Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: You know, some would say that this might be the
Speaker 2: best time of the week, five o'clock on a Friday.
Speaker 2: I know everybody's schedule is different, but if you're somebody
Speaker 2: that works the regular nine to five, it means the
Speaker 2: weekend probably just started for you. And it's a big
Speaker 2: weekend here Louisville. We've got Louisville Live tonight to get
Speaker 2: things started for Pat Kelsey and his team. Of course,
Speaker 2: not a real game, but it is the first event
Speaker 2: for Pat Kelsey as the Louisville coach where fans can
Speaker 2: get out and meet his new team, a brand new team.
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm really happy that that there were so
Speaker 2: many of you on the text line and on social
Speaker 2: media as well, that we're that we're fine with acknowledging. Yes,
Speaker 2: you love Louisville basketball. It's a big part of your life,
Speaker 2: but you need to do some some research, some studying
Speaker 2: to learn this roster and learn this team. I totally
Speaker 2: get it, because you know, most people don't have the
Speaker 2: ability to to, or maybe they just don't want to
Speaker 2: because they've got other things in their life that they
Speaker 2: spend time on rather than you know, following the transfer
Speaker 2: portal extremely closely, you know, reading message boards on Trilli
Speaker 2: Donovan's discord, that kind of stuff. So look, no, there's
Speaker 2: no no shame in that this is not usual or
Speaker 2: this is not any This is not normal. It's very unusual,
Speaker 2: I should say, because of the circumstance. I mean, you're
Speaker 2: going to see a lot more roster turnover than than
Speaker 2: you used to because we are now in the era
Speaker 2: where players can transfer anytime they want free agency, right,
Speaker 2: but this is this is next level to have an
Speaker 2: tire team brand new.
Speaker 3: But I'd say that's what was needed.
Speaker 2: Completely gutting everything out from the last regime and starting fresh,
Speaker 2: That's that was necessary. So again, tonight Louisville Live. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: in action. And if you just heard our conversation in
Speaker 2: the four o'clock hour with Jeff Greer, you get in
Speaker 2: free to the game tomorrow night, Star Wars Night, by
Speaker 2: the way, if you bring your Louisvill Football ticket. So
Speaker 2: if you want to do a you know, you want
Speaker 2: to double dip and have two games, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a beautiful day to do it. Gonna be a little
Speaker 2: warmer then it has been in recent days, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not gonna be brutal. And I you know,
Speaker 2: I could be wrong here, What the hell do I
Speaker 2: know about weather? But I do feel like when you
Speaker 2: get to October, like it might still be muggy at times,
Speaker 2: but I feel like like that brutal humidity that we
Speaker 2: get around here, like in October it's usually gone. It's
Speaker 2: like maybe eighty three eighty four with a breeze will
Speaker 2: actually be you know, perfect, We shall see, all right,
Speaker 2: where do we start here in the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: We did talk earlier with Alex Kupper getting his thoughts
Speaker 2: on Louisville football and really this matchup against SMU, and
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not trying to act like they're a
Speaker 2: team that scares me, right, They're not. I mean, if
Speaker 2: Louisville loses tomorrow, you know you're gonna have to you know,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to eat it and realize that one
Speaker 2: this team is. At that point, I would say, if
Speaker 2: you if you start the season three and two, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no scenario anybody would have had that out there
Speaker 2: as the expected record five games in. I mean maybe
Speaker 2: some people would, but I'd say Louisville fans who who
Speaker 2: had expectations for this season, that would be not an
Speaker 2: ideal start. And I don't believe that's gonna happen. But
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to get to is that you know,
Speaker 2: if they lose tomorrow, SMU is gonna deserve all the credit.
Speaker 2: You know, technically, they will have done exactly what you
Speaker 2: need to do go win a game. But I don't
Speaker 2: think it's gonna because we realize, man, they just got
Speaker 2: better players than Louisville. Like they're just a really bad matchup. Now.
Speaker 2: A lot of times teams lose games where if you
Speaker 2: evaluated the roster when it comes to personnel and talent,
Speaker 2: the team that the team that won didn't have the
Speaker 2: best players and whatnot. So LOL was gonna have to
Speaker 2: come ready to play. They're gonna have to play clean football.
Speaker 2: Limit the type of mistakes you saw up in South Bend,
Speaker 2: limit penalties and other than that, keep doing what you've
Speaker 2: been doing right because the offense I think has just
Speaker 2: looked really really.
Speaker 3: I mean again, if you.
Speaker 2: Turn the ball over a lot, then it's hard to
Speaker 2: say you've got a great offense. But in between turnovers, man,
Speaker 2: you've got something with Isaac Brown. I mean not to
Speaker 2: say I told you so, but I told you so.
Speaker 2: I by the time you get a few games in,
Speaker 2: he was going to be the main ball carrier. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's just because Maurice Turner's injured. I think
Speaker 2: they realized they've got something special here in true freshman
Speaker 2: Isaac Brown, and he's shown that so far this year.
Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the receivers.
Speaker 2: Not only has j Corey Brooks been great all year,
Speaker 2: Colin Lacey that was the hell of a debut for him,
Speaker 2: and then Tyler Shuck has continued each week to look
Speaker 2: like a guy that you know is capable of leading
Speaker 2: an offense that'll look a lot more like the type
Speaker 2: of offense you expected Jeff brom to have. And look,
Speaker 2: the offense last year was good enough. They got the
Speaker 2: job done, but it was just different than what'll we expected.
Speaker 2: It was a team overall that was dependent upon their
Speaker 2: defense in a major way, but their strength offensively was
Speaker 2: running the ball because they had two really good running
Speaker 2: backs and their quarterback, you know, let's be real, he
Speaker 2: wasn't Tyler Shuck, So I guess you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: It's not nice coming off of a loss, but as
Speaker 2: I've I guess accepted it more so as this week
Speaker 2: has progressed. It is nice knowing that, you know, despite
Speaker 2: the loss, you look at your personnel, you look at
Speaker 2: your playmakers, your weapons, and I'm not really worried when
Speaker 2: it comes to that. Now, when you play Miami Clemson
Speaker 2: at Clemson, you are entering a different level of competition
Speaker 2: when it comes to just talent that those teams have. SMU,
Speaker 2: with all due respect, is not one of those teams,
Speaker 2: but they do have a really, really good player that
Speaker 2: maybe this is me just you know, gassing this guy
Speaker 2: up because he's going to be here tomorrow and I'm
Speaker 2: worried about him. But I don't think it's crazy to
Speaker 2: say that SMU may have one of the best offensive
Speaker 2: weapons in the ACC that really nobody seems to be
Speaker 2: talking about Jennings, their quarterback who replaced Preston Stone, and
Speaker 2: he's been perfect for them. I mean he's made mistakes,
Speaker 2: but like he has been really efficient and if you
Speaker 2: watch them play, you'd never guess that this guy started
Speaker 2: out as the backup. But Brash Broochard, I think that's
Speaker 2: how you say, Brishard Smith a running back for them.
Speaker 2: Like he's the guy that I think probably deserves more
Speaker 2: credit and praise for this SMU team than anybody else.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's the first player we think about this.
Speaker 2: He's the first player with five hundred rushing yards, one
Speaker 2: hundred receiving yards and one hundred to turn yards and
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns through five games since it happened in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: the last time that happened was in twenty eighteen, a
Speaker 2: guy by the name of Darryl Henderson did it for Memphis.
Speaker 2: So in the first five games, this guy has been
Speaker 2: a weapon on the ground as a ball carrier. He
Speaker 2: can obviously make some plays out of the backfield as
Speaker 2: a receiver, and he's special on special teams. And eight
Speaker 2: touchdowns in five games for this guy. So the only
Speaker 2: other players that have been as productive as this guy
Speaker 2: in the play in the college football Playoff era Sekwan
Speaker 2: Barkley at Penn State many years ago. And there was
Speaker 2: a guy in Nebraska, Abdullah, that did it long ago.
Speaker 2: So that's a guy you're gonna have to account for.
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm sure Jeff Prom and his team know that,
Speaker 2: but think about this. I mean, this is a guy
Speaker 2: who one hundred and fifty all purpose yards per game.
Speaker 2: So like he's doing it in a variety of ways
Speaker 2: and he's getting it done. And that's somebody that does
Speaker 2: worry me a little bit. And he was a really
Speaker 2: talented guy coming out of high school. Smith was he
Speaker 2: was a I think he was a five star in
Speaker 2: one of the services, but a four everywhere else. Literally
Speaker 2: could pick wherever he wanted to go to school, like
Speaker 2: had offers from me.
Speaker 3: He chose Miami.
Speaker 2: He transferre from Miami, by the way, but he chose
Speaker 2: Miami over Alabama lsu Georgia.
Speaker 3: I mean again, he's a.
Speaker 2: Star athletic receiver from Florida who you know, everybody wanted,
Speaker 2: and it didn't work out at Miami. He ended up
Speaker 2: being really just a special teams guy. Like I think
Speaker 2: he actually was an all acc guy when it comes
Speaker 2: to being a return man. But at SMU, they're utilizing
Speaker 2: him in a lot of ways and it is working.
Speaker 2: So that's somebody I'm you know, I'm gonna be watching
Speaker 2: closely tomorrow to make you know, not that I'm going
Speaker 2: to have any impact on the game, but I'm hopeful
Speaker 2: that he doesn't, you know, take over the game, because
Speaker 2: he's shown the ability to.
Speaker 3: Uh to do that, all right, Uh real quick. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people probably don't care about
Speaker 2: last night's action at this point, although we did get
Speaker 2: a pretty exciting Thursday night football game in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I'm curious how many people are watching. I assume anybody
Speaker 2: or anybody who loves NFL football is watching, but I
Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe people just think like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not a Bucks fan, I'm not a Falcons fan,
Speaker 2: so you know I'm not going to fire up Amazon
Speaker 2: Prime because there is even though like now you got
Speaker 2: to go back and forth between apps and streaming providers.
Speaker 2: That's not necessarily new. But you know, if you got
Speaker 2: YouTube TV on and you're going, you know, back and
Speaker 2: forth between college games or I don't know, maybe you're
Speaker 2: watching whatever, like you may like when it's not right
Speaker 2: there and you got to It's not like it's hard work,
Speaker 2: but you know what I'm saying, John, like getting out
Speaker 2: of your live TV thing to go pull up an
Speaker 2: app and then like it seems.
Speaker 4: Like it's definitely not as seamless as just scrolling through
Speaker 4: channels used to be.
Speaker 2: And I know this sound like I'm speaking as if
Speaker 2: like everybody's just so lazy to push a few more buttons.
Speaker 3: You don't have to get up and do anything.
Speaker 2: But it does make you, at least for a millisecond,
Speaker 2: think like do I really want to watch that? Because
Speaker 2: it's someone like myself who just loves football and if
Speaker 2: live sports are on, and I'm gonna have it on
Speaker 2: in my house, even if I'm watching closely or not.
