Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: As we've completed two of the three hours of this
Speaker 2: radio program, it is it has dawned on me that
Speaker 2: I have talked very little about what happened on Saturday
Speaker 2: at LNN Cardinal Stadium. And I'm sorry. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: could sense that that didn't seem super sincere. It's because
Speaker 2: I mean, I think people expect, well, the football season
Speaker 2: actually started, Louisville football actually played a real game. It's
Speaker 2: here they beat the hell out of their opponent, Austin
Speaker 2: P sixty two to nothing, and that and that is awesome.
Speaker 2: It's just like, I don't you know, we had the
Speaker 2: postgame show. By the way, for those of you that
Speaker 2: missed that, you could actually go check out the podcast.
Speaker 2: But again, when you play Austin P and you went
Speaker 2: sixty two to nothing, it's really just I mean, it's
Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do. Doesn't mean I can't give
Speaker 2: some accolades and some praise out there to Tyler Shuck,
Speaker 2: who was damn You're perfect. Eighteen to twenty four, two
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty two yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was sensational. Tied Nagel's record for most touchdowns in
Speaker 2: a debut performance, and he could have had a lot more.
Speaker 2: And he just you know, he's got some confidence about
Speaker 2: him that you know you would have when you're playing
Speaker 2: that well against that kind of an opponent. Obviously, I'd
Speaker 2: love to see this guy when Louisville's playing a better team,
Speaker 2: but you know we won't. We won't get there until
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech, which is, you know, not far away at all,
Speaker 2: it's next week. But my point is this, I just
Speaker 2: it's not like I'm not wanting to talk about what
Speaker 2: was encouraging. It's just when I don't really when I
Speaker 2: have a tough time knowing what to take from it, Meaning,
Speaker 2: what did we learn beating sixty two? Beating an opponent
Speaker 2: like that, sixty two to nothing. Again, it's you. It's
Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do. It's really all you can do, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, best case scenario happened, you played a bad team,
Speaker 2: you beat a bad team, very very badly, sixty two
Speaker 2: to nothing. But I guess, just because for me, it's
Speaker 2: it's I guess it's just when I know that it
Speaker 2: didn't really tell me if Louis what was gonna be
Speaker 2: as good this year as I want him to be. Like,
Speaker 2: it's just hard for me to just give you, you know,
Speaker 2: fake reaction and just you know, yap about I mean,
Speaker 2: I could give you a bunch of numbers and stats me,
Speaker 2: but we did that in the post game. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure none of you really care about that. But five
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one yards to total offense when you
Speaker 2: only gave up one hundred and six yards, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's a dominant performance. So again with Shuck, I
Speaker 2: know it's just Austin p but I just I get
Speaker 2: the sense that they're gonna they're gonna be much more
Speaker 2: comfortable letting him make place. And not to say they
Speaker 2: weren't comfortable, well, I think they knew what they had
Speaker 2: in Jack Plumber. But with Jack Plumber, it was just
Speaker 2: his inconsistency is what made it tough to really. I
Speaker 2: mean again, I think he was pretty consistent in big
Speaker 2: games to where like you just knew he wasn't going
Speaker 2: to be super accurate, wasn't going to be able to
Speaker 2: make a lot of really tough throws at least on
Speaker 2: a consistent basis. He made enough plays for you to
Speaker 2: be a good team. And you know, it wasn't as
Speaker 2: if he was a terrible quarterback. But I just think
Speaker 2: knowing what Jeff Brum wants to do offensively, Plumber was
Speaker 2: the guy that kind of just wasn't able to do that.
Speaker 2: I think with Shuck they'll be able to do that.
Speaker 2: That's not to say that he won't be turnover prone
Speaker 2: here and there. Maybe he is, because I think they're
Speaker 2: going to take more risks with his arm than they
Speaker 2: did with Jack Plumber, and I'm totally fine with that.
Speaker 2: And the defense, you know, again, they were dominant. I mean,
Speaker 2: you saw guys out there making plays that transferred in
Speaker 2: some names you probably weren't that familiar with. I mean,
Speaker 2: that was actually probably you know, well, I guess I'll
Speaker 2: start with Shuck. Shuck obviously looked really good, and you
Speaker 2: would want him to look good against that kind of
Speaker 2: an opponent. And then from there at running back, I
Speaker 2: mean they went with Maurice Turner. He was the guy
Speaker 2: that you know, obviously got the nod, was the starter,
Speaker 2: and I think the updated depth chart still shows him
Speaker 2: as the starter in week two, and that'll probably not change,
Speaker 2: but I will say this, I mean, I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be running back by committee. I don't think it
Speaker 2: really matters who gets the first carry. I think you're
Speaker 2: gonna see Turner and Cheney. By the way, Cheney didn't
Speaker 2: get a carry. Cheney he caught one pass I think
Speaker 2: it was, but you'll see him again. Jeff was gonna
Speaker 2: be vanilla. He wasn't gonna really show a whole lot.
Speaker 2: He didn't need to. They got a lot of carries
Speaker 2: for Kewan Brown, who I still think has got a
Speaker 2: chance to be really good. And then obviously Isaac Brown.
Speaker 2: You saw him go seventy seven yards for the touchdown,
Speaker 2: and it looked as if he didn't even turn on
Speaker 2: the jets. I mean, that looked like a guy going
Speaker 2: through a light jog. But yet he just created so
Speaker 2: much separation and left everybody in the dust. And that
Speaker 2: was I mean, again, that's that's the kind of speed
Speaker 2: we've heard about when it comes to this freshman star.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a preseason Freshman All American BYuT ESPN
Speaker 2: for good reason. I don't want to talk him up
Speaker 2: too much and set expectations too high, because he is
Speaker 2: a true freshman, and you have veteran running backs that
Speaker 2: I know that Jeff Brahm and this staff really like.
