Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven nine day.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: when we.
Speaker 1: Are get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 2: The kids are crying or turning off. The countries are.
Speaker 3: Screwing it up.
Speaker 1: Gold Play Inn Murals, Brother, gold Play Inn Murals. They're
Speaker 1: supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
Speaker 3: kidding me? Now?
Speaker 1: Here's Nick?
Speaker 3: Coffee?
Speaker 2: All right, Happy hump Day, Welcome in Coffee and Company
Speaker 2: field by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate
Speaker 2: you hanging out with us on a gloomy, kind of
Speaker 2: kind of rainy Wednesday afternoon. But that's okay. We'll stay dry.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can stay dry as well. I always always
Speaker 2: kind of walk myself into that because I do realize
Speaker 2: there are folks who don't have the ability to, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, be inside in comfortable conditions throughout the day,
Speaker 2: whether it be nice cool ac in the brutal summer
Speaker 2: or nice warm heat when it's nasty and cold outside.
Speaker 2: So whatever you're doing, I hope you're comfortable, and I
Speaker 2: hope you'll stick with us for these next three hours,
Speaker 2: because I mean, we're gonna We're gonna take advantage of
Speaker 2: the final hours we have left here. So today, tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and Friday, that's it for me, and then I'm making
Speaker 2: the move to eight forty whas and really just two
Speaker 2: more days left for Austin. He's out Friday with some
Speaker 2: some some plans. Is it a graduation? Is that right?
Speaker 2: Had the golf scramble? Oh yeah, that's right. I have
Speaker 2: to leave early for they got your wedding, That's right,
Speaker 2: they got you doing everything.
Speaker 4: Man, I mean so of course that would be the
Speaker 4: way that this show ends, right as me having to
Speaker 4: go do some promotion stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, I was a little late getting into this studio
Speaker 2: just because I was down the hall talking to our
Speaker 2: boss Gus just about the rest of this week. And
Speaker 2: and I don't really have a whole lot of a
Speaker 2: whole lot of I guess resources to do something kind
Speaker 2: of big for the sendoff. So I'm not going to
Speaker 2: oversell it because that would be foolish. But I think
Speaker 2: Friday is going to be a lot of fun, and
Speaker 2: I wish you'd be here, but you'll be with us
Speaker 2: in spirit. I'll be tuning in, I'll be listening for sure,
Speaker 2: And I tell you what, I I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't want to at all insinuate that I'm keeping
Speaker 2: this quiet until it's official, because man, it's going to
Speaker 2: be big news and it's going to blow you away.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not doing that. But I also don't
Speaker 2: want to put something out there until I know for
Speaker 2: sure that it's actually going to happen. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: And I'm content with sort of how these last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks have played out. I've been so focused and
Speaker 2: so just ready, not necessarily like for this to end
Speaker 2: in me to make that move to has but I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm so hungry and excited to, you know, take
Speaker 2: on this new challenge, which will be a new challenge.
Speaker 2: But because I've already kind of been focusing on that
Speaker 2: and trying my best to be prepared and be able
Speaker 2: to handle that adjustment as best as possible, it's kind
Speaker 2: of left me just where I've always been with this show,
Speaker 2: which is just making sure, you know, ready to rock
Speaker 2: every day at three plenty to talk about and just
Speaker 2: not overthinking it because I think if I spent a
Speaker 2: ton of time just thinking, oh man, after this segment.
Speaker 2: You know, with me being a very paranoid person in general,
Speaker 2: like I worry about things way more than I ever
Speaker 2: should and need to. It's just my nature. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 2: feel like without looking ahead to the challenge that is
Speaker 2: the new gig, I would just be thinking, oh, Nick,
Speaker 2: now you only have thirteen segments left and then it's
Speaker 2: all over, which would be no way to go about
Speaker 2: the last few weeks, because you know, I want to
Speaker 2: live in the moment and enjoy it and not think
Speaker 2: about it coming to an end. And my hope is
Speaker 2: that I'll do that and that will make it to
Speaker 2: make it to where it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 2: fun and really doesn't you know it's a fun. But again,
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not leaving this company. I'm just I'm
Speaker 2: still gonna be here. I'm still gonna see Austin every day.
Speaker 2: So I guess maybe that's why it hasn't really hit me,
Speaker 2: because my wife asked me this last night. She was like,
Speaker 2: have you like this is kind of crazy that you're
Speaker 2: no longer going to be on seven ninety after a
Speaker 2: few days, Like, I guess she just she knows me Austin.
Speaker 2: She thought, yeah, she thought I'd be a wreck. She
Speaker 2: thought I'd be you know, I'd be sad and all that,
Speaker 2: which you know is a bummer. But the situation would
Speaker 2: be totally different if I was like retiring, or if
Speaker 2: I was leaving the market to go somewhere else, or
Speaker 2: if I was just you know, I was leaving to
Speaker 2: go do a different gig. But I'm not. I'm still
Speaker 2: gonna be here every day, just not on this station
Speaker 2: at this time, and I won't be able to say
Speaker 2: a word about what happens here once I'm once I've
Speaker 2: made the move, just because I know things aren't aren't
Speaker 2: moving along that quickly. However, I mean, I feel much
Speaker 2: better now than I ever did in the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks as far as just there's like there'll be
Speaker 2: something here for you at some point, and I if
Speaker 2: it's what I hope it is, then I think you'll
Speaker 2: really enjoy it.
Speaker 4: So anyways, and also, since like you said, we're still
Speaker 4: going to be able to see each other, we're going
Speaker 4: to be rubbing elbows, meeting each other in the in
Speaker 4: the in the kitchen for a snack.
Speaker 2: How do we keep ending up here or something exactly.
Speaker 4: There's there's going to be that small talk live in
Speaker 4: the dream, you know, but there's I'm also here in
Speaker 4: the morning, too, So I mean, I can always pop
Speaker 4: my head in the studio and sit down on mic
Speaker 4: number two and chat about whatever's going on in the
Speaker 4: world with you on the big stick, and I.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be I wouldn't be shocked at all. If if
Speaker 2: there's if there's a point where you you're producing because
Speaker 2: the company stands on vacation or somebody sick or you know,
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 4: So I did get told I was going to be
Speaker 4: uh starting to learn the w h A S stuff
Speaker 4: starting next week on the mother ship. We are that
Speaker 4: sort of the folks is going.
