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Speaker 2: coming up here in just a moment, but I need
Speaker 2: this is something that I'm curious enough to where I'm
Speaker 2: bringing up on the show to get some reaction. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying we got to load up the phone
Speaker 2: lines for this. But I've learned something about my name
Speaker 2: that has changed in recent years that kind of surprises me.
Speaker 2: All Right, so this probably won't shock you, Austin, but
Speaker 2: my legal name is Nicholas. You probably would expect that, right,
Speaker 2: Nicholas is my name, but I go by Nick apparently,
Speaker 2: and this is on the Internet. Wouldn't be on the
Speaker 2: internet if it wasn't true. I say that jokingly, but
Speaker 2: I also do believe this has become a thing, and
Speaker 2: I'm not really surprised, but it it just I wasn't
Speaker 2: aware until somebody shared it with me. But now, if
Speaker 2: you are named Nicholas and you are under the age
Speaker 2: of ten years old, there's a good chance that you
Speaker 2: don't go by Nick. You go by Nico. Huh. I mean,
Speaker 2: does that sound sound off to you a little bit?
Speaker 2: I don't know many Nicholas's or Nick's, even at a
Speaker 2: young age, Like I don't know where my name is
Speaker 2: on the popularity ranking for children on the last and
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're not a child, right. No, is Nicholas
Speaker 2: becoming like an old man name, not an old man name,
Speaker 2: because I don't really know many. The oldest Nicholas I
Speaker 2: know is Saint Nick. Right. Other than that, I would say,
Speaker 2: like you can find like there's like Nick Nolty. I
Speaker 2: mean he's an actor, like Nick Nolty might be the
Speaker 2: oldest Nick I can think of often, so Nick Nolty
Speaker 2: is eighty four years old. He might be the first
Speaker 2: Nick outside of Saint Nick. So my name is Nicholas Anthony,
Speaker 2: and I don't remember when I became Nick. To my knowledge,
Speaker 2: I've always been Nick. Even whenever I was upset and
Speaker 2: my parents would like, you know, really want to get
Speaker 2: my attention. More often than not, it was still Nick.
Speaker 2: Although there were rare moments where my mom would say
Speaker 2: Nicholas Anthony and she would say with her teeth closed.
Speaker 2: And that's when I knew I needed to behave because
Speaker 2: I was, you know, maybe gonna get myself in trouble.
Speaker 2: But anyways, there are Nkos that I've heard of that
Speaker 2: are you know, I don't know any that I can
Speaker 2: think of off the top of my head as far
Speaker 2: as kids that go to school with my children or
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But Nico is at least a
Speaker 2: name that now I hear of that I didn't hear
Speaker 2: of when I was a kid. But apparently a lot
Speaker 2: of those kids who go by Nico their legal name
Speaker 2: is Nicholas. And that's just something I'd never even thought
Speaker 2: about before. I mean, if I went by Nico, people
Speaker 2: would probably look at me like I like I like,
Speaker 2: there's no way that guy's naming. I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: you never know anybody's name, but Nico does seem like
Speaker 2: a younger thing. But then there's there's Nico Harrison, right,
Speaker 2: that's the GM of the Dallas Mavericks who has been
Speaker 2: getting all kinds of of of grief. But apparently his
Speaker 2: legal name is Nico not Nicholas. Okay, so anyways, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean even Nicholas and Nick still sound very like modern.
Speaker 4: It's not like when you think of like Earl or
Speaker 4: something you know, or Bernard or yeah, Bernard, Oh I could.
Speaker 3: Do this something named Bernie or something I.
Speaker 2: Could do this all day. There are names that just
Speaker 2: over time became like dinosaurs, and it's sad, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: Like how many Gerald do you now? Like imagine saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna bring the baby over, We're gonna bring over
Speaker 2: a little Gary, Like I know Gary. I know Gary's
Speaker 2: in their thirties, but I don't know if I could
Speaker 2: give you a Gary in his twenties. Like ron One
Speaker 2: of my closest friend's name is Ronald. He went by
Speaker 2: Ronnie as as a kid, but now we just call
Speaker 2: him Big ron Actually know his dad's Big Ron, He's Ron, right,
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean there's just and then some names
Speaker 2: make a comeback. Like let me give you an example.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of John's now that are you know,
Speaker 2: John's a pretty timeless name, but I now know friends
Speaker 2: of mine who've named their child John. But I don't
Speaker 2: think I went to school with maybe one John, and
Speaker 2: we're talking about one of the most common names, like ever.
Speaker 2: But in that era when I was growing up, I
Speaker 2: didn't have many friends that I was in school with
Speaker 2: named John. Names that became really big when I was whenever,
Speaker 2: I guess, like kids my age were born my era.
Speaker 2: Cody Cody, Yeah, I don't know many Cody's that are
Speaker 2: above forty. I know Cody, but I know a lot
Speaker 2: of Cody's in between, like twenty and thirty seven. Right,
Speaker 2: Cody was pretty popular. Matthew's pretty It's one of those
Speaker 2: that you really are never surprised by anybody with that name.
Speaker 2: Your name, Austin, I feel like became is your first
Speaker 2: name Austin Legally, yes, it's Austin Tyler. I like that
Speaker 2: Austin Austin Tyler is I mean, those had to be big,
Speaker 2: booming names at that time.
Speaker 3: Of course, I think my mom named me after.
Speaker 2: Tyler was a really big name. Also, whenever I was
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 4: Who was a guy the hot dude on nine O
Speaker 4: two one zero? Was it a Austin Green made Austin?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Austin Green. Yes, that's what my mom said. She
Speaker 3: named me after.
Speaker 2: I mean, you looked just like him. So it's great.
Speaker 3: I've been told that before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly who it is, Brian Austin Green.
Speaker 2: Brian Austin Green. Yeah. So, but Austin is a name
Speaker 2: that now, like, I know a lot of Austin's.
Speaker 3: I know some girls named Austin.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know of many girls name also, but
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised that that there are girls named Austin.
Speaker 4: There's one girl I met. Her name was Austin a
Speaker 4: us t y n. I thought that was kind of hot.
Speaker 2: That's not bad. Yeah, I mean it's creative. If you
Speaker 2: all ever have children, which I'm sure you will one day,
Speaker 2: do you think finding a name will be an easy
Speaker 2: thing for you guys?
Speaker 4: I think she has a couple of them laid out.
Speaker 4: They're like a little bit more like uh in my gosh,
Speaker 4: you can't ask me on off the top of my
Speaker 4: head because I don't know they are more like more
Speaker 4: modern names or not, like you know, like some of
Speaker 4: the ones.
Speaker 3: That that that we mentioned.
Speaker 4: I think, what's another one that, like Tommy Thomas says,
Speaker 4: you don't know like a lot of Thomas.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's true. I'm trying to know one Tommy.
Speaker 2: So my my daughter's name is Maya Noel. My son's
Speaker 2: name is Mason Cruz. I feel like Cruse has become
Speaker 2: not like a super popular name, but I didn't know
Speaker 2: anybody named Cruse growing up. Now, I bet if I
Speaker 2: went to my kids school, there'd be a few cruises there.
Speaker 4: One of our one of our couple friends just had
Speaker 4: a kid and they named him Crew.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've heard of that. Yeah, that's not a bad well,
Speaker 2: that's not bad at all.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a lacrosse player in the making.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. So. The only reason I bring it up is because,
Speaker 2: like when I get older and i'm you know, my
Speaker 2: legal name is Nicholas, like at the DMV when I'm
Speaker 2: getting my license renewed in my sixties, because a lot
Speaker 2: of times people will just look at my legal name
Speaker 2: and they'll just just because there aren't many people that
Speaker 2: go by Nicholas, they just go by It's very like, yeah,
Speaker 2: there are I feel like, let me ask you this,
Speaker 2: do you think there's more people named Matthew that go
Speaker 2: by Matt or vice versa, like more people that go
Speaker 2: because I think you it's I think it's more common
Speaker 2: to hear somebody who goes by their legal name Matthew
Speaker 2: than there is people who go by Nicholas yea and
Speaker 2: not being nicked.
Speaker 3: They go by the shorter version.
Speaker 4: Now because my my fiance's brother's name is Matthew, but
Speaker 4: we call him Matt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's very I have close friends named
Speaker 2: matt and calling them Matthew just would be weird. Also,
Speaker 2: did you know that technically my name, like how I
Speaker 2: spell it, is fraudulent. Really, this kind of this speaks
Speaker 2: to I guess my, you know you're a fake nick,
Speaker 2: my being, a my being, you know who I am.
Speaker 2: But I felt like a real fraud when somebody pointed
Speaker 2: this out to me. Might have been somebody on the
Speaker 2: show on the text line who brought it up one time,
Speaker 2: but I was like, you know what, They're right. I've
Speaker 2: been an imposter my whole life. Every time I write
Speaker 2: my name, I write in I C K. There's not
Speaker 2: a K in my name. It's a I C H
Speaker 2: O L A S. So we just we the Nicks
Speaker 2: just invented a letter that doesn't need to be there.
Speaker 2: That's like, that's I used to think. If you're going
Speaker 2: by Nick and I see, you're a real tryhard. Actually
Speaker 2: you're legit. I'm not because the K doesn't exist. I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm just writing down. I mean, it's like almost
Speaker 2: like a fake identification, right.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even mind if you went by Nick. But
Speaker 4: but even then I see and I see yeah. But
Speaker 4: like you know, I said, is there an H in it?
Speaker 4: And I C H yeah, and I C H O
Speaker 4: L A S. I kind of just like the N
Speaker 4: I C H that's but that to me, that to.
Speaker 2: Me is a tryhard you think, so yeah, like like
Speaker 2: Mark with a C, like, what are you doing? It's K?
Speaker 2: Like you can't you know? In my so my wife,
Speaker 2: my wife's my wife's name is Tiffany and ak Mercedes,
Speaker 2: but she not her Her mother decided to spell it
Speaker 2: t I F F A N I, which is not
Speaker 2: is not insanely rare, but I'd say more than ninety
Speaker 2: percent of the folks named Tiffany go BYuT T I
Speaker 2: F F A N Y, but her mom spelled it,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad she did because you know, it's it
Speaker 2: puts a little bit of a different it makes it
Speaker 2: a little bit unique. Yeah, but you know she oftentimes,
Speaker 2: you know, when she has to just like me, if
Speaker 2: I tell people my name is Coffee, I have to
Speaker 2: say e y or they're gonna put ee. She now
Speaker 2: has to tell people it's a N I and it's
Speaker 2: f F E Y not not. Yeah, so she's want
Speaker 2: more explanation, yeap, no doubt. But again, like who am
Speaker 2: I to judge I'm a fraud. There's a K in
Speaker 2: my name that I've living with that doesn't actually belong.
Speaker 2: Total fraud.
Speaker 4: Now we got the great uh Radio Rick. There's not
Speaker 4: a lot of ricks left.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 2: It's true man. You think Rick is short for Richard?
Speaker 3: That's true?
Speaker 2: Radio Rick. Man, what a guy I'm trying to think of. Like,
Speaker 2: when's the last time you saw a somebody under the
Speaker 2: age of twenty named Donald? But I don't even know
Speaker 2: any young Donnie's.
Speaker 3: I got a cousin named Donald.
Speaker 2: Is he young?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: He's probably like seven eight years older than I am.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's probably like borderline, right. Uh, Reginald, you know, an,
Speaker 2: I guess Reginalds are Reggie Reggie's dude.
Speaker 3: I haven't. I don't think I've ever met a Reggie
Speaker 3: maybe once.
Speaker 2: Do you remember? Was it ever a thing in school
Speaker 2: when they would do they would do like roll call
Speaker 2: and call attendance, and like there were kids that's who's
Speaker 2: Like I knew they were going to say Nicholas and
Speaker 2: it didn't really like I wasn't worried that people were
Speaker 2: going to find out like that you're name. But you
Speaker 2: know when your kid, you know you're insecure, you're just
Speaker 2: being social. Like there was that anxiety for certain kids
Speaker 2: who went by a name and the only way you'd
Speaker 2: know that their name wasn't what they go by is
Speaker 2: like first day of school when the teacher's getting acclimated
Speaker 2: or there's a sub who's calling role and they're only
Speaker 2: looking at what's on the paper, not what you go by.
Speaker 2: And like there would be kids who would like try
Speaker 2: to not be in class when they would call role
Speaker 2: and I'm like, bro, it's your name? Like even as
Speaker 2: seven to eight year olds, we know your mom and
Speaker 2: dad did it not you? Bro? Like it's not that
Speaker 2: big of a do. I have a buddy, close friend
Speaker 2: of mine who his legal name is Leslie, which is
Speaker 2: not as rare as you would think, especially like it's
Speaker 2: a family name, Like I think his father's name is Leslie.
Speaker 2: His grandfather's name is Leslie.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 2: Maybe is great, but you know, when you're a kid
Speaker 2: in the nineties, I think most kids, maybe even adults,
Speaker 2: would just assume Leslie would be a woman, right, I
Speaker 2: mean I would, but like I remember thinking, like, man,
Speaker 2: like he's really going through it, that he's worried people
Speaker 2: are going to find out that's his name, Like it's
Speaker 2: not no big it's you know, it's not again, you
Speaker 2: don't get to pick your name. I guess you could
Speaker 2: change it when you get older. And he didn't go
Speaker 2: by Leslie. He went by a different he went by
Speaker 2: his middle name. But anyways, I just I'm now thinking
Speaker 2: that maybe when I get older and I go to
Speaker 2: the DMV and I just hand them my documents and
Speaker 2: they're just assuming that I don't go by Nikolas. Are
Speaker 2: they gonna say, oh, hey, Nico, because Nico's now overtaken nick.
Speaker 3: And I don't like that, and you don't look like
Speaker 3: an Eco.
Speaker 2: Thank you? Do it look like a nick?
Speaker 3: Of course you've embraced the nick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're a New York kid. Isn't there
Speaker 2: a real not not this week?
Speaker 3: No? No, yeah, that's sure.
Speaker 2: I'm a pacer, But aren't there like there's some truth
Speaker 2: to it? Always go back to Tommy Boy with Chris Farley,
Speaker 2: whenever they're getting they just got into that roadside fight
Speaker 2: and they're at that diner and the waitress comes over
Speaker 2: and you know he but right before he melts down,
Speaker 2: he said, what's your name? Helen? Helen? You look like
Speaker 2: a Helen. I'm like, you know what, she does, look
Speaker 2: like a Helen. Like there's certain people that when they
Speaker 2: tell me their name and I don't know it. I
Speaker 2: just want to respond, you're damn right, you're Domald. You're
Speaker 2: damn right, that's your name. Look at you. You can
Speaker 2: look like your name. So anyways, let's, I guess, go
Speaker 2: back to what we're supposed to be doing here talking
Speaker 2: in sports. This is a sports show, and this is
Speaker 2: big news here locally, and it did kind of come
Speaker 2: out of nowhere. I wish we had a little more info,
Speaker 2: but it's okay. It happens. This way from time to time.
Speaker 2: Louisville has added a new player for the upcoming basketball season.
Speaker 2: They've landed Mohammed Kamara, who is from Senegal. He comes
Speaker 2: from the NBA Africa Academy. He's a six to eight,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifteen pound I guess forward, I mean
Speaker 2: he's he's kind of a hybridou I would I would say,
Speaker 2: given the fact that his statistics kind of show you
Speaker 2: that he's averaged just under eleven points, seven boards, three
Speaker 2: and a half assists, two point eight steals, and two
Speaker 2: and a half blocks per game. Those were his numbers
Speaker 2: this past year at NBA Africa, shot at about thirty
Speaker 2: eight percent from three over sixty percent from the field overall.
Speaker 2: So I don't know a lot about him, had never
Speaker 2: heard of him until I saw that he had committed
Speaker 2: to Louisville today. But clearly they need to add some
Speaker 2: players in the front court, given that the l ability
Speaker 2: of Ali Khalifa still up in the air, and obviously
Speaker 2: James Scott decided to leave and they weren't able to
Speaker 2: through the portal at anybody to replace him, at least
Speaker 2: not yet. There are still players available in the portal
Speaker 2: and I have no clue really what to expect whenever
Speaker 2: the deadline is for the NBA Draft, which I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to look that up because there are still a
Speaker 2: lot of players available in the portal. What I don't
Speaker 2: know is is Louisville already in a position of where
Speaker 2: they're recruiting these guys just waiting to figure out what
Speaker 2: their decision is or is it more so a you
Speaker 2: kind of restart the recruitment once these guys say they're
Speaker 2: coming back to school. And I think Louisville they have money.
Speaker 2: I mean, they clearly have money to offer. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think you probably had to spend a ton
Speaker 2: on this latest addition to your roster. And I don't
Speaker 2: think I mean James Scott had an NIL deal in place.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: that was a big factor in his decision to UH
Speaker 2: to transfer or what. But either way, I mean, I
Speaker 2: still think even with this addition, and let's just say
Speaker 2: Khalifa gets good news about eligibility, you know, you still
Speaker 2: have some spots available, and I I you don't really
Speaker 2: know exactly what you'd be missing out if you don't
Speaker 2: get Khalif eligible, because again, he didn't play, But as
Speaker 2: we talked about earlier, he's such a rare big man
Speaker 2: who there's really no debate about what his strongest asset is.
Speaker 2: He's a phenomenal passer in a way that you just
Speaker 2: don't see from bigs. There are plenty of guys that
Speaker 2: can can pass well as a post player. Rather it
Speaker 2: be just being able to read a double team coming
Speaker 2: and knowing the spacing on the floor, or you know,
Speaker 2: just knowing the commit the attention they're commanding on a
Speaker 2: pick and pop and finding somebody. I mean, it's not
Speaker 2: as if there's never been a big that could be
Speaker 2: a really good passer, but he is. He's a lead
Speaker 2: at that, and you know, not having him would change
Speaker 2: some things. And if James, if there's not really a
Speaker 2: replacement from James Scott in the portal, I think the
Speaker 2: production that you lost, as far as James Scott's rebounds
Speaker 2: and points and whatnot, you can replace that. In fact, hell,
Speaker 2: just one of these guys could replace that by themselves.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean to say that this is not
Speaker 2: me talking like James Scott's a bump, because I think
Speaker 2: I was pretty clear that when he decided to leave
Speaker 2: I don't think the numbers will show you just how
Speaker 2: valuable he can be for you, because of the role
Speaker 2: that he was seemingly willing to embrace until he decided
Speaker 2: to leave. However, the seven points and six rebounds or
Speaker 2: whatever it is he averaged a year ago, I think
Speaker 2: it's safe to say Sonny Frew in case in prior
Speaker 2: by themselves can more than make up for that. But
Speaker 2: if anything, this latest edition that they added today gives
Speaker 2: you a little bit of an insurance policy if in
Speaker 2: fact things don't work out with Khalifa, because if they didn't,
Speaker 2: then you would just have I mean, your front core
Speaker 2: would be Case and pryor Javon Hadley and Sonny Frew
Speaker 2: and I like all those guys, but like it's not
Speaker 2: sustainable for that just to be the only guys you
Speaker 2: have in the front court. So all right, let's get
Speaker 2: to a quick break. We'll come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: A lot more to get into, including Scotty Scheffler's PGA championship.
Speaker 2: What that means to you know, hopefully in a perfect
Speaker 2: world this would just kind of put it to bed.
Speaker 2: But I kind of feel like now that he years
Speaker 2: passed and you really reflect on how wild that situation was,
Speaker 2: him getting arrested here in Louisville on his way to
Speaker 2: the PGA Championship with Valhalla. That's probably not something that's
Speaker 2: ever just going to not be a part of the
Speaker 2: Scotty Scheffler story. Therefore, I feel like the better he
Speaker 2: is at golf, the less likely it is that this
Speaker 2: thing just kind of fades away. Also, we'll let you
Speaker 2: hear what Drew Brees had to say about Jeff Brahm
Speaker 2: and Tyler Shuck. Shuck's gonna be the man in New
Speaker 2: Orleans regardless of what they're telling us. And as I
Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, we've got this list of programs with the
Speaker 2: most college basketball wins since twenty twenty. I think some
Speaker 2: of these schools that will appear here will surprise you,
Speaker 2: But I'd say there's one component that that makes it
Speaker 2: make sense. So stick with us. We'll finish strong here
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't think that I even made the
Speaker 2: connection when Jeff Brom. Well, when when Tyler Shuck was
Speaker 2: drafted by the Saints that they are there's and again,
Speaker 2: maybe it's not a connection. Maybe that's whay, maybe it's
Speaker 2: why it didn't pop into into my mind. But if
Speaker 2: in fact, the New Orleans Saints we're going to lean
Speaker 2: on Drew Brees for some type of guidance and maybe
Speaker 2: just you know, ask for his input on what he
Speaker 2: thinks about this quarterback crop in the twenty twenty five draft.
Speaker 2: You know, wouldn't shock me. He Drew Brees, He's he
Speaker 2: brought him a Super Bowl. So he has a lot
Speaker 2: of respect for Jeff Brom, not just because they're both
Speaker 2: two great quarterbacks and quarterback minds, but obviously Jeff Brom
Speaker 2: was the head coach at Purdue and he may Purdue
Speaker 2: football relevant to an extent for the first time since
Speaker 2: Drew Brees played there. So there's some connections here. But
Speaker 2: Tyler Shuck, he's gonna have his opportunity to compete for
Speaker 2: the starting job in New Orleans with Derek Carr retiring
Speaker 2: after an injury. But I would I'd be really shocked
Speaker 2: if if he's not the guy. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: think you draft somebody in the second round. I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like if you don't if you don't start him, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I think he has I think he
Speaker 2: has real ability that little show that where he looks
Speaker 2: like he'll be the best option over Hainer and Spencer Rattler.
Speaker 2: Look maybe Spencer Ratler, because I don't know. Spence Rayler
Speaker 2: clearly has some tools and some talent that has gotten
Speaker 2: into this point. But they also saw what they would
Speaker 2: be without or they also saw what they would be
Speaker 2: with him at quarterback because he got to start some
Speaker 2: games last year for the injured Derek Carr, and you
Speaker 2: know they weren't very good. And I just think when
Speaker 2: you're when you're taking over a new franchise as a
Speaker 2: new head coach, what can I think of his name?
Speaker 2: Guy who came from the Cowboys? Oh, Kellen Moore, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Kellen Moore. I mean you want to run with the
Speaker 2: guy that you played a part in them deciding, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're out there losing with a quarterback
Speaker 2: that you had no say so in being on the roster,
Speaker 2: and he knows maybe he loves Rattler and Hayin, but
Speaker 2: either way, like you want to you want to get
Speaker 2: results based off of something that you had, You had
Speaker 2: a place, and you know, you put in place. So
Speaker 2: they'll continue to talk about it being a competition, but
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like if they don't start him,
Speaker 2: it'll it'll be a bad look for Shuck, which maybe
Speaker 2: isn't fair for me to say, but I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel like he can beat out these guys. But also
Speaker 2: I mean it'll maybe speak to the Saints not loving
Speaker 2: their Brookie quarterback, because I mean, even if Carr didn't
Speaker 2: retire and he was healthy, everybody would just assume that
Speaker 2: you drafted this guy in the second round. He's he's
Speaker 2: the air parent like he's going to be the next
Speaker 2: guy out. But here's Drew Brees over the weekend talking
Speaker 2: about Tyler Shuck and also a little bit about Jeff Broum.
Speaker 5: I love Jeff brob Jeff Brohm and Louisville was produced
Speaker 5: head coach for a long time, Develt as O'Connell and
Speaker 5: a few others, so he's kind of known as one
Speaker 5: of those guys who can give out fewbs. And obviously
Speaker 5: Tyler shuffily drive in that office with him.
Speaker 2: Last year, so there's more to it. But the sound
Speaker 2: is pretty crappy, but you know, he does allude to
Speaker 2: the fact that they're still going to compete and they're
Speaker 2: not just going to give the job to anybody. But
Speaker 2: things are lining up pretty nicely for Shuck and I
Speaker 2: can't wait to see what happens. And I really do
Speaker 2: believe that the age is something that has been used
Speaker 2: at times by people as a reason why he shouldn't
Speaker 2: have been drafted and why you shouldn't be excited if
Speaker 2: you're a Saints fan. I think given the circumstance to
Speaker 2: where he's going to be thrown thrown in right away,
Speaker 2: it's a good thing that he's mature and he's not
Speaker 2: going to be And this is something more so that
Speaker 2: comes from just those who know Tyler a little bit,
Speaker 2: those that were around him last year at Louisville, And
Speaker 2: we talked about this a little bit when Brian brom
Speaker 2: came on the show. The moment's not going to be
Speaker 2: too big for him. He is not going to be
Speaker 2: overwhelmed or wide eyed by the NFL. I mean, clearly
Speaker 2: he'll be a big step up for him. I mean
Speaker 2: it's the National Football League, and who knows how good
Speaker 2: he's gonna actually be. But I don't think he's somebody
Speaker 2: that will succumb to just you know, the duties that
Speaker 2: a quarterback has in the National Football League. It's a
Speaker 2: very important job. And you know, you you can't be
Speaker 2: bad for very long and expect to keep your job.
Speaker 2: All right, It's coffee and company. Feel about Thornton's here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven to ninety. So the Pacers in
Speaker 2: the next Eastern Conference Finals that will get started on
Speaker 2: Wednesday with the Pacers hosting Game one. And there's something
Speaker 2: that has has become a big, big thing on the internet,
Speaker 2: and that is Tyrese Halliburton flying out a Pacers fan
Speaker 2: who apparently lives in New York and was harassed by
Speaker 2: New Yorkers after the game for victory that the Knicks
Speaker 2: had over the Celtics. So I'm a little bit torn
Speaker 2: on this, but this, this is this is what played out.
Speaker 2: There was a pay I guess just I mean, can
Speaker 2: I say it, Austin, if you're in New York City
Speaker 2: and you know what Knicks fans do in the streets
Speaker 2: of New York City after big wins and you show
Speaker 2: up just trying to mingle among the masses wearing a
Speaker 2: Pacers Halliburton Jersey. I don't feel like I'm out of
Speaker 2: line to say you're looking for trouble. Yeah, you're not
Speaker 2: asking for it, maybe, but maybe you are, but you're
Speaker 2: wanting attention. Yes, you know what you're doing. Now, does
Speaker 2: that mean you that people have a right to assault
Speaker 2: you or you know, yell mean things at you. No,
Speaker 2: because you really shouldn't do that ever. But as human
Speaker 2: beings in society, I think a lot of us have
Speaker 2: a level of expectation as far as things we do
Speaker 2: and what might come with those decisions. Doesn't mean that,
Speaker 2: you know. For example, if I was to wear a
Speaker 2: T shirt that was extremely hateful towards one individual, a
Speaker 2: group of people, whatever, it may be, just a disgusting
Speaker 2: T shirt that, like I knew, would get a reaction.
Speaker 2: If I wear said T shirt around a group of
Speaker 2: people and that person, in front of a cop came
Speaker 2: up and beat the hell out of me, that person
Speaker 2: would go to or go to jail and get arrested.
Speaker 2: But like I would be guilty, not by the criminal
Speaker 2: justice system. I'd be guilty of being a real dumbass.
Speaker 2: That's what I would be guilty of. And if you
Speaker 2: share that story to your friends or other people, They
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't have much sympathy for you for a couple
Speaker 2: of reasons. One, they would say, how stupid can you be?
Speaker 2: You can't be shocked that somebody did that to you.
Speaker 2: But also they might look at whatever you were wearing
Speaker 2: and say, you know, you're a real piece of work.
Speaker 2: So again, both things could be true here. This guy
Speaker 2: knew what he was doing by walking out into the
Speaker 2: streets right after a New York Knicks victory wearing that.
Speaker 2: But those that didn't have the ability to restrain from
Speaker 2: owing things at him and you know, putting hands on him,
Speaker 2: if they even did that, they're not in the right.
Speaker 2: But you know, again, that's one of the things you
Speaker 2: hear me say often a lot of things can be true,
Speaker 2: not just one specific thing. So this has now turned
Speaker 2: into Halliburton using it as a hey, I'm gonna hook
Speaker 2: this guy up. But I do like the way Halliburton is,
Speaker 2: at least from what I've gathered. I haven't you know,
Speaker 2: I followed the story as best I can. I know
Speaker 2: he was on Pat McAfee earlier today talking about it,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to play that because I don't,
Speaker 2: you know, part of Pat McAfee's show is on television
Speaker 2: live and part of it, part of it's not the
Speaker 2: part that's not you know, they can say whatever. But
Speaker 2: apparently this guy who did this is is a firefighter
Speaker 2: in New York City, but he's a lifelong Pacers fan.
Speaker 2: So Halliburton is is going to hook him up.
Speaker 6: Pat told me found you yesterday, called me. I said,
Speaker 6: I gotta get on the show and talk to him myself.
Speaker 6: I want to personally bring you in a plus one
Speaker 6: out here to come to Game four. Uh here in Indiana.
Speaker 6: I'll bring you guys out here, put you guys up,
Speaker 6: get you guys see to the game. The Pacers. Everybody
Speaker 6: in our organization wants to make sure you take care
Speaker 6: of all the teams excited to meet you. It's all
Speaker 6: we've been talking about. Everybody's seen the video. So man,
Speaker 6: we want to bring you out here and uh yeah, man,
Speaker 6: I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 2: So you and Hans, I believe that's on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I believe that's on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: You're able to make the trip. I know scheduling obviously
Speaker 2: as a firefighter or something.
Speaker 3: You no, I gotta I gotta talk to the guys.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm pretty sure we could work something. Hey
Speaker 3: make sure that's first class. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: So again this is I doubt that this firefighter did
Speaker 2: that thinking he would end up being able to benefit
Speaker 2: from the situation to where he gets to fly out
Speaker 2: to go to Game four. I thought it was Game one,
Speaker 2: but he's gonna go to Game four, which will be
Speaker 2: uh an indye? Am I wrong? Is the Do the
Speaker 2: Pacers not have home court advantage? I thought they did?
Speaker 3: They they're the four seed?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Were the Knicks that there?
Speaker 6: See?
Speaker 2: Am I wrong here?
Speaker 3: It might be privy to the scene.
Speaker 2: So game one is let's see, why is it not
Speaker 2: tell you? Yeah? But oh sorry? Game ones in New York.
Speaker 2: So I guess the Pacers win Game one, it'll be Wednesday, okay,
Speaker 2: so yeah, they'll have two games in New York too
Speaker 2: at Indy and then they'll go back and forth if
Speaker 2: need be for the rest of the series. I was wrong.
Speaker 2: The Pacers don't have home court advantage. The Knicks do.
Speaker 2: So anyways, he's gonna be coming out for Game four.
Speaker 2: I doubt he had in mind that he could potentially
Speaker 2: turn that situation into getting a chance to fly back
Speaker 2: to Indiana. I don't know if he's from there, but again,
Speaker 2: he's a Pacers fan living in New York City, so
Speaker 2: it worked out well for him. But I also can't
Speaker 2: help but like still say, yeah, that what you did.
Speaker 2: I mean, again, there's nothing illegal about it, but like
Speaker 2: hard for me to believe you just happen to be
Speaker 2: walking around New York City wearing your Pacers jersey at
Speaker 2: the time that the Pacers or the Knicks fans just
Speaker 2: decided to you know, celebrate, like you know, you were
Speaker 2: asking for it, and uh, in a way it benefited you.
Speaker 4: So I think that that's a it's not a bad investment.
Speaker 4: You know, go through that, maybe get a trash bag
Speaker 4: thrown on you, but you know, an NBA All star
Speaker 4: face of a franchise reaches out to you and say, hey,
Speaker 4: come to the game.
Speaker 3: That's a very price price well paid.
Speaker 2: I guess, oh no, no, he'll probably try to do
Speaker 2: it again. If hell, other people may try to turn
Speaker 2: the situation into to what he just turned this one into,
Speaker 2: because I mean, he's getting flooded to Indy and I
Speaker 2: would imagine if Halliburton, so, can you up a ticket?
Speaker 2: You're not You're not sitting in a bad seat. I
Speaker 2: don't know if your court side or what, but I'm
Speaker 2: sure you are giving him his dad's seats. It's right,
Speaker 2: that's right. His dad now has vacant seats because his
Speaker 2: dad got basically banned from the any Pacers game moving forward.
Speaker 2: And this is also actually a good pr not that
Speaker 2: there was really a whole lot of pr repair needed
Speaker 2: for Halliburton, because I thought he handed it really well
Speaker 2: following his father's situation with Jannis, and I give him
Speaker 2: more credit than others probably do. Yes, it was the right, mature,
Speaker 2: responsible thing to do, but I also think it was
Speaker 2: probably a little more difficult. At least it would have
Speaker 2: been difficult for me. Like if my dad was doing that,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I don't think i'd have the
Speaker 2: ability to tell him, hey, you were wrong. I would
Speaker 2: be so happy that my dad was that excited for me,
Speaker 2: even if he did cross the line and looked like
Speaker 2: a real piece of work. Didn't feel like dad.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 2: It feels like it was ten years ago for some reason.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that. I'm not the only I'm
Speaker 2: glad I'm not the only one that thinks that, all right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get to a quick break just a moment,
Speaker 2: but I do want to talk about it a little bit.
Speaker 2: We have not got to it in the five o'clock
Speaker 2: hour yet, but obviously we have throughout the show here
Speaker 2: and there discussed just the tragic situation out in southeastern
Speaker 2: Kentucky as the tornado that came through on Friday evening
Speaker 2: just absolutely devastated that area of Kentucky. We now have
Speaker 2: nineteen people that have that have lost their life in
Speaker 2: the state of Kentucky, seventeen of those coming from Laurel County,
Speaker 2: which is there in London, and then one that had
Speaker 2: passed away in Pulaski County and another in Russell County.
Speaker 2: So just the devastation that this storm left in a
Speaker 2: specific area. Again, it's wide spread as far as just
Speaker 2: the damage, and I guess there's no way to really
Speaker 2: quantify if it's devastation or not. I mean, people lost
Speaker 2: their lives. When that happens, you don't probably think much
Speaker 2: about your home and your valuables. I mean you will
Speaker 2: at some point, and that is still a devastating thing
Speaker 2: to experience. But just to see how wiped out this
Speaker 2: specific area of a neighborhood is is. I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel wrong as if it's the first thing that came
Speaker 2: to my mind, but as soon as I saw the
Speaker 2: aftermath from the drone footage, I mean, my instant thought was,
Speaker 2: there's no scenario anybody that was where that took place survived.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if I'm right or wrong about that,
Speaker 2: but it's just maybe it's the recency here, but I
Speaker 2: believe this is the worst I've seen as far as
Speaker 2: any damage in any tornado in Kentucky that I can remember.
Speaker 2: I know Dawson Springs was really really bad years back.
Speaker 2: I know Mayfield, Kentucky had a very devastating tornado that
Speaker 2: did a real, you know, just tear, just tragic damage
Speaker 2: to those communities, and it's really not worth there's no
Speaker 2: benefit in determining which one's worse than the other, because
Speaker 2: there's again there's no point in that.
Speaker 3: But just the.
Speaker 2: Visual of this is just it's it's heartbreaking. So thoughts
Speaker 2: and prayers to all those impacted by because this has
Speaker 2: got to be I mean devastating. I know I've mentioned
Speaker 2: that word quite a bit, but I think that's the
Speaker 2: best one to use for lack of maybe a better one.
Speaker 2: So thoughts and prayers, and if there is a positive
Speaker 2: to take from this is just to see that there
Speaker 2: is still a lot of good out there, those that
Speaker 2: have just been trying like crazy to do whatever they
Speaker 2: can to get there, to be front and center to
Speaker 2: help in any way, whether it be donating something or
Speaker 2: putting some gloves on and actually getting to work and
Speaker 2: helping with clean up. I mean, that is a real
Speaker 2: That's something that stands out to me more than it
Speaker 2: did maybe in my younger years, to where I'm always
Speaker 2: now at least a little more aware of those who
Speaker 2: are just doing good things for people because they want to,
Speaker 2: and it's it's just not even a decision for them,
Speaker 2: it's just what they do, it's how they are. Those
Speaker 2: are great people that you know. It's nice to know
Speaker 2: that they're still out there. And I don't think there's
Speaker 2: ever been a thought that they weren't. But this day
Speaker 2: and age and the new cycle and whatnot, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't, you know, maybe it's just us getting caught
Speaker 2: up in our own lives to where we don't think
Speaker 2: about it much. But it does warm my heart, if
Speaker 2: I can say. Maybe that's corny to some, but to
Speaker 2: see the amount of people here in Kentucky that want
Speaker 2: to help other Kentuckians who are going through something just tragic.
Speaker 2: So again, we'll have more updates on that as we
Speaker 2: learn more as far as the total number, but right now,
Speaker 2: nineteen was the total as far as lives lost from
Speaker 2: this storm as of noon this afternoon, according to Andy Basheer.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll come back and wrap it up.
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Speaker 2: So Scotty Scheffler, with his PGA Championship victory over the weekend,
Speaker 2: he's increased his career winnings to eighty one point nine million,
Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty five already he's sitting at ten
Speaker 2: point one million. So this guy was already one of
Speaker 2: the best golfers in the world when he was arriving
Speaker 2: at Louisville last year to participate in this same event.
Speaker 2: And I don't see any sign of him slowing down.
Speaker 2: He's still phenomenal. You don't even have to follow golf
Speaker 2: at all to know that he's a big name, but
Speaker 2: I think the best case scenario of the LMPD and
Speaker 2: really Louisville, I guess catching strays from the situation last year.
Speaker 2: I just don't think that's gonna go away anytime soon,
Speaker 2: because obviously he's not going anywhere anytime soon. And I
Speaker 2: think just because of the nature of that entire situation,
Speaker 2: I mean, it is such a rare, almost unbelievable type
Speaker 2: of thing that occurred to where it's gonna stick around.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be, you know, something that you think about
Speaker 2: for a long time when you think of Scheffler, because
Speaker 2: not many can say on their way to any event
Speaker 2: that you participate in as professional athlete that that kind
Speaker 2: of thing would happen. I mean, Nike's Nikes ad yesterday
Speaker 2: for him was probably something we should have just expect.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna live this down for a long time,
Speaker 2: but Nike's ad said best player in the world, question
Speaker 2: mark guilty. I also feel like he clearly leaned into
Speaker 2: it by showing up at the start of this event
Speaker 2: wearing an orange shirt that was very similar to the
Speaker 2: shade of orange that he was wearing in his jumpsuit
Speaker 2: for his mugshot before they let him out and let
Speaker 2: him go back to Valhalla. So and he's a really
Speaker 2: likable guy too, So there's not gonna be much of
Speaker 2: a scenario where like there's gonna be much defense of
Speaker 2: like okay, we get it, move on. They dropped the
Speaker 2: charges like I think he's gonna conte and he's not
Speaker 2: even the one doing it, by the way, Like I mean,
Speaker 2: I think maybe leaning into it, as I mentioned with
Speaker 2: the shirt, but we we're gonna have we're gonna have
Speaker 2: to live with that one for a long time around here,
Speaker 2: and I think we should just accept it. Right.
Speaker 4: They also did the thing on the McAfee or on
Speaker 4: not the McAfee show in College Game Day where he
Speaker 4: was a special guest when it was a Louisville Miami game,
Speaker 4: that's right, and they were got about fun at that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I mean, we're going to be connected to
Speaker 2: Scheffler one way or the other for a long time,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be bad, Like it's not going to
Speaker 2: be in good, you know. But I guess maybe in
Speaker 2: a way, like we'll find a way as a city
Speaker 2: to lean into it. And I doubt that happens, And
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure what could be done. But he's
Speaker 2: got he's likable, he's got a lot of momentum, He's
Speaker 2: not going anywhere. He's on top right now for that
Speaker 2: pg Championship win. And again, I just think the nature
Speaker 2: of what went on is something that when you think
Speaker 2: of Scotti Schefler, you'll think of, Wow, this guy's amazing
Speaker 2: at golf. He seems likable. Can you believe LMPD threw
Speaker 2: him in jail before he got to start the PGA
Speaker 2: Championship in twenty twenty four. It's it's it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: So anyways, real quick, this is a list that has
Speaker 2: the college basketball programs with the most wins in the
Speaker 2: twenty twenties. And I think there's a few a few
Speaker 2: things here that really are are the reasons you see
Speaker 2: these programs here, and there are different reasons for that.
Speaker 2: So I'll start with Hughton. Houston's been insanely successful. Shouldn't
Speaker 2: be a shock. They have one hundred and sixty wins
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenties. They dominated the American Conference and
Speaker 2: then but at the time, the toughest conference in college
Speaker 2: hoops was the Big Twelve. They show up win the
Speaker 2: league two straight years as members of the league. So
Speaker 2: Gonzaga they're at number They're at number two with one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty three wins. Gonzaga is a good program,
Speaker 2: but like they're there because of why they play in
Speaker 2: a terrible conference that it's hard for them to lose games.
Speaker 2: It seems Drake Drake was phenomenal. Dairy En Devrees parlayed
Speaker 2: that into the West Virginia job, and then what did
Speaker 2: Drake do? They hired Ben McCallum, who was there for
Speaker 2: a year and was better than Darien Debrees. Duke is
Speaker 2: at won thirty four. That speaks to Duke being great,
Speaker 2: but also it speaks to I think the ACC not
Speaker 2: challenging Duke the way that it used to. Duke doesn't
Speaker 2: have as much competition as they once did in the ACC.
Speaker 2: Purdue's a number is tied for number four. It won
Speaker 2: thirty four, no surprise. Matt Painter has phenomenal and they
Speaker 2: had two years where they had two of the best
Speaker 2: teams in the country. I mean, was Zach Edy was there.
Speaker 2: They played in the championship game one year. They did
Speaker 2: lose in the first round to a sixteen, but they
Speaker 2: were a one seed, so they won a lot of
Speaker 2: games then last year they were really good. Yukon is
Speaker 2: at one thirty. That speaks to Dan Hurley in the
Speaker 2: run that he's been on in quite some time. So
Speaker 2: the rest of the top ten, it's Arizona obviously they
Speaker 2: they've been really good under Tommy Lloyd. Alabama's right behind them.
Speaker 2: Nat Oates has gotten it rolling. Tennessee. Rick Barnes has
Speaker 2: been the most has been the winningest SEC coach in
Speaker 2: league play since he was hired, So not a surprise there.
Speaker 2: And then Kansas is at one twenty seven, which actually
Speaker 2: surprises me because the last two years, I bet if
Speaker 2: you just do this based off of two thousand to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, I'd be willing to bet that Kansas
Speaker 2: would have been a lot higher. But they've lost a
Speaker 2: lot of games in the last few years that you
Speaker 2: wouldn't necessarily expect. But the other thing I wanted to
Speaker 2: get to is you've got teams, and this is this
Speaker 2: is based off like the top thirty. You've got teams
Speaker 2: like Texas State, who's in the top fifteen. You may think,
Speaker 2: what well Texas State their coach who was a big
Speaker 2: part of all those wins, at least most of them.
Speaker 2: I should say not all of them, but a lot
Speaker 2: of them was Grant Masilic, Ormsillic or something like that,
Speaker 2: who's now at Texas Tech, who just took them to
Speaker 2: the Elite eight. You've got Vcu Ryan Odom, a really
Speaker 2: good coach, a lot of those wins. In fact, all
Speaker 2: those wins are probably him now he's at Virginia. You've
Speaker 2: got Liberty. They've been really good at their level. Their
Speaker 2: coach is kind of I think they've stayed with the
Speaker 2: same guy. But then you go to Utah State. They
Speaker 2: had a very successful coach who I can't remember where
Speaker 2: he left to take over, but he won there, and
Speaker 2: then they ended up hiring Youngstown State's coach who ended
Speaker 2: up taking over big jump from him to go to
Speaker 2: Youngstown State to Utah State. He won a bunch of
Speaker 2: games in his first year. So what I'm getting at
Speaker 2: is this is to me at least a sign that
Speaker 2: you can, in this current era take a coach who
Speaker 2: wins a lot at a lower level and not necessarily
Speaker 2: be worried about can they make the jump? You never know,
Speaker 2: but if there iss good of coaches, as you believe,
Speaker 2: they'll be able to utilize the resources at the better
Speaker 2: job and win, and you know what, the guys who
Speaker 2: take over for them will be able to sustain, at
Speaker 2: least to an extent if those coaches that they're taking
Speaker 2: over for were as good as you thought. So I
Speaker 2: just think moving forward, hiring guys like Pat Kelcey and
Speaker 2: Mark Pope who climbed the ladder the way they did,
Speaker 2: I think that's the better payoff for these jobs, which
Speaker 2: by the way, there's going to be other big jobs
Speaker 2: opening up, especially in the ACC, in the years to come.
Speaker 2: So I just think that's the path you should go
Speaker 2: if you're a college program. All Right, we're at a
Speaker 2: time you guys, enjoy your evening, have your night,