Speaker 2: That's just kind of always been my nature, but it
Speaker 2: is at times made me think, like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I think, I'm fine not turning that on.
Speaker 4: Like I'll say this, if I'm ever on Hulu looking
Speaker 4: for something and I accidentally hit the home button, that
Speaker 4: takes me back to the you know, the home screen
Speaker 4: of the fire stick, it's a lot harder to kind
Speaker 4: of do the maybe it's not mental gymnastics, so to speak,
Speaker 4: but have that extra motivation to get back to where
Speaker 4: you were just because.
Speaker 5: You were scrolling through channels or whatever, and maybe on Hulu.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Love YouTube TV, And I'm gonna get back to last
Speaker 2: night's games because there was a reason I brought that up.
Speaker 2: But now that we're talking about it, I was at
Speaker 2: I can't think of where it was. It was a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago. I was at a friend's house and
Speaker 2: they still have you know, I think they have spectrum,
Speaker 2: so like they have they're not relying on Internet to
Speaker 2: watch television, which I just, you know, that's all I've
Speaker 2: done for a long time now, and I did kind
Speaker 2: of start to miss that. You don't because even if
Speaker 2: you have the fastest internet in the world, you're still
Speaker 2: like it's a slight delay when you hit a button,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, yes, even if it's
Speaker 2: a millisecond, like even if you're scrolling down on your guide,
Speaker 2: like you're relying on an Internet connection to show you
Speaker 2: that well being on non internet TV, like it was
Speaker 2: kind of like, oh wow, this is kind of great,
Speaker 2: Like it does move a lot faster when you do anything,
Speaker 2: but it's worth it for the convenience and the price.
Speaker 2: So I'm never going back. I thought I would be
Speaker 2: back when I initially cut the court. I thought it
Speaker 2: wouldn't last long, and here I am eight nine years later,
Speaker 2: and it was a good choice. But the reason I
Speaker 2: bring up last night's game because it was a rare
Speaker 2: situation where you could go to either the Falcons Buccaneers
Speaker 2: game in Atlanta or the Troy Texas Stadium. I couldn't
Speaker 2: remember who. They played the Troy Texas State game at
Speaker 2: Troy and get very affordable concessions. Now I'll start with Atlanta,
Speaker 2: and this has been since they opened up Mercedes Been Stadium.
Speaker 2: Arthur blank Has I think that's his name, the guy
Speaker 2: who owns him. He's They don't promote it enough. They
Speaker 2: have decided to give you very affordable concessions, more so
Speaker 2: than any other stadium. And I know some of these
Speaker 2: prices like are probably gonna still sound expensive to you.
Speaker 2: But if you have gone to any game college football, NFL, NBA,
Speaker 2: like I think sporting events where you got to pay
Speaker 2: for a ticket to go to, that's not high school,
Speaker 2: it's not cheap. I mean, nothing seems cheap this day
Speaker 2: and age, right at least that's the way I see it.
Speaker 2: But you can get a large beer, a large domestic beer,
Speaker 2: like a large I don't know what the ounces are,
Speaker 2: and that is important. But at the Falcons game last night,
Speaker 2: you can get a large bud Light Corps Light Miller
Speaker 2: Lite for eight bucks. Again, that doesn't sound cheap like
Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things for a beer, but
Speaker 2: at a game that's super cheap. You can also get
Speaker 2: a souvenir soda with one of those big cups like
Speaker 2: that you can take home for four bucks, but you
Speaker 2: can get a regular one with just you know, and
Speaker 2: I would get the regular one because I don't need
Speaker 2: the cup.
Speaker 3: I don't want to carry a cup.
Speaker 2: Out of there for two dollars for a humongous soda
Speaker 2: at an NFL game like that. I'm sure it's not
Speaker 2: really sounding like a great deal, but if you've gone
Speaker 2: to some of these stadiums really for the last I mean,
Speaker 2: you don't have to blame this on the economy currently.
Speaker 2: I mean it's been expensive it games for a long
Speaker 2: time and only getting more and more expensive. And how
Speaker 2: about this last night at the Troy game, you could
Speaker 2: get two dollars beers And that wasn't even like a
Speaker 2: crazy special, I don't think. Yeah, here's the concessions list
Speaker 2: at Troy. At Troy's football game last night, you can
Speaker 2: get a hot dog for four bucks, a hamburger for five,
Speaker 2: nachos for five.
Speaker 3: You can get two dollars Bush lights. I don't know
Speaker 3: why I wasn't there.
Speaker 2: I'm just seeing that two dollars Natty lights too, So
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just in a weird way now
Speaker 2: that I've looked at both these menus here and I
Speaker 2: looked at it last night, which made me remember to
Speaker 2: bring it up. It is sad how expensive everything is now,
Speaker 2: because here I am telling you, oh my god, you
Speaker 2: can you can get a hamburger for five dollars if
Speaker 2: that's like but it, I mean, because.
Speaker 4: If you bought a hamburger from any said fast food
Speaker 4: restaurant for five dollars.
Speaker 5: That's absolutely expensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, there's some places, like if I
Speaker 2: was just to get a quarter pounder with cheese at
Speaker 2: McDonald's with no meal, just the Cheeseburgerly, it's probably not
Speaker 2: far off from five bucks.
Speaker 1: Is it.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 4: I mean, any sort of meal you get from a
Speaker 4: fast food restaurant, unless you're getting one of the value
Speaker 4: stuff that they're promoting, everything will run up at least
Speaker 4: seven fifty eight bucks.
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm kind of reminding myself that I've always
Speaker 2: hated how companies really promote and market deals half off
Speaker 2: for twenty percent off, because really you can you can
Speaker 2: just start with the really high price and then tell
Speaker 2: us you're getting a great deal when if we're still
Speaker 2: paying a certain number, Like, no, that's not a deal.
Speaker 3: It's still that's not a deal.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Get one free, it's just
Speaker 5: two things at half price.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like promoting we've marked it down, it's on sale. Okay,
Speaker 2: well it was insanely overpriced initially. Now it's just substantially overpriced.
Speaker 2: But like I when I went to the game with
Speaker 2: the family. For Georgia Tech. I remember they had a
Speaker 2: good deal. They had to buy one get one free.
Speaker 2: I think for bush Light. I feel like I'm kind
Speaker 2: of making that up, but like maybe it wasn't buy
Speaker 2: I wouldn't get one free. But there was some kind
Speaker 2: of a special going on with bush Light, which I
Speaker 2: took advantage of when I went to the Georgia Tech game.
Speaker 2: But we didn't get concessions or anything like that, so
Speaker 2: I didn't. It's been a while since i've looked, but
Speaker 2: I know it's expensive and it's you know, like just
Speaker 2: going to a game. Let's just say you are not
Speaker 2: a season ticket holder and you're bring in a family,
Speaker 2: your your your significant other, and two kids, and you're
Speaker 2: buying tickets. You're gonna pay to park. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: a drink for everybody. Everybody's gonna get one item from
Speaker 2: the concession stand. Maybe a little Johnny gets him a
Speaker 2: hot dog, Sally gets her a nacho. Your wife wants
Speaker 2: to do maybe she's thinking hamburger and you are thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm just gonna drink beer. Like and
Speaker 2: I'm a one off. Like let's just say you only
Speaker 2: make one trip to the concession stand for the entire game. Like,
Speaker 2: you're probably spending hundreds of dollars all in all with
Speaker 2: tickets and parking, and I guess it depends on the game.
Speaker 2: And Louiell tickets are fairly cheap this year because the
Speaker 2: home schedule is not great. You know, the best games
Speaker 2: you play this year are I mean the best teams
Speaker 2: you play, most of them are on the road, although Miami,
Speaker 2: I mean in the end of at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, Miami is going to be the highest ranked
Speaker 2: team you play all year and have them at home.
Speaker 2: So it's actually worked out to where that is a
Speaker 2: big game. But anyways, what I want to do coming
Speaker 2: up here in about ten minutes, I want to take
Speaker 2: a look at some of these games from around the country,
Speaker 2: because not a big weekend when it comes to Marque matchups.
Speaker 2: Only one matchup against ranked teams, and it's not even
Speaker 2: a great one. But there are some interesting games that
Speaker 2: I'm eager to wager on, and I know a lot
Speaker 2: of you like wagering as well, so we can certainly
Speaker 2: get to that. But before we take a break, I
Speaker 2: want to go to the text line five O two
Speaker 2: six five three zero seven nineties the number if you
Speaker 2: guys would like to text in. I've neglected you guys
Speaker 2: today and I do want to apologize. But this Tex
Speaker 2: says Nick, I'm the last guy to assume that the
Speaker 2: national pundits aren't giving the Cards enough credit. I honestly
Speaker 2: feel like our fan base is the worst when it
Speaker 2: comes to always thinking people are out to pick on us.
Speaker 2: But I will say it seems insane that no one
Speaker 2: nationally or even within the ACC is talking about how
Speaker 2: great Jacory Brooks has been. You know, I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's insane that people haven't been talking about it,
Speaker 2: but I mean, he does lead the ACC and receiving yards,
Speaker 2: and I hesitate to like say, yeah, you're right, Why
Speaker 2: is he not getting more love? Because I don't consume
Speaker 2: a ton of content, rather it be podcasts or shows
Speaker 2: on the ACC network, So like he might be getting
Speaker 2: a lot of love and I'm just not seeing it.
Speaker 3: But I think, yeah, I mean, he's been one.
Speaker 2: There can't be many receivers in college football that are
Speaker 2: at a new school within the power for that have
Speaker 2: been as productive as he has been. And maybe it's
Speaker 2: because the first two games were against nobody, but he
Speaker 2: leads the acc and receiving yards, and he's actually played
Speaker 2: his best ball against I mean, he's made his biggest
Speaker 2: plays in the games that were against real teams, right
Speaker 2: Like he was great against Georgia Tech with that spinning
Speaker 2: around touchdown, and then of course was really good last
Speaker 2: week despite you know that costly interception that you know
Speaker 2: clearly was on him. So I actually think Schuck is
Speaker 2: in the same boat to where I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: there should be more conversation when you talk acc football
Speaker 2: about Louisville being a team that you know certainly can
Speaker 2: can potentially be in the mix to go to Charlotte,
Speaker 2: and nobody's saying that they can't. But you know, Jeff
Speaker 2: brom having a quarterback that looks more like a Jeff
Speaker 2: Brown quarterback than Jack Plumber. That stands out to me.
Speaker 2: But you know what, I think actually hurts that. And
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe there are numbers out there you guys
Speaker 2: could show me that prove this wrong. But that game
Speaker 2: last week was on Peacock. If you are not a
Speaker 2: big Notre Dame fan or a big Louisville fan, you
Speaker 2: probably didn't watch it. So you can go look at numbers.
Speaker 2: And again, the numbers are a little misleading. I mean,
Speaker 2: Louivill lost the game by a touchdown, and you know,
Speaker 2: not to say that the numbers are way off, but
Speaker 2: like if you watch Tyler shuck, objective viewers would tell
Speaker 2: you that guy's pretty damn good, but his numbers. You know,
Speaker 2: that interception, you know, even though it wasn't his fault,
Speaker 2: falls on him in the stat sheet, the one that
Speaker 2: j Cory Brooks bobbled, and I didn't realize that's the
Speaker 2: only interception he has this year, which clearly is not
Speaker 2: his fault. And at times, you know, and this is
Speaker 2: what I like about him. Not to say that other
Speaker 2: quarterbacks wouldn't do this, but he's mature. I don't watch
Speaker 2: him play feeling like he's worried a whole lot about stats,
Speaker 2: and I think he's willing to take calculated risks like
Speaker 2: but he's also not afraid to just throw it away
Speaker 2: and you know, and eat one. And that I think
Speaker 2: makes it to where his you know, his completion percentage
Speaker 2: is not is not you know, it's not bad, but
Speaker 2: it's not up there to where he'd be getting a
Speaker 2: lot of national intentions. So I hear you like, I've
Speaker 2: kind of thought that meaning that ja Corey Brooks, And
Speaker 2: again I'm throwing shuck in there. I know you didn't
Speaker 2: mention him, but I think those two guys have been
Speaker 2: better than advertised as far as you know what we
Speaker 2: were expecting before the season started. And they're gonna be
Speaker 2: needed tomorrow, no doubt. And not to say that a
Speaker 2: win against SMU would be viewed as a big moment
Speaker 2: for Louisville to where they start to be talked about differently.
Speaker 2: But if you win, you look good doing it. Keep
Speaker 2: in mind you're gonna be on ESPN. That's going to
Speaker 2: just lead you to some more viewers than you would
Speaker 2: typically get, So maybe that changes after tomorrow.
Speaker 3: All right, quick break, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: It's coffee and company rolling along here, five o'clock hour
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety so, before we get into
Speaker 2: some of these games and give our selections, our wagers
Speaker 2: for the weekend, because I know that's what you tuned
Speaker 2: in for. I mean I say that sarcastically, your best
Speaker 2: bet would to be do the opposite of what I
Speaker 2: have been doing lately and what I plan on doing.
Speaker 2: But John's the one with the momentum, so I may
Speaker 2: be educated by his picks that he's about to share
Speaker 2: with us. But before see, but before we do that,
Speaker 2: I want to give a shout out to my stepdad
Speaker 2: John and his crew of friends who they're doing something
Speaker 2: this weekend that I think is really cool and I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked if, like others knew about it, they would.
Speaker 3: Want to do it too.
Speaker 2: So, you know, he's he's in his early sixties and
Speaker 2: he has a core of core group of friends that
Speaker 2: have been really close since like high school, you know,
Speaker 2: And actually, I think that's kind of rare, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you. You know, maybe that's not as rare
Speaker 2: as I think, but you know, he and his closest
Speaker 2: friends from high school that he grew up with like
Speaker 2: forty years later, they still forty plus years later, not
Speaker 2: to make them feel old, but they still go on
Speaker 2: a few trips together whenever they can every year, and
Speaker 2: they do an event that is coming up this weekend
Speaker 2: that's called the he Man. The he Man is where
Speaker 2: most of these guys and then a few others that
Speaker 2: are just friends, like not necessarily the core group of
Speaker 2: friends that have known each other forever, but just you
Speaker 2: know guys. They hang out with guys that will be
Speaker 2: interested in. What they do is at my mom and
Speaker 2: stepdad's house. Every year they have like a competition and
Speaker 2: the different things that they do, and like each year
Speaker 2: there's a winner. So they've got like a mountain bike course.
Speaker 2: He's got a great setup in his backyard where they've
Speaker 2: got you know, a bunch of space and trails and
Speaker 2: you can do there's a mountain bike course, and they
Speaker 2: time the event so like whoever gets the best time
Speaker 2: as far as going through the course, you know, they're
Speaker 2: a winner of that event, and you and everybody's time
Speaker 2: is tracked. They also have you know, knocking bottles off
Speaker 2: stands with frisbees, which is a timed event, like you've
Speaker 2: got you know, certain number of bottles that you just
Speaker 2: try to knock down with frisbees, and whoever can get
Speaker 2: it done and the quickest amount of time, you know,
Speaker 2: they end up being the winner of that. They've got
Speaker 2: an obstacle course, a golf tee shot where they use
Speaker 2: the back and again works out perfect where he's got
Speaker 2: so much space in the backyard. It's not even really
Speaker 2: a backyard, it's just a huge plot of land. But
Speaker 2: they have a golf tea shot where if you. You know,
Speaker 2: the closest person to the pole ends up winning. Everybody
Speaker 2: takes a shot, they do a tractor pull where they're
Speaker 2: pulling his cup cadet up the driveway, and again whoever
Speaker 2: can do it in the quickest time. They've got a
Speaker 2: hatchet toss, fishing pole casting, like whoever can get closest
Speaker 2: to the pole, air rifle contest. There's all kinds of
Speaker 2: stuff they do, and you know, you get certain points
Speaker 2: for how you do in each of the events, and
Speaker 2: there's a winner, you know, second place, third place and
Speaker 2: all that, and they do it every year. I think
Speaker 2: this is maybe the fourth or fifth year they've done it,
Speaker 2: and I think it's cool as hell. And I hope
Speaker 2: when I get older, me and my friends do the
Speaker 2: same thing, because one, it's a chance to get together
Speaker 2: with the with the fellas and have you know, have
Speaker 2: a day, and you don't, you know, you don't get
Speaker 2: a chance to do that as much whenever you get older.
Speaker 2: Most of these guys who have children now are grandfathers,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, but you know, I know,
Speaker 2: I know, I know we wouldn't have the time to
Speaker 2: do it now with everything going on in our lives.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm a lot younger than my stepdad
Speaker 2: and his friends. But you know, and it's it's it's competition,
Speaker 2: and competition is healthy for every human being. And you know,
Speaker 2: they take it serious, but also it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm envious.
Speaker 3: I hope that sounds bads.
Speaker 2: It's awesome, man, it really is, like and they've you know,
Speaker 2: they've done it many years now to where there's a
Speaker 2: big banner that gets put up and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's really cool.
Speaker 2: So best of luck to the to the Fellas on
Speaker 2: Sunday for the for the annual he Man at the
Speaker 2: Donahue Headquarters. And yeah, I mean I I could tell
Speaker 2: you some of the some of the things like I
Speaker 2: wouldn't do well at has nothing to do with age.
Speaker 2: It's just like I wouldn't be somebody who would probably
Speaker 2: finish in the top ten. If there are ten people,
Speaker 2: maybe I would finish top ten. But like the whole
Speaker 2: fishing pole thing, I don't know how to do that,
Speaker 2: but if I was competing, I would want to learn
Speaker 2: how because I would want to win. So I just
Speaker 2: thought that was really cool and I would encourage others
Speaker 2: out there. You know, if you you know, if you
Speaker 2: want to be active, have fun, compete, and just make
Speaker 2: it a day where you get to hang out with
Speaker 2: your friends, maybe friends you don't get to see that often.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's some people that don't live around here
Speaker 2: that come in every year for it, travel because you know,
Speaker 2: it's just become like an annual thing where they get together,
Speaker 2: have fun, compete, and you know, spend time together. So
Speaker 2: best of luck to those fellas on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I have somebody asked me earlier in the show, and
Speaker 2: then somebody just asked once again, different person about like
Speaker 2: what I think of Louisville's game as far as the
Speaker 2: spread I have, I'm not going to touch this game.
Speaker 2: I haven't bet on a Louisville game this year, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you. But Louisville Mine is six and
Speaker 2: a half right now.
Speaker 3: I mean I haven't even given any thought. I just
Speaker 3: want Louisville to win like this.
Speaker 2: You need to bounce back in such a way that
Speaker 2: this is not a game I've thought about in any
Speaker 2: way when it comes to like a wagering perspective. But
Speaker 2: for what it's worth, we can look here at sports
Speaker 2: Line and see what the public's doing here when they're
Speaker 2: wagering on this game, because you know, this only speaks
Speaker 2: to the pretty weak slate of games we have here
Speaker 2: as far as the matchups. But this is probably a
Speaker 2: top five game of the of the of the week
Speaker 2: because SMUs just got one loss on the year, right
Speaker 2: outside the top twenty five. That only losses to BYU
Speaker 2: and then Louisville their top twenty five teams still, so
Speaker 2: I mean that'll I mean it's a top twenty five
Speaker 2: team playing a team that's right outside the top twenty five,
Speaker 2: which again comparatively speaking, that's actually that makes it one
Speaker 2: of the better games. But right now the spread at
Speaker 2: six and a half, seventy seven percent of the money
Speaker 2: is on Louisville to cover and fifty six percent, So
Speaker 2: there's more, there's more, like the money, and this is
Speaker 2: usually what screams there's like a handful of big bets,
Speaker 2: probably because the public as far as just you know,
Speaker 2: not the amount of money, but just those making any
Speaker 2: type of wager doesn't have anything to do with the
Speaker 2: monetary side of it, just what they're betting. Are they
Speaker 2: picking them to cover or not. More people have SMU
Speaker 2: covering when it comes to just wagering, but the money
Speaker 2: seventy seven percent is on Louisville to cover, but fifty
Speaker 2: six percent has SMU. As far as just the public
Speaker 2: betting so money line, only three percent of the money
Speaker 2: is on SMU. Only four percent of the public is
Speaker 2: on SMU, So again, Louisville is expected to win. If
Speaker 2: you and if you're somebody who likes to do over
Speaker 2: unders rather than spreads or money line, the total is
Speaker 2: fifty six and a half and eighty three percent of
Speaker 2: the money is on the over and sixty seven percent
Speaker 2: of the of the public is on the over.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Was this one? Was this on
Speaker 3: your card at all?
Speaker 1: Jobs was not?
Speaker 4: If I were taking it, though, I think I'd take
Speaker 4: Louisville to bounce back in a big way after the
Speaker 4: way they lost last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to mention like trends with bron because
Speaker 2: he's only in his second season. But you know, they
Speaker 2: only lost one home game last year, and that was
Speaker 2: of course to you know who, and they came off
Speaker 2: that Pittsburgh loss and demolished Duke and beat them twenty
Speaker 2: three or twenty six to nothing. So I would I
Speaker 2: expect him to bounce back. But you know, they got
Speaker 2: to actually go out there and do it before we
Speaker 2: know for sure, if you know, because this will be
Speaker 2: a telling game for them for themselves, right Like, I
Speaker 2: think a sluggish performance here wouldn't be the worst thing
Speaker 2: in the world. If you can still hold on and win,
Speaker 2: maybe it means Semu's pretty good. However, I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like, you know, they need to convince themselves, hey,
Speaker 2: we can play a clean game of football.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you go first here and tell me
Speaker 2: what the first leg of your parlay is.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm starting with Iowa State to cover minus
Speaker 4: ten and a half against Baylor. Iowa State's unbeaten so
Speaker 4: far this year. The Baylor team they're going up against
Speaker 4: two and three in Iowa State. In all but one
Speaker 4: of the games they've played in so far, they taking
Speaker 4: care of business fairly easy North Dakota twenty one to three,
Speaker 4: Arkansas Arkansas State excuse me, fifty two to seven. Then
Speaker 4: last week against Houston twenty to nothing. The other game
Speaker 4: they won was against Iowa on the road. They won
Speaker 4: by one point. But I think so far Iowa State
Speaker 4: has kind of bounced back under Matt Campbell, and I
Speaker 4: think this is a pretty safe bet.
Speaker 5: When it comes to covering this spread here this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2: I think BYU, I mean I thought Dave Verronda their
Speaker 2: head coach. I thought he was a future star. I mean,
Speaker 2: he had a really good first year or maybe it
Speaker 2: was his second year at Baylor, and I believe he
Speaker 2: turned down interest from LSU because of how you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if they offered him the job, but
Speaker 2: it was a known thing that like he was going
Speaker 2: to stay at Baylor after a big start, and man,
Speaker 2: it has not worked out well for him since then.
Speaker 2: They're a bad football team. So yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: a good pick. And Iowa State, you know, I kind
Speaker 2: of felt like the latest example of a coach that
Speaker 2: should have left when he had the chance was Matt
Speaker 2: was him because Iowa State it's not a great job.
Speaker 2: He made them relevant in a way they've never have
Speaker 2: been relevant before. They actually had some really good seasons
Speaker 2: under him, at least a couple of them.
Speaker 3: I shuldn't. They don't think they had a lot of them.
Speaker 2: But either way, great season or not, they've been a
Speaker 2: lot better under him than they've typically been. And I
Speaker 2: thought maybe he would be the guy that like eventually
Speaker 2: ends up getting fired there because it just you know,
Speaker 2: ran its course, but off to a good start. And obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, a win against Iowa means a lot to them.
Speaker 2: So they're four, and oh, I think that's a I
Speaker 2: think that's a good pick. Here's one that I feel
Speaker 2: I feel pretty good about. And this isn't like, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not going to take him to cover,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to take Texas A and M money line.
Speaker 2: I think Missouri could potentially be a big time fraud.
Speaker 2: And I know last year they really had a strong season.
Speaker 2: They beat Ohio State in a bowl game and that
Speaker 2: means a lot. But like Ohio State, let's be real,
Speaker 2: all the NFL guys, because Ohio State missed the playoff,
Speaker 2: didn't didn't play in that game, so they got a
Speaker 2: lot of momentum from that. And you can't control, you know,
Speaker 2: any of that stuff. But like they barely hung on
Speaker 2: to beat Vandy, who lost to Georgia State, meaning Van
Speaker 2: Boston College should have beat them. Buffalo is terrible. They
Speaker 2: beat them thirty eight nothing. They beat Murray State fifty
Speaker 2: to nothing. So I mean, the only teams they've played
Speaker 2: that are like in fact, no, like I was gonna
Speaker 2: say the only teams they played that are decent, they've
Speaker 2: really struggled. No, because I don't think Vandy's decent. I
Speaker 2: mean they're not. I mean maybe in a different world,
Speaker 2: but like Vandy still Vandy, and they barely beat them.
Speaker 2: So I think at home, I'm tempted to take A
Speaker 2: and M to cover because they are favorites. But I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna take A and M money line.
Speaker 3: What else you like?
Speaker 4: I like air for excuse me, Navy to cover against
Speaker 4: Air Force Navy again. Four and oh going against a
Speaker 4: really bad air Force team that has a loss to
Speaker 4: a believe Wyoming who's also a terrible team this year.
Speaker 4: I lost to a bad Baylor team that already mentioned
Speaker 4: the lost to San Jose State, and the spreads only
Speaker 4: at minus ten for an undefeated Navy team, And I
Speaker 4: feel like this could be another free money game.
Speaker 5: If you're wagering on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I that's just so you know, And I hope
Speaker 2: this doesn't make you feel anyway. That's been a trendy pick,
Speaker 2: so like, okay, I think that's usually that makes people
Speaker 2: feel good, but some people are like, oh, now's the up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now I'm worried. So this is I mean, I have
Speaker 2: no choice but to fade Florida State. They are as
Speaker 2: down as you could possibly be. They've hit fade territory.
Speaker 2: Their only win on the year is a nine to
Speaker 2: fourteen win against Cal, where they scored fourteen points. I mean,
Speaker 2: they are an absolute dumpster fire. And some may say
Speaker 2: that they could be better without Dju playing because he's hurt,
Speaker 2: but either way, they're awful.
Speaker 3: They know it.
Speaker 2: They've played five games. Now, keep in mind they started
Speaker 2: their season in a week zero. Each week they go
Speaker 2: out there, they get embarrassed. Even when they beat Cal,
Speaker 2: it's still embarrassing because of what their expectations were. Clemson,
Speaker 2: I think they win this thing by twenty four. They're
Speaker 2: only favored by fourteen and a half. That's that's my
Speaker 2: favorite pick. I just think a good one. I think
Speaker 2: Clemson is going to bury them. Clemson is worried about
Speaker 2: style points. They are worried about perception because of their
Speaker 2: embarrassing loss to George as far as the margin, and
Speaker 2: they've been playing really good football in Florida State's the
Speaker 2: kind of team that right now, if you get down
Speaker 2: a couple of scores, you're dead, cause you know, the
Speaker 2: human element is so strong that you're going to be
Speaker 2: licking your wounds. After a couple of scores, there's not
Speaker 2: going to be any anything within for you to dig
Speaker 2: deep and fight back, climb out of the hole. I
Speaker 2: think Dabbo runs up the score on Mike Norvell.
Speaker 5: That's a good one. You got me wish and I
Speaker 5: included that one.
Speaker 3: Now you can really well you can, you know you
Speaker 3: can do a side one that's true.
Speaker 5: I may do that first. I'll go ahead and mention
Speaker 5: my side real quick.
Speaker 4: And this is something that maybe I don't know if
Speaker 4: you mentioned this, but somebody that comes on the show
Speaker 4: mentions his lock of the week and that's Indiana.
Speaker 5: Minus to there we go.
Speaker 4: But that's also a hard pick for me, so I'm
Speaker 4: not including that in the three liquor.
Speaker 5: It's a separate bet.
Speaker 2: We didn't get a chance to chat with Brian because
Speaker 2: of my issues with the schedule today, but he did
Speaker 2: share his picks with me, and he's really really high
Speaker 2: on Indiana cover in thirteen and a half. And I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't mean I was going to say I'm surprised
Speaker 2: they're favored by that much. But no, look at how
Speaker 2: they've played this year. I mean, they deserve to be
Speaker 2: favored by that much. What is your other what's the
Speaker 2: other legs?
Speaker 4: My final leg is Miami minus ten against California. I
Speaker 4: know California is getting a lot of love for the
Speaker 4: way that they've kind of care married themselves on social media,
Speaker 4: and kudos to them, but I think this is the
Speaker 4: week that California gets a reality check against the Hurricanes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Miami, you know they should be They won
Speaker 2: last week despite some controversy. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: how controversial it was, but you know, that was a
Speaker 2: game they could have easily lost, and they know it.
Speaker 2: They've got a lot on the line. And here's the facts.
Speaker 2: They're way better, Like, they're way more talented than cal
Speaker 2: cal has just been cute, right, and it's been fun
Speaker 2: to see them make fun of themselves. The woke first
Speaker 2: Coke is pretty funny, but like I'm with you, I
Speaker 2: think I think it's probably pretty ugly tomorrow.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: My last you know one that I'm gonna throw out there,
Speaker 2: as far as feeling pretty good about one that I've
Speaker 2: you know, dare I say done some research on Ole
Speaker 2: Miss in South Carolina. I'm gonna take South Carolina plus
Speaker 2: eight and a half because I just think they're gonna
Speaker 2: have the They're at home, and by the way, they
Speaker 2: have a It was said before the season started that
Speaker 2: they have the most by one of the guys I
Speaker 2: follow on CBS Sports, Josh Pate, that Williams Brice Stadium
Speaker 2: is one of the most underrated atmospheres in college football.
Speaker 2: And this South Carolina team, again, they should have lost
Speaker 2: to Old Dominion. At the beginning of the season. They
Speaker 2: had a heartbreaking loss to LSU where they probably should
Speaker 2: have won. There was a questionable call there. I mean,
Speaker 2: they carried that momentum from the UK game in and
Speaker 2: just came up short against LSU, a game that you
Speaker 2: can without a questionable call, they probably would have won.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying Old Missus frauds. I'm not saying that
Speaker 2: they're you know that they're gonna end up having a
Speaker 2: terrible season because Kentucky beat them. However, I think that,
Speaker 2: you know, it's more about my confidence that South Carolina's defense,
Speaker 2: their front seven, will be able to slow this Old
Speaker 2: Miss team down offensively. And again I'm not saying they'll
Speaker 2: win but they're getting a lot of points at home,
Speaker 2: so I'm taking South Carolina plus eight and a half.
Speaker 2: All right, we gotta run quick break. We'll come back
Speaker 2: and wrap this up on the other side. Give it
Speaker 2: a lock right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Another
Speaker 2: reminder that tomorrow, tomorrow morning, it's another noon or so,
Speaker 2: we will start things at eleven o'clock the Louisville football
Speaker 2: pregame show.
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Speaker 2: Doors of Central Kentucky, and then we'll get it started
Speaker 2: once again right after the game ends as we react
Speaker 2: to whatever it is that happens. I'm hopeful that it's
Speaker 2: a celebration. And look not to say that, you know,
Speaker 2: win means we're gonna be partying, but it's needed, not
Speaker 2: only because you want to get that bad taste out
Speaker 2: of your mouth from Notre Dame, but also it's it's
Speaker 2: a conference game. And I think right now as we speak,
Speaker 2: we'll see maybe we're way wrong. Maybe a month later
Speaker 2: it looks a lot different, but you know, right now,
Speaker 2: when you look at Louisville schedule, they still have to
Speaker 2: play the two best teams in this league, and that's
Speaker 2: Clemson and Florida State, or not Florida State, but Clemson
Speaker 2: and Miami. But other than that, I would say that
Speaker 2: this is gonna be your best opponent in league play,
Speaker 2: so there would be some real value there. All right, everybody,
Speaker 2: have a good weekend, John, and good luck on your parlay.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll talk tomorrow. Yeah, we'll be talking tomorrow,
Speaker 2: kind of seeing how it's looking. So have a good weekend, everybody.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll see it. Louisville liive, take care. They