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Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: when we are get off our show.
Speaker 3: Idiots, the kids are crying or turn at the punctures are.
Speaker 1: Screwing it up.
Speaker 3: Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee?
Speaker 4: Whoever can take credit for coining the phrase hottest balls outside.
Speaker 4: This was the kind of day where that that just happened.
Speaker 4: They probably didn't put a lot of thought into it.
Speaker 4: They just decided, man, it's hot. It's not as balls
Speaker 4: out here, because it is. It's disgusting outside, but you
Speaker 4: know what, it's not keeping us away. I mean we're
Speaker 4: not outside, we're indoors. In fact, the AC's working working great,
Speaker 4: and we were appreciative of our role here where we
Speaker 4: get to do broadcast inside during these disgusting temperatures we
Speaker 4: have going on. And if you're working outside, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's brutal. I hear you get used to it,
Speaker 4: but days like today. I mean, it's not even safe
Speaker 4: to be outside, is it. I mean, they've got a
Speaker 4: triple digit heat in decks, don't we. Yeah, So let
Speaker 4: me ask you this, and I could be I'm gonna
Speaker 4: I'm gonna google this while I'm gonna lay it out there,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna trust one of the parents who told
Speaker 4: me this yesterday of my son's football practice. But I'm
Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna google it just to make sure it
Speaker 4: is correct. If not, I'll find the right number. But
Speaker 4: do you have a guess as to what the heat
Speaker 4: in decks needs to be for them to not allow
Speaker 4: you to practice outside?
Speaker 3: I would say, you know, if it was up to me,
Speaker 3: i'd say one hundred. But I'm sure it's not that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's above that. It's one hundred and four.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I mean, are we there yet? I mean,
Speaker 4: what does it say heat in decks is? I mean
Speaker 4: you said triple it to the thought. Sorry, I'm not
Speaker 4: putting you on the spot. I thought because you said it,
Speaker 4: you had it in.
Speaker 3: Front of you earlier. Yes, it was close to that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I'll give you the exact number.
Speaker 1: Just a second.
Speaker 4: Current heat indcks in Louisville, Kentucky right now is as
Speaker 4: high as one oh one. Okay, so I mean it's
Speaker 4: getting there, you know, if it's one o two and
Speaker 4: yet the limits one oh four. I mean technically you
Speaker 4: can practice, but who wants to. I mean the kids
Speaker 4: are going to be useless out there. I mean they
Speaker 4: usually are anyway, No offense to the four and five
Speaker 4: year olds that my son plays flag football with. They're
Speaker 4: not useless, but you know, I mean the majority of
Speaker 4: an hour and a half practice with four and five
Speaker 4: year olds playing flag football is just trying to get
Speaker 4: them to not you know, off or eat grass or
Speaker 4: lay down or cry. I mean, and it's not because
Speaker 4: they're bad kids. They're four and five year olds and
Speaker 4: they've been you know, probably in school. You know, that's
Speaker 4: the thing. They're so young. I think only one or
Speaker 4: two kids on my kid's team is in school. The others,
Speaker 4: you know, they're in daycare and uh they got sitters
Speaker 4: or something like that. So you know, anyways, we'll see.
Speaker 4: But it's hot outside, and uh that what a tease
Speaker 4: it was last week?
Speaker 2: Right, this is Mother Nature's revenge this week. I mean she,
Speaker 2: I mean, can I say it? She's been she's been
Speaker 2: a bitch lately. She has been a bitch. I mean
Speaker 2: to case teases.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to give us that last week with football being here,
Speaker 4: Week zero was in was there, and then we get
Speaker 4: the you know, I had a hoodie on last Wednesday
Speaker 4: night at my kid's practice because it was or Tuesday.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, because it was cool outside when the sun
Speaker 4: you know, whenever it's you get to be about seven o'clock.
Speaker 4: Last week, it would be sixty nine to seventy degrees,
Speaker 4: and you know, with that breeze is hitting, you got
Speaker 4: to throw a hood on.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't have to, but you know.
Speaker 3: If it's any consolation, I do think next week we
Speaker 3: are going to see a return. Maybe not as no
Speaker 3: as it was last week, but I do think it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a little more temperate.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, when football season gets here, I just everything like
Speaker 4: life is bet My quality of life's better. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not kidding, just I view things in life in
Speaker 4: a more positive perspective when we've got this time of
Speaker 4: the year, football season going on, the NFL starts next week,
Speaker 4: and then of course basketball starts not long after. We
Speaker 4: get rolling, and it's just great. But the one downside
Speaker 4: is that you just get I think you actually get
Speaker 4: more inconsistent weather when you get to like pre fall
Speaker 4: or early fall.
Speaker 3: Does it make sense, that's fair because you get excited
Speaker 3: when you get a couple of weeks like we had
Speaker 3: last week whenever it's really nice. But because of where
Speaker 3: we live, we typically get some warmer weather for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks here and there like that, like.
Speaker 4: Late's like early spring, like you know, mid to early April.
Speaker 4: That's also kind of an inconsistent time with weather. But
Speaker 4: usually it's it's to the point where you're either going
Speaker 4: to be kind of chilly or you know, kind of warm.
Speaker 4: Here you could get you know, while it feels amazing
Speaker 4: outside and the humidity is low, or it's like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, this is terrible, this is unbearable. So anyways,
Speaker 4: if you're outside, stay hydrated. It is funny how whenever
Speaker 4: you whenever you you know, you are watching local news
Speaker 4: or listening to news stations like our own news radio
Speaker 4: eight forty whas down the hall, and we get weather
Speaker 4: like this to where you know, they're probably going to
Speaker 4: be potentially canceling practices for some high school teams around
Speaker 4: the area. If the temperature gets so bad or the
Speaker 4: heat index gets so high. And yet, you know, I'd
Speaker 4: say the you know, the average demo for the news
Speaker 4: is not young children, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 4: it's the average demo. I would say for the live
Speaker 4: audience that's watching the nightly news or even like the
Speaker 4: six o'clock news, I'm not kidding you. I'd say your
Speaker 4: average is mid fifties. That's a guess. I could be
Speaker 4: way wrong. I know young people watch the news, and
Speaker 4: I do every now and then, but it's not a
Speaker 4: regular thing for me. The people who make it an
Speaker 4: appointment to watch the news in the evening or late night,
Speaker 4: it's probably people in their fifties or older. Not to
Speaker 4: say that everybody does, but I'd say that's the bulk
Speaker 4: of them. And yet the people who you know are
Speaker 4: our newscasters, they talk to us like we're five. Make
Speaker 4: sure you drink water, hydrate, make sure you you know,
Speaker 4: take care of and it's just like you know, I'm away,
Speaker 4: I'm a grown up.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I don't like it, but I've gone through this type
Speaker 4: of heat before. So anyways, welcome in Happy Tuesday. It
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Speaker 4: I love when you open up the season against a
Speaker 4: notable opponent and you get a chance to see right
Speaker 4: away where your team stands in football. And I didn't
Speaker 4: realize it until we got closer to this season. How
Speaker 4: rare it is for Louisville football to be opening up
Speaker 4: with a Saturday game against a non Power five team.
Speaker 4: And we can go back and check the archives. It's
Speaker 4: not that difficult to do. But like Louisville has either
Speaker 4: opened up on a week night against a RANDO team
Speaker 4: or on a Sunday because they were playing Kentucky, or
Speaker 4: they've had an opener against a legitimate opponent. And I
Speaker 4: love that, And you know, I kind of got spoiled. Now,
Speaker 4: as we discussed yesterday, there are some benefits here to
Speaker 4: play Austin P and Jacksonville State and your opener because
Speaker 4: like a lot of teams, you've got new pieces, right
Speaker 4: and although a lot of these guys in the portal
Speaker 4: that you're bringing in are experienced, they've not all played together.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: This is you know, you've got a lot of new
Speaker 4: pieces that are going to be playing a lot of
Speaker 4: reps this year, and they've had spring, they've had fall camp,
Speaker 4: but now they're playing against, you know, an actual other
Speaker 4: opponent and it's a real game that counts. So it
Speaker 4: is beneficial to kind of ease in. And I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be shocked if Jeff Brohm takes this approach moving forward.
Speaker 4: Don't love it, but I get it. So one of
Speaker 4: the downsides of your Week one opponent being Austin P
Speaker 4: is that it's Austin P. And like I could sit
Speaker 4: here and tell you some things about Austin P. But
Speaker 4: none of you care. We're not worried about Austin P
Speaker 4: beating Louisville. We don't care about Austin P.
Speaker 2: Do we.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm going to bring in a beat writer, because,
Speaker 4: believe it or not, Austin P Football does have a
Speaker 4: beat writer that covers their team. I don't mean to,
Speaker 4: you know, knock the guy because but like you wouldn't
Speaker 4: shock me if newspapers, which by the way, are slashing
Speaker 4: jobs every day, if they decided, you know what, Austin
Speaker 4: p'n we'll post your box scores.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 4: We don't have the resources because nobody pays for the
Speaker 4: newspaper anymore. We know the resources to pay anybody. But
Speaker 4: we'll post a box score in there. Maybe maybe throw
Speaker 4: a coaches quote in there, will post game right up.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll use AI, which I'm not even kidding by
Speaker 4: the way. They I mean, I don't know if you
Speaker 4: remember last year there was a national service that rolled
Speaker 4: out AI to provide, you know, very minimal postgame write
Speaker 4: ups about games by just looking at box scores. I
Speaker 4: don't know how AI works when it comes to that,
Speaker 4: but they tried it, and you know, it got published
Speaker 4: and it was a big embarrassment and they'll probably never
Speaker 4: try that again. But that's just where we are. So
Speaker 4: you know, we'll give you what you need to know.
Speaker 4: But then again, what do you really need to know?
Speaker 4: It's Austin P. And that's no disrespect to Austin P.
Speaker 4: But as we discussed yesterday, you know, they know what's up.
Speaker 4: They know what this is. Austin P's getting a big
Speaker 4: check to come in here and get their ass kicked.
Speaker 4: They can have the pregame pump up speech in the
Speaker 4: locker room. They can talk about others that have shocked
Speaker 4: the world. They can utter things like well, you know,
Speaker 4: crazier things have happened, But make no mistake about it.
Speaker 4: In the back of their mind, they know what it is.
Speaker 4: They know what time it is on Saturday at noon.
Speaker 4: Bend over and take it, take your check on the
Speaker 4: way out. We'll see you later. That's what it is.
Speaker 4: So you know, I can't wait to actually get real
Speaker 4: Louisville football at noon on Saturday at Llen N Cardinal Stadium.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be great.
Speaker 4: God, I can't wait to just pound beers at the
Speaker 4: tailgate I mean that, but that's you know, I'm not
Speaker 4: really thinking, man, when I walk out of Cardinal Stadium,
Speaker 4: it sober up find a place through the postgame show,
Speaker 4: you know, man, I was. I'm so impressed with the
Speaker 4: way Jeff Broms offense really held their own against that
Speaker 4: Austin p defense. I mean, like, I know that's not
Speaker 4: realistically what's gonna happen. And when you play other teams, right,
Speaker 4: like when you got Georgia Tech on the schedule in
Speaker 4: a few weeks, you know you're gonna get a chance
Speaker 4: to to you know, learn about your team a little
Speaker 4: bit there because of what they did in Ireland knocking
Speaker 4: off FSU, pulling off the first big upset of the season.
Speaker 4: But that's not like that's just not what this is,
Speaker 4: but it's part of it, right, And I don't see
Speaker 4: a scenario where and by the way, if you ever
Speaker 4: hear any coaches complain, and I don't think you will,
Speaker 4: and maybe and I can't. I can't really think of
Speaker 4: any big storylines or I guess say not storylines, but
Speaker 4: like headlines, newsworthy stuff from these FCS programs that come
Speaker 4: in here to get a check. Like I've not heard
Speaker 4: many heard of coaches, you know, complaining about the score
Speaker 4: being run up against them, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Or about somebody doing a pass play on third down
Speaker 4: when they're up fifty. You know why, because beggars can't
Speaker 4: beat choosers. Baby, you're coming in here and we're going
Speaker 4: to decide how this goes. So again I bring that
Speaker 4: up to say that if they start complaining, you know,
Speaker 4: all it takes is somebody to you know, realize we
Speaker 4: don't need to do this. I mean, we could just
Speaker 4: get rid of these games. And who would suffer these schools,
Speaker 4: That's it. That's the only people that would suffer from
Speaker 4: not having these games against FCS teams. So anyways, with
Speaker 4: all that said, I do have some fast facts for
Speaker 4: you about Austin P. And I know you've been on
Speaker 4: the edge of your seat, John to.
Speaker 2: Get this, So give me the fast facts.
Speaker 4: Austin P's head coach is younger than me. Really now, Yeah,
Speaker 4: his name's Austin I'm sorry, Jeff Ferris, not all Ferris.
Speaker 4: Austin P' is the school, but Jeff Ferris is his name.
Speaker 4: He's thirty four years old.
Speaker 2: I mean, young gun.
Speaker 4: Young guy, played at Duke. He's a Duchie. He was
Speaker 4: a longtime duke assistant under David Cutcliffe before he retired.
Speaker 4: And once Cutcliffe retired and they brought in Elko, he moved.
Speaker 4: Ferris moved to LA to work under Chip Kelly. He
Speaker 4: is a Knoxville, Tennessee native, and he replaced a guy
Speaker 4: named Scotty Walden. Then go went to school with the Scotty Walden.
Speaker 4: He was him the band might be the same guy,
Speaker 4: North Bullet PEP Band, Austin p head coach. Not a
Speaker 4: crazy career path if you think about it. But anyways,
Speaker 4: this guy, Scotty Walden, he's now been hired at UTEP
Speaker 4: after four seasons at Austin P So with Ferris, he's
Speaker 4: bringing in is an entire new staff. They've got a
Speaker 4: they've got an offensive coordinator who was the quarterback coach
Speaker 4: at Jackson State. That's uh, It's where Dion went right,
Speaker 4: it was so did he? I wonder if he was
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks coach for Dion there. He probably was just
Speaker 4: there for a year when Dion. You know when Dion moved,
Speaker 4: because I thought Dion brought his luggage with him.
Speaker 2: Louis has Gucci or yes, Louis, Yeah.
Speaker 4: He's he didn't. He's not with him at Colorado instead,
Speaker 4: he's at Austin, PE.
Speaker 2: So he must not be.
Speaker 4: Louie was a Gucci or Louis Louis you had it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So anyways, Uh, their defensive coordinator is Trip Weaver.
Speaker 2: That's a good name. That's a TV character name. Is
Speaker 2: it not old Trip Weaver? Trip Weaver? He was up
Speaker 2: to no good exactly, Trip Weaver.
Speaker 4: In the family sitcom of the nineties, Trip Weaver is
Speaker 4: the neighborhood kid that the dad you know, just doesn't like,
Speaker 4: and Trip Weaver just shows up, walks in, like to
Speaker 4: his garage when he's working on uh, working on the car.
Speaker 4: The dad is and Trip Weaver walks over to his
Speaker 4: to his fridge and like tries to steal a beer,
Speaker 4: and the Dad's like, come on, Trip, I'm right here.
Speaker 4: You know, like you could see that. You can visualize
Speaker 4: the scene playing out right absolutely. And then like at
Speaker 4: one point the trip the dad's son, he gets caught
Speaker 4: with a joint at school.
Speaker 2: You know what a joint is. I do know what
Speaker 2: a joint is.
Speaker 4: They don't know if they still call it that or nothing.
Speaker 4: You know, back when my parents were grow don't think
Speaker 4: they called it a doobie. We called it a joint.
Speaker 4: Maybe they got something new out there now they call it.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but the kid gets caught with a
Speaker 4: joint and then they later find out that he was
Speaker 4: holding it for Trip Weaver. Tell me, that's not an
Speaker 4: episode in a family sitcom that came out in nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety seven.
Speaker 2: CBS should sign you right now. Exactly every other show
Speaker 2: on there is the same. Probably they should sign me.
Speaker 4: I got all these ideas just running around up here
Speaker 4: in this big head of mine. But anyways, Trip Weaver
Speaker 4: coached the safeties at East Carolina most recently. They also
Speaker 4: have and this is wild the biggest name on the staff,
Speaker 4: according to this write up at the Leaf Chronicle, the
Speaker 4: newspaper there in Clarksfield, Tennessee. Yeah, George Quarrels is the
Speaker 4: biggest name on the staff. He's a legendary coach at
Speaker 4: Maryville High School and he was East Tennessee State's coach
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. He's not
Speaker 4: gonna be coaching the tight ends, so I guess he
Speaker 4: was a legendary high school coach. Made the move at
Speaker 4: He's to East Tennessee State and now he's on the
Speaker 4: Austin p staff, So you know, I don't it looks
Speaker 4: like they've got forty three of their one hundred and
Speaker 4: two players on their roster were on their team last
Speaker 4: year who won the inaugural United Athletic Conference championship. Their
Speaker 4: quarterback is h looks like their quarterback he's exhausted his eligibility,
Speaker 4: which means he's not he's not back. But a lot
Speaker 4: of the other departures, you know, hit via the portal,
Speaker 4: which that is something I'm I'm curious about, like this,
Speaker 4: does this level get gutted by the portal as much
Speaker 4: as G five because I feel like it's a rare.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe the G five schools get these kids from the
Speaker 4: fcs because the really good G five players end up
Speaker 4: hitting the portal to go power five. Like maybe that's
Speaker 4: the food chain here. I don't know, But did you
Speaker 4: know that they've got a defensive back that is transferred
Speaker 4: in John who played for the Hoosiers last year.
Speaker 2: Oh give me, give me the name. Who is it?
Speaker 2: Saidarius Dass? I do remember Sadarius DAWs. I don't think
Speaker 2: he played very Are you wearing you Yeah at Austin P.
Speaker 4: Are you going to be wearing your Sceidarius Doss jersey
Speaker 4: to the game on Saturday?
Speaker 2: Take it up out of the deep depths of the closet. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he's from Birmingham, Alabama, and uh doesn't look like
Speaker 4: he played much. Actually fifteen starts since in Uh oh wow,
Speaker 4: this can't be true, right he is a sixth year
Speaker 4: he's a seventh year senior.
Speaker 2: Doesn't surprise me. Yeah, nothing with the eligibility. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: That surprises me anymore.
Speaker 4: So in twenty three career games in fifteen starts over
Speaker 4: six seasons at IU, he's a seventh year guy at
Speaker 4: Austin P. Is he the same age as coach? Could
Speaker 4: be closed, I mean not far right. So anyways, that's
Speaker 4: what you should know about Austin P. And they're coming
Speaker 4: here to get a beat down. And uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I've already had some people in the text line. Somebody
Speaker 4: said it within the last five minutes or so. Somebody
Speaker 4: said it yesterday when I was talking about this game. Look,
Speaker 4: I know Austin P won their conference last year. Like
Speaker 4: I know Austin P was nine and three. I don't care.
Speaker 4: And if you know, and like I understand that if
Speaker 4: you're Jeff Bram, you're probably telling your guys these that
Speaker 4: these this team was successful last year and they bring
Speaker 4: back some play. I get it, But like, you can't
Speaker 4: claim that you think Louisville football is remotely decent if
Speaker 4: you look at this game and feel like you know
Speaker 4: we we I mean again, by the way, biggest lie
Speaker 4: you ever hear as when it comes to sports and
Speaker 4: fans about overlooking an opponent. Remember last year when everybody
Speaker 4: was told, well, you got hey, Notre Dame's coming up,
Speaker 4: we got in C State here, can't overlook them, Yeah
Speaker 4: we can. We don't play, We will have no impact
Speaker 4: in the game. We can overlook. We can overlook By
Speaker 4: two years, I could start talking about, you know, when
Speaker 4: Louisville plays A and M in a non conference game
Speaker 4: like five years from now, it won't matter because I
Speaker 4: don't play.
Speaker 2: I'm not on the team. I mean, am I wrong?
Speaker 1: John?
Speaker 4: Is that not one of the biggest lie? Like the
Speaker 4: You've heard fans say that, right, Like we can't overlook them,
Speaker 4: Yes you can, you don't play, you have no impact.
Speaker 3: I've been guilty of it. I think learning from you,
Speaker 3: I know that it's not as big of a deal.
Speaker 3: But yes, that is something that fans are guilty of doing.
Speaker 4: I remember that last year vividly because a lot of
Speaker 4: people got pissed off that I was doing that, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, you are you are the other ones that
Speaker 4: need help, Like what do you what do you mean?
Speaker 2: We can't overlook it? Yes we can. We don't matter,
Speaker 2: we don't play now.
Speaker 4: I guess the argument could be if if nothing, if
Speaker 4: the talking heads and the fans are just talking about
Speaker 4: a game ahead of time and not the one that's
Speaker 4: coming up, because they don't they don't fear that opponent. Well,
Speaker 4: that's a coaching problem, that's a player problem, that's none
Speaker 4: to do with us. So anyways, Austin p that's your
Speaker 4: opponent on Saturday, and they're going to get the beat down.
Speaker 4: I haven't mentioned this just yet, but I've got double
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Speaker 2: As they say. Do they say that to make that up?
Speaker 2: I don't know. That might be a basketball So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you're right. What does sound? Nothing really sounds
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Speaker 4: of twenty twenty six, Tyran Stokes. He has scheduled his
Speaker 4: first official visit and it'll be home to Louisville. And
Speaker 4: this kid is so special. This kid has a chance
Speaker 4: to be one of the best players.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you.
Speaker 4: Watch his highlights, you talk to those who have seen
Speaker 4: him play against the best competition in the country, not
Speaker 4: only for his age, but kids that are older, kids
Speaker 4: that are probably going to be playing college this year.
Speaker 4: This guy's got a chance to be one of the
Speaker 4: best ever. Now again, he's sixteen, so therefore that we
Speaker 4: are getting ahead of ourselves. But I don't even like
Speaker 4: thinking about this kid's recruitment because this would be insane.
Speaker 4: And he's from Louisville. He's going to have a chance to,
Speaker 4: you know, go wherever he wants, do whatever he wants.
Speaker 4: But his first official visit is going to be to Louisville.
Speaker 4: And that's not just because you know he happens to
Speaker 4: be from Louisville and his family. Still here's that's I mean,
Speaker 4: that's a factor clearly. But also this staff and you
Speaker 4: know the nil folks out there that help Louisville five
Speaker 4: h two circle those guys like they know what time
Speaker 4: it is when it comes to getting a kid like this.
Speaker 4: Didn't talk about it yesterday, but Yukon to the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: I hate it.
Speaker 4: I hate it for Yukon. And what really makes it stupid,
Speaker 4: and I mean really stupid, is this Yukon to the
Speaker 4: Big twelve in all sports but football until twenty something?
Speaker 4: What why why would you go to the Big twelve
Speaker 4: if you the only reason you would ever go to
Speaker 4: the Big twelve is because you're trying to save your
Speaker 4: football program?
Speaker 2: Like what are we doing here? Insane?
Speaker 4: Also, we got another candid coaches piece from CBS Sports
Speaker 4: and I like this question. And I'll give a tip
Speaker 4: of the cap to the one, the only, John Caliperi
Speaker 4: for throwing it out there, I guess, you know, in
Speaker 4: an interview or something like that. And that led to
Speaker 4: Gary Parrish Matt Norlander reaching out and asking a bunch
Speaker 4: of college basketball coaches their thoughts on it, and I
Speaker 4: actually don't give me any reaction of this, John, because
Speaker 4: I want to save it. But the question was if
Speaker 4: a kid stays all four years at the same school,
Speaker 4: should they be granted a fifth year of eligibility? Interesting question,
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Speaker 4: This's Texas Nick. I'm with you when it comes to
Speaker 4: not knowing if we should feel disrespected as Louisville fans
Speaker 4: with how the team is being talked about nationally, but
Speaker 4: them not even mentioning Louisville while six other schools were
Speaker 4: mentioned during game day certainly seems like disrespect to Jeff
Speaker 4: Brahm in the program.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 4: I heard about I had game Day on Game Day
Speaker 4: is one of those things that I just have on,
Speaker 4: but I'm not really locked in. Just it's just, you know,
Speaker 4: it's kind of what that show is. That's not to
Speaker 4: say it's not good. It's just, you know, I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna sit down and you know, really lock in and
Speaker 4: watch it. I mean, there's some good stuff there, and
Speaker 4: those guys do a good job for the most part.
Speaker 4: I don't that's not even me saying I think it's
Speaker 4: a bad show. It's just not you know, I don't
Speaker 4: really make it a priority to listen to all the analysis.
Speaker 4: In fact, the best part of that show is when
Speaker 4: they give picks, and it's just to see sort of
Speaker 4: what every one of them is going to go with
Speaker 4: and you can make fun of them if they get
Speaker 4: it wrong and doubted your team and all that kind
Speaker 4: of stuff, which, by the way, the stuff I did
Speaker 4: here on Saturday, Nick Saban's going to be a great
Speaker 4: addition to game day. I mean, I don't need to
Speaker 4: tell you he knows a lot about football, but he's
Speaker 4: made a pretty seemingly smooth transition from sideline to the
Speaker 4: broadcast side of things. And he did, in fact mention
Speaker 4: Louisville by the way, So I think two things. One,
Speaker 4: there's a little bit of you know, manufacturing disrespect that
Speaker 4: always seems to take place with fans, not just Louisville fans,
Speaker 4: But you know, you want to find it. You want
Speaker 4: to find somebody that's not giving your team the love
Speaker 4: that you think they deserve because you have the belief
Speaker 4: that your team will prove them wrong when they get
Speaker 4: a chance. So you know, full context, they were just
Speaker 4: throwing out names about who could potentially contend for the
Speaker 4: acc and it did take them all the way for everybody,
Speaker 4: everybody talked and then saving just through Louisville out there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean for Louisville not to come to
Speaker 4: mind for some of those guys could have been, you know,
Speaker 4: a brain fart, or could be that they are not
Speaker 4: high on Louisville. I don't really know, but there's a
Speaker 4: difference in kind of being ignored and that This is
Speaker 4: kind of the piece I made with it because I
Speaker 4: kept going back and forth, like its Louisville being disrespected
Speaker 4: or am I just so excited and I have such
Speaker 4: belief in Brahm and this team that I am full
Speaker 4: Homer here and just you know, understanding the fair view
Speaker 4: that others have right like AP voters voting them right
Speaker 4: outside the top two twenty five, they were the twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: When it comes to receiving votes in the AP pole
Speaker 4: like that, that's legit, that's not anybody that's a hater.
Speaker 4: But I feel they're better than that. So you know,
Speaker 4: every now and then I would think, like, man, they're
Speaker 4: not giving Louisville love. The hell's up with that. But
Speaker 4: there's a difference in that then like being disrespected. Nobody's
Speaker 4: out there claiming Louisville's going to stink this year. I'm
Speaker 4: not hurt anybody say that. I mean Louisville, I mean
Speaker 4: Kentucky fans probably are going to say that, maybe other
Speaker 4: ACC fans. So it's not that they're being disrespected, but
Speaker 4: you could certainly make the case that they're not. They're
Speaker 4: not getting any I know I said this at one
Speaker 4: point something along the lines of this.
Speaker 2: Which is.
Speaker 4: If you look at Louisville and realize that even though
Speaker 4: they had a ten win season last year because of
Speaker 4: the schedule setting up rather nicely for them. Although the
Speaker 4: more I look back on that, I mean, they look
Speaker 4: their schedule wasn't Their schedule wasn't. It didn't feature one
Speaker 4: of the best teams in the ACC, at least not
Speaker 4: when they played. But if you go back and look
Speaker 4: at louisville schedule in twenty twenty three, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to sit here and claim they played the toughest schedule
Speaker 4: in the country, but they every FBS team they played
Speaker 4: was from the Power five level. They didn't play at
Speaker 4: G five, and there's some games that they played early
Speaker 4: on that looked like you know, like for example, Georgia
Speaker 4: Tech finished fourth in the league. Louisll beat him last year.
Speaker 4: And by the way, George Tech beat three ranked teams
Speaker 4: last year at the time they played, you know, Boston College,
Speaker 4: they beat them fifty six twenty eight, and Boston College
Speaker 4: wasn't good. But you know what, they went to a
Speaker 4: bowl game and beat SMU, who you know, people think
Speaker 4: is legitimately going to come in and compete in this league,
Speaker 4: at least until I saw him play. N C State
Speaker 4: is getting way more love than Louisville. Lois beat them
Speaker 4: last year in Raleigh beat.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: Loss was big, yikes, Duke Duke just kind of fell apart,
Speaker 4: but Duke was ranked when they beat him. Elko was
Speaker 4: good enough to go get Texas Tech, Tech Tech the
Speaker 4: t Texas A and m Job thedep Virginia Tech thirty
Speaker 4: four to three of Virginia Tech team that's also getting
Speaker 4: a lot of love this offseason, and in the Virginia
Speaker 4: Tech team the last year, I'm pretty sure finished third
Speaker 4: in the league if.
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4: And then you know, Miami, that was a win, but
Speaker 4: you know, I think you got sort of in real
Speaker 4: time with that win was actually worth as far as
Speaker 4: value and credit. So again that's not to say they
Speaker 4: played some crazy awesome schedule, but you know, it wasn't
Speaker 4: as if they were ten and four because they played
Speaker 4: in a G five conference or an FCS conference or
Speaker 4: you know, an independent an independent program that schedules a
Speaker 4: bunch of patsies. So you know, going back to my
Speaker 4: original point, ten wins ACC championship game appearance, usually you
Speaker 4: would just walk into a preseason ranking, and if they
Speaker 4: were way outside the top twenty five, I could have
Speaker 4: had a little bit more of a grid. But they
Speaker 4: were right there. They were just right there. Which, by
Speaker 4: the way, I didn't even think about this yesterday. Had
Speaker 4: LIU had had they done an AP vote after the UH,
Speaker 4: had they done an AP vote after the week zero games,
Speaker 4: Louis would have been ranked, There's no doubt because Florida State,
Speaker 4: I mean, there would have been enough shake up. Well
Speaker 4: I guess maybe not, because again, you only have such
Speaker 4: a small amount of teams you can actually assess, and
Speaker 4: the only ranked team that played was Florida State. So
Speaker 4: maybe I'm wrong there, But in fact, Georgia Tech would
Speaker 4: have probably jumped in ahead of you, and maybe you
Speaker 4: would have. Actually, it makes total sense why they wouldn't
Speaker 4: do that, because who would you take out of the
Speaker 4: top twenty five to put Georgia Tech in because nobody played,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? So yeah, I guess it
Speaker 4: makes sense to not do an updated poll when not
Speaker 4: only do you have just such a few games, but
Speaker 4: like it's just not fair considering like not everybody played.
Speaker 4: And I guess that happens on bye weeks. But that's
Speaker 4: that's you know, I'm talking about a small I mean,
Speaker 4: rarely do you have. I mean, I don't the average
Speaker 4: amount of teams each week in college football that are
Speaker 4: on a buye.
Speaker 2: I mean there's not that many.
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Speaker 4: a big time UK fan, a season ticket holder. Do
Speaker 4: you know that UK is now allowing season ticket holders
Speaker 4: to make a donation to one of their collectives and
Speaker 4: have that count as their annual donation uh in order
Speaker 4: to be able to purchase season tickets. Uh, I think
Speaker 4: I heard something. I think I heard something on KSR
Speaker 4: about that the other day, Matt mentioning that and kind
Speaker 4: of acting as if that's a you know, that's a
Speaker 4: you know, that's a big deal and that I mean,
Speaker 4: if you think of it. And I don't know how
Speaker 4: much you have to donate. But like for Louisville, I
Speaker 4: think it's called it used to be called the Cardinal
Speaker 4: Athletic Fund. That is, yeah, it still is, by the way,
Speaker 4: I thought maybe they'd renamed it. But the Cardinal Athletic
Speaker 4: Fund is is, you know, a fundraising group that works
Speaker 4: for the University of looisal athletics. And you know, as
Speaker 4: you know, fundraising has always been really important. It's been
Speaker 4: different in recent years because now you have, you know,
Speaker 4: fundraising that's needed for players' money. When it comes to
Speaker 4: nil AM that has nothing to do with you know them,
Speaker 4: like they can't do that. In fact, for those who
Speaker 4: don't know a lot of the guy, well I shouldn't
Speaker 4: say a lot because I think they have a pretty
Speaker 4: small crew. But Dan Furman, who is the president of
Speaker 4: the five oh two Circle, he used to work for
Speaker 4: the Cardinal Athletic Fund, so he made that shift over
Speaker 4: and you know, now you have two big, big needs
Speaker 4: when it comes to raising money. You have the nil
Speaker 4: side and then you have again the athletic department side.
Speaker 4: So in order to be a season ticket holder, you
Speaker 4: have to make a donation. And I will say as
Speaker 4: somebody who's never had season tickets, because I've never you know,
Speaker 4: I've been fortunate to get a credential. And also, you know,
Speaker 4: when I was growing up, we couldn't afford season tickets.
Speaker 4: So with all that said, if you could take that donation,
Speaker 4: which I believe is you know, a few thousand dollars
Speaker 4: and donate that to the five oh two circle, and
Speaker 4: yet that that counts to where you like, that's like,
Speaker 4: even though the Cardinal Athletic Fund's not getting it, your
Speaker 4: collective is getting it. They'll still honor that as your
Speaker 4: donation for you to get season tickets. That is I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm surprised that UK did that, but it's awesome for
Speaker 4: them to do that, and I think Louisville should do
Speaker 4: it if they can. Again, I won't pretend to know
Speaker 4: the you know, if that would be something they could
Speaker 4: financially do, and it'd be you know, because you have
Speaker 4: to keep in mind the Cardonal Athletic Fund as far
Speaker 4: as raising money for the athletic department, A lot of
Speaker 4: that money being raised is gonna be in the future
Speaker 4: going to players because you know, you gotta pay players now,
Speaker 4: and I l will still exist maybe in a smaller,
Speaker 4: a smaller you know way, But it also wouldn't shock
Speaker 4: me as if, like, you know, you're getting your base pay,
Speaker 4: but like you know, your endorsement or not. I mean,
Speaker 4: I guess in al's not really an endorsement. Sometimes they
Speaker 4: parade it around as that if it is like that
Speaker 4: you put this kid on a billboard because you think
Speaker 4: he's gonna sell you cars. But overall, like maybe it's
Speaker 4: just a signing bonus. Right if you transfer in, you're
Speaker 4: gonna you're gonna walk into this amount of money that
Speaker 4: the athletic department's paying you because the school now is
Speaker 4: footing the bill for that. But also here's what you're
Speaker 4: gonna get for you know, nil through the five V
Speaker 4: two circle or maybe through an outside company or something
Speaker 4: like that. So I'm just thinking out loud here when
Speaker 4: it comes to nil, you know, you got to like
Speaker 4: for example, Cooper Flag, he signed a huge deal with
Speaker 4: New Balance, And we can get into that later, because
Speaker 4: I really think it's and I'm a nerd for this,
Speaker 4: and I know a lot of people don't care, but
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag, the hype he has for him to choose
Speaker 4: New Balance when he easily could have had any deal
Speaker 4: he wanted really surprising. But then again, he is a
Speaker 4: white guy. For Maine, maybe the New Balance brand is
Speaker 4: just it means more up there. I could see New
Speaker 4: Balance in Maine being being Balance.
Speaker 2: And a six those pro brands up in the North.
Speaker 4: Like if you're thinking of states where New Balance has
Speaker 4: not only you know a lot of value right now
Speaker 4: because they are. They're a bigger brand now than they've
Speaker 4: ever been. But I bet, like before they were big
Speaker 4: time nationally globally, I bet Maine showed a lot of
Speaker 4: love the New Balance And maybe that's the connection here
Speaker 4: for Cooper Flag. But what I'm getting at is, if
Speaker 4: you've got like for example, Tyron Stokes, a kid were
Speaker 4: going to talk abo a little bit later on number
Speaker 4: one player in America in twenty twenty six, he'll have
Speaker 4: an nil deal making money before he ends up, you know,
Speaker 4: going to the NBA. But it won't be because they're
Speaker 4: shifting him to a school. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Like he's gonna Cooper Flag didn't sign with New Balance
Speaker 4: because Duke got him money through New Balance. He could
Speaker 4: have signed a New Balance and gone and played at Spaulding.
Speaker 4: So you know, there's there's a good I think you're
Speaker 4: gonna see Nil not be as big of a thing
Speaker 4: for guys that don't have that kind of leverage. But again,
Speaker 4: they're getting that money and it has nothing to do
Speaker 4: with where they're going to school. Like New Balances, Nike
Speaker 4: could be different because again Nike has you know, Nike's huge,
Speaker 4: you know, gazillion dollar company, and they have an owner
Speaker 4: of that company that happens to be desperate for Oregon
Speaker 4: to be competitive at the top to where Nike could
Speaker 4: sign these kids and say, look, if you want this,
Speaker 4: you come to Oregon now for business. They shouldn't do
Speaker 4: that because if they really want I mean, if you
Speaker 4: told Tyrone Stokes or Cooper Flag you only getting the
Speaker 4: Nike money now if you go to Oregon, you know
Speaker 4: they might do it. But also that would be foolish
Speaker 4: because long term, once they get out of school for
Speaker 4: one year, they're only gonna be in college one year.
Speaker 4: So once they get to the league. You know, if
Speaker 4: you don't see the value when those guys are selling
Speaker 4: sneakers when they have their own deal, because by the way,
Speaker 4: both those guys could end up having Nike. I mean
Speaker 4: not only just Nike. Obviously Cooper flags with Do Balance.
Speaker 4: But like those two guys, it wouldn't be a shocker
Speaker 4: if down the line they all they each have a
Speaker 4: signature shoe, all right, So real quick to wrap up
Speaker 4: that text. I had heard that, and I don't know
Speaker 4: if other schools are going to do that, but for
Speaker 4: Kentucky that's that's a good way to not only continue
Speaker 4: to get your season tickets sales, but also you're helping
Speaker 4: because again those guy who work together for things to
Speaker 4: be a okay for programs, meaning your nil collectives and
Speaker 4: your you know, athletic department fundraising team, they're going to
Speaker 4: be competing for money. But if you're on the same
Speaker 4: page and working together, that's where you have a best
Speaker 4: chance for success. I think, all right, quick break, we'll
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Speaker 4: here on Sports Talk seven ninety So some breaking news
Speaker 4: here for Louisville football. Mari Huggins Bruce will be added
Speaker 4: to the roster and join the Louisville Cardinals on the
Speaker 4: practice field this afternoon. So added to the roster, being
Speaker 4: on the practice field, does that mean he's eligible.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it does.
Speaker 4: Maybe, and maybe this is just the formal way of
Speaker 4: and by the way, U of L having a spokesman,
Speaker 4: Roco Gusparro, director of Media Relations, obviously the football sid
Speaker 4: has been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 2: Does a great job.
Speaker 4: Shout out to Rocco, him speaking, him speaking on behalf,
Speaker 4: Now I shouldn't say on behalf, but him acknowledging that
Speaker 4: Marriy Huggins Bruce exists as somebody who is an official
Speaker 4: spokesman for the University of Louisvill's athletic department. Says that
Speaker 4: he's been like, he's here, he's cleared, meaning they can
Speaker 4: talk to him. So I guess I'm just trying to
Speaker 4: you know, this is unusual. But my guess is that
Speaker 4: him being here has avoided the portal situation because again,
Speaker 4: the portal exists so that you can you can get
Speaker 4: cleared to be contacted and recruited portal was closed when
Speaker 4: the Marii Huggins Bruce left South Carolina, so you know
Speaker 4: he couldn't go into the portal. But I don't know,
Speaker 4: very very very brief statement in an email that came
Speaker 4: in at three nineteen wide receiver Marriy Huggins Bruce will
Speaker 4: be added to the roster and joined the Cardinals on
Speaker 4: the practice field this afternoon. So was that was sent
Speaker 4: out about twenty minutes ago. And again that's good news, right,
Speaker 4: you want to add more depth at receiver, especially at
Speaker 4: a position you just lost a guy. Not to mention,
Speaker 4: he happens to play the same position that you lost
Speaker 4: with Colin Lacey. He's not a superstar by any means,
Speaker 4: but he's experienced, he's produced here at Louisville. He knows
Speaker 4: Jeff Brahm's offense and systems. So this is good news.
Speaker 4: But again, what I don't notice does this mean he's eligible?
Speaker 4: So fingers crossed. And again when I say that, I
Speaker 4: don't you know, I don't really know. I don't want
Speaker 4: to act as if this guy's not worthy of people
Speaker 4: getting excited about. But I just think because of the
Speaker 4: circumstance here in every way, it's led to their being
Speaker 4: I think a bigger expectation. So, like, I just wouldn't
Speaker 4: be shocked if three games in we get a caller
Speaker 4: into the postgame and Mary Huggins Bruce has caught two
Speaker 4: passes in three games, people are dogging him and I
Speaker 4: you know, you shouldn't do that anyway, But nonetheless like that,
Speaker 4: he's not somebody that like if he never would have
Speaker 4: transferred and stayed here and Colin Lacy was healthy, I
Speaker 4: would imagine that he would be a backup. However, if
Speaker 4: Colin Lacy got injured and Mary Huggins Bruce never left,
Speaker 4: he probably would have been the guy that emerged right
Speaker 4: away as a guy that you think, Okay, well, I'm
Speaker 4: glad we have some depth here. This guy may not
Speaker 4: be able to produce the way Colin Lacey did at
Speaker 4: South Alabama, but hey, he's shown and he's capable of
Speaker 4: making some place for us here, and with a Mario
Speaker 4: Huggins worse, He's always shown that he has talent and ability.
Speaker 4: It's just never been consistent. And that's really a lot
Speaker 4: of the receivers on this roster right now. I think
Speaker 4: Huggins Bruce coming back. He now joins the mix, although
Speaker 4: he has proven more than you know, somebody like a
Speaker 4: guitarist Hicks because Tara six says, you know, he's a
Speaker 4: retro freshman.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Same thing with Jayden Thompson, Jane Thompson. He only played
Speaker 4: at Louisville one year last year, but throughout his career
Speaker 4: at Cincinnati and at Louisville he's shown flashes but never
Speaker 4: really put it all together to be a consistent guy.
Speaker 4: Chris Bell, I don't have the numbers in front of me,
Speaker 4: but you know, I think every receiver on this roster
Speaker 4: that is returning to Louisville not a transfer. Those are
Speaker 4: guys that I you know, I've never heard that they
Speaker 4: don't like what they have at receiver. I've never heard
Speaker 4: that they are worried about receiver.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I think when Jamari Thrash got hurt last year, they knew, Okay,
Speaker 4: these guys really have to emerge and step up as
Speaker 4: guys that can you know, not be Jamari, but be
Speaker 4: a little more reliable. Know that, hey, we got to
Speaker 4: move the ball downfield here. We're gonna need you to
Speaker 4: get open and make some plays. And those guys, to
Speaker 4: be honest with you never did that last year. I mean,
Speaker 4: Louisville had some receiving issues once Jamari Thrash went down.
Speaker 4: So now's the time for these guys to you know,
Speaker 4: to prove it and really, you know, emerge as as
Speaker 4: reliable playmakers. I don't think it's a matter of having
Speaker 4: bad hands. I don't think it's a matter of skill level.
Speaker 4: It's just you know, when the lights are on, you
Speaker 4: can you be a gamer? All right, we got one more.
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