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At Bet three sixty five, Gambling Problem 10 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.480 Call one eight hundred Gambler eighteen plus only must be 11 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:29.879 physically located in Kentucky. 12 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:34.359 Portions of the following program were prerecorded. 13 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.359 He rips into the hot sports issues of the day 14 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:39.600 the way I writ been to a big old bag 15 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.079 of barbecue chips, fast, furious, and without mercy. Coffee and 16 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:47.320 Company with Nick Coffee today at three on Sports Talk 17 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:55.920 seven nine Day. It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled 18 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.960 my Thorntins on Sports Talk seven nine Day, Pauly crap. 19 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.520 If I don't know who the hell we think when 20 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:03.880 we are get off our show. 21 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:06.480 Idiots, the kids are playing or trail off and your 22 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:07.680 countries are screwing it up. 23 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.040 Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inn Murals. 24 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.159 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 25 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:15.879 Who's the kid here? 26 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:17.799 Who's the kid here? 27 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:18.680 Are you kidding me? 28 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:19.640 Now? 29 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:29.040 Here's Nick Coffee? 30 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.640 All right, Happy hump Day, Welcome in coffee and company, 31 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:37.480 fuel by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety Nick Coffee, 32 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:39.519 that is me. Appreciate you hanging out. We're taking you 33 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:43.680 up until six o'clock. So sit back, relax, make yourself 34 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:46.239 at home. I say we because I'm not alone. The 35 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:50.760 one and only radio Rick Ryder is alongside today. Rick, 36 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.799 you mind me asking a question? I should have given 37 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:54.959 you a heads up, but that's ok. 38 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.239 He old? Are you don't mind me asking your age? 39 00:01:57.599 --> 00:01:59.079 I'm seventy two years old. 40 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.840 Seventy two years old. When did you get into this 41 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.599 world that we call broadcasting radio? Well? 42 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:10.199 Actually, I got my first job right out of high school. 43 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:14.120 I got a job at a radio station here, working 44 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:18.719 fill in and part time. And they called me up 45 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.599 right after they hired me. A week after hiring me, 46 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:25.199 and they said, we got somebody going on vacation next week. 47 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:28.680 Can you come in every day and do afternoon drive? 48 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:31.159 And at that time I was going to college and 49 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.280 I had a couple of classes in the afternoon. 50 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:34.800 So it was. 51 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.000 But it was between two things, going to class, like 52 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.159 I was supposed to or skip PLU, skip class for 53 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.800 a week and be on the radio. So I chose 54 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.400 skip class for a week and be on the radio. 55 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:47.000 There we go. 56 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.000 I assume a lot of people would probably have done 57 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.960 the same thing. But uh, you know, you've been you've 58 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:54.599 been with me on the air here, here and there 59 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:56.319 for for many years now, and people hear you on 60 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:59.639 KSR as well, and somebody I thought to myself, I'm 61 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:01.360 gonna rememb to bring this up next time we've got 62 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:03.400 Rick in producing the show, because somebody said that you 63 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.919 have the best radio voice they've ever heard, and I thought, 64 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:09.560 you know what, he's got the smooth tones, he's he's 65 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:11.960 a he's a pioneer in the radio industry. So we're 66 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.479 talking that's gotta be. Is that fifty ish years ago? 67 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:15.800 Yeah, something like that. 68 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.159 Yeah, goodness, gracious, we've got a legend with us today 69 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:20.280 and we're happy as always when he's here. 70 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:24.000 So like they're saying, radio Nick, that's right. 71 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.879 That's right, good stuff. So we're with you until six o'clock. 72 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.319 So again, sit back, relax, make yourself at home. I 73 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.000 have no guest schedule today, so feel free to give 74 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.680 us a call. Five h two, five seven one seventy 75 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:37.199 nine hundred is the number. It is Game day Louisville 76 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.879 and UTEP. And yes, these are the kind of games 77 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.280 that I try not to complain about them being on 78 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:45.520 the schedule, you know, especially not on the show, because 79 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.919 I know it's nothing you can control, and I get 80 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.639 that there's there's and I don't want to say certain fans. 81 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.439 I think every fan enjoys watching their team play, but obviously, 82 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.759 you know you want to see your team, maybe not tested, 83 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.400 but you want to know going into a game that 84 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.240 you or playing somebody that if you beat them and 85 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.560 you look good doing it, there's something you can really 86 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.520 take from that. And UTEP is not one of those teams. 87 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:08.719 Right. 88 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.560 They're not Duke, they're not All Missed. They're not West Virginia, 89 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:16.680 they're not Oklahoma, they're not Indiana, they're not Tennessee. But 90 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.519 they should be, you know, put it this way, they're 91 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.480 probably Winthrop area, if you know what I mean, Like 92 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:28.240 they're better than Bellerman, they're better than Morehead State, probably 93 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.399 around the Winthrop level, but a little bit better. And 94 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.759 you got to keep in mind, Louisville now is not 95 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.399 the same team they were when they played these kind 96 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:40.000 of opponents previously. You don't have Cason Pryor anymore. Korin 97 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.160 Johnson only played a couple of games before you lost 98 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:45.920 him for the season, and Trey Ora same thing. He's 99 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.240 not played I think since maybe the Tennessee game. So 100 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:52.040 you know, I'm hoping that Louisville's able to come out 101 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.560 tonight and win and not make us sweat it out 102 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:58.240 to where we're worried about suffering really the first bad loss, 103 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.519 because that's what this would be. So I'm actually a 104 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.279 little more excited for this game than I usually would be, 105 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:07.000 because you know, you need to win. You've lost three 106 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.839 in a row and they haven't been to bad teams. 107 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:12.079 But you know, when you play these kind of teams 108 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:14.639 before you get into conference play, you better win because 109 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.720 if not, I mean, it would be a big black 110 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:19.839 eye on your resume. And it's really tough to even 111 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.279 project what Louisville's resume is going to be like when 112 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:25.680 we you know, when we get towards the end of February, 113 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.480 close to March, I mean, I don't think anybody truly 114 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.120 knows and I get why there are many that aren't 115 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.879 as optimistic about this team maybe being a bubble team 116 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.160 tournament type team, just because of how things have gone 117 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:40.160 thus far. And it's not really anybody thinking that, you know, 118 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.040 I know that the excuses are not what anybody wants 119 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:44.519 to hear, and you're not gonna hear from Pat Kelsey 120 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.959 because he's gonna make sure these guys don't give themselves excuses, 121 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.199 don't feel sorry for themselves. They're going to continue to 122 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.319 go out there and try to win games, regardless of 123 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:53.959 who's on the schedule, and do whatever they've got to 124 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:55.160 do to try to compete and win. 125 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:56.959 But like we, I think everybody. 126 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:59.800 Realizes this is your first year in a new era 127 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.519 that was clearly needed in a major way, and who 128 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.879 knows how good this team really would be at full strength, 129 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:08.680 But I think we saw enough to feel like they 130 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.360 could easily be a tournament team at full strength. I mean, 131 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:13.600 maybe they could end up being a you know, top 132 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.759 twenty caliber team at full strength. I mean, it's tough 133 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.360 to say, and we'll really never know because obviously you 134 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.240 had injuries that happened early. But it just feels like 135 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:26.120 Louisville basketball has been through a lot over the years. 136 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:32.639 I mean, they haven't made a tournament in what two 137 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.439 last time they made the tournament was twenty nineteen, so 138 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.600 five years ago. They haven't made the second weekend in 139 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.680 ten years. Think about that. The last time Louisville basketball 140 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:44.199 made it to the second weekend. This season here is 141 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:47.519 the ten year anniversary for that. And there's been a 142 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.959 lot of nonsense going on, right, Coaches getting fired, scandals, 143 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:54.360 I mean, it's been you know, NCAA sanctions. I mean, 144 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.680 it's just been. Man, it's been awful. You know, I 145 00:06:57.759 --> 00:06:59.160 had to say that, but it kind of has. Right, 146 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:01.079 You've had to deal with that really has nothing to 147 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:02.839 do with your team's just losing games. You're dealing with 148 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:07.079 stuff that's just, you know, nonsense. So you've had all 149 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:09.920 that going on, and yet now here you are, where 150 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.399 you've turned the page a new era. Pat Kelsey as 151 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.040 your head coach. He put a team together that who 152 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:16.720 knows if they were good enough to be, you know, 153 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:19.360 a real contender, but I think he did put a 154 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.199 team together that you feel like would be fun to 155 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.920 watch and would surely make the tournament. And now they've 156 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.199 got this bad luck of injuries to where it's just 157 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:30.399 you know, it sucks, it can it can certainly make 158 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:33.519 you feel defeated. But I'm gonna sound corny here, but 159 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:35.959 it's just it's just it's just how I feel. I 160 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.720 think we're going to continue as a fan base to 161 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.680 be motivated, and you know, I don't maybe motivated it's 162 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:43.240 not the right word, because our motivation we don't we 163 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:45.480 don't actually play, We have no impact on what happens 164 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.279 in the game and whatnot. But I just think these 165 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:50.959 guys are going to continue to play hard. I think 166 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:52.759 they're going to steal a game or two that maybe 167 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.360 they aren't supposed to win. I hope, and I do 168 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.319 believe that they can avoid losses to teams like you 169 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.560 see tonight on the schedule in uten and there's gonna 170 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:02.279 be a lot of bad teams you play in the ACC, 171 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:05.319 and I think, despite being shorthanded, they're going to continue 172 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:07.759 to be able to win those games because you know, 173 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:09.959 the mindset of the guy leading this whole thing right 174 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.959 now is really really important. 175 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:13.160 I mean it always is. 176 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.439 I not to go back to the previous regime, but 177 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.759 you know, I think I've always known this, but a 178 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.439 real reminder for me during the Kenny Pain era is 179 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.680 that a coach is a leader. You can lead in 180 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.879 different ways. You can coach with different styles, like you're 181 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:29.759 there's a lot of different ways to do it, and 182 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.200 there's different ways to do it and be successful. But 183 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:34.279 I don't think there was any bit of me. Kenny 184 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.600 wasn't a leader, And you know, we learned that the 185 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:39.320 hard way. He probably learned that the hard way. But 186 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:41.000 Pat Kelsey is a leader, and I think a really 187 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.240 good one. And you can say it's corny and it's 188 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.440 it's certainly not something that's going to win you ball games, right. 189 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.759 His energy, his enthusiasm is optimism. Like you can have 190 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:52.120 all that, but if you can't coach, you don't have 191 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.000 good players, you don't have a good strategy, then like 192 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:55.799 none of it matters. But I feel like it will 193 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.799 matter as far as getting the most out of this 194 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:02.720 current team this season, because look, they are who they are. 195 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:05.279 They're not They're not getting Prior back this year. They're 196 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.759 not getting They're not getting Corn Johnson back. Trey Ora 197 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.480 will see it. Sounds like he's still a few weeks away, 198 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.039 and I hope that he comes back. But we are 199 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:16.600 in a world now to where if the half the 200 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.000 season's already gone and you've lost a handful of games, 201 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.279 maybe he just decides, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna sit 202 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:24.799 out the rest of the year. I mean, I'm not saying, 203 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:26.639 you know, it's still that weird area to where like 204 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:28.440 I don't know if like that's insulting the young man. 205 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.559 Maybe he's just chomping at the bit to get out 206 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.679 there and play. But like players now have the ability 207 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.159 to kind of, you know, sit out and get an 208 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.399 extra year. I mean, that's exactly what Colin Lacey did 209 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:42.759 on the football side. So there's been some talk of 210 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:46.000 him adding some kind of an international player during the 211 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:49.320 semester break, but I mean, I don't have any info 212 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:51.879 as far as if that's for sure gonna happen, and 213 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.000 whoever it would be, I have a hard time thinking 214 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.039 they would make, you know, a huge impact. It would 215 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.600 probably be somebody that just gives you another body. So 216 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.159 I kind of feel like it's played out up to 217 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:04.600 this point to where, you know, the things that Pat 218 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.279 Kelsey showed us the day he got here and introduced 219 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.200 himself to all of us in his press conference and 220 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.759 really won it in a major way. I think those 221 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:14.960 things are really really important as far as again getting 222 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.600 the most out of this current situation. And we'll see 223 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.559 what happens tonight. I expect this team to come out 224 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.440 and play well, be ready to play, and hopefully they 225 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.080 take care of business and win this game without making 226 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:26.879 us have to worry a whole lot about it as 227 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:29.320 far as if you know, if it's in doubt. But 228 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:31.600 I still think that the way they came out and 229 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.559 played against Duke Man, they would have really been easy 230 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:35.600 to go through the motions a Sunday at six o'clock 231 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:37.960 against one of the best teams in the country. You've 232 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:41.000 already lost two in a row, you got blown out 233 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:44.399 the game before. Confidence couldn't have been high when they 234 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.840 just missed open shot after open shot against Ole Miss. 235 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.440 But they came out, they still played with confidence. They 236 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.759 clearly recalibrated some things offensively as far as what they 237 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:57.960 want to do. And I you know, I know what 238 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.080 I sound like, sound like, you know, a loser, a 239 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.720 guy who loves moral victories. But I'm just being honest 240 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:05.559 and transparent with you. I think that there was some 241 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:09.120 positives from that game, and tonight I'm hoping they can 242 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:11.120 carry that over despite it being a loss that they 243 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.320 suffered against Duke. And you also got to keep in 244 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:15.320 mind this the last time this this group's gonna get 245 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:17.639 some real repetition against a real team before they play 246 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.679 Kentucky on Saturday. And I said this yesterday, why not 247 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.120 say it once more? I still there's I've not it. 248 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:24.600 I have to. 249 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:26.840 I've had to just randomly kind of remind myself when 250 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:28.679 I think about this weekend. You know, when I think 251 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:30.559 about this weekend, I'm not you know, I'm to the 252 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.720 point now where at my age, I'm like, all right, 253 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.200 I'm gonna try to remember. I know my wife has 254 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.559 probably told me some things we're gonna be doing. She's 255 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.120 probably made plans and arrangements for me, but I don't 256 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.679 really remember before I ask her, and then she gets 257 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:44.600 on me for not listening to her. I'm gonna try 258 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:46.360 to remember what it is. So then I go through 259 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.000 you know, what I know is going on this weekend, 260 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:49.759 And twice in the last couple of days, I've had 261 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.320 to think, Okay, yeah, I guess it is the Louisville 262 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.120 Kentucky game, but like, it doesn't feel like it in 263 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:55.480 any way. 264 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.000 It is earlier than he usually is. 265 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.360 But you know, I just I wish Louisville would be 266 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.480 at full strength here because in look, Kentucky's not a 267 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.679 full strength either. They're gonna be without Kirk Crisa for 268 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.360 a while. Lamont Butler didn't play against Gonzaga. I would 269 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.840 imagine he'll probably be back for the Louisville game. But 270 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.759 the rivalry is renewed with both programs having new coaches that, 271 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:16.759 as far as the offseason, did a really good job 272 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.399 at getting their fans excited about this new chapter for 273 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.840 both Louisville basketball and Kentucky basketball. I just you know, 274 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.399 I know Louisville's not even close to being the team 275 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:29.639 that that we we knew that was built, right, the 276 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.000 team that was assembled to go out here and get 277 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.840 off get this Pat Kelsey air off to a good start. 278 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.240 But hey, maybe maybe you know, I guess crazier things 279 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.799 have happened. 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Questions, complaints, complements, insults, whatever you've got, feel 292 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:12.320 free to shoot them our way. The Bill Belichick stuff 293 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:14.120 is happened in folks. I know it was a big 294 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.720 topic yesterday, just as far as knowing that there were 295 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:20.240 reports that it was I guess close to being finalized, 296 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:22.200 and then you didn't really get any kind of final 297 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.200 confirmation that it was happening. 298 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.279 And now you've got I mean. 299 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.840 It would be there'd be a lot of retraction if 300 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.080 in fact this is not real. But inside Carolina, it's 301 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.279 an outlet that's covered Carolina for a long time. They've 302 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:38.799 got over one hundred and forty thousand followers on Twitter. 303 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.799 I believe they are a part of the on three 304 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:45.039 Sports network. I believe they are the ones who I 305 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.960 think today are are putting it out. They're putting their 306 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.519 name on it. As they say, and letting you know 307 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.279 that Bill Belichick, they're finalizing the deal and he is 308 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.480 going to be North Carolina's new head coach. And I 309 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.960 don't want to regurgitate and give you the same opinions 310 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.399 thoughts that I had yesterday. But here we are twenty 311 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.320 four hours later, and I still don't understand how this 312 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:09.960 makes sense. I mean, the only thing that I can 313 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:12.840 can see from the Belichick side that would make it 314 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:17.600 make sense is that he just wants to get a 315 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.480 gig at the college level, have a little bit of success, 316 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.440 show that he can still despite you know, not in 317 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.399 my in my opinion, I don't see I think he 318 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.600 is the most unattractive candidate you could ever find as 319 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:35.039 far as just somebody that you know is eager and 320 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.399 ready to succeed in this new world of college football. 321 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:40.759 I mean, he's clearly a Hall of Fame coach. He 322 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.320 was phenomenal with with with the Patriots, like we all 323 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.600 know that, but like, how does that translate to where 324 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.679 you're going to be really good in college? So, like, 325 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:49.559 you know, the only thing that makes sense is that 326 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:51.600 he brings his son to be the DC and then 327 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:53.679 whenever Belichick moves on maybe either go back to the 328 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.679 NFL or to you know, retire because he's in his seventies. Maybe, 329 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.919 you know, maybe at that point, you know, that to 330 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:02.639 me would at least make it make sense as to 331 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.240 why he was so wanting this job at North Carolina. 332 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.440 But from the Carolina side, other than saying, you're hiring 333 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.799 a legend, what is. 334 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:13.519 The benefit here? 335 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.480 I mean again, I know he's been phenomenal as a coach, 336 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:21.080 but I just feel like the current college football player 337 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.759 out there that wants to talk in IL that knows 338 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.320 they don't really have to take you being a jerk, right, 339 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:32.480 they can they can leave. I mean, if you're going 340 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.240 to be in a hole and do the you know, 341 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:37.279 break him down then build them up, players can decide, yeah, 342 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:38.720 I don't really want to do that. I don't have 343 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:40.919 to do that anymore. I know that's the old school 344 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.840 way instead of you know, this process of you breaking 345 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:46.919 me down and really just coaching me up and challenging me. 346 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:49.480 I don't really want to do that because I can leave, 347 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:51.759 I can hit the portal like I just don't. I 348 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.840 just think the compatibility right now with Belichick in the 349 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.000 new world of college football is just it just makes 350 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:03.000 no sense for this move, but it's happening, and I 351 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.919 mean it gives the ACC I guess some notoriety like 352 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:10.679 it gives the ACC some attention, meaning you know, now 353 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:12.279 you now know people are going to be tuned in 354 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:15.240 more so than they probably would be if it wasn't 355 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.279 Bill Belichick getting this job because people want to see 356 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.360 how it's gonna work, you know, how he's gonna do. 357 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:25.600 I mean, imagine like four years ago telling somebody that 358 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.320 Bill Belichick will be coaching the North Carolina football program. 359 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:32.120 And imagine telling somebody four or five years ago that 360 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.840 Dion Sanders would be at Colorado and have you know 361 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.200 the Highestman Trophy winner on his roster. I guess he 362 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.360 hasn't won it yet, but he probably will. So it's happening. 363 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:45.039 Belichick is uh is gonna be the North Carolina football coach, 364 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:49.399 and I still just don't quite get it. All right, 365 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.559 some other things we'll get into today. We now know 366 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:54.519 what Tyler Shuck's going to do, and as expected, he's 367 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:57.519 not going to play in the bowl game, and I 368 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:59.120 think that makes total sense. 369 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:00.000 But now I'm curious. 370 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:05.359 It's Okay, who's gonna be your quarterback in this game specifically, because. 371 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:07.359 If in fact, you. 372 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:10.119 Lose more quarterbacks to the portal, I mean you've already 373 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:13.279 lost Brady Allen. Like, I just feel like if Pierce 374 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.119 Clarkson is ever gonna show us something, and I don't 375 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:18.000 want to act like he's shown us that he can't play, 376 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.599 but he just hasn't. You know, he's never been the 377 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:21.640 starter because there's been guys that have been ahead of him. 378 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:25.319 So this may be, you know, I mean, who knows, 379 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:27.359 maybe this is like the only game he ever starts 380 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.000 here at quarterback because they're going to bring in somebody 381 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.079 in fact that that's somebody's on campus now if it 382 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.480 ends up being Miller Moss who's visiting the USC transfer 383 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.359 so we can certainly get into that. Also, we've got 384 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.960 a breakdown of the amount of money that the NIL 385 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.759 collectives across the country has brought in in the year 386 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:50.799 twenty twenty four, which of course is about to come 387 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:53.079 to an end before too long. And we'll tell you 388 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.000 where Louisville, Kentucky, Indiana came in as far as how 389 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.759 much money their collectives have been able to round up. Also, 390 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:02.400 Mark Stoops, I don't know the specifics, but i'll certainly 391 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.960 try to get it. But I saw that he's had 392 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.279 he's having offseason surgery. I don't think it's anything serious, 393 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.920 but man, the responses the comment section of these posts 394 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.880 about his surgery, Like, man, it's just another reminder that 395 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.400 that fan base hates this guy right now. And I 396 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.039 say right now specifically because I think they do appreciate 397 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.680 what he did, but they want him gone in a 398 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.839 major way. And it just is a reminder that this 399 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.359 thing has a much much more like it's much more 400 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.440 likely for this thing with Stoops and Lexington to end 401 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:38.200