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Speaker 2: busy show so far today. Obviously we're talking some basketball.
Speaker 2: Is Pat Kelsey and his and his brand new team.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is all brand new top to bottom,
Speaker 2: but clearly you could tell that already they've they've they've
Speaker 2: got an identity. They they they're gonna they're gonna play
Speaker 2: at least try to play every night the way they
Speaker 2: played last night. Easier said than done, and they may
Speaker 2: play some teams that maybe end up being able to
Speaker 2: do what they want to do a little better than them.
Speaker 2: But that was not a surprise on my end, but
Speaker 2: it was refreshing to see that you can tell quite
Speaker 2: a way, Okay, this is who they are, this is
Speaker 2: what they want to do, this is who they want
Speaker 2: to be. And that's one of many things that you know,
Speaker 2: you didn't have with the previous era. And I tried
Speaker 2: my best to not even really think about it, but
Speaker 2: it was impossible for me, and it seems like it
Speaker 2: was maybe not impossible, but it was almost human nature
Speaker 2: for others to see all the little things that stood
Speaker 2: out last night with their performance and even you know
Speaker 2: what you're seeing on the bench, what you're hearing from
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey after the fact, and you know, it's not
Speaker 2: that anybody's going out of their way to like bring
Speaker 2: up Kenny Payne and his staff again or try to
Speaker 2: like go back in time and think about that miserable
Speaker 2: two year stretch. But you know, you appreciate little things
Speaker 2: a little bit more whenever they weren't there. And some
Speaker 2: people disagreed with me, and it's fine, But what I
Speaker 2: said at the beginning of the show and talking about
Speaker 2: Louis basketball and just last night the first exhibition game,
Speaker 2: first chance for fans to see this team in action,
Speaker 2: and you know, not a real game, but an exhibition
Speaker 2: game at the um Center as we are now less
Speaker 2: than two weeks away from getting the actual season started.
Speaker 2: It was just great overall. But what I said earlier
Speaker 2: was coaching changes. For diehard fans, it's like a breakup
Speaker 2: or a divorce. The pushback that I got from some
Speaker 2: people on our text line was that you know, nobody
Speaker 2: would have stayed in a marriage that long, considering how
Speaker 2: miserable it was. And you're may be right, but I
Speaker 2: bet there are a lot of people listening right now
Speaker 2: that might currently be in a marriage or a relationship
Speaker 2: that they kind of know is not good, but they just,
Speaker 2: you know, they're riding it out seeing if it gets better,
Speaker 2: or they just maybe don't want to make the leap
Speaker 2: and try to start over with somebody else, or maybe,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe they're sticking together because of the kids,
Speaker 2: something like that. Or maybe there are people who have
Speaker 2: got a divorce and ended a relationship that they thought
Speaker 2: was going to be forever, but it didn't come close
Speaker 2: to lasting forever. Maybe it didn't even last that long
Speaker 2: at all, and they're sitting here listening to this and
Speaker 2: they're thinking, you know what, man, I should have done
Speaker 2: that sooner than I even did. So again, I'm sure
Speaker 2: it may not be a legitimate comparison to some people,
Speaker 2: but what I meant by it was that you know,
Speaker 2: when you are in a relationship and you know it's
Speaker 2: going bad, and there's countless things that are real red
Speaker 2: flags that this thing isn't going to work out and
Speaker 2: that you two aren't meant to be together, and then
Speaker 2: you end up quickly with somebody else and they're doing
Speaker 2: things that you really enjoy, Like there's positives there's things
Speaker 2: that are very encouraging about a potential long lasting relationship.
Speaker 2: I just think it's human nature to start looking, Okay,
Speaker 2: well this guy who I'm no longer with, at this
Speaker 2: girl that I'm no longer with. You know, whatever you're into,
Speaker 2: do your thing, no judgment, but you know, like maybe
Speaker 2: the exact let me give you an example, if you're
Speaker 2: a Kentucky fan, like, there are things that Cal did
Speaker 2: that probably annoyed the hell out of you. That's the
Speaker 2: exact opposite of Mark Pope. And like with Kenny, it's
Speaker 2: deeper than that because it's not just about like how
Speaker 2: he acted, what he said, and his lack of you know,
Speaker 2: really any accountability, I mean everything. I mean, the results
Speaker 2: were terrible. It was an absolute joke. So when you
Speaker 2: don't have like multiple years of being single and you
Speaker 2: go quickly from one relationship to another, because that's how
Speaker 2: this works, that's how coaching changes happened, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: Louisville had Kenny Paine as their coach. He was effectively
Speaker 2: fired and within a week we were already in a
Speaker 2: new relationship with Pat Kelcey. And you know, he started
Speaker 2: saying all the right things from the jump and now
Speaker 2: here we are. You know, he hasn't coached real game,
Speaker 2: but he's put together a roster, They've had an off
Speaker 2: season event in the Bahamas, he's done countless interviews, He's
Speaker 2: done things at every turn to try to get fans
Speaker 2: excited and engage with the program. And you know, these
Speaker 2: are all things that the you know your ex didn't do. Now,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, results are how coaches
Speaker 2: are are evaluated, and he's not even in a position
Speaker 2: right now to have given us any real result that
Speaker 2: matters because he hasn't coached a real game yet. But
Speaker 2: as I wanted to kind of not even think about
Speaker 2: the last two years, when watching last night and hearing
Speaker 2: from coach Kelsey after the game, it was impossible not
Speaker 2: to find myself comparing and clearly realizing that this guy's
Speaker 2: a lot better than the guy we used to have,
Speaker 2: and we all knew that going in. And unfortunately for Kenny,
Speaker 2: you could have hired I mean, not I don't know,
Speaker 2: like trying not to sound so heavy handed and not
Speaker 2: sound like I'm going on my way to like pick
Speaker 2: on Kenny, but I mean you could have quite literally
Speaker 2: hired anybody and felt that you were going to be
Speaker 2: in a better position and situation just because of how
Speaker 2: early things went. So, you know, last night it was
Speaker 2: an exhibition game against a team that will probably never
Speaker 2: hear from again unless they play them again in an
Speaker 2: exhibition young Harris, but it was another opportunity for me
Speaker 2: to say, so far, so good for Pat Kelsey. Now
Speaker 2: maybe in a few weeks when they start playing real games,
Speaker 2: and we know some of their early games are going
Speaker 2: to be against really, really good teams. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: know if there is a letdown or maybe a loss
Speaker 2: that ends up getting out of hand, and I'm not
Speaker 2: saying it will, but if it does, I know how
Speaker 2: this works, there's gonna be some worry. There's gonna be fans,
Speaker 2: you know, doing what you do as a as a
Speaker 2: lunatic fan for Louisville hoops. And you know, I don't
Speaker 2: say lunatic to be mean and insult you, but like,
Speaker 2: we care about this stuff so much. That's you know,
Speaker 2: so so far, so good. And twenty fourth made three pointers.
Speaker 2: That was that was more than we've ever you know,
Speaker 2: I don't care. I mean, how old you are, you've
Speaker 2: never watched a Louisville team. Rather be an exhibition game
Speaker 2: or a real game and seen them make twenty four threes.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if they're going to do that
Speaker 2: every night. Obviously that sounds unrealistic to think that they
Speaker 2: would be able to get close to that on a
Speaker 2: nightly basis, But that's what they're going to try to
Speaker 2: do because that's how this roster was built. That's that's
Speaker 2: the identity that Pat Kelsey has as a coach. He
Speaker 2: wants to have guys who can space the floor and
Speaker 2: create a lot of possessions that lead to you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of high percentage looks from three. So again
Speaker 2: last night score one oh six to fifty nine, and
Speaker 2: here in Pat Kelsey after the game was again another
Speaker 2: reminder that you know you needed a guy like that
Speaker 2: that would come in here as hungry as he is,
Speaker 2: that you know is going to show up at five
Speaker 2: am and is going to again like this sounds a
Speaker 2: little extreme, and I think you guys know what I
Speaker 2: mean when I say it. He is somebody that would
Speaker 2: have crawled to this job, and he is somebody that
Speaker 2: will succeed here or he will die trying. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hope he doesn't die. Hopefully if it doesn't work out,
Speaker 2: we just move on and he doesn't have to die.
Speaker 2: That wouldn't be ideal. But you know what I mean
Speaker 2: when I say that, like he is somebody that is
Speaker 2: appreciative of Louisville basketball, even though at the time he
Speaker 2: inherited it, it's not anywhere close to what we know
Speaker 2: it can be. And you know, last night's crowd clearly
Speaker 2: nothing like what we know the young Ciner can be
Speaker 2: for big games, especially when things are going well. But
Speaker 2: even despite it being a smaller crowd, he was very
Speaker 2: appreciative of that crowd. And I don't think that was
Speaker 2: just lip service. I don't think that was just him
Speaker 2: saying what he felt like he was supposed to say
Speaker 2: for a crowd that clearly wasn't anywhere close to being
Speaker 2: a large crowd in the grand scheme of things. He
Speaker 2: heard them getting excited, getting off their feet whenever his
Speaker 2: team was draining threes, would they make five of their
Speaker 2: first six or something like that led to a quick
Speaker 2: timeout for young Harris at some point in the first half,
Speaker 2: and you know, the place was rocking. So this is
Speaker 2: all part of the healing process. And you know, last
Speaker 2: night it was awesome, to say the least, and one
Speaker 2: of the things we heard quite a bit from the
Speaker 2: pre his head coach Kitty Payne, was about how things
Speaker 2: were broken and how you know culture, I mean, just
Speaker 2: a lot of filler words that really you know, again,
Speaker 2: I don't want to go down that path, but like
Speaker 2: there were things that were said that like didn't even
Speaker 2: make any sense. And I don't mean, like, you know,
Speaker 2: as far as him explaining basketball, but like he would
Speaker 2: talk about it like bringing broken. He would say that
Speaker 2: it was broken whenever he got here, and like, no,
Speaker 2: like last year, there was nobody on the team for
Speaker 2: the most part, that had played for anybody other than
Speaker 2: Kenny Payne here at Louisville. So like, if it was broken,
Speaker 2: then what is it now Whenever you leave two years
Speaker 2: later and it's in significantly worse shape than it was
Speaker 2: when you arrived and you claimed it was broken. Like
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey inherited this job at a worse time than
Speaker 2: anybody ever has. But you'd never know it by listening
Speaker 2: to him. You'd never know it by watching him coach
Speaker 2: this group and watching him out in the community engaging
Speaker 2: with people, trying to get people excited about louis basketball again.
Speaker 2: And to me, what's really been kind of of just
Speaker 2: an It's just it stood out in a major way.
Speaker 2: Is that Like that's really the bare minimum, Like that's
Speaker 2: kind of the expectation, that's kind of what you're just
Speaker 2: supposed to do. Like those are things that are just
Speaker 2: a given, and yet you have to go out and
Speaker 2: it's not easy. You got to win at a high
Speaker 2: level at Louisville because that's that's the expectation, that's the job.
Speaker 2: But like all these things Pat's doing is probably just
Speaker 2: things he realized, Okay automatically, I know I got to
Speaker 2: do that. Like that that's something I can control. That's
Speaker 2: something that really doesn't take you know, a real talent. Now,
Speaker 2: I think you can be better at it than others.
Speaker 2: And clearly he's good at that kind of stuff. He
Speaker 2: shines when he's got a chance to get in front
Speaker 2: of a microphone or a camera and sell himself, sell
Speaker 2: his philosophy, sell his brand, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So clearly others are better at it, you know, than some.
Speaker 1: But like.
Speaker 2: I don't believe it because I just can't let my
Speaker 2: mind go there. It's just not my nature. But like
Speaker 2: you could make the case. The more I watch Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey and how he handles himself. And again it's not
Speaker 2: even about winning, Like maybe he doesn't win and we
Speaker 2: got to have a conversation. That's that's difficult. In a
Speaker 2: couple of years, I don't know. Only time will tell,
Speaker 2: But like I don't know if Kenny wanted to win.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Kenny wanted to like wanted it
Speaker 2: to work out. I'll never believe that, like he was
Speaker 2: sent here to tear us down by cali Peri, who
Speaker 2: he's now working for again, because that's just like I
Speaker 2: can't I can't believe that that would ever happen, and
Speaker 2: I genuinely don't believe it. But man, there's evidence and
Speaker 2: results that could convince somebody that is even a little
Speaker 2: bit prone to believe in conspiracy theories, like at every level,
Speaker 2: Like it was a complete mess and it's over and
Speaker 2: that's good. But I wanted to give a one one
Speaker 2: more quick shout out to I'm not sure who put
Speaker 2: this together, but it was on the State of Louisville
Speaker 2: Twitter account. They they put they put together an edit
Speaker 2: with different clips of the previous coach and clips of
Speaker 2: you know, the current coach, and this is just like,
Speaker 2: you know, hearing this it's about a minute in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: I mean hearing things that were that were said repeatedly
Speaker 2: that we're all just nonsense, just excuses that we're not legit,
Speaker 2: and it was just it was it was embarrassing. And
Speaker 2: then to hear a guy who you know, no matter
Speaker 2: what happens, Look, we may lose a lot of games
Speaker 2: this year. I have no clue, none of us really know,
Speaker 2: but it's nice to know that there won't be any
Speaker 2: any of you know, it was broken kind of stuff
Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, I mean, like
Speaker 2: I think Kenny came here feeling like a victim for
Speaker 2: being here, which I mean, if that was how you
Speaker 2: viewed it, man, how the hell did you end up
Speaker 2: hiring him? But again, those are those any Now I'm
Speaker 2: just now, I'm just you know, jumping all over the place,
Speaker 2: going back to that dark place. But we'll play this
Speaker 2: and then we'll move on because there's a lot of
Speaker 2: other things I want to get into before we run
Speaker 2: out of time today. But again, shout out to the
Speaker 2: State of Louisville Twitter account who who put this edit
Speaker 2: together that I think really puts things in perspective as
Speaker 2: to where we were and where where we are right now.
Speaker 2: As far as leadership with this basketball program.
Speaker 3: I heard it was broken, and I really appreciate the
Speaker 3: guys here at the Young Center that busted their tail
Speaker 3: to try to get the water right in the locker.
Speaker 4: Room more than I could ever tell you it was broken.
Speaker 3: They operate with excellence, as does our administration. It wasn't
Speaker 3: just basketball. It was broken beyond broken the awesome. You know.
Speaker 3: I think the crowd really really appreciated how we were playing.
Speaker 3: Guys were playing hardest. Heck, they're sharing the ball or
Speaker 3: banging shots. It was exciting. They brought the fight. We didn't.
Speaker 3: I can just tell you we didn't come to a fight.
Speaker 3: It was a fight, and it was the first time
Speaker 3: I heard the young roar what do they call it
Speaker 3: in augusta National the Tiger roar, the young roar, I'm
Speaker 3: down for it. We didn't have the tyst that he wanted,
Speaker 3: so he didn't know if he wanted to play. I loved,
Speaker 3: loved those two walk ons at the end of the
Speaker 3: game putting their teeth on that loose ball over there
Speaker 3: in the corner, and our bench just went nuts. That
Speaker 3: speaks to culture. That's what young people so number thirty
Speaker 3: five had one hundred and eighty seven free throws last year,
Speaker 3: Number twenty at one hundred and sixty one, and number
Speaker 3: twelve had one hundred and seventy. Like that's off the charts.
Speaker 2: That last part there is is actually hilarious because it
Speaker 2: that's Pat Kelsey mentioning the amount of total free throws
Speaker 2: that three players for a Young Harris shot last year,
Speaker 2: and he's just that's just he's ripping that off the
Speaker 2: top of his head because that's how much of a
Speaker 2: deep dive he did into young Harris, because that's just
Speaker 2: how he's wired. He's a basketball sicko, and that's that's
Speaker 2: what we need around here. I think, you know, you
Speaker 2: could you cannot be a basketball sicco and if you
Speaker 2: went at a high level, everything's gonna be okay. But
Speaker 2: you know, again, he's somebody that is either going to
Speaker 2: succeed here or he's gonna you know, I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: die trying because like I don't, I don't. It kind
Speaker 2: of sounds like I'm saying, well, he better winter, he's
Speaker 2: gonna die, and that's not what I mean. I don't
Speaker 2: want anybody to die. But I think, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: as far as figure of speech, you guys know what
Speaker 2: I mean, because clearly he doesn't take much time off.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if he sleeps. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's at the UMP Center yesterday at five am, which
Speaker 2: a lot of people start their day early, but like,
Speaker 2: you know, he never left. He's just in. They're ready
Speaker 2: for battle to take on Young Harris in an exhibition game,
Speaker 2: which some would say might be overkilled, but hey, you know,
Speaker 2: he's gonna make sure he's ready to go. And I
Speaker 2: didn't really you know, a lot of things we learned
Speaker 2: about the last few years as far as us as
Speaker 2: a fan base and just you know, you learn a
Speaker 2: lot throughout that kind of stuff that kind of you know,
Speaker 2: depressing situation. But hearing somebody, you know, I guess they're
Speaker 2: not like Pat Kelsey when he talks about the program
Speaker 2: and whatnot, Like he's not complimenting us as fans, but
Speaker 2: like he's complimenting the program something that we love more
Speaker 2: than anybody because we are, you know, we're the fans
Speaker 2: of the program. And you know, hearing that, I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe that'll get stale after a while, but man, it
Speaker 2: hasn't yet because we had people succeed you know, failing
Speaker 2: to succeed at any level, I mean, just complete utter.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a mockery. And yet instead of
Speaker 2: you know, knowing that it needs to get better, we
Speaker 2: were kind of told reasons why it can't be better
Speaker 2: because of broke things being broken and a culture this
Speaker 2: and that, all that nonsense. But hey, it's over. This
Speaker 2: is part of the cleansing process, and you know now
Speaker 2: we're here, pack El Sierra is here. Kind of I
Speaker 2: mean again, not a real game, but last night that
Speaker 2: certainly felt felt awesome. All right, Louisville in Action on
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Speaker 2: as soon as the game ends, we'll go live right
Speaker 2: here reacting to whatever it is. I think Louisville is
Speaker 2: a better team than Boston College. I expect that they'll
Speaker 2: win because I can look at the three games they've
Speaker 2: lost and who those teams were and still realize this
Speaker 2: is a team that's got to clean some things up,
Speaker 2: and if they don't play well, they can lose to anybody.
Speaker 2: But I think saying that I expect them to win
Speaker 2: is not in any way me being you know, just
Speaker 2: a homer who thinks my team won't lose because I
Speaker 2: love them. You know, there if they come out and
Speaker 2: they make a bunch of big mistakes, then you know,
Speaker 2: that's a recipe for a disaster on the road against
Speaker 2: a Boston College team that also needs to win in
Speaker 2: a major way. They're coming off back to back losses
Speaker 2: against Virginia and Virginia Tech, so I'm sure Boston College
Speaker 2: is viewing this as a chance for them to get
Speaker 2: right because Louisville being four and three, even though the
Speaker 2: teams that's beat Louisville at this point are pretty good.
Speaker 2: And that's I mean, you are what your record is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure they're not looking at who beat
Speaker 2: Louisville and saying, oh, we should be scared, because you know,
Speaker 2: the teams that beat them are really, really good. No,
Speaker 2: they're looking at Louisville as a team they can go
Speaker 2: knock off and you know, send their season in a
Speaker 2: positive direction after a good start and then back to
Speaker 2: back losses where I believe they were certainly not favored
Speaker 2: against Virginia Tech. But you know, I know they were
Speaker 2: against Virginia and they and you know they lost that
Speaker 2: game by I believe a couple of scores. So I
Speaker 2: hate that we're in this position where the game is
Speaker 2: one that you don't have a whole lot to gain
Speaker 2: by winning. And what I mean by that is like,
Speaker 2: it's really just what you're supposed to do. It's not
Speaker 2: as if you went out there and proved something to anybody.
Speaker 2: I mean, a conference win has value, and hey, five
Speaker 2: and three is a lot better than four and four,
Speaker 2: so I guess that's that's the value. But really, you
Speaker 2: have a lot more to lose here than gain. And
Speaker 2: you know, I don't think they're going to lose, but
Speaker 2: if they do, then we have to have a conversation
Speaker 2: that we haven't had yet. Despite the season being underwhelming
Speaker 2: at this point, we've yet to have a postgame show
Speaker 2: or react to a game where it's a loss that's like,
Speaker 2: you know, not inexcusable, but to a team that you
Speaker 2: can't really make the claim is very good and losing
Speaker 2: the good teams doesn't make you good. It makes you losers.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's by definition what you did. But you
Speaker 2: can at least deal with losses to ranked teams and
Speaker 2: still feel frustrated about it, especially knowing you were close,
Speaker 2: you had a chance to win and you couldn't get
Speaker 2: it done like that actually is what makes it more frustrating.
Speaker 2: But it's not as if you've had to, you know,
Speaker 2: look around and think, how the hell do we lose
Speaker 2: to them? I think Boston College might be that kind
Speaker 2: of team if you don't get it done. So here's
Speaker 2: to hoping that they do exactly that they get it done.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: I want to take a look at what Yahoo Sports
Speaker 2: put together a rundown of all the remaining undefeated teams
Speaker 2: left in college football, because I think of all, I mean,
Speaker 2: I could be wrong here, but I think of all
Speaker 2: the teams that are currently undefeated, not a one of them,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, as of now, what I say is
Speaker 2: realistically a national championship contender. I mean, that's just a guess.
Speaker 2: We'll see, but we'll take a look at that, and
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Speaker 2: this morning. Did they confirm or was it just like
Speaker 2: something somebody put up on Twitter about Mark Pope running
Speaker 2: out of gas? Like did that really happen?
Speaker 4: I don't know that they confirmed it, but they did
Speaker 4: talk extensively about it in the first hour.
Speaker 2: So I'm seeing a tweet here, and I know it
Speaker 2: came up at some point on KSR, which, again, as
Speaker 2: they say, facts are optional, so that doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 2: that it did in fact happen. But there was a
Speaker 2: tweet that says just dro Bi Alexton Metro helping someone
Speaker 2: who ran out of gas in the middle of Broadway
Speaker 2: and had traffic merged to one lane. It was a
Speaker 2: coach Mark Pope. So you know that being on Twitter
Speaker 2: doesn't make it real, but for it to make Kentucky
Speaker 2: Sports Radio dot com, I mean, most people are going
Speaker 2: to believe that it is in fact legit and he
Speaker 2: ran out of gas. Have you ever run out of gas?
Speaker 4: No, I'm usually pretty prompt whenever I, you know, see
Speaker 4: the light come on you.
Speaker 2: Of all people that I know, like if I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about Okay, my friend's family, colleagues, uh, of of that
Speaker 2: group of people, and it's a pretty big group the
Speaker 2: one that I would expect to run out of gas.
Speaker 2: Your last on the list. I believe because you're prepared.
Speaker 2: You're prepared. I mean, look, you've you've helped me, right,
Speaker 2: I put in GPS every day before I leave my
Speaker 2: house to come to work. I know where I'm going,
Speaker 2: but it'll give me a heads up on traffic, Like
Speaker 2: I would never even have thought of that. But you are,
Speaker 2: You're always prepared, and you know, running out of gas
Speaker 2: is by definition being unprepared or you know, like I
Speaker 2: I think there's some people that probably I don't know.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong here, and I'm just thinking out loud.
Speaker 2: I've ran out of gas one time, and I'll and
Speaker 2: I've never you know, I mean, I'm embarrassed, but I
Speaker 2: was really embarrassed by it because I thought like something
Speaker 2: was wrong with my car because my light came on
Speaker 2: and I'd never at that point been somebody that really like, actually,
Speaker 2: let me ask you this. How often has your light
Speaker 2: come on?
Speaker 4: I mean it frequently?
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not like, you know, like you as
Speaker 2: soon as you see the light, didn't you get gased?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the reminder.
Speaker 2: That's what I do too. But there's some there's some
Speaker 2: times where I'm like, Okay, I know I've got you know,
Speaker 2: thirty miles forty miles when the light comes on, I
Speaker 2: can't think of which one it is. It's something like that,
Speaker 2: you're in the right track. Yeah, And then I can
Speaker 2: hit this little button on my car that you know,
Speaker 2: shows me like and I'm sure it's not exactly the
Speaker 2: amount of miles I have until I'm on E, but
Speaker 2: it'll go down to like fifteen in that that gets
Speaker 2: really scary. I think I've only looked at that. I've
Speaker 2: only seen that once. I'm sure it's happened.
Speaker 1: Four.
Speaker 2: But if I if I've had if I've had my
Speaker 2: light on, and I've made a couple of trips that
Speaker 2: are relatively close to you know, my house and maybe
Speaker 2: a few miles away, like that's as far as I've gone.
Speaker 2: Is like risking it. But if I look at the
Speaker 2: thing and it's below like thirty, which is rare, then
Speaker 2: I'll make sure I go and fill up. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know people who run out of gas like multiple times,
Speaker 2: and it's not because they are like that poor, Like
Speaker 2: it's not as if they have no money. It's not
Speaker 2: as if they like they just procrastinate, I think, or
Speaker 2: just don't pay attention, Like I just don't get how
Speaker 2: you get. I don't either know I'm with you, like
Speaker 2: because I like being stranded or having that happen is
Speaker 2: like a scary, scary scary thing for me.
Speaker 4: Like as close as I came to running out, we
Speaker 4: were coming back from Saint Louis to here in Louisville,
Speaker 4: and on whatever interest I gets, it's.
Speaker 2: Sixty to sixty four. Man, you hit some stretches on
Speaker 2: that drive that I know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: It I'm on and I was like, okay, I'll just
Speaker 4: go the next exit. Well, the next exit didn't have
Speaker 4: a gas station, at least the one that you couldn't see.
Speaker 4: So I go to the one after that, and we
Speaker 4: just kept going. I was like, okay, I've really got
Speaker 4: to find something because I didn't know there was gonna
Speaker 4: be that long of a stretch without you know, humanity nearby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I and I've always been fearful of that and
Speaker 2: I and luckily I've never had any It wasn't like
Speaker 2: I had, you know, it wasn't like I got scared
Speaker 2: straight to where I you know, I learned the hard way. Hey,
Speaker 2: you better make sure when you're when you know you're low,
Speaker 2: check and see how far you are from a gas station,
Speaker 2: because if not, you better find one quick. Like I
Speaker 2: never had. I've never learned the hard way, but it's
Speaker 2: always just been something I've been fearful of of, like
Speaker 2: being stranded at any point. When I ran out of gas,
Speaker 2: I mean, it was really embarrassing, and it was it
Speaker 2: was one of those things where I knew that I
Speaker 2: had to And actually it's more embarrassing the more I
Speaker 2: think about it and talk about it. But my gas
Speaker 2: light came on the day before and I completely forgot
Speaker 2: about it, and then I went home. I got up
Speaker 2: the next day, and at this point, I think I
Speaker 2: was on mid days and I was taking my daughter,
Speaker 2: who was a little bitty kid. I mean, she wasn't
Speaker 2: a baby, but she was like between being a you know,
Speaker 2: a baby and a toddler. I guess, if that's the thing.
Speaker 2: She was probably like two years old, maybe three years old,
Speaker 2: I don't know. But when I got up the next morning,
Speaker 2: you know, I never even thought because in that car
Speaker 2: that I drove at that time, it wouldn't it wouldn't
Speaker 2: alert me that the light was on a second time.
Speaker 2: It would just be on. Like now, anytime I start
Speaker 2: my car and the light and I'm low on gas,
Speaker 2: I get prompted again, like anytime I turned the car
Speaker 2: and I'm prompted. You know, I wasn't prompted in the
Speaker 2: old vehicle. I just had to be looking at the
Speaker 2: light and to see if it was on, which I
Speaker 2: should have known. It's just me being a dumb ass.
Speaker 2: I'm not making excuses for it, but I couldn't remember
Speaker 2: that morning when I saw that the light was on,
Speaker 2: if it came on like at the beginning of the day,
Speaker 2: the day before, if it was like last night, like
Speaker 2: I couldn't remember, and I'm like, all right, I got
Speaker 2: to get my daughter to daycare in time. So sure enough,
Speaker 2: I'm driving and I'm I'm I'm coming down a hill
Speaker 2: on zone and road and it you know, and I thought, well,
Speaker 2: there's no way it got that low. There's no way
Speaker 2: that my car died because I ran out of gas.
Speaker 2: And sure enough, that's what it was. It wasn't car
Speaker 2: trouble I had. I had to have my my wife's
Speaker 2: grandparents come and you know, pull off the side of
Speaker 2: the road and let me hand my young child to
Speaker 2: them so they could take her. And I'm waiting for
Speaker 2: my stepdad to get there, and he comes and bails
Speaker 2: me out and puts gas in the car and we're
Speaker 2: good to go. And it was really embarrassing. But I
Speaker 2: think I was I was in denial that I would
Speaker 2: that I would run out of gas in that way
Speaker 2: that I'm like, well, I was low on gas, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's like gotta Maybe I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 2: it's the probably made up a part of a car
Speaker 2: that doesn't exist. Maybe it's my something shaft and no,
Speaker 2: it was just me being a dumbass and running out
Speaker 2: of gas. And I'm sure you know it'll probably happen
Speaker 2: again to me at some point in life. But since then,
Speaker 2: I've been pretty mindful of making sure, like, don't risk
Speaker 2: it because it's you know, being stranded would be bad.
Speaker 2: But what's that say about somebody who runs out of gas?
Speaker 2: I mean, again, I've done it, but I know people
Speaker 2: who've done it multiple times, and I'm just thinking, like, man,
Speaker 2: you must like you must live on the edge, like
Speaker 2: you must really get off driving around, knowing at any moment
Speaker 2: car may just stop running because you completely, you know,
Speaker 2: your bone dry. But anyways, apparently it happened to Mark
Speaker 2: Pope this morning, which again, hey, I mean, we'll see,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't say that's a good sign. God doesn't
Speaker 2: even know when to he's gonna run out of gas,
Speaker 2: expect him to lead the Kentucky basketball program. Clearly, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm throwing some sarcasm in there. I hope you guys
Speaker 2: can pick up on it. But yeah, I got a
Speaker 2: buddy who I won't I won't name, but he's he's
Speaker 2: probably running out of gas like five times and it's
Speaker 2: never been because of like he lost his wallet or
Speaker 2: he was like he had no money, or he didn't
Speaker 2: have a gas station nearby. He just like that's what
Speaker 2: he does.
Speaker 4: He just doesn't want to go to the gas.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is like, I don't you know,
Speaker 2: I don't mind stopping at a gas station. I mean,
Speaker 2: I you're a Thornton's guy, exactly. You know what. I
Speaker 2: get gas three times a day at Thornton's just because
Speaker 2: that's how much I love him, you know, It's just
Speaker 2: you know, it's what I do. All right. So the
Speaker 2: teams that are undefeated in college football right now, and
Speaker 2: maybe I'm wrong here, maybe Oregon is in fact a
Speaker 2: national championship contender, but I don't think they are. I mean,
Speaker 2: they look like they're in great shape to make the playoff.
Speaker 2: But I still think when it comes to who's legitimately
Speaker 2: in the mix to win a national championship, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm still thinking it's Alabama and Georgia, despite Bama clearly
Speaker 2: being up against it here. They already have two losses
Speaker 2: and it's not even November. That's not ideal. They may
Speaker 2: not even get a chance to play for it. But Georgia, Texas.
Speaker 2: I mean, I hesitate to put Miami in there just
Speaker 2: because of the close losses that they've had, Like, we
Speaker 2: may end up getting a really fun playoff that features
Speaker 2: teams you never thought they were going to be there,
Speaker 2: Teams that you never thought would win a game. Maybe
Speaker 2: they win two of them. It's that kind of year.
Speaker 2: But I kind of got to I mean, you don't
Speaker 2: just randomly win a national championship in football, and Oregon
Speaker 2: they've for years been viewed and they're the number one
Speaker 2: team in the country by the way, They've for years
Speaker 2: been viewed as if there is a team that gets
Speaker 2: a first time title, Oregon would be in play because
Speaker 2: more often than not they've been pretty good. They played
Speaker 2: for a national championship years ago in twenty fourteen when
Speaker 2: they had Mariota I think it was they came up
Speaker 2: short Ohio State. That yeah, that's right. So you know,
Speaker 2: these are the teams that are undefeated. Oregon and their
Speaker 2: strength to schedule right now ranks twenty eighth, and their
Speaker 2: highest chance for a loss here according to Yahoo Sports,
Speaker 2: is when they take on Illinois, which is this Saturday,
Speaker 2: you know, and maybe they run the table. But I
Speaker 2: still would be shocked if they win the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Penn State, I mean there's six and oh, their strength
Speaker 2: to schedule currently ranks fifty seventh. I'd be highly mean
Speaker 2: they should have lost to USC, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: although USC's kind of fallen apart. Didn't they play USC already?
Speaker 2: Penn State?
Speaker 4: Yeah, USC's three and four now, by.
Speaker 2: The way, yikes. So you know they play Ohio State
Speaker 2: on November the tewod meaning Penn State does. Maybe that's
Speaker 2: when they take their first loss. Miami seven and oh,
Speaker 2: their strength to schedule is forty fifth, so it's better
Speaker 2: than Penn States and their highest chance of a loss
Speaker 2: right now is probably, I mean probably Syracuse, which tells
Speaker 2: you again that's why it was a huge game from
Speaker 2: Miami on Saturday. They avoided two losses narrowly, and then
Speaker 2: Louisville was, you know, on paper objectively a better team
Speaker 2: than the two that nearly beat them, and they came
Speaker 2: in and you know, they they could slip up and lose,
Speaker 2: because you know, anybody could, I think, but Miami can
Speaker 2: probably put it on cruise control right now and still
Speaker 2: find themselves in Charlotte for the ACC Championship and really,
Speaker 2: whatever happens there probably won't impact them getting a spot
Speaker 2: in the playoff. Iowa Stayed is seven and zero and
Speaker 2: their ranked number ten. Their strength to schedule ranks thirty six.
Speaker 2: So the Big twelve, you know, they aren't getting a
Speaker 2: whole lot of love. I don't think they have a
Speaker 2: title contender, but I Aoway stayed at least at this point,
Speaker 2: they've got a decent strength to schedule, and if their
Speaker 2: toughest challenge is a Kansas State team, then maybe, I mean,
Speaker 2: what if we get a random ash year where you've
Speaker 2: got like a bunch of undefeated teams going into the
Speaker 2: championship games in the conference play? I mean, and you know, if.
Speaker 4: You imagine if this was only a four team how
Speaker 4: many teams would be pissed.
Speaker 2: That's a great point, and you know, maybe we're I
Speaker 2: don't know, I'm trying to think of why we're seeing
Speaker 2: this many teams undefeated this late. And look, some of
Speaker 2: these teams are clearly gonna lose. But it does seem
Speaker 2: like this seems like a very unusual year, and it
Speaker 2: doesn't have anything to do with the fourteen team playoff.
Speaker 2: It's just that you got some teams seven eight, games
Speaker 2: in that that you never thought would be where they are,
Speaker 2: including Indiana, who is currently ranked thirteenth in the Ape Pole.
Speaker 2: There's seven and oh their strength to schedule one fourteenth,
Speaker 2: and of course their obvious potential loss is Ohio State.
Speaker 2: They could technically lose to some other teams along the way,
Speaker 2: but with the way they've looked, I mean, I have.
Speaker 4: One fourteen is insane. I didn't realize it was that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I knew they had an easy schedule. This we're taking
Speaker 4: into consideration the entirety or the remaining skill No, just
Speaker 4: what they've played up to this point.
Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha? Yeah, So yeah, their strength schedule is one
Speaker 2: fourteenth and it says here that they've scored at least
Speaker 2: forty one points in six straight games. They're fifth in
Speaker 2: the country and yards a game, and they mentioned, you know,
Speaker 2: all the impressive numbers from Rourke, and they're running back
Speaker 2: Ellison who's got eight touchdowns. But it does say that
Speaker 2: the let's see here, it's as well they do play
Speaker 2: at Ohio State. Other than that, the Hoosiers have played
Speaker 2: one of the weakest schedules of any in the country.
Speaker 2: Their best win is likely over too lost Nebraska at
Speaker 2: home this past Saturday, Will any weaknesses be exposed by
Speaker 2: the Buckeyes or others? And can the Hoosiers win without Rourke?
Speaker 2: So you know, I get it, like the schedule is
Speaker 2: what it is, but they're also not even keeping it
Speaker 2: like I mean, they're they're blowing teams out. I mean
Speaker 2: the best if the best team they played is Nebraska,
Speaker 2: then you know, I think that speaks to how impressive
Speaker 2: they've been thus far because they killed them, I mean
Speaker 2: quite literally just beat the brakes off of them. So
Speaker 2: I mean, at this point, if you're Indiana, the Rourke
Speaker 2: injury clearly is something to monitor. I know, the backup
Speaker 2: Jackson came in and looked pretty good in the second half,
Speaker 2: and he's he's a pretty good backup to have, considering
Speaker 2: he's always shown some talent, not as proven as a
Speaker 2: guy like Rourke. But I mean, I don't know, the
Speaker 2: injury is a real, you know, thing to monitor here
Speaker 2: and seeing how they look without Rourke in this game
Speaker 2: coming up. But if you're Indiana, John and you know
Speaker 2: you're a big Indiana fan and you have a you
Speaker 2: can check the pulse of that football fan base, like,
Speaker 2: how are you not expecting eleven in one at this point.
Speaker 4: I mean I said that the other day.
Speaker 2: It's weird, but like, it's got to be where you are, right.
Speaker 4: Especially if you can get through these next couple of
Speaker 4: weeks or maybe just one week, depending on how long
Speaker 4: Rourke is out. And I don't really expect to significant
Speaker 4: of a drop off from Tavin Jackson. But at the
Speaker 4: same time, if you can get through these next couple
Speaker 4: of weeks and you're still unblemished, I mean, there's no
Speaker 4: reason to think that you shouldn't finish eleven in one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a special season for him, right real quick.
Speaker 2: I know we got to get to a break. But
Speaker 2: other undefeated teams BYU is undefeated and their strength to
Speaker 2: schedule is thirty seconds, so they are currently behind Oregon
Speaker 2: as far as unbeaten, but also having you know, a
Speaker 2: decent strength to schedule. Uh, Pitt, Actually, I'm sorry, Pitt,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Yeah, pitt is I thought there was a
Speaker 2: strength of schedule Pits ranked nineteenth, but they're six and
Speaker 2: oh their strength to schedule is seventy seventh. Their most
Speaker 2: likely loss is Clemson Army. How about this Army is
Speaker 2: undefeated and they have a stronger schedule than any of
Speaker 2: the other undefeated about that crazy. Yeah, Army right now
Speaker 2: is sitting at seven. And oh their strength to schedule. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm I'm being a dumbass again. Their AP
Speaker 2: rank is twenty third. Their strength of schedule is not great,
Speaker 2: it's one forty eighth. I knew that made no sense.
Speaker 2: So forget what I just said. Navy is six, and
Speaker 2: oh their strength to schedule is one forty four. And
Speaker 2: then Liberty is undefeated, not ranked, and their strength to
Speaker 2: schedule is like one to eighty. So those are all
Speaker 2: of your unbeaten teams and out look, maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: I would be highly shocked if any of these teams
Speaker 2: end up actually deep into the playoff. But maybe, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe Oregon proves me wrong, maybe Indiana, maybe Miami proves
Speaker 2: me wrong. I mean, these teams haven't lost yet, so
Speaker 2: you know, so far, they're perfect. Right, quick break, We'll
Speaker 2: come back and wrap it up on the other side
Speaker 2: right here on Sports Talk seven ninety So running out
Speaker 2: of gas? You know from what I gather on the
Speaker 2: text line after we had that conversation, you know, many people,
Speaker 2: I mean have claimed they've they've never run out of
Speaker 2: gas and never come close to it. Well, you're more
Speaker 2: responsible than me. I mean, I don't know. If you
Speaker 2: ask people if you've been er if you're an adult
Speaker 2: fifty years of age, I feel fifty years older. Like
Speaker 2: I feel like there's probably a time where you've ran
Speaker 2: out of gas one time.
Speaker 4: But maybe because vehicles old, older vehicles don't notify you
Speaker 4: the way that the newer ones do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like back in the day, like you know, if
Speaker 2: your light came on, like you know, did you? I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess maybe if you're read like your owner's manual,
Speaker 2: you would have known. But like now, from a technological standpoint,
Speaker 2: like you know, my car is not that new. It's
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, and it can tell me pretty close, like
Speaker 2: not only that my light's on, which means I'm low,
Speaker 2: but it'll tell me if I got like twenty five miles,
Speaker 2: ten miles, five miles. And I never risk it, at
Speaker 2: least I try not to at that point. But yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm just trying to tell myself that others have
Speaker 2: run out of gas to make me feel less like
Speaker 2: a dumb ass for having it happen. At least you know,
Speaker 2: just once, all right, real quick, before we get out
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Speaker 2: you know, do whatever you want, not bother anybody by
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Speaker 2: But if that's the case, then I would assume that
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Speaker 2: out of here, you guys. Enjoy your evening. We're back
Speaker 2: at it tomorrow and we will talk to you then.
Speaker 2: This has been another edition of Coffee and Company, Philbeth
Speaker 2: Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety