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Speaker 4: All right, Happy Friday, everybody, welcome in coffee and company
Speaker 4: fuel Bututh Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety Nick Coffee,
Speaker 4: the travel chief himself, Austin Montgomery alongside as we will
Speaker 4: take you up till six o'clock on day two of
Speaker 4: the two day stretch that I believe is the best
Speaker 4: two days in all of sports. And I am here
Speaker 4: to tell you at three oh one that despite yesterday's emotional,
Speaker 4: really celebration of life for that team that we love
Speaker 4: so much, that came to an end.
Speaker 2: You know, that was a bummer.
Speaker 4: But I'm feeling really good today. And I don't know,
Speaker 4: and we'll never know, I guess, and I'm sure a lot.
Speaker 2: Of you don't give a damn. But I have.
Speaker 4: Already kind of processed what played out yesterday, and I mean,
Speaker 4: I still I'm not happy that it happened, but I
Speaker 4: just have a feeling about this team in this season
Speaker 4: that even though it did fall short of what a
Speaker 4: lot of people expected, and even though you know, the
Speaker 4: seed line was certainly questionable, even who you played, their
Speaker 4: seed line was certainly questionable. I just I think that
Speaker 4: it being such a nice jolt of life for us
Speaker 4: as Louisville basketball fans as well as just even though
Speaker 4: they did fall short and didn't play great and could
Speaker 4: have played better, but I think we all know deep
Speaker 4: down Creighton was better, and to look at this season
Speaker 4: and this team specifically, even yesterday's game alone, it's just
Speaker 4: hard for me to have those feelings of, Man, I'm
Speaker 4: so disappointed. I mean, I'm disappointed in the result and
Speaker 4: that it's over, but I don't I still feel nothing
Speaker 4: but love for this team overall. And we went on
Speaker 4: the airs shortly after the game ended. I mean it
Speaker 4: was basically almost right after it ended. So I played
Speaker 4: some sound for you yesterday. Pat Kelsey talking about his
Speaker 4: technical foul as well as Terrence Edward Junior just talking
Speaker 4: about kind of what this season meant for him in
Speaker 4: his one year at Louisville, and then you know, I
Speaker 4: got to hear a lot more of it after the fact,
Speaker 4: and it just it just solidified what I thought what happened, meaning,
Speaker 4: no matter what happens in the tournament, gonna be hard
Speaker 4: for me to not have a great appreciation for the
Speaker 4: season as well as these guys who not only helped
Speaker 4: us come back to life and put together a successful season.
Speaker 4: And look, you could talk about, well, what did it mean?
Speaker 4: The ACC stinks, you know, and you're right, the ACC
Speaker 4: does stink, but it also kind of worked out well
Speaker 4: for us because we won a lot of games. A
Speaker 4: lot of games. I mean in twenty twenty five, Louisville
Speaker 4: went I mean they lost one game. I mean when
Speaker 4: January started, Louisville lost to Georgia Tech to Duke, and
Speaker 4: then I guess the third game would have been yesterday.
Speaker 4: So it's not even about like, you know, how good
Speaker 4: was Louisville Really, I honestly don't care, because we took
Speaker 4: advantage of the league being what it was, and who knows,
Speaker 4: maybe if the league was better, Louisville still would have
Speaker 4: had the same record. We'll never know, but I think
Speaker 4: it's two things. One, just the circumstance surrounding like our
Speaker 4: whole last three four years for Louisville. But I think
Speaker 4: the reason I'm here twenty four hours removed from devastation
Speaker 4: and feeling good. I mean, there's a lot of things. One,
Speaker 4: I love the NTAA Tournament, but also you know, like
Speaker 4: I had to learn how to enjoy these two days
Speaker 4: without a team even in the field for six straight years.
Speaker 4: And I guess in twenty seventeen Louisville did enter the
Speaker 4: Big Dance with expectation.
Speaker 2: You were a two seed, had.
Speaker 4: Donovan, Mitchell, Ray Spaulding, Ding Adel q Snyder. I mean
Speaker 4: that Jalen Johnson, that team should have gone further, to
Speaker 4: be honest with you. But nonetheless, like the six year drought,
Speaker 4: I didn't even know this until yesterday, Louisville missing the
Speaker 4: tournament six straight years. It matched the longest drought they've
Speaker 4: ever had with the tournament appearance. And I think the
Speaker 4: last time they did it was in the fifties, and
Speaker 4: then they only put sixteen teams in the field, So
Speaker 4: like making the tournament wasn't any I mean, it was
Speaker 4: they put sixteen teams in so without really fully realizing
Speaker 4: it in the moment, I just we had to get
Speaker 4: used to just enjoying an experience. Maybe enjoying is not
Speaker 4: the same thing, but like experiencing college Basketball's tournament without
Speaker 4: Louisville in it, like it or not, it six years
Speaker 4: without it all make you just at least get used
Speaker 4: to not having it. So everything that led up to
Speaker 4: yesterday was great. The result, of course, was not. But
Speaker 4: I still think I mean, I mean, it's nice to
Speaker 4: be able to know that despite it being over, you
Speaker 4: clearly we're ahead of sched you are ahead of schedule,
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of reason to be optimistic and
Speaker 4: excited about the future of Louisville basketball.
Speaker 2: All right again, it's coffee and company.
Speaker 4: Feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety What
Speaker 4: a day we have had thus far and yesterday overall.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think right now, the biggest takeaway I
Speaker 4: have as we speak at three to oh six is
Speaker 4: that we are roughly I mean, there's still many games
Speaker 4: to take place later today. I mean, we've got so
Speaker 4: first days in the books. You've had three games. I
Speaker 4: guess only only two games have concluded, it looks like,
Speaker 4: why are they not showing the bag?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 4: One game is over and that's Baylor Mississippi State and
Speaker 4: Alabama just won, and then you've got other games that
Speaker 4: are you know, ongoing. You know, we're about to start.
Speaker 4: So we're at least like sixty to sixty five percent
Speaker 4: of the way through the round of sixty four and
Speaker 4: we have no Cinderella yet. And that's not a bad thing,
Speaker 4: I don't think. But I'm looking at the rest of
Speaker 4: this of the these you know, of the of the day,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if we're going to get it all. Still,
Speaker 4: let me ask you this, what would you classify as
Speaker 4: a Cinderella?
Speaker 2: Like what would you say? Is like, oh, can you
Speaker 2: believe it?
Speaker 4: Because I feel like it's got to be like a
Speaker 4: fourteen seed thirteen.
Speaker 5: To sixteen, right, you know. I was going to ask, like, well,
Speaker 5: what do you consider Cinderella? But like, are we really considering,
Speaker 5: like these states a twelve seeds really a Cinderella anymore?
Speaker 5: Maybe if they go like to the eight seed. But
Speaker 5: I think the term Cinderella has been overused to where
Speaker 5: it now has to be a fourteen or above to
Speaker 5: really shock you, because no one's shocked by the thirteen
Speaker 5: or or maybe even the twelve winning, so Queens will
Speaker 5: get to the fourteens. And McNeice is a good is
Speaker 5: a good I think.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're clearly the biggest upset as far as
Speaker 4: seed line thus far in the tournament, but they're not.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're they're They're coached by Will Wade, who
Speaker 4: built his team with a lot of guys who've already
Speaker 4: played either in a tournament game or for a power program.
Speaker 2: So technically they're.
Speaker 4: The biggest upset, but I don't think they like the
Speaker 4: fact that they've been on the radar for the last
Speaker 4: couple of years because of the Will Wade situation. Certainly,
Speaker 4: they pulled off a big win, and they are the
Speaker 4: biggest upset thus far, but I don't feel like I mean,
Speaker 4: I didn't see a ton of people predicting Clemson to
Speaker 4: lose that game, But I don't believe it's because they
Speaker 4: were confident in Clemson. I think it was because they
Speaker 4: just assumed, well, this guy's already taken a job elsewhere,
Speaker 4: so they're gonna, you know, mail it in. But as
Speaker 4: I expected yesterday, I mean, I don't know if I
Speaker 4: mentioned yesterday the day before, I think that the Will
Speaker 4: Wade situation, it played out well for these guys because
Speaker 4: with where we are now in college basketball, Will Wade,
Speaker 4: like he actually has said it, he's done a lot
Speaker 4: of interviews and he's been made it clear like he's
Speaker 4: leaving McNeese State. Clearly they know that by now. But
Speaker 4: as far as the players, it's not a level of devastation.
Speaker 4: I can't believe this guy's bailing on us. He sold
Speaker 4: them on this, He sold his guys come here show,
Speaker 4: and you know, if I don't leave, you're gonna do
Speaker 4: well enough where you can go to a Power five.
Speaker 4: If I do well enough, we'll ride together. And you
Speaker 4: can tell that like that's the like, there's not any
Speaker 4: level of distraction or sadness from the program. Now the fans,
Speaker 4: it's a different story. And I don't even know how
Speaker 4: many McNeese State fans are out there, but I'm just saying, like, with.
Speaker 2: All that said that that is.
Speaker 4: The biggest upset, but also feel like there are reasons
Speaker 4: for it being different. I think had McNee State been
Speaker 4: who they are and they and there wasn't the component,
Speaker 4: which I guess that would kind of take it away.
Speaker 5: They were the popular pick, though I've heard a lot
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were.
Speaker 4: And the reason that it didn't didn't get as much
Speaker 4: hype as you would have expected is because there were
Speaker 4: people thinking, well, hey, this team has nothing to play for.
Speaker 4: Their coach is already gone. But again, when you and
Speaker 4: that's what you mean, if you are coaching in a
Speaker 4: lower level conference, I mean maybe even like true mid major, right,
Speaker 4: like mid major is Dayton and the mid majors that
Speaker 4: have had success, are their coaches comfortable enough to sell
Speaker 4: come here, use us to go higher because you've done
Speaker 4: enough in your history as a program to where those
Speaker 4: things can happen with you, right like Dayton's made Elite
Speaker 4: eight Sweet sixteen's Saint Mary's. I don't really know how
Speaker 4: far they've gone on the tournament, but they've been successful, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, I just think that if you were, you know,
Speaker 4: if you just if you're just trying to sell a
Speaker 4: kid on why they should come to you at a
Speaker 4: high school, it should be hey, you're going to get
Speaker 4: opportunity here and where you think you can play. Right now,
Speaker 4: they're not going to give a freshman an opportunity because
Speaker 4: you're not a McDonald's American, So come here and you
Speaker 4: will use this as a platform to go off for
Speaker 4: seventeen a night and then you'll get that interest like
Speaker 4: that would be a wise thing to do. But then again,
Speaker 4: coaches are basically realizing I'm renting players. But you also
Speaker 4: have to realize where you stand on the food chain,
Speaker 4: so you know, overall, I just think McNeese State is
Speaker 4: a good example of like where we are right now in.
Speaker 2: College basketball, because well, Wade, he'd be a fraud to try.
Speaker 4: To act like it to his team that he's not
Speaker 4: going to get out of there as soon as he
Speaker 4: can for a good job, and it sounds as if
Speaker 4: it's already done. He's going to den Cea State, And
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be shocked if a handful of those players,
Speaker 4: maybe more than a handful, end up following him de
Speaker 4: NC State, which same thing happened like last night Drake
Speaker 4: beat Missouri. Missouri never led in that game, really never
Speaker 4: felt like they were gonna win, like they trailed the
Speaker 4: whole time. And Drake is built off of Ben McCollum's
Speaker 4: D two team. They're four starters. Four of their five
Speaker 4: starters are guys who started for him at the D
Speaker 4: two level last year, and I mean, we're seeing it
Speaker 4: right before our eyes. Drake's an example, and I think
Speaker 4: McNeice is an example of Look, if you want to
Speaker 4: at least get there and have a chan because coaches
Speaker 4: can use this too, right, like if you are building
Speaker 4: your roster with like because here's the thing.
Speaker 2: If you are able.
Speaker 4: To sort of I guess, exist and thrive in this
Speaker 4: world where you have a good player at the mid major,
Speaker 4: they're leaving right because they're gonna get more money. If
Speaker 4: you can just at least accept that and embrace kind
Speaker 4: of where you stand in the mix of it to
Speaker 4: where hey, I'm gonna turn over my roster more than
Speaker 4: anybody because we're gonna have good players. We're gonna be
Speaker 4: good and they're gonna leave.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I feel like you being able to showcase that you
Speaker 4: are able to do that and still succeed that would
Speaker 4: make I think a higher level job be more attracted
Speaker 4: to you as a coach because they realize, Hey, in
Speaker 4: this ever changing landscape, this guy's already he's already had
Speaker 4: to deal with it and he's still succeeding.
Speaker 2: And who knows.
Speaker 4: You know, if you're at Akron and you're losing your
Speaker 4: best player to a high level program via the transfer portal,
Speaker 4: makes total sense. Well, if that same players is played
Speaker 4: for that coach at a Power five job, there's going
Speaker 4: to be more resources to where they're they're more inclined
Speaker 4: to stay. So I don't know, that's an observation I've
Speaker 4: made within the first day, and some change of the
Speaker 4: tournament that you know just stands out to wear it.
Speaker 4: Because again, in any other situation, had will Wade not
Speaker 4: been the Will Wade we knew from his previous stints
Speaker 4: at bcun LSU and as well as you know him
Speaker 4: in those strong ass offers, if he was just some
Speaker 4: up and comer, I think it would have been devastating
Speaker 4: to those guys that play for Nicknice because they'd be thinking,
Speaker 4: oh man, he sold us on us and the dream,
Speaker 4: and now he's leaving us. The guys who were playing
Speaker 4: for Will Wade, who had a thirty one to thirteen
Speaker 4: lead against Clemson yesterday, they came there knowing the situation.
Speaker 2: They were well aware of what was going on.
Speaker 4: Right other than that, I mean outside of I mean,
Speaker 4: if you look at yesterday's results, I mean I get
Speaker 4: I mean Michigan had a close call against UC San Diego,
Speaker 4: but they pulled it out Texas Tech. They won by
Speaker 4: double digits. I mean, I think, honestly the biggest. I mean,
Speaker 4: I guess technically eleven over six as an upset, but
Speaker 4: like I picked, I picked Drake to go to the
Speaker 4: Sweet sixteen because Missouri, among a few other teams that
Speaker 4: have already lost, I can't say they didn't belong in
Speaker 4: the tournament because the resume is what it is. But
Speaker 4: I mean I talked about it for at least the
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks. The SEC is the best league,
Speaker 4: the deepest league, deserved the most teams in the tournament.
Speaker 4: But there were teams that, you know, got a seed
Speaker 4: that was that was influenced by their affiliation with the league.
Speaker 4: And I'm not even saying it's because of like, hey,
Speaker 4: we're just gonna give them the benefit of the doubt,
Speaker 4: because of the of their league. The formulas, the numbers
Speaker 4: gave them the benefit of the doubt because they just
Speaker 4: simply had You know, if you have no bad losses
Speaker 4: and you did steal some wins against the really good teams,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be fine. But the SECS, in my opinion
Speaker 4: right now, the teams that are the most dangerous in
Speaker 4: the NCAA Tournament from the SEC, it's Florida number one.
Speaker 4: I'm still including Auburn, and I would say Tennessee just
Speaker 4: based off of their pedigree, but they've also proven to
Speaker 4: be vulnerable everybody else outside of that, like, any loss
Speaker 4: wouldn't shock me for them. I mean, Missouri down. They
Speaker 4: never had a lead against Drake Baylor, played with their
Speaker 4: food a little bit and made it closer than it
Speaker 4: needed to be, but they beat Mississippi State, Texas lost
Speaker 4: in the first four. Who else is it? I feel
Speaker 4: like there's another the SEC is of now it looks
Speaker 4: like it's four and four. I don't know where the
Speaker 4: other losses are, and we got time to.
Speaker 2: Get through it throughout the day.
Speaker 4: But in no way am I saying the SEC was
Speaker 4: a fraud and completely overrated. But there were big differences
Speaker 4: in all of the of the fourteen that got in,
Speaker 4: and I think there were wide gaps as well.
Speaker 2: So let's do this.
Speaker 4: Let's get to our first break a little earlier than usual,
Speaker 4: because one, I do need to do a better job
Speaker 4: of clock management right keeping us on track. Also clock management, okay,
Speaker 4: but also I gotta get a bed in real quick
Speaker 4: before before oh before I lose I lose the ability
Speaker 4: to lock in at what we're getting. So that's that's
Speaker 4: really the biggest series. Yeah, all right, stick with us.
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Speaker 2: What's her name?
Speaker 5: It's Victoria, Oh, Lisa Marie. I think I think it's
Speaker 5: so yeah, Victoria is really really huge. And that's just
Speaker 5: like speculation. I don't know if it's true, but it
Speaker 5: seems like it all played back that I guess that
Speaker 5: guy just went.
Speaker 4: On and that's and that's how that world works is
Speaker 4: when you truly can see both sides of it potentially
Speaker 4: being a work or it being not sure.
Speaker 2: That's what gets every side.
Speaker 4: So it gets all sides, you know, kind of thinking,
Speaker 4: you know, interested to kind of because they want to know,
Speaker 4: like I'm intrigued is this? You know?
Speaker 2: So anyways, good stuff. I love when you play.
Speaker 4: Songs that like nobody knows what it is or a
Speaker 4: lot of people wouldn't because then because people are like
Speaker 4: wait a second, like I kind of you know. The
Speaker 4: one thing that really really sucks for us is that
Speaker 4: we can't have any music on the podcast, Yes, because that.
Speaker 2: Like hate character on the show.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, And I hate to act as if you know,
Speaker 4: the show is dependent upon the thirty seconds of audio
Speaker 4: you hear when we come back from break, but it,
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes it leads a segment, which that's what
Speaker 4: I think is the best I mean at best radio.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's and that's where Talk radio Live is.
Speaker 4: In a different realm than what you get from a podcast,
Speaker 4: is that there's at least element of you know, I
Speaker 4: shouldn't say better or worse, but when you are live
Speaker 4: like there, it's there's it's a different listen I.
Speaker 2: Think, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So oh absolutely, So with that said, when we do
Speaker 4: end up kind of you know, taking conversations in a
Speaker 4: certain direction for the most part, you know, you could
Speaker 4: be a podcast listener and here hear our conversation and
Speaker 4: and and be totally you know, know what we're talking about, right,
Speaker 4: like you don't have to necessarily hear it. But then like,
Speaker 4: as I'm just thinking about podcast listeners right now.
Speaker 2: Who who are thinking?
Speaker 4: Okay, well he talked about a John Cena song but
Speaker 4: I didn't hear it. But anyways, it's coffee and company.
Speaker 4: We're feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Speaker 4: and at coffee that's me. We've got the travel chief
Speaker 4: in the house as always, and we've got a close
Speaker 4: game here between Memphis and Colorado State. So I have
Speaker 4: a three leg parlay riding. First two legs are complete.
Speaker 4: I had Baylor money line as an underdog, slight underdog.
Speaker 4: I had Ioways State to cover. I didn't take the
Speaker 4: I just I looked at the Atlantic which is where
Speaker 4: Lipscom played, and they were I mean, they're a good team.
Speaker 4: They were competitive early. But even though they you know,
Speaker 4: they got four guys that shoot it right around forty
Speaker 4: percent from three, the analytics did say that the best
Speaker 4: play would have been to take them to cover plus
Speaker 4: fourteen and a half.
Speaker 2: There's just a different world.
Speaker 4: In the Big twelve in the Atlantic Sun, and I
Speaker 4: just think the Atlantic Sun, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: ever getting anything better than a fifteen seed is probably
Speaker 4: an injustice to them, because that's just again, they are
Speaker 4: one of maybe three or four Division one leagues in
Speaker 4: basketball that lose members to go to a better conference.
Speaker 4: So then they're bringing in I mean, that's where Bellman plays.
Speaker 4: They bring in Division two programs. So you know, I
Speaker 4: didn't love it, but I just felt like I can't.
Speaker 4: I just think that there's clearly a different world to
Speaker 4: these two teams. And I always state did not finish
Speaker 4: strong the Big twelve. I don't think they've looked great
Speaker 4: in the tournament, but that one did play out for me.
Speaker 4: But now I just need I need Memphis to win
Speaker 4: in order for me to cash this three leg parlay.
Speaker 4: And it's tied forty eight apiece with fourteen minutes left.
Speaker 4: Some other scores early on, We've got Duke up twenty
Speaker 4: four to nine in their game against Mount Saint Mary's.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, we've got about the under twelve just
Speaker 4: hitting Duke's up twenty four to nine.
Speaker 2: Other scores, let's see.
Speaker 4: I think I've mentioned all those that have concluded because
Speaker 4: we have, yeah.
Speaker 2: The games that are over. That's Alabama.
Speaker 4: I'd mentioned it earlier, but Alabama ninety to eighty one
Speaker 4: over Robert Morris. I mean that was that was a
Speaker 4: close game. I mean they were like Alabama needed the
Speaker 4: final segment of that game, meaning that you know, the
Speaker 4: under the under fourteen or whatever, I'm sorry, the under
Speaker 4: four They needed that segment of the game to close
Speaker 4: that out and win by nine, because it was it
Speaker 4: was neck and neck, it was it was a very
Speaker 4: competitive game. And Alabama is a team that I don't
Speaker 4: look at at that and say, well, they're not really
Speaker 4: worthy of a two seed, They're not that good, because really,
Speaker 4: this is this is very much the same team that
Speaker 4: Natoates took to a Final four last year. And I
Speaker 4: just think it's it's it's it's confirmation that they are
Speaker 4: unpredictable to an extent. And that's why I don't even
Speaker 4: know Alabama is the one team and like the in
Speaker 4: the ones and two, in the one and two lines
Speaker 4: that I feel the least confident in betting in because
Speaker 4: nothing would surprise me. And today's result against Robert Morris
Speaker 4: confirmed that, Like, they're very hard to predict.
Speaker 2: Saint Mary's and Vandy is just tipping off.
Speaker 4: No score yet, and uh yeah, I think we're I
Speaker 4: think we're caught up.
Speaker 2: So let's let's go back to yesterday.
Speaker 4: So when we wrapped up the show, I guess you know,
Speaker 4: you had some games that went final b YU was
Speaker 4: getting past VCU, Auburn ended up pulling ahead and and
Speaker 4: pulling away from our Alabama state.
Speaker 2: You also had Gonzaga.
Speaker 4: They mean they kicked George's ass, and I don't even
Speaker 4: think the score was as close as what you're seeing here.
Speaker 4: The game wasn't as close as the score indicates, as
Speaker 4: you've heard before, I'm sure. And then also the McNeese game,
Speaker 4: same thing. I mean, Clemson give them credit for clawing back,
Speaker 4: but they were done thirty one to thirteen, and then
Speaker 4: of course ended up losing sixty nine to sixty seven.
Speaker 4: So the rest of the day you had, I'd say,
Speaker 4: I mean, as far as like the big surprise, I
Speaker 4: would imagine that the Drake over Missouri is a big
Speaker 4: surprise unless people are paying attention because Drake's a good
Speaker 4: team and Missouri, I just think they're one of the
Speaker 4: SEC teams that I can't tell you that they didn't
Speaker 4: deserve their seed because their resume.
Speaker 2: That's what it's all about. Your body. You work your resume,
Speaker 2: and they deserve the SUC seed. But they weren't.
Speaker 4: I think you know, they they were getting Again, it's
Speaker 4: hard for me to I'm going to contradict myself litle
Speaker 4: bit here because I feel like there was some level
Speaker 4: of benefit of the doubt. But maybe if the committee, you know,
Speaker 4: does their job. They don't think about that. They're just
Speaker 4: looking at Okay, I don't care how bad they've been
Speaker 4: playing lately. I don't care, you know, if their wins.
Speaker 4: You know, if you just if you know ball and
Speaker 4: you know teams, you can look at the metrics and
Speaker 4: understand why it is the way it is, but also
Speaker 4: just kind of know. And to me, Missouri is one
Speaker 4: of the teams along with Texas A and M, along
Speaker 4: with Mississippi State.
Speaker 2: Who else is there out there?
Speaker 4: Like they're not bad teams, but the thought of them
Speaker 4: just being able to lie, you know, them being able
Speaker 4: to roll to the round of thirty two just because
Speaker 4: they're in the SEC, I don't think that if anybody
Speaker 4: who looked at it that way, I you know, clearly
Speaker 4: the SEC at the top deserves been that out. But
Speaker 4: then there were teams that I just didn't really buy.
Speaker 4: Now one team that I didn't buy that did win
Speaker 4: yesterday was Arkansas. So we now have and I think
Speaker 4: that's the biggest takeaway from day one. We're gonna get
Speaker 4: Rick Patino and John Caliperry in the second round. Arkansas
Speaker 4: versus Saint John's now Saint John's ended up winning about
Speaker 4: but they did have a close call early. They were
Speaker 4: only up I think five and half. And for what
Speaker 4: it's worth, if you've not followed Saint John's closely, they.
Speaker 2: This is what they do.
Speaker 4: They they they kind it's like at the beginning of
Speaker 4: a boxing fight when they're like they're like trying to,
Speaker 4: you know, feel out their opponent, and then they and
Speaker 4: then they get right and then they bury them. That's
Speaker 4: really what they did in Biggies Play all year, and
Speaker 4: that's what they did yesterday at Omaha. So if I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean, look, I don't know. This is tomorrow, tomorrow's
Speaker 4: matchup between these two teams, I have no clue what
Speaker 4: to do. Because rick Patino just i mean his team
Speaker 4: in general, him as a coach, I'm thinking it's a
Speaker 4: no brainer, Like.
Speaker 2: You take Ricky p He's got the better squad.
Speaker 4: However, Arkansas yesterday specifically like they just got they they
Speaker 4: got dudes, they got talent, and they and Cali will
Speaker 4: always have that. So, I mean, I haven't even seen
Speaker 4: a spread for that just yet. I'm sure we have one.
Speaker 4: I haven't even looked. When I'm looking at the Fandel sportsbook,
Speaker 4: I'm looking at you know, what's what's out there right now.
Speaker 4: But let's see for tomorrow Saint John's. Let's see, have
Speaker 4: you seen a spread yet for this one, Austin, Because no,
Speaker 4: I haven't looked though, So Saint John's tomorrow is six
Speaker 4: and a half point favorites against Arkansas. You know, gun
Speaker 4: to my head, I got to take Arkansas to cover
Speaker 4: the six and a half because I mean, they just
Speaker 4: beat Kansas and they were better. And I know the
Speaker 4: Big East is certainly, you know, a decent league at best,
Speaker 4: and Rick's a great coach, and they've got they've got
Speaker 4: their big who's really played well. I always forget his name,
Speaker 4: obviously R J. Luis was a second team All American.
Speaker 4: But cal against Rick, who's had I mean, like the
Speaker 4: amount of wins that Caliperry has against Rick Bettino in
Speaker 4: the last however many times they've played. I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 4: And I know it's a different situation now, but it's
Speaker 4: also kind of not like like Rick had teams and
Speaker 4: I think he had and it doesn't and it's it's
Speaker 4: it's not even worth debating because there's no way to
Speaker 4: prove anybody wrong. And we're talking many many years ago.
Speaker 4: But there were there were a handful of times where
Speaker 4: Louisville didn't go up against Kentucky where it was it
Speaker 4: was so obvious that what are you going to do?
Speaker 4: They're just so good, but their their elite talent that
Speaker 4: Cali Perry had always seemed to play up in those
Speaker 4: moments because of the moment, just like they did when
Speaker 4: they went to Upperna earlier this season, and in that game,
Speaker 4: it never felt like Kentucky was winning that one.
Speaker 2: So what Cali Perry has to work with.
Speaker 4: They'll fall asleep at the wheel and lose to teams
Speaker 4: or just play poorly against their competition. But like in
Speaker 4: these moments, like Calip Perry, you know, his guy's feet
Speaker 4: off of him right, His Arkansas players, his Kentucky players,
Speaker 4: they knew how big of a deal it was for
Speaker 4: Hal in those games. And here's what's crazy. It wasn't
Speaker 4: even about the Kentucky players realizing. I mean, they knew
Speaker 4: Louisville was the rival and they wanted to continue to
Speaker 4: dominate the rivalry. However, they could sense that for cal
Speaker 4: he wanted to dominate Ripettino just like just like Cal
Speaker 4: went like there was no kid the the the emotional
Speaker 4: component in that Arkansas Kentucky game in February.
Speaker 2: I think it was when it happened February first.
Speaker 4: So the only thing there was was from Cal him
Speaker 4: wanting to go back home or go back to Kentucky
Speaker 4: and show them what they missed. His players had that
Speaker 4: edge to them, whereas Kentucky, I mean it was I
Speaker 4: don't think they were shell shocked. It was kind of mean,
Speaker 4: but that they don't know Cal. Everybody on the Kentucky
Speaker 4: roster has never met John Caliperry. They don't have any feel.
Speaker 4: They just it's another game to them. So I just
Speaker 4: think this is this is set up to where Arkansas
Speaker 4: and Cali Perry, the matchup gives them, I think their
Speaker 4: highest ceiling for you know what, a nine seed to
Speaker 4: get to the round of thirty two, because if they
Speaker 4: were playing other two seeds, like if it was if
Speaker 4: it was Arkansas versus Tennessee, if it was I mean,
Speaker 4: who are the other twos out there? Arkansas versus Alabama,
Speaker 4: Arkansas against I don't know why I can't seem to
Speaker 4: find the other. I need to pull up my bracket here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so regardless, you get you get my point. If it
Speaker 4: was Houston who was a two seed. I just don't
Speaker 4: think there would be the ability to get them as
Speaker 4: as amped. It' look, they could be amped and still
Speaker 4: lose and not cover because you know, Saint John's has
Speaker 4: been a good team. But I just feel like if
Speaker 4: there's ever if there's ever a time to give Cal
Speaker 4: the benefit of the doubt, it's this because of the
Speaker 4: magnitude of the game and when you watch them do
Speaker 4: what they did to Kansas, despite Kansas clearly being the
Speaker 4: biggest underachiever of the season. It was also because Arkansas
Speaker 4: has some dudes, like they got players and Boogie flans back.
Speaker 4: He didn't even really get comfortable in that game. But
Speaker 4: it really reminded me of a Kentucky team last night
Speaker 4: watching Arkansas because it's March, and yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of young talent, but you can also see.
Speaker 2: Why these guys they didn't even need to score.
Speaker 4: A point to still be on the NBA radar because
Speaker 4: they're just I mean, that's what Cal does. He gets
Speaker 4: the young talent, and you know, his his best case
Speaker 4: scenario is that they you know, they're ready to play
Speaker 4: right away, but sometimes when they're not, they still can
Speaker 4: pull through.
Speaker 2: Late.
Speaker 4: Now, Cal's coaching as far as like the x's and
Speaker 4: o's has always been sort of a question mark when
Speaker 4: it comes to, you know, in March especially.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I kind of wonder if if in the last two
Speaker 4: out of three tournament trips he had of Kentucky when
Speaker 4: they fell short and they got upset by Oakland and
Speaker 4: Saint Mary's.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just, I mean, I don't really know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't really know what.
Speaker 4: You would say was the biggest factor in how those
Speaker 4: upsets happened. But I just think Arkansas is gonna be
Speaker 4: lose tomorrow and it feels weird and actually kind of grows,
Speaker 4: but I kind of feel like I'm gonna take Arkansas
Speaker 4: to cover.
Speaker 2: That's just me though. All right, let's uh, let's make
Speaker 2: a great point.
Speaker 5: That was that was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean it's gonna feel dirty, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 5: You know, But how many times I basically put a
Speaker 5: bow on it, like you said, how many times did
Speaker 5: it feel like Louisville had a legit team like Saint
Speaker 5: John's does right now under Rick going against like that
Speaker 5: type of team that Cali Ferry has.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I just find myself looking at our
Speaker 4: looking at Saint John's in a way kind of like
Speaker 4: I did some other Louisville teams. Good college players, great team,
Speaker 4: legendary coach, but overall talent as far as just like
Speaker 4: what dudes can do Arkansas has. I mean, they've got
Speaker 4: they got better talent when it comes to the ceiling.
Speaker 4: And that's the toughest thing to gamble on, right like
Speaker 4: will it will it?
Speaker 2: You know, will it prevail?
Speaker 4: But if all they got to do is lose by
Speaker 4: less than seven, I kind of like Arkansas.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side.
Speaker 4: We're going to welcome in our buddy Jeff Milby, and
Speaker 4: we'll wrap up at three o'clock hour with that conversation.
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Speaker 4: Day, it looks as if Colorado State is burying Memphis
Speaker 4: and it's a ten point deficit, I think just under
Speaker 4: eight minutes left and Kaya and Evans for Colorado State.
Speaker 4: He's six of seven from three. That'll I mean, that'll
Speaker 4: do it. Somebody's six of seven from three. I would
Speaker 4: imagine it'd be tough to envision a scenario where it
Speaker 4: wouldn't be a big run for his team and they
Speaker 4: would be pulling away.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what shakes out.
Speaker 4: But it's time for our weekly conversation with one and
Speaker 4: only mister Jeff Milby, who joins us to talk some
Speaker 4: Racing Louisville soccer.
Speaker 2: How are we doing, Jeff?
Speaker 3: Thanks are good, Nick. My bracket is busted, but my
Speaker 3: spirits are high.
Speaker 2: You're not alone.
Speaker 4: Every bracket, I think at this point, maybe other than
Speaker 4: a select few of the billions, seemingly they get filled
Speaker 4: out or not looking not looking great at this point.
Speaker 4: And I saw some of the social media content from
Speaker 4: the soccer clubs here, Racing Lowell and louis City FC,
Speaker 4: and I saw final four picks from some of the
Speaker 4: players you would know better than most. How familiar are
Speaker 4: the players sort of with college hoops? And I mean
Speaker 4: I would imagine there's probably some newcomers to the roster
Speaker 4: or maybe even you know, maybe not this year, but
Speaker 4: even last season that are maybe learning like, Okay, these
Speaker 4: people are kind of crazy around here about college basketball.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's that's been part of the conversation over the last
Speaker 3: week between me and the players and the coaches on
Speaker 3: both sides, explaining just how serious we are about our
Speaker 3: college basketball here in Louisville, Canay. Yeah, there are definitely
Speaker 3: some basketball fans on both sides, for the men and
Speaker 3: the women. I would admit to you, I think there
Speaker 3: are probably more of the men's players that follow basketball
Speaker 3: a little bit more closely than some of the women's
Speaker 3: players do. But we've got a UK grab the captain
Speaker 3: for racing, Aaron Wright played at UK. She's a UK
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, so I saw that she had picked
Speaker 3: the Cats to go all the way. And we've got
Speaker 3: a UFL guy on the men's team as well, a
Speaker 3: rookie just signed this year for his first professional contract.
Speaker 3: Josh Jones played at uf L the last four years,
Speaker 3: was the captain for u of L the last three
Speaker 3: and I know he's repping his cards. So we've definitely
Speaker 3: got some people on both sides of the building, on
Speaker 3: the men's side and the women's side that are plugged
Speaker 3: in the NTAA tournament this week for sure.
Speaker 4: Well, if you played it, played soccer at Kentucky or Louisville,
Speaker 4: even if you're not following it closely, you're well aware
Speaker 4: of how big of a deal it is in this state,
Speaker 4: no doubt about it. So when it comes to the
Speaker 4: opener last week, it was a draw. And I've learned
Speaker 4: as I get more acclimated with the sport of soccer
Speaker 4: than draws can be viewed drastically differently, I guess, depending
Speaker 4: upon opponent, depending upon situation. What did you take from
Speaker 4: the draw from Racing lou last week to get the
Speaker 4: season started?
Speaker 3: Listen, Nick, you just nailed it. You sounded like a
Speaker 3: true soccer head with that sick right there.
Speaker 2: Do you hear that, folks, I'm learning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling you he's picking it up. Yeah. Last
Speaker 3: week look a one one time for racing at home,
Speaker 3: But afterward it felt like a win. It was one
Speaker 3: of those ties that everybody came away encouraged, and it's
Speaker 3: for multiple reasons. One, they were facing a team in
Speaker 3: North Carolina that they've just over their four year history.
Speaker 3: Prior to this year, North Carolina has owned Racing Louisville.
Speaker 3: The all time series was ten to one. There were
Speaker 3: like lopsided five nothing losses by Racing to North Carolina
Speaker 3: in there so, the fact that they were able to
Speaker 3: get a result, get a point point that I against
Speaker 3: North Carolina was encouraging. But what was mostly encouraging what
Speaker 3: everybody was so excited about and talking about afterward, be
Speaker 3: it the people in the press box or the people
Speaker 3: down on the field and the coaching staff, was how
Speaker 3: this Racing Louisville team went out and played, particularly in
Speaker 3: the first half of that game. I can't on here
Speaker 3: last week and talk to you Nick about this team
Speaker 3: changing their style of play a little bit in the offseason,
Speaker 3: becoming a team that's gonna press, that's gonna work, that's
Speaker 3: going to be getting after and putting pressure on the
Speaker 3: opposing team in their half of the field by the
Speaker 3: opposing team's goal. It's it's a full court press, but
Speaker 3: on a soccer field is the way that this team
Speaker 3: is going to play, and that was on display. They
Speaker 3: executed the game plan to a tee, especially in that
Speaker 3: first half. The second half kind of the energy went
Speaker 3: a little bit. They're still trying to learn who their
Speaker 3: depth pieces are off the bench so that they can
Speaker 3: keep that energy high through the whole game. But that
Speaker 3: first half was really encouraging and really really exciting at times.
Speaker 3: Racing Louisville was on the hut for the ball, just
Speaker 3: chasing in numbers after the ball, really pinning Carolina deep
Speaker 3: in their in by in the corner a few times.
Speaker 3: They were able to generate few turnovers, which is what
Speaker 3: their mo is going to be this year, is turning
Speaker 3: you over in your half of the field and generating
Speaker 3: scoring opportunities from that. And then they were able to
Speaker 3: also score in the first half off of a corner kick.
Speaker 3: Em the Sears, who is a bright young star for
Speaker 3: this team, had multiple appearances of the US women's national
Speaker 3: team over the offseason. She got on the end of
Speaker 3: the ball on a corner kick assisted by Aaron Right,
Speaker 3: the UK player that I just mentioned a moment ago
Speaker 3: to get Racing Louisville on the board. And and like
Speaker 3: you said, not every tie is encouraging, this one certainly was,
Speaker 3: and I think there's some some real reasons for optimism
Speaker 3: for this team here in twenty twenty five, as they
Speaker 3: look to break into the postseason for the first time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so being competitive against a club that has really
Speaker 4: had your number for a while is certainly a good sun.
Speaker 4: But you mentioning just that, I guess what was sold
Speaker 4: as far as the difference in leadership with a new
Speaker 4: coach being hired and really just kind of a different
Speaker 4: approach as far as how this club's going to take
Speaker 4: the field, how they're going to carry themselves. I mean,
Speaker 4: it sounds as if that's really the biggest win, because
Speaker 4: you know, as we talked about last week, when you
Speaker 4: are an expansion team, it's very rare that you see
Speaker 4: success early on, really at any level. I mean, it
Speaker 4: wouldn't be a shocker if if it takes an expansion
Speaker 4: club to to to take you know, it takes them
Speaker 4: a lot longer to cut their teeth than than I
Speaker 4: think the average fan would expect. But it sounds like
Speaker 4: as far as the leadership from the top, the new hire,
Speaker 4: I mean, that seems to be infectious as if it's
Speaker 4: not just the club as far as what you're seeing
Speaker 4: on the field. You mentioned your crew, the guys you
Speaker 4: work with, the staff, but I mean it sounds like
Speaker 4: fans can sense that as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and the way that the team saw the
Speaker 3: way that Bevan as the second year head coach talks
Speaker 3: in the post game, and the players in the post
Speaker 3: game as well. This is a close knit bunch. The
Speaker 3: culture is strong, and that is part of having a
Speaker 3: coach in her second year, not only with this organization,
Speaker 3: with this team, with this club, but this is a
Speaker 3: second year head coach period. Last year was her her
Speaker 3: rookie year as a coach, as a head coach at
Speaker 3: any level. So everybody's continuing to learn, continuing to grow,
Speaker 3: continuing to develop, and this group is together both on
Speaker 3: and off the field. I was talking about that playing
Speaker 3: style Nick being together. When you're going to be having
Speaker 3: to be a pressing team and get high up the field,
Speaker 3: you've got to be together when when one player presses,
Speaker 3: everybody's got a press with her, so that they're all
Speaker 3: on the same page and not getting pulled apart. And
Speaker 3: they display that on the field last week and certainly
Speaker 3: after the game in the postgame conversation with the media.
Speaker 3: This team really believes in one another and is really together,
Speaker 3: really close knit. So that is going to be a
Speaker 3: fun thing to watch, I think for fans is watching
Speaker 3: this team compete together as opposed to competing separately like
Speaker 3: we've maybe seen in years past. This is going to
Speaker 3: be a bunch that has lockstep with each other all
Speaker 3: year long. We hope and expect based on what they've
Speaker 3: said and what I'll also say, Nick about this Racing
Speaker 3: Louisville team and organization and club. You know, you and
Speaker 3: I have talked about it being an expansion team and
Speaker 3: an uphill battle. As an expansion team, We're just slat
Speaker 3: out going to be an underdog in this league. And
Speaker 3: this is what I can't stress enough to anybody listening
Speaker 3: who isn't plugged into the soccer scene every week and
Speaker 3: maybe says women's soccer, who cares? I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 3: This is why you should care. Racing Louisville gets slandered
Speaker 3: in the national media, and when I say Racing people,
Speaker 3: I'm also including including our city. People look at us
Speaker 3: as an outsider to this league because you're going up
Speaker 3: against markets like New York, Chicago, La San Diego, Houston, Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 3: Boston's coming into the league next year, Denver's coming into
Speaker 3: the league next year, and the media looks at the
Speaker 3: city of Louisville as a team in a city that
Speaker 3: isn't necessarily deserving of being in this club belong absolutely,
Speaker 3: And what I'm saying is this, this organization is an
Speaker 3: underdog organization, and that is how we need to start
Speaker 3: framing it, I think, to the public, and also how
Speaker 3: the public ought to buy in because we're representing our
Speaker 3: city on a national stage against the big boys of sports,
Speaker 3: all these big markets, these major media markets. And I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, Nick, there is a national media ecosystem that
Speaker 3: covers the National Women's Soccer League. Podcasts, ESPN dot com
Speaker 3: does a good job of covering it. The Athletic does
Speaker 3: a good job of covering it, and they they slender
Speaker 3: Louisville repeatedly. And the offseason somebody said, nobody wants to
Speaker 3: go to Louisville. One of the podcasts that covers the league,
Speaker 3: talking about free agency, said nobody wants to go to Louisville.
Speaker 3: It's just face it, the small city in Kentucky. Nobody
Speaker 3: wants to go there. There was another podcast in the
Speaker 3: preseason that said, is race Louisville going to make the playoffs? Well,
Speaker 3: only if they expand the playoffs, and they all laughed
Speaker 3: about it. I mean, they're laughing about us because we
Speaker 3: are that kind of underdog in this league.
Speaker 2: That's fuel right there.
Speaker 3: Everybody out there listening, that's exactly my sales pitch. Anybody
Speaker 3: out there who is from Louisville loves the city of
Speaker 3: Louisville like I know you and I do, would be
Speaker 3: to get behind this team because this is our opportunity
Speaker 3: to show everybody around the country that Louisville is a
Speaker 3: worthwhile place deserving us something like this. And I think
Speaker 3: we got the team to maybe do that this year.
Speaker 4: Nick Well, I love it because if the success, if
Speaker 4: it starts to happen, you know, that'll that'll definitely, you know,
Speaker 4: get more attention on what they're doing, and then and
Speaker 4: then there'll be more people aware of how we can
Speaker 4: embrace this. Hey, it's us against everybody, which I feel like,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe sometimes it's a little bit overblown, but
Speaker 4: maybe sometimes it's because you know, we're willing to put
Speaker 4: the chip on the shoulder and use anything to motivate
Speaker 4: us here. And you got to be fired up thinking
Speaker 4: about that because I didn't realize some of those things
Speaker 4: that were said and and and you know that Louis's great,
Speaker 4: and we'll show you all we're great.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of you know.
Speaker 4: I think that's a good way to pitch it out
Speaker 4: there to folks that maybe aren't as plugged into what's
Speaker 4: going on with the club. But I know the next
Speaker 4: couple of weeks there'll be games on the road, but
Speaker 4: obviously you guys are building up for the big one
Speaker 4: that's April to twelfth, that is the.
Speaker 2: Thunder game at Lynn Stadium.
Speaker 4: Tell us once again with the best way for folks
Speaker 4: to get more information and get tickets to experience what
Speaker 4: awesome we have, awesome event we have here with Thunder
Speaker 4: of a Loive, but also get to see it at
Speaker 4: Lynn Family Stadium. I can't imagine there'll be a better
Speaker 4: spot to watch it.
Speaker 3: No, there certainly will not be a better spot to
Speaker 3: watch it. And you get the dual entertainment of you
Speaker 3: get to see the air show from your seats, but
Speaker 3: also get to watch the soccer game from your seats
Speaker 3: as well. Racing taking on the Washington spirit, they've got
Speaker 3: a young star named Trinity Rodman. That's Dennis Rodman's daughter.
Speaker 3: Really talented, really talented young player in the league. So
Speaker 3: it's an exciting matchup. First of all, on the field,
Speaker 3: the head to racinglufc dot com slash Thunder racingloufc dot
Speaker 3: com slash Thunder. We're expecting a record crowd. Last year
Speaker 3: was eleven three and sixty five most fans to ever
Speaker 3: see a Racing Louisville game here in Louisville on hand
Speaker 3: for that one. We're expecting to beat that number this year,
Speaker 3: get twelve, thirteen thousand, hopefully a few more than that
Speaker 3: in the building. So it's going to be a memorable day.
Speaker 3: And I said this last time I talked to you.
Speaker 3: If you're out there and you're thinking, hey, I want
Speaker 3: to go check out a game I'd like.
Speaker 2: To go see again, this is the one to do
Speaker 2: it right heat.
Speaker 3: Stadium all the time. This is the one to come to.
Speaker 3: I mean, in addition to the playoff game that we're
Speaker 3: going to host at the end of the year, because
Speaker 3: I'm I'm spreading the optimism around, but for the regular season,
Speaker 3: if you're only picking one, this is it. So head
Speaker 3: to racinglufc dot com slash Thunder to get your seat.
Speaker 3: That's going to be an annual tradition that we hope
Speaker 3: to continue on. Last year, they won five to one
Speaker 3: on thunder Day, so hopefully they get some of that
Speaker 3: mojo again here coming up on April twelve.
Speaker 4: Jeff, you are the man who is always appreciate your time.
Speaker 4: Keep up the great work and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: Brother, Yes, sir, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Nick all right, take care.
Speaker 4: Of that is Jeff Melby, guy who clearly is uh,
Speaker 4: I mean, he's plugged in, he works for the club,
Speaker 4: he knows I love his pitch. As far as why
Speaker 4: we should just if you're not somebody who is really
Speaker 4: that interested or that familiar with soccer, but you love Louisville,
Speaker 4: they're talking reckless about us apparently.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm ready to. I'm ready to right now.
Speaker 2: Good stuff.
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