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Speaker 3: On a beautiful, beautiful Tuesday afternoon. What is this weather?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm loving it.
Speaker 2: It is such a tease.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's amazing. Last two days I have, I've had both,
Speaker 3: you know. I try to run every day, usually though
Speaker 3: in the summer, and honestly, really around I prefer the treadmill.
Speaker 3: I have learned though. The treadmill is easier. You know.
Speaker 3: I like to just get lost within a show on
Speaker 3: my iPad or a movie or something, just to distract
Speaker 3: myself from the fact that I'm running, and you know,
Speaker 3: help the time pass. But I just haven't had as
Speaker 3: much time to spend, you know, an hour, an hour
Speaker 3: and fifteen in the gym. So I just walked outside
Speaker 3: yesterday morning, in this morning to take the kids to school,
Speaker 3: and I usually, you know, take my gym bag and
Speaker 3: you know, prepare to go to the gym. And I thought,
Speaker 3: you know what, Nope, not today. I'm coming right back here,
Speaker 3: just gonna hop out of the car, go on a
Speaker 3: quick couple mile run. And uh, I mean the weather
Speaker 3: has been great, and I be you know, yesterday I'm thinking, well,
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Speaker 3: Like in fact, running around my neighborhood. There are people
Speaker 3: already got pumpkins out. I mean one house already has
Speaker 3: like Halloween decorations up. So I'm loving this weather and
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Speaker 3: mana John all on alongside today And today's one of
Speaker 3: those days where I'm very happy I have a radio
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Speaker 3: so yesterday, I don't remember when it was on the show,
Speaker 3: but at some point I got a little worried, kind
Speaker 3: of had like a brief moment of panic and worry
Speaker 3: while on the air, and it was in regards to
Speaker 3: what's happening on Thursday, and that is when I'll be
Speaker 3: throwing out a first pitch at the Louisville Bats game.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't you know, me worried about embarrassing myself
Speaker 3: because honestly, I'm going in completely like I have no
Speaker 3: expectation of doing anything that looks impressive. Uh, I just
Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to put one right across the plate,
Speaker 3: probably not going to be in the strike zone, probably
Speaker 3: isn't gonna look good. But I still feel confident that
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be able to do that. But the panic
Speaker 3: came in from a post that I happened to see
Speaker 3: on Facebook. I rarely ever go to Facebook on on
Speaker 3: my on on on online, Like I've got the app,
Speaker 3: but like rarely do I pull it up on a browser.
Speaker 3: Probably the same for you, John Rightle, Like if you're
Speaker 3: gonna check Facebook, it's probably on your phone, right for sure.
Speaker 3: Like when it comes to things that I U like
Speaker 3: when if I'm in studio or even at home getting
Speaker 3: ready for the show, just working throughout the day, believe
Speaker 3: it or not, I do prepare for the show. Facebook
Speaker 3: is not of any use for me, so you know,
Speaker 3: rarely do I ever get on there, but for some reason,
Speaker 3: I just did. And I saw that the louisvill Bats
Speaker 3: were promoting another appearance on Thursday. There's gonna be someone
Speaker 3: else throwing out the first pitch, a first pitch, and
Speaker 3: I thought, okay, did did did? Did something kind of
Speaker 3: get lost here? Like you know, I've been communicating with him,
Speaker 3: if you remember last week, John, I was hesitating to
Speaker 3: even like talk about it, yes, because I'm thinking, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm getting emails from the Louis of Bats. They're a
Speaker 3: great partner of ours here. We do, of course, do
Speaker 3: a lot of promotional stuff with them. We don't have
Speaker 3: their games on our station anymore, but you know, we
Speaker 3: still work with them. And uh, you know, I'm thinking
Speaker 3: they why they want me, Like there's gotta be some
Speaker 3: kind of a mistake here. They meant to send this
Speaker 3: to Tony Vannetti. They probably meant to send this to
Speaker 3: Terry Miners. Why why am I being asked if I
Speaker 3: want to be able, if I want to throw out
Speaker 3: a first pitch, and look, trust me, I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: fun with it. And we're gonna you know, we're gonna
Speaker 3: have it's gonna be great, But like, you know, I
Speaker 3: just think these things kind of fall apart, and this
Speaker 3: is one of those things you don't want to put
Speaker 3: out there and promote until you know for sure that
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. And I had confirmation last week, but
Speaker 3: I still just felt kind of, I don't know, like, really,
Speaker 3: are they really gonna do that, or really good that
Speaker 3: they're really gonna invite me out there, introduce me and
Speaker 3: let me out there and throw one across the plate,
Speaker 3: because I'm really appreciative of it. So anyways, I was
Speaker 3: already hesitating to kind of talk about it, just because
Speaker 3: I didn't want it to fall apart. And yesterday when
Speaker 3: I saw that there's another person gonna be throwing out
Speaker 3: a first pitch, I worried that. You know, maybe they said, yeah, Nick,
Speaker 3: we wanted you to throw the first pitch, but we
Speaker 3: meant for our Double A team, the Chattanooga Lookouts. Can
Speaker 3: you make it down to Chattanooga on Thursday and throw
Speaker 3: one across the plate? You're more of a Double A
Speaker 3: type of guy for a first pitch. Maybe, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe they wanted to send me to the to their
Speaker 3: single a affiliate, the Dayton Tortugas. I'm sorry, the Daytona Tortugas.
Speaker 3: They also have the Dayton Dragons, maybe the Arizona Complex
Speaker 3: league Reds, which is part of the lowest level of
Speaker 3: their organization. So do you know the other person is?
Speaker 3: By the way, you probably looked it up, didn't you know?
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 3: It's Pat Kelsey. Oh okay, So I called my guy
Speaker 3: Brandon with the Bats because we talked yesterday, and I'm thinking, man, like,
Speaker 3: surely you know really this is I didn't know how, like,
Speaker 3: how could this be right? Because Pat Kelsey's way more
Speaker 3: deserving of getting the honor to do this than myself.
Speaker 3: Trust me, I've got no problem admitting that everybody knows that.
