about that. And
Speaker 2: there was just and there's other quarterbacks that Louisville has
Speaker 2: had where you could say the same thing, but with
Speaker 2: Teddy it was a little bit different. He just felt
Speaker 2: confident that he was gonna always come through for you,
Speaker 2: even if he had one leg like he did at
Speaker 2: times when he was playing injured, would always make it work.
Speaker 2: Just a gamer, a guy that isn't the most vocal guy,
Speaker 2: at least not that I can remember. I mean, it
Speaker 2: wasn't as if he was, you know, he was silent,
Speaker 2: but he was a really good leader with the way
Speaker 2: he carried himself. And it was something to see, you know,
Speaker 2: a freshman that gets a chance to become your starter
Speaker 2: early on in the year because of an injury to
Speaker 2: will Stein, who, of course is now one of the
Speaker 2: hottest OC's in college football at Oregon. But you know,
Speaker 2: Teddy became the leader of this team at an early
Speaker 2: age of this program and put together a hell of
Speaker 2: a run, and no doubt he's deserving to be honored here.
Speaker 2: He retired from the NFL last year. Nice coach in
Speaker 2: high school football, but it's gonna be nice to have
Speaker 2: him back there. And it is fitting that it's happening
Speaker 2: against Miami. You know, Teddy was going to be going
Speaker 2: to Miami. He's from Miami, and there was a change
Speaker 2: made where they got rid of Randy Shannon, and that
Speaker 2: gave Charlie Strong and Clint Heard the opportunity to really
Speaker 2: sell what they're doing, what their vision is at Louisville,
Speaker 2: and you know, Teddy, Teddy took a chance. I mean,
Speaker 2: he wasn't the highest rate quarterback in the country that year,
Speaker 2: but certainly a highly ranked guy, one of the higher
Speaker 2: ranked guys probably that Louisville had ever landed, especially considering
Speaker 2: that you know, they were coming off of a terrible
Speaker 2: stretch when the Crackthorpe era and you know, Charlie was
Speaker 2: just getting started. So you know, Teddy, he came to Louisville,
Speaker 2: you know before it was cool like Brom did back day,
Speaker 2: and there was an obvious connection there. Why Brom, I
Speaker 2: mean beating Jeff and Brian came to Louisville because of
Speaker 2: you know, the the first family of louisvill football. Their
Speaker 2: father was a quarterback here many many years ago. You
Speaker 2: know that that's a big factor. And with Teddy, I
Speaker 2: guess his big factor. You know, the big, big thing
Speaker 2: for him was that he really did believe in what
Speaker 2: Charlie Strong and it was was selling it and it
Speaker 2: paid off. But you know, you don't land guys like
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson without the era that was Louisville football under
Speaker 2: Charlie Strong. And I have no problem with anybody who
Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily view it as the Charlie Strong era. Maybe
Speaker 2: you view it as the Teddy Bridgewater era. But either way,
Speaker 2: you know, Eddy made such an impact. It's such a
Speaker 2: big time for Louisville. And you know, I've been in
Speaker 2: this space in some former fashion, meaning media coverage and
Speaker 2: whatnot before I got a chance to do radio, and
Speaker 2: even before I got a chance to make radio my
Speaker 2: full time career. You know, I covered the team, had
Speaker 2: my own website and whatnot, and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: that started around twenty ten. Whenever, whenever I first you know,
Speaker 2: decided to, you know, take take a leap of faith
Speaker 2: and try to you know, I never thought of a
Speaker 2: turn into what it's turned into. But at that time
Speaker 2: I remember, you know, Teddy was like the first person
Speaker 2: that I remember writing about covering to where he was
Speaker 2: like a celebrity, like not just a good player that
Speaker 2: played for Louisville. And there's clearly a lot of Louisville
Speaker 2: fans and it's a passionate fan base, but like Teddy,
Speaker 2: he kind of had that larger than life feeling about him.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't because he was super animated or he
Speaker 2: was a guy that had this humongous personality that she
Speaker 2: got to see, but he was a really lovable guy
Speaker 2: who you know, was a damn good player.
Speaker 3: Kept to him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was pretty private, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: but definitely a special era when Teddy was here. And
Speaker 2: it's nice not only that he's going to be here
Speaker 2: tomorrow to get his jersey honor, but also he's bringing
Speaker 2: some recruits with him. I mentioned this earlier in the show,
Speaker 2: but there are two elite recruits that play for Teddy
Speaker 2: Bridgewater at Miami Northwestern High School where he's now the
Speaker 2: head coach, that are going to be in tomorrow for
Speaker 2: the visit. So you know, I'm sure these are guys
Speaker 2: that Miami would like to keep in their backyard. But
Speaker 2: maybe them being here and Teddy's influence, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: that could could help coach bram out. All right, it
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Speaker 2: He'd been a busy show thus far. Obviously, this matchup
Speaker 2: with Louisville in Miami tomorrow, we haven't talked a ton
Speaker 2: about it. I mean, it's certainly been a talking point
Speaker 2: here and there, But I'm to the point now where
Speaker 2: anything I just throw out there is probably something you've
Speaker 2: heard me say more than once throughout the week, because
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty clear Louisville, if they are the
Speaker 2: same team that we've seen all year, that can find
Speaker 2: themselves making crucial mistakes at the worst time. And to
Speaker 2: be fair, somebody called me out on this yesterday, and
Speaker 2: you're probably right. I didn't go back and do a
Speaker 2: deep dive to see if you were correct or I
Speaker 2: was correct. But maybe it's not the amount of mistakes
Speaker 2: in certain games, it's about when they happen and how
Speaker 2: critical the timing is. I mean that certainly seemed like
Speaker 2: that against Virginia, where you'd get a silly penalty even
Speaker 2: if it's a good, bad call, whatever, if it's a
Speaker 2: guy reacting to somebody initially, or it's Chris Bell just
Speaker 2: making a boneheaded mistake and doing something you can't do
Speaker 2: with the unsportsmanlike conduct. Those are things you never want
Speaker 2: to happen, but it seems as if they've been happening
Speaker 2: at the worst time and you never want to do it.
