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Speaker 2: that is mister John Alden, who's alongside today, And one
Speaker 2: more thing to throw out there when it comes to
Speaker 2: Louisville football. Obviously on a bye week this week, and
Speaker 2: as I've mentioned, it just kind of feels like the
Speaker 2: season hasn't started yet. It has, But I guess, more
Speaker 2: than anything, like I mean, I'd rather have had two
Speaker 2: games to see this team in action, and it was
Speaker 2: awesome to see them blow out Austin p and really
Speaker 2: handle Jacksonville State and cover as twenty eight and a
Speaker 2: half point favorites. But I guess, more than anything, what
Speaker 2: I mean is that I'm a little envious. You know,
Speaker 2: every team in the ACC, just about every team at
Speaker 2: the Power five level, has had the ability to learn
Speaker 2: a little bit of something about their squad because of
Speaker 2: the competition they played up to this point. And for Louisville,
Speaker 2: we just got to wait a little bit longer because
Speaker 2: of the rare late edition on the schedule of Jacksonville
Speaker 2: State due to Indiana getting out of the series, and
Speaker 2: then the bye week, which is just weird to have
Speaker 2: a bye week this early. I could be wrong, but
Speaker 2: I feel like bye weeks this early have only been
Speaker 2: for teams that played Week zero.
Speaker 3: So it used to be the case, but because every
Speaker 3: team has too now right weeks now, that's why you
Speaker 3: see it more commonly happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I'm sure Louisville is not alone. I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's other schools that are also on a bye
Speaker 2: week this week, but they've probably played you know, somebody
Speaker 2: we've heard of other than you know, Jacksonville State and
Speaker 2: Austin P. But again, I don't bring that up to
Speaker 2: say like that's a negative for Louisville football. I mean, again,
Speaker 2: they're in the top twenty right now, they've had a
Speaker 2: chance to really you know, even they've had a chance
Speaker 2: to work on some things.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't think that Jeff Brown really showed a whole
Speaker 2: lot in the first two weeks, because that's not what
Speaker 2: you'd want to do, and he didn't need to, right
Speaker 2: He was pretty vanilla with the play calling. And yet still,
Speaker 2: you know, I think the offense showed out. I mean,
Speaker 2: they could have scored more points clearly against Jacksonville State,
Speaker 2: and they put up sixty two and gave up zero
Speaker 2: against Austin P. But we all know that when you
Speaker 2: play next Thursday. I'm sorry, Next Saturday at three point
Speaker 2: thirty against Georgia Tech, that'll be your first test, and
Speaker 2: it's not going to be a big test, but hey,
Speaker 2: it's a bigger test than what you've had up to
Speaker 2: this point. And just because Georgia Tech lost to Syracuse
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that Georgia Tech's going to be a bad
Speaker 2: team this year. In fact, I think what they did
Speaker 2: against Florida State, although now it doesn't look as impressive
Speaker 2: given that Florida State lost to Boston College and really
Speaker 2: got worked. I mean, I still think George Tech's a
Speaker 2: good team, and I know they're a lot better than
Speaker 2: who Louisvi's played up to this point, So I'm excited
Speaker 2: about that. But the real test, even though the loss
Speaker 2: to Northern Illinois has taken a little bit of the
Speaker 2: potential juice away from what you'd get if you could
Speaker 2: knock them off in South Bend, you know, if you're
Speaker 2: Louisville like that, that's a top twenty matchup. I don't
Speaker 2: think Notre Dame deserves to be ranked, but hey, they
Speaker 2: still are, and this week they play Let's see here.
Speaker 2: The reason I'm bringing this up is because their new
Speaker 2: quarterback Riley Leonard, who transferred from Duke louis was already
Speaker 2: played them obviously, and Louisville shut him out last year.
Speaker 2: He's got an injury that is something to monitor here.
Speaker 2: His posterior laborm on, his non throwing shoulder, was injured
Speaker 2: in their loss in Northern Illinois. So he is expected
Speaker 2: to play this Saturday when they take on Purdue. And
Speaker 2: you know, if he's playing Saturday and he comes away,
Speaker 2: you know, without further you know, furthering that injury, then
Speaker 2: he'll be good to go. And I want him to play.
Speaker 2: Like you know, I'm trying. I'm trying my best to
Speaker 2: just understand that there's no way to control what outsiders
Speaker 2: choose to do when crediting or discrediting Louisville in what
Speaker 2: they accomplish, right, I mean Notre Dame beating Northern Illinois
Speaker 2: would have taken away the best moment thus far of
Speaker 2: the college football season. But you know, with that, it
Speaker 2: also means that if Louisville beats them, Louisville will be
Speaker 2: the one that officially puts the nail in their coffin
Speaker 2: when it comes to the playoff. I think that's already happened.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a scenario so that they get
Speaker 2: in the playoff now, and if they do, I will
Speaker 2: bet there'll be the like, let's just say again they
Speaker 2: finish the season. I mean, they can't be a two
Speaker 2: loss team, right, they'd have to go eleven in one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if they go eleven and one and their wins
Speaker 2: of value are Louisville Florida State, which who knows what
Speaker 2: value that would have? Who knows what value Louislle would
Speaker 2: have to be honest with you, And then at USC
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, like if they beat
Speaker 2: Louisville and they beat Florida State, and they get by
Speaker 2: the other teams they play, which they which they should
Speaker 2: without any trouble, it'll be coming down do like what
Speaker 2: others do. And is USC still viewed as a big
Speaker 2: time win, Like if USC looks like a real contender
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten, then that could be an opportunity
Speaker 2: for them to, at least in my opinion, enter the conversation.
Speaker 2: But I don't care. Like when you don't play in
Speaker 2: a conference and you schedule the way you do and
Speaker 2: you slip up and lose to Northern Illinois. No, I
Speaker 2: don't think you'd get in regardless. Now, if you happen
Speaker 2: to have Florida State was elite and you beat them
Speaker 2: and Louisville ends up having that be their only loss
Speaker 2: this year, and Louisville goes on to beat Miami and
Speaker 2: beat Clemson and then USC like at that point it
Speaker 2: would be a conversation. But like, Florida State's already already
Speaker 2: done enough to where you're not going to get a
Speaker 2: whole lot of value there. And that's and that's what
Speaker 2: would happen for Louisville here. And again you can't control it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Northern Illinois just did it, but
Speaker 2: like not many teams go and win in South Bend
Speaker 2: and I hate that. That's you know, as much as
Speaker 2: I was celebrating Northern Illinois beating them and I loved it,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't change it. If I had the ability to
Speaker 2: go back in time, I still probably wouldn't change it
Speaker 2: because in a corny sentimental way, that was a reminder
Speaker 2: that you know, it's not pro sports for everybody. You
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Northern Illinois is not doesn't have
Speaker 2: a roster that was built on nil. And they went
Speaker 2: in and beat South and beat Notre Dame who I
Speaker 2: would imagine spent multiple millions of dollars on their roster
Speaker 2: this year. Northern Illinois didn't do that. They don't have
Speaker 2: the ability to do that. So it's a great story.
Speaker 2: But if Louisville beats Notre Dame, the story won't be
Speaker 2: about Louisville being for real. It will be to us.
Speaker 2: And I still think you can feel great if you
Speaker 2: go in and beat them in South Bend. Youre's probably
Speaker 2: still gonna be underdogs, to be honest with you, just
Speaker 2: because you know that's how odds makers are going to
Speaker 2: see it. They're gonna look at it as maybe a
Speaker 2: one off. Although if if not to name struggles against Purdue,
Speaker 2: which they shouldn't, then maybe that would change some things.
Speaker 2: But if Riley Leonard doesn't play and Louisville beats him,
Speaker 2: it'll be another data point for people to throw out
Speaker 2: there as to why maybe louisville schedule is not worthy
Speaker 2: of them being considered for the playoff unless they win
Speaker 2: the big through the acc But like, you can't control that,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna bother me, clearly, I bring it up
Speaker 2: a lot, but I got to take my own advice
Speaker 2: and just like you know, not worry about it, but
Speaker 2: clearly easier said than done for me. All right, So
Speaker 2: before we get into the Tyreek Hill situation because I'm
Speaker 2: I'm I'm kind of putting it off because I don't
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to get worked up and
Speaker 2: share my thoughts and it lead to people, you know,
Speaker 2: thinking I'm trying to be political, because I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't think this is political at all. But it's clearly
Speaker 2: a situation where as I said earlier, I think people
Speaker 2: wanted to see They said that they wanted to see it,
Speaker 2: and they've now seen the body cam footage. But there's
Speaker 2: so many people in this country right now that are
Speaker 2: not making decisions based off their own brain. They're just
Speaker 2: doing what they think they're supposed to do when it
Speaker 2: comes to what their political side would do. And I
Speaker 2: just hate that is the case. And yesterday I think
Speaker 2: was a reminder of that, just like the Scottie Scheffler thing.
Speaker 2: But we'll get to that later on. What I want
Speaker 2: to get to now is this this tweet from Vince
Speaker 2: Marrow that I think, although it's not a huge deal,
Speaker 2: it's not something that you know, UK needs to send
Speaker 2: out like a press release and reprimand Vince Marrow. But
Speaker 2: like I think his social media shenanigans here are a
Speaker 2: little telling as to where Kentucky and Mark Stoops's staff
Speaker 2: are right now, because I think Stoops for a while
Speaker 2: has felt not appreciated, which is wild because he makes
Speaker 2: a ton of money and he doesn't have to do
Speaker 2: a whole lot for that money. Other people making that
Speaker 2: amount of money would need to have way better results
Speaker 2: than what Mark Steops has had. But he's in a
Speaker 2: unique situation because again and he's given Kentucky some sustained
Speaker 2: success they've never had before. But now, you know, Kentucky fans,
Speaker 2: to their credit, are seemingly smartening up a little bit
Speaker 2: and understanding like, hey, I know, like beating Georgia is unrealistic.
Speaker 2: We just wanted you to compete a little bit more,
Speaker 2: but beating South Carolina is not an unreasonable ask. And
Speaker 2: you got hammered like people did pony up and the
Speaker 2: result was you getting beat by a team that, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you like And this is where it
Speaker 2: gets tricky with Kentucky. I think for the longest time
Speaker 2: they've wanted a little bit more, but yet again they
Speaker 2: realize Stoops has given them more sustained success than they've
Speaker 2: ever had in any other tenure, probably in their lifetime.
Speaker 2: And when they do fall short and they end up,
Speaker 2: you know, three and five in the SEC. Seven and
Speaker 2: five overall eight and five after a bawl win, they
Speaker 2: don't think that that's lead. They don't think that that's
Speaker 2: like great, but they tell themselves, hey, at least Mark
Speaker 2: Stoops is doing that. The previous coaches we had didn't
Speaker 2: do that, and with Stoops, like that's just the best
Speaker 2: he can do with what we have to work with.
Speaker 2: Because we're Kentucky football. I think that's been the mindset
Speaker 2: with a lot of their fans for a long time,
Speaker 2: understandably so. But things have changed now, Like Kentucky has
Speaker 2: good players. Like I wish I could sit up here
Speaker 2: and claim that Kentucky sucks and they have no good
Speaker 2: players in their bunch of bums, But I don't believe that.
Speaker 2: I think they have really good talent, and they have
Speaker 2: better talent in South Carolina. And they got beat thirty
Speaker 2: thirty two to six, thirty one to six, whatever it was,
Speaker 2: thirty four to six. I think it was like, that's
Speaker 2: really unacceptable, you know, to lose to Vandy two years
Speaker 2: ago with NFL players on that team. Like that's like,
Speaker 2: so I think even if in some of their fans,
Speaker 2: I think have clearly addressed it and they realize, hey,
Speaker 2: we've capped out with Toops, we need to move on,
Speaker 2: and they want John Sumrall, who was a former assistant there,
Speaker 2: had a great run at Troy and is now the
Speaker 2: head coach at two Lane, And they should have beat
Speaker 2: Kansas State the other day. So I think some of
Speaker 2: their fans are already there, and I think there are
Speaker 2: some that are starting to kind of realize, like you'd
Speaker 2: be a fool to say Stoops is a problem for
Speaker 2: your program, but like you should be better than you
Speaker 2: were the other day, and you should be better than
Speaker 2: you are in the last few years, and like he's
Speaker 2: got a answer for that. He's the head coach. It's one
Speaker 2: thing if you can go eight and five every year
Speaker 2: and truly claim that the games you're losing and your
Speaker 2: short and your shortfalls are due to the fact that
Speaker 2: you just don't have the resources as some of the
Speaker 2: other SEC teams. But that's not where we are anymore
Speaker 2: in college football. So like fans looking and you know,
Speaker 2: kind of doing you know, kind of flirting a little
Speaker 2: bit with the thought of John Sumraw replacing Stoops, like
Speaker 2: it's not an unreasonable thing for Kentucky. And here's what here,
Speaker 2: here's what's wild. It's actually a compliment to Stoops. Sounds crazy, right,
Speaker 2: How could it be a compliment to Stoops? How could
Speaker 2: you be complimenting Stoops if you're wanting somebody to come
Speaker 2: because it's because you now know he's proven to you
Speaker 2: that you can win at Kentucky. He's proven that you
Speaker 2: can get really good players and you can raise money
Speaker 2: through nil to keep guys like Dion Walker on your roster.
Speaker 2: And yet he's not giving you the results. So his proof,
Speaker 2: his results up to this point have shown that you
Speaker 2: can reach higher, but yet he's not getting it done.
Speaker 2: Am I making any sense? Because again, like saying you
Speaker 2: want another coach to replace Stoops is not a compliment
Speaker 2: to Stoops. But again it speaks to the fact that
Speaker 2: he has proven to that fan base that look, we
Speaker 2: can be better than this. What do we do with
Speaker 2: losing to South Carolina thirty four to six. So I'll
Speaker 2: explain to you sort of how this all you know? This?
Speaker 2: This so nick rous who covers Kentucky Football for KSR.
Speaker 2: He said he shared the he shared the quote that
Speaker 2: we played yesterday and that was Stoops saying, I think
Speaker 2: we get to play for the top six teams in
Speaker 2: the coming weeks. That's a joy. So, you know, he
Speaker 2: was being sarcastic. I don't think that's an out of
Speaker 2: you know, I think he probably should have just not
Speaker 2: even acknowledged that. But like that's just him honestly being
Speaker 2: a real human being and acknowledging like, hey, we could
Speaker 2: play really good football and still loose because we're playing
Speaker 2: great teams. But you didn't just play a great team.
Speaker 2: You played a bum that you should have beat. So
Speaker 2: there's a Twitter account that responded to Nick Rousch's tweet
Speaker 2: that had the quote that I just shared with you,
Speaker 2: and they pulled eleven seconds from an old UK football
Speaker 2: hype video and the Twitter account is barstool Kentucky and
Speaker 2: the eleven seconds they pulled shows John Summer All talking
Speaker 2: to the team, I'll play it for you.
Speaker 1: He come get it for me tonight and today some
Speaker 1: cures come by. May now get for fine night.
Speaker 2: So and by the way, that that did sound kind
Speaker 2: of badass, and I don't know much about John Summer
Speaker 2: other than the fact that he got an opportunity to
Speaker 2: be head coach at Troy, did well, and now he's
Speaker 2: doing He's in his first season at at Tulane, and
Speaker 2: if you know, he does well there, he'll get another opportunity.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a Kentucky, maybe it's elsewhere, who knows, But
Speaker 2: that's just a random barstool Twitter account that you know,
Speaker 2: Barstool Kentucky, just you know, not even there's no text
Speaker 2: associated to the clip. They're just showing some are all who,
Speaker 2: by the way, is a former colleague of Mark Stoops's staff, right,
Speaker 2: he was on Stoops's staff. So Vince Marrow just happened
Speaker 2: to respond to that tweet. Nobody tweeted it. Vince Nobody
Speaker 2: tweeted at the UK Football program. It's just a random
Speaker 2: Barstool Kentucky account that shared the clip of some role.
Speaker 2: Clearly we know what they're suggesting. But Vince Marrow responds
Speaker 2: to it yesterday last night, I should say, and just
Speaker 2: says lol, which means, you know, laugh out loud. That's petty.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not like something he should be in
Speaker 2: trouble for. But like, why are you going back and
Speaker 2: forth with the Barstool Sports Kentucky Football account. Dude, you
Speaker 2: just like you just got your ass kicked by South Carolina. Like,
Speaker 2: let fans like take your medicine, bro, Like, I know
Speaker 2: that you've given Kentucky sustained success. I mean you haven't
Speaker 2: as the coach, but as a recruiter, a guy who
Speaker 2: is on Mark Steups's staff. Like, if that's the level
Speaker 2: of being thin skin to criticism, Oh boy, you should
Speaker 2: hear what they're saying on radio shows about you, guys, like,
Speaker 2: you should hear what they say whenever. Yeah, despite like
Speaker 2: Georgia might name the score Saturday, like if you're already
Speaker 2: that thin skin, like, it just might seem that this
Speaker 2: this relationship is damaged. Stoops doesn't seem happy. He seems
Speaker 2: to feel underappreciated. He's complaining about having all the all
Speaker 2: the work he's got to do to you know, to
Speaker 2: to you know, recruit and nil and all that. I
Speaker 2: mean you heard him cryme boo having to do his job.
Speaker 2: Every coach has got to do that, man. And yet
Speaker 2: fans are now realizing, look, dude, we appreciate you, we
Speaker 2: love you. You changed Kentucky football. You can lose every game
Speaker 2: the rest of the year and that won't change. You
Speaker 2: absolutely had a successful tenure at Kentucky, but like you
Speaker 2: got work to do. Man, Like we this isn't We're
Speaker 2: not just gonna We're not just gonna be in forever
Speaker 2: forever in debt to you because you made us not
Speaker 2: suck anymore. And that might be the best way to
Speaker 2: describe it. So I bring all that up to share
Speaker 2: with you. A guy by the name of T Bob
Speaker 2: and he is a radio host in Louisiana. He's a
Speaker 2: former LSU offensive lineman and once he got done, you know,
Speaker 2: playing football, he got into the media game. And it's funny.
Speaker 2: He's one of these offensive linemen that when he played
Speaker 2: football he was six three, three oh four. Now he's like,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's still tall, but like he's he weighs
Speaker 2: probably half that now. A lot of these old linemen,
Speaker 2: Eric Wood, Alex Cupper, these guys that I that I know, Man,
Speaker 2: when they when they get done playing, you would think
Speaker 2: that you get on playing professional sports, you might pick
Speaker 2: up weight. These dudes just lose all the weight because
Speaker 2: in their in their line of work, they're training to
Speaker 2: be the big the big uglies, as they say, in
Speaker 2: the trenches. But nonetheless, T Bob is hilarious. He's very entertaining.
Speaker 2: He clearly is a former player who knows the game.
Speaker 2: Like to me, if he if he worked for Barstool Sports,
Speaker 2: he'd be way more famous nationally, which by the way,
Speaker 2: he already does some national stuff. Like I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked even in two years. T Bob Hebbert, who wish
Speaker 2: is his legal name? I mean, his legal name was
Speaker 2: not T Bob, but that's what he goes by. His
Speaker 2: name is Bob but Robert, but T Bob is his name.
Speaker 2: T Bob Hebert wouldn't be would not shock me in
Speaker 2: the slightest if he's like a national personality covering college
Speaker 2: football for one of the bigger networks at some point,
Speaker 2: because that's how that's how entertained to me. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna say this. He's a way better Pat McAfee. He
Speaker 2: provides entertainment without being like a douchebag. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna say it. That's how I see Pat McAfee.
Speaker 2: But anyways, this was he's he's hammered on this. He's
Speaker 2: the one like a lot of SEC analysts or people
Speaker 2: who cover SEC football like he does. He's got a podcast,
Speaker 2: by the way, with Aaron Murray, former Joy quarterback. Those
Speaker 2: two guys do a podcast together. T Bob and Murray
Speaker 2: do a podcast that's on the Volume Network that is
Speaker 2: part of Colin Cowherd's podcast network, so he has a
Speaker 2: national following with that. They cover SEC football. They do
Speaker 2: a good job at it. A lot of these SEC
Speaker 2: guys love Stoops right because they're like man, Mark Soups,
Speaker 2: a great coach. Like people still at times throw Stoops
Speaker 2: in the conversation as one of the top twenty five coaches,
Speaker 2: top twenty coaches in the country, and they can't pull
Speaker 2: any result, any accomplishment to back that up other than saying,
Speaker 2: like Kentucky used to be Kentucky now they're not. This
Speaker 2: guy T Bob fights against that, and I think he's
Speaker 2: brilliant because I don't think there's a Kentucky fan that's
Speaker 2: gonna hear this that won't disagree with what he's saying.
Speaker 2: And here is here's the clip. I had to edit
Speaker 2: this out because there's some cursing in it. Davis says,
Speaker 2: T Bob, why are you so critical of Mark Stoops?
Speaker 3: Kentucky's a very hard place to win. How many games
Speaker 3: do you expect him.
Speaker 1: To win every year? Oh?
Speaker 3: You puke that bear. Let's go to here we go.
Speaker 4: Look, all I'm saying is, Brad you are you are
Speaker 4: gaslighting Kentucky fans. If Syracuse can be out here looking
Speaker 4: this good and winning games and having great quarterback play,
Speaker 4: why can't.
Speaker 3: Why can't Kentucky? You don't have money.
Speaker 4: You pay Mark Stoops eight million dollars a year, nine million,
Speaker 4: whatever it is. And in a decade the man is
Speaker 4: beating teams have finished with a winning SEC record twice
Speaker 4: and both the teams finished five and three. It's it's
Speaker 4: it's it's again the analogy I used.
Speaker 3: On Sunday Show, it makes true.
Speaker 4: Kentucky fans are being served a pile of and they're like, god,
Speaker 4: you know, they're eating it, They're picking out their teeth.
Speaker 4: They're like, guys, I think this like I think I'm
Speaker 4: eating poop right now. And everybody's like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: that's not. In fact, it's what you deserve. That is
Speaker 4: the best food that you can possibly get.
Speaker 3: And poor Kentucky fans are like, yeah, you know, you're right,
Speaker 3: you're right.
Speaker 4: This is a bad this is fine. Oh look at this.
Speaker 2: Oh there's a little colonel.
Speaker 4: In there that says we beat Louisville every year. Okay, great,
Speaker 4: I'll keep beating this. And I'm out here saying no,
Speaker 4: you have the money. Okay, you've done the Mark Stoops experience.
Speaker 4: You've seen how it can max out. And the age
Speaker 4: of nil and the transfer portal, the ceilings on what
Speaker 4: schools can be have changed drastically. We just put the
Speaker 4: old Miss Rebels in the true national championship contender category.
Speaker 4: That was impossible before this age because you couldn't recruit
Speaker 4: in a high school. Okay, Kentucky can be better than
Speaker 4: what they are and what they have been. They can
Speaker 4: be better than running at seventeen times in a row
Speaker 4: and then missing a third and three slant to settle
Speaker 4: for their second field goal in a row, losing a
Speaker 4: South Carolina at home thirty one to six. So all
Speaker 4: you telling me, oh Kentucky fan should be heavy, can
Speaker 4: talk this.
Speaker 3: Don't be mad to me.
Speaker 4: I'm your champion, I'm your best friend.
Speaker 2: I want better for you. Who disagrees with that, that's
Speaker 2: a Kentucky fan. First of all, that was hilarious, but
Speaker 2: also like he's spitting facts. My man, like he's I mean,
Speaker 2: what is what did he say? Like I think anybody
Speaker 2: reminding Kentucky football of what they were pre Stoops as
Speaker 2: if he hasn't proven that, Like it's it's he can
Speaker 2: do the coach can do that where you're not awful,
Speaker 2: you're mediocre at best, but also all the resources that
Speaker 2: you could have, like anybody bringing up well seven and five,
Speaker 2: like we got to remember who we are. We got
Speaker 2: like no offense, you're a loser, Like you have a
Speaker 2: loser mindset. Now I'm not saying you got to go
Speaker 2: out there and realistically expect to win the national championship.
Speaker 2: And let's be honest, this year your schedule's loaded with
Speaker 2: really good teams, so this year's a little bit different.
Speaker 2: But like the defaulting to well, okay, I should just
Speaker 2: accept this. He's right. It's like you're eating a crap
Speaker 2: sandwich and Stoops has been able to feed you the crap,
Speaker 2: not even a sandwich, just as T Bob says, just
Speaker 2: feeding you poop. And you're like, wait a second, no,
Speaker 2: I like this way, Oh wait a second. We beat Louisville,
Speaker 2: so this is actually a really good dish, and this
Speaker 2: is what we deserve. Because we can't be better than that.
Speaker 2: Stoops reminds us of what we were before he got here,
Speaker 2: and he's right, so we should just appreciate him, like
Speaker 2: that's what he said and it's not incorrect. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, don't forget. In about an hour, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be giving away a pair of tickets to see Brooks
Speaker 2: and Done as they bring their Neon Moon tour in
Speaker 2: April to the KFCM Center. So five point thirty we'll
Speaker 2: do that. We'll get back to the text on the
Speaker 2: other side, and I'll just I've been putting it off,
Speaker 2: but I'll just give People may not even really care
Speaker 2: about my thoughts and opinions, but you know what, that's
Speaker 2: my job to share my thoughts and opinions. And the
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill arrest or, I guess citation is probably the
Speaker 2: biggest story in sports still, So I'll share that. Get
Speaker 2: it out of the way. You can yell at me
Speaker 2: about politics if you want, and then we'll hug and
Speaker 2: be friends after that. Okay, I've had a lot of
Speaker 2: unpopular takes opinions shared on this show before, and I'm
Speaker 2: fine with that. Yeah, you know, I know, you know,
Speaker 2: I'd like to think for myself, and I've had a
Speaker 2: lot of takes that were strong on my end that
Speaker 2: I was wrong about. This is just a matter of opinion.
Speaker 2: Nobody's right or wrong. But if you disagree, I do
Speaker 2: think you are wrong. Again, just an opinion. This is
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Speaker 2: is a great song. I've never heard anybody say they
Speaker 2: don't like that song. It's great, but I think this
Speaker 2: is better. You know, that's one of those things you
Speaker 2: say and people look at you like something wrong with you.
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Speaker 2: I like that, w W A m Z. There's a lot,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of call letters across the radio.
Speaker 2: Of course, have the W to start, and uh, you
Speaker 2: know we don't do that. We just we're Sports Talk
Speaker 2: set of ninety. Technically, our call letters are still W
Speaker 2: k r D, but our our our brand, if you
Speaker 2: want to call it that, our brand switch when we
Speaker 2: went to Sports Talk seven ninety. You know, call letters
Speaker 2: are still KRD, but we you know, whenever I'm telling
Speaker 2: you where you are, I don't say kr D, I
Speaker 2: say Sports Talk seven ninety. But when we made our
Speaker 2: our switch, you know, I realized I'm no longer saying
Speaker 2: W k r D or just KRD. And you know,
Speaker 2: everybody I feel like who is on a stage, they
Speaker 2: they they have a way in which they say that,
Speaker 2: Like Tony Venetti, w h A S.
Speaker 3: That's perfect, So you know what I'm talking about, right,
Speaker 3: no very imitated. You got it, w h S.
Speaker 2: And it's such a it's such there's such an emphasis
Speaker 2: from him when he does it, right, W it's W Tony,
Speaker 2: like you know, you know how maybe he's so worried
Speaker 2: about saying W, but it's it's I mean, double you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think that's how it's pronounced, but
Speaker 2: that's how he decides to say it. Whas like why
Speaker 2: can't we just say it like that, Tony, here, I
Speaker 2: am giving this man advice and radio guy who had
Speaker 2: invented the platform essentially double uhas.
Speaker 3: So that was nice.
Speaker 2: That might have been it. I know we talked about
Speaker 2: this on the show not long ago. You did an
Speaker 2: impression of somebody, and I don't remember who it was.
Speaker 2: It might have been Vinetti, it might have been somebody else.
Speaker 3: I thought it was the sketcher slipping guy.
Speaker 2: No, because that because that wouldn't be what I would remember,
Speaker 2: because I don't care enough about that. You impersonated somebody.
Speaker 2: You did an impression of somebody I know that we know,
Speaker 2: and it might have been Vannette. I'm not gonna put
Speaker 2: you on the spot now, but like I remember, we
Speaker 2: both looked at each other and thought, okay, wow that
Speaker 2: Where'd that come from?
Speaker 1: John?
Speaker 2: Like that was pretty good? Where'd you pull that out
Speaker 2: of the out of the bag. So anyways, let's talk
Speaker 2: about Tyreek Hill, shall we. So we now know that
Speaker 2: the citation that he was given does not allege speed
Speaker 2: of one hundred miles an hour, which I still don't
Speaker 2: know where that came from. It says that the visual
Speaker 2: estimation was sixty miles per hour, and you know, I'm
Speaker 2: assuming that was going faster than what he's supposed to
Speaker 2: be going in an area where he was pulled over,
Speaker 2: which again, like I don't think he was upset that
Speaker 2: he got pulled over. I mean, it didn't sound like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, to me, it seemed as if the only
Speaker 2: thing that led to this being a contentious situation was
Speaker 2: because he rolled his window up. And I don't want
Speaker 2: to get into the specific Again, everybody has their own opinion.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to change yours. I'm just sharing mine.
Speaker 2: There was no need for it to escalate to the
Speaker 2: point that it escalated to because he rolled up his window.
Speaker 2: And I feel like the initial officer, you know, I
Speaker 2: think he probably in my if I was somebody, which
Speaker 2: I would never be the person that is determining who,
Speaker 2: in fact, is it fault here. I don't think the
Speaker 2: initial officer was really out of line. But officers are
Speaker 2: supposed to de escalate situation and there was no de
Speaker 2: escalation at all here. And I mean where it led
Speaker 2: to after that where they pulled him out of the
Speaker 2: vehicle and you know, knee him in the back, throwing
Speaker 2: him on the ground, I mean that's so not necessary,
Speaker 2: and you're again you're supposed to de escalate. They did
Speaker 2: the opposite. They turned this into what it was, not him,
Speaker 2: And it's the same thing with Scotti Scheffler. That's like,
Speaker 2: that's how that ended up being that situation. So, you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's another example of not all of the
Speaker 2: guys involved, meaning not all the officers that were there
Speaker 2: when Tyreek Hill was thrown in handcuffs and thrown on
Speaker 2: the ground, and not everybody that was there whenever Scotty
Speaker 2: Scheffler got himself in that situation. Again, Scotty Scheffler's in
Speaker 2: the wrong too, but it didn't need to turn it was.
Speaker 2: Both situations are things that just do not need to
Speaker 2: escalate to that level at all. And the job of
Speaker 2: the officers, among a lot of things, is to de
Speaker 2: escalate situations. If somebody is a little bit worked up,
Speaker 2: you know, you're actually trained to de escalate them. You're
Speaker 2: held to a different standard than they are. And technically,
Speaker 2: by him rolling up his window, he didn't break the law,
Speaker 2: like he didn't need to get there, And that's the
Speaker 2: way I see it. I don't think that you know,
Speaker 2: any of these officers need to be like fired. But
Speaker 2: the dude who came up and threw him on the
Speaker 2: ground and told him to quick crying and said something
Speaker 2: that didn't even make sense about needing like ear surgery
Speaker 2: or something, because he did say he had knee surgery recently.
Speaker 2: That's why he didn't want to mean. He's in a handcuffs,
Speaker 2: not a threat to anybody. The teammates walking up to
Speaker 2: try to potentially, they're probably walking up to see if
Speaker 2: he's irate and they want to calm him down to
Speaker 2: help everybody involved. They're not a threat to anybody. They
Speaker 2: have their hands up and you know these This hot
Speaker 2: head officer goes over and just he escalates it. He
Speaker 2: helps it turn into something that it did not need
Speaker 2: to be. And that's not to say Tyreek Hill is
Speaker 2: justified in going above the speed limit, because he's not.
Speaker 2: And I don't think giver claimed to be. He said, hey,
Speaker 2: here's my license and insurance, give me my give me
Speaker 2: my citation. Do what you got to do. And they
Speaker 2: didn't like his attitude. And should you be respectful and
Speaker 2: courteous to police officers, Absolutely, but you don't. You don't
Speaker 2: have to. You're not breaking the law. You're not and
Speaker 2: I think you should be respectful and kind to any
Speaker 2: human until they've maybe treated you a different way. Civilians
Speaker 2: officers like you should always be kind and respectful, but
Speaker 2: you don't have to. You're not like you should. But
Speaker 2: you know you're not breaking a law, and this is
Speaker 2: just a bad look once again where I choose to
Speaker 2: believe that the majority of those the majority of those
Speaker 2: that you know serve and protect, don't act like this.
Speaker 2: But you now have too high profile people being cited,
Speaker 2: slash arrested, and it's national news. It's seen billions of
Speaker 2: times where you know, if you if you are some
Speaker 2: that wants police officers to get the benefited out, which
Speaker 2: I still give them the benefit of it out in
Speaker 2: most instances, but these are situations that arise to where
Speaker 2: you're like, well, gosh, you know, what if it wasn't
Speaker 2: somebody that is a celebrity, What if it isn't somebody
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not as sympathetic towards Tyreek Hill as
Speaker 2: a human being because I don't you know, he's no
Speaker 2: choir boy, But like with Scotty Scheffler, he seems to
Speaker 2: be legitiarately like the nicest guy ever, and he seemed
Speaker 2: even more like, I mean, it seemed more genuine that
Speaker 2: he's a very nice guy when you heard how he
Speaker 2: reacted in the way he talked to law enforcement during
Speaker 2: his situation. So what gets me is that I knew
Speaker 2: we'd eventually get the body cam footage, and I didn't
Speaker 2: know what was going to be in it. Right, maybe
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill, you know, maybe you know, there's a chance
Speaker 2: maybe he could have lied and said he did try
Speaker 2: to use his status to get out of him. Maybe
Speaker 2: he was an absolute jerk. I don't think him, you know,
Speaker 2: not rolling down the window exactly at the time he
Speaker 2: told him to, is you know, something that makes him
Speaker 2: a jerk. But either way, like I just knew regardless,
Speaker 2: you know, this was predictable. That's the best I'm giving
Speaker 2: you word vomit here, But it was very predictable that
Speaker 2: nobody really needed to see it. They claimed they wanted
Speaker 2: to see it, but they knew how they were going
Speaker 2: to react regardless. Because those who you know, you know,
Speaker 2: just assume that anybody who ever questions law enforcement in
Speaker 2: any way or doesn't you know, again, I know you've
Speaker 2: probably heard this term before, but like boot lickers, people
Speaker 2: who just you know, assume a cop can never do
Speaker 2: anything wrong and we should just you know, we're not
Speaker 2: entitled to our rights and that kind of stuff like
Speaker 2: And again I I I watched the video, I came
Speaker 2: to my own opinion, and I shared that with you.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to change anybody's mind, but I just
Speaker 2: hate that there's so many out there that don't think
Speaker 2: of themselves. They think, in fact, they don't think. They
Speaker 2: just know which side they're going to be on. They're
Speaker 2: going to be law enforcement side because they're you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's that's the way their political party would would
Speaker 2: would would indicate that they lean. And then there's those
Speaker 2: that just assume that every CoP's a tyrant and that
Speaker 2: any cop who's just trying to do his job, you know,
Speaker 2: they're they're abusing their power. Like nobody thinks for themselves anymore.
Speaker 2: We are so divided that your opinion was already made
Speaker 2: up before you watch this video. You may not even
Speaker 2: have known it, but but but it was. You were
Speaker 2: gonna take from that that the officer was in the
Speaker 2: right and Tyreek Hill was in the wrong. And then
Speaker 2: there's others that clearly we're gonna watch it and and
Speaker 2: say well, this officer's way out of line. Again, I
Speaker 2: don't care your opinion. To be honest with you, I don't,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you don't care about mine. But this
Speaker 2: is a big story, so I'm sharing it. I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to divide anybody. But that's my takeaway from this
Speaker 2: is very similar to the Scotti Schffler situation, even though
Speaker 2: the situations aren't exactly identical. It is that while we
Speaker 2: all waited to see if there was gonna be body
Speaker 2: came or whatever it was, you were gonna find what
Speaker 2: you needed to find to justify the way you believe
Speaker 2: you're supposed to think because that's who your politic that
Speaker 2: that's where your political affiliation leans, that's that's that's and
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like it used to be that way.
Speaker 2: I feel like people used to clearly be very proud
Speaker 2: and transparent about which side of the aisle they were
Speaker 2: on and what they supported what they didn't. But I
Speaker 2: feel like people used to think for themselves and not
Speaker 2: and not be like a prerequisite that you know, because
Speaker 2: I know that the vast majority of the left's going
Speaker 2: to go this way, this is what I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to go and then if the vast majority of the
Speaker 2: right's gonna clearly claim that it's all Tyreek Hill's fault,
Speaker 2: that he's a criminal, and you know, the police did
Speaker 2: their job and he should go to jail because he
Speaker 2: didn't listen to the officer and bow to him and
Speaker 2: roll his window down and tell him that he loves him.
Speaker 2: Like that's just the way some people were gonna lean.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: You know, I think I think a misconception on this platform,
Speaker 2: whether it be sports talk radio or just talk radio
Speaker 2: in general. I don't care what your opinion is. That's
Speaker 2: not to say I don't value it. It's not to
Speaker 2: say that you're not entitled to it. But like I'm
Speaker 2: not here to change anybody's mind. I'm not here to
Speaker 2: tell you that if you think about it this way,
Speaker 2: then you're way wrong and you're an idiot. Or if
Speaker 2: you think about it this way, you're way wrong and
Speaker 2: you're an idiot. Like if you disagree with me and
Speaker 2: you think it's you literally see it the exact opposite,
Speaker 2: then that's fine. Like we can have those different opinions
Speaker 2: and it not have any impact the way I view
Speaker 2: you or the way you think. I just wish people
Speaker 2: would think for themselves and not be so predictable when
Speaker 2: it comes to this kind of stuff. That's my overall
Speaker 2: takeaway from it. As I'm sure that's why you guys
Speaker 2: tuned in today to hear me talk about if the
Speaker 2: police handled the Tyreek Hill situation correctly. And I hope
Speaker 2: you can send some sarcasm there because it's it's there
Speaker 2: all right, quick break will come back on the other side,
Speaker 2: Keep it rolling along, get back to the text line.
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Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety so. I mentioned earlier because I'm
Speaker 2: sure a lot of you care about my sports wagering.
Speaker 2: But last night, with the Niners covering three and a
Speaker 2: half as favorites, that helped me cash a parlay with
Speaker 2: the NFL, which I may not get another one this year.
Speaker 2: I'm so bad at betting on the NFL, so the
Speaker 2: fact that I got a three leg parlay to hit
Speaker 2: it makes me, you know, makes me happy. But this
Speaker 2: is the first time that I felt really, really, really
Speaker 2: confident about a bet, John, like really.
Speaker 3: Confident, and you're feeling good about it.
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean now, like not even this one
Speaker 2: so maybe like I felt this way bef for the
Speaker 2: parlay cash last night, but now feeling even more confident
Speaker 2: because you know, I gotta win. You know, some success
Speaker 2: can lead to you feeling pretty good. But Texas State
Speaker 2: money line against Arizona State on Thursday night at seven thirty,
Speaker 2: I feel, I mean, it's almost like I'm so confident
Speaker 2: in it. I'm starting the second guest because I'm like,
Speaker 2: there's no way this is that easy. Because I've been
Speaker 2: big on Texas Texas State for a while because they
Speaker 2: were one of twelve teams that in one of the
Speaker 2: metrics that I really trust, that was favored in eleven
Speaker 2: of their twelve games, and so far they're off to
Speaker 2: a really really good start, and I just think they're
Speaker 2: better than Arizona State. And I know Arizona State beat
Speaker 2: Mississippi State, but that doesn't mean a whole lot. So
Speaker 2: Arizona State has a twenty three to thirty win against
Speaker 2: Mississippi State and a seven to forty eight win against
Speaker 2: Wyoming Texas State. They beat Lamar in a closer game
Speaker 2: than what was expected, and then beat the hell out
Speaker 2: of UTSA, which their their head coach at Texas State
Speaker 2: came from UTSA was an assistant and he just beat
Speaker 2: his former boss forty nine to ten. But I love
Speaker 2: this play I do. I think.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Texas State, if you remember, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're probably not gonna get be there. They have no
Speaker 2: chance of making you know, the actual playoff, but like
Speaker 2: they're who knows how good they're going to be and
Speaker 2: when it's all said and done, But their schedules set
Speaker 2: up really really nice, and I would, I mean, you
Speaker 2: know that they've circled this game as a huge opportunity
Speaker 2: for them, given the fact that you know, they they
Speaker 2: rarely ever get to play power five teams, power four teams,
Speaker 2: and now they're hosting them. This is This is at
Speaker 2: Bobcat Jim Wacker Field at Bobcats Stadium, Missisi Field. I'm
Speaker 2: looking here at that. I'm such a child. Yes, you
Speaker 2: think you think that the Arizona State Sundals are going
Speaker 2: to go into Jim Wacker Field and leave with a victory.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Jim Whacker real name Jim Wacker. Sorry,
Speaker 2: such a child. He was a head coach at Texas
Speaker 2: State many many years ago, which is why you know
Speaker 2: the field is named after him. But right now it
Speaker 2: is Arizona State minus two. The sports line the sports
Speaker 2: line projection here, which I don't usually follow their projected
Speaker 2: score based off their formula, but it is thirty to
Speaker 2: twenty five with the Texas State winning. And right now,
Speaker 2: when it comes to money line, and I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: because of value here, but right now, when it comes
Speaker 2: to money line wagers, ninety seven percent of the money
Speaker 2: is on Arizona State. So I'm going against the public here.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to just the spread again, right
Speaker 2: now it is Texas State plus one and a half
Speaker 2: depending on where you look. I think right now DraftKings
Speaker 2: has Texas State plus two. But I'm going to take
Speaker 2: a money line and I feel good about it. But
Speaker 2: when it comes to that that wager, just the spread,
Speaker 2: eighty six percent of the money is on Arizona State
Speaker 2: to cover and win, you know, meaning they win and
Speaker 2: cover the one and a half. And then as far
Speaker 2: as just the amount of betters, not money, but just
Speaker 2: the wagers, seventy seven percent of the of the bets
Speaker 2: have come in in favor of Arizona State. So I'm
Speaker 2: going against everybody else, but I still feel good about it. Again,
Speaker 2: Arizona State. They're coming off an SEC victory, but I
Speaker 2: think it's fool's gold. I think Mississippi State is that bad.
Speaker 2: I think they may actually be the worst team in
Speaker 2: the SEC this year, including Vandy and Texas State. This
Speaker 2: is an opportunity. I mean, this is gonna be a
Speaker 2: real environment.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: You don't go into Jim Wacker Field at Bobcats Stadium
Speaker 2: in San Marcos, Texas and walk out with a victory,
Speaker 2: you hear me, John, Doesn't happen like that.
Speaker 1: I tell you what.
Speaker 3: I know, we're saying that tongue in cheek. But like
Speaker 3: any football stadium in Texas, whether it's high school, college, whatever,
Speaker 3: maybe they're gonna be rowdy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have a good following, I mean for
Speaker 2: who they are. I mean, I feel like.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm making this up in my head. Did they
Speaker 3: not get an upset last year against a Power five opponent?
Speaker 3: And there may be no way to know that off
Speaker 3: the top of our heads.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm gonna believe that they did
Speaker 2: just because you said that. I mean, why not, exactly?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: I mean, how the hell did Arizona State schedule this game?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: Like, I'm so sick of Power.
Speaker 2: By the way, do you know who the quarterback is
Speaker 2: at Texas State? No?
Speaker 3: Is it somebody we should be familiar with?
Speaker 2: Signette's former Yeah, okay, yeah, he came. He transferred there,
Speaker 2: and he's he was good at James Madison. He's good
Speaker 2: there and seems like.
Speaker 3: A lateral move. I thought he would have moved up
Speaker 3: to the Power. He was Sun Belt Player of the
Speaker 3: Year last year.
Speaker 2: A lot of people thought he was going to go
Speaker 2: to Indiana.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so last year, let's yeah, they did.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 2: They beat Baylor last year. Okay, and the quarterback who
Speaker 2: was at Texas State randomly, he was at Texas State
Speaker 2: last year and he transferred out and went to Western Kentucky.
Speaker 2: That's the TJ. Finley kid, who's the starting quarterback there
Speaker 2: at the WKU. So yeah, I mean last year this
Speaker 2: team was eight and five overall. They had wins against Baylor,
Speaker 2: they beat Nevada, which I guess isn't you know, acclaim
Speaker 2: to fame. But this year this is I mean, more
Speaker 2: than anything, this is just a tough spot for Arizona State. Yes,
Speaker 2: they're coming off a win that you give them some confidence,
Speaker 2: but Texas State hosting a Big twelve team is probably
Speaker 2: I mean, when's the last time you think that's happened.
Speaker 3: Ever, maybe it's like Ultimate didn't like app State hosting
Speaker 3: teams like that or KU hosting Indiana. That stuff shouldn't happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's good for those smaller schools that
Speaker 2: get to do that, but like, you're stupid. If you're
Speaker 2: a power school and you do that, you do gain nothing.
Speaker 2: It's charity, I mean, it's all it is. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, We got the five o'clock hour coming your way.
Speaker 2: A lot to get into, including we're getting away tickets
Speaker 2: to see Brooks and Done at five thirty, So stick around.
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