Speaker 2: So you go, you have to be like the most
Speaker 2: hybrid employee this company's ever had. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 2: We're talking. I mean, it's all the different. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of shoes. More than just big shoes.
Speaker 2: It's just I mean, yeah, yeah, we're talking sneakers, penny loafers,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe some work boots, like you got a
Speaker 2: pair in your closet for whatever they need you to do.
Speaker 2: My man, we I mean you've hosted, you've hosted radio
Speaker 2: on this station, doing postgame show filling and whatnot. You've
Speaker 2: been my producer. You've also been on AMZ for a
Speaker 2: long time. Now you have your the official host of
Speaker 2: the iHeart Radio the iHeart Media Wrestling podcast. You know
Speaker 2: you you you're also again at all the events for promotions.
Speaker 2: So you are you met the Derby? Yeah you've been, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you are. You were one of our reporters for the Derby.
Speaker 4: I'm at the Young Center while they're putting the monster
Speaker 4: truck dirt in and I'm I'm interviewing professional bull ri.
Speaker 2: You drive the iHeart vehicles in local parades here, Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not kidding when I say that you
Speaker 2: you probably have done more role. You've you probably had
Speaker 2: more roles here and there in your time as a
Speaker 2: full time employee here than most have. And I don't
Speaker 2: just say that to gas show, but just think about it.
Speaker 2: I mean again, like you probably didn't think about the
Speaker 2: riding the vehicle in the parade, right, It's that kind
Speaker 2: of escape from me. And what's crazy is that Veterans
Speaker 2: Day parade. I'm not even a veteran. What's crazy is
Speaker 2: that all of those different roles that we just laid
Speaker 2: out like they're all, for the most part, from different departments, right,
Speaker 2: Like one is considered you know, it's on air, the
Speaker 2: others reporting, the other's producing the other's promotions. Like you
Speaker 2: you've had your hand in a little bit of everything.
Speaker 4: The guy that's putting in the keywords for iHeartRadio cash contest.
Speaker 2: You go text in every day. What can the guy
Speaker 2: not do? It's what I mean, it's it's it's what
Speaker 2: THEO It's what the phone are asking. So anyways, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll we'll finish strong and with the rest
Speaker 2: of this week, and uh, I will let you guys
Speaker 2: know more about Friday whenever I feel a little better
Speaker 2: about being able to, you know, share what and all
Speaker 2: it is is potentially, uh you know, being somewhere and
Speaker 2: giving folks the opportunity if they would want to even
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know if you'd want to or not,
Speaker 2: but uh, you know, it'd be nice to not be
Speaker 2: in the cave for the final show. So if we
Speaker 2: can make that happen, then we will. If not, then
Speaker 2: I'll be in the cave. And it's not a bad
Speaker 2: place to be. I've been here a lot. I enjoy it.
Speaker 2: This is uh. This is a lot of fun. So
Speaker 2: if you guys want to take us with to you
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Speaker 2: to listen in, also, plenty of ways for you guys
Speaker 2: to be a part of the show today. A lot
Speaker 2: that we can certainly get to. Let's go. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and get the table set. I don't really have
Speaker 2: a whole lot to add about the Pacers and next
Speaker 2: series that we haven't already said, other than just I
Speaker 2: guess emphasizing once again how hilarious it is that the
Speaker 2: NBA players believe that Tyrese Haliburton is the most overrated
Speaker 2: player in their league. I'm not surprised they did that
Speaker 2: at the time, just because I get it, Like I
Speaker 2: think he kind of seems like, maybe at times a
Speaker 2: little corny to other NBA players. He certainly benefits in
Speaker 2: every way from the Pacers system. I'm not sure there
Speaker 2: are many other players in the league as far as
Speaker 2: the skill set that that would thrive more and what
Speaker 2: the Pacers want to do. So I've always been a
Speaker 2: big fan of him. I mean, he's just he's super skilled.
Speaker 2: And what you're seeing now is he's on a team
Speaker 2: that does make postseason runs and and you know he's
Speaker 2: a competitor. He's clutch. I mean he's been He's been
Speaker 2: the biggest factor in the Pacers comebacks throughout this entire postseason.
Speaker 2: Clearly Aaron Smith was insane, was insane in Game one.
Speaker 2: But you're we're learning about this is the way because again,
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people want to want to
Speaker 2: want to bag on the NBA players who voted and
Speaker 2: most underrated, And I'll be honest with you, I like
Speaker 2: last night seeing him do what he did. If you
Speaker 2: guys missed it, I mean you missed out because I'm
Speaker 2: sure this is coming from not only the truth, but
Speaker 2: a little bit of maybe me being a Pacers fan here.
Speaker 2: But you could argue his performance last night statistically is
Speaker 2: one of the best things you'll ever see. Yeah. Always
Speaker 2: had a triple double in the first half. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean thirty three points, fifteen assists, in twelve rebounds in
Speaker 2: zero turnovers. He's the first player in NBA history with
Speaker 2: a triple double on zero turnovers in the Conference finals.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's so again, these are things. I think
Speaker 2: everybody knew that he was a skilled player. But he's
Speaker 2: with the Kings for a while, and when he first
Speaker 2: got to Indianapolis, I don't think that they were I
Speaker 2: don't think they were that good right out of the gate.
Speaker 2: But maybe I'm wrong here. But here they are back
Speaker 2: to back Eastern Conference finals, one game away from getting
Speaker 2: to the NBA Finals. He is the franchise player, certainly
Speaker 2: has some good players around him. Siakam has been sensational
Speaker 2: in this series. And see I mean Siakam was the
Speaker 2: second best player on a team that won an NBA
Speaker 2: championship Toronto, which by the way, got to be the
Speaker 2: most forgettable NBA title of all time. But I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy's this guy's insane, and they won me forty
Speaker 2: bucks last night. Hell yeah, let's go good stuff. So
Speaker 2: when it comes to the Pacers and and Halliburton, I
Speaker 2: as much as I last night was even making some
Speaker 2: comments on Twitter about how hilarious that, like the NBA,
Speaker 2: the association views this guy as the most overrated When
Speaker 2: when is you know, take away anything about overrated, underrated,
Speaker 2: any kind of rating in any way, Just look at results.
