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Speaker 1: And I think I guess I should let you guys
Speaker 1: know right out of the gate, we're gonna be joined
Speaker 1: coming up here with the spring game coming up in
Speaker 1: a matter of hours, we're gonna be joined here shortly
Speaker 1: by Brian Brom, Louisville former Louisville quarterback. I don't need
Speaker 1: to introduce Brian Bram. Do you guys know who Brian
Speaker 1: Bram is. He's also the offensive coordinator for his brother Jeff.
Speaker 1: And spring game is tonight. Weather seems, you know, decent, right.
Speaker 1: It could be a lot worse. And I may be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I do feel like, more often than not, when
Speaker 1: the spring game has happened, we've had awful weather.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm completely making.
Speaker 1: That up and I'm just thinking of like a couple
Speaker 1: of isolated spring games where the weather was terrible, but
Speaker 1: it just seems like more often than not we don't
Speaker 1: have great weather. And I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: call it great tonight, but hey, it's better than rain,
Speaker 1: and I guess you know better than snow. We rarely
Speaker 1: get snow in April, but you never know around here, right,
Speaker 1: So it looks like it'll be about fifty low fifties
Speaker 1: in the evening, so hopefully they have a.
Speaker 2: Great crowd out there.
Speaker 1: There's been some spring games across the country, I don't
Speaker 1: know how many, but just flat out canceled.
Speaker 2: They just don't do them anymore.
Speaker 1: And I think there's some specific reasons for that, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I understand you want to be
Speaker 1: really careful about other teams watching your spring game and
Speaker 1: maybe evaluating players that maybe they feel like if they
Speaker 1: put in a phone call to somebody, they could end
Speaker 1: up getting those players from you. And obviously you really
Speaker 1: I mean this to me seems inevitable. But I guess
Speaker 1: letting guys know when they get to the spring game
Speaker 1: as spring football concludes, kind of where they stand on
Speaker 1: the depth chart, it could maybe give them incentive to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not. I've been here for a
Speaker 1: few months, thought i'd be really really earning a lot
Speaker 1: of reps, maybe looking at a starter position, But I'm
Speaker 1: third on the depth chart. So those are reasons why
Speaker 1: at least the reasons that I've heard as to why
Speaker 1: some of these spring games are being canceled or they're
Speaker 1: just doing something different. But like, those things are going
Speaker 1: to happen regardless if you have a spring game or not.
Speaker 1: I mean college football coaches, I mean, you think they're
Speaker 1: not watching film and trying to steal your players like
Speaker 1: at all times of the day, right, I mean, they
Speaker 1: don't need a spring game to look at your roster
Speaker 1: and then go watch film and see who you have.
Speaker 1: So that stuff's gonna happen regardless. I'm happy that Jeff
Speaker 1: Brahm and his staff it doesn't sound like there's really
Speaker 1: ever been any consideration for not doing a spring game.
Speaker 1: So again, reminder, it'll start at six. They moved it
Speaker 1: up a little bit just to try to make the
Speaker 1: most of the daylight that they'll.
Speaker 2: Have before it gets dark.
Speaker 1: So not sure what to expect as far as you know, competitiveness,
Speaker 1: But obviously there's a new quarterback in town, Miller Moss.
Speaker 1: It'll be your first chance to get to see him
Speaker 1: in action. We'll ask Brian sort of his first impression. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's his first impression, because his
Speaker 1: first impression as far as watching this guy in person
Speaker 1: was whenever Miller Moss lit Louisville up back in that
Speaker 1: was that the Sun Bowl. No, wasn't the Sun Bowl.
Speaker 1: It was the whatever the bowl is that was in
Speaker 1: San Diego. That was like easily the It was a
Speaker 1: difficult bowl to get to. I mean, I guess technically
Speaker 1: that bowl is believed to be and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess it's changed now that you have a twelve
Speaker 1: team playoff. I don't know where that bowl ranks as
Speaker 1: far as like a prime time bowl to be in,
Speaker 1: one that you want to choose, one that you hope
Speaker 1: to be in rather than some others that have those
Speaker 1: ACC tie ins. But yeah, you won ten games, went
Speaker 1: to the ACC championship, and it did kind of feel
Speaker 1: like a letdown knowing that with that special season you
Speaker 1: ended up playing USC in San Diego, which was quite
Speaker 1: literally the most inconvenient bowl for Louisville fans.
Speaker 2: That I can ever remember. Holiday that's right, Holiday Bowl.
Speaker 1: That's it was on Fox, which gave us the rare
Speaker 1: Louisville football game with Gus Johnson on the call. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and Miller Moss lit us up and here we are
Speaker 1: two seasons later and now he's going to be your
Speaker 1: your starting quarterbacks. So again we'll talk to to Brian
Speaker 1: about a lot of things. I've actually got a lot
Speaker 1: that I want to run by him, pick his brain
Speaker 1: on just this new world of college foot ball when
Speaker 1: it comes to recruiting the portal. Obviously want to get
Speaker 1: his thoughts on Miller Moss and you know, Brian obviously
Speaker 1: a hell of a quarterback himself and had had some
Speaker 1: time in the NFL, played in the CFL. I want
Speaker 1: to get his thoughts on Well, I'll just ask him.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not really him sharing his thoughts, but is
Speaker 1: he surprised at all? He'll probably say no, because you know,
Speaker 1: that's what a coach would do to support his player.
Speaker 1: But man, this this love for Tyler Shuck. It's weird
Speaker 1: because it's not as if I'm sitting here thinking like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know about it. I don't think the guy's
Speaker 1: that good to be getting all this buzz. It just
Speaker 1: kind of came out of nowhere, right like he was
Speaker 1: good at Louisville and I remember, you know you'd hear
Speaker 1: and this, I guess is where it makes a little
Speaker 1: more sense to where it kind of adds up like
Speaker 1: you would hear an nounce like Louisville really never at
Speaker 1: any moment had any in football specifically, they never really
Speaker 1: had any any time within the year where it looked
Speaker 1: like they were in, you know, great shape to like
Speaker 1: make the playoff, because again I still think they had
Speaker 1: a special season, well not a special season, but a
Speaker 1: good season, not a great season. And I still think
Speaker 1: after two years it's safe to say you've got real
Speaker 1: momentums to with Jeff Brom being.
Speaker 2: Your ball coach.
Speaker 1: But you had your losses earlier on in the year, right,
Speaker 1: you lost to Notre Dame, then you ended up losing
Speaker 1: to SMU, and then you lost to Miami, and those
Speaker 1: all came I think within like your first seven games, which,
Speaker 1: as you know, those weren't bad losses at all, but
Speaker 1: it ended up making it to where at that point
Speaker 1: you know that was really when you only have twelve
Speaker 1: games and you have those results within the first you
Speaker 1: know sixty percent of your season, you could still finish strong,
Speaker 1: and you know the teams you lost to aren't bad
Speaker 1: by any means, at least you know at the time
Speaker 1: we didn't. I mean, in fact, they those teams ended
Speaker 1: up being really good, all of them, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, like you already had removed yourself from the
Speaker 1: ACC championship seemingly, and also you really had no shot
Speaker 1: at the playoff. Although have they not lost to Stanford,
Speaker 1: there is a weird way in which they could have
Speaker 1: maybe flirted with getting in. I still don't think it
Speaker 1: would have happened. But you know, it's probably not even
Speaker 1: worth We'll never know, right, And I think the more
Speaker 1: we will look at it, the more we may think,
Speaker 1: you know what, just maybe it might have been, might
Speaker 1: have been there for us, and they were playing really
Speaker 1: good football. L Obviously, that lost to Stanford still is just,
Speaker 1: you know, something I can't believe happened. But outside of that,
Speaker 1: you had the one dud loss and the rest of
Speaker 1: the way, you know, a good season.
Speaker 2: A good season, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Speaking of not thinking back, because we'll never know, and
Speaker 1: if you do really spend time wondering what if, you
Speaker 1: might be bummed. I still at times do that when
Speaker 1: it comes to the two thousand and six Louisville football season,
Speaker 1: because it really was the perfect storm at the perfect time.
Speaker 1: Timing is everything in life. I say that a lot
Speaker 1: because it's true and you don't even really know it
Speaker 1: at times as far as like you could there could
Speaker 1: be something that is just phenomenal timing that's going to
Speaker 1: change something substantially in your life for the good, and
Speaker 1: you just don't know it at the time, and you'll
Speaker 1: look back and.
Speaker 2: Say, wow, how about that worked out? Well?
Speaker 1: That was the twenty or two thousand and sixth season.
Speaker 1: Brian's brian second to last year as the quarterback at Louisville,
Speaker 1: because if you remember it, you know they ended up
Speaker 1: up losing the Rutgers, and had they not, it just
Speaker 1: set up where everybody else, like you would have probably
Speaker 1: been that second place team playing in the BCS National
Speaker 1: Championship game. And whoever it was it Ohio State or
Speaker 1: Florida that won it. I don't remember which one it was,
Speaker 1: but I think it was one of those two teams.
Speaker 1: I could be totally wrong, but that that's the first
Speaker 1: two teams. Those are the first two teams that came
Speaker 1: to mind. And like Louisville was really good that year,
Speaker 1: and those teams they could have easily beat Louisville, I supposed,
Speaker 1: but like they weren't like scary good. It was the
Speaker 1: Louisville roster with Bobby and his last year that I
Speaker 1: kind of felt like, yeah, you get a shot at
Speaker 1: one of these big time opponents, like you might, you
Speaker 1: might take them down. But again, here I am spending
Speaker 1: time talking about it. We'll never know, and does kind
Speaker 1: of still make me sad because there's.
Speaker 2: One of those what ifs.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of what ifs and Louisville Athletics over
Speaker 1: the years, and I think that is that is certainly
Speaker 1: one of them. Are some of the things we need
Speaker 1: to get to today if you were not already well aware,
Speaker 1: because I think the proof's been there, but there's there's
Speaker 1: evidence now, at least reports, I should say, I guess
Speaker 1: there's no proof of it, but there's reports that really
Speaker 1: tell you that, yes, this is absolutely professional sports and
Speaker 1: there's no way around it. Because according to those that
Speaker 1: cover recruiting, those that are really you know, in the weeds,
Speaker 1: talking to collectives, nil agents, players covering all this NonStop
Speaker 1: musical chairs of players moving in and out, there are
Speaker 1: at least eight teams in college basketball that will be
Speaker 1: spending over ten million dollars on their roster next year
Speaker 1: in basketball, and one of those schools is BYU, which.
Speaker 2: I think it was the not the starfread.
Speaker 1: There are two really good freshmen, so Rob White's Rob
Speaker 1: Wright I think is his name or something, right, He's
Speaker 1: not bj Edgecomb at Baylor, but he was. He was
Speaker 1: another really good freshman that Scott Drew brought in this
Speaker 1: past year who had a good season. He's transferring to
Speaker 1: BYU to play alongside the number one freshmen in the
Speaker 1: country that's coming into BYU next year. And they seemingly
Speaker 1: have unlimited money. And you know, going to BYU maybe
Speaker 1: like a culture shock to some that aren't really familiar
Speaker 1: with like what that that is. But man, if they're
Speaker 1: paying that kind of money and it sounds like, you know,
Speaker 1: they got the Mormon money. Therefore, even if like and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure we'll get there, but it's certainly something
Speaker 1: to follow if we get to you know, Duke, Kentucky, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisville. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of the schools that you know, would
Speaker 1: always try to find money to outbid somebody, like if
Speaker 1: they really want a player and they knew they were
Speaker 1: just gonna have to match an offer or go above
Speaker 1: and offer, Like there are some programs that would just
Speaker 1: do whatever they got to do to make it happen
Speaker 1: because they know that players that special and there really
Speaker 1: aren't that many guys. I think that you would just
Speaker 1: unload unlimited money on but like BYU, it seems as
Speaker 1: if no matter what you can do, they'll top it,
Speaker 1: and you like it'll it'll be. It'll be a back
Speaker 1: and forth bidding war until you run out of money
Speaker 1: because they probably have more than you. Just fascinates me.
Speaker 1: You speaking of that, there's some drama when it comes
Speaker 1: to money. This is on the football side of things,
Speaker 1: where the Tennessee quarterback Nico la Mavlea. I'm sure I'm
Speaker 1: not saying his name correct. It sounds as.
Speaker 2: If he's he's negotiating.
Speaker 1: His his current NIL situation, right, So like we've got
Speaker 1: players that are you know, in a good spot, already
Speaker 1: making millions of dollars. In fact, this young man made
Speaker 1: national headlines when he was in high school because the
Speaker 1: reports were that he was getting you know, a couple million,
Speaker 1: which now I guess is not that crazy in the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, But this was like early on,
Speaker 1: I think in this nil world, and now there are
Speaker 1: reports that he's trying to ask for more. Basically, you know,
Speaker 1: threatening that he might hit the portal if the money
Speaker 1: is not, you know, better than what he's getting right now.
Speaker 1: And I think it's Travis you know, it's Chris Low
Speaker 1: who covers SEC football for ESPN. I mean he's reporting
Speaker 1: that Tennessee is not like they're okay, well, you know,
Speaker 1: do what you got to do, Like they're going to
Speaker 1: call his bluff, I suppose, which is what they should do, because,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I mean, talented young quarterback
Speaker 1: better than a lot that you'll see out there in
Speaker 1: college football, so pose. But I mean, he's barely cracked
Speaker 1: the upper half of the SEC quarterbacks last year, and
Speaker 1: you could argue with that maybe he was overpaid. But
Speaker 1: it sounds like his family's involved, which you know, that's
Speaker 1: not uncommon for a family to be a part of
Speaker 1: a young man's decision when it comes to those kind
Speaker 1: of things. But like, I don't know if I want
Speaker 1: to be overly critical or just understand that this is
Speaker 1: now the world we're in and it's really not uncommon
Speaker 1: for a family collectively, even if it is the son
Speaker 1: who's the you know, it's his money, I suppose, but
Speaker 1: obviously you know that's life changing money. For most families
Speaker 1: in America, So like family's being involved in like wanting
Speaker 1: to you know, up the money and getting you know,
Speaker 1: basically probably not even talking to the kid, Like the
Speaker 1: kid's probably not thinking, hey, I need four million. It's
Speaker 1: probably people around him saying you should get more money.
Speaker 1: And a part of me says, that's slimy, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: do that. But I don't know, like this is a
Speaker 1: chance for this guy and his family to really change
Speaker 1: their life. And he could stink and maybe get hurt
Speaker 1: and never play again, he probably would still be able
Speaker 1: to make me. Like, it's just because it's such a
Speaker 1: thing now, meaning you know, everybody out there that's starting
Speaker 1: at quarterback in the SEC, the ACC, the Big ten,
Speaker 1: like you know, they're getting big, big money, and with that,
Speaker 1: like it's just like your job, you know, you're always thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I should look around because getting paid pretty
Speaker 1: well here, but I think I could probably get more
Speaker 1: out of this school. Like that's just that's just what
Speaker 1: it is now. And obviously it's it's a big difference
Speaker 1: than what we were used to for many, many, many years,
Speaker 1: many generations. To be honest with you, but again, this
Speaker 1: is pro sports folks, it has been and it feels
Speaker 1: like every day there's more and more evidence that that's
Speaker 1: what that's what this has turned into. All right.
Speaker 2: Also, I want to spend some time talking.
Speaker 1: A little bit about the uh, the news yesterday on
Speaker 1: the Kentucky basketball side of things. They lost one of
Speaker 1: their incoming freshmen, and you know, it'd be easy to
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, make a joke about Mark Pope
Speaker 1: not being able to you know, close the deal.
Speaker 2: Another whif for Pope. I mean, I have no I don't.
Speaker 1: Believe that this kid like was was encouraged to like
Speaker 1: move on because they want to make room for or veterans.
Speaker 1: But even if he does leave and you now have
Speaker 1: an open spot and maybe some good Nile money to
Speaker 1: go towards a transfer, like it's probably a good thing
Speaker 1: for Kentucky if I'm being honest, It's just the truth. Also,
Speaker 1: Pat Kelsey talked earlier today at the I think it's
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby Festival kickoff luncheon press conference, and he
Speaker 1: was there. Obviously, you know, he's he should be very
Speaker 1: much embedded within Derby this year. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're gonna do that, but man, they should absolutely find
Speaker 1: a way to u to you know, he needs to
Speaker 1: be as visible as possible because he's the man around here.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if he's gonna be hosting any visitors, recruits, transfers, whatever.
Speaker 1: But last year, if you remember, there were a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who came in around Derby time. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if who knows, maybe by Derby the
Speaker 1: roster's already set. But anyways, Pat Kelsey talked and says
Speaker 1: the roster is almost kind of coming to a to
Speaker 1: a close, and you know they still have some work
Speaker 1: to do, not totally done, but case and Pryor Is
Speaker 1: is the one they're waiting on and sounds like that
Speaker 1: decision could could could come sooner rather than later. So anyways,
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Speaker 1: opening baseball weekend for the little leagues around here, which
Speaker 1: means I'm going to be a busy dad on Saturday,
Speaker 1: going back and forth to two different leagues. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Now we know for sure that's right, baby, It's all
Speaker 1: almost up to you. Yeah, I mean he's he's got
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Speaker 1: I'm a two timer. But yeah, congrats to John. Really
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Speaker 1: a I don't know, I kind of feel like an uncle,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like like watching John, you know,
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Speaker 1: a little while for Howie Lendsy and then he's then
Speaker 1: he Dinnie in the sky.
Speaker 2: Then he joins us. Now you know, now.
Speaker 1: They moved him up to the big stick, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's doing well for himself. But again, congrats
Speaker 1: to John and his family and Tyke.
Speaker 2: He was destined to be a dad. Oh big dad vibes.
Speaker 2: That's big dad vibes. I mean, it's just it's a
Speaker 2: natural thing. It'll come natural to him, no doubt. So
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Speaker 1: fast as I'm trying to get in as much as
Speaker 1: we can here before we take another quick break and
Speaker 1: then bring in Brian Brohm. But somebody on the text
Speaker 1: line asked if I if I uh, well, I guess
Speaker 1: just really didn't ask anything. They were sharing something A
Speaker 1: screenshot from card Chronicle mister Rutherford about the Tennessee program
Speaker 1: and the ole Miss program apparently not interested in scheduling
Speaker 1: Louisville when Jeff Brahm was apparently trying to get something
Speaker 1: done with them. I think both schools had ended up
Speaker 1: having an open date for whatever reason, and Louisville wanted
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that and try to see if
Speaker 1: they could get something scheduled. But both schools, it looks like,
Speaker 1: opted to play somebody else. And I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not really that shocked by that. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's easy to say, well, why, you know, I think
Speaker 1: Louisville is one of those schools that, yes, clearly they're
Speaker 1: a solid program. I mean we're talking about a team that,
Speaker 1: you know, ten wins two seasons ago. Last year, I mean,
Speaker 1: by all accounts, he still had a pretty good year
Speaker 1: with just one kind of head scratching loss, and that
Speaker 1: was the loss to Stanford. So you know, I guess
Speaker 1: if you're ole Miss or you are Tennessee, you're probably
Speaker 1: looking at Louislle as you know, they're good. They could
Speaker 1: easily beat us. But if we beat them, do we
Speaker 1: really get a whole lot of credit? I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you would, because I have a good feeling that
Speaker 1: Louisville will once again be viewed as one of the
Speaker 1: best teams in the ACC, A team that will probably
Speaker 1: be ranked this season. I don't know if they'll start
Speaker 1: ranked or if they'll end up, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: sliding in and out of the top twenty five depending
Speaker 1: on what happens.
Speaker 2: But you know, Louisville there's value if you beat them.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, maybe it's the arrogance of the
Speaker 1: SEC to where they just don't feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: it'd be worth taking a risk because the reward wouldn't
Speaker 1: really do much for them.
Speaker 2: But again, I think it would.
Speaker 1: And it's not to say that louis will be a
Speaker 1: marquee win that could you know, elevate somebody from not
Speaker 1: being in the playoff to being in.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it could, though, depending upon I mean, I keep
Speaker 1: having to remind myself that there's now twelve teams to
Speaker 1: get in. But Louisville had this problem years ago, right
Speaker 1: when they would schedule something way way in advance, and
Speaker 1: then a school would buy out of the deal because
Speaker 1: you know, because of what I just mentioned, and it
Speaker 1: was a little bit more I guess understandable because when
Speaker 1: Louisville was in Conference USA or maybe even the Big East,
Speaker 1: it would be a I don't know if it'd be
Speaker 1: a black eye, but it'd be viewed as a if
Speaker 1: you beat him, yet it's what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: and if not, you know, it's not a bad loss
Speaker 1: by any means. But I don't know, maybe if you're
Speaker 1: in Conference USA at the time, no matter what Louisvel's rank,
Speaker 1: which I think one of their best teams ever, best
Speaker 1: team of all one of the best teams of all time,
Speaker 1: two thousand and four was a Conference USA team. So uh,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm not surprised, and yeah, if you
Speaker 1: want to call those schools, you know, scared, then I
Speaker 1: get it. And what I love is that Louisville schedule
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, I'm not gonna, you know, knock
Speaker 1: it as if it's if it's you know, super soft.
Speaker 1: But what I what I felt like in the first
Speaker 1: couple of seasons of Jeff is I just didn't really
Speaker 1: get a feel for is he gonna try to keep
Speaker 1: Louisville scheduling in the non conference is you know, maybe
Speaker 1: not as many good teams as possible, But will he
Speaker 1: be out there trying to find games against teams like
Speaker 1: Ole misson Tennessee. Now we know the answer this year,
Speaker 1: you know, Indiana, Indiana buying out really put Louisville in
Speaker 1: a tough spot, and that's why you have the schedule
Speaker 1: that you have this year. So I never felt like
Speaker 1: Jeff was going to be making sure they schedule as
Speaker 1: many cupcakes as possible. But you know, this year's schedule,
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, this is the best way to
Speaker 1: describe it.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 1: I guess disclaimer Indiana is mostly to blame here because
Speaker 1: they should be on the schedule. You should be playing
Speaker 1: them in Bloomington this year, and I know we want
Speaker 1: to make fun. You know, everyone wants to call out
Speaker 1: what's their coach's name, Signetti? No Signetti, Oh we're talking
Speaker 1: about football, Yeah, Signetti. But like he he was not
Speaker 1: the coach there yet when they decided to go ahead
Speaker 1: and buy out, that was Tom Allen and the athletic director.
Speaker 1: And at the time it made sense because they're Indiana.
Speaker 1: But then you know last year they had a phenomenal season,
Speaker 1: so Indiana should be on the schedule, and you've had
Speaker 1: to scramble to kind of make what you you know,
Speaker 1: put together whatever you can and e KU, James Madison
Speaker 1: and Bowling Green in Kentucky are your non conference and
Speaker 1: then in conference, of course you're gonna have games against Clemson, SIMU.
Speaker 2: You do play Virginia Tech this year at their place.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be at Miami.
Speaker 1: So the schedule is not bad in the ACC, it's
Speaker 1: just in the non conference it's not great. And again
Speaker 1: Indiana is to blame for that.
Speaker 3: But the way I.
Speaker 1: Described it when we first talked about it a a
Speaker 1: few months ago, once we knew exactly, you know, who
Speaker 1: was on the schedule, It's a schedule that if it
Speaker 1: was Kentucky's schedule we'd make fun of it, right because
Speaker 1: they play, you know, the two MAC teams, an FCS team,
Speaker 1: and then Louisville. So yeah, I'm not surprised that Ole
Speaker 1: Miss and Tennessee decided to schedule differently.
Speaker 2: And look, the SEC. Nobody would ever tell you.
Speaker 1: I guess somebody would try to argue, But like, I
Speaker 1: don't believe that the SEC is not the best league
Speaker 1: in college football. It always has been. I think it
Speaker 1: always will be, just based off of just the depth
Speaker 1: and the old like they're their top is better than
Speaker 1: most In fact, their top is better than everybody in
Speaker 1: most instances, meaning year in and year out, you take
Speaker 1: the three best teams from the SEC, they're probably going
Speaker 1: to be better than the three best from anywhere else.
Speaker 1: And I think the depth is better in the SEC
Speaker 1: more often than not. But what it gets me is
Speaker 1: that they don't really do anything to prove that, like
Speaker 1: I believe it, but like they've in. Last year was
Speaker 1: not a good year for the SEC to get the
Speaker 1: benefit of doubt because in the non conference they did
Speaker 1: not have They didn't have a lot of success, and
Speaker 1: maybe the portal has changed it to where maybe they're
Speaker 1: just not, as you know, dominant against other leagues like they.
Speaker 4: Used to be.
Speaker 1: But I think they they still they still play eight games,
Speaker 1: won't go to nine, which the AEC does the same thing.
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm gonna be critical. I should be consistent,
Speaker 1: you know, I wish the ACC went to nine, like
Speaker 1: I wish Louisville instead of playing EKU they had another
Speaker 1: ACC opponent. But anyways, the SEC still lives in the
Speaker 1: mindset of like, well come on now, like I know,
Speaker 1: like to give you the old Shane Beemer and uh
Speaker 1: and uh Lane Kiffin last year. Right, you can't tell
Speaker 1: me we're not one of the it doesn't. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can tell and tell you whatever, I tell you, whatever
Speaker 1: you want. You didn't actually get results that will put
Speaker 1: you in the playoff, and you wanting to get in
Speaker 1: just based off the fact that you're a solid team
Speaker 1: in a league that is probably the best, but you
Speaker 1: view it as like the NFL compared to the rest
Speaker 1: of college football, Like that's not enough to get you
Speaker 1: in and it never will be. So like playing games
Speaker 1: like this could help you. And there are some teams
Speaker 1: in the SEC that will schedule really really tough, and
Speaker 1: then there's some teams that'll play an eight game schedule
Speaker 1: and then they'll play you know, maybe one decent team
Speaker 1: out of conference, and then a bunch of nobody's And
Speaker 1: by the way, that's probably going to continue to be
Speaker 1: the case for most like you're This year, Louisville football
Speaker 1: has eight home games, which I believe is the I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the first time it's ever happened where they've had eight,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that won't happen every year. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna want as many home games as possible.
Speaker 2: You will try to get to.
Speaker 1: Eight if you can, because you know, money, you need
Speaker 1: as much money as possible. Now because of the house settlement,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to start sharing revenue. And anytime you
Speaker 1: open up those gates on a Saturday in the fall,
Speaker 1: it's a big, big payday. And last I check, people
Speaker 1: like big big paydays. Or we're gonna get to a
Speaker 1: break coming up here in just a moment. But I
Speaker 1: do want to talk really quickly about the news the
Speaker 1: Kentucky basketball got last night. They lost one of their
Speaker 1: top rated incoming freshman's a Kayden Lewis. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the highest rated commit, but certainly
Speaker 1: a really good recruit, top twenty five player overall. And
Speaker 1: you know, I wish I could just you know, make
Speaker 1: fun of Mark Pope and point to this as something
Speaker 1: that is maybe a sign of him not being able
Speaker 1: to you know, recruit as well as needed at a
Speaker 1: place like Kentucky, But I really don't. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think this will actually end up being a beneficial thing
Speaker 1: for Kentucky. I do, because you know, maybe they don't
Speaker 1: go out and get somebody that is ready to play
Speaker 1: that can really help them but there's a chance you
Speaker 1: could go get a you know, a solid guard that
Speaker 1: has decent production from another Power five school, and he
Speaker 1: will be better than what a Kate and Lewis might
Speaker 1: have been as a freshman. You know, well you know
Speaker 1: that's you never know, but kids that are ranked twenty
Speaker 1: five to thirty two where he is, sometimes they end
Speaker 1: up being really really good, and sometimes they end up
Speaker 1: you know, playing eleven minutes a game because the rest
Speaker 1: of the guys on your team that are twenty three
Speaker 1: years old, those guys are clearly.
Speaker 2: In a better position to help you win.
Speaker 1: So where I think this could help them as it
Speaker 1: frees up some in ail money, I suppose. But also,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're a veteran guard and you're in
Speaker 1: the portal and you know they've got not only Otaga
Speaker 1: away coming back, they've got Jasper Johnson, a five star
Speaker 1: guard coming in, and then they had another four star
Speaker 1: guard to Kan Lewis coming in, and you know, now
Speaker 1: this kid's not coming, like you see a bigger opportunity
Speaker 1: there because you're not adding a you know, a high
Speaker 1: level guard.
Speaker 2: As a freshman.
Speaker 1: So I hate to say it, but like I I
Speaker 1: guess the optics aren't great, right, but who cares about that?
Speaker 1: Like this will probably be a beneficial thing for Kentucky
Speaker 1: for the upcoming season. And that's again, it's just that's
Speaker 1: where we if you can still get value when you
Speaker 1: go young, you can still you know, find freshmen that
Speaker 1: can play a role and help you to an extent.
Speaker 2: But the proof is there, you're.
Speaker 1: Better off to build with more experience and veterans and
Speaker 1: then kind of sprinkle in your freshmen that can just
Speaker 1: you know, that can help you here and there. Now
Speaker 1: you're gonna have some special freshmen that are going to
Speaker 1: play a ton that are going to be really good
Speaker 1: for you. And I'm hoping that's what Michael Brown is
Speaker 1: this year for Louisville.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break. Brian brom joins us on the
Speaker 2: other side right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Coffee and Company rolling along here on a
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon as we get you set for the weekend
Speaker 1: and also get your set for the spring game for
Speaker 1: the Louisville football program that I am joining us to
Speaker 1: talk about that, among among other things, is Louisville former
Speaker 1: level quarterback offensive coordinator currently Brian brom Brian, how are
Speaker 1: we doing, brother?
Speaker 4: I'm doing doing good? Looking forward too the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'll start by it sounds like there was
Speaker 1: really no consideration for this program to consider not having
Speaker 1: a spring game. I know that's happened elsewhere. And I
Speaker 1: know you can't speak for anybody but yourself, but you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you've been in this industry for a long time.
Speaker 2: You have peers, you have contacts.
Speaker 1: What would you say is the biggest reason as to
Speaker 1: why some of those programs would want to do that?
Speaker 2: Is it because they're worried.
Speaker 1: About players post, worried about egos getting hurt, because maybe
Speaker 1: these guys who transferred in aren't where they need to
Speaker 1: be on the depth chart. Again, I know you guys
Speaker 1: aren't going to do it, but it's just a surprise
Speaker 1: to me that you're seeing this thing kind of just
Speaker 1: not be a thing anymore at some programs.
Speaker 4: I think there's too that I think. I think, you know, obviously,
Speaker 4: not getting players post and not letting your opponents be
Speaker 4: able to get a glimpse at what you're going to
Speaker 4: look like come come fall, because we will will study.
Speaker 4: You know, in the past, we study the spring games
Speaker 4: that people put on TV and make sure that we
Speaker 4: see the personnel and what they're running. So that does
Speaker 4: get studied. So some coaches get paranoid about that. And
Speaker 4: then you know the injury thing sometimes, you know, everyone
Speaker 4: wants to get through the spring healthiest, probably the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: You don't want to get your guys hurt. So that's
Speaker 4: probably one of the reasons that the teams are shying
Speaker 4: away from that as well.
Speaker 1: I wasn't planning on asking you, but you said the
Speaker 1: word which opened the door is college football coaching?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it true that it is a paranoid profession? Seems
Speaker 1: like it is, but you you would know better than me.
Speaker 4: Uh. Yes, I think a lot of coaches are very
Speaker 4: parannoyed about people stealing their stuff, stealing their signal, stealing
Speaker 4: what they're doing, getting the edge, and we're all working
Speaker 4: to try to get an edge. Yeah, the way we
Speaker 4: can so at some at some points it's justifiable. You know,
Speaker 4: we do so much on offense. Uh sometimes I tell
Speaker 4: you guys, I say, hey, I probably can answer my
Speaker 4: call sheet and you wouldn't really know what we're doing.
Speaker 4: So good luck figuring that out because we do a lot,
Speaker 4: so we don't worry about it too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like it'd be
Speaker 1: a little more difficult when it comes to that with
Speaker 1: with the system that you guys run. But for tonight's game,
Speaker 1: I mean, is as far as formatter, we expected to
Speaker 1: have just a typical type of spring game, four quarters
Speaker 1: competitive rosters. I mean, you guys maybe planning to make
Speaker 1: some adjustments on the go just to kind of get
Speaker 1: some different looks. What's the plan for tonight as far
Speaker 1: as what fans can.
Speaker 4: Expect, It's going to be very similar to what we
Speaker 4: have done in the past. So we're gonna go ones
Speaker 4: on good, on good, ones, on one, twos, on two threes,
Speaker 4: on threes. You won't see much tackling, if any tackling.
Speaker 4: Uh So it'll be thud, which means that the defender
Speaker 4: has to get to the ball carrier and and and
Speaker 4: give them a little something without taking them to the ground.
Speaker 4: Uh So the ball will beat down when when that occurs.
Speaker 4: But you're gonna see you're gonna see all our players,
Speaker 4: all the best players. We're gonna be competitive. Uh there's
Speaker 4: a scoring system for the it's offense first defense. So uh,
Speaker 4: there's a scoring system for the defense to get some
Speaker 4: points and make it a competitive matchup, to to really
Speaker 4: have some fun out there and see these guys in
Speaker 4: some live action, see them in a competitive environment where
Speaker 4: the coaches aren't out there telling them what to do,
Speaker 4: seeing them when they get out there in front of
Speaker 4: fans in the stadium.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Sometimes when the lights come on, some guys play better,
Speaker 4: some guys play worse. It's good to know that going
Speaker 4: into the lost season, how they're going to react well.
Speaker 1: With the with the new world we're in with rosters,
Speaker 1: you know, turning over much more so than they used to.
Speaker 1: They'll be a lot of guys tonight playing in front
Speaker 1: of fans here at Louisville for the first time. One
Speaker 1: of them will be your new quarterback, Miller Moss. I'll
Speaker 1: go back to a couple of years ago. I guess
Speaker 1: it hasn't been quite that long, but two seasons ago.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there was no thought in your mind that
Speaker 1: whenever he was having a hell of a game against
Speaker 1: you guys in that Bowl game, that he would now
Speaker 1: be the guy kind of running the show for you guys.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't, you know, Yeah, that was It wasn't
Speaker 4: fun to be on the other end of that, But
Speaker 4: it's good to have him here. He's he's super smart,
Speaker 4: very intelligent. He throws a really pretty ball, very catchable football,
Speaker 4: and he gets the ball out on time. So very
Speaker 4: excited about him. He's been he's been tremendous for spring
Speaker 4: so far. He's done a great job of understanding the offense.
Speaker 4: He's a football junkie. He wants to watch film all
Speaker 4: the time. He's he's grabbing me for extra filmwork pretty
Speaker 4: much every single day. So he's done a great job
Speaker 4: of coming in, digesting the offense, learning it all, and
Speaker 4: then being able to go out and execute it on
Speaker 4: the field. So really excited about him, and really excited
Speaker 4: for the fans to kind of get a close of
Speaker 4: him in our uniform instead of in the opponents.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I know, you know, you guys would keep a
Speaker 1: guy forever if he has eligibility and he wants to
Speaker 1: stay and he can have success for you guys. But
Speaker 1: obviously that's just not as common anymore. And I remember
Speaker 1: during the Notre Dame game, it was the broadcast, I
Speaker 1: remember Jason Garrett had mentioned that I guess in conversation
Speaker 1: with your brother Jeff that that you know he really
Speaker 1: wasn't against having to go get another and I shouldn't
Speaker 1: even say having but like the ability to go get
Speaker 1: a veteran that has played high level college football. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of coaches they want to keep the
Speaker 1: same guy as long as they can, and sure you
Speaker 1: will if you can.
Speaker 2: But I don't get the sense.
Speaker 1: That you guys as a staff are are worried about
Speaker 1: bringing in somebody, even if it's only for a year.
Speaker 1: Clearly last season, even the season before that, it's it's
Speaker 1: been pretty successful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you try to adapt to whatever the
Speaker 4: rules are at the time. So you know, obviously we
Speaker 4: want to get the best recruiter here that we possibly
Speaker 4: can and develop those guys to be great players and
Speaker 4: get them on the field, and at the same time,
Speaker 4: we want to win now. We we've always kind of
Speaker 4: carried that m O going into every season that we
Speaker 4: want to win this season. We're not not as concerned
Speaker 4: about just getting guys in to get them ready for
Speaker 4: the upcoming years. We want to win now. So a
Speaker 4: lot of times, you know, there's good options out there
Speaker 4: in the portal. There are it seems like every year
Speaker 4: so far, there've been quite a quite a few good
Speaker 4: quarterbacks that get out there and are are in the
Speaker 4: open market. So each year we're just trying to put
Speaker 4: the best team out there that we can find the
Speaker 4: best quarterback that we can And yes, if we if
Speaker 4: we get a young guy that does a great job
Speaker 4: and carry this thing for multiple years, that would be phenomenal.
Speaker 4: We would love that. But a lot of times in
Speaker 4: this game it's about opportunity. Sometimes guys get that opportunity early,
Speaker 4: whether it be through bad play or injury or whatever
Speaker 4: it may be. Maybe we knock on Wood, have not
Speaker 4: had to dive into our depth chart very far the
Speaker 4: first two years. Hopefully it continues that way, keep our
Speaker 4: starter healthy and keep them off the ground and those
Speaker 4: type of things, but we definitely got to be prepared
Speaker 4: if we need to dive into the depth as well.
Speaker 1: Brian brom Is our guests joining us here on Sports
Speaker 1: Talk seven ninety getting separate tonight's Louisville football spring game.
Speaker 1: Last year's quarterback Tyler Shuck, he was he was pretty
Speaker 1: damn good, and he's getting a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of buzz right now leading up to the NFL Draft. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you spent time in the NFL, you played the game,
Speaker 1: your quarterback yourself, I know you were. You guys have
Speaker 1: had been impressed with with with Shucks since since he arrived,
Speaker 1: and obviously he had a really good season. But did
Speaker 1: you expect him to kind of wow NFL personnel the
Speaker 1: way he has. I mean, there's a chance he could
Speaker 1: be taken really pretty early in this draft, which I
Speaker 1: don't think any Loisville fan that watched would be surprised
Speaker 1: that he's good. I mean, we saw with our own eyes,
Speaker 1: but it just seemed like the buzz really kind of
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere and it continues to be growing.
Speaker 4: It seems yeah, I mean I am not surprised. I
Speaker 4: think his talent is evident if you just if you
Speaker 4: watch him as stature, the way he throws the football,
Speaker 4: the way he moves, and then when you get to
Speaker 4: talk to him and see how smart he is, how
Speaker 4: articulate he is, what a great leader he is. He
Speaker 4: just has he really checks all the boxes. He has
Speaker 4: all the attributes you want in a franchise quarterback. So
Speaker 4: I would not be surprised to see him taking in
Speaker 4: the first round. I think he is a first round
Speaker 4: talent for sure. You know that the knocks on him
Speaker 4: would be the injury history. And sure he's a little
Speaker 4: bit older, so that might push him down a little bit.
Speaker 4: But I think he's as good as anybody out there.
Speaker 4: And I think once the evaluators start seeing him in
Speaker 4: person and start watching the film, they're all seeing that
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not a body language expert, and obviously I've never
Speaker 1: I've never played the quarterback position, but one thing that
Speaker 1: stood out to me, I want to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: on about him and also good to me, he seemed
Speaker 1: just very sure of himself. Right, you could tell there
Speaker 1: was a confidence that was infectious. But it wasn't because
Speaker 1: of any type of you know, arrogance or I mean,
Speaker 1: he seemed calm and cool, but you could just tell
Speaker 1: he trusted his arm and made some big plays and
Speaker 1: it just seemed like that. I mean, again, I've never
Speaker 1: played the position myself, but it seemed like that. Really, really,
Speaker 1: they can really boost your offense with everybody.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it is super calm. I mean, just the maturity
Speaker 4: level that he had. Obviously he's a seven year player,
Speaker 4: but with all the types of experiences that he has had,
Speaker 4: he'd been through so many different things. I think that
Speaker 4: built your character, built your confidence. He was very sure
Speaker 4: of himself. You know, he went to Oregon, he was
Speaker 4: in quarterback battles. He won quarterback battles, he lost quarterback battles.
Speaker 4: He went to Tech when he played for multiple coaches.
Speaker 4: You know at Tech had the injury bug. He had
Speaker 4: to keep fighting through that, keep fighting through that. I
Speaker 4: think when you experience all those things, you mature as
Speaker 4: a person, mature as a quarterback. That confidence is going
Speaker 4: to show in the field now. I think it did
Speaker 4: last season, and that's why he was able to be
Speaker 4: so successful.
Speaker 1: You've already mentioned it, and I'm sure it's not something
Speaker 1: that people are surprised to hear, but hey, we want
Speaker 1: to win now that I like that motto, and it's
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have been winning since you showed
Speaker 1: up a couple of years ago. I don't see that
Speaker 1: stopping anytime now. But usually that's a pitch to transfers,
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously freshmen as well, but freshman making
Speaker 1: a big impact in year one. It still happens, but
Speaker 1: it's just really it's never been super common. But you
Speaker 1: had two freshman running backs on your offense last year
Speaker 1: that were insane. I mean, Isaac Brown Duke Watson, two
Speaker 1: of the best, maybe the two best freshman running backs
Speaker 1: in the country. Certainly in the conversation, you played alongside
Speaker 1: some really really good running backs. Tell me a little
Speaker 1: bit about these guys, and really they're upside because, I mean,
Speaker 1: if they just come back and have the same production
Speaker 1: the same season they had a year ago, that would
Speaker 1: be phenomenal. But these guys, I mean they're still nineteen
Speaker 1: years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're really good. I mean they both are obviously
Speaker 4: a little bit on the smaller side of your running
Speaker 4: back frame, but both got really great speed. Isaac is
Speaker 4: got that home run hitting speeding time to give them
Speaker 4: the ball, just know that it can possibly squeeze through
Speaker 4: there for a huge play. So it's just so fun
Speaker 4: to watch him run. I think Duke is a little
Speaker 4: bit age loser than tight spaces. He has a little
Speaker 4: more wiggle and he's phenomenal as well. So we're we're blessed.
Speaker 4: You know, getting those that makes the quarterbacks job easier,
Speaker 4: It makes the play colors job easier, it makes everybody's
Speaker 4: job easier. We can hand it to these two guys
Speaker 4: and let them run the football and go get yards
Speaker 4: in ways where you don't have to really out scheme everybody.
Speaker 4: You just give it to your best player and players
Speaker 4: and let them go go get the yards. So we're
Speaker 4: blessed to.
Speaker 1: Have those two a couple of quick questions and we'll
Speaker 1: let you go out and you've got to get ready
Speaker 1: for tonight's game. But when it comes to recruiting players
Speaker 1: and now the Nile component being a factor, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: a big factor. I mean, who knows, maybe, I mean
Speaker 1: might be the most important factor for most players. That
Speaker 1: wouldn't really shock me when you consider it. But is
Speaker 1: there something about the recruiting process now in this new
Speaker 1: world that is a challenge, an obstacle that maybe average
Speaker 1: fans would never guess, like something that that you you
Speaker 1: guys run into that not to say it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's something you can't overcome, but just a part of
Speaker 1: this that maybe we don't realize that that is a
Speaker 1: new component to how you can sell this program and
Speaker 1: get them here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think the the challenge in recruiting
Speaker 4: now is is more of the the nil aspect. Every
Speaker 4: you know, the agent aspect.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, agents, that's what I assumed
Speaker 5: all the guys, all the guys that are in their
Speaker 5: ears that are telling them they can get this and
Speaker 5: they can get that.
Speaker 4: And then as coaches trying to trying to be able
Speaker 4: to decipher.
Speaker 2: You know, what is true or what is yeah, who's
Speaker 2: genuine who's not, you start to he started to.
Speaker 4: Get all these different ideas, and guys will tell you
Speaker 4: that they're being told this and that and how much
Speaker 4: they can get here and there, and you know, you
Speaker 4: just gotta It's it's hard to try to figure out
Speaker 4: exactly what's real what's not. And the more you just
Speaker 4: talk to the kids and get to know them and
Speaker 4: just build that relatelationship, you can start to figure out
Speaker 4: what's true and what isn't and and decipher all that.
Speaker 4: But it is, it is more of a challenge this
Speaker 4: day and age. And it was just a few years ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like being able to have a relationship,
Speaker 1: being able to connect with players has It's always been important,
Speaker 1: but man, never more important than now, because these guys
Speaker 1: can just up and leave and if they've got a
Speaker 1: good connection, a good a good back and forth and
Speaker 1: they trust you, I mean, they can still leave. But
Speaker 1: you know, nowadays, I just I think that's the ways
Speaker 1: of the ways of coaching guys back in the day.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like it it could still
Speaker 1: work for you, but it's also going to be It's
Speaker 1: just it's just so much different. But last question I'll
Speaker 1: have for you, Brian before we let you go. I
Speaker 1: know you've you've been an assistant coach now for for
Speaker 1: quite some time. You went from from playing the game
Speaker 1: for your your whole life to now coaching it. You'd
Speaker 1: be doing it for a while, have you, I know,
Speaker 1: the head coach head coaching opportunities have come up. I
Speaker 1: know there's been some interest in you in that role.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere are you I know that's not your focus right
Speaker 1: now as we speak, but I mean, is that something
Speaker 1: that you've kind of always wanted to do? Is it
Speaker 1: something and you're still considering, Like maybe if the right
Speaker 1: opportunity comes, just tell me a little bit about sort
Speaker 1: of your you know, where you see yourself down the
Speaker 1: line in this profession.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think if the right opportunity presents itself,
Speaker 4: then that's definitely something to talk about. You know. Right now,
Speaker 4: I'm really happy where I'm at. Really focused on the
Speaker 4: University of Louisville, being in the hometown, being at the
Speaker 4: school I play that, and trying to go do great
Speaker 4: things here Today I am. I'm very happy where I am,
Speaker 4: but saying that, there's always opportunities that are gonna come up.
Speaker 4: Being a head coach is something that I would like
Speaker 4: to do at some point with the right opportunity. So
Speaker 4: we'll see how that all plays out. But right now, man,
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to be here and so excited about
Speaker 4: this season right now, chopping at the bit really to
Speaker 4: get the game won.
Speaker 1: Brian, appreciate the time. I know you got to get
Speaker 1: going and get ready for tonight's spring game. We'll see
Speaker 1: out there at Ellen N Cardinals Stadium. And again, big
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4: Here, all right, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: That's Brian brom former lout of a quarterback, current Louisville OC.
Speaker 1: I don't I mean like I feel feel awkward having to.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't need to tell you guys who
Speaker 1: Brian bromis. We all know who Brian Brom is. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that there has been some interest in him
Speaker 1: at becoming. When I say interest, I mean schools that
Speaker 1: were interested in hiring him. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: process actually looked like and how it played out, but
Speaker 1: he got to think is eventually he'll get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: And look, he's probably turned down some opportunities. I don't
Speaker 1: know that for certain, but it wouldn't shock me considering
Speaker 1: you know that he's as he said, he's in his hometown.
Speaker 1: He's he's playing I'm sorry, he's coaching for his brother.
Speaker 1: They're having success, so it's not something that he's probably
Speaker 1: looking to leave. But he would think if they continue
Speaker 1: to have success around here, there'll be hopefully an opportunity
Speaker 1: that he would want to pursue. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to lose him, but I mean, who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he ends up going elsewhere in many years down
Speaker 1: the line, because I don't see Jeff stepping away anytime soon.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Brian comes back and he takes over. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Rus really are like the first family of Louisville
Speaker 1: football in a way that like, I'm not sure you
Speaker 1: really ever see that anywhere else, do you. I mean,
Speaker 1: and here's something that somebody brought up the other day.
Speaker 1: I was talking to one of my friends, big Louisville fan,
Speaker 1: who We were just talking about how excited we are
Speaker 1: about this upcoming season because you know, so far, so
Speaker 1: good with Jeff Brum, and there's a chance this team,
Speaker 1: with the offensive firepower they have, and if Miller Moss
Speaker 1: is as good as advertised, as good as see us
Speaker 1: when we played him a couple of years ago, this
Speaker 1: could be a special season once again. But there was
Speaker 1: never really any fear of like, well, I don't know,
Speaker 1: do we want to bring the guy home? We love
Speaker 1: him so much, and if it doesn't work out, there's
Speaker 1: really no way to kind of like ever, like, if
Speaker 1: it didn't work out and they had to make a move,
Speaker 1: it probably wouldn't never be nasty because Jeff not only
Speaker 1: as a legend here, this is his home. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would hope it wouldn't be nasty, but like you
Speaker 1: would always be something twenty years down the line if
Speaker 1: he was canned eighteen years ago and you think back
Speaker 1: to him, there's a lot of layers to it, but
Speaker 1: you probably like, man, I hate that that happened because
Speaker 1: I love him, But man, we had to make a move,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think any Louisville fans ever thought about that,
Speaker 1: because we just had so much faith and confidence that
Speaker 1: this guy. I mean, who knows if you win a
Speaker 1: national championship here, like like the Pipe said, you know
Speaker 1: we were destined to do.
Speaker 2: But I mean you knew he was a lot better
Speaker 2: than the guy you had previously. And you know he
Speaker 2: gets it. He gets it.
Speaker 1: I mean seeing him at all of the Louisville basketball games,
Speaker 1: him and his son Brady. I mean, we're pretty lucky
Speaker 1: to have to have Brom home, not only because of
Speaker 1: the obvious success that's had that's been had, but you know,
Speaker 1: like we have to worry. We don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about it. Like does he get us? Does he understand
Speaker 1: Louisville football? No, he is Louisville football. His family is
Speaker 1: Louivell football. Austin, at your age, you had to be
Speaker 1: geeking out, dude, with Brian Brom on the line. I
Speaker 1: saw you in there chatting with him. You saw you
Speaker 1: saw that, I saw you in there.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: It made me happy because I know, like you know,
Speaker 1: it's one of the things I love working with you,
Speaker 1: but I also love that you're You're a crazy lunatic
Speaker 1: Louisville fan like me.
Speaker 5: That was the first team I fell in love with
Speaker 5: was that two thousand and six team, and then first
Speaker 5: time crying to a game was Rutgers, and I remember coming.
Speaker 5: It was painful, it was bad. I remember coming the
Speaker 5: very next year to the Louisville media day. It was
Speaker 5: Cragthorpe's first year and I stood in the quarterbacks line
Speaker 5: to get my poster signed for hours just to meet
Speaker 5: Brian Brahm, and I told him, please please beat Rutgers.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I tell you what I know we got to get.
Speaker 1: But Brian talk about the nil money he could have
Speaker 1: gotten in that. I mean, in fact, we brought it
Speaker 1: up last time he was on the show and he
Speaker 1: kind of laughed, and I got the sense he didn't really.
Speaker 2: I mean, he wasn't he.
Speaker 1: Wasn't irritated by the question, but like your damn right,
Speaker 1: he's probably thought about that, and I'm sure he's doing
Speaker 1: well now.
Speaker 2: But like he was, Louisville's own.
Speaker 1: You know, you're coming back after going to a Sugar
Speaker 1: to an Orange Bowl and winning Heisman candidate, and at
Speaker 1: that time Louisville was, I mean, Louisville was rolling athletically
Speaker 1: as far as the athletics department with Tom Jurich and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a big, big, big big thanks to Brian
Speaker 1: for joining us and he've locked right here. It's coffee
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