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Speaker 3: All right, ladies and gents, let's get it started. Happy Monday.
Speaker 3: Hopefully everybody had themselves a good weekend. I know I
Speaker 3: certainly did. I always say that. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I've ever I mean, I've had bad weekends in my life.
Speaker 3: We all have. I don't know if I ever started a
Speaker 3: week by just saying, hey, happy to be here. I
Speaker 3: had a terrible weekend. But I really mean it when
Speaker 3: I say, at this time around, my weekend was phenomenal.
Speaker 3: A lot of football really from start to finish. And I,
Speaker 3: you know, selfishly, although I don't think it's selfish, you know,
Speaker 3: want to spend time with your family, but I selfishly
Speaker 3: because I got some heat Friday for talking about how
Speaker 3: I was actually looking forward to Louisville not having a game,
Speaker 3: not because I was anti Louisville football and I didn't
Speaker 3: want to watch them play, but you know what the
Speaker 3: schedule set up to where they have a rare Saturday
Speaker 3: off in September, which I chose to embrace and think, Okay,
Speaker 3: you know, let's I don't I don't have to work,
Speaker 3: I can just watch football have fun. So I did
Speaker 3: exactly that. So hopefully you guys had a good weekend
Speaker 3: as well. But it all changes this week because Louisville
Speaker 3: back in action and they're going to be tested for
Speaker 3: the first time, and that alone has me excited. Now,
Speaker 3: they didn't play this weekend, as you know, but Kentucky
Speaker 3: did among many other teams in college football, and we
Speaker 3: certainly have to discuss what happened there because like that
Speaker 3: that had to suck, and I mean, like that had
Speaker 3: to really really suck. Because I think if you take
Speaker 3: no way, everything you know about both programs historically, both
Speaker 3: programs this season, everything, recruiting rankings, talent brand like everything,
Speaker 3: and you just watched those two teams play, you would
Speaker 3: say that they were very comparable, Like you would think
Speaker 3: that those are You know, if somebody just told you, well, hey,
Speaker 3: these are the two best teams in the country. I
Speaker 3: don't know if anybody would just believe it without knowing
Speaker 3: any information. But like if you'd just said these teams
Speaker 3: are neck and neck historically and are expected to be
Speaker 3: both in the hunt to win the whole thing this year. Again,
Speaker 3: if you knew nothing other than that, you probably believe it.
Speaker 3: But Kentucky ends up coming up short. And I actually
Speaker 3: think in a weird way that was the most Marked
Speaker 3: Stoops thing ever. And I'll get into it later, but
Speaker 3: I think what Mark Stoops did is is I think
Speaker 3: he really put Kentucky without trying. I'm sure because obviously
Speaker 3: he wanted to win. And I'll give to Kentucky credit.
Speaker 3: They were as good as Georgia for just about that
Speaker 3: entire game, and they came ready to play. They were bullies.
Speaker 3: I mean, they were impressive. Atmosphere, looked insane in Lexington,
Speaker 3: so tip of the cab. But like losing and then
Speaker 3: giving the whole well, I'm not into anytime somebody says,
Speaker 3: well not to be you know, not to be a jerk,
Speaker 3: They're about to be a jerk. Anytime somebody says, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to sound racist, they might
Speaker 3: be towing the line of saying something racist, and they're
Speaker 3: giving you a heads up, Like my favorite is, with
Speaker 3: all due respect, as I'm about to say something very disrespectful.
Speaker 3: That's what Kentucky fans.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not into.
Speaker 3: Moral victories, but let me give you a long winded
Speaker 3: rant about why I think today was a great day
Speaker 3: for my team. And again, you're a fan, you want
Speaker 3: to be positive, so like I would probably be doing
Speaker 3: the same thing if I wash you, I guess. But
Speaker 3: a couple of things that stood out to me that
Speaker 3: I want to get you later. Why this is just
Speaker 3: such a fitting scenario for Mark Stoops. It really embodies
Speaker 3: his higher tenure there, the way it played out, his
Speaker 3: decision not to go forward and fourth down, like it
Speaker 3: was actually a beautiful thing from my view. Of course,
Speaker 3: somebody who you know is a Louisville fan that doesn't
Speaker 3: want to Tucky to win. But then also this notion
Speaker 3: that like, well, now we know we're good. Yeah, maybe,
Speaker 3: or you could be like the last two teams that
Speaker 3: did the exact same thing against Georgia, the exact same
Speaker 3: thing that ended up both having losing seasons. So anyways,
Speaker 3: we'll get into that. A lot to get to from
Speaker 3: the overall weekend of college football. Certainly usually there is
Speaker 3: on a Monday, but I feel like today it's even
Speaker 3: more so the case just because Florida State, I mean,
Speaker 3: are they gonna get a new coach? Like? Is Florida
Speaker 3: and Florida State gonna be looking for a new coach
Speaker 3: in the same offseason? Could anybody have ever and this
Speaker 3: could not have played out at this point any worse
Speaker 3: for Florida State. And I'm telling you, if you felt
Speaker 3: like everybody was sitting back collectively enjoying the misery of
Speaker 3: Florida State when they went to Ireland and lost on
Speaker 3: a last second, you'll go to to Tech if you've
Speaker 3: not taken in the beatdown they took on a standalone
Speaker 3: game on national television on Memorial Day or was it
Speaker 3: Labor Day like at those tabs Labor Day to Boston
Speaker 3: College and then you see them just lose in a
Speaker 3: game to Memphis where like Memphis didn't even really play good,
Speaker 3: went into Tallahassee and still one with without really a
Speaker 3: lot of trouble, Like we're all enjoying it and it
Speaker 3: makes me I kind of feel like an a hole.
Speaker 3: But then again, like you know, when you behave the
Speaker 3: way you behave, you sue your conferences if you are
Speaker 3: superior and you can't beat Memphis at home and you've
Speaker 3: lost to two teams in the league that a lot
Speaker 3: of people think are below average for acc teams, Like
Speaker 3: it is, the satisfaction is there and I'm really enjoying it.
Speaker 3: And then also another NFL Sunday, we need to recap,
Speaker 3: and we got a game tonight, so I am excited
Speaker 3: for these next three hours. And I hope you guys
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Speaker 3: My name is Nick Coffee. I hope you guys knew that.
Speaker 3: If not, now you do. The man I'm looking at
Speaker 3: through a high definition monitor here is the one and
Speaker 3: only company Man, mister John Aldman. I can just tell
Speaker 3: that's a man that likes his football team. That's a
Speaker 3: man who's coming off of a three and oh start
Speaker 3: to the season for Indiana football. I was gonna say
Speaker 3: for the first time in like a long time, but
Speaker 3: it probably isn't that.
Speaker 2: Longs in two thousand and seven, actually really okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: usually you get a Big ten game within the first
Speaker 2: few weeks, and usually you guys, to be honest, don't
Speaker 2: win that many Big ten games.
Speaker 3: So now here they are three and oh, I mean,
Speaker 3: what a world or what world are we in? John?
Speaker 3: You got Kurt Signetti, who nobody knew his name a
Speaker 3: year ago. Now he's three and oh, gets his first
Speaker 3: victory in a big in his first game in a
Speaker 3: Big ten in Big ten action, and does it at
Speaker 3: the Rose Bowl, gets a standing oh as he's walking
Speaker 3: off the field. First of all, Indiana kind of having
Speaker 3: some swagger. That's weird to me. That's not something I'm
Speaker 3: used to. This coach has definitely changed everything about the brand,
Speaker 3: at least as of now. I mean, obviously we'll see
Speaker 3: that it's still early, but I mean you can just
Speaker 3: tell Indiana football is not carrying themselves like Indiana football anymore.
Speaker 3: And they get a big ten win in California, which
Speaker 3: just sounds weird, but here we are, so I mean,
Speaker 3: weird or not, it's got to feel good, John about them.
Speaker 3: Hoosier's baby, I'm bricked up.
Speaker 2: And you couldn't have said any of that better, or
Speaker 2: I couldn't have said any better I should say, And
Speaker 2: it's it's I'm very excited as an Indiana fan. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this, Nick, and it's
Speaker 2: probably you know, just for you know, the clicks and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, but Bill Connelly has put Indiana in
Speaker 2: his college football playoff projection.
Speaker 3: Well, so he's said that's not clicks, that's I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's going to generate clicks, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: that's why he's probably leaning into it. But that's somebody
Speaker 3: who's using a formula. He's not doing it based off opinion,
Speaker 3: which you know, I guess it depends on how you
Speaker 3: want to look at it. But Bill Connelly is one
Speaker 3: of the most respected analytic guys in sports. So I
Speaker 3: mean Indiana again, starting three and zero, if you wanted
Speaker 3: to be like a Debbie downer, like, if you wanted
Speaker 3: to be a hater, you could say, well, look who
Speaker 3: they beat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, and a lot of people think that
Speaker 2: this UCLA team might be complete garbage and they might be.
Speaker 3: All you did was go and show people that they're garbage,
Speaker 3: Like that's all you can do. And that's why for
Speaker 3: Indiana again, if somebody wanted to be Debbie down and
Speaker 3: act like, oh, it's not a big deal, everybody's but
Speaker 3: you know, realistically speaking, all you can do is plays
Speaker 3: on your schedule, and Indiana has beat the hell out
Speaker 3: of everybody on their schedule up to this point, which
Speaker 3: again that's not something you would want to hang a
Speaker 3: banner for. But let's be real, Indiana, they don't do
Speaker 3: that type of things exactly. I mean last year almost
Speaker 3: lost to overtime against Akron. Yeah, so you can tell.
Speaker 3: And I do feel just because it was a late
Speaker 3: night game UCLA on national television, national television, it's not
Speaker 3: that people are realistically out here claiming that Signette's gonna
Speaker 3: take Indiana to the Big Ten championship. But it does
Speaker 3: feel as if now like people are on notice. This
Speaker 3: guy may may make Indiana not a football school to
Speaker 3: where they're gonna, you know, pass their basketball passion or
Speaker 3: anything like that. But Indiana's weird.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: I don't want to make this the Indiana show, But
Speaker 3: how can you have gone this long without somebody that
Speaker 3: has like legitimately changed the way people view Indiana football.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean like that they now are scared
Speaker 3: of them, but like even when Tom Allen won well
Speaker 3: and it was brief, but also like he didn't give
Speaker 3: you any kind of a factor as far as the
Speaker 3: image of the program. Like and I'm not even like
Speaker 3: Signette's not that. I mean, I don't wanna say he
Speaker 3: sounds dumb because I don't haven't listened to him. But
Speaker 3: it's not like anything crazy he's saying. He just carries himself.
Speaker 3: And man, this is getting a little too deep into
Speaker 3: the weeds. Inside baseball, as they say, you can really
Speaker 3: tell a lot about a team's demeanor, like they're a
Speaker 3: reflection of their coach. I say that all the time,
Speaker 3: and at times I feel like it does. I don't
Speaker 3: articulate exactly what I mean by that, but like the
Speaker 3: best example I can give you is when Kenny Payne
Speaker 3: put his team out there against Leanne Rimes. You know,
Speaker 3: they should have never lost the game regardless, But like
Speaker 3: I felt like what I was seeing from the players
Speaker 3: on the floor, the look of confusion, the lack of intensity,
Speaker 3: just not really dialed in. I felt like, man, that's
Speaker 3: kind of concerning. I kind of get the same vibe
Speaker 3: from the guy that's over there on the sideline, right
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey's playing a team you know, in the Bahamas.
Speaker 3: Pat hadn't coached real game yet, But I'm just using
Speaker 3: you as an example. I saw dudes diving on the floor,
Speaker 3: giving more effort in a game that didn't really matter
Speaker 3: in the Bahamas when they're up forty. Like again, doesn't
Speaker 3: mean he's gonna be a great coach, but like I
Speaker 3: can tell that his energy, his demeanor, his brand, his
Speaker 3: DNA essentially has has certainly been injected as a part
Speaker 3: of the overall culture of the program and the players
Speaker 3: on the floor with Signetty, I mean again, you can
Speaker 3: just tell this guy has a lot of confidence, a
Speaker 3: lot of belief in himself. He has a plan, he
Speaker 3: has won everywhere he has gone, and he's not overthinking it.
Speaker 3: He's look, I know I'm a ball coach, right, I
Speaker 3: know how to win. I'm gonna go to Indiana. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do what I've been doing my whole career. And
Speaker 3: the question always is does it translate? And way too
Speaker 3: early to know, like if he's going to be a
Speaker 3: winner in the Big ten long term. But I don't
Speaker 3: know how Indiana fans can't be over the moon about
Speaker 3: where they are three games in with this guy who
Speaker 3: I don't really remember the higher getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 3: Not to say Indiana fans were down on it, but
Speaker 3: like Signetti should have been a bigger attraction elsewhere, I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's one of those things where I feel
Speaker 2: like you already hit the nail on the head. Indiana
Speaker 2: has never really hired anybody who at every other level
Speaker 2: he's been at, he's been the proven winner. Every other
Speaker 2: guy they as a head coach, every other guy they've
Speaker 2: gone with is somebody that was either a first time
Speaker 2: head coach, they were a coordinator somewhere else, and there's
Speaker 2: some kind of connection, right, And it was somebody who
Speaker 2: was more of looking at Indiana as a stepping stone
Speaker 2: and they were never able to take that next step
Speaker 2: to whatever it is their actual goal was Signetti's sixty two.
Speaker 2: He may end up using this as a stepping stone.
Speaker 2: Only time will tell with that. But with him being
Speaker 2: at the age that he is and him already knowing
Speaker 2: exactly what he wants to do, this is something that
Speaker 2: Indiana could be or act. He can make this something
Speaker 2: long term for him for the rest of his career,
Speaker 2: however long that may be.
Speaker 3: And here's where if it does work out and you
Speaker 3: feel as if, you know, we're no longer going to
Speaker 3: be at the bottom of the Big Ten, we're gonna
Speaker 3: be competitive, and we're not gonna win the league, but
Speaker 3: we're gonna be competitive, and maybe every now and then
Speaker 3: we pull off a big upset and knock off you know,
Speaker 3: an Oregon or an Ohio State or something like that.
Speaker 3: But Indiana is a program that has resources like for example,
Speaker 3: Indiana where even if Signetty was there three years and
Speaker 3: was winning and consistently you know, five and four in
Speaker 3: league play something like that, that's his average record in
Speaker 3: three years. And let's say I can't even think like
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech opens up, Virginia Tech's a good job. It's
Speaker 3: a better job than Indiana when it comes to just football.
Speaker 3: Every aspect of how you would evaluate what is and
Speaker 3: what is not a good job. Everybody would say you,
Speaker 3: Virginia takes a way better job. But this day and age,
Speaker 3: with the money and you already being in the Big ten,
Speaker 3: Like why would he leave? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like again, we're getting way ahead of ourselves here, but
Speaker 3: like to your point, it's the kind of higher that, yeah,
Speaker 3: this guy may not be the rock star of college football,
Speaker 3: like a young up and coming coordinator who gets an
Speaker 3: opportunity to be a head coach and kills it like
Speaker 3: Josh hypeled it at Central Florida gets the job at Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Tennessee's kicking everybody's ass. Like that's not the path you
Speaker 3: would get from this guy just because of his age's background,
Speaker 3: But you know what, the guy can win. And it
Speaker 3: reminded me with Pat Kelsey a little bit. Not to
Speaker 3: make the comparisons Pat Kelsey in Signetti, but it's the same.
Speaker 3: It really is the same thing as far as Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: not Pat Kelcey, to be fair, he wasn't a candidate
Speaker 3: for any of the jobs that open up that I
Speaker 3: know of. Maybe his agent behind the scenes, like maybe
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey was in fact trying to get out of
Speaker 3: Charleston and he had some options. Then Lorsll of course
Speaker 3: came involved, and they were much better option. I don't
Speaker 3: believe that to be the case, but either way, that's
Speaker 3: a guy who's won everywhere he's been. He has a
Speaker 3: system in place, worked at Winthrop, worked at Charleston, and
Speaker 3: you know, now the question is will it work at
Speaker 3: a higher level. And I feel like that's clearly still
Speaker 3: a big question mark with Pack because he hadn't coached
Speaker 3: a game yet here. But when you have the portal
Speaker 3: and nil, like you have resources at places like Louisville
Speaker 3: that make it to where yeah, you know, even if
Speaker 3: there is a transition there, like he's gonna be swimming
Speaker 3: in different waters when it comes to the personnel he
Speaker 3: has to work with, is transfers or even high school
Speaker 3: kids because he's now at Louisville, So you know there's something.
Speaker 3: You know, as a traditionalist, I guess like I Signette's
Speaker 3: not a flashy name as far as you know, Like
Speaker 3: he wasn't somebody that everybody was out there trying to hire.
Speaker 3: Even when James Madison was kicking ass, nobody was out
Speaker 3: there saying, wow, just wait until somebody goes and plucks
Speaker 3: James Madison's coach. But you know what, he wins and
Speaker 3: he's showing here like that. That's why when whenever he
Speaker 3: got the job, I just kept thinking to myself, you
Speaker 3: know what, like in the end, has never like consistently
Speaker 3: been really really good in football or really ever honestly,
Speaker 3: but asking this guy who has won everywhere he's been
Speaker 3: to get them to be where they are more respectable
Speaker 3: and they're at least getting too Bowl games every year.
Speaker 3: Like I'm sitting here thinking he should be able to
Speaker 3: do that, and I don't have any concern that he
Speaker 3: won't be able to. Now getting to that next step
Speaker 3: totally different conversation and we'll see how it goes. But
Speaker 3: I was thinking of you on Saturday, man, because I
Speaker 3: know that had to be great for you in the
Speaker 3: Hoo's your nation.
Speaker 2: It was weird just because I'm not used to seeing
Speaker 2: an Indiana team just going into somebody else's stadium, especially
Speaker 2: a power for program, and completely taking it to him.
Speaker 2: Really from start to finish. I mean, there was a
Speaker 2: few times where UCLA stole back momentum for a brief moment,
Speaker 2: but Indiana always responded. And I'm just excited to see
Speaker 2: what comes next for him. Who they have next, Charlotte
Speaker 2: Biff Pogy's Charlotte diiff Pogy's going down. He is going down.
Speaker 3: They're terrible, aren't they.
Speaker 2: I think they're one and two. They played North Carolina
Speaker 2: and lost by eighteen. That's their one decent not decent result, But.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I know it was old of note there
Speaker 3: was some momentum for bif Pogy not that long ago.
