Speaker 1: But eight, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety,
Speaker 1: Holy crap, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know who the hell we think when we are
Speaker 2: getting off our show, idiot.
Speaker 3: The kids are playing or trail off their countries.
Speaker 2: Are screwing it up.
Speaker 3: Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals. They're
Speaker 3: supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 2: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Here's nick coffee?
Speaker 4: I'd say since a little bit under a year ago,
Speaker 4: right about maybe eleven eleven and a half months ago,
Speaker 4: since that moment until now, we've had moments as Louisville
Speaker 4: basketball fans where you start to feel alive again.
Speaker 3: You start to.
Speaker 4: Get that feeling of you know, able to care and
Speaker 4: not be miserable. And I think last night was like
Speaker 4: the full moment because in the first half I started
Speaker 4: to think, you know, maybe maybe things were better whenever
Speaker 4: we were dead and we didn't, we didn't have any
Speaker 4: emotion attached to what March can do to us. I
Speaker 4: mean March madness, postseason success for your team. It's it's
Speaker 4: the best of both worlds. It's awesome, but like when
Speaker 4: it's not going well. It put me in a place
Speaker 4: that I didn't miss kind of forgot how awful it
Speaker 4: is to be watching your team play postseason basketball and
Speaker 4: you know, have that feeling, and I know many of
Speaker 4: you listening had that feeling, and then you know you didn't.
Speaker 4: And the feeling was maybe the best feeling I've had
Speaker 4: in a long long time.
Speaker 3: And uh, what a what a fun ride. It has
Speaker 3: continued to be.
Speaker 2: Five to shoot.
Speaker 1: Five for the game, Edwards, don't fail missed it, three
Speaker 1: pound talks Pard.
Speaker 4: I still don't understand why there was an uncontrollable, uncontrollable
Speaker 4: urge just to say no, no, no, bye bye, Crispin.
Speaker 4: But anyways, welcome and everybody, Happy Friday, Happy game Day.
Speaker 4: It's coffee and company fueled byth Thorton's here on Sports
Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: What a night it was.
Speaker 4: We'll certainly talk a lot about that and everything else.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been a crazy last couple of days
Speaker 4: when it comes to college hoops, and we've already got
Speaker 4: some good games underway right now. I think some of
Speaker 4: them have already concluded. But you know, for me, it's
Speaker 4: just this is I don't know, I mean, I last
Speaker 4: night was great as far as you know how it ended.
Speaker 4: And I guess had we just kind of cruised to
Speaker 4: a victory, still would have been fun. But man, did
Speaker 4: they make it interesting. And if you were if you
Speaker 4: wanted the thrill of what last Night can do, you
Speaker 4: got that again. The sadness early on was was a
Speaker 4: real reminder of what it's like to again watch your
Speaker 4: team struggle in that moment. But I mean, today Louisville's
Speaker 4: playing Clemson and I feel like they're playing in a
Speaker 4: national championship game and all this is is the semi
Speaker 4: finals of the ACC Tournament for a chance to get
Speaker 4: to the ACC Championship tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And I mean, I just it's.
Speaker 4: It to go back to what I said at the
Speaker 4: very beginning of the show three and a half four
Speaker 4: minutes ago, just there's emotion that's coming back. Feelings that
Speaker 4: you get, you know, when you're obsessed with this stuff
Speaker 4: like we are, that I don't really recognize maybe just
Speaker 4: because we were you know, we were dead. We were
Speaker 4: numb to all of this for so long that you know,
Speaker 4: when you experience something like this, when it's been this
Speaker 4: long without it and given just what it is, you
Speaker 4: kind of feel it like the first time.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I'm playing in a game tonight.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know what I'm saying, Like to have
Speaker 4: those nerves about a postseason game, I mean, it's awesome,
Speaker 4: but I need to keep reminding myself like this is,
Speaker 4: this is.
Speaker 3: I mean, if they win tonight, they'll play tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, I don't know if I'm I don't
Speaker 4: know if I'm prepared emotionally, Austin to handle what we've
Speaker 4: potentially got over these next next week or so. I mean, look, tonight,
Speaker 4: we'll see what happens. We'll certainly talk a lot about
Speaker 4: the game, but then next week, you know, the NAA Tournament.
Speaker 4: I hope this thing lasts for a long long time.
Speaker 4: But I just I'm still feeling the effects of everything
Speaker 4: that came with yesterday, and I kind of love it again.
Speaker 3: I feel alive.
Speaker 5: Brother, I am actually like I literally forgot what that
Speaker 5: felt like. I forgot And sometimes I get like a
Speaker 5: diet version of that, just because like you know, when
Speaker 5: you bet on something, you have like that sort of
Speaker 5: like emotional attachment when you got wagers on the game,
Speaker 5: but just nothing like when it's your team, what you're
Speaker 5: like a die hard over and it was just like
Speaker 5: I mean, sure was thrilling. Thrilling was I guess the
Speaker 5: word of the day because it didn't look good, you know,
Speaker 5: and you know I was. I was hitting you with
Speaker 5: the panic text yesterday.
Speaker 6: Brother.
Speaker 5: We were going back and forth with it to pull
Speaker 5: the old walk the dog trick because I'm not watching this,
Speaker 5: and then usually what happens, Like I said, I've only
Speaker 5: had to pull that trick out once a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago.
Speaker 3: When it works, we don't have to do it again.
Speaker 5: I hope that that's not the superstition, because I'd like
Speaker 5: to watch the game, so I don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, the power of positivity, that's up for debate
Speaker 4: a subjective as far as you know who believes in
Speaker 4: any anything like that. But because of how much I
Speaker 4: really love this team and want them so badly to
Speaker 4: keep playing, because I don't want this ride to end,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, I typically would be all right, well,
Speaker 4: you know, gloom is doom. There's you know, there's no
Speaker 4: chance that this is over. And it certainly looked like
Speaker 4: it was gonna. I thought it was gonna get uglier
Speaker 4: than it was. They were down fifteen, But my point
Speaker 4: is this time around, I don't know if it's maybe
Speaker 4: maturity for me, or if it's growth, or if it's
Speaker 4: just because this team is different and it's special. But
Speaker 4: I never I mean, I didn't feel great about it,
Speaker 4: but I didn't go to the to the to the
Speaker 4: lowest that I've been before when it comes to just assuming,
Speaker 4: you know, assuming the worst, and I guess, you know,
Speaker 4: hope for the best. Like I didn't feel good about it,
Speaker 4: but with this group, you kind of feel like they're
Speaker 4: always gonna continue to fight, and that's exactly what they did.
Speaker 3: So again, we'll certainly get you set for a big weekend.
Speaker 4: Obviously a lot of college basketball and hopefully Louisville is
Speaker 4: still playing tomorrow night. Obviously Kentucky would to win for them.
Speaker 4: Last night, I mean, March is back, just an absolute
Speaker 4: choke job down the stretch only to then be bailed
Speaker 4: out by Otega Away. Who is I mean, I said
Speaker 4: it a couple of weeks ago, and I don't think
Speaker 4: anybody really was.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't remember there being a whole lot.
Speaker 4: Of pushback for it, But to me, it just felt like,
Speaker 4: why is there so much talk about Jackson Robinson and
Speaker 4: Lamont Butler good players, and clearly they're talked about because
Speaker 4: of the uncertainty if they're gonna be able to play
Speaker 4: because of the injuries they've had. But Otika Away has
Speaker 4: been Kentucky's most valuable player, like the one guy they
Speaker 4: can't live without all year and last night, I mean,
Speaker 4: how about it. I mean, that guy's insane, and this
Speaker 4: is something that's low key like this. When I think
Speaker 4: about it, I'm like, damn, that's insane.
Speaker 3: That is impressive. That's that's something you see in a movie.
Speaker 4: But then when I say it out loud, it doesn't
Speaker 4: have the same effect. It's like it's like it's maybe
Speaker 4: not as impressive as I think it is. But to
Speaker 4: go against your former team to transfer and then beat
Speaker 4: them in both games at the buzzer, that's I mean,
Speaker 4: does that not? I mean, again, it doesn't sound that crazy,
Speaker 4: but there's no way that's happened before. I mean long ago.
Speaker 4: You couldn't really transfer and then play right away. So anyways,
Speaker 4: I mean, what a finish for Kentucky. I think they're
Speaker 4: as vulnerable as as they've ever been. But I mean,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope, last night's just one of the many games
Speaker 4: his team when it just doesn't look good and it
Speaker 4: looks like it's about to be you know, not only
Speaker 4: a bad result, but like maybe maybe they're about to
Speaker 4: you know, implode or something. They they they hang they
Speaker 4: hang in, found a way to win. That's what they
Speaker 4: did last night. But I mean, with Kentucky being in Nashville,
Speaker 4: obviously it was a home court for them last night.
Speaker 4: It will be tonight as well. But you know, they
Speaker 4: were they were fortunate to win, right So I still
Speaker 4: feel like their home court advantage and the way they
Speaker 4: can play is is gonna give them a boost to
Speaker 4: where I felt like before yesterday that that Auburn is
Speaker 4: a team that that may struggle against Kentucky just because
Speaker 4: of what that environment is. And Auburn has or not Auburn,
Speaker 4: but Alabama, I'm sorry, Alabama that has nothing to really
Speaker 4: play for here because they're there. They're set as a two,
Speaker 4: and I guess maybe they could play for a one.
Speaker 4: But what I'm getting at is that could still all happen.
Speaker 4: But after watching them last night and just seeing you know,
Speaker 4: an Oklahoma team that's not very good certainly got some
Speaker 4: you know, a couple of really good players, fears is amazing.
Speaker 4: But you know, like Alabama's just a lot better than Kentucky,
Speaker 4: and they're they don't have Butler, they don't have Robinson,
Speaker 4: and again, it's just setting up to what it's it's
Speaker 4: setting up tonight to be a similar situation they've been
Speaker 4: in many times this year where you go backs against
Speaker 4: the wall, gonna be really tough. You know, they're shorthanded,
Speaker 4: teams are team. The team they're playing is really good. Man,
Speaker 4: They've done a good job at this point, but I
Speaker 4: don't know about it. And I feel like more often
Speaker 4: than not, when they've been in that situation like they
Speaker 4: are to night, they mess around and win a game.
Speaker 4: So I just think Bama is a much better team
Speaker 4: given the Kentucky's injured in Bama's Bama.
Speaker 3: But we shall see.
Speaker 4: But anyways, let's get back to last night, because you
Speaker 4: know one thing I said for I mean probably probably
Speaker 4: said it something something like it or something close to it,
Speaker 4: maybe every day on this show since we've talked to
Speaker 4: love of basketball, really since they've put themselves in a
Speaker 4: position where you felt like, Okay.
Speaker 3: They're gonna be a tournament team.
Speaker 4: And you know, even when they've not played well, they
Speaker 4: nearly lost some games. They did lose to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: You know, it never to me was because they they
Speaker 4: weren't themselves.
Speaker 3: It's just things weren't.
Speaker 4: You know, they got out of sorts against Virginia Tech
Speaker 4: on the road, and we're making some mistakes that you
Speaker 4: don't typically see. But you know, they came out and
Speaker 4: were up eleven, nothing like. It wasn't as if they
Speaker 4: came out and were a different team and they didn't
Speaker 4: show up and they were you know, they were scared
Speaker 4: and they weren't ready, and sure enough last night that happened.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't I hate using the word like
Speaker 4: scared because that's it's a there's no way to say
Speaker 4: say somebody is scared and it not sound like you're
Speaker 4: saying something personal about them and you have no way
Speaker 4: of knowing. But they just seemed more complacent. There wasn't
Speaker 4: as much of there wasn't as much urgency, and they
Speaker 4: were just passive guys, you know, I mean again, it's well,
Speaker 4: first of all, let me credit Stanford Standard did a
Speaker 4: pretty good job making adjustments defensively to where you know,
Speaker 4: they you know, they realized who was a threat to
Speaker 4: do what for Louisville, and they took that away as
Speaker 4: best they could. They did a good job on the
Speaker 4: pick and roll. That of course led to Reynaud finding
Speaker 4: himself in foul trouble, but they were willing to take
Speaker 4: that risk.
Speaker 3: So credit to Stanford.
Speaker 4: I thought their coach did a pretty good job of,
Speaker 4: you know, countering from what he saw against Louisville just
Speaker 4: a few days ago.
Speaker 3: But Louisville was.
Speaker 4: A factor too, because again, you know, Terrence Edwards was
Speaker 4: his usual self, that guy. I don't know if there's
Speaker 4: ever been a moment in his life where he's not
Speaker 4: comfortable being aggressive and trying to score the basketball, and
Speaker 4: he is really kind of coming to it. He's been
Speaker 4: great all year, but when they've needed some buckets, really
Speaker 4: since rain's been out, and I feel like, honestly, for
Speaker 4: the most part of the entire season, he's been able
Speaker 4: to go get it.
Speaker 3: And I've said this for a while.
Speaker 4: Everything works out for Louisville, meaning their offense in Terrence
Speaker 4: in general, when he stays aggressive, even if he's missing shots,
Speaker 4: if he starts one of seven, if he stays aggressive,
Speaker 4: that is good for everybody because eventually shots are going
Speaker 4: to fall for him. He's gonna get to the free
Speaker 4: throw line. And when he's aggressive, you know that that
Speaker 4: just keeps the opponent. When Terrence is going downhill and
Speaker 4: he's you know, turning, turning, what looks to be just
Speaker 4: you know, not a whole lot to him slowly but
Speaker 4: surely maneuvering his way down near the rim. Rather it
Speaker 4: be him using his rear end or him just being
Speaker 4: shifty with change of pace like he is.
Speaker 3: But like that keeps it.
Speaker 4: When he's doing that and he's operating, that keeps the
Speaker 4: defense on their heels to where you know, in any
Speaker 4: given moment, like you know, there's two guys on the
Speaker 4: floor that that I you know, Rain Smith clearly is
Speaker 4: somebody that is such a such a weapon and the
Speaker 4: opponent always has to account for him that it's gonna
Speaker 4: it's gonna open some things up for other guys. But
Speaker 4: I think the way Terrence plays as well, you've got
Speaker 4: guys offensively that find themselves in great spots because you
Speaker 4: can never really if Terrence Edwards has the ball in
Speaker 4: his hands, you can't really take a playoff. I mean,
Speaker 4: you guess you could say the same thing about Chucky.
Speaker 4: But anyways, Terrence Edwards was great in the first half,
Speaker 4: and then obviously Noah Waterman for him to double his
Speaker 4: point per game total at halftime. I mean, if that
Speaker 4: doesn't happen, Louisville's down probably twenty at halftime, which is
Speaker 4: crazy to think about.
Speaker 3: Noah Waterman.
Speaker 4: What a moment for him to at least just you know,
Speaker 4: finally start to get a little bit more comfortable in
Speaker 4: the last few games, have a big first half, you know,
Speaker 4: made some place to help you win that game. Also,
Speaker 4: if he doesn't help you beat Eastern Kentucky, who knows.
Speaker 3: What we're doing right now.
Speaker 4: So in a weird way, Noah Waterman has kind of
Speaker 4: been a kind of been a savior for this group.
Speaker 4: And that speaks to everybody playing a role that is
Speaker 4: valuable and it may not be you know, like, for example,
Speaker 4: nobody's getting the same love that Chucky is getting nationally,
Speaker 4: and that's because Chucky's phenomenal. It's a legitimate All American
Speaker 4: player And how about last night?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: So Chucky gets all the love, But there's other guys
Speaker 4: that men their role is important and they bring it
Speaker 4: every night. And that's Terrence Edwards. I mean, even James
Speaker 4: Scott who I've never loved a guy more because I
Speaker 4: can tell he plays his ass off, he plays so hard,
Speaker 4: is so selfless, doesn't care about anything but winning, will
Speaker 4: do anything. I mean, I can tell when Pat Keolsey
Speaker 4: talks about coaching James Scott that he cherishes these years
Speaker 4: coaching this guy because he's he's so coachable. And again
Speaker 4: he's a good dude. But when he has the ball
Speaker 4: offensively and he's not dunking, I have a panic attack.
Speaker 4: I mean, love him, but he's so bad offensively if
Speaker 4: he's not dunking, has terrible angles underneath the rims. No,
Speaker 4: doesn't seem to have a very good touch. He's not
Speaker 4: a great you know, he's not a great free throw
Speaker 4: shooter by any means. So he's still But with all
Speaker 4: that said, he's still, you know, is phenomenal defensively most
Speaker 4: of the time. He's really good late when it comes
Speaker 4: to just being there right place, right time, not getting
Speaker 4: out work by somebody. So love all these guys and
Speaker 4: they're all really important. But back to the beginning of
Speaker 4: last night. Outside of Noahen Terrence, I mean Chucky, you know,
Speaker 4: he was just missing some shots. I don't think he
Speaker 4: played poorly, but I didn't necessarily get the sense of
Speaker 4: urgency and really just you know, like he took as
Speaker 4: much initiative as you typically see him. And then with javaon,
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if it was I mean,
Speaker 4: he just kind of was out there, right. He didn't
Speaker 4: didn't have a good first I mean, I don't even
Speaker 4: think he had a really good game. But you know,
Speaker 4: what it comes down to is I think it was
Speaker 4: a reminder that they're human, you know, regardless of this
Speaker 4: team's approach that they've i think been able to really
Speaker 4: maintain throughout the entire season, and it's probably a lot
Speaker 4: harder than we realize. Is that absolutely taking the same
Speaker 4: game to every approach, not you know, not thinking about
Speaker 4: the next game or the game after that, or thinking
Speaker 4: about the postseason or the NCAA tournament resume, and just
Speaker 4: focusing on who you're playing, keeping that, you know, keeping
Speaker 4: keeping the focus, and not you know, not not getting complacent.
Speaker 4: I think they've done a really really good job at that,
Speaker 4: and I think yesterday they weren't complacent because of the opponent.
Speaker 3: But I'm just gonna.
Speaker 4: Guess that they were a little bit tight and dare
Speaker 4: I say just I don't want to say nervous, but
Speaker 4: just not as comfortable as we typically see. And it
Speaker 4: wasn't because they were imploding. It's just they weren't themselves.
Speaker 4: And what a story we hear after the game that
Speaker 4: when it got when it got bad. I mean I remember.
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like I'm always gonna remember the
Speaker 4: time out when it got down fifteen, because I can't
Speaker 4: be the only one who thought to myself, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Sure i've ever or or ever thought we would see
Speaker 3: this group.
Speaker 4: Get a time out. You need a time out to
Speaker 4: kind of get their ashtewed, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like that's even when they've not played well and they've
Speaker 4: had bad stretches and certainly they've lost games. You know,
Speaker 4: it wasn't because of what we were seeing early on
Speaker 4: in the second half, like they were just kind of
Speaker 4: you know, they were just kind of tight, and that
Speaker 4: timeout happens, and the coach doesn't say a word nothing.
Speaker 4: It's just the players collectively realizing, all right, let's let's
Speaker 4: let's not let's not go out like this. We're gonna
Speaker 4: win this game. And Chucky told his team we're gonna
Speaker 4: win this game. And I kind of you know, I
Speaker 4: didn't none of us knew at the time that he
Speaker 4: said it. But now that we see it happen the
Speaker 4: way that it did, I mean, it's a beautiful fate.
Speaker 4: But also who knows what happens. But I kind of
Speaker 4: feel like when I watched Louisville play Chucky, Hepburns is
Speaker 4: not gonna let us lose.
Speaker 3: I mean again, it's.
Speaker 4: Not as if he's got years of repetition of bailing
Speaker 4: us out. But you can just sense. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: when he's got his confidence rolling. I mean, he's dangerous
Speaker 4: and what's crazy. I mean, Austin, you did you did
Speaker 4: up seeing the end of the game, right, like, I
Speaker 4: know you went on your walk, you watched on your phone,
Speaker 4: I'm sure, right.
Speaker 3: But you stayed with the dog. Ye yeah, you just
Speaker 3: didn't go back in the house.
Speaker 5: Well got did not touch that for saken inside the house,
Speaker 5: just pulled it up on Hulu want.
Speaker 4: And that's one of the reasons why I think we
Speaker 4: won is because you you were you were self disciplined
Speaker 4: when it comes to that. But right before, you know,
Speaker 4: the late not a great no rhythm. I mean, I know,
Speaker 4: I don't fault edwards for the shot but obviously he
Speaker 4: didn't get a clean look at it, and then it
Speaker 4: you know, we know how it played out from there.
Speaker 4: Right before all that, Chucky committed one of the worst
Speaker 4: turns over you'll ever see from.
Speaker 3: A senior point guard.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean that was as uncharacteristic of a
Speaker 4: play from Chucky hepburn in that moment that I can
Speaker 4: think of. But he's just wired different, as the kids say,
Speaker 4: he's built different. Because you know, I don't mean the
Speaker 4: fact that he was just right there right time comfort
Speaker 4: like so many guys would have would have shot that
Speaker 4: like a cannon right because they would have been realized,
Speaker 4: there's no way this is happening. And I don't want
Speaker 4: to act like the shot he made is something that
Speaker 4: only you know, legends of the game of basketball could make.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a very easy shot, you know in most situations,
Speaker 4: but that situation was crazy. I think most people would
Speaker 4: have just they would have jumped weird. They would have
Speaker 4: had you know, it was like they would have had
Speaker 4: ants in their pants while they shot it.
Speaker 3: That's right, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: So you know, he's he's calm and cool, and he
Speaker 4: doesn't waiver. He's gonna make mistakes, and again he made
Speaker 4: a big one last night. And trust me, I don't
Speaker 4: bring that up to say, you know, let's not forget
Speaker 4: he also screwed up. That is not at all what
Speaker 4: I mean. In fact, what I'm saying is that it's
Speaker 4: a reminder that these guys never get too high or low.
Speaker 4: I mean, they were getting pretty high and I was,
Speaker 4: I mean I was ready to just go ahead and
Speaker 4: start celebrating when they were up eight and then all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, you know it, it went away. So
Speaker 4: what a wild, wild evening for both teams locally because Louisville.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess you could say it would have
Speaker 4: been a choke job had they lost that game with
Speaker 4: that and one and like that was it and they
Speaker 4: had to come to Like if let's say, let's say
Speaker 4: that free throw put them up one, I mean at
Speaker 4: that point, your last shot would have been a desperation
Speaker 4: shot and you miss it and you lose. I think
Speaker 4: that would have been one of the worst ways ever
Speaker 4: because yeah, you came back, but then you choked again,
Speaker 4: like then you choked it away. Like that would have
Speaker 4: been maybe the I haven't even tried to process what
Speaker 4: that would have felt like because God, that would have
Speaker 4: been painful. But it didn't happen, and that's amazing. Same
Speaker 4: thing for Kentucky. They've got a lead on Oklahoma, they're
Speaker 4: about to put it away. They absolutely choke it away
Speaker 4: and I mean give up the lead and sure enough
Speaker 4: they you know, make It's.
Speaker 3: Just it's just a wild and I mean a while
Speaker 3: old wild.
Speaker 4: Thing to think about when it comes to these two
Speaker 4: fan bases in this state, in this market, who care
Speaker 4: about their programs as much, if not more than anybody else, right,
Speaker 4: And last night things played out at the end the
Speaker 4: exact same way for both teams. And just consider this
Speaker 4: the joy that you got from watching Chucky Hepburn do that.
Speaker 4: I mean again, it makes you feel alive. This is
Speaker 4: what's sad. My wife made this point last night. There
Speaker 4: are fans that are probably you know, young adults then
Speaker 4: aren't even old enough to remember, meaning they don't they've
Speaker 4: probably never experienced, you know, like.
Speaker 3: They hit fan puberty, right, they grew up a little bit.
Speaker 4: They probably last night created the first of hopefully many
Speaker 4: moments where you see that kind of thing happen. And again,
Speaker 4: it's in March, it's in the postseason. So again, think
Speaker 4: about how awesome that felt. Same thing for Kentucky fans
Speaker 4: when it comes to watching Otaga away go coast to coast,
Speaker 4: when you feel like you just choked the game away
Speaker 4: and get the get the bucket at the buzzard to win.
Speaker 4: I mean again, the high you get from that, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's what crack addicts are made for. But think about
Speaker 4: the opposite. Think if you just fell short there, Oha
Speaker 4: doesn't make it. Let's say again, instead of it playing
Speaker 4: out the way that it did that and one for
Speaker 4: for club for Stanford would have would have would have
Speaker 4: beat you. I mean, think about how down in the
Speaker 4: dumps we'd be. We'd be we I mean, we would
Speaker 4: be beyond miserable. Because again, that's what March postseason basketball
Speaker 4: does to you when you lose. And if it would
Speaker 4: have been in that fashion, it would have been insane.
Speaker 4: But instead you get the you get to experience the
Speaker 4: same effect, but it's on the complete opposite side. Instead
Speaker 4: of just pure hell in agony, you get you get
Speaker 4: pure joy. I mean, it's like I mean, it's it's
Speaker 4: it's probably better than sex. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 4: what kind of sex you guys are having on me
Speaker 4: like a It's just I mean, like I can't. I
Speaker 4: can't think of things that have felt I can't think
Speaker 4: of things that have felt better.
Speaker 3: You're waiting for marriage, aren't you.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys are. I know you guys are gonna
Speaker 3: be married soon.
Speaker 6: Chastity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me let me know if you need if
Speaker 4: you need any uh you know, some chips. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: can send video, I can, I can have you the
Speaker 4: old I can have the old talk with you. Whold
Speaker 4: birds and the bees. Just want to make sure you
Speaker 4: know what you're doing. So you're an experienced sex have
Speaker 4: her yep, two times.
Speaker 3: Sex have your two kids, baby, that's right.
Speaker 4: I think that's been probably my most uh my most
Speaker 4: viewed tweet ever with somebody was it was random as
Speaker 4: hell that it popped off like that. But somebody you
Speaker 4: know insulted me and you know, called me names because
Speaker 4: sometimes people do that on the internet.
Speaker 3: You guys won't believe it.
Speaker 4: But uh and then they said I was a virgin,
Speaker 4: like they just threw among the tenth among the ten
Speaker 4: things said to insult me. I think they said I
Speaker 4: look like it. I looked like I was conceived by
Speaker 4: a beaver and a bald, lesbian or something.
Speaker 3: It was real. It was real graphic and uh but then.
Speaker 4: They included that I was a virgin too, and then
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, jokes on you pal two kids,
Speaker 4: maybe two times sex have her.
Speaker 3: It's a good feather in your cap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, I don't want to brag, but
Speaker 4: it's just the truth. But anyways, quick break, we'll get
Speaker 4: you caught up on what's going on across the country.
Speaker 4: A lot of games going on right now, as Auburn
Speaker 4: did survival miss sixty two to fifty seven. That I
Speaker 4: mean Auburn. I don't have any issue with anybody claiming
Speaker 4: they're the best team and that they're the deserving favorite
Speaker 4: to win it all. But the more I watch them,
Speaker 4: maybe I'm just not realizing how good the SEC is.
Speaker 4: But like, I don't know if they're like if they
Speaker 4: lose early, I'm not going to be totally stunned.
Speaker 3: I mean, anyways, we'll talk more about a lot of things.
Speaker 3: Stick around. It's game day.
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Speaker 4: All right, So Clemson one and a half point favorites tonight,
Speaker 4: which this is the first time Louisville's been an underdog
Speaker 4: in quite some time. I think the last game they
Speaker 4: were underdog was when they went to SMU and obviously
Speaker 4: I think they were up forty point in that game.
Speaker 4: And Kentucky tonight they are seven and a half point
Speaker 4: underdogs to Alabama. A little bit surprised by that line
Speaker 4: for both sides. Honestly, you know, with Louisville, I I mean,
Speaker 4: I'd say Clemson is the deserving favorite, So you know,
Speaker 4: maybe I.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't be surprised, but.
Speaker 4: Louisville has has already beat them now again, it is
Speaker 4: worth mentioning that tonight you get another win here.
Speaker 3: Clearly that gives you two of what is.
Speaker 4: Already your best win on your resume, but it would
Speaker 4: actually end up being the best win because technically beating
Speaker 4: Clemson now in a neutral site would be would be
Speaker 4: considered a tougher thing than beating them on your home court.
Speaker 4: So you have a chance tonight. Again, It's it's not much,
Speaker 4: but it's something, right. I talk a lot about, you know,
Speaker 4: a little value, and in these wins and look, they
Speaker 4: would they Clemson was always going to be a win
Speaker 4: that would help them. But it just kind of felt
Speaker 4: a little bit flat knowing that when you were talking
Speaker 4: about two really good wins for a lot of people
Speaker 4: would wonder how good those wins actually are. And then
Speaker 4: if it's the same team, I don't know many Again,
Speaker 4: you'd rather have it than the loss. But for what
Speaker 4: it's worth, Tonight in March postseason play, Louisville technically could
Speaker 4: get their biggest win of the season so far, which
Speaker 4: again is saying a lot about their schedule, but nonetheless,
Speaker 4: one thing that did end up at least as of now,
Speaker 4: helping Louisville is quad one wins. You're gonna hear a
Speaker 4: lot about it, and it's the most valuable when you
Speaker 4: can get. There are like three First of all, there's
Speaker 4: four quads, but there's like three different what would be
Speaker 4: smaller than a quad, there's three different sections tiers of
Speaker 4: the quad one wins because summer try, yes, somebody, some
Speaker 4: of them are really valuable, others are not as valuable.
Speaker 4: So for example, like you want to have as many
Speaker 4: of these as you can, you would absolutely want it
Speaker 4: to be quad one and not quad two, that's a
Speaker 4: no brainer. But with Oklahoma finishing at number fifty today,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, now Oklahoma West Virginia finishing at number fifty
Speaker 4: at least as of now, that is a quad one
Speaker 4: win for Louisville. If they fall to fifty one, which
Speaker 4: they were yesterday, that is a that is a quad
Speaker 4: two win, which again one and two. We know there's
Speaker 4: a difference and there's value. But I do think the
Speaker 4: committee will use their brain and look at hey, if
Speaker 4: you've got, like, for example, if you've got six quad
Speaker 4: one wins, which Lowell doesn't, and five of them are
Speaker 4: in that range, right, like you beat teams on the
Speaker 4: road that are ranked between fifty and seventy five because
Speaker 4: those are quad ones technically, So like if you know
Speaker 4: ninety percent of your quad ones are that, I mean,
Speaker 4: you still like to have those numbers, But I just
Speaker 4: think you can't. I mean, there's just no way anybody's
Speaker 4: gonna look at it the exact same. They're gonna look
Speaker 4: deeper than just seeing that it's either quad win or
Speaker 4: quad two. But if you're somebody that has the same
Speaker 4: record in quad one games, but yet your quad ones,
Speaker 4: five of your quad ones have come.
Speaker 3: Against top twenty teams.
Speaker 4: You're talking about different sides of the bracket potentially, meaning
Speaker 4: like different sides of the you know, the seeds. So
Speaker 4: I don't think it's again you'd rather have it, but
Speaker 4: I just don't think in at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: no matter what plays out from now until selection Sunday,
Speaker 4: which of course is only a couple days away. You know,
Speaker 4: your win against Indiana and your win against West Virginia,
Speaker 4: let's hope they fall.
Speaker 3: The quad one.
Speaker 4: But I think we all know what those are. The
Speaker 4: good they're not bad wins. It's just you know, and
Speaker 4: that's why if you're gonna end up playing Duke, I mean,
Speaker 4: the quadrant system, the net rankings, they don't know that
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag's not going to play right, so you know
Speaker 4: it'll it'll definitely help you on the resume. Look, I'm
Speaker 4: not even ready to go there. Yeah, because Louis has
Speaker 4: got to get past Clemson the night and obviously that'll
Speaker 4: be a that'll be a tough game. And I remember
Speaker 4: being at this game. This was the family night when
Speaker 4: louisll play Clemson. Earlier this year, it was me, the kidd, ohs,
Speaker 4: my wife in Austin, and it was the Hadley game.
Speaker 4: I mean, he put up thirty four I believe it
Speaker 4: was in that game, and it was just kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, Louisville had, you know, everybody I feel like,
Speaker 4: playing solid, but no double figures from either Terrence Edwards
Speaker 4: or Chucky Hepburn in that game. Louisville was still able
Speaker 4: to win by double digits against a good Clemson team,
Speaker 4: and again, part of that is because of Javon Hadley
Speaker 4: just having the game of his life and recreating that.
Speaker 4: As far as production, that's going to be pretty difficult
Speaker 4: for sure. But I do like this game for him because,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, Clemson has a lot of
Speaker 4: guys that, you know, I feel like, play like Java.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't say a lot of guys, but they've got
Speaker 4: a couple of bigs that are kind of hybrid like
Speaker 4: like Javon is, but they're not as athletic as Javon.
Speaker 4: I mean, for example, and by the way, this guy
Speaker 4: Ian Scheifflan really good player. I mean he's averaging non
Speaker 4: rebounds a game. I think he's leading the acc and
Speaker 4: rebounds are close to it. He's also given you twelve
Speaker 4: so and him and Javan are somewhat statistically similar, and
Speaker 4: he's really good rebounder. Probably not there's probably better rebounder
Speaker 4: than Javon, but Javon has the ability to step outside
Speaker 4: more so than other guys that are going to be
Speaker 4: matched up against him and potentially take advantage. So I
Speaker 4: don't know if you know Hadley played poorly last night.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think you played good any means,
Speaker 4: but you know, he just needs to be aggressive when
Speaker 4: he's an option. Like Rain Smith is clearly a weapon,
Speaker 4: and we don't have him to night, which sounds like
Speaker 4: Wolves is not going to have him in Charlotte at all.
Speaker 4: But anyways, when Rain's out there, you know he's a
Speaker 4: weapon because he can flip a game in an instant
Speaker 4: if he gets hot from three. Chucky, hepburnt, disrupted defensively
Speaker 4: and clearly just a great All American caliber player that
Speaker 4: is going to give you problems in many ways. Terrence
Speaker 4: Edwards just a volume score, a guy that you know,
Speaker 4: if he stays aggressive, you might get a couple of stops,
Speaker 4: but he's gonna keep coming and he's probably gonna finish
Speaker 4: between fifteen and twenty five a night. So those guys,
Speaker 4: you know, those are real strengths when you think about,
Speaker 4: all right, this guy does this well, this guy does
Speaker 4: a lot of things well, this guy does that well.
Speaker 4: But with Javon, he's also kind of in that he
Speaker 4: can do a little bit of everything. He's good enough defender,
Speaker 4: he can shoot it a little bit. Obviously, he rebounds well.
Speaker 4: But like when he's got I feel like he's the
Speaker 4: real like he's the last topping on the pizza that
Speaker 4: takes it from being a pretty good pizza. Do you
Speaker 4: thinking like, damn, this is perfect because you know he's
Speaker 4: been consistent. His numbers are solid. He's about eleven twelve
Speaker 4: points per game, seven and a half boards. But when
Speaker 4: he does step above his average production wise, it usually
Speaker 4: means that everybody, you know, the other guys have become
Speaker 4: a real focal point for the opponent because man Rain's
Speaker 4: hot or you know, Chucky's got it, Roland or Terrence,
Speaker 4: one of them usually is having a night scoring more
Speaker 4: often than not. So when those things are happening and
Speaker 4: there's not as much attention on Javon, that's when he
Speaker 4: can really take advantage. So I kind of feel like,
Speaker 4: you know, not to I'm not just saying this because
Speaker 4: he put up thirty plus against him last time. But
Speaker 4: I do feel like this is a this is a
Speaker 4: it's a matchup for him where he could really really
Speaker 4: have a night. Now, just to clarify, I will say this,
Speaker 4: I'll admit to you guys when I'm an idiot, and
Speaker 4: I probably do that every day when I start the
Speaker 4: show and just start yapping. But I didn't realize there
Speaker 4: were two Hunters on Clemson. Did you know that Austin No.
Speaker 4: I know Chase Hunter because he's a first team All
Speaker 4: acc guy, a senior sixteen points a game. I did
Speaker 4: not realize that that there's another Hunter that is it
Speaker 4: his brother? I think it might be, so my dad,
Speaker 4: I'll I'll give shout out to him. Pops Mark Coffee
Speaker 4: is the one who informed me. He's the insider of
Speaker 4: the family when it comes to keeping up with, you know,
Speaker 4: the opponent. He's got the scout for this one because
Speaker 4: I thought that there's just one Hunter, But there's a
Speaker 4: second Hunter named Dylan Hunter, and he is his brother
Speaker 4: and he's the one who's hurt. He So when I
Speaker 4: heard last night that there was a you know, Hunter
Speaker 4: had a broken hand, and clearly Brad brown Well was
Speaker 4: gonna be you know, was having a tough time talking
Speaker 4: about it because of the emotions that come with losing
Speaker 4: a guy. And I think Brad ben Will actually said
Speaker 4: we're pretty sure he broke his hand. I'm thinking, oh crap,
Speaker 4: that makes like Clemson much more easy to get because
Speaker 4: that's their best player. Turns out it's his brother who
Speaker 4: does play, but he's only averaging five points a game.
Speaker 4: So the more dangerous of the two Hunter brothers is
Speaker 4: still out there and he's their best player sixteen points
Speaker 4: a night again, first team all acc So we should
Speaker 4: have a real good matchup between the guards to night,
Speaker 4: between Chucky and Fat as well as a Hunter and
Speaker 4: Zachary who's not as much of a scorer but really
Speaker 4: just a good defender, smart veteran and guard. So anyways,
Speaker 4: what a night last night. Will continue to relive that
Speaker 4: if you want. I mean, I'm ready for tonight. But
Speaker 4: last night we haven't had a moment like that in
Speaker 4: a long time, and damn it, it feels good. All right,
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Speaker 4: here on a beautiful at least it's beautiful right now.
Speaker 4: I think we've got some other weather coming our way.
Speaker 4: But the vibe is beautiful when it comes to basketball,
Speaker 4: because what a what a moment last night. I mean,
Speaker 4: it looked like it was about to be a reminder
Speaker 4: of how painful march can be when you're in that
Speaker 4: situation and something like that happens. But chuck you Hepburn
Speaker 4: saves today and Louisville moves on. We'll talk more about
Speaker 4: that throughout the show today. Get you set for all
Speaker 4: the games tonight this weekend, best time of the year.
Speaker 4: But joining us now is a former colleague of ours,
Speaker 4: a good friend of ours. He's Jeff Milby. Used to
Speaker 4: hear him on these airwaves through at iHeart Media. Now
Speaker 4: you hear him calling the games for the soccer clubs
Speaker 4: around here. Joining us and talk some racing Louisville soccer.
Speaker 3: What's up, Jeff? How we doing? Brother house life?
Speaker 7: Things are good, Nick, things are good. Glad to be
Speaker 7: with you. Yeah, I swapped in the early morning wake
Speaker 7: up call to go do the news over on eight
Speaker 7: forty to hang out at the soccer stadium every couple
Speaker 7: of Saturdays. So it's you know, I miss it over there,
Speaker 7: But tell you what, I don't miss the three forty
Speaker 7: five alarm every day.
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's something you will never ever miss. And
Speaker 4: I know you're super passionate about soccer and have been
Speaker 4: have been involved with with with racing the lou and
Speaker 4: Louisville City FC here the last few years. So tonight
Speaker 4: or tomorrow, I'm sorry, they've got the home opener coming
Speaker 4: up before we get into to the match tomorrow and
Speaker 4: whatnot and getting the season started when it comes to
Speaker 4: coming off of last year obviously another year where the
Speaker 4: club missed out on the postseason. Just kind of for
Speaker 4: those who hear that and think, man, the team has
Speaker 4: had a tough time kind of getting things going. They've
Speaker 4: yet to break through and make the postseason. Is it
Speaker 4: more so just the part of the process. Whenever you
Speaker 4: know you launched, I mean, this is still a baby
Speaker 4: in the grand scheme of things, or has there been
Speaker 4: some movements made throughout the club that you know you
Speaker 4: feel like now you know they're in a better direction
Speaker 4: than they were previously.
Speaker 7: Yeah, certainly, I think they definitely are in a better
Speaker 7: direction than they were previously. And look, it is part
Speaker 7: of the territory. They were an expansion team just a
Speaker 7: few years ago in twenty twenty one. I mean, you
Speaker 7: look at any other professional sport, the expansion team doesn't
Speaker 7: succeed right away in most cases in.
Speaker 3: A way, you get a cut your team.
Speaker 6: We're an expansion team. That's right.
Speaker 7: You've got to cut your teeth and racing louisvill has
Speaker 7: certainly been cutting their teeth. But they're right there. They
Speaker 7: were right there last year. Nick, I'm telling you, ninth place,
Speaker 7: the top eight make the playoffs. If they had one
Speaker 7: tie become a win or two ties become a win,
Speaker 7: they would have been in the playoffs safely last year.
Speaker 7: And this is a team that has as much talent
Speaker 7: as they need to make the playoffs. If anything, the
Speaker 7: argument is maybe that they underperformed a little bit last year.
Speaker 6: First year head coach for.
Speaker 7: Beban Z, She's grown, she's learned, She's talked a lot
Speaker 7: about the self reflection that I went through in the offseason,
Speaker 7: learning from her first year as a head coach and
Speaker 7: now year two under her, They've got a bright, young
Speaker 7: core of players. They've added a group of really talented
Speaker 7: rookies in the offseason that will hopefully push this team
Speaker 7: a little bit forward. And yeah, if they can just
Speaker 7: turn one or two ties that they had last year
Speaker 7: into wins this season, they will be securely in the playoffs.
Speaker 7: And once you're in the playoffs, anything can happen. We're
Speaker 7: talking here and you're talking about March madness and the
Speaker 7: wild things that we had happened last night across the
Speaker 7: country in both the U of L and the UK game. Well,
Speaker 7: when Racing Louwell finally does break through into those playoffs,
Speaker 7: anything can happen in this league, especially because parody is
Speaker 7: the number one factor in the National Women's Soccer League.
Speaker 7: So certainly, coming into twenty twenty five, the expectation is playoffs.
Speaker 6: The goal is playoffs.
Speaker 7: And I think that is absolutely a reasonable thing for
Speaker 7: anybody who maybe isn't totally plugged in to expect from
Speaker 7: this group, given the talent that they have. Talking about
Speaker 7: players like Mscars, I mean, over the off season, she
Speaker 7: had a huge offseason. She was a rookie last year
Speaker 7: out of Ohio, broke onto the scene. Wasn't really expected
Speaker 7: to do a whole lot as the second round pick,
Speaker 7: but broke onto the scene and was tied to the
Speaker 7: team lead and goals with five last year, and then
Speaker 7: got called up to the US women's national team multiple
Speaker 7: times toward the end of last year and then through
Speaker 7: the offseason when they've played in tournaments and in exhibition games.
Speaker 7: So she's now a national star. She's burst onto the
Speaker 7: national stage as a US women's national team player, starting
Speaker 7: games for them as well. So she's just one example
Speaker 7: of a player that coming into twenty twenty five could
Speaker 7: just take a few steps forward and that's all this
Speaker 7: team needs to push them into the playoff field.
Speaker 4: Jeff Milby's our guest joining us here talking some Racing
Speaker 4: Louisville soccer. The home opener tomorrow is against the North
Speaker 4: Carolina Courage. What do we expect from the first opponent
Speaker 4: here as we get the new campaign started.
Speaker 6: Well, look, it's going to be a difficult test. Nick.
Speaker 7: North Carolina's a team that's given Racing Louisville a lot
Speaker 7: of trouble over the years. They've met eleven times. Racing
Speaker 7: has only been able to win one of those meetings,
Speaker 7: and North Carolina has won all other ten. There weren't
Speaker 7: any ties and any times that they've met, so it's
Speaker 7: been a team that's kind of had Racing Louisville's number,
Speaker 7: and they had an eventual offseason as well. They brought
Speaker 7: in a brand new player to them. Her name is
Speaker 7: Jaden Shaw. She's another US women's national team star, big
Speaker 7: deal within the league, a headline making deal within the
Speaker 7: league to acquire her via trade from San Diego in.
Speaker 6: The off season.
Speaker 7: She's a forward and attacking player, a dangerous player. So
Speaker 7: that Racing Louisville back line, which is still trying to
Speaker 7: kind of find itself coming into twenty twenty five, they've
Speaker 7: had some changes back there and they're still trying to
Speaker 7: figure out who their best back four is coming into
Speaker 7: the year, They're going to have their hands full with
Speaker 7: Jaden Shaw. But in terms of the rest of the team,
Speaker 7: I think pound for pound, Racing Louisvill's probably got a
Speaker 7: little bit more talented North Carolina maybe a side from
Speaker 7: the back line in that matchup with Jade and Shaw,
Speaker 7: So it should be a really intriguing battle. And what
Speaker 7: I'll tell you, Nick is this Racing Louisville team this year,
Speaker 7: they are going to ramp up the intensity. That is
Speaker 7: the new strategy for Bevan as the head coach. They
Speaker 7: are going to be a team that runs, runs, runs,
Speaker 7: and works hard. It's going to be a press that
Speaker 7: they are going to install as the main strategy this year.
Speaker 7: So think about a full court press like a Rick
Speaker 7: Patino era.
Speaker 6: A full court press. That's what this.
Speaker 7: Team is going to try and emulate on the soccer field.
Speaker 7: So it's going to be intense. Hopefully they can turn
Speaker 7: the opposition over in this case, North Carolina turned them
Speaker 7: over in their half of the field and generate some quick,
Speaker 7: easy goal scoring opportunities. That's going to be the recipe
Speaker 7: for success this year for this Racing Louisville team.
Speaker 4: Well, obviously winning is what fans pay attention to most,
Speaker 4: but if you can play a competitive, a hard playing style,
Speaker 4: and we learned that around here with Pat Kelsey. Obviously
Speaker 4: winning has been the biggest factor in fans getting excited
Speaker 4: feeling alive again. But these guys playing hard, playing a fast,
Speaker 4: exciting style that has certainly helped things along the way.
Speaker 4: So tomorrow at day five o'clock, for those unaware they're
Speaker 4: going to be debuting some new kits. Also green beer
Speaker 4: in honor of Saint Patrick's Day. The green beer taste
Speaker 4: the same as non green beer, but for some reason
Speaker 4: people seem to enjoy it even more and drink more
Speaker 4: of it, So it should be some good vibes out
Speaker 4: there at at Lynn Family Stadium. Now, speaking of the fan, obviously,
Speaker 4: as we discussed, this is an expansion team that's still
Speaker 4: cutting their teeth in the early stages, a little baby.
Speaker 4: Compared to some other clubs within the league, have you
Speaker 4: guys noticed a real uptick each.
Speaker 3: And every year.
Speaker 4: The more you guys, the longer you guys have been around,
Speaker 4: I sence folks who you know clearly love and support
Speaker 4: soccer there that's just what they do.
Speaker 3: They're passionate.
Speaker 4: But others that you know, maybe weren't big SoC they
Speaker 4: weren't exposed to the soccer culture a whole lot. They
Speaker 4: bring their family, it becomes like something they do every
Speaker 4: time there's a home match. So I'm sure that's got
Speaker 4: to be exciting for the organization overall to see you
Speaker 4: guys continuing to grow with just getting interest. I mean,
Speaker 4: the question was out there for a while. I think
Speaker 4: It's been answered for quite some time now that this
Speaker 4: is a soccer city.
Speaker 3: It's not about can it be? It is one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it absolutely is a soccer city.
Speaker 7: And I tell you what, anybody out there listening who
Speaker 7: has not been brought into the fold yet, here's the
Speaker 7: date you need to pinpoint. Yeah, certainly come atter the
Speaker 7: opener this weekend. By the way, Nick, I don't know
Speaker 7: if you've seen the weather forecast. It's looking a little ominous,
Speaker 7: not very well. So there is potential for them to
Speaker 7: potentially move the game the Sunday afternoon because we don't
Speaker 7: want to play in a driving rain.
Speaker 6: Let's just be honest.
Speaker 7: That's not finalized, so pay attention to our website and
Speaker 7: our social media channels. I think something may be announced
Speaker 7: on that this evening if they do decide to move
Speaker 7: to Sunday. But the green beer and the green jerseys,
Speaker 7: the Green kits, it'll all be in play on Sunday
Speaker 7: if they do move. But the other date, what I'll
Speaker 7: say to to anybody listening who's not plugged in, not
Speaker 7: coming to every game, not watching every game, the opportunity
Speaker 7: to come see this team play that will be memorable
Speaker 7: for you and your entire family is on Thunder Over Louisville.
Speaker 7: It's a new tradition that we're planning on having every
Speaker 7: year with Racing Louisville. Now, last year they did it
Speaker 7: for the first time, had eleven, three hundred and sixty
Speaker 7: five fans, the biggest crowd to see a Racing Louisville
Speaker 7: game here in Louisville at Lynn Family Stadium. It was
Speaker 7: an electric atmosphere and they put on a show. They
Speaker 7: beat Utah five to one. I mean, they absolutely thumped them.
Speaker 7: So we're trying to do that again this year on
Speaker 7: Thunder It's on April twelfth. You'll be able to watch
Speaker 7: the air show from your seats, watch a really entertaining
Speaker 7: soccer game, and then afterwards stick around the stadium for
Speaker 7: one of the more unique and best views of the
Speaker 7: Thunder Over Louisville fireworks show. So that's on April twelfth.
Speaker 7: I head to racinglufc dot com to find out more
Speaker 7: on that. It's going to be a new tradition in
Speaker 7: the city of Louisville. Last couple of years, everybody's really
Speaker 7: enjoyed it. Two years ago we just opened up the
Speaker 7: stadium to have people come. Last year we added a
Speaker 7: game to the overall day and then it'll be another
Speaker 7: great day this year. So if you're out there, you've
Speaker 7: got kids at home, you're looking for something to do
Speaker 7: after basketball season's over in mid April, that thunder over
Speaker 7: Louisville game is going to be memorable. We're expecting another
Speaker 7: record type crowd eleven twelve thousand on hand for that one,
Speaker 7: So certainly make your way out to every game. I'm
Speaker 7: not trying to tell people not to come out the game.
Speaker 7: Come out to every game, but if you're only going
Speaker 7: to do one, that might be the one to pick
Speaker 7: this year.
Speaker 3: Exciting stuff. Great to catch up we did, Jeff.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll be talking soon as the club gets
Speaker 4: the season started. So have a great weekend. Hopefully the
Speaker 4: weather cooperates and we'll talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I appreciate you. Nick. Always always enjoy chatting with you, friend, All.
Speaker 4: Right, take care of that is Jeff Melby miss him
Speaker 4: around here, but obviously he's doing great things for Racing
Speaker 4: hold Earth Soccer Holdings and helping out with Louisville City FC,
Speaker 4: Racing Louisville and they are set for another season.
Speaker 3: And telling you there's not a more beautiful place I
Speaker 3: feel like.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's so modern and still brand new, meaning
Speaker 4: Lenz Stadium, but the view of the stadium from the interstate,
Speaker 4: the view of LOUISVILLEQEU. Imagine thunder over Louisville from there,
Speaker 4: I imagine didn't get much better than that. All right,
Speaker 4: let's stick around. Well I want you to stick around.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I said let's stick around. We
Speaker 4: should stick around too, right Austin, Because you know, if not,
Speaker 4: then there wouldn't be a show. So we're gonna stick
Speaker 4: around as well, and hopefully you guys do too. Right
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