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Speaker 2: to do that on Mondays, so I apologize, but we'll
Speaker 2: try to empty that out as best we can before
Speaker 2: we get out of here. I did have somebody though
Speaker 2: the text and ask about my voice. I mean it's
Speaker 2: I think it's okay, but yeah, it's still not like
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I guess it's just the lingering,
Speaker 2: the lingering effects of having like a sinus infection bronchitis
Speaker 2: kind of thing. I mean, I feel fine. In fact,
Speaker 2: I went back to the gym today as if you
Speaker 2: couldn't tell, yeah, and got a nice run in which
Speaker 2: felt good. I was worried I was going to be
Speaker 2: really winded, which I was a little bit, but you know,
Speaker 2: I felt like I was, you know, fully healed. But yeah,
Speaker 2: once I get in here and I and I and
Speaker 2: I start yapping my voice, it's not like going away,
Speaker 2: but it you know, now you've now you're in Now
Speaker 2: you've gotten in my You've gotten me in my head,
Speaker 2: because I mean I noticed it a little bit, but
Speaker 2: I hope that nobody else noticed. I mean, it's not
Speaker 2: like it's it's not like it was a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago where I couldn't speak, but that felt.
Speaker 3: Like so long ago for a reason like that, and
Speaker 3: that literally felt like a month ago.
Speaker 2: I have no That's one of the things that that
Speaker 2: I sometimes just get lost in, is that just the
Speaker 2: unex playing differences in the perception of time, Like certain
Speaker 2: things feel like they were way long ago, and then
Speaker 2: something that really was a long time ago feels like
Speaker 2: it was yesterday.
Speaker 4: I don't know why that's the case, but I'm with you, Like.
Speaker 2: It feels like like, for example, I went and picked
Speaker 2: my parents, my mom and my step dad up on
Speaker 2: Saturday night. They went back, they got back in town
Speaker 2: from Cabo. They were, uh, they're they're they're big travelers.
Speaker 2: So I picked them up at the airport and they
Speaker 2: were gone a week. Most people go on vacation. I
Speaker 2: think it's about a week, but like for some reason,
Speaker 2: it feels like they were gone for like a month. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then you're right, like whenever I was, whenever I
Speaker 2: was was was ill, you know, to extent, I feel
Speaker 2: like like when I went to the doctor and all
Speaker 2: that and I had to like take a day and
Speaker 2: I was clearly, you know, unable to speak. Doesn't that
Speaker 2: feel like it was two years ago? I don't know why,
Speaker 2: makes no sense. Austin can't explain it, cannot explain it,
Speaker 2: all right, So real quick, we'll dive right back in
Speaker 2: and get to you know, what we typically do on
Speaker 2: a Monday reacting to the weekend. But Chucky hepburn. He
Speaker 2: joins Terry Rozier in montrez Harrell as the third Louisville
Speaker 2: player to be named ACC Player of the Week multiple times.
Speaker 2: So obviously Chucky having another big time performance on Saturday,
Speaker 2: no surprise, he was given the award of ACC.
Speaker 5: Player of the Week.
Speaker 2: Six consecutive threes and you know, a very seemingly brief
Speaker 2: amount of time, I mean that that was something that
Speaker 2: you kind of kept thinking, is this real? I mean
Speaker 2: I remember after he made like the third consecutive one,
Speaker 2: thinking well, okay, I'm sure the heat checks coming. And
Speaker 2: then sure enough he doubled that up and made a
Speaker 2: total of six consecutive threes and then he never shot
Speaker 2: another one. My man, was six of six thirty seven points.
Speaker 2: I mean, a guy who I believe is the best
Speaker 2: player we've had at Louisville since Russ Smith. And that's
Speaker 2: saying something because Russ is a legend. He's one of
Speaker 2: very few that has his number retired. And I just
Speaker 2: hate it that we only get Chucky for one year.
Speaker 2: But man, what a fun year it has been. And
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey mentioned that the the the you know, in fact,
Speaker 2: I'll pull up what he said because I do think
Speaker 2: it's one of those things that will kind of hit
Speaker 2: you in your feels if you're a fan that has
Speaker 2: really just kind of gotten lost in this fun season.
Speaker 2: That really was not predicted. I mean, I know in
Speaker 2: college basketball, what you do in March and kind of
Speaker 2: how it finishes is what really it's what really gives
Speaker 2: you that lasting thought about a team. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not the only thing you think about, but in college
Speaker 2: hoops and really anything, I guess when it comes to sports,
Speaker 2: if you have a great year and you fall short,
Speaker 2: like that's kind of a bummer. But it just seems
Speaker 2: like with college basketball, because they have a sixty eight
Speaker 2: field tournament at the end of the year, and you
Speaker 2: do well enough to get in safely with a good seed,
Speaker 2: but then you somehow lose to you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans know it's happened to them the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. Losing to Saint Peter's in Oakland like that.
Speaker 2: That'll put a sour taste in your mouth about a
Speaker 2: season that all in all was really good, you know,
Speaker 2: until then. So you know, this season has been a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. And I guess I'll know when we
Speaker 2: get there. I guess if we get there. But I
Speaker 2: was about to say, is even if they do lose
Speaker 2: early in the tournament, I have a hard time thinking
Speaker 2: that I'm not going to remember this group for how
Speaker 2: special this season was because of how quickly they brought
Speaker 2: us back to life. I mean, that's what's happened here, man,
Speaker 2: the revival. It's a real thing, mean, like everything. Like
Speaker 2: if you would have put it on paper, this exact
Speaker 2: timeline of things happening the way they have since Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey got hired, nobody would.
Speaker 5: Believe you that this is what happened.
Speaker 2: I mean nobody would have, especially when you consider the
Speaker 2: fact that they lost two key pieces that were supposed
Speaker 2: to be big parts of this big part of this.
Speaker 4: Team in case it in Krin.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm getting a little bit of anxiety
Speaker 2: as we get closer to March because I don't want
Speaker 2: to do what we always do, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: just really put so much of how we remember in
Speaker 2: view a season, you know, kind of giving it the
Speaker 2: past fail And everybody's different. I don't want to speak
Speaker 2: for anybody but myself, but we all know how college
Speaker 2: basketball works. We're college basketball crazy is around here, right,
Speaker 2: And what you do in March is really what matters.
Speaker 2: So I guess when I say I'm having anxieties because
Speaker 2: I don't want to feel any differently about this team,
Speaker 2: regardless of what happens, and I don't think that I will,
Speaker 2: but again I won't know until we potentially get there.
Speaker 2: Maybe we don't, because again, maybe they I mean, if
Speaker 2: they make it to the second weekend, no matter when
Speaker 2: they lose, we're gonna be bumped because you never want
Speaker 2: it to end. Man, this has been so fun. But
Speaker 2: I just if they mayf they get to the sweet
Speaker 2: sixteen and fall to a one seat or something like that,
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody will want it to end. But I
Speaker 2: don't know how you'd say that. That wasn't a phenomenal
Speaker 2: season for Pat kelcey in.
Speaker 4: His first year.
Speaker 2: And again right now, Lowell was a top fifteen team overall.
Speaker 2: They got a good chance to finish the season twenty
Speaker 2: six and six I think it is, or is it
Speaker 2: twenty five and six?
Speaker 4: Let me pull it up here, because right.
Speaker 2: Now they're sitting at let's see, they are up to
Speaker 2: number twenty four in the net and they're twenty three
Speaker 2: and six. So if they went out these next two games,
Speaker 2: which they should, a twenty five and six regular season record,
Speaker 2: I mean, again going back to whenever it was Pat
Speaker 2: was hired mid March, whenever, I mean, imagine laying out
Speaker 2: sort of where we are now. And it I mean
Speaker 2: I nobody would believe you. I mean nobody would just
Speaker 2: because that quick of a turnaround. It just yeah, it happens,
Speaker 2: and you can go flip a roster. And I mean
Speaker 2: other coaches have done, maybe not the exact same thing
Speaker 2: that he's done up to this point, but like it
Speaker 2: can happen. And that's a benefit of the portal, Right,
Speaker 2: you can start over pretty quickly. You don't have to
Speaker 2: preach patients and given coaches many years to get things
Speaker 2: cleaned up. No, if you are a successful coach and
Speaker 2: you have a winning formula and you know you can
Speaker 2: sell and you can you can get guys to believe
Speaker 2: in you and come play for you like you can
Speaker 2: win right away. And that's what Pat Kelsey's been able
Speaker 2: to do. So it's just been, it's really been at
Speaker 2: times doesn't even seem real, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: But one thing Pat Kelsey did say in his postgame
Speaker 2: radio interview, which that's what I was trying to get to,
Speaker 2: is that he was asked about Chucky and this was
Speaker 2: his this is what he said, quote, he's a great player.
Speaker 2: I think one thing that's really important and I don't
Speaker 2: even have to say this to our fan base in
Speaker 2: our city. They already know. I hope this core group
Speaker 2: is celebrated and remembered. He goes on to say that
Speaker 2: despite guys like Hepburn only being there for one year,
Speaker 2: they deserve they deserve the support they've gotten and deserve
Speaker 2: to be remembered. And I don't think you'll hear any
Speaker 2: pushback from any Louisville fan because this group, I mean,
Speaker 2: it reminded you of things that like you used to
Speaker 2: take for granted that Louisville, Like just seeing these guys
Speaker 2: play hard and seeing them you know, care and you
Speaker 2: can tell that they are feeding off of the energy
Speaker 2: that the fans have, just because again we've come back
Speaker 2: to life, like this is funny again. There were eighteen
Speaker 2: thousand plus there And by the way, shout out to
Speaker 2: all the fans who did their part and were phenomenal
Speaker 2: at executing they stripe out. I mean that looked awesome
Speaker 2: on TV, Like we should do that more often. I'd
Speaker 2: rather do that than like a redout or a blackout
Speaker 2: or a whiteout. I mean, we could do whatever whatever
Speaker 2: promotions they think makes the most sense. I'll leave it
Speaker 2: to the professionals who you know, do that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But I thought that looked really cool. Like not trying
Speaker 2: to get ahead of myself, but like, I think it
Speaker 2: would be awesome if that was.
Speaker 5: Just our thing.
Speaker 4: Like that wouldn't be crazy, would it.
Speaker 2: It's just a known thing that if you're a Louel
Speaker 2: fan and you're coming to the game and your section
Speaker 2: is odd, it's this color. If it's even, it's that color,
Speaker 2: Like that could be something that just kind of becomes
Speaker 2: our thing, right. I mean, I'm not going to be
Speaker 2: able to speak into existence. I'm sure there are people
Speaker 2: thinking that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, but I
Speaker 2: just thought it looked really cool. Like esthetically, that was awesome,
Speaker 2: and the crowd was great, and it kind of felt like,
Speaker 2: even though there's two more games that six pm tip
Speaker 2: against Pitt, them doing a good job of really hammering
Speaker 2: the promo the stripeout, like kind of felt like that
Speaker 2: was one of the moments of Okay, here we are,
Speaker 2: biggest crowd of the season, I would imagine, and they
Speaker 2: were into it and Chucky hitting six straight threes in
Speaker 2: that place, losing it, you know, collectively losing its mind.
Speaker 4: It was it was awesome. It was.
Speaker 2: Now again about the game, I can't tell you that
Speaker 2: I think they played poorly. I just think what we
Speaker 2: saw against Virginia Tech, it didn't really carry over as
Speaker 2: far as like just some of the mistakes, right, Like
Speaker 2: they didn't have as many turnovers.
Speaker 5: But I think there's still fatigue. There's just there's fatigue.
Speaker 2: That I believe is resulting in quicker shots than we're
Speaker 2: used to, a questionable decision, maybe not quite as good
Speaker 2: defensively at times, and we'll never know, Like sometimes it's
Speaker 2: just guys on the other team making plays, and Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: certainly has guys capable of doing that. But I just
Speaker 2: hope that they haven't run out of gas. And I
Speaker 2: don't know for certain that that they have. But I'm
Speaker 2: just telling you what i'm viewing with my eyeballs. And
Speaker 2: it's not like this team has become a different team.
Speaker 2: I just think they're not quite as sharp, and it's
Speaker 2: not for lack of trying. I just think they look
Speaker 2: a little worn down. And I don't know how you
Speaker 2: fix that other than you know, getting rest and that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. But as much as this has been
Speaker 2: a fun ride and I'm going to hope that it
Speaker 2: continues into the second weekend or maybe even further. But
Speaker 2: I'm also you know, you a understand this too, right
Speaker 2: Like again, you can make of it what you want.
Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to be upset about it or
Speaker 2: to be concerned, but I just think there's little things
Speaker 2: that they're not quite as sharp with. And I just
Speaker 2: assume that it's because here we are, it's March. They
Speaker 2: played a lot of basketball.
Speaker 5: The core lineup.
Speaker 2: I mean, these guys are playing thirty plus minutes a
Speaker 2: game every night. Are on the Kentucky side, I mean,
Speaker 2: they now know they've they've got Jackson Robinson done for
Speaker 2: the year. Certainly not ideal, but at least now you
Speaker 2: know what you have to work with. And I mean,
Speaker 2: I think the fact that they're now a three according
Speaker 2: to Joelenardi, I mean, doesn't that prove.
Speaker 4: That, like their resume is.
Speaker 2: I mean, they could they could forfeit these next two
Speaker 2: games and probably not fall on the seed line. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's not that's clearly a silly hypothetical that would never happen.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, right now, this Kentucky team, after
Speaker 2: their loss to after their ninety four to seventy eight
Speaker 2: loss to Auburn, which, by the way, I think a
Speaker 2: lot of teams would lose to Auburn by a score
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe not.
Speaker 2: I guess some teams have competed better. But nonetheless that
Speaker 2: that didn't hurt Kentucky. It really didn't. It probably didn't
Speaker 2: make you feel good, right. I think every Kentucky fan
Speaker 2: knows that they're in a really good situation as far
Speaker 2: as their seed, their resume, and they have proven that
Speaker 2: they can beat good teams even when not healthy. But
Speaker 2: I think when you as a Kentucky fan, one of
Speaker 2: you don't you don't You don't often lose ten games
Speaker 2: in the regular season like that doesn't happen very often, doesn't.
Speaker 2: Maybe it does and I just don't remember, But I
Speaker 2: think when you see your team lose as much as
Speaker 2: this group has, I mean since and by the way,
Speaker 2: what was the graphic that fan Doeill put out there
Speaker 2: which I thought was hilarious?
Speaker 5: Yeah, FanDuel.
Speaker 2: After the game on Saturday, they posted a graphic that
Speaker 2: shows Mark Pope's face and it says mistake question Mark,
Speaker 2: And they go on to mention that Kentucky's five and
Speaker 2: seven in their last twelve games. So again, seeing that
Speaker 2: five and seven in your last twelve, like, that's not
Speaker 2: normal for Kentucky basketball, at least I don't believe it is. Therefore,
Speaker 2: you know, you know you're in a good spot. You've
Speaker 2: watched your team get big wins that will make you
Speaker 2: feel confident in what they can do in March. But
Speaker 2: I just think they realize they could slip up and
Speaker 2: lose to a lot of teams. So losing to Auburn
Speaker 2: it's really no I mean, it's nothing to feel bad about.
Speaker 2: But again, Kentucky's not a program that really ever expects
Speaker 2: to get blown out by anybody on their home floor. Now,
Speaker 2: the good news is they didn't have to see the
Speaker 2: end of it because of the technical issues that were
Speaker 2: caused by some kind of electrical fire somewhere that led
Speaker 2: to the ABC truck that you know, gets this broadcast
Speaker 2: out to the world. They lost power all together, and
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't remember. I'm sure it's happened, and
Speaker 2: it's just games that I don't watch or don't care
Speaker 2: about in other sports, maybe even college basketball, but we're
Speaker 2: talking about an ABC national broadcast unable to carry roughly
Speaker 2: you know, twenty five to thirty percent of a game
Speaker 2: that has the number one team in the country playing
Speaker 2: against you know, Kentucky at Rapperina and they can't get
Speaker 2: it on TV. And they really did Kentucky fans a favor.
Speaker 2: I suppose they didn't have to actually watch the end
Speaker 2: of it. They can kind of put them out of
Speaker 2: their misery. But the first thing I thought of whenever
Speaker 2: I realized that, hey, they're not going to get this
Speaker 2: thing back on TV. They're going to be going to
Speaker 2: some kind of a hockey thing or something that was
Speaker 2: on ABC. I mean, imagine if that was a close
Speaker 2: game where Kentucky's winning and it's you know, it's neck
Speaker 2: and neck, and they have this technical issue and they lose,
Speaker 2: they just they play commercials for ten minutes straight, like
Speaker 2: they did initially where they were trying to, I guess
Speaker 2: figure out what they were gonna do. Imagine you pull
Speaker 2: out your phone to like do the you know, you're
Speaker 2: watching either stat broadcast or you're watching like the game
Speaker 2: cast on ESPN where you're not watching the game, but
Speaker 2: it's like showing you in real time the plays that
Speaker 2: are happening. I mean, imagine imagine that like and yet
Speaker 2: like you can't see it, but yet you know, oh
Speaker 2: my god, we just hit a three. Now it's tied.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, we got to steal in a layup. We
Speaker 2: got a run going here, And I don't know what
Speaker 2: they would have done. I don't know what they could
Speaker 2: have done. But like, we know how that fan base is.
Speaker 2: I mean, every fan base has some crazies, but Kentucky's
Speaker 2: fan base there's a big billion people. They're everywhere, They're
Speaker 2: all over the place. Like, imagine if they wanted to
Speaker 2: watch and they couldn't imagine if it was like a
Speaker 2: thrilling finish that would have been an all timer for
Speaker 2: Mark Pope in his first year and they couldn't see it,
Speaker 2: they would have lost their minds. Instead, they were you know,
Speaker 2: probably bitching and complaining. But also like, yeah, I kind
Speaker 2: of don't want to see this because man, Auburn's having
Speaker 2: their way with us.
Speaker 5: So it actually kind of worked out.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the silver lining for Kentucky because you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't have to watch how it all ended. But yeah,
Speaker 2: five and seven in their last twelve games. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not ideal. And yes they are losing to teams
Speaker 2: that are also good. But if I didn't believe this,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it, and maybe I'm wrong, like maybe
Speaker 2: Pope flames out and like he isn't a guy long
Speaker 2: term there that's successful. But the more I watch Kentucky
Speaker 2: and the more I look at their resume and look at,
Speaker 2: you know, the really good wins they have despite having
Speaker 2: ten losses and despite being a five hundred team in
Speaker 2: conference play. In fact, they're looking at most likely being
Speaker 2: a nine to nine SEC team if if this thing
Speaker 2: goes the way Ken Palm projects in their last two games,
Speaker 2: they'll finish twenty and eleven, and I think in most
Speaker 2: instances you would say that's not a great year for
Speaker 2: the Kentucky standard. But again, they've got good wins that
Speaker 2: are going to get them a really good seed. So
Speaker 2: I think Kentucky is in the position they're in more
Speaker 2: because of him as a coach than because of their players,
Speaker 2: which is the opposite. Typically, I feel like Kentucky teams
Speaker 2: coached under Caliperry, you would always feel like they should
Speaker 2: be better, right like they have. Like last year, there's
Speaker 2: no I mean, not only should they have not lost
Speaker 2: in the first round to Oakland, they also you know,
Speaker 2: I mean they could have been, in my opinion, one
Speaker 2: of the best teams in the country with those regards
Speaker 2: they have, but they never played they never played together
Speaker 2: because Calvi was stubborn. So you know, like, I don't
Speaker 2: think many Kentucky fans are out there thinking that Pope's
Speaker 2: like in trouble and he's not going to be able
Speaker 2: to win. But to see Fandel put that out there,
Speaker 2: like what that did, and it wasn't like something that
Speaker 2: made me angry because I don't care. But it's just
Speaker 2: a perfect example of like whoever posted that is probably
Speaker 2: like a twenty two year old, twenty three year old
Speaker 2: that their job isn't to like put out content that
Speaker 2: makes people think, wow, this person knows college basketball. It's
Speaker 2: somebody putting up content to do what they call engagement.
Speaker 2: For me, putting something out there that you know is
Speaker 2: going to get a ton of reaction for people, because
Speaker 2: you know that's how it works now, even if it
Speaker 2: is for shock value. If people are engaging in your content,
Speaker 2: that's that's that's what you want, especially if you're somebody
Speaker 2: that you know is operating the social media accounts for
Speaker 2: a platform like Vando Sportsbook. But yeah, that that tweet
Speaker 2: with that graphic that says Kentucky's five and seven and
Speaker 2: its last twelve games was hiring Mark popa mistake question Mark,
Speaker 2: and it also had a graphic it's got over a
Speaker 2: million impressions.
Speaker 4: So they won.
Speaker 5: They won.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, if it doesn't work out for Pope,
Speaker 2: trust me, I'm not going to be sad, but I
Speaker 2: just I think they have probably done better than most
Speaker 2: people would because I don't like who's great on their team. Like,
Speaker 2: they got good players, trust me, but like I don't
Speaker 2: know who's like elite. I think Otega always really good.
Speaker 2: I think he's their best player, and not many people
Speaker 2: talk about it enough.
Speaker 4: To be honest with.
Speaker 2: You, Mari Wims is good, really good.
Speaker 4: Actually, so they got good players.
Speaker 2: But I mean put it this way, if they lose
Speaker 2: in the round of thirty two, I won't be shocked,
Speaker 2: and it won't be because Pope's a bad coach. I
Speaker 2: just think he's done a pretty good job comparatively speaking.
Speaker 2: Now I need to go throw up, all right, quick break,
Speaker 2: we'll come back on the other side. Sounds like the
Speaker 2: settlement is about done between the ACC and Florida State
Speaker 2: and Clemson, which you know, that's good news for the league.
Speaker 2: It's never good for schools in your conference to be
Speaker 2: suing the conference, all right, stick with us. It's coffee
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Speaker 2: So, Florida State and Clemson are going to vote tomorrow
Speaker 2: on an agreement that would ultimately result in them settling
Speaker 2: four ongoing lawsuits. ESPN's David Hale and Andrew Adelson reported
Speaker 2: this earlier, But the ace SC presidents are set to
Speaker 2: vote on terms of a of new TV money distribution.
Speaker 5: So here are the details.
Speaker 2: Forty percent of the TV money will be distributed evenly
Speaker 2: among ACC's the legacy ACC schools, which is the everybody really,
Speaker 2: it's everybody other.
Speaker 4: Than the three teams that joined it this year.
Speaker 2: And then sixty percent of the TV money will be
Speaker 2: based off ratings. And it's yeah, it's rating. It's based
Speaker 2: off ratings formula over the last five years. So top
Speaker 2: ACC earners could net more than fifteen million, while some
Speaker 2: schools could get a net deduction and annual payout of
Speaker 2: about seven million. Also something that will be in place
Speaker 2: following the year twenty nine to thirty.
Speaker 4: Is that the amount of money.
Speaker 2: That it'll that it will cost you to drop out
Speaker 2: of the league is going to be below one hundred million,
Speaker 2: so still expensive, but I mean, I don't remember what
Speaker 2: the exact number was, but what it apparently was going
Speaker 2: to call to get out of the acc which again
Speaker 2: that was the whole thing, is the Grand of Rights.
Speaker 2: And in Clemson, I don't know if I believe them.
Speaker 2: They claimed that they didn't They didn't follow a lawsuit
Speaker 2: because they were looking to leave. They filed a lawsuit
Speaker 2: because they didn't, you know, they wanted they were trying
Speaker 2: to protect themselves and they wanted to make sure they
Speaker 2: could have access to the Grand of Rights to really
Speaker 2: know their situation, which, to be honest, is a fair,
Speaker 2: fair request. I mean, to know exactly what you are
Speaker 2: bound to contractually, which that was what really just I
Speaker 2: never mean, I never could make any sense of it.
Speaker 2: I have no experience in you know, contracts, legal stuff,
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But the fact that nobody could
Speaker 2: actually see the grant of rights and you had to
Speaker 2: actually like schedule a meeting to go view it with
Speaker 2: you know, legal counsel present at the AEC headquarters like
Speaker 2: that just seemed really weird. But again, maybe that's more
Speaker 2: formal than I realize. But overall, you know, I think
Speaker 2: you got teams like Clemson, LSU, I'm sorry Clemson, FSU,
Speaker 2: not LSU, Louisville, Miami, maybe even SMU, like they're going
Speaker 2: to continue to be able to like if ratings kind
Speaker 2: of stay the way they've been. Those are the schools
Speaker 2: that will be able to make more money than they
Speaker 2: previously did because of the new structure here. If you
Speaker 2: end up bringing more value, meaning more eyeballs watch when
Speaker 2: you play, you get a bigger piece of the pie.
Speaker 5: Which again, that's the way that it should be.
Speaker 2: And I will be interested to see if whenever there
Speaker 2: are reups elsewhere with the SEC, the Big Ten, the
Speaker 2: Big twelve, if they don't follow the same thing, because
Speaker 2: why would you not, I mean should you should eat
Speaker 2: what you kill?
Speaker 5: Right, Like you should be able to.
Speaker 4: Make more if you earn more for the league.
Speaker 2: And you know those other leagues aren't hurting for money, right, Clearly,
Speaker 2: the SEC and the Big Ten are in a much
Speaker 2: different and much better financial situation than the other leagues.
Speaker 2: But again, with you now having to share revenue with
Speaker 2: athletes and roughly a twenty million dollar you know, roughly
Speaker 2: a twenty million.
Speaker 5: Dollar bill, you know, on the line.
Speaker 4: And by the way, I'm sorry, I'm super distracted here.
Speaker 4: Does this ever happened to you?
Speaker 2: Here at iHeart where you're on on a computer and
Speaker 2: somebody's logging in? What do you mean, like, like this
Speaker 2: computer that I'm on on the air, there's somebody that
Speaker 2: is accessing it remotely.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's happened. Why are they doing that?
Speaker 3: Could be your man, Gus, he could be logging into
Speaker 3: you're talking about the one tier left right, Yeah, that one.
Speaker 3: Probably someone setting the logs for the next day or something.
Speaker 2: Somebody's playing the X files sound oh interesting, Like I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't, it's it's just distracting me.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's a ghost.
Speaker 4: Oh it's not, but like maybe the room's haunted. I mean,
Speaker 4: well that won't mess with the show, right, I guess.
Speaker 5: No, No, it's probably no. I don't. But like here's anything.
Speaker 2: I had the board pulled up like on button bar
Speaker 2: one here and they're playing it like it would be
Speaker 2: playing on my show, right, it.
Speaker 5: Would be because it's on.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's anyways.
Speaker 5: I guess it depends. Yeah, I'm not seeing anything on
Speaker 5: my head.
Speaker 2: It just distracted me. Then it's fine because it's probably not.
Speaker 2: But of all the I try not to get distracted.
Speaker 5: I always talk.
Speaker 2: About wanting to have a window and all that, but
Speaker 2: it's probably good that they keep me in this dark cave.
Speaker 2: But whenever I see somebody moving around on a computer
Speaker 2: that i'm you know, that's right in front of me
Speaker 2: and it's not me, I feel like I've been violated.
Speaker 2: But clearly if they can, if they if they can
Speaker 2: log in, then clearly they you know, then they have
Speaker 2: access to you know, I'm assuming we're not getting hacked.
Speaker 2: It's probably somebody working here. But again, this like the
Speaker 2: the next gen system in front of me, like it's
Speaker 2: showing w k r D, it's showing r log, it's
Speaker 2: showing me the clock. So like anything they're doing on
Speaker 2: in next gen, like it's like it's not for anything
Speaker 2: other than this station, which I don't know why they would,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, it doesn't again until
Speaker 2: until something falls apart or breaks. Then I'll just assume
Speaker 2: that they know what they're doing. But does that have
Speaker 2: me a little bit worried and well, never mind, it's
Speaker 2: a conversation for a different day. I wasn't gonna I
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna like complain, but I was going to talk
Speaker 2: about something that I that I that I gladly had
Speaker 2: the awareness of that nobody would know what I'm talking
Speaker 2: about and nobody cares so well at least.
Speaker 3: I would you rather be distracted by that than the
Speaker 3: than the constant banging with the construction that's been going
Speaker 3: on in the last few days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess they must have known I was coming
Speaker 4: because they stopped.
Speaker 5: They were probably in full swing of it, and then
Speaker 5: they saw you.
Speaker 2: Pull up and they realized, Hey, they need to prepare,
Speaker 2: They need to behave themselves and get their work done
Speaker 2: before the show starts. Because you know, that would be
Speaker 2: really distracting. If I could hear it through your like
Speaker 2: when I was doing the show remotely Friday, and I
Speaker 2: could hear it when you were on the air, imagine
Speaker 2: what it would sound like in here.
Speaker 5: Have you heard any of it today?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I heard like I heard something, but not the banging.
Speaker 2: They were doing something, but you know.
Speaker 3: Anything, it was a little bit more faint today. Maybe
Speaker 3: they'd moved deeper into the bathroom and not at the
Speaker 3: parts that was literally just right next.
Speaker 4: They must be like completely redoing that bathroom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything, because I saw somebody walk out of there
Speaker 3: earlier today when I left for lunch, and it looked
Speaker 3: completely gutted in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I haven't been in there again.
Speaker 2: We talked about last Friday, just my experience in the bathrooms,
Speaker 2: the public bathrooms here and you know, dump it for
Speaker 2: I mean, who does it right and who does it
Speaker 2: and and you know it happens at times, but yeah,
Speaker 2: not ideal whenever you're waiting in line at a concert.
Speaker 4: Answered, Yeah, that's true. It's true.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't really. It's one of those things,
Speaker 2: you know, I envy. I envy people who can determine
Speaker 2: when it's gonna happen. I can't. Like, there's no like
Speaker 2: I think I need to go. When I'm gonna go,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, so like I gotta you know, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna find a situation to you know, do exactly that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you went to the funeral home. Not that long
Speaker 3: are Yeah? Yeah you had to stop and pull over.
Speaker 5: Were we working together then? Yeah? We were? Okay, was
Speaker 5: that early stages because I remember I think I must
Speaker 5: I might have been filling.
Speaker 2: In, yeah, because that was a while back, but yes,
Speaker 2: like I I mean, I man, that's a perfect example
Speaker 2: of exactly what I was just talking about.
Speaker 5: Where like I had to go.
Speaker 2: There was no business, no establishment where I could go
Speaker 2: where I knew there was a public restroom, but there
Speaker 2: was a funeral home nearby that you know, like I've
Speaker 2: been too many times because unfortunately the people who I
Speaker 2: know that have passed away, that's that's where they usually
Speaker 2: have their visitation and whatnot. And I mean luckily they weren't.
Speaker 4: They weren't.
Speaker 2: It was early, there was nobody there yet other than
Speaker 2: the workers. But I walked in and I knew exactly
Speaker 2: where I needed to go to handle some business. And
Speaker 2: I walked out, and I kind of felt like I
Speaker 2: violated somebody who just died.
Speaker 4: But again, when you gotta go, you gotta go.
Speaker 3: I've never when it comes when it comes to the number,
Speaker 3: when it comes to the number two, when we're talking
Speaker 3: about like what you.
Speaker 5: Who does know what to work for?
Speaker 4: Really, I was like.
Speaker 3: I've never been in a situation even though I have
Speaker 3: to go to where I'm like I gotta stop and
Speaker 3: pull over unless or this is coming out.
Speaker 4: God bless you now when it comes to you.
Speaker 3: When it comes to like, it's a completely different story.
Speaker 3: I will stop in the middle of the highway and
Speaker 3: just go out and do whatever, find any sort of
Speaker 3: bush nearby. But I can wait, even if it's like
Speaker 3: killing my stomach, I can wait. I can wait until I,
Speaker 3: like you said, until I get home, bathroom advantage or
Speaker 3: any sort of poop privacy. But like when it comes
Speaker 3: to when it when it just comes to number one,
Speaker 3: and when it comes to PN, I'll I feel like
Speaker 3: I could just.
Speaker 5: Do that anyway.
Speaker 4: We couldn't be more opposite.
Speaker 5: It's odd.
Speaker 4: Huh, Well, it's a it's a gift you have.
Speaker 6: I feel like it's a gift or a curse. No,
Speaker 6: it's a gat or I have some bad intestines. I
Speaker 6: mean good, they're good in testines. Again, like you are.
Speaker 6: I mean again, everybody's different, but.
Speaker 2: I feel like you you are a very blessed individual
Speaker 2: to be able to just simply like at all times,
Speaker 2: just be able to like, yeah, if I gotta wait
Speaker 2: five hours to go number two, I'll wait five hours. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like shout out to you. Very jealous built different, My
Speaker 2: man built different.
Speaker 5: Thus producers man or at least me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, God bless you all right, So real quick,
Speaker 2: this is a text that came in on the element
Speaker 2: in Federal Credit Union text line five two six five
Speaker 2: three zero seven ninety is the number you want to
Speaker 2: text in?
Speaker 5: This is a good text, says Nick.
Speaker 2: If Louisville ends up as a six or a seven
Speaker 2: and would play the two or the three in the
Speaker 2: next round, who would you most like to avoid on
Speaker 2: the two and three line? So I just pulled up
Speaker 2: the most recent bracketology that I that I can find here,
Speaker 2: So like, Louisville right now is a seven and most
Speaker 2: of the bracketology that I've seen. I mean, you know, Leonardi,
Speaker 2: he hasn't updated anything in a while, has he? I mean,
Speaker 2: because usually he doesn't. Ever, when I need a fresh
Speaker 2: Joey Brackett's update, I never can get it. Yeah, his
Speaker 2: last update was on the twenty eighth of February. So yeah,
Speaker 2: he's sleeping on the job. What are they paying this
Speaker 2: guy for? So Jerry Palm, he put one out yesterday
Speaker 2: and he has Louisville as a seven, and he has
Speaker 2: them taking on let's see, he has them taking on
Speaker 2: San Diego State. I saw one bracketology that has them
Speaker 2: taking on number A ten seeded Georgia team. So if
Speaker 2: they end up as a seven and they get passed,
Speaker 2: because let's look at the ten seeds, you got San
Speaker 2: Diego State, West Virginia, Georgia, and Indiana. So that's the
Speaker 2: caliber of team that you play in the first round
Speaker 2: if that's the seed you end up with. And again
Speaker 2: I don't I think that's that's not even really like bracketology.
Speaker 2: I feel like, I mean, I guess it is. But
Speaker 2: my point is that's the easy thing to predict, like
Speaker 2: the range of teams that are that are that are
Speaker 2: on the six to seven or the ten to nine,
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: So again I stand by what I said earlier.
Speaker 2: I believe that Indiana, Georgia, West Virginia, San Diego State,
Speaker 2: those kind of teams that could potentially be your opponent.
Speaker 2: I believe they are more talented than nearly every team
Speaker 2: you've played since January. Doesn't mean you can't beat them,
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you won't be favored. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I just think that's something that is unusual about being
Speaker 2: a twenty plus win team that's safely in the tournament
Speaker 2: to know that even if you get a sixth seed,
Speaker 2: maybe there's a good chance whoever you play in the
Speaker 2: first round is going to be better than anybody you've
Speaker 2: played other than one team in like months. Now. Again,
Speaker 2: if you get Duke, that'll be probably not a I mean,
Speaker 2: they're they're really good, but at least you'd be able
Speaker 2: to say you played a you know, a juggernaut before
Speaker 2: you got to the Big Dance. So anyways, if Louisville
Speaker 2: was to win that first round game, and if they're
Speaker 2: a seven seed, then obviously they would play they play
Speaker 2: it two if the two wins. So we're talking about Florida, Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: Michigan State, Alabama. I mean, I don't really want to
Speaker 2: play any of those teams because I think they're really good.
Speaker 2: But if I had to pick between those teams, and
Speaker 2: I've watched all those teams enough, I'd probably, honestly probably
Speaker 2: take Florida. Like I think they're good, They're all look,
Speaker 2: all those teams are good. They'd be favored, and louis
Speaker 2: would have a tough time beating any of those teams
Speaker 2: because again, they're really good. But I just think I
Speaker 2: don't know Wisconsin's probably as far as talent level one
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't be that.
Speaker 5: Like fearful of.
Speaker 2: However, they've put together a really good season and there's
Speaker 2: certainly a storyline there Chucky going up against his former team, So.
Speaker 4: That's who I would pick.
Speaker 2: No, we also have a text that comes in and says,
Speaker 2: how can Louisville be a six or seven seed when
Speaker 2: they're in the top fifteen in both poles?
Speaker 5: I say this with respect, that does not matter at all.
Speaker 2: Louisville being top fifteen in the AP pole and the
Speaker 2: Coaches Poll. I love it because I think it speaks
Speaker 2: to just how it's just another reminder.
Speaker 5: Can you believe this?
Speaker 2: Louisville goes from being the joke of college basketball for
Speaker 2: two years to being in the top fifteen and the
Speaker 2: AP pole.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah.
Speaker 2: But the AP Poll doesn't matter at all when it
Speaker 2: comes to seeding, And I think, like Louisville right now,
Speaker 2: I think when you look at the seed listing out
Speaker 2: there from the bracketologists that that we keep up with
Speaker 2: to an extent, like Lenardi and Jerry Palm and those guys,
Speaker 2: to see Louisville on the you know, around like twenty
Speaker 2: between twenty three and twenty five, which is where they
Speaker 2: are in the net and the kin palm. Like, I
Speaker 2: think that's accurate. I think it's fair. I think they
Speaker 2: could be better than that. But I just think resume wise,
Speaker 2: that makes sense, that checks out, and that is more.
Speaker 2: I mean again, some of it is dependent upon you know,
Speaker 2: using your brain right, because you can't just use the
Speaker 2: net as the end all be all, and they don't
Speaker 2: do it that way. But I think right now Louisville,
Speaker 2: I mean, as it stands today, six and seven is
Speaker 2: super accurate as far as where you're gonna be.
Speaker 5: Doesn't mean that I think that they're not worthy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I look, could they be a team as
Speaker 2: far as like talent wise, be as far as like
Speaker 2: be like being good enough to be better than that seed? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but like your resume matters, and Louis's resume is in
Speaker 2: a solid spot. But again, I hate doing this because
Speaker 2: it sounds like I'm telling people that Louisville's not as
Speaker 2: good as they think they are, and that's not at
Speaker 2: all what I'm trying to do. But the resume matters
Speaker 2: in Louisville. Unfortunately, the ACC just didn't give the league
Speaker 2: many opportunities to do anything to really boost its resume,
Speaker 2: Like from January on, I mean Louisville went. I mean
Speaker 2: Louisville had one win that really helped them, and that's Clemson.
Speaker 2: Because that win was big at the time, and it's
Speaker 2: gotten even more valuable since you got it.
Speaker 4: So I again, we talked about it last week.
Speaker 5: Nothing's changed.
Speaker 2: I think this like Louisville right now, six and seven
Speaker 2: is where you are. I think if you win these
Speaker 2: two games this week, you stay six and seven range.
Speaker 2: And I think if you end up in the ACC
Speaker 2: Tournament beating Clemson again, then maybe you bump up to
Speaker 2: like five six instead of six to seven, and then
Speaker 2: you really have like a house money against Duke to
Speaker 2: where if you just you know, it probably won't do
Speaker 2: much to change your seed.
Speaker 5: No matter what happens.
Speaker 2: Now, if you end up winning this week beating Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech and then losing to Clemson, I still think you're
Speaker 2: probably looking at six seven more so likely going to
Speaker 2: be a seven. So there's really not a whole lot
Speaker 2: of range here from now until Like you used to
Speaker 2: look at the Big East Tournament or the ACC Tournament
Speaker 2: in a previous world and say, wow, I really like
Speaker 2: where we are. But man, if they get to like
Speaker 2: the semis or the finals of the conference tournament, you're
Speaker 2: talking about three big valuable wins' that's not where we
Speaker 2: are now.
Speaker 5: So think.
Speaker 2: They went out and beat Duke. I still think like
Speaker 2: this the highest they could get as a four. I
Speaker 2: really do, and that'd be great. But I'm just happy
Speaker 2: that that we're not even like war.
Speaker 5: We're not worried about the bubble.
Speaker 2: That's a good place to be and comparatively speaking, all right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back on the other side. Wrap
Speaker 2: this thing up right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: So today is Louisville's first day of spring football practice,
Speaker 2: So probably not going to be a whole lot to
Speaker 2: take from today's practice, but I imagine we'll hear from Jeff
Speaker 2: Brohm or one of the coaches. But it is exciting
Speaker 2: to know that you're heading into year three with Jeff Brohm,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't be shocked if this team is once
Speaker 2: again in position to potentially find themselves competing for the
Speaker 2: ACC I means, I mean, he he enters his He's
Speaker 2: he's entering his I guess how many is he a senior?
Speaker 5: I don't know how.
Speaker 2: I don't know how great anybody's in college sports anymore.
Speaker 2: But you know he's coming with a little bit more
Speaker 2: hype and honestly a little bit more, a little bit
Speaker 2: more I guess fanfare than Tyler Shuck was. So I
Speaker 2: just think, you know, we've talked about this a lot.
Speaker 2: I think Jeff Will will continue to do this. Right,
Speaker 2: find a guy each year they can come in and
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, do what he needs at the
Speaker 2: quarterback position. And with Tyler Shuck, certainly he was not
Speaker 2: somebody that a lot of other big schools were in on,
Speaker 2: and Louisville got him probably pretty cheap, but man, he
Speaker 2: certainly put himself out there as a guy that can
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Speaker 4: Two four four four four thousand.
Speaker 2: All right, So I may lead with this on the
Speaker 2: show tomorrow, or I may forget about it altogether. I
Speaker 2: probably need to forget about it because I'm getting a
Speaker 2: little work. I'm not gonna be all right if Johnson
Speaker 2: wins a CEC Coach of the Year over Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 2: I just want you to know that often i'd be
Speaker 2: pretty I'm not gonna be well devious work. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna stand for it's what it is. What I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, you stand for a lot of things. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna stand for it. I'm not gonna allow it
Speaker 2: to happen. I'll uh, I'll show up wherever they give
Speaker 2: that award out if they even do, I think I don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think they just put it out there
Speaker 4: and you just get to say you are it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you get a trophy or whatever
Speaker 2: it is, but if there's any kind of an award,
Speaker 2: there's any kind of an award given, I'll be there
Speaker 2: to make sure it doesn't get it, it doesn't get
Speaker 2: in the hands of John Shire, and I'll hand it
Speaker 2: personally to Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 5: Think, think Happy Gilmore, that big tall guy chasing Shooter McGavin.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be me chasing after John Shire over my
Speaker 2: dead body. You're gonna be ACC coach of the Year,
Speaker 2: not my CC coach of the year. That's Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm sorry I got worked up. We're out
Speaker 2: of time. You guys, enjoy your evening. We're back at
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