Speaker 3: I think that momentum has faded a little bit. But anyways,
Speaker 3: I got a challenge for the One and Only company
Speaker 3: Man because he does a great job of keeping the
Speaker 3: show flowing with the music that decides to play as
Speaker 3: we either come back from break or exit to break.
Speaker 3: And I want him to try to find songs today
Speaker 3: that have chorus or maybe just you know, a clear
Speaker 3: message within the context of the song about a test
Speaker 3: getting tested, getting ready you know for a test, passing
Speaker 3: a test, COVID tests, that's kidding, yeah, you know, just
Speaker 3: test because Louisville is gonna be tested against Georgia Tech
Speaker 3: on Saturday, and I can't wait. Like I'm not kidding you,
Speaker 3: this is this is in a game that at any
Speaker 3: point that I look at of the twelve games on
Speaker 3: the schedule and think, man, when Georgia Tech comes to town,
Speaker 3: you better you better cancel Christmas because the city's gonna show.
Speaker 3: It's gonna it's gonna be an all. Like no, clearly
Speaker 3: in Louisville right now, it's double digit favorites. But just
Speaker 3: because of how this season is shaped up, I mean,
Speaker 3: all you can do is take care of business against
Speaker 3: the bums you've played, and then you have the week off.
Speaker 3: Because of that, there's already been you know, most teams
Speaker 3: have played three games at this point, right, so you're
Speaker 3: just kind of sitting back. Not to say these guys
Speaker 3: don't know where they stand, because I'm sure they feel
Speaker 3: great about their ability this year. And this is this
Speaker 3: is strictly from me talking as a fan, but I
Speaker 3: just want to see where they stand. And again, beating
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech in covering wouldn't really mean that here we
Speaker 3: go louis was about to potentially win the ACC or
Speaker 3: anything like that. But it's just I mean let's put
Speaker 3: it this way. Georgia Tech, we know is just so
Speaker 3: much better than who they've played up to this point.
Speaker 3: So I always say this, the games against FCS teams
Speaker 3: and G five teams, I hate them. I do because
Speaker 3: it's just, you know, to me, it's honestly, it's a
Speaker 3: waste of time. Now, you can find value within the circumstance,
Speaker 3: right like with Jeff Brom having a brand new roster
Speaker 3: with a lot of transfers on offense, especially an injury
Speaker 3: to one of your guys you were expected to rely on,
Speaker 3: and calling Lacy like you really did get some valuable
Speaker 3: reps for a lot of guys in those first two games.
Speaker 3: And you could do that without the game in Jeopardy.
Speaker 3: You could do that without thinking, Okay, can we put
Speaker 3: this back up in or? Or is it gonna blow
Speaker 3: our lead and we may put ourselves in a dangerous situation.
Speaker 3: So there's value in it from like that aspect, but
Speaker 3: as a selfish fan, and I don't think it makes
Speaker 3: me selfish, but like I know, I'm not. I know
Speaker 3: a lot of people don't agree with me on this.
Speaker 3: I want to know where my team stands every time
Speaker 3: I get to see them play. They only get twelve
Speaker 3: games in the regular season, and to me, like maybe
Speaker 3: it's just the basketball nerd, and me like, twelve is
Speaker 3: not enough for me. You could actually get through a
Speaker 3: twelve game season and beat the teams you're supposed to beat,
Speaker 3: lose to the teams you're supposed to lose to, and
Speaker 3: in a twelve game sample size, you don't even know
Speaker 3: if you're any good or not, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Like that's happened before, so I'm not saying that's what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen this year. And again, Georgia Tech is not
Speaker 3: some big tests to where hey, you beat them, let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and get ready to go back to Charlotte.
Speaker 3: But it's such a humongous step from where you've been
Speaker 3: as far as who you've played up to this point.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'll put it this way, Louisville fans
Speaker 3: who still think this team has a chance to be
Speaker 3: really good, and I'm one of those fans myself, Like
Speaker 3: anybody who still feels really really good about this team,
Speaker 3: you are justified in looking and you're not just being
Speaker 3: like a positive fan who's just being a homer. There's
Speaker 3: I mean, objective people still vote Louisville as a top
Speaker 3: twenty team knowing they haven't played anybody yet. Louisville has
Speaker 3: now looked at as like a potential dark horse playoff team,
Speaker 3: and everybody who puts them there knows they haven't played
Speaker 3: anybody yet. So it's not just Louisville fans who still
Speaker 3: look at things knowing they haven't been tested and feel
Speaker 3: like they've got a good team. Look, last year, you
Speaker 3: won ten games. Jeff Brom has proven to be a
Speaker 3: good coach. And the more we look at Purdue after
Speaker 3: Jeff Bram, you kidd me, Purdue got their ass kicked
Speaker 3: in a way I never expected. I mean, I knew
Speaker 3: not the name it bounce Back, but man, they could
Speaker 3: have named the score. So Jeff Brom has proven to
Speaker 3: be a good coach and he's got a good group
Speaker 3: of players that he brought back, a great group of
Speaker 3: players that transferred in. They've got depth like they've never had.
Speaker 3: On defense, I think his quarterback. I know there's still
Speaker 3: some folks that want to see what he does against
Speaker 3: a real defense. I'm one of those people as well,
Speaker 3: but I like what I've seen so far from Tyler Shuck.
Speaker 3: So again, when I talk about being tested, I don't
Speaker 3: want it to appear as if I'm doubting them and
Speaker 3: they've got to prove something to me. That's not what
Speaker 3: it is at all. I think Louisville fans and everybody objectively,
Speaker 3: I think it makes sense to view them as a
Speaker 3: top twenty team that could potentially be one of the
Speaker 3: best teams in the ACC. I just, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: feening to see them do something against a team that
Speaker 3: you know it's pretty good. Like you know, I know,
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech lost to Syracuse and that knocked them out
Speaker 3: of the top twenty five. Their win against Florida State,
Speaker 3: Let's be real, clearly doesn't look like I mean, honestly,
Speaker 3: the way they beat them doesn't even look good anymore.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not taking it away from them. Still
Speaker 3: a good win, but like Memphis and Boston College beat
Speaker 3: them much worse than Georgia Tech did. But anyways, this
Speaker 3: is a team that brings back some really good players
Speaker 3: from a year ago, and that team won nine games. Guys,
Speaker 3: Like again, I'm telling you, you know, Georgia Tech, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: didn't win nine games. They ended up finishing fourth in
Speaker 3: the ACC and I'm trying to. I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to bring too much from last year
Speaker 3: as far as numbers, because they've now played a few
Speaker 3: games to where like bringing up last year's numbers may
Speaker 3: not make a lot of sense. But again, I use
Speaker 3: george Tech as an example. After Week one, like they
Speaker 3: should have, on paper been given a much more realistic
Speaker 3: chance to beat Florida State because you know, they bring
Speaker 3: back Haines King, who has you know, throughout his career
Speaker 3: been pretty good, really took a step forward last year.
Speaker 3: You know, running back Jamal Haynes has been one of
Speaker 3: the best running backs in the ACC for the last
Speaker 3: couple of years. So, look, they got a bad taste
Speaker 3: in their mouth, I'm sure after losing a QS, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure they feel as if they can come in
Speaker 3: here and beat Louisville. Like I think they're gonna have
Speaker 3: some confidence, but Louisville's better. I think there's a reason
Speaker 3: that they're double digit favorites. But you know, all that
Speaker 3: is is just basing it off of like like, in
Speaker 3: a way, this spread for Georgia Tech, it almost kind
Speaker 3: of feels like what the spread would be if neither
Speaker 3: team had played a game up to this point, because
Speaker 3: I think if you're an odds maker, you're setting a
Speaker 3: line here, how you would you really look at anything?
Speaker 3: Like if Louisville was in trouble against these teams they
Speaker 3: played Austin p and Jacksonville State, then yeah, maybe you
Speaker 3: would think, Okay, you know they won, but man, they're
Speaker 3: not any good. But like, this is really the first
Speaker 3: time anybody's gonna learn anything about Louisville. And I'm expecting
Speaker 3: a win. I'm expecting to do the postgame show Saturday
Speaker 3: and be talking about this team sitting with a three
Speaker 3: and zero record, and I'm hopeful that we'll be talking
Speaker 3: about a great atmosphere there. And I'm in fact, I'm
Speaker 3: a little worried we're going to be talking about on
Speaker 3: the postgame show, specifically a traffic nightmare because of the
Speaker 3: Bourbon and Beyond music festival. But hey, Louisville fans will
Speaker 3: be there and it should be awesome. All right, quick
Speaker 3: break what we'll do on the other side, We'll we'll
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Speaker 3: so again, film lines are open. We'll get at the
Speaker 3: text line as well. But with Mark Stoops, it's not
Speaker 3: even a backhanded compliment when I say this, because again,
Speaker 3: that was impressive to come off an embarrassing, embarrassing performance
Speaker 3: against South Carolina and have your team ready to go
Speaker 3: against the best team in the country. But the way
Speaker 3: it all played out is such a Mark Stoops Kentucky
Speaker 3: kind of thing, which has Kentucky fans not knowing what
Speaker 3: to think about their coach, not knowing what to think about,
Speaker 3: like where are we what's the you know? So anyways,
Speaker 3: we'll get to that in a lot more certainly a
Speaker 3: lot to get to from the NFL on Sunday, as
Speaker 3: we have our first starting quarterback that's been benched, a
Speaker 3: guy that if his career is not resurrected, maybe you
Speaker 3: throw him in the conversation as biggest bust of all time.
Speaker 3: We're getting a way ahead of ourselves here, and I
Speaker 3: can't say I've seen anything from Bryce Young that tells
Speaker 3: me he's gonna be a okay, But like there's actually
Speaker 3: been a nice trend in the NFL in recent years,
Speaker 3: especially this year, of quarterbacks who have in fact, you know,
Speaker 3: found their way back if you will. Baker Mayfield, Gino Smith,
Speaker 3: Sam Darnold, all right to go anywhere? Quit ye when
Speaker 3: we got to get to a break. It's coffee and company.
Speaker 3: Feel about Thortons right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: So from here on out, we'll see what John can do.
Speaker 3: Can he deliver songs that have any level of like
Speaker 3: context about a test? Initially when I thought, hey, that'll
Speaker 3: be something easy for him to do, I mean, I
Speaker 3: didn't do any research on my own, but I can't
Speaker 3: really think of any songs off the top that like
Speaker 3: are known songs.
Speaker 2: But hey, he didn't have to be a radio tough
Speaker 2: it'll be tough. This could even kind of be included
Speaker 2: because you got to get through the week. You gotta
Speaker 2: get through the Monday, right, that's just the first test
Speaker 2: of the week, that's right, no doubt about it. So
Speaker 2: text line is active is active so far, which we're
Speaker 2: going to get to in just a second. But there
Speaker 2: are a couple of people that got in over the
Speaker 2: weekend that like felt that Colorado State losing to Colorado
Speaker 2: was like a statement like I was, like, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a game they were still favored to win and
Speaker 2: was supposed to win, and we'll see what they do
Speaker 2: the rest of the year. I mean, but that reaction
Speaker 2: like doing what you're supposed to do and beating a
Speaker 2: team you're sposed to beat and then having the type
Speaker 2: of reaction that Shiitor Sanders had after the game, and
Speaker 2: the way you know, people I guess are so sensitive
Speaker 2: Dion to where they think to text in on a
Speaker 2: Saturday after Colorado wins to this show to like put
Speaker 2: it in my face. I mean that it's to me,
Speaker 2: it's very telling, Like are you saying that, like if
Speaker 2: they just beat the teams are supposed to beat and
Speaker 2: lose to the teams that they're clearly not as good
Speaker 2: at like they're gonna there probably five and seven, and
Speaker 2: which you still feel as if like that was good.
Speaker 3: I mean. Anyways, it is Coffee and Company, and we
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Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. Don't forget We've
Speaker 3: got you covered for all the game day coverage on Saturday,
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Speaker 3: Nice to have a week off, but man, I'm excited.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see really just where Louisville stands.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: A win, even if it's in dominant fashion. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's all you can do. That's the best case scenario, right,
Speaker 3: But I don't want to make it seem as if
Speaker 3: like there's a lot on the line here. I mean,
Speaker 3: anytime you've got a conference game, there's a lot on
Speaker 3: the line, especially when you feel like you are a
Speaker 3: team objectively that could find yourself playing for the championship
Speaker 3: of this conference. So there's value there. But really, you know,
Speaker 3: going on the road to Notre Dame next week is
Speaker 3: where I feel like you've got a chance. Even though
Speaker 3: they had their loss to Northern Illinois. I mean that
Speaker 3: game is a statement opportunity, not quite like it was
Speaker 3: prior to the Northern Illinois upset, but still, you know,
Speaker 3: names is a tough place to win in Northern Illinois.
Speaker 3: Being able to do it doesn't mean that anybody can
Speaker 3: just go in there and win this year, and it'll
Speaker 3: be tough for Louisville. So anyways, got to get past
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Speaker 3: pretty good about three picks I've got for Eagles players tonight,
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Speaker 3: with the Eagles, but with the Falcons, I have no clues.
Speaker 3: I'll do a little more research before we give those
Speaker 3: out a little later on in the show. Again, that
Speaker 3: is tonight's Monday Night Football action. I love Monday Night football,
Speaker 3: even though I feel like at times the games usually
Speaker 3: aren't that great. But hey, it's like the last football
Speaker 3: you get for two days, so you got to you
Speaker 3: gotta make sure and really, you know, soak it all
Speaker 3: in cause you get Tuesday off, Wednesday off, and then
Speaker 3: of course we're back at it on Thursday and it's
Speaker 3: and it's a beautiful thing when it's football season, all right.
Speaker 3: So again, if you are just not joining us, I
Speaker 3: give Kentucky nothing that it means anything to them, but
Speaker 3: I give him credit. You think they feel better knowing
Speaker 3: that John Mann, we didn't we didn't win, but Man,
Speaker 3: Nick Coffee gave us some credit, so I can, I can,
Speaker 3: I can feel better about that. Like I'm aware that
Speaker 3: me giving credit means nothing, but I just want you
Speaker 3: to know that that it is sincere. When I say that,
Speaker 3: I mean I'm happy, like hell, you lost, and I
Speaker 3: was worried. I was sweating it out, thinking I was
Speaker 3: gonna have to talk about the biggest upset at Kentucky
Speaker 3: football history on the show today. Instead, I'm talking about
Speaker 3: how you didn't do that, especially the week after we
Speaker 3: were basically trashing them the entire week. Yeah. But and again,
Speaker 3: this is not and I told you so because nobody,
Speaker 3: myself included, predicted that thing to play out the way
Speaker 3: that he did. But I wanted to be able to
Speaker 3: tell you that I think Kentucky's lousy, but I couldn't.
Speaker 3: They have good players, man, like they do. I don't
Speaker 3: know how good their quarterback because I still think it's
Speaker 3: really tough to know. He's a tough kid who'll get up,
Speaker 3: he'll take off and run. But as far as like
Speaker 3: his ability to go vertical and really just exploit a
Speaker 3: defense with his arm, I don't know if he can
Speaker 3: do that or not. But he is tough. And you
Speaker 3: know they're down to two scholarship running backs. That kid
Speaker 3: who came in who is a transfer from NC State,
Speaker 3: I don't think he got much carries at all last
Speaker 3: year and now he was thrown in there against Georgia
Speaker 3: played really well. I mean they're guys on defense. I
Speaker 3: mean they got some studs defensively. I mean Deon Walker.
Speaker 3: I mean that guy's getting double teamed every single play
Speaker 3: because that's how impactful he is. We know the skill
Speaker 3: position guys like Dame Key and Barry and Brown have
Speaker 3: a lot of talent. So you know, I do believe
Speaker 3: that if they played South Carolina ten times, you probably
Speaker 3: wouldn't get the result of thirty two or thirty one
Speaker 3: to six. Again, they'd probably still lose some of those games,
Speaker 3: but like that was an outlier, but still it's concerning.
Speaker 3: And you know, nobody was expecting them to come out.
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought they might just completely lay down
Speaker 3: if they got smacked in the mouth early on and
Speaker 3: they didn't again, Atmosphere and Lexington was insane. I mean,
Speaker 3: at least it looked like that on TV. I don't
Speaker 3: even know what the crowd was. I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: know if it was a sellout or not. I know
Speaker 3: on their pregame show, they were discussing on the KASR
Speaker 3: pregame show that they were a little worried that that
Speaker 3: maybe forty percent Georgia fans, and they didn't seem to
Speaker 3: be the case at all. So you know, they came
Speaker 3: out back against the wall, which really that's that's when
Speaker 3: they're at their best. Like they Mark Stoops, his team's
Speaker 3: just always seem to be in the best situation when
Speaker 3: they are doubted and they truly embrace that nobody's giving
Speaker 3: them a chance. And what's weird about some of Stoops's teams,
Speaker 3: I think, just like their fan base, they also have
Speaker 3: not really had had a lot of They've never really
Speaker 3: been able to deal with the success. Right, So, like,
Speaker 3: wouldn't shock me at all if they come out against Ohio, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, I don't maybe Ohio's really bad, do
Speaker 3: you know, John, I'm gonna look it up. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you've been checking on the MAX standings this year.
Speaker 2: And the only thing i Ohio is that Indiana's current
Speaker 2: quarterback was from Ohio University.
Speaker 3: Of course, okay, I didn't know that. So right now,
Speaker 3: Ohio is two and one. They did have a close
Speaker 3: loss to Q's and then they beat South Alabama and
Speaker 3: then they beat Morgan State this past weekend. So Kentucky
Speaker 3: will probably win in our big favorites, but like if
Speaker 3: they end up like in if it's close in the
Speaker 3: third quarter early on, like, that would kind of be
Speaker 3: just par for the course. As far as how Mark
Speaker 3: Stewis's teams have operated, right, I mean, they were down
Speaker 3: to Eastern Kentucky at halftime last year. I think it
Speaker 3: might have been down in the fourth quarter. Actually maybe
Speaker 3: I'm wrong about that, but that's just kind of what
Speaker 3: they do. So when they start to feel themselves, that's
Speaker 3: when they kind of slip up and lose it home
Speaker 3: to Vandy. Right, that's happened. But when they are us
Speaker 3: against the world, chip on the shoulder, nobody's given us
Speaker 3: their respect. He does put a pretty good team on
Speaker 3: the field, and that's what happened on Saturday. I mean,
Speaker 3: they were physical. Georgia couldn't get anything going offensively at all.
Speaker 3: And again, if you didn't know a thing about either
Speaker 3: program historically, or what the expectations are for both of
Speaker 3: these teams, or what the vibe was surrounding both these
Speaker 3: teams before this thing kicked off, and you just watched
Speaker 3: what you saw when these two teams lined up on
Speaker 3: every snap, you would believe that those are very comparable teams.
Speaker 3: They're not, And they're not gonna be this year, but
Speaker 3: like that's a credit to Kentucky to have all that
Speaker 3: and still come up shorts. Gotta suck. But again, I'd
Speaker 3: be a liar if I said I was bummed at
Speaker 3: the result. Is what it is, what it was. But
Speaker 3: a couple things here, because again these are there's two
Speaker 3: there's two takeaways for me that that really stood out
Speaker 3: as as again a hater, if you will, somebody who
Speaker 3: was a Louisville fan, and I think I can be
Speaker 3: honest and be fair, but also like I'm I've never
Speaker 3: tried to hide that I'm I'm. I mean, when you're
Speaker 3: in this rivalry, I'd say nine out of ten of
Speaker 3: us that are within the rivalry are pretty adamant that
Speaker 3: they love their team and they love whoever their other,
Speaker 3: whoever their rival's playing. But Stoops having his team ready
Speaker 3: after such a poor performance against South Carolina and then
Speaker 3: him making the decision to punt it fourth and eight
Speaker 3: from midfield with three minutes left in the game, down
Speaker 3: one to Georgia, the number one team in the country,
Speaker 3: Like that's such a Mark Stoops thing to kind of
Speaker 3: take away, Like I still think they're doing the moral
Speaker 3: victory thing. And honestly, as much as I'd love to
Speaker 3: make fun of that, and I kind of already have,
Speaker 3: like most fans would, like that's one of the biggest
Speaker 3: lies we tell ourselves that we're not into moral victories.
Speaker 3: Not every loss is the same right now, not every
Speaker 3: I mean not every win is the same. That every
Speaker 3: loss is the same like moral victories. I don't know
Speaker 3: when it became a thing to where you couldn't accept it,
Speaker 3: like you can just say, yeah, we lost and it sucked,
Speaker 3: but I'm choosing to take some positives from it, and
Speaker 3: I still feel pretty good about my team. I don't
Speaker 3: think there's anything wrong with doing that. But if you
Speaker 3: do that, people will point at you and say moral victory,
Speaker 3: moral victory, you're a loser, like you know whatever. But
Speaker 3: him doing that, and it kind of taking a lot
Speaker 3: of the attention away from the fact that they were
Speaker 3: right there, toe to toe with the best team in
Speaker 3: the country, Like that's such a Mark Stoops kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And also, he didn't play to win. He did not
Speaker 3: have the a he did not have the balls if
Speaker 3: you will, to go forward on fourth and eight, and
Speaker 3: yet he was fine. And I hate saying this because
Speaker 3: this is where it does get look like I I
Speaker 3: know he wanted to win, but I think Mark Stoops
Speaker 3: is probably dare I say, somewhat content knowing that he
Speaker 3: made that decision and they're just gonna lose clothes and
Speaker 3: everybody's gonna be able to sit back and say, damn,
Speaker 3: good job Kentucky. I mean, you're Kentucky and they're Georgia,
Speaker 3: and you you almost had a chance to beat them,
Speaker 3: Like him not having the stones to go for it.
Speaker 3: It's almost as if like he's reminding you know, guys,
Speaker 3: you can cry after the South Carolina loss. I told
Speaker 3: you to pony up last year and you did. You
Speaker 3: can claim you want John Summer all in here after
Speaker 3: we get busted by South Carolina. But here's what I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do. I'm gonna go out there, put a good
Speaker 3: team on the field to compete with the number one
Speaker 3: team in the country, and we're gonna come up shore
Speaker 3: and you're gonna like it, and you're gonna be okay
Speaker 3: with it because we're Kentucky. And I need to remind
Speaker 3: you that, like, we don't win these games, but if
Speaker 3: we get close, you should celebrate it. Because before I
Speaker 3: was here you didn't do this, You didn't win these
Speaker 3: kind of games. Like I know, deep down he wanted
Speaker 3: to win, but he's still, I think at times in
Speaker 3: these situations kind of coaches in a way that Kentucky's
Speaker 3: always viewed themselves as a fan base and they want
Speaker 3: to take the next step forward. They want to I mean,
Speaker 3: they had literally quite literally nothing to lose, and I
Speaker 3: get go like, if they would have gone forward on
Speaker 3: because here's the counter. If they go forward on fourth
Speaker 3: and eight and they don't get it, who's mad at Stoops? Like,
Speaker 3: who's mad at Stoops? Honestly? If they go for it
Speaker 3: and they don't get it, I mean, the game's over.
Speaker 3: But like you at least tried. I mean, I what
Speaker 3: was your best case scenario there? Punting in a way
Speaker 3: probably what played out, to be honest with you. I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess they did end up getting that first down
Speaker 3: because of the fumble that they didn't recovered, which was
Speaker 3: a bad break for Kentucky, but you know, those kind
Speaker 3: of things happen. So it was just a really weak move,
Speaker 3: and you know, you know, it seemed as far as optics,
Speaker 3: like just the absolute safest thing for you to do
Speaker 3: to avoid you know, because if you go for it
Speaker 3: on fourthen and you don't get it, yeah yeah, Like
Speaker 3: technically you tried and you came up short, but you
Speaker 3: didn't even try. You punted it away and just said, look,
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens here. Hopefully we can get some stops.
