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Speaker 2: we're gonna be a little more professional, a little more
Speaker 2: polished than usual, because it's nothing but reaction to last
Speaker 2: night's presidential debate. John, the floor is yours? Show your thoughts? Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. I've been waiting to talk about this.
Speaker 2: Did you watch it weeks? I watched ten minutes of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't have any strong thoughts on it
Speaker 2: other than I think just the big takeaway that I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people, well, I shouldn't say a
Speaker 2: lot of people because I have no clue. Like that
Speaker 2: was terrible, Like I mean, I don't think we feel
Speaker 2: any better about anything, regardless of what side you prefer,
Speaker 2: Like that was just not productive. But what stood out
Speaker 2: more to me than anything is that with Trump he
Speaker 2: kind of just couldn't help himself last night at times,
Speaker 2: you know, just kind of you know, and he's been
Speaker 2: there before. He's just not polished. And that's been said
Speaker 2: for you know, almost a decade now, that this guy
Speaker 2: just he's not presidential in any way. And you know,
Speaker 2: there's still people that think that's what makes him the
Speaker 2: best candidate or whatever. But with Biden the last debate,
Speaker 2: that guy like he didn't know what plannet he was on.
Speaker 2: So Trump looked good more so than probably he ever has,
Speaker 2: at least, you know, in my opinion. That's not to
Speaker 2: say he's perfect and I love the man, because that's
Speaker 2: not at all what I'm saying. I don't know, there's
Speaker 2: some people that loathe him so much that they'll never
Speaker 2: I mean, they might have changed the station after they
Speaker 2: heard me say that. But because Biden was just up there,
Speaker 2: not quite sure what planet he's on, it was an
Speaker 2: opportunity for Trump to look a little more put together
Speaker 2: and prepared, and you know a guy that you know
Speaker 2: is ready to you know, to to to take over.
Speaker 2: And then last night, you know, I'm not sure Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris said anything of substance, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: just being real my opinion. What do I know though,
Speaker 2: But you know what, she's a little bit more polished,
Speaker 2: She's a little bit more you know, she can she
Speaker 2: can kind of sit back and do her her facial
Speaker 2: expressions and just let him at times kind of make
Speaker 2: himself look bad, right Like you know, so I say
Speaker 2: that joking. We're not going to talk about the debate,
Speaker 2: but you know, like last night there wasn't quite the
Speaker 2: you know, you had sex with a porn star.
Speaker 1: There was the thing about eating dogs in Springfield though,
Speaker 1: yeah it was it was it dogs or cats.
Speaker 2: There was both dogs and cats both. I mean again,
Speaker 2: like that's one of you you add, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: add that to the to the list of things that
Speaker 2: twenty years from now, a list of quotes that were
Speaker 2: said during the presidential elections for twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 2: you know us we'll remember, like, yeah, that was what
Speaker 2: a time that was crazy that happened? Was it real?
Speaker 2: And there's other people that maybe you know on the
Speaker 2: younger side, we'll say, there's no way we heard that right,
Speaker 2: and you know you did. I promise that was That's
Speaker 2: what That's where we are. I do also love this
Speaker 2: is an all time quote. I don't have a plan.
Speaker 2: I have concepts of a plan like that was one
Speaker 2: of the things that Trump in which, to be fair,
Speaker 2: that's not a when you got a BS and that's
Speaker 2: exactly what that was, like, I don't that's not a
Speaker 2: bad way to BS. Again, everybody knows what it is like.
Speaker 2: You could have just flustered me like I have concepts
Speaker 2: of a plan like that. At least you know that's
Speaker 2: not really having a plan. It's honesty. But yeah, it's honesty,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't you know, it's not one of the worst.
Speaker 2: I mean, it actually sounded better than some of the
Speaker 2: things he said last night, even though it really wasn't
Speaker 2: saying anything at all. But anyways, let's get it started,
Speaker 2: shall we. In all seriousness, we're not going to turn
Speaker 2: this into a political show in any way, and we
Speaker 2: never do. And I you know, not to pat myself
Speaker 2: on the back here but I think this is what
Speaker 2: I choose to believe when it comes to talking about
Speaker 2: things that are, you know, important in life, and I
Speaker 2: know you don't come to this show for that. I
Speaker 2: feel pretty I'm comfortable with where we are with it,
Speaker 2: both John and myself, because we don't try to change
Speaker 2: people's opinions. We don't. I mean, we kind of just
Speaker 2: have fun with it. And it's it's clearly a topical
Speaker 2: thing within the world. I mean, think about it. It's
Speaker 2: I mean, we're about to elect a president. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a big deal. But I also know that we
Speaker 2: are so divided and it's such a trigger type of
Speaker 2: thing right now for so many people that like if
Speaker 2: there are those that get on the text line or
Speaker 2: you know, on Twitter or call in or something and
Speaker 2: yell at John, but don't want to be on the
Speaker 2: air and just tell us we're dumb. Like again, maybe
Speaker 2: you know their opinions, their opinion, they can have it.
Speaker 2: But like, I just choose to think that that's just
Speaker 2: because of where we are, not because of anything outlandish
Speaker 2: we said that was so over the top and so political,
Speaker 2: because again I don't know if we ever truly shared
Speaker 2: many political thoughts at all. But you know, that's just again,
Speaker 2: that's what that's the way I choose to see it.
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Speaker 2: My name's Nick Coffee. The company man, mister John Alden
Speaker 2: is alongside today. I could blame it on last night's debate,
Speaker 2: but I think it was actually a piece of leftover
Speaker 2: pizza that got me. I thought when I woke up this,
Speaker 2: In fact, I thought, I'm such a baby when I'm sick.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sick, but I think I had food poisoning.
Speaker 2: And I think, I mean, I don't know how long
Speaker 2: you have it, how long it sticks around, but I
Speaker 2: haven't been able to eat anything all day today. I
Speaker 2: have had everything that was inside of me exit my
Speaker 2: body both ways in the last you know, fifteen hours
Speaker 2: or so. But I woke up last night and I
Speaker 2: was throwing up and just you know, so much get
Speaker 2: to to I've already probably done teami here, but I'm
Speaker 2: just saying like I couldn't there was nothing left. So
Speaker 2: then my head started hurting because I was dehydrated, and
Speaker 2: I went to my wife and I woke her up.
Speaker 2: She's sound asleep, you know, and you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: take the kids tomorrow. Uh, you know. I don't think
Speaker 2: I needed to wake her up and tell her that,
Speaker 2: But that's how big of a baby I am whenever
Speaker 2: I'm sick. So I thought I was gonna have to
Speaker 2: call in today. I wouldn't gonna be able to be
Speaker 2: on the show because I couldn't. I mean, I was
Speaker 2: just just had the sweats, the nauseousness. Even if I
Speaker 2: drink water, like would I would have to throw up,
Speaker 2: which is again Team I. But I'm just being honest
Speaker 2: with you, But I think that I have I've come
Speaker 2: out of it, like I've got some liquids into me now.
Speaker 2: Still haven't been able to eat anything, and I'm certainly
Speaker 2: not gonna try on the show today. But I'm feeling
Speaker 2: like I'm finally back. Can food poisoning like that's a
Speaker 2: brief thing, is it not, Like don't you just kind
Speaker 2: of get it out of your system and you're good.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever had it, but I
Speaker 1: feel like that's how it works, because I mean, if
Speaker 1: it's from the food and the food is gone with you.
Speaker 2: Here you go with your palette. I can see food
Speaker 2: poisoning and food food poisoning is a rare thing anyway,
Speaker 2: I believe, unless you know you're just constantly going places
Speaker 2: and eating bad food, because you never know what it
Speaker 2: is that actually gets you. As far as food poisoning,
Speaker 2: you can you could if you only ate one thing,
Speaker 2: then it makes sense, like if you you know, if
Speaker 2: you were fine and then you went to dinner at
Speaker 2: a place, then you know that that night like that
Speaker 2: would probably be it. But there's really no way to
Speaker 2: know for sure. So last night after football practice, we
Speaker 2: ended up going We ended up going to dinner with
Speaker 2: my mother and my stepfather and then of course, you know,
Speaker 2: my wife and my two kids, and we at Elma
Speaker 2: paul A very you know, very well known Mexican restaurant
Speaker 2: around here. They're all over the place. I get the
Speaker 2: same thing and I share that with both my kids
Speaker 2: because they like it and it's a whole lot of food,
Speaker 2: so they ate it and they were fine. So I'm
Speaker 2: assuming that wasn't it. But when I when I went
Speaker 2: home that when I went home last night, I ended
Speaker 2: up having a couple of beers on the recliner. I
Speaker 2: got up to take my medicine that I take when
Speaker 2: I go to sleep, and you know you're supposed to
Speaker 2: have something like you don't want to take it on
Speaker 2: an empty stomach. My stomach wasn't empty, but I'm always
Speaker 2: worried that, like, because I've had the effects of taking
Speaker 2: this medication. Whenever I don't have something in my stomach
Speaker 2: and it's not it's not good. So we had pizza
Speaker 2: on Monday night. That was what we have for dinner,
Speaker 2: and there was two pieces of thin crust pizza leftover
Speaker 2: in a Papa John's box and it'd been sitting out
Speaker 2: for over twenty four hours, and I just grabbed one
Speaker 2: of the little corner pieces of the thin crust pizza.
Speaker 2: We're talking like a very small amount. But it was
Speaker 2: after that that I started to feel like, uh, oh,
Speaker 2: something's wrong, Like I think I ate something bad. So
Speaker 2: I'm choosing to believe that it was pizza. But then again,
Speaker 2: like I think this is a I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: get a mixed bag of thoughts on this. Some people
Speaker 2: will look at you like you're a disgusting human being
Speaker 2: if if you've ate something that was left out overnight
Speaker 2: and it was not in the refrigerator, and I kind
Speaker 2: of get it. I wouldn't do it for really anything
Speaker 2: other than pizza. I don't know why. Maybe because it's
Speaker 2: in a box and it's not in the fridge, but
Speaker 2: yet it's kind of closed off. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I have done that many times before and it's never
Speaker 2: gotten me. But if you like do a quick Google search,
Speaker 2: they'll tell you, yeah, even though it's been cooked, like
Speaker 2: you still shouldn't need it if it's been sitting out,
Speaker 2: and you know, I you do, you do that, I mean,
Speaker 2: definitely do it with pizza.
Speaker 1: And my wife's even gotten on me whenever we have
Speaker 1: like a leftover box from I don't know, whatever restaurant
Speaker 1: of you're choosing, and I'll just sit that on the
Speaker 1: counter and you know, eat that the next day because
Speaker 1: I know that's going to be my lunch the next day,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, So again I've done that as well, and my
Speaker 2: wife she doesn't look at me weird when I do
Speaker 2: it with pizza. But if it's something else, like if
Speaker 2: it's a burger or a sandwich, like, again, it's already
Speaker 2: been cooked, so in my mind. I'm like, it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's whatever, who cares. But you know, I guess there
Speaker 2: are studies that tell you that that's that you shouldn't
Speaker 2: do that because it could get you sick. And I
Speaker 2: think it might have got me. But I again, this
Speaker 2: is just my guess. I'd say that there's many people
Speaker 2: that would never eat something that was left out overnight,
Speaker 2: unless it's pizza. I don't know. I I just feel
Speaker 2: like pizza's always gotten a pass in that regard because
Speaker 2: it's actually, like room temperature pizza is pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think pizza is good. Cold, I mean
Speaker 2: I don't like it. And some people legitimately like will
Speaker 2: order a pizza, eat as much as they can or
Speaker 2: as much as they want, put it in the fridge,
Speaker 2: and then eat it leftovers, but never eat it up.
Speaker 2: And I don't do that. But again, I've had cold
Speaker 2: pizza before and it tastes fine. Pizza cold, warm, room
Speaker 2: temperature Pizza's great. Love pizza, but I think pizza's always
Speaker 2: kind of gotten a pass. And I'm just curious if
Speaker 2: any you know, I.
Speaker 1: Think what it is that when you think about somebody
Speaker 1: getting up in the middle of the night, and wanting
Speaker 1: like a midnight snack type of thing. It's easy to
Speaker 1: visualize somebody just going to the pizza box that's been
Speaker 1: sitting out and munching on whatever's in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I can't tell you how many times
Speaker 2: I have eaten, like, for days pizza that you know
Speaker 2: we order it, because we'll usually get two pizzas for
Speaker 2: the whole family because my kids are super picky and
Speaker 2: my wife and I are not really on the same page,
Speaker 2: so we'll get like half and half of one and
Speaker 2: it'll sit there for a few days, and like, if
Speaker 2: I just want a snack, I'll go grab one, not
Speaker 2: heat it up, and just you know, eat it. And
Speaker 2: it usually never. It's happened once before, and I thought
Speaker 2: it was pizza, but I was I was in denial
Speaker 2: for so long because I don't want to believe that
Speaker 2: this will ever get me sick again. But I think
Speaker 2: after last night and the majority of today, I'm to
Speaker 2: the point now where I'm like, yeah, you know what, Nick,
Speaker 2: let's throw that in the fridge. If we're gonna eat
Speaker 2: it again. If it's been left out overnight, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be done. Though. That's the way I'm choosing to go
Speaker 2: about it. But I mean, pizza leftover is good, man,
Speaker 2: It's good stuff. But I'll I'll now make it an
Speaker 2: effort to make sure if we're done, goes in the
Speaker 2: fridge and if I'm gonna eat it left over, I
Speaker 2: get it out of the fridge, heat it up. And
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna have to do. But it makes
Speaker 2: me kind of sad because there's something like I like knowing, Hey,
Speaker 2: I can just walk over the counter. We got pizza
Speaker 2: left over. I'm gonna have some anyways, other than starting
Speaker 2: with you know, my food poisoning and last night's election,
Speaker 2: where I wanted to start today outside of that. It's
Speaker 2: a question that came in on the text line yesterday
Speaker 2: that I did not read until earlier today. Sometimes when
Speaker 2: I'm getting ready for the show, I'll go fire up
Speaker 2: the text line and just kind of see some things
Speaker 2: that were missed that I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 2: read on the air, or that I you know, read
Speaker 2: and then forgot about. But this is a good question,
Speaker 2: and I'll do it out there on Twitter and I'll
Speaker 2: throw it out to you listeners as well if you
Speaker 2: want to share your thoughts. And the question was because
Speaker 2: we were talking about Indiana being a good opponent just
Speaker 2: because of their being in them being in the Big Ten.
Speaker 2: They're you know, they're they're close. They're not a school
Speaker 2: that you really should be scared of in football. So
Speaker 2: it was a bummer that they backed out and that
Speaker 2: led to Louisville having to play Jacksonville State. So the
Speaker 2: question on the text line was if in fact there
Speaker 2: is a separation which may happen between Power four and
Speaker 2: G five and fcs, and you only you only played
Speaker 2: against your conference opponents and then you other you know,
Speaker 2: you'll have let's say you stay at eight, you have
Speaker 2: four non conference opponents every year, but they have to
Speaker 2: be from the Big twelve, the Big ten of the SEC.
Speaker 2: If you're a Louisville fan, who would you want to play?
Speaker 2: And I have my answers, but I'm curious what you
Speaker 2: guys think as well, and I'll get to some of
Speaker 2: the responses that have come in on Twitter. And again,
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Speaker 2: zero seven ninety. So here, you know, minor, pretty simple,
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. As much as I don't
Speaker 2: see them as a rivalry anymore, it's got to be Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: We did trivia yesterday for the Brooks and Done ticket giveaway,
Speaker 2: which by the way, we're gonna give away tickets once
Speaker 2: again today five thirty to go see Brooks and Done
Speaker 2: at the KFC. I'm center, but Cincinnati, like they feel
Speaker 2: like a family member in a way, Like I remember
Speaker 2: whenever Cincinnati got left out when Louisville made the jump
Speaker 2: to the ACC, and I kind of feel bad for him.
Speaker 2: Like they're they were a rival in a way, but
Speaker 2: we were so alike. They're not as successful as us,
Speaker 2: that's quite clear overall historically speaking. But you were peers
Speaker 2: with them really in a way you aren't with anybody else.
Speaker 2: Like they're also a city school. They're just up seventy one.
Speaker 2: You've played them, I believe more. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's changed since they've not been in the conference together,
Speaker 2: but at one point the opponent that you had played
Speaker 2: more than anybody in football and basketball was Cincinnati. So
Speaker 2: you know, it's almost like they were the brother you
Speaker 2: could pick on, but if somebody else did, you kind
Speaker 2: of found yourself not necessarily defending them, but like you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's got to be at leat some Wolf
Speaker 2: fans that know what I mean, Like their a rival
Speaker 2: and you want to see them lose. But like they're
Speaker 2: kind of like you're broader in a way, so it
Speaker 2: would make sense to play them. They are now in
Speaker 2: the Big Ten. I'm not the Big ten, the Big twelve,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure that natal like if they played each other,
Speaker 2: the nastiness would come back because it was there. I mean,
Speaker 2: going up to Nippert, Cincinnati fans coming down here, like
Speaker 2: you know, there's it's not Kentucky as far as the
Speaker 2: rivalry and the animosity that comes with that, but like
Speaker 2: there's a lot of tradition and history there and you
Speaker 2: want to beat them. Beating them feels better than beating
Speaker 2: other teams of that caliber just because of the history
Speaker 2: that you have. So it's gonna be weird because I'm
Speaker 2: always gonna be grateful that they took Scott Saderfield off
Speaker 2: our hands, but I would say, you know, let's just
Speaker 2: say in two years when Satterfield's is not there and
Speaker 2: if they ended up becoming like an opponent, we scheduled
Speaker 2: a series with Like I probably stopped thinking about how
Speaker 2: grateful I am for them taking sat off our hands
Speaker 2: and start, you know, wanting to beat their brains in
Speaker 2: because they are a rival. They're not Kentucky as far
Speaker 2: as the rivalry, but their arrival. So I would go
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati and then after that, you know, two more
Speaker 2: and by the way, I'm including Kentucky, like, Kentucky's gonna
Speaker 2: always be the game you should play, and the non
Speaker 2: conferensation if you only get one, Like let's say you
Speaker 2: had an eleven game league schedule and you could only
Speaker 2: play one non conference opponent, it should be Kentucky. Now
Speaker 2: I don't know if it would be, but it should
Speaker 2: be so Kentucky and Cincinnati the other two. I wasn't
Speaker 2: as I had to give it some thought, and I
Speaker 2: was I hesitated to go with what a lot of
Speaker 2: people have already started sharing on the text line. I'm
Speaker 2: seeing people on Twitter saying the same thing. But West
Speaker 2: Virginia I kind of wanted to be like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know if we really need to play them, like,
Speaker 2: you know, but but they it goes back to what
Speaker 2: I said about Cincinnati. If you beat West Virginia, because
Speaker 2: you know how disgusting and vile their fans are, there'd
Speaker 2: be a little something sweet there, like it would it
Speaker 2: would mean a little more than beating another in any
Speaker 2: other team that's in that same status in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 2: And there is history there by the way, like there's
Speaker 2: there's they're a real rival. Again, they're not They're not Kentucky,
Speaker 2: and they're probably not even Cincinnati, but they're a rival.
Speaker 2: There was a trophy involved in the game at some point. Therefore,
Speaker 2: that means they are a real rival. And I feel
Speaker 2: like they're good, and I don't know about Cincinnati. I
Speaker 2: mean again, Cincinnati did just play in the College Football
Speaker 2: Playoff not long ago. And to be fair, they've proven,
Speaker 2: meaning Cincinnati, that if they have a competent coach, they
Speaker 2: can win. I mean, Luke Fickle did a great job there,
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly did a great job there. Even Tubberville before
Speaker 2: it fell apart, had a good start there. Like you
Speaker 2: can win at Cincinnati. So there's also I want to
Speaker 2: play teams that if you beat them, maybe they have
Speaker 2: a down year occasionally, and there's not a whole lot
Speaker 2: of value there, but more often than not, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be at least some value in beating a team like that.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's terrible now, but like, you know, wouldn't be a
Speaker 2: shocker that if in a couple of years they get
Speaker 2: a new coach and they're not a top fifteen team annually,
Speaker 2: but like there's some value in that victory if you
Speaker 2: beat them. Same thing of you said for West Virginia.
Speaker 2: They've not transitioned to the Big twelve very well, but
Speaker 2: you know, you're not scared of play in them. You
Speaker 2: feel like you could consistently beat them and it wouldn't
Speaker 2: be doing anything that's you know, that special, and maybe
Speaker 2: every now and then when you beat them, they're pretty good.
Speaker 2: So West Virginia, Cincinnati, Kentucky and then my fourth I
Speaker 2: don't love this one, but this is what I decided
Speaker 2: to go with. John Tennessee interesting close enough, they're a
Speaker 2: big brand, and they're the one game that you would know,
Speaker 2: probably on a consistent basis, you wouldn't be favored. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm getting a little ahead of myself here, Becausehype has
Speaker 2: done a good job of getting them turned around. But
Speaker 2: Tennessee post Phil Follmer like they were. They were, they
Speaker 2: were not scary, Like didn't Indiana play them in a
Speaker 2: bowl game? They didn't barely lost. Is a field goal,
Speaker 2: wasn't it? I think it was like a last twenty
Speaker 2: four something like that. I feel like it was like
Speaker 2: a last second field goal or something. But or maybe
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of the Indiana Duke game, same thing. I mean,
Speaker 2: that happened in the last second field goal too. So Tennessee,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not I'm not saying, yeah, you better
Speaker 2: go play Tennessee, like you know, like tenn It's not
Speaker 2: like Louisville. I'm picking them because I feel like, oh,
Speaker 2: they'd be an easy game. No, like they that would
Speaker 2: be of the of the non conference opponents. That's the
Speaker 2: one that, like every year, you know, is going to
Speaker 2: be tough, even when they're not a top ten team
Speaker 2: or top fifteen team, Like they're gonna have personnel on
Speaker 2: their roster that you better pack lunch when you come
Speaker 2: and play them, because they've got SEC. I mean Tennessee
Speaker 2: to me, and you're starting to see it a little bit.
Speaker 2: You saw it a couple of years ago. I think
Speaker 2: hypel really was that was the big addition for them
Speaker 2: that that that paid off in a big way. But
Speaker 2: Tennessee they're the kind of school that their ceiling I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's back to what it once was
Speaker 2: many many years ago when they were actually national championship caliber,
Speaker 2: But with nil and the portal, their ceiling is lifted,
Speaker 2: right because they're not in the same base in Tennessee
Speaker 2: as Alabama, Georgia, Florida. Like, they don't have a rich
Speaker 2: recruiting base to where they can just recruit within state
Speaker 2: and you know, bring in top five classes or something
Speaker 2: like that, but they can use the portal and the
Speaker 2: money that they have. They have a humongous fan base.
Speaker 2: So I would go with Tennessee, and they're the game
Speaker 2: that like it would be a destination trip for Louisville
Speaker 2: fans because you know, their stadium is insane. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean they sell it out. I mean even when
Speaker 2: Tennessee stunk, like, they would have a full house almost
Speaker 2: and they've got a big, passionate fan base. So that's
Speaker 2: what I would go with. I would go with West Virginia, Cincinnati, Tennessee,
Speaker 2: and of course they'rowing Kentucky in there as well. All Right,
Speaker 2: some of the things we'll get into today. The bye
Speaker 2: we sucks, but I'm gonna not complain about it anymore,
Speaker 2: I mean, other than letting you know that it does suck.
Speaker 2: But yesterday I mentioned some stats about UFL football that
Speaker 2: I think are encouraging. Again, maybe you don't need encouragement.
Speaker 2: Maybe you feel real good about where Louisville is and
Speaker 2: I do as well, but I just feel left out. Right,
Speaker 2: You've only played two games against nobody's and now you've
Speaker 2: got a bye week this early in the season, because
Speaker 2: everybody's got two bi weeks now, so you know, I'm
Speaker 2: feening for some real competition to see where Louisville stands,
Speaker 2: But unfortunately we have to wait until next Saturday when
Speaker 2: they played Georgia Tech. So until then, I want to
Speaker 2: take a look at some numbers. And I don't want
Speaker 2: to nerd out too much on stats because that could
Speaker 2: be boring, but just some you know, like Louisville despite
Speaker 2: not playing anybody, has actually jumped up quite a bit
Speaker 2: as far as the analytics, the projections, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: And look, it's probably because of Louisville dominating two bad
Speaker 2: teams and other teams that Louisville plays not winning like
Speaker 2: some team struggling, So we'll do that and take a
Speaker 2: look at some bowl projections. Also, I do want to
Speaker 2: take a look at this NCAA lawsuit, and again I
Speaker 2: feel like that's not interesting stuff that people would really
Speaker 2: care a whole lot about. However, you've got a South
Speaker 2: Dakota I think it's South Dakota, a South Dakota senator
Speaker 2: maybe that has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA. And
Speaker 2: I feel like, first of all, lawsuit overload, right, Like
Speaker 2: there's everybody's sueing everybody. The NCAA is getting sued left
Speaker 2: and right every day. But I think this lawsuit filed
Speaker 2: by a South Dakota senator on behalf of the lower
Speaker 2: level schools. I mean, he can't put in his lawsuit
Speaker 2: that he's doing and on behalf of anybody other than
Speaker 2: I guess the university's in his state. But it's such
Speaker 2: a no brainer as to why the nc DOUBLEA just
Speaker 2: doesn't need to exist anymore because this lawsuit is legit.
Speaker 2: Did the NAA even consider the fact that, like, it's
Speaker 2: insane to hold those schools of the FCS level and
Speaker 2: the G five level to the same standard financially, like
Speaker 2: asking them telling them that you know, they're now you know,
Speaker 2: they're now going to be not required but like urged
Speaker 2: to pay student athletes up to twenty two million dollars
Speaker 2: a year. They can't do that, like you know they
Speaker 2: when the NCUBLEA was going through the legal process to
Speaker 2: try to come up with this settlement where they got
Speaker 2: to pay a bunch of money back because they you know,
Speaker 2: didn't share any money with the talent, the workers essentially
Speaker 2: the players. And then moving forward there would be an
Speaker 2: annual amount of money that that schools are encouraged to
Speaker 2: pay and you know there's a max. Like they never
Speaker 2: had anybody from the lower level, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: they still exist, right, the fcs and the G five
Speaker 2: are still part of the n double A. Like why
Speaker 2: you would not have somebody representing that group of schools
Speaker 2: within this negotiation is just malpractice and like they have
Speaker 2: every right to say, you didn't, like you can't do this,
Speaker 2: like we're not like, you know, we're not the same.
Speaker 2: So long story short. The reason I think it's interesting
Speaker 2: is because it could be where you finally see that
Speaker 2: divide and everybody realizes what are we doing here? You know,
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State is not the same thing as Louisville. You know,
Speaker 2: butt Crack State is not the same thing as Indiana.
Speaker 2: Did I get it wrong again? I hope butt Crack
Speaker 2: State's not the same thing as Indiana. I mean, but
Speaker 2: Indiana used to be on caliber with the same caliber
Speaker 2: program as butt Crackstate. But now they got signetti and
Speaker 2: they're not. That's fair, it's changed. So anyways, we're loaded
Speaker 2: the rest of the way. Don't forget. Also, we've got tickets,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned earlier, Brooks and Down. We'll give them
Speaker 2: away at five thirty at four oh five. Coming up
Speaker 2: here in about thirty five minutes or so, we're going
Speaker 2: to be joined by Kent Spencer from WHS eleven. So
Speaker 2: stick with us. It's a Wednesday edition Coffee and Company,
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Speaker 2: take advantage of that, all right. I was telling John
Speaker 2: this before the show today, super random thing happened that
Speaker 2: I feel like it's got to be like some kind
Speaker 2: of a sign. I don't know what the sign is,
Speaker 2: but when I got here today, it was like one
Speaker 2: thirty ish one forty five around there, and usually somebody's
Speaker 2: in the studio until about two, and because I wasn't
Speaker 2: feeling well, I just wanted to be outside in the
Speaker 2: fresh air and you know, honestly like get the day started,
Speaker 2: because I've been feeling like crap since last night. So
Speaker 2: I ended up going and sitting in one of the
Speaker 2: tables here at four Street Live. We're on the second level,
Speaker 2: so there's some tables that are set out that I
Speaker 2: never see anybody sitting. Add to you, John, No, I've
Speaker 2: never seen anybody at them. But I guess like if
Speaker 2: you work downtown or you work in four Street Live
Speaker 2: like we do, you can just go out there and
Speaker 2: you eat your lunch and you know, have a smoke break. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a beautiful day out. So I went and sat down,
Speaker 2: and I was actually finishing finishing up a phone call,
Speaker 2: but I had set at the far table, on the
Speaker 2: far seat that you know is the closest to the
Speaker 2: balcony where I can overlook and see you know, the
Speaker 2: lower you know, the main level of four Street down
Speaker 2: there where sports and socialists and you know where they
Speaker 2: have the concerts and whatnot. So I'm sitting there, I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe ten minutes or so, and I happened
Speaker 2: to look down and there's a woman that is that
Speaker 2: is walking walking towards the other end of four Street
Speaker 2: live and she's kind of like looking up to see,
Speaker 2: like what's up here on the second level where we are,
Speaker 2: And sure enough it's my mother. I randomly ran into
Speaker 2: my mother, and you know, she knows I work here,
Speaker 2: but she'd never been to the to the to the
Speaker 2: she's never been up here where we where we are.
Speaker 2: In fact, she's been four Street, but like she's never
Speaker 2: seen our offices here or anything like that. And she
Speaker 2: works downtown, she has for a long time, but it's
Speaker 2: like four blocks away it's really not that close. But
Speaker 2: I guess, you know, she was making her walk to
Speaker 2: the Walgreens or at CVS. I think it might be CVS.
Speaker 2: That's that's down here across from the seal box. So
Speaker 2: you know, I'm like mom, and then so I ended
Speaker 2: up walking down there and talking. But like it, it's
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've probably ran into somebody that, like you
Speaker 2: talked to every day, or maybe you talk to every
Speaker 2: other day, or somebody that you're really close with, and
Speaker 2: you just happen to not know that you're gonna be
Speaker 2: at a certain place at the same time. Again, it's
Speaker 2: not as if I randomly saw her in another country.
Speaker 2: I mean, she was literally about fifty yards from where
Speaker 2: I work, but like we never you know, just I
Speaker 2: never would have expected her to be there, and I've
Speaker 2: never sat out there before. Like I usually walk in
Speaker 2: right from the garage and just come straight into our
Speaker 2: building and or coming straight into our offices, and you know,
Speaker 2: I never would ever think to go over there. So anyways,
Speaker 2: she's leaving to go on a on a ten day
Speaker 2: vacation tomorrow, and I actually had dinner with her last
Speaker 2: night before they left, so she could see us and
Speaker 2: the kids and everything, but like, I don't know, like
Speaker 2: it was nice to see her one more time before
Speaker 2: she leaves for you know, a long time. And that's
Speaker 2: that's what happens when you g a little bit older, John,
Speaker 2: you start to worry about your parents, like you're their parents.
Speaker 2: Like I know that her and my step dad are
Speaker 2: gonna have a great trip and and you know, have
Speaker 2: a lot of fun, but you know, telling her to
Speaker 2: be careful, you know, make sure you know, check in
Speaker 2: when you're there, make sure you FaceTime.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I think they I think, well, I don't know,
Speaker 2: hope not. I assume that they. I assume they think
Speaker 2: it's sweet. H My dad, on the other hand, I
Speaker 2: kind of I'm kind of like a dad to him
Speaker 2: at times about like not not you know, not really.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's he's the father figure in our relationship,
Speaker 2: of course, but like when he tells me, yeah, I
Speaker 2: had this thing going on medically, I probably should get
Speaker 2: it looked at him, like, well, how long's it been
Speaker 2: going on? I don't know, a few months. Why haven't
Speaker 2: you gone to the doctor with that? Hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: But I really lecture him about taking care of himself
Speaker 2: with which from from what I understand, he's in great health.
Speaker 2: But you know, when you get older, you be you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm a parent myself. I'm not a parent to
Speaker 2: my parents, but you know, the parental uh you know,
Speaker 2: nature is there at times, and you know you got
Speaker 2: to you gotta stay on your parents about taking care
Speaker 2: of themselves when they get older. And I'm very fortunate
Speaker 2: to where my parents are all in great health, but uh,
Speaker 2: you know, got to make sure they stay on top
Speaker 2: of it, all right. So the question that I threw
Speaker 2: out there, We've got some responses here, And the question
Speaker 2: was if if we ever no longer have Power five
Speaker 2: versus FCS or G five teams in football, and you
Speaker 2: have a twelve team schedule eight conference games, of course,
Speaker 2: and then you only can play your non conference games
Speaker 2: against teams from the Big ten, the Big twelve of
Speaker 2: the SEC. I said that I would go with Kentucky's
Speaker 2: a no brainer. So really I'm just asking which three
Speaker 2: because if you're somebody who claims that these two shouldn't
Speaker 2: play each other, I'm officially kicking you out of the rivalry,
Speaker 2: like you don't count anymore. You're done, I mean, don't
Speaker 2: take it personal, but like, come on, like the rivalry
Speaker 2: should always be played. And I'm saying that as somebody
Speaker 2: who hasn't beat Kentucky as a fan and like a
Speaker 2: long time. It's not like I'm just wanting to end
Speaker 2: it like Louisville get'll win and end it. No, like
Speaker 2: they should play every year. And I know I've said
Speaker 2: this many times. No need to get into it, but
Speaker 2: like even if you're somebody that does find yourself not
Speaker 2: hating the other as much as most fans do, like
Speaker 2: you are pretty content, like you don't hate Kentucky the
Speaker 2: once root for them in the National Championship when it's
Speaker 2: not there. Yeah, like I can't, I can't relate to that.
Speaker 2: But like even if you're somebody that like is not
Speaker 2: as anti the other, you would still agree that like
Speaker 2: the like rivalries make sports great.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: So I'm just including Kentucky in there as a no brainer.
Speaker 2: Although maybe there is a scenario down the line where
Speaker 2: these two don't play each other. I mean, the scenario
Speaker 2: that I laid out would make it to where I mean,
Speaker 2: think about that, Like there's already talk that if Kentucky
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, if the SEC did go to nine that
Speaker 2: Kentucky would remove Louisville and just play their two MAX
Speaker 2: schools and and an FCS team, right, But like if
Speaker 2: they couldn't do that and the SEC went to nine
Speaker 2: and they said you only could play Power five schools
Speaker 2: and they didn't schedule Louisville, I mean that would be like,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no way to be admitting you're scared,
Speaker 2: yeah exactly, And I think you'd be admitting your skill.
Speaker 2: And here's here's what makes that whole thing crazy is that, yes,
Speaker 2: it would be admitting you're scared, but it evend be.
Speaker 2: It would be that even if you you know, like it.
Speaker 1: Scared regardless, Yeah exactly, You're you're eliminating a for opponent
Speaker 1: exactly game.
Speaker 2: Exactly, it's scared regardless. And here's what's crazy is that
Speaker 2: I don't believe for a second Kentucky fans and a
Speaker 2: football standpoint, are scared of Louisville. Like even if they
Speaker 2: end up winning four games in there, four and I
Speaker 2: guess that would be what four and seven in the
Speaker 2: last game of the year in Louisville's you know, nine
Speaker 2: and two or something. And I'm not predicting that's the schedules,
Speaker 2: but or the records. But let's just say that it
Speaker 2: is they're still gonna feel like, well, it's Louisville, We'll
Speaker 2: still go beat them, and that's Louisvee's fault. Last year
Speaker 2: could have been the year where like, even if you
Speaker 2: won in an ugly game and you didn't look like
Speaker 2: you were, you know, dominant, but you still just won
Speaker 2: the game. That would have not put an end to
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans being like confident, but it would have made
Speaker 2: it to where the Louisville fans could do this, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you picked on Scott Sadderfield, who was easy to pick on.
Speaker 2: Mark Stubs could Alpha Sadderfield, He and Alpha and like
Speaker 2: it's a different Like we could say it's a different
Speaker 2: world with Jeff from which, by the way, it is,
Speaker 2: make no mistake about it. But the fact that in
Speaker 2: Jeff's first year his team was really good and Kentucky
Speaker 2: wasn't and they still beat you, Like it's just it's
Speaker 2: worst case scenario. So anyways, outside of Kentucky, I went
Speaker 2: with West Virginia, Cincinnati, and Tennessee. And if you missed it,
Speaker 2: the reason I went with those two Cincinnati West Virginia
Speaker 2: is because one there's history there. They are rivals, You've
Speaker 2: played them a lot, and it feels when you do
Speaker 2: beat them not like it does when you beat Kentucky.
Speaker 2: But clearly there's a little something extra there because of
Speaker 2: the history between the schools and with Tennessee. I just
Speaker 2: like the thought of having the one non conference opponent
Speaker 2: that you know, like more often than not is probably
Speaker 2: gonna be favored against you, and it would be a
Speaker 2: monster win if you could pull it off, and the
Speaker 2: environment going to their games in Knoxville would be great.
Speaker 2: They would certainly bring a lot of fans here. So
Speaker 2: that's what I went with. But here are some of
Speaker 2: the responses. This is from Keith. He said Cincinnati, West
Speaker 2: Virginia and then UCF and then he mentioned that he
Speaker 2: still has beef with beef with Storm Johnson. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: could have been a perfect season had Louisville not slipped
Speaker 2: up and lost to Storm Johnson and Blake Bortles back
Speaker 2: in Charlie Strong last year. I think it was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the only loss they had that year was to Central Florida,
Speaker 2: who ended up winning the Big East. I'm sorty winning
Speaker 2: the American and uh then they ended up beating Baylor.
Speaker 2: I think in a BCS game. So that was a
Speaker 2: good Central Florida team, But I don't have any like,
Speaker 2: I don't have any feeling towards them at all. I mean,
Speaker 2: in fact, Louis has played them. I mean, if you
Speaker 2: still got beef with Storm Johnson, Like, is there something
Speaker 2: more to it than that? I mean, they did beat
Speaker 2: us in a year that really, like Louis louisvill would
Speaker 2: have been undefeated that year had they not lost that game.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that one still stings in a way that
Speaker 2: like Louis has played them twice since then and beat
Speaker 2: them both times, beat them down there in Orlando and
Speaker 2: then beat them uh here thanks to that uh that
Speaker 2: inner that picked six from Jalen Alderman. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't really and yeah, that doesn't do much for me
Speaker 2: Central Florida. But again, everybody's got their own opinion. Uh
Speaker 2: this says Michigan, Ohio State in Indiana New Blood and
Speaker 2: the home and home games would be awesome. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I want to play Ohio State and
Speaker 2: Michigan that terrible. Yeah, because look, look I think what
Speaker 2: I laid out, like those are all games that on
Speaker 2: any given like you could lose, right, But they're all
Speaker 2: like winnable Ohio State if you played them every year,
Speaker 2: how many and again, any team can happen in any night,
Speaker 2: right like an upset. I'm not acting like Louisville would
Speaker 2: never ever be in a position to ever beat Ohio State.
Speaker 2: But if the pro like when they're at their best,
Speaker 2: and Louisville is at their best, if they played ten times,
Speaker 2: Louisvill's probably winning two at most, if if even that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that would be great, But like that would
Speaker 2: make it to where you know, it's not that I
Speaker 2: want to stack wins against bums, but you could be really,
Speaker 2: really good and lose ninety five percent of the time
Speaker 2: you play both those teams, especially Ohio State. We'll see
Speaker 2: what Michigan looks like long term, because I mean, they'd
Speaker 2: fallen off in a major way. And even when Harball
Speaker 2: was there, they were a lot better with him than
Speaker 2: they were prior, but they didn't really become the elite
Speaker 2: team until the one and the only Connor Stallions came
Speaker 2: along and helped them cheat, and they did not look
Speaker 2: like they belonged in the same level of football as
Speaker 2: Texas the other day on their home field. So you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: this This is from mister Sparkle on Twitter. He says Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: Penn State in UK. I'm already including UK, mister Sparkle,
Speaker 2: Penn State. Yeah, I mean they're They're a brand that
Speaker 2: would be a good atmosphere to go to go to
Speaker 2: watch games. Evan says Kentucky Cincy in West Virginia. Again,
Speaker 2: like I'm including Kentucky people. I mean, it's a no brainer. Uh.
Speaker 2: This says Cincinnati. This is from Harry. He says Cincinnati West.
Speaker 2: For everybody's saying Cincinnati West Virginia, which I guess I
Speaker 2: should have expected that, but this is Ohio State, Indiana
Speaker 2: or Tennessee as the others. Yeah, I uh again I Tennessee.
Speaker 2: There's not like it's not like I'm you know, singling
Speaker 2: them out because I think Louisville can go beat them
Speaker 2: annually or that like they you know, But I just
Speaker 2: feel like they're close enough. Like I guess you could
Speaker 2: probably put I don't know, Florida in there too. They're
Speaker 2: not as close, but like that would be a similar
Speaker 2: type of game, although Florida's a con. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm getting a little bit, uh, I guess caught up
Speaker 2: in how good Tennessee's been under hype in the last
Speaker 2: few years, but really it's only this is the third
Speaker 2: year that they're looking that they're like expected to be
Speaker 2: pretty good, and they did look really good against Cincy State,
Speaker 2: but prior to that, they were, I mean, they were
Speaker 2: pretty beatable for for a while there. Post Philip Follmer,
Speaker 2: let's see this says this is from uh doctor Giggles
Speaker 2: on Twitter. So we've got mister Sparkle and doctor Giggles.
Speaker 2: Those are great names, great names of I mean, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't expect any different type of names from our listeners
Speaker 2: doctor Sparkle and mister Giggles or doctor Giggles and mister Sparkle.
Speaker 2: But he says, Oklahoma stay because of Gundy, Like you
Speaker 2: just not like Gundy maybe just for the memes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean he's a character. Cincinnati of course, and then
Speaker 2: TCU because they're an old Conference USA opponent. That's random
Speaker 2: as hell. But you know, I kind of, uh, I
Speaker 2: kind of don't hate it, but for me, you got
Speaker 2: to like, I don't know, like they did just play
Speaker 2: in a national championship game, but I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like it's going to be a big time outlier, Like
Speaker 2: that's gonna be trivia question that like nobody would ever
Speaker 2: get right, Like of these schools who's played in a
Speaker 2: national championship TCU, Baylor or Oklahoma State. Like maybe somebody
Speaker 2: would get TCU right, but like that's such a random thing,
Speaker 2: and they don't look to be that good now, So
Speaker 2: you know, I don't hate it. And again, there's no
Speaker 2: right or wrong, it's just your opinion. All right, quick break,
Speaker 2: we'll come back on the other side. We'll let you
Speaker 2: know what percentage chance Louisville has to win each of
Speaker 2: the remaining games according to the ESPN FPI. I'll be consistent.
Speaker 2: I think it's a flawed formula. But you know what,
Speaker 2: they shove it in her face all the time because
Speaker 2: you know it's the four letter network. But if you
Speaker 2: are somebody that does have a high opinion of the
Speaker 2: of the FPI, then you know you're gonna feel pretty
Speaker 2: good about what they think Louisville. So stick with us.
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Speaker 2: now and we will welcome in. Nno, how are we doing? Brother?
Speaker 2: You know you're there? HELLU do we lose him? I
Speaker 2: hear something.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's unaware that we were going to take him
Speaker 1: this earlier or something like that.
Speaker 2: You know you're there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I'm here, man. Sorry, hey man, I wanted
Speaker 3: to how you doing, brothers. I've been listening to you
Speaker 3: man and just didn't get a chance to call in.
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, I wanted me and my brother was
Speaker 3: debating today and I had to argue that a freshman quarterback,
Speaker 3: I mean, brand speaking new, straight out of high school
Speaker 3: starting a high intense game. I don't know, maybe against
Speaker 3: a big program. I think a freshman quarterback is more
Speaker 3: likely to succeed in that environment versus a rookie quarterback
Speaker 3: straight out of college in the NFL in a high
Speaker 3: intensity Yeah, and I wanted to get shipped out on that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hang up and listen.
Speaker 2: Go thank you you know, appreciate it, brother, Yeah, I uh.
Speaker 2: As far as the quarterbacks in those situations in regards
Speaker 2: to like how like are they are they set up
Speaker 2: to succeed? I think in the NFL, it just depends
Speaker 2: on your situation more than anything else. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think in the NFL, if you go to a team
Speaker 2: like Kayla Williams with the Bears, I think you know
Speaker 2: as good as he is. Him having individual success is
Speaker 2: one thing, but him being so successful that the Bears
Speaker 2: become a really really good team. And with just that
Speaker 2: being like the big acquisition, right, Like, let's say your personnel,
Speaker 2: your coaching staff is relatively the same, but you were
Speaker 2: so bad that you ended up with a top three
Speaker 2: pick and you picked a quarterback and really the again,
Speaker 2: the big the big change from year one to year
Speaker 2: two or the next year, I should say, would be
Speaker 2: that you drafted this rookie quarterback. Like, I feel like
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a tough time giving them results right away?
Speaker 2: Now can you have success and show upside and make
Speaker 2: it look as if they made a good investment. Totally
Speaker 2: different conversation there, because there's been many quarterbacks that get
Speaker 2: thrown under the fire their teams win you know, seven
Speaker 2: eight games, not in contention for the playoff or really
Speaker 2: to do anything in the postseason. But yet you can tell, Okay,
Speaker 2: they're gonna they made the right decision, right, they need
Speaker 2: to build around him. They're going to continue to get better.
Speaker 2: But that's that's their quarterback for the future. So, like,
Speaker 2: I think it'd be tougher to actually succeed. I think
Speaker 2: if you're a true freshman quarterback, especially now with the
Speaker 2: way these guys, the highly regarded quarterbacks, I mean, they're
Speaker 2: enrolling early, they're playing year round, not just for their
Speaker 2: high school team. They're in these quarterback camps and you know,
Speaker 2: the elite eleven that kind of stuff. So I would
Speaker 2: say that if you, like, for example, nobody's starting true
Speaker 2: freshman quarterbacks anymore in college unless you have any elite
Speaker 2: one that you know is that good or you know
Speaker 2: you have you know, you have no other option, right Like,
Speaker 2: you can't go to the portal and get a great
Speaker 2: quarterback because you're not an appealing program. You don't have
Speaker 2: an il. So like right now, Dylan Reola Nebraska, who
Speaker 2: looks a lot like and clearly wants to look a
Speaker 2: lot like Patrick Mahomes, he's the number two quarterback in
Speaker 2: the country coming out of high school, and he is,
Speaker 2: I mean, gonna have a lot of success from Nebraska
Speaker 2: this year. I don't think they're going to maybe I
Speaker 2: don't mean they're gonna win the Big Ten, but like
Speaker 2: he's going to be a factor in their success because
Speaker 2: he has the talent and he's got veterans around him,
Speaker 2: probably guys from the portal that have played college football
Speaker 2: for you know, three four years. Even so I would
Speaker 2: say you have a better chance, Like, first of all,
Speaker 2: you gotta have talent, right, Like if we're talking about
Speaker 2: guys that are believed to be worthy of being a
Speaker 2: top draft pick at a quarterback in the NFL, or
Speaker 2: a guy that is legitimately worthy of the five star
Speaker 2: billing he's getting out of high school, I would say
Speaker 2: that the best chance for that player to not only
Speaker 2: have success but provides success to the team when it
Speaker 2: comes to wins and losses would be the high school
Speaker 2: the college freshman quarterback. That's just but again, really to
Speaker 2: p on the situation, like for example, Lamar and even Teddy,
Speaker 2: those guys got drafted at the end of the first round.
Speaker 2: You know why because they went to teams that were
Speaker 2: pretty good the year before. So when you plug those
Speaker 2: guys in, they're already joining a team that's pretty well
Speaker 2: put together. That's why Russell Wilson was able to succeed
Speaker 2: so much with Seattle when he got there. They were
Speaker 2: built to be successful. He just had to really be
Speaker 2: a game manager and not screw up. Good question, you know,
Speaker 2: and appreciate you calling. Good to hear from you as always.
Speaker 2: All right, not a lot of time left here, but
Speaker 2: real quick as far as the FPI, and again, I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people, you know, myself included, don't
Speaker 2: really think the FPI is all that valuable, but it
Speaker 2: is something to gauge at this point, you know, when
Speaker 2: you are on a bye week and you know you're
Speaker 2: trying to see how you stack up and how your
Speaker 2: schedule looks after everybody's played at least a couple of games.
Speaker 2: So right now, the only two games Louisville has a
Speaker 2: bigger percentage chance of losing than winning is Clemson. They
Speaker 2: have a forty five point seven percent chance of beating
Speaker 2: Clemson according to the FPI, and they have a forty
Speaker 2: four percent chance of beating Notre Dames, so pretty close.
Speaker 2: I mean, are those are close to fifty to fifty
Speaker 2: And by the way, Clemson, you had a fifty five
Speaker 2: percent chance of beating them last week, but they demolished
Speaker 2: app State, which, of course the FPI is gonna crunch
Speaker 2: not only did you win or lose, but the other
Speaker 2: numbers like how much did you win by that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff, So you know, not saying it means a
Speaker 2: whole lot, but from a percentage standpoint, when they crunch
Speaker 2: the numbers, they run this formula. Louisville is expected to
Speaker 2: win every game other than those two. But again those
Speaker 2: two right now, it's not as if you know, there's
Speaker 2: a huge difference. Here's a forty five, forty four percent
Speaker 2: chance for those two games. I mean, John, you were
Speaker 2: telling me Indiana they're now and the FPI projected to win,
Speaker 2: have a better chance of winning every game but two, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, every game I'm looking at them right now except
Speaker 1: for Michigan and Ohio State towards the end of the season,
Speaker 1: which it makes total sense. It makes it feel like
Speaker 1: it's kind of I mean, you already said to flawed formula,
Speaker 1: and I think this not that Indiana can't have a
Speaker 1: great season, but like that just seems way out of reach.
Speaker 1: But maybe it's just because I'm not used to something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's new, it's different. Indiana usually is not
Speaker 2: a team that makes spected it to beat many teams
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. But it is fun to see.
Speaker 2: But you expect him to beat UCLA this weekend. I
Speaker 2: do expect him to beat Ucla. How about how about
Speaker 2: Signetty taking the Hoosiers to La as favorites.
Speaker 1: That's something that if this game was played in Week one,
Speaker 1: Ucla is probably favored by eight or nine points.
Speaker 2: I would agree with those lines. I would agree. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back on the other side and
Speaker 2: we will get the four o'clock hour started with the
Speaker 2: one and only Kent Spencer from WHAS eleven. Stick with
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