Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company. Fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: Day, Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we
Speaker 2: think when we.
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Speaker 1: or turning off. The countries are screwing it up. Gold
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Speaker 1: be mature adults, but they're really not. Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me? Now? Here's
Speaker 1: Nick coffee.
Speaker 2: I was in need for a pick me up today.
Speaker 2: It's Monday. We all know what happened on Saturday, and
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I think I know why.
Speaker 2: I was trying to figure out how I would be
Speaker 2: able to best describe why a loss to the best
Speaker 2: team you played all year is the one that hurts
Speaker 2: the most. But that's that's what happened on Saturday, and
Speaker 2: I can explain it. You don't have to agree, that's fine.
Speaker 2: I mean, Louisville played a pretty good game against the
Speaker 2: number six team in the country. But to just be
Speaker 2: here at you know, four and three at this point,
Speaker 2: it just, you know, it's not what really any of
Speaker 2: us would have expected for Louisville football. And doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that the season's going to be a failure no matter
Speaker 2: what happens the rest of the way. It doesn't mean
Speaker 2: they can't still, you know, finish strong. It's just I
Speaker 2: don't know, like Saturday was was it for me as
Speaker 2: far as just having to realize, Yeah, what I thought
Speaker 2: this team could accomplish this year is really no longer
Speaker 2: in play. And again, it's worse for me as a
Speaker 2: fan to know that really it, you know, could have
Speaker 2: been avoidable, it would could have should have. Really good
Speaker 2: teams make mistakes and crucial times, like it's not unheard
Speaker 2: of for them to be a team in this situation.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know, I'd rather be humbled and realize, Okay,
Speaker 2: what are you going to do? You've just got this
Speaker 2: opponent that even the you know, you're pretty good, You
Speaker 2: feel really good about your team, your ability, your coaching staff,
Speaker 2: all that stuff, But you just went up against a
Speaker 2: team that is just flat out better than you. And look,
Speaker 2: Miami can say that has some you can say that
Speaker 2: Notre Dame can say that it's just how we got here.
Speaker 2: Just I don't know. It bums me out a little bit.
Speaker 2: But again I needed to pick me up, and I've
Speaker 2: got it, not only because we're here. It's three o'clock
Speaker 2: and it's coffee and company. It's time to get after it,
Speaker 2: get another week started here. But right before the show,
Speaker 2: no joke, like maybe you know, thirty forty five seconds
Speaker 2: before we went live here the beautiful bald man who's
Speaker 2: on right now on eight to forty, whas that is
Speaker 2: down the hall. He popped in. He's excited about tonight's
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball exhibition game, and I am too. We started
Speaker 2: talking Louisville hoops, and all of a sudden, I'm excited.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been excited for this upcoming season, but
Speaker 2: tonight's the first night you get a chance to see
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey coach his team. And it's not a real game.
Speaker 2: The team that they're playing. Had to just do a
Speaker 2: quick double check to make sure I have the name right.
Speaker 2: It's young Harris, not old Harris, but young Harris. But again,
Speaker 2: not a real game, exhibition. But I'm telling you, I think,
Speaker 2: not only do we not have to worry about losing
Speaker 2: exhibition games? God, I hope. Now what if that happened,
Speaker 2: then that would be and that would be Louisvill will
Speaker 2: be cursed. I mean, I don't I can't even process
Speaker 2: any kind of visual of what any react, like, what
Speaker 2: my reaction would be, what fans reaction would be like.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think there's any chance that happens. One,
Speaker 2: because you know, we're in a much better place now
Speaker 2: as a program. But here's my You know, if there's
Speaker 2: anybody that's not really worried about this game tonight because
Speaker 2: it's an exhibition, it's against a bat you know, Division
Speaker 2: two team that you've never heard of, I get it.
Speaker 2: But one, it is your first chance to see Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey coach this team. And also he's gonna treat it
Speaker 2: like a real game. He wasn't just saying that because
Speaker 2: maybe he thought that's what people would want to hear
Speaker 2: from a new coach. He was quite serious when he
Speaker 2: said at Media Day last week that they're gonna treat
Speaker 2: young Harris as if it's due because that's how that's
Speaker 2: a big part in why Pat Kelsey is, you know,
Speaker 2: in this position where you know he's had enough success
Speaker 2: to get on the radar of a program like Louisville
Speaker 2: and sell himself and now he's the coach here and
Speaker 2: fans are super excited. But he's routine, right every I mean,
Speaker 2: he's got a formula, he sticks with it. He doesn't
Speaker 2: know how to take time off. It sounds like, so,
Speaker 2: you know, thoughts and prayers to young Harris tonight, because
Speaker 2: I think they may be in for a real beatdown,
Speaker 2: which is what you want. And usually that doesn't really
Speaker 2: move the needle much because that's just what we came
Speaker 2: to expect in a previous world. But this most recent
Speaker 2: world that we had was really a you know, a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Louisvill's thirty nine game winning streak and exhibition games was
Speaker 2: snapped a couple of years ago when they went down
Speaker 2: to Leanne Rimes and only scored forty seven points in
Speaker 2: the game. So and then last year we all know
Speaker 2: what happened, lost to Kentucky Wesleyan. So let's get a
Speaker 2: new streak started here where you don't lose exhibition games.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I didn't need that. Terry comes in. He's excited,
Speaker 2: you know because obviously he's a big UFL supporter, and
Speaker 2: he and his lovely wife have season tickets and they're
Speaker 2: gonna be there tonight, and we're gonna be here tonight
Speaker 2: because we've got postgame. We will have a Louisville basketball
Speaker 2: postgame show tonight. I haven't mentioned it yet on the
Speaker 2: show or I guess anywhere, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: but yes, we are doing louis basketball postgame shows again
Speaker 2: this season, and because of the new era and because
Speaker 2: of the excitement that's there, we're gonna do the exhibition
Speaker 2: games as well. So tonight will be your first chance
Speaker 2: to react to whatever you see with Pat Kelsey coaching
Speaker 2: and leading this program. So we'll talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about you know what I'm anxious to see tonight when
Speaker 2: it comes to this this exhibition game. But obviously we
Speaker 2: got to talk football. We'll do that. Not only is
Speaker 2: it Louisville fans that are you know, And actually I
Speaker 2: don't know, to be honest with you, after the postgame show, yes,
Speaker 2: or on Saturday afternoon, I kind of checked out as
Speaker 2: far as, like, you know, consuming social media. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not like I've been chatting that I haven't listened
Speaker 2: to really anything I've been and I I can blame
Speaker 2: it on being sad about what happens Saturday, maybe just
Speaker 2: trying to distract myself with other things, and I don't
Speaker 2: really know if that's what it is. But you know,
Speaker 2: the last time I talked to anybody about where Louisville
Speaker 2: football is was when I took a call at the
Speaker 2: end of the post game show Saturday, so we can
Speaker 2: kind of reset. Maybe you feel differently now than you
Speaker 2: did after the game. I don't I mean to be
Speaker 2: where we are. It's I would say most are disappointed,
Speaker 2: but I don't think that many people look at this
Speaker 2: team and feel as if they're terrible and we were
Speaker 2: completely sold something that's not real. I mean, if there
Speaker 2: is anything we were really wrong about, it's the defense.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't really know where blame can
Speaker 2: go other than the obvious, and that's Ron English. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Jeff Brahm is responsible for the guy he hired to
Speaker 2: lead his defense, and that's Ron English. Players are always
Speaker 2: accountable to an extent. But I mean, that's where we
Speaker 2: were wrong. That is where you sit back and say,
Speaker 2: you know, we were foolish to assume that the defense
Speaker 2: would be the last thing we need to worry about
Speaker 2: this year. And I thought that was the case because
Speaker 2: of personnel. Right, I'm on my way in here today
Speaker 2: and I see that big billboard, and it's got two
Speaker 2: guys that I felt like were all American caliber first
Speaker 2: round draft pick players, Quincy Riley and Ashton Jalattie. And
Speaker 2: it's not just those guys that led to Louisville fans
Speaker 2: myself included having big expectations for the defense this year,
Speaker 2: but like top to bottom, they're just not getting it done.
Speaker 2: I'm not singling out anybody as players. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess we can single out the decordinator given the fact
Speaker 2: that you know he's quite literally responsible for the defense
Speaker 2: as a whole, But the guy over top of him
Speaker 2: is Jeff Brohm, and he's responsible too, So I'm not
Speaker 2: really looking to do any kind of finger pointing here
Speaker 2: as far as who specifically is to blame. But either way,
Speaker 2: the results aren't there for the defense and they should
Speaker 2: be better than they are. And if you want to
Speaker 2: take all the blame and put it on Jeff because
Speaker 2: he continues to employ Ron English, then you know, knock
Speaker 2: yourself out. If you want to put it all on
Speaker 2: Ron English, you can do that too. In fact, he
Speaker 2: and he wanted people to blame him last year when
Speaker 2: things kind of fell apart. In this year, the defense
Speaker 2: just isn't good enough. And I know they played the
Speaker 2: number one offense in the country, like I know that
Speaker 2: they went up against a quarterback that's got a good
Speaker 2: chance to win the Heisman, and they won't play a
Speaker 2: better offense this year. But they also gave up an
Speaker 2: ungodly amount of yards. And I don't care who's out
Speaker 2: there on offense, you shouldn't give up five hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty eight yards. I mean, your offense scored forty five
Speaker 2: points and put up four hundred and forty eight yards
Speaker 2: of their own. Special teams got you a touchdown with
Speaker 2: the Colin Lacy kick return, like that should be enough
Speaker 2: for you to win. But it wasn't because of a
Speaker 2: variety of things, but most importantly, the defense just wasn't
Speaker 2: able to consistently get off the field. And yes, cam
Speaker 2: warton Miami, they were a factor, but you know, seeing
Speaker 2: those guys just trucking over Louisville defenders meeting the running backs.
Speaker 2: Martinez for Miami, and he's talented, but you shouldn't, you know,
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be able to carry people in the end
Speaker 2: zone the way that the way that they did at times.
Speaker 2: I mean, Louisville gave up one hundred and fifty five
Speaker 2: rushing yards after contact. They gave up one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy five receiving yards after the catch, meaning once plays
Speaker 2: were made, guys didn't wrap up. Guys didn't finish the job.
Speaker 2: And that's not because we don't have guys that have
Speaker 2: the ability to the ability to do it. I just
Speaker 2: think this defense is kind of I mean, they're clearly
Speaker 2: second guessing themselves. I mean it's hard not to question.
Speaker 2: You know, I hate to being the guy that questions
Speaker 2: someone's effort because I just think it's it's rich to
Speaker 2: sit on the couch or sit in your seat at
Speaker 2: the game and be able to claim, you know, the
Speaker 2: amount of effort someone is giving when they're out there playing.
Speaker 2: But sometimes it's hard to just ignore what you see.
Speaker 2: And when you see these guys just you know, arm
Speaker 2: tackling and you know, just getting embarrassed, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: hard not to want to question some effort and question
Speaker 2: if they're really given it. They're all I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't think out there intentionally trying to be a bad defense,
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, they're just not
Speaker 2: They're not getting it done, and that's disappointing. So again, disclaimer,
Speaker 2: you are just now joining us. I mean, I'm complaining
Speaker 2: a lot, and I'm calling out I think what's pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: But this team can still finish with a pretty good record,
Speaker 2: and who knows, maybe they'll be playing their best ball
Speaker 2: at the end of the year and maybe what we
Speaker 2: turn our sights to is just finally getting rid of
Speaker 2: that streak. When it comes to the Kentucky matchup, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'd hate to be in that position where you feel
Speaker 2: like that's really all you have to play for. But
Speaker 2: as far as wins that are going to have some
Speaker 2: real current, you know, wins that have value currency to
Speaker 2: where you know it's not just okay, what you're supposed
Speaker 2: to do, it was something that either meant something because
Speaker 2: it really does make you look good, or it means something.
Speaker 2: When it comes to who you beat the rival, you
Speaker 2: still have Clemson, and yeah, that would be huge, but look,
Speaker 2: seven games in, do we feel like Louisville's going to
Speaker 2: go to Clemson and put together a performance that is
Speaker 2: good enough to win there the first time ever? When
Speaker 2: Clemson's playing really really good football right now and Louisville,
Speaker 2: you know, has consistently made some crucial mistakes at really
Speaker 2: really bad times that completely flip a game. I mean
Speaker 2: the penalty on the kickoff that led it to snapping
Speaker 2: it on what your own two or three yard line,
Speaker 2: and then the fumble. I mean, that's that's a big
Speaker 2: crucial mistake that just can't happen. And you know, you
Speaker 2: were able to keep fighting, and that's one thing that
Speaker 2: is worth at least acknowledging. It doesn't count as a win.
Speaker 2: But they'll make a big mistake and it looks as
Speaker 2: if like you know, what, do you know, what are
Speaker 2: you gonna do? Like, man, here they go again, just
Speaker 2: committing a mistake that is a killer. But then they'll
Speaker 2: fight back, right, they'll claw back, and they'll keep it competitive.
Speaker 2: Like this team is competing. They're they're they're losing to
Speaker 2: good teams just by a score, and you know, it's
Speaker 2: all would it could have? Should Again? It doesn't. It
Speaker 2: doesn't count as a win. It's just I feel like
Speaker 2: if they were a little bit better at avoiding the
Speaker 2: crucial mistake, then they'd have maybe one, maybe two, hell
Speaker 2: maybe even all three of these would be wins instead
Speaker 2: of losses. Again, would it could have? Should have? They're
Speaker 2: a four and three football team, and that would make you,
Speaker 2: by definition average, and I think they've got ability that
Speaker 2: is above average. But unless you actually get those results,
Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't really matter. It is Coffee and
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Speaker 2: Nick Coffee. I hope you knew that. If not, now
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Speaker 2: had himself a good weekend. He's the only one around
Speaker 2: here because if you're a Louis a fan and you're
Speaker 2: a Kentucky fan, you aren't feeling very good about where
Speaker 2: things are. And I couldn't even really take a whole
Speaker 2: lot of I mean, it was nice to see Kentucky
Speaker 2: get embarrassed and lose by four touchdowns at Florida, a
Speaker 2: team that you know has really been talked about more
Speaker 2: than anything this year because they're going to fire their coach,
Speaker 2: and you wondered if the bottom would fall out and
Speaker 2: they put together what has to be their best performance
Speaker 2: of the season, I would assume, I mean, I haven't
Speaker 2: really followed Florida because they haven't really been relevant enough.
Speaker 2: But I would imagine they don't have many, you know,
Speaker 2: twenty eight point victories of the four wins they have
Speaker 2: this year, So you know, I wanted to feel a
Speaker 2: little better seeing that result late at night. And again
Speaker 2: it was the preferred outcome for someone like myself who's
Speaker 2: a Louisville fan. But you know, when Louisville loses, and
Speaker 2: you know, it's the third time they've had a chance
Speaker 2: to knock off a good team, and I mean SMU,
Speaker 2: I still believe is a good team, and I give
Speaker 2: them all the credit in the world. That's not quite
Speaker 2: the game that Notre Dame and Miami are as far
Speaker 2: as like what's at stake. I mean, you went into
Speaker 2: the SMU game thinking that you know, you should win
Speaker 2: and a loss would be a real surprise, and you know,
Speaker 2: they came in and just beat you, So credit to them.
Speaker 2: I don't want to act like that one doesn't. You
Speaker 2: know that it is a good team that beat you.
Speaker 2: But at the time, I don't think we really knew
Speaker 2: that Louisville was going to have, as you know, a
Speaker 2: record that they've got now at this point in the season,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if we knew. I mean, in fact,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you I didn't think SMU was as good
Speaker 2: as they are until I watched them play Louisville and
Speaker 2: they you know, they took care of business and they haven't.
Speaker 2: You know, they haven't lost since. The only loss they
Speaker 2: have is to a BYU team that is undefeated. But
Speaker 2: that's what I didn't want, Like, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be in a position where we just look at the
Speaker 2: rest of the year and hope that we get past
Speaker 2: the teams were supposed to be, meaning Louisville. Like, you know,
Speaker 2: you feel you should feel pretty good about Boston College,
Speaker 2: but then again, you'll hear me say it throughout the week.
Speaker 2: I'm not putting them on upset alert, but like Boston College,
Speaker 2: if you don't play well, they'll beach at home. I mean, like,
Speaker 2: they've proven to be a team that can compete with
Speaker 2: some pretty good teams in Louisville. You know, they haven't
Speaker 2: been able to put anybody away. Really, I mean, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I mean, outside of their games
Speaker 2: against Austin p and Jacksonville State, every other win that
Speaker 2: they've had could have easily gone the other way. So
Speaker 2: maybe you're not looking at Boston College as like a
Speaker 2: sheer fire win. I mean, I feel like Louisville is
Speaker 2: better and they and they should win, but I'm also
Speaker 2: aware that they could make some mistakes here which would
Speaker 2: be on par for them, and they could mess around
Speaker 2: and lose to this Boston College team that you know
Speaker 2: they're better under Bill O'Brien, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: But I still don't think that you shouldn't be in
Speaker 2: a position where you're looking at these games and thinking
Speaker 2: to yourself, well, you know what, we'd be really fortunate
Speaker 2: to win. And I'm not really looking at it like
Speaker 2: that because I think if Louisville plays, you know, the
Speaker 2: kind of game they played against Virginia, they should win.
Speaker 2: But we all know that was a game that until
Speaker 2: late they i mean, they nearly lost. They needed a
Speaker 2: late touchdown there to put that one away. After Boston College,
Speaker 2: you've got Clemson at their place, a place you've never
Speaker 2: won and have only really been competitive there maybe twice.
Speaker 2: Stanford on the road. That's a weird game. And then
Speaker 2: Pitt's still unbeaten and ranked, not sure if they'll mean
Speaker 2: not sure if they'll be ranked by the time you
Speaker 2: get there on November twenty third, but right now, on paper,
Speaker 2: and probably those who watch the ACC a lot more
Speaker 2: in depth than I do would tell you that they
Speaker 2: think Pitt's better, and then it's Kentucky. So look, there's
Speaker 2: still plenty of football to be played. I've never been
Speaker 2: somebody that felt like Louisville had to make the playoff
Speaker 2: or had to be right outside the playoff for it
Speaker 2: to be looked at as a good season. But we also,
Speaker 2: i think, realistically, felt like that was something you could
Speaker 2: aim for, and seven games in that's gone, and that's
Speaker 2: what's disappointing. It doesn't mean that they're destined to be,
Speaker 2: you know, underwhelming the rest of the way. But in
Speaker 2: games that you played that you know, you knew there'd
Speaker 2: be some value if you win, you lost them all
Speaker 2: up to this point. Doesn't mean you can't finish strong
Speaker 2: and maybe get that win at Clem Center, maybe in
Speaker 2: the streak with Kentucky. But we have to you know,
Speaker 2: at least you can do whatever you want. I have
Speaker 2: to go, Yeah, I have to run with what we've seen, right,
Speaker 2: results matter, and this team, you know they've they've had
Speaker 2: they've got an identity, right, I mean, expecting them to
Speaker 2: show up and not make such a big critical mistake
Speaker 2: was was you know, just it was just blind hope.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I don't mean to sound
Speaker 2: over the top, but I mean when somebody tells you
Speaker 2: who you are every week and they show it to
Speaker 2: you and it's consistent, trust what that is. And that's
Speaker 2: what we say on Saturday. And I'm not and You're
Speaker 2: never gonna be perfect. And I know it sounds like
Speaker 2: I'm asking for perfection, but if you look at some
Speaker 2: of the crucial mistakes the Louis has made and the
Speaker 2: three losses that they have, even in a couple of
Speaker 2: the wins they have, especially at Virginia, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure you can you'll find other teams that have made
Speaker 2: similar mistakes. But I'd be shocked if Louisll's not up
Speaker 2: there as far as like wow, like, man, that's the
Speaker 2: one thing you couldn't do, and yeah, you know in
Speaker 2: game you're able to overcome it at times, because yeah,
Speaker 2: you you had a chance late there. I mean, if
Speaker 2: if they count that touchdown instead of reversing the call
Speaker 2: and saying that it was an incomplete pass from cam Ward,
Speaker 2: then you know, and if you find, if you find
Speaker 2: a way to win, then you're not even thinking about
Speaker 2: the other mistakes because you're happy you held on to win.
Speaker 2: But when you don't, and then you look back and realize, man,
Speaker 2: we put ourselves in this situation to where it didn't
Speaker 2: have to come down to that late call or late
Speaker 2: no call or late call reversal that Miami just seems
Speaker 2: to be so accustomed to now. So for me, you
Speaker 2: know why why it sounds so I guess sad or
Speaker 2: and just defeated. And Jeff sounded defeated too earlier today.
Speaker 2: I'm sure part of that was because he had to
Speaker 2: share some really unfortunate news that they've lost to Murray
Speaker 2: Johnson for the year. I mean, that's that just sucks
Speaker 2: for the young man who really started to come on
Speaker 2: and got a lot of talent, and now he's gonna
Speaker 2: be I mean, he's out for the season, and you know,
Speaker 2: who knows what the recovery timeline is for him. I'm
Speaker 2: sure he'll be back at some point. I don't know
Speaker 2: why to act like he's never gonna play again, but
Speaker 2: you know that that's tough news. But I think Jeff's
Speaker 2: also defeated because you know, his team's not nearly as
Speaker 2: good as he knows they can be, and they gotta,
Speaker 2: they gotta, you know, they got to figure that out.
Speaker 2: I wish, you know, it's what it could have should
Speaker 2: at this point, you know, the big opportunities that were
Speaker 2: there are are gone, and yeah, there's still a couple
Speaker 2: that I feel like would give you, you know, some
Speaker 2: real satisfaction as a fan, But just expecting that to
Speaker 2: happen at this point, I think is a little you know,
Speaker 2: it's being a little naive, I guess. So for me,
Speaker 2: I wanted Saturday to be the game that you could,
Speaker 2: you know, you could come out and play well and really,
Speaker 2: let's just say the same result happen, right, you lose
Speaker 2: by a score to a Miami team in a shootout,
Speaker 2: fifty two to forty five. Where you know, when I'm
Speaker 2: watching this thing real time, I'm not really considering how
Speaker 2: entertaining it is because I'm only looking at it from
Speaker 2: one perspective, and that is a diehard Louisville fan who
Speaker 2: wants to see Louisville pull off a big win, a
Speaker 2: win that they really need to kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: change how we're viewing this season. But you know, in hindsight,
Speaker 2: it was a hell of a game, especially that third quarter.
Speaker 2: I mean it was a great atmosphere, a really really
Speaker 2: juiced crowd for a noon kickoff. I mean, the atmosphere
Speaker 2: was awesome and the entertainment was awesome. If you're somebody
Speaker 2: that didn't really care who won and you didn't bet
Speaker 2: on it, but you know, I wanted Louisville to win,
Speaker 2: and they came up short, but I wanted it to
Speaker 2: be a game where you could burn. When I say burn,
Speaker 2: I mean you lose that and you're not really viewed
Speaker 2: as it making any kind of an impact as far
Speaker 2: as what you you know, obviously, if you lose any
Speaker 2: ACC game and you got teams that have you know,
Speaker 2: less losses than you or no losses, then clearly that's
Speaker 2: going to impact the standings. But if you would have
Speaker 2: taken care of business against SMU and not you know,
Speaker 2: not gotten off to such a poor start where they
Speaker 2: really controlled, you know, they control things from the jump
Speaker 2: with their offense getting out there, getting comfortable and just
Speaker 2: you know, embarrassing you defensively. And then against Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: you know, you eliminate one of those goofs that you
Speaker 2: had maybe you hold on and win there. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe if you don't have the false start on four
Speaker 2: or sorry not false start, but the delay of game
Speaker 2: on fourth and one when you're driving on the road,
Speaker 2: like this would have been the loss where it almost
Speaker 2: this isn't the best comparison because it's it's not the same,
Speaker 2: Like Louisville was a different team that at the time
Speaker 2: people clearly viewed as like a legit. I mean, when
Speaker 2: Louisvill and Lamar Jackson went to Clemson and lost. At
Speaker 2: that time, you know, louisll was looked at as a
Speaker 2: team that could make the four team playoff. Like even
Speaker 2: after that loss, that's no near what Louisville could have
Speaker 2: done here against Miami. But I guess the reaction more
Speaker 2: so of not about like, Okay, these are the two
Speaker 2: best teams in the country, but a reaction of to
Speaker 2: wear Okay, Louisville lost, but I still feel like they're
Speaker 2: really good and maybe some team like maybe some people
Speaker 2: are saying that, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you now have three losses on the year, two in conference,
Speaker 2: and that's just not I think what anybody would have
Speaker 2: expected seven games in. And if you did, then you
Speaker 2: were right. Congratulations to you. I just felt like Louisville,
Speaker 2: you know, more than anything, had a chance to start
Speaker 2: off better than this because I didn't think SMU was
Speaker 2: going to be as big of a challenge as they were,
Speaker 2: and they beat you, you know, Notre Dame, and we knew,
Speaker 2: I think was going to be a tough task, but
Speaker 2: then to see it play out the way it did,
Speaker 2: it makes it even more maddening. So to lose this
Speaker 2: one and it'd be your third loss as of October
Speaker 2: twenty First, it's not the end of the world, but
Speaker 2: it did kind of make the you know, the frustration
Speaker 2: from the first two losses that I feel like didn't
Speaker 2: need to happen. It just you know, it's like it's
Speaker 2: like all three of them hit me on Saturday, and
Speaker 2: I'm still sad about it. It just hit me and
Speaker 2: turned my frustration and anger to sadness. But you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's what we sign up for as lunatic sports fans.
Speaker 2: We probably care way more than we should, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's the only thing I know. And did you play
Speaker 2: with your kids? Did it make you feel better? Uh? No,
Speaker 2: I did yesterday a little bit. But Saturday after we
Speaker 2: wrapped up the postgame show. What did I I mean,
Speaker 2: I ended up I ended up going out for a
Speaker 2: friend's birthday later that night. That was a nice kind
Speaker 2: of distraction, I suppose, But yes, you know, usually I
Speaker 2: just try to you know. In fact, I watched wrestling
Speaker 2: yesterday with my son. He's he's Moose is now into
Speaker 2: professional wrestling, but not like the current stuff. Like he
Speaker 2: saw wrestling on the Peacock app that we have because
Speaker 2: we were watching Actually it might have started whenever the
Speaker 2: Peacock app became something we utilized when Louisville played Notre
Speaker 2: Dame earlier this year and peak. The Peacock Network is
Speaker 2: the home of all of I guess wwfs. WWE's like library,
Speaker 2: like their catalog, like stuff from like, you know, before
Speaker 2: I was born and stuff when I was as a kid,
Speaker 2: and somehow he wanted to watch that one time and now,
Speaker 2: you know, so yesterday, when everybody was watching NFL, I
Speaker 2: spent about an hour, you know, just watching old wrestling
Speaker 2: from the nineties with my son. And it was actually
Speaker 2: he didn't know it. But it was a nice distraction
Speaker 2: because football would have just made me, would have made
Speaker 2: me more sad. But We'll get through it. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hope we will. We will play on Friday night,
Speaker 2: which you know, gives you a chance to not have
Speaker 2: I guess instead of having a loss, lingering and just
Speaker 2: you know, having that bitter taste in your mouth instead
Speaker 2: of it being for seven days, it could be for
Speaker 2: six days because you know, you got a quick turnaround.
Speaker 2: But I'm also not prepared to just say, well, hey,
Speaker 2: they're gonna you know, they should win. I think they're better,
Speaker 2: but seven games in just basing you know what we
Speaker 2: know and what we've seen, like they could easily lose
Speaker 2: and it wouldn't be considered a huge surprise. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Are we loaded today again? Not only do we talk
Speaker 2: about where Louisville football goes from here, will continue to
Speaker 2: maybe not be as miserable knowing that Kentucky fans are
Speaker 2: probably just as miserable with their team, and Louisville basketball
Speaker 2: is in action tonight. That makes me. That makes me happy.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a lot of fun. And you know
Speaker 2: that's what you would expect me to say, but like literally,
Speaker 2: like this team's gonna be fun as hell to watch,
Speaker 2: and it's nice going into this not feeling like you
Speaker 2: have to worry about losing to you know, an exhibition opponent.
Speaker 2: I'd stick with us. It's Coffee and Company, and we
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Speaker 2: It's seven ninety Louisville dot com. So there's many that
Speaker 2: have have arready. I mean, it's not even something that
Speaker 2: is new post Miami loss. It's been min suggested by
Speaker 2: Louisville fans here and there for really the last I
Speaker 2: don't know, last few weeks, and that is the run
Speaker 2: English situation. And I'm not like here to defend him
Speaker 2: as if you know he's great and that he's not
Speaker 2: worthy of criticism, because he clearly is. I just for
Speaker 2: those that say he needs to be fired, like right now.
Speaker 2: Like if he was, I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be stunned. My jaw wouldn't be on the floor. But
Speaker 2: I don't really know what that would do, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't really know what that would accomplish. And again I
Speaker 2: don't say that to defend him. I'm not saying that,
Speaker 2: like he needs to keep his job long term. I
Speaker 2: just don't know mid year getting rid of him, what
Speaker 2: that would what that would accomplish. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: really you know. I clearly he's still he's still leading
Speaker 2: the defense, it seems, and Jeff has been pretty critical
Speaker 2: of the defensive game plan and strategy. And when he
Speaker 2: when he's critical like that, I think it's because he
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he says we, but we all
Speaker 2: know he's not just talking about him. I think he's
Speaker 2: talking about the guy who's in charge of the defense,
Speaker 2: which is Ron English. However, Jeff knows he's responsible for
Speaker 2: his entire staff, So I think that's why he says we,
Speaker 2: and that's why he says us. So I just you know,
Speaker 2: if you want to throw out there that you think
Speaker 2: he should be canned, that's your opinion and you're entitled
Speaker 2: to it. And I don't think that's crazy just because
Speaker 2: you know, the defense has been a problem at times
Speaker 2: this year, and I personally think that even despite some
Speaker 2: of the injuries, you should still be better than you are.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, maybe and this isn't you know,
Speaker 2: I don't think this is crazy to say, but it
Speaker 2: might be a situation where they go watch film and
Speaker 2: it's you know, jeff Ron English, I mean the whole staff,
Speaker 2: whole team. I'm sure they do. I mean, I know
Speaker 2: the position groups, and I mean it's not as if
Speaker 2: you know you're doing the it's not like every week
Speaker 2: of preparation you're all together, all one hundred players on
Speaker 2: the team. But like, I wouldn't be shocked if you
Speaker 2: go and look at some of the plays here, specifically
Speaker 2: from the Miami game, and say to yourself, Okay, well
Speaker 2: they were there. I mean, wasn't a perfectly defended play,
Speaker 2: but you know, to hear to see that Miami had
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty to fifty rushing yards after first
Speaker 2: contact and they had one hundred and seventy five receiving
Speaker 2: yards after they caught the ball. I mean, it may
Speaker 2: just be guys needing to take more accountability and tackle better,
Speaker 2: you know, better angles, you know, don't arm tackle, you know,
Speaker 2: get low, and you know, don't get trucked, don't embarrass
Speaker 2: yourself because that happened from time to time. So I'm
Speaker 2: not defending run English. I just don't know at this
Speaker 2: juncture of the season what eliminating him from the staff
Speaker 2: would mean. I don't mean kill him, but you know,
Speaker 2: I'm getting rid of him. I don't know what that
Speaker 2: would what that would do to make things better. But again,
Speaker 2: if they did it, I wouldn't be totally shocked. I
Speaker 2: would I would have expected before even Monday, before even
Speaker 2: the Miami game, maybe there would have been some encouragement
Speaker 2: from Ron to lean on his other staffers on the
Speaker 2: defensive side to kind of help with with the game
Speaker 2: plan or whatnot. And maybe he's already doing that and
Speaker 2: we just don't know it. I'm not sure, but clearly,
Speaker 2: you know, the Louisville defense has been underwhelming this year.
Speaker 2: And it's not to say the offense has been perfect,
Speaker 2: because they're not. But you know, I thought Jeff was
Speaker 2: really good at play calling, designing some things on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and you know, I thought it was one of the
Speaker 2: offense's better days. And you know, Tyler Shuck continues to
Speaker 2: look like a guy who is really special, and at
Speaker 2: this point it kind of started starting to look like
Speaker 2: maybe it'll be a wasted season of him. I mean
Speaker 2: that that may sound a little dramatic, maybe a little
Speaker 2: over the top, but you know, if they continue to
Speaker 2: kind of be the same team they've been all year
Speaker 2: and the identity remains, I would say they're likely going
Speaker 2: to have a pretty underwhelming record, and it'll probably be
Speaker 2: wins against teams you just feel like you won because
Speaker 2: you're a lot better than them, or I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe you lose one of these games you just expect
Speaker 2: to win. I'm not sure, but yeah, I mean disappointing,
Speaker 2: no doubt. All right, five O two five seven, one
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Speaker 2: to the phone lines. Now we welcome in Cody. Cody,
Speaker 2: you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: What's up, Hey, Nick, what's happening, buddy? What's going on?
Speaker 3: Hope everything as well with you and the family. I
Speaker 3: just got a I got a quick question, Slash statement.
Speaker 3: I mean, we know the football team. I mean they're
Speaker 3: dwindling in the wrong direction. Obviously, they can't stop anybody.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna lose the Boston College honestly on
Speaker 3: Friday night as well. And I know we got basketball
Speaker 3: coming up. We got the scrimmage tonight. So, Nick, do
Speaker 3: you think is a fan base like it's gonna Do
Speaker 3: you think it could be unfair to Pat Kelsey the
Speaker 3: expectations that US Cardinal fans are gonna have because of
Speaker 3: how bad the football team is doing that we're gonna
Speaker 3: want Pat Kelsey to come in here year one and
Speaker 3: just to have this team back as a national championship
Speaker 3: contender or on along that level. Maybe not along that level,
Speaker 3: maybe like a Sweet sixteen type of team where if
Speaker 3: he even has a decent season, that our expectations might
Speaker 3: not be met and that might be unfair to him
Speaker 3: because of what we've seen from football so far. Nick,
Speaker 3: love the show, brother, I'm gonna hang up and listen.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Cody. I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean my
Speaker 2: expectations for this team right now before i've seen them
Speaker 2: play like a real game, and I've been pretty consistent
Speaker 2: about this. It's just not something I've said a whole
Speaker 2: lot because I haven't really talked about expectations overall. I mean,
Speaker 2: because it's the ultimate unknown, and I've tried to be
Speaker 2: very transparent with that because I'm very bullish on this
Speaker 2: current team, I mean, this brand new team, because I
Speaker 2: like the pieces. I think Pat Kelsey went out and
Speaker 2: strategically found guys who fit exactly what he wants to do.
Speaker 2: You know, I think he also wanted to go get
Speaker 2: guys that have some history of being a part of
Speaker 2: a winning culture. I mean, they've got four guys on
Speaker 2: this team that have all scored over a thousand points.
Speaker 2: Eleven players on this team were on NCAA tournament teams
Speaker 2: last year, so you know, I think there's a lot
Speaker 2: to like. But again, ultimate unknown, Like, I feel like
Speaker 2: we've got guys that can match up with some of
Speaker 2: the really good run some of the teams that right
Speaker 2: now are believed to be top fifteen, top twenty. Does
Speaker 2: that mean they beat them? I don't know. But I'm
Speaker 2: also like, I hate to use the word guessing because
Speaker 2: it's not like we don't know anything about these dudes.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've watched Chucky Hepburn play for years at
Speaker 2: Wisconsin and be their leader. Right. You know, the other
Speaker 2: guys on this team we've probably you know, heard of,
Speaker 2: maybe we watched them here and there, But you know,
Speaker 2: it's not like we've I mean, you're not getting dudes
Speaker 2: from high school and just hoping that they're really good
Speaker 2: freshmen that could contribute right away. These are grown men
Speaker 2: who played a lot of college basketball, have a lot
Speaker 2: of experience. It's just the ultimate when I say it's
Speaker 2: the ultimate unknown, it's just how it all works together.
Speaker 2: But I think you know, it wasn't just hey, let
Speaker 2: me look at which guy average this many points. Again,
Speaker 2: I think it was quite strategic as far as how
Speaker 2: Pat built the roster when it comes to the personnel
Speaker 2: and what you can do with with with with your
Speaker 2: group meaning versatility meaning experience. I mean, you've got guys
Speaker 2: that can play three different positions. That's like the major
Speaker 2: already of your roster, to be honest with you. So
Speaker 2: with all that said, I think this is a team
Speaker 2: that has the ability to be a tournament team. I
Speaker 2: think nobody over there on Floyd Street would would be
Speaker 2: bothered or surprised if they knew that this fan base
Speaker 2: was expecting Pat Kelsey to be in the tournament in
Speaker 2: the first year. Now, does that mean everybody's gonna lose
Speaker 2: their mind if it doesn't happen and think that this
Speaker 2: is going to be a disastrous era of Louis of basketball.
Speaker 2: I certainly hope not, and I don't believe so. But
Speaker 2: you know, even after tonight, if they win by fifty
Speaker 2: and their reign in threes and it just looks like,
Speaker 2: you know, an absolute beatdown, which may happen, that'll be encouraging.
Speaker 2: I'll be excited. I'll probably put a little more into
Speaker 2: it than I typically would, just because it is exciting
Speaker 2: to be here in a brand new era and we're
Speaker 2: feening for some good basketball. But to answer your question, Cody,
Speaker 2: I would hope that fans aren't expecting this team to
Speaker 2: you know, win the national championship or even you know,
Speaker 2: make a deep run. I mean, we'll see. It's just
Speaker 2: even thinking about end of the year record expectation, tournament
Speaker 2: stuff like it just it every year, regardless of if
Speaker 2: you got your whole team back or you bring if
Speaker 2: you're bringing in a brand new team. You really never know.
Speaker 2: But this is again, it's the ultimate unknown. So for me,
Speaker 2: I don't think fans are expecting this team to be elite,
Speaker 2: like one of the best LEVA teams ever. So you know,
Speaker 2: I can't speak for anybody but myself. I just think
Speaker 2: fans are excited because it's new, because this guy seems
Speaker 2: to really, you know, relate to us. I mean, he's hit,
Speaker 2: he's he's hit all the notes when it comes to
Speaker 2: making fans feel like, you know, he's the guy that's
Speaker 2: going to get this thing turned around. And I think
Speaker 2: that he will. But I don't know, I get a
Speaker 2: little not uncomfortable when it comes to expectations. I mean,
Speaker 2: nobody has a clue. I mean, we may watch this
Speaker 2: team play their first six seven games and be having
Speaker 2: much different conversations than we ever thought we would be having.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't say that because I'm predicting it.
Speaker 2: It's just nobody has a clue. But as far as
Speaker 2: what we have seen from those exhibitions in the Bahamas,
Speaker 2: and from what we do know about the players on
Speaker 2: this roster, of course that have all never played together
Speaker 2: and we've never seen them play here at Louisville, there's
Speaker 2: enough there to where I think saying, hey, if this
Speaker 2: team makes the tournament, I'm going to be pleased. That's
Speaker 2: where I am personally, But I know others. I'm sure
Speaker 2: there are people listening that think, hey, Nick, you're getting
Speaker 2: ahead of yourself. This team will be lucky to make
Speaker 2: the tournament. And maybe you're right, or there's some people
Speaker 2: that think, what are you talking about? This is Louisville.
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey went out and put together a great team.
Speaker 2: They better make the tournament. Like again, everybody's going to
Speaker 2: have their own way of looking at it. I'll just
Speaker 2: be straight up, and I think I've been pretty consistent
Speaker 2: about it. One we don't have a clue, But for me,
Speaker 2: I'm going in thinking, hey, in year one, this team,
Speaker 2: from what I know now, looks like they've got the
Speaker 2: pieces to be a tournament team, maybe even a team
Speaker 2: that gets a decent seed. But one thing we do
Speaker 2: know is we're going to find out pretty early as
Speaker 2: far as what this team, you know, how they look
Speaker 2: right out of the gate, because it's got to be
Speaker 2: one of, if not the most challenging non conference schedules
Speaker 2: in college basketball. And some of that, of course, is
Speaker 2: dependent upon what happens in the Bahamas and the Battle
Speaker 2: of for Atlantis. You got Indiana in your first game
Speaker 2: that's certainly gonna be a tough matchup their top twenty team,
Speaker 2: and then who you get from then on really just
Speaker 2: again it depends on the results, but take away just
Speaker 2: the non conference part of it. I mean again, that's
Speaker 2: a huge factor because you play the majority of your
Speaker 2: non conference games to the beginning of the season. But
Speaker 2: you get Duke in your first ACC game, and then
Speaker 2: you get Carolina. I think it's on January first, New
Speaker 2: Year's Day, so you know, in the calendar year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, this team's gonna play a lot of really
Speaker 2: good teams and at that point we'll know, so as
Speaker 2: somebody who is always wanting to see where you're you know,
Speaker 2: is a fan of Louisville or a fan of any
Speaker 2: team like. That's why I hate the, you know, games
Speaker 2: against teams we've never heard of, because it doesn't really
Speaker 2: give you a chance to learn anything. We're gonna learn
Speaker 2: right away because pack Kelsey's second game here, real game
Speaker 2: that is at Louisville at the UMP Center, is gonna
Speaker 2: be against Tennessee, who is preseason top fifteen. I think
Speaker 2: they're number twelve, So you know, I'm not saying that
Speaker 2: if they lose these games, it means we should not
Speaker 2: be expecting the tournament. But if a lot of these
Speaker 2: teams on paper are as good as everybody thinks they are,
Speaker 2: we're going to find out, you know, and maybe they
Speaker 2: lose them and you feel like, hey, they're you know,
Speaker 2: it's a work in progress, right, They're still trying to
Speaker 2: gel all that kind of stuff. But one thing I
Speaker 2: do know is that I'm excited about Louisville basketball. But
Speaker 2: I guess I should. What Cody's done there with that
Speaker 2: call is and I'm sure he wasn't intending to do this,
Speaker 2: but he's at least got me thinking enough to where
Speaker 2: I should probably be a little bit more transparent about
Speaker 2: my excitement. Doesn't mean I think this team's going to
Speaker 2: be elite in year one. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they are,
Speaker 2: but I'm just excited because it's not what we had before,
Speaker 2: and you know, I think we all feel that way
Speaker 2: all right Tonight, Young Harris in Town. That's a team,
Speaker 2: not a person, not a band, but a Division two
Speaker 2: basketball team from Georgia. They're here to take on Louisville
Speaker 2: and Pat Kelsey's first exhibition game, and we will have
Speaker 2: a postgame as soon as it ends, probably around I
Speaker 2: don't know, nine o'clock or so. We'll go live here
Speaker 2: acting to who knows what. Hopefully a big time blowout
Speaker 2: and should be a lot of fun. All right, quick break,
Speaker 2: we'll come back on the other side, wrap up the
Speaker 2: three o'clock hour, don't go anywhere, keep it locked right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. So. This Miami team
Speaker 2: that came in and knocked off Louisville on Saturday, certainly
Speaker 2: a talented group, and nobody more talented for them than
Speaker 2: cam Ward who it was special and you know, seeing
Speaker 2: him in action from start to finish. I mean it's
Speaker 2: not like he's got blazing speed that you know, you
Speaker 2: don't that you never see. He's just he's real. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's clearly talented, but he's also really smart, and he's
Speaker 2: the difference maker for Miami. I mean, it was a
Speaker 2: talking point last week, and it, you know, continues to
Speaker 2: be I think proven week in and week out that
Speaker 2: the reason Miami this year is able to you know,
Speaker 2: seemingly have taken a big step forward is because they've
Speaker 2: not only got better quarterback play than they've had in
Speaker 2: a while, and they've got a really, really good quarterback
Speaker 2: and that came up. I remember discussing this. It might
Speaker 2: have been a few years ago. Yeah. In fact, if
Speaker 2: you remember Tyler van Dijk, I believe that was his name.
Speaker 2: He was the quarterback who as a red shirt freshman
Speaker 2: I think it was, he became their starter and he
Speaker 2: started bawling out and he looked like he was the future,
Speaker 2: only to you know, kind of fall off, fall off
Speaker 2: in a major way. In fact, I'm not even really sure,
Speaker 2: like is he still playing anywhere he is with Wisconsin?
Speaker 2: Does he play? I believe he's hurt, right, Okay, So
Speaker 2: so the quarterback that got hurt for Wisconsin was him,
Speaker 2: I guess because I remember them having a quarterback that
Speaker 2: that got hurt earlier this year. But either way, like
Speaker 2: I remember thinking like, well, wow, maybe this is where
Speaker 2: Miami really turns the corner because this guy's really good,
Speaker 2: and you know, he ended up flaming out and was
Speaker 2: not very good after that red shirt freshman season. And
Speaker 2: then now they've actually got a guy who's really good
Speaker 2: and he is the first ever Miami quarterback to have
Speaker 2: seven straight games with three hundred passing yards or more.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's good, really really good, and Quarterbacks make
Speaker 2: a difference.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: We all know that it's a super important position. You
Speaker 2: can win a lot of games if you don't have
Speaker 2: an elite quarterback, but they got to be able to
Speaker 2: get the job done. And when you have an elite
Speaker 2: quarterback and you're pretty good everywhere else, which I think
Speaker 2: Miami is, that's how you end up in the situation
Speaker 2: they're in where they're in the driver's seat to win
Speaker 2: this league and you know the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: I mean, they shouldn't have a loss now, they could
Speaker 2: easily slip up. It happens, because obviously teams like Cal
Speaker 2: and Virginia Tech right now feel like they should still.
Speaker 2: I mean, they probably feel like they should be that
Speaker 2: they should have won those games, and you could certainly
Speaker 2: argue that, but I also think cam Ward again, that's
Speaker 2: why last week, like I wasn't really running a whole
Speaker 2: lot with the Miami being vulnerable thing, because yes they were,
Speaker 2: and it was proven in two straight games that they
Speaker 2: are beatable because it could have easily gone the other way.
Speaker 2: But I honestly looked at that as more of like
Speaker 2: a strength because they were battle tested in a way
Speaker 2: to where their backs were against the wall. And they
Speaker 2: found a way to win, and I feel like cam
Speaker 2: Ward is was a huge, a huge part of that. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: they've got coming up. They will play let's see, They've
Speaker 2: got Florida State this Saturday, which you know used to
Speaker 2: be a big game now not as much. Then they
Speaker 2: play Duke, then they play Georgia Tech Wake Forest, and
Speaker 2: they finish the season against Syracuse. So obviously they could
Speaker 2: they could slip up and get upset, but they'll be
Speaker 2: favorites in all those games. And I won't be shocked
Speaker 2: if they were on the table because they're you know,
Speaker 2: they're that good. And it really doesn't you know, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter for Louisville at this point. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: really no conversation that needs to be had when it
Speaker 2: comes to like ACC championship anything like that. And that's
Speaker 2: not to say that you know, the season's over. Why
Speaker 2: are we even playing any more games? But you know,
Speaker 2: you have two losses, and if you end up somehow
Speaker 2: in a tie with other teams that have two losses,
Speaker 2: I have a feeling that it could be teams that
Speaker 2: just beat you, like SEMU and Miami maybe potentially, although
Speaker 2: I doubt they lose too. But it could happen. So
Speaker 2: this question comes in on the text line. It says Nick,
Speaker 2: if Louisville wins out, they will have eliminated two big
Speaker 2: streaks lost, losing streaks to Clemson and losing streaks to Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Would that make up for the losses at this point? Look,
Speaker 2: if they went out, they'd finish the season nine to three,
Speaker 2: and I would say that's a good year. I mean,
Speaker 2: and that could certainly happen. It's possible. It's not like
Speaker 2: there's anybody left on the schedule that I'm looking at
Speaker 2: and thinking to myself, well, there's just no way Louisville
Speaker 2: beats them. It's not that at all. It's just expecting
Speaker 2: them to eliminate a component of their identity after seven
Speaker 2: games is just not normal. Like that doesn't usually happen. So,
Speaker 2: you know, they if they somehow went out, that'd be awesome,
Speaker 2: And it's it's possible. I just can't like run with
Speaker 2: it that I believe and expect that that's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Although Clemson for what it's worthy, and they're playing really
Speaker 2: good football. They're dominating everybody they're playing, But it is
Speaker 2: worth mentioning that like they they haven't. I mean, they
Speaker 2: haven't played anybody. Like the only win that Clemson has
Speaker 2: against the team with a winning record is Virginia, who's
Speaker 2: four and three and a team that not many are
Speaker 2: claiming is very good. So you know, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: Louisville is better than them, But Clemson is six and
Speaker 2: one with only one win against a team that has
Speaker 2: a winning record, and yet there's somehow still ranked ahead
Speaker 2: of undefeated Iowa State BYU in Indiana. And I know
Speaker 2: they lost to Georgia about thirty one, and george is
Speaker 2: now viewed as maybe the best team in the country
Speaker 2: because of what they went in and did at Texas.
Speaker 2: But like you know, Clemson, trust me, I'm not looking
Speaker 2: at that game right now as a win for Louisville.
Speaker 2: But I think their performance, although it is impressive, and
Speaker 2: all you can do is play who's on your schedule
Speaker 2: and they're dominating, but you should also consider who it
Speaker 2: is that they are in fact dominating. All right, when
Speaker 2: it comes to your pets, you want to make sure
Speaker 2: you've got a place you know you can take your
Speaker 2: pets too. When it comes to any potential health issues,
Speaker 2: rather it be an emergency or maybe it's just you
Speaker 2: wanting to get your pet checked out because you haven't.
Speaker 2: You haven't had them checked out in a long time.
Speaker 2: You need to turn to my friends at Jeffers An
Speaker 2: Animal Hospital. They've been opened since nineteen eighty, been in
Speaker 2: business for forty four years taking care of your pets.
Speaker 2: Rather be just you wanting to get them checked out
Speaker 2: or an emergency. You know, when an emergency happens, it
Speaker 2: can be a scary, scary thing. And you may have
Speaker 2: never had an emergency with your pet when it comes
Speaker 2: to help and you may not know what to do, well,
Speaker 2: they'll be there for you. Again, it's the Jefferson Animal
Speaker 2: Hospital on outer Loop. You can give them a call
Speaker 2: five OO two nine hundred pets or visit Jefferson Vets
Speaker 2: dot com. And regardless if it's Christmas, if it's whatever day,
Speaker 2: whatever time of the day, they're going to have a
Speaker 2: doctor on site in case of an emergency. So again
Speaker 2: keep that in mind, it's the Jefferson Animal Hospital on
Speaker 2: outer Loop. Jefferson Vets dot COM's the website or you
Speaker 2: can you know, you can stop in and see them,
Speaker 2: or you can make give them a call, make an appointment.
Speaker 2: Get more information they'd be happy to here for me again.
Speaker 2: The numbers five oh two, nine hundred pets all right,
Speaker 2: one hour in the books. Kind of feel like I
Speaker 2: got a little bit of that out of my system,
Speaker 2: you know, just a weekend that made me sad because
Speaker 2: you know, Louisville football. I'm sure a lot of people
Speaker 2: feel the same way. But to be fair, like I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not telling you know. I'm just being honest,
Speaker 2: and I'm getting it out of my system. Maybe I'll
Speaker 2: have a little bit more of a pep in my
Speaker 2: step tomorrow. But on Mondays, man, you know, when you're
Speaker 2: coming off a loss. I'm still I'm still dealing with
Speaker 2: it as best I can. But it does make me
Speaker 2: happy to know we got louis of basketball tonight. That
Speaker 2: should make me feel a lot better. And I haven't
Speaker 2: been able to say that right. In a previous world,
Speaker 2: it used to be like, oh, you feel sad about
Speaker 2: Louisville football, Well, now we get to go watch a
Speaker 2: Kenny Payne coach team. It was just torture, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you. Now it's the opposite. So I think
Speaker 2: we'll be happy with what we see tonight at the
Speaker 2: Ump Center. But still Aweare's We've got two more hours
Speaker 2: to go right here on Sports Talk seven ninety