Speaker 2: But if you do it in a moment where like
Speaker 2: it's quite clear, hey, we're about to snap the ball
Speaker 2: or they're about to snap the ball and this is
Speaker 2: a big play, like you need to be focused, in
Speaker 2: disciplined and not do things like that. So the Notre
Speaker 2: Dame game is the one where I'm not going to
Speaker 2: back down as far as the amount of mistakes. They
Speaker 2: made a ton of huge mistakes that you just can't
Speaker 2: make not only the players, but like even Jeff with
Speaker 2: some of his decisions on those fourth down calls. So
Speaker 2: it's not like I'm telling you this won't happen and
Speaker 2: that it's impossible. But six games in Louisville has an identity.
Speaker 2: They've been pretty consistent, if I'm being honest. It's not
Speaker 2: like they're inconsistent. No, they're consistent. They show how good
Speaker 2: their offense can be at times, and their defense still
Speaker 2: is making timely plays. I mean, SMU got them pretty good,
Speaker 2: but other than that, the defense has been able to
Speaker 2: settle in. I wish they could start a little better
Speaker 2: than they have in these last few weeks. But either way,
Speaker 2: this team, it's not about ability, it's not about talent.
Speaker 2: It's about just, you know, being more disciplined and avoiding
Speaker 2: critical mistakes that come in terrible times. And those are
Speaker 2: things that you would think are easy to fix, but
Speaker 2: they haven't fixed it yet. They didn't crumble enough last
Speaker 2: week to have a bad loss on the road a Virginia,
Speaker 2: but let's be real, they easily could have. Like it
Speaker 2: was right there. It wasn't like they won that game
Speaker 2: with a whole lot of cushion. So they need to
Speaker 2: be a different team than they've been all year in
Speaker 2: my opinion, to win this game against Miami. And yes,
Speaker 2: that's possible. It's not like we're asking the bulk of
Speaker 2: the guys who see most of the reps to go
Speaker 2: out there and improve their individual ability substantially. I mean,
Speaker 2: you need the old line to really bring it because
Speaker 2: they're going to be in for a long day going
Speaker 2: up against that Miami front. But it's just about, you know,
Speaker 2: avoiding the avoidable mistakes. And it's such a cliche, but like,
Speaker 2: you know, you got to think that the Miami's the
Speaker 2: kind of team that like, if you have if you
Speaker 2: lose the turnover battle, that's one of those things where
Speaker 2: you got to think, like, yeah, you do that against
Speaker 2: the top six team that's got a guy named Cambard
Speaker 2: at quarterback who's one of the best in the country,
Speaker 2: going to be potentially tough to really come back from that.
Speaker 2: So it's not just that I you know, I know
Speaker 2: at times I've sounded as if like I just don't
Speaker 2: believe and they can't do it. No, it's not that
Speaker 2: it's just I haven't seen it yet. Therefore it's hard
Speaker 2: for me to just tell you that I expect it
Speaker 2: to happen, it'd be a much different situation and now
Speaker 2: would be a little more pessimistic if I felt like
Speaker 2: they didn't have the ability to go do it and
Speaker 2: it was just based off of personnel and maybe learn that, right,
Speaker 2: maybe tomorrow is a day where you think, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: we thought we had some really good players, and they
Speaker 2: are pretty good to us, but this Miami team's just
Speaker 2: different when it comes to talent. We'll see and usually
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why I hesitate to do, like,
Speaker 2: you know, keys of the Game kind of stuff, just
Speaker 2: is because you never know what's gonna happen in a game.
Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes these things play out not only results
Speaker 2: wise differently than any of us expected, but I mean,
Speaker 2: like scenarios, you just never know what's gonna happen in
Speaker 2: a football game. But from what we've seen of both teams,
Speaker 2: I mean for Louisville, again, avoiding the avoidable mistakes is
Speaker 2: going to be crucial. But I think you really need
Speaker 2: to have some good balance offensively, and that starts up front, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think if Isaac Brown is able to
Speaker 2: you know, establish the run game pretty early, not maybe
Speaker 2: take one to the house, but at least you know,
Speaker 2: put you in second and third and short pretty frequently
Speaker 2: on your first couple of jobs, and you're moving the
Speaker 2: ball down the field when you've got good balance. That's
Speaker 2: where Jeff can really shine as a play caller. So
Speaker 2: I getting, you know, the running game going as best
Speaker 2: you can. Giving Tyler shuck maybe I don't know, just
Speaker 2: a second more than he's been typically getting in the
Speaker 2: pocket like that could that could go a long way,
Speaker 2: And I'm not I don't. I don't worry about Louisville
Speaker 2: when it comes to the skill position players and their talent.
Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, I've been hard on
Speaker 2: the offensive line because I do think it's safe to
Speaker 2: say that they probably are the weakness of this team.
Speaker 2: But it's not to a point where you're like, well,
Speaker 2: you know what, this offense has so many good players
Speaker 2: at you know, receiver, running back, tight end with Jamori Johnson.