Speaker 3: And look, your defense was doing the damn thing. But
Speaker 3: like fourth and eight, midfield down one to Georgia, three
Speaker 3: minutes left, your kicker's been on fire. You really need
Speaker 3: one first down to be in go ahead field goal
Speaker 3: range with that kicker that looked pretty good, stoops, punts
Speaker 3: it away and gets it back with nine seconds left
Speaker 3: on his own twenty five, And that was the most
Speaker 3: likely result. Like if you crunch the numbers, analytics, and
Speaker 3: I know some coaches fear analytics, they don't want to
Speaker 3: have to rely on that kind of stuff. Whatever, Like,
Speaker 3: everybody's got their own preferences. I don't think if you
Speaker 3: if you're somebody that does not lean into analytics as
Speaker 3: much as the coach who's super analytically driven, I don't
Speaker 3: think that means that you are anti and that you
Speaker 3: hate it. Just everybody's got their own preference. But still
Speaker 3: there's no way to crunch that scenario and play it
Speaker 3: out and think this is the this is the right
Speaker 3: thing to do. And I mean it just like I could.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm watching the game, I'm a recliner, my
Speaker 3: kids have just fallen asleep, and I'm watching the end
Speaker 3: of this game. But I feel like I could feel
Speaker 3: the groaning from Kroger Field because fans were just like,
Speaker 3: what do we like? What do we do? We got
Speaker 3: nothing to lose here. I mean, you could get you
Speaker 3: could get a PI. I mean, heck, that's how the
Speaker 3: Bengals ended up losing to the Chiefs yesterday, a late
Speaker 3: PI that bailed Kansas City out. So it it is
Speaker 3: such a Mark Stoops way to kind of go about it,
Speaker 3: because again, I don't want to say that he's always
Speaker 3: like played scared, but like he's so conservative offensively, and
Speaker 3: this was a scenario that it wouldn't even be It's
Speaker 3: not like he decided to let his hair down, unbutton
Speaker 3: up his shirt. By going forward in that situation. It
Speaker 3: wouldn't be like, oh, wow, this conservative coach has really
Speaker 3: decided to go against what he's always done. No, nobody
Speaker 3: would have viewed it that way. They would have said, yeah,
Speaker 3: four it's fourth and a three minute it slept against
Speaker 3: number one Georgia. You're a first down away from putting
Speaker 3: this kicker in field goal range, and you didn't have
Speaker 3: the stones to do it. And even if you did
Speaker 3: trust your defens which you should, your defense was playing
Speaker 3: really well. That just was that just no way that
Speaker 3: should you know, it's a safer move. But like the
Speaker 3: likelihood of you actually giving yourself a chance to win
Speaker 3: was to go forward on fourth down, get in field
Speaker 3: goal range and win it by putting it back. Technically
Speaker 3: you could have still given yourself a chance to win.
Speaker 3: But man, you made it a lot hard. And by
Speaker 3: the way, you think you're gonna direct like you have
Speaker 3: a better shot of getting that fourth down then you
Speaker 3: do even getting back to the position you were at.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, what's the chances you
Speaker 3: even getting that close again if you get the ball
Speaker 3: back on your own twenty five, which they did. So anyways,
Speaker 3: we gotta get to a qui break. We'll come back
Speaker 3: on the other side. It's coffee and company. We are
Speaker 3: feel about Thornton right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: It's the title of this one, John. The title is
Speaker 3: fight test by the band The Flaming Lips. Okay, are
Speaker 3: you familiar with them? I'm familiar with the band.
Speaker 2: I don't listen to a lot of their music, but
Speaker 2: I've never heard this song before.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've heard the name of the band,
Speaker 3: but I'm not familiar with the song. But the reason
Speaker 3: he is playing this song is because I've challenged him
Speaker 3: to find songs for the rest of the show that
Speaker 3: have some type of theme, including a test or being tested,
Speaker 3: because Louis all football is going to be tested. And
Speaker 3: I'm already kind of not regretting doing this, but like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to make it seem as if if
Speaker 3: you pass this test stole my goodness. This changes everything.
Speaker 3: But I just I have such envy that you haven't
Speaker 3: really been tested at all, and here we are midway
Speaker 3: through September. I mean, it's it's kind of crazy thing.
Speaker 3: When this thing kicks off on Saturday, which will be
Speaker 3: the twenty first, I mean, you'll be a month end
Speaker 3: of the season and you know, just fans myself, you know,
Speaker 3: and maybe people don't care. I mean, it's anything to
Speaker 3: do about it, you know, I can use players on
Speaker 3: your schedule, but just not having any test up to
Speaker 3: that point. It's just rare. And that's why, you know,
Speaker 3: I love an opener that is kind of like Georgia
Speaker 3: Tech like it was last year, just because even though
Speaker 3: you know it's not the best team you're going to play,
Speaker 3: it at least gives you some level of takeaway, an
Speaker 3: opportunity to learn about your team. If there's anybody who
Speaker 3: hates the bye week in week three as much as
Speaker 3: Jeff Bram, I'd love to see him because you could tell.
Speaker 3: And jeffs con and it wasn't like he was animated
Speaker 3: or anything like that, but he made it quite clear
Speaker 3: when asked about it following the win against Jacksonville State,
Speaker 3: and he reiterated it today that you know, not only
Speaker 3: does he want to play every week, coaches don't like
Speaker 3: bye weeks, man, they like rhythm, and that makes total sense,
Speaker 3: but you know, to have it this early, especially when
Speaker 3: you've had those kind of games, I'm sure he's eager
Speaker 3: to see where his team stands more than anything. But
Speaker 3: the Bram effect is still in play here, and what
Speaker 3: I mean by that is, you know, Louisville is getting
Speaker 3: still Louisville despite it not being tested at all. They're
Speaker 3: still they're getting respect. I mean, I think that respect
Speaker 3: can quickly be gone out the window if they don't
Speaker 3: play well and take care of business against this Georgia
Speaker 3: Tech team. However, I mean, they're still viewed as a
Speaker 3: top twenty team by just about everybody. And you know,
Speaker 3: I'd say that speaks to the fact of what Jeff
Speaker 3: did last year in year one, and people just believe
Speaker 3: that he's a good coach and he's proven that. All right,
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Speaker 3: we'll get to the top of the hour here. Two
Speaker 3: more hours to go in, a lot more to get into,
Speaker 3: certainly a lot more to react to from the weekend
Speaker 3: with college football, I mean Florida State, I mean I
Speaker 3: love it. I love it, and I know what most
Speaker 3: people do as well. Couldn't have worked out worse for
Speaker 3: him up to this point Florida. We knew Florida was
Speaker 3: going to be bad this year, but seeing how things
Speaker 3: have continued to play out for Billy Napier. You gotta
Speaker 3: wonder if he does actually become the first coach this
Speaker 3: year to get to get fired. Wouldn't be a shocker
Speaker 3: by any means. So again, we'll keep it rolling along.
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