Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety. Holy crap, I don't know who
Speaker 1: the hell we think when we.
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Speaker 1: but they're really not. Who's the kid here? Who's the
Speaker 1: kid here? Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee?
Speaker 1: Are we allowed to say that college football season is here?
Speaker 1: I mean no games have been played just yet, but
Speaker 1: I feel like we can say it. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: game week for a handful of teams. Week zero is here.
Speaker 1: We still have to wait a little while longer than
Speaker 1: you know, the Week zero fans do, but we're getting
Speaker 1: closer and that has me excited. So let's get it started.
Speaker 1: It's a Monday. Hopefully everybody had themselves a good weekend.
Speaker 1: Welcome in Coffee and Company, Fueled by Thornton's here on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety. My name is Nick Coffee. I
Speaker 1: hope you knew that. If not, now you do. The
Speaker 1: company man, Mister John Alden is alongside today. I know,
Speaker 1: I didn't forget his name. I just wanted to have
Speaker 1: that slight pause there, just to kind of build up
Speaker 1: the anticipation, make it a little more dramatic. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: So we're here with you like we always are from
Speaker 1: three to six. So stick around, make yourself at home,
Speaker 1: get comfortable again. I'm saying it. Not sure if it's
Speaker 1: triggering people, if it's making them upset, but I'm saying it.
Speaker 1: College football season is here. It's here, I mean kind
Speaker 1: of we got games to look forward to this upcoming weekend,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna bet on him and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: some fun. In fact, I'm a little jealous of the
Speaker 1: week zero games, meaning like I think Louisville would benefit
Speaker 1: from having a week zero game. I don't think any
Speaker 1: of the local teams, Louisville, Kentucky, I know, have it.
Speaker 1: I don't think in any end hasn't a week's they No,
Speaker 1: they have not. Like I it's kind of weird. First
Speaker 1: of all, I hate that they call it week zero because,
Speaker 1: like I've heard that from a lot of people. Now
Speaker 1: I like it. I don't know what people do, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense. Zero is not a number
Speaker 1: like zero is nothing, so like it's it's week one,
Speaker 1: week one, it's week one. I mean, this is what
Speaker 1: it is. It is we want an extension of week one. No,
Speaker 1: I think you could say week what they call week
Speaker 1: one is actually an extension of week one, because week one,
Speaker 1: like week one, is this weekend. There are games this weekend.
Speaker 1: Not everybody's playing. But like, I think calling it week
Speaker 1: zero doesn't do it any favors. If you really want
Speaker 1: people to embrace that as the start of college football season, right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna always have the bigger weekend be the one after.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, like week zero is not a
Speaker 1: thing like by definite, like it's not like zero is nothing.
Speaker 1: One is is you know, a real number. So calling
Speaker 1: it week zero is is a little annoying. But you know, sorry,
Speaker 1: little astray, I heard something. Didn't see anybody come in.
Speaker 1: Somebody crawling under the studio and here grabbing some headphones,
Speaker 1: which pretty sure there's headphones in every studio, and the
Speaker 1: got two sets in here, three sets. Actually it was odd. Anyways, Uh,
Speaker 1: we're back on track kind of weirdness. So weeks, like
Speaker 1: if you look at the games that are on the
Speaker 1: schedule this weekend. I mean, the one that will get
Speaker 1: most attention is the one that features a legitimate top
Speaker 1: ten team. And I don't say, like I know for
Speaker 1: sure Florida State is going to be a top ten
Speaker 1: team when it's all said and done, but you know,
Speaker 1: they're a storyline in general. They didn't lose a game
Speaker 1: last year until they got to their bowl game against
Speaker 1: Georgia and got killed. And now they're going to play
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a true standalone, but you
Speaker 1: know they are. Are they the only ranked team playing
Speaker 1: this weekend? That is correct? Yeah, So you know that
Speaker 1: game will get more attention than the others. And it's
Speaker 1: not because just just because of Florida State. It's honestly
Speaker 1: more than anything, because you know, all the other games,
Speaker 1: to be honest, are just not good. They're not They're
Speaker 1: not very good at all. So look, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you end up with a week zero game like
Speaker 1: the SMU is it SMU Nevada that's playing it is
Speaker 1: like that's a non conference game. Like maybe honestly, what
Speaker 1: it comes down to, I would imagine is network like
Speaker 1: if Nevada is playing games at home in the non
Speaker 1: conference I believe the Mountain West CV deal is through
Speaker 1: FS one, CBS Sports now CBS Okay, there you go,
Speaker 1: So CBS Sport Like, that's probably how you would you know,
Speaker 1: you probably talk to the conference and of course the
Speaker 1: network and they determine. Okay, there's not as much competition
Speaker 1: as far as getting you know, a standalone game. It's
Speaker 1: not as crowded in week zero. So hey, we we're
Speaker 1: gonna get buried in the weeds on Saturday. Whenever you've
Speaker 1: got sec ACC, Big ten, Big twelve playing their games,
Speaker 1: why not, you know, play on the less crowded weekend.
Speaker 1: Give our chance, give ourselves a chance to have a
Speaker 1: little bit more viewership. Because you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to watch college football, if you're horned up to you know,
Speaker 1: just watch real college football, a real game. I don't
Speaker 1: have a whole lot of options. Maybe you end up
Speaker 1: with us here on CBS Sports Network. So I don't
Speaker 1: see a scenario where Louisville, Kentucky or even Indiana would
Speaker 1: have one of these games. But I would be all
Speaker 1: for it, because again, you do get a chance to
Speaker 1: like last year and it all ended up being, you know,
Speaker 1: for nothing. But you remember Notre Dame beat the hell
Speaker 1: out of was it Navy? Last year? I mean that
Speaker 1: was the Ireland game one yest year and they look
Speaker 1: great doing it. There was a lot of chatter about
Speaker 1: Notre Dame being back, you know what I mean, like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: they actually have some talent. Well, they always have talent,
Speaker 1: but man, Sam Hartman, this guy is just different. This
Speaker 1: guy at wake Forest now he was great. Now he's
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame with better resources around him, better players. Man,
Speaker 1: did you see what they did to Navy and they
Speaker 1: beat him? Let me pull it up here. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what the score was, but I know it was ugly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the score of that game last year was forty two
Speaker 1: to three. I mean, that is an ass kicking. And
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, Notre Dame Navy's you know, they're
Speaker 1: an FBS team, they're in the times, they've been respectable
Speaker 1: and kind of good. So that got a lot of
Speaker 1: chatter about Notre Dame that they typically would not have
Speaker 1: gotten because it wouldn't be a game that everybody wants
Speaker 1: to tune in and see. Now, for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame is a big brand that's always gonna have
Speaker 1: a bunch of fans watching because they have a humongous
Speaker 1: fan base. But my point is they were able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of Week zero, where there's not a whole
Speaker 1: lot of other games going on, and put up a
Speaker 1: dominant performance. It gets more attention and they got some buzz.
Speaker 1: In fact, it helped Louisville because by the time Notre
Speaker 1: Dame got to Louisville, I mean, they still had, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of buzz and people looked at Notre Dame
Speaker 1: as a legitimate playoff contender. So I like week zero.
Speaker 1: I'm choosing to embrace it also as a sports better
Speaker 1: I I find myself doing much better when there's not
Speaker 1: as many games on the board, if that makes sense. Now,
Speaker 1: it's all luck when I do win. I mean sometimes
Speaker 1: I convince myself, oh no, Nick, you did your homework.
Speaker 1: You saw something that maybe the books didn't. You out
Speaker 1: smart of the books. You knew something here just didn't
Speaker 1: make sense, and trusted your gut and you, you know,
Speaker 1: you were a sharp So that's what I tell myself
Speaker 1: to make it more fun. But at the end of day,
Speaker 1: it's all luck if I end up winning. So sometimes
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, I just kind of are here,
Speaker 1: we go let's put this parlay together. What about this game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about these two teams, but you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna trust my gut that this team's
Speaker 1: gonna be closer than what the spread is like those
Speaker 1: So now that I don't have as many games to
Speaker 1: look at. In fact, there's only two games that I
Speaker 1: know for sure that I'm betting on. Maybe that gives me,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe because I've been focused on these two
Speaker 1: more than any Again, there's not a lot of competition.
Speaker 1: Maybe that makes it to where I have some luck.
Speaker 1: But I am looking forward to to placing some wagers
Speaker 1: and enjoying some college football this weekend. So this is
Speaker 1: really I mean, I don't get the sense that there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of buzz, a whole lot of conversation
Speaker 1: taking place nationally just kind of like what this season is,
Speaker 1: but like, this is a big year for college football,
Speaker 1: not because like something crazy is gonna happen, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of change. I mean, first of all, you have,
Speaker 1: you know, seventeen teams in new conferences. Think about that.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest year of shifting around with conference realignment
Speaker 1: that's ever happened. And it's not just you know, well
Speaker 1: a bunch of Conference USA schools left to go to
Speaker 1: the Sun Belt. I mean, you've got four new teams
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten. You've got three new teams in
Speaker 1: the ACC, two new teams in the SEC. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't really know how many new teams there are
Speaker 1: in the Big twelve, but they've added a handful, right
Speaker 1: You've got you know, last year you had a bunch
Speaker 1: of newbies, and now you're adding Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado.
Speaker 1: Who else is in the Big twelve? I feel like
Speaker 1: there's one more I'm blanking on there tall Yeah, Utah
Speaker 1: leaving the Pac twelve to go to the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's like, that's a lot, man. And
Speaker 1: I think you know we're all aware, right if you
Speaker 1: follow college football or college athletics even a little bit,
Speaker 1: I feel like you are aware of just how different
Speaker 1: it's going to be. I mean, especially seeing teams like
Speaker 1: Texas and Florida playing each other or something, if they
Speaker 1: even play this year, and knowing, oh, that's a conference
Speaker 1: game now, right Oregon, they're traveling to Ohio State and
Speaker 1: it's a Big Ten game, Like it's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: we know what's happening, but I think seeing it the
Speaker 1: visual of it, and just kind of realizing, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this is a new world, Like this is just
Speaker 1: like imagine telling somebody five years ago, because I know
Speaker 1: realignment's been it's been a thing for a while. It's
Speaker 1: coming waves, it seems like. But John, you're our Big
Speaker 1: ten brother, and here you are an Indiana fan. He's
Speaker 1: a proud who's your imagine five years ago me telling
Speaker 1: you that USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington would be in
Speaker 1: the Big ten, Like, it doesn't make any sense, right, It.
Speaker 2: Didn't make sense when they announced it, you know, to
Speaker 2: confirm it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's you know, it's a head scratcher,
Speaker 1: but you know it's happening. It's here. And another thing
Speaker 1: that I've not heard a whole lot about is that
Speaker 1: we've got an expanded playoff, which is you know, everybody's
Speaker 1: talked about that, and we'll get into some of the
Speaker 1: projections that are out there as far as the talking heads,
Speaker 1: the analysts that are guessing, you know, who's getting who
Speaker 1: gets to appear in this first expanded playoff. But we
Speaker 1: lost Jim Harball and Nick Saban. I mean they're not dead.
Speaker 1: We didn't lose them, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: they don't they're no longer in college football. And Harball,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he was good at Michigan and
Speaker 1: he got a lot better at Michigan once he was
Speaker 1: able to rely on the services of Connor Stallions. But like,
Speaker 1: he's a big name within college football. He's Jim Harball
Speaker 1: and he's now gone and Saban retires, Like that's I mean,
Speaker 1: think about that, like that's Those are two of the
Speaker 1: bigger names. I mean those both those guys played in
Speaker 1: the fourteen playoff last year. Right, both those guys have
Speaker 1: national championships as coaches. So you know college football is
Speaker 1: going to be different this year. So right now, did
Speaker 1: you know with those two guys retiring, Well, Harbor didn't retire,
Speaker 1: he went to the NFL, Saban retired. Do you know
Speaker 1: how many active coaches in college football have a national championship?
Speaker 2: John, Let's see, Kirby Smart is the easy one to
Speaker 2: think of. I don't think Ryan Day has one, does he?
Speaker 1: No? Is it just Kirby Smart. There's three of them,
Speaker 1: and one of them you'd never get the other one
Speaker 1: if you think about it, you'll get it. Davos Sweeney, Okay,
Speaker 1: he has two, but that's it, just three Kirby Smart,
Speaker 1: Davos Sweeney, and Mac Brown. One went in Texas, So like,
Speaker 1: isn't that odd? Odd? Like that's that that's again honestly,
Speaker 1: it's Saban leaving that like made it to wear because
Speaker 1: hardball didn't have one until last year, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I don't know, I just feel like
Speaker 1: that's a I feel like that's a very rare thing
Speaker 1: to throw out there that in any in any high
Speaker 1: level sport, pro or college, like high level college like NFL, NBA,
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, college football, college basketball. Like how I
Speaker 1: may look into it and this may just be something
Speaker 1: that you know, nobody gives a flying rats behind about.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just my mind doing weird things
Speaker 1: because I'm wired in a weird way. I guess, Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's that's just a very random and
Speaker 1: surprising statu to people that you can there's only three
Speaker 1: current coaches in the sport that have ever done the
Speaker 1: ultimate achievement, which is winning a national championship. Like maybe
Speaker 1: I'm way off. Maybe every league in the pros and
Speaker 1: college basketball, But that's not the case with college basketball,
Speaker 1: right of course. I don't know. Maybe I'm way off here,
Speaker 1: Like Cal's got one, Rick Scott one, Hurley's got a couple. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Hurley's got a couple. Now is oh has one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: even Tony Bennett has one, right, Like.
Speaker 2: There's probably a whole lot more one offs.
Speaker 1: Yeah. College basketball, well, because look, college football is is awesome, right,
Speaker 1: I mean I love college basketball probably a little bit more,
Speaker 1: but like I love college football, and when we get
Speaker 1: to football season, I'm like, oh, this is great. There's
Speaker 1: nothing better than this. But it is one of those
Speaker 1: sports that, like there really is not a lot of parody.
Speaker 1: Like Bill self, we include him. Oh yeah, he's got two.
Speaker 1: He's the only active coach with two, isn't he? Dan Hurley? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Hurly now because he won one? And Rick of course,
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know, I still hesitate. I
Speaker 1: still like been a warble. Rick Beteina really isn't in
Speaker 1: college basketball because because he's not here, and I guess
Speaker 1: at Saint John's, I just you know, I guess in
Speaker 1: the next couple of years we'll find out. But like
Speaker 1: when he was at Iona, like I understood by people
Speaker 1: would would would start reeling off the best coaches in
Speaker 1: the game actively and not include him because you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he isn't active because he's at Iona. Well now
Speaker 1: he's at Saint John's and they've got expectations. So anyways, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just thought that was kind of
Speaker 1: a when I was looking into like the big changes
Speaker 1: this year within college football, one of those things I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, well, we lost two guys that,
Speaker 1: you know, collectively each have a championship. Saban's got a bunch,
Speaker 1: Harriball just got the latest. How many other guys And
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yeah, it's only it's only it's only
Speaker 1: as of August twenty fifth, there were five active coaches. Well,
Speaker 1: let me see here, let me pull maybe, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it was only three. It's crazy. Changes are coming here
Speaker 1: in college football, and uh, you know, hopefully it's good. Hope.
Speaker 1: You know. I can't see anything. Uh you know, I
Speaker 1: can't see the conference realignment, expanded playoff, the lack of Saban,
Speaker 1: and the lack of Horrorball doing anything to like, you know,
Speaker 1: make this college football season a great one. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we're getting closer again. I'm ready to say it's here
Speaker 1: because week zero is here and those here and they're
Speaker 1: real games, all right. So we've made it. We've made
Speaker 1: a collective decision here, Coffee and company. The decision this morning.
Speaker 1: It's that it's here. It is Okay, it's here. It's here, folks,
Speaker 1: So you're gonna hear me say that and just accept it,
Speaker 1: and hopefully you know over time if you're if you're
Speaker 1: fighting it and you're thinking, no, it's not here, well
Speaker 1: you'll learn to accept that it is here. That's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, all right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: One of the things you guys have heard me say
Speaker 1: over the years, and I'm sure I'm not the only
Speaker 1: one who says it. I'm sure it's something you hear
Speaker 1: from a lot of people. But during fall camp, as
Speaker 1: your team is practicing and probably getting burnt out of
Speaker 1: going up against each other, right, they're just ready for
Speaker 1: the season to start, just like the fans are. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, when things are quiet, that's usually a good thing.
Speaker 1: And I know, the lack of hearing about like oh wow,
Speaker 1: this guy's killing it in practice or in the scrimmage,
Speaker 1: like if you people, when people don't hear those things,
Speaker 1: they get worried a little bit at times, you know, not,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like we're hearing that everything's terrible,
Speaker 1: although we'll get to Louisville scrimmage from Saturday. But like
Speaker 1: if you may, if there's if there's newsworthy stuff coming
Speaker 1: out of practice in fall camp, and I mean something
Speaker 1: that specifically comes from practice, it's usually bad news and
Speaker 1: it's usually an injury. And that's what's happened to Louisville
Speaker 1: here with Colin Lacey, who you know, it sounds like
Speaker 1: was really starting to come on, starting to get more
Speaker 1: and more comfortable with his new quarterback, and now he's
Speaker 1: going to be out for for a while. So Colin
Speaker 1: Lacey at practice during the scrimmage on Saturday, I believe
Speaker 1: that's when it took place. He suffered a broken collar
Speaker 1: bone and the initial the initial release said that he
Speaker 1: will miss six to eight weeks. I've since heard that,
Speaker 1: you know, could be longer than that. I've heard, you know,
Speaker 1: really and you really never know, right, it just depends.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk to doctor Lurry Ben's and pro we
Speaker 1: have physical therapy at some point this week, and I'd
Speaker 1: love to get his thoughts sort of on you know
Speaker 1: what a realistic timeline is here. Obviously, you know, I
Speaker 1: think six to eight weeks was put out there because
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: they're guessing, but I would say that's probably the legitimate
Speaker 1: expectation for somebody who suffers that kind of an injury
Speaker 1: and has to go through the process of recovery. And
Speaker 1: of course, you know, playing a very physical sport to
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be tackled, but it's probably more than anything.
Speaker 1: Just all right, here's the here's the window of time.
Speaker 1: Is he going to be closer to being back sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later or is it you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of lingering, you know, maybe it's maybe it's closer to
Speaker 1: eight to ten weeks. I mean, only time will tell.
Speaker 1: We just have to wait and see. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't dance around it. Here. This sucks. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is a big loss. Now there's a
Speaker 1: part of me that can't act as if like I'm devastated,
Speaker 1: and I am devastated for the young man. Hopefully he
Speaker 1: recovers and can get on the field and have a
Speaker 1: you know, have a special fifth season of college football.
Speaker 1: But like, there is something about not really knowing what
Speaker 1: you lost. We know the production that he brings from
Speaker 1: South Alabama. I've heard nothing but good things about coldin
Speaker 1: Lacy since practice started here in the fall. Well it's
Speaker 1: not the fault, but you know what I mean, since
Speaker 1: camp started and in the spring, wasn't hearing that as much.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear anybody say, oh, this guy. Don't let
Speaker 1: the rankings fool you, because he was a top one
Speaker 1: hundred overall transfer, one of the top receivers in the portal. Again,
Speaker 1: he had thirteen hundred yards last year, seven touchdowns. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was fifth in college football last year in yards.
Speaker 1: I believe it was in sixth in receptions. I think
Speaker 1: so like this guy. I mean, he's a highly touted
Speaker 1: player that just about everybody wanted in the portal and
Speaker 1: he was a big gef for Louisville. But during the spring,
Speaker 1: you know, it just there wasn't a whole lot of
Speaker 1: buzz about him. I don't know if people just hesitated
Speaker 1: to talk about him because they weren't impressed or what
Speaker 1: it was. But you know, here lately it sounds as
Speaker 1: if he was really starting to come on. And I
Speaker 1: hate even throwing this name out there because Sky was
Speaker 1: an electrifying player. But you know, I personally had the
Speaker 1: I had the the you know, I guess the fantasy
Speaker 1: if you will that like you're going to start seeing
Speaker 1: Jeff Brahm utilized Colin Lacy like he did Rondell Moore
Speaker 1: at Purdue, and we all know that was exciting as
Speaker 1: hell to watch. So I don't want to act like
Speaker 1: this guy was going to be Rondell Moore, but you know,
Speaker 1: given the type of receiver that he is, the way
Speaker 1: he was utilized at South Alabama, like you could see
Speaker 1: that potentially happening, and now we may see it, but
Speaker 1: it's certainly going to be a little later than what
Speaker 1: we wanted because of this injury. So it sucks, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to give you the cliche, but
Speaker 1: like you know, next man up. So again, it sucks.
Speaker 1: There's no way around it. I'm not going to act
Speaker 1: like this is not concerning news because a guy that
Speaker 1: at the receiver spot, and we'll talk about personnel at
Speaker 1: that position, because obviously Jacorey Brooks comes in from Alabama
Speaker 1: and you know he was a good receiver at Alabama.
Speaker 1: He was a productive and impactful guy for that offense
Speaker 1: that you know was pretty successful when Bryce Shung was
Speaker 1: slinging it to him. So you know he's healthy, and
Speaker 1: I you know, I feel good knowing, Hey, if that
Speaker 1: guy can be pretty good at Alabama, I'd say he
Speaker 1: could be pretty good here louisll now that he's healthy. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, there's hope that Chris Bell takes a big
Speaker 1: step forward. I hope that that ends up happening. But
Speaker 1: I think Colin Lacey is of all the receivers, is
Speaker 1: the one that you know, probably fans were most excited
Speaker 1: to see, just because he didn't have a guy like
Speaker 1: that last year. Five ten shifty, really good speed. I mean,
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, Jeff Brohm knowing of course
Speaker 1: who he is as a coach offensively, he could get
Speaker 1: really creative with. So again, it's not like he's never
Speaker 1: gonna play here, but you know, this is a tough
Speaker 1: mean he's gonna be out six to eight weeks. Again,
Speaker 1: I I wouldn't even beg I wouldn't be a foolish
Speaker 1: of me to speculate that, you know, maybe he's back
Speaker 1: sooner better than later. Maybe he ends up, you know,
Speaker 1: missing more time than expected. I think it's probably just
Speaker 1: a wait and see situation. So to gain back to
Speaker 1: what I was saying is that this is no knock
Speaker 1: on Colin Lacy. But because I've never seen him play
Speaker 1: for Louisville, you know just how I'm processing it as
Speaker 1: a fan, I don't know what we're gonna miss, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it's the intrigue of
Speaker 1: the unknown. You know, you give me this guy that
Speaker 1: has these credentials, this resume, some great stats at South Alabama,
Speaker 1: and you know that everybody in the country wanted him.
Speaker 1: That's intrigued. It's like, oh hell yeah, like this is awesome.
Speaker 1: Like this guy he's gonna be after looking like Rondell Moore.
Speaker 1: Like that's the intrigue of the unknown. On a positive side,
Speaker 1: But now that you tell me we aren't going to
Speaker 1: have this guy for you know, the first few games,
Speaker 1: it's a bummer. But I can't, you know, I can't
Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, we just like we've never
Speaker 1: seen him play here. So because of the unknown, as
Speaker 1: far as how much of it really transitions, it's still
Speaker 1: a loss. But you know, it's not like when Devonte
Speaker 1: Parker got hurt. Right before he got hurt, he came
Speaker 1: back for his last season with Bobby Patrino being here
Speaker 1: for his first year, and Davante ended up missing I
Speaker 1: think it might have been like three four games. That
Speaker 1: was heartbreaking. In fact, it's funny how that How that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember I remember being at the Kentucky
Speaker 1: State Fair, I believe on a Friday night, and you know,
Speaker 1: phone starts going off, people talking, and it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker got hurt, like I think he actually might
Speaker 1: have to have surgery, which he did. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was devastating because DeVante was one of the most electronic
Speaker 1: receivers that ever played here, Like he was just a
Speaker 1: touchdown machine. And you know he preseason All American too,
Speaker 1: and he's hurt and he missed some time. But I
Speaker 1: knew what you lost there, right, Like that's a guy
Speaker 1: who you knew was a bona fide star. And not
Speaker 1: to say that Colin Lacy isn't, because he might be.
Speaker 1: But it was also at the State first Saturday when
Speaker 1: my phone started going off, people telling me, I think
Speaker 1: Colin Lacy's like really hurt, Like I think, like I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's gonna miss some time, like
Speaker 1: he might be out of the year, and then sure
Speaker 1: enough ul actually does release a statement confirming that he
Speaker 1: did break his collar bone and he's out six state weeks.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's like the one negative thing I could
Speaker 1: stay about the State Fair, Johnason, when I go to
Speaker 1: the State Fair during fall camp for Louis of football.
Speaker 1: There's now been two injuries that you know, I find
Speaker 1: out about when I'm there, and now you get PTSD
Speaker 1: thinking about it. Yeah, like I'm not going to the Fair.
Speaker 1: I can't go to the Fair the rest of the
Speaker 1: time that it's here because I can't. I can't risk it.
Speaker 1: I don't blame it. I go to the Fair till
Speaker 1: tomorrow or something. We may find out somebody else gets hurt.
Speaker 1: But again, it's pretty to me. It's a loss, but
Speaker 1: it does give you a chance to, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of see what you have. There are guys who will
Speaker 1: get opportunities, and who knows, maybe they don't make the
Speaker 1: most of those opportunities, but there are gonna be guys
Speaker 1: that get a chance to get out there under the
Speaker 1: lights against weaker competition in the first couple of weeks
Speaker 1: to kind of not try out, but like, you know,
Speaker 1: show what they can do. That maybe they haven't shown
Speaker 1: in practice, And maybe they haven't shown it in practice
Speaker 1: because they have not been getting the same type of
Speaker 1: reps because you know what, Colton Lacy's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the field when he's healthy, He's gonna play a lot.