Speaker 2: But I would not be shocked if you get to
Speaker 2: game four, game five and he's the guy maybe you're
Speaker 2: seeing carry the ball more than anybody else, just because
Speaker 2: he has electrifying speed and vision that you just you
Speaker 2: can't teach. And then the tight ends getting involved was great.
Speaker 2: That touchdown to Mark Redman was awesome, just a perfect
Speaker 2: throw from Chuck Jamari Johnson for some reason, I felt
Speaker 2: like he was more involved than the actual numbers show.
Speaker 2: So offensively, you know, Jacory Brooks, Yeah, you can tell
Speaker 2: that guy used to catch touch on passes at Alabama.
Speaker 2: I mean he looked smooth out there. Jayden Thompson also
Speaker 2: getting involved. He of course is the guy who everybody
Speaker 2: expects to get the bulk of the opportunities to fill
Speaker 2: that spot left by Colton Lacy who's injured. I still
Speaker 2: think Kataris Hicks is another guy that you'll see get opportunities.
Speaker 2: We saw Mariy Huggins bruce out there. He got out
Speaker 2: there and caught a pass. So again, a lot to
Speaker 2: like from that game, but again because of who that
Speaker 2: game was against It's just tough to know exactly what
Speaker 2: was to take from it. But defensively, I mean, you've
Speaker 2: got Jalatti back. We all know he's an All American player.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's preseason ap All American. Those those kind
Speaker 2: of guys, you know, those those guys don't come around
Speaker 2: very often. So, as I've said many times, getting him
Speaker 2: back and even Quincy Riley, getting those guys back to
Speaker 2: they decided not to go to the NFL, they didn't
Speaker 2: hit the portal. That's as big as any transaction, any
Speaker 2: move made in the offseason for Jeff Brom getting those
Speaker 2: two guys back, specifically Jelatti, and you know, again not
Speaker 2: a surprise to see him getting after the quarterback in
Speaker 2: Week one, kind of picking up where he left off
Speaker 2: from a year ago. But some names that you know,
Speaker 2: I wasn't super I mean I know of them because
Speaker 2: I remember hearing their names when they transferred in, but
Speaker 2: obviously you know they're playing for the first time at
Speaker 2: at Louisville. I mean I thought Tremmelle Logan six four,
Speaker 2: two fifty, he is a defensive lineman who transferred in
Speaker 2: from South Florida. I mean, that guy looked he looked legit.
Speaker 2: Not usually do you see a guy from South Florida
Speaker 2: look like you know. Again, I guess you have players
Speaker 2: all over the country, but like when I hear Louisll's
Speaker 2: got a guy from South Florida, he's not. That's not
Speaker 2: exactly somebody I'm expecting to come in and be great.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I've heard nothing good things about him
Speaker 2: during camp, and I thought he looked good in the
Speaker 2: you know, in the times. We saw him on the
Speaker 2: field on Saturday. And then an another large human being,
Speaker 2: Renee Conga, the six ninety pound nose tackle who's a
Speaker 2: red shirt freshman. That's another name that again when I
Speaker 2: hear it called on television and I look at the
Speaker 2: at the depth chart like I'm familiar. Look, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember that guy. I remember hearing about him transferring in. Well,
Speaker 2: it's a guy who played at Rutgers. I think prior
Speaker 2: to that he played at Maybe I think he's been
Speaker 2: to a few different schools. But yeah, I mean Louisville,
Speaker 2: what they did, they felt really good about where they
Speaker 2: were as far as the defensive line, just because of
Speaker 2: the guys they brought back. But what they've done now
Speaker 2: is they've added guys like Conga in Logan, and they
Speaker 2: have more depth there than they've probably ever had as
Speaker 2: a program. I don't think that's hyperbole. I think that's legit.
Speaker 2: I think Louisville football has more defensive depth right now
Speaker 2: than they've ever had. That's not to say that they've
Speaker 2: got some of the best players ever that have played here,
Speaker 2: but you know now they can go too deep and
Speaker 2: truly feel as if there's not much of a drop
Speaker 2: off at all. Now, maybe when you go and bring
Speaker 2: somebody in and you put Jelati or Riley on the sideline,
Speaker 2: yeah that's a little different because those guys are really special.
Speaker 2: But yes, Louisville sixties to nothing was the score. That's
Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do against those kind of teams.
Speaker 2: I don't think I learned anything about Louisville, but I
Speaker 2: also didn't see anything that has me feeling as if
Speaker 2: my expectations for this group need to be readjusted. So again,
Speaker 2: your big favorites here once again on Saturday taking on
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State. Rich Rodriguez is the coach. I mean that
Speaker 2: does add maybe not intrigued to the matchup, because again,
Speaker 2: like I don't know if people really care. But imagine
Speaker 2: telling somebody in two thousand and seven, or maybe two
Speaker 2: thousand and six, because that's when rich Rod was still
Speaker 2: at West Virginia and of course Louisville and West Virginia
Speaker 2: that blackout back in the fall of two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was I still think that was the
Speaker 2: best atmosphere I've ever seen for a Louisville football game,
Speaker 2: Top five matchup, I mean, a very historic night for
Speaker 2: Louisville football. But imagine telling somebody then, nineteen years ago
Speaker 2: that Jeff Brom, who was an assistant coach and OC
Speaker 2: I believe on that staff for Bobby coaching his brother
Speaker 2: Brian and rich Rod was the up and coming star
Speaker 2: of college football and that's how he parlayed that West
Speaker 2: Virginia job to the Michigan job. But imagine telling somebody
Speaker 2: that we'd be here nineteen years later, Jeff Brom in
Speaker 2: his second season at Louisville, coming off a ten win
Speaker 2: season in his debut, his little brother Brian, who is
Speaker 2: the QB. He's now the OC at Louisville, and rich
Speaker 2: Rod is the opponent, but he's coaching Jacksonville State. It's
Speaker 2: just wild to think about how life works out, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was where Bill O'Brien being on the
Speaker 3: Boston College sideline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was surprised to see how many. And
Speaker 2: again it makes sense because you know it's Boston College.
