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Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: when we.
Speaker 1: Are get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 2: The kids are crying or turning off, crying. The countries
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Speaker 3: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get the good Friday started here. What
Speaker 2: a beautiful, beautiful day. It is Coffee and Company. That's
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Speaker 2: Austin Montgomery alongside. He's also known as the Tribal Chief.
Speaker 2: And I'm happy to be here. I say that every
Speaker 2: day and I mean it pretty much every day, So
Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here. This is always fun. But man,
Speaker 2: I want to be outside right now. I mean, I
Speaker 2: wish we could just like pick up all this stuff
Speaker 2: and just take it outside and do the show there.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's not realistic, and we probably have some
Speaker 2: you know, some noise issues, because you know, downtown Louisville's
Speaker 2: a pretty noisy place, just with you know, the hustle
Speaker 2: and bustle. But what a beautiful day. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to complain. It's warm, like it's it's kind of humid.
Speaker 2: I think the high's like seventy nine or eighty. But
Speaker 2: it's beautiful, and we're going to get the weekend started.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like once the show starts at
Speaker 2: three o'clock on a Friday, that's kind of I mean,
Speaker 2: like that that's the weekend we're here. I mean not really,
Speaker 2: but just you know, imagine that the weekend started, get
Speaker 2: the vibes going early. At least it is Friday.
Speaker 4: Didn't have to get confused by it, It's right, I mean,
Speaker 4: in fact, oh, how did that feel?
Speaker 2: I'm looking I'm looking at it. It's like, you know,
Speaker 2: I got the natural joy that comes with a Friday
Speaker 2: today and then yesterday, like it wasn't real. But you
Speaker 2: know I didn't know that, you know, for about five hours,
Speaker 2: I'm like, here we go Fridays. So it was a
Speaker 2: punch to the gut, a real letdown. But all in all,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you really just you know, if you
Speaker 2: live in your own world, convince yourself of things and
Speaker 2: just live life and believe you know whatever you want.
Speaker 2: And by the way, there's a lot of people to
Speaker 2: do that, a lot of delusional people that live in
Speaker 2: their own world that are not with us in reality.
Speaker 2: That was me yesterday thinking that it was in fact Friday,
Speaker 2: but it was not. But today it is Good Friday.
Speaker 2: We've got Easter Sunday coming up. And do you when
Speaker 2: you were in school and you grew up in Arizona, right,
Speaker 2: like all of your schooling was Arizona. Rists So do
Speaker 2: you remember or do you know if you ever got
Speaker 2: a day off school because of Good Friday? No? I didn't, Okay,
Speaker 2: So this is I think this speaks to guess our age.
Speaker 2: But my group text that I've referenced from time to time,
Speaker 2: it's about thirteen guys that I've known for some of
Speaker 2: them more than thirty years, some not quite as much.
Speaker 2: But we all kind of grew up together. And it
Speaker 2: started with a group chat that we created for our
Speaker 2: fantasy football and then it became like a con instant thing.
Speaker 2: Whenever we were all in quarantine because the pandemic happened,
Speaker 2: and you know every day there's some good back and
Speaker 2: forth and it's it's you know, it's it's it's uh.
Speaker 2: I turned the notifications off for because if if you know,
Speaker 2: there's times where if I don't if I have, and
Speaker 2: I think they all do to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: But anyways, last night we were going back and forth
Speaker 2: because one of my buddies, Dave, he's of the belief
Speaker 2: that we used to get out of school for Good Friday,
Speaker 2: and I don't think we did. And I don't really
Speaker 2: know if that's ever been a thing. And I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm a big Easter guy. You know, I
Speaker 2: just uh, Good Friday. I don't think it's ever been
Speaker 2: a holiday to the to the I mean, honestly, I
Speaker 2: know what it is, like I hear people talk about it,
Speaker 2: but I don't mean is it a holiday like it is,
Speaker 2: but it's not right like when you when you like
Speaker 2: it's one of those holidays like where would you rank
Speaker 2: it as far as like because it's not Halloween, even
Speaker 2: like it's certainly not like Halloween. You don't get out
Speaker 2: of school right like holidays that don't require school closure,
Speaker 2: or like businesses maybe business like that's a broad thing business,
Speaker 2: but I mean like office work, right, Like there's certain
Speaker 2: places like on President's Day or Martin Luther King Junior Day,
Speaker 2: those kind of holidays to where a lot of companies
Speaker 2: will close down. But if you're in like retail business, restaurant, like,
Speaker 2: you know, you'd be foolish not to be open. So anyways,
Speaker 2: happy Good Friday everybody, the Holy Day as we get
Speaker 2: the weekend started. Can you believe Derby is like almost here?
Speaker 2: I know, I mean crazy two weeks away, I know,
Speaker 2: and I know I'm not the only one that has
Speaker 2: said that. In fact, that's what's led me to realize,
Speaker 2: you guys are right, like, it is crazy that Derby's
Speaker 2: almost here because it's sneaking up on us. But a
Speaker 2: lot of folks that I've talked to, they claim that
Speaker 2: the reason it's just it's it's hitting us out of
Speaker 2: nowhere here we go, is because we didn't have thunder
Speaker 2: over Louisville. Yes, that's exactly yeah, And I guess that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that makes sense for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: But I'm you know, thunder to me is like if
Speaker 2: we just didn't we randomly didn't have thunder, which we
Speaker 2: did this year, and it wasn't random. It's because of
Speaker 2: the flooding and whatnot. But I mean, I it's not
Speaker 2: my but I understand how big of a deal it is,
Speaker 2: and it was an awful situation to where we couldn't
Speaker 2: have it here locally because that impacts businesses and there's
Speaker 2: so many people that come to Louisville for that that
Speaker 2: aren't from here, which is great obviously for the economy.
Speaker 2: But you know, for me, I feel like it's sneaking up.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if it's because for me, my
Speaker 2: my perspective only, I don't feel like it's because of
Speaker 2: not having thunder. But anyway, speaking of thunder, we didn't
Speaker 2: have it because obviously at that point that it stopped raining.
Speaker 2: But man, it was a mess down there on the waterfront.
Speaker 2: And obviously the waters is is, you know, not what
Speaker 2: it was a week ago, which is good. But for
Speaker 2: like the chow wagon and stuff like the Great Lawn,
Speaker 2: is that not a mud pit? I mean, because are
Speaker 2: that this year? They haven't said anything about making any
Speaker 2: change yet, Okay, but there are some events that I
Speaker 2: know that that are that are supposed to be a
Speaker 2: part of uh. The is it called the chow wagon. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's a chow Yeah. Well I know I know what
Speaker 2: the chowan is when you call it, because there's like
Speaker 2: a certain amount of days where it's there, and I've
Speaker 2: always just called it the chow wagon. But for some reason,
Speaker 2: I feel like it's it's there's a Herby festival branding
Speaker 2: name that I'm just blanking on. But anyways, Uh, there's
Speaker 2: there's a couple of like you know, yeah, I couldn't
Speaker 2: couldn't figure out what it is. But like OVW Wrestling,
Speaker 2: they're doing a show at the waterfront, which they did
Speaker 2: last year during during during the chow Wagon. Uh, and
Speaker 2: and the plan is to still do it. But I
Speaker 2: think it's I mean, it kind of seems like it's
Speaker 2: in limbo as far as like I don't think they're
Speaker 2: going to cancel it by any means, but they may
Speaker 2: have to make some adjustments to where like not everybody
Speaker 2: is just near what I imagine, it's just a bunch
Speaker 2: of mud. I mean that that's one of the things
Speaker 2: about flooding that I never really thought about until the
Speaker 2: recent flooding that's happened where and it's not just when
Speaker 2: the water goes down, I mean it's once it goes down.
