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Speaker 2: out with us to kind of tell you where we've
Speaker 2: been today, to kind of give you a view of
Speaker 2: our roadmap.
Speaker 3: We've been all over the place.
Speaker 2: We did talk a little bit about the Louisville basketball
Speaker 2: schedule kind of coming together. Have they released their full schedule?
Speaker 2: I guess they haven't, have they because I don't see
Speaker 2: the ace. I feel like I missed something schedule related
Speaker 2: about UFOL basketball whenever I was on vacation, But I
Speaker 2: didn't because the basketball program was talking about quite a
Speaker 2: bit when I was gone, But it was because of
Speaker 2: the TBT as well as their trip to the Bahamas.
Speaker 2: So maybe the ACC has yet to unveil the schedule
Speaker 2: just yet, which I do believe that comes out probably,
Speaker 2: you know, in the next week or so, so that's
Speaker 2: when we have the full schedule. But I know football
Speaker 2: season is here. Louisville football is going to be out
Speaker 2: there in a matter of what ten days now, so
Speaker 2: we're getting there. But basketball is always going to be
Speaker 2: a big deal around here. And Pat Kelsey my man,
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna want to have a tough schedule
Speaker 2: every year, not only in conference play, but he can't
Speaker 2: really determine that, but in the non comp I feel
Speaker 2: like he's the kind of coach that's going to embrace
Speaker 2: where he is and understand, hey, Louis of basketball fans,
Speaker 2: they want to play in some big time games in
Speaker 2: November and December that really give you a chance to
Speaker 2: see early on where you stand. So I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked though, if he's going to approach it the way
Speaker 2: that I just mentioned. However, not necessarily wanted to always
Speaker 2: be as challenging as this year's non conference schedule, especially
Speaker 2: when it's his first year and he's got a brand
Speaker 2: new team.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I love his brand new team, and I'm sure he
Speaker 2: loves his brand new team as well. I think this
Speaker 2: group's got a lot of really good pieces where you
Speaker 2: could see a team make this, you know, a special
Speaker 2: year to remember, not only because it's going to be
Speaker 2: so much better than what you had in recent years,
Speaker 2: but also because you know they could be pretty good.
Speaker 2: Make the tournament with these, maybe get a decent seed,
Speaker 2: maybe find yourself in the second weekend. I realize I'm
Speaker 2: getting way ahead of myself just throwing that out there,
Speaker 2: but I think there's the potential for that to happen.
Speaker 2: But man, they could have a pretty rocky record when
Speaker 2: you get to conference play. I mean, I hate even
Speaker 2: saying that, But let's just look at who they've got, right.
Speaker 2: Maybe some of these teams are going to be over
Speaker 2: when it's all said and done. But what we found
Speaker 2: out today is that they're going to play Indiana and
Speaker 2: the Battle for Atlantis and their first game there in
Speaker 2: the Bahamas. Indiana by all accounts, as a preseason consensus
Speaker 2: top twenty team, I happen to think they're a little
Speaker 2: better than a lot of other people, just because I
Speaker 2: love what Mike Woodson did with his roster this year.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they went out and not just
Speaker 2: got good players. They've got good players that I think
Speaker 2: can fit really well together. They knew they needed to
Speaker 2: get better in the back court. They certainly did that.
Speaker 2: They got one of the best bigs you'll find in
Speaker 2: the portal and Omar Ballo, who transferred in from Arizona,
Speaker 2: a really good freshman who could be one of the
Speaker 2: best freshmen in the Big Ten. So that is going
Speaker 2: to be a tough game. And by the way, you
Speaker 2: know that'll be so in his first four games as
Speaker 2: the Louisville head coach and pull up schedule here, just
Speaker 2: had it pulled up here?
Speaker 3: Where did it go? Here? We go?
Speaker 2: So in Pat Kelsey's first four games as the head
Speaker 2: coach at U of L. Let's see not the first four,
Speaker 2: maybe it's first five. Why the schedule loading what they
Speaker 2: do and they take it down?
Speaker 3: Have you gotten right in front of me?
Speaker 2: So it's morehead state then it is Tennessee, a top
Speaker 2: fifteen team. Bellerman win throw up in Indiana. So two
Speaker 2: of his first five games are going to be against
Speaker 2: teams that preseason and certainly when you play them will
Speaker 2: be ranked really high. I mean there won't be a
Speaker 2: new ap pole to come out by the time you
Speaker 2: play Tennessee. So wherever they're ranked when it's preseason is
Speaker 2: where they're going to be ranked when you play them
Speaker 2: on November ninth. And then Indiana, they'll certainly be a
Speaker 2: top twenty team preseason. And you know they don't have
Speaker 2: anybody challenging before they play the Battle for Atlantis, do they?
Speaker 4: The closest thing they have to a challenge would be
Speaker 4: South Carolina. So I mean not like a big name
Speaker 4: team that harness.
Speaker 3: Yet it's a home.
Speaker 2: Game that actually I mean that's not as I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not a cupcake. It's not Tennessee, but it's not
Speaker 2: something you typically see a team play in November, right, right,
Speaker 2: you know it's a true, true game, a true it's
Speaker 2: a home game, of course, but it's yeah, it's against
Speaker 2: an SEC team and by the way, you know South
Speaker 2: Carolina they were it's.
Speaker 3: I mean, it'll it'll be a good team, but it's
Speaker 3: not a tennis.
Speaker 2: It's actually a pretty good test, I feel like, because
Speaker 2: you're not like scared of them, Yes, but.
Speaker 3: You to see where you're at before you go to
Speaker 3: the Mohamas.
Speaker 2: And that's what I want. I want to always see
Speaker 2: where my team stands. And that's just me speaking as
Speaker 2: a selfish fan who is looking at it as a
Speaker 2: consumer of the product, right, I'm not looking at it
Speaker 2: as a head coach who wanted to win games and
Speaker 2: make sure this thing gets off to a good start. So,
Speaker 2: you know, Indiana, depending on what happens in that game
Speaker 2: between the Cards and the Hoosiers, winner will play the
Speaker 2: winner of West Virginia and Gonzaga loser will play the
Speaker 2: loser of that game. So you know, Gonzaga is preseason
Speaker 2: top five just about everywhere you look. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I believe that, but still they've got I mean,
Speaker 2: they're good, and they've got a lot of talent coming
Speaker 2: back from last year's team that really came on late
Speaker 2: last year and was a Sweet sixteen team despite people
Speaker 2: thinking that maybe the first year, they don't make the
Speaker 2: tournament in forever. So whoever you get in the third game,
Speaker 2: it's really a tossup. But the other teams in that field,
Speaker 2: you're looking at Arizona, Davidson, Providence, and who's the other one.
