Speaker 1: It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: we are.
Speaker 3: Get off our show, idiot.
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Speaker 1: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
Speaker 3: kidding me?
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in to a Tuesday edition of
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's right here on Sports
Speaker 1: Talk seven ninety, Nick Coffee. That's me, the company man,
Speaker 1: the one and only mister John All on the longside
Speaker 1: as we take you up until six o'clock. The warm
Speaker 1: weather has returned. John. It's actually I mean it's not
Speaker 1: like hot outside, but it was.
Speaker 3: Drawing warmer, the windows down type of weather today.
Speaker 1: Never been a big windows down guy. Uh shame, and
Speaker 1: I've always like wanted to be. But I'm just like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, this is too loud, Like I'd rather
Speaker 1: have some peace and quiet when driving, but no, doubt
Speaker 1: the temperature outside. Conditions outside are perfect for somebody to
Speaker 1: just hit the road, windows down and not need to
Speaker 1: worry about turning on the AC or the heat or
Speaker 1: anything like that. Now, are we gonna get rain for Halloween?
Speaker 2: Do we know?
Speaker 3: I saw ninety chance yesterday, But of course that could change.
Speaker 3: But that's that's also a shame.
Speaker 1: It's not looking good. Yeah, and we've had rain in
Speaker 1: like three weeks. I know, we you know, we do
Speaker 1: actually need rain, but not on Halloween because that'd be sad.
Speaker 1: And I don't really know why or what has led
Speaker 1: to this, but I'm telling you the hot, the vibes
Speaker 1: for Halloween this year compared to others is just different level.
Speaker 1: And I don't you know, it's not like I'm dressing up.
Speaker 1: I don't have a costume or anything like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the kids trick or treating and we
Speaker 1: should have some fun. But I'm hoping for everybody that
Speaker 1: we do avoid what could be, you know, a nasty,
Speaker 1: nasty Halloween night, especially considering that you as you said,
Speaker 1: we haven't had it in a long time. If it
Speaker 1: shows up in rears its ugly head, as the kids
Speaker 1: want to get out there and get some candy. That
Speaker 1: would be that be that'd be the worst.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll be overnight on Halloween.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that would be That would be luck
Speaker 1: because I mean I mean even if it rains during
Speaker 1: the day but not like in the evening, that would
Speaker 1: still be a little sloppy. But I'll, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: take that rather than whenever you get to like whatever
Speaker 1: time kids start, which byther what time do kids start?
Speaker 3: I think trads on where you live and if there's
Speaker 3: like an ordinance on win how long you can be
Speaker 3: out that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: So we have we we host Halloween at our house,
Speaker 1: meaning like we have a pretty good neighborhood for it,
Speaker 1: and since we moved in a few years ago, it's
Speaker 1: just became the spot where like all of our friends
Speaker 1: and their kids come. So, uh, I'll probably be doing
Speaker 1: my show from home Thursday because usually by the time
Speaker 1: I would get back, they would have already started and
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't be able to get in my driveway
Speaker 1: because we've got you know, and it seems like each
Speaker 1: year it grows, which I'm looking forward to it, but
Speaker 1: I feel like last time around, like there'd be kids
Speaker 1: that would be tree or treating, and it's like five
Speaker 1: point thirty. Does that seem early to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And sometimes I feel like in the past they've
Speaker 3: they've pushed up times for when it's okay to start
Speaker 3: trigger treating because of things like weather type of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's true. We did have one year where it was
Speaker 1: so cold, it was going to be so cold that
Speaker 1: it became like a you know, everybody was on the
Speaker 1: same page, like, Yeah, if you get kids that show
Speaker 1: up after school, don't be alarmed because they may not
Speaker 1: be able to get out later. Yeah, when it gets
Speaker 1: when it gets super cold. But I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't have a whole lot of memory, Like I
Speaker 1: remember tricker treating, but I don't remember what time of
Speaker 1: day we started when it ended, Like I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe they feel like my neighborhood back across the river,
Speaker 3: Indiana had no rules. I feel like we were out super
Speaker 3: late as a kid, And again that's probably not the case.
Speaker 3: It's just the way that I perceived it whenever I
Speaker 3: went through Halloween.
Speaker 1: So when you say no rules, you mean like.
Speaker 3: Like there was it was super late all the time.
Speaker 3: It was always really dark.
Speaker 1: But rules. Aren't rules based off like with the parents
Speaker 1: decide like you'd have to be out way late for
Speaker 1: like somebody within your community. Rather it be like a
Speaker 1: trollman that works for the police department, Like you'd have
Speaker 1: to be out like way late for something like that
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe I do feel like I've seen that
Speaker 3: you were trick or treating by ten o'clock or ten
Speaker 3: thirty or something like that.
Speaker 1: And I think what makes I mean, in all honesty,
Speaker 1: what makes a neighborhood a good neighborhood for tricker treating?
Speaker 1: I guess it's all based off of each individual person's
Speaker 1: preference and whatnot. But if if you have, how you know,
Speaker 1: a neighborhood that's you know, kind of you know, all
Speaker 1: of the roads within the neighborhood are not like busy
Speaker 1: busy streets, and you have a sidewalk. And most importantly,
Speaker 1: the most important factor when I when I when it
Speaker 1: comes to is your area good for trigger treating is
Speaker 1: do the people who live there put out candy? Like
Speaker 1: are they are they into it? Are they going to
Speaker 1: open the door? Because you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that don't and I don't, you don't really blame them.
Speaker 1: But if there's enough, if there's enough people out there
Speaker 1: that don't have kids, that don't care about giving out candy,
Speaker 1: and they're just like, yeah, I'm gonna leave the house
Speaker 1: for the night so I don't have to answer the door,
Speaker 1: or I'm just gonna, you know, keep the lights off
Speaker 1: so people can can get the get the message that
Speaker 1: I'm not doing candy. If there's enough of those, they
Speaker 1: may be great people. But like that makes it to
Speaker 1: where it's tough. So we found a good balance where
Speaker 1: we are, and it should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But do you remember what age you were when you
Speaker 1: stopped trick or treating.
Speaker 3: I feel like it might have been right at the
Speaker 3: end of middle school, whatever age that.
