Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: All right, hour number two Here on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Vibes are good. It's Friday, big weekend ahead, big basketball
Speaker 2: game tomorrow, Louisville and Tennessee. I am pumped for tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and I know a lot of Louisville fans feel the
Speaker 2: same way. But I will start off the four o'clock
Speaker 2: hour with a complaint. And look, I've been fortunate enough to,
Speaker 2: you know, put myself in a position where I do
Speaker 2: have a platform, and I greatly appreciate it, and I
Speaker 2: won't have it forever. I know that. So why not
Speaker 2: take advantage of the platform and complain about something because
Speaker 2: that's what you tuned in for, right This isn't a
Speaker 2: big complaint, But do companies not trust you to have
Speaker 2: a secure enough password? Like? Why do they make you
Speaker 2: reset your password every? How many times a year? Do
Speaker 2: we have to reset our iHeart password? I think as
Speaker 2: every six months?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't. I mean, that sounds about right. But
Speaker 2: if you'd told me it was every quarter, I believe you.
Speaker 2: So I have a very, very unique, undetectable password that
Speaker 2: nobody would ever just guess, like you'd have to like
Speaker 2: hack me and get it obtain it by viewing it.
Speaker 2: You'd never just figure out what it is. So over
Speaker 2: the years I've had I've had to put together a
Speaker 2: bunch of different variations of the password to slightly mix
Speaker 2: it up, and it takes a little while to get
Speaker 2: used to it. But then it's just you know, it's
Speaker 2: safe now on my phone. It now does the like
Speaker 2: with most things on my phone. It's the facial recognition
Speaker 2: thing that like, you know, it can scan my face
Speaker 2: and know that it's me. Uh, but you know you
Speaker 2: can't do that with the work stuff. So I'm having
Speaker 2: to reset it like every day now, John, because I
Speaker 2: don't remember exactly what it what it was. And I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, yeah, it's just me being an idiot. Like
Speaker 2: I could write it down and then I would hate,
Speaker 2: you know, remember, I could go reference it and then
Speaker 2: eventually I would remember it. But you know, I'm telling
Speaker 2: myself each time, oh, I'll remember that, but apparently I don't,
Speaker 2: So I'm having to reset it all the time, and
Speaker 2: I just you know, like they if my if my
Speaker 2: password got hacked it would be on me, not on them.
Speaker 2: But again, I guess because you know, I work for them.
Speaker 2: I'm an employee. If somebody hacks into my stuff and
Speaker 2: I'm within the iHeart World cloud network, whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call it, then that would be, you know, not ideal.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I'm trying to access my email and I
Speaker 2: can't get in, which nevermind, I was going to make
Speaker 2: a comment about something that I probably should just not
Speaker 2: make a comment about today. But hey, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, John, If only you and I know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, that's probably not good for the show.
Speaker 2: Maybe a few others listening know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: That's you know, not good for our listeners. But man,
Speaker 2: it was right there and it.
Speaker 3: Flew away though, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it flew away. I'm sad, all right, Hour number two,
Speaker 2: let's get it started. Coffee and Company again. We are
Speaker 2: fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven to ninety,
Speaker 2: so we'll talk a little bit more about this Tennessee
Speaker 2: matchup coming up at four thirty. We're gonna be joined
Speaker 2: from behind enemy lines, as they say, by Ben McKee,
Speaker 2: who covers Tennessee for twenty four to seven Sports, and
Speaker 2: I mentioned this at the beginning of the show, and
Speaker 2: I'm trying to refresh now just to see if there's
Speaker 2: been any change. But Louisville underdogs here. I think most
Speaker 2: expected them to be underdogs in this game. Opened up
Speaker 2: at one and a half at DraftKings. It's now at
Speaker 2: minus two and a half at I'm sorry, Louisville plus
Speaker 2: two and a half at FanDuel. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it opened up at there. Let me try to pull
Speaker 2: it up here on DraftKings to see if there's been
Speaker 2: much much change. I wouldn't be shocked if it's, you know,
Speaker 2: still sitting at Louisville plus one, or maybe maybe it
Speaker 2: did go up to Louisville plus plus two and a
Speaker 2: half like it is. But for what it's worth, and
Speaker 2: I know kN Palm has not been Ken Palm has
Speaker 2: struggled when it comes to the formula, being able to
Speaker 2: adjust to the portal and whatnot. Like team like you know,
Speaker 2: Kim Palm was really really accurate. Before you had so
Speaker 2: many moving pieces within college within college basketball, and you know,
Speaker 2: last year was really the first year where I found
Speaker 2: myself being a loyal, a lifelong I mean not lifelong.
Speaker 2: It's not been around that long. But like I pay
Speaker 2: for ken Pom's rankings and formulas and all the good
Speaker 2: analytics that you get because you know it's valuable to me.
Speaker 2: It's helped me when it comes to betting. But now
Speaker 2: I don't even I try not to look at it
Speaker 2: because it can. I still feel my loyalty to Ken
Speaker 2: Palm Roy and his formula, but if I trust it
Speaker 2: when it comes to wagers, it just doesn't. It just
Speaker 2: doesn't usually pay off, especially not early in the year. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe when we get later on in the season, you'll
Speaker 2: see how accurate it can be. But Kim Palm again,
Speaker 2: for what it's worth, probably not much because it's early
Speaker 2: and the formula has struggled in the New world. They
Speaker 2: have it as just a one point victory for Tennessee.
Speaker 2: So yeah right here, if you go to yeah so right,
Speaker 2: the projected score in the kin Pom formula is seventy
Speaker 2: six seventy five with a Tennessee victory. So again, take
Speaker 2: that for what it's worth. On back to DraftKings. Here
Speaker 2: their current line in this matchup tomorrow. It looks like
Speaker 2: it is. Gosh, there's so many college basketball games. I
Speaker 2: love it, but again, as I mentioned earlier, it makes
Speaker 2: it harder to find the specific one you're looking for.
Speaker 2: Let's see here, so right now it is one and
Speaker 2: a half, so a little bit of movement. It was
Speaker 2: Louisville plus one. Now it's plus one and a half.
Speaker 2: So that spread indicates that the expectation is that this
Speaker 2: is going to be a close game, and maybe it is,
Speaker 2: but I think the Louisvill's gonna win now when it
Speaker 2: comes down to that little of a line. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the kind of game that I'm just taking money line,
Speaker 2: regardless of who I think is gonna win. I want,
Speaker 2: you know, because you know college basketball, I like taking
Speaker 2: spreads when they're when they're bigger than you know, four
Speaker 2: or five, when it's that close. Like I just I
Speaker 2: know how a game can play out with free throws
Speaker 2: of that kind of stuff to where it just leaves it.
Speaker 2: It leaves it too much. It's just so many variables
Speaker 2: at the end of a game that could they could
Speaker 2: totally kill you and give you what's called, you know,
Speaker 2: a bad beat. All right, this is a big story
Speaker 2: in college basketball that I'm sure is getting a lot
Speaker 2: of attention nationally at least, you know, I would assume
Speaker 2: I saw it earlier today. But the University of Florida
Speaker 2: student newspaper has put together a lengthy article claiming that
Speaker 2: Florida head basketball coach Todd Golden has been harassing, sexually harassing,
Speaker 2: and exploiting and even stalking females students at Florida, Which again,
Speaker 2: that's that's that's a that's a big time yikes. So
Speaker 2: the alligator good name, by the way, for the Florida
Speaker 2: Student newspaper, isn't that good? John the Alligator. That's pretty
Speaker 2: clever there. They accuse him. There's an unknown number of
Speaker 2: women who have I guess, made these claims that the
Speaker 2: head basketball coach has sexually harassed them and stalked them.
Speaker 2: I mean, just to give you some of the details here.
Speaker 2: This is from a little excerpt in the In the
Speaker 2: in the article says the claims regarding sexual harassment, which
Speaker 2: could also include sexual exploitation, cited sending photos and videos
Speaker 2: of his genitalia while traveling for the University of Florida,
Speaker 2: unwanted sexual advances on Instagram, requesting sexual favors in various
Speaker 2: on various occasions, stalking, there were allegedly more than There
Speaker 2: was legendly more than one occasion in which Golden was
Speaker 2: taking photos of women walking or driving and sending those
Speaker 2: pictures to the subjects involved. Various stalking incidents also included
Speaker 2: Golden showing up the locations where he knew the women
Speaker 2: would be. I mean, if that's true, which again you
Speaker 2: never really know, there's two sides to every story. But
Speaker 2: if that's true, like, how does he survive this? I mean,
Speaker 2: this day and age, that's something and really not I
Speaker 2: don't even want to reference like back in the day, man,
Speaker 2: everybody was doing that. No, like it's not I mean,
Speaker 2: this isn't like a well what do you know? The
Speaker 2: climate's just changed so much you can't get away with
Speaker 2: a with using a certain word anymore. This is just
Speaker 2: behavior that I feel like really under any era, any
Speaker 2: you know, timeline in society, people would say, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: something that you know you can't do, and if you
Speaker 2: end up doing it and getting caught, you should expect
Speaker 2: to lose your job and expect him potentially, I don't
Speaker 2: know if faced charges or something like that. So Todd,
Speaker 2: you know, Pat forty, he's he shared the article and
Speaker 2: he made a reference and I'll make sure and pull
Speaker 2: it up because I don't want to misquote him. But
Speaker 2: I think he had said that Florida was aware of
Speaker 2: this as far as like rumor is as far back
Speaker 2: as last year. Yeah, it says this is Pat sweet
Speaker 2: from two hours ago. There was a lot of smoke
Speaker 2: swirling around Golden in this regard last season. Florida was
Speaker 2: aware of the rumors.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: He then responded and said worth mentioning that smoke is
Speaker 2: not the same as reportable facts. Information was scarce and vague.
Speaker 2: That was So here's my gut. Pat Forty put that
Speaker 2: out there, and people trust Pat Forty like you could
Speaker 2: people can you know, I'm not saying you have to
Speaker 2: like him or think he's great, but he is somebody
Speaker 2: and any think you'd agree with this, John pat Forty
Speaker 2: is somebody that if he puts it out there, ninety
Speaker 2: nine percent of the people are going to assume that's
Speaker 2: a guy that's a veteran, he's got trusted he's a
Speaker 2: trusted source to where there wouldn't be much thought that
Speaker 2: this would be this would be you know, nonsense or
Speaker 2: fake news. So and honestly, student newspaper, maybe maybe some
Speaker 2: would say well, the student newspaper, that's not that's not
Speaker 2: a credible source. So maybe there is some exaggeration, or
Speaker 2: maybe maybe it's all made up. Well, when Pat forty
Speaker 2: shares it and mentions that there's smoke, that's going to
Speaker 2: make people more so believe that it's true, he probably
Speaker 2: got a call or a text maybe from somebody at
Speaker 2: Florida to say, look, yeah, we knew there were rumors,
Speaker 2: but we had no evidence, no facts. We can't act.
Speaker 2: And if we only have hearsay and just a rumor
Speaker 2: that nobody even really knows the source of the rumor.
Speaker 2: And yet you know, we talked to coach Golden about
Speaker 2: it and he denies it, and there's no proof. What
Speaker 2: are we supposed to do? And that's fair like what
Speaker 2: are they supposed to do? So I think Pat was
Speaker 2: probably told that and then wanted to you know, I
Speaker 2: mean he doesn't usually, I guess correct himself and he's
Speaker 2: not necessarily doing that. But to then respond an hour
Speaker 2: and a half after he put it out there, mentioning
Speaker 2: that Florida was aware of these rumors, For him to
Speaker 2: say an hour and a half later worth mentioning that
Speaker 2: smoke is not the same as reportable facts. Information was
Speaker 2: scarce and vague. That's probably because Florida let him know. Look, dude,
Speaker 2: don't make us looked bad. We heard of We knew
Speaker 2: that this had been out there rumor wise, but we
Speaker 2: vetted it and there's nothing we could do. We had
Speaker 2: no facts which to be fair, if that's what happened,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they did anything wrong. Now, how they
Speaker 2: handle this thing over the next few days will, I think,
Speaker 2: determine if they are up for being, you know, criticized
Speaker 2: for how they handled it. I mean, Florida fans just
Speaker 2: found out yesterday that the coach that none of them
Speaker 2: want is going to survive and be back next season.
Speaker 2: The next day they find out that a basketball coach who,
Speaker 2: by the way, I think has a really I mean
Speaker 2: had a really, really bright future, Todd Golden. I mean,
Speaker 2: he doesn't really have a whole lot on his resume
Speaker 2: as far as like, wow, he made a Final four,
Speaker 2: or you know, he pulled off some massive upset. But
Speaker 2: he's a young coach that was really successful at San Francisco.
Speaker 2: He's only thirty nine years old. He is a he's
Speaker 2: believed to be a rising star in the business, and
Speaker 2: his style of play at Florida was you know, it's
Speaker 2: the new wave now his team. You know, he plays
Speaker 2: a very similar style to the way Pat Kelsey Mark
Speaker 2: Pope play. So last year they did kind of have
Speaker 2: a breakthrough season with him where they went twenty four
Speaker 2: and twelve, eleven and seven in league play and lost
Speaker 2: in the first round of the tournament. So you know,
Speaker 2: he's somebody that the future looked bright for him. He was.
Speaker 2: I think most people, in fact, I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: when you see coverage of this story by those who
Speaker 2: cover college basketball at a high level. Don't be shocked
Speaker 2: if you see him referenced as a rising star in
Speaker 2: college basketball. Again, the numbers don't necessarily confirm that. But
Speaker 2: a young guy, I mean, not even forty years old,
Speaker 2: and like a lot of men in society, they ruined
Speaker 2: their life or their livelihood because they just get horned up.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't mean to be so matter of
Speaker 2: fact about it, but like I mean maybe being you know,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people in fact, if you're
Speaker 2: using Glucu promo code nick seven ninety a checkout, I mean,
Speaker 2: you're getting horned up pretty easily. But it doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you're going to go act like this, so you know,
Speaker 2: you can be you know, you can be somebody that
Speaker 2: you know, trying not to sound so inappropriate.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Friday, and I'm trying to find some
Speaker 2: balance here because you know, this is a very serious
Speaker 2: thing that you shouldn't do. But also, you know, sex
Speaker 2: is involved, and when we talk about sex on the show,
Speaker 2: I you know, I kind of turned into a seventh grader.
Speaker 2: It's kind of yeah, it's kind of what happens. So
Speaker 2: you know, but you know, it's one thing to like
Speaker 2: get caught having an affair or I mean, that's not good.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't do that. Which also apparently he you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if any if any of his actions
Speaker 2: were were met with a willing you know, other side, meaning,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was hooking up with any
Speaker 2: of these females at floor or if it was just
Speaker 2: him being a creep and they finally had enough and
Speaker 2: reported him. I don't know if you know, but he's married.
Speaker 2: He's married to a former college volleyball player according to
Speaker 2: his bio. So so again, it's one thing to get
Speaker 2: caught having an affair with a coworker or having a
Speaker 2: relationship with somebody that you're not allowed to have a
Speaker 2: relationship because of your chain of command within your job.
Speaker 2: Like that's something you still shouldn't do, and you should
Speaker 2: you know, you probably are going to get some consequences.
Speaker 2: But what he's accused of doing is I mean, it's
Speaker 2: damn near criminal, right, I mean, stalking is a crime,
Speaker 2: sexual harassment is you know, I don't know if there's
Speaker 2: a certain I mean, clearly you can get in trouble
Speaker 2: with that. If it's not you know, from a legal
Speaker 2: standpoint as far as criminal, it can be something you
Speaker 2: could get sued for. So I don't know. I mean
Speaker 2: I feel like now we still just assume, well this
Speaker 2: this like we'll be surprised to find out if this
Speaker 2: is like made up or exaggerated, whereas I feel like
Speaker 2: it used to be. Well, we'll see what's his side
Speaker 2: of the story, Like what's going on here, Like maybe
Speaker 2: he does. And there's still have been some examples over
Speaker 2: the years where guys were accused of something and it
Speaker 2: totally ruined their life and then you find out it
Speaker 2: was all made up, Like that happened to that punter
Speaker 2: who was with the Bills, whose life was ruined all
Speaker 2: for something that was completely made up. Around here Chris Jones.
Speaker 2: I mean, you google Chris Jones. Louisville Basketball. Wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked if the first stories that come up are still
Speaker 2: him being charged with rape and it was all made up. None,
Speaker 2: nothing happened. So you know, we probably should have a
Speaker 2: little bit more of a of an awareness that, like,
Speaker 2: you know, people get accused of things all the time
Speaker 2: and it's either not true, exaggerated, or you know, half truths.
Speaker 2: So we'll see. I mean, clearly he's gonna have to
Speaker 2: defend himself, and Florida's gonna have to defend him if
Speaker 2: they want to keep him employed, because these are some
Speaker 2: pretty serious allegations. But yeah, I mean crazy to think
Speaker 2: about it. But like if he gets fired, the Florida
Speaker 2: job opening up is kind of crazy right now. You are,
Speaker 2: you're not going to go hire somebody now like you
Speaker 2: would have the uh, you'd have the interim. I assume
Speaker 2: that would step in. But a rough day for Gator fans. No,
Speaker 2: I mean think I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: What though, I mean, would the Billy Donovan rumors, considering
Speaker 4: that's where he came from, would they pop up?
Speaker 2: Maybe, you know, especially if like in his in you know,
Speaker 2: the NBA season just started as well, but like if
Speaker 2: he's struggling in Chicago, like maybe maybe this would be
Speaker 2: you know, him wanting to come back, and maybe that
Speaker 2: could be the job him coming back to get it
Speaker 2: started to get it Florida. Maybe that could get him
Speaker 2: back to the college game. But no doubt a big
Speaker 2: story in in college hoops. All right, coming up at
Speaker 2: about four thirty, So in about ten minutes, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk to Ben McKee, who covers Florida or not
Speaker 2: Florida but Tennessee for twenty four seven Sports. But some
Speaker 2: other things I want to make sure we get into
Speaker 2: before we get out of here today. I have found
Speaker 2: myself really invested in some drama on the internet. Queen
Speaker 2: Zach Bryan, the former well he's still a huge Uh
Speaker 2: it's his former girlfriend that that this shrama stems from. Yeah,
Speaker 2: chicken fry. Have you seen all this? I seen an update?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: So we we talked about it a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago because you know, he looked like a real a
Speaker 2: hole and it was just weird behavior that he has
Speaker 2: now three different times done the exact same thing, got
Speaker 2: with a girl they became serious. He then wanted He
Speaker 2: then bought homes for the two to you know, his
Speaker 2: girlfriend at the time, whoever it was. There's three different ones.
Speaker 2: He bought homes in their hometown like community where they
Speaker 2: grew up to like essentially, you know, live together and
Speaker 2: and and you know, maybe start a family and grow
Speaker 2: and grow up where she grew up. Three different women,
Speaker 2: and each time he's cheated on him and you know
Speaker 2: they broke up that you know that that made him
Speaker 2: kind of look bad. But he's had a rough forty
Speaker 2: eight hour, seventy two hours, however long this thing's been
Speaker 2: going on. I feel like I'm catching up to it
Speaker 2: a little bit late. But he has apparently paid each
Speaker 2: of those those previous girlfriends fiances to not talk. They
Speaker 2: sign NDA's and he pays them a lot of money
Speaker 2: to not talk after they break up, which one means
Speaker 2: he's got a lot of money, and people thinking like,
Speaker 2: how would he He's selling out stadium tours. That's a
Speaker 2: level of wealth that is much different than most celebrities.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I mean, he's making an
Speaker 2: insane amount of money. Well, he offered Brionn a chicken
Speaker 2: fry twelve million dollars to sign an NDA and just
Speaker 2: never talk publicly or to anybody about their relationship and
Speaker 2: what went on. So she's got the army of Barstool
Speaker 2: Sports because she's a Barstool Sports podcaster, and Dave Portnoy
Speaker 2: and his crew they made like a dish track about
Speaker 2: Zach Bryan and like the Barstool army, say what you
Speaker 2: want about him. They're loyal and they're all coming after
Speaker 2: Zach Brian and you can be not loyal to Barstool.
Speaker 2: But hear her on this podcast talk about Zach Brian
Speaker 2: in their relationship because she she turned out twelve million
Speaker 2: dollars to not talk. Not many people would do that. Now,
Speaker 2: she did have the humility to claim she is in
Speaker 2: a much different situation as a person from her career
Speaker 2: in her family than the other women who did take
Speaker 2: the money, because most would. You could be a worth
Speaker 2: you could be worth millions already and turning down twelve
Speaker 2: million and all you gotta do is just not talk
Speaker 2: about something like that's insane. That's actually the most crazy
Speaker 2: aspect of this entire thing. To be honest with you,
Speaker 2: finding out a super successful musicians an a hole really
Speaker 2: not that big of a shocker, but she's opening up
Speaker 2: about it, and he's had a really really rough seventy
Speaker 2: two hours to where he like in the middle of
Speaker 2: the night, posted something on Instagram saying he was gonna
Speaker 2: not tour anymore and he was gonna go get his
Speaker 2: master's degree in another country. Like he's he knows now
Speaker 2: that like the perception of him being an a hole
Speaker 2: was already out there, and now she's gonna talk and
Speaker 2: it's gonna make him look really bad. And for those thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: she's it's just bitter, she's a bitter ex. She is
Speaker 2: just trying to still get attention and fame because she's
Speaker 2: with Zach, because she's now no longer gonna be by
Speaker 2: his side on the red carpet all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: If you want to believe that, you go for it.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this, you're wrong. If he's gonna
Speaker 2: pay her twelve million dollars to not talk and he's
Speaker 2: already done it with three others, that probably tells you
Speaker 2: he's he's he's got a lot of things he doesn't
Speaker 2: want out there about him. I mean, twelve million dollars
Speaker 2: to anybody is a lot of money. And she said no.
Speaker 2: And it's been an interesting day. It's been an interesting
Speaker 2: few days on the internet. And she's kind of slowly
Speaker 2: but surely started to talk a little bit about how
Speaker 2: big of a jerk he was. So anyways, but you
Speaker 2: know what this is probably gonna do, John, He's gonna
Speaker 2: make more sad music and people are gonna love it,
Speaker 2: right he will. That's exactly how you need him to
Speaker 2: be troubled and sad. I don't know if you need
Speaker 2: him to be an a hole, but you need him
Speaker 2: to be troubled and sad for you to continue to
Speaker 2: get that crack code Caine that you crave, which is
Speaker 2: Zach Brian's sad music that everybody's paying out the rear
Speaker 2: end for they go see him in concert. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back on the other side again.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Ben McKee. He covers Tennessee for twenty
Speaker 2: four seven Sports. He joins us next right here on
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right, it's coffee and company.
Speaker 2: Feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety about
Speaker 2: halfway through here on a Friday, as we get you
Speaker 2: set for the weekend. Appreciate you hanging out with us.
Speaker 2: Also appreciate our next guest. He's been McKee of twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven Sports, joining us to discuss this Louisville
Speaker 2: basketball matchup with Tennessee tomorrow. How are we doing, Ben,
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. How are you doing well? There's a
Speaker 2: feeling of nostalgia around here, Ben, because Louisville basketball, a
Speaker 2: program that has had a lot of success historically, been
Speaker 2: really really down as of late. And I'm sure you
Speaker 2: know that. And there's a big game tomorrow and it's
Speaker 2: been a while since fans had this much enthusiasm about
Speaker 2: a big opportunity to play a good team and get
Speaker 2: a good you know, get what would be a big
Speaker 2: win if they can pull it off. Before we discuss
Speaker 2: the matchup, I just let's go back tom a little
Speaker 2: bit here. When Rick Barnes took over the job, came
Speaker 2: coming from Texas, obviously a well respected coach, and he's
Speaker 2: been successful at Tennessee. I think he's I think I
Speaker 2: read he's won more games in the last seven years
Speaker 2: in SEC play than anybody else, which is really really
Speaker 2: impressive considering how much better that league has got from
Speaker 2: a basketball standpoint. But would you say that that higher
Speaker 2: at this point has has worked out to where fans,
Speaker 2: you know, as far as what fans expected when they
Speaker 2: hired Rick Barnes.
Speaker 4: One thousand percent, I think it's been a home run
Speaker 4: higher Quite frankly, I think that Tennessee has thrived about
Speaker 4: as well as they can under Rick.
Speaker 3: And now there.
Speaker 4: Are some fans who are quick to gripe about the
Speaker 4: Ncublea tournament stuff sure, as is the typical conversation that
Speaker 4: surrounds Rick Barnes. I do think there's some more context
Speaker 4: there that would take a whole other segment or two
Speaker 4: to dive into.
Speaker 3: But some of the teams that they've lost to in.
Speaker 4: The Ncublea Tournament are loyal to Chicago when they made
Speaker 4: their final four Runau when they made their their final
Speaker 4: four run.
Speaker 3: The last time Tennessee was in the Young.
Speaker 4: Center, they lost an epic overtime game to Purdue.
Speaker 2: The hell of a game. I remember that one, Yes
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 4: And in Tennessee fans are still mad about Ryan Kleine
Speaker 4: and in the foul that was called on the Monte Turner.
Speaker 4: And and you know, this past season they lose in
Speaker 4: the Elite eight to Purdue, who was the second best
Speaker 4: team in the country and played for a national championship,
Speaker 4: and then Tennessee was probably the third best team in
Speaker 4: the country this past year behind Connecticut, UH and Purdue.
Speaker 4: So there's been some context that there's other years they've
Speaker 4: lost to a Michigan team that got real hot under
Speaker 4: Juwan Howard with Hunter Dickinson, and I believe that was
Speaker 4: his freshman year. The next year is Zikai Ziegler tears
Speaker 4: his ACL late February early March, and they're without their
Speaker 4: point guard, and in the NCAA Tournament they still managed
Speaker 4: to beat Duke in advance to the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: And that's when they lost the FAU.
Speaker 4: So even when they have maybe come up short by
Speaker 4: fan expectations or you know, on the surface, you look
Speaker 4: at the brand recognition and you think, okay, Tennessee, although
Speaker 4: it's not a blue blood in college basketball, it should
Speaker 4: beat FAU, it should beat.
Speaker 3: Loyer of the Chicago. Well.
Speaker 4: They dealt with injuries in those games, and then those
Speaker 4: teams turn around and they proved to make a Final
Speaker 4: four run. So there's context involved with each NCAA tournament.
Speaker 4: But they've had as much success under Rick Barnes as
Speaker 4: they have under any coach he's right there with Bruce Pearl,
Speaker 4: if not slightly ahead. And you know, Tennessee basketball, I
Speaker 4: think before Bruce was certainly not a top twenty five program,
Speaker 4: and Bruce elevated it to where it was a top
Speaker 4: twenty five program, if not a top fifteen program at
Speaker 4: the time, and it dipped off a couple of years
Speaker 4: after Bruce and Rick Barnes has certainly gotten it right
Speaker 4: back in the fray. And I would imagine, off the
Speaker 4: top of my head, if we sat down and listed
Speaker 4: out the best programs in college basketball right now, Tennessee's
Speaker 4: got to be in the top ten.
Speaker 3: So I think it's been a home run higher quite frankly.
Speaker 2: No they win, and college basketball, I mean, I'm obsessed
Speaker 2: with it. I'm not sure what could happen to the
Speaker 2: sport that wouldn't make me love it. But it is
Speaker 2: crazy how the tournament, And again I think that's what
Speaker 2: makes it unique in the tournament so so awesome that
Speaker 2: you could have great years and people will know that
Speaker 2: you're good, but man, it just it's out the window
Speaker 2: if you don't get it done in the tournament. I
Speaker 2: think with Rick Barnes, you know, it's not necessarily an excuse.
Speaker 2: It's more of an explanation as to how they've had
Speaker 2: those shortcomings in the tournament. And I think you can
Speaker 2: do that with a passionate fan base like Tennessee has
Speaker 2: and still have a really high approval rating because you know,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you're they're still winning,
Speaker 2: fans are enjoying the success throughout until the tournament. But
Speaker 2: also he seems like a really genuine guy to where
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, and I think Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 2: got a chance to do that here at Louisville. He
Speaker 2: obviously has to win, but he's definitely done a whole
Speaker 2: lot to really, you know, make an impression on fans.
Speaker 2: And I feel like when you have those short falls
Speaker 2: in the tournament, yet you're still winning and you're going
Speaker 2: to in Elite eight like they did last year, Like
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just feel like Rick Barnes has
Speaker 2: become one of these guys that in the sport of
Speaker 2: college hoops, he's pretty well below like people think he's like,
Speaker 2: coaches love him.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Coaches love him, Coaches think that he is absolutely a
Speaker 4: future Hall of Famer, which I think he is as well.
Speaker 3: He's going to make it into the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 3: but he is.
Speaker 4: He's kind of in that tier right behind the elite
Speaker 4: of the elite coaches. He's had a great deal of success,
Speaker 4: but obviously a second Final four has eluded him for
Speaker 4: a very long time and was never able to get
Speaker 4: over the hump and win a national championship. And that's
Speaker 4: what will prevent him from being in the same conversations
Speaker 4: as Tom Izzo and Mark.
Speaker 3: Few and coach k and Roy Williams and all those names.
Speaker 4: Rick Patino, right, But if you talk to any of
Speaker 4: those coaches, they'll rave about Rick Barnes the person and
Speaker 4: who he is as a coach.
Speaker 3: So I completely agree with you there.
Speaker 4: And you know, fans at Tennessee, even I see it
Speaker 4: on social media. Come in cla tournament time and if
Speaker 4: somebody starts to hype up Tennessee, they they're quick to
Speaker 4: throw Rick Barnes under the bus, right, because of the
Speaker 4: constant dialogue about what his teams have done in March.
Speaker 4: But you mentioned it off the top of the segment,
Speaker 4: like you can just look at the numbers during his
Speaker 4: time at Tennessee.
Speaker 3: He would win more than anybody in the SEC.
Speaker 4: Go through Tennessee's game notes and it's just like statistic
Speaker 4: after statistic about how just Tennessee just wins, they just
Speaker 4: have not been able bad luck or poor play in
Speaker 4: a half here or there. It's just they had not
Speaker 4: been able to get over the hump and reach that
Speaker 4: final four. So at the end of the day, should
Speaker 4: Tennessee maybe have a little more success in the postseason
Speaker 4: under Rick?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure, but again there's context there, and at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, he is elevated Tennessee's basketball program.
Speaker 3: Make no mistake about it.
Speaker 4: It's still a football first school, but the basketball program
Speaker 4: has grown tremendously. It grew tremendously under Bruce Pearl, and
Speaker 4: Rick Barnes kind of revived it and has elevated it
Speaker 4: even more to where when he retires within the next
Speaker 4: couple of years, I mean, Tennessee maybe not going to
Speaker 4: go out and hire Chay right away from CBS, but
Speaker 4: should be in a pretty nice situation to where it
Speaker 4: can go hire an established coach, which before Bruce Pearl
Speaker 4: that was probably not possible.
Speaker 2: Ben McKee of Govalls twenty four seven is our guest
Speaker 2: joining us here on Sports Talk seven ninety getting set
Speaker 2: for this matchup between the Cards and the balls. Replacing
Speaker 2: Dalton Kinnecks certainly not possible. Really, I mean, he was
Speaker 2: one of the best players in college basketball last year
Speaker 2: and he's already off to a good start as a pro.
Speaker 2: What do you think the overall plan is for coach
Speaker 2: Barnes as far as filling that gap and that void
Speaker 2: in production. Obviously, Ziggler's back after having three really successful
Speaker 2: seasons thus far in his career. Chas Lanier a big
Speaker 2: addition for Tennessee and the portal. Where do you think
Speaker 2: their production comes from this year to kind of to
Speaker 2: make up for an All American caliber player you lost
Speaker 2: a year ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be more by committee this time around.
Speaker 3: I think I'm not going to say the offensive numbers
Speaker 3: will be the exact same.
Speaker 4: I don't even remember off the top of my head
Speaker 4: where exactly Tennessee finished in like ken Palm offensive efficiency,
Speaker 4: but I believe it was top twenty, top twenty five,
Speaker 4: and I think that Tennessee will be somewhere in that range.
Speaker 4: And if there is a drop off, I don't think
Speaker 4: it will be much of one.
Speaker 3: But it is going to look different, no doubt. This year.
Speaker 4: It's just going to be more the production is going
Speaker 4: to be more spread out. It starts with Chanslineer, the
Speaker 4: transfer from North Florida, who is an absolute bucket.
Speaker 3: There's been some.
Speaker 4: Expectations placed on him about possibly being the next Dalton
Speaker 4: connect because there were some similar stat lines coming to
Speaker 4: Tennessee from North Florida.
Speaker 3: And I mean, it would not surprise me if we.
Speaker 4: Look up in February and Chanslineer is in the thick
Speaker 4: of the SEC Player of the Year race. He kind
Speaker 4: of reminds me of Antonio Reeves, particularly last year's Antonio
Speaker 4: Reeves that was also in the SEC Player of the
Speaker 4: Year conversation until Dalton grabbed the ball by horns and
Speaker 4: ran away with it.
Speaker 3: So Chaslaner, he needs to be a big piece to
Speaker 3: the puzzle.
Speaker 4: That's why he was brought in that that's why Kentucky
Speaker 4: wanted him, That's why Byu was willing to spend big
Speaker 4: for him. I believe cal was trying to get him
Speaker 4: to visit Arkansas as well. He could have gone pretty
Speaker 4: much anywhere in the country and he elected to come
Speaker 4: to Tennessee.
Speaker 3: So he has to be a big piece to the puzzle.
Speaker 4: You have Zekai Ziegler, who is arguably the best point
Speaker 4: guard returning in the country. I know Rick Barnes will
Speaker 4: not trade him for any other point guard in the
Speaker 4: country because of, yes, his skill set, but also the intangibles.
Speaker 4: Zakai is as good of a leader as you are
Speaker 4: going to find, and as a pitbull on the floor.
Speaker 3: You have Jami Mayshacht coming back.
Speaker 4: You picked up Felix doc Para from Ohio State who
Speaker 4: was a great rim protector, and I think he surprised
Speaker 4: them more offensively than they thought he would or would
Speaker 4: be able to provide more offensively, So you have the
Speaker 4: makings of a nice offensive unit. You brought in Igor
Speaker 4: milichis junior from Charlotte. He's a very versatile four, modern
Speaker 4: day four that can stretch the floor.
Speaker 3: And you have some intriguing young pieces and.
Speaker 4: Cameron Carr JP Astrello that Tennessee needs to take the
Speaker 4: next step as well. So I don't know that they
Speaker 4: had that piece yet, especially given it's early in the season.
Speaker 3: Like Dalton connect that's just gonna take.
Speaker 4: The game over and rip off fifteen twenty straight points
Speaker 4: and win you the game. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 4: more of a group effort, and as Rick Barnes likes
Speaker 4: to do. He likes to hang his hat on the
Speaker 4: defensive end because he believes that's the one thing that
Speaker 4: you can.
Speaker 3: Trust night in night out.
Speaker 4: Even the best shooting teams are gonna have off night
Speaker 4: shooting the basketball, but if you don't have an off
Speaker 4: night defensively, you're gonna have a chance to win every
Speaker 4: single game that you play.
Speaker 3: So I think they'll be.
Speaker 4: In that fringe top twenty five range of offensive efficiency
Speaker 4: while maintaining the defensive standard, and that's being one of
Speaker 4: the best defenses in the country, and that should lead
Speaker 4: the way for this Tennessee team.
Speaker 2: Now, obviously, a lot of Louisville is completely built from
Speaker 2: the portal. I mean, Pat Kelsey had to build a
Speaker 2: team from scratch, and it looks as if he's done
Speaker 2: a pretty good job at that thus far. But obviously
Speaker 2: we'll find out where Louisville is tomorrow. Sin could be
Speaker 2: said about Tennessee. They're also relying on the portal, not
Speaker 2: as much. But you mentioned a handful of names, darling Ston, Dobar,
Speaker 2: am I saying that correctly? Is he is he expect
Speaker 2: I know he's dealing with some personal stuff. Rick Barnes
Speaker 2: talked about that earlier this week after the season opener.
Speaker 2: Is there any update on his availability his status? Is
Speaker 2: he expected to be with the team tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Darling Stone?
Speaker 4: So you were very close, Okay, close enough, right, I
Speaker 4: was right there with you when we were going through
Speaker 4: the portal stuff. He will not play tomorrow, Okay. He
Speaker 4: is dealing with a a personal matter. There was no
Speaker 4: formal update given, but I watched practice today and he
Speaker 4: was once again in team issued gear, sitting on the bench,
Speaker 4: watching from the sidelines. So I would be absolutely stunned
Speaker 4: if he played tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, he was somebody that you don't know
Speaker 2: what you're missing until you actually see it. He's yet
Speaker 2: to really do a whole lot. I know he played
Speaker 2: briefly in one of the charity exhibition games, but wasn't
Speaker 2: he somebody that as far as production from the portal,
Speaker 2: I mean, he was viewed to be a potential big
Speaker 2: piece for coach Barnes.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And we'll see what happens with this personnel matter.
Speaker 3: It is non basketball related.
Speaker 4: So we'll see when he is able to get back
Speaker 4: on the floor. Tennessee has said that it's kind of
Speaker 4: up to him on when he wants to get back
Speaker 4: out on the floor. So there is still hope, assuming
Speaker 4: that he returns to play, that that he can be
Speaker 4: a piece. I do think that there's more hope with
Speaker 4: chas Lanier, with Igor and Milicic, with Felix Aunt Para
Speaker 4: and and even before the the current personal personal situation
Speaker 4: took place, I mean, it was kind of already trending
Speaker 4: in that direction.
Speaker 3: Darling Stone was still gonna play, uh and and and again.
Speaker 4: They need him, I don't know, maybe needs not the
Speaker 4: right word. They want him to be a piece to the.
Speaker 3: Puzzle, because, like you said, he is somebody that.
Speaker 4: Can absolutely contribute. He was a lights out shooter last
Speaker 4: year at Hofstra. He plays the same position as Igor Milicic,
Speaker 4: kind of that New Age four. Maybe not as versatile
Speaker 4: as Igor, but he's again capable of stretching the floor.
Speaker 4: He's he's a bigger bodied in great shape, so he
Speaker 4: can move bodies around in the paint and score off
Speaker 4: the dribble as well.
Speaker 3: So he's certainly a piece that can.
Speaker 4: Contribute if he is able to get back out on
Speaker 4: the floor. What we're just gonna have to kind of
Speaker 4: see how this personal matter plays out. The good news
Speaker 4: is that he was kind of already probably the seventh
Speaker 4: or eighth guy right now in the rotation, and they
Speaker 4: were trying to figure out where he fits best. So
Speaker 4: it's not like it would be different if he was
Speaker 4: chaslineer and Lanier's throwing right away and probably gonna play
Speaker 4: twenty five to thirty minutes, if not more, then that
Speaker 4: would be a bigger.
Speaker 3: Issue for Tennessee. But he was still trying to find
Speaker 3: his footing as is with a.
Speaker 2: Lot of new pieces with Tennessee and guys who are
Speaker 2: coming back stepping into new roles. This may be a
Speaker 2: little bit of a tough question to answer, considering it's
Speaker 2: just this, this will be the second game of the season.
Speaker 2: But who do you think is most vital? For example,
Speaker 2: you know, with Louisville's team, I'm not really sure who's
Speaker 2: going to be their leading scorer. I'm not even really
Speaker 2: sure who I would say is their best player. But
Speaker 2: I feel like Chucky hepburn with what he does as
Speaker 2: far as setting the tone defensively, a true point guard
Speaker 2: that can run your team. I feel like he to
Speaker 2: me is, you know, from what I know right now,
Speaker 2: probably one of their most if not the most important guys,
Speaker 2: Meaning if he if he was injured or if he
Speaker 2: had an off night. You know, that would worry me
Speaker 2: more than maybe somebody else because of Louisville's perceived depth
Speaker 2: at this point, who do you think is that guy
Speaker 2: for Tennessee to where he doesn't have to lead him
Speaker 2: in scoring. He doesn't really have to, you know, do
Speaker 2: anything spectacular, but what he does is going to be
Speaker 2: really valuable and you need that consistency. Again, probably tough
Speaker 2: to answer that now this early, but any thoughts as
Speaker 2: far as somebody you think that's going to maybe be
Speaker 2: more important than the stat line would show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the Guysigler and it's not even close. He
Speaker 4: is the heartbeat of this basketball team. I mentioned him
Speaker 4: earlier and Rick Barnes would not trade him for any
Speaker 4: point guard.
Speaker 3: In the country.
Speaker 4: I truly believe that, because again of the intangibles, the leadership.
Speaker 3: Quality, uh, the will to win. He just refuses to
Speaker 3: lose and he.
Speaker 2: Is and he's done it since he walked in. I
Speaker 2: mean he he's spent the same guy from the big
Speaker 2: from his freshman year.
Speaker 4: Yes, he was an undersized point guard from New York
Speaker 4: City who they added. I think it was July before
Speaker 4: his true freshman season and he arrived on campus, they
Speaker 4: thought that they were going to red shirt him, and
Speaker 4: they knew within a week that they were not going
Speaker 4: to be red shirting him.
Speaker 3: And he played.
Speaker 4: A lot of the true freshmen I believe, all the
Speaker 4: sec freshman if I remember correctly, And he's one of
Speaker 4: the all time Tennessee basketball fan favorites just because of
Speaker 4: how he plays the game, his grit, his determination.
Speaker 3: You hear in sports all the time.
Speaker 4: That you want players that had that dog in him,
Speaker 4: and in Zechai, Ziegler is the epitome of somebody who
Speaker 4: had as just a relentless motor. I mean, he is
Speaker 4: constantly going, just refuses to lose. And that's on top
Speaker 4: of him being a very skilled basketball player as well,
Speaker 4: and so he is just vital to the team from
Speaker 4: a leadership standpoint. And also he is I mean, you
Speaker 4: have your Braden Smith's up there, you Nim Hart's out there.
Speaker 4: So he's in the conversation as the best point guard
Speaker 4: in the country as is, But then they don't have
Speaker 4: a ton of point guard depth behind him, so they
Speaker 4: don't have a true point guard behind him on the roster,
Speaker 4: which you can get away with in.
Speaker 3: Today's day and age of basketball as long as you can.
Speaker 4: Have multiple guys that can handle the ball in a pinch,
Speaker 4: and they do, but losing him would just be absolutely devastating,
Speaker 4: just again because they don't have a true point guard
Speaker 4: behind him, because of his abilities as a basketball player,
Speaker 4: which are pretty dang good on top of all of
Speaker 4: those intangibles that I just talked about.
Speaker 2: All right, but only got about a minute left, But
Speaker 2: I do want to ask you this really quick. You
Speaker 2: mentioned fans. How many fans would you expect to see
Speaker 2: at the Center tomorrow? I know Tennessee's got a humongous
Speaker 2: fan base, clearly very passionate, but you guys have a
Speaker 2: football game tomorrow night at home. Are you expecting to
Speaker 2: see much orange here at the UMP Center?
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, it is football season.
Speaker 4: I'm upset that this is on a football Saturday, or
Speaker 4: at least I wish that the two teams were not
Speaker 4: playing on the same day. But yeah, Tennessee's in the
Speaker 4: make sure of a playoff spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, home football mode.
Speaker 3: I get homecoming.
Speaker 4: They're in football mode right now, especially with them being
Speaker 4: in conversation to get into the playoffs. So unfortunately, I'm
Speaker 4: not expecting as much orange in the building as there
Speaker 4: was last time when they did play that awesome game
Speaker 4: against Purdue.
Speaker 2: I understay totally interesting, man. I appreciate the time, really
Speaker 2: good conversation. Hopefully there's a good hoops game tomorrow for
Speaker 2: us to cover. But again, thank you at the time,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we can catch up down the line.
Speaker 4: Absolutely hope to see you at the building tomorrow and
Speaker 4: hope you all have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Take care. That's Ben McKee again. He works for Govalls
Speaker 2: twenty four seven covering the Tennessee Volunteers. Really good stuff.
Speaker 2: They're good, good combo and get me more and more
Speaker 2: excited for this big matchup and early marquee matchup. Here
Speaker 2: in college basketball quick Break, we'll come back and wrap
Speaker 2: up the four o'clock hour and then finish strong in
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Speaker 2: We're actually gonna have a very quick segment here as
Speaker 2: we wrap up the five four o'clock hour, But the
Speaker 2: five o'clock hours coming up five o'clock on a Friday,
Speaker 2: good vibes coming. At least, We're gonna attempt to keep
Speaker 2: the good vibes going. I'm trying to refresh here on
Speaker 2: the different different ticket resale websites like tickpic, Vivid, seat
Speaker 2: stub Hub, ticket Master, just to kind of see what's
Speaker 2: still available. And you know, there are still tickets available.
Speaker 2: But the push from I guess it wasn't really a push.
Speaker 2: It was just it was help from Rick Keeber to
Speaker 2: purchase up a certain amount of tickets and give those
Speaker 2: away to fans who wanted to go, but you know,
Speaker 2: really couldn't justify the expense because of their budget, their finances,
Speaker 2: whatever it is. I mean, it really wasn't a huge amount.
Speaker 2: I mean, anything helps, and it was a great gesture.
Speaker 2: But if you end up having a really big crowd
Speaker 2: tomorrow where you know, maybe you're just under twenty thousand
Speaker 2: or right at twenty thousand, and I have no clue
Speaker 2: what it's going to be. I'm really bad at guessing
Speaker 2: that stuff because to me, it's always sort of a
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Speaker 2: terrible at looking at a stadium or an arena and
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, oh, there's this many people here. But
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Speaker 2: people that want to see a big crowd and have
Speaker 2: the means to help those that can't afford it. You know, again,
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Speaker 2: scheme of things, it would be a sign that people
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