Speaker 2: Your quarterback's good, but it doesn't matter because your O
Speaker 2: line is so bad. It's not that at all. It's just,
Speaker 2: you know, they're clearly not great, but you can scheme
Speaker 2: around it. You can, and I hope that they do
Speaker 2: now on defense. I would imagine if you start the
Speaker 2: way you have in the last couple of games, that
Speaker 2: would be far from ideal because what you want here
Speaker 2: is to early on really establish that momentum, take advantage
Speaker 2: of your sold out crowd, do something to get them
Speaker 2: loud to where you could put Miami on their heels
Speaker 2: and kind of see how they spawn. Now, technically, they
Speaker 2: have responded pretty well in the last two games they've
Speaker 2: had where they've had their back against the wall, but
Speaker 2: you got to think of maybe that runs out at
Speaker 2: some point, right, I mean, maybe maybe maybe they maybe
Speaker 2: they are eventually just due for a loss when they've
Speaker 2: got to climb out of a hole. And if the defense,
Speaker 2: you know, does anything like they did against SMU, where
Speaker 2: they've got effortless drives in the first two first two possessions,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a recipe for a disaster in
Speaker 2: my opinion, because you don't want to have to play
Speaker 2: from behind with this team and with the way your defense.
Speaker 2: I mean, again, the defense has made some timely plays
Speaker 2: and they've settled in during games, but we also know
Speaker 2: that at any moment they could have a goof and
Speaker 2: give up a huge play and give up a score,
Speaker 2: So you know, I I think more than anything. And again,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of factors that are are are I
Speaker 2: think are important here for Louisville. But a good start,
Speaker 2: I feel like is really really crucial. It doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that if they come out and they've got a bad
Speaker 2: start and they get down ten nothing that they can't
Speaker 2: bounce back and find a way to win. You really
Speaker 2: never know, but I just I would be you know,
Speaker 2: I think the recipe if there is one to pull
Speaker 2: off this win, I think a good start, maybe not
Speaker 2: maybe not a good start where you come out you're
Speaker 2: up fourteen to nothing or something like that because of
Speaker 2: an early score and you capitalized on a turnover. I mean,
Speaker 2: I would that would be ideal.
Speaker 3: That'd be great.
Speaker 2: But I'm not saying you have to have that. I
Speaker 2: just you don't need to start where they come in
Speaker 2: and they're comfortable right out of the gate and the
Speaker 2: energy in the in the stadium is not what you
Speaker 2: want it to be where you can take advantage of
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Speaker 2: that have helped make this coverage possible so far this
Speaker 2: this season. We also talked about the Tony Bennett decision
Speaker 2: to retire, and I think, you know, what's happening here
Speaker 2: is really pretty simple, and it's another opportunity for me
Speaker 2: to say something I say probably too often. Both things
Speaker 2: can be true. Not everything has to be right or wrong.
Speaker 2: You're way off and I'm correct or completely to the
Speaker 2: left side or the right side, or I'm not even
Speaker 2: talking politics, you know whatever, up down, whatever. But you
Speaker 2: can give him the benefit of the doubt that like,
Speaker 2: he's not a scumbag, because I think he's probably I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think you get the reputation that Tony Binn
Speaker 2: has and it's all luck or you know, people who
Speaker 2: just are looking out for you. I think he probably
Speaker 2: is a pretty good dude, and he's just you know,
Speaker 2: he doesn't want, he doesn't have his mind's not in
Speaker 2: the right place anymore to do that job, given how
Speaker 2: much the job has changed.
Speaker 3: So like that that's true.
Speaker 2: But also, yeah, he clearly he put a plan in
Speaker 2: motion to where there was no option for Virginia other
Speaker 2: than the option that I mean, the only option they
Speaker 2: had was to give the job for this year to
Speaker 2: his top assistant. Sanchez. Is that his name?
Speaker 3: I think I think that's it.
Speaker 4: Maybe Ron Sanchez, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Ron Sanchez. So you know a lot of coaches do that.
Speaker 2: That's not that uncommon. But what I find is that,
Speaker 2: like there's people who love Tony Bennett so much and
Speaker 2: think he's such a great guy. They think he's the
Speaker 2: best thing that ever happened to college basketball as as
Speaker 2: a dude that they like, they won't acknowledge that both
Speaker 2: those things are true. Yeah, he doesn't mean he's a
Speaker 2: terrible human being, and his his legacy, his legacy is
Speaker 2: going to be tarnished because of the timing of this move.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like anybody claiming that this wasn't a timing
Speaker 2: thing to where he wanted to make sure his guy
Speaker 2: got an opportunity, you're you're naive, like you're lying to yourself.
Speaker 2: And I've said this, I feel like for years now,
Speaker 2: I mean relatively early in this new world of the
Speaker 2: nil era in the portal. But I just have I'm losing,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm losing the ability to even stomach people
Speaker 2: giving pity to these coaches and being sad for them,
Speaker 2: as if their life is so hard, and I mean
Speaker 2: it's it's I mean, I know that what they do
Speaker 2: is not at all relatable to what most of us do.
Speaker 2: It's like I know that, but still, how about some awareness.
Speaker 2: Not only do those that cover college basketball at the
Speaker 2: very top that are defending these coaches as if, oh
Speaker 2: my god, the NCAA's just got to fix it because
Speaker 2: all these legends they just can't do it anymore.
Speaker 3: It's just too hard. I mean, it makes me sick.
Speaker 2: I mean, just an ounce of self awareness as far
Speaker 2: as the over, like these coaches have the best situations
Speaker 2: in America, seemingly where they can work a job that
Speaker 2: pays them an insane amount of money and they can
Speaker 2: be awful at it and it doesn't have any impact
Speaker 2: on them creating potential generational wealth for themselves.
Speaker 3: So like, I don't know about you or what you do.
Speaker 2: Maybe you know, maybe you do have a job to
Speaker 2: where it's been the same thing for fifty years and
Speaker 2: then you retire. But things evolve over time, like life
Speaker 2: changes a lot. I mean, this job now, what I
Speaker 2: do is way different than it was when I first started,
Speaker 2: as far as just the digital aspect of it. I mean,
Speaker 2: things change. So yeah, we can acknowledge that, yes, this job.
Speaker 2: You're still coaching basketball, but it's different, and you're still
Speaker 2: coaching football, but it's different. These guys are not dudes
Speaker 2: that you can, you know, just treat the way. And
Speaker 2: I don't mean that you were abusing them or that
Speaker 2: they were victims, but like, yeah, they're employees. They have options.
Speaker 2: If they don't like working for you, they'll go work
Speaker 2: for somebody else. And they have the power to do
Speaker 2: that now. And it makes it to where you've got
Speaker 2: to adjust. You've got to adapt to this new world.
Speaker 2: And if coaches don't want to do it, that's fine.
Speaker 2: But to paint it out there as if like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're victims. It's it's hilarious to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: because it just reminds you that coaches don't realize, like
Speaker 2: them complaining about anything like is it just to me?
Speaker 2: It falls flat? I mean last week it was James
Speaker 2: Franklin they were traveling. Did they go to UCLA last
Speaker 2: week or was it yeah, usc, I know they went
Speaker 2: to to LA And he was, you know, not being
Speaker 2: like a completely you know, he wouldn't be in a
Speaker 2: complete whiny you know what, but just really making it
Speaker 2: a point in his press conference to emphasize that they
Speaker 2: had to travel. They something about the airport in you know,
Speaker 2: where Penn State's located. It's obviously just a college town.
Speaker 2: They had to travel to like a different I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: here's what it was. The trip is so far from
Speaker 2: what they usually travel, meaning Penn State, that they had
Speaker 2: to go to a different airport to get like a
Speaker 2: different to get on a different plane than they typically
Speaker 2: take because of fuel, Like usually they can fly without
Speaker 2: needing to refuel on their plane, but they had to
Speaker 2: go to a different airport because now they're going to
Speaker 2: be making a much further trip, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's probably something that that's different. But you know what,
Speaker 2: the Big ten has a lot more value from a
Speaker 2: from a financial standpoint because you are now on the
Speaker 2: West coast and like the fact that you have to
Speaker 2: add and you know, you had to go stay at
Speaker 2: a hotel and like, is Huntington Pennsylvania town? I feel
Speaker 2: like he said that, but I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: a real place, but there was somewhere in Pennsylvania they
Speaker 2: had to go travel to to get on the plane.
Speaker 3: And he presented it as if like, you know, we're
Speaker 3: dealing with it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's it's I mean, it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's just something people need to keep in mind. Maybe
Speaker 2: we do make some some changes to the airport here
Speaker 2: in where where's pennsdas can drive me crazy? University Park,
Speaker 2: it's very town though, State College.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So again, nobody's telling you that it's not different and
Speaker 2: that you aren't having to make some adjustments and adapt
Speaker 2: But man, welcome to the world. That's the world for
Speaker 2: just about everybody but you. And to present it as
Speaker 2: if it's some hardship, like with all due respect, go
Speaker 2: to hell?
Speaker 3: Can you say that?
Speaker 2: Can you tell somebody to respectfully go to hell? There's
Speaker 2: a lot of things you can say to people if
Speaker 2: you put the with respect on the front of it,
Speaker 2: or you say, hey, no disrespect, but like it's quite
Speaker 2: clear you're about to say something potentially disrespectful. But to
Speaker 2: go into hell, I don't even know.
Speaker 4: If I can respectfully pushed to hell.
Speaker 2: Like I'm in hell now, but but I'm here with
Speaker 2: somebody sending me down here with respect? Like does that
Speaker 2: help my does that that? Does that make my situation different?
Speaker 2: I don't know, yeah, something like that. But anyways, all right,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about our picks coming up here
Speaker 2: in uh in just a couple of minutes. John and
Speaker 2: I are because there's a lot of really good games.
Speaker 2: I will admit earlier this week I was looking at
Speaker 2: what was out there as far as uh, you know,
Speaker 2: big matchups, and I started to form some opinions on
Speaker 2: what I think is going to happen, and obviously that
Speaker 2: helps me make these wagers. But lately, in the last
Speaker 2: couple of days, I've just been so geared up for
Speaker 2: this Miami matchup, and I'm hoping Louisville can pull off
Speaker 2: a big victory. I'm not even that called that's right,
Speaker 2: big game Bro. I'm not even gonna call it like
Speaker 2: a big upset, because I mean it would be an upset.
Speaker 2: They are underdogs, but like it's not like they got
Speaker 2: to go out here and knock off, you know, one
Speaker 2: of the best teams that we've ever seen in college football.
Speaker 2: They're knocking off a team that they beat last year.
Speaker 2: And yes they're different, they're better this year. But you're
Speaker 2: at home and you said it again, you saying big game, Brom.
Speaker 2: It gets me going, John, and not to make it weird,
Speaker 2: but I'm just being honest with you. Big game Brom.
Speaker 2: That's what we need tomorrow, and I'm hoping that's what
Speaker 2: we get. Don't go anywhere. It's coffee and company. We
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Speaker 2: I mentioned this earlier, but I would say that one
Speaker 2: of the reasons why you just don't seem to hear
Speaker 2: as many Kentucky fans talking about their matchup with Florida
Speaker 2: tomorrow is a couple of things. One, they're coming off
Speaker 2: a lost to Andy, so I think they may not
Speaker 2: have a whole lot of confidence right now. But also
Speaker 2: they've got their Blue White game tonight, which it's the
Speaker 2: first Blue White game of the Mark Pope era, and clearly,
Speaker 2: just like Louisville fans, they're excited about this new era,
Speaker 2: and they're probably and I want to act like they've
Speaker 2: just shifted all their attention to basketball and they don't
Speaker 2: care about football anymore. Mean maybe that maybe that'll be
Speaker 2: the case if they whos tomorrow or something like that.
Speaker 2: But one thing that I that I'm a little confused on,
Speaker 2: and I may I may have gotten an answer. You
Speaker 2: never know what's true on Twitter or whatnot. But the
Speaker 2: UK official I don't know if it's their IMG account,
Speaker 2: it's the UK Sports Network. They're reminding people that there
Speaker 2: will be no there'll be no games shown tonight on TV.
Speaker 2: So what they're gonna do is they're gonna have a
Speaker 2: radio broadcast that we'll call the Action and a live
Speaker 2: stream somewhere, but it's gonna feature guests, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: preview this season. It's not actually gonna show anything from
Speaker 2: their Blue White scrimmage. And you know, just like the
Speaker 2: Louisville Live event not being televised, people get pissed and
Speaker 2: sometimes it's because they just choose not to televise these
Speaker 2: events different schools because they want to make sure that
Speaker 2: they have enough people that realize, if you want to
Speaker 2: see it, you got to show up. And the Louisville
Speaker 2: Live thing, if you remember it was, it was available
Speaker 2: to watch after the fact. I don't and I don't.
Speaker 2: I never got and I don't care it didn't get.
Speaker 2: I didn't ask anybody U of L, as far as
Speaker 2: the spokesman, as to why they didn't televise it. But
Speaker 2: with UK, I just assumed that they were doing this
Speaker 2: because they weren't allowed to actually show it because of
Speaker 2: some kind of a rights thing. When I say rights,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the SEC network clearly owns the
Speaker 2: rights to anything as far as like SEC basketball and football.
Speaker 2: But this is an intersquad scrimmage, so like maybe that
Speaker 2: doesn't count.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But anything that you're gonna put on radio or television
Speaker 2: that is a UK athletics event, it is owned by JMI.
Speaker 2: Just like with U of L it's lear field. So
Speaker 2: I don't I don't really know as to why they're
Speaker 2: not televising it, but I do know that there's a
Speaker 2: lot of Kentucky fans that are pissed, and if it's
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops, it's because again you That's why I said,
Speaker 2: you never know what what to to believe. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the responses here to this tweet that
Speaker 2: came from the UK Sports network that says, again for clarification,
Speaker 2: they'll be no there'll be no action, no game action shown.
Speaker 2: And then they mentioned they'll have a radio call in
Speaker 2: a live stream, but the stream that's live is only
Speaker 2: going to feature guests that are previewing the season, and
Speaker 2: you know there's a lot of upset, upset fans. This
Speaker 2: is a Twitter account that's cats by ninety tone deaf.
Speaker 2: No one wants to listen to guests. This says, I'm
Speaker 2: always interested in the Blue White game. Extremely disappointed you
Speaker 2: have chosen to not televise it even delayed a lot
Speaker 2: of interested fans not capable of making the game for
Speaker 2: various reasons, and we're being left out. This says, imagine
Speaker 2: tweeting this knowing it was misleading that you'd have to
Speaker 2: tweet further clarification. Who is making these decisions? Such a
Speaker 2: bad look on the athletic department. This says, doubt it
Speaker 2: was Mark Pope's decision. We all know it was Mitch.
Speaker 2: Guess the days of watching blue and White games in
Speaker 2: the past, with tickets being one hundred bucks for a scrimmage.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means. It doesn't even
Speaker 2: make a whole lot of sense. This is from this
Speaker 2: is a Twitter account that says, ky lady all in,
Speaker 2: what happened to this? This is our team? Mitch Barnhardt
Speaker 2: strikes again.
Speaker 3: Lies.
Speaker 2: I don't really care all that much about seeing the
Speaker 2: practice myself, but there seems like a pattern with him.
Speaker 3: I'm ready for him to leave.
Speaker 2: He ignores the common man, just like the politicians who
Speaker 2: promise and then lie. I could read all that. I
Speaker 2: guess it's the nil team, not the colonists.
Speaker 4: I don't think Mark Pope could possibly have anything to
Speaker 4: do with it either, though.
Speaker 2: So there was a tweet that said, but Pope didn't
Speaker 2: want and again it's just a random tweet. Maybe Matt
Speaker 2: said this on KSR. I don't know, but you know
Speaker 2: that Pope didn't want to show it because he didn't
Speaker 2: want to show any of what he's going to do
Speaker 2: offensively with this team this year, which, you know, whatever,
Speaker 2: it's his call. But I mean, I can see if
Speaker 2: that being like, you know, not having a reason as
Speaker 2: to why they're not going to televise, it is just
Speaker 2: going to make people speculate and assume. And it does
Speaker 2: seem as if from what I've gathered on all these
Speaker 2: all these comments, everybody, there's many more people just blaming
Speaker 2: UK and Barnhart not necessarily blaming Mark Mark Pope. But
Speaker 2: this is an nil event, meaning that any ticket sold
Speaker 2: which they were expensive, were they really a hundred bucks?
Speaker 3: Like that's the case for me.
Speaker 4: For for a scrimmage where you're not even playing a
Speaker 4: different team, that seems insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but again, like it is Kentucky.
Speaker 2: If you tell if you tell them that you know,
Speaker 2: the reason we're paying this much is because we need
Speaker 2: to go pay to get good players and mean, like,
Speaker 2: as silly as it is and as much as it
Speaker 2: makes super passionate fans of their college team look like suckers,
Speaker 2: that is one way. Like if you throw up a
Speaker 2: big price and you and you in some way guilt
Speaker 2: your fans into thinking, well, we have to do this
Speaker 2: because if not, we won't be able to get good players.
Speaker 2: Enough of them will be worried that their team's gonna
Speaker 2: snake and they'll pay whatever. Like I hate saying it
Speaker 2: because you know, clearly we're a college market, and I
Speaker 2: love college sports and I don't know what my life
Speaker 2: would be without it because I love it so much
Speaker 2: and it's clearly a part of what I do covering it.
Speaker 3: But like we're suckers.
Speaker 2: I mean when it comes to like being asked to
Speaker 2: pay a donation just to be able to buy season
Speaker 2: tickets to a game, and then being asked to pay
Speaker 2: the players whenever the schools, the universities themselves are bringing
Speaker 2: in boatloads of money every year with these revenue sharing
Speaker 2: agreements with the SEC and the Big Ten. Like, we
Speaker 2: love college sports so much, we're so passionate about it.
Speaker 2: I don't mean just us here, I mean you know,
Speaker 2: across the country, they're clearly programs that have huge fan
Speaker 2: bases that are willing to pay whatever it takes, is
Speaker 2: whatever they can afford so their team can have, you know,
Speaker 2: money to go get players. I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 2: put it this way. It shouldn't be on fans to
Speaker 2: do that, in my opinion, but we're in this position
Speaker 2: because of no real leadership with the NCAA and Congress
Speaker 2: stepping in to basically give us this big mess that is, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you got to pay to get players, but
Speaker 2: technically it can't be paid for play. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: have this big mirage of collectives and name, image and
Speaker 2: likeness when it's all you know, it's all nonsense.
Speaker 3: I've been doing.
Speaker 2: Some extensive Google searching here and I can't seem to
Speaker 2: find what it would cost to get the tickets here.
Speaker 3: All right, so club.
Speaker 2: Blueenil dot com.
Speaker 3: Let's see here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, nothing that I can see is here
Speaker 2: you go Blue White basketball event. Let's see.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hit buy now, but I'm not buying.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: What if somebody like did a deep dive on my
Speaker 3: internet search.
Speaker 2: And they said Nick was looking at buying Kentucky basketball tickets,
Speaker 2: that son of a bitch.
Speaker 3: We were right. He's a big blue guy.
Speaker 4: He's a big blue guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So on ticket Master, the cheapest ticket is one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five dollars. With all due respect, that is insane.
Speaker 2: Now again, it's gonna make a lot of money even
Speaker 2: if you fill up the place halfway, But like, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Although I do wish they.
Speaker 2: Would have some level of coverage because I would love
Speaker 2: to see because, to be honest with you, if they
Speaker 2: get close to filling this thing up to seventy percent capacity,
Speaker 2: if people are willing to pay that much money to
Speaker 2: go watch an inner squad scrimmage, that speaks to their
Speaker 2: fan base. Not that they need it. They are a
Speaker 2: passionate fan base that you know. There's a ton of them,
Speaker 2: and they're all over the planet, even on other planets.
Speaker 2: I always say, would not be shocked if I end
Speaker 2: upon Mars or Pluto and I run into a Kentucky
Speaker 2: fan wearing blue gear and they'll walk up and say, Hey, Nick,
Speaker 2: big Kentucky fan, Like that's that's my life. It was
Speaker 2: on the beach in Mexico on my honeymoon, saw two
Speaker 2: of them, Like what I thought, I was a thought
Speaker 2: I was on a It was when I hadn't traveled
Speaker 2: a whole lot as an adult.
Speaker 3: I was pretty young.
Speaker 2: Now I've traveled all across the world here and there not,
Speaker 2: you know, all the time, but I've been many places,
Speaker 2: and I guarantee anywhere I've gone, I've seen a Kentucky
Speaker 2: fan and they're wearing blue and they want you to
Speaker 2: know their Kentucky fans. All right, let's start with you, John,
Speaker 2: what do you hot on for Saturdays slate for college football?
Speaker 2: We're gonna try our best to have both a good
Speaker 2: week here. I mean again, I can't control what you
Speaker 2: bet on. You don't want to control what I'm betting on.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. Only time will tell.
Speaker 2: But I'm curious to see which games you have some
Speaker 2: strong opinions on, strong enough to where you're gonna make
Speaker 2: a wager.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm gonna piggyback off a little bit of
Speaker 4: what Brian talked about. And I didn't mention this earlier
Speaker 4: in the week, but I'm really high on both of
Speaker 4: the Service Academy's Navy and Army. I'm gonna take them
Speaker 4: both to cover and both of them to hit the
Speaker 4: over in their games.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 2: There's clearly some momentum with the Service academies, and hey,
Speaker 2: betting on the if they're gonna be in a parlay,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure they are. Yes, you know you need
Speaker 2: others to help out, But like betting on the Army
Speaker 2: or the Navy and you're losing, like you still feel like, well, hey,
Speaker 2: it's okay, I'll do it again because you know, there
Speaker 2: are you know, going and playing football isn't exactly like
Speaker 2: you know, going and defending our country, but technically they
Speaker 2: are in the service. So it is fun to see
Speaker 2: those teams having some success this year. Again, both are
Speaker 2: ranked for the first time in since nineteen sixty however long.
Speaker 4: You know, the Army Navy game probably have a whole
Speaker 4: lot more juice this year.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, doubt more than it's maybe, I mean maybe
Speaker 2: ever had no doubt. All Right, So I'm actually I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go and this is one that I it's been
Speaker 2: my gut pick all week, and I, like I typically do,
Speaker 2: I almost talk myself out of it, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: stick with it. Tennessee has been a little bit of
Speaker 2: a mess this year when it comes to the you know,
Speaker 2: they just haven't been a prolific offense like they wanted
Speaker 2: to be. They lit up North Carolina State, who sucks
Speaker 2: out loud, and then really since then, they've been not
Speaker 2: this high powered offense like you thought you'd have with
Speaker 2: Josh Heipel and his freshman quarterback who's a star. So
Speaker 2: you know, I get why they look like they're a
Speaker 2: little underwhelming despite still being the eleventh ranked team in
Speaker 2: the eleventh best team in the country. But Neiland's gonna
Speaker 2: be insane. The atmosphere is going to be unbelievable for Tennessee.
Speaker 2: And I also in willing to acknowledge that Alabama is
Speaker 2: as vulnerable as they've ever been, and that speaks more
Speaker 2: than to how, you know, unvulnerable they were for a
Speaker 2: long time under Saban. But this is at Tennessee. Tennessee
Speaker 2: is three and a half point favorites. I think Tennessee
Speaker 2: can certainly cover three and a half as a dog,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't be shocked if they win because they're
Speaker 2: gonna have momentum, and like this, this isn't Saban, and
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that Bama's going to be terrible under
Speaker 2: this new regime. But Bama lost to Vandy and then
Speaker 2: nearly lost the next week to South Carolina, So like
Speaker 2: they they got to look in the mirror. You know,
Speaker 2: you've played six games like everybody else, and yeah, you're
Speaker 2: still good.
Speaker 3: You probably are gonna win.
Speaker 2: But I think you know, them meeting Tennessee plus three
Speaker 2: and a half at home, I like it. I know
Speaker 2: they seem like a team you wouldn't want to trust
Speaker 2: a whole lot right now. But I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: be They're gonna be ready to play. The atmosphere is
Speaker 2: going to be crazy. And I think you have to
Speaker 2: say the same thing about Bama, like they're not a
Speaker 2: team that I think a lot of people would really
Speaker 2: trust right now.
Speaker 3: It's weird.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of SEC teams outside of Texas that
Speaker 4: I feel like are hard to trust, which is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, Georgia came back if you remember, and took
Speaker 2: the lead for one play, right If there's not that
Speaker 2: miraculous play from Bama to retake the lead and then
Speaker 2: end it, they would be coming off of. I mean again,
Speaker 2: you never know if one result would have let you know,
Speaker 2: if they lose to Bama, if they lose to Georgia,
Speaker 2: then you know, who knows. Maybe they end up not
Speaker 2: getting upset by Vandy. But Vandy took them punch for punch.
Speaker 2: It wasn't anything fluky, and that speaks more to Vandy
Speaker 2: than anything else. But I think Tennessee plus three and
Speaker 2: a half here, I've been pretty solid on it for
Speaker 2: a while. I'll at least throughout the week, I'm sticking
Speaker 2: with it. What's your next one?
Speaker 4: I like cal to bounce back in a big way
Speaker 4: against n C State this weekend. I know they've lost
Speaker 4: two in a row, one to Miami and then a
Speaker 4: very close one against Pittsburgh last week. But I think
Speaker 4: n C State, and You've mentioned this before, one of
Speaker 4: the most disappointing and underwhelming teams, not just in the
Speaker 4: ACC but college football in general. And I think cow
Speaker 4: will easily cover minus ten and a half or really,
Speaker 4: depending on what sportsbook you look at, could be nine
Speaker 4: to ten, whatever may be. But I think they'll cover
Speaker 4: pretty easily.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with a big ten matchup here, and
Speaker 2: it's a team that I just I don't think that
Speaker 2: they're even I mean, they're not terrible, but I don't
Speaker 2: think they're special in any way.
Speaker 3: And that's Michigan.
Speaker 2: I think Brett Bielama and Illinois getting also three and
Speaker 2: a half, just like Tennessee's getting with Bama.
Speaker 3: I like this a lot. This one is in.
Speaker 2: This one's at Illinois. Illinois under Brett Bilama, they've been
Speaker 2: a little bit unpredictable at times. They nearly lost to Purdue,
Speaker 2: and I think that's scared some people because they know
Speaker 2: they I think they probably put it on Cruise Control
Speaker 2: after they were just demolishing Purdue early on, and then
Speaker 2: you know, Purdue made a little bit of a run.
Speaker 3: I'm not worry about that.
Speaker 2: I think they knew that their big matchup was gonna
Speaker 2: be the home game against Michigan the following week. They
Speaker 2: were looking ahead to this one. Now it's here. I
Speaker 2: think they win this thing out right. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: bet it. I'm gonna I'm not gonna parlay that. But
Speaker 2: as far as my pick with the parlay here, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take Illinois plus three and a half.
Speaker 4: Well, let me go ahead and take or tell you
Speaker 4: what I'm doing with Illinois money line because I mentioned
Speaker 4: that I'm gonna take this earlier this week to you,
Speaker 4: that's right here. But I'm gonna parlay that with Louisville
Speaker 4: money line.
Speaker 2: With Big Game, Oh, Big Game Brom. He's putting his
Speaker 2: money where his mouth is. He's not just gassing up
Speaker 2: Big Game Brom, you know.
Speaker 3: To appease me. He's he's believing. I like it.
Speaker 2: That makes me feel even better, all right, last one
Speaker 2: for me before we get to our our last break here.
Speaker 2: And there's a few games that I'm I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna bet on a lot of games
Speaker 2: that we're not gonna talk about right now, but as
Speaker 2: far as ones that I you know, I feel I
Speaker 2: feel pretty good about. There's I mean, whichever one I
Speaker 2: was gonna pick here to make my parlay, I'm not
Speaker 2: as confident in those as I am the first two
Speaker 2: that I that I just mentioned. However, you know, oh man,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm torn because part of me wants to trust
Speaker 2: Cincinnati minus five and a half. But I can't bet
Speaker 2: on Sadurdfield because if I lose, I would sit here
Speaker 2: and think like, yeah, what are you doing, you idiot?
Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna go You're.
Speaker 4: Gonna bet Signetti not Saderfield, or maybe you're not.
Speaker 3: No, that's one of them. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna bet Signetti to to cover six
Speaker 2: and a half. That's what they That's what they're favorite, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: that's what it's favored. As Again, the other ones that
Speaker 2: I've already put in place were not parlays, just straight
Speaker 2: bets that I that I was doing earlier this week.
Speaker 2: I like I like Kansas State to to cover minus
Speaker 2: two and a half at West Virginia. I'm not touching
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Florida game.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I want touch the Louisville game. But again, I'm confident
Speaker 2: in Louisville. But yeah, I've got one more wacky one too,
Speaker 2: and maybe it's here.
Speaker 4: It's wacky. It's because of the matchup. It's Washington State
Speaker 4: against Hawaii. They're hosting Hawaii and they're favored by MYUS
Speaker 4: eighteen and a half. That is a lot of points.
Speaker 4: But I think Hawaii is dog doodoose.
Speaker 2: Those are fun games to bet on. To take care
Speaker 2: of business, good stuff. All right, speaking of taking care
Speaker 2: of business, real quick before we get to our next break,
Speaker 2: let's talk once again real quick. This is going to
Speaker 2: be your final reminder for me until it happens tomorrow.
Speaker 2: The Jefferson Animal Hospital of it is tomorrow. It is
Speaker 2: going to be a good time. It's the pints for
Speaker 2: palls and people event out there from ten am to
Speaker 2: two pm. Bring your pet. They'll show you how they
Speaker 2: do pet blood pet blood donations where you know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it's not something you've seen before. And if it is,
Speaker 2: then you know all about it and you're good to go.
Speaker 2: But if you are a little hesitant because you don't
Speaker 2: know what the process looks like when it comes to
Speaker 2: how they can draw blood from your pets and you know,
Speaker 2: make them pet pet blood donors, they'll be happy to
Speaker 2: show you and educate you on how it works. So again,
Speaker 2: it's from ten to two tomorrow. They're going to have
Speaker 2: food available for everybody. Should be a good time, and
Speaker 2: it's for a great cause. It's going to help save
Speaker 2: lives anytime that someone donates blood. Anytime a pet donates blood,
Speaker 2: it can help save up to four to six lives.
Speaker 2: They're also going to have the option for you to
Speaker 2: donate blood with the American Red Cross if you want to.
Speaker 2: So again, the Jefferson Animal Hospital on outer Loop pints
Speaker 2: for Pauls and people tomorrow from ten am to two pm.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take our last break, come back here
Speaker 2: on the other side, wrap this thing up and get
Speaker 2: out of here for the weekend. That's right, we are
Speaker 2: wrapping up a Friday edition of Coffee and Company, putting
Speaker 2: the finishing touches here on another week on Sports Talk
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Speaker 2: pregame and postgame, So I'm hoping that we get the
Speaker 2: postgame show started with a celebration.
Speaker 3: It'd be a big deal.
Speaker 2: And you know, I was talking to John during the
Speaker 2: break just kind of about wanting this game to just
Speaker 2: like I want it to happen now, so I can,
Speaker 2: you know, I can see where Louisville stands, see if
Speaker 2: they do, in fact make improvements and clean it up.
Speaker 3: Right. It's not about you know.
Speaker 2: Needing to be a new team as far as who
Speaker 2: you play and really what your strategy is.
Speaker 3: I think it's just.
Speaker 2: About avoiding some mistakes that I think, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm wrong, they appear.
Speaker 3: To be pretty avoidable.
Speaker 2: But here you are six games in and you still
Speaker 2: haven't really been able to put together a complete game
Speaker 2: that you can say, yeah, there were some mistakes because
Speaker 2: nobody's perfect, but overall, you know, we didn't beat ourselves
Speaker 2: in a major way. And you always have to give
Speaker 2: credit to your opponent because even if you are making
Speaker 2: mistakes that are avoidable, they're making you pay for them,
Speaker 2: which is why they're beating you. So it's not like
Speaker 2: I'm saying Louisvells four and two and the teams that
Speaker 2: they lost to are are terrible and they didn't deserve
Speaker 2: to win. I mean, SMU came in here and just
Speaker 2: beat you, and you shouldn't have been that big of
Speaker 2: a mess off on defense when it comes to communication
Speaker 2: and whatnot. But either way, like they look good and
Speaker 2: that was a humbling experience. The Notre Dame one is
Speaker 2: the one that's like, how are you even in that game?
Speaker 2: Given all the things you did to put yourself in
Speaker 2: that spot. So no better time than now to clean
Speaker 2: it up, play your best game of the season. If
Speaker 2: you've got your as you've got probably the best opponent
Speaker 2: on your schedule coming in and it would really really
Speaker 2: give you a chance to hit that backstretch of the season,
Speaker 2: the second half of the schedule, with momentum and with
Speaker 2: belief and really a lot to accomplish. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: tough to think that, you know, I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know if they're going to end up being a team
Speaker 2: that really finds themselves with a chance to get to Charlotte.
Speaker 2: But you never know, right I think, you know, if
Speaker 2: you beat Miami, maybe that means somebody else can knock
Speaker 2: them down, and maybe you know, you can maybe Clemson,
Speaker 2: maybe you. I mean, I don't know if it's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: but clearly, if you can beat Miami doesn't mean you're
Speaker 2: guaranteed to go on the road to Clemson and get
Speaker 2: it done, but.
Speaker 3: You'd have to feel a little bit better about it.
Speaker 2: And John, just as we wrap it up, I just
Speaker 2: want you to know, I don't have any I don't
Speaker 2: I don't have the copy for that, so I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna wing it.
Speaker 4: That's totally fine.
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Speaker 2: Have a good week end, and you know, maybe a'll
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Speaker 2: and figures crossed. I'm I'm ready, man, I'm excited for
Speaker 2: this game. And I'm a little nervous too, just because
Speaker 2: I'm well aware that like we got to see a
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Speaker 3: Have you go one everybody