Speaker 1: So you know, it sucks, there's no way around it.
Speaker 1: But I still trust Jeff Brom, and I think some
Speaker 1: Louisville fans are forgetting what Jeff Brom is known for,
Speaker 1: and that is being an offensive mastermind, a guy that
Speaker 1: can do more with less. Right, players who you know
Speaker 1: nobody would have expected to be really good, Jeff Brom
Speaker 1: can plug them in, make them a pro at their position,
Speaker 1: and they can go on and play in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean not to say that it's all Jeff's doing, Clearly,
Speaker 1: you know the players deserve a lot of credit too.
Speaker 1: But like I think, because last year was so weird offensively,
Speaker 1: nobody would have ever envisioned Louisville winning ten games and
Speaker 1: going to the ACC Championship with a team that was
Speaker 1: mostly in that position because their defense was really good
Speaker 1: and on offense they were good. They were balanced. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't as if you had, you know, a terrible offense,
Speaker 1: that just couldn't move the ball, but it wasn't your strength.
Speaker 1: And on offense, when you did have a hell of
Speaker 1: a day and you really felt like, you know, you
Speaker 1: had a chance to do something special, it was because
Speaker 1: the ground game. It was because you had that duo
Speaker 1: of Isaac Grindo in Juar Jordan, and you know, there, no,
Speaker 1: there was not a whole lot of tight end involvements.
Speaker 1: So like I think, you know, not that people are
Speaker 1: doubting Jeff Brown's ability to put a high powered offense
Speaker 1: on the field, but you know, I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 1: if there's a guy on this team this that like
Speaker 1: nobody was expecting to really you know, put up big
Speaker 1: numbers and I don't mean you know, all American type numbers,
Speaker 1: but like, I still think there's enough there at that
Speaker 1: position to where if your quarterback can do his part
Speaker 1: and the offensive line can keep that quarterback clean. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like it wouldn't be a shock to see
Speaker 1: Louisville's receiving corps maybe have a lead guy in Jacory
Speaker 1: Brooks and maybe Chris bell Is that is that guy
Speaker 1: night in and night out as well. You know, your
Speaker 1: two studs, if you will and then while Colin Lacy
Speaker 1: gets healthy, you know, you can lean on Antonio Meeks,
Speaker 1: you can lean on Jimmy Callaway, Jayden Thompson. These are
Speaker 1: guys who you know will have an opportunity now more
Speaker 1: so than they probably would have had Colin Lacy gotten hurt. Now, again,
Speaker 1: maybe out of the first few weeks we think, oh,
Speaker 1: let's hope that guy gets that collar bone healed quickly.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll never We won't know until we actually
Speaker 1: see what these guys do out there on the field.
Speaker 1: So again, that was me talking about how I still
Speaker 1: have a lot of faith in Jeff Brohm, But it
Speaker 1: didn't sound like after the scrimmage on Saturday, the Jeff
Speaker 1: brabm has a whole lot of faith in his offense.
Speaker 1: So he was pretty clear that defense dominated that scrimmage
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I guess it was their final scrimmage of camp,
Speaker 1: and you know, let's hear what he had to say,
Speaker 1: but not a good day for his offense. And you
Speaker 1: can choose how you want to look at that, right,
Speaker 1: Does that mean defense is going to be nasty, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think it is, or is it
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe he's just being transparent here and
Speaker 1: just letting us know. Yeah, I'm not really pleased with
Speaker 1: where we are offensively, I don't go anywhere. We got
Speaker 1: a lot more to get into. And yes, college football
Speaker 1: season is in fact here, folks, it's here. It's coffee
Speaker 1: and Company feel about Thortons right here on Sports Talk
Speaker 1: seven ninety. That's right. It is Monday here, Coffee and
Speaker 1: Company fuel about Thornton's. Mondays usually are you know, not terrible.
Speaker 1: I mean, I actually don't really mind Monday's as much
Speaker 1: as most. But you know, if you've had a long
Speaker 1: weekend or had if you had a fun weekend, maybe
Speaker 1: you're maybe you're still hurting from the weekend. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that could be a good thing because it means
Speaker 1: you had some fun. But hey, it's a Monday. But
Speaker 1: it's a Monday during college football season. We have decided
Speaker 1: that we're officially saying football seasons here, despite there not
Speaker 1: being any actual games until this weekend and it being
Speaker 1: something that they call week zero, which is actually not
Speaker 1: a thing. We're making it a thing, meaning that we're
Speaker 1: going to embrace the fact that we got college football
Speaker 1: this Saturday, and that's that's worth embracing. Especially when you
Speaker 1: wait and I feel like it takes forever for this
Speaker 1: to usually get here, and it's here to ev your weekend, John,
Speaker 1: I did. I went to the Loose City game. It
Speaker 1: was a really fun atmosphere to I heard the atmosphere
Speaker 1: there was awesome. I had a couple of friends that
Speaker 1: ended up going, and I ended up seeing them yesterday
Speaker 1: at our fantasy football draft. And you know, they I
Speaker 1: don't think they've ever been to a game at the
Speaker 1: at the stadium. I know a lot of folks, if
Speaker 1: you haven't been in recent years, then when you went,
Speaker 1: when you went before, you'd go to Slugger Field to
Speaker 1: see the team because they didn't have their own stadium
Speaker 1: for a while. But I heard it was awesome. And
Speaker 1: again I say this all the time, like it's so
Speaker 1: rare that this team, this club, I should say that
Speaker 1: was you know launched what eight nine, ten years? Ten
Speaker 1: years is their tenth anniversary. Yes, they've been good ever
Speaker 1: since they've existed, and I just you know, I don't
Speaker 1: have any data to back up like how rare that is.
Speaker 1: But more often than not, if you're sort of a
Speaker 1: startup franchise in any level of professional sports and you're
Speaker 1: kind of starting from scratch, like an expansion type team.
Speaker 1: It's going to take a long time for there to
Speaker 1: be any real expectation to be successful. They've been successful
Speaker 1: since the beginning, and it doesn't look as if that's
Speaker 1: going to be stopping anytime soon. I mean, was it
Speaker 1: that match on Saturday between the two best teams in
Speaker 1: the league in the East? For sure? Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't know about the West, but the two
Speaker 1: top in the East. I mean, I think they had
Speaker 1: well like thirteen fourteen thousand people there.
Speaker 2: Thirteen thousand, five hundred and something I think was the
Speaker 2: number they announced.
Speaker 1: I won't be a phony and act like I'm, you know,
Speaker 1: a soccer fan, but there's clearly been proof over a
Speaker 1: ten year period that this club, when they succeed, there
Speaker 1: is a healthy and strong fan base that will that will.
Speaker 1: What I do think is interesting is if they like
Speaker 1: really stunk, what would happen, Like there'd be their diehard supporters.
Speaker 1: But they've been so fortunate, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: say is if it's all luck, Like people haven't worked
Speaker 1: their ass off to make it happen, but like they
Speaker 1: don't even know what kind of turnouts they would have
Speaker 1: and really what life would look like. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean if they had a bad year where they were
Speaker 1: terrible that they would close up shop and not exist,
Speaker 1: but like clearly, when you're struggling and you're not winning,
Speaker 1: it's harder to get people to want to be a
Speaker 1: part of it, meaning buying tickets and coming out and
Speaker 1: experiencing the atmosphere and all that kind of stuff. Even
Speaker 1: if you like put it this way, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand and five hundred of that crowd, Like, what
Speaker 1: percentage would you say are casuals at best? I'd say
Speaker 1: a lott half of them. Yeah, at least you have
Speaker 1: a better likelihood of getting those kind of people to
Speaker 1: show up and show out, even if they don't know
Speaker 1: much about the sport or the team or the league.
Speaker 1: If they just know that, hey, we're good and this
Speaker 1: is our team in our city, they'll be That's more
Speaker 1: of an incentive to be a part of it, is
Speaker 1: it not?
Speaker 2: And I do think that's why a lot of Cats
Speaker 2: do come out because they've grown, They've grown to know
Speaker 2: over the years that this team is good and they've
Speaker 2: never not been good, so it's fun to be there.
Speaker 1: And I didn't really, I mean, I didn't have any
Speaker 1: way to know this because I've gone to a handful
Speaker 1: of professional sporting events and you know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the first NFL game I went to was when
Speaker 1: I was a little kid. It was when the Colts were,
Speaker 1: you know, an expansion team themselves, at least it felt like.
Speaker 1: I don't think they actually were, but that was like
Speaker 1: when Harball was their quarterback. They just drafted Edwin James.
Speaker 1: I went to a bunch of NBA. I'm not a bunch,
Speaker 1: but I went to a handful of NBA games as
Speaker 1: a kid because my dad would take me and I
Speaker 1: was a big NBA fan. But you're a kid, like
Speaker 1: you're not like I'm just I'm just worried. I'm thinking, like, hey,
Speaker 1: if I get over here when they go to the
Speaker 1: locker roomt halftime, well I'll be able to reach out
Speaker 1: and touch Reggie Miller's sweaty head. Like you're a kid,
Speaker 1: you don't think about that kind of stuff. But in
Speaker 1: the last five six years, when I've gone to NFL
Speaker 1: games or even you know, a Loose City game or
Speaker 1: a game at Slugger Field with the bats, like professional
Speaker 1: sports it's always been more of a like it's entertainment.
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to act as if like the
Speaker 1: game is a secondary kind of thing, but like in
Speaker 1: order for you to get because if you rely just
Speaker 1: on diehards only to buy tickets and go to your games, like,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have that many people, so you've got
Speaker 1: to do things to make it to wear. Okay, the
Speaker 1: casuals will come out, They'll want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the atmosphere. They'll know there's gonna be things for
Speaker 1: their kids to do while they're there. They're gonna know
Speaker 1: that there's all kinds of different options when it comes
Speaker 1: to food and beer and all that. Like that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff matters, and you see that in a major
Speaker 1: way when you go to like NFL games or again
Speaker 1: even around here, and lou City does a good job
Speaker 1: of that to where obviously it's all about what's happening
Speaker 1: on the pitch, as they say, but there's so much
Speaker 1: else going on to where you can have fun and
Speaker 1: not feel as if you're so like overwhelmed because you
Speaker 1: don't follow soccer that much, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people who hang out around the so there's
Speaker 2: a bar underneath of the jumbo tron at Loose City
Speaker 2: games at Lynn Family Stadium, and that's a lot of
Speaker 2: standing room city.
Speaker 1: You can buy that as a ticket. They're there at
Speaker 1: a party. Yeah, that's the party zone. That's where a
Speaker 1: lot of the casuals hang out and people like every
Speaker 1: fan base or every like like you need those people,
Speaker 1: like those people matter. And what's crazy just I guess
Speaker 1: it's just the cultural difference within college sports and pro sports,
Speaker 1: because pro sports, again, it's entertainment, it's a party. But
Speaker 1: you know what, so is college sports, if we're being honest.
Speaker 1: So like those casuals that show up, they don't really
Speaker 1: care where their ticket is, but they're there, I don't know,
Speaker 1: every game because they want to hang out at that
Speaker 1: bar and socialize and just you know, enjoy the vibe.
Speaker 1: There's people that do that every Saturday at Cardinal Stadium
Speaker 1: because they want a party at the party deck. And
Speaker 1: yet they're like they're they're shamed for it. You know,
Speaker 1: go to your seats. That's why the stadium looks half empty.
Speaker 1: You losers go to a bar and drink like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just we and I think college college
Speaker 1: events they're now learning we need entertainment attractions involved with
Speaker 1: the action on the field in court as well, because
Speaker 1: there's just not as much of an incentive to say
Speaker 1: you were there right like, cause again you can get
Speaker 1: with social media. You can you can be following a
Speaker 1: game on your television, watching it, following those that cover
Speaker 1: the game, the game on Twitter, and like you're not there,
Speaker 1: but you kind of know everything is going on right
Speaker 1: like I mean, so I think it's it's been a
Speaker 1: it's been a real reminder for me in recent years
Speaker 1: when I go to other pro events, even the ones
Speaker 1: that are in this town, even though we don't really
Speaker 1: have I guess racing is the only legitimate and maybe
Speaker 1: not tiers. Yeah I shouldn't say legitimate, but yeah, the
Speaker 1: highest tier of a professional sport in this country. Racing
Speaker 1: is the only team we have that is a member
Speaker 1: of that top tier league. But you know, you have
Speaker 1: to have those kind of things in place, attractions, entertainment,
Speaker 1: because if you just think you're gonna get thirteen to
Speaker 1: five out there and it's just because they'll do anything,
Speaker 1: they'll pay whatever to just be there to watch soccer,
Speaker 1: that's not realistic at all. And I'm not even picking
Speaker 1: on soccer. That's the same thing. It's like like when
Speaker 1: Louisville football was going through the Saturnfield era, Louisville wasn't
Speaker 1: terrible and you were you know, you were winning enough
Speaker 1: to go to Bowl games, and Satterfield I don't think
Speaker 1: ever gave you a fireable season as far as just
Speaker 1: results alone in one year, but you know it was well, no,
Speaker 1: not going on. Like people could easily talk themselves out
Speaker 1: of going to games when Saturfield was here, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure people will do that, you know during the bram era.
Speaker 1: But like whenever you get off to a start like
Speaker 1: he did, winning ten games in year one, and you
Speaker 1: just know the vibes are good because he's our coach,
Speaker 1: and you feel like at any moment, you know, you
Speaker 1: could see this team light up a scoreboard because that's
Speaker 1: kind of what Jeff Brohm is known for. I think
Speaker 1: that is. You know, it just increases the likelihood of
Speaker 1: somebody saying, Okay, I'm gonna make sure I get season tickets,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna make sure I get to two or
Speaker 1: three games this year, And you know, you got to
Speaker 1: be winning at a high level, putting a good product
Speaker 1: on the field to world but eat. Even if you
Speaker 1: have a really good team and it's exciting and it
Speaker 1: feels like this is a special year, it's still in
Speaker 1: your best interest too. Maybe not like cater to the
Speaker 1: casuals more than you typically would, but like you got
Speaker 1: to have something there for them because that's going to
Speaker 1: keep them more likely to again buy tickets and give
Speaker 1: you money and you know, be there to help fill
Speaker 1: your stadium. Like I don't know why. I guess there's
Speaker 1: there's so much pride and like it's such a serious thing,
Speaker 1: right if you're a member of Cardination or Big Blue Nation,
Speaker 1: is who's your nation? Thing? It is who's your nation?
Speaker 1: Like but when you say this, people like don't believe
Speaker 1: you and they think like you're insulting them. It's just
Speaker 1: the reality of sports. If Cardinal Stadium on I don't know, Saturday,
Speaker 1: what is the best home game this year? Is it? Note?
Speaker 1: Is it Miami's at Miami? Yeah? Like, so let's say
Speaker 1: you have a full sold out crowd, and I mean, like,
Speaker 1: not only do you know that they they announce to
Speaker 1: sell out, but you look around when you're there or
Speaker 1: you're on watching it on TV, and you're thinking damn,
Speaker 1: they're an empty seed in there. That is what roughly
Speaker 1: sixty thousand people. The percentage of that number that are
Speaker 1: there for the atmosphere that are there for a social aspect,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be wearing cardinal gear. They're gonna be they're
Speaker 1: gonna be into it. They know they love Louisville, but
Speaker 1: they they're not listening. A lot of these people probably
Speaker 1: listen into shows like this on a daily basis. Like
Speaker 1: they're what I would call casual fans. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean that in an insulting way, like, oh they're casual.
Speaker 1: They don't really care. They're not crying themselves to sleep
Speaker 1: at night after a Jack Plumber interception like me, Like
Speaker 1: it's not an insult, Like they have lives, like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So my point is this, if
Speaker 1: I was to tell you that sixty thousand people are
Speaker 1: there and maybe forty percent of them aren't living and
Speaker 1: dying by every snap, like people would sell no, no way,
Speaker 1: you kidd me. We have with the best fan base ever.
Speaker 1: We know everybody there, everybody there is you know, it's
Speaker 1: the religion, like it's it's their life, and like it's
Speaker 1: not like you know, it's just not realistic. We get
Speaker 1: especially this this like this here, like this is a
Speaker 1: sports talk radio show that spends the majority of its
Speaker 1: time in a three hour show every day talking about
Speaker 1: Louisville and Kentucky sports for the most part, among other nonsense. Right, So, like,
Speaker 1: if you're here with us for even a little bit
Speaker 1: every day, like you're kind of like, you know, not
Speaker 1: to call you a sick a fan, but you know,
Speaker 1: you're probably a little bit more into it than the
Speaker 1: average fan. And there's a lot of people that go
Speaker 1: to these games that aren't aren't even close to as
Speaker 1: into it as you are. And that's not a knock.
Speaker 1: Go to Alabama, I guarantee you when they have sellouts,
Speaker 1: there's more people there than you would imagine that are
Speaker 1: just kind of there because you know what, I'm a fan,
Speaker 1: but man, I just wanted this is social. Then this
Speaker 1: is a party. Like I wanted to tailgate. I wanted
Speaker 1: to take it in and it's normal. So you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have your You're gonna have your hardcore fans
Speaker 1: that are gonna be there front and center. Even when
Speaker 1: you know you have the Cragthorpe ear, the Ron Cooper
Speaker 1: era and Bobby's the end of Bobby right, even sadderfield
Speaker 1: when things weren't going great, They're gonna always be there.
Speaker 1: And then when you have more success, there'll be more
Speaker 1: people there. But when you have a special type season
Speaker 1: and the vibes are just good, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: ton of casuals thing too, and you need those you do,
Speaker 1: because I mean, you can't fill your stadium with just
Speaker 1: people who were like living and breathing every second of
Speaker 1: their life. Thinking about Jeff Brohm's next play call, I
Speaker 1: feel like Jack Plumber took astray there, didn't he He
Speaker 1: may have taken astray. Well. I cried myself to sleep
Speaker 1: last year after some of those interceptions. So let's just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm giving it to you from, you know,
Speaker 1: the perspective of being a lunatic about it, and I'm
Speaker 1: a proud lunatic about it. All right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 1: come back on the other side of wrap up a
Speaker 1: three o'clock hour. Keep the party rolling along coffee and
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Speaker 1: to ninety. As expected, the preseason accolades continue to roll
Speaker 1: in for Ashton Jilotti. He was named a preseason AP
Speaker 1: first Team All American, which gosh, there can't be many
Speaker 1: of those, meaning Louisville players that have received that honor
Speaker 1: I mean in preseason. Is not one that you know,
Speaker 1: you brag about until I mean really, I mean, you
Speaker 1: can brag about it now, and you should. I mean,
Speaker 1: Aston Jelotti has proven to be as good as advertised
Speaker 1: over his college career, but you know, it means more
Speaker 1: to be named that legitimately when it's all said and
Speaker 1: done at the end of the season. But again, that
Speaker 1: just speaks to the kind of buzz and kind of
Speaker 1: respect that he is that he has garnered in the
Speaker 1: world of college football. And again, preseason or even you know,
Speaker 1: after the season ends, there are not there have not
Speaker 1: been that many First Team All Americans at Louisville. So
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock meet all if he ends up being named
Speaker 1: the first team All American when it's all said and
Speaker 1: done once this season wraps up. And that's why Louisville's defense.
Speaker 1: We'll get into this more in the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 1: We'll let you hear what Jeff Brom had to say,
Speaker 1: because you know, he was pretty pretty direct, and that
Speaker 1: was that the defense dominated the offense and their scrimmage
Speaker 1: over the weekend, And do I think that sounds great? Not? No,
Speaker 1: I mean that's not like, oh hell yeah, because you
Speaker 1: need both to be good for you to have the
Speaker 1: type of season that's expected around here. But I also
Speaker 1: am not going to put too much into it because
Speaker 1: I still, you know, I don't know, maybe we'll find
Speaker 1: out that Jeff's just been brutally honest and he doesn't
Speaker 1: like his offense, or you know, maybe this is, you know,
Speaker 1: just coach is doing what coaches do as far as
Speaker 1: how they answer questions. And I think he was answering honestly.
Speaker 1: But I think Louisville's defense, Like put it this way,
Speaker 1: would anybody be shocked at the Louisville offense once they
Speaker 1: actually play real games against other teams, they realize that
Speaker 1: the defense that they're going up against any scrimmages in camp,
Speaker 1: are you know, the Louisvill's first string defense in these
Speaker 1: scrimmages is going to be a better defense than the
Speaker 1: majority of the defense louis is going to play this year.
Speaker 1: That's not Homer. That's not a Homer thing to say.
Speaker 1: That's just legitimate. Look at Louisville's defense is expected to
Speaker 1: do this year, especially coming off of how good it
Speaker 1: was last year. So we'll let you hear from Brohm
Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour. All right, it is coffee
Speaker 1: and company and we are feel about Thornton's here on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven to ninety. Appreciate you hanging out with us.
Speaker 1: Some awful news just south of us here, just south
Speaker 1: of the Louisville down in Hardin County. Just an absolute
Speaker 1: horrific situation earlier today that unfortunately, despite how awful it is,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody would minimize it or act
Speaker 1: like it's not as big of a deal. But it's
Speaker 1: just sad that these things don't shock you as much
Speaker 1: as they once did. And that is a mass shooting.
Speaker 1: I'm reading here from WDRB that a man wanted for
Speaker 1: gunning down three people in a deadly shooting outside of
Speaker 1: the Hardin County Courthouse earlier Monday morning is in the
Speaker 1: hospital after shooting himself in the head. And I don't
Speaker 1: does it say that he's I can't Is he dead.
Speaker 1: If he's in the hospital, then you know, assume he's
Speaker 1: not dead. But he did shoot himself in the head.
Speaker 1: It is what it says here after a police chase.
Speaker 1: So says during a media briefing Monday afternoon, Lisabeteth Police
Speaker 1: Chief Jeremy Thompson said police used flock cameras to track
Speaker 1: Christopher Elder to Western Kentucky after the early morning shooting
Speaker 1: outside of the courthouse and then one hundred block of
Speaker 1: Dixie Avenue round nine am, just before Elder was scheduled
Speaker 1: to appear for a hearing involving an EPO. Thompson said
Speaker 1: Elder opened fire outside the courthouse. He was dating one
Speaker 1: of the victims who died at the scene, and apparently
Speaker 1: that victim's mother also was hospitalized after the shooting but
Speaker 1: did die from those injuries. And a man was also
Speaker 1: shot and he remains hospitalized in stable condition. And that's
Speaker 1: according to Elizabethtown Police Department. So just to mean awful
Speaker 1: And again, like am I always get uncomfortable because I
Speaker 1: don't want to act as if like I'm hearing it
Speaker 1: in just like one air out the other, huh, Like
Speaker 1: like you know, like you're hearing about a traffic jam
Speaker 1: because of a fender bender. But like I want to
Speaker 1: live in a world where you hear that that happens
Speaker 1: and you're horrified like we are about this, But then
Speaker 1: you think, like that's only happened like once in a
Speaker 1: hundred years. Now, these kind of things just don't They
Speaker 1: don't shock you as much. Now, obviously there's going to
Speaker 1: be some real shock for folks who are more connected
Speaker 1: and close to like for example, it was much different
Speaker 1: like whenever the old National Bank shooting took place, because
Speaker 1: that's just I mean, that's right here in Louisville. I mean,
Speaker 1: and that was of course, you know, that was horrific.
Speaker 1: And that's when you realize, oh, yeah, like you do
Speaker 1: think yourself, I don't think it could never happen to me,
Speaker 1: but like you know, you don't mean you can't. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't live your life thinking any day now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the I'm gonna be the next victim in a
Speaker 1: mass shooting. Like who would want to live that way?
Speaker 1: But like if it happens, it's you know.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you one thing I think about and not
Speaker 2: to think about this. On the way to work today,
Speaker 2: somebody was really pissing me off when I was getting
Speaker 2: out of the expressway.
Speaker 1: I rarely heard you just come out and say it
Speaker 1: like that, but I like it.
Speaker 2: Well, It's just whatever we're talking about made me think
Speaker 2: of this. And sometimes I really have the urge to
Speaker 2: let the person in the vehicle that's making me mad,
Speaker 2: let them know that I'm pissed.
Speaker 1: What would you. I've learned to not do that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, give them the finger whatever. Okay, yeah, that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But for me, I feel like you have to be
Speaker 2: conscious of what if this guy is crazy and wants
Speaker 2: to chase me down when as a gun.
Speaker 1: You wear that kind of crap. I have situations that
Speaker 1: we're talking about. I'm glad you. I'm glad you have
Speaker 1: the restraint and think because I think about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not much of a competational person anyway,
Speaker 1: but like I, like anybody, I've been pissed off while driving,
Speaker 1: and I always just worry that if somebody's like erratic
Speaker 1: on the road, they may be erratic in their mind too,
Speaker 1: and like you know, you never you never know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's just just awful, you know this. I'm
Speaker 1: not bringing this up as like a political situation, and
Speaker 1: this is not about guns or anything. It's just these
Speaker 1: type of shootings in these type of you know, situations,
Speaker 1: any time it happens a hundred times or one time.
Speaker 1: It's each of each situation is a tragedy that I
Speaker 1: you know that that I could never begin to understand
Speaker 1: what family members and loved ones of those victims go
Speaker 1: through because again I've I've been fortunate to never have
Speaker 1: have that happen, but like just crazy knowing, how is
Speaker 1: it fair to I don't want to say, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say that it's common, but like it just
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise you the way that I wish it did,
Speaker 1: because it's also something that happens more than happening. One
Speaker 1: time is one time too many. But it's just I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's sad, sad stuff, no doubt. All right,
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