Speaker 2: I'm blanket on the other one. They must not be
Speaker 2: very good. You say, Oklahoma, Oklahoma the other one, yes,
Speaker 2: And look, I don't know if they're going to be
Speaker 2: any good, but it's a Big twelve team or I
Speaker 2: guess now an SEC team, which is weird. All right,
Speaker 2: This just totally fried my brain of all the random
Speaker 2: show uffling that's gone on in realignment that we're going
Speaker 2: to see this year on the field and on the court.
Speaker 2: Saying that Oklahoma basketball is in the SEC just sounds
Speaker 2: so oft, does it not?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's just still more I guess SEC. Like, just
Speaker 4: I guess The.
Speaker 2: Way they and the SEC just sounds so random.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma seems like they should be a pure Big twelve team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like there, you know, I'm with you. So once
Speaker 2: you get back from the Bahamas. No big deal. You
Speaker 2: got three days and then you play Ole Miss at
Speaker 2: home in the sec ACC Challenge. That is going to
Speaker 2: be a top twenty matchup, I would assume, just depending
Speaker 2: what I mean. Chris Beard was good last year for them,
Speaker 2: and he did really good in the portal, and let's
Speaker 2: be real, he's a hell of a coach. Ole Miss
Speaker 2: only has him as their coach for one reason, and
Speaker 2: we know the reason for that. And then you've got
Speaker 2: Kentucky in mid December. So this is a really challenging schedule.
Speaker 2: As a fan, again, I wouldn't have it any other way,
Speaker 2: but I am curious to see moving forward, we'll find out,
Speaker 2: as you know, the era that is the Pat Kelsey
Speaker 2: era moves along. I'm curious to see if he's going
Speaker 2: to try to scale that way every year, and I
Speaker 2: hope he does again. But that's just me as a
Speaker 2: fan who loves to see night in and night out
Speaker 2: where your team stands. We did have a good text
Speaker 2: on the text line earlier today because it's like move
Speaker 2: in time right now across the country at all these
Speaker 2: universities in colleges, and when I was talking about how
Speaker 2: I'd rather see my team. Play a team where I
Speaker 2: know that there's going to be something to learn rather
Speaker 2: than playing you know, the you know, the Butthole State
Speaker 2: and the butt Crack Tech or the butt Cracked Tech
Speaker 2: and the butthole State.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Either way, somebody texted in earlier and said that, hey,
Speaker 2: love the show. On my way dropping my son off.
Speaker 2: He starts his freshman year at a butthole butthole State.
Speaker 2: Which did he get that wrong? I'm confusing people now.
Speaker 2: And by the way, our caller earlier, Roscoe, shout out Roscoe.
Speaker 2: He did in fact create a logo, uh for this
Speaker 2: school that you know now it has to exist. We
Speaker 2: got the official logo butt Crack State.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's got a plumber, the back of a plumber and
Speaker 2: the butt crack showing nice UCLA gold with a light
Speaker 2: blue there kind of you know a little bit of
Speaker 2: an off brand UCLA color scheme, wouldn't.
Speaker 3: You say, Yeah, a little kind of brownish.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyways, for you're a coach, you know why
Speaker 2: you have those games and look, I know as a fan,
Speaker 2: why you play some of those games against teams that
Speaker 2: you know you're gonna win, but you just want to
Speaker 2: work on things and make sure you do end up
Speaker 2: adding some wins to the to the win column before
Speaker 2: you get to conference play. But again, I'm so super excited,
Speaker 2: and I look, I wouldn't be shocked if Louisville does
Speaker 2: end up losing more of these games than they win
Speaker 2: as far as these teams that we know are going
Speaker 2: to be top twenty, but if they look good doing it.
Speaker 2: We never really just accept moral victories in Louisville basketball.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't. It's just not something that we know
Speaker 2: how to do. I feel like, however, you know you
Speaker 2: can still you can still get better from that. And again,
Speaker 2: this isn't something you really want to throw out there
Speaker 2: because it doesn't make you look good. But one of
Speaker 2: the reasons why I feel so confident this will be
Speaker 2: a tournament team is because I don't think the ACC
Speaker 2: is going to be a good league this year. I
Speaker 2: think it'll be another step back from even last year,
Speaker 2: and Louisville can benefit from that. Now, again, you love
Speaker 2: the AC. You would love for the ACC long term
Speaker 2: to get back to where it once was. But hey,
Speaker 2: while it's you know, trying to figure out if that's
Speaker 2: gonna while we're trying to figure out if that's going
Speaker 2: to happen or not, you can you can right now
Speaker 2: take advantage of that. So anyways, again it's Cofee and Company.
Speaker 2: We are feel about Thornton's heire on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 2: to ninety. Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. We're
Speaker 2: gonna get back into the college basketball stuff coming up
Speaker 2: here a little later on, because I do want to
Speaker 2: take a look at the CBS Sports Candid Coaches series
Speaker 2: some good questions. They've asked a handful of college basketball
Speaker 2: coaches out there, and I think some of the answers
Speaker 2: the responses that they got might surprise you. The questions
Speaker 2: are these three, what's the most amount of money of
Speaker 2: players ever asked for in NIL, which programs are feared
Speaker 2: the most when it comes to NIL, who's got the
Speaker 2: biggest bag essentially, and which program made the best higher
Speaker 2: this offseason. So we will take a look at that
Speaker 2: coming up a little bit later on. But back to
Speaker 2: the football stuff here. So I Amrii Huggins. Bruce rumors,
Speaker 2: I'm ready to say are not just rumors. There's really
Speaker 2: something going on here, but as far as it actually happening,
Speaker 2: him bailing on South Carolina, transferring back to Louisville and
Speaker 2: joining the program for the upcoming season that starts in
Speaker 2: what ten days. I still am not ready to say that,
Speaker 2: like I'm confident that it's going to happen again. I
Speaker 2: don't know anything. I know as much as you guys, right,
Speaker 2: We're just we're out here refreshing social media, refreshing the
Speaker 2: message board websites to see if somebody's dropping some scoop.
Speaker 2: And what made this whole thing kind of weird? Is
Speaker 2: it sounded like it sounded like such a far fetched
Speaker 2: rumor that somebody put out there maybe just to kind
Speaker 2: of speak it into existence, given the circumstances with Colin
Speaker 2: Lacy going down, Huggins, Bruce not winning the starting job
Speaker 2: at South Carolina, and you know, Louisville having a need here.
Speaker 2: I mean, it just kind of seemed like, well, this
Speaker 2: will be perfect, you know, given the situation. And it
Speaker 2: sounds like that this perfect scenario. They're trying to make
Speaker 2: it work. But the the ability to make it work,
Speaker 2: to me is what I question, just because I just
Speaker 2: it just seems like way too much in such a
Speaker 2: little time frame to make it to where he'll be
Speaker 2: able to suit up for you and take the field
Speaker 2: and rejoin the Louisville team. So to back up, he
Speaker 2: transferred in December. He transferred actually not long after Colin Lacey,
Speaker 2: a slot receiver who came in and you know, didn't
Speaker 2: win the job yet because they didn't compete for it.
Speaker 2: But he read the writing on the wall. They didn't
Speaker 2: get enough out of the slot receiver position from Huggins
Speaker 2: Bruce last year. Doesn't mean they wanted to get rid
Speaker 2: of him, but they probably know going in it's a
Speaker 2: calculated move. I'm going to go after Callin Lacey, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna know that it's gonna make Mariy Huggins Bruce
Speaker 2: feel a certain way, and if he chooses to leave,
Speaker 2: I will respect that because, yes, here's the reality. I
Speaker 2: can't lie to him and tell him we didn't over
Speaker 2: recruit him. Now I'm gonna probably also tell him he's
Speaker 2: got a chance to go compete and you know, beat
Speaker 2: this guy out that we went to go get.
Speaker 3: But he understands. So he left with.
Speaker 2: No bad blood, meaning he loved Louisville when he was here.
Speaker 2: I know a few people they got a chance to
Speaker 2: know him a little bit throughout his time here, and
Speaker 2: even some people that ate U of l that speak
Speaker 2: really highly of him. He's not one of these guys
Speaker 2: that was bitter on his way out. He made it
Speaker 2: quite clear on his social media pages. So he goes
Speaker 2: to South Carolina, he returns home. I didn't even realize
Speaker 2: it that he's from that area. So he's there going
Speaker 2: through springball, going through camp, and he did not win
Speaker 2: the job. And then he puts something on Twitter on Sunday,
Speaker 2: I think it was that says I'm totally checked out.
Speaker 2: He later deleted that tweet, And you know, for the
Speaker 2: last forty eight hours, it's just been a big rumor
Speaker 2: as to like, yeah, it sounds like there's some real
Speaker 2: smoke here. There's enough people talking about it, although nobody's
Speaker 2: confirming that it's in the works and it's happening. Nobody's
Speaker 2: come out and shot it down as nonsense yet, so
Speaker 2: it just kind of it remained just a big hot
Speaker 2: rumor that nobody knew if there was any legitimacy to
Speaker 2: it at all, for longer than what.
Speaker 3: You typically see.
Speaker 2: But I feel like the real proof here that there's
Speaker 2: something going on is that the beat writer for South
Speaker 2: Carolina reported earlier today that Amari Huggins. Bruce has not
Speaker 2: been at practice the last two days for South Carolina
Speaker 2: that his future with their program is uncertain. That is
Speaker 2: what a team source told the South Carolina Beat writer.
Speaker 2: So that tells me they're trying to make this happen.
Speaker 2: But here is what has been thrown out there as
Speaker 2: far as how it would be possible. And this is
Speaker 2: where I just feel like, if this is the only
Speaker 2: way you could do it, it almost to me seems
Speaker 2: like you can't do it. And that's this drop out
Speaker 2: of South Carolina, come back to Louisville enrolling classes, which
Speaker 2: by the way, I think you have to do it
Speaker 2: by Friday. He's got two days now, and then walk
Speaker 2: on to the team. Use nil to pay for your
Speaker 2: tuition this year as a non scholarship player. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess laying it out like that, John, does it
Speaker 2: sound as I mean, it doesn't sound like something that's
Speaker 2: just impossible.
Speaker 3: But like the portals closed? Are you are you saying that?
Speaker 2: I know John's not saying this, but like the people
Speaker 2: who are laying this out there is this is how
Speaker 2: you make it happen. Are you either just not giving
Speaker 2: a damn about the NCAA and what they might say because.
Speaker 3: Of it wouldn't be surprising.
Speaker 4: But being able to make his way all the way
Speaker 4: to Louisville and find his way on the roster in
Speaker 4: such a short amount of time, I mean, I guess
Speaker 4: it's possible technically, but I mean.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that will happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I again, I said earlier, somebody asked me percentage
Speaker 2: chances that Amari Huggins Bruce ends up at Louisville playing
Speaker 2: for them this year.
Speaker 3: I said thirty five.
Speaker 2: I'm now going twenty five. Because here's the thing. He
Speaker 2: is not Like, you can't just drop out of school
Speaker 2: enroll in another school to bypass the portal, as if
Speaker 2: nothing happened. I mean, I guess you can. And if
Speaker 2: the NCAA doesn't do anything, then you know you can, right,
Speaker 2: You can do anything until somebody tells you you can,
Speaker 2: and you know, you get you get you know, you
Speaker 2: get caught doing something that you know you're not allowed
Speaker 2: to do. But like that, the portal's closed, so he
Speaker 2: can't go to the portal. So I just feel like
Speaker 2: if this was the thing, then you would see other
Speaker 2: people doing it. Okay, well, the portal's closed, but you know,
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm gonna just cause again,
Speaker 2: as a student, the portal matter, But as an athlete,
Speaker 2: that's where you have to be able to ender the
Speaker 2: portal and then you get once you're in the portal,
Speaker 2: like for example, but if the portal was open, the
Speaker 2: compliance department at South Carolina would be notified by Mari
Speaker 2: that he wants to leave. They would then process it
Speaker 2: on there and to put him in the portal. Once
Speaker 2: he's in the portal, that's when all the schools can
Speaker 2: pick up the phone and call him. Right now he is,
Speaker 2: he can't go through the portal to get released to
Speaker 2: where Louisville can recruit him. So I guess they're just
Speaker 2: going to say, well, hey, he went back to school
Speaker 2: at u of L because he missed you know, he
Speaker 2: missed the you know, the campus dining. He really missed Louisville. Man,
Speaker 2: he missed that. Uh, he missed you know, he wanted
Speaker 2: to be He wanted to make sure he was in
Speaker 2: town for you know, for louder than life. Like I mean,
Speaker 2: is that going to be? I just don't think Louisvill
Speaker 2: would would would try to would try to pull this
Speaker 2: office Oh yeah, nothing to see here. He just wanted
Speaker 2: to come back to Louisville. Sure enough, he tried to
Speaker 2: walk on the team. We decided let's reunite. Like, it's
Speaker 2: just I don't know how you would do this without
Speaker 2: raising red flags by the nc double A. And the
Speaker 2: only reason I think that it's even gotten to this
Speaker 2: point where people are saying like it could happen is
Speaker 2: because nobody seems to really respect or fear the NCAA
Speaker 2: like they once did. Like him dropping out of school,
Speaker 2: enrolling in school as a normal student, and then walking
Speaker 2: on the team. If that's some kind of a loophole
Speaker 2: to where you don't have to worry about the transfer portal,
Speaker 2: that's news to me. Doesn't mean that it's not legit,
Speaker 2: but like, I just can't imagine that would be allowed.
Speaker 2: But then again, who knows.
Speaker 3: What's allowed right now in college sports?
Speaker 2: Right like, it seems like you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: This may be a dumb question, but I thought about
Speaker 4: it earlier. I mean, what would Louisville really want him back?
Speaker 4: This kind of because the whole situation that he's kind
Speaker 4: of that a Marii Huggins Bruce has put himself in
Speaker 4: is kind of raising some red flags that he can't
Speaker 4: be decisive, he can't really commit to one school or
Speaker 4: the other, and even though he'd be on the roster,
Speaker 4: he'd be a walk on. But it just kind of
Speaker 4: seems like a weird, you know, scenario for somebody like that.
Speaker 2: Let me take your question and rephrase it, because I
Speaker 2: think you're onto something here. Is Amari Huggins Bruce Worth
Speaker 2: all of this? Yeah, not meaning because he's a bad
Speaker 2: character guy, and I know that's not what.
Speaker 3: You were saying to assume anything.
Speaker 2: No, but is all this work to potentially get flagged
Speaker 2: for tampering worth it for a guy who is really
Speaker 2: just only on your radar because he's not won the
Speaker 2: job where he is and you lost the guy who
Speaker 2: you took to replace him to injury, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Like, it's just you know, if they can
Speaker 2: make it work, Hell yeah, why not? But to me
Speaker 2: it just seems it seems unrealistic. But then again, we're
Speaker 2: in a world now within college athletics where I feel
Speaker 2: like you can't really be surprised by anything, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, nothing would shock me when it
Speaker 2: comes to the way things play out at high especially
Speaker 2: at the highest level. And not to say Louivel is
Speaker 2: the highest level of college football, but they are, you know,
Speaker 2: in that highest in that either're in that higher that
Speaker 2: that high tier in regards to you know, power for
Speaker 2: and you know clearly in I L they've got a
Speaker 2: lot of that too. All right, real quick here before
Speaker 2: we get to our first break in the UH in
Speaker 2: the five o'clock hour, I'm a little distracted because I
Speaker 2: feel like I've been I feel like I've been violated
Speaker 2: my privacy. So I'll admit it. I don't I'm not
Speaker 2: ashamed to say it. But earlier today in my backyard,
Speaker 2: I was practicing my pitch John, Oh give it, I
Speaker 2: met well. I was told yesterday I got my Batch jersey,
Speaker 2: and I was told by somebody, you know, you should
Speaker 2: you should just you should throw a ball around a
Speaker 2: little bit, you know, try to try to guestimate the six,
Speaker 2: the sixty and a half feet and you know, just
Speaker 2: you know, truld get comfortable, right, don't just go up
Speaker 2: there and not throwing a baseball in years or something
Speaker 2: and try to throw it. I was like, okay, you
Speaker 2: know that makes sense. So I'm in my backyard, I
Speaker 2: guesstimated what would be about, you know, sixty and a
Speaker 2: half inches. And I got a baseball and then I
Speaker 2: realized as I was throwing it, it's really like it's
Speaker 2: it's a te ball, Like it looks like a baseball,
Speaker 2: but it's lighter, like it's not the real thing, the
Speaker 2: belt what I'm going to be throwing. What if I
Speaker 2: just bring my own ball, like bring my son's tea
Speaker 2: ball that's soft and lighter. I just keep it in
Speaker 2: my pocket. They hand me a ball and throw, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I got my own hair. I probably wouldn't do that. That
Speaker 2: would be embarrassing. But anyways, you know I was, I
Speaker 2: was warming up, you know, getting the arm loose a
Speaker 2: little bit, and you know, no surprise to me, I
Speaker 2: wasn't as bad as I thought. I mean, I like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's what I'm being asked to do is
Speaker 2: not that difficult. It's just you know, you want you
Speaker 2: don't want to overthink it and you don't want to
Speaker 2: get nervous and just really fully embarrass yourself. But again,
Speaker 2: as I've said all week, I'm ready to do this,
Speaker 2: and if I embarrass myself, I'm gonna live with it
Speaker 2: and not be surprised because you know, I'm not somebody
Speaker 2: that's ever been asked in any point in my life
Speaker 2: to throw a pitch. I've thrown baseball. I guess you
Speaker 2: could say I've thrown a pitch maybe underhanded to my
Speaker 2: four year old son, but like I've never played baseball. Well,
Speaker 2: somebody on the text line is texting in claiming they
Speaker 2: saw me doing that, which I do know. There's colored
Speaker 2: people that live in the town homes behind my neighborhood
Speaker 2: that have occasionally like either wrote me on Twitter or
Speaker 2: texted in the text line. I don't think there's stalkers
Speaker 2: or anything. But yeah, it's not usual that if you
Speaker 2: look at your backyard you see a guy just throwing
Speaker 2: a baseball from one end of v yard to the
Speaker 2: other and walking back and forth. I mean, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you when you take a video. No,
Speaker 2: they got a picture though, but in it and you
Speaker 2: can barely even see me in it. Maybe they got
Speaker 2: more video, maybe you got pictures. I don't know, but like,
Speaker 2: you know, you're not clever, Like you could post that
Speaker 2: if you want, but I mean, it doesn't you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not I'm not, I'm not. Uh, I'm
Speaker 2: not embarrassed of it, but you know, like, did you
Speaker 2: think you got me or something like, oh, he thinks
Speaker 2: nobody's watching, he's out here to throw. I mean again,
Speaker 2: if you videoed something and whatever picture you took like
Speaker 2: it it you know, it's it's it's it's nothing. And again,
Speaker 2: when I make fun of myself for probably being someone
Speaker 2: that's gonna be bad at throwing out the first pitch,
Speaker 2: like when you all make fun of me, it doesn't
Speaker 2: it doesn't hit, it doesn't register, right, Like if like,
Speaker 2: if I'm already making fun of myself, whatever you're gonna
Speaker 2: bring to the table isn't gonna be as good, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's I guess that's that's my own way of,
Speaker 2: you know, mentally dealing with it. But I'm getting ready again.
Speaker 2: I got my batch jersey and I'm uh, I'm fired up.
Speaker 2: I'm excited tomorrow. So yeah, first pitch is at six
Speaker 2: twenty as the Bats. It'll be their third game here
Speaker 2: in their home stand against the uh the Gwinnette Stripers.
Speaker 2: They played last night. They're back in action tonight and
Speaker 2: then again tomorrow and Friday, by the way, but Tomorrow's
Speaker 2: when I'll be throwing out the first pitch and I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. So I hope, so hope uh
Speaker 2: to not embarrass myself too bad, and hope to have
Speaker 2: and I know I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm not hopeful.
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna have a good time out there
Speaker 2: at Slugger Field. It's gonna beautiful and hopefully there's a
Speaker 2: good crowd on hand. All right, quick break. A lot
Speaker 2: to get through here before we run out of time,
Speaker 2: and there's not a lot of time left, So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try to keep this thing on track because I
Speaker 2: do want to talk about that candid Coaches series that
Speaker 2: I referenced and some other things to get to when
Speaker 2: it comes to Louisville. Nil, I mean, they're continuing to
Speaker 2: get love everywhere as far as having a good system
Speaker 2: in place to where you know they understand in IL
Speaker 2: matters in a major way and you want to make
Speaker 2: sure you got funds available to entice players and a
Speaker 2: and a well structured system. So again, we got a
Speaker 2: lot to get to, not a whole lot of time left.
Speaker 2: Stick with us right here. It's Coffe and Company. Feel
Speaker 2: about Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety I feel like
Speaker 2: I haven't heard this song in a long time. Probably
Speaker 2: it's been since probably football season, to be honest with you, Gosh,
Speaker 2: I wonder what year this song came out. Did you
Speaker 2: know this guy passed away?
Speaker 3: Archie ever saw? I have the data when it came out, though.
Speaker 2: Let me guess two thousand and two, correct, good call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think it was.
Speaker 2: Out for a couple of years before it became like
Speaker 2: a really known I mean, I just remember hearing this
Speaker 2: song at every high school I ever went to to
Speaker 2: watch a football game, or any high school I ever
Speaker 2: went to that I played basketball in, I mean, and
Speaker 2: it still hits to this day. And I think even
Speaker 2: kids who weren't born in two thousand and two, maybe
Speaker 2: they can't recite that song word for word, but like
Speaker 2: it's that's right, no doubt about it. So good stuff,
Speaker 2: all right. So it does seem as if others were
Speaker 2: sort of questioning how effective the QR code on the
Speaker 2: back of the Oklahoma state helmet was going to be.
Speaker 2: It does seem like now it's it went from people
Speaker 2: really like wondering how it works, because there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people, and I'm not kidding you, they don't even
Speaker 2: know what a QR code is well, when they see it,
Speaker 2: they like, yeah, I've seen one of those before, but
Speaker 2: because I know what it is, but I can probably
Speaker 2: I bet less than ten times I've ever actually used one,
Speaker 2: meaning where I've got my phone out, held my camera
Speaker 2: up to this code to where it gives me a link.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's effective.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think I really started to learn what
Speaker 2: it was during post COVID when Rushts wouldn't give you menus,
Speaker 2: they would just have a QR code you scan on
Speaker 2: your phone so you're not you know, touching it and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. So anyways, it does seem as if
Speaker 2: a lot of people are wondering, like if that's really
Speaker 2: going to because and here here's the theory. If you
Speaker 2: remember Mike Gundy, you know, well, I see if you remember,
Speaker 2: maybe you don't know. I mean, he's he's pretty outspoken.
Speaker 2: What he said about drunk driving at the Big twelve
Speaker 2: media day was insane for a coach to say, but
Speaker 2: it did kind of just, you know, become nothing because
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you're like, well, you
Speaker 2: know what, it's Mike Gundy. Nobody's shocked that he There's
Speaker 2: no shock value here. That's something my Gundy would in
Speaker 2: fact say. So he said over the weekend that he's
Speaker 2: so excited that football seasons here in camp's going on
Speaker 2: because he can tell these agents to shut up and
Speaker 2: quit calling him and quit calling the NIL collective at
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State, because you negotiated your deal, this is what
Speaker 2: it is. We'll have to talk in December, which he
Speaker 2: has every right to say that, but it also gave
Speaker 2: the perception that he's not pro NIL. And I don't
Speaker 2: think any of these coaches are pro and IL, but
Speaker 2: they have to give the perception that they are in
Speaker 2: order for you know, they don't have to, I guess,
Speaker 2: but like, if you're anti NIL, it can only hurt you.
Speaker 2: Like if you're mad and complaining and acting like it's
Speaker 2: just an issue and you don't agree that players should
Speaker 2: get paid through NIL, again, it can only hurt you.
Speaker 2: So there's some people theorizing that, like this was just
Speaker 2: something thrown together quickly here to give the perception that
Speaker 2: they are as a program pro NIL. But again, each
Speaker 2: player having a code on the back of their helmet.
Speaker 2: I mean, your best bet is to pause the video
Speaker 2: if you can zoom in on your TV, or maybe
Speaker 2: just get your camera super close. But like I know
Speaker 2: that we've got like eight KTVs now, but like that
Speaker 2: just to me seems very It seems like it's gonna
Speaker 2: be tough for people to actually utilize that way of
Speaker 2: getting to the NIL. But I had an idea, like
Speaker 2: what if every player, because like you like, what if
Speaker 2: there was a tip jar for players through NIL? I mean,
Speaker 2: imagine the guy who works for the school, Paul Rodgers
Speaker 2: voice of the cards. He's calling the action like he
Speaker 2: does in a way that nobody else can because he's
Speaker 2: Paul Rodgers. I mean, he's freaking Paul Rodgers. And you've
Speaker 2: got Chris Bell or I don't know, let's say I'm
Speaker 2: trying to think of a Let's say it's Maurice Turner,
Speaker 2: a guy who you know has kind of had an
Speaker 2: opportunity to emerge as a featured back here for years,
Speaker 2: and he's shown some flashes, but like this is the
Speaker 2: year for him. He's got to really, you know, show
Speaker 2: what he can do. And I think right now he
Speaker 2: might be your first string running back. Him or Cheney.
Speaker 2: We did talk earlier about Isaac Isaac Brown, who might
Speaker 2: end up getting more carries towards the end of the
Speaker 2: year and maybe your featured guy down the line. But anyways,
Speaker 2: let's just say Paul Rodgers on the call has like
Speaker 2: a code he can give out with the five oh
Speaker 2: two circle and he's, you know, calling this game winning
Speaker 2: touchdown that was unprobable, but Maurice Turner took one to
Speaker 2: the crib for the win. And Paul Rodgers after he
Speaker 2: gives his call, and I'm not saying Paul would want
Speaker 2: to do this or whatever, but like he then gives
Speaker 2: the number that if you go to the five oh
Speaker 2: two circle app if that's even a thing, you can
Speaker 2: then put in the number kind of like a QR
Speaker 2: code from Maurice Turner. And man, you're drunk as hell.
Speaker 2: You're you're you're eight beers deep at the game because
Speaker 2: you were you were it was a close when it
Speaker 2: was a nail. Bard You're you're just pounding beers at
Speaker 2: the game because you're at it.
Speaker 3: You know, you're into it.
Speaker 2: It's it's an experience, and you know what you're thinking,
Speaker 2: Maurice Turner, just save the day. We're winning this thing.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pop open this app. I'm gonna tip Maurice
Speaker 2: Turner five hundred bucks because that's how much I appreciate
Speaker 2: his touchdown, Like why not do that? Like making an option?
Speaker 2: I know why you wouldn't do that because Learfield owns
Speaker 2: the rights to those broadcasts and they would want all
Speaker 2: the money for themselves and not want the players to
Speaker 2: get any of it. They won't tell you that, but
Speaker 2: that's what would happen, I think. But anyways, Like there's
Speaker 2: there's all kinds of creative ways you could find, uh
Speaker 2: to give players money. I mean that sounds so insane,
Speaker 2: Like why wouldn't you like but why would like tell
Speaker 2: me why you shouldn't do that? John, Like what's what's
Speaker 2: what's what's the anti cause that that's quite literally what
Speaker 2: you earn because somebody wants to tip you. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: if and if they can go to the app and
Speaker 2: give it directly to you through like you know, your
Speaker 2: player page and a tip jar and they've been mode
Speaker 2: to the to the five O two circle five hundred
Speaker 2: bucks that's allotted to this player, Like why not?
Speaker 4: You're definitely more likely Like if that were ever a
Speaker 4: thing to see, ye, maybe it would be in the
Speaker 4: form of a QR code like you mentioned earlier. Maybe
Speaker 4: in some other way shape or form I don't know
Speaker 4: what it would be. Maybe you put their Twitter handle
Speaker 4: or something on there on the jumbo tron. But if
Speaker 4: they scored, then maybe they show it on the jumbo
Speaker 4: tron or something like that. It's very weird, but maybe
Speaker 4: we are.
Speaker 2: Headed and that that and look, that is I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding about Learfield.
Speaker 3: That's a real battle.
Speaker 4: They own the rights to all that stuff, like even
Speaker 4: the JumboTron stuff.
Speaker 2: Anything okay, anything in the arena, anything in the stadium
Speaker 2: that is that is you know, a logo, a brand.
Speaker 2: Those people who are buying that are buying that space,
Speaker 2: buying that property, that advertising from Learfield directly. And Theirfield's
Speaker 2: got to charge a lot of money because they pay.
Speaker 2: You have l a lot of money to own the
Speaker 2: rights to you know, to monetize that. So and that's
Speaker 2: why certain nil companies will in fact, like there are
Speaker 2: when I say companies, I mean companies who want to
Speaker 2: give an il to players. They like, if you are
Speaker 2: the starting fullback in Indiana and I want you repping
Speaker 2: my car dealership, John, which I would, by the way,
Speaker 2: if that if if you were fullback and I had
Speaker 2: a car dealership, you would be my guy. I just
Speaker 2: know that if I want you and my commercial wearing
Speaker 2: your Hoosier uniform, I have to go through lear Field
Speaker 2: because they own that, Like they have the ability to
Speaker 2: tell somebody if they can, if they can you know,
Speaker 2: be wearing that. You know that it's licensing stuff. So
Speaker 2: if you do a big nil deal through an athlete
Speaker 2: and through the school and their the rights holder, which
Speaker 2: is lear Field, and like IMG for Kentucky, like for
Speaker 2: example Planet Fitness and uh, what's the what's the Plumber Jack?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Tom Drexler, Yeah, Tom Drexler. I remember the Jack Plumber
Speaker 2: and Tom Drexler commercial last year because they did that
Speaker 2: in il deal all like full go with lear Field included.
Speaker 2: That's why those players, like the players you see up
Speaker 2: on the billboards for Planet Fitness, like Malie Cunningham did
Speaker 2: it because that when through lear Field as well, then
Speaker 2: they can wear their gear. But there's also been I
Speaker 2: think might have been Isaacs and Isaacs the attorney. They've
Speaker 2: had nil deals with players who were wearing just red
Speaker 2: or blue. They're not he doesn't have the logo or
Speaker 2: anything like that. So if you can save a bunch
Speaker 2: of money and it's a recognizable face like I wouldn't
Speaker 2: go through the liardfield because again, it's just a middleman
Speaker 2: that wants to get a cut that really isn't entitled
Speaker 2: to it unless you really feel like they have to
Speaker 2: be wearing you know that name or whatever. So anyways,
Speaker 2: I'm already wasting time talking about something I don't intend
Speaker 2: on talking about, but real quick, the coach's corner stuff.
Speaker 2: So I guess we'll start with the most recent one.
Speaker 2: This is a question that was asked to college basketball
Speaker 2: coaches by the CBS College Basketball Crew Gary Parrish Matt Orlander.
Speaker 2: They asked which programs have the biggest NIL war chest.
Speaker 2: They pulled over one hundred coaches, they said, and asked
Speaker 2: them to rank the schools as far as the schools
Speaker 2: that they believe are you know, dropping the bag more
Speaker 2: than anybody else. Number one is Arkansas. Not a surprise.
Speaker 2: They've got the you know, the chicken guy down there
Speaker 2: and he's open. Heck, they got Walmart too if they
Speaker 2: need that, So not a surprise. Kansas came in at
Speaker 2: number two, and then BYU came in at number three,
Speaker 2: and that's because they've hired Mark Pope's replacement, who came
Speaker 2: from the NBA coach young and they're now like in
Speaker 2: in the mix with some of the best players in America.
Speaker 2: We're talking like top three players in the country in
Speaker 2: college basketball recruiting. And it'll take them landing one for
Speaker 2: them to be really i think viewed as a big threat.
Speaker 2: But they have the money and that's why they're in
Speaker 2: the top five, top ten depending on you know, where
Speaker 2: you look with some of these recruits that are considering
Speaker 2: the blue bloods, b why you certainly not a blue
Speaker 2: blood Kentucky came in at number four, Indiana, number five,
Speaker 2: Kansas State, Baylor, Louisville. Those are the schools that got
Speaker 2: mentioned more than any and you know with Louisville again,
Speaker 2: there was just an article last week by an NIL
Speaker 2: insider from Month three Sports that was really highighlighting Dan
Speaker 2: Furman in the five ooh two circle and how innovative
Speaker 2: they are and really giving him a lot of love
Speaker 2: for putting out the Floyd Street Media or putting together
Speaker 2: the Floyd Street Media outlet just to kind of give
Speaker 2: student athletes a chance to create content and monetize it
Speaker 2: within with that within that channel of course, which is
Speaker 2: the Floyd Street Media. So there's been a lot of
Speaker 2: love and we could tell, right. I mean, Louiville was
Speaker 2: able to put together this great class from the portal
Speaker 2: that we're so excited about because of NIL. Not to
Speaker 2: say that other factors weren't at play here, but when
Speaker 2: I see Louisville continue to get a lot of love
Speaker 2: in regards to their NIL resources, I mean I give
Speaker 2: a lot of credit to Josh Hurd and to Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey and really the fan base as well, because you know,
Speaker 2: I think Josh heard knew there needed to be somebody
Speaker 2: and I hate calling I'm not. He's not a hype man.
Speaker 2: He's a basketball coaching and he's a very accomplished one,
Speaker 2: meaning Pat Kelsey. But he he's a guy who gave
Speaker 2: us right from day one. In that press conference when
Speaker 2: he was introduced, I mean, he was relatable, he was likable,
Speaker 2: he was appreciative to be here with somebody you wanted
Speaker 2: to get behind because you're so desperate to see Louisville
Speaker 2: basketball get back to where we know they belong. This
Speaker 2: guy hit all the notes from day one and made
Speaker 2: it clear that it was important for fans to help
Speaker 2: out and you know, raise money and the Rick Keeber
Speaker 2: Planet Fitness I call hi Planet Fitness means he's also
Speaker 2: got a lot of other really successful businesses, but it's
Speaker 2: the Glow Brands that that is his his company that
Speaker 2: I guess is over top of all of his other
Speaker 2: companies that he's that he's that he owns. They they
Speaker 2: did the match right, it was one million dollars and
Speaker 2: then if you know, once fans collectively raised that much,
Speaker 2: then they'll match the one million and and and being
Speaker 2: able to do that was so impressive for this fan base. Again,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of it was timing just how
Speaker 2: desperate Louisville fans are. But look, it's also a reminder
Speaker 2: that when there's something to believe in that we can see,
Speaker 2: you know, like Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 3: Fans will show up, they'll show out, they'll support.
Speaker 2: They'll give money even when maybe they can't afford it,
Speaker 2: because that's how much they care. So, you know, Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey wasn't a big name, but he was exactly like,
Speaker 2: for example, if you ended up getting a I don't know,
Speaker 2: let's say you got a what's the guy's name at
Speaker 2: Creighton McDermott. Let's say you got McDermott. He's a more
Speaker 2: accomplished coach with a better resume, but he doesn't need
Speaker 2: Louisville to like work out for I mean, Louis's a
Speaker 2: better job than Crayton. But like Pat Kelsey wasn't probably
Speaker 2: ever expecting to get the Louisville job this year. You
Speaker 2: ask him a year ago, he probably would have never
Speaker 2: believed it. But here he was, and you know, I
Speaker 2: think his I don't want to say just appreciation, but
Speaker 2: he's hungry, like this is a huge opportunity for him
Speaker 2: as a coach, and it would a huge oportunity.
Speaker 3: For any coach.
Speaker 2: But I feel like Josh Hurd, even though he was
Speaker 2: in his first or second choice with Pat Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 2: that was the first coach he talked to during the process,
Speaker 2: and I think he knew right away this is a
Speaker 2: guy that probably won't be a name that fans are
Speaker 2: super excited about, but man, if he can sell this
Speaker 2: fan base the way he just sold me, I know
Speaker 2: this fan base, they're going to support him and give
Speaker 2: him a chance. And he's got a chance. I mean,
Speaker 2: the support he's got through NIL has helped him assemble
Speaker 2: a roster that is really, really impressive. So here are
Speaker 2: some quotes about Louisville in their NIL situation. This is
Speaker 2: one coach. They're handing out fing money like its monopoly.
Speaker 2: And this is from the right of the article. It says,
Speaker 2: as someone who watched Louisville's program craater over the past
Speaker 2: two years after one say good for them, Louisville should
Speaker 2: be handing out money like it's monopoly. It's an agency
Speaker 2: program with a large and proud fan base that's been
Speaker 2: through a lot over the years, everything from the end
Speaker 2: of the Rick Patino era to the surprisingly disappointing Chris
Speaker 2: macra to the disastrous couple of years of Kenney Payne.
Speaker 2: When Kenny Payne was in charge. Simply put, college basketball
Speaker 2: is better when Louisville is good. So that's just that's
Speaker 2: scary parishute who'd said that? So you know, if you
Speaker 2: don't win, none of it matters. In fact, if you
Speaker 2: don't win and everybody knows you had a bunch of
Speaker 2: money to spend, it actually makes you look bad. But
Speaker 2: you know, again, I'll say this all the time about
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey. As we speak in the offseason, when he
Speaker 2: hasn't coached a game, everything is aligning to where this guy,
Speaker 2: you know, if he can if he can carry his
Speaker 2: formula that was successful at a lower level. Of course,
Speaker 2: if he can carry that over here and win, man,
Speaker 2: this thing could really be long term, could be successful.
Speaker 2: Does he win a championship here?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's hard to do. Lolius had some
Speaker 2: great teams that did not win a championship, didn't go
Speaker 2: to a final four, So that's that's tough to say.
Speaker 2: But you know, the off season, really the honeymoon phase
Speaker 2: at this point for Pat Kelsey has been phenomenal. All Right,
Speaker 2: we got more of these these things aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 2: We can get to more of these coaching candid coaches
Speaker 2: pieces from CBS Sports throughout throughout the week.
Speaker 3: We got to get to a break. We got to
Speaker 3: come back on the other side and wrap it up.
Speaker 2: So stick with us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: You know, I used to kind of, uh, I used
Speaker 2: to kind of make fun of these and really discredit
Speaker 2: the faceless pages on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, And it's one
Speaker 2: thing if you if you do it to you know,
Speaker 2: take guesses and troll and act like you're connected and
Speaker 2: and somebody that's an insider, when in fact you really
Speaker 2: wouldn't put something out there if you had your name
Speaker 2: attached to it with credibility that you cared about that
Speaker 2: was on the line. But there are some that aren't.
Speaker 2: Really they don't do that. They just create content for
Speaker 2: fans of college football, college basketball. And this one is
Speaker 2: the cfb rep Twitter account. It's College Football Report. And
Speaker 2: you know, the algorithm's working for them for me because
Speaker 2: I keep seeing their stuff all over Twitter, and they
Speaker 2: I find myself oftentimes favoriting or when I say or liking,
Speaker 2: I guess the tweet so it appears in my like
Speaker 2: tweets so I can reference it on the show. But
Speaker 2: this is just something I thought it was somewhat interesting.
Speaker 2: There are only it looks like eight programs in power
Speaker 2: for football that have never hosted College Game Day ever
Speaker 2: at any point, John, how many of those do you
Speaker 2: think you could name?
Speaker 3: How many? You say it was eight? Oh my, I'll
Speaker 3: give you.
Speaker 2: There's one from I'm sorry, there are two from the
Speaker 2: Big Ten. Oh, I know three from the Big Ten
Speaker 2: hosted one. It was very weird. I'm gonna say Rutgers.
Speaker 3: Rutgers is one. Okay, let's say Maryland.
Speaker 2: Maryland's another, and is the other one UCLA Illinois?
Speaker 3: Okay? Oh wow, that kind of surprises me. For some
Speaker 3: surprises me a little bit as well.
Speaker 2: And then there are four or five or five in
Speaker 2: the ACC. I'm sorry, never mind. North Carolina has hosted,
Speaker 2: but they hosted last in nineteen ninety seven. So the ACC, Virginia, Syracuse,
Speaker 2: and these are kind of it's kind of a trick question.
Speaker 2: Callen's smu haven't hosted, So yeah, it's the ones that
Speaker 2: have in is Virginia, Syracuse, Rutgers, Maryland, Illinois, Callen smu.
Speaker 2: I would say Illinois probably the one that's the biggest
Speaker 2: surprise that hasn't hosted Game Day Syracuse would be somewhat
Speaker 2: of a surprise, but if you think about it, when
Speaker 2: they did have actually some success in tradition, it was
Speaker 2: long before college game day was a thing. So the
Speaker 2: schools that have that have gone the longest since hosting
Speaker 2: that have at least hosted. I mentioned North Carolina is
Speaker 2: ninety seven, Kansas State hosted in two thousand, NC State
Speaker 2: in two thousand and four, as well as Purdue in
Speaker 2: two thousand and four. Indiana their game day was.
Speaker 4: It was the opening week against a state back in
Speaker 4: what was that I don't remember what it was eighteen,
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Or nineteen here I don't find.
Speaker 4: Let's say, because that was a very weird college game
Speaker 4: day that they selected, that may not count that one.
Speaker 3: There may be a different one.
Speaker 2: They hosted college game Day in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: That's what it was, seventh, but it was still Ohio State.
Speaker 4: It was to kick off the year, and it was
Speaker 4: a very It wasn't like a traditional game day atmosphere.
Speaker 4: There wasn't like fans behind the studio.
Speaker 3: Didn't they play it on a weekday?
Speaker 2: Is that count if it's not a Saturday?
Speaker 3: It may have been like a Thursday.
Speaker 2: It was a Thursday night because Indiana if I remember,
Speaker 2: like I thought, had a chance to maybe, you know.
Speaker 3: I don't count it.
Speaker 4: They may count it because it was to me, it
Speaker 4: wasn't a traditional game day experience.
Speaker 2: Louisville's last was in twenty twenty. They had a few
Speaker 2: of course in that window there and then Kentucky hosted
Speaker 2: and I remember this. I was actually in Lexington, I
Speaker 2: think when this happened two thousand and seven. That was
Speaker 2: the year they got off to a big star beat Louisville,
Speaker 2: who was top ten with Brohm and Crack Thorpe's first year.
Speaker 2: I think they might have hosted LSU maybe Yeah, the
Speaker 2: last their last time hosting, and I think only time
Speaker 2: hosting was in two thousand and seven, so anyways, I
Speaker 2: just thought that was interesting. All Right, we're out of time,
Speaker 2: you guys. Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday. Good evening.
Speaker 2: This weather is still insanely awesome and we're going to
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