Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: If you were listening at the very end of the
Speaker 2: last hour, you know, about five six minutes ago, you
Speaker 2: might have heard me say hello as I was ending
Speaker 2: the segment, although you may not have because Jean might
Speaker 2: have already. You know, I think your mic was off
Speaker 2: because I didn't. Okay, well, I answered the phone because
Speaker 2: I was. I mean, it was it was the dealership
Speaker 2: that has been working on my car, and I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure they close as far as the service department at five.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong about that, but I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm desperate to get my car back and
Speaker 2: get this thing behind me. It's been I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's not my fault that any of
Speaker 2: this happened, to be honest with you, and I know that,
Speaker 2: but like it's just been eating me alive, like just
Speaker 2: so pissed. And you know, I'm not somebody that usually
Speaker 2: carries anger. I mean, it's not like it's you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to lose my mind, but like, I'm
Speaker 2: not usually somebody that lets stuff get to me that long,
Speaker 2: because you know, I try my best. Some of the
Speaker 2: best advice I've ever been given was, you know, don't
Speaker 2: worry about things you can't control. I can't control it
Speaker 2: at this point. But then again, like if I just
Speaker 2: sit back and let this process play out, I may
Speaker 2: never see my car again. So, like, it's just been insane.
Speaker 2: So and by the way, the Neil Huffman Volkswagen Service
Speaker 2: department has been phenomenal. They've been great, They've been keeping
Speaker 2: me updated. I've talked to them quite a bit, and
Speaker 2: I still have never got a phone call from AutoZone.
Speaker 2: Anytime I've talked to them, it's me calling them and
Speaker 2: leaving messages, not getting a return call, and then finally
Speaker 2: getting them on the phone. It's been unbelievable. So for
Speaker 2: those who have not kept up, and I'm sure a
Speaker 2: lot of you don't care, but this is just raw.
Speaker 2: This is just within the last five minutes, I now
Speaker 2: have an update that just like I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: a I'm on a like a prank show or something,
Speaker 2: because the latest was that last week, a week ago,
Speaker 2: like literally a week ago was the last time that
Speaker 2: I got an update, and it was that they did
Speaker 2: get the main fuse replaced on my Volkswagen Atlas, and
Speaker 2: from there they were able to determine that the alternator
Speaker 2: was also fried because of the many failed attempts to
Speaker 2: connect the battery backwards. So main fuse, I guess, gave
Speaker 2: them the ability to see that the other stuff was
Speaker 2: an issue. And the other stuff was minor, but the
Speaker 2: alternator is something. They had to order the part for it.
Speaker 2: The Volkswagen dealership did, and you know, I knew that
Speaker 2: was going to take some time. So they said, probably,
Speaker 2: you know, within the next you know, with the next week,
Speaker 2: you should be you should be good. So I waited
Speaker 2: until six days later, and I called him earlier and
Speaker 2: I was like, Hey, just wanted to touch base, and
Speaker 2: I'm trying my best to let them know, like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about you guys. I'm trying not to
Speaker 2: be a pain in your ass. But I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to figure out when, because here's the thing, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a good chance that I got to go get it,
Speaker 2: like business hours, and I need somebody who can take
Speaker 2: me to get my car, which anybody that I know
Speaker 2: that would be able to do that is usually working.
Speaker 2: So I'm just trying to make arrangements to where I
Speaker 2: can go get my car and stop borrowing borrowing a
Speaker 2: work car. So I called him up the voicemail before
Speaker 2: the show started today. He just called me at the
Speaker 2: right about five o'clock and he gave me, you know,
Speaker 2: encouraging news that they're about to they're about to start
Speaker 2: putting the alternator in. And he also offered that like,
Speaker 2: we've got here a vehicle that while we're working on
Speaker 2: yours you can use if you need. Like they've not
Speaker 2: inconvenienced me at all, and they're offering to let me
Speaker 2: use a vehicle. I mean, like that's great customer service.
Speaker 2: And the hold up was that they actually got the
Speaker 2: part in earlier this week on Monday or Tuesday, but
Speaker 2: AutoZone said, no, we're not paying for that alternator. We're
Speaker 2: we're not going to we're not going to cover an
Speaker 2: alternator that was ordered specifically for, you know, by Volkswagen,
Speaker 2: because you know, Volkswagen's are rare vehicle. So AutoZone delivered
Speaker 2: an alternator that they can use that they're going to
Speaker 2: pay for like thirty minutes ago, and that's what he
Speaker 2: was calling to tell me that they're now going to
Speaker 2: start working on. It's like I almost cursed. These clowns
Speaker 2: have are have inconvenienced me in a major way while
Speaker 2: taking my money and not giving me a refund, not
Speaker 2: offering to do anything to help me out, and yet
Speaker 2: they're delaying me getting my car back because they're trying
Speaker 2: to save a few bucks. They can go all the
Speaker 2: way to hell. Like, I mean, am I being pranked?
Speaker 3: No, And you mentioned you almost cursed. I want to
Speaker 3: curse for you. I mean, And I don't know if
Speaker 3: this is AutoZone specifically the location you went to or
Speaker 3: AutoZone in general, but I think I'm with you on
Speaker 3: not going to it the very least the one that
Speaker 3: you went to anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'll I mean, let's be real,
Speaker 2: I'll never I'll never go there again, and it'll be
Speaker 2: something this is crazy, Like maybe you know it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be something that's gonna be weighing on my mind
Speaker 2: for many, many years. But this is an all timer.
Speaker 2: Like when it comes to like getting really terrible service,
Speaker 2: which I didn't even get service.
Speaker 3: I got robbed.
Speaker 2: They broke my car and took my money. That is
Speaker 2: a robbery. That's what happened here, Like I have a
Speaker 2: hard time and ever, you know, maybe this will just
Speaker 2: become a recurring thing for me, but I I have
Speaker 2: a hard time thinking I'll have a worse experience with
Speaker 2: a corporation than what I've just had here, which isn't
Speaker 2: over yet. I still don't have my car. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that I'll get it in the next couple
Speaker 2: of days. But like, you know, I will say this,
Speaker 2: and this doesn't make it right. This doesn't this doesn't
Speaker 2: like this is not an excuse for them, but their
Speaker 2: lack of like having a process and a stretch, Like
Speaker 2: you would think that things like this happened with a
Speaker 2: big corporation and they would have a plan in place
Speaker 2: in what they do when this happens, and they're all
Speaker 2: just kind of like, oh, I don't know, huh, But
Speaker 2: they don't work on cars. I now know why they
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell are doing, but like they don't, like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not like they oftentimes work on vehicles
Speaker 2: and end up damaging them. And I guess I've never
Speaker 2: really thought about that. They're an autopart store, but you know,
Speaker 2: given you know, cars, car parts like car repair again,
Speaker 2: they're not the ones doing the job, but they have
Speaker 2: got all the tools that you need to fix your car, right,
Speaker 2: Like that's I mean, I just would assume that this
Speaker 2: isn't that rare, but maybe it is because they're all
Speaker 2: kind of like not. I mean, anybody I've talked to
Speaker 2: just doesn't have like they're not throwing out we've got
Speaker 2: these three options, what do you want to do? Really? Sorry,
Speaker 2: like they just they're they're they're useless. They're useless, and
Speaker 2: because like you got a district manager, you got a
Speaker 2: regional center, Like they're not thinking, oh wow, this guy
Speaker 2: who we took his money and broke his car, he's
Speaker 2: been without a car for two weeks, Like they're not
Speaker 2: sitting around thinking about that. I'm so angry. I should
Speaker 2: have answered, I should have waited till the end of
Speaker 2: the show and listen to the voicemail, but I didn't
Speaker 2: want to send it to voicemail because I wanted to
Speaker 2: get an update.
Speaker 3: And you probably thought it was going to be good
Speaker 3: news at this point, right.
Speaker 2: And honestly it is. And here's the thing. Me and
Speaker 2: my guy Ebro, who is the manager of the of
Speaker 2: the service department for Volkswagen within the Neil Huffman Auto group.
Speaker 2: He and I have been you know, he's looking out
Speaker 2: for me, Like he didn't have to tell me that,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like he didn't have to
Speaker 2: tell me that they were like that. This is why,
Speaker 2: because I think he just, you know, he felt bad
Speaker 2: that it took a week for me to get some
Speaker 2: kind of an update. And he was explaining but like
Speaker 2: he has no problem throwing ouro zone under the bus
Speaker 2: to me, Like why what you know so AutoZone can
Speaker 2: go full hole for all week here at this Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I'm a lot of times just having fun
Speaker 2: on the show and doing whatever people want to call this.
Speaker 2: It can distract me from real life problems and in
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things, a lot of people have
Speaker 2: it a lot worse than me. It's not like I'm
Speaker 2: making this out. I mean I feel like you got
Speaker 2: are probably entertained by how Autozones just bent me over
Speaker 2: for two weeks and you know, not even not even
Speaker 2: giving me a break. But it sucks, but the show.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the show and have some fun
Speaker 2: and you know, not think about AutoZone a stupid company.
Speaker 2: And by the way, like that people ask me like
Speaker 2: they might spend money. Like nobody within iHeart, people are like,
Speaker 2: are you you know a good look for you to be,
Speaker 2: you know, blasting big corporations. It might spend money. I
Speaker 2: don't give a damn. I don't care if they spend
Speaker 2: a billion dollars here. They don't spend any money with me,
Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not, you know, it's just a
Speaker 2: real I mean, this really happened. I'm not making it up.
Speaker 2: I'm not picking on them. I'm not just you know,
Speaker 2: saying hey, this place stinks because I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: like their logo. They've they've robbed me, is what they've done.
Speaker 3: Do you think at any point in the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks anybody at that store has heard about this
Speaker 3: being broadcast over the year.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's no the district manager has okay, but I
Speaker 2: mean but not like in a way of take it easy.
Speaker 3: But like.
Speaker 2: What he said was because I told him the last
Speaker 2: time I talked to this guy, when he told me, hey,
Speaker 2: we're going to figure out what we can do for you,
Speaker 2: and he never called me back a week later. But
Speaker 2: the time I said, look, if you call me and
Speaker 2: I don't answer, I'm a radio host and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be on the air. Please leave a message. Don't think
Speaker 2: I'm ignoring your call, like I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2: I want this update, but just know that like if
Speaker 2: you call a certain time, I will not be able
Speaker 2: to answer and say, oh so you're yeah, you're the
Speaker 2: radio guy. I heard about that, so whatever that means.
Speaker 2: But the going back to two weeks ago, when when
Speaker 2: this happened, when I went in the following day to
Speaker 2: kind of like recess, okay, like here, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Like how we you know, like you know, do I
Speaker 2: got to make some calls here and do your job
Speaker 2: for you and figure out how we get my car
Speaker 2: fixed so I can drive it. When I was telling
Speaker 2: the other employees the next day that we're not there
Speaker 2: the night of when these two people because I don't
Speaker 2: think they did it on purpose, but like still they're
Speaker 2: at fault and they wouldn't deny that, but like it's
Speaker 2: just insane that they that that happened. But when I
Speaker 2: was telling them, like why I'm there and what's going on,
Speaker 2: like the look on their face, I don't think I'll
Speaker 2: ever forget. Like they they they were they like they
Speaker 2: saw ghosts. When I mentioned what happened to my like
Speaker 2: why am I car? What was wrong with my car?
Speaker 2: And how we got there, Like it was like they
Speaker 2: were wide eyed, like they just saw ghosts because they
Speaker 2: like couldn't believe that like that happened, but you know
Speaker 2: it happened, all right. It's Coffee and Company. We are
Speaker 2: fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. My
Speaker 2: name's Nick Coffee. The company man John Alden alongside as
Speaker 2: we take you up till six o'clock, about forty five
Speaker 2: minutes left here before we wrap it up. And this
Speaker 2: is a big day today, and not because I found
Speaker 2: out I should be getting my car back later this week,
Speaker 2: although I'm pretty sure we could go today. I said
Speaker 2: that and then I found out it wasn't getting it back.
Speaker 2: But either way, this is the last day without football
Speaker 2: on television to watch and wager until Bill November twenty seventh.
Speaker 2: That's Thanksgiving or after Thanksgiving. I don't know, is that Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: There's football on Thanksgiving? So either way, we got football
Speaker 2: for the next fifty five consecutive days. Obviously we've had
Speaker 2: it every day but Monday, or we've had it every
Speaker 2: day but Tuesday and Wednesday since the season started. But
Speaker 2: starting this upcoming week, we're going to have a little
Speaker 2: maction I believe on Wednesdays and then on Tuesdays it
Speaker 2: is Conference USA. So that makes me excited. But this
Speaker 2: week of games not many good ones. We've got no
Speaker 2: games that featured two ranked teams. And if I look
Speaker 2: at this ranking here from twenty four seven Sports the
Speaker 2: best matchups the top ten games of Week six, louisvillles
Speaker 2: to use at number five, and I don't you know,
Speaker 2: I think that probably tells you from a national perspective,
Speaker 2: how like the schedule is this week overall. But it
Speaker 2: is a big game for both these teams. I mean Louisville,
Speaker 2: as we discussed yesterday, like.
Speaker 3: They really have.
Speaker 2: They have no room for error if they want to
Speaker 2: make the ACC championship game and the Notre Dame. The
Speaker 2: Notre Dame loss has nothing to.
Speaker 3: Do with that.
Speaker 2: But what's played out here is that SMU is probably
Speaker 2: right now and we'll see it as early. It's tough
Speaker 2: to really know just how good anybody is right now.
Speaker 2: But when you look at the ACC race, the two
Speaker 2: teams that are most likely to be there are Miami
Speaker 2: and Clemson. They don't play each other this year. If
Speaker 2: they play each other, it'll only be in the ACC
Speaker 2: Championship game. But Louisville has to play both of those teams.
Speaker 2: SMU already played Florida State, a team they thought was
Speaker 2: going to be a real challenge. They dominated them down
Speaker 2: in Dallas. So here we are in Week six where
Speaker 2: Louisville they've probably got their toughest ACC game of the
Speaker 2: schedule right now, that is not Miami or Clemson. So
Speaker 2: you know any ACC game is going to be big,
Speaker 2: knowing that you've got both Clemson and Miami on your schedule.
Speaker 2: But this is a this is a team that I
Speaker 2: respect as far as personnel, and you know, I think
Speaker 2: Louisll's better. I think they deserve to be favorites. But
Speaker 2: you got to come out ready to play. This team
Speaker 2: might get you. I think they're better than Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: So you know, you win this one and you split
Speaker 2: with Miami or Clemson, that's your best case scenario to
Speaker 2: getting to the ACC Championship game. Of course, if you can,
Speaker 2: you know, beat the teams you're supposed to beat, and
Speaker 2: Louisville has struggled with that at times. And you know,
Speaker 2: you can lose to anybody if you don't come play well.
Speaker 2: So because SMU is I think a legitimate challenge here.
Speaker 2: Not to say that other teams won't present some type
Speaker 2: of a challenge, but you need to bounce back. You
Speaker 2: need to play clean football. Eliminate silly mistakes that are avoidable,
Speaker 2: eliminate sloppy penalties, get off the field on third down.
Speaker 2: You do those things, I think you'll come out, you'll win,
Speaker 2: and maybe you'll win big. I don't mean like blow
Speaker 2: them off the field, but maybe you'll win by I
Speaker 2: don't know, a couple of scores or something like that.
Speaker 2: And if you're SMU, you know they've got momentum right now.
Speaker 2: Their season looked like it was going to be a
Speaker 2: big disaster early on because they should have lost in Nevada.
Speaker 2: Then they lost in a really bad looking game to BYU.
Speaker 2: Later we learned BYU's actually pretty good. In fact, BYU
Speaker 2: is a top fifteen team right now, I believe. So
Speaker 2: they change quarterbacks and they're they're a one loss team,
Speaker 2: just sitting outside the top twenty five, and they look
Speaker 2: at this game as a big challenge for them, of course,
Speaker 2: but if they can get past Louisville. They're I mean,
Speaker 2: dare I say they're in the driver's seat for the
Speaker 2: ACC Championship game. I mean, again, anybody can lose to
Speaker 2: anybody if you don't come ready to play. And oftentimes
Speaker 2: you will see teams be in that position where they
Speaker 2: look like they've got the path. All they got to
Speaker 2: do is not screw up. And what do you know,
Speaker 2: they screwed up? But SMU schedule after this game. I mean,
Speaker 2: they've got we ran through it yesterday and I'm glad
Speaker 2: somebody on the text line kind of brought this up
Speaker 2: because I wouldn't have I don't think I would have
Speaker 2: thought to look at it.
Speaker 3: But they've got.
Speaker 2: Stanford, Duke, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Virginia, and Cal. Again, they
Speaker 2: could lose to those teams, but they lost to BYU.
Speaker 2: They beat a decent to good TCU team. I don't know,
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I'm lying there. I thought TCU was solid.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're not. But maybe I'm still giving Sunny Dyke's
Speaker 2: lot of credit. But they beat the hell out of
Speaker 2: them sixty six to forty two, beat Florida State forty
Speaker 2: two to sixteen. So if they can get past Louisville,
Speaker 2: and look, it would be an upset. And if Louisville
Speaker 2: loses here, then you know, we gotta start evaluating some things.
Speaker 2: We got to call it out like it is and say, hey,
Speaker 2: we know the Loisvel's got the personnel to be good,
Speaker 2: but right now they're not a good football team. I mean,
Speaker 2: they can change that, but we got to if you're
Speaker 2: assessing things as you go. If you lose to Notre
Speaker 2: Dame with so many mistakes that you made, you played
Speaker 2: sloppy football, and you somehow come out and lose to SMU,
Speaker 2: we'll know that they can be better. But you are
Speaker 2: who you are. And if SMU can beat Louisville at
Speaker 2: Louisville doesn't mean it's impossible for them to slip up
Speaker 2: and lose to any of these other teams. But still
Speaker 2: they should feel like they can take care of business
Speaker 2: and beat all those teams. I mean, who's the best
Speaker 2: team out of those? I know, Duke's unbeaten, but like Duke,
Speaker 2: maybe the first it's Duke four and oh five and
Speaker 2: oh I think they're five and oh they haven't had
Speaker 2: a buy yet. Yeah, this is the first Duke five
Speaker 2: and oh team. I think ever, I think it might
Speaker 2: be the first time Duke started a season five and
Speaker 2: oh in program history, So maybe I'm not giving them
Speaker 2: enough credit, but they beat Elon, Northwestern, survived Yukon, Middle
Speaker 2: Tennessee State, and beat North Carolina about one point in
Speaker 2: North Carolina might in fact be the worst team in
Speaker 2: the ACC. That's not an exaggeration, by the way. So
Speaker 2: you know, Duke's got Georgia Tech, Florida State in SMU,
Speaker 2: and Miami in their next four games. Wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: if we revisit the conversation in November and they're five
Speaker 2: and four, not not kidding, And I know Florida State's
Speaker 2: looking looking down, but like, if Florida State can beat
Speaker 2: cal they can beat Duke, and maybe many do. Guys
Speaker 2: has success their long term, but like, I don't think
Speaker 2: Duke right now is a team that, like you can,
Speaker 2: you can look at as a ACC type contender. And
Speaker 2: they should have lost Northwestern, they ended up beating them
Speaker 2: in double overtime. So it's a big game for both
Speaker 2: teams and that has me excited. But I'm just hoping
Speaker 2: Louisville can come out and it'd be different if you
Speaker 2: came back from Notre Dame feeling like, oh, oh, we were humbled.
Speaker 2: We didn't realize we're not anywhere near where we need
Speaker 2: to be. We don't have the personnel we thought we had.
Speaker 2: But that's not the takeaway, at least for me. I
Speaker 2: would love to see much better pass protection for Tyler Shuck.
Speaker 2: But I'm also willing to acknowledge Notre Dames really good
Speaker 2: upfront defensively, But it's just about the little things. And yes,
Speaker 2: they are easily fixable, but sometimes teams commit silly penalties,
Speaker 2: make boneheaded mistakes, avoidable mistakes, and are just sloppy. And
Speaker 2: you know it's an easy fix. You know that it's
Speaker 2: not like you got to go make changes to the roster.
Speaker 2: You don't have to completely change your style and identity.
Speaker 2: It's just, you know, cleaning it up. But some teams
Speaker 2: know that and still get eight nine games in and
Speaker 2: that's what they do every week and it becomes part
Speaker 2: of their identity. I have a hard time thinking that's
Speaker 2: what happens with Louisville. But again, in real games against
Speaker 2: real teams, they were sloppy in both of those and
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that they come out and are sharp and
Speaker 2: ready to play and put together a performance that gets
Speaker 2: to a win that I think will have some value.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna it's not like you're gonna jump up
Speaker 2: in the rankings by getting a win, but it certainly needed,
Speaker 2: no doubt. A couple of you on the text line
Speaker 2: have said that our previous guests there, who by the way,
Speaker 2: is really good, really good. I've just reached out to
Speaker 2: that guy today, Bill and Body and asked if he'd
Speaker 2: be interested in joining me, and he was great, really
Speaker 2: informative about the SMU side of things. And a couple
Speaker 2: of you have said that he scared you about SMU. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was intending to do that.
Speaker 2: He didn't scare me, but you know, they do have
Speaker 2: some pretty good personnel on the portal. Like a lot
Speaker 2: of teams, right, they've played better football as of late.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm not ready to act like I
Speaker 2: think this SMUT team is, you know, a team that
Speaker 2: Louisville just can't match up with, but there's certainly a
Speaker 2: team that if you don't play well, they'll they'll take
Speaker 2: advantage of that. And I think rhet Ashley is a
Speaker 2: is a really really good coach for them. You got
Speaker 2: to wonder, like maybe if they if they start winning
Speaker 2: at a high level and he gets offers to go
Speaker 2: elsewhere like they got money at SMU, to where they'll say,
Speaker 2: uh no, we'll pay him double what Alabama can pay him.
Speaker 2: Not that he would ever get that job, but just
Speaker 2: a job like that, And that sounds crazy. But if
Speaker 2: you listen to the conversation and you've read about the
Speaker 2: financial situation for SMU with the billionaires that support them,
Speaker 2: that's billion with a B, they really could if they
Speaker 2: wanted to double the salary that any job would offer.
Speaker 2: And maybe he doesn't end up having enough success to
Speaker 2: where that's the case. But one thing that would really
Speaker 2: eat at me if I was SMU is that before
Speaker 2: Rhet Lashley was their coach, Sunny Dyke's was their coach.
Speaker 2: They let him go. He was thirty and eighteen. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I think he might have left.
Speaker 3: He's with tc now.
Speaker 2: I believe he is, but I don't know if he
Speaker 2: got fired or if he left. And that's a huge
Speaker 2: component here because I feel like he left and that
Speaker 2: is a better job because SMU was in the American
Speaker 2: and TCU was in the Big twelve at the time
Speaker 2: and they still are. But like he left there and
Speaker 2: then took them to a championship game in what his
Speaker 2: first year. So if you're SMU, you got to think, like,
Speaker 2: damn what, we had something special and either he left
Speaker 2: or we fired him. But RT lastly, again he hasn't
Speaker 2: taken him to a championship, but he has he has
Speaker 2: had some success there that that you know, was giving
Speaker 2: them some real momentum. I mean, I know I was
Speaker 2: in Some of you have reminded me that I was
Speaker 2: mocking SMU in a major way because they were hyped
Speaker 2: up as this team that could compete for the league.
Speaker 2: And what I didn't realize is that some of that
Speaker 2: when people are throwing up percentages to win the league,
Speaker 2: they're not basing it off of how good they think
Speaker 2: the team is. They're basing it off of the schedule.
Speaker 2: And even if Florida State was as good as advertised
Speaker 2: and that was their only loss, they still have a
Speaker 2: very favorable schedule, just like Louisville had last year. But
Speaker 2: since they've changed quarterbacks. You know, I watched them against
Speaker 2: Nevada because I bet on it, and I remember getting
Speaker 2: that one right because I just thought it was way
Speaker 2: too many points, Like, wasn't it like twenty something points.
Speaker 3: It was a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was insane, and I just felt like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're good. They'll probably win big. They should have lost.
Speaker 2: They were lucky to win, and then they lost to BYU,
Speaker 2: who we now know is really good. They've changed quarterbacks
Speaker 2: and they're in a good position. So I'm excited for
Speaker 2: this game. You know. I think we're going to learn
Speaker 2: about Louisville in a major way. Not to say that
Speaker 2: a big win means they're destined for the ACC title,
Speaker 2: but it'll be a nice response if they come out,
Speaker 2: play well and get a big get a big victory.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm over it already, at least for the
Speaker 2: time being. Phone's blowing up, though, so I don't know
Speaker 2: if like I got somebody calling me, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see. Don't go anywhere. It'sffee and company. Feel abou
Speaker 2: Thorton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety Life in
Speaker 2: the fast lane? Is that you kicking me while I'm
Speaker 2: down without a vehicle? John?
Speaker 3: Now, this is you getting your vehicle after the fact.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it happens. I don't want to say I believe
Speaker 2: it when I see it, because it's in the hands
Speaker 2: now of the dealership, and they've been great, but you know,
Speaker 2: I still go back to what he said last week
Speaker 2: when he told me, you know, before we can release
Speaker 2: the vehicle to you, somebody has to pay. And I
Speaker 2: just my heart sunk because I'm thinking, I mean, should
Speaker 2: I expect them to follow through? No, But they did
Speaker 2: show up and try to pay before they were alerted
Speaker 2: that there's actually more damage to it. So hopefully they
Speaker 2: make another trip out there. But like, wouldn't that mean,
Speaker 2: like I can't say, I'd be shocked if like I
Speaker 2: can't get my car back unless I pay.
Speaker 3: For it, Like, man, that could be.
Speaker 2: That would be I mean, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2: You just bend over and take it like I have been,
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean if you were, you're spinning your
Speaker 4: wheels a little bit like I am, because you're sitting
Speaker 4: here probably thinking like, well, there's no like there's no
Speaker 4: way they can legally do this, but like, you know,
Speaker 4: what am I going to do?
Speaker 2: Call the cops? I mean I are a lawyer. I
Speaker 2: mean I need my car, eat the cost and fight
Speaker 2: them in quart or something like that's the problem, like
Speaker 2: you've had, and then I have to pay for a
Speaker 2: lawyer and then they probably have way more resources to like,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: They seem like they can't afford a better alternator for you.
Speaker 2: Oh, they can afford. They can afford anything. And that's
Speaker 2: what that's what pisses me off, is that they're just
Speaker 2: they're fighting small.
Speaker 3: They need to afford better employees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's for damn sure. All right, it's Coffee
Speaker 2: and Company fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: If you have kids that attend JCPS, you need to
Speaker 2: send their ass to school. I just saw this from
Speaker 2: our phenomenal hard working reporter Paul Miles or News Radio
Speaker 2: eight forty w h as he put this out earlier
Speaker 2: on Twitter. The JCPS says they're going to be enforcing
Speaker 2: a new truancy law this month, so students in grades
Speaker 2: K through five who accumulate fifteen or more unexcused absences
Speaker 2: will be referred to the county attorney and parents and
Speaker 2: alreadians could face criminal charges. That sound serious, But I
Speaker 2: think I feel like I've always believed that, like you know,
Speaker 2: you can get in trouble legally if your kids not
Speaker 2: going to school. So I don't know, maybe this just
Speaker 2: could speed up that process to where they'll be making
Speaker 2: examples out of people. And as many kids that are
Speaker 2: in the JCPS school system K through five, is that
Speaker 2: like elementary school? I could, yes, Okay, Like I bet
Speaker 2: there's a ton that have fifteen or more unexcused absences,
Speaker 2: not because like it's a school system full of terrible kids,
Speaker 2: but just look, just do the numbers. There's so many kids,
Speaker 2: and of the however many, there are a lot. I mean,
Speaker 2: I bet there's a lot that missed school, probably for
Speaker 2: sad reasons too, or just because you know, maybe you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know, And I would assume what qualifies for
Speaker 2: an excused absence is like being sick or an appointment
Speaker 2: or death in the family. Like I'm sure there's a
Speaker 2: long list of things that are excused, but like just
Speaker 2: not showing up and not being able to give them
Speaker 2: a valid reason, Like you do that enough.
Speaker 3: Litl Like if we do that a couple times, maybe
Speaker 3: not even a couple you know, in a job, maybe
Speaker 3: not necessarily this job. I don't know. I don't want
Speaker 3: to speak for anybody who works for this company, but
Speaker 3: like we'd be canned quickly.
Speaker 2: And my daughter is is in and you have to
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to have some accountability. It's not
Speaker 2: that it's not that they probably just assume any kid
Speaker 2: that missed school is is lying about being sick. But
Speaker 2: there's a reason they ask you for a doctor's note
Speaker 2: because you know, if they didn't at least request that,
Speaker 2: then people would take advantage of it. That's that's life.
Speaker 2: But anytimes, like every Monday, I take my daughter to
Speaker 2: speech therapy and when we leave the office, they give
Speaker 2: me a note that I that I take in whenever
Speaker 2: I sign her into school that shows that she's that
Speaker 2: she's you know, there's any there's a reason she wasn't here,
Speaker 2: she's late because of that. And if I don't have it,
Speaker 2: like sometimes the doctor's office will forget to give it
Speaker 2: to me or I forget to ask for it, and
Speaker 2: and they'll fact send one. But until they faxed it in,
Speaker 2: that's an unexcused absence from from my kid. Not that
Speaker 2: they're like, you know, thinking we're lying, but it's just protocol.
Speaker 2: It's processed that you have to follow. So you know,
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like this will be something that
Speaker 2: that ends up being back in the news because they'll
Speaker 2: be there'll be people who get who face criminal charges
Speaker 2: because you know, they're not sending their kids to school. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I just thought that was worth sharing because
Speaker 2: I know we probably have a lot of JCPS parents
Speaker 2: out there that have kids in the in the school system,
Speaker 2: and you know, not only if they're going to miss,
Speaker 2: they may miss for a legitimate reason, but you're probably
Speaker 2: gonna need to make sure you've got some type of
Speaker 2: documentation and proof that they're they're missing for you know,
Speaker 2: the right reason. All right, So I talked about yesterday,
Speaker 2: but I never really got to it. I watched a
Speaker 2: Netflix series nine episodes roughly, you know, fifty minutes each,
Speaker 2: I think it was. I watched an entire series in
Speaker 2: one day, like actually two days. It took me two days,
Speaker 2: well a day, yeah, day and a half essentially, And
Speaker 2: it's so good. It's called Monsters. The Menendez Brothers, and
Speaker 2: I remember reading about this whole story years ago because
Speaker 2: I remember, you know, and it's a crazy story by
Speaker 2: the way, for those who don't know. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: about two rich snobs who murdered their parents. I mean,
Speaker 2: just took shotguns to their head and just blew them away.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I'm not spoiling anything, because one, it's
Speaker 2: a well known story what they did, but also it's
Speaker 2: quite literally the first thing you see when the show starts.
Speaker 2: It's one way to get your attention, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's a wild story. And I remember, like years ago,
Speaker 2: hearing about it and thinking like, wow, that's crazy. I mean,
Speaker 2: it makes sense why I don't remember it happened, like
Speaker 2: I think nineteen nineties when it took place, and you know,
Speaker 2: I was a baby at that time. But for years,
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a year's long story covered by
Speaker 2: you know, the Hollywood gossip TMZ type stuff before TMZ existed,
Speaker 2: So I don't remember it, but I remember reading about it.
Speaker 2: And I usually hesitate to watch these type of shows
Speaker 2: or movies that are based on a true story when
Speaker 2: I already know what happened, because I feel like I
Speaker 2: don't need to watch that. I know that they killed
Speaker 2: their parents, I know that, you know, I know how
Speaker 2: it played out with OJ Simpson. But yet any time
Speaker 2: I have actually decided to give these shows a shot,
Speaker 2: they're really really well done. I mean, I like anything
Speaker 2: that's based somewhat off of a true story, but it's
Speaker 2: really good if you haven't I mean I checked earlier today.
Speaker 2: It's still I think number one or number two in
Speaker 2: the top ten in the Netflix rankings. But it's I mean,
Speaker 2: really well done. Takes place in the late eighties early nineties,
Speaker 2: which you know there was some noschalga there for me,
Speaker 2: but Lyle and Eric Menendez, you know, they were convicted
Speaker 2: in ninety six of murdering their parents, and just the
Speaker 2: whole story itself, and it leaves you. And that's what
Speaker 2: a good show does, Like it leaves you still thinking
Speaker 2: about the story because you don't really know, okay, what
Speaker 2: they alleged happened. How believable is it? So you know,
Speaker 2: if you're looking for something to binge and really get
Speaker 2: hooked on that, I mean that that show was. It's
Speaker 2: one of the best shows I've watched on Netflix. I
Speaker 2: think the only two shows I've brought up in the
Speaker 2: last year or so where I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 2: got through this really quickly because it consumed me. It
Speaker 2: was this and Beef, which I still recommend for those
Speaker 2: who haven't seen it on Netflix. I don't think that
Speaker 2: got a whole lot of love, but it was really
Speaker 2: really well done. Beef that is, so check it out
Speaker 2: if you get a chance. And for those wondering, like
Speaker 2: how the hell could you finish that? Do you have
Speaker 2: a life? Yes, Like what I'll do is I will
Speaker 2: like yesterday or no, it was Monday. Monday, I went
Speaker 2: through like the majority of the show. So I started
Speaker 2: at the gym, watched a couple of episodes while I
Speaker 2: was on the treadmill, and then I ended up going
Speaker 2: home doing some laundry and I just had it on
Speaker 2: the iPad I'm doing stuff around the house, got through
Speaker 2: a bunch of it, and then on Tuesday night or
Speaker 2: was it Tuesday night? In fact, actually I finished it yesterday,
Speaker 2: so I finished it in less than twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: For reason, I was thinking I started it today's Wednesday, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: So I started Monday and I finished it on I
Speaker 2: finished it yesterday afternoon, so I watched a bunch during
Speaker 2: the day while I was just at home when I
Speaker 2: was at the gym, and then on Monday night I
Speaker 2: watched a couple more episodes, and then yesterday same the
Speaker 2: same thing. I went to the gym, watched a couple
Speaker 2: more and then finished it when I was eating lunch.
Speaker 2: So because of like technology and iPads, like I can
Speaker 2: I can carry my iPad on its stand and like
Speaker 2: go to room to room doing like chores and stuff
Speaker 2: and just being somewhat productive. But also, you know, watching
Speaker 2: a show that I was really into. When's the last
Speaker 2: time you watched a new show? John? And I don't
Speaker 2: say that to like make funny. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 2: I don't binge. A lot of shows binge, but just like,
Speaker 2: try a new show that you liked.
Speaker 3: Man, it's just it's not recently not your bag, right,
Speaker 3: and got all the way through it was ted Lasso,
Speaker 3: and I heard they're making another season of that, which
Speaker 3: they don't need to. I mean, I hate I hate
Speaker 3: that they're kind of milking it because I think it
Speaker 3: ended nearly perfectly, and I think most people who saw
Speaker 3: ted Lasso would agree with that. I'll probably watch it.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe it'll expand on it and make it,
Speaker 3: you know, fine, But I have a hard time believing
Speaker 3: that they'll find a way to end it as well
Speaker 3: as they did with the third season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of shows that go longer than
Speaker 2: they need to, but I feel like ted Lasso can
Speaker 2: do one season that may not be needed and it
Speaker 2: won't do a whole lot of damage because that is
Speaker 2: such a popular show. It's one of a few shows
Speaker 2: that i've that I've I can't think of anybody who's
Speaker 2: told me they watched it and didn't really really like it,
Speaker 2: not just say that they were a fan, but like
Speaker 2: they thought it was one of the better shows they
Speaker 2: watched in a long time. So I still haven't watched
Speaker 2: it yet, but and honestly, it just doesn't to me.
Speaker 2: There's nothing. The only thing that would make me watch
Speaker 2: it is because I hear how great it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the overall, Like I mean, it just does and it's
Speaker 2: not my cup of tea. As far as the type
Speaker 2: of show that it is, it's kind of like a comedy,
Speaker 2: feel good show, right, Yeah, that's just not really not that,
Speaker 2: you know, I would say that it's bad. It's just
Speaker 2: not something that interests me.
Speaker 3: But I think there's a lot of things that they
Speaker 3: tackle that you would enjoy and relate with, specifically once
Speaker 3: they get into the second season rarely.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are the two shows that I just
Speaker 2: assume I would like because I would be on an
Speaker 2: island by myself as Ted Lasso and Game of Thrones,
Speaker 2: and eventually I'll watch probably both of them. But what
Speaker 2: was it Bennetti said about He.
Speaker 3: Said, it'll make you a better person.
Speaker 2: You better person watching watching Ted Lasso will make you
Speaker 2: a better person. No, he never exaggerates, does he.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: So realignment has been active here lately, but not really
Speaker 2: with the big conferences, So it just hasn't got enough
Speaker 2: a lot of attention. But the Mountain West and then
Speaker 2: the Mountain West Plus essentially, which is this new PAC twelve. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's no big update that I wanted to share with you,
Speaker 2: but just some numbers that kind of make, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of make it make sense. So UTEP is joining
Speaker 2: the Mountain West, a league that apparently they've been trying
Speaker 2: to get into a long for a long time. They've
Speaker 2: been in Conference USA since two thousand and five. So
Speaker 2: when Louisville departed Conference USA to go to the Big East,
Speaker 2: and they you know, and they weren't the only one
Speaker 2: that did that. UTEP is one of those schools that
Speaker 2: join Conference USA and they've been stuck in that league
Speaker 2: since then. And Conference USSA has lost a lot of
Speaker 2: schools since then, right, I mean TCU I think was
Speaker 2: in the league at the time that happened. So they've
Speaker 2: been trying to get out and the Mountain West doesn't
Speaker 2: look like a you know, an elite league by any means,
Speaker 2: especially when you can when you look at the teams
Speaker 2: that they've lost. I still think both leagues are going
Speaker 2: to be pretty similar, to be honest with you, from
Speaker 2: a football standpoint. But to UTEP, this is huge. Just
Speaker 2: to give you an example, UTEP's television deal with Conference
Speaker 2: USA is estimated to be worth four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a lot of money to you and
Speaker 2: I that's probably money that is a you know, just
Speaker 2: looking at that number, I'd say that stands out a
Speaker 2: little more than it does to other big schools. But
Speaker 2: just moving to the Mountain West, you're thinking, yeah, Conference
Speaker 2: ussay Mountain West, you know, same thing, kinda well know,
Speaker 2: So this move is going to take utup from making
Speaker 2: four hundred k annually from their TV deal with Conference
Speaker 2: USA to be making four million annually with the Mountain West.
Speaker 2: So that's putting them on a different planet. And then
Speaker 2: so it's a no brainer. But then you see Texas
Speaker 2: State they turn down the Mountain West to stay in
Speaker 2: the Sun Belt. And by the way, the Sun Belt
Speaker 2: does have a better deal than Conference USA.
Speaker 3: For football.
Speaker 2: But let's just say the new Mountain West deal is
Speaker 2: four million annually, because that's what it is now. It's
Speaker 2: going to be worth more whenever they get a new deal.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much more of it. Let's say
Speaker 2: it's six million, five million, even they're making two point four.
Speaker 2: Texas State is in the Sun Belt and they decided
Speaker 2: to stay in the Sun Belt at two point four
Speaker 2: instead of going to the Mountain West getting probably more
Speaker 2: than four. My only guess would be that this is
Speaker 2: what makes the most sense for them for what it
Speaker 2: would cost being a school that is in Texas having
Speaker 2: to travel to schools that are mostly in you know, California, Colorado, Arizona,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. So I don't know like that.
Speaker 2: That seems like an obvious move when it comes to
Speaker 2: the big jump and pay, but there would be added
Speaker 2: costs that might make it just not worth it. I would,
Speaker 2: and I think that's why you see schools like Memphis
Speaker 2: just decide that, you know, yeah, we'd probably look like
Speaker 2: a little bit of a better neighborhood for us, but
Speaker 2: it would be a lot more hassle and it really
Speaker 2: wouldn't be a big payoff for us in the end.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break will come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: Wrap this thing up. It's Coffee and Company. Feel abou
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Speaker 2: up a Wednesday edition of Coffee and Company. Thanks for
Speaker 2: hanging out with us when by really fast today, which
Speaker 2: I guess that's a good thing. I think it's a
Speaker 2: good thing.
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Speaker 2: we're about out of time here. I guess I'll remind
Speaker 2: you to make sure you remember to to to tune
Speaker 2: us in for for game day the noon kick in.
Speaker 2: It being SMU and so many people making the trip
Speaker 2: to Notre Dame. A few people have asked what I
Speaker 2: think the crowd's going to be like? And I usually
Speaker 2: try to avoid that, avoid that that question because one,
Speaker 2: I you know, I think we're a fan base that
Speaker 2: it's honestly pretty tough to figure out what the crowd's
Speaker 2: gonna look like for certain games. I would say, you know,
Speaker 2: more often than not. You know, we we are a
Speaker 2: crowd of fan base that'll that'll show up in a
Speaker 2: major way for a big event, a big game. I mean,
Speaker 2: I was impressed with how many people made the trip
Speaker 2: to Notre Dame because it's a big game, it's a
Speaker 2: big opportunity smu eh, there's a there's a lot on
Speaker 2: the line here. It's a big game in that aspect.
Speaker 2: But this isn't like big event because that's him us
Speaker 2: in town. But again, who knows, we'll see. I'm sure
Speaker 2: the crowd will be good enough and hopefully Louisville can
Speaker 2: can get a win. They need it. All right, have
Speaker 2: a good night, everybody. Talk to you tomorrow right here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety