WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.040 From the Tri Countyboard dot com studios. This is Sports 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:14.359 Talk seven nine day. It's time for coffee and company, 3 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:18.879 fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. Now 4 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:28.199 here's Nick coffee. 5 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:32.280 All right, let's get it start at five o'clock hour 6 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.679 here on a Monday afternoon. Hopefully you had yourselves a 7 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.119 very good Thanksgiving break. I assume everybody got a break, 8 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:40.880 but I know that's not the reality of it. A 9 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:43.159 lot of people probably had to work the day after 10 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.920 Thanksgiving or maybe over the weekend. I guess technically I 11 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:47.880 worked over the weekend, but it didn't feel like it 12 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:49.920 felt great to be able to go on the air 13 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:52.399 on Saturday after Louisville reclaimed the Governor's Cup. But then 14 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.079 there's other people that probably work Thanksgiving because you know, 15 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.079 there's certain jobs that you don't get days off. So 16 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.640 I'm very thankful that I had a good Thanksgiving and 17 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:01.520 thanking that I got to spend a lot of time 18 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.719 with the family. You'll know this at some point in 19 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.840 your life, Austin. But when you spend four straight days 20 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.359 with your with your kids, yeah, and you're just as 21 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.480 a family, you know, just NonStop around each other. It's 22 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.760 it's it's wholesome and it's great. But then you kind 23 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.280 of like, you know, you remind yourself. Man, the kids 24 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:21.480 go back to school Monday, this goes back to daycare. 25 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:23.439 I could kind of need a little breathing room. But 26 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:25.159 then you get to Monday and you miss them. And 27 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:26.959 that's that's kind of how it is today for me. 28 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.599 So always, how I always hear how how they say, 29 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.680 you know, kids are the greatest blessing I guess you 30 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.319 can have in your life. And I mean I grew 31 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:36.799 up with a brother and sister and you know, they 32 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:39.799 have so many days off fall break, this break or whatnot, 33 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:41.560 so it it's fun to spend time with them while 34 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.640 they're in the house. But then like after four or 35 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:45.560 five days of it, and where I'm like, shouldn't you 36 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:46.159 be in school? 37 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:48.319 Yeah, And then you do it and then you'll end 38 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:50.200 up missing them. Yeah. It's just usually how it works. 39 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:53.159 That's that's how it works. So gross, I'm glad. I'm 40 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.920 I'm glad to be back to because I love the holidays. 41 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:57.799 Who doesn't, right, you get some time off, you can 42 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.879 just spend time with family. Thanksgivings great. Tab absolutely can't 43 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.560 wait for Christmas. But I am someone that is so 44 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.120 dependent upon routine and structure to where like if I'm not, 45 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.960 like if I've got a short week or you know, 46 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:13.759 just different things going on, I just feel like I'm 47 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.240 out of rhythm. But I love being back here to 48 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.039 start a week, and you know, we'll be here all week, 49 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.599 so hopefully you guys will be with us. But we've 50 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:22.159 all you know, it's just nice to get It's nice 51 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.759 to start this week knowing that I've you know, we 52 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.039 got the monkey off our back. We were able to 53 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:28.960 finally break the streak. And I say we like I 54 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.199 was out there making plays. I mean, I would have 55 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.360 been out there if Jeff needed me anything he wants. 56 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.080 I mean, I think one of the times I've asked, 57 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.360 remember who might have been Michael Bush? Asked Michael Bush 58 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:39.599 we were at a golf course doing a show on 59 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.639 tom and asked him, you know, if you were coaching, like, 60 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.199 how would you utilize me if I was on the roster? 61 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:46.800 And he told me I could be the guy that 62 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.319 runs and picks up the tee after they kick it off. 63 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.800 And I felt very humbled to know, like, yeah, that 64 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.159 probably would be the best fit for me. Cup My 65 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.800 got cup did gass me up when Tom and said 66 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:57.360 he could hide me on special teams, and I really 67 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.639 appreciated that. Be a gunner something like that, just running around, 68 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.000 like just run down and not have any contact with 69 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:05.439 the once like the play's over, like the kickoff's over, 70 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.639 then you bounce around like you did something like That's 71 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.319 what all special teams guys seem to go. 72 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:12.120 Dap up the person that's like the zone. 73 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:13.840 Did you know the cameras on them because they got 74 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.479 to stop, So you just go to run there and 75 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.800 you know, slap their helmet like yeah, just so you 76 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.479 can tell people like I don't get in the game, 77 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:21.639 but you saw me out there. I was bringing the energy. 78 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:24.319 I could go on the highlight reel exactly. It'd be great, 79 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:26.639 like if you were in the portal and like that's 80 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:28.599 all that was in your in your highlights that you 81 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:30.479 were sending out, like your tape, like you just sent 82 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.240 tape of you finding the guy who made the play 83 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:35.280 on Special teams just to gas him up. Like that 84 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.680 would be if I was a coach and somebody sent 85 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:39.919 me that I might let that guy come and walk 86 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:42.000 on or just take a scholarship that we weren't going 87 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.680 to use because like I could appreciate the effort there or. 88 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.680 Being the guy that's like so close to him, but 89 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.439 the kick goes to them anyways, and you're the one 90 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:50.039 kind of telling them to take the knee. 91 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:51.280 Oh yeah, that's huge. 92 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.800 That's that's a big role there, Actually teammate right there. 93 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.240 Think about that's what teammates are for, no doubt about it. 94 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:57.159 And and it's. 95 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.120 Not like you weren't out there, but you were selected 96 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:04.080 upon a few of a journalist here in Louisville to 97 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:07.039 give you your Courrier journal prediction. Now, then what was 98 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:09.879 that prediction? Again? Was that did the game turnout as closed? 99 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:12.479 When't it like thirty seven seventeen or something? 100 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:18.199 So my prediction I put twenty seven sixteen for Louisville. 101 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:22.399 And here's what I gave John Hale to use in 102 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.040 my inclusion in the media predictions for the Governor's Cup game, 103 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:30.399 Louisville twenty seven Kentucky sixteen. And this is what I wrote. 104 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.120 Louisville has proven they can score points. Jeff Browns offenses 105 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.399 averaging thirty six points per game overall thirty two points 106 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:38.519 per game against four Top twelve teams. The Cards defense 107 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:40.319 has been shaky at times. Both they'll do enough to 108 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.240 contain Kentucky's offense, which ranks dead last in the SEC. 109 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.480 So I was wrong. Louisville scored forty one and could 110 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.600 have scored sixty, and Kentucky scored fourteen, and they did 111 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:52.199 earn those fourteen points. I mean, I'll give them that. 112 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:54.680 It was a really good play. In fact, two really 113 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.040 good balls that were thrown by Gavin Wimsat, who was 114 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.720 thrown into the game because Cutter Bowlie hurt. So you know, 115 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:05.360 Kentucky and I said this at the beginning of the show, 116 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.959 the best feeling is relief from Saturday, knowing that you 117 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:14.360 now have reclaimed bragging rights and you don't have to 118 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.439 hear them live in their own world of delusion as 119 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.160 if their football program was anything special. And I'm not 120 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:22.160 here to tell Louisville's a special program, but I mean 121 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:24.759 them winning five in a row and being able to 122 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.399 say scoreboard, it gave them a false sense of accomplishment. 123 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.560 And it really was the best example I can think 124 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:36.439 of in the rivalry where we were your super Bowl 125 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:38.680 and they can act like no, no, but like there's 126 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.000 evidence that says otherwise. You can't point to anything you've 127 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.279 done in most of the stoop seasons that were successful, 128 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.839 that was any big deal, Like you just didn't suck 129 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.199 like you once did. You took advantage of teams that 130 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.680 were firing coaches that season and you beat them, like 131 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.199 you know, and now those programs, a lot of them 132 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:59.920 have caught back up and passed you by by mile. 133 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.560 So without a win against them, it just kind of 134 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:05.120 felt like they were gonna continue to live in their 135 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.040 own alternate universe and we would just have to hear it. 136 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:09.720 I mean, you could, you know. I know Louisville fans 137 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:11.600 do go back and forth with them all the time, 138 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:13.639 and I don't blame you, but like when they can 139 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.079 go scoreboard, it just makes it like, can we can 140 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.120 we eliminate that factor? And look, they're still gonna We're 141 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.240 still gonna rival, They're still gonna act like there's you know, 142 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.399 this is one out of the last six games. Congratulations, 143 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.000 you feel good you beat a one, because again I 144 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:27.839 already know, like, yes, we do feel good. I don't 145 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.800 have to check the text line. I know there's people claiming, like, 146 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.839 how is that where your super Bowl? You beat a 147 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.000 one in subbing Kentucky team and Yeah, we didn't do 148 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.199 anything special. We just we just finally got the cup 149 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.720 back and we'll probably keep it for a long time 150 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.959 and then you'll go back to realizing who has been 151 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:45.480 the better football program in our lifetime? I mean any 152 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.680 by the way, Like again, I'm not gonna these results happen, 153 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:51.040 So therefore I can't sit here and tell you know 154 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.639 that it's fake news and this these are just games 155 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.680 that didn't actually happen. Although like, who out there can 156 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.319 prove to me that Kentucky beat Louisville in nineteen thirty team, 157 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.759 nobody around to tell me. There's no evidence of it. 158 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.199 We just claimed that it happened. I mean, I'm baking 159 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.319 a bad joe. Clearly it did happen. But like when 160 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:11.800 the rivalry restarted in nineteen ninety four. Before that, you know, 161 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.920 the last time they played one hundred years ago today, wow, 162 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:21.600 nineteen twenty four they played in Kentucky won, because Kentucky 163 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:24.319 won the first I guess seven when they played from 164 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.480 nineteen twelve to nineteen twenty four. From then on, Louisville 165 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.920 still went into the game this past Saturday with the 166 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.360 lead in the modern series. Despite losing five in a row. 167 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:40.120 I mean, but they felt superior. Why because they started 168 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.000 beating Louisville. And to be fair, they did beat Louisville 169 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.000 at times when Louislle was pretty good, but like you know, 170 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.759 they also beat Louisville when Sadderfield was here. They also 171 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.959 beat Louislle when Bobby Patrino got fired and they had 172 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:52.800 a guy named Whammy or Wham wham as the end. 173 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.399 I'm not kidding you go back and look it up. 174 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.959 The guy who Lorenzo something took over as interim coach 175 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.079 because Bobby got canned and got that. Louisville had a 176 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.839 tight end fighting one of the coaches on the sideline. 177 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.480 It was a mess. And again like Kentucky was a mess. Saturday, 178 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.360 they had guy's going to the concession stand. How about 179 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:09.680 I talked about that yet today That's all the funniest 180 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:10.360 things I've ever seen. 181 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:11.439 I saw that earlier. 182 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.000 I had a gummy on Saturday evening and I finally 183 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.160 saw that picture that had been circulating for a while. 184 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.319 Somebody said, have you seen the guy at the concession stand? 185 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:22.959 I'm like no, And I couldn't stop laughing, Like I 186 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:24.879 thought was hilarious, And I don't know why it was 187 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:26.480 as funny as it was. Probably the gummy was a 188 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.639 big factor. But I'm just saying, like, you know, like 189 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:31.519 I know that they've been embarras, they were embarrassing, and 190 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.600 they hated their team this year and we beat a 191 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:36.519 bad team, Like I know all that, But the relief 192 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:40.519 is just knowing that, like we now should keep this 193 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.879 thing on our side for a while and then they 194 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:47.120 can still claim that they were on top from two 195 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:53.120 thousand and what two thousand and six, Yeah, from let's 196 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:56.440 see here they Yeah, Well, the reason it looks funky 197 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:57.799 is because in fact, the only one four in a 198 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.840 row because one was vacated. The one they went in 199 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:05.120 twenty twenty one didn't happen according to Wikipedia. So when 200 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.879 I say that they they, I mean Stoops got the 201 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.480 bag where he ain't leaving a nine million dollar a 202 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.679 year job because nobody would pay him close to that. 203 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.679 His buyout is insane. Which here's a detail that I've 204 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.399 heard enough UK media reference it to where I believe it, 205 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:21.399 but I haven't seen proof, and I don't need to 206 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:25.279 see proof. But he fleeced Mitch Barnhart, not only with 207 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:28.840 the contract that really wasn't deserving of the amount of money, 208 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:30.480 not to say he should be fired, but like to 209 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:32.360 give him that much. Nobody was gonna pay Mark Stoops 210 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.759 that much money. The only school that was remotely ever 211 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.440 interested in Stoops that would have taken him realized what 212 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.919 they were getting into and backed out, and God bless 213 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.639 their happy they did. That's Texas A and M last year. 214 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:44.600 So like, you got to make it right to where 215 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.080 he doesn't look to leave because you want to keep him, 216 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.559 but you also have to understand where is he going 217 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.360 to go? Like if Stoops's agent put fear into Barnhart 218 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.000 to give him that contract and to give him that situation, 219 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:02.279 and I buy this detail. A lot of guys like Bobby. 220 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.159 We could pay Bobby, and we could pay Chris Mack 221 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.080 over time when they got bought out. Right, if you 222 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.840 fire Mark Stoops, he's owned forty four million dollars in 223 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.799 full in thirty days. Like nobody's gonna fire a coach 224 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.480 that can do that. Nobody. So like you're stuck with him. 225 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.480 So like the contract just wasn't necessary. But there was 226 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:24.039 a new life within Kentucky football. One they weren't terrible 227 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.320 and they were actually at times not only just really 228 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.639 good for Kentucky's standard historically, but also pretty good, like 229 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.799 they were not a bad team at all, but it 230 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.480 didn't warrant the rays that he got. But I think 231 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:39.799 because they also started to kind of own the state 232 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.039 in football, that made it to where, okay, we can't 233 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.600 lose this. Like I think a caller earlier said this, 234 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:47.399 and we'll never know. Only one person can answer it, 235 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.120 and that's Minch Bartnhart will never hear from him because 236 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.919 like he just doesn't exist. He's a guy in charge, 237 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:53.559 but like you never hear him receiving I mean, like 238 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.519 he doesn't do any kind of media availability. You know, 239 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:58.799 he's just kind of sitting back doing his own thing. 240 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.120 And he got lucky as hell that Cal bailed him 241 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.120 out and just left and found a new job that's 242 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:04.840 gonna pay him a lot of money. That didn't happening 243 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:08.879 with Stoops. So to give him what they gave him, 244 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.759 like it clearly wasn't a good thing to do. It's 245 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:13.720 one thing to like say, well consider what you would 246 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:15.559 because I hear this a lot. Well, hey, if you 247 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.960 think Cal's about to go to UCLA, what are you 248 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.960 gonna do if Stoops? You know, because the time he 249 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:22.879 got his extension. I don't really know what jobs were 250 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.399 coming after him, because again this is puts it in perspective. 251 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.960 Nobody's ever come after your coach. I think your his 252 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.360 agent made Barnhart scared that that was happening, but it 253 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.639 never happened, Like is he I mean Florida State had 254 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:36.440 a courtesy because he was the DC. They had a 255 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:38.519 conversation with him, but they didn't interview when they didn't from 256 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.639 the job, Like he doesn't mean he's a bad coach, 257 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:42.559 but for him to be one of the top ten 258 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.399 highest paid coaches in the country and have a forty 259 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:50.200 four million dollar buyout at Kentucky with those results is 260 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.440 flat out in confidence from an ad And when people say, well, 261 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.639 what was he supposed to do? Let him walk? Where's 262 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.840 he going? And with Cal, maybe Cal would have left 263 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.159 call the bluff. You can give him a new deal, 264 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.639 but don't give him a lifetime contract where he's entitled 265 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.320 to that ambassador role. Like that's just crazy. And again, 266 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.399 Barnhart was lucky that Cal found a landing spot. He's 267 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.000 not gonna be lucky with Stoops. He's gonna have to 268 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.080 have Stoops succeed or you know, he's gonna be there 269 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:17.080 for a long time and fans are gonna be not 270 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.879 interested in football and probably blaming, Like the blame will 271 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.840 if Stoops is back next year and they're remotely as 272 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.960 bad as they were this year, He's still gonna get criticized, 273 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.240 But that heat's gonna shift to Barnhart and it already 274 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:32.960 kind of has in a way, but like it's gonna 275 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.480 be like because football needs to be successful. Football is 276 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.039 important in Kentucky. Again, this is Stoop to Stoops his credit. 277 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.159 He actually gave them a sign of what life can 278 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:45.120 be like if your football program isn't in the gutter, 279 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.879 and it clearly is beneficial for every program within your 280 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:53.759 university as far as every sport. But their momentum has 281 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.480 never seemed worse than it is right now, and their 282 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.720 competition's only getting better, right like Shane Beemer owns him now, 283 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.960 make no mistake about it, he does. Florida, I mean 284 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:08.240 Florida all year one of their coach fired. They finished strong, 285 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.120 obviously compared to what they were supposed to do, but 286 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:12.159 like Florida in a year where like if you were 287 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:13.639 going to beat Florida, this was the year they beat 288 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.399 you bad, beat you by twenty eight, Auburn didn't win 289 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.240 a game in the SEC till they played Kentucky like 290 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:23.399 and these are programs that, again, historically speaking, more often 291 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:25.960 than not, if you're gonna beat some of these teams, 292 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.360 I'm mentioning, you're gonna have to beat them while they're 293 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:31.840 down right like, you're gonna have to beat them when 294 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.679 they're struggling. They're not really like Vandy. Vandy is superior 295 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:37.759 than you right now, and again, it can all change 296 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:39.759 in a year. There's there's examples of teams out there 297 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.720 that absolutely have been able to use the portal and 298 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.600 really just kind of, you know, flip it quickly, and 299 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.600 maybe that happens with stoops, but it really didn't look 300 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.200 like it's gonna happen. All right, quick break, We'll come 301 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.960 back on the other side, talk a little basketball. I 302 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.320 still view the Battle for Atlantis despite that loss to 303 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.360 Oklahoma and it was right there. I still view the 304 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.320 Battlefort Lanta has a real big positive for this team. 305 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.799 But man, losing case in Pryor is tough, and there's 306 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.399 many many tough games left, not only on the schedule 307 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.360 for the year, but I mean like in the next 308 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:12.240 few weeks they got a big game tomorrow night, taking 309 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.679 on Chris Beard and Ole Miss, so we'll get into 310 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:16.919 that in a lot more. Keep it lock right here. 311 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.159 It's coffee and Company. Felbout Thornton's on Sports Talk seven. 312 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:24.279 Ninety Now back to Coffee and Company. Fueled by Thornton's 313 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:27.559 on Sports Talk seven nine day Man. 314 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:30.960 Every time I refresh Twitter during the breaks, the majority 315 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.320 of what I see posted is a report or a 316 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:38.440 player himself declaring they're entering the transfer portal. That's what 317 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.360 this day is going to look like. I think every 318 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.039 year the first Monday, or maybe some I mean sometimes 319 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:45.519 you can see it happen right after a game, but 320 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.720 I think Monday, the Monday following the regular season finale 321 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.360 for college football teams, will be the day where a 322 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.159 lot of players make it public that they're intending to 323 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:55.720 enter the portal. I don't think it actually opens up 324 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.440 until later in the week, But for Louisville, I could 325 00:14:58.440 --> 00:14:59.679 have missed one. But the only one I know of 326 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:02.320 right now now is Donald Cheney, Miami running back, who 327 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:05.200 you know, wish him the best. But when you are 328 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.799 or a fourth year senior and you're falling, you're falling 329 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.320 back on the depth chart because it's clearly become two freshmen. 330 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.000 I mean, I don't know why any running back. And 331 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:17.799 I hate saying this because you know you want to 332 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:22.360 have depth. 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I know we've talked 384 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:38.039 a lot about it throughout the show, but we've got 385 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.920 our five o'clockers out there that are probably just now 386 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.720 with us. Maybe they're just getting off work or whatever 387 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.279 it is they're doing that. Maybe didn't hear that, and 388 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:46.960 maybe don't even know the big news. The big news 389 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.680 is not good news, it's bad news. And that's the 390 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:50.279 case in pryor out for the year with the torn 391 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:53.599 acl I feared that was exactly what happened, really as 392 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:57.440 soon as he went down, and he'll have surgery and 393 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.240 be out this season. People have asked me about is 394 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.079 he going to take a medical red shirt? I don't know. 395 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.559 He will be able to qualify for a red shirt 396 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.160 if he wants to, because he and maybe they changed 397 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.240 the rules. But in football it's you know, you play 398 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:14.119 four games and that's it. You play more than that, 399 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:15.960 then it counts as a year. In basketball, I think 400 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.160 it's the percentage of games your team plays, So him 401 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:25.240