Speaker 2: I mean, all that gunk and just nastiness, just lingers,
Speaker 2: and you know it doesn't just go away. You have
Speaker 2: to you have to clean it up. Which I know
Speaker 2: that's been a big, a big thing here in Louisville
Speaker 2: the last week or so with Mayor Greenberg and and
Speaker 2: all the resources he's trying to get together to try
Speaker 2: to get this place cleaned up. I mean, obviously you
Speaker 2: need to do that in general, but you also kind
Speaker 2: of need to do it because you know, you want
Speaker 2: Louisville to be looking as good as possible because it's
Speaker 2: our time to shine. Derby Week is here, Derby Season
Speaker 2: is here, so you know, I hope it's not something
Speaker 2: that where they have to make a bunch of big
Speaker 2: changes to uh to the chow wagon and whatnot, because
Speaker 2: that's actually I can't really tell you why, but like
Speaker 2: that's one of my favorite things about Derby season. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't go to any of the big fancy Derby
Speaker 2: parties or anything like that, although I would love to
Speaker 2: go if I get an invite to one. I'm just
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not that important, not that special, and
Speaker 2: I'm poor. So like ones where you got to buy
Speaker 2: big tickets, like I can't afford that. But anyways, for me,
Speaker 2: there's two events that kind of you know, I think
Speaker 2: I think of Derby Festival season and know that here
Speaker 2: we go, we're about to have the you know, the
Speaker 2: run for the Roses, and one of them no longer exist,
Speaker 2: which I'll get to that in a second. But one
Speaker 2: of the other one is the chow Wagon just being there,
Speaker 2: you know, getting getting you drinking some beer. They usually
Speaker 2: got concerts going on. They got all like the fair
Speaker 2: the fair type food, right, I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 2: good stuff. So I would hope that it goes off
Speaker 2: without a hitch. But ok action, yeah, A foot long
Speaker 2: corn dog funnel cake, yes, baby, a lot. I felt
Speaker 2: like a lot of like the State Fair type of
Speaker 2: food that is pretty exotic, if you will, Like you
Speaker 2: see that at the show wagon, and and it just
Speaker 2: I mean, I was, you know, I love Louisville, you
Speaker 2: guys know that. But a lot of times downtown Louisville
Speaker 2: by the water, especially like if we've gone in a
Speaker 2: drought where we haven't had rain, doesn't smell great. But
Speaker 2: when you've got all those food options there, all within
Speaker 2: feet of each other it smells like one of the
Speaker 2: best things I've ever smelled in my life. And well,
Speaker 2: I want to make this more of a bigger conversation
Speaker 2: later on in the show. But my favorite Derby event
Speaker 2: ever just it no longer exists and it makes me really,
Speaker 2: really sad. And that was the Kentucky Derby Festival Classic
Speaker 2: and I assume most people listening know what that is.
Speaker 2: But it was like our version of the McDonald's All
Speaker 2: American Game, and at one time it was the event.
Speaker 2: Oh they don't do that anymore. Yeah, so it just disappeared.
Speaker 2: You didn't realize it, did you. I did not realize it.
Speaker 2: I think the last year might have been like twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: and I don't I really don't know why it. Well,
Speaker 2: it became much harder to bring in the bigger name
Speaker 2: type of players to where like if you want, you
Speaker 2: got to sell tickets, right, I mean, that's part of it,
Speaker 2: and if you've got and there used to be a
Speaker 2: stupid rule like where you could only play in two
Speaker 2: of those kinds of things. So you had the Jordan
Speaker 2: brand game and you had the McDonald American Game obviously,
Speaker 2: which has been around forever. And that's the cream of
Speaker 2: the crop. But now you've got like you've got other
Speaker 2: I feel like there's one I'm blanking on that's actually
Speaker 2: it's probably third in line outside of McDonald's and then
Speaker 2: the Jordan Brand Classic. So when you could only pick
Speaker 2: two as a big time recruit, if you got offered
Speaker 2: to go to jordan Brand or McDonald's, you weren't coming
Speaker 2: to the Derby Classics. So that put him in a
Speaker 2: tough spot to an extent. So therefore they just didn't
Speaker 2: have the highest caliber players they used to get, and
Speaker 2: that of course was a factor, and it not selling
Speaker 2: tickets the way that they used to sell it, So
Speaker 2: you know, I think it was a budgetary thing when
Speaker 2: they decided to get rid of it. But I mean
Speaker 2: I remember thinking, like, they're just going to get rid
Speaker 2: of it and like not like I mean, it just
Speaker 2: kind of went away. Like I don't think there was
Speaker 2: a formal like announcement. Maybe they don't need that. But
Speaker 2: I went to that thing from the time I was
Speaker 2: like five or six years old until the time it
Speaker 2: didn't exist anymore. I never missed one from like five
Speaker 2: years old to whenever the last one was, So I
Speaker 2: went from going to it as a kid getting autographs
Speaker 2: and just being you know, super excited to just you know,
Speaker 2: I when I was really young, I didn't know who
Speaker 2: some of the players were, but you know, obviously it
Speaker 2: looked like NBA players to me whenever I'm a little kid. Goodness, gracious,
Speaker 2: we had somebody working on that damn bathroom again. Good God.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that came across the air. I'm
Speaker 2: sure it did to an extent. It sounded like somebody
Speaker 2: just let out like a five minute long fart. But
Speaker 2: somebody's drilling next to us. They've been working on this
Speaker 2: bathroom for way too long. I mean, I'm not a contractor.
Speaker 2: I don't I wouldn't be able to assist them in
Speaker 2: any way to speed up the process.
Speaker 1: Us.
Speaker 2: You guys, hear that like you have.
Speaker 4: It's vibrating my brain. It's still going out. How long
Speaker 4: had they been doing You just.
Speaker 2: Missed the whole conversation because you're on the phone. Yes,
Speaker 2: but but yes, I just I said, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I would not be able to assist them to speed
Speaker 2: up the process. But I have a feeling they're not
Speaker 2: moving at a pace that you know, most contractors would like.
Speaker 2: It's just been a never ending like I mean, no,
Speaker 2: it's been a month at least, maybe even maybe in
Speaker 2: the bathroom. And by the way, the bathroom's tiny.
Speaker 4: And remember I think it's probably like two weeks ago
Speaker 4: where I came in and I got a glimpse in
Speaker 4: the bathroom when I was walking in, and everything looks
Speaker 4: brand new, And I had thought that they were close
Speaker 4: to done, because I'm like, you could tell new tile,
Speaker 4: you could tell a new floor, like from the from
Speaker 4: the little sliver that like from when you're walking in
Speaker 4: through our garage and you could see right there on
Speaker 4: a way to our office. You can without directly walking
Speaker 4: in there, you could tell everything's new. So like, as
Speaker 4: I'm looking in there, I'm like, are they shouldn't be
Speaker 4: that much far off? But now now it sounds like
Speaker 4: they're just like like how it.
Speaker 2: Was day one.
Speaker 4: For those are the initial day that you weren't here
Speaker 4: and you heard the banging and the drilling.
Speaker 2: It's been like that all day. Oh today, so today's
Speaker 2: been a big day. Okay, first time I've heard it,
Speaker 2: so today, meaning so for those who don't know what
Speaker 2: we're talking about, we are here at four Street Live,
Speaker 2: and the bathroom that is like the public bathroom for
Speaker 2: the facility. Here we have our own restrooms here in
Speaker 2: our iHeart office, but there's bathrooms on each level, the
Speaker 2: ground level and then the level that we're on, which
Speaker 2: is upstairs, and the bathrooms are tiny and they've been
Speaker 2: renovating them forever and then out of note like where
Speaker 2: I am in this studio, quite literally, it has to
Speaker 2: be like a paper thin wall because I mean I
Speaker 2: can hear. It doesn't come across the air, and if
Speaker 2: I'm yapping, I don't hear. But like if it's quiet
Speaker 2: during the break and they're in there working, I can
Speaker 2: hear their conversations. Not I mean I can't pick up
Speaker 2: on what they're saying, but like it just seems like
Speaker 2: it's taking here chatter. Yeah, it's taking them a really
Speaker 2: long time, and it's directly next to me and I
Speaker 2: it's not the end of the world, but it whenever
Speaker 2: the banging is annoying, but whenever there's like a drill
Speaker 2: like whatever that was, that just makes me completely lose
Speaker 2: my train of thought because I'm like, you know, it's
Speaker 2: just not normal. So anyways, we'll get through, it'll be okay.
Speaker 2: But back to the Derby classic when they got rid
Speaker 2: of it. It was you know, it was real sad, and
Speaker 2: I wish it would come back. I don't think they
Speaker 2: they're going to bring it back. In fact, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be shocked if moving forward, you see maybe some other
Speaker 2: of the not as popular, not as known Derby events
Speaker 2: just kind of just kind of go away. But I
Speaker 2: feel like that was, like, that was an awesome event
Speaker 2: and it was for a long time. But I guess
Speaker 2: the cost of putting it on and relying on volunteers
Speaker 2: to not be paid to do it, but you know,
Speaker 2: just utilize Kentucky Derby Festival funding to travel and recruit
Speaker 2: players to play in it. I mean, it was it
Speaker 2: was special to me. But I will say now that
Speaker 2: i'm reflecting on it, when I got old enough and
Speaker 2: you know, I started a career in doing this and
Speaker 2: I was able to actually cover it from a media
Speaker 2: perspective one that was awesome. But also the tendance did
Speaker 2: kind of like imer, the attendance was nowhere near what
Speaker 2: it was when I went when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I bet there's others just like you, Austin
Speaker 2: that kind of because it did fade in relevance as
Speaker 2: it was as it was dying, I guess, and I
Speaker 2: bet it went away, and like I brought it up,
Speaker 2: and I bet there's others out there right now they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: they haven't had that in a while. Have they been
Speaker 2: a long time? So if they bring it back, I
Speaker 2: would do anything to help them in any way. I
Speaker 2: don't know what I could do specifically, but you know,
Speaker 2: promoting it and you know it was and we are
Speaker 2: the market to where like that that event Kentucky, every
Speaker 2: festival classic basketball event that you know is now dead
Speaker 2: because we are in Louisville, of course, a college basketball
Speaker 2: market that is like no other. We have three programs. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean they were. It was at its best when
Speaker 2: they were able to get recruits that had committed to Louisville,
Speaker 2: Kentucky and Indiana. And there were years where they had
Speaker 2: a good mix of that and it was I mean,
Speaker 2: it was. It was very very well attended. They would
Speaker 2: do the the Night of the Future Stars event, which
Speaker 2: was the Friday event where they have like the initial
Speaker 2: stages of the three point shootout and the dunk contest,
Speaker 2: and then they do like a two on two tournament
Speaker 2: and the next day they actually have the game and
Speaker 2: then they do the finals of three point shootout in
Speaker 2: the dunk contest at halftime, and it went from being
Speaker 2: at the game itself, was at Freedom Hall for a
Speaker 2: little while, then it went to the Center, and then
Speaker 2: there was a rule change in the NCAA where you
Speaker 2: couldn't host those kind of events in your own arena,
Speaker 2: and then it went back to I believe it went
Speaker 2: back to Freedom Hall, and yeah, just went away, and
Speaker 2: it makes me sad. All Right, the rest of the
Speaker 2: way here today, we're gonna we're gonna have some fun.
Speaker 2: It's a Friday. Friday gives me the feeling to where
Speaker 2: I can just go in directions that maybe you know
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go on a Monday or Tuesday. And you
Speaker 2: know that's exciting to me. So we need to talk
Speaker 2: a little more about Tyler Shuck because the love fest
Speaker 2: for one Tyler Shuck is awesome to see. I believe
Speaker 2: it's legit. But sometimes when guys end up getting is
Speaker 2: completely gassed up like this this close to the draft,
Speaker 2: you know you wonder like, is it a smoke screen?
Speaker 2: I don't believe that it is. But there's some sound
Speaker 2: I want you guys to hear from a former Louisville
Speaker 2: quarterback Jay Gruden, who now does the media stuff. He
Speaker 2: was talking about Shuck and he believes that it's gonna
Speaker 2: be cam Ward Shadoor Sanders and then Tyler Shuck. He
Speaker 2: thinks he's gonna be the third quarterback taken. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be taking head of Jackson Dart and there's a chance
Speaker 2: he could be a first round quarterback because it'd be
Speaker 2: a shocker to me if there's not three quarterbacks taken
Speaker 2: in the first round. And yes, I know this quarterback
Speaker 2: class is not believed to be great. That's one of
Speaker 2: the reasons why Shuck's been able to emerge as such
Speaker 2: a you know, intriguing prospect in the eyes of a
Speaker 2: lot of these you know, NFL executives. But the NFL
Speaker 2: is desperate to find the next big quarterback, right, And
Speaker 2: sometimes there's a guy that's got all the hype, all
Speaker 2: the praise, and they're like, man, if he's there at eight,
Speaker 2: we're taking him. And then sometimes they overthinking and like, man,
Speaker 2: we're so desperate to find a guy, they're gonna start
Speaker 2: convincing themselves that they have found that di'mond in the
Speaker 2: rough that like not everybody realizes just how good they are.
Speaker 2: So but look, Louisville is already believed to be and
Speaker 2: they are I say believe to be. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: if you go out there and look up. I think
Speaker 2: ESPN has done one, twenty four seven Sports has done one.
Speaker 2: But like the quarterback, you wide receiver, you schools that
Speaker 2: have had the best success at putting certain positions in
Speaker 2: the NFL for good careers. Louisville's not one or two,
Speaker 2: but they're in the conversation, and they really have been
Speaker 2: for a long time, like even before Lamar. But if
Speaker 2: if our man Shuck ends up getting drafted pretty early,
Speaker 2: and even if he doesn't, but he ends up having
Speaker 2: a pretty good career, like that are really I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just another one of the good quarterbacks we've had.
Speaker 2: And Chuck certainly isn't going to be Lamar Jackson. Nobody's
Speaker 2: going to be. And I'm not even sure where he
Speaker 2: would rank among louisvill quarterbacks because he only played here
Speaker 2: one year. But we've been pretty lucky with quarterbacks, even
Speaker 2: in years where Louisville is not great and like they've
Speaker 2: got some issues, it usually isn't quarterback play. I mean,
Speaker 2: when I think, actually, well, let's this, let's make this
Speaker 2: a conversation. But I'm gonna have to dress it up
Speaker 2: to not make it sound so negative. But you know,
Speaker 2: in the last twenty years, like who are the worst
Speaker 2: starting quarterbacks that Louisville's ever had? Because I asked the
Speaker 2: question because I feel like even the guys that you
Speaker 2: would say would probably be in that bottom tier, Like
Speaker 2: I don't think they were terrible by any means. And
Speaker 2: there's all I mean. I watched a lot of college football.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of teams that have terrible quarterbacks. So anyways,
Speaker 2: if you've got some thoughts on at Austin, I think
Speaker 2: you kind of do save it for later because I
Speaker 2: want to make that a segment. So anyways, we'll mix
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Speaker 2: I should have known better. I don't know why. I
Speaker 2: just assumed that a lot of a big movement in
Speaker 2: the portal had already happened. But in the last couple
Speaker 2: of days, really yesterday, I mean, it was a wild
Speaker 2: day as far as players deciding they were I mean,
Speaker 2: it's almost like there's players that had decided to come
Speaker 2: back and then they decided well, actually no, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to. I mean, that's exactly what happened with Chad
Speaker 2: Baker Mazara. But we now have a player that hit
Speaker 2: the portl yesterday that is the number two player in
Speaker 2: in the portal overall, just behind the Lindenborg big man
Speaker 2: from UAB that committed to Michigan, which I happen to
Speaker 2: think he'll probably not end up there. I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna get good reviews in the I think we'll go pro.
Speaker 2: But it's wild that we're here now that if you
Speaker 2: are viewed as somebody that's going to be taken late
Speaker 2: in the first or early in the second, you're gonna
Speaker 2: make more money if you come back to school, if
Speaker 2: you play for one of these schools that's throwing big
Speaker 2: money around. I mean, that's how quickly this has exploded.
Speaker 2: They're finding money to pay these players to where it
Speaker 2: would be financially not irresponsible. But I mean, there's no
Speaker 2: reason for you to go ahead and jump to the
Speaker 2: NBA whenever you will literally make less money on your
Speaker 2: initial You can be a rookie in the NBA with
Speaker 2: a first round contract and make less money than you
Speaker 2: will at certain schools. If you're getting like the JT.
Speaker 2: Topping I think is his name, the kid who came back, Kidy,
Speaker 2: he's grown ass man, came back from Texas Tech, had
Speaker 2: a really good year. I think it was a first
Speaker 2: team All American. He decided to come back, and his
Speaker 2: deal is apparently worth a little bit over three million.
Speaker 2: Texas Tech of course has that oil money and his
Speaker 2: great like his he graded out in the I think
Speaker 2: it was Jonathan Jevoni's NBA draft evaluation said that he's
Speaker 2: a late first rounder and quite literally in his first
Speaker 2: season he would make less money than in the NBA
Speaker 2: somehow than he would make as I mean, that's just again,
Speaker 2: you got. The NBA rookie contract is absolutely a I
Speaker 2: mean it's a multi year thing, and overall the contract
Speaker 2: itself is paying more. But in just the one year,
Speaker 2: like your base pay for the nil that you're getting
Speaker 2: is going to be more than what you would make
Speaker 2: in your first year playing NBA basketball, which is a
Speaker 2: crazy thing to think about. And I mean I don't
Speaker 2: have any complaints. I mean, you know, I still believe
Speaker 2: that this is all good news. This is all I
Speaker 2: mean this. I think college basketball, more than any sport,
Speaker 2: has benefit from this new world. I say that knowing
Speaker 2: maybe it's just me loving college basketball and you just
Speaker 2: being super positive about the sport as best I can
Speaker 2: because I love it. Maybe there's part of that as
Speaker 2: to why I'm saying this, But again, you just have
Speaker 2: better like the products. Better players now play college basketball
Speaker 2: a lot longer than they used to because they can
Speaker 2: make money, and teams can be really down and then
Speaker 2: quickly flip it around because you can go, if you've
Speaker 2: got resources, you can go build a team. And in football, yes,
Speaker 2: it's the same, but there's so many more pieces to
Speaker 2: a football program to where I mean if you're having
Speaker 2: to really start off, and you also need way more
Speaker 2: depth than football too. I mean, if you get seven
Speaker 2: eight really good players and they stay healthy, you might
Speaker 2: run into an issue like Louisville did. I think this
Speaker 2: year at times where they were just man, they were gassed,
Speaker 2: like they became really you could just tell they were winded.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's because they were in terrible shape.
Speaker 2: I mean, these a lot of these guys that Louisville
Speaker 2: relied on this year, most of them actually were playing
Speaker 2: nearly the whole game at times. Not everybody, but a
Speaker 2: lot of them that were in the rotation. So but
Speaker 2: if you have seven eight guys, I mean that's all
Speaker 2: you really need. I mean you don't even need eight.
Speaker 2: You've got like six that are playing a good chunk
Speaker 2: and you've got a seventh and eighth man that they're
Speaker 2: getting twelve to fifteen and sometimes they may play more
Speaker 2: because of foul trouble or whatever, and they're not like
Speaker 2: a huge liability, Like you can still have a lot
Speaker 2: of success. I Depth is valuable whenever it's needed, but
Speaker 2: depth is not needed if things are going great and
Speaker 2: you have a good team. Like I hesitate to say
Speaker 2: that depth is overrated in basketball, because again it's a
Speaker 2: good thing to have, especially if you know something goes
Speaker 2: wrong with an injury or foul trouble, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But if you have six to seven and you know
Speaker 2: they're in great shape and they stay healthy, which is
Speaker 2: hard to do now for you to have a whole
Speaker 2: season where nobody gets hurt. But yeah, college basketball I
Speaker 2: think is much better for in this new world. But
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's other to disagree, and that's okay. We
Speaker 2: can have a difference of opinion. Now, this is a
Speaker 2: good text that comes in and I don't have the
Speaker 2: answer for you. And I'm not even really like I
Speaker 2: can't even I mean, I don't even. I think there
Speaker 2: are players out here that are gonna try whatever they
Speaker 2: can to get extra years. So the text comes in says,
Speaker 2: how the hell are all of these guys that have
Speaker 2: played five years still entering the portal ineligible? Well, they're not.
Speaker 2: There are guys that aren't eligible that are entering the
Speaker 2: portal that obviously you know, they're just hoping that they
Speaker 2: get a waiver. And the nce double A does not
Speaker 2: give you any answers in any way consistently. As far
Speaker 2: as the timing of it, I mean, they'll do it whenever.
Speaker 2: Could take a year to get an answer on something.
Speaker 2: I mean, Louisville waited different situation, It wasn't about eligibility,
Speaker 2: but like they'll looking back the amount of time it
Speaker 2: took to conclude Louisville's n CUAA situation, it's criminal. I
Speaker 2: mean that's an exaggeration, but I mean there is no
Speaker 2: scenario anyone could give me where it took that long.
Speaker 2: And really the waiting that was the punishment, the amount
Speaker 2: of time, like Lilia didn't get an added postseason ban.
Speaker 2: They didn't. I mean when it played out, little didn't
Speaker 2: get anything, but they did because they just set for years.
Speaker 2: And the reason you were even in a situation where
Speaker 2: you had to hire a Kenny Payne is because of
Speaker 2: just how long it took. So if you are recruiting
Speaker 2: players in the portal that are waiting to get a waiver,
Speaker 2: you gotta be careful because why you can't put resources
Speaker 2: and time into somebody that you know it's a fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty shot if they're even going to be able
Speaker 2: to play. I mean the big fellow from Charleston who's
Speaker 2: suing the NC douablea. I haven't heard any update on that,
Speaker 2: but he, you know, he claimed that he's able to
Speaker 2: make a million dollars if he gets eligible, and the
Speaker 2: NCAA is restricting him and his Division two season couldn't count. Well,
Speaker 2: he's a good player. He make any team better, and
Speaker 2: he has apparently a lot of options as far as
Speaker 2: schools that are interested in him, and I think it's
Speaker 2: Clemson that's reportedly the school that is willing to he can.
Speaker 2: You know he can, he's able to play. They're gonna
Speaker 2: give a million dollars and good for him, but like,
Speaker 2: if you're Clemson, you know, sit around and just hope
Speaker 2: and if he doesn't get eligible, you wasted time and
Speaker 2: there may not be that many guys available, So it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's wild. And the person who sent that text
Speaker 2: and sending a screenshot from a Rain Smith tweet where
Speaker 2: he he let me see what Rain said here, because
Speaker 2: why don't I mean, just force the NC double A
Speaker 2: to like say no, you can't do that, Like just
Speaker 2: bring Rain Smith back and wait until they tell us
Speaker 2: like you can't do it, and then when they tell
Speaker 2: you that you can't, maybe do it anyway and just
Speaker 2: see what they do. I mean, I'm joking, but like
Speaker 2: instab a has never had less power, it seems. But yeah,
Speaker 2: Rain tweeted this earlier today. Is there an extra year
Speaker 2: of eligibility I'm missing out on? How are these dudes
Speaker 2: in the portal? And then Trulli Donovan, I'm sure he
Speaker 2: was just you know, playing the character that is, you know,
Speaker 2: this synonymous guy who breaks all these big stories in
Speaker 2: college basketball. But you know he, I guess was cracking
Speaker 2: jokes on some of these guys that are entering the
Speaker 2: portal quite literally knowing that like there's what what like
Speaker 2: Dane Danger I think is the guy's name. He's been
Speaker 2: in a lot. I mean, he's he's played five years,
Speaker 2: I think it is, and he just finished up like
Speaker 2: he has not to my knowledge, he has no like
Speaker 2: legitimate reason. And it's not like I followed it closely,
Speaker 2: but I did read as Memphis commercial appeal article about
Speaker 2: how he's he's he's entered the portal and yet like
Speaker 2: nobody knows what claim he's gonna try to make that
Speaker 2: he could still be eligible. He's like, there's no like,
Speaker 2: there's no medical red shirt. There's no I mean there's nothing.
Speaker 2: Like he's played every he's played five years, and yet
Speaker 2: he's like yeah, it's almost like he wanted to do
Speaker 2: it to see if anybody noticed, which they're gonna clearly
Speaker 2: they're gonna notice, because they're gonna maybe want you on
Speaker 2: their team, but like if you were, like if you're Louisville,
Speaker 2: like Dane Danger is the kind of guy that I
Speaker 2: think actually could be the beefy physical presence in the
Speaker 2: post that I think that they're gonna you know that
Speaker 2: I that I think they could add. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they need it desperately because actually thinks Sonny is
Speaker 2: going to be a bigger physical presence than people realize.
Speaker 2: But either way, like if you could get Dann danger
Speaker 2: and he's eligible and like you could make it work,
Speaker 2: Like to me, he'd be a really good piece just
Speaker 2: because of what he brings that you don't have, which
Speaker 2: is just a big physical presence. And he's also pretty good.
Speaker 2: He averaged fourteen and a half seven and a half
Speaker 2: rebounds last year at Memphis, all a AC first team.
Speaker 2: But you can't like put resources and time into recruiting
Speaker 2: this guy until you know he can play, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't so for Kentucky. I mean I'm not making
Speaker 2: the jokes that other people are making because I know
Speaker 2: if I really thought Kentucky was in trouble because of
Speaker 2: these misses they've had in the portal, then you know,
Speaker 2: I would say that. But I think Mark Pope's a
Speaker 2: good enough coach to or he'll have enough pieces to
Speaker 2: work with. And I don't know if they're going to
Speaker 2: be as good as they were this past year, but
Speaker 2: like they've missed on guys, and they've also got guys
Speaker 2: that I think can probably have success. I mean, like
Speaker 2: Lowe isn't a type of guard that I think would
Speaker 2: be great for Mark Pope offense. But he's a talented player,
Speaker 2: and Hoope's a good enough coach I think to realize
Speaker 2: how to make it work with that guy, it's by
Speaker 2: him being a little bit different. I mean, oh take away,
Speaker 2: he's not in the portal right now, and he's not
Speaker 2: going to be. I think his his announcement recently was
Speaker 2: he's going to test the waters and then you know,
Speaker 2: keep his eligibility if he doesn't get great feedback from
Speaker 2: the NBA. So, like, here's something I can't believe. I'm
Speaker 2: doing this to like make Kentucky fans feel more optimistic
Speaker 2: about their team. Here's what you could you should consider.
Speaker 2: He's a guy that if he comes back to college,
Speaker 2: he's coming back to Kentucky. It certainly seems oh take
Speaker 2: away that is, but if he did hit the portal,
Speaker 2: he would probably be a top five player and you
Speaker 2: already have it. So sometimes the biggest gets are the
Speaker 2: guys you already have because they're coming back and they're
Speaker 2: not going to the portal or they're not going to
Speaker 2: the NBA. So anyways, with Kentucky, they like they have
Speaker 2: missed out on guys, and that's I talked about it
Speaker 2: last week, and you know, I still stand by this.
Speaker 2: I think some of the some of the additions that
Speaker 2: Pope has made, it would be a stretch to say
Speaker 2: that it reeks of desperation. But when he went after
Speaker 2: Dent from New Mexico didn't get him, went after Yax
Speaker 2: Lindenborg from UAB, didn't get him, And then the guys
Speaker 2: to take those spots are Jalen Low and Jaden Quaintans,
Speaker 2: who by the way, are good pickups, but they're different players,
Speaker 2: really on different planets as far as their styles. So
Speaker 2: that kind of tell I mean, I shouldn't say it
Speaker 2: reeks of desperation, But like your plan seems to have shifted,
Speaker 2: right because you wanted a veteran, you wanted two veterans
Speaker 2: that are elite, grown ass men that have proven to
Speaker 2: be really good at this level of college basketball, and
Speaker 2: then you got Jalen Low, who is nowhere near the
Speaker 2: kind of guard you typically bring in, and obviously Quaintance
Speaker 2: to me is still a raw prospect that like you know,
Speaker 2: he's probably a ten and eight guy, which isn't bad.
Speaker 2: That's a good I mean, that's a lot of teams
Speaker 2: would like to have a guy like that, but he
Speaker 2: he is still ranked as a top fifteen prospect in
Speaker 2: the portal based off of what he did in high
Speaker 2: school as far as a prospect, and because there's a
Speaker 2: lot of upside and oh, by the way, he just
Speaker 2: had surgery on his ACL to where like you don't
Speaker 2: even really know when he's gonna be able to play.
Speaker 2: So anyways, but back to the Kentucky situation, they missed
Speaker 2: on those guys that I just reference, But then you've
Speaker 2: got guys in the portal like PJ. Haggerty at Memphis
Speaker 2: who is the number two player in the portal now
Speaker 2: was a first team All American and I don't know
Speaker 2: where he's gonna end up. I haven't even seen a
Speaker 2: list of schools, But like, if Kentucky gets in the
Speaker 2: mix for him and they get him, that'll play out
Speaker 2: to where they actually benefited from whiffing as people are saying,
Speaker 2: because you can't go wrong with Donovan Dent, but technically
Speaker 2: Haggarty is just as good, if not better, right, So
Speaker 2: for Louisville, you know, a couple of people have sent
Speaker 2: this question in on the text line this week, different wording,
Speaker 2: but I think essentially some question is that, you know,
Speaker 2: because there's not been any new players out there as
Speaker 2: far as at least that I've seen, as far as
Speaker 2: names that you know, Louisville is really pursuing and wants
Speaker 2: to add. And it's because in the back court, I
Speaker 2: feel like they've pretty much I think they pretty much
Speaker 2: you know, got that squared away. I still think the
Speaker 2: two pieces for me are I would love to see
Speaker 2: them add another physical presence. I mentioned Dane Danger, like
Speaker 2: you know, I doubt he'd be eligible to play, but
Speaker 2: if there's a world where Louisville gets involved and they
Speaker 2: get him, I think it'd be huge. And then another
Speaker 2: another point guard. Now I'm starting to kind of shift
Speaker 2: on that a little bit because the reviews and everything
Speaker 2: you we're hearing about mkil Brown right now is that
Speaker 2: he's he might. You know, again, it's really rare this
Speaker 2: day and age that a true freshman can come in
Speaker 2: and really impact your program and be one of the
Speaker 2: better players in the sport. That's really rare now. But
Speaker 2: it's got to be one of the elite of the
Speaker 2: elites if they're going to do it well. Last I checked,
Speaker 2: this guy keeps getting more and more praise to where
Speaker 2: he I mean, he's viewed to be one of the
Speaker 2: best guards entering college basketball next year. Therefore, if that
Speaker 2: plays out, not to say he's gonna be like an
Speaker 2: All American, but like you know, he's gonna run the show.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be his. He's gonna be driving driving the boat,
Speaker 2: if you know what I mean. Now, with that said,
Speaker 2: you still need to backup point guard. And maybe Kobe
Speaker 2: Rodgers could be that. We don't know because we haven't
Speaker 2: seen him play. But I still think like finding a
Speaker 2: veteran point guard, like even if it's somebody that doesn't
Speaker 2: have gaudy numbers or anything like that, but they've been
Speaker 2: like maybe they've been a backup point guard elsewhere. I mean,
Speaker 2: if that's the case, then they're in the port. I
Speaker 2: would imagine they're probably going to try to find a
Speaker 2: role where they're not a backup and they can actually
Speaker 2: be a starter and kind of have a more significant role.
Speaker 2: But maybe a starter that's been productive and successful, but
Speaker 2: it's been at the mid major even lower than that.
Speaker 2: I mean, hell, go get a D two guy, because again,
Speaker 2: this is where it get it gets tricky. You have
Speaker 2: a need but and it's an important need, but the
Speaker 2: role's not substantial. That makes sense, right, Like the best
Speaker 2: example I can give you was when Louisville was adding
Speaker 2: their last piece a year ago. It was Frank ancelom
Speaker 2: Ib and he was kind of exactly who I think
Speaker 2: realistically would take that spot, right. He's been a kind
Speaker 2: of a journeyman, backup guy. It didn't get a lot
Speaker 2: of minutes, and Louisville had to sell him like, look,
Speaker 2: we probably want you to have the same kind of
Speaker 2: role here, but we can give you this in a
Speaker 2: all money and you know, take it or leave it?
Speaker 2: Do you want to come here? We value you and
Speaker 2: you you'll earn what you get. But obviously you know
Speaker 2: we can't sell you that you're going to be the
Speaker 2: focal point of our front court. And you know, those
Speaker 2: those are tough guys to get because yes, you need
Speaker 2: those kind of depth, those kind of pieces, guys that
Speaker 2: know their role and and really embrace it. But a
Speaker 2: lot of guys in the portal are leaving because they
Speaker 2: don't want that kind of role, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So those are you know, That's where I think it
Speaker 2: gets a little harder in the portal, and it's not
Speaker 2: as big as getting you know, your core foundation that's
Speaker 2: going to be a huge part of your team. But
Speaker 2: in any like, for example, when it comes to I
Speaker 2: guess the timing of it wouldn't. I was going to
Speaker 2: give an example because you know you had Case and
Speaker 2: Pryor get hurt. Well, thank god you had Jevon Hadley
Speaker 2: right now. Javon Hadley actually committed before Case and prior.
Speaker 2: But still, you know, like and those guys could have
Speaker 2: played together. So maybe last year with Louis's injuries, there's
Speaker 2: not a great example because you know, with Cora and
Speaker 2: getting hurt. Terrence Edwards was always going to be a
Speaker 2: part of the team and be a factor because he was,
Speaker 2: I mean, one of your big gets in the portal.
Speaker 2: But you just were lucky that he was able to
Speaker 2: actually play back up point guard for you when he
Speaker 2: had to, and he was pretty successful at it when
Speaker 2: he had to towards the end of the season. All Right,
Speaker 2: some other names in the portal that that you know
Speaker 2: just entered. We talked about Baker Mazara from Auburn. He's available,
Speaker 2: and uh, I haven't seen any I mean again, I
Speaker 2: probably should have gone looking considering him such a big
Speaker 2: talking point yesterday on the show. But I haven't seen
Speaker 2: anything as far as what schools he's going after. But
Speaker 2: he'll have options, he will, And again, to my knowledge,
Speaker 2: the Louisvill stuff is still just purely speculation. But I
Speaker 2: think case In Pryor posted something yesterday after Baker Mazar
Speaker 2: entered the Portal, which again just had more and more
Speaker 2: folks saying, Hey, this, this could happen. Now. I'm glad
Speaker 2: somebody in the text line dis mentioned this, which, by
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't think it's come up on the show,
Speaker 2: but I have seen it. I just don't think it's
Speaker 2: you know, I'd be shocked if this guy ends up
Speaker 2: at Louisville. But Jamiir Watkins is a Florida State transfer
Speaker 2: coming off of a really really good year. I mean,
Speaker 2: Florida State obviously wasn't great, and that's why they made
Speaker 2: the move that they did. But he hit the Portal
Speaker 2: after a successful season. Statistically, he I think he was
Speaker 2: first team All ACC average eighteen points, five rebounds. He's
Speaker 2: a six to seven wing, and Louisville has been listed
Speaker 2: by Louisville is listed as one of the schools that
Speaker 2: is that is uh, that's in the mix for him.
Speaker 2: And look, if you could get him, great, he's a
Speaker 2: good player. And if they sell him on a role
Speaker 2: that he's willing to embrace and you know the money's right,
Speaker 2: hell yeah, that would just give you more talent. But
Speaker 2: I don't really know, Like as far as a wing,
Speaker 2: I feel like you kind of have that already with
Speaker 2: both Hadley and Prior. Given that, I expect him to
Speaker 2: come back and then you can play I mean, if
Speaker 2: you look at like, I guess he's more of just
Speaker 2: a shooter than anything else. Clearly he's a perimeter a
Speaker 2: perimeter player. But I mean, I don't know when people
Speaker 2: talk about positionless basketball, I think most people think of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: well he can play the four or the two, But
Speaker 2: really positionless basketball can also just be the fact that
Speaker 2: you've got three guys that played the perimeter and you
Speaker 2: know who the one is, but like two, three, and
Speaker 2: sometimes even four, Like it's just it's a mixed bag.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, I'm maybe I'm thinking that Prior
Speaker 2: and and Hadley or more wings than they actually are,
Speaker 2: because you know, technically, I guess those guys are stretched fours,
Speaker 2: whereas Watkins is a true three. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: Isaac McNeely is is six four, one seventy like that
Speaker 2: can be your three man and maybe you wouldn't say
Speaker 2: he's a wing, but he's just a bigger guard like
Speaker 2: you can have. I mean, did Louiville ever have like all, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess they did because Russ and Payton obviously were
Speaker 2: pretty pretty on the smaller side, and honestly it worked
Speaker 2: out perfect because both those guys could play point for
Speaker 2: you and both were really good at it. Like though
Speaker 2: they you basically had two point guards on the four
Speaker 2: at times, and then obviously Luke and Wayne were more
Speaker 2: of the wings. But conwell, he's I mean, he's a
Speaker 2: combo guard at six four. So but yeah, if you
Speaker 2: ended up maybe again, he's listing many schools, louisvill being
Speaker 2: one of them. Like if louisll ended up adding him,
Speaker 2: he would be the highest rank guy they have and
Speaker 2: that would give them as far as the twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven Sports portal rankings. They would be uh, you know,
Speaker 2: they'd have one of the best classes out there. All right,
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Speaker 3: you know, one of your favorite things. The other favorite
Speaker 3: things that I want to talk to you about I'm
Speaker 3: gonna ask you the question, all right, what is the
Speaker 3: best sporting event of the year. What is the best
Speaker 3: sporting event of the year.
Speaker 2: For me personally?
Speaker 3: NCAA twen For you personally, of course, it's the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 3: Right You're you're from here, you know what this is
Speaker 3: my religion reads for I agree. The NCAA Tournament is
Speaker 3: pure magic. That first Thursday when there's three upsets all
Speaker 3: brewing at the same time you're flipping channels or you
Speaker 3: got the multiview on. It is absolutely magic. Well, soccer
Speaker 3: has its own version of the NCAA Tournament. Let me
Speaker 3: tell you about it. It's called the US Open Cup.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred and ten years old. It has got
Speaker 3: history of plenty, and lou City is in it right
Speaker 3: now and they have an opportunity to play Cinderella. We
Speaker 3: love Cinderella. In March, I got a Cinderella for you here.
Speaker 3: In the month of April and maybe further into the season,
Speaker 3: lou City drew Minnesota United. They're a Major League Soccer team,
Speaker 3: They're an MLS, they're the big boys. This US Open
Speaker 3: Cup tournament, it is open to everybody all the way
Speaker 3: down from MLS to the USL, the second divisions, the
Speaker 3: USL League One, which is the third division, all the
Speaker 3: way down to amateur teams. There's a restaurant in San
Speaker 3: Francisco that is a Mexican restaurant, and they submitted a
Speaker 3: team into this and they actually beat a pro team
Speaker 3: last week, Honterey Bay, which is in Low City's league.
Speaker 3: I'm dead serious. It's wonderful, it is amazing.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: It is the most slept on sporting event in all
Speaker 3: of sports, because nobody knows what the hell it is.
Speaker 3: But I'm here to tell you, Nick, it is got
Speaker 3: the magic and the flavor of that NCAA tournament. It's
Speaker 3: spread out a little bit more over the course of
Speaker 3: the season, so it's not just a couple of great weekends.
Speaker 3: It's a few great weeks. But lou City's got the
Speaker 3: chance to pull off an upset against an MLS team,
Speaker 3: Minnesota United. They're coming on May seventh. That's a Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I know everybody wants to say Tuesdays, nobody wants to
Speaker 3: get out and do anything.
Speaker 2: I know better, man, Tay Saturday.
Speaker 3: As last I heard, Man, I've been calling it Tuesday
Speaker 3: turn up for years and on the Tuesday turn up
Speaker 3: is on May seventh, Minnesota's coming to town, big money team.
Speaker 3: They got a coach who's a hot name in the game,
Speaker 3: thirty three years old. He's probably gonna be coaching like
Speaker 3: Manchester United one day. Right, he's a big deal at
Speaker 3: this stage in his career. And they're coming here and
Speaker 3: you know what, They're gonna get their ass kick. That's
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen on May seventh. I love it. You
Speaker 3: want to be a part. If you want to be
Speaker 3: a part of Soccer's in Cuba tournament, show up when
Speaker 3: gates open for that game. Knock back a couple of
Speaker 3: those two dollars beers. You should do it tomorrow as
Speaker 3: well when Racing host San Diego and then cheer on
Speaker 3: LU City as they try and knock off an MLS
Speaker 3: team and pull off some some magic like in the
Speaker 3: NCO Double A tournament. And I'm telling you, it is
Speaker 3: so much fun. We're hoping to have that kind of
Speaker 3: night and I know you're gonna be there. Man. I
Speaker 3: offered beer, offered the nc DOUBLEA tournament kind of atmosphere
Speaker 3: that a recipe for coffee or.
Speaker 2: Right, you sold me, my man, And look I'll tell
Speaker 2: you this. I mean, when you're when you're speaking it
Speaker 2: into existence about what's gonna happen when they show up here.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can see just I'm visualizing Cinderella putting
Speaker 2: on the slipper, you know what I mean. It's it's
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. They're gonna take They're gonna take out Glyde.
Speaker 2: And it does build up for this because there's all
Speaker 2: kinds of reckless stuff being said about Louisville as it
Speaker 2: is in their own league, and nothing better than to
Speaker 2: humble a team from the MLS.
Speaker 3: That's right, man, I've told you about racing Louisville in
Speaker 3: the NAUSL. Nobody likes Louisville in that league. Everybody thinks
Speaker 3: Louisvill's this little old town that nobody needs to pay
Speaker 3: attention to San Diego most of all. I mean, they
Speaker 3: got beaches in Sunshine. He thinks they're it out there.
Speaker 3: But they don't know nothing about what we got going
Speaker 3: on in Louisville. So we're gonna prove them wrong tomorrow
Speaker 3: with racing Louisville. But yeah, to your point about lou City,
Speaker 3: these are the big boys. This is MLS. They think
Speaker 3: they're Major League. It's in the name of the damn league, right,
Speaker 3: major League, Socter, We're gonna prove them wrong. We're gonna
Speaker 3: show them that we have something major going on here
Speaker 3: in Louisville, Kentucky with Louisville City. On Tuesday, May seventh,
Speaker 3: it's the US Open Cup. It's gonna be a seven
Speaker 3: o'clock kickoff. Minnesota United comes to town. Got that two
Speaker 3: dollars halfy hour before the game. I'm telling you it
Speaker 3: is the Tuesday turn up of all Tuesday turnups. You
Speaker 3: do not want to miss this Tuesday turn up coming
Speaker 3: up on May seventh.
Speaker 2: I'm stealing that, guar get out. I'm gon I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to say that every day that we have a
Speaker 2: show on a Tuesday, it's Coffee and Company and it's
Speaker 2: the Tuesday turn Up. I'm gonna have to just I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll lease it from you. I'll give proper credit. I
Speaker 2: know we don't need the least. We're friends, Okay, we work,
Speaker 2: we work together, partners, Yes, I get you know. I
Speaker 2: like the way I like the way you're talking. All right,
Speaker 2: So with with with tomorrow's Easter Easter egg hunt that's
Speaker 2: going to be going on with the San Diego Wave
Speaker 2: FC coming in. What what what is your expectation for
Speaker 2: this this match up here. I know obviously you mentioned
Speaker 2: last week's result not being a great one against the
Speaker 2: Washington Spirit and the two oh loss. But is this
Speaker 2: a game where where where the club could bounce back?
Speaker 2: What type of challenge are you expecting to see from
Speaker 2: San Diego?
Speaker 3: It is a It is a game where the club
Speaker 3: could bounce back. I'll tell you what. You're right to
Speaker 3: bring it back to the Easter egg hunt, of course,
Speaker 3: bring out the family on Eastern weekend. Maybe have a
Speaker 3: couple of cold ones yourself if you want, but the
Speaker 3: kids can enjoy themselves with an Easter egg on tomorrow.
Speaker 3: The Easter Bunny, I'm told is going to make an appearance.
Speaker 3: I know he's got a busy schedule this weekend, but
Speaker 3: he's going to be there, so it's worth your time.
Speaker 2: But to years before the game, even Easter Buddies, I
Speaker 2: could pass that up.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, oh man, I mean I'm trying
Speaker 3: to slide him a couple when he shows up. I
Speaker 3: mean that's for sure. I mean he works so hard.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is his time to shine, right, now,
Speaker 3: no doubt, but on the on the field, on the field,
Speaker 3: this is the game. I'll be honest, I may sound
Speaker 3: critical of Racing. This game they got to win. This
Speaker 3: is a game they gotta win if they want to
Speaker 3: be a team that's gonna be in the playoff come
Speaker 3: the end of the year. Last week, Washington's really good, man,
Speaker 3: They're gonna They're gonna be a contender for the title.
Speaker 3: They're got their legit championship level team in this league.
Speaker 3: The losing to nothing to them, Look, would you have
Speaker 3: wanted a better result, absolutely, but you'll you know, you
Speaker 3: understand it when the team is the quality of Washington
Speaker 3: comes in. San Diego is one of those teams that's
Speaker 3: either gonna take Racing Louisville spot in the playoffs or
Speaker 3: Racing is gonna take their spot in the playoffs. This
Speaker 3: is a game that they have to win, especially at home.
Speaker 3: It is a game that they can win because San
Speaker 3: Diego blew up their team in the offseason. They had
Speaker 3: big stars on their team. They had Alex Morgan on
Speaker 3: their team. How much of a bigger star in women's
Speaker 3: socer and you get to that, get that, and they
Speaker 3: blew their team up in the offseason started from scratch,
Speaker 3: started over. So it's one of these games where we're
Speaker 3: gonna find out what this Racing Louisville team is made
Speaker 3: of on Saturday at three o'clock at Lynn Family Stadium.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't go so far as to call it a
Speaker 3: must win, but it feels it's it's quacking like a duck,
Speaker 3: it's walking like a duck. It kind of feels like
Speaker 3: a duck in terms of the must win. So's see
Speaker 3: what happens tomorrow with Racing louisll. But you know what,
Speaker 3: regardless of the result, come out, bring the kids, Easter
Speaker 3: egg hunt, two dollar beers. It's a good time. Hopefully
Speaker 3: the weather's nice. It's it's always a good time in
Speaker 3: Lyn Family Statium.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I don't know what Soccer Holdings
Speaker 2: is paying you, but it's not enough, Jeff, because I mean,
Speaker 2: if there's somebody that, I mean, you're you're the first
Speaker 2: person I've heard that can execute like this when it
Speaker 2: comes to telling people. I mean, I feel like everybody
Speaker 2: listening is like, damn, I've been missing out about having
Speaker 2: been going to Lynn Family Stadium and taking in on
Speaker 2: all the great soccer action and everything else that comes
Speaker 2: with it, with the Easter egg hunt of two dollars
Speaker 2: beers before the game, so good stuff. We certainly appreciate
Speaker 2: you and looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: And also but let me throw this out for the
Speaker 3: designated drivers among us, it is two dollars Pepsi products
Speaker 3: as well, So you have to be just knocking back
Speaker 3: to beers, but taking care of that's right, That's right.
Speaker 3: But I appreciate you Nick as always.
Speaker 2: As your take care. That's Jeff Milby from Racing Louisville
Speaker 2: as well as lu CITYFC.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I love the passion, love the energy. Good stuff. So
Speaker 2: if you've not if you've not made arrangements yet, made plans,
Speaker 2: get out there tomorrow, take the kids. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: the Easter egg hunt. And obviously you know, great soccer
Speaker 2: action and as he said, it's a it's a big
Speaker 2: game for the club. You know, I hesitate to always
Speaker 2: say must win as well. I'm not saying that Jeff does.
Speaker 2: But you know, very rarely do you find yourself in
Speaker 2: a situation like where it's a must win. But I
Speaker 2: know exactly what he means. This is a good bounce back.
Speaker 2: Like you know, you can accept the loss last week
Speaker 2: because of who you played. Clearly, as Jeff said, that's
Speaker 2: a that's a club that a lot of teams in
Speaker 2: the league are probably gonna have a tough time taken down.
Speaker 2: But San Diego is it's kind of like a chin check,
Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying, Like, Hey, let's see
Speaker 2: where you are. You know, this is gonna be maybe
Speaker 2: not a season defining, but potentially it could be. Right
Speaker 2: a win here could maybe shift them in the right
Speaker 2: direction as far as some positive momentums. So good stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not kidding you. Jeff Milby has got people
Speaker 2: thinking like they've missed out on soccer if they've not
Speaker 2: been taken it in. I love the energy, love the passion.
Speaker 2: Miss him around here of course with us at iHeart.
Speaker 2: But he's worried belongs my man? You heard it is
Speaker 2: he does? He not sound like a guy who's made
Speaker 2: to be out here. Oh, he's home calling the action
Speaker 2: for the soccer games, and of course you know, letting
Speaker 2: everybody know about how great the atmosphere is and all
Speaker 2: the action over there at Lynn Family Stadium. So big,
Speaker 2: big thanks Jeff for the time, and look forward to
Speaker 2: seeing you soon out there. At the stadium. Quick Break,
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