Speaker 1: Is, because I don't remember when I stopped trick or treating,
Speaker 1: but I remember I stopped thinking like dressing up was
Speaker 1: cool at some point, and it was probably around the
Speaker 1: time when I was in like sixth grade or something,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to dress up because you know,
Speaker 1: I was a big kid. I'm not a little kid.
Speaker 1: I don't have to get a costume. And I remember
Speaker 1: knowing like just going house to house with a bag,
Speaker 1: not dressed up like I got some looks to where
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, well, I guess this is it
Speaker 1: for me because I don't want to dress up anymore.
Speaker 1: And obviously there's people who don't want to give me candy,
Speaker 1: and some wouldn't give me candy because I wasn't dressed up.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, I mean I don't really remember them
Speaker 1: like being mean or anything, but I remember walking around
Speaker 1: not dressed up. Well, all the other kids my age
Speaker 1: and younger were, and I kind of knew I was
Speaker 1: being like a jerk. I mean, I wasn't being rude
Speaker 1: or anything, but like if you don't dress up and
Speaker 1: you go to a house and they give you a
Speaker 1: little you know, they give you a little crap for
Speaker 1: not dressing up, or they just decide to not give
Speaker 1: you candy. Like, I guess, you can't say you're surprised,
Speaker 1: especially if you look I mean, you have a better
Speaker 1: chance of looking like you're within age of trick or
Speaker 1: treating if you're dressed up. If you're dressed up like
Speaker 1: you just came from school and you're twelve thirteen years old,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're probably gonna be okay, but like you know,
Speaker 1: it might look like, yeah, this kid doesn't even a
Speaker 1: costume why they want candy. But there is a study
Speaker 1: here that is from this is a breakdown of the
Speaker 1: age Americans think kids should stop trick or treating. And
Speaker 1: there is a study that was done. I guess a survey,
Speaker 1: I should say, from fairly Dicketson University. On average, people
Speaker 1: say kids should stop when they're thirteen. Actually it came
Speaker 1: out to exactly thirteen and a half, So I guess
Speaker 1: that means.
Speaker 3: That's right on the edge of school high school.
Speaker 1: If you're thirteen and your fourteenth birthday is is further away,
Speaker 1: like if you're if you're freshly thirteen, I guess you
Speaker 1: know you're in the clear. If you are thirteen and
Speaker 1: that fourteenth birthday is, you know, within less than six months,
Speaker 1: maybe then people would side on hey, that's too old.
Speaker 1: But says a quarter of Americans think kids should get
Speaker 1: trigger ta should get to trick or treat as long
Speaker 1: as they want to. Well, three percent are against it
Speaker 1: at any age. It says here that the survey from
Speaker 1: fairly degencin University, they built a quarter of the respondents
Speaker 1: think kids should keep keep it up for as long
Speaker 1: as they want to. Older Americans are more likely to
Speaker 1: say kiddos should quit at age eleven or twelve. Why
Speaker 1: Younger Americans are more likely to say kids of any
Speaker 1: age who want a trick or treat should so.
Speaker 3: When they say kids of any age, that just means
Speaker 3: once you hit eighteen.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess, I mean, I mean that seems
Speaker 1: a little odd.
Speaker 3: But I don't know anybody who trick or treated once
Speaker 3: they were in high school.
Speaker 1: Me either, me either. Fact I remember there and this
Speaker 1: still happens, I'm sure, But like there's kids who just
Speaker 1: end up in neighborhoods they're not from. And maybe it
Speaker 1: isn't teenagers, it's just older kids that maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen or something like that, that'll you know, like
Speaker 1: still kids candies like that. I'm sure that's a rare thing,
Speaker 1: but it does still happen, which just makes me want to,
Speaker 1: you know, give that kid a talking to and you know,
Speaker 1: call their parents on them, because that's not you know,
Speaker 1: that's now where I'm at in life, Like I ought
Speaker 1: to call your mom and tell her how how how
Speaker 1: you're behaving Like that's that's That's where I'm at right now,
Speaker 1: which again, you know, life goes. Life goes fast. It's
Speaker 1: crazy that that's that that's where I'm at. Also, since
Speaker 1: we're here and i'm I probably would have remembered to
Speaker 1: bring it up before we got to Thursday, But I
Speaker 1: don't know. I forget a lot of things. I can
Speaker 1: never keep this show on track when it comes to
Speaker 1: the clock. We all know that. So since it's on
Speaker 1: my mind and we're talking about it, I'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and mention it. If you are at your home and
Speaker 1: you open the door because somebody is there and they
Speaker 1: are trigger treating, and maybe they don't say happy Halloween
Speaker 1: or trigger treat keep in mind they may be nonverbal,
Speaker 1: they may be somebody with autism, they may be somebody
Speaker 1: who is intellectually disabled like my daughter, and you know,
Speaker 1: just keep that in mind. Like I'll there was one moment,
Speaker 1: and it's probably like one of my it's the memory
Speaker 1: that stands out to me more than anything throughout my
Speaker 1: years as a parent with kids that trigger treats. There
Speaker 1: was an old woman who lived in our old neighborhood
Speaker 1: and she was she was grumpy anyways, and my daughter,
Speaker 1: you know, at the time, didn't speak at all, and
Speaker 1: she wouldn't give her any candy until she she was
Speaker 1: like nope, nope, nope, you got what do you say?
Speaker 1: What do you say? And my wife like almost I
Speaker 1: think choked her to death. I mean she didn't actually
Speaker 1: make a scene, but like you know, if you've got
Speaker 1: a significant other you've been with for a long time,
Speaker 1: you can see signs that nobody else can see. I
Speaker 1: would assume as far as like what's what's potentially about
Speaker 1: to happen, what's going on, you know mentally, And I
Speaker 1: thought she was going to kill the woman, and instead
Speaker 1: she because she's she's a cool customer. She gathered herself
Speaker 1: and said, you know, she's she's nonverbal, and you know,
Speaker 1: made that woman feel probably two inches tall, and look,
Speaker 1: is it sad that I felt satisfaction for that woman
Speaker 1: feeling terrible? Yeah, but you know you got to learn
Speaker 1: at some point. And I'm sure she's probably felt bad
Speaker 1: about it since, and I'm sure she's probably told other
Speaker 1: people to keep in mind, like hey, don't think every
Speaker 1: kid that's there, or you know, there's certain costumes and
Speaker 1: this is one of my daughter's costumes one year where
Speaker 1: I can think of what it was, but it came
Speaker 1: with you might've been she was like a little elephant,
Speaker 1: and it came with something that you would put on
Speaker 1: her head, but it really bothered her just because of
Speaker 1: like sensory stuff. So she didn't wear the hat. She
Speaker 1: had it kind of like, you know, on her side.
Speaker 1: And people were making comments about that. And it's usually
Speaker 1: old old farts that don't mean any harm, but like
Speaker 1: they also just don't I mean, they don't have any
Speaker 1: awareness of that kind of stuff. So hey, we got
Speaker 1: to I mean, if I don't advocate for my kids,
Speaker 1: you know, how could I ask anybody else to, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, so just keep that stuff
Speaker 1: in mind. As we are just now two days away
Speaker 1: from from Halloween and again fingers crossed hopefully hopefully there's
Speaker 1: no rain, but it doesn't look good right now. All right,
Speaker 1: no guest schedule to join us today, So if you
Speaker 1: guys want to react to anything, I mean, let's keep it,
Speaker 1: you know, within within the guardrails here of what we
Speaker 1: typically do on this show. And I don't mean we
Speaker 1: got to keep it super serious, nothing but sports, but
Speaker 1: like we are really close to an election and if
Speaker 1: I just say, hey, call in if you want to react,
Speaker 1: Like maybe people want to start talking politics and that's
Speaker 1: that's not what we want to do here. So again
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Speaker 1: whatever you've got, feel free to send them our way.
Speaker 1: And I will go ahead and tell you I don't
Speaker 1: have a whole lot to add other than what was
Speaker 1: said last night in the postgame show, because to say
Speaker 1: that last night was a wasted time is mean, unnecessary
Speaker 1: and just you know, sounds like I'm being a jerk.
Speaker 1: But if you know somebody came up and said, man,
Speaker 1: that felt like a waste of time, I would say
Speaker 1: I wholeheartedly agree. Now the positives from last night, you
Speaker 1: beat an exhibition opponent like you're supposed to. I mean,
Speaker 1: you didn't beat him as bad as you beat young Harris,
Speaker 1: and you didn't beat Spalding as bad as h Did
Speaker 1: you see what happened in the Michigan State exhibition game
Speaker 1: last night. The score in the Michigan State exhibition game
Speaker 1: last day, Michigan State was up fifty eight to five
Speaker 1: at half against Wayne State. Is Wayne a person? Did
Speaker 1: Wayne go one on five? Is that how that happened?
Speaker 3: Five?
Speaker 1: Fifty eight to five at halftime? So again, yeah, you'll
Speaker 1: find other exhibition games that are uglier than the one
Speaker 1: that Louisville played. And yes, I know that Spaulding as
Speaker 1: a Division three team, but you won ninety nine to
Speaker 1: fifty four. And I just can't if I tried, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to try, but if I did try,
Speaker 1: I would be unable to make you, guys believe that
Speaker 1: I have any strong thoughts about this team following what
Speaker 1: that was last night. So the fans that did go
Speaker 1: got a chance to see this team in person, maybe
Speaker 1: it was their first time, So that's a positive. You
Speaker 1: won big. You were able to really see that you
Speaker 1: have depth. Right, Guys who were pretty pretty big time
Speaker 1: for you when it comes to scoring in your first
Speaker 1: exhibition game had quiet nights. That's chucky Hepburn and Terrence Edwards.
Speaker 1: But that was okay because you ended up getting big,
Speaker 1: big contributions from the guys off the bench. Case in
Speaker 1: prior Corn Johnson. So you know, there are some things
Speaker 1: you can point to and say, Okay, yeah, that was encouraging,
Speaker 1: that was nice to see. And hey, anytime we get
Speaker 1: a chance to see this new team, this new program
Speaker 1: led by Pat Kelsey, I mean, that's a reminder that
Speaker 1: we're not stuck with Kenny Pain anymore. So, like again,
Speaker 1: you can find some things that you would say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're beneficial to the overall situation last night. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I just can't tell you that I really learned a
Speaker 1: lot and I didn't. I don't really have that any
Speaker 1: takeaways because you know, I found myself looking at not
Speaker 1: only the numbers here as I'm looking at the box score,
Speaker 1: but like, just to give you an example, they came
Speaker 1: out of the half, they were up at halftime, what
Speaker 1: was a score? They were up a lot at half.
Speaker 1: Let's see, they were up fifty three to twenty one
Speaker 1: at the half. And they came out in the second
Speaker 1: half and they had two straight unforced turnovers where they
Speaker 1: stepped out of bounds in the same exact spot on
Speaker 1: two straight possessions two different players, and Spalding got five
Speaker 1: quick points right they hit a three right out of
Speaker 1: the gate. They had a bucket on the other end
Speaker 1: after that, so you know, quick five oh run for Spaulding.
Speaker 1: Two unforced turnovers, and I found myself thinking, well, that's
Speaker 1: pretty sloppy. You got to clean it up. But like,
Speaker 1: these are games that I'm telling you you don't learn
Speaker 1: really anything from and you can even in the moment,
Speaker 1: think you are. You can even a week later think
Speaker 1: that you are. But go back to those X. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're nothibition games. They were real games. Like when Louisville
Speaker 1: played Jacksonville State and Austin p and football to start
Speaker 1: this season, what were those games? A waste of time?
Speaker 1: I mean there were two home games that were lightly
Speaker 1: attended because of the opponent. It didn't get Louisville ready
Speaker 1: for better competition. I mean, I don't think it hurt them,
Speaker 1: but like it was a waste of time, Like we
Speaker 1: didn't learn anything about Louisville. And I think you can
Speaker 1: see some things and really it can lie. You can
Speaker 1: be lied to with these types of games. So again
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to reign on anybody's parade. Louisville one
Speaker 1: ninety nine to fifty four and look pretty good doing it.
Speaker 1: Again a balanced scoring attack. Like, I don't feel any
Speaker 1: different about this Louisville team today than I did before
Speaker 1: I watched either of these exhibition games. And that's not
Speaker 1: to say that I you know that, I've you known
Speaker 1: that everything I saw confirms where I was. It's not.
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you. Even if there was a like,
Speaker 1: let's say they won these things they want both these
Speaker 1: games by seventy points each, or let's say they were,
Speaker 1: you know, closer than we would have expected, that would
Speaker 1: have been a little bit more of a tell, I suppose.
Speaker 1: But let's say instead of winning these games by forty
Speaker 1: and fifty roughly, they won them by twenty. That would
Speaker 1: probably be a little bit of a head scratcher. But again, like,
Speaker 1: you don't truly learn a lot here, and we don't
Speaker 1: need to make it a big part of the show
Speaker 1: today because who would want to do that. That wouldn't be fun.
Speaker 1: But you could take these games away in the only
Speaker 1: the only component that would be bummed about it is
Speaker 1: these schools that get a chance to come and play
Speaker 1: programs like Louisville and collect a pretty profitable check for
Speaker 1: a program like they are. I mean that they would
Speaker 1: miss that but like other than that, like we don't
Speaker 1: need these games, and you know, if you feel a
Speaker 1: certain way after watching these two exhibitions, then good for you,
Speaker 1: like in all honesty, like I mean that, like maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't watch any of them in exhibition, Maybe you
Speaker 1: didn't watch any of the exhibitions in the Bahamas. Maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't really have a good grasp of the roster
Speaker 1: overall because you really hadn't been paying close attention. So
Speaker 1: in that case, then yeah, it was beneficial for you
Speaker 1: to watch and just kind of learn who's on the
Speaker 1: team because it's all brand new. So I guess that
Speaker 1: could be something that you benefited from having these games.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think Pat Kelsey's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to show these guys some stuff on film to just
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, give them the visual. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: didn't do what you were supposed to hear, this is
Speaker 1: a careless turnover. How did they get an offensive rebound?
Speaker 1: Those kind of things. But I wouldn't be shocked at
Speaker 1: even he doesn't do much of a deep dive with
Speaker 1: film in these two exhibition games, because again, like it's
Speaker 1: just a different world than what you're going to be
Speaker 1: going up against moving forward. And look, Morehead State. They're
Speaker 1: pretty good for who they are, right, they made the
Speaker 1: tournament last year, they did go through a coaching change,
Speaker 1: and like a lot of schools, they've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of new players because of the portal. But I mean
Speaker 1: it when I say it, like Morehead State is a
Speaker 1: billion times better than the two teams you just played,
Speaker 1: and we all know that. So like I could look
Speaker 1: at okay, wow, if Spalding was able to you know,
Speaker 1: keep it within eight after the first TV timeout, geez,
Speaker 1: what's more at stake? But it's just again, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's to me that that's why waste of time is
Speaker 1: just has such a negative tone to it. But I
Speaker 1: believe it. I believe it was in fact an actual
Speaker 1: waste of time. So and it you know, it was
Speaker 1: another night where understandably so many fans did not go,
Speaker 1: and it becomes a talking point about what do we
Speaker 1: got to do to get people back at games? Not
Speaker 1: ask them to pay what you're asking them to pay
Speaker 1: to go see Louisville play Spaulding. There's your answer. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could have made the tickets substantially cheaper and you
Speaker 1: would have had a bigger crowd. I know that how
Speaker 1: much bigger? I don't know, like you know what the
Speaker 1: actual number was, who knows. So again, I am super
Speaker 1: optimistic about this team and this current season. It's awesome
Speaker 1: that Pat has been able to put together this roster
Speaker 1: that maybe doesn't have an All American caliber type guy,
Speaker 1: but man, you got a bunch of really solid players,
Speaker 1: a bunch of you know, better than solid players, guys
Speaker 1: that you know would have key roles on other really
Speaker 1: good teams. Now would would they be the other team's
Speaker 1: best player? Probably not or probably not, depending on the
Speaker 1: team I suppose. But overall, like, I don't want anybody
Speaker 1: to hear me say wasted time with these exhibitions, and
Speaker 1: I don't really have a whole lot to add. I
Speaker 1: don't want anybody to to weaponize that against me as
Speaker 1: if I'm not all in on Pat Kelse in this
Speaker 1: current team, because I am. I just can't fake it
Speaker 1: to you as if like, wow, just see what they
Speaker 1: did last night against Spaulding. You kidding me? So you know, disclaimer,
Speaker 1: nobody's more excited about Lots basketball than me. Maybe some
Speaker 1: can claim that they have they can match my excitement,
Speaker 1: but like I'm all in. I just you know, those
Speaker 1: games are what they are. That's the best way to
Speaker 1: put it all. Right, some other things we'll get into today. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we need to get back into the louisvill Fot conversations.
Speaker 1: So I thought yesterday was a real optimistic day for
Speaker 1: me on the show because I truly believe that what
Speaker 1: happened in Boston. You know, I went back and watched
Speaker 1: the second half last night as I was going to bed,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't just that they erased a twenty to
Speaker 1: nothing deficit and came back on the road really having
Speaker 1: to do it all internally, meaning you're not riding any
Speaker 1: momentum from a crowd, You're playing in a pretty empty
Speaker 1: arena in a game where you know you were done
Speaker 1: twenty to nothing like it would have been almost the
Speaker 1: expectation to just kind of mail it in. I know
Speaker 1: that sounds crazy, but as I always say, it's human
Speaker 1: nature at times to just like, you know, start thinking
Speaker 1: all what to go through the motions as if you know, man,
Speaker 1: this season really did crumble right before our eyes. So
Speaker 1: that would have been, you know, a bummer we'd have
Speaker 1: had to been. We would have we would have had
Speaker 1: to be critical about that. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, like, they didn't do that, they bounced back.
Speaker 1: So to see them come back and win a game.
Speaker 1: What was the final score there? Let's see, because what
Speaker 1: was it? Yeah, let's see here. This is one of
Speaker 1: those things that's really not super important. But I get
Speaker 1: totally sidetracked once I realize, I'm spinning my wheels and
Speaker 1: I'm like, why can't I remember the score of the game.
Speaker 1: Either way, you know, they only gave up seven points
Speaker 1: after being down twenty to nothing and then came back
Speaker 1: and really dominated the game. I mean the last six
Speaker 1: possessions for BC. The Louisville defense gave up sixty eight
Speaker 1: yards on thirty one plays and again gave up no points.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't just the result. I go back to
Speaker 1: what I said yesterday. I can reiterate it because I
Speaker 1: now mean it in a little bit of a different way.
Speaker 1: The result itself is not impressive. You be Boston College
Speaker 1: and you didn't cover, But how you did it on
Speaker 1: the road, coming from twenty points behind, that's impressive. But
Speaker 1: also another layer here that I want to add to
Speaker 1: that these guys were bouncing around on defense after the game.
Speaker 1: They had an attitude about themselves some swagger, as they say,
Speaker 1: and that may mean nothing, right, we'll find out what
Speaker 1: it meant, if anything, when they take on Clemson on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they have to go win for us
Speaker 1: to claim that there was any value there. But you know,
Speaker 1: I saw this team kind of carrying themselves towards the
Speaker 1: end of that game really differently than they've been all year. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe that's desperation on my end, trying to find the
Speaker 1: sign of, oh my gosh, they're going to clean it up.
Speaker 1: They're going to start playing much, you know, much better
Speaker 1: football and not be sloppy, not shoot themselves in the foot.
Speaker 1: So maybe I am reaching a little bit here, I'll
Speaker 1: grant you that. But I also think if you have
Speaker 1: followed this team all year and you really look at
Speaker 1: it again, not the overall result, but everything that came
Speaker 1: with it. It's not that I'm telling you beating Boston
Speaker 1: College is super impressive, but how it all happened, and
Speaker 1: the way in which they seemingly felt about themselves as
Speaker 1: they were doing it, It's almost like they kind of
Speaker 1: came to life. And again, we'll know quickly because Saturday
Speaker 1: is going to be a tough test. No doubt and
Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell you that I think they're
Speaker 1: going to win, but I'm anxious at least to see
Speaker 1: how they come out because poor start slow starts have
Speaker 1: been a big issue for this group. And one place
Speaker 1: you don't want to dig yourself a hole is on
Speaker 1: the road at Clemson whenever they're playing seemingly some of
Speaker 1: the best football in the country right now, all right,
Speaker 1: some of the things we need to get into is
Speaker 1: we get to our first break here. Ron English talked
Speaker 1: yesterday and I wish you wouldn't. I went from thinking
Speaker 1: Ron English was really humble and you know, telling us
Speaker 1: during the summer, if you want to point the finger,
Speaker 1: you want to throw some blame out there. As far
Speaker 1: as the defense last year, blame it on me, Well now,
Speaker 1: I mean he's acting as if you know, it's all
Speaker 1: the players fault and they're not smart enough to understand
Speaker 1: what he wanted to do. He didn't say that word
Speaker 1: for a word, because he wouldn't. But like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful the defense can carry on some carry you know,
Speaker 1: carry on some momentum here from what they did against
Speaker 1: Boston College. But I didn't like what I heard yesterday
Speaker 1: from Ron English. All right, quick break, we'll come back.
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Speaker 1: for the next two and a half hours. If you've
Speaker 1: got other things going on. As far as priorities, make
Speaker 1: sure you reevaluate those priorities, because we should come first.
Speaker 1: That's the way. It's the way I see it, And
Speaker 1: you know, I know that's just the world I live in,
Speaker 1: But allow me to do me. I'm in a good
Speaker 1: mood today, John.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're in a good Can you tell I
Speaker 3: don't feel in a better mood all week so far? This,
Speaker 3: I mean it's only been two days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again like it's sad that, like when my
Speaker 1: football team wins or loses, my mood and emotion shouldn't
Speaker 1: be so much dependent upon that, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean when Indiana loses their first game. If they do,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're still gonna be You're still gonna be
Speaker 1: the midst of a phenomenal season. But like it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna crush you.
Speaker 3: It is because you want to see the dream go
Speaker 3: as far as it can go. I mean, at this port,
Speaker 3: we're talking potential conference championship appearances and maybe even the
Speaker 3: college football playoff, which again two months ago sounded like
Speaker 3: insanity and look.
Speaker 1: Like it or not. When you do well, expectations change.
Speaker 1: So they could stop winning now and not win another one.
Speaker 1: And if you'd told anybody who played out that way,
Speaker 1: that would be weird. But I'm just saying, like he's
Speaker 1: got eight wins right now. You could have told anybody
Speaker 1: before the season started. If they got to eight meeting Indiana,
Speaker 1: then you know, give the guy a statue. But now
Speaker 1: you are week by week watching this team win and
Speaker 1: win big, and you are eight and oher with no losses,
Speaker 1: Like like it or not fair or not, Indiana fans
Speaker 1: are expecting this team to go to the playoff.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I think if they somehow miss out, I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be upset to the point where like they're
Speaker 1: bitter about their coach, but like, you can't control what
Speaker 1: happens along the ride, and the ride has let Indiana
Speaker 1: dream big and it's right there in front of them
Speaker 1: like it would be, and I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to so trust me. This isn't like better be careful signetti,
Speaker 1: you better deliver. That's not where I'm coming from. But
Speaker 1: like it or not fair or not, they have shown
Speaker 1: even with a schedule that's not super challenging, that like
Speaker 1: they're in position to make the Big Ten Championship game
Speaker 1: at minimum, right, I mean, I mean.
Speaker 3: If they go eleven and one. There is a weird
Speaker 3: scenario where there's a bunch of teams that are tied
Speaker 3: at for second and eleven and one if Oregon goes undefeated,
Speaker 3: so they could be on the outside looking in depending
Speaker 3: on how it plays out, but still an eleven in
Speaker 3: one season would be more than enough to be happy
Speaker 3: about what happened this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they go eleven and one and miss
Speaker 1: out on the Big Ten championship game just because they
Speaker 1: you know, they ended up losing to Ohio State, it
Speaker 1: would still be such an insanely successful successful season that
Speaker 1: nobody would have believed you if you'd told about it,
Speaker 1: told them about it beforehand. That would be a punch
Speaker 1: to the gut, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: It would be, especially if on top of that you
Speaker 3: also get left out of the college football playoff potentially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but hey, worry about that when you
Speaker 1: get there. Yet, I would keep briding the wave and
Speaker 1: you know, enjoying this this I mean, I always say
Speaker 1: this unexpected success is always better than really any other
Speaker 1: type of success. Like success is always fun when you're
Speaker 1: a fan and you're watching your team. But sometimes even
Speaker 1: though you know we don't actually play, we have no
Speaker 1: impact on the actual results in these games. If you
Speaker 1: go into a season knowing you have the best team
Speaker 1: in the country and if you're ever going to win
Speaker 1: a national championships, this is the year to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good place to be because, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's better than having a team that you feel like
Speaker 1: Mike might make the tournament. But there's also that pressure
Speaker 1: of like, man, this is our chance. Let's not screw
Speaker 1: it up. Indiana. They could be good under Signetti and
Speaker 1: may have never had a situation play out the way
Speaker 1: that this one has. So like, you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: making I'm sorry, John, I feel like I'm taking this
Speaker 1: in the direction we don't need to go in because
Speaker 1: I think I mean again, like in a weird way,
Speaker 1: They've gotten to the point where not making again, not again,
Speaker 1: saying it out loud, I feel like I'm gonna fall
Speaker 1: out of the chair and just you know, my brain's
Speaker 1: gonna combust. But Indiana being able to say eight games
Speaker 1: in that, yeah, we better make the Big ten championship game.
Speaker 1: Let's go get it done. Like that's just a crazy
Speaker 1: thing to say, but you know here we are, all right.
Speaker 1: Some breaking news in the NFL, Lamar Jackson. They lose
Speaker 1: to the Browns, which, as I discussed yesterday, you already
Speaker 1: burned too early this year that you didn't need to
Speaker 1: burn meaning losses. Now, I guess losing to Kansas City
Speaker 1: at their place. That's not one that you know you
Speaker 1: can look back and say, wow, how do we lose
Speaker 1: that one? I mean, it's the Chiefs. They're unbeaten and
Speaker 1: it's the Chiefs, and they've kind of been your ryptonite.
Speaker 1: Losing to the rave or the Raiders at home, like,
Speaker 1: that's one to where that loss to the Browns doesn't
Speaker 1: sting as bad. But despite looking like the best team
Speaker 1: in the NFL the last few weeks, that lost to
Speaker 1: the Browns was kind of telling. Maybe this team is
Speaker 1: still vulnerable and everybody is in the NFL. Anybody could
Speaker 1: beat anybody. That's kind of what makes the NFL awesome.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be shocked if this move sending Deontay
Speaker 1: Johnson from the Carolina Panthers to the Ravens. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: been in the works for a while, or maybe they realized, Okay,
Speaker 1: we've got our best chance. Derrick Henry. We've got him.
Speaker 1: Everybody thought he was past his prime. We've got him
Speaker 1: in a spot where he's still one of the best
Speaker 1: running backs in the league. Lamar, I mean, we know
Speaker 1: what he can do. We got a good young receiver
Speaker 1: in Zay Flowers. You've got likely and Mark Andrews at
Speaker 1: tight end your defense. You know, they've not been as
Speaker 1: good as you probably want him to be, but still
Speaker 1: they're good enough, I think. But one more weapon here
Speaker 1: for Deontay, for Lamar Jackson, having receiver Deontay Johnson in
Speaker 1: the mix can only help. I mean, he's been pretty
Speaker 1: vocal about how unhappy he is in Carolina, which I
Speaker 1: would assume everybody playing for the Carolina Panthers this year
Speaker 1: is unhappy. He would be happy. So, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how much of an impact is this guy's
Speaker 1: gonna make right away, but he is somebody that you
Speaker 1: know that clearly they saw some value in and they
Speaker 1: went after him. Also, the Colts bitching took too long.
Speaker 1: Took a day, it took two days too long. They
Speaker 1: should have done it Sunday after he said what he said.
Speaker 1: And I know he might have just been, you know,
Speaker 1: a young, immature guy that's learning on the fly, And
Speaker 1: maybe that's more of the organization's fault for putting Anthony
Speaker 1: Richardson out there in this position. But look like it
Speaker 1: or not, man, this is the job. You are a
Speaker 1: quarterback of an NFL team. You set the tone with
Speaker 1: just about everything and for you on third and goal
Speaker 1: to say, man, I was tired, like you just you
Speaker 1: can't do that, and the organization can't allow him to
Speaker 1: do that without some type of action. And the action
Speaker 1: here is putting his ass on the bench and riding
Speaker 1: with Joe Flacco, which I think he gives him a
Speaker 1: better chance to win, meaning Flacco. But maybe Richardson matures,
Speaker 1: develops more in the background and maybe he's better off
Speaker 1: next year to kind of hopefully at that point actually
Speaker 1: started as an AFL NFL career. But as I said
Speaker 1: yesterday there, I can't think of any quarterback that's ever
Speaker 1: had success in the NFL that that will have had
Speaker 1: a had a path quite like Anthony Richardson. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is he's never been successful as
Speaker 1: a quarterback ever. Two and eight as a starter as
Speaker 1: a senior in high school, losing record at Florida. But man,
Speaker 1: he can run fast, throw the ball really far and hard,
Speaker 1: and he's big. Let's draft him, let's let's let's let's
Speaker 1: let's have this guy be our franchise. And you know,
Speaker 1: you got to pay the consequences because this guy just
Speaker 1: all of all of a sudden becoming a successful quarterback
Speaker 1: only in the NFL but never anywhere else like as
Speaker 1: that that's never happened. So anyways, all right, Kentucky basketball
Speaker 1: is in action tonight, and I gotta admit, like, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think throw an upset alert. It's another
Speaker 1: exhibition game and it's it's a deep team. But I
Speaker 1: think the first mistake Mark Pope might have made, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's made some others. I mean, he's not perfect.
Speaker 1: But like, if you're going to play Division two schools
Speaker 1: when you have a brand new team and you know
Speaker 1: you're at Kentucky, meaning that's not a fan base that
Speaker 1: would be accepting of well, it's a new team, it's
Speaker 1: a new coach. You know, we were challenged and maybe
Speaker 1: we lost to a Division two schools, so it's okay,
Speaker 1: we love you Mark Pope. Like he's playing the defending
Speaker 1: national champions of the Division two level, John, Like, why
Speaker 1: would you do that? It's like, what's what's the value?
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, well, they're gonna get us ready to play.
Speaker 1: They might beat you too, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I guess if you if you destroy them,
Speaker 3: there's the value in Wow, we did just beat the
Speaker 3: one of the better teams in Division two. But if
Speaker 3: you don't do that, there's not much I guess, to
Speaker 3: value other than what you just mentioned. Yeah, you played
Speaker 3: some tougher competition to get you ready for the regular season.
Speaker 1: I mean that is who they're playing tonight, because I
Speaker 1: see in Minnesota State.
Speaker 3: I mean nothing for hockey, I believe, I think their
Speaker 3: Division one and NCAA hockey.
Speaker 1: But that makes sense that D two. Yeah, but I mean,
Speaker 1: yeah they are. Did they win the national championship last year?
Speaker 3: Let's see here, I heard that somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they won the regular season of their league.
Speaker 1: I don't know where they lost in the tournament or
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't. Okay, sorry for you know, getting a
Speaker 1: little caught up and distracted by the Division two basketball
Speaker 1: tournament last year. But either way, if they won the
Speaker 1: championship last year or not, they you know, they did
Speaker 1: go thirty five and two, and yes they did win,
Speaker 1: they did win the national championship. If this is the
Speaker 1: same team, and it is because I'm on their team
Speaker 1: website and they're talking about an exhibition game against Kentucky,
Speaker 1: so clearly it's the right team. Because I'm thinking to myself, Wait,
Speaker 1: you know, don't don't make yourself sound like an even
Speaker 1: bigger dumb ass nick, Like, make sure this is in
Speaker 1: fact the team they're playing, because I'm second guesting, like
Speaker 1: who would do this? Who would schedule a Division two? Like?
Speaker 1: Who would schedule a Division two game against the best
Speaker 1: Division two team out there? You have nothing to gain
Speaker 1: from this and everything to lose. And if you're gonna
Speaker 1: give me the will, hey, at least they're gonna get
Speaker 1: them ready to play. Dude, With the way you built
Speaker 1: your team, Pope, you could scribbage your own guys and
Speaker 1: have the better ability to get ready because you know,
Speaker 1: not to say that every bench player on Kentucky's rosters
Speaker 1: like elite, but like with the way in which both
Speaker 1: Pope and Kelsey built their rosters, you could make the
Speaker 1: case that they could split teams up and have a
Speaker 1: better challenge, more competition than playing Minnesota State, Young Harris
Speaker 1: and whoever Spaulding.
Speaker 3: Do we know whether or not any of these players
Speaker 3: from last year's national championship team like transfer to a
Speaker 3: Division I school, I don't know, make this a different scenario.
Speaker 1: Of course, I don't know. And if in fact you know,
Speaker 1: let's see here it says they return, they averaged eighty
Speaker 1: four and a half points a game last year. They're not,
Speaker 1: it says, I guess these guys are back because it
Speaker 1: mentions here in this ride up. It says Kyrie Willingham
Speaker 1: average thirteen and fourteen and a half points five rebounds
Speaker 1: per game last season, while senior Justin Egan's posted twelve
Speaker 1: and three, connecting on eighty six three pointers. So if
Speaker 1: these guys are mentioned in the ride up, then I
Speaker 1: guess that means that they're back. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if they were leading scorers or not, but you know
Speaker 1: a guy who averaged fourteen and a half and five
Speaker 1: that's pretty good production coming back from really good team.
Speaker 1: So again, I'm not at all saying that everybody should
Speaker 1: tune in and like to see Minnesota State beat Kentucky,
Speaker 1: because I don't think that's going to happen. But this
Speaker 1: is also another example that I can throw out there,
Speaker 1: like why do this? Like why Like these games are
Speaker 1: a waste of time usually, like there's not a whole
Speaker 1: lot to gain. But now that you have the ability
Speaker 1: to play these private scrimmages, like I would just do
Speaker 1: that if I was a head coach, But you know,
Speaker 1: he wanted to play Minnesota State. I'm sure there's some
Speaker 1: kind of connection from Mark Pope, just like there is
Speaker 1: with most of these exhibition opponents, for all these schools
Speaker 1: that aren't you know, local, like just a team from
Speaker 1: within the state. But would be something, isn't it. It
Speaker 1: would be something.
Speaker 3: Even if Minnesota State makes them sweat a little bit,
Speaker 3: that'd be something.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I mean, because here's the thing, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know I was going to say, if they do
Speaker 1: make them sweat and it's like a close game that
Speaker 1: comes down to like the last few possessions, I don't
Speaker 1: have a clue how their fans are going to react.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if they just say, well, hey,
Speaker 1: that team's really good. I'm glad Pope put them on
Speaker 1: the schedule for exhibition because that really got us tested
Speaker 1: for you know, Wright State next week. Like you know,
Speaker 1: they may have that reaction because when Cal would win
Speaker 1: a game but it was close, or you know, his
Speaker 1: team would play bad, sometimes the criticism would be built up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's no built up anger
Speaker 1: or angst with Pope, Like he's he's rolling with house money.
Speaker 1: The honeymoon is in full. I mean, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: getting honeymoon laid five times a day right now with
Speaker 1: how much they love him. And you know, if he keeps,
Speaker 1: if they win this year, then that'll keep happening. But
Speaker 1: like he's getting cut off from the honeymoon intercourse if
Speaker 1: because I think if the well never I was gonna
Speaker 1: make a bad joke that might not have even landed
Speaker 1: because I'm not quite sure. Oh yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what that was, but that was a sign for me
Speaker 1: to just it was a sign for me to bail
Speaker 1: on the joke that might have been. It wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been inappropriate. It might have just you know, made me
Speaker 1: look foolish. But nonetheless, like they're gonna love him until
Speaker 1: they give him reason not to. And I think even
Speaker 1: a close win against an exhibition opponent would keep them
Speaker 1: just loving all over him. And I'm not criticizing them
Speaker 1: because again, like I get it. I get why Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans are all in on Pope and are re energized
Speaker 1: in feeling the nostalgia because he's a guy that does
Speaker 1: sort of see Kentucky as a I mean, he doesn't
Speaker 1: put himself before the program like Cal did. Cal's brand
Speaker 1: was cal not Kentucky. And that's not the same with Pope,
Speaker 1: and clearly that's got to be refreshing for UK fans.
Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta get to a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back on the other side. Jeff Brown was asked
Speaker 1: and really talked for the first time yesterday about Colin
Speaker 1: Lacy's decision. We'll let you hear he had to say. Also,
Speaker 1: he was asked if, in fact he would want Colin
Speaker 1: Lacy back next year, So we'll let you hear that.
Speaker 1: And again I don't have the audio. Maybe I'll pull
Speaker 1: it up here see if I can find it. But
Speaker 1: Ron English said something too that, you know, I'll just
Speaker 1: let you guys here for yourself. You come to your
Speaker 1: own conclusion as far as what you think of it.
Speaker 1: But what I do need you to do is stick
Speaker 1: with us right here. It's Coffee and Company. Feel by
Speaker 1: Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety with nil and the
Speaker 1: portal still being I mean pretty new in the grand
Speaker 1: scheme of things, right, it's not brand new, but when
Speaker 1: you consider how long most of us have been college
Speaker 1: sports fans, Louisville fans, Kentucky fans, whatever it is, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is new if you just consider it from that timeframe,
Speaker 1: and it's so different than what we were used to forever,
Speaker 1: what our parents were used to, what our grandparents were
Speaker 1: used to when it comes to following college sports. So
Speaker 1: with all that said, it's not a huge surprise that
Speaker 1: with Colin Lacey making his decision last week to opt out,
Speaker 1: that you have a lot of mixed results. You have
Speaker 1: a mixed bag, I should say, as far as the reaction,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say results, but some fans are like,
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody, I think collectively agrees that this sucks
Speaker 1: and you wish that you had You wish you had
Speaker 1: him because he's obviously you're a better team with him.
Speaker 1: But I think there's some that are just kind of
Speaker 1: understanding that, hey, this kid's got a chance to take
Speaker 1: advantage of the way the system is set up now
Speaker 1: and it could benefit him in every way, could benefit
Speaker 1: him financially, could benefit him to have another opportunity to
Speaker 1: play full season and put better film out there for
Speaker 1: the NFL. Like, this is a guy that, yeah, some
Speaker 1: say he's quitting on his team, and I don't like
Speaker 1: they're like, again, you have two different reactions here that
Speaker 1: I that I can understand both of meaning like if
Speaker 1: you're somebody that says, hey, he's take he's looking out
Speaker 1: for himself, Let's do whatever we can to make sure
Speaker 1: that when he does come back, he wants to come
Speaker 1: back here. And then the other side, as the hell
Speaker 1: of him, he quit, Like I get it on both sides.
Speaker 1: And Jeff Bram I think has also had to really
Speaker 1: balance this because, make no mistake about it, he wasn't
Speaker 1: happy that this decision was made by Colin Lacy. But
Speaker 1: he also is somebody that and this is this doesn't
Speaker 1: make I mean, I think Jeff's a really good coach.
Speaker 1: This isn't something that makes him a good coach. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good thing to be doing right now,
Speaker 1: given the way college athletics is. But I just think
Speaker 1: his nature, his personality, who he is as a dude,
Speaker 1: he knows he can't control it. So like he's going
Speaker 1: to adjust and just live with it. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna you know, he's not somebody that I think
Speaker 1: is ever going to pout and try to, you know,
Speaker 1: pull a dabbo like I think Brohm knows like, hey,
Speaker 1: look if this is what we got to do, it's
Speaker 1: what we got to do. I want to win. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot you could change that he
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't like, but he would deal with it because
Speaker 1: this this is what he does. This is his livelihood.
Speaker 1: But here is what he was. Here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say when he was asked about Colin Lacy's decision
Speaker 1: last week.
Speaker 2: Well, with Colin, you know, we we support all the
Speaker 2: decisions that our players make that they think is best
Speaker 2: for them. You know, I was not in agree with
Speaker 2: the decision. It was not best for our football team,
Speaker 2: but I understand where he's coming from, and we definitely
Speaker 2: want to do what's best for all of our players,
Speaker 2: and we'll always we'll do that because I do think
Speaker 2: we're not as good a team without him. But the
Speaker 2: same time, we're going to support him, you know, whatever
Speaker 2: he wants us to help him with when it came
Speaker 2: to other guys stepping up.
Speaker 1: So I mean some could say, maybe that's just a
Speaker 1: canned answer to say whatever you have to say to
Speaker 1: not look bad, because I think if Brahm said dude's
Speaker 1: a quitter, we don't want him, there are some fans
Speaker 1: that would say, oh yeah, but there's other fans that
Speaker 1: would say, hey, let's let's like, let's not do that
Speaker 1: because we want to get him back. We know he's
Speaker 1: really good. So like I think Jeff's balancing this as
Speaker 1: best he can. I have a hard time thinking he
Speaker 1: would tell Lacy to kick Rocks if he does want
Speaker 1: to come back. But I still think this thing plays
Speaker 1: out the way that that I said it would last week,
Speaker 1: and it was just trying to you know, just a guess.
Speaker 1: But I think he'll he'll enter the portal and Louisville
Speaker 1: will be involved, and he'll probably end up getting an
Speaker 1: offer that is a lot of money. And he'll probably
Speaker 1: also end up getting an offer from a team that
Speaker 1: maybe has a better view of the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: season than Louisville meeting. Maybe they've got some momentum that
Speaker 1: Louivill doesn't have, and he'll go, He'll go. That's that's
Speaker 1: what I guess happens. Again, keyword there is guess. But
Speaker 1: when asked if he was, you know, if he'd won
Speaker 1: him back, no hesitation.
Speaker 2: I mean become a little better overall. It comes when
Speaker 2: it comes.
Speaker 1: To the wrong clip there. So sorry, he did say
Speaker 1: I skipped forward a little too farther, but he did
Speaker 1: say when I like asked, would you welcome him back?
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, we'll welcome him back. Didn't really
Speaker 1: you know, go up, didn't go too high too low
Speaker 1: on it. But again that's the balancing act if you're
Speaker 1: a college football coach. I think in you know, five
Speaker 1: six years ago, most coaches would say kick rocks, dude.
Speaker 1: But now you know the game has changed, and this
Speaker 1: guy is looking out for himself. But also he's really
Speaker 1: good and he could help you. All right, we got
Speaker 1: two hours left to stick around. Coffee and Company. Fiel
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Speaker 1: ninety