Speaker 2: They don't really move the needle. But I mean, that
Speaker 2: was a huge win for Boston College for their coach
Speaker 2: to just abruptly resign at a terrible time. I mean,
Speaker 2: when did he When did he resign? Because it was
Speaker 2: way I think it was like after like you could
Speaker 2: go do anything in the portal, like I think the
Speaker 2: portal had. Yeah, Boston College, they're head coach, Jeff Hafley.
Speaker 2: He left in February, so like you got to keep
Speaker 2: in mind the portal is super active at the end
Speaker 2: of November, when you know, and the second semester starts.
Speaker 2: A lot of these guys by mid January early January
Speaker 2: have already left and gone to a new school, right,
Speaker 2: Like that's when a lot of the portal action happens
Speaker 2: as soon as the season ends. In your second semester
Speaker 2: of the year is starting, so you know, they they
Speaker 2: didn't have the ability to go in the portal until
Speaker 2: post spring. I think Halfley realized that he was just
Speaker 2: not going to be able to succeed there at Boston College.
Speaker 2: As far as you know, nil resource is, like, he's
Speaker 2: probably a pretty good coach, but you got to be
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not just about that anymore. You can
Speaker 2: be a damn good ball coach, but if you don't
Speaker 2: have resources to pay your players, with nil and all that,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get left behind. And it's not even really
Speaker 2: accurate to say left behind because like it's Boston College.
Speaker 2: They were never ahead of anybody. So bell O'Brien just
Speaker 2: being available and interested because of his I guess connection.
Speaker 2: I mean he was in New England for a while
Speaker 2: coaching with Belichick, So I mean that's I mean, they
Speaker 2: might have hired that. Yeah, I mean they might have
Speaker 2: hired the best coach they've ever had at Boston College.
Speaker 2: And it just kind of happened very very randomly, with
Speaker 2: some unusual circumstances. Your head coach whose job was not
Speaker 2: in jeopardy. Boston College went to a bowl game last
Speaker 2: year and won it. But I think Halfley just knew, Hey,
Speaker 2: this the ceiling for me here is not very high
Speaker 2: because we're at Boston College. Well, Bill Obrian you know,
Speaker 2: he can come in and he's the kind of name
Speaker 2: within college football really just football in general, that if
Speaker 2: there's somebody that would make Boston college football like kind
Speaker 2: of relevant, maybe get a few big name transfers here
Speaker 2: and there, maybe you know, make a splash kind of
Speaker 2: like they did last night. It's that kind of a
Speaker 2: coach that would do that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Just an unusual situation, but hey, he's there looking for
Speaker 2: a new opportunity, and you know, they got off to
Speaker 2: a good start last night. I did not watch much
Speaker 2: of Kentucky. I fell asleep when they started pouring it
Speaker 2: on the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, and of course that
Speaker 2: game never ended up finishing. I've been asked this by
Speaker 2: a few different people. I didn't bet on that game.
Speaker 2: If you bet on that, they just void your bet,
Speaker 2: right like I would assume you get your money back
Speaker 2: or do they count that as a win.
Speaker 3: I was thinking the same thing. Thankfully, I didn't bet
Speaker 3: on it, so I don't know the answer. I get long,
Speaker 3: but that's thankfully. But like I was wondering the same stuff.
Speaker 2: I have a buddy who I was talking to at
Speaker 2: our draft last night. We did a fantasy football draft
Speaker 2: last night, and I was locked in trying to you know,
Speaker 2: draft the best team possible, So it was kind of
Speaker 2: you know, overhearing his conversation. But I think he had
Speaker 2: like a five leg parlay and the fifth leg would
Speaker 2: have been Kentucky winning and covering, but they voided it
Speaker 2: to where he just basically won a four leg parlay.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to hear. Yeah, that, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: and that's I think that's probably the only way you
Speaker 2: can handle it, to be honest.
Speaker 3: Imagine if you had a huge leg parlay like he
Speaker 3: did and they just avoid the entire bet, that'd be too.
Speaker 2: Well, like if you've got if you've got Southern miss
Speaker 2: plus twenty six and a half and yet there's still
Speaker 2: a quarter and a half left and they're down thirty one.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a really weird bet, and that's a
Speaker 2: weird place to be. But like technically, if they if
Speaker 2: they if they called the game there and you lost
Speaker 2: the bet but your team just didn't end up having
Speaker 2: the full game to try to cover, it'd be a
Speaker 2: weird thing to complain about. But I think you have
Speaker 2: a legit complaints that make sense. Yes, So I think
Speaker 2: that's probably what they end up doing is just you know,
Speaker 2: avoiding it. Western Kentucky they went down to Alabama and
Speaker 2: got hammered, I mean just completely demolished. But hey, they're
Speaker 2: there because they needed the check. Which, by the way,
Speaker 2: Rich Rod did his radio show last night in Jacksonville, Alabama,
Speaker 2: and he this is I wouldn't say this is controversial
Speaker 2: by any means, but there was some criticism about him
Speaker 2: about him saying, I think this is just a coach
Speaker 2: being honest, and I can appreciate it. But you know,
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State is in Alabama, Troy is in Alabama, and
Speaker 2: if Bama's going to be giving out these big one
Speaker 2: point nine million dollar checks, like I don't know why,
Speaker 2: I'm just I mean, I'm sure it's like an actual
Speaker 2: like wire transaction for some reason. I can just see
Speaker 2: the athletic director at Western walking out of there with
Speaker 2: like one of those big checks you see on like
Speaker 2: the prices, right, you know what I mean, Like those big,
Speaker 2: humongous checks that are bigger than your body. But those
Speaker 2: Alabama schools like Jacksonville State, they want that money to
Speaker 2: state in state and not have Alabama giving it to
Speaker 2: other other programs. This is this is from a trod
Speaker 2: show man.
Speaker 4: I play in western Kentucky and you had Auburn play
Speaker 4: in a in state school. I raised a question on
Speaker 4: social media over the weekend, is why can't we do
Speaker 4: something to encourage more in state robberies but rebuild the
Speaker 4: whole robberies that used to exist. There's there's I mean,
Speaker 4: why is that money going out of state instead of
Speaker 4: state and in state?
Speaker 5: A good question, and we're trying to I think we've
Speaker 5: got Ua b on the schedule.
Speaker 2: You have Auburn a couple of years, Auburn.
Speaker 5: Get a paycheck from them. Then we got maybe trying
Speaker 5: to get Troy on the schedule.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 5: And hell Alabama, if they will to pay me to men,
Speaker 5: I'll be down there on Saturday and Sunday. I'll play
Speaker 5: them twice for me half our budget. They could beat
Speaker 5: our brains in for a couple of million dollars. Uh
Speaker 5: for sure. So I'll call my my buddy Greg burn
Speaker 5: the ad down there and say listen to Gregg, and
Speaker 5: I have said, we'll go down there for two million,
Speaker 5: and if you want to do the back to back,
Speaker 5: we'll go for for me and and have a great time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I rolle Todd for him if they won.
Speaker 2: So I mean I didn't. I didn't take anything from
Speaker 2: that as if he said anything out of line. But
Speaker 2: and it's not like it's become a I don't trust me.
Speaker 2: I don't want to make it out like a big deal.
Speaker 2: But Thomas Ashworth, who is the beat writer for the
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State football program, he wanted to share the clip
Speaker 2: because he was there covering the Coaches Show with that quote,
Speaker 2: and I guess just the quote itself, without people hearing
Speaker 2: the context, almost took it as if he was mocking
Speaker 2: his own team, which I do understand sort of why
Speaker 2: you know, I get why you see it that way,
Speaker 2: But then again, I also think he's just being honest
Speaker 2: with you, Like did you expect him to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll go down there and get that two million dollar
Speaker 2: check and well, whoop that Alabama Crimson Todd's ass Like, no,
Speaker 2: he knows they're gonna Like we all know what this is.
Speaker 2: It goes back to my conversation, like I can appreciate
Speaker 2: rich Rod for actually acknowledging this stuff for what it
Speaker 2: is when nobody else will, Like that's like you're there
Speaker 2: to get bent over and that's what it is. Right.
Speaker 3: Imagine if he would have pulled the bend over and
Speaker 3: take it.
Speaker 2: I would have died. And it would have made me
Speaker 2: think that somehow he had listened to this show, which
Speaker 2: I know he wouldn't, but like it would also just
Speaker 2: remind me, you know what that Like I would feel
Speaker 2: more justified in my approach because you don't hear people
Speaker 2: say that, you know, because it is belittling your opponent.
Speaker 2: It's you know, not giving them a chance to even
Speaker 2: keep it close. But like we also can't. Like this
Speaker 2: is what I struggle with in life when people try
Speaker 2: to tell me things that I know are not, Like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it political here, but I think you
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, Like, no, like this, you're there,
Speaker 2: you're not scheduling Alabama or Louisville if you're Austin p
Speaker 2: because you're this chippy program that's just waiting for somebody
Speaker 2: to let them come play us so we can go
Speaker 2: take No, you're doing it to fund your program, Like
Speaker 2: that's what this is. It's a transaction, that's what it is.
Speaker 2: So anyways, like some Jacksonville State fans I suppose didn't
Speaker 2: like that, but like let's get real. It also made
Speaker 2: me sad because imagine being a Jacksonville State fan leading
Speaker 2: up to that game, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: you know what this is, you know, and it wouldn't
Speaker 2: be fun to watch if you watch your team get killed.
Speaker 2: So the only time I can think of being in
Speaker 2: somewhat of a relatable situation there would have been when
Speaker 2: Louisville played Alabama to open up their season. Whenever Bama was,
Speaker 2: you know, fresh off national championship, it was, they had
Speaker 2: both Jalen Hurts and Tua. Louisville was coming off of
Speaker 2: the Lamar Jackson era, going through you know what, we
Speaker 2: didn't know would be the worst season like ever, but
Speaker 2: we knew we could probably play well and still get killed.
Speaker 2: And that's just a weird, weird. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: care who you are in football, you gotta probably be
Speaker 2: one of those kind of teams, an FCS or or
Speaker 2: a low, low level G five which Jacksonville State, by
Speaker 2: the way, is brand new to G five football. So
Speaker 2: you gotta be you gotta be down there to be
Speaker 2: in that kind of a situation. But if you're a
Speaker 2: fan or an alum, it's an annual thing, right, like
Speaker 2: probably three of your opponents. They are going to be
Speaker 2: like that to an extent. Also, you know, this is
Speaker 2: something that that I always go back to with with
Speaker 2: the those who claim Bellerman and Louisville should always play
Speaker 2: each other in basketball, and you know, Murray State complaining
Speaker 2: that Kentucky won't go there and play them, they won't
Speaker 2: do a home and home, and I mean, I'm all,
Speaker 2: like I I find I'm a huge huge Bellerman basketball fan.
Speaker 2: I mean, outside of Louisville. I want Bellerman to win.
Speaker 2: If they're not playing Louisville, i want Bellerman to win
Speaker 2: every game. I'm not gonna act as if like I'm
Speaker 2: watching every single game, but like I love Scotty Davenport
Speaker 2: his program, so happy he's he's you know he's at
Speaker 2: Bellerman and you know he's he's a huge asset to
Speaker 2: our community in a variety of ways. But I've always
Speaker 2: gotten some pushback when I say this, Loman doesn't owe
Speaker 2: him a game. I'm glad they play him. And by
Speaker 2: the way, they worked it out where Louisville needed that venue,
Speaker 2: Freedom Hall for volleyball a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: that's what got the series started. Where they're playing real
Speaker 2: games against one another. But like when Chris Mack was here,
Speaker 2: what does he benefit from scheduling Beller? He might lose
Speaker 2: that game because Baltopman is pretty good, right, Like, and
Speaker 2: if you're gonna be giving, if you're doing these by games,
Speaker 2: I guess you can say we'll give it to another
Speaker 2: school within your state. But like, we wouldn't do that
Speaker 2: for Kentucky. We want it, we wouldn't want them to
Speaker 2: Like I've never understood that. And that's what that caller,
Speaker 2: I guess was alluding to to to rich Rod, is
Speaker 2: that Alabama instead of giving Western Kentucky one point nine million,
Speaker 2: they should be giving it to Jacksonville State or Troy
Speaker 2: or these or Southern South Alabama or something like that.
Speaker 2: And like, I hear where you're coming from, But like
Speaker 2: you're not entitled to that. And if it's well, why
Speaker 2: don't we keep that money within the state. That's like
Speaker 2: people who if Kentucky's playing in a national championship game
Speaker 2: and you're a Louisville fan, you give me the well,
Speaker 2: I hope we can keep it in the state. You
Speaker 2: can get the hell out of this state. If that's
Speaker 2: the way you never understood those I have you heard
Speaker 2: people say that though, right, yeah, well as we'll keep
Speaker 2: it in the state. No, we hate them, Why would
Speaker 2: we want them to have a championship? And Louisville fans
Speaker 2: would do the same thing Entucky. It's the same like
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans if louel was playing in a national championship,
Speaker 2: you're tell me deep down you want to keep it
Speaker 2: within the state. No you don't. It's your rival, so
Speaker 2: you know, like I don't think that guy who called
Speaker 2: into that show was like out of line. But again,
Speaker 2: like why are you entitled to that? Like, that's not
Speaker 2: your money. That's money that Alabama Football has to pay somebody,
Speaker 2: and if they choose to give it to somebody else,
Speaker 2: that's their decision. You're not entitled to it because you
Speaker 2: happen to play this, you play that, you know, play
Speaker 2: within the same state as them. It's like Murray, Like
Speaker 2: Murray quite literally claims that Kentucky won't schedule them, and
Speaker 2: they won't, but it's not because they're scared of them,
Speaker 2: because they're not going to agree to your terms. Murray
Speaker 2: wants Kentucky to host them at roup and then go
Speaker 2: play them in Murray, why would Kentucky give up a
Speaker 2: home date to go play you in Murray. You know what,
Speaker 2: that would be a charity. They would be doing a
Speaker 2: charitable a charitable act for your program. And if they
Speaker 2: did it, good on them. But they're not. They don't
Speaker 2: have to do that. It'd be a gift. Anyways, Quick
Speaker 2: Break will come back on the other side, keep it
Speaker 2: rolling along. It's coffee and company. Field about Thornton's right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety started the show by mentioning,
Speaker 2: how I was just kind of dragging ass today. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I was up later last night than I
Speaker 2: usually would be on a work night watching some football,
Speaker 2: drinking some beers, fantasy football draft with the Boys. So
Speaker 2: I'm just kind of in a funk today. But once
Speaker 2: the show started, I mean that all went away.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm dancing to Michael Jackson during the break there.
Speaker 2: Thank God, nobody else could see that, just John. But
Speaker 2: yeah's feeling good.
Speaker 3: The music we get to play sometimes we can vibe
Speaker 3: with it for a couple of seconds before we officially
Speaker 3: come back in for the segment, and it's usually a
Speaker 3: good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And look, people still get pissed about not having
Speaker 2: music on the podcast first. It has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with us out of our control. It's a higher up thing,
Speaker 2: and you can always listen live and get the music.
Speaker 2: So I know some people can't listen live or they
Speaker 2: just don't like to because they love to be able
Speaker 2: to just start it and go all the way through
Speaker 2: without any commercials. And I get all that, but just
Speaker 2: know we're not removing the music that we hear when
Speaker 2: we come back from breaking the podcasts just to stick
Speaker 2: it to you podcast listeners. It's something we I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure if.
Speaker 3: There's a day where we can bring the music back,
Speaker 3: I don't know what that would require, iHeart to do.
Speaker 2: I did a little digging, okay as to why that's
Speaker 2: a thing, and it's really stupid. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: we could do it and be fine. But you know,
Speaker 2: when you are a corporation of this size, you got
Speaker 2: to make sure you don't put yourself in a position
Speaker 2: to get sued. Right. It was a record label thing, right,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean it's all I mean, And just
Speaker 2: like anything else in life, I mean, not anything, I guess,
Speaker 2: but like it took one person really like going overboard
Speaker 2: as far as what we are allowed to do. With
Speaker 2: music to where it hit, it got up. I think
Speaker 2: it got to the level high enough up here within
Speaker 2: our corporation of iHeart, to where they just made the
Speaker 2: executive decision nobody, you can't have any music on any podcast,
Speaker 2: even if it is for fifteen to thirty seconds. Such
Speaker 2: that makes sense right there. We're not alet to have
Speaker 2: interns here at iHeart. I don't know people know that
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. Yeah, I was an intern once,
Speaker 3: so they gonna do about it.
Speaker 2: Well, you interned, not for the company specific human being exactly,
Speaker 2: so I guess you could get a you could get
Speaker 2: around it. And maybe they've changed it since then. But
Speaker 2: you know, back in the day, I mean the dogs
Speaker 2: used to have on interns, but they in turned through
Speaker 2: an outside company, not through actually iHeart, because there was
Speaker 2: one person who had an intern, probably in a market
Speaker 2: far far away, that basically used that intern as a
Speaker 2: full time employee and didn't pay him a dime, and like,
Speaker 2: you know, you can't do that. So anyways, if you
Speaker 2: ever really want to hear the music that the company
Speaker 2: Man DJ company Man John on the ones, yeah college
Speaker 2: I think DJ. If you want to hear the Company
Speaker 2: Man DJ Jazzy John. You're gonna have to listen live.
Speaker 2: That's that's one of the reasons why you should always
Speaker 2: be listening live. I understand some people can't. But anyways,
Speaker 2: those that still text in mad that the podcast doesn't
Speaker 2: have music, nothing we can do about it. Nothing we
Speaker 2: can do, all right? Text line five O two six
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Speaker 2: LLNFCU dot com. This is a good question that comes in,
Speaker 2: says Nick. I'm a transplant born in Cleveland, lived there
Speaker 2: my whole life into the last ten years. I do
Speaker 2: enjoy the Louisville and Kentucky rivalry. However, it is nothing
Speaker 2: compared to Ohio State in Michigan. As you just said
Speaker 2: last week, is there any chance Louisville and Kentucky could
Speaker 2: ever end up in the same conference. That way, you
Speaker 2: guys would stop yelling at each other about which league
Speaker 2: is better. Well, I don't, by the way, Thank you
Speaker 2: for listening, and you know I will admit the rivalry
Speaker 2: when it comes to football clearly much different. On the
Speaker 2: Ohio State Michigan side. But I don't think that you
Speaker 2: hear Louisville fans yelling at Kentucky about which league is better.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think everybody knows the SEC is a
Speaker 2: superior league in football because it's the best league in football.
Speaker 2: What I think you hear that does probably from an
Speaker 2: outsider's perspective, like yourself. It probably is annoying for you
Speaker 2: to hear us you're just kind of you know, around
Speaker 2: it as you know. I don't know what you do
Speaker 2: for work, but maybe you hear Louisville and Kentucky fans
Speaker 2: going after each other at work when it comes to football,
Speaker 2: and I would imagine it's Kentucky claiming that despite Louisville
Speaker 2: having success, none of it matters because they play in
Speaker 2: a terrible league, and the Kentucky would actually be the
Speaker 2: champion of the ACC every year if they played in
Speaker 2: that league, because they're that good. It's just they play
Speaker 2: in the almighty SEC. And on the Louisville side, you
Speaker 2: probably hear them acting as if that's a ridiculous thing
Speaker 2: to claim, and also letting Kentucky know that despite being
Speaker 2: in a better league, you know, you don't actually have
Speaker 2: any factor in that league. The league is elite and
Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with you. In fact, you
Speaker 2: probably more than anything bring the league down historically. So like,
Speaker 2: that's probably a never ending debate because they're never going
Speaker 2: to end up in the same conference together, at least
Speaker 2: not that I'm aware of. However, that would end it
Speaker 2: right Louisville and Kentucky played in the same conference, you know,
Speaker 2: at that point you'd have to just go, you know,
Speaker 2: toe to toe. And look, Kentucky has beat Louisville the
Speaker 2: last what five times they played them. Therefore they can
Speaker 2: claim they're in a better league and they have bragging rights,
Speaker 2: which is why, I mean, Jef Brom knows he's got
Speaker 2: a lot on his plate this year. They want to
Speaker 2: try to put themselves in the a SEC Championship game again.
Speaker 2: But man, despite this game having nothing to do with that,
Speaker 2: he knows how big it is to be Kentucky this year.
Speaker 2: I mean, they got to do it. They got it
Speaker 2: in this streak and last year was like the ultimate
Speaker 2: if you're gonna do it, now is the chance to
Speaker 2: do it. And I remember thinking to myself, if they
Speaker 2: don't get them now, they may never. And I as
Speaker 2: a Louisville fan and me being well aware of what
Speaker 2: Jef Brom is capable of doing as a head coach.
Speaker 2: There's never a scenario where I would say, well, they're
Speaker 2: just never going to beat Kentucky and football, because I
Speaker 2: was when I was growing up watching Louisville football, I
Speaker 2: didn't know really what we were right, we were new.
Speaker 2: We just got thrown in the microwave. We were in
Speaker 2: conference USSA jurige comes around, they hire John ELL's success
Speaker 2: starts to happen, and then boom Bobby, Buttrino takes over
Speaker 2: like we were. I mean, I knew we had some
Speaker 2: good had a good run. I knew we were a
Speaker 2: basketball school more than a football school at the time
Speaker 2: in a major way. But one thing I did know
Speaker 2: as a kid, we beat Kentucky because they stunk all
Speaker 2: the time. I mean, at least my childhood, that's that era. Now,
Speaker 2: obviously I watched Kentucky beat Louisville when I was a
Speaker 2: kid as well, but it seemed like that happened a
Speaker 2: lot more. It was more of a rare thing to happen.
Speaker 2: So look, I don't think they'll ever be in the
Speaker 2: same conference, and I don't want him to be, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, But that would probably put an
Speaker 2: end to that debate because at that point, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're playing in the same league and you play
Speaker 2: each other every year, the whole conference affiliation stuff just
Speaker 2: doesn't matter anymore because you'd be in the same league.
Speaker 2: But I doubt that ever happens. All Right, this Tech
Speaker 2: says Nick got to be honest with you. I was
Speaker 2: not pleased with what I saw from Pierce Clarkson. I
Speaker 2: can't get over how small he looked out there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we talked about that a little bit on the
Speaker 2: postgame show. And I think I've said the same thing
Speaker 2: about Pierce for a while now, and that is that
Speaker 2: this is the year for him to get some meaningful
Speaker 2: Well it's not meaningful if it's in a blowout, but
Speaker 2: it is at least reps in a real game, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense. Like I believe, just my opinion, not
Speaker 2: telling you this for certain, but I believe that if
Speaker 2: they opened up their season not against Austin p but
Speaker 2: against Georgia Tech, and it was a close game in
Speaker 2: the third quarter and Tyler Schuck went down with an injury,
Speaker 2: I don't think they would have put Pierce Clarkson in
Speaker 2: I think they would have put in Harrison Bailey. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm just we'll never know. It's a hypothetical, but I
Speaker 2: think with Pierce and Harrison Bailey as your backup, I
Speaker 2: think they are really close, like as far as like competition, like,
Speaker 2: I don't think that they you know, I would say
Speaker 2: they're probably neck and neck. But if Pierce is going
Speaker 2: to be the quarterback of the future as a red
Speaker 2: shirt freshman right now, it is more important for him
Speaker 2: him to get those reps, then it is Harrison Bailey,
Speaker 2: who's a six year senior who walked on here when
Speaker 2: he came to Louisville last year as he transfer. So
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't think Pierce looked great, But then again,
Speaker 2: if he did look great, I would not be somebody
Speaker 2: that would, you know, it would be encouraging to see
Speaker 2: him in his first you know, and you know, some
Speaker 2: real reps there. If you put up big numbers, I
Speaker 2: would be encouraged by it. But I would also know
Speaker 2: that with it being Austin p it's tough to make
Speaker 2: to know what any of it means. So, you know,
Speaker 2: if they're in a similar situation on Saturday against Jacksonville,
Speaker 2: State and they're up thirty five or forty or whatever
Speaker 2: it may be. I think they'll probably once again go
Speaker 2: to Pierce, but it's because they're giving him a chance
Speaker 2: to get some some valuable reps I guess as best
Speaker 2: he can and seem little and see a little bit
Speaker 2: more about what they have, if that makes sense. But
Speaker 2: I think if it's a game on the line and
Speaker 2: they had to go to a quarterback that they feel
Speaker 2: comfortable that will help them, you know, make plays and
Speaker 2: win the game, I think they go with Harrison Bailey.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's gonna be really tricky to see
Speaker 2: what happens with Pierce Clarkson because he could show really
Speaker 2: really good upside this year in those type of situations.
Speaker 2: And I will agree with the Texter. I didn't think
Speaker 2: he looked great, but I also am not gonna write
Speaker 2: him off based off just that. But yeah, six one
Speaker 2: ninety five. I know that Tyler Shuck's a big guy,
Speaker 2: and I know Harrison Bailey's a big guy too, but
Speaker 2: I thought I thought Pierce Clarkson looked like he was
Speaker 2: my height out there, but he could let's just say,
Speaker 2: he gets some real snaps in half the games this year,
Speaker 2: because Louisville's up big and when when he is in there,
Speaker 2: he looks pretty good doing it, and fans feel like, Okay,
Speaker 2: here we go, man, whenever Shuck's gone, we're gonna hand
Speaker 2: the reins off to Pierce, and I feel good about
Speaker 2: the future. Like let's just say that did happen, and
Speaker 2: then you get to the end of December or I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: the end of November, I should say, and the portal's
Speaker 2: open and there's a really good quarterback out there in
Speaker 2: the portal that Jeff Brown would love to have and
Speaker 2: he wants to go after him. That's just kind of
Speaker 2: how coaches operate now, cause if you're not taking advantage
Speaker 2: of getting better, adding more talent and depth in the portal,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? You're not doing your job. So
Speaker 2: Pierce has I think already shown some maturity and patience
Speaker 2: by understanding, yes, this is my second season and for
Speaker 2: the second time they have brought in a quarterback that's
Speaker 2: a veteran in the portal, that is essentially walking into
Speaker 2: this starting job a third year. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he would do that, and I wouldn't blame him. Like
Speaker 2: if Pierce Clarkson shows some upside this year, But yet
Speaker 2: they still go get a veteran in the portal who's
Speaker 2: proven to be a good quarterback at the college level.
Speaker 2: That would be Jeff Brom doing his job. That would
Speaker 2: be Jeff Brom doing what you're supposed to do as
Speaker 2: a head coach. But if you're Pierce Clarkson and you
Speaker 2: got to look out for yourself, is that the one
Speaker 2: where you say, Okay, I waited long enough and I
Speaker 2: can go compete for this guy who's walking in as
Speaker 2: a transfer who started, you know, three seasons in the
Speaker 2: Big ten or something. But like you can read the
Speaker 2: room that they think this guy's probably better, and you
Speaker 2: may transfer and try to you know it, It won't
Speaker 2: mean that anybody has done anything wrong. It will be
Speaker 2: just an example right in front of our face, as
Speaker 2: Louisville fans, of how different the quarterback position is now
Speaker 2: because of the transfer portal. That makes sense, John, Like
Speaker 2: it might not mean that like Chis Clarkson could end
Speaker 2: up going on elsewhere and being really good and we
Speaker 2: could look back and say, man, I wish we would
Speaker 2: have kept him. But if you you know, react to
Speaker 2: it in real time. If you're Jeff Brahm, or any coach.
Speaker 2: If you know you can go get a player that's
Speaker 2: gonna make you better in the portal, you're gonna go
Speaker 2: do that, right, Like, it's just no way around it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could because the only thing that you you don't
Speaker 3: really hurt yourself by doing that. And I guess the
Speaker 3: best case scenario for the guy who may be on
Speaker 3: the come up is you can if there's a quarterback
Speaker 3: battle between Clarkson and whoever you may be bring in
Speaker 3: from the transfer portal, Clarkson will have an opportunity to
Speaker 3: show that he may be better than whoever that guy
Speaker 3: is that you're bringing in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just gonna it's a still different, wouldn't
Speaker 2: I don't think it would be a bad look on
Speaker 2: Pierce if that situation played out and instead of you know,
Speaker 2: competing with a with a veteran once again, he just
Speaker 2: decided to go get a fresh start elsewhere. Like you know,
Speaker 2: some would say, well, he's running from competition, and I
Speaker 2: get why people would say that, but at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, you got to look out for yourself
Speaker 2: and if you feel as if you still have a
Speaker 2: tough time envisioning yourself as the starter, as the guy
Speaker 2: and this is that would have been and this is
Speaker 2: his third year here. I guess this is a second
Speaker 2: year here. I just I don't know. It's a lot.
Speaker 2: The quarterback is just off all the positions in sports
Speaker 2: when it comes to the transfer portal, the quarterback one
Speaker 2: is just different, just like in the NFL the running
Speaker 2: back position. Like you can't even really talk about the
Speaker 2: running back position in the NFL the same way you
Speaker 2: do any other position because it's just so different. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back on the other side. Wrap
Speaker 2: up the five o'clock hour, which means, you know, we're
Speaker 2: wrapping up the show. I can't belief a fast today's
Speaker 2: gone by, good stuff that usually happened one Monday. There's
Speaker 2: just so much to react to here from the weekend.
Speaker 2: So stick with us. Coffee and company, I feel about
Speaker 2: Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right,
Speaker 2: we were wrapping up a Tuesday day of coffee and company,
Speaker 2: fueled by Thornton's appreciate you guys hanging out with us.
Speaker 2: I mean when I said I think this might have
Speaker 2: been the fastest the show has ever gone by, I
Speaker 2: mean each show is, you know, most of them I
Speaker 2: should say the exact amount, same amount of time, three hours.
Speaker 3: When you said five o'clock hours next an hour ago.
Speaker 3: I was like, hold on, does he know what he's
Speaker 3: talking about? And yeah, you're absolutely right. And I usually
Speaker 3: don't react.
Speaker 2: Like that, and I usually don't know what the hell
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, but I was in fact correct there
Speaker 2: that it was the five o'clock hour that was approaching.
Speaker 2: So if you guys missed any of today's show, make
Speaker 2: sure you go and check out the podcast. Again. Monday's
Speaker 2: this time of year, not just this time of year,
Speaker 2: but really Monday's during football basketball season. I usually in
Speaker 2: this show and it's not a Monday, but it kind
Speaker 2: of is, you know what I mean, we're reacting from
Speaker 2: the weekend. In fact, there's more to react to because
Speaker 2: we had an extra day in the weekend. But I
Speaker 2: usually in the show knowing, hey, I got a lot more.
Speaker 2: I got to get right into the next day because
Speaker 2: we didn't have a chance to get to all of it.
Speaker 2: So we will do that tomorrow and you know, get
Speaker 2: you set for another big weekend, not only of college football,
Speaker 2: the NFL season will be starting on Thursday. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to see Lamar and the Ravens take on Pat
Speaker 2: Mahomes and the Chiefs. I mean, I mean, I'm starting
Speaker 2: to have a little bit of a of a worry
Speaker 2: when it comes to Lamar, not about his ability or
Speaker 2: his you know, his likelihood of succeeding. I think the
Speaker 2: Ravens are going to be really good again this year.
Speaker 2: But I just it'd be a real kick in the
Speaker 2: you know what as a Lamar fan for him to
Speaker 2: continue to be sensational, maybe even picking up another NFL
Speaker 2: MVP trophy along the way. But like, if all this
Speaker 2: success happens and yet the dynasty that is the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are just in the way, like that would suck. It
Speaker 2: would suck. But hey, I don't think there's anybody right
Speaker 2: now that's gonna get it. I mean, hopefully they don't
Speaker 2: win it again this year because I don't like the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, you know, that's the best matchup to get.
Speaker 2: This season started on Thursday, and I look forward to it.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're out of time again. Enjoy your evening
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