Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: And here to start the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: Then we are out because the Louisville Bats will be
Speaker 3: taken over. We'll hand it off to the voice of
Speaker 3: the Louisville Bats, Nick Curran. But it is coffee and
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Speaker 3: Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you hanging out with us on
Speaker 3: a beautiful, yet breezy Thursday evening. I know the holiday
Speaker 3: weekend's coming up, and that usually means really the unofficial
Speaker 3: or maybe the official start of the summer for a
Speaker 3: lot of people. But the weather, I mean, it could
Speaker 3: be worse. I don't think it's supposed to storm or anything,
Speaker 3: but we're not gonna have very cold temes, although I
Speaker 3: do see Saturdays high as now it's any one. But
Speaker 3: you know, I think people probably are wanting to get
Speaker 3: something closer to the eighties or maybe in the eighties
Speaker 3: as we get the summer started. Which has talked about
Speaker 3: it earlier this week, and I'm sure I'm not alone,
Speaker 3: but this weekend, this holiday weekend always to me seems
Speaker 3: like when the summer actually starts, this is typically around
Speaker 3: the same time where a lot of kids are getting
Speaker 3: out of school, which I know is going on. So
Speaker 3: in fact, looking around our office here, I feel like
Speaker 3: maybe the holiday weekends already started. I don't know if
Speaker 3: we got an event going on or what, but it
Speaker 3: looks like a ghost town in this place.
Speaker 2: Which hey, that's okay.
Speaker 3: I mean, if it din't look a lot of people
Speaker 3: work from home anyway, So we go anyways, we'll make
Speaker 3: the most of the time we have left here. So
Speaker 3: if you have just now joined us, there is a
Speaker 3: new change to the college football Playoff of the upcoming season.
Speaker 3: This has nothing to do with the talk about expanding
Speaker 3: to sixteen and automatic bids going to certain conferences and whatnot.
Speaker 3: This is just simply about the amount of teams that
Speaker 3: are or this is just about how the thing is seated.
Speaker 3: So instead of giving conference championships to I'm sorry, instead
Speaker 3: of giving automatic buys and the top four spots to
Speaker 3: conference champions, they're now just going to seed it one
Speaker 3: through twelve, which that's the way that it should be. Also,
Speaker 3: I probably could have talked about it a lot more
Speaker 3: than I did, but how about my Pacers last night?
Speaker 3: What a phenomenal come from behind victory and all time
Speaker 3: come back that I think it probably won't be remembered
Speaker 3: because it wasn't, you know, an actual I mean, it'll
Speaker 3: be remembered by Pacers fans for a long time for
Speaker 3: good reason, and it'll be remembered by Knicks fans for
Speaker 3: a long time as a painful memory. So I don't
Speaker 3: know where it's going to end up as far as
Speaker 3: an ald timer. But they've now had not one, not two,
Speaker 3: but three after last night, really legendary comebacks in the postseason,
Speaker 3: and last night was just the first game of a
Speaker 3: seven game series. But I kind of feel like the
Speaker 3: way that that thing played out for the for the Knicks,
Speaker 3: like it wouldn't be a shocker if they kind of will,
Speaker 3: especially now that I see on just looking back at
Speaker 3: clips from last night that during the big come from
Speaker 3: behind victory, as Aaron Nesmith went full Reggie Miller, they
Speaker 3: were crumbling on the bench meeting the Knicks. I mean
Speaker 3: you had og On and Obi, Josh Hart, Towns and
Speaker 3: Brunson all bickering at each other. So, you know, easier
Speaker 3: said than done as far as just thinking that they're
Speaker 3: completely crushed. But if they are, I won't be shocked
Speaker 3: because losing like that, I mean, if the and actually
Speaker 3: that could be wrong here, but I kind of think
Speaker 3: it's almost a little bit more demoralizing to then take
Speaker 3: it to Ot and lose because you were gifted by
Speaker 3: Haliburton having that foot on the line. Yet you go
Speaker 3: to Ot a chance to eliminate the all time melt
Speaker 3: down from happening, and you couldn't quite do it. So
Speaker 3: it was it was awesome. As a Pacers fan, I
Speaker 3: loved it. I'm sure if you're not a Pacers fan
Speaker 3: or a Knicks fan and you watched, you were probably
Speaker 3: still entertained. And the NBA Playoffs, I gave him a
Speaker 3: a lot of crap before it started, just because I
Speaker 3: was wanting to get excited. But I told myself, don't
Speaker 3: do it again, Nick, don't lie to yourself and act
Speaker 3: like the NBA Playoffs are going to be competitive and entertaining.
Speaker 2: But they have been. Yes, there's still been some blowouts.
Speaker 3: Some of those blowouts have come in game sevens, which
Speaker 3: you never want to see, right, if a series goes
Speaker 3: to seven, you want it to be competitive to the
Speaker 3: very end and you know, obviously that didn't happen every
Speaker 3: step of the way throughout the playoffs up to this point.
Speaker 3: But man, we've had some really really good series and
Speaker 3: some really really good finishes, and last night again was
Speaker 3: an Alzheimer for the Pacers. Here's what it sounded like
Speaker 3: on TNT as Halliburton hit what everybody thought was the
Speaker 3: game winner, only to find out they had to go
Speaker 3: to overtime. Hell, don't tree.
Speaker 1: From them, Reggie.
Speaker 3: Selfishly, I mean I was, I was in heaven with
Speaker 3: the way it ended. And then for Haliburton to be
Speaker 3: pointing at ready like Reggie being a part of it
Speaker 3: is such a gift to me that like I, and
Speaker 3: I don't mean like me. To me, I see it
Speaker 3: as a gift. Obviously, I'm sure others enjoy it too.
Speaker 3: Maybe some people hate it, but like, I didn't want
Speaker 3: it to sound like they're doing it because of me,
Speaker 3: But to watch my Pacers beat the Knicks in that fashion,
Speaker 3: and Reggie Miller to be narrating it, like, that's heaven
Speaker 3: for me, especially you know, six seven year old Nick,
Speaker 3: who idolized Reggie Miller and pretended to be him when
Speaker 3: I would shoot basketball in my driveway it was awesome.
Speaker 3: And how about this, This is just an absolute all timer,
Speaker 3: something that I'll remember forever probably, and that is what
Speaker 3: aaron NEI Smith did because in NBA history only two
Speaker 3: players have had twenty plus points and five plus three
Speaker 3: pointers made in the fourth quarter of a playoff game
Speaker 3: on the road.
Speaker 2: Both of them.
Speaker 3: Were the Pacers at Madison Square Garden of the Conference
Speaker 3: Finals on a Wednesday, which makes it really random. But
Speaker 3: Reggie did it on June first, nineteen ninety four, and
Speaker 3: then aaron Nie Smith did it last night, So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was it was awesome to see another. Another crazy
Speaker 3: stat that just makes it seem, you know, unbelievable, is
Speaker 3: that NBA teams were owned in nine hundred and seventy
Speaker 3: in the playoffs over the last twenty seven years when
Speaker 3: trailing by fourteen or more points with under three minutes
Speaker 3: to go in regulation, and then last night it became
Speaker 3: one in nine hundred and seventy because of the Pacers.
Speaker 3: And this is something else I hadn't seen until just
Speaker 3: now that since nineteen ninety six, ninety seven teams that
Speaker 3: have trailed by seven or more in the final fifty
Speaker 3: seconds of the fourth quarter or overtime in the playoffs
Speaker 3: are four and one thousand and seven hundred and two losses.
Speaker 3: The Pacers have three of those wins all this year.
Speaker 3: I think that's the best way to put in perspective
Speaker 3: just how crazy this team has been with come from
Speaker 3: behind victories. When most are dead and it's over, they
Speaker 3: have been able to claw back and find a way
Speaker 3: to win again. Since nineteen ninety six ninety seven, teams
Speaker 3: that have trailed by seven or more in the final
Speaker 3: fifty seconds of a game are four one thousand and
Speaker 3: seven hundred and two, and the Pacers have three of
Speaker 3: those four wins, and they've all taken place in this postseason.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And again those wins are down seven with forty seconds
Speaker 3: left to the Bucks, they won, down seven with forty seven,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, down seven forty seconds left to the Cavs.
Speaker 2: They win.
Speaker 3: And then last night, down fourteen with two minutes and
Speaker 3: thirty five seconds left against the Knicks. I mean, just
Speaker 3: think about that, just saying that out loud, down fourteen
Speaker 3: with two and a half minutes left, and you win
Speaker 3: a game. Somebody asked this on the text line earlier,
Speaker 3: and it's not a bad point. What's more, impressive, the
Speaker 3: Knicks finding a way to win I'm sorry, the PACER's
Speaker 3: finding a way to win, or the Knicks finding a
Speaker 3: way to lose.
Speaker 2: You may argue that the both impressive. I mean both were. Yeah,
Speaker 2: both were were certainly impressive. All right.
Speaker 3: Something else we discussed was the updated list of college
Speaker 3: football coaches. As far as the rankings. CBS Sports does
Speaker 3: this every year. We talked yesterday about the Mark Stoop's ranking.
Speaker 3: He's at number thirty six. He's fallen quite a bit
Speaker 3: over the last couple of years, and really, I mean
Speaker 3: he went from I think twentyth to thirty six, so
Speaker 3: he's dropped substantially after a really down year last year.
Speaker 2: And it was the outlier year.
Speaker 3: I mean it was, I mean it was absolutely the
Speaker 3: year that you know, is different than any of the other's,
Speaker 3: meaning they actually had some decent players and some legitimate
Speaker 3: expectations and they didn't just fall short, they fell very
Speaker 3: short of what those expectations were. So anyways, this the
Speaker 3: latest and I guess the final part of these rankings
Speaker 3: came out today is they gave us one through twenty
Speaker 3: five and Jeff brom Is up from number nineteen to
Speaker 3: now at number seventeen. And I don't need to run
Speaker 3: through all the list of accomplishments and all the accolades
Speaker 3: for Jeff Bram because I would imagine a lot of
Speaker 3: you listening are well aware because you know he's our guy.
Speaker 3: But when you consider what he did at Purdue, that's
Speaker 3: actually to me what makes him I think, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's to me what makes him worthy of that top
Speaker 3: seventeen ranking, because yes, he's done a phenomenal job in
Speaker 3: his first couple of seasons at Louisville, but at Purdue,
Speaker 3: you know, the same thing that Mark Stoops deservedly got
Speaker 3: a lot of credit for winning somewhat, you know, winning consistently,
Speaker 3: even though it wasn't at a high level. Kentucky was
Speaker 3: much more successful with Mark Stoops over the you know,
Speaker 3: the vast majority of his time there than they really
Speaker 3: ever been in my lifetime. So Jeff Bram, I think
Speaker 3: when you you know, for those that may look at
Speaker 3: him and say wow, because I wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 3: you know, college football fans across the country, maybe they
Speaker 3: see Bram at number seventeen and they're thinking, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know, that seems to be a little bit high
Speaker 3: for him, all right, we have good news.
Speaker 2: We have good news. We don't have an early dismissal today.
Speaker 2: That was my fault. So do the Bats even play today? No,
Speaker 2: they do. They just they're there. Their their broadcast starts
Speaker 2: at sixtcha. Okay, so hey we got we got extra time.
Speaker 2: It's I just read the whole Tuesday for Thursdays. We've
Speaker 2: had that.
Speaker 3: We've had that a couple of times where we get it,
Speaker 3: where we get it wrong. But hey, it's it's I
Speaker 3: look at it as a as A as A as A.
Speaker 3: I mean, now, this is like unexpected extra time, which
Speaker 3: technically not extra time because you know, it's our normal
Speaker 3: three hour formatted show. But here we are thinking we're
Speaker 3: out early and we're not.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad. I'm glad you. I'm glad I caught that.
Speaker 2: Did you go look at it? Did somebody tell you?
Speaker 4: Just because as soon as you as soon as I
Speaker 4: was looking at how to time this out, I just
Speaker 4: noticed that there was all the spots leading up to
Speaker 4: the hour, and I thought to myself, hmm, that doesn't
Speaker 4: look great. Did I read that email as Tuesday or Thursday?
Speaker 4: And sure enough, I mean everybody else had it right,
Speaker 4: our guy, Jim Benn had it right.
Speaker 2: I just of course read it wrong. Of course he did.
Speaker 2: He's Jim Fenn. What am I thinking? Come on, He's
Speaker 2: Jim Finn. So I was ready to get out of
Speaker 2: here early. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess if you hadn't looked at it
Speaker 3: and we just you know, I guess somebody would have had.
Speaker 3: Somebody would have had to have been there asking, hey,
Speaker 3: Nick Kurran, are you there? Are you ready to get
Speaker 3: it going? And then we would have realized, oh wow,
Speaker 3: you know, we're supposed to be a yeah, we're supposed
Speaker 3: to be on air.
Speaker 2: So anyway, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: But back to the College Football Coaches rankings, I mean,
Speaker 3: when it comes to where, when it comes to where
Speaker 3: Brahm ends up, I think when you look at what
Speaker 3: he did at Purdue, that is probably more impressive than
Speaker 3: a lot of people realize. And it's not because you know,
Speaker 3: you would go and like, you know, hang a banner
Speaker 3: or anything like that, because it's not as if it's
Speaker 3: some never before seen success and they didn't win any
Speaker 3: conference championships or anything like that. But for him to
Speaker 3: leave Purdue with a winning record in Big Ten play
Speaker 3: after six seasons there when the guys who were there
Speaker 3: the previous eight seasons, you had four with Darryl Hazel
Speaker 3: who went three and twenty four, and then four with
Speaker 3: Danny Hope who went thirteen and nineteen. So I think
Speaker 3: that puts in perspective that the guys is a winner.
Speaker 3: And again I'm not telling you anything that you probably
Speaker 3: don't already know, but nice to see you know, objective
Speaker 3: folks who cover college football, letting you know you got
Speaker 3: yourself a really good football coach. All right, So this
Speaker 3: isn't something we've talked about just yet, and I don't
Speaker 3: really know how interesting it is to those of you listening,
Speaker 3: but it is probably a pretty big deal when it
Speaker 3: comes to the future of UFL athletics because they've hired
Speaker 3: a man by the name of Andrew Brand as a
Speaker 3: strategic advisor. So this is somebody who used to be
Speaker 3: the VP of the Green Bay Packers and.
Speaker 2: He has joined.
Speaker 3: It sounds like this is maybe like a he's like
Speaker 3: a going to be like a contractor, but nonetheless he's
Speaker 3: he's he's been brought in to help U of l
Speaker 3: H and he's one of the most influential voices in
Speaker 3: sports law and business. According to you know, the press
Speaker 3: release that UFL sent out. So he is going to
Speaker 3: serve as a key advisor in regards to the athletic
Speaker 3: department here and this is somebody has mentioned former VP
Speaker 3: of the Packers. He is the current he's the current
Speaker 3: executive director of the Mora ad Center for the Study
Speaker 3: of Sports Law at Villanova, which for those who don't
Speaker 3: understand the connection here, Josh Hurd was at Villanova prior
Speaker 3: to coming back to Louisville and of course becoming the
Speaker 3: full time athletic director.
Speaker 2: So this is a quote from Josh Hurd on this hire. Quote.
Speaker 3: As college athletics continues to evolve into a more professional,
Speaker 3: professionalized model or positioning Louisville to Lee need not follow.
Speaker 3: Andrews one of the most respected minds in sports business
Speaker 3: and law. His insights give us a real strategic advantage
Speaker 3: as we navigate this transformative period. So it says here
Speaker 3: that his role comes at a critical inflection point for
Speaker 3: college athletics. Obviously, NIL has become a humongous factor in
Speaker 3: the college sports landscape, and now you're going to have
Speaker 3: revenue sharing, which is the framework of that is going
Speaker 3: to be I mean, that's a big deal. It's a
Speaker 3: really it's an entirely new, I guess component of how
Speaker 3: you run your athletics department because I guess could choose
Speaker 3: not to. I mean, I guess I don't remember the
Speaker 3: specifics of it, because anybody if they did give you
Speaker 3: the option to choose not to share rev I mean,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't get any players because players would not come
Speaker 3: and just play for you for free when they could
Speaker 3: go anywhere else and make money. So I don't even
Speaker 3: remember what it was as far as how they laid
Speaker 3: it out. But revenue sharing is now a whole new
Speaker 3: component that you know, there's gonna be a lot that
Speaker 3: goes into that and how that works, and it's really
Speaker 3: a new department probably within your athletic department. So it
Speaker 3: sounds like this higher brand is going to be somebody
Speaker 3: that is very much involved in that. This is a
Speaker 3: quote from him in the press release. This is a
Speaker 3: transformative time in college sports, and it's been a privilege
Speaker 3: to work with Louisville Athletics. I guess he's already kind
Speaker 3: of been working alongside without the official title that he
Speaker 3: has now, but he says, Josh Hurt is a visual
Speaker 3: sorry as a visionary leader, and his team is smart, collaborative,
Speaker 3: and proactive Louisville. Louisville isn't just preparing for the future,
Speaker 3: They're shaping it. So again, having people who have this
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, experience is going to be vital
Speaker 3: as you continue to try to find your footing in
Speaker 3: this seemingly ever changing landscape of college sports. I mean,
Speaker 3: I know I've said it many many times, why not
Speaker 3: say it once more? Where we are now compared to
Speaker 3: where we were just five years ago is really crazy
Speaker 3: when it comes to just how college sports looks overall.
Speaker 3: And speaking of that, I haven't seen any kind of
Speaker 3: an update on the lawsuit, which I guess it wouldn't
Speaker 3: be realistic to expect an update like right away. But
Speaker 3: what ends up happening with the lawsuit that sze KaiA Ziggler,
Speaker 3: the former Tennessee point guard file, that's going to be
Speaker 3: that's going to be huge. And I can't really see
Speaker 3: a scenario where he has success with this lawsuit because
Speaker 3: you know, I just can't. He's played four seasons of
Speaker 3: college basketball. I don't know why he would be entitled
Speaker 3: to another. But his argument is I'm still a student.
Speaker 3: Why can't I play. I'm still a student at Tennessee,
Speaker 3: but now I'm in the undergraduate program. Everybody else has
Speaker 3: a five year window to play four. Well, I'm still here,
Speaker 3: it's within my five years. Why can't I play again?
Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't see that being a winnable argument.
Speaker 2: But what do I know. I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 3: Maybe because there is a five year window, that's the
Speaker 3: loophole here to where he somehow gets granted a fifth
Speaker 3: year of eligibility.
Speaker 2: But if he does, I mean.
Speaker 3: That means guys like you know, Chucky Hepburn and rain
Speaker 3: Smith could come back hypothetically, and that just doesn't seem
Speaker 3: like realistic.
Speaker 2: But we shall see.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's been a couple of different lawsuits that
Speaker 3: the NCAA has had in front of them that they've won,
Speaker 3: and I'm not surprised by even though the majority of
Speaker 3: the attention lately has been on them getting beat in court.
Speaker 3: But like the JUCO ruling was a legitimate one. Like it,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I agree that you can go
Speaker 3: play two years at JUCO and then get four years
Speaker 3: to where you basically get six years of playing college sports.
Speaker 3: But the argument was legit, meaning how are you counting
Speaker 3: towards my eligibility when the first two years out of
Speaker 3: high school I did not play in the nc DOUBLEA.
Speaker 3: Doesn't make it right or wrong, But like, that's a
Speaker 3: good argument because they're counting you as using two years
Speaker 3: that you did not use within a NCAA member institution.
Speaker 3: I guess the situation here would be well if others
Speaker 3: get a five year window even though you've already played.
Speaker 3: I mean again, here's where it gets tricky. He's played
Speaker 3: four and yet he's he's he's within his five year clock.
Speaker 3: And yet there's other guys that have played more than
Speaker 3: five that are with that are outside of their five
Speaker 3: year clock. I mean, there's not a ton of them,
Speaker 3: but there's You could you could find a handful of
Speaker 3: examples of guys that are still playing college sports that
Speaker 3: it makes no sense how they are. And now again,
Speaker 3: every everybody's situation is probably a little bit different. So
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not monitoring this as like, here we go,
Speaker 3: maybe he wins, because I just assume that he won't.
Speaker 3: But again, I guess nothing should surprise me in the
Speaker 3: grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do this.
Speaker 3: Let's get to a quick break, we'll come back. We
Speaker 3: actually have more time than realize, so we'll make the
Speaker 3: most of that time. We'll finish strong. Here it's the
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Speaker 3: So apparently there are some green flags that are signs
Speaker 3: that you're aging well. I mean, you can be any
Speaker 3: age and be aging right. I guess a lot of
Speaker 3: people when you think of aging, you're thinking of I
Speaker 3: guess like getting legitimately old. I'm not there yet, but
Speaker 3: these are the five green flags as far as you
Speaker 3: aging in a healthy way, maintaining physical strength and mobility.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: I'm moving, I'm getting around pretty good. I mean that
Speaker 3: to me seems more like somebody who might quite literally
Speaker 3: be like getting up there in age. Being curious and
Speaker 3: having a sharp cognitive function.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, that's it. I mean the key, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean it's a big one in sharp.
Speaker 3: This this actually lists out like learning new skills and hobbies,
Speaker 3: things like that, brain boosting hobbies. I mean I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm I'm pretty pretty sharp there, having a positive outlook.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm pretty positive about about things. Yeah, this
Speaker 3: is where I feel like maybe I'm not aging well
Speaker 3: Austin keeping strong social connections.
Speaker 2: Okay, you don't have strong social connections. I mean I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't seek out being social with like you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like I'm not Actually yeah, I'll just
Speaker 3: be honest, I'm not. I'm not super outgoing when it
Speaker 3: comes to, you know, meeting people and being social. I
Speaker 3: kind of find my I'm an introvert, which is a weird,
Speaker 3: which is weird for people who do this, but I'm
Speaker 3: I'm I'm very much introverted to where I'm not outgoing
Speaker 3: as far as meeting new people and making new connections.
Speaker 3: But obviously I'm not you know, I'm not against it.
Speaker 3: I'm not anti meeting someone. But the older I get like,
Speaker 3: what are my buddies brought this up not that long
Speaker 3: ago and I hadn't really thought about it, But it's
Speaker 3: kind of true, and I guess really it comes down
Speaker 3: to this, like making new like making new friends. I
Speaker 3: have enough friends to where like I can meet new
Speaker 3: people and they can be like considered acquaintances. But there
Speaker 3: hasn't been somebody that I've met recently in my life
Speaker 3: that I would say that's a friend. And friend is
Speaker 3: such a loose, probably overused way to describe any relationship, right,
Speaker 3: Like you could be friendly with somebody, but I don't
Speaker 3: think that means that you're friends. But I think what's
Speaker 3: happened now is if if I was to say, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know that person, I like them, but they're not
Speaker 3: my friend, I think most people would instantly think, well,
Speaker 3: you must you must not like them if they're not
Speaker 3: your friend. Well no, I mean you can like being friends.
Speaker 3: It's such a loose definition as far as your relationship level, right,
Speaker 3: I have what's called friends, and they're like buddies. Yeah,
Speaker 3: friends are like you know, like friends are like your
Speaker 3: friends people that's like in your day, like all your life.
Speaker 3: You know that you can just you text other than
Speaker 3: like out there to work or something like.
Speaker 4: Then you got like buddies, it is, Yeah, I just
Speaker 4: got a buddy at work, like you know, like we're
Speaker 4: not like we don't talk all the time.
Speaker 3: What do you think of these three tiers? Acquaintances which
Speaker 3: I think that's more a friend of a friend. We
Speaker 3: know each other, but we don't really know each other.
Speaker 3: We've hung out with, yeah, and then you've got buddies pals.
Speaker 3: And then the next step is like somebody who you
Speaker 3: do consider a friend, somebody that you've known for a
Speaker 3: while and that you talk to like you like, it's
Speaker 3: an unusual thing if a lot of time has gone
Speaker 3: by and you haven't talked right. Yeah, But then there's
Speaker 3: also like what do you how would where would we
Speaker 3: classify older friends? Because I have people that at times
Speaker 3: in my life I was really close with, like growing
Speaker 3: up when you're younger, like older like in age or old. No, no,
Speaker 3: just just I've known them a long time, and and
Speaker 3: we were like, there's people that I would like, there's
Speaker 3: somebody right now, two people I could think of that
Speaker 3: I would. I would absolutely say that that is somebody
Speaker 3: that is a close friend of mine. But I probably
Speaker 3: don't talk to these I mean, in fact, I know
Speaker 3: I don't talk to or see these people that often.
Speaker 3: In fact, it's a rare thing to see them. But
Speaker 3: because we were so close that I've known them for
Speaker 3: twenty five plus years, I do. I would feel like
Speaker 3: I would feel wrong if I said that person wasn't
Speaker 3: a close friend. I'm not close now, but there's still
Speaker 3: a closeness to where I'll put it this, it's the
Speaker 3: best way to describe it. When I'm around them, even
Speaker 3: if it is rare, nothing's changed.
Speaker 4: Right, So like you guys don't miss a beat exactly, Well,
Speaker 4: then I would still at those those those are still friends, right,
Speaker 4: stay in the friend zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, which isn't bad. Yeah, I mean I I've
Speaker 2: got that kind of friend, but I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess now, like when it comes to like
Speaker 3: friends that are super that I consider to be super
Speaker 3: close to me to this point in my life, it's
Speaker 3: it's people that have been a constant, if that makes sense,
Speaker 3: Like they're not they're not. There's not a whole lot
Speaker 3: of like it's actually a real rare thing if I
Speaker 3: realize a few weeks have gone by and we haven't
Speaker 3: actually either seen each other or you know, caught up
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. So again, I think that's probably
Speaker 3: pretty normal. I would say with people as you get older,
Speaker 3: there's just with life and everything that comes with it,
Speaker 3: you may not see or catch up with somebody as much.
Speaker 3: But if if you do still consider them a close friend,
Speaker 3: and when you're around them, you know you have miss
Speaker 3: to beat.
Speaker 2: I'd say they still they're still worthy of that status.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't. I just don't.
Speaker 3: I don't really, And honestly, it's probably just how we're
Speaker 3: wired as we get older to where there's somebody that
Speaker 3: there was never like, I don't go home to my wife, honey,
Speaker 3: I made a new friend today, right, But you realize
Speaker 3: over time you've been around them, whether it be for
Speaker 3: work or acquaintance, whatever it may be, and then you've
Speaker 3: become you know, they are somebody that you consider a friend.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Last one here says being passionate about hobbies. I mean
Speaker 3: that'll always be the case because this is something that
Speaker 3: is a hobby that it's I've been able to fortunately.
Speaker 3: I mean it is, but it's it's not a hobby.
Speaker 3: It's my job. It's what I do for a living. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I take it very serious, but it's not
Speaker 3: a you know, it's not your typical nine to five
Speaker 3: kind of jobs.
Speaker 2: So me, you know, like your work, like your work
Speaker 2: prep is literally watching the NBA.
Speaker 3: What perfect final perfectly said to where I'm fortunate to
Speaker 3: where passion and hobby meets career and job, to where
Speaker 3: I kind of need to be like, if I no
Speaker 3: longer liked sports, that would be you know, that would
Speaker 3: be an issue.
Speaker 2: You're going to be on news now, so I know
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. I know, and I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean I keep up with news, but for what
Speaker 3: it's worth, just just to you know, I'm glad you
Speaker 3: said that because for those who've asked me, like, so,
Speaker 3: what are you going to be doing on eight forty,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going to be hosting Kentucky na's morning
Speaker 3: news alongside a team that everybody has sort of their
Speaker 3: own roles. So Scott Fitzgerald is doing sports updates, but
Speaker 3: obviously that doesn't mean he and I won't talk about
Speaker 3: sports throughout the show. And we've got traffic in weather,
Speaker 3: which you will get every ten minutes because that's just
Speaker 3: what people have come to know and expect, and we'll
Speaker 3: still be able to expect in the mornings on eight forty.
Speaker 3: And then there's John Shannon, who every thirty minutes will
Speaker 3: give you a newscast that'll just that'll deliver news. So
Speaker 3: that's how it's formatted. But the segments in between, like here,
Speaker 3: here's what I'm hoping works out, Like Bill j In
Speaker 3: with you every now and sure, yeah, they'll be they'll
Speaker 3: be segments that I will use the seven minutes or
Speaker 3: whatever it is to do an interview with somebody, But
Speaker 3: it's not really me interviewing and having a Like when
Speaker 3: I have a guest on Now, it's more of a conversation.
Speaker 3: That's not what that's really going to be.
Speaker 2: In the mornings.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be interviewing people who are there to
Speaker 3: answer specific questions about a specific story that they're covering
Speaker 3: because they work for ABC News or NBC News, whatever
Speaker 3: it may be, to where I'm not really needed and
Speaker 3: I'm happy that I'm not really needed to provide my
Speaker 3: own opinion on set. Thing like that's going to kind
Speaker 3: of work itself out, Nick lib Yeah, so I'm I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm maggot, Nick, Like, let me give you an example,
Speaker 3: like what we're talking about right now and what we
Speaker 3: talked about earlier with like the the top ten burger chains,
Speaker 3: those kind of things like that. That's the type of
Speaker 3: stuff you can probably expect to hear and it'll just
Speaker 3: be broad relatability, hopefully interesting. And I mean my marching
Speaker 3: orders are essentially, hey, don't screw it up. That's a
Speaker 3: pretty successful show and has been for a lot longer
Speaker 3: than you've been here on planet Earth. But also, you know,
Speaker 3: make it a little bit more inviting and welcoming to
Speaker 3: a younger demo than what they've typically got on eight forty.
Speaker 3: Not to say that it's nothing but dinosaurs that listen
Speaker 3: to that, but it is. It is and has been
Speaker 3: for a long time more so catered to an older crowd,
Speaker 3: and there's nothing wrong with that. I certainly need to
Speaker 3: do whatever I can to keep those folks around, but
Speaker 3: also add some youth along the way. So and by
Speaker 3: the way, like if I've got a seven minute segment
Speaker 3: and there is a big game from the night before
Speaker 3: for U of L or UK, I mean, I think
Speaker 3: I have free rein to share some thoughts on it.
Speaker 3: It's a four hour show, and when it comes to
Speaker 3: the things that you really need on that show for
Speaker 3: what it's always been news, traffic, weather, you're gonna get
Speaker 3: it regardless because it's just built in. Makes so like
Speaker 3: I won't feel like, hey, if I veered off and
Speaker 3: did a five minute thing about something just interesting to
Speaker 3: me or something that's you know, maybe me telling a story,
Speaker 3: because I like this tell I mean I like to
Speaker 3: tell stories. I don't know how good my stories are,
Speaker 3: but I liked I like storytelling, so like I can
Speaker 3: do that and not feel like, hey, I've completely abandoned
Speaker 3: what this show is because all the things that you've
Speaker 3: come to know and expect are built into where I
Speaker 3: don't like it kind of drives itself when it comes
Speaker 3: to that.
Speaker 4: I mean, if I can, it's going to be like
Speaker 4: the same show, but like you said, just more broadly
Speaker 4: out on, like just talking about either world events or
Speaker 4: more local events or so it's going to be the
Speaker 4: same talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my hope, because that obviously would make it most.
Speaker 4: People new friends over there, Like you said, John Joe,
Speaker 4: going back with the company Man, company Man.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's right.
Speaker 3: So the reunion, it will it will be what I hope,
Speaker 3: a lot of kind of what this is as far
Speaker 3: as the style and tone, but won't be as sports heavy,
Speaker 3: and it'll be much more structured because of just the
Speaker 3: built in style that is there. As far as just
Speaker 3: every ten minutes, you're gonna get an update on traffic
Speaker 3: and weather because people care about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: And again, here's what I talked about. I did an
Speaker 3: interview with somebody who works for Barrett Media who did
Speaker 3: a little write up on the move, And I mean,
Speaker 3: I really look at it as a chance to you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, people are going to continue
Speaker 3: to get what they what they've always got, but I
Speaker 3: can kind of make it a little bit more relatable
Speaker 3: and a little bit more interesting. Not to say that
Speaker 3: it wasn't that with the guys that are there now,
Speaker 3: but you know it, My hope is that it doesn't
Speaker 3: feel like I'm doing a completely different job and I'm
Speaker 3: in a completely different world, even though it kind of
Speaker 3: is that. But yeah, it'll be It'll be fun looking
Speaker 3: forward to it, but I'll certainly miss this in a
Speaker 3: major way.
Speaker 2: All Right, let's get our last breakout of the way.
Speaker 3: We'll come back finish strong with one more segment before
Speaker 3: we hand it off to Nick. Current of the Louisville
Speaker 3: Bats stick around right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: This sounds like a wrestling intro? Is it wrestling theme song? No?
Speaker 2: This is this is just a Lincoln Park song?
Speaker 1: Does it?
Speaker 2: Does it sound like Cody Rhodes music a little bit
Speaker 2: or maybe a little bit Okay, got it. It's got
Speaker 2: a little bit of the rock because because my uh
Speaker 2: my son moves.
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Speaker 2: But again, what do I know? Just just old Lincoln Park.
Speaker 2: They all by the way, Lincoln Park.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's phenomenal that's big in my time, phenomenal,
Speaker 4: huge ire we That song is actually at the end
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Speaker 2: If you remember that movie. Oh yeah, I mean the
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the best, like two movies here, like is the
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Speaker 2: I think it's wild that that. I always felt like
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Speaker 3: But real quick for those like myself who are wanting
Speaker 3: to see the ACC get better as a basketball league,
Speaker 3: and last year I think was the wake up call,
Speaker 3: and I think the ACC deciding to eliminate two conference
Speaker 3: games and move from twenty to eighteen league games, that's
Speaker 3: really the proof that they are aware that they they
Speaker 3: they're not where they need to be, and they're letting
Speaker 3: two more games go so they can have their league
Speaker 3: members go schedule tougher games to hopefully have a better
Speaker 3: resume on selection Sunday. So it's been a big talking point.
Speaker 3: We'll have to see, but I do think some hires
Speaker 3: were made that will instantly make the ACC better. How
Speaker 3: much better that remains to be seen. I think Ryan
Speaker 3: Ryan Odum at Virginia will definitely get them headed in
Speaker 3: the right direction. And then obviously, the biggest higher I
Speaker 3: think as far as the ACC goes this cycle is
Speaker 3: will Wait at n C State. I think it's the
Speaker 3: legitimate expectation that he will absolutely make the league better.
Speaker 3: But how quickly that's up.
Speaker 2: In the air.
Speaker 3: But I will say they just landed Will Wade in
Speaker 3: NC State just landed a big time transfer from Texas Tech,
Speaker 3: Darien Williams, who you know, he probably didn't watch a
Speaker 3: lot of Texas Tech basketball last year, but we all
Speaker 3: know they were really good. And obviously their best player
Speaker 3: is JT. Toppin, but outside of topen it was Darien Williams, who,
Speaker 3: in fact, I think had a better tournament than Toppin did,
Speaker 3: unless my memory is just completely messing with me. So
Speaker 3: he's picked n C State, picked them over Kansas, and
Speaker 3: Duke landed a five star recruit today, which is pretty
Speaker 3: routine for Duke, but Texas. But in n C State,
Speaker 3: if they can come out and be a top twenty
Speaker 3: five caliber team this upcoming season, I mean, that won't
Speaker 3: make the league loaded by any means, but man, it
Speaker 3: would certainly be a big boost because last year it
Speaker 3: was Duke Clemson, Louisville. And that's pretty much Yet, if
Speaker 3: we're being honest, that's saying something. All Right, we're out
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