WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:07.240 It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:21.079 Sports Talk seven nine day. Now, here's Nick coffee. 3 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:22.600 All right, let's get it started. 4 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.719 Hour number two here on a Tuesday afternoon, a game 5 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:29.079 day edition of Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's here 6 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.240 on Sports Talk seven ninety Louisville and Bellerman tonight seven 7 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.880 o'clock tip. I believe it's a seven o'clock tip. I 8 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:37.960 just assumed that it was. Yeah, it is just making 9 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.840 sure and it'll be on the ACC Network Extra, which 10 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.439 means you will have to rely on the ESPN app. 11 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:50.039 And if you have television, I mean, I hate at 12 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.359 one point we do need to get the like when 13 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:56.240 you say watching TV, I still think, like, yeah, I'm 14 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.399 watching something on my television. It doesn't necessarily it could 15 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:02.200 be you know, it could be cable, it could be streaming. 16 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.719 I mean I don't have cable, but you know this 17 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:07.640 game is on television because it will be easy to 18 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:12.439 watch on your television, but it'll be streaming. And yes, 19 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.719 I will have to get out of YouTube TV on 20 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.000 my TV rather. You know, I've got a Roku, I've 21 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.120 got a Smart TV. So I think we're going to 22 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:24.840 watch it in the basement, so I'll be using my 23 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:28.079 smart TV. Therefore, I will probably at the time have 24 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.439 it on YouTube TV, probably have it on you know, 25 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:32.879 Sports Center or something like that. And then at seven o'clock, 26 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.439 I will go back to the home screen of my 27 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.599 smart TV and I will click on the ESPN app 28 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:42.239 that's right there, and then I'll log in with my 29 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:47.280 YouTube TV account because that's where I access ESPN's family 30 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.200 of stations, and then there I can watch it. So, yeah, 31 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.519 there's more work to be done than if you were 32 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.799 just channel surpent essentially, but because I'm a court cutter 33 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.000 and I have YouTube TV, I'm quite literally watching it 34 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.400 the same exact way. It's just on a different app. 35 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.040 How many different apps do you, guys bounce around on 36 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.799 your phone every day? So I still sense some resistance 37 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.800 to people that, you know, think that they're having to 38 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:14.240 do a lot of extra work here to watch this game, 39 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:17.800 when like, no, I'm not going to pick on him 40 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.639 because I love him and he's my father, but my dad, 41 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.319 like he's yet to watch any Louisville game this year, 42 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:24.319 and he'd hate that I'm calling him out right now. 43 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:25.719 I feel bad, but I've already done it dead. We 44 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:27.919 can't hit the dumb button now. I mean he's kept 45 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:29.879 up with it, but like he's and he's I think 46 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:31.680 he's gone to some of them with with with with 47 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.879 my uncle Wayne. But he acts as if like, well, okay, 48 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.120 oh it's on ESPN Plus. Well, you know, I mean, 49 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.479 maybe maybe I'll find a way to it. Maybe, you know, 50 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.599 maybe I'll maybe I'll download it or something. I mean 51 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:45.960 he's not, you know, technologically illiterate, but like I just 52 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:48.840 want to scream at him, Dad, you would be watching 53 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:52.800 this the same exact way if it was on ESPN 54 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.599 or ESPN two or ACC Network that's not extra, ACC 55 00:02:56.759 --> 00:02:59.680 Network regular, Like it's the same you know, you're it's 56 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:01.159 the same thing. You just have to go to a 57 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:04.960 different app. Now the log in info that can be 58 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:06.719 a pain in the rear. And to be honest with you, 59 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.360 like here I am telling people that they should realize 60 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.400 it's not that difficult. And really, more than anything, it's 61 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.360 because this is just this is where it's going. I mean, 62 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.080 we're gonna have a football game in the NFL on 63 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:20.080 Netflix only on Christmas Day. I was looking for a 64 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:24.439 college basketball game the other day, and I know that 65 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.719 there's all kinds of different streaming apps that are getting 66 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:30.159 exclusive rights to broadcast a lot of games rather be football, basketball, whatever. 67 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:31.919 But like I never thought to look at Peacock, but 68 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:34.319 there it was, and it was it was you know, 69 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:36.759 once I got there, it was easy to watch. So 70 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.960 you know, ESPN plus, I mean, I think it's actually 71 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.599 a pretty wonky platform that is that doesn't work the 72 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.039 way that it should. But nonetheless, like the way you know, 73 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.759 that's ESPN's fault, not like the streaming world's fault, meaning 74 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.680 like this. But again, even if I hated it like 75 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.039 it like some people do, it's not going anywhere. This 76 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:59.759 is how we're gonna watch games for the rest of 77 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:02.680 time I'm probably, or at least for the foreseeable future. 78 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.680 So yes, it's on a different app. But like if 79 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:11.599 you already watch your live TV on like I'm just 80 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.400 trying to we'll move on in just a second. But 81 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.160 I'm trying to think of those that would be unable 82 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:17.639 to watch, and I'm sure there are some out there. 83 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:19.319 I don't feel like everybody has cut the cord. But 84 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.519 put it this way, if you've got a TV that 85 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:25.480 is a smart TV, and I don't really know when 86 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:27.639 smart TVs came out, but they've been around for a 87 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:30.920 little while now. And when I say smart TV, maybe 88 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.120 our definitions are different. But I'm thinking of a TV 89 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.120 that when you turn it on, like you can go 90 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.000 to an app and you can download an app. Now, 91 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.439 before I had a smart TV, we used Roku. In fact, 92 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:44.920 I've used Roku, which is an external device. I'm assuming 93 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:46.319 everybody knows what a Roku is, but I don't know, 94 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.319 maybe you don't, But a Roku is a device you 95 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.480 plug in. It's a little box you plug into your TV, 96 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:53.879 and that basically let's you know, if you plug that 97 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.319 into your Htmi then you're using the Roku interface to 98 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:01.839 download apps and watch things via streaming. So I mean, 99 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.040 if you have a TV that doesn't that's not a 100 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:10.199 smart TV and you only have like traditional cable, which 101 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.920 I guess right now, your only traditional cable would be Spectrum, 102 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.920 and I guess you could still have Dish or Direct TV. 103 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:22.959 So yeah, there's probably still people that they really would 104 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.040 have to watch it on their phone, or watch it 105 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:28.319 on a device, or you know, maybe old school pull 106 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.920 it up on your laptop and connect an HDMI cable 107 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.199 from your laptop to your TV, and I get it, 108 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:36.560 like that may not be something worthwhile to you if 109 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:38.240 you're really not that interested in this game. But the 110 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.160 people who act like they can't watch it or they 111 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.600 just you know, like if you don't have cause. Again, 112 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:48.879 if you have direct TV, Spectrum, Dish Network, if they're 113 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:53.160 still around, you probably have ESPN available to you. Therefore, 114 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.000 all you have to do is get to an ESPN app, 115 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:02.959 rather it be www dot ep dot com or on 116 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.160 your Roku if you have one. If you don't and 117 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.160 you have, but you have a TV that's new enough 118 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.040 to where you have apps, you can still watch it 119 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:12.399 that way. So again, I'm sure there are still some 120 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:17.839 that just have standard spectrum TV and a box and 121 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.480 they just change channels and you wouldn't be able to 122 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:22.759 watch it that way. But it's not because you got 123 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.240 to pay for anything. It's just because of you. 124 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:25.600 You're not. 125 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.519 You don't you don't technologically have what's needed to watch 126 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:32.279 it on your television, at least not yet. So you know, 127 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.759 if you really want to watch it, and you have 128 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.079 the situation, the setup that I just described where you 129 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.279 just got that spectrum box and that's it if you 130 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:42.639 just use your phone and you open up the ESPN 131 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:44.439 app and you try to watch it that way or 132 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.439 on your iPad or whatnot. You can put in your 133 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.240 your login for Spectrum and you can watch it for free. 134 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.519 So you know, I just encourage people to if you've 135 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:58.319 yet to really figure it out or put in the 136 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.959 work that you feel like isn't worth it before too long, 137 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:03.600 like this is just going to be how it is, 138 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.800 and you won't watch sports if you don't have the 139 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:12.519 ability to understand the smart TV with apps or the 140 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.160 Roku device or a fire stick. I think there's others 141 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.680 out there similar to that. So again, tonight, if you 142 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:20.560 want to watch it, that's how you'll you'll do it. 143 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.000 But hopefully I hope there's a big crowd tonight because 144 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.839 and I have no clue what attendance is going to be. 145 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:28.439 And I probably shouldn't even mention that because I don't 146 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:30.319 want to go down that path of talking about what's 147 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.240 a good crowd, what's a bad crowd. But I do 148 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.959 feel comfortable at least saying if you're playing other teams 149 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.439 that are you know, in this caliber where Bellerman is, 150 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:40.959 you have a better chance of getting people to come 151 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.519 than you do if you're you know, this game should 152 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:45.600 should be a better attended game than if you were 153 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.160 playing Morehead State. I would say, but you know again, 154 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:52.040 I think it's tough to really predict Louisville crowds for 155 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.040 games like this, even though Bellerman is a local school, 156 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:56.000 of course that they've got fans here as well that 157 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.160 are going to want to come and watch watch their 158 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.240 team play. All right, it's coffee to come. But we 159 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.079 are feel about Thorton's here on Sports Talk seven nine. 160 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:03.959 He appreciate you hanging out with us. We're gonna be 161 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.120 joint coming up here in about fifteen minutes by cl 162 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.560 Brown or the Courier Journal. We'll talk about a lot 163 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.920 of things with cl. But if you are just now 164 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.040 joining us. We did address the tough news yesterday for 165 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:17.240 Louisville football. I mean, it has nothing to do with 166 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:19.680 football itself, but certainly not a good look and certainly 167 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.360 not good timing considering the way things played out for 168 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:27.000 Jeff Bram and his team at Stanford. But defensive fact, 169 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:30.360 Teyon Holloway has been charged with assault and feling strangulation. 170 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.000 That news came out right towards the end of the 171 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:33.679 show yesterday. 172 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:34.039 I was not. 173 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.360 In fact, I got up out of the chair, I 174 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.639 walked to our kitchen here at iHeart, and came back 175 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.320 in and saw my phone it was going off and 176 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:46.159 somebody had texted me the link of theirs. I think 177 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.639 it might have been Matt mcgavick who put it out 178 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:49.320 there first, but I think somebody had sent me his tweet. 179 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:50.840 And I'm like, wait a second. 180 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:53.159 First of all, this is bad, not a good look 181 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:55.840 by any means, But wait a second, isn't Holloway the guy? 182 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:56.440 Yeah he is. 183 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:02.000 He's the guy who committed a really senseless penalty. And 184 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.480 I ain't even like comparing the two things, like, well, 185 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:06.519 on this day he committed a penalty, they cost his 186 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:07.159 team a game. 187 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:08.799 The next day he was strength like. 188 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.559 They're not related, but like a clearly a tough couple 189 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:16.080 of days for for Tayon Holloway. You know, one is 190 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.639 a criminal offense that if he's guilty of it, like 191 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:23.080 he's you know, he's gonna probably you know, not dud don't. 192 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:23.399 I don't know. 193 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:25.240 I don't even to go down that path of guessing 194 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:27.879 what kind of punishment he would get when it comes 195 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:32.639 to the courts or whatnot. But he's the same guy 196 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:37.799 who committed the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for that sideline push. 197 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.799 That was one of many things that helped Stanford win 198 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:42.399 the game the way that they did. And then whenever 199 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:46.000 Louisville arrived back on Sunday, he ended up. And I 200 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.799 have no clue if this if this young woman is 201 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:52.080 his girlfriend, friend or whatever, but again he was arrested 202 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.440 in charge with felony strangulation misdemeanor domestic assault after he 203 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.879 is accused of attacking a woman when she tried to 204 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:02.799 stop him from smoking mari marijuana on Sunday night. And 205 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.039 this seemed to be like as far as timing here, 206 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.639 about an hour after they got back in town on Sunday. 207 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.720 So the police claimed that Halloway threw the woman off 208 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:15.519 the bed and struck her in the face with his fists. 209 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.440 When she tried to fight back, Halloway allegedly put a 210 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.639 pillow over the face, smothering her for about ten seconds 211 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:22.480 before attempting to throw her out of the room. 212 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:24.200 That's according to the police report. 213 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:27.039 Police were dispatched to a call for service at an 214 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:30.919 apartment on Shelburne's Circle around nine o'clock on a nine 215 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:32.399 to one to one hang up call. 216 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:35.720 Somebody called nine one want to hung up. 217 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.120 They had to vet that and make sure everybody's okay, 218 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:40.440 and they did that, and all parties inside of the 219 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:44.399 apartment were initially uncooperative according to the officers there. And 220 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.720 the alleged victim had laceration to her upper lip and 221 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:53.200 puffy eyes. So he pleaded not guilty yesterday and was 222 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.120 able to postpond. Ten thousand dollars was his bond, according 223 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.080 to the court records here, and he's not allowed to 224 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:03.120 have any communication with the alleged victim. And U of 225 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.919 L has released a statement they did yesterday right after 226 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.759 this became public, that they were aware of the rest 227 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.559 and they're gathering information. But while they do that, Teyon 228 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:16.519 Holloway has been suspended from all team activities. I mean, 229 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:20.360 it's one of those instances where you kind of think, like, 230 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:21.919 can you can't make this up? 231 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:22.159 Right? 232 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.320 Like, no way this I mean again, this. 233 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:27.279 Has nothing to do with football itself, and what he 234 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.799 did when he got back to Louisville clearly is a 235 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.000 different I mean, it's a different world compared to you know, 236 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:34.480 him making a mistake that really hurt his team on 237 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.240 Sunday or I'm sorry on Saturday, but yeah, just not 238 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.120 the kind of news you want for your Louisville football 239 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:43.919 For any me, you don't want this news if it's 240 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.720 non football related, if it's not a college football player. 241 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:48.919 I mean, these are things that you know you never 242 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.440 want to see happen anywhere. And it's also never a 243 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:54.720 good look for your program to have a player doing 244 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.159 these kind of things. But this is clearly an isolated thing. 245 00:11:58.200 --> 00:11:59.919 I mean, I hope it doesn't become a pattern with 246 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:02.639 you have l football players, But you know, I don't 247 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:06.320 think that this is a sign like anybody trying to 248 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:11.159 look at this and then act as if it has 249 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:14.120 any kind of a factor on the season and the 250 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.879 team being undisciplined and the way they lost to Stanford 251 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.840 or maybe even other like that. I mean, I mean, 252 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:21.840 I do whatever you want, but I just I'm surprised 253 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.720 that at least, you know, some have decided to compare 254 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:26.440 the two things. Is if this is a sign as 255 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.799 to how bad things are going for Louisville football. Clearly 256 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:31.799 a rough couple of days when it comes to the 257 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.279 perception of your program, you know, taking a pr hit 258 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.799 with an embarrassing loss, and then of course this type 259 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:39.519 of news, but it's an isolated thing. I mean, I 260 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:44.919 don't know for sure, and I'll stand corrected if I'm 261 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.799 wrong here, but I'm pretty sure since Jeff Brohm has 262 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.960 been here, you haven't had any any type of issue 263 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.559 like this or anybody getting arrested for any type of situation. 264 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.240 And I don't anticipate that this will become a pattern 265 00:12:58.279 --> 00:12:59.960 or anything like that. I would imagine this will probably 266 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.000 end up being a very isolated thing, which is what 267 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:03.440 you want. 268 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:05.279 I mean, you mean you don't want this at all. 269 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:08.360 But hopefully this is the first and only time something 270 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.039 like this happens for Louisville fotball with je Brahm as 271 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:14.279 the coach. All right again, Seal Brown going to join us, 272 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.200 coming up here in about ten minutes. But let's go 273 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.360 to the text line really quickly. Here FIVO two six 274 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.360 five to three zero seven ninety. It's the Ellen n 275 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:26.440 Federal Credit Union text line. And this person had a 276 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.720 long I mean, I knew it was going to happen, 277 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:32.519 and it's okay. I tried to clarify, and people hear 278 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.080 what they want to hear. I am not saying in 279 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:38.480 any way that Louisville should not play Bellerman. I only 280 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:42.279 wanted to bring up a different way of looking at 281 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.279 it that I think a lot of fans that are 282 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.759 Louisville fans or Bellerman fans, maybe fans of both, often 283 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.919 don't consider when it comes to this game in this series, 284 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.840 if coach Pat Kelsey decided Bellerman was going to continue 285 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.919 to be a team that's, you know, in the three hundreds, 286 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:03.200 and he wanted to make sure they're playing teams that, 287 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.519 you know, as far as he can tell, they'll be 288 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:08.279 at worst, you know, two fifty or better, like that 289 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:12.200 would make sense because of the analytics, because of how 290 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:15.759 the how the selection committee is. Again, it's not like 291 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:17.480 they're going to go back to, Okay, you beat them 292 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:19.679 by thirty seven, you should have beat them by forty two. 293 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:24.480 I mean, it's not that. But we now know that 294 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.600 there is a formula out there that the NCAA relies 295 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:29.879 on when it comes to the NCAA tournament process, And 296 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.159 I think it makes total sense for every coach to 297 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:36.000 consider every game and determine, Okay, does this one make 298 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.559 as much sense as this game that we could get 299 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.320 do we stand to potentially put ourselves in a situation 300 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:46.159 where we could benefit more so by playing this team 301 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.960 than that team. So if Pat Kelsey decided he didn't 302 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:52.159 want to play the game anymore, I just want people 303 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.320 to realize that would be the reason why. I mean, 304 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:55.840 maybe there's another reason. I don't know, he only he 305 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:57.679 could tell you that. So I'm not saying that they 306 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.320 shouldn't play or that I'm mad that they played other 307 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.360 I'm just stating that with the I mean, look, it 308 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.759 was asked to coach Kelsey at his press conference yesterday. 309 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:09.759 I think it was asked for, you know, for obvious reasons, 310 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.000 because I think people realized that, you know, maybe maybe 311 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.600 maybe he wouldn't want to keep doing it, because I 312 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:18.399 do think it became pretty clear that Chris Mack did 313 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.279 not want to play the game. And I don't know 314 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.080 specifically why he didn't want to play the game. But 315 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:24.360 in fact, I don't even know people realize this. This 316 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.919 is actually from I guess about I mean half five 317 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:30.399 six years ago, something like that. 318 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.559 But at one point. 319 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:36.559 U of L needed to use Freedom Hall for I 320 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:41.559 think a postseason like an NCAA volleyball tournament game, and 321 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:44.759 they didn't have the ability to use dum Center, So 322 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.639 Bellerman gave them access to Freedom Hall, which they were 323 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.720 using at the time, and I think in return, Vince 324 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:55.279 Tyree agreed to schedule Bellerman basketball as they transitioned to 325 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.759 D one. So it was really like, okay, we'll we'll 326 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.240 get you on the basketball scale. For however, many years, 327 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:03.679 the series was if we can use Freedom Hall for 328 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.320 volleyball because we really needed so I think that's how 329 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:09.279 it all came about. And yes, they've played for many, 330 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:12.840 many years, but it was always an exhibition game because 331 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:15.519 Bellerman was Division two. It changed whenever they became a 332 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:19.919 Division one program. So anyways, back to the whole. For 333 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:21.879 those who didn't hear me talking about it in the 334 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:23.519 three o'clock hour, I did want to reset and kind 335 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:25.120 of clarify my comments as to like, I'm not. 336 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:25.799 Anti the game. 337 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:28.600 I love Coach Davenport, and you know, whoever Louisville plays, 338 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.440 I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna. I'm going to realize 339 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.519 I have no say so and who they schedule. But 340 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.639 I just think there's a there's there's a reason why 341 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:37.679 it's being asked. It's because there may be a situation 342 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:39.960 where they decide not to do it, and I would 343 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:41.519 say that would be the reason why if they made 344 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.559 that decision. But this text that came in, I'll kind 345 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:47.840 of I guess paraphrase here. 346 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:49.159 I don't want to read a word for word. It's 347 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:49.720 pretty lengthy. 348 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.000 But it's somebody that's that's, you know, upset about what 349 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:53.759 I'm saying about the Bellerman game. And again I think 350 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:55.720 you have selective hearing. But they do bring up a 351 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:59.519 good point. And and I didn't know this, but it's 352 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:05.480 worth mentioned given what we're talking about tonight. Cincinnati they 353 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:07.200 will and by way, they're a top twenty team right now. 354 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.359 Wes Miller and Cincinnati will cross over into Kentucky and 355 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:14.440 play n KU at NKU. 356 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:19.200 And you know what, good for them. 357 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:21.559 That's cool if they want to do that, But you 358 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:26.880 know what that is, that's a gift programs like NKU 359 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:31.240 and Bellerman getting to play teams like Louisville and Cincinnati 360 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.000 is I mean, it's it's I don't want to say 361 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:35.559 it's something they need. They could go get other teams 362 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:37.319 to play them as well, but like it's a beneficial 363 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:42.720 thing for them, where it's not for Cincinnati or Louisville. Now, again, 364 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:44.680 if you're talking about well, Hey, the fans would like 365 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.680 it because you know, they're both Division one schools here 366 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.960 in Louisville. Like, yeah, that's like that, that's awesome. And 367 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.000 I mean that sincerely. I'm not saying like that's lame, 368 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.799 but that that can't be why your coach schedules the games. 369 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.039 I mean, I mean it can, but like I wouldn't. 370 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.599 I wouldn't think that would be the way any coach 371 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.079 would go about it. So that's that's charity, is what 372 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:05.720 that is Cincinnati going to Northern Kentucky to give them 373 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:08.400 a home game, Like that's that's that's a big deal 374 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.480 for them now. I would also I would also think 375 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:13.359 that a factor there for them making that decision to 376 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.000 go play them at in KU would be that they 377 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.279 probably have a lot of fans that are Cincinnati natives 378 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:21.920 that might live in Northern Kentucky now, right because it's 379 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.519 right there on the Like, they probably also realized that, 380 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:28.720 like that's not a tough travel for uh for fans 381 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:31.359 in Cincinnati, and they may have fans that are like, hell, yeah, 382 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.119 I don't have to go to Cincinnati. I live right 383 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.720 here in Holland Heights, or I live right here in 384 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:41.599 you know, Newport one of those areas near northern Kentucky. 385 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.480 But yes, I did not know that, and good for them. 386 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.799 But if they didn't do that, and they said, hell no, 387 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:50.240 why would we go play you at in Ku, I 388 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:54.000 would also understand that. All right, let's get to a 389 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:55.680 quick break. We'll come back. Welcome in the one and 390 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.400 only C. L. Brown of the Courier Journal. 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