Speaker 3: In fact kind of you know. So, long story short,
Speaker 3: I called Brandon earlier today. I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: just wanted to see if we're still uh, if we're
Speaker 3: still good for Thursday, because I did see a Facebook
Speaker 3: post that said that that and I you know that
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey was gonna throw out the first pitch, and
Speaker 3: I said, look, I'm not asking for any of you
Speaker 3: all to promote that I'm gonna be there because look,
Speaker 3: I trust me. But I said, if there was like
Speaker 3: a error, if you if you double booked, if maybe
Speaker 3: there was some kind of uh, you know, miscommunication, Like look,
Speaker 3: if you got to move me to a different date,
Speaker 3: if you know you want me to come out, and
Speaker 3: you know, just be there and give me a ticket
Speaker 3: and not have me throw, like just let me know.
Speaker 3: And he was like, oh, no, it's good, We're good.
Speaker 3: This has been the plan. We're gonna have two. He's
Speaker 3: gonna he he's also gonna throw out a first pitch.
Speaker 3: I don't know how it's gonna work as far as
Speaker 3: when we're gonna do what. But what if you did
Speaker 3: him at the same time. I don't know how that.
Speaker 3: I mean that would you know that'd be tough for
Speaker 3: the catcher. I mean, so sometimes they pull out two catchers.
Speaker 2: They really they do double case pitches and it doesn't
Speaker 2: happen very often.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to do that, but you know, because
Speaker 3: I mean we can. I mean, I'd be honored, actually,
Speaker 3: but like you know, I'm trying not to embarrass myself
Speaker 3: that much. And I have no clue if Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 3: got any heat he can bring. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 3: he threw out a first pitch at a little baseball
Speaker 3: game this past year when he got hired. So it's
Speaker 3: still on. But like you know, like if they do
Speaker 3: one by one, like imagine the up the roaring crowd
Speaker 3: for one Pat Kelsey and then me with like, who's
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 2: It does seem odd to do too at the same
Speaker 2: time like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't I don't know what happened as
Speaker 3: far as how there's two. Here's my guess. You know,
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey probably is a guy that his schedule fluctuates, right, like,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe he was gonna be he was going
Speaker 3: to be doing the first pitch at some point for them,
Speaker 3: but he didn't really know a date to do it
Speaker 3: because he's recruiting, he's traveling, you know, he's trying to
Speaker 3: get Louisville basketball back on track. So my guess would
Speaker 3: be is that and I guess this probably. I just
Speaker 3: wanted to confirm this before I started, you know, yapping
Speaker 3: in my trap because I talked about the promotions going on.
Speaker 3: It's like tomorrow or Thursday. I'm sorry if you go
Speaker 3: to if you go to the game from five thirty.
Speaker 3: Let me just make sure I get this right, because
Speaker 3: I don't want to be given wrong information about these
Speaker 3: great promotional promotions that they have at the Louisville Bass game.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so here we go, here's the it's college night.
Speaker 3: So Pat Kelsey is a college basketball coach here, so
Speaker 3: that makes that makes a little more sense. But again
Speaker 3: it'll be let's see. Yeah on Thursday, says all, hail
Speaker 3: U OFL. Come celebrate the Cardinals at Louislle Slugger Field
Speaker 3: with a special moment as a member of the UFL
Speaker 3: community steps up to the mound, I throughout the first pitch.
Speaker 3: That is not me. It's got to be Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 3: I mean, I am in the Louisville community, but you know,
Speaker 3: come on. So anyways, Thursday, Thursday, two dollars Miller Lighting
Speaker 3: Corps light from five thirty to eight thirty. And also, uh,
Speaker 3: if you are a student, college student, you can doesn't
Speaker 3: doesn't I don't think it has doesn't have to be
Speaker 3: U of L. Can just be a college student in general.
Speaker 3: Maybe you go to JCC, maybe you go to Bellermant,
Speaker 3: Spaulding wherever. I use Southeast. Uh, if you have your
Speaker 3: student idea as a student, you can get six dollars
Speaker 3: general admission, So there you go. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm still appreciative of the of the of the opportunity
Speaker 3: here to to, you know, throw out the first pitch.
Speaker 3: But I was worried there for a moment that like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to walk it back, which wouldn't be
Speaker 3: the end of the world. It would just it would
Speaker 3: just be kind of embarrassing to me because it could
Speaker 3: have been like, oh, yeah, they realized what are they
Speaker 3: doing with this guy? He's a total clown. Which look,
Speaker 3: I think, you know, I could be a clown and
Speaker 3: still take part in it and have some fun. But anyways,
Speaker 3: I was worried, what do you think you think he's
Speaker 3: gonna be competitive?
Speaker 2: I'm just curious if they're gonna have you do it
Speaker 2: together or if it's gonna be one after another. I
Speaker 2: just don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, make can you throw out the first pitch
Speaker 3: at like the seven thening stretch or something like, I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: At that point it's like the sixtieth pitch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see, you know, we'll see. I'm not
Speaker 3: you know, I'm excited and again very appreciative of the
Speaker 3: opportunity to do it and looking forward to being there
Speaker 3: at slugg Or Field on on Thursday.
Speaker 2: And you feel like there's more pressure to throw a
Speaker 2: good pitch.
Speaker 3: Now, No, okay, I mean I haven't thought about it
Speaker 3: that way really at all. And I think some people,
Speaker 3: you know, my friends, my family, who've talked to me
Speaker 3: about it, they take that as if I'm like overly confident,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, no, that's not. I just I'm not
Speaker 3: like this is just something like just getting it at Like,
Speaker 3: here's the thing. My goal is to just make sure
Speaker 3: I can get it within the vicinity of the plate
Speaker 3: to where the catcher whoever's catching this first pitch doesn't
Speaker 3: have to you know, like you know, run for it
Speaker 3: or just like not move it all because he realizes
Speaker 3: I'm six feet wide or something like that. Like that's
Speaker 3: kind of what I'm hoping to be able to do,
Speaker 3: and I feel that I am going to be able
Speaker 3: to do that. It's not like I'm just all and
Speaker 3: it's going to be a brief I'm gonna walk up
Speaker 3: there and just you know, put it right across the
Speaker 3: plate in the strike zone, you know, looking like I
Speaker 3: belong like that. That's not where I'm coming from. However,
Speaker 3: to hear that it is sixty feet and six inches
Speaker 3: from the mound to the plate. That that that just
Speaker 3: hearing that number was a little intimidating. That seemed I mean,
Speaker 3: does that does that? I mean, did you know that
Speaker 3: off the top of your head, sixty feet that's a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, like you know, visually in your head. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just thought, like you know, And again, what I
Speaker 3: tried to do after I saw that it was sixty
Speaker 3: feet six inches. I tried to use the power of
Speaker 3: the Internet. Google couldn't help. Maybe there's an AI tool
Speaker 3: that could help me when it comes to this, but
Speaker 3: just something to give me like a comparison, all right,
Speaker 3: like what else can you tell me from this to
Speaker 3: this visually that's also sixty feet six inches because just
Speaker 3: here in sixty feet six inches, I mean it sounds
Speaker 3: I mean, it is a little intimidating. But you know,
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. By the way, the Bat's homestand
Speaker 3: starts tonight. They're taking on the Gwynet Strippers and tonight's
Speaker 3: specials two dollars menu Nite two dollars hot dogs, popcorn, chips,
Speaker 3: and pepsi products. So there you go. They're in action
Speaker 3: tomorrow as well, and the it starts at six thirty
Speaker 3: five each of these next few days over there at
Speaker 3: Slugger Field. But tonight or tomorrow it's half price Senior
Speaker 3: Citizen tickets fifty five and older that's presented by Humana.
Speaker 3: And then they also have Baseball Bingo as their game highlight.
Speaker 3: So again, get out to Slugger Field. Could you get
Speaker 3: better weather in August for some baseball? Come on now,
Speaker 3: you kid, meet cold beer, ballpark, delicious food, the Bats
Speaker 3: themselves always great promotions going on. So again big thanks
Speaker 3: to Greg galli At and the Louis Bats. All Right,
Speaker 3: so that's not like what I wanted to talk about
Speaker 3: today when I told you guys, you know, I got
Speaker 3: some things I want to discuss, and I rarely get
Speaker 3: into like, you know, rumor, like bringing a rumor to
Speaker 3: the airwaves and making it a topic because you know,
Speaker 3: back in my day, John, when I was cutting my
Speaker 3: tea in radio, I was told that was irresponsible. But
Speaker 3: like we live in a world now where that, like
Speaker 3: with Twitter, social media, you know, that really is a
Speaker 3: huge part of this platform, not meeting this show specifically,
Speaker 3: but like how many times have we discussed things that
Speaker 3: you know, we're either a rumor that people are either
Speaker 3: deciding if they believe it or not, or just something
Speaker 3: strictly hypothetical. I mean, that's that's what a lot of
Speaker 3: this is. So as far as a potential last minute
Speaker 3: addition to the roster for Louisville football in hopes of,
Speaker 3: you know, trying to get by as best you can
Speaker 3: with Colin Lacy as he recovers from a broken collar bone,
Speaker 3: there's some noise out there, maybe some would say, some
Speaker 3: smoke about something something happening in the next couple of
Speaker 3: days to you know, to help them throughout that process.
Speaker 3: I will be honest, I have no clue if there's
Speaker 3: any truth to it at all. But we'll get to
Speaker 3: that coming up here at about ten minutes when we
Speaker 3: get back from our first break. Also, there is a
Speaker 3: rare athletic director opening in August usually. I mean, in fact,
Speaker 3: I think you could make the case in the month
Speaker 3: for an athletic director's job to become open at a
Speaker 3: power type not a power but you know, a division one,
Speaker 3: a known university. I would say August would be the
Speaker 3: month that that's least likely to happen because that is
Speaker 3: when the sports calendar starts in college athletics. But New
Speaker 3: Mexico they are looking for an athletic director. I don't
Speaker 3: know the specifics of what happened as far as you
Speaker 3: know why Eddie Nuniez is out. But he's out. Actually,
Speaker 3: here's why he's out, because he has taken He's taken
Speaker 3: the job at Houston. Didn't even know Houston had an opening.
Speaker 3: So anyways, the reason I want to bring this up
Speaker 3: is because New Mexico has an athletic director position open,
Speaker 3: and Rick Bittino is doing what he does every time
Speaker 3: there's an athletic director position open. He's pumping his man,
Speaker 3: Tom Jurch. He wants Tom Jurich back in the game. Now.
Speaker 3: The connection here is Rick's son, Richard, happens to work
Speaker 3: in New Mexico. So I have no clue if New
Speaker 3: Mexico would consider him. But I'll explain this a little
Speaker 3: later on. I want this to happen so badly, and
Speaker 3: it's not because I just so badly wish Tom Jurich
Speaker 3: could get another opportunity. Because I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't have a clue if Tom has
Speaker 3: pursued roles that he didn't get hired for I don't
Speaker 3: know if schools have pursued him, he's had no interest.
Speaker 3: I don't I have no clue about him not working
Speaker 3: as an athletic director since he left Louisville because of
Speaker 3: it being a hymn thing or because schools don't want it.
Speaker 3: I don't have no clue. But I kind of feel
Speaker 3: like what Tom like the game has changed? Right, It's wild?
Speaker 3: It wasn't that long ago he was the athletic director here.
Speaker 3: What are we seven years removed from that whole thing
Speaker 3: coming to an end? I mean that it's kind of
Speaker 3: crazy to say that. It's like, damn had been that long?
Speaker 3: Has it? But then again, seven years in the grand
Speaker 3: scheme of things is not that long. But think about
Speaker 3: how much college athletics has changed in seven years. Think
Speaker 3: about how much college college athletics has changed in three
Speaker 3: four years. So, like, what made Tom Jurich really great
Speaker 3: as an athletic director? I kind of feel like he
Speaker 3: is more important now than it ever has been because
Speaker 3: you know, he ran ul athletics like a guy who
Speaker 3: ran professional sports franchises, and like, say what you want
Speaker 3: about Tom, he was really good at it. So I
Speaker 3: have no clue. Again, another one of those things that
Speaker 3: it's you know, I don't know. I would Rick putting
Speaker 3: it out there makes me think that like he thinks
Speaker 3: that there's a potential chance they'd consider him. I mean,
Speaker 3: his son works there. His son, you know, probably has
Speaker 3: a good relationship with his boss. I think Richard actually
Speaker 3: ended up signing a new deal with New Mexico once, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, once the whole Louisville thing ended up, you know,
Speaker 3: not happening, So we can take a look at that. Also,
Speaker 3: it's unfortunate we've got some Week zero issues. It may
Speaker 3: come as a surprise that a football team in the
Speaker 3: MEAC is having trouble getting their entire football program to
Speaker 3: Hawaii from Delaware, might not be able to make it.
Speaker 3: It sounds like which again a football program with the
Speaker 3: MEAC budget wouldn't be a shocker that they don't have
Speaker 3: the resources for travel that you know, other programs would have.
Speaker 3: In fact, it really is kind of sick if you
Speaker 3: think about it, Like Hawaii, they're not a I mean,
Speaker 3: Hawaii is really sucked in football, I think recently. In fact,
Speaker 3: now I got to look it up because I'm curious.
Speaker 3: I know, nobody cares, but like Hawaii used to occasionally
Speaker 3: be sneaky good, but I feel like in recent years
Speaker 3: they've really sucked. Here's what's happened. They've either been really
Speaker 3: really bad or I've bet on him and they've not
Speaker 3: come through for me. So I just I just say
Speaker 3: the hell with them. So it looks like last year,
Speaker 3: what were they last year? It doesn't share and eight
Speaker 3: last so five and eight, three and ten, a year
Speaker 3: before six and seven, the year before they did have
Speaker 3: a decent run there when Todd when when not Todd Graham,
Speaker 3: but Nick Rolovich was there who he has since moved on.
Speaker 3: He's now the Uh he's now the head? Is he
Speaker 3: head coach? Yeah? He's well never mind he got he
Speaker 3: got himself into some trouble and at Washington stated I
Speaker 3: forgot about that. But anyways, back to like Hawaii is
Speaker 3: not Alabama, but like if you really think about it,
Speaker 3: think about the again, it's Hawaii. So therefore, like it's
Speaker 3: probably not a destination when it comes to like the
Speaker 3: view and the type of place you're gonna be at
Speaker 3: that you're dreading. But just think about the travel that
Speaker 3: it takes to get to this place. And they're only
Speaker 3: going to get their ass kicked on a football field
Speaker 3: and bring home a check? Like what do you do?
Speaker 3: And like it's kind of sad, isn't it like that?
Speaker 3: Because that's what this is.
Speaker 1: This is a bye.
Speaker 3: Game and you know, you know you're not gonna win,
Speaker 3: you know that, but you gotta make this almost impossible
Speaker 3: trip from Delaware to if you want to keep the
Speaker 3: lights on for your program, Like is this Isn't this
Speaker 3: a really good reminder that like what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Like we need like the highest level of college football
Speaker 3: is professional sports. Now, let's just top to bottom, full
Speaker 3: transparency treated as such. I mean, am I being too
Speaker 3: harsh here?
Speaker 2: No, you're not being harsh because I mean we talked
Speaker 2: about it a little bit yesterday. The journey from the
Speaker 2: east coast of the Cotton United States all the way
Speaker 2: to the Pacific for Hawaii, it just seems like they're
Speaker 2: they're kind of doing a little bullying on Delaware State's part.
Speaker 2: If you're Hawaii, well, I mean, but again, if you'll
Speaker 2: I mean, you got to get there first.
Speaker 3: That's the caveat. You know, it would be an awesome story.
Speaker 3: And I'm not even kidding. If Delaware State won.
Speaker 2: That would be a great way to kick off college football.
Speaker 3: It'll be quickly forgotten, and I mean quickly forgotten. Nobody
Speaker 3: would care after Week zero that had happened. But like
Speaker 3: that would actually be one of the craziest things that
Speaker 3: I could think of this season potentially happening, just because
Speaker 3: again this is what was it thirty eight points spread
Speaker 3: or something like that. I have to look it up later,
Speaker 3: but it was something huge. Maybe wasn't that big. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of points. It's kind of got me thinking,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna throw it in a parlay because it
Speaker 3: it would crash, but I might put somebody sprinkle something
Speaker 3: a little small John on the Delaware You have a guess.
Speaker 2: I think they're the hornets, the Delaware State hornets. I
Speaker 2: know Delaware like regularly now the Blue Hens, but I
Speaker 2: think this Delaware State's the hornets. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: how about you look at that?
Speaker 3: Oh man, they got I don't mind, I don't I
Speaker 3: don't dislike their colors. Have you seen them? Is it
Speaker 3: like pink pink or something. No, it's a lighter red.
Speaker 3: It's certainly red, and it's a teal. It's kind of
Speaker 3: it's kind of like a different version of what you
Speaker 3: get with old miss Okay, it's kind of it's kind
Speaker 3: of spicy. I like it.
Speaker 2: What was the record last year, trying to find any
Speaker 2: sort of man find them with the Delaware State Hornets.
Speaker 3: Let's look it up. Gotten up to Delaware State last year?
Speaker 3: They went one in ten. They also lost to Bowie
Speaker 3: State University, which I don't I mean, is that a
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is, lost to Army fifty
Speaker 3: seven to zero, lost to Richmond six six to thirty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they weren't good. In fact, they're one win came against
Speaker 3: Virginia University of Lynchburg, but other than that, they weren't good.
Speaker 3: So maybe I won't sprinkle anything on them to win
Speaker 3: this game. But again, this isn't another reminder. You get a
Speaker 3: one to ten team who's traveling across the globe essentially
Speaker 3: to go pick up a check so the program can
Speaker 3: still you know, they're the ultimately budget week zero. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, did you see the spread?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 2: I didn't see the updated morning there's anything different. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I know it was close to that thirty eight that
Speaker 2: you mentioned.
Speaker 3: I mean it might have been more than that because
Speaker 3: I remember, like it kind of stopped me in my
Speaker 3: tracks as we're discussing the spreads in these week zero games. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's see Delaware State thirty eight and a half. Goodness gracious.
Speaker 3: Also something else we're going to get to here sooner
Speaker 3: rather than later. I wouldn't call it a controversy because
Speaker 3: it's just a matter of one person's opinion or ten
Speaker 3: people's opinion. There is a brewery here locally that previously
Speaker 3: has partnered with U of L is still partner with
Speaker 3: you of L to my knowledge, and now they've partnered
Speaker 3: with UK, and that's got some Louisville fans like I
Speaker 3: guess sensitive to that, Like, you can't be you can't
Speaker 3: be making us an official beer cardon ale if you're
Speaker 3: also making something for those big blue bozos right, Like
Speaker 3: you know it's a rivalry. We're petty as hell. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't have it any other way around here when it
Speaker 3: comes to the rivalry. But also, you know, as someone
Speaker 3: who understands you know, I don't want to say I'm
Speaker 3: an expert by any means, but like you know, marketing advertising,
Speaker 3: like you're in your best interest as a business to
Speaker 3: not alienate a fan of any team. So I've got
Speaker 3: a couple of different ways to approach this one. I
Speaker 3: do think there's a legit argument in regards to the
Speaker 3: difference here in their arrangements, which I'm trying to get.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get more information before I start yapping
Speaker 3: about it, because I do think there's one thing specifically
Speaker 3: that I need to know before I kind of decide, Okay,
Speaker 3: is this fair foul when it comes to Louisville fans
Speaker 3: being a little upset with this brewery. But again, like
Speaker 3: you know, believe it or not, if I did a
Speaker 3: show every day that you know was nothing but nothing
Speaker 3: but red and if I find out, you know, somebody
Speaker 3: on the on the UK sides listening, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have iHeart block their app from their phone, like
Speaker 3: they wouldn't be good for anybody. So anyways, we're loaded today,
Speaker 3: stick with us. It's coffee and Company fuel by Thornton's
Speaker 3: right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. It looks like
Speaker 3: the Kentucky basketball program has released their upcoming schedule in full,
Speaker 3: which I feel like by the time you get the
Speaker 3: official schedule from you know, from a program, you you
Speaker 3: typically already know who you're playing for the most part,
Speaker 3: there's maybe a game or two against a Rando that
Speaker 3: you didn't know was on the schedule, And I guess
Speaker 3: more than anything you figure out the actual dates of
Speaker 3: all these games. Well, the one game of I would
Speaker 3: assume any that will be circled more than any on
Speaker 3: the Kentucky schedule is when Cali Perry returns to Rapperena.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be a big game. H So it will
Speaker 3: be on February the first. That's a Saturday. So you know,
Speaker 3: if you want to make arrangements, if you're Kentucky, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you do, Maybe try your best
Speaker 3: to get hold of some tickets. Maybe if you're Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how Kentucky fans will go
Speaker 3: about it, but it will be on Saturday, February the first,
Speaker 3: at Roparaeno, when Cali Perry returns to take on a
Speaker 3: team he coached for you know, a long time, and
Speaker 3: the ending, the exit, the departure, it was I don't
Speaker 3: I don't even know, I mean I could. I mean,
Speaker 3: we talked about it quite a bit whenever it happened,
Speaker 3: and it easily is the biggest storyline thus far. I
Speaker 3: think in the college basketball world in the offseason that
Speaker 3: Cal left Kentucky for Arkansas. But you know, it's it's bitter.
Speaker 1: It's.
Speaker 3: It's he he's at a competing school. Now he's cow
Speaker 3: so you know he's going to be spiteful. You know
Speaker 3: that he clearly, you know, in the end, didn't really
Speaker 3: like the Kentucky fan base, and he I think did
Speaker 3: a really good job of making that clear on many occasions.
Speaker 3: But he also is somebody that you know, for a
Speaker 3: good chunk of whenever he was there, he was worshiped,
Speaker 3: and he's always been loved by his fan base. They
Speaker 3: just kind of, you know, it'd run its course, that's
Speaker 3: the best way to describe it. So if Cal, you know,
Speaker 3: retired and then, I mean, it's just weird. So like
Speaker 3: there's no doubt in my mind he'll get booed, right,
Speaker 3: Like he'll get boothsolutely he's there to beat and he's
Speaker 3: now a competitor. He's now the enemy, not in a
Speaker 3: way of like he's enemy number one, but like he's
Speaker 3: in the sec and he's you know, he's trying to
Speaker 3: beat your brains in, and Mark Pope's going to be
Speaker 3: trying to beat his brains in can he Payne if
Speaker 3: he was involved, he would only want to win by one.
Speaker 3: By the way, Kenny Payne will be there too. Man,
Speaker 3: you think Louisville fans will go to the game and
Speaker 3: just just yell at Kenny. I mean, I wouldn't encourage
Speaker 3: anybody to do that, and I don't think anybody would,
Speaker 3: but like, you know, I just there'll be people that like,
Speaker 3: here's what if I was just looking ahead and I
Speaker 3: could predict the future, and let's say I'm, you know,
Speaker 3: a fly on the wall at Rupperena on February first,
Speaker 3: when Caliperry and Arkansas are there, you'll hear a mixture
Speaker 3: of both. But I do think they'll be more booze
Speaker 3: than cheers. Agree, yes, And I also think that there'll
Speaker 3: be some people that'll kind of turn around that aren't
Speaker 3: booing and kind of be like, come on, really.
Speaker 2: It'll be a very awkward Yeah, it's awkward.
Speaker 3: That's it's awkward. That's the best word to use. But again,
Speaker 3: it even though Kentucky fans are having to get used
Speaker 3: to such a different way of things and it's refreshing
Speaker 3: for them in a way, I'm sure that Pope is
Speaker 3: more relatable. He is definitely all about the brand being
Speaker 3: Kentucky and not just the brand being cow. You know,
Speaker 3: he's gonna recruit differently, He's going to play a different
Speaker 3: style that you know, won't look like he's got a
Speaker 3: bunch of future and be a PA on his roster,
Speaker 3: but it'll be more fun to watch and it'll certainly
Speaker 3: be more modern when it comes to, you know, how
Speaker 3: the game is played as we speak. But Cal does
Speaker 3: big time things. He's a big time guy, and that's
Speaker 3: why he wins the off season every year. No doubt
Speaker 3: in my mind, had Cal come back this year, there's
Speaker 3: still there'd be angst, there'd be fans having a hard
Speaker 3: time really saying, yeah, we're gonna go get number nine.
Speaker 3: But he would do the Cal type of stuff in
Speaker 3: the offseason, all that sizzle, all that hype that he produces,
Speaker 3: and you'd be thinking, all right, we got our guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, he Cal's our guy. Come on, he's Cal
Speaker 3: Like he's a larger than life figure within college basketball.
Speaker 3: And there aren't that many people left, So I don't
Speaker 3: know really honestly, More than anything, I think comes down
Speaker 3: to where each team is at that time. If Cal
Speaker 3: is really struggling in his new home, and maybe there's
Speaker 3: some noise out there nationally when it comes to college
Speaker 3: basketball that maybe Cal didn't realize. You know, Kentucky was
Speaker 3: a big factor and why he usually kept them towards
Speaker 3: the top in this sport. Obviously didn't win when it
Speaker 3: mattered in the tournament in a long time, but you know,
Speaker 3: and if that's how he's doing, and Mark Pope looks
Speaker 3: like he's got a team that may not be the
Speaker 3: best in the SEC, because that's probably gonna be Alabama,
Speaker 3: but they look like a surefire tournament team, top twenty
Speaker 3: all year. I think at that point, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: they're not as willing to boo him. No matter what,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be some booze. But like if he's on
Speaker 3: top of the world and he's he's got it rolling, which,
Speaker 3: let's be real, usually in February he does, and he
Speaker 3: did last year. In the year before that, it's just
Speaker 3: been you know, in the tournament recently, he completely flamed
Speaker 3: out in a way you can at a place like Kentucky.
Speaker 3: But in those two years, let's be real, last year
Speaker 3: and two years prior, I mean, for a good chunk
Speaker 3: of the season, they were viewed as one of the
Speaker 3: best teams in the country and that that has value
Speaker 3: until March. So you know, if he's he's got it rolling.
Speaker 3: And there's some clear grit owing pains with with Mark
Speaker 3: Pope and maybe you know, you look like a middle
Speaker 3: of the pack SEC team at best, that looks like
Speaker 3: your tournament, looks like you're gonna be in the tournament
Speaker 3: on February first. But you know, you know, if you
Speaker 3: don't take care of business, you could easily turn to
Speaker 3: a bubble team. Like that's a scenario where I think
Speaker 3: there'd be more energy to boo his ass out of
Speaker 3: the building. And there's some fans that are just gonna say, look,
Speaker 3: I love cal appreciated everything that he did. I kind
Speaker 3: of wish he wouldn't have left. But you know what,
Speaker 3: he's at Arkansas now we got Mark Pope, so he's
Speaker 3: the enemy. I'm gonna boo him. I'm gonna hold up
Speaker 3: a sign that says he sucks. I'm gonna make fun
Speaker 3: of him, like you know, like everybody's different.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna want to get booed. And I
Speaker 2: think the week leading up to that game, when they
Speaker 2: have you know, their their pre cop their pre game
Speaker 2: press conference a few days before, he's gonna say something
Speaker 2: to the Arkansas media that will get up here to
Speaker 2: Kentucky and fire up the UK fans. Why do you
Speaker 2: think he wants to be booed, Because that's just it's
Speaker 2: more attention for him. It becomes a talking point, and
Speaker 2: that's that's how he is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But also I mean, I I don't I think
Speaker 3: that I think that's valid in regards to he likes
Speaker 3: being the villain and now you know, this is a
Speaker 3: chance for him to be the ultimate. Like Cal probably
Speaker 3: got a little bored with like the rivalry stuff because
Speaker 3: he honestly owned Louisville and the rivalry and you know,
Speaker 3: like Kay's gone, he really saw Coach k is a
Speaker 3: guy he wanted to stick it to, you know, Rix
Speaker 3: and Saint John's there's not really any kind of connection
Speaker 3: there anymore. So like maybe this does give him some
Speaker 3: new life, Like he's going to be so motivated and
Speaker 3: fired up to come and stick it to Kentucky now
Speaker 3: that he's at Arkansas. And I do feel like that
Speaker 3: is that is probably how he's wired. But since he left,
Speaker 3: if you remember, like he's thrown the occasional tweet out there,
Speaker 3: about Kentucky that like kind of insinuated that he misses him,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, I'll see if I
Speaker 3: can dig up some stuff. But like you know, he
Speaker 3: had tweeted something about the craft of the Craft family
Speaker 3: at some point. You know, he had talked about, you know,
Speaker 3: about how he was back in Lexington and you know,
Speaker 3: we'll we'll always love it there and we have so
Speaker 3: many and family, this and that. So you know, like
Speaker 3: I think, deep down, once you know, because say this
Speaker 3: about Cal's a competitor, and once you know, once the
Speaker 3: lights are on, I don't mean like you know him
Speaker 3: out there playing, but once college aback, once the season
Speaker 3: is rolling along, he's clearly you know, wired to win.
Speaker 3: He wants to win. But when he's thinking about, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're not the best, but I want to be better
Speaker 3: than this team, he's going to be thinking about Kentucky.
Speaker 3: And I think that's just that's not even Calby and
Speaker 3: cal That's a normal competitive interaction as a human being,
Speaker 3: I would think. So, you know, there's a part of
Speaker 3: me that says he wants them to boo and he
Speaker 3: wants to crush it at at Arkansas, not just because
Speaker 3: he wants to win, and he's a competitor and he
Speaker 3: wants to maybe you know, further his legacy, but I
Speaker 3: think he also wants them to wish they would have
Speaker 3: appreciated him a little bit more. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: He felt unappreciated towards the end. He was and again
Speaker 3: not to get into this whole thing that we discussed
Speaker 3: quite a bit during the departure and whatnot, but he
Speaker 3: could not believe that when the pandemic happened and they
Speaker 3: were that bad, that like he was getting criticized, because honestly,
Speaker 3: before then, there really wasn't much criticism out there for
Speaker 3: cal Like even in a year where they went thirty
Speaker 3: eight and one and lost in the final four, that
Speaker 3: was a gut punch and it's still probably the worst
Speaker 3: Kentucky loss that a lot of their fans have ever experienced.
Speaker 3: But even if you were like a lunatic about it,
Speaker 3: you can't look at that year and say that it
Speaker 3: was anything other than a spectacular once in a lifetime season.
Speaker 3: It just happens that you fell short, two games short,
Speaker 3: and a lot of times like again, here's here's the
Speaker 3: way I feel like Kentucky fans were psychologically dealing with
Speaker 3: cal before the pandemic, because really pandemic season, they were terrible.
Speaker 3: I mean they were god awful, right, And then after
Speaker 3: that they came back the next year and that was
Speaker 3: the first year of chiwe was it not twenty twenty two? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they were really good. Lost to who was it
Speaker 3: that was Saint Peter's. Saint Peter's. And then they come
Speaker 3: back the next year. They weren't great in the regular season,
Speaker 3: but they were good, got a six seed, lost in
Speaker 3: the second round to Kansas State, and that's where it
Speaker 3: felt like, okay, okay, like this is slipping Cal, this
Speaker 3: is slipping. You gotta do something. And then the next
Speaker 3: year they were good, like they were fun to watch
Speaker 3: at times too, because they have they had three of
Speaker 3: the best shooters, not only in the country, they statistically
Speaker 3: had three of the best shooters that ever played at Kentucky.
Speaker 3: In fact, I don't know if that stat held up
Speaker 3: or not, but at one point the three best shooters
Speaker 3: in Kentucky history as far as three point field goal
Speaker 3: percentage were three guys on that team that never played together,
Speaker 3: Rob Dillingham, Reed Shepherd, and Antonio Reeves. So they were
Speaker 3: good last year and could have beat anybody as far
Speaker 3: as personnel, but they did the one thing you can't do,
Speaker 3: lose in the first round to a fourteen seed. Were
Speaker 3: they a three seed last year? I think they were right. Yeah, So,
Speaker 3: like you know, that's it was quite clear why they
Speaker 3: were criticizing him in that era pandemic and then after.
Speaker 3: But before that, they were always really good and they
Speaker 3: would end up losing to teams in the tournament that
Speaker 3: more often than not. You felt like they were better there,
Speaker 3: Like they should have never lost to Kansas State in
Speaker 3: the Sweet sixteen, shouldn't have lost to West Virginia in
Speaker 3: his first year with John Wallen DeMarcus Cousins. They lost
Speaker 3: to KIMBA that second year, that was probably justified. They
Speaker 3: won it. The next year they made the n IT
Speaker 3: against Robert Morris. He kind of got a pass for
Speaker 3: that one because he did bring them their first title
Speaker 3: in a long long time. And then you know, in fourteen,
Speaker 3: they weren't that good in the regular season, but man,
Speaker 3: they made it all the way to the championship game
Speaker 3: before losing the Yukonic team. Again, they shouldn't have lost
Speaker 3: to They lost to Auburn in an Elite eight game
Speaker 3: where an Auburn team that had played that same Auburn
Speaker 3: team played him like a month before and got killed,
Speaker 3: meaning Auburn got killed. They lost to Carolina the year
Speaker 3: Carolina won it. That was a good team that just
Speaker 3: lost on a last second shot, and whoever won that
Speaker 3: game probably would have won it all and it was Carolina,
Speaker 3: so when they had good seasons but it fell short
Speaker 3: later in the tournament, even though it came against the
Speaker 3: team that you know you were better than. Here's what
Speaker 3: they would always say, Well, I mean stuff like, here's random.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like, is it like terms random? It's
Speaker 3: just random? And I remember thinking, yeah, there's some randomness
Speaker 3: to it, no doubt. But also, how many random teams
Speaker 3: win a national championship. I can't think of any. Yukon.
Speaker 3: We can't call them random anymore. They won it in
Speaker 3: twenty fourteen, which is the most unexpected tournament victory I've
Speaker 3: ever witnessed as far as winning at all. But they're Yukon,
Speaker 3: right It's not like it's Vandy, so I think there
Speaker 3: are little or they're Kentucky fans right now that like
Speaker 3: don't really know what to think about cal like they
Speaker 3: cause again I'll put it this way with Rick. If
Speaker 3: you know, if Rick starts to becoming like the ultimate
Speaker 3: UK guy, I'm not gonna like that. I'll understand it
Speaker 3: because again, like I think people here forgot, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it makes total sense for Rick to want to see
Speaker 3: Mark Pope dou Well a Kentucky. He won a championship there,
Speaker 3: was beloved there, and his former player who won a
Speaker 3: title and was a captain is now the coach, like
Speaker 3: you know, like that's a part of his story. But
Speaker 3: with Rick, even whenever I felt like he was involved,
Speaker 3: like the day that it happened, and you realize, man,
Speaker 3: we kept this guy and he's got another scandal that
Speaker 3: could potentially bury the program like we've never seen before,
Speaker 3: eligible for the death penalty. Like I was angry, but
Speaker 3: like I also still love the guy because he coached Louisville,
Speaker 3: a program that I love as a fan, and more
Speaker 3: often than not we had great times with him. It's unnatural,
Speaker 3: I think, to flip a switch and just loathe someone
Speaker 3: and we don't know these people personally, so like I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe you can do that because you realize, hey,
Speaker 3: this isn't real life, this is just him as a coach.
Speaker 3: But like you know, I think they're Kentucky fans right now.
Speaker 3: They don't really know how they're gonna feel about Cal
Speaker 3: in ten years. And honestly, it probably depends on how
Speaker 3: this next era plays out for him, right Like, if
Speaker 3: he's at Arkansas and he's winning big and he's rubbing
Speaker 3: it in your face, which he might do he's col
Speaker 3: then it's probably gonna change some things. All right, quick break,
Speaker 3: we'll come back. Keep this thing rolling along. It's coffee company.
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Speaker 3: seven ninety. Not something you typically see in college football
Speaker 3: from a power for program, but given the program and
Speaker 3: the current situation it's said program. I can't say I'm surprised.
Speaker 3: Deon Sanders has lost one of his one of his coordinators,
Speaker 3: you know, right before the season starts. And I will admit,
Speaker 3: you know, I haven't seen any any specific reason as
Speaker 3: to why, but his special teams coordinator has is no
Speaker 3: longer around. I go, well, let me back up, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think they call him the special teams coordinator,
Speaker 3: but he's the only he's the only analyst staff member
Speaker 3: on the staff for Colorado that is specifically it is
Speaker 3: specifically a special teams guy. So Trevor Riley, I think
Speaker 3: it's how you say that former NFL player, he's he's
Speaker 3: resigned from the staff at Colorado. Now, if it comes
Speaker 3: out that he resigned because you know, he got in
Speaker 3: trouble for something, or there's some kind of a scandal,
Speaker 3: totally different situation. But would anybody be shocked if we
Speaker 3: find out this guy's like, yeah, I'm out of here.
Speaker 3: This is a circus. This guy is the worst. This
Speaker 3: guy is a little too much to work for. So
Speaker 3: I don't know. Again, I'm trying to find more here
Speaker 3: to see if there's any you know, legitimate reason that's given.
Speaker 3: But the reports that I'm seeing all say that, hey, unexpected,
Speaker 3: you know, move says here that Colorado stafford Trevor Riley,
Speaker 3: who oversaw special teams, is no longer on the staff.
Speaker 3: This is from, by the way, the Colorado Buffalo's beat
Speaker 3: writer for the Boulder Daily. I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 3: Bolder Daily. That's that's got to be the big paper
Speaker 3: in town and Boulder, Right, it has to be Bolder Daily. Guys,
Speaker 3: it's like the CJ of Lowell. Right, So he oversaw
Speaker 3: special teams no longer for the program, and his source
Speaker 3: here would not comment on whether he resigned or was
Speaker 3: let go. It has since been confirmed he did in
Speaker 3: fact resigned, but they did elevate somebody. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I guess to take this to take this role randomly.
Speaker 3: It does say that he was recently. This this exact,
Speaker 3: I mean this, This is kind of wild. I'm reading here,
Speaker 3: getting from the tweet from Brian Howell, who again is
Speaker 3: the beat writer for Colorado for the Bolder Daily. It's
Speaker 3: fun to say Bolder Daily. It's like Boulder das Bolder Daily.
Speaker 3: I barely know her anyway. He's a former Jets linebacker.
Speaker 3: But somebody posted it. Somebody shared a tweet underneath this
Speaker 3: post about him departing the Colorado staff, saying that he
Speaker 3: was recently at a Hawaii football practice and he is
Speaker 3: the older brother of ex Hawaii quarterback Bo Riley, so
Speaker 3: he looks says he played under Hawaii football defensive coordinator
Speaker 3: Dennis Thurman in New York, So you know, maybe he's
Speaker 3: maybe he's leaving to go to Colorado, and maybe if
Speaker 3: he's got a flight, he can throw the Delaware State
Speaker 3: team on his flight. If he's leaving out of New
Speaker 3: York he played for the Jets. Maybe there were on
Speaker 3: something here. I don't know, but I'm telling you what
Speaker 3: happens with Colorado is like, well, believe let's let's let's
Speaker 3: throw it out here and maybe we'll remember to bring
Speaker 3: this up down the line. Maybe we won't. But what
Speaker 3: what record could Colorado have that keeps them from being
Speaker 3: like let me rephrase that, what record could would Colorado
Speaker 3: need to have for them to be talked about at
Speaker 3: minimum in the world of college football, Because if they're
Speaker 3: really good or really bad, they're gonna be talking about
Speaker 3: a lot, right, Yes, I happen to think they're gonna
Speaker 3: be talking about a lot regardless. But if they're like
Speaker 3: five and seven, I still feel like there'll be a
Speaker 3: lot of heat on Dion because of how he carries
Speaker 3: himself and because of you know, like, let's be honest, like,
Speaker 3: you can't say you're going to be a college football
Speaker 3: playoff team. You can't have your players acting as if
Speaker 3: they've already won sixteen national championships. Like again, we talked
Speaker 3: about it a few weeks ago. When you carry yourself
Speaker 3: the way that they do, you need to win or
Speaker 3: you're just it's human nature for others to just want
Speaker 3: to clown you and put you in your place and
Speaker 3: humble you. But I don't think humble is something that
Speaker 3: like anybody within Dion Sanders orbit can can probably like,
Speaker 3: I don't think they don't know what that is, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like if they're six and six,
Speaker 3: are they still gonna be talking about you.
Speaker 2: Think, Yeah, they'll get mentioned that they're in a bowl
Speaker 2: and then maybe they're taking a step forward.
Speaker 3: That'll fiss me off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm sure Dion will continue to act like
Speaker 2: they're on a crash course or a collision course with
Speaker 2: the national championship. Shout out Howard Snellenberger, but shut out.
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see, we'll.
Speaker 3: See man like he got. I mean, the way he
Speaker 3: acted at that press conference coming off of a four
Speaker 3: and eight season, and he was bothered that in his
Speaker 3: first year in the Big Twelve when he has four
Speaker 3: wins and eight losses as an FBS coach, Like he's
Speaker 3: that distraught that CBS Sports happens to think that he
Speaker 3: might be the second worst coach right now in the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve based off of performance. Like with Dion, there's
Speaker 3: so much flash and sizzle, but he also delivered as
Speaker 3: a player and made him the larger than life superstar
Speaker 3: I think in coaching, because he's not out there making
Speaker 3: plays like he doesn't understand, and he's putting together really
Speaker 3: really good rosters, right, Like I mean they recruit, well,
Speaker 3: they kill it in the portal all that stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean his kids are great, so they tell me so.
Speaker 3: Like it's like he doesn't really understand that winning is
Speaker 3: attributed to him, losing is attributed to him. He's the
Speaker 3: coach now, because he's still acting like he's Prime. I
Speaker 3: mean he is. He's not become a different person, but
Speaker 3: like Prime is a coach and Prime as a player
Speaker 3: not the same thing. All right, quick break, we got
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Speaker 3: We'll talk a little more Lowell football on the other side,
Speaker 3: because I do want to discuss this rumor out there
Speaker 3: about a potential addition here to the roster at the
Speaker 3: last minute. That would be a name a lot of you,
Speaker 3: in fact, everybody I'm sure would be familiar with. So
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