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Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. Some good texts coming in that
Speaker 2: I certainly I would like to get to. But one
Speaker 2: thing that has definitely stood out in the last I
Speaker 2: don't know a week or so, when it comes to
Speaker 2: Indiana basketball fans on social media, I know that there
Speaker 2: are many that are just and that's really what sucks
Speaker 2: about Twitter. I'm sure you've noticed this as well, Austin.
Speaker 2: That really the new and uh, I guess, I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's the new wave of Twitter slash x,
Speaker 2: but man creating faceless accounts that really is just for parody,
Speaker 2: but also at times, I mean, I don't know, just
Speaker 2: like that, when I think of the new age Twitter
Speaker 2: accounts that are out there that are you know, basically
Speaker 2: just aggregating content. And I mean there's not even a
Speaker 2: platform that they have as far as a website or
Speaker 2: even like a podcast, but it's just a Twitter account
Speaker 2: or even an Instagram account that's like CBB hoops, right,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's got the blue check, it's got
Speaker 2: a bunch of followers on a follow and it just
Speaker 2: you know, people assume that that's like a reliable source
Speaker 2: for news. So there are accounts like that that follow
Speaker 2: college football, college basketball, NFL, NBA, and some of them
Speaker 2: have built up followings that are more than a million people.
Speaker 2: So like, you know, clearly they're doing something that's working
Speaker 2: for them, but it's really kind of watered down. What
Speaker 2: is social media? Like the majority of my replies from
Speaker 2: like Kentucky Fans Now and things is it's just a
Speaker 2: parody account that's trying to get some jokes off, which
Speaker 2: is nothing wrong with that, but what I've noticed is
Speaker 2: some people will put stuff out there that they they're
Speaker 2: just trying to get a laugh out of people. They
Speaker 2: don't take Twitter too serious, which is kind of their brand,
Speaker 2: but also you know, like there's a hint of seriousness
Speaker 2: to it. As well, and like they want to be
Speaker 2: funny jokesters whenever they're just trying to troll, but then
Speaker 2: they put stuff out there to kind of make it
Speaker 2: seem like they actually, you know, are sharing news, like
Speaker 2: they try to play both sides of it. So anyways,
Speaker 2: before I say this, I want Indiana fans listening to
Speaker 2: know this. I know that a lot of you see
Speaker 2: it as a joke and don't believe it's real. And
Speaker 2: when I'm talking about is Brad Stevens coming to Indiana
Speaker 2: to be their next head coach. So again, I know
Speaker 2: that there's like some parody troll accounts out there that
Speaker 2: are photoshopping stuff and you know, just just trying to
Speaker 2: be knuckleheads online, which there's no harm in that. But
Speaker 2: I also have seen enough to where there are Indiana
Speaker 2: fans that truly believe that Brad Stevens would come back
Speaker 2: and be their coach. And look, maybe they're right. I
Speaker 2: don't think so. I kind of feel like Brad Stevens
Speaker 2: was ever going to come back and you know, to
Speaker 2: college basketball, he would have done it the last time
Speaker 2: when they offered him ten million dollars a year. So Indiana,
Speaker 2: I don't know why because there's no real reason for
Speaker 2: me to root for them. I don't root for them.
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan by any means, but I feel like,
Speaker 2: for more than a decade, I have found myself without
Speaker 2: even really trying to, I just find myself defending them
Speaker 2: and their program, because they really are a has been
Speaker 2: when it comes to accomplishments in what they've actually been
Speaker 2: able to do. They haven't been to a Final four
Speaker 2: in over twenty years. Prior to that, they had a
Speaker 2: long drought before then, and they really haven't been good.
Speaker 2: They had two Sweet sixteen teams under Tom Crean, but
Speaker 2: outside of that, in the last twenty years, twenty plus years,
Speaker 2: they've been bad and we all know that. So there's
Speaker 2: really no I mean, that's not an opinion, that's a fact.
Speaker 2: But what I think is a fact that is a
Speaker 2: good thing about Indiana basketball is if they just get
Speaker 2: a coach that is good enough, competent, that has a
Speaker 2: winning formula, and he can utilize all the resources that
Speaker 2: come with a job like Indiana, they could be a
Speaker 2: consistent top ten, top fifteen program. They've just been wrong
Speaker 2: with the coach every time since Bob Knight, other than
Speaker 2: the one time they hired a really good coach who
Speaker 2: did the silliest thing that should have never been against
Speaker 2: the rules, but it was, and that was Kelvin Sampson,
Speaker 2: who was texting recruits after midnight or something. When you
Speaker 2: go back and look at what exactly it was that
Speaker 2: led to him getting fired and basically getting a show cause.
Speaker 2: Leading college basketball for a long time, it's not only
Speaker 2: is it crazy to think that was against the rules
Speaker 2: considering where we are now and what you're allowed to do,
Speaker 2: but even then it was stupid. Like, let's be like
Speaker 2: I always said, when it comes to the nc doubla,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get We're gonna get older, decades are gonna
Speaker 2: go by, things are gonna be different, and we're going
Speaker 2: to look back on how stupid the NCAA was and
Speaker 2: and really just kind of be beside ourselves as far
Speaker 2: as like, can you believe their amateurism model? They tried
Speaker 2: to stick with that for generations and they actually were
Speaker 2: able to do it until you know, Congress got involved
Speaker 2: and said, hey, what you're doing is illegal, and sure enough,
Speaker 2: that's why they now have to pay the players and
Speaker 2: share revenue, and that's why there's a there's a settlement
Speaker 2: where former college players are going to get paid that
Speaker 2: haven't played in the last you know, five six years,
Speaker 2: because again what they were doing is illegal. So anyways
Speaker 2: with Indiana, why are they even doing Like if you're
Speaker 2: setting yourself up for Brad Stevens, like you're gonna be
Speaker 2: dissap pointed. I mean, maybe he does come back and coach,
Speaker 2: because what some people are saying is that last time
Speaker 2: he couldn't leave Boston because his kids were too young
Speaker 2: and they really wanted to stay in Boston. But now
Speaker 2: his kids are older and this is the dream job
Speaker 2: for him. Again. I just I feel like if Brad
Speaker 2: Stevens was going to come back to college basketball, he
Speaker 2: would have already done it. He has a phenomenal job.
Speaker 2: He is the GM of the Boston Celtics, one of
Speaker 2: the biggest brands in the history of basketball, and he
Speaker 2: doesn't even have to coach. He's just I mean, and
Speaker 2: by the way, they just want a title, Like why
Speaker 2: would he leave that? I Mean, there's now a lot
Speaker 2: like the guys who were successful in college basketball in
Speaker 2: that brief time where Brad Stevens was a big, big
Speaker 2: name where he took Butler to two straight championship games,
Speaker 2: the game was different than a lot of the guys
Speaker 2: that were successful, then they've left because they hate it,
Speaker 2: or then they don't want to do it. You think
Speaker 2: Brad Stevens wants to come back and go through all
Speaker 2: of me. It's one thing if you're an up and
Speaker 2: coming coach that's hungary, that really hasn't arrived, and you know, hey,
Speaker 2: no matter what they're doing as far as rule changes,
Speaker 2: no matter what the temperature looks like, as far as
Speaker 2: college sports, I'm going to adapt because I want to win.
Speaker 2: But the guys who have had it their way and
Speaker 2: been able to do it the way they wanted to
Speaker 2: for decades and stack up final fours and maybe even
Speaker 2: a national title or two, those are the guys that
Speaker 2: are like, yeah, I'm not reinventing myself at sixty plus.
Speaker 2: The way I've been able to succeed is the only
Speaker 2: way I want to do it, the only way I
Speaker 2: know how.
Speaker 3: To do it.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna completely flip the script and be
Speaker 2: a different coach this late in the game because they're
Speaker 2: not hungry as much because they've already accomplished some things
Speaker 2: and had some real success. And Brad Stevens. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just don't see why he would want to come
Speaker 2: back to college basketball. So just get it out of
Speaker 2: your mind and maybe you can get a Bruce Pearl,
Speaker 2: maybe you can get a Chris Beard. But if not,
Speaker 2: Indiana should just go find a winning coach that can
Speaker 2: relate to players, that players want to play for and
Speaker 2: knows what he's doing as a ball coach. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know if if Pat Kelsey's and Mark Popes
Speaker 2: grow on trees. I don't believe that they do, but
Speaker 2: that that was a consistent thing with those guys. They
Speaker 2: had won everywhere they'd been, They had proven they can win.
Speaker 2: And I think the whole second guessing of a guy
Speaker 2: because well he did it this level and this is
Speaker 2: not you know that Utah Valley in Winthrop, that's not
Speaker 2: the acc of the sec Well, you're right, but I
Speaker 2: just feel like if there is, if there is, if
Speaker 2: there ever, is going to be some big adjustment as
Speaker 2: far as being able to get players because you're not
Speaker 2: a made man, you're not a big name. There's recruits
Speaker 2: that are being recruited by you now, but before you
Speaker 2: got the job, they never heard of you. Right, Like
Speaker 2: you can overcome all of that. If you have good
Speaker 2: resources and you are relatable, players want to play for you.
Speaker 2: Think about how many guys on this team right now
Speaker 2: that are playing for Pat Kelsey didn't know who he
Speaker 2: was twelve months ago. I might have, but it wouldn't
Speaker 2: shock me if they didn't, because you know, he was
Speaker 2: at Winthrop in Charleston, a winner. But you know, Chucky
Speaker 2: came from Wisconsin. I'm sure he wasn't super familiar with
Speaker 2: Charleston basketball. Maybe he was, I'm not sure, But I
Speaker 2: just if Indiana goes all in on the Brad Stevens
Speaker 2: thing and that becomes the noise coming from Bloomington that
Speaker 2: they think they got him this time, and then he
Speaker 2: lets him down like you walked yourself into that, if
Speaker 2: that's what ends up happening, all right, FABO two. If
Speaker 2: I'm seven one seventy nine hundred as the number, If
Speaker 2: you guys want to jump in and join us on
Speaker 2: the phone lines, Let's go to Terry, who joins us
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4: What's up Terry and a couple of things. Why you
Speaker 4: just mis mentioned the Indiana job. Do you think that
Speaker 4: Louisville shouldn't lock down Pat Kelsey because they may come
Speaker 4: after him, and or North Carolina could be a place
Speaker 4: that they would go after Pat Kelsey. Do you think
Speaker 4: either one of those jobs is a step up from
Speaker 4: Louisville or it's more like a lateral move or an
Speaker 4: ius case pssibly a step down.
Speaker 2: I would say I'd say this, Terry, I think that
Speaker 2: that Carolina is a better job because to me, it's
Speaker 2: in that I think the three best jobs in college
Speaker 2: basketball are Kentucky, Carolina, and Kansas. I think you can
Speaker 2: pick whichever one you want of those three to claim
Speaker 2: it's the best. I think Kentucky having so many coaches
Speaker 2: that have won national championships and being here around it,
Speaker 2: I think it's the best job. So yeah, Carolina would
Speaker 2: be one of very few programs that Louisville could lose
Speaker 2: a coach to. However, Louisvill's also an elite jobs, so
Speaker 2: they need to pay the more money. I mean, they're
Speaker 2: not in a great spot financially right now. That was
Speaker 2: reported by the CJ earlier this week. They're really paying
Speaker 2: for the buyouts and whatnot that they you know, they
Speaker 2: had to do to get him here. So Indiana, I
Speaker 2: don't worry I don't think Anyiana would come after him,
Speaker 2: and if they did, I would be shocked if he
Speaker 2: didn't say, look, I don't want to go, so let's
Speaker 2: get a new contract done. But North Carolina, I think
Speaker 2: they keep Hubert Davis for one more year and then
Speaker 2: after next year, if he stinks, they'll probably fire him
Speaker 2: and go after somebody else. And yeah, I think Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey would be an attractive name, especially if he keeps
Speaker 2: winning at Louisville and they haven't given him a new
Speaker 2: deal by that point. I don't know what Josh Hurt's
Speaker 2: going to do, but I do know that he has
Speaker 2: to be aware that Pat Kelsey is on the cheap
Speaker 2: right now. And if he continues to win, and Louisville
Speaker 2: makes the tournament, maybe wins a game in the tournament,
Speaker 2: you'd be foolish not to lock him down because somebody
Speaker 2: else will come after him. And they won't think that, hey,
Speaker 2: Louisville's allows you program, we're gonna go take their coach.
Speaker 2: They're gonna say, wow, Louisville's not paying that guy enough.
Speaker 2: We can triple his salary.
Speaker 5: Right well, and let me I want to get to
Speaker 5: the ror reason I call him then I'll hang up
Speaker 5: and listen to your response. I'm taking a beating on
Speaker 5: the Kentucky message board because these injuries and lack of
Speaker 5: transparency drive me crazy. So Matt today on the show
Speaker 5: just pretty matter factly said, Robinson and Butler you probably
Speaker 5: won't see them again the rest of the regular season.
Speaker 6: Coach Pope says nothing like that. Yeah, I mean, why
Speaker 6: would he not come out and just say, hey, we're
Speaker 6: gonna shut these two guys down for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: See what happens. In My other point to that, hang
Speaker 6: up with Let's say he does that. They have seven games.
Speaker 6: Lest let's say they go two and five in their
Speaker 6: last seven games? What do you think that does to
Speaker 6: their seating? If anything?
Speaker 4: And they'll hang up and.
Speaker 5: Listen to Terry.
Speaker 2: What was the record you said at the end, So
Speaker 2: if they finished seven and what they have?
Speaker 6: They got seven regular season games. But let's say he
Speaker 6: shuts them down and they go two and five.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got you right. I appreciate the call, man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: look the injury situation. As far as transparency, I would say,
Speaker 2: if Pope knows like he if it's true that Pope
Speaker 2: knows for sure that he is not gonna have Robinson
Speaker 2: or Butler the rest of the regular season, and it
Speaker 2: sounds like, I mean, nobody's it's not beneficial. But I
Speaker 2: keep hearing that kirk Ree said there's no chance he
Speaker 2: plays the rest of the way. So as to why
Speaker 2: they haven't just come out and said that, I don't know.
Speaker 2: So it's got to be gamesmanship, making your opponent second
Speaker 2: guess as far as which personnel you're going to have available.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't give you an answer as to
Speaker 2: why Pope doesn't do that, but my guess would be
Speaker 2: either gamesmanship or maybe he realizes that he's not at
Speaker 2: all aware of if it's possible these guys, Like maybe
Speaker 2: he said that and then with two games left, the
Speaker 2: training staff for UK realizes, hey, he's good to go,
Speaker 2: he can play. So, I mean, Pat Kelsey has unfortunately
Speaker 2: had many opportunities to talk about injured players thus far
Speaker 2: because he's had a lot of injuries. And I think
Speaker 2: we've learned a lot about Pat throughout this first season,
Speaker 2: and one of the things I've learned is that he
Speaker 2: is not going to talk a whole lot about injuries specifically,
Speaker 2: and when pushed further to get some kind of a
Speaker 2: better update than what he's given in these press conferences,
Speaker 2: in these interviews, he's going to tell you that he's
Speaker 2: not on the training staff, he's not on the medical staff,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't have a clue. He just trusts those
Speaker 2: folks and they do such a great job. So you know,
Speaker 2: I I don't know. Maybe I'm gullible and I'm just
Speaker 2: believing these coaches as far as what they're saying, but
Speaker 2: I do think that, uh, I mean, I do think
Speaker 2: that sometimes they're just telling you the truth that they
Speaker 2: don't really know. And I think with Kentucky, and I
Speaker 2: could be wrong, Terry, I don't know. Maybe I haven't
Speaker 2: been as plugged in as others, but I do feel
Speaker 2: like there's been some injuries that you felt like were
Speaker 2: really severe with Kentucky and then it didn't end up
Speaker 2: being the case. Like it sounded like Lamont Butler was
Speaker 2: going to be out for a long long time, and
Speaker 2: then he was cleared to play against against UH South
Speaker 2: Carolina last weekend, and now he's re injured himself, which
Speaker 2: is not ideal. Jackson Robinson's same thing he played and
Speaker 2: then I don't know if he re injured it, but
Speaker 2: reaggravated or whatever it may be, to where he didn't
Speaker 2: he didn't get to go against against Tennessee because of
Speaker 2: what happened in the South Carolina game. So Inrew Carr,
Speaker 2: I feel like at times it sounded like he was
Speaker 2: gonna be out for a long time, then he randomly
Speaker 2: came back. So as far as the coach is not
Speaker 2: telling us what's happening, sometimes it may be because they
Speaker 2: just don't know for sure what's going on with the injury.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean like they're not paying attention, but
Speaker 2: it's not such a night and day, black and white
Speaker 2: kind of thing to wear. I'm sure the training staff
Speaker 2: truly says, Look, we are taking it day by day.
Speaker 2: We're going to continue to evaluate and see what makes
Speaker 2: the most sense. But I would say you're always going
Speaker 2: to have even if there's a requirement like there is
Speaker 2: in the SEC, even if there's even more so that
Speaker 2: they ask as far as what you have to put
Speaker 2: out there with transparency, I think coach is just their nature.
Speaker 2: They're still going to try to keep things as close
Speaker 2: to the best as they can.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: If Kentucky ends up finishing two and five and the
Speaker 2: rest of these games, I mean, i'd say the toughest
Speaker 2: games are I mean, you've got Auburn at home. It's
Speaker 2: at home, but Auburn is loaded, you got to go
Speaker 2: to Tuscaloos, so those are really tough. And then outside
Speaker 2: of that, you play Missouri on the road, which you
Speaker 2: can win that game. But yeah, if you're shorthanded and
Speaker 2: you don't have Butler or Robinson at all in these
Speaker 2: games and you finish two and five, I would say
Speaker 2: as long as five of those losses are not or
Speaker 2: as long as any of those losses are not to
Speaker 2: a Vandy or really, I guess not Vandy but LSU.
Speaker 2: If you lost a Vandy at home, that wouldn't be ideal.
Speaker 2: And obviously LSU is the is the worst team in
Speaker 2: the conference outside of South Carolina. So but here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, if they ended up losing to Missouri, Auburn,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma on the road, Alabama at home, and Texas on
Speaker 2: the road, those are wins. Those are losses that you know,
Speaker 2: your lost column keeps getting losses added to it, but
Speaker 2: it's not really changing your resume substantially. Because Kentucky's resume
Speaker 2: is just kind of weird. They have so many wins
Speaker 2: of high value that it would take them losing to
Speaker 2: some of the bad teams in the SEC to drop
Speaker 2: them substantially. And you know what, there aren't many bad
Speaker 2: teams in the SEC. So and look, here's what's crazy.
Speaker 2: They could lose to Texas and Vandy and then go
Speaker 2: beat Alabama the place because that's kind of the weird
Speaker 2: season they're having when it comes to the resume. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back on the other side of
Speaker 2: little rom com movie draft. It won't take too long.
Speaker 2: But it's Valentine's Day. We're gonna have some fun. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to doctor Eric McElroy coming up at four forty five,
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Speaker 2: know who Little Mo is or Vita, but they're a
Speaker 2: part of it. And this is a great song.
Speaker 3: I just imagine young Nick Young Mercedes like singing this
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Speaker 3: mean she comes in with the who I guess is yeah,
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Speaker 2: what I wanted to do today, thanks to the great
Speaker 2: idea from the one and only Austin Montgomery, stop back
Speaker 2: to the drafts. We used to do drafts pretty regularly,
Speaker 2: especially whenever we weren't in the midst of a season
Speaker 2: football basketball, just because you know, you can mix it up,
Speaker 2: get a little creative, have some fun when you're not
Speaker 2: having to talk about March madness or that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So rom com movies, We've got Valentine's Day today, right,
Speaker 2: And I think rom com for the most part, is
Speaker 2: a really it's a very broad genre. Because but now
Speaker 2: as I'm looking through here at IMDb and referencing other
Speaker 2: websites that like rank the rom com movies, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's quite literally a pretty easy thing to determine. Is
Speaker 2: there a romantic element involved to where part of the
Speaker 2: storyline is that there's romance meaning a couple or a
Speaker 2: potential couple, and of course is it a comedy. So
Speaker 2: I would say, of all the movies out there, rom
Speaker 2: com has got to be one of the more common
Speaker 2: genres that you see, right sure. And there could be
Speaker 2: some that are a little bit less on the romantic side,
Speaker 2: a little more on the comedy, maybe even a little
Speaker 2: bit on the raunchy side of it. But then again,
Speaker 2: as long as it has a little bit of both,
Speaker 2: it can qualify as rom com. So I'm gonna pick three,
Speaker 2: Austin's gonna pick three. I'll give you the floor first.
Speaker 2: What are you going with your first pick?
Speaker 3: Probably my first? My first pick one I love so much,
Speaker 3: crazy stupid love. Okay, that one is a great one.
Speaker 3: It's got Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Juliam Moore, my Girl,
Speaker 3: Emma Stone and really good cast, phenomenal cast. And it's
Speaker 3: the good twist, of course, halfway through when you find
Speaker 3: out that basically Steve Carell's character, Ryan Gosling's character, he's
Speaker 3: he's dating her daughter. The love that he's talking about
Speaker 3: getting them through and he knows that he's just like
Speaker 3: your average trashy kind of guy, you know, and he's
Speaker 3: trying to help him through through this love that he's
Speaker 3: talking about this girl he fell in love with and
Speaker 3: just now finding out that it's his daughter, Emma Stone,
Speaker 3: Steve Carell's daughter, Emma Stone in it. And meanwhile, Ryan
Speaker 3: Gosling's trying to make Steve Carell this like bad boy, right,
Speaker 3: trying to get him to get girls, and it's it's
Speaker 3: a fun little twist. Great movie. One of my favorite
Speaker 3: om coms ever.
Speaker 2: I really really liked it. I only watched it once.
Speaker 2: I think my wife and I went to see it
Speaker 2: in theaters, so I haven't seen it since it came out,
Speaker 2: which was a good one many years ago. But yeah,
Speaker 2: as I'm looking at the cast here and kind of
Speaker 2: remembering it, it is that cast. Sometimes you have a
Speaker 2: lot of big names together and it can just be
Speaker 2: too much not to where it's bad. But like, you know,
Speaker 2: did you really get there was there a whole lot
Speaker 2: of value in having this specific star in it because
Speaker 2: they didn't really seem to have a relevant role. That
Speaker 2: was a movie where I feel like all the big
Speaker 2: names had a very important role and it kind of
Speaker 2: all came together and worked really well. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go back in the nineties, nineteen ninety eight. I'm going
Speaker 2: the wedding singer Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I'm gonna not pick all Adam Sandler movies,
Speaker 2: but I easily could have because he has a lot
Speaker 2: of other Yet that's what I was gonna say. I'm
Speaker 2: not even a big fan of Drew Berrymore at all,
Speaker 2: but when she's with Adam Sandler in a movie one,
Speaker 2: it's always a good movie, and I feel like they
Speaker 2: need to be married. I mean, don't you feel like
Speaker 2: they have? I mean, again, I'm sure it's just them
Speaker 2: being phenomenal at her job being actresses, being an actress
Speaker 2: and an actor, but I mean, it just seems like
Speaker 2: they're they're meant to be together. Yeah, and she's really
Speaker 2: likable when she's in a role that includes him, And
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that she's like unlikable, but I've just
Speaker 2: never been a really big fan of her. But man,
Speaker 2: wedding singer is phenomenal. Every part of it. I mean,
Speaker 2: the fact that her name was going to be Julia Gulia,
Speaker 2: the fact that he's, you know, truly a wedding singer,
Speaker 2: and then he goes through the breakup. I mean it's
Speaker 2: it's Adam Sandler at his finest. And uh, there's also
Speaker 2: kind of I mean, I'm gonna look up the the
Speaker 2: cast here because there's some there's some known names that
Speaker 2: like had let me see here. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that Christine Taylor, that's that actually ended
Speaker 2: up being uh, that's this isn't that sailor's.
Speaker 3: Wife, Christine Taylor?
Speaker 2: I think so she married to Ben Stiller. Who's she
Speaker 2: married to? Because it's gonna drive me crazy. She's in
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. She's in Dodgeball. I mean, she's
Speaker 2: in a lot of things. Her name is not one
Speaker 2: that really like I could tell you who she is
Speaker 2: and what she's in, but I wouldn't have known her
Speaker 2: name was Christine Taylor off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: Yet she's married to Ben Stale. I know she was
Speaker 2: married to some actor. But anyways, she's in it and
Speaker 2: she's hilarious. The other I mean, who else do we
Speaker 2: have here? I mean, I can't think of his name
Speaker 2: is gonna drive me crazy. I think John Lovetz is
Speaker 2: in it. Which is like randomly funny. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like he's he's he's a competing wedding singer,
Speaker 2: and he's like he's losing his mind and I'm greeping
Speaker 2: able benefits. I mean, Kevin Neelan is in it as well.
Speaker 2: Billy Idol plays a really good role on the plane.
Speaker 3: The Grandma when she's singing the sugar Hill Gang.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yes, yes, and she gives meatballs in hand.
Speaker 2: Remember that. I mean that's nostalgic for me, but also
Speaker 2: I just feel like it's it's perfect. So that that's
Speaker 2: my first one. What's your second one?
Speaker 3: Adam Sandler always in like every movie, always has this
Speaker 3: completely hot wife or other. It's completely out of his league.
Speaker 3: Drew Barry More fits theme. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: No, you're absolutely right, because something like any movie he
Speaker 2: you know that is a happy Madison production, that is
Speaker 2: the rom com element are better than others, but like
Speaker 2: more often than not, like he's with Jennifer Aniston or
Speaker 2: the girl, I mean even the woman that was in
Speaker 2: Spanglish and the wife in Spanglish, the wife and click
Speaker 2: like way out of his league. But Drew Barrymore. She's
Speaker 2: certainly attractive, but it's more believable, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which grown ups? He's with sama Hia, Yes, come on,
Speaker 3: get out of here, buddy. Second one I have to
Speaker 3: go with. I hope I don't snipe you, but I
Speaker 3: actually hope I do. Forty year old virgin. That's always
Speaker 3: been a favorite of mine. You would consider that a roum.
Speaker 2: Comrade, absolutely, because to me, that was the one I
Speaker 2: thought about when I said, Okay, that's rom com It's
Speaker 2: more on the raunchy comedy side, but textually there's still
Speaker 2: an element of romance as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great cas Steve Corell again, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd
Speaker 3: is in it, and a little Seth Rogan too. Everybody
Speaker 3: is dynamic and that is hilarious. And I was always
Speaker 3: a young, hopeless kid. I thought that I would be
Speaker 3: a forty.
Speaker 2: Year old and Elizabeth Banks before she was really big,
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart before anybody knew who he was. Yes, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: I mean, mindy is it? Mandy Kaling who's in the office.
Speaker 2: She's in it as before, Like there were many people
Speaker 2: who like Jane Len even Kat Dinnings, like there were
Speaker 2: people who were in it at the time that you
Speaker 2: knew of or maybe you didn't, and they've kind of
Speaker 2: all ended up becoming bigger names since then. One person, though,
Speaker 2: who did not really, in my opinion, ever kind of
Speaker 2: capitalize off of the momentum he had from this role
Speaker 2: was Romani Malcolm, which you may not even know the name,
Speaker 2: but that's the guy who plays Jay. Who's the guy
Speaker 2: who you know gets caught in best Buy and and
Speaker 2: his girlfriend comes in and all you know, oh, yes,
Speaker 2: like you know what I'm talking you know which guy
Speaker 2: I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: There's a hilarious back and forth between.
Speaker 2: And he never did he ever do and he was
Speaker 2: in other stuff, But I thought he was going to
Speaker 2: become like a big name in comedy with all those
Speaker 2: kind of movies with the big stars at the time.
Speaker 2: And I remember him briefly being in might have been
Speaker 2: what's the what's the figure skating movie? With Will Ferrell
Speaker 2: and Shohn Header, Oh, Blades of Glory. He was in that,
Speaker 2: And I'm sure he was in other stuff that I
Speaker 2: just don't know about. But I really thought he was
Speaker 2: going to be a big name, and maybe he is
Speaker 2: in certain aspects of Hollywood.
Speaker 3: But Judd Apatow directed movies are also great. He does
Speaker 3: super Bad and he also does Knocked Up, which is
Speaker 3: also on the big board. But those those movies are
Speaker 3: a timeless.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one that is more of kind of
Speaker 2: like a teeny bopper one, but it still counts as
Speaker 2: as rom com I'm Gonna Go, She's All that? Oh Yes,
Speaker 2: with Freddy Prince Jr. And Rachel Lee Cook. It also
Speaker 2: had you remember Usher was in it, of course forgot
Speaker 2: about that, and then Matthew Lillard was in it when
Speaker 2: he was still popular. Paul Walker was in it as well,
Speaker 2: and it was it was cute, it was well done.
Speaker 2: But what I did find funny is whenever they did
Speaker 2: not another teen movie and made fun of all these
Speaker 2: kind of movies, they really really pointed out the obvious here.
Speaker 2: Rachel Lee Cook was always a snack, always hot course,
Speaker 2: but Janeie Briggs, they just put her in glasses and
Speaker 2: put her hair up in a ponytail and had her
Speaker 2: wearing like unstyle. You know, she had no style when
Speaker 2: it comes to her wardrobe. And then to make her
Speaker 2: like this smoke show, they just changed her hair and
Speaker 2: took the glasses off and put her in something nice
Speaker 2: and like you know, like it was to me. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like the ugly duckling at all. She was actually
Speaker 2: still always really hot. Your what's your last one?
Speaker 3: This one's a little bit tough. I'm in between two.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll have one as unrestricted for undrafted free agent.
Speaker 3: But I guess one of one of my favorite films
Speaker 3: ever happens to be a rom com. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you've seen it, but it's called Can't Hardly Wait? Hell, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: Can't Hardly Wait? Movie?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that Julius styles?
Speaker 3: No, that's uh Jennifer low.
Speaker 2: Yes is hilarious. Yes, it's awesome. I'm getting that mixed
Speaker 2: up with us about you?
Speaker 3: Also a great movie. Yeah, I watch that movie with
Speaker 3: my buddies growing up. There's something that we all went
Speaker 3: over the house with you. I was watching it with
Speaker 3: the boys. We watched it. Some substances involved, but it
Speaker 3: was also a good show or absolutely fantastic movie. I
Speaker 3: loved it. And it's uh if if you know, you know,
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of good fun inside jokes about that,
Speaker 3: and uh, it's timeless. I've got I've gotten the fiance
Speaker 3: to watch it. She loves it too. But I love
Speaker 3: it all my nineties kids. They know about Ken Hartley.
Speaker 2: Waite, good good stuff. That's that's that's in my will,
Speaker 2: that that's a reminder that we are actually close enough
Speaker 2: in age to where like we kind of have the
Speaker 2: same Like John and I don't have the same era
Speaker 2: of on certain things, you know what I mean, But
Speaker 2: you and I do, and it makes me. It makes
Speaker 2: people very happy. So I was gonna go with another
Speaker 2: Sandling movie because I actually think Click is a very,
Speaker 2: very phenomenal movie. Oh yes, a really good story makes
Speaker 2: you appreciate things. But I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with an underrated one that a lot of people
Speaker 2: may not even realize. This is from the Fairly Brothers,
Speaker 2: and I don't think this movie ever got the attention
Speaker 2: it deserved because I thought it was freaking hilarious. It's
Speaker 2: The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller, and I think I've
Speaker 2: ever seen that one. And Ben Stiller, in my opinion
Speaker 2: is he's one of my favorite actors, but he's you know,
Speaker 2: he's rarely in funny stuff anymore, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like he's behind the scenes guy now, and he's really
Speaker 2: popular when it comes to that kind of stuff, like
Speaker 2: he's Severance is his show. I don't know people realize
Speaker 2: that or not. He's not in it, but like he's
Speaker 2: the writer I think, or maybe the director. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: less This movie was hilarious. It was in theaters and
Speaker 2: if you can find it Austin on one of these
Speaker 2: streaming services, you would love it. I mean it has
Speaker 2: Michelle Monahan, who has always been kind of hot, and
Speaker 2: she's in a lot of stuff. Jerry Stiller's in it,
Speaker 2: which is Ben Stiller's dad, who is hilarious. Rob Rob
Speaker 2: Cordery is in it, who again another name that like
Speaker 2: if I said his name, a lot of people probably
Speaker 2: don't know who I'm talking about, but if you saw
Speaker 2: his face you would know. I mean, he's hot, tub
Speaker 2: time machine, He's in a lot of stuff. He's really funny.
Speaker 2: And then also I mean just Danny McBride's in it
Speaker 2: before he's big. I mean people who are hilarious that
Speaker 2: you know. And it doesn't have a huge pass true,
Speaker 2: it's a really good movie from the Fairly Brothers. If
Speaker 2: you haven't seen it, find it. You don't have to
Speaker 2: make it like an appointment viewing kind of thing. But
Speaker 2: I think you really really like it.
Speaker 3: Do you have any snubs? Possibly think missed the cut?
Speaker 2: I mean I was gonna. I mean click to Me
Speaker 2: is a true snub. Outside of that, I mean I
Speaker 2: liked Fever Pitch that had Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 2: in it. I don't know why I liked it, but
Speaker 2: I did. Hitch is good, Oh dude, Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: on the big board. Knocked Up is good. And then
Speaker 2: when it comes to the other nineties ones that stand out.
Speaker 2: I mean I mentioned Wedding Singer, which is certainly one
Speaker 2: of the best out there.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot in the nineties. You've got mail.
Speaker 3: When Harry met.
Speaker 2: Jerry m Jerry maguire was good, yes, yes, yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: Did you say something about Mary Yes, yes, No, Harry
Speaker 2: met Sally too, yeah, and something about Mary along came
Speaker 2: Paully All great one. What about Drive Me Crazy with
Speaker 2: Melissa Joan Hart that I've seen that one, but Melissa Jonah,
Speaker 2: I forgot it existed, but I remember it's pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Valentine's Day, Eric, how we doing, brother good?
Speaker 7: Happy Valentine's Day to you? Doing pretty good. I can't
Speaker 7: complain too much, just you know.
Speaker 2: Working, enjoying life right, getting.
Speaker 8: Ready for getting ready for you know, we don't really
Speaker 8: do a whole lot for Valentine's Day, So same here
Speaker 8: another day.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 2: That's really been the approach. My wife and I have
Speaker 2: had about it for quite some time, which makes me
Speaker 2: happy because you know, for a while I was thinking, well,
Speaker 2: she just telling me she doesn't want to do anything,
Speaker 2: or is this some kind of a test. But I
Speaker 2: have learned over the years that she, she and I
Speaker 2: are on the same level as kind of you know,
Speaker 2: we'll say Happy Valentine's Day, but really it's just any
Speaker 2: other day for us, because we we were Valentine's every year.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you and your wife feel the exact same way.
Speaker 2: But the Super Bowl on Sunday ended up with a
Speaker 2: result that I was, I was happy with. I was
Speaker 2: I was pulling for the Eagles. They got it done
Speaker 2: and really didn't have much trouble with the Chiefs. Travis Kelce,
Speaker 2: he's now in his mid thirties. He hasn't said what
Speaker 2: he's going to do one way or the other. Mentioned
Speaker 2: he wasn't going to make any kind of decision anytime soon,
Speaker 2: but he did reference the wear and tear that it's
Speaker 2: taken on his body to play this game for so long.
Speaker 2: And obviously they've made deep runs in the postseason for
Speaker 2: many years now, so that's more more of a beating
Speaker 2: than other guys who aren't playing deep into the postseason.
Speaker 2: When you hear of a guy that is that size,
Speaker 2: that age at his position, I mean, do you think
Speaker 2: that that maybe he's been I mean, everybody's playing hurt
Speaker 2: in this game of football. It's really really violent. But
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think this has just led to
Speaker 2: a lot of people thinking that man, he's given us
Speaker 2: the sound that he might retire. But I think more
Speaker 2: than anything, he's probably just being honest.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: It is it is a lot of There is a
Speaker 2: lot of wear and tear that goes on your body
Speaker 2: when you play in the National Football League.
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, and especially playing tight end.
Speaker 8: I think we kind of lose you know, we think
Speaker 8: about tight ends I can sell who are catching a
Speaker 8: lot of balls and very very dynamic out in the
Speaker 8: open field, but also spends a lot of time blocking,
Speaker 8: you know. I think that dition itself is very unique
Speaker 8: in that way where they'll be on the line a
Speaker 8: lot and the you know, challenging defensive ends and and
Speaker 8: and guys a lot of times bigger than they are,
Speaker 8: but also taking the hits they do, you know, whether
Speaker 8: it's blindside or you know, you know, out in the
Speaker 8: open when they're receiving the balls. So I think that
Speaker 8: definitely a lot of wear and tear. I think that
Speaker 8: what we find is as athletes age they have these
Speaker 8: conversations with their friends, family, themselves, their their support team, uh,
Speaker 8: every season, right, because they get to the end of.
Speaker 7: The season, and you know, the further the.
Speaker 8: More years they're playing, the more that they know that
Speaker 8: they're getting closer to the end.
Speaker 7: And so you know, they're trying to look at where
Speaker 7: they are physically, how how are they able to perform?
Speaker 7: You know, do they.
Speaker 8: Still have that passion and drive that they that they
Speaker 8: you know, they did to continue and go through a
Speaker 8: whole nother off season, all the training, uh, you know,
Speaker 8: as well as the you know, wear and tear of
Speaker 8: the season, and so yeah, I think it'd be you
Speaker 8: know interesting, It's not surprising to me at all. And
Speaker 8: you know, also I think that you know, in this
Speaker 8: for somebody like himself, just being in the media as
Speaker 8: much as.
Speaker 7: He has, you know, I don't care what he says.
Speaker 7: I'm sure it takes its toll as well.
Speaker 8: Uh, And so you know, it's uh, it'll be interesting
Speaker 8: to see what he comes up with.
Speaker 2: So Travis Kelsey is an interesting an interesting example here
Speaker 2: of somebody that is getting older to where it would
Speaker 2: make sense to kind of you know, wouldn't be a
Speaker 2: shocker if he decided that he's kind of you know,
Speaker 2: he's had a heck of a career already, but also
Speaker 2: it's it's for someone like myself. It's funny to think
Speaker 2: about guys who play many years in the National Football
Speaker 2: League or the NBA to where you know they need
Speaker 2: the money. I mean, they probably made a lot more
Speaker 2: money than I ever will, but they probably live a
Speaker 2: lifestyle to where if they no longer started getting NBA
Speaker 2: NFL paychecks, like it would be different. Well, he signed
Speaker 2: a one hundred million dollar podcast deal with his brother,
Speaker 2: and I think there's got to be some level of
Speaker 2: him being well aware that if he doesn't play football,
Speaker 2: he still has the ability to make a lot of
Speaker 2: money because of his podcast and because honestly, just his fame,
Speaker 2: he's connected to Taylor Swift, maybe the most famous person
Speaker 2: on the planet right now. I guess what I'm getting
Speaker 2: at is if other athletes put themselves in a position
Speaker 2: to where they can, in fact still make a whole
Speaker 2: lot of money. Brady makes more money calling games than
Speaker 2: he did playing. I just wonder if, because it does
Speaker 2: take such an impact on your body, that maybe guys
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't think would retire if they simply can
Speaker 2: because they they feel fulfilled as far as what they
Speaker 2: did with the game, and they put themselves in a
Speaker 2: financial situation to where they can still keep living the
Speaker 2: same lifestyle, and they've they've had enough success. Like I
Speaker 2: just I don't think that it would be a big
Speaker 2: shocker to see some guys walk away earlier than we
Speaker 2: used to anticipate, just because they realize, Look, I could play.
Speaker 2: I love it, but man, you know what, I want
Speaker 2: to be able to play with my kids, my grandkids
Speaker 2: when I get older. I mean, Andrew Luck, I don't
Speaker 2: really remember what his situation was specifically when he stepped down,
Speaker 2: but he was somebody that was really I don't mean,
Speaker 2: I don't remember anybody else in his position kind of
Speaker 2: doing it the way that he did. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just think Travis Kelce stepping down would surprise a
Speaker 2: lot of people, but I don't really know if it should.
Speaker 8: Well, you know exactly, and I think, what what you
Speaker 8: the point you made about? You know, he doesn't have
Speaker 8: anything else to prove, exactly, and he's going to be
Speaker 8: a Hall of Famer. He's won multiple Super Bowls. You know,
Speaker 8: I think I understand for the guys that are trying
Speaker 8: to to get that Super Bowl, uh, you know, or
Speaker 8: or to leave a different kind of legacy. I think
Speaker 8: that you know, or you know, we're also talking about
Speaker 8: the top one percent of the top one percent with
Speaker 8: Brady and those guys who are who are making you know,
Speaker 8: money that these you know a lot of these other
Speaker 8: guys aren't making frankly, and if they're living, you know,
Speaker 8: beyond their means and they're in their thirties.
Speaker 7: And they got a long way to go, uh you know,
Speaker 7: and a lot of these guys, it's their identity.
Speaker 8: I think Travis Kelce has kind of shifted that just because,
Speaker 8: like you said, the podcast and all the stuff, he
Speaker 8: has a new identity which makes it easier a lot
Speaker 8: of the guys I've worked with a lot of retired
Speaker 8: pro athletes, including NFL, and you know, that's the artist
Speaker 8: thing for them to leave, and you're leaving it at
Speaker 8: such a young age when you really think about it,
Speaker 8: so they get lost. They absolutely get lost. And a
Speaker 8: lot of them didn't make the money that maybe he's made.
Speaker 8: I mean, they made a lot of good money, enough
Speaker 8: money they could probably retire for a long time on.
Speaker 8: But they've also lived, like you said, with you know,
Speaker 8: spending those that money which they would be saving.
Speaker 7: And so I think that that identity is where they struggle.
Speaker 8: They try to find that same sense of quote unquote
Speaker 8: locker room and drive and passion as they had for
Speaker 8: the sport.
Speaker 7: And you got a lot of life to live.
Speaker 8: So, you know, like you said, I think it's helping
Speaker 8: him knowing he has other avenues to still kind of
Speaker 8: stay within the sport and venture out and do some
Speaker 8: things with the rest of his life that he he's
Speaker 8: also interested in besides playing football, and so it will.
Speaker 7: Definitely make that decision a lot easier than it could
Speaker 7: be for some.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, not even just Travis kelcey, but if
Speaker 2: you're if you're an athlete that has nothing left to
Speaker 2: prove you you feel you feel that your career was
Speaker 2: rewarding and you still love it. It's really all you've ever done,
Speaker 2: and not doing it just sounds kind of weird. I
Speaker 2: think the mental factor of knowing I really have nothing
Speaker 2: else to prove to anybody or even to myself, it
Speaker 2: can kind of have you doing a balancing act, because
Speaker 2: I think that would make it to where you're maybe
Speaker 2: not giving it as much as you used to. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're not loving it like you used to. It's like
Speaker 2: one of those things that I think there are certain
Speaker 2: athletes that they literally don't know what they would do
Speaker 2: if they didn't eat, sleep, and breathe the sport that
Speaker 2: has made them very successful and made the millionaires. But
Speaker 2: whenever you don't, whenever you don't have anything to prove,
Speaker 2: I think it can kind of make it to where like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I guess, I guess that's time. And certainly Travis Kelsey
Speaker 2: is one of those guys that has nothing left to prove.
Speaker 2: One of the best tight ends of all time, and
Speaker 2: he's certainly had a hell of a career.
Speaker 8: The other thing to kind of just quickly on that
Speaker 8: is that, you know, he's also been with this team
Speaker 8: for so long, and you know the reality of it is,
Speaker 8: you know, it's a cutthroat business, and he's getting older
Speaker 8: and they're going to start looking for younger players the
Speaker 8: next the.
Speaker 2: Next Yeah, yeah, you can go out on his own terms.
Speaker 7: And it's like, right, I want to go on my
Speaker 7: own terms.
Speaker 8: I don't want to bounce to three different teams in
Speaker 8: the last three years of my career.
Speaker 7: And so you know, look, at Aaron Rodgers. You know,
Speaker 7: at some points just like get let it go.
Speaker 8: You know it's time, And so I think that that's
Speaker 8: also probably playing into his decision.
Speaker 2: So Chucky Hepburn missed the Miami game on Saturday. He
Speaker 2: left last week against Boston College in the second half
Speaker 2: with what appeared to be a non contact growing injury
Speaker 2: of some sorts. He did play on Wednesday, and man,
Speaker 2: he looked phenomenal. It didn't look like he was bothered
Speaker 2: at all by his groin. I was having a panic
Speaker 2: attack for a week, thinking, oh please, Chuck's been one
Speaker 2: of my favorite players to watch. What a great story
Speaker 2: this team is, and he's been a big part of it,
Speaker 2: a fan favorite. But he seems to be okay, do
Speaker 2: you think it? Again? It's just speculation, but it does
Speaker 2: seem as if they were just willing to go without
Speaker 2: him and let him kind of heal because just the
Speaker 2: timing and the way it's played out and what we've seen.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's something they're still monitoring, but it didn't
Speaker 2: seem to really be that severe.
Speaker 7: Well, it definitely didn't seem to be that severe.
Speaker 8: Now we'll say that at doctor strains, you know it's
Speaker 8: they're usually a little easier to deal with than you
Speaker 8: know it's in basketball. In some sports, you know, like soccer,
Speaker 8: be a little bit more of a challenge.
Speaker 2: But is this a common hockey injury. I hate to
Speaker 2: cut you off, but I okay, hockey see.
Speaker 8: A lot more growing quote unquote growing strains and hockey
Speaker 8: and adductor strains is what it is. But they tended
Speaker 8: to they tend to heal very well a lot of times.
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna show that that's a general statement because
Speaker 8: some of them can be complicated, sure, but.
Speaker 7: Also it's not like.
Speaker 8: Your hamstring, so usually there's ways you can quote unquote
Speaker 8: work around and a little bit better. Uh as far
Speaker 8: as when they're performing and playing, you have other muscles
Speaker 8: that really support some of these muscles that we strained,
Speaker 8: so they don't they're not taking the brunt, uh, you know,
Speaker 8: of the of your speed and your power and your
Speaker 8: ability to accelerate and decelerate and all those kinds of
Speaker 8: things like some muscles do. So they're they're less high
Speaker 8: maintenance than you know, a calf strain or a hamstring string.
Speaker 8: And obviously that's very depending on the sport and how
Speaker 8: much the muscles are used. But so I think that
Speaker 8: that's that's one and the other thing is it could
Speaker 8: have just been mild, and you know, the risk reward
Speaker 8: wasn't there to play a team you should otherwise have
Speaker 8: beaten at home like they did at Miami. Wasn't pretty,
Speaker 8: but but they won the game, and that's all that
Speaker 8: matters at this point in the season is.
Speaker 7: Win the game.
Speaker 8: So I think that that's probably what played into it.
Speaker 8: And obviously they didn't know that, you know that they're
Speaker 8: they're post players sorted John oh Scott was going to
Speaker 8: go down and you know, have the issues he did.
Speaker 8: So I think that, yeah, I think that that's you know,
Speaker 8: let it heal, give yourself time. I mean, all these
Speaker 8: guys are getting more and more beat up. We've talked
Speaker 8: about this.
Speaker 7: Time of year.
Speaker 8: You've got you know, the tournaments on the horizon, and
Speaker 8: you're and they're in a good position in the acc
Speaker 8: So while put yourself at risk to have your your
Speaker 8: engine be out for longer than he really should be,
Speaker 8: just you know, for a game that you should otherwise win.
Speaker 2: All right, last question for you, Louisville has had a
Speaker 2: handful of injuries this year with guys that are missing
Speaker 2: the entire season, and then there were two guys that
Speaker 2: that joined the program that they already had injuries, therefore
Speaker 2: they weren't going to play at all. I love seeing
Speaker 2: those guys on the bench, traveling with the team and
Speaker 2: supporting these guys, you know, like like the fans do.
Speaker 2: When you're going through the rehab process and you know
Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to play, I mean,
Speaker 2: can't they I guess you got to balance it right.
Speaker 2: You're probably not jealous of your teammates, but man, you
Speaker 2: wish you were out there playing, especially when the success
Speaker 2: is there. But I feel like it's also probably healthy
Speaker 2: for them to, you know, still be a part of it.
Speaker 2: It's not like they're isolated in their way. I just
Speaker 2: feel like if you are going through really injuring, having
Speaker 2: an injury that keeps you from playing a game that
Speaker 2: you that you love and maybe you've never been without,
Speaker 2: it could be a mental thing to we're men. This
Speaker 2: is just tough. I don't know what to do. I'm
Speaker 2: losing my mind not being able to play, But being
Speaker 2: around your teammates throughout the entire ride, that's got to
Speaker 2: be beneficial for your process from top to bottom, right,
Speaker 2: you want to get you have rehab. You got to
Speaker 2: get healthy, You got to be patient, you got to
Speaker 2: put in the work to get to get healthy to
Speaker 2: where you can be out there. But I just feel
Speaker 2: like these guys being around, it's almost like even though
Speaker 2: they're not playing, they're still getting this experience to an extent.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, it's it's critical. It's critical for them. It's and
Speaker 7: then kudos for Kelsey and his staff are doing that.
Speaker 8: They you know, it's easy for the injured players who
Speaker 8: are out for the year to check out and find
Speaker 8: other things to do because you know they they are
Speaker 8: stressed and it's a grind and it's very difficult, and
Speaker 8: they didn't get to where they were because they didn't
Speaker 8: want to be playing and want to be out there
Speaker 8: and show.
Speaker 7: What they can do.
Speaker 8: And and so for them to stay motivated, they need
Speaker 8: to feel the success of the team. They need to
Speaker 8: feel the camaraderie their teammates. They need to be a
Speaker 8: part of what you work hard to do, which is
Speaker 8: the games. I mean, you know, you go through the
Speaker 8: grind of the practices and all the film study and
Speaker 8: everything like that so you can play. And you know,
Speaker 8: they need to feel that because they're also grinding and
Speaker 8: watching film and bettering themselves. A lot of them are
Speaker 8: in practice and they're doing certain things. They're just not playing,
Speaker 8: and so for them to be able to to stay
Speaker 8: engaged with the team is absolutely critical to success of
Speaker 8: their rehab process. You knowbviously they're working with a team,
Speaker 8: rehab professionals and stream coach and sports side.
Speaker 7: To all to help and nutrition to help them.
Speaker 8: But at the same time, there's nothing that's going to
Speaker 8: replace that camaraderie they have and feeling a part of
Speaker 8: the team, which they absolutely need in order to help
Speaker 8: them be successful. And that's part of their goal and
Speaker 8: that and that gives them the taste of those goals
Speaker 8: to be able to be out there and visualize them
Speaker 8: themselves out playing in that particular game and moment, so
Speaker 8: that way next season when they're ready to come back,
Speaker 8: they're you know, they're they're not losing a step. They
Speaker 8: know where they need to be and they know the
Speaker 8: expectations when they're ready to start playing.
Speaker 2: Eric is always appreciate your time. You are the man.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Valentine's Day with your wife and enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you do the same, Nick, have a good weekend.
Speaker 2: Take care. That's doctor Eric mclroy. Pro re have physical therapy,
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