Speaker 2: And performance, and you know facts, this guy is delivering
Speaker 2: as good as anybody in the NBA right now, and
Speaker 2: you know it's satisfying to see him. I guess prove
Speaker 2: those people wrong. But then again, sometimes people are just wrong,
Speaker 2: like I've never maybe it's just because of the platform
Speaker 2: we have here and what we do. Like I'm wrong
Speaker 2: a lot, Like I'm not afraid to be wrong. I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not embarrassed to admit when I'm wrong. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very comfortable. I shouldn't say I'm comfortable being wrong,
Speaker 2: because you know, I think you prefer to be right
Speaker 2: much more than But I know that I can get
Speaker 2: things wrong, and I will never hesitate to say, hey,
Speaker 2: my opinion was wrong. I've been proven wrong. Now you
Speaker 2: can be wrong and not be at fault right and
Speaker 2: not be a bad person. So, like, it wouldn't shock
Speaker 2: me if there's NBA players that right now, although they're
Speaker 2: not going to come out and say it, I would
Speaker 2: not be shocked if there's been some thought among the NBA,
Speaker 2: the players that voted him the most overrated player in
Speaker 2: the league. Yeah, he's shown me that he's not. Because again,
Speaker 2: like I think maybe they were just thinking, Okay, that
Speaker 2: guy's good, but he's getting way too much hype. The
Speaker 2: Pacers aren't that good. He's just putting up big numbers
Speaker 2: in a good system and they're not. But now, I mean,
Speaker 2: I would imagine if they're being real with themselves, they
Speaker 2: would say, yeah, I now think that the rating he
Speaker 2: was getting, the hype he was getting, I now believe
Speaker 2: that it's actually genuinely deserved, which maybe before this run
Speaker 2: in the postseason they didn't see it that way. Regardless,
Speaker 2: people can have an opinion and it can just be
Speaker 2: their opinion and it doesn't mean that they you know,
Speaker 2: you can have a bad opinion, but at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, like it's your opinion. So I do
Speaker 2: take satisfaction seeing that be a storyline that everybody's kind
Speaker 2: of thinking, how the hell the NBA get this wrong?
Speaker 2: Which I don't even know I remember what it was
Speaker 2: how they determined it. I think it was some kind
Speaker 2: of an anonymous poll. I don't think it was the
Speaker 2: NBA Players Association Awards, but maybe it was because NBA
Speaker 2: Players Association they do have awards that they give out
Speaker 2: that the players specifically vote on. But I can't imagine
Speaker 2: that the Players Association would find it to be productive
Speaker 2: for their league to have everybody vote who they think
Speaker 2: is the most overrated. But maybe they did it. But regardless,
Speaker 2: the Pacers just one game away. And I already know
Speaker 2: and I said it a couple of weeks ago, so
Speaker 2: trust me, it's not like I am shocked to hear this,
Speaker 2: but I certainly don't care as a fan. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the Thunder and the Pacers in the NBA Finals would
Speaker 2: be a disastrous thing for the NBA ahead of time. Now,
Speaker 2: the reason I say that is because, I mean, I
Speaker 2: know that the Knicks have a bigger brand than most
Speaker 2: in the NBA just because of the Knicks. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's certainly not based off of anything they've accomplished. And
Speaker 2: the Nuggets, they are a recent NBA champ, and they
Speaker 2: also have a guy who is I mean, honestly, they've
Speaker 2: got three big stars, well two two that are really
Speaker 2: big stars in Jokic and Murray, but even you know,
Speaker 2: even like Aaron Gordon, I mean he became a star
Speaker 2: in Orlando and then also because he was the Dunk
Speaker 2: Contest champ. So anyways, my point is, there are other
Speaker 2: teams that have been eliminated or I guess are one
Speaker 2: game away from elimination right now, that them being in
Speaker 2: the finals would probably be a better thing on paper
Speaker 2: going into the NBA Finals, And who knows, maybe if
Speaker 2: it's the Pacers and it's the Thunder and you get
Speaker 2: to the end of the series and the Thunder winning
Speaker 2: six or the Pacers winning six or seven, and it
Speaker 2: ends up being a dud when it comes to viewership,
Speaker 2: I can't say that I'm going to be shocked, because again,
Speaker 2: the Pacers don't have a they're not a big market,
Speaker 2: and Halliburton is their biggest star, but he's still relatively
Speaker 2: unknown to a lot of people that aren't big time
Speaker 2: NBA fans. And obviously the Thunder that's just weird. Like
Speaker 2: I now am fascinated by the Thunder being as good
Speaker 2: as they are, but there clearly just doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: be a ton of respect around them this year from
Speaker 2: the casuals because you just don't know, like you don't
Speaker 2: know enough about them. To THEEREM. You know they're good,
Speaker 2: you see they're winning loss record, you see SGA being
Speaker 2: the MVP, but you're just not exposed to them a
Speaker 2: whole lot unless you're really go looking for them, because
Speaker 2: let's be honest, they didn't become really good until the
Speaker 2: last couple of years, and they don't get the major
Speaker 2: TV games that the other big market teams get. So like,
Speaker 2: even if you wanted to be exposed to them like
Speaker 2: you are the other great teams in the NBA or
Speaker 2: just the other big markets in the NBA, you probably
Speaker 2: need League Pass or something. And I don't want to
Speaker 2: act like they're never on TV, but I would be
Speaker 2: shocked if SGA has the fewest national elevised games primetime
Speaker 2: games I should say for an MVP, because you got
Speaker 2: to keep in mind when KD won it, when RUSS
Speaker 2: won it. I mean, the Thunder had already been to
Speaker 2: the finals what twice I think it was, and that matters.
Speaker 2: So all I'm getting at is it may end up
Speaker 2: being a dud, and if so, I won't be surprised,
Speaker 2: because again, this is just not ideal when it comes
Speaker 2: to reaching the most amount of people that you can
Speaker 2: reach for your for your championship, right the seven game
Speaker 2: series that determines who wins the NBA title, But as
Speaker 2: anybody considered how entertaining it could be when you consider
Speaker 2: how these teams play, are you kidding me, Like, the
Speaker 2: Knicks have done a good job at making these games
Speaker 2: competitive and really entertaining. They're down, They're down three to
Speaker 2: one now, and look, they could come back and win
Speaker 2: the series. I don't think they will, but the thunder,
Speaker 2: the way they want to play, and the way that
Speaker 2: the Pacers play, I mean, this could be take away
Speaker 2: who you want to root for. This could just be
Speaker 2: some really really high level entertaining basketball with a lot
Speaker 2: of points scored and probably a lot of free throws too,
Speaker 2: with SGA and whatnot. But I mean, maybe that's just
Speaker 2: wishful thinking on my end, but I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: if Game one ends up being a really competitive game
Speaker 2: that maybe goes to overtime or something and you feel like, damn,
Speaker 2: that was the hell of a game. And if that's
Speaker 2: the case, I mean, maybe that'll get more people to
Speaker 2: tune in because the NBA Finals, I guess where you
Speaker 2: could have a bad number as far as rating and
Speaker 2: viewership would just be that the folks that annually will
Speaker 2: tune into an NBA Finals game but don't really care.
Speaker 2: I guess those people wouldn't maybe be interested because for them,
Speaker 2: it's not about being really into the NBA or basketball itself.
Speaker 2: It's just, Hey, the NBA Finals are here, let's turn
Speaker 2: it on. But maybe you won't even remember or notice
Speaker 2: that they're on, because again, the teams that are going
Speaker 2: to likely be there are ones that you know. Somebody
Speaker 2: said this on a national show I was listening to
Speaker 2: last night, and it's true if you just take random
Speaker 2: casual NBA fan in any place in the country. When
Speaker 2: I say casual, I mean like probably more than most
Speaker 2: of us, Like somebody who does keep up with it
Speaker 2: and knows who's good and who's not. They've got a
Speaker 2: team they root for, but they keep up with it
Speaker 2: because they're interested in the league. Put it this way,
Speaker 2: more than you, more than you hear it talked about
Speaker 2: year round on this show. I bet you could ask
Speaker 2: ten of those people, right, those that fit in that
Speaker 2: demo if they know a Pacers fan or if they
Speaker 2: know a Thunder fan, and they probably tell you no, right,
Speaker 2: because like, you don't really become a fan of those
Speaker 2: teams unless unless you're around you live around there. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Thunder is still relatively new franchise. And another thing
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about until I heard this National show
Speaker 2: talking about it if you were a big time Thunder
Speaker 2: fan ten years ago and that's when you became a
Speaker 2: big time fan, and you don't live in Okac, you
Speaker 2: probably were no longer a fan once it blew up
Speaker 2: and Kevin Durant left and Russell Russell Wilson, Russell Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook left, So you know, like they they're big in
Speaker 2: their market, but their market small, and with the Pacers,
Speaker 2: I'd never really thought about it, but it's true, like
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm a Pacer spim, but
Speaker 2: I don't know many. I don't know many. I don't
Speaker 2: know many others. I really don't unless there are people
Speaker 2: who just are from Indy, live in Indie and just
Speaker 2: support the cults, the Pacers and the Hoosiers or the
Speaker 2: or Purdue or whatever it is. And honestly, the best
Speaker 2: era to become a Pacers fan as far as when
Speaker 2: they were exciting and good. A lot of those kids
Speaker 2: who didn't have a team that you know, didn't live
Speaker 2: in a market that had an NBA team, you know who,
Speaker 2: they became a fan of Michael Jordan. So the time
Speaker 2: to really jump on and be a fan of the
Speaker 2: Pacers during you know when you're a kid, if you're
Speaker 2: somebody within my age range, you probably just became a
Speaker 2: fan of Jordan. And the reason I'm a Pacers fan
Speaker 2: is because my dad Indiana when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: He lived there a lot growing up, and with his job,
Speaker 2: we had access to some Pacers tickets and I was hooked.
Speaker 2: I just became a fan, and you know, here we are.
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to be triggered by the talk
Speaker 2: about the lowly washed NBA Finals between the Pacers and
Speaker 2: the Thunder if that's what we get, because I understand it.
Speaker 2: But I'm also willing to at least leave the door
Speaker 2: open to say that, yeah, when you get too teams
Speaker 2: that nobody knows, not ideal, but man, if the play,
Speaker 2: if the quality of play is at a high, high level,
Speaker 2: people will tune that in more. They're going to go
Speaker 2: tune into baseball in May and early June. So all right,
Speaker 2: some other things we'll get into today. I mean, the
Speaker 2: SEC just embarrassing itself with just all the whining and complaining.
Speaker 2: And you would think that the SEC is the conference
Speaker 2: in college football that has been a victim the way
Speaker 2: some of these coaches are just bitching and complaining and
Speaker 2: acting like it's unfit means it's insane. It is insane.
Speaker 2: And there's plenty from the SEC meetings that are going
Speaker 2: on that we can certainly get into, including Brian Kelly
Speaker 2: of LSU talking about having a different opinion than apparently
Speaker 2: the rest of the SEC has. As far as the
Speaker 2: college football playoff situation, Kirby Smart's claiming that collectives are
Speaker 2: out there paying high school kids from like sophomore year
Speaker 2: on to be you know, silent commits. So it's it's
Speaker 2: it's drama, but drama sells. Drama that works, and we've
Speaker 2: got some drama in college football with a real I
Speaker 2: was gonna say a power struggle, but I mean, it
Speaker 2: really isn't about that. It's just about the SEC just
Speaker 2: again living in their own world as if they are
Speaker 2: they're and again they are better than everybody at football.
Speaker 2: That's a best league in college football. It already was,
Speaker 2: and then they added Oklahoma and Texas. But if that's
Speaker 2: the case, why why are you just entitled to so much?
Speaker 2: I mean, just go earn it, because that's really wean,
Speaker 2: It's kind of what you it's what you do anyway
Speaker 2: for the most part, all right, stick with us. We
Speaker 2: got a lot more to get into before six o'clock hits.
Speaker 2: So again, hang out right here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 2: ninety Apologies, How late was I Austin? I feel like
Speaker 2: the music could have been playing ten minutes now and
Speaker 2: ten fifty seconds good, perfect timing, ten fifteen seconds. That's
Speaker 2: all I need, be honest, all right, that's all I need.
Speaker 2: Behind But I mean sometimes I could, I could, you know,
Speaker 2: some of I wish I could. You know, sometimes I
Speaker 2: wish that I could give more time, But you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes it just doesn't work out that way. Take that
Speaker 2: as a compliment, you know, if we're being honest. But anyways,
Speaker 2: did you see miss Joy was here? No, I did not.
Speaker 2: She went to lunch with someone today and she she
Speaker 2: stopped in and I chatted with her for a little bit.
Speaker 2: And then also just you know, just chatting up with
Speaker 2: the folks here as this big moves about to happen,
Speaker 2: this big transition. So you know, sometimes you just lose
Speaker 2: track of time when you're shooting the you know what
Speaker 2: with your colleagues. And I literally opened the door and
Speaker 2: heard the music, and I'm like, you know what, man,
Speaker 2: my mind has been in a lot of places. I
Speaker 2: could have been thirty seconds late. I could have been
Speaker 2: thirty minutes late. I'm not really sure I would have known.
Speaker 2: But anyways, let's keep it rolling.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: It's Coffee and Company and we are feel about Thornton's
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven to ninety nit coffee, Austin Montgomery,
Speaker 2: the travel chief taking you up until six o'clock. And man,
Speaker 2: they never cease to amaze me. And I'm talking about
Speaker 2: my friends over at Thornton's because all the different food
Speaker 2: items that they've had over the years, they keep it fresh. Man,
Speaker 2: there's there. It's not like they're just give like, let
Speaker 2: me give you an example. They now got the bakery back open,
Speaker 2: so they're fresh, delicious doughnuts. I mean they're voluptuous. Can
Speaker 2: I say that about a donut? I just did. It's
Speaker 2: a voluptuous donut, just plump, thick and perfect. So the
Speaker 2: doughnuts have always been good. Now I don't even know
Speaker 2: if it's considered like a classic, but to me, it's
Speaker 2: been years. I've been getting the sausage, egg and cheese croissants,
Speaker 2: such a dynamite breakfast sandwich. So you know, they keep
Speaker 2: what I like. But then they'll just throw out something like,
Speaker 2: I wish it was still there. But they had a
Speaker 2: they had a pizza wedge. It was like a pizza
Speaker 2: quesadilla and it they didn't have it a long time,
Speaker 2: and I'm, you know, kind of bummed about that, but
Speaker 2: it was so good. It was so good. I remember
Speaker 2: one day I hit two Thorntons, they didn't have it.
Speaker 2: I made sure I found one at the third because
Speaker 2: I needed that pizza wedge. And now they've got breakfast
Speaker 2: chariso tacos. I mean, think about that. This is high.
Speaker 2: I mean you can't look at that. Can you see that?
Speaker 2: I'm showing Austin a picture here? Like it's yeah hot?
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean you bring these breakfast chariso tacos.
Speaker 2: I mean you could cater it for your for your girlfriend,
Speaker 2: your wife, and she would think you went to some
Speaker 2: real hipster brunch place to get a you know, teach
Speaker 2: to an actual tacos. Yeah, because that's how good they look.
Speaker 2: We're talking. They got the tortilla, the egg, the chiso,
Speaker 2: ham bell, pepper onions, cheese, it is it's delicious soon yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, and I do see here that they actually
Speaker 2: tell you how long they're gonna They don't keep everything
Speaker 2: around the entire year. But from May seventh to September second,
Speaker 2: you can get these breakfast Chariso tacos, a two pack,
Speaker 2: two of them for just five bucks. Take advantage. It's Thornton's.
Speaker 2: You know where feel about Thorton's.
Speaker 4: They already loved their burritos anyways, because they got some
Speaker 4: pretty good breakfast burritos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I don't I don't. I don't think
Speaker 2: they have competitions. I don't know what to compare it to,
Speaker 2: but they always I mean, they have a lot of
Speaker 2: options when it comes to breakfast, and that, you know,
Speaker 2: that makes sense as to why when I go in
Speaker 2: there on any morning, it's it's packed because you know,
Speaker 2: people know they can get a lot of different things there,
Speaker 2: and of course they can get their day started to
Speaker 2: get a cup of coffee, and you know, just take
Speaker 2: the vibes from Thornton's with you, and I bet your
Speaker 2: day will be better. I can't prove it, but I
Speaker 2: believe it.
Speaker 4: I've always been one of those guys where the gas
Speaker 4: station is the trip to the gas station is therapeutic.
Speaker 4: A man's trip to the gas station is just going in.
Speaker 4: There's something about pouring your own soda from the fountain
Speaker 4: and picking out what kind of snacks that you want, right.
Speaker 2: I mean it's like a I mean it's like a
Speaker 2: I mean technically it is for kids, but even for
Speaker 2: an adults, it's like our candy store. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: don't mean that quite literally. Clearly you realize you can
Speaker 2: get candy, but like you can get anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You once you the thought occurs that you have free
Speaker 4: will and you're an adult, you could do anything. The
Speaker 4: possibilities are endless. If they let me, I'd live in
Speaker 4: the beer cave. I just take up take up space
Speaker 4: and just you know, call that my home.
Speaker 2: Start crushing Modello's. Yeah, and I could be wrong here,
Speaker 2: and I mean this about Thornton's. But don't con or
Speaker 2: this continuously just me gassing up our fine sponsors because
Speaker 2: Austin said something that I that I hadn't thought of
Speaker 2: until he just put this in my mind, and that
Speaker 2: is there's a lot of places you would want to
Speaker 2: avoid going. Not all the time, but just like, oh man,
Speaker 2: I don't want to go to Walmart today. I don't
Speaker 2: want to go to the grocery store. I don't want
Speaker 2: to go to the DMV. I don't want to. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't even know people still do it now. But
Speaker 2: like the mall, it can either be something you really
Speaker 2: want to go because the mall used to be cool,
Speaker 2: or it can be or it can be like a
Speaker 2: task that's like you know, oh, it's going to be
Speaker 2: a mess because it's two weeks till Christmas. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Have you ever dreaded having to go
Speaker 2: into a gas station? I mean maybe you have because
Speaker 2: it was not Thornton's or and it was gross or
Speaker 2: something like that, But it's convenient. Therefore, you know you
Speaker 2: can get in and get I mean, like, no joke,
Speaker 2: I don't just say this here. I am circling it
Speaker 2: back around to my friends at Thornton's. But I even
Speaker 2: when there are eighty five percent of the spots taken
Speaker 2: up in the parking lot and at the pump, I
Speaker 2: can walk in and be out of there in ninety
Speaker 2: seconds or less because they have the self checkout. Like
Speaker 2: I don't know why that wasn't a thing sooner, And
Speaker 2: I don't mean like for Thornton specifically. And I feel
Speaker 2: as if I am in a different era, in a
Speaker 2: different generation when I go into a convenience store and
Speaker 2: they don't have self checkout. I know that sounds like
Speaker 2: you know, hoiity toity, because a lot of them, I
Speaker 2: guess still don't. But I only go to Thornton's and
Speaker 2: the majority of them that I go to, they have
Speaker 2: a self checkout and it's convenient as can be. And
Speaker 2: it also makes me wonder why are there so many
Speaker 2: people that don't use it? I mean, I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: so many people, but.
Speaker 4: Because they just get around technology and they're gonna press
Speaker 4: the wrong button.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like I mean, we're talking about people like younger,
Speaker 2: younger than me, Like it's got to be because they
Speaker 2: need cigarettes, right, cigarettes are scratch offs and and there's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with that. I mean again, that's one of
Speaker 2: the things that makes those Yeah, that's one of the
Speaker 2: things that makes those convenience to like Thornton's. I mean
Speaker 2: it's I mean, I've been I've been trying to get
Speaker 2: some final clips. I'm working on a video for Thornton's,
Speaker 2: and well, I mean, i'm I'm, I'm I'm working on
Speaker 2: it and it's just gonna be me, you know, showing
Speaker 2: how great Thorntons is because they're a great partner. I
Speaker 2: don't want to act like they hired me to do it,
Speaker 2: because I don't. I'm sure they could find somebody much
Speaker 2: better than me when it comes to the creative stuff.
Speaker 2: But either way, like it's it's hard to find any
Speaker 2: Thorntons nearly any time of the day where I can
Speaker 2: get I can get the cameras set up and get
Speaker 2: some good stuff without there being a ton. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's just a lot of people to go there, because again,
Speaker 2: what can you not get? Cigarettes, beer, scratch off tickets,
Speaker 2: good food items, candy. I mean they've they've they've got
Speaker 2: it all. In fact, I saw somebody checking out this morning.
Speaker 2: They had I guess they were running low on oil.
Speaker 2: I mean, again makes sense you can get some oil
Speaker 2: at a gas station, but I've never purchased it before.
Speaker 2: But you know, just another enough, just another example of
Speaker 2: all the things you can get. It's just something about it,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. All right. So let's I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess the latest on the college football playoff stuff.
Speaker 2: To me, the most logical way of setting it up
Speaker 2: as far as who gets in, which conference gets auto
Speaker 2: bids that kind of stuff. I mean, this is one
Speaker 2: of those things where if you told me. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of discussion all about a lot of different
Speaker 2: scenarios as far as what it could look like, meaning
Speaker 2: the future of the college football playoff. And by the way,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of different things being thrown out there,
Speaker 2: and we got to this model. I would say, yeah,
Speaker 2: why would it be anything else if you're gonna go
Speaker 2: to sixteen teams a college football playoff with five auto
Speaker 2: bids power conference champs and one G one from the
Speaker 2: G six plus the rest of the field. The rest
Speaker 2: of the field filled with late at large, like with
Speaker 2: teams that just get in because you know they were
Speaker 2: in that next tier and win a championship in their conference,
Speaker 2: but man, they're that good. And then obviously Notre Dame
Speaker 2: would be a part of that too. Why would we
Speaker 2: not do that? Like, and if you don't do that,
Speaker 2: just eliminate auto bids and just seed it one through
Speaker 2: sixteen based off of the best sixteen teams that you
Speaker 2: you know that you believe are deserving. I mean, you've
Speaker 2: now got people saying, just like people, I don't think
Speaker 2: you become an athletic director, a president of a school,
Speaker 2: a commissioner of a conference. I don't think you become
Speaker 2: someone with that type of position, you know, unless you
Speaker 2: are really really smart or at least, you know, just
Speaker 2: not stupid. Maybe you're not. Maybe they're not all smart,
Speaker 2: And I guess how smart somebody is can be viewed
Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways. But it felt like
Speaker 2: it'd be hard for you to be a dummy when
Speaker 2: it comes to, you know, that role that you have.
Speaker 2: And yet some of these people are saying really stupid
Speaker 2: stuff like who is it the U the missioner or
Speaker 2: not the commissioner. I'm sorry, it's the it's the Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll make sure I got it Right's Florida's athletic director
Speaker 2: Scott Strickland. He said recently a committee is not ideal
Speaker 2: to choose a postseason I question whether it's appropriate for
Speaker 2: college football. Does he not understand that everyone like literally
Speaker 2: every single I can't I shouldn't say every single because
Speaker 2: I genuinely don't know about some of the non revenue
Speaker 2: sports really at all, but sports that people you know,
Speaker 2: follow a lot or at least a little bit. As
Speaker 2: far as having a reach at the college level, it's
Speaker 2: a committee of people who decide who gets in. Like
Speaker 2: that's that's the way it's always been, and it just
Speaker 2: to me that screams more of the SEC noise of
Speaker 2: just how well you know you guys. It's almost like,
Speaker 2: well you, I mean, you guys hear yourself and we're
Speaker 2: thinking on our end, like do you hear yourself? Like
Speaker 2: why would like why would you be entitled to it?
Speaker 2: And again I don't need to say the same thing
Speaker 2: I've said a billion times as far as it's not
Speaker 2: about the SEC not being the best league, but just
Speaker 2: because they've been the best league for you know, a
Speaker 2: good chunk of the last twenty five, thirty years or
Speaker 2: maybe even longer, what would that have to do with
Speaker 2: the following season. You should never be rewarded as a
Speaker 2: league or as a program based off of performances from
Speaker 2: a year ago or fifty years ago. Now again, your
Speaker 2: brand doesn't. That's human nature. That's not avoidable to an extent, right,
Speaker 2: there's just no way around that people are going to
Speaker 2: take a team more serious that has in fact been
Speaker 2: there before. But having it automatically set up to where
Speaker 2: those that came before you long long ago have grandfathered
Speaker 2: you four automatic spots, really half the field of the
Speaker 2: big ten in the SEC, it just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, again, it makes sense if you just want
Speaker 2: to make it a popularity contest, and I just they
Speaker 2: needed to come out and say that. I mean. So, anyways,
Speaker 2: when it comes to the discussions going on, I doubt
Speaker 2: we're going to get any kind of clarity here in
Speaker 2: the coming days as far as what the plan is,
Speaker 2: because clearly there's there's there's I was gonna say confusion.
Speaker 2: I don't really think it's confusion. I think actually it's
Speaker 2: pretty clear we know what the SEC wants, and then
Speaker 2: we also know that others are going to sit back
Speaker 2: and say why would we do that? You know, and
Speaker 2: in fact, it could work out to where, like I'm
Speaker 2: not saying that the SEC shouldn't get four or six
Speaker 2: or eight in. There could be years where it turns
Speaker 2: out to where the SEC has ten. But just to
Speaker 2: say there's automatically four that get in, like that's that's
Speaker 2: really stupid. And again, unless you want to make it
Speaker 2: a popularity contest, and last I checked, I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's what people want, but what do I know?
Speaker 2: So anyways, this is something that Greg Sankie had said
Speaker 2: in the last I don't think it was yesterday, might
Speaker 2: have been the day before, but he did say that
Speaker 2: the SEC. I'm reading directly from Brett McMurphy here. Sorry
Speaker 2: for spinning my wheels. I just want to make sure
Speaker 2: I had it correct. But SEC's Greg Sankie said deadline
Speaker 2: for finalizing the twenty twenty six college football playoff format
Speaker 2: by contract is either November thirtieth or December first, So
Speaker 2: there is there's a long way to go, and looks
Speaker 2: luckily there's time to get there. But I just I
Speaker 2: don't really see either side caving And in fact, what's
Speaker 2: sad as I see the have nots of this group
Speaker 2: of power for caving before the SEC. But why like,
Speaker 2: stand your ground because I think what's clear here is
Speaker 2: that the pushback that we're now getting that wasn't there
Speaker 2: initially about this College Sports Commission where Donald Trump met
Speaker 2: with Nick Saban, the booster who's become super successful and
Speaker 2: appears to have a really good plan in place as
Speaker 2: far as how you regulate college sports, the guy from
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. There was interest in, oh, yeah, this could
Speaker 2: be good. We could have somebody that actually oversees everything.
Speaker 2: Well then now it's the SEC folks, including Saban, that
Speaker 2: don't feel like it's needed anymore. And maybe it's just
Speaker 2: because you truly don't believe it's needed, or maybe it's
Speaker 2: because you want to continue to just do things the
Speaker 2: way you want because you're the big bully on the block.
Speaker 2: And I can't really fault people like Greg Sankee for
Speaker 2: doing that because again, you know, your job is to,
Speaker 2: no matter what, look out for your league. But that's
Speaker 2: the same thing for the ACC, the Big Twelve, and
Speaker 2: the Big Ten too. I mean, it would be foolish
Speaker 2: to expect any of these leaders from these different conferences
Speaker 2: to It's one thing to collectively work together and to
Speaker 2: come towards an agreement that you know you could you
Speaker 2: know you work together on, but you don't work together.
Speaker 2: You compete with each other. And it's a super competitive
Speaker 2: and caddy like business meaning college football. Like when you
Speaker 2: hear some of the quotes, and I don't mean that
Speaker 2: these people are just like the worst, but just the cattiness,
Speaker 2: Like when I read quotes from guys like Brett McMurphy,
Speaker 2: even my guy Zach Barnett, who covers college football, when
Speaker 2: I read things that they share that coaches say, I
Speaker 2: feel like that's something you'd hear somebody in the seventh
Speaker 2: grade Hallway say it's just Caddy and Petty. So the
Speaker 2: belief that we can all just get along and make
Speaker 2: it all work, I just don't think that's realistic because
Speaker 2: whatever the SEC pushes for probably isn't going to be
Speaker 2: in the best interest of another league. Whatever the Big
Speaker 2: twelve pushes for may not be the way that the
Speaker 2: SEC or the Big ten c fit as far as
Speaker 2: what's best for them. Now, I do think what's clear
Speaker 2: here that needs to be said that probably actually doesn't
Speaker 2: need to be said. I think it's obvious here nobody
Speaker 2: from the other side is asking for anything guaranteed. It's
Speaker 2: just the SEC, and I guess the Big ten is
Speaker 2: not against it. But Sankie's already playing VICM like he's
Speaker 2: the bad guy, and technically I guess the Big ten
Speaker 2: is not going to say no to having four automatic spots.
Speaker 2: But anyways, there's a lot of drama. We'll talk to
Speaker 2: more college football because coming up in the four o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: the highest win totals as far as the power for
Speaker 2: and the lowest. There's some surprises here, I believe, So
Speaker 2: we can take a look at that and see if
Speaker 2: there's any other updates. I do want to talk about
Speaker 2: Kirby Smarts comment about what collectives are doing to get
Speaker 2: in really early with recruits paying their families' salaries just
Speaker 2: because their kids are in high school and look like
Speaker 2: they're going to be five star recruits at some point.
Speaker 2: I mean, again, that's just an example of how, no
Speaker 2: matter what, you're going to try to find an edge
Speaker 2: and an advantage because it's that competitive and it means
Speaker 2: that much to people, No pun intended. The sec just
Speaker 2: means more. Also, we got to get to I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's been an update since the show started,
Speaker 2: but Otega Away still has yet to announce what he's
Speaker 2: going to do. And I'm now hearing people that I
Speaker 2: know in respect saying that they believe, not that they're hearing,
Speaker 2: they're not reporting it, they're not even mentioning a rumor,
Speaker 2: but they think that this late last minute situation means
Speaker 2: that he wants to go pro and that's what he's
Speaker 2: going to do. I just I'll be stunned. I will
Speaker 2: be stunned if he doesn't decide to come back to Kentucky.
Speaker 2: But again, as of right now, it doesn't look like
Speaker 2: he's made that decision unless I've just missed it in
Speaker 2: the last few minutes. All right, quick, Bright, keep a
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Speaker 2: And it looks as if the biggest names in college
Speaker 2: basketball that have yet to make a decision as of
Speaker 2: I guess within the last hour otake aways the the
Speaker 2: biggest just because one, he's a really good player and
Speaker 2: obviously him coming back to Kentucky would be huge. And
Speaker 2: it does feel as if this would be and I'm
Speaker 2: probably wrong in saying this, because I just I wouldn't know,
Speaker 2: because I don't follow every program, but this would be
Speaker 2: a rare thing in the new world, even though we're
Speaker 2: still again very young in early stages in this new
Speaker 2: world where you just assumed the guy didn't have good
Speaker 2: enough draft stock and yet he can make a lot
Speaker 2: of money in college at a big time place like Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So I mean, you would have never thought he was
Speaker 2: going to go pro. I mean, but technically that's just
Speaker 2: the assumption that he's going to not take a chance
Speaker 2: on himself because he doesn't have great draft stock, or
Speaker 2: maybe you just think that he needs all this money
Speaker 2: when maybe I mean, I don't know, I'm just I
Speaker 2: just think if there is a scenario where he does.
Speaker 2: And I don't know anything about this young man other
Speaker 2: than he's a really good player. But you know, maybe
Speaker 2: he is somebody that really just doesn't know what he
Speaker 2: wants to do, or maybe he likes the thought of
Speaker 2: leaving people on the edge of their seat because it'll
Speaker 2: lead to a bigger reaction when he doesn'tnce he's coming back.
Speaker 2: Who knows other than him, But he has yet to
Speaker 2: make a decision at least as of as of right
Speaker 2: now at three point fifty four, Aduth Thierro did just
Speaker 2: make a decision to stay in the NBA draft, And
Speaker 2: then r J lewise no clue if he's made any
Speaker 2: kind of decision just yet. And then there's some other
Speaker 2: names that, like, I gotta be honest, I don't really
Speaker 2: know much about them, like Miles Bird at San Diego State,
Speaker 2: Nate Biddle at Oregon, like those are the other guys
Speaker 2: listed here as far as being names that if they
Speaker 2: come back to college, it would be a big thing
Speaker 2: for the school that they're currently with, or like r. J. Lewise,
Speaker 2: who doesn't currently have a school, he'd be a big
Speaker 2: player to go get. Here's something I could see happening,
Speaker 2: because you know that this is true, and I've heard
Speaker 2: a lot of Kentucky fans say, and by way, I
Speaker 2: should have mentioned this initially, but I didn't. I forgot.
Speaker 2: He did work out today for the New Jersey Nets
Speaker 2: I think it was, or the Brooklyn Nets, I should say.
Speaker 2: So maybe he just wanted to get that final feedback
Speaker 2: from a team or whatever that process looks like day
Speaker 2: of and then decide. But he is still in fact
Speaker 2: going through this process us until the last minute. And
Speaker 2: it maybe because look again, if he decided to pull
Speaker 2: out of the process two days ago, like a lot
Speaker 2: of players did, he wouldn't have been able to work
Speaker 2: out for the Nets today. So my guess is still
Speaker 2: that he's just absolutely utilizing this experience to the fullest
Speaker 2: extent and really getting everything he can as far as
Speaker 2: feedback from the NBA and whatever else that comes with
Speaker 2: the process of testing the waters because he doesn't have
Speaker 2: good draft stock. So again I just to me, I'd
Speaker 2: be stunned. But he's yet to make a decision. And
Speaker 2: if you're a Kentucky fan and you're nervous, I get it,
Speaker 2: and I have her Kentucky fans mentioned well, if he
Speaker 2: does leave, that would be a bummer. But man, you
Speaker 2: now have a lot of money to go replace him. True,
Speaker 2: but there's not many great players out there. I mean,
Speaker 2: most players have decided where they're going to go. I mean,
Speaker 2: the portal's pretty empty, is it not. Maybe you could
Speaker 2: use it to bring somebody from overseas, although we need
Speaker 2: to talk about that in the next hour. If there
Speaker 2: really is a complete stop on student visas and players
Speaker 2: expecting to play college hoops next year have yet to
Speaker 2: get student visa, that could become a big problem. I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm already on has hear that talk about
Speaker 2: student visas Austin coming up your news top of the
Speaker 2: hour and can wasting no time. We could still be
Speaker 2: childish and immature here until Friday, but I could see
Speaker 2: it playing out where if O take Away does decide
Speaker 2: to stay in the draft and knock going back to Kentucky.
Speaker 2: R J. Luiz just takes a spot, takes his money
Speaker 2: like that. That would be a transaction. I could absolutely
Speaker 2: see happening. Although I think Oway is a better player,
Speaker 2: and I'm not just you know, trust me, this is
Speaker 2: not a I'm gonna guss him up as a great
Speaker 2: player now and so when you lose him, I can
Speaker 2: say that you guys think because if you listen to
Speaker 2: me even a little bit, I've always felt like this
Speaker 2: guy was not getting the proper love that he that
Speaker 2: he should have. Nobody said he was bad at all,
Speaker 2: but I just felt like throughout the season there was
Speaker 2: so much talk about other guys when I felt like, dude,
Speaker 2: this is our best player. Like he's the best athlete.
Speaker 2: He's physical, he's a scorer, he's tough. You know, he's
Speaker 2: not a great shooter, but he can make him He's
Speaker 2: not an elite defender, but he can. But he can guard.
Speaker 2: It's big. I mean, he's you know, he's He's the
Speaker 2: reason why Kentucky is viewed as a top ten team
Speaker 2: next year. Yes, they've got Jalen Low, who I think
Speaker 2: is going to be good for them, just a talented player.
Speaker 2: I don't really know how he fits with Mark Pope
Speaker 2: like they've they've got good pieces, trust me, but the
Speaker 2: one guy that makes them a preseason top ten team
Speaker 2: by just about everybody, your top fifteen team is is
Speaker 2: O takeaway? Now? If he isn't there, do they fall
Speaker 2: out of the top twenty five? I would imagine not,
Speaker 2: but I don't really know, because again, you got good pieces.
Speaker 2: But I mean, he was arguably your best player last year,
Speaker 2: and he's expected to come back unless you know, he doesn't,
Speaker 2: And it is wild like he didn't have to say anything,
Speaker 2: right like, I'm sure he will. I'm sure he'll announce
Speaker 2: that he's coming back, but you know, if he doesn't
Speaker 2: file paperwork that gets I guess handled or submitted like
Speaker 2: it's supposed to before midnight, it's just over. He's just gone.
Speaker 2: Now again, I don't see that playing out. But you know,
Speaker 2: he didn't have He didn't have to walk up to
Speaker 2: a podium today. He didn't have to actually show up
Speaker 2: and say anything like he has declared for the draft.
Speaker 2: The actual action that needs to take place for him
Speaker 2: to come back would be filing something and getting it
Speaker 2: submitted before midnight tonight. All right, quick break, we got
Speaker 2: two hours left and a lot more to get into,
Speaker 2: so stick around. It's coffee and company we're feel about
Speaker 2: Thorn's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety