WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:06.919 It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:08.720 Sports Talk seven ninety. 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:11.000 Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think 4 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:11.480 when we. 5 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.240 Are get off our show, idiots. 6 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.719 The kids are crying to turn off your cultures are 7 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:19.800 screwing it up. Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play 8 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:20.719 Inner Murals. 9 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:23.839 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 10 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:25.600 Who's the kid here? 11 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:27.480 Who's the kid here? 12 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:47.039 Are you kidding me? Now? Here's nick Coffee. 13 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.200 As much as I would like to believe that everybody 14 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.880 that listens to this show listens to the whole three hours, 15 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.560 but I know that's not true, especially when it comes 16 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:03.079 to like the live version of the show, podcast is different. 17 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:03.880 I don't know. 18 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:05.959 Maybe there are some people out there that listen every 19 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.079 second of an entire three hour show. Maybe there's more 20 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.040 of you than I realized. But what I'm getting at 21 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.680 is I want to start today here, on a Tuesday afternoon. 22 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:16.680 By the way, welcome in everybody. 23 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:18.719 It's Coffee and Company, fuel by Thornton's here on Sports 24 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.519 Talk seven ninety And rarely would I do this, but 25 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:23.799 I'm going to start where we left off yesterday, the 26 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.959 very end of the show. As the clock was winding 27 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.879 down and we put the finishing touches On Monday show, 28 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:34.239 I had about I don't know, two minutes left whenever 29 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.200 I was just scrolling through Twitter to try to see 30 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.120 if there was something maybe that I'd missed that I 31 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.200 wanted to make sure and discuss, which really is a 32 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:43.439 waste considering, you know, you don't have much time to 33 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:45.519 get into anything at that point, that late in the game. 34 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.719 But I saw some folks who work in the I 35 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:52.680 guess the Carolinas as far as one of the thing. 36 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:54.200 Might have been one of the TV guys that works 37 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:55.400 for one of the stations, I don't know if it 38 00:01:55.439 --> 00:02:00.159 was Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, whatever, And they were talking about 39 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.040 the ACC Coach of the Year race, and really they 40 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:08.400 weren't referencing the race. They were just stating that there 41 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.719 really shouldn't be a race. Essentially, there's really no here 42 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:13.400 we go. This is the guy's name. His name is 43 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:20.199 Chris Lee, Chris C H R I S L E A. 44 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.000 And then and by the way, that is his Twitter handle, 45 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:24.280 and then you throw TV at the end of it. 46 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:26.960 So he works for w R A L. So this 47 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.439 is somebody that you know apparently has. I mean, he 48 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.840 works for a news station, he covers h he's a 49 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:34.719 sports guy, so I would assume that, you know, he 50 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:38.159 covers ACC hoops for his employer, and maybe he has 51 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.319 a vote when it comes to Coach of the Year. 52 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.080 I'm not sure in the ACC but I just mentioned 53 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.400 because it's gonna bother me, like I shouldn't care, but 54 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:48.439 like it really will bother me usually when it comes 55 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.280 to like awards, I'm you know, it's whatever, Like, obviously 56 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.039 I wanted Lamar Jackson to win the MVP. I feel 57 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.639 like he had a good enough season. Clearly it was 58 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:58.199 his best season, to be honest with you when it 59 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.919 comes to to statistics. But obviously he's raised the bar 60 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:04.520 really high to where people are bored with Lamar being 61 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:06.560 Lamar and now he needs to, you know, be even better. 62 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.759 So anyways, like you'd have told me two months ago, 63 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:10.400 if I. 64 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.400 Would have gotten worked up if Pat Kelsey doesn't win 65 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.319 ACC Coach of the Year, I probably would have said, 66 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.319 you know, probably not. You know, I hope he wins it, 67 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:22.400 but you know, this award is inconsistent really every Coach 68 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.240 of the Year award out there at least that I 69 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.120 know of. It's never based off the same thing. Sometimes 70 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.960 it goes to a guy who is the best coach, 71 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.520 meaning he coaches the best team, like he's the coach 72 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:37.319 of the team who's the best in the league or 73 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.840 the best in the country. And then sometimes it goes 74 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:45.960 to a guy who really didn't accomplish anything substantial, but 75 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.280 expectations were low and they overachieved. So because it's just 76 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.120 been kind of whatever, it's the one award that like, 77 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.599 even if I do have somebody that I really want 78 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:58.560 to win, it just because of how, you know, inconsistently 79 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:00.919 it's given out as far as the criteria, like it's 80 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.439 just you know whatever, and it's been that way since 81 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.159 the beginning of time. There should be a Coach of 82 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.759 the Year, which just by avaul goes to the player 83 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.120 I'm sorry, to the coach who's coaching the best team, 84 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:10.960 and then there should be I don't know if you'd 85 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.680 call it overachiever, because that that that in a way 86 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.879 that's it's not really a backhanded compliment, is it. I 87 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:21.040 don't know, like, oh, if you overachieve, you know, there's 88 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.360 there's a slight level of like you you know, you 89 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.560 aren't good, But man, you had a hell of a 90 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:27.319 night kind of thing. 91 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:28.040 Does that make sense? 92 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.519 Like overachieving is actually something that you should be proud of, 93 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.639 But there's there's just some a slight negative feel to it. 94 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.279 But anyways, here we are two games left in the 95 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.160 regular season. Louisville basketball is in the top fifteen of 96 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.160 both poles, safely in the tournament, likely going to finish 97 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.079 as this in second place in the ACC. 98 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.680 And now I got to tell you, if if. 99 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.519 Pat Kelsey doesn't win ACC Coach of the Year, I mean, 100 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.040 there's nothing I'm gonna do about it, Like what what 101 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.000 can I do? Call the ACC headquarters and make it complaint. 102 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:02.800 I mean, if it's voted on by media members, then 103 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:05.399 like you know, there's really nobody to complain to. 104 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.360 No, you said yesterday you were gonna steal the award. 105 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.800 You're gonna rip it right from John Shire's hands, and 106 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:14.480 you're gonna personally deliver it to Pat Kelsey. 107 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:16.399 That would be that'd be something. 108 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.920 But I don't know if they actually, like do you 109 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.720 think he's given the award? Because I've never I've never 110 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:26.199 seen a coach like you know, obviously coaches have trophy 111 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.879 cases right, Like they they have honors, like you know, 112 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:31.639 what's on the resume of a coach as far as 113 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.639 the credentials and the honors, the accolades they've received. But like, 114 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:39.199 does the ACC actually give him a physical award for this? 115 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.360 That's what I don't undert because if they do, then 116 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.240 like maybe I should steal it. But then again, you know, whistle, 117 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.160 I'd probably get caught not you know, I'm not I don't. 118 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:48.560 I do a lot for Pat Kelsey. 119 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.120 I'm not sure if i'd risk, you know, establishing a 120 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:52.439 criminal record for the first time. 121 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:54.720 In my life. One needs to be done, needs to 122 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:55.079 be done. 123 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:57.079 But yeah, like maybe maybe this is the time where 124 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.439 I just you know, really and justice has served really 125 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:02.720 forget about my fear of, you know, going to jail. 126 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:05.879 I have a comfortable fear of the criminal justice system. 127 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.600 I watch a lot of jail in prison TV shows 128 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.879 and documentaries, which keeps me comfortably afraid of doing anything 129 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.439 to put myself behind bars. But as you said, what's 130 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:18.800 got to be done might need to be done. So 131 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.759 I hate even coming off this way because I don't 132 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.240 believe that anybody in the ACC. 133 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:26.199 Is like out to get Louisville. 134 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:26.600 I don't. 135 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.839 I don't believe that, you know, I've always kind of 136 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:31.800 just it's just how I'm wired. It's not you know, 137 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:35.199 it's just, you know, everybody's different. Even when Louisville was 138 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.800 obviously getting a lot of coverage for the bad scandals 139 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.439 that were going on, there were some people that made 140 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:42.920 it seem as if like they're just out to create 141 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:47.160 negative news about Louisville, and like, I, you know, why 142 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.319 would they do that. I mean, what benefit would they 143 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.839 have from doing that. Louisville actually put themselves in headlines 144 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:53.839 that you know, is good for business for those who 145 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.720 cover you know, news because of the kind of things 146 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:57.120 that went on. 147 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:58.839 So again, I don't disclaimer. 148 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.839 I don't think that anybody anti Louisville and they're like 149 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:04.000 out to get us and there's some kind of conspiracy. 150 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.759 I just don't believe that. But in the ACC, Louisville 151 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.879 is not a OG. They're not one of the you know, 152 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.879 original founding members. And we all know that when it 153 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:19.519 comes to the ACC, it is run by the Carolinas, 154 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.759 the Carolinas, the Dukes, the NC States, the Wake Forests, 155 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.240 even the Clemsons when it comes to football specifically, So 156 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:30.279 like they've just always seemed to get preferential treatment. And like, 157 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:34.040 if it's put it this way, if it's fifty to 158 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:37.720 fifty neck and neck for like ACC Player of the Week, 159 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.279 I kind of feel like somebody who plays for one 160 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:42.720 of those schools I just mentioned is likely gonna get 161 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:46.680 it over, you know, somebody from Louisville or even somebody 162 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.199 from like Pittsburgh, because we're not one of the originals, 163 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:52.959 and there are and this is something that hasn't been 164 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.199 not not to nerd out too much on media stuff, 165 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.000 but when you go to cover an ACC event like 166 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.199 the ACC football or basketball media days or the ACC Tournament, 167 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:05.480 which I've done, all the majority of the people there 168 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:10.959 are from the Carolinas. And there are so many different 169 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.959 little markets that have a real, you know, dedicated team 170 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.040 of covering sports. So what I'm getting at is when 171 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.519 you look at the battle get when you think about 172 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:23.720 who gets a ballot to put in like preseason ACC 173 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:27.040 you know, all league honors, that kind of stuff, I 174 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:29.360 would imagine because there's so many, like I would imagine, 175 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.240 the majority of people that are there that get one 176 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.480 of those are probably from that Carolina area. And look, 177 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.879 I don't think they're all homers. Hell, maybe they live there, 178 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.600 but they're from a different part of the country. That's 179 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.960 just where they ended up getting their first job as 180 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:45.039 a sports anchor. 181 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:46.960 Or whatever it may be, or even a radio host. 182 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:48.519 So again I'm trying my best that I make it 183 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:51.600 sound like, you know, they're just out to screw Louisville over. 184 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:53.879 But again, I just feel like with John shy or 185 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:57.679 really having his best season and it's not even close 186 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:59.919 since he got the job they do. I mean, I 187 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.039 don't think he's had I mean that Duke hasn't had 188 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.840 a bad year under Shire. This is his third year, correct, 189 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.440 I think it is. Yeah, So as a head coach, 190 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:10.600 he is in his third season. He went twenty seven 191 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.799 and nine in his first two seasons, both of them. 192 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:17.600 In fact, he had a very similar, very similar second 193 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.840 season as he did a debut season twenty seven and 194 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.240 nine and then twenty seven and nine. He went fourteen 195 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.080 and six in his first year in league play, fifteen 196 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.399 and five last year. Well, this year they're twenty seven 197 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.519 and three, likely going to finish twenty nine in three 198 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.639 and in the regular season that is, and they're probably 199 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.639 going to finish nineteen and one in the In fact, 200 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:38.399 I'm sorry they played last night. So they're going to 201 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.600 finish twenty eight and three in the regular season nineteen 202 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.279 and one, and there's no way to I mean, he's 203 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:47.600 done a good job. I think Shire's done a really 204 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:52.320 good job of not only coaching this team, but also 205 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.080 you know building. I mean last night, or maybe it 206 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.440 was might have been on Was it last night Duke 207 00:09:58.480 --> 00:09:59.960 and wake Forest play it was. 208 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:01.240 I couldn't think of it. 209 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:02.600 I couldn't remember it was his last night if it was 210 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:05.600 the weekend either way, But Steve Forbes was talking about 211 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:07.159 Shier and how he really did a good job of 212 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.879 piecing together in the portal and and that's true. Like 213 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.399 they didn't go out in the portal and get guys 214 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:12.720 that everybody in the country wanted. 215 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:13.480 They went out and. 216 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.679 Got good players that could fit the exact role they 217 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.120 needed and guys that would be comfortable embracing playing. You know, 218 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.919 I'm gonna be the point guard at Tulane and now 219 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:24.960 I'm gonna be a guard at Duke who comes off 220 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:25.840 the bench and really. 221 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.240 Just gives you defense. Like there's different. You know, there's 222 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:32.399 oh there it is. 223 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.759 Yep, that's that's the first time I've heard it all day. Honestly, 224 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:41.080 it's very light. 225 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:43.559 Yeah, you hear it right. 226 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.480 Yes, No, I've like I said it. I don't know 227 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.080 if they've just gotten further. I'm gonna in that bathroom 228 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:50.360 or whatnot, because in the. 229 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:51.879 Break, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go out there and 230 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.000 just say, hey, do you know like how because I 231 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:54.840 can't be cause I can't. 232 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:57.080 I can't do the show like that. Yeah. No, that's 233 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:57.720 that's tough. 234 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:59.960 I mean, imagine what was a Friday Friday it was, 235 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.200 I mean it might as well have sounded. 236 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:04.200 Like it was actually in your studio, and it was. 237 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:08.480 It was louder gosh, so that was it was louder 238 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.519 on al Wait, no, it was that that right there. 239 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.039 What we're here now, that's ten times less, ten times 240 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.799 less faint than it was on It was like that Friday. 241 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.360 So are you hearing that in your studio or are 242 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:24.279 you hearing it through mine? 243 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:27.159 I'm hearing in mine both. Yeah, I'm not hearing it 244 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.600 through yours, probably because it's going at the same time. 245 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:34.759 So but no, I hear it through my studio. Someone 246 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:35.559 to answer that door. 247 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.120 I mean, even even that is like gonna be hard 248 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.759 to like not get distracted by like I don't even 249 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:41.879 know what the hell I was talking about. 250 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.320 Well, like I said, that's the first time I heard 251 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.519 it yesterday, because remember or that I heard it today, 252 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.679 because remember yesterday I texted you it was going on 253 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:50.799 all day, and you said you were You're already on 254 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.799 your way in, So I was trying to look out 255 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.159 for you yesterday. I would have sent out out the 256 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:57.159 bat signal earlier if I would have heard any of 257 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.120 this today. That's it's the first time I heard them 258 00:11:59.120 --> 00:11:59.960 working on that today. 259 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:02.159 All right, Well, I guess we'll power through. 260 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:08.159 I genuinely don't remember what I was saying. 261 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:07.559 About job wake four seconds. 262 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:10.120 So John Shire, I can't say he's not done a 263 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:12.559 good job. But there has to be like a level 264 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.559 of there has to be a level of like, well, 265 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:17.960 you know, he has a guy that some people think 266 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:21.639 is the best player that's played college basketball in like 267 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.679 ten twenty years. I mean, maybe that's an exaggeration, but 268 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.039 you know, you don't have to look too hard to 269 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:29.200 find people that will tell you that that Cooper Flag 270 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:30.240 is better than Zion. 271 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:34.000 Then he's better than Anthony Davis. I mean, he's great. 272 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:39.759 So you shouldn't punish John Shire for coaching or doing 273 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.559 a really good job coaching. And also you know he 274 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.360 has really good player. That also speaks to the fact 275 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.519 that you know he's winning. I can't do this. 276 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:53.240 I mean, it's like they hear you in. So so 277 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:54.279 here's my in again. 278 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:57.559 I'm just I'm talking out loud here and just you know, 279 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:00.320 I guess I'm thinking. When I'm thinking, I'm thinking out 280 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.399 loud asking questions that I know you don't know the 281 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:03.879 answer to. 282 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:05.840 Yeah, but I'd love to give the answer and act 283 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.559 like I know. But did anybody tell them that we 284 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:10.720 do live radio here? 285 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:11.600 That's a great question. 286 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.159 I don't think so, because people in our you know, 287 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.279 like the brass here, like they know this is going on, right, 288 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:19.799 I would think. 289 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.519 So it would like it was a huge talking point Friday. 290 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:25.080 But was it just because employees were annoyed or was 291 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.600 it because, like the boss was like, because there are. 292 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:29.679 People that you know are in charge here? Yeah, do 293 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:30.600 they know this. 294 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:30.919 Is going on? 295 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.080 Because I don't want to because here's. 296 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:36.120 What I could do, Like I I'm close to sending 297 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:39.200 the text message just like hey, what do you think 298 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:41.120 we should do about this? But I also don't want 299 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.080 to be the pushy guy because they know that it's 300 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:46.080 going on and there's nothing we can do, Like if 301 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:50.159 there's been like a an email or some kind of 302 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.200 a statement made to all of us that like, hey, 303 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:55.200 this is because only reason only the only reason I 304 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.039 don't get those The only reason I know this is 305 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.639 happening is because I'm hearing it now. And also you 306 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:01.799 told me last week, right, and then you mentioned like 307 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.759 it's become a real annoying thing within the building, within 308 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:06.759 our within our within our you know, our crew here. 309 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.240 But like, is it just we're riding it out or what? 310 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.240 Because usually if something like this happens, I think so 311 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.000 our direct boss, he's usually pretty good of like he'll 312 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:17.159 tell me do the show at home, you know what 313 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.720 I mean? Sure, But like nobody's communicated to me that 314 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.759 this was going to be an issue, and they have 315 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:24.240 they have stopped, at least for the time being. 316 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.200 Yeah, but and I know that even I don't know 317 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:29.559 if he said it on air, but when I ran 318 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:31.879 into him in the hallway last Friday when it was 319 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.480 amplified way more than it is now, r Terry Miners 320 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:36.559 had something to say about it. 321 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.919 Yeah, apparently Terry talked about it on his show that 322 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:40.919 like a good thing I was at home because there's 323 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:42.519 no way I could have done a show, which again 324 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:43.879 like that just worked out. I didn't even know they 325 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:45.039 were doing that. I just had to do the show 326 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.039 from home that day because that stuff going on. 327 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.399 And I wonder how how loud it is over there 328 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:51.120 because his his studios all the way across. 329 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:52.759 Yeah, I know this is a building. 330 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.399 Like for those who don't know what we're talking about here, 331 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.120 I mean you probably heard it. The we are live 332 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.840 here at four Street Live, in our in our offices 333 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:01.200 and our studios here that we are. 334 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.080 This is where we're located. I think most people know that. 335 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:03.840 If not, now you do. 336 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:06.919 Well, they're they're doing some work on the bathrooms in 337 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.960 the actual like facility that is for Street Live, not 338 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:13.200 in our office, but this studio that I'm in backs 339 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.200 up to that like that. I'm pretty sure to my 340 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:19.080 right if that wall didn't exist, i'd be it would 341 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:21.000 I would be in the bathroom like I would. You know, 342 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:22.759 they could put a door here and it would go 343 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.039 to that bathroom, but not our bathroom in the office, 344 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:27.240 but the bathroom like when you are walking out. 345 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:29.120 Of the parking garage at four Street Live. 346 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:32.320 So you know, maybe that was because again it started 347 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.759 pretty light, then it picked up, and now it's gone. 348 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:37.320 So I'm just gonna, you know, I'm gonna try to 349 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:37.960 power through. 350 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:41.240 But when that happens, I mean, like I've got headphones on, 351 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.080 I can hear it. You are further away from it 352 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:44.720 than I am. You can clearly hear it. It sounds 353 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.639 right next to me. So anyways, what I was saying 354 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.679 is that you don't want to punish John Shire and 355 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:54.840 say he can't he can't qualify for the ACC Coach 356 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:56.559 of the Year because I mean he was supposed to 357 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.639 be good and its team was good. But you also 358 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.399 still have to factor it in in some way. I mean, 359 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.039 do people really think like when Cooper because again this 360 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:07.879 is this is what's always irritated me. It should be 361 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.759 a mixture and a balance of both, right like Pat 362 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:14.600 Kelsey did he over achieve based off of expectation and circumstance, absolutely, 363 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.639 but he also has a good team, like Louisville is 364 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:20.679 in the top fifteen, right like him getting it wouldn't 365 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:22.960 be oh well, you know what, they're not really any good. 366 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.360 But man, they were supposed to be lousy and they 367 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.080 were not as bad as everybody thought. 368 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:28.559 So let's give this guy coach of the Year. 369 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:31.559 Like if Louisville was a bubble team, it would still 370 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:33.360 be looked at as a really good first year for 371 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.120 Pat Kelsey, especially considering the injuries that happened earlier this year. 372 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:38.639 But like, we're not there. 373 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:39.919 Louisville is. 374 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:46.840 Right behind Duke, one game behind Duke in the ACC standings, 375 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:48.679 and I just think. 376 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:51.639 The coach like coach of the Year. 377 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:53.960 And I'm not even here to tell you that Pat 378 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.039 Kelsey is a better coach than John Shy. I don't 379 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.360 know if he is or not, but Coach of the 380 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:01.120 Year to me should be somebody that you know is 381 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.240 coaching a good team. We'll check the box for both there. 382 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:09.000 And also you feel like what they're doing and how 383 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:12.359 it all came together, the you know, the real factor 384 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:18.720 in the success is due to coaching more so than 385 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.400 anything else. And that's where I feel like it's Pat 386 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:24.799 Kelcey and it's not even close. Again, I'm not talking 387 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:28.680 about punishing Shire and saying, well he can't, you know, 388 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.400 because I'm not even saying that anybody would be able 389 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:36.319 to have the twenty twenty eight and three regular season 390 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:38.640 if they coach this same team, because I don't, I don't. 391 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:39.799 I don't know if that's true. In fact, I don't 392 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.279 believe it. I think Sharre's pretty good coach. But like 393 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:45.599 Pat Kelsey built the team, built the team from scratch, 394 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.759 dealt with two major injuries. 395 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.720 Early on in the season, and I just think, like 396 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:54.079 when you. 397 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.000 Look at why Louisville is able to be in the 398 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.400 position therein again, top fifteen got a chance to finish 399 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.119 with just six regular season losses if they win tomorrow 400 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:06.400 and on Saturday, safely in the tournament, I mean top 401 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.920