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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker 3: In fact, I'm now super surprised if I go somewhere
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Speaker 3: one hour and some change in the books. I cannot
Speaker 3: believe how fast this show has gone by, and I'm
Speaker 3: not really sure what we've accomplished, if.
Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you.
Speaker 3: We talked about the college basketball stupid early rankings, and look,
Speaker 3: I'm going to continue to reference them for this reason.
Speaker 3: It's been a while since we've been here, Right, Louisville
Speaker 3: basketball is coming off of a humongous bounce back season,
Speaker 3: and there's expectation out there, not just from the fans,
Speaker 3: not just from Pat Kelce, those who cover the sport
Speaker 3: objectively think Louisville is going to be, for the most part,
Speaker 3: a preseason top ten team. Now there's gonna be some
Speaker 3: more like there's a lot of guys in the portal,
Speaker 3: and I'm glad somebody pointed this out on the text line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a ton of really good players in the portal
Speaker 3: that have yet to make a commitment. There's guys that
Speaker 3: haven't entered the portal that are going to So whenever
Speaker 3: all the dust settles and all players have found a home,
Speaker 3: these rankings will fluctuate. But I have a hard time
Speaker 3: seeing where you are now, knowing that it's based off
Speaker 3: the three big transfers that you've added, the five and
Speaker 3: four star freshmen that you have coming in and oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, you're getting back some really good players
Speaker 3: like Javon Hadley, CANi Russ, James Scott's going to be back,
Speaker 3: and then we'll see what happens with Case and Pryor.
Speaker 3: So again they're going to fluctuate, and they're really stupid
Speaker 3: because again we're talking about all these outlets that have
Speaker 3: put out rankings when no team seemingly knows their roster
Speaker 3: yet it's all happening as we speak, coaches scrambling in
Speaker 3: the portal and try to put it all together. But again,
Speaker 3: as stupid as they are, I bring it up because
Speaker 3: it's just nice to be reminded that there's expectation around
Speaker 3: here once again. In fact, we'll get to this a
Speaker 3: little bit later on the percentage of attendance.
Speaker 2: The increased attendance this year, it.
Speaker 3: Was notable, and it really it really jumped up as
Speaker 3: the season went on, and that really probably should have
Speaker 3: been an expectation, right because had the team stunked, who
Speaker 3: knows what would have happened as far as attendance. But
Speaker 3: it was a gradual build when it comes to fans
Speaker 3: coming back to the Young Center this year, and I
Speaker 3: mean as they kept playing. I mean, it's almost like
Speaker 3: you had to kind of fall in love with this team,
Speaker 3: like a lot of people did. I mean, there's so
Speaker 3: many people out there that never thought they would ever
Speaker 3: get back into Louisville basketball the way they did.
Speaker 2: With this team.
Speaker 3: And it is one because you just it had been
Speaker 3: so long, you maybe distance yourself as far as being
Speaker 3: like a fanatic because the program was lifeless for a
Speaker 3: few years, just being so bad, and then of course
Speaker 3: the scandals and all that kind of stuff. But you
Speaker 3: also probably thought, look, I don't even know who these
Speaker 3: guys are. They're here one year. I mean, but then
Speaker 3: you watch them, you see how hard they play, you
Speaker 3: see how hard Pat Kelsey coaches them. It's almost impossible not.
Speaker 2: To like that guy.
Speaker 3: And then slowly and surely people started showing back up,
Speaker 3: which again I want to get to the average attendance later,
Speaker 3: because again Louisville made a big jump, as you could expect,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're jump usually. I mean the jump is
Speaker 3: mostly due to the fact that they just didn't have
Speaker 3: anybody showing up for games for a couple of years. Also, Kentucky,
Speaker 3: they topped the list, which I'll say this when it
Speaker 3: comes to Kentucky, there was a different energy about their
Speaker 3: program as well.
Speaker 2: They got a three seed this year. I believe that's the.
Speaker 3: Same exact seed they had a year ago, right with
Speaker 3: Calipari in his last year, different energy, right, that marriage
Speaker 3: had soured. We all know that, and Pope he didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah he did, though, Pope he got in
Speaker 3: the same seed, and he probably had more losses than
Speaker 3: maybe they had last year. I don't know that for certain,
Speaker 3: I don't have the records in front of me, but
Speaker 3: like Pope along the way of putting together a three seed,
Speaker 3: like he won the games that Kentucky fans really really
Speaker 3: care about.
Speaker 2: He beat Louisville, beat Duke.
Speaker 3: Swept Tennessee until, of course they ended their season in
Speaker 3: the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: You hated to see it, You hated to see it,
Speaker 2: but you know what happened.
Speaker 3: So again, Kentucky being at the top of the list
Speaker 3: probably doesn't stand out as like a big surprise because
Speaker 3: it's Kentucky. But you could tell their energy with their program,
Speaker 3: despite the results being similar, was very noticeable. Because again
Speaker 3: I think, not only do both programs have coaches that
Speaker 3: should be able to succeed at a high level where
Speaker 3: they are, but like they get it and they're really
Speaker 3: easy to you know, coaches that win at a high level,
Speaker 3: they can be like, look, let's think about who we
Speaker 3: used to support around here. And I don't mean to
Speaker 3: act like these guys are awful human beings because I
Speaker 3: don't know them. I think there's some things that have
Speaker 3: happened with these two that might make you question just
Speaker 3: how great they are as humans, or or you could
Speaker 3: be somebody like me that covered them for a long
Speaker 3: time that questions if they are actually human beings. Bobby
Speaker 3: Petrino robot, not a real human. Not sure he could
Speaker 3: show any emotion. Say that sarcastically, but like if you
Speaker 3: found out he was a robot, would you be surprised?
Speaker 3: Rick Pittino not a robot, but like maybe the most
Speaker 3: unrelatable human being on the planet. But you know what
Speaker 3: those guys did. They want at a really high level,
Speaker 3: and we love them for that. These guys, if they
Speaker 3: went at a really high level, they have they have
Speaker 3: a component to them. That's just it's needed this day
Speaker 3: and age in college sports, and it's just gonna make
Speaker 3: it different. Although anytime I talk about the relatability and whatnot,
Speaker 3: It always reminds me of always reminds me of the
Speaker 3: Sadderfield mac Era because remember when those guys got the
Speaker 3: town and they were you know, they were you know,
Speaker 3: this is a story. I don't know if Paul rodgers
Speaker 3: uh is the one who told me this.
Speaker 2: It might have been.
Speaker 3: It might have been Paul. It might have been one
Speaker 3: of the engineers who who works with worked with the
Speaker 3: Coaches shows. But they ended up doing a a the
Speaker 3: Coaches show for Patino at the Tumbleweed on outer Loop
Speaker 3: and Rick Patino was there, and like Rick, just think
Speaker 3: about Rick Patino being on outer Loop and just like.
Speaker 2: Being at tumble try to visualize it. I mean he was.
Speaker 3: He did tumble Weed Love, but it was the one
Speaker 3: on the river before they closed it down. But they
Speaker 3: were at the outer Loop one and he asked, I
Speaker 3: think it might have been Paul, what planet are we on?
Speaker 3: It wasn't on the air, But like that tells you,
Speaker 3: like Rick is so not like relatable at all, And
Speaker 3: that's okay because he wanted a high level and he
Speaker 3: also you know, I mean.
Speaker 2: It it is Let me back up a second.
Speaker 3: Can he be the guy like that is that is
Speaker 3: talking down on outer Loop Tumbleweed when he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's having an intercourse on a table at an Italian
Speaker 3: restaurant after they closed the doors, like come on, come on,
Speaker 3: Rick might have.
Speaker 2: Been that was the only Versace suit that's ever been
Speaker 2: in that tumble.
Speaker 3: They might might have might have been before that all happened.
Speaker 3: But anyways, Like, but Chris Mack's the guy that quite
Speaker 3: literally you go to Tumblewell, you go to Rooster specifically,
Speaker 3: you might see him sitting in a booth with his family,
Speaker 3: drinking a course light, eating wings like just like anybody,
Speaker 3: he was normal, he was relatable. Mac was way too
Speaker 3: normal for this job. And I told him that, and
Speaker 3: he knows that. He's just you know, not to say
Speaker 3: he wasn't a good coach here at times, but like
Speaker 3: he was too normal for.
Speaker 2: This job, so kind of got to be sighted. So
Speaker 2: you love Mac when.
Speaker 3: He's just one of the boys, right, you see him
Speaker 3: on the lake, right, he's you know, he remember when
Speaker 3: he threw toilet paper all over Scott Saderfield's house because
Speaker 3: they were neighbors and he won Coach of the Year
Speaker 3: and it, I mean that video went viral, like it
Speaker 3: was crazy. All these guys may look at him. They're normal,
Speaker 3: they're like us, and then they start to stink. And
Speaker 3: I don't know if Mac ever really stunk, but like
Speaker 3: obviously missing out on the tournament the COVID year, that
Speaker 3: really put things in a bad way. And then of
Speaker 3: course we know what happened with Dino and all that.
Speaker 2: But I remember.
Speaker 3: Instead of like, oh, yeah, he's on the lake, it
Speaker 3: went from that to like, he better get his ass
Speaker 3: off the lake and get recruiting, you know better, he
Speaker 3: better get his ass out of that rooster's booth and
Speaker 3: get us some five stars.
Speaker 2: I don't know where he thinks he is. This is Louisville.
Speaker 3: Same thing with Field, right, like, oh, he's loving up
Speaker 3: these players. Man, he's got him, he's got him playing hard,
Speaker 3: he's coaching them up.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: He just loves his guys.
Speaker 3: Man love Legue, got a big he got that Carolina twang.
Speaker 3: He's a good old boy.
Speaker 2: And then you know, he meets he meets Mark.
Speaker 3: Mark stoops at midfield with a full diaper and cries
Speaker 3: about El's down. And then you're like, yeah, this guy's soft.
Speaker 3: Get him out of here. He ain't built for us.
Speaker 3: Give us Bobby Patrino back. He wants foot on the
Speaker 3: throat against Kentucky every game. He's not crying at midfield
Speaker 3: about El's down, So we want him relatable. But that's
Speaker 3: that's really the after part, right, Like, they got to win.
Speaker 3: If they win in the relatable, it's the best of
Speaker 3: both worlds. They win in the relatable, likable, that's what
Speaker 3: I mean. But if they're winning at a high level
Speaker 3: and they show nothing, we'll probably still be happy because
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Mike. Mike, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 4: Hey man, what's going on?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Just a couple of things here. I'm really happy with
Speaker 4: Kentucky's transfer portal and their actual freshman recruiting piece. I
Speaker 4: think they got pieces that are going to fit together.
Speaker 4: I do think they need one more shooting guard, and
Speaker 4: then I think Louisville's class is really, really good. And
Speaker 4: I've just got one question about Louisville's class. Okay, Tyron Stokes.
Speaker 4: Is he a possibility for a late ad since he's
Speaker 4: not doing AAU this summer, is he trying to get
Speaker 4: enough credits where he can reclass and join that class.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted to save that for a little bit
Speaker 3: later because I'm trying to get a little more info myself.
Speaker 3: But yes, for those who missed it, Tyron Stokes, the
Speaker 3: number one player in the country. He is from Louisville,
Speaker 3: has not lived here for a while. He's been playing
Speaker 3: a different prep schools across the country, also playing for
Speaker 3: the OCEE League. He announced he's not going to play
Speaker 3: AAU and that has led a lot of people to
Speaker 3: think that maybe he's trying to see if he can
Speaker 3: reclass and join a team this year. To give you
Speaker 3: just the honest answer, I don't know. I would say
Speaker 3: if he did decide to do that, Louisville would be
Speaker 3: in a good spot. But I think there's also another
Speaker 3: side of this that nobody's realizing is that Tyron Stokes
Speaker 3: is now well aware of what he's worth and guy,
Speaker 3: he doesn't need to play AU. He doesn't so I
Speaker 3: think Tyron Stokes, there's a scenario and I'm not saying
Speaker 3: this is what's happening, but this is the side of
Speaker 3: the coin that I'm not sure people have considered. He
Speaker 3: might be the first.
Speaker 2: Guy to say, look, I don't need AAU.
Speaker 3: I'm if I'm going to be playing the game, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get paid to do it. So I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's a college thing or if it's him realizing
Speaker 3: he doesn't need to do it. Clearly he's gonna need
Speaker 3: to stay in shape and play, but like he doesn't
Speaker 3: like him playing AAU wouldn't really benefit him, right, Like
Speaker 3: he could get more repetition he play against good players
Speaker 3: because obviously he would play in the highest level circuit.
Speaker 3: But I know that Louisville fans Mike are hoping that
Speaker 3: this news means he's trying to reclass and would consider Louisville.
Speaker 3: But he's he's one of those guys that has been
Speaker 3: a known name for a year now since Chris Mack
Speaker 3: was here. I mean he was this is when he
Speaker 3: was I guess middle school, entering entering high school. Like
Speaker 3: he's he's been believed to be one of the best
Speaker 3: players in the world for his age for a while now,
Speaker 3: but there is not a lot like whoever whoever, I
Speaker 3: guess is like running his recruitment or who he who
Speaker 3: he's who his mentor is like they they keep everything
Speaker 3: really really tight lipt.
Speaker 4: The only other possibility I'm wonder is could he join
Speaker 4: the Abance at the BYU? I saw that toody Yep, that's.
Speaker 2: A good point, and that's BYU.
Speaker 3: You know, it's wild because Mark Pope had success there,
Speaker 3: But I don't know where all this money's coming from.
Speaker 3: Now that wasn't there prior. Now we are still I mean,
Speaker 3: we're now getting to it's it's still brand new when
Speaker 3: you think about it in the grand scheme of college
Speaker 3: sports that like you need deep pockets to go buy players.
Speaker 2: But yeah, BYU, it still.
Speaker 3: Seems crazy that the number one player in the country
Speaker 3: is going there. But it's because they have those deep pockets.
Speaker 3: And it sounds like they want everybody to know we
Speaker 3: got plenty more where that came from.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean like, if you're a Catholic and you
Speaker 4: got money, you're giving money the Notre Dame. And if
Speaker 4: you're a Mormon, you got money must be given it to.
Speaker 2: B YU, you're damn right.
Speaker 1: A.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mike, appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hadn't brought up Tyron Stokes yet because I just,
Speaker 3: you know, it's such an unknown and I try not to.
Speaker 3: I try not to to to give a whole lot
Speaker 3: of time to to topics and things that really it's
Speaker 3: just you know, I was gonna say pre speculation, but
Speaker 3: some could say that's really what this whole industry is.
Speaker 3: Sports talk radio is just speculation, hypotheticals, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: But yes, we've talked about Tyron Stokes on this show
Speaker 3: many times over the years, and I mean years, because
Speaker 3: he's been a notable name, just because Louisville, the city
Speaker 3: has a guy that is from here that you know,
Speaker 3: you never know how anybody's going to turn out. Some
Speaker 3: guys are hyped to an insane level and it doesn't
Speaker 3: work out. But when you talk about a guy who
Speaker 3: from the earliest age of like sixth seventh grade, that
Speaker 3: has been known nationally, not like you know, he wasn't
Speaker 3: appearing on Sports Illustrated as a middle schooler.
Speaker 2: But you know, those who this is their world, this
Speaker 2: is what they do.
Speaker 3: They evaluate basketball players from middle school on and NBA
Speaker 3: Draft prospects. It sounds kind of silly if you're sitting
Speaker 3: here listening right now and you have a you have
Speaker 3: a six or seventh grader, I mean, it's probably not
Speaker 3: relatable to you.
Speaker 2: But like there are guys who by that age, guys.
Speaker 3: And girls, to be honest, that that absolutely have shown
Speaker 3: to have an unbelievable upside. And like, for example, there
Speaker 3: was a tweet that went viral again the other day
Speaker 3: because Paige Bukers won a national championship with Yukon on Sunday. Well,
Speaker 3: somebody dug up a tweet I believe it was from
Speaker 3: like two thousand and might have been like two thousand
Speaker 3: and seventeen, and it basically said it was a picture
Speaker 3: of her when she was really young, playing I think
Speaker 3: six or seventh grade, and it said, Paige Bukers, remember
Speaker 3: the name. She's the best player that I've ever seen
Speaker 3: at this age, even better than Diana Tarassi was.
Speaker 2: And how about that guy?
Speaker 3: He had like eight hundred followers and he's been covering
Speaker 3: you know, youth basketball and whatnot for that long, but
Speaker 3: he put it out there long before anybody else. And
Speaker 3: sure enough, like she's she's not Caitlin Clark, but she's
Speaker 3: really special.
Speaker 2: So Stokes is.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's visited Louisville before, and he has some
Speaker 3: level of relationship I believe with the staff. But again,
Speaker 3: they've kept everything really really tight as far as his recruitment.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's one of those guys that college
Speaker 3: now will just be a chance for him to make
Speaker 3: a lot of money before it becomes a pro because
Speaker 3: he's gonna be one and done.
Speaker 2: There's just no way around that now.
Speaker 3: I say that, which who had ever thought Cooper Flagg
Speaker 3: would be a guy that would stick around for more
Speaker 3: than a year. I still don't think he will, but
Speaker 3: it's at least more so a possibility than it ever
Speaker 3: has been, and certainly more than and I think than
Speaker 3: I think we ever thought it would be.
Speaker 2: So I mean, let me give you an example.
Speaker 3: The last guy and this isn't a great example, but
Speaker 3: I mean it is a good example, but it's not
Speaker 3: a good ending. The last player that had this kind
Speaker 3: of hype as far as like from such an early
Speaker 3: age as the clear cut best player you know in
Speaker 3: his class was Amani bits. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: guys remember, because it's been a long time he was
Speaker 3: the national player of the Year in high school as
Speaker 3: a sophomore.
Speaker 2: I mean he was. I mean he was.
Speaker 3: I feel like he had more hype than Flag did.
Speaker 3: I feel like he had more hype than Zion did.
Speaker 3: Now in the end of his recruitment, it all became
Speaker 3: like a mess, and he since I think I think
Speaker 3: I saw something the other day where he did an
Speaker 3: interview where he talked about how you know, he really
Speaker 3: like he's he and I guess probably the more so
Speaker 3: the people around him really screwed up his future by
Speaker 3: like the way they handled it, like he was just baggage.
Speaker 3: I mean, the fact that he ended his college career
Speaker 3: at Eastern Michigan and Yipsilante his hometown, really just tells
Speaker 3: you a couple of things. One, it fell apart for
Speaker 3: him to whar he was damage goods and people didn't
Speaker 3: think he was anywhere near worthy of bringing on because
Speaker 3: of all that comes with it as far as baggage.
Speaker 3: But also like he was really good early and never
Speaker 3: got better.
Speaker 2: I mean he didn't. He wasn't. He was never an
Speaker 2: above the rim guy. He was just tall, he had
Speaker 2: a good shot, but he didn't really do a whole
Speaker 2: lot to get it. He was just a guy.
Speaker 3: Who, you know, people wanted to claim could be the
Speaker 3: next Kevin Durant because he was tall, lanky, had a
Speaker 3: good handle.
Speaker 2: Could flat out shoot it.
Speaker 3: But he got his shots because you know, he's playing
Speaker 3: against kids a lot younger than him, or i'm sorry,
Speaker 3: a lot smaller than him. He is still in the NBA,
Speaker 3: but he's in the He's not a contract with the Cavs,
Speaker 3: but I believe he's a two way guy and he's
Speaker 3: in their G League. So you know, Stokes, you never
Speaker 3: know how any of these guys turn out. But I
Speaker 3: remember leaving here. It was it was mid days. It
Speaker 3: was when I was doing Middays the Red Zone on
Speaker 3: this station when it was Cards Radio, and I remember
Speaker 3: finishing up my show at three o'clock. Tony and Dave
Speaker 3: were going on, and I went back to my cubicle,
Speaker 3: and I remember this first time I read about this kid,
Speaker 3: because i'd heard his name and seen highlights, because he
Speaker 3: was like a sixth grader, just looking like he should
Speaker 3: be in the NBA. I mean, clearly he looked young,
Speaker 3: but you know, he was phenomenal. But I never knew
Speaker 3: the story. It might have been Jeff Career at the time,
Speaker 3: who was working on the Louisville beat for the CJ,
Speaker 3: who wrote a column about how most people don't realize it,
Speaker 3: but he's from Louisville, like he grew he lived here
Speaker 3: as a kid, grew up here until you know, I
Speaker 3: hate even saying growing up, because this guy, he's grown
Speaker 3: up as a penom, traveling across the country to different
Speaker 3: schools because he's that good.
Speaker 2: So but his.
Speaker 3: Family's from here, and I know there's some relative I
Speaker 3: believe there's some relatives of his still here in town
Speaker 3: that that are close with some folks that are really
Speaker 3: big in the basketball community around here that train players
Speaker 3: and athletes, and they have somewhat of a a I
Speaker 3: guess they would probably know more than a lot of us. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: that is news that I think is we're talking about
Speaker 3: at least mentioning. But I don't really have any more
Speaker 3: to add other than that he is a number one
Speaker 3: player in the country who did announce he's not playing
Speaker 3: AU this year, which has everybody thinking that it means
Speaker 3: he's going to reclassify and start college, which he might,
Speaker 3: or it could be him basically saying, look, I'm a
Speaker 3: Nike Kid on the Nike circuit UBL. I'm already being
Speaker 3: taken well care of because you know, nike'sdropping bags. They've
Speaker 3: been doing it long before. I mean, they do it
Speaker 3: in a strategic way, other than the idiot Adidas guys
Speaker 3: who got in trouble. But if he said, look, if
Speaker 3: you want me to play aau Nike, you pay me,
Speaker 3: you know you got to cut the check. Like that's
Speaker 3: where we are now. And he has the power to
Speaker 3: do that, and they probably would to be honest with
Speaker 3: you because they want to get in early with these
Speaker 3: kind of guys. All right, quick break, keep it locked.
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Speaker 3: us as we take you up until six o'clock. So
Speaker 3: I mentioned this earlier, and I guess I feel like
Speaker 3: it's one of those things that I don't get to
Speaker 3: it now. I'll probably just forget about it or run
Speaker 3: out of time because I'm not great at managing the
Speaker 3: clock here on this show. And I feel like if
Speaker 3: I was ever going to get better out of would
Speaker 3: have done it by now. But anyways, uh, here is
Speaker 3: here are the updated numbers when it comes to attendance
Speaker 3: for this college basketball season that just concluded a couple.
Speaker 2: Of days ago.
Speaker 3: So Pat Kelsey, Uh he directed a two hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty seven point five percent increase in total wins for
Speaker 3: U of L. And by the way, I'm referencing this,
Speaker 3: this this info from Rick Bosyg, which isn't it wild?
Speaker 3: Rick bosicg you know he's he now he now factors
Speaker 3: that in and like emphasizes winning whenever he was didn't
Speaker 3: think winning was was possible with Kenny Payne, anybody thinking
Speaker 3: that Louisville should win, you're just you know, you're you're
Speaker 3: picking on Kenny. I'm not sure I'll ever be able
Speaker 3: to let that go totally. It'd be different if like
Speaker 3: Rick didn't acknowledge like that Pat was doing a great job,
Speaker 3: then it would be hard. But like, you know, like
Speaker 3: it's just hard to forget that it's and I'll move on,
Speaker 3: I promise. But with Rick, I've always felt like Rick
Speaker 3: Bosa is great at what he does, and he's really objective.
Speaker 3: I would really enjoy like his work. I really enjoyed
Speaker 3: his work and I still do. That's why I'm reading
Speaker 3: an article from WDRB right now that he put together.
Speaker 3: But he's always he just was so insanely biased, and
Speaker 3: it was just it made me sad to be honest
Speaker 3: with you, not like I was at home crying myself asleep,
Speaker 3: but like I couldn't understand what it is that he
Speaker 3: you know, most people who tried to advocate that Kenny
Speaker 3: was doing a good job and that the results were
Speaker 3: on you know, basically right on time, like this is
Speaker 3: what you everybody should have expected because of what he inherited.
Speaker 3: Most people who did that, I don't even think they
Speaker 3: believed it. They just, you know, like they they just,
Speaker 3: for some reason, were Kenny Payne fans more than Lowell fans.
Speaker 3: With Rick, I think he believed it, which was just
Speaker 3: puzzling to me and embarrassing for him for being honest.
Speaker 3: But anyways, Louisville, they jumped from number twenty eight to
Speaker 3: number fifteen in average attendance in Division one basketball and
Speaker 3: allowed me to allow me to emphasize here that they
Speaker 3: were still top thirty in the country when nobody was
Speaker 3: going to games other than you know, a few thousand.
Speaker 3: I always say this the one reel like, Okay, damn,
Speaker 3: this is where we are because we were kind of
Speaker 3: numb to it for a while, and you knew why
Speaker 3: people weren't going to games. But being at the UM
Speaker 3: Center for the few games that I was there for
Speaker 3: the last year that Kenny was here, it really did
Speaker 3: kind of take you back, like you almost stopping your tracks,
Speaker 3: like this is insane, Like I never thought I would
Speaker 3: ever go to a Louisville game at home when they're
Speaker 3: playing a conference opponent and there's ten people. I mean
Speaker 3: there were more than that, but still, like it was crazy.
Speaker 3: But even with again, that shows you that we care
Speaker 3: about basketball a lot more than most. In fact, like
Speaker 3: the women's team Jeff Walls, he averages way more fans
Speaker 3: for his games than the vast majority of college basketball
Speaker 3: programs on the men's side. So again, the attendants jumped
Speaker 3: twenty nine point two percent from eleven thousand, five hundred
Speaker 3: and four and twenty twenty four not aur all number,
Speaker 3: to fourteen thousand and eight and sixty four this season.
Speaker 3: I actually think the the you know, the numbers that
Speaker 3: they would give you for the Louisville games are usually
Speaker 3: never super accurate just because they give you like what
Speaker 3: was I don't know, there's it's not worth getting into
Speaker 3: the conversation now, But I actually think that even if
Speaker 3: let's say the average that they gave us this year
Speaker 3: was fourteen thousand and eight and sixty four, which is
Speaker 3: what we have, like, let's say that's a little bit inflated, Well,
Speaker 3: the number that you're that you're jumping from also insanely inflated.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think more so inflated. So the increase
Speaker 3: was there really every game? I mean two of the
Speaker 3: says here at WDRB dot com. Louisville ended at season
Speaker 3: within attendance. Buzz drawn two of the program's three largest
Speaker 3: crowds in the final eight days of the regular season
Speaker 3: eighteen four and fifty nine against Pittsburgh and then eighteen thousand,
Speaker 3: seven hundred and seven against Stanford that was the senior day.
Speaker 3: So overall attendance, when you just consider the overall number,
Speaker 3: two hundred and seven thousand and some change was the
Speaker 3: number last year. This year was up to two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty two thousand, so a pump of twenty two percent,
Speaker 3: and you did play one fewer home game this past season,
Speaker 3: so again I think the number that is eighteen ish
Speaker 3: like eight the last two games, and of course those
Speaker 3: were as mentioned, those were two of the bigger crowds.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we're ever gonna get to that
Speaker 3: being like the average, because Pakkelsea could keep this thing
Speaker 3: rolling and get even better. But expecting eighteen thousand people
Speaker 3: to show up on a Tuesday in November at nine
Speaker 3: o'clock when you play Winthrop or something, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just not sustainable. It's just not that's just it's it's
Speaker 3: not anybody's fault. That's just I mean, if there's if
Speaker 3: it's anybody's fault, it's just it's it's you for scheduling it.
Speaker 3: But I also understand why you have those games on
Speaker 3: the schedule, and that's not going away. This is what
Speaker 3: I talked about during the season as I tried my
Speaker 3: best to avoid the attendance talk because it really is
Speaker 3: a no win situation because I don't really I mean,
Speaker 3: I want people to go to games. I want these
Speaker 3: players and the staff to realize that they are appreciated
Speaker 3: and there's a good support. But man, the lower Bowl
Speaker 3: I don't even know how many it holds total, but
Speaker 3: if the lower bowls full and rocking, that's good enough
Speaker 3: to give you a great home court advantage. And this
Speaker 3: is another thing that really just hit me. All these
Speaker 3: players and coaches and coaches. They didn't look up in
Speaker 3: the nosebleeds and c empty seats and think where's everybody at?
Speaker 2: They were.
Speaker 3: They were energized because they even the Lower Bowl only
Speaker 3: when it was rocking and rowdy. They've never played consistently
Speaker 3: in front of crowds like that where they were prior,
Speaker 3: and there was an appreciation for it, even though it
Speaker 3: was still not where we used to be. So I
Speaker 3: think that night in and night out, and like acc
Speaker 3: play and if you have a good opponent come in
Speaker 3: in the non conference like you did Tennessee. I think
Speaker 3: those games I think you can get between sixteen and nineteen. Now,
Speaker 3: if you have a bum coming in like a Boston
Speaker 3: College on a Tuesday in January and it's an eight
Speaker 3: o'clock tip and they sink, you probably are gonna have
Speaker 3: fewer people. But games that matter, like the games that
Speaker 3: are big games, and they don't even have to be
Speaker 3: like conference deciding games, right, Like if Duke comes to
Speaker 3: town and the winner is the regular season champion the ACC,
Speaker 3: that's a different situation. But like just good games against
Speaker 3: good teams. I think you can be in that in
Speaker 3: that range. I think there's gonna be big games like
Speaker 3: a Duke or Carolina coming to town if they're good
Speaker 3: Kentucky obviously, then I think you get close to you know,
Speaker 3: selling out or actually selling it out. And you know,
Speaker 3: we'll look back at the time when Rick was here
Speaker 3: and the average attendance was, you know, in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 3: twenty one, three hundred and eighty.
Speaker 2: Six was your average? Was your average crowd?
Speaker 3: I just think ten years removed from that, society is
Speaker 3: in a different place to where that's not realistic at all.
Speaker 3: Rick could still be here, Tom could still be here
Speaker 3: running the city. And I just don't think this day
Speaker 3: and age twenty one point three thousand is a realistic
Speaker 3: average just because you know, I shouldn't say it's a chore,
Speaker 3: but like the and they'll always be a good crowd
Speaker 3: there when things are going well and the team is good.
Speaker 3: But can we just be real with ourselves? I clearly
Speaker 3: am obsessed with Louisville basketball. I'm a diehard fan. I've
Speaker 3: been fortunate enough to you know, my let my passion
Speaker 3: and my obsession, my insanity.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's given me a career.
Speaker 3: But like, I have no problem in saying, I mean,
Speaker 3: I got a wife, I got two kids that I
Speaker 3: want to spend time with.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go.
Speaker 3: I mean, I watched a game at home with my family,
Speaker 3: But like I don't want to be out and make
Speaker 3: you know, and I don't want to make it about me.
Speaker 3: But I'm just telling you, like I have no problem
Speaker 3: in admitting even myself as a super fan and a fanatic,
Speaker 3: that yeah, I'd rather watch a lot of these games
Speaker 3: at home because when it's convenient, and it's it's but
Speaker 3: it's like I'm also you know, I don't want to
Speaker 3: I can't take my family at every game one I
Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to afford it. I'm fortunate enough to
Speaker 3: get a credential. But you know, I just I wish
Speaker 3: there was more noise about it being okay to not
Speaker 3: go to every single game, and it being okay for
Speaker 3: a program to have some dud opponents on the schedule
Speaker 3: and attendance not be full it and look, I think
Speaker 3: the majority is the understands that, and I guess more
Speaker 3: than anything, I'm just triggered by the noise of Like
Speaker 3: I've never understood people who go to a game and
Speaker 3: they look around and see empty seats and they get pissed.
Speaker 3: It's impacted their experience, and I just I don't understand it.
Speaker 3: All right, So let's see more numbers here, because I
Speaker 3: do want to reference Kentucky. So first season of Mark Pope,
Speaker 3: their average attendance improved wasn't by a big number, because
Speaker 3: again they still were having big They weren't coming off
Speaker 3: of an eight win in a four win season. They
Speaker 3: were a good team that had a great season, a
Speaker 3: three seed, and oh by the way, they had a
Speaker 3: really entertaining team and a Kentucky boy, Reed Shepherd, who
Speaker 3: was one of the best players on that squad. So
Speaker 3: they still had good attendance. But still this year's team,
Speaker 3: they improved by an average of four hundred and six
Speaker 3: fans per game. So their average this year was twenty
Speaker 3: three and thirty four for their eighteen home games. And
Speaker 3: they finished, Sorry, they finished second to Kentucky. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: Kentucky finished second to Carolina, and an average home attendance,
Speaker 3: but they led the country in total attendance. Indiana finished
Speaker 3: seventh nationally in average home attendance, but they were first
Speaker 3: in the big ten. Let's see, is there any other
Speaker 3: notable Yes, so top ten in no, never mind, So
Speaker 3: Carolina has won it the last three years. As far
Speaker 3: as the average attendance, Syracuse got it in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: two and twenty twenty twenty nineteen, so Syracuse had it
Speaker 3: for four years running. Kentucky had the average between twenty
Speaker 3: sixteen and twenty eighteen. So really in the last ten seasons,
Speaker 3: there's only been four schools that have that have led
Speaker 3: in average attendance, and that's Carolina, Syracuse, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess three. Yeah, just those three.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I was thinking that there was
Speaker 3: there was four. All Right, we need to get to
Speaker 3: a quick break. We'll come back on the other side
Speaker 3: and we will wrap up the four o'clock hour. One
Speaker 3: thing I want to get to a little later on.
Speaker 3: We could certainly talk more about Cooper Flag potentially staying
Speaker 3: in college, which I don't think is as crazy as
Speaker 3: people think it is.
Speaker 2: Also, when you look around at the portal, I want
Speaker 2: to look at the ACC.
Speaker 3: It's still early in the portal, I think for a
Speaker 3: lot of teams, but you now have all the coaches hired.
Speaker 3: Some should have been fired, they weren't. But the ACC
Speaker 3: taking a big step forward is crucial in my opinion,
Speaker 3: and how these rosters are being put together across the
Speaker 3: league and the coaches that were hired like that, like
Speaker 3: because you can flip things pretty quickly. I'm not ready
Speaker 3: to say that the league's going to make a massive jump,
Speaker 3: but it's certainly on the table. Stick around right here
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Speaker 3: We were wrapping up the four o'clock hour here on
Speaker 3: a Wednesday afternoon. I lose track of what days it
Speaker 3: is whenever I'm a little bit off routine, which the
Speaker 3: flooding has led to Bullet County where I reside. Proudly,
Speaker 3: they have no school all week so NTI, which has
Speaker 3: led to me having really the first part of my
Speaker 3: day with my little one, my daughter, which is great,
Speaker 3: you know, any town with her is great, but it
Speaker 3: just you know, it's not my normal like workday routine.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of all over the place. But it
Speaker 3: is Wednesday, right, I believe it is. It is right,
Speaker 3: it is, It is all right. I just needed you
Speaker 3: to confirm. But real quick, speaking of of of raising children,
Speaker 3: there is a a Good Morning America story here where
Speaker 3: they they they referenced I guess it's a it's a
Speaker 3: study from a company called smart Asset, and they've given us,
Speaker 3: I guess, an updated cost of raising a child here
Speaker 3: in the United States. So, according to this smart Asset study,
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts, the most expensive state to raise a child,
Speaker 3: it costs nearly thirty six thousand a year, while in Mississippi,
Speaker 3: the cheapest state, it's less than half that much. So
Speaker 3: the study breaks down the biggest expenses families face today,
Speaker 3: from housing to education to food.
Speaker 2: And I've never.
Speaker 3: Once and I mean I'm a I'm I'm a father
Speaker 3: of two, and I've never once considered I was about
Speaker 3: to walk into like, you know, something that made me
Speaker 3: look really stupid and look bad that I've talked about before.
Speaker 3: But like, I don't really deal with a lot of
Speaker 3: our finances. My wife is great at dealing with that,
Speaker 3: at least I think she is. It's a big blessing
Speaker 3: for me that she handles that burden and doesn't like
Speaker 3: you know, she's she's she works in finance anyway, so therefore,
Speaker 3: like you know, it's it's kind of her lane.
Speaker 2: But you know, I believe we're in good shape. Again.
Speaker 3: I got this plastic card. I swipe it when I
Speaker 3: need to survive, when it comes to gasoline for my
Speaker 3: vehicle and food to eat, beer, and usually pretty good.
Speaker 3: Like I don't spend much money. I mean, I'm buy
Speaker 3: things when I need it. But I mean we could
Speaker 3: be we could be worth a million and I wouldn't know.
Speaker 3: I think I wouldn't know, but we could be, you know, bankrupt.
Speaker 3: I think I would know too. So I think we're good.
Speaker 3: But I've never once you know, despite not necessarily being
Speaker 3: responsible for bill paying that kind of stuff, like when
Speaker 3: I realized, oh wow, that's really expensive, like we shouldn't
Speaker 3: do that, or hey, that's a good deal. I'm at
Speaker 3: least aware of like what things cost, and I guess
Speaker 3: relatively what our budget to spend is, right, I know
Speaker 3: our lifestyle that kind of thing. But I've never once
Speaker 3: thought about a kid and what it costs. And I
Speaker 3: think most parents are probably like that because regardless of cost.
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do right, just oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: out go find for yourself. I can't afford you, like
Speaker 3: I mean, so it's always gonna it's always been a
Speaker 3: cost associated thing. But I've never won. Like they say,
Speaker 3: twenty nine percent of the expense for a child is housing.
Speaker 3: So it's twenty nine percent of total costs, but of
Speaker 3: course it can be much higher in some states like
Speaker 3: California and Hawaii. Well, like, I don't, I don't look
Speaker 3: at well, there goes, I got moose in his own bedroom.
Speaker 2: My daughter's got her bedroom, maya.
Speaker 3: I mean, these guys are or they freeloaders, And I've
Speaker 3: never once looked at it that way. I mean, clearly
Speaker 3: it does cost a lot for child care. Like that
Speaker 3: the one thing that is always like, the one thing
Speaker 3: that's really really stood out about an added expense that
Speaker 3: you just aren't used to before you have kids, as childcare,
Speaker 3: because that's not cheap at all, and it's really important.
Speaker 3: So I don't consider housing as part of it because
Speaker 3: we have purchased I mean, when I say this, I
Speaker 3: don't want people to think we have a bunch of homes,
Speaker 3: but we are in our third house as a family,
Speaker 3: my wife and I. My daughter was born and was
Speaker 3: a baby at our first house many years ago, and
Speaker 3: then we lived briefly at a different house and my
Speaker 3: son was born there. I mean not like in the home.
Speaker 3: We didn't do it old school like in house birth.
Speaker 3: We were meaning we brought him home to that house
Speaker 3: after he was born in hospital, and we lived there
Speaker 3: for a little while. And we've been where we are
Speaker 3: now for I guess going on abou about two and
Speaker 3: a half years. So when we purchased these houses, yes,
Speaker 3: in mind, we knew we were going to have children,
Speaker 3: but I've never once thought, well, you know, man, I'd
Speaker 3: like to get this house that doesn't have this extra bedroom,
Speaker 3: but that damn kid now we got to get the
Speaker 3: other one because we need a bedroom for him.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: Childcare sixteen percent of the total calls child care and education,
Speaker 3: and look, it's important, and with with Moose starting school
Speaker 3: this fall, I mean again, because I'm not necessarily like
Speaker 3: responsible for bills and whatnot. I mean, I am, like
Speaker 3: I pay, but like I don't, I don't actually my
Speaker 3: money pays for it. I don't actually you know, manage
Speaker 3: it and all that kind of stuff. But like my
Speaker 3: wife has told me a few times here and there
Speaker 3: of the last I don't know, six eight months, and
Speaker 3: she's getting excited because she realizes once he starts school,
Speaker 3: we don't have to pay for daycare anymore. And that's
Speaker 3: an expensive thing that we've paid for for eight years
Speaker 3: now nine years, and in the last four and a
Speaker 3: half we've paid for for two. So I mean we're
Speaker 3: gonna mean we might as well. I mean we're gonna
Speaker 3: be living like millionaire as.
Speaker 2: Well, go back to Florida.
Speaker 3: Not really that's but in a weird way, like it
Speaker 3: is one of those things where we're not gonna be like,
Speaker 3: we're not getting rap.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think I am.
Speaker 3: If I'm open to raised, if my bosses are listening,
Speaker 3: but like I'm not getting a raise, and I don't
Speaker 3: believe she is. It's not like we've added any kind
Speaker 3: of real big income, but a lot of our income
Speaker 3: will now not go to paying for, you know, childcare.
Speaker 3: And look it's not like I mean, yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be great, but I don't know if you can overpay
Speaker 3: for it, Like you want to be mindful of of
Speaker 3: what you're spending. But we had moose in the same
Speaker 3: in the same daycare really almost since birth, and he
Speaker 3: grew up there. Like there's pictures of him as a
Speaker 3: baby baby with the kid that he's now best friends
Speaker 3: with that you know, is on his baseball team. So
Speaker 3: you know, even though I have my complaints about their
Speaker 3: clothing on snow days and whatnot, like they could charge
Speaker 3: more and we'd probably still just pay it because he's
Speaker 3: in a good place and he's taken care of and
Speaker 3: like that's a super important thing. Although I will say
Speaker 3: he did started a daycare for like five days and
Speaker 3: Mama Mama pulled him out because it was he was
Speaker 3: born in June, June first of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Therefore, he was born in the height of the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Like I was.
Speaker 3: I was allowed to be in there, but you know,
Speaker 3: I had to wear a mask and like nobody could
Speaker 3: come see us at the hospital, like it was the.
Speaker 2: Height of the pandemic.
Speaker 3: So with that, you know, daycares they were one of
Speaker 3: the first to be able to be opened back up, right,
Speaker 3: and they had these crazy protocols and I remember I
Speaker 3: couldn't I couldn't take his baby car seat in like
Speaker 3: an infant car seat. I had to get him out
Speaker 3: of his car seat. We're talking about an infant, you know,
Speaker 3: weeks old, and I had to carry him to some
Speaker 3: lady at the back door of this daycare and hand off.
Speaker 3: I felt like I was baby smuggling, like it was
Speaker 3: a it was a weird you know, it's a weird time.
Speaker 3: But just the visual of like me getting him out,
Speaker 3: I have to wear a mask. This lady who comes
Speaker 3: to the door to take the baby, she's got like
Speaker 3: this shield on, and it just felt really really awful.
Speaker 2: And they weren't like real.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's funny because he's been a good
Speaker 3: kid his whole life for the most part. But like
Speaker 3: there was this one woman who she you know, she
Speaker 3: she wanted mama to know that he cried a lot
Speaker 3: during the day. And that was that with having to
Speaker 3: do the whole you know, weird side door drop off.
Speaker 3: My wife was like, yeah, now we're done. We're not
Speaker 3: bringing him back here a whole other way. And then
Speaker 3: we randomly found a place that was just opening up
Speaker 3: and he's been there ever since, and you know, life's
Speaker 3: been good. So all right, we'll take a break, we'll
Speaker 3: come back. We got an hour left, so let's make
Speaker 3: it count. Let's finish strong, we'll try, let's maybe speak
Speaker 3: it into existence. So hang out. We'll do our best
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