Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and Company. Fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 1: who the hell we think when we are get off
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Speaker 2: The kids are playing the trail off your cultures are.
Speaker 1: Screwing it up. Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play
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Speaker 1: really not. Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee? Well, not exactly,
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee. Bye, I'm Scott Fitzgerald. Ay welcomed me back,
Speaker 1: and they they didn't shut me out, they didn't change
Speaker 1: the locks. They brought me back in. Always a pleasure
Speaker 1: to be here, of course with the great John Alden,
Speaker 1: who is down in studio. John, how are you, buddy?
Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'm feeling good on a Monday, oh man.
Speaker 1: Great to be back in here, because one, it is
Speaker 1: nice and cool in here. It is I think it's
Speaker 1: I'm looking at temperature Gage. He's seventy one in this
Speaker 1: studio right now, and the mugginess outside is I guess it's.
Speaker 1: I won't say it's the worst it's ever been, but
Speaker 1: with all the moisture, all the rain we've had come through.
Speaker 1: It's it's a lot. Oh, it's it's crazy. And that's
Speaker 1: why I was telling the family to keep the house
Speaker 1: closed up because let me tell you something, man, I
Speaker 1: stress hard over the the AC going out. And nothing
Speaker 1: kills Nacy like humidity. It's different if you have a
Speaker 1: dry heat, but when that AC is working overtime trying
Speaker 1: to keep that humidity out of here, man, it feels.
Speaker 1: And my AC just died in my car too. I
Speaker 1: gotta get it. Oh gosh. So yeah. So it's a
Speaker 1: pleasure to be sitting in seventy one degrees in this studio.
Speaker 1: It's great. But great to see you again, brother. How
Speaker 1: you been. I've been doing good.
Speaker 3: I went to Potoka Lake over the weekend. Enjoyed some
Speaker 3: time with the family up in Indiana. I haven't been
Speaker 3: down to the lake this year, so it was a
Speaker 3: good weekend. Got to enjoy being now on the boat.
Speaker 3: It's not something I do a lot often anymore, but
Speaker 3: you know, I enjoyed the time.
Speaker 1: It's fun.
Speaker 3: What kind of boat a pontoons really old pontoon as
Speaker 3: a matter of fact, and the kind.
Speaker 1: Of the big silver pontoons on the bottom.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things where sometimes you started up
Speaker 3: and you may it may or may not go all
Speaker 3: the way through. You may have some issues, and we
Speaker 3: did have some issues getting back off the water. But
Speaker 3: you know, a little taking the top of the motor
Speaker 3: off of the back of the boat and doing a
Speaker 3: cold start.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I've fix things right up, and that's what happened.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have like the like that artificial grass
Speaker 1: that they have on pontoon boats. No, so it's not.
Speaker 1: We don't have the astro terminal they call we. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just regular carpet. I believe, sweet, what a
Speaker 1: good time that is? Man? Well good. So you got
Speaker 1: a chance to get away, and as I hope a
Speaker 1: lot of folks did, because my wife was saying to me,
Speaker 1: not last weekend, but it was the weekend before. My
Speaker 1: wife was telling me that no matter where we went
Speaker 1: there there wasn't a soul to be found. Stores were dead,
Speaker 1: church was dead. I mean there wasn't. And I said,
Speaker 1: I have said, everybody's taking those last vacations. They're they're
Speaker 1: taking the last bit of summer breaks, much like what
Speaker 1: you did trying to get away because a lot of schools,
Speaker 1: a lot of Indiana schools went back this week. And
Speaker 1: that's what Nick's doing, is he's vacation. Yeah, see exactly.
Speaker 1: And as my daughter, she's a teacher, she teaches. She
Speaker 1: taught second grade last year, she's teaching first grade. That's
Speaker 1: where she was all day today, trying to put her
Speaker 1: room back in order, getting set for the school year.
Speaker 1: So it is that time, and man, do we have
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. Sports wise? We've got a
Speaker 1: lot going on right now. I've got the I got
Speaker 1: the peacock up in the studio. I've got the four
Speaker 1: sports that are up here now. Women's basketball is underway.
Speaker 1: Team USA is opening up play against Japan. We've got
Speaker 1: women's rugby sevens, which is awesome. Big swimming events going
Speaker 1: on right now, and I'm gonna not give you. If
Speaker 1: I do give a score, I will tell you we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a spoiler alert because I know some people
Speaker 1: are waiting maybe till they get home for primetime tonight,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to ruin that for anybody. But
Speaker 1: a lot of swimming is out there, and an event
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to make out what this is. I
Speaker 1: watched a little bit of the surfing, because you know,
Speaker 1: they host the surfing in Tahiti, so it's like and
Speaker 1: I was looking word to heat. I mean, I knew
Speaker 1: Tihiti was out there, but I didn't realize it was
Speaker 1: way out there. It's like in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: And so they had people riding around on what looked like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, jet ski's doing that thing. The surfing's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting when you watch that, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of relaxing. I remember I was laying up on the
Speaker 1: bed this weekend watching surfing. It's kind of it's different.
Speaker 1: It's a different, different breed. But we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: And then coming up later in the show, Man do
Speaker 1: we have a lot of stuff to talk about. We'll
Speaker 1: have Belloman women's basketball coach Chancellor Dugan is going to
Speaker 1: join us. She's going to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the state of women's college basketball, in the state of
Speaker 1: women's sports in general. I mean, women have seen just
Speaker 1: an influx. And we talked a little bit about this
Speaker 1: when I was in last time, John and I broke
Speaker 1: it down, and women's sports are just off and running.
Speaker 1: Look at the women's soccer team, I mean, where are
Speaker 1: they on fire right now, and so she's got some
Speaker 1: things to say about that. She's got some things to
Speaker 1: say about Nil, so we'll talk to her. We have
Speaker 1: TBT coming up tonight TVT Madia. We're gonna break that
Speaker 1: down as we go through the through the day as well.
Speaker 1: Have you been following TVT John, Yeah, so my Indiana Hoo.
Speaker 3: They had their own team in it for a little
Speaker 3: while Assembly Ball they bowed out in the round of sixteen.
Speaker 3: But down here, man, we got the vill We've got
Speaker 3: La Familia. And I don't know if you've been paying
Speaker 3: attention to the crowds that have been in attendance in
Speaker 3: Freedom Hall, Scott, but it has been some of the
Speaker 3: most exciting stuff to see, especially when you consider the
Speaker 3: lack of excitement you've seen for Louisville basketball over the
Speaker 3: last two years. It's kind of a precursor to what
Speaker 3: a lot of people are hoping to see when the
Speaker 3: actual college basketball season.
Speaker 1: Comes around this fall. Absolutely, And you know what's funny
Speaker 1: about that is I was trying to I was basically
Speaker 1: comparing apples to oranges. Tony and I were talking about that.
Speaker 1: I was geeking the USFL hard when it was coming
Speaker 1: back because see, I grew up around the Michigan Panthers
Speaker 1: and they were the successful team when they came to
Speaker 1: that Bobby Abart. They had, I mean, just some players
Speaker 1: on that team. Anthony Carter was your wide receiver. And
Speaker 1: this was at a time when the NFL Stars were
Speaker 1: in the USFL. I mean, I remember when the New
Speaker 1: Jersey General's got Hershcha Walker and they brought him in.
Speaker 1: So it was really something to write home about, and
Speaker 1: I was geeking it. So when it came back, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is awesome. And then after a
Speaker 1: while it just kind of got to be okay. It
Speaker 1: was it was it was a fun sugar rush for
Speaker 1: a while, and then the Panthers weren't as good as
Speaker 1: the old Panthers. So where I'm going with that is
Speaker 1: I kind of see what Louisville fans are up against now.
Speaker 1: I mean, that program had fallen so far and then
Speaker 1: and then you bring back the Peyton Sivas. You know,
Speaker 1: the glory days when when Louisville went for that national championship,
Speaker 1: and those were that's what you remember. So you latch
Speaker 1: onto that as fast as you can. And now they're
Speaker 1: winning in the TBT, and that even adds it's like
Speaker 1: pouring gasoline on the fire. So I totally understand why
Speaker 1: Louisville fans are geeked. My question is, and we're seeing
Speaker 1: this in other markets, now, do you still watch the
Speaker 1: TBT once your team loses? Because somebody's going home tonight,
Speaker 1: whether it be Kentucky's team or whether it be Louisville's team,
Speaker 1: somebody's going home tonight. So do you still watch the DVT?
Speaker 1: We still watch the championship.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like most people, and I'll
Speaker 3: just speak from experience. I mentioned my team was already
Speaker 3: knocked out. I have paid less attention to it now.
Speaker 3: I do know since the Round of sixteen occurred, there's
Speaker 3: been a bit of a break, so there hasn't been
Speaker 3: a lot to really take in. But I feel the
Speaker 3: hurt isn't the same whenever your alumni team loses as
Speaker 3: when you know, compared to whenever your actual team loses
Speaker 3: during the actual college basketball season. So one thing Nick
Speaker 3: laid out last week is he wonders what the you know,
Speaker 3: kind of the rivalry banter will be like whenever one
Speaker 3: of these teams wins and one of them loses. Is
Speaker 3: the losing team just going to shrug it off and
Speaker 3: be like, yeah, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: It's not my actual.
Speaker 3: Team, or and will the winning team truly take the
Speaker 3: bragging rights to the next level like they actually do
Speaker 3: whenever the actual college team wins. So that'll be an
Speaker 3: interesting case study to take a look at whenever this
Speaker 3: game comes to an end tonight.
Speaker 1: Hey, you're right, And I think that's a great observation
Speaker 1: because what happened was when the Michigan Panthers stopped winning,
Speaker 1: I kind of just turned it off and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, when they merged now
Speaker 1: with the UFL, I didn't watch any of it, you know.
Speaker 1: And and before it was cool because it was you know,
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher was coaching the Panthers, and in fact, even
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions signed the Michigan Panther kicker. And I
Speaker 1: mean the USFL, the UFL whatever they're calling it now,
Speaker 1: really has turned into kind of a developmental league for
Speaker 1: the NFL, which is what a lot of people were
Speaker 1: looking for. And there's good talent coming out of this
Speaker 1: that are going into the NFL. Now. They're not going
Speaker 1: to go and start, mind you, but they're they're using
Speaker 1: this as a springboard and I'm just not watching it
Speaker 1: like I used to, which you know, makes me wonder
Speaker 1: if if TBT, I if the vill or Law Familiar
Speaker 1: come out next year, if they're back, which I would
Speaker 1: assume they're going to be back. They're two very successful programs,
Speaker 1: two of the most successful programs in the TBT. And
Speaker 1: the TBT is is this isn't an overnight league. This
Speaker 1: is the eleventh season for this thing. I mean, and
Speaker 1: they got national TV contracts last year was ESPN, this
Speaker 1: year as Fox. You know, they've got it going on
Speaker 1: and it's not going away anytime soon. I think it's
Speaker 1: a very cool league, I really do. I love the
Speaker 1: fact that they do the alumni like, for instance, John
Speaker 1: You're and I you guy, And for you to be
Speaker 1: able to see guys like Jogi Farrell come back.
Speaker 3: Yes you know that's up twenty four points in one
Speaker 3: of his games, right say, And you don't really expect
Speaker 3: to see happen, and then it does, and it's kind
Speaker 3: of a nostalgia trip.
Speaker 1: Bingo, and it gives you a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: go back into that and take a look. My question is,
Speaker 1: will you be watching if your team comes out next
Speaker 1: year and they don't win, and let's just say that,
Speaker 1: you know, this runs its course because players get older,
Speaker 1: A lot of things happened, none of that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to poo poo anybody's excitement tonight because
Speaker 1: it is a big night at Freedom Hall. In fact,
Speaker 1: I checked Ticketmaster before we came on the air. There
Speaker 1: are seats available, still plenty of them, but they're in
Speaker 1: the corners now at Freedom Hall. They're in the corners
Speaker 1: and up in the end zones. Thirty three dollars will
Speaker 1: get you in the door. So if you're on your
Speaker 1: way home tonight, you're melon and going, hey, you want
Speaker 1: to go to the game night, thirty three bucks is
Speaker 1: going to get you in the door. One of the
Speaker 1: things we talked about on the show with Tony Cruz
Speaker 1: this morning was that the nice thing about Freedom Hall
Speaker 1: is you don't feel like you're walking almost straight up
Speaker 1: when you sit in that section. I remember when my
Speaker 1: daughter was really young, we took her out when UCLA
Speaker 1: and Steve Lavin came to town and we sat all
Speaker 1: the way very last time. I think it was like
Speaker 1: section three twenty nine or something like that. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: to my wife. I God, we had nosebleed seats, and
Speaker 1: yet well we sat there. It wasn't After being at
Speaker 1: the Yum Center, it really wasn't that bad. There are
Speaker 1: events that my wife will not go to at the
Speaker 1: Young Center if we're upstairs because she will literally get dizzy.
Speaker 1: And I'm hearing now that that is a common complaint
Speaker 1: in stadiums across the country. It's not just a Young
Speaker 1: Center thing. It's all these new stadiums are building because
Speaker 1: they build them so steep up high that people go
Speaker 1: in and they're just like, I can't sit up here. Joe,
Speaker 1: who produces for on Saturdays, she can't go to a
Speaker 1: Young Center event if she's sitting in the upper deck
Speaker 1: because it's too high. So when you go to Freedom Hall,
Speaker 1: the nice part about Freedom Hall is it's got that
Speaker 1: slow incline that you sit up. You're a little further away,
Speaker 1: but it's got that slow incline, and I think that's
Speaker 1: an even trade off for folks. But it certainly looks
Speaker 1: good on TV. Now they have the Lake Game tonight.
Speaker 1: They're nine o'clock. If I'm not mistake, yeh, it's nine
Speaker 1: o'clock tip. And what happens is that the seven o'clock is.
Speaker 1: I think it's the Ohio State alum. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: Ohio State alum that are going to go. Prior to that,
Speaker 1: Carmen's crew is going to play takeover BC. Here's something
Speaker 1: my son brought up something to me while we were
Speaker 1: watching the game too. Would you like to see double
Speaker 1: elimination in the TBT or do you like the idea
Speaker 1: that it's.
Speaker 3: Just single I think I don't think double elimination is necessary.
Speaker 3: I think the way that they do it is great.
Speaker 3: And one thing too that we haven't hit on yet,
Speaker 3: the elm ending, I think makes this tournament all that
Speaker 3: much more exciting. Get familiar with the elam ending a
Speaker 3: thing you are, yes, so where you have the you
Speaker 3: get to the final four minutes. For those who are unfamiliar,
Speaker 3: maybe tuning in for the first time tonight, the elam
Speaker 3: ending is when you're in the final quarter of the game.
Speaker 3: This game, these games are played in quarters, not halves
Speaker 3: like college basketball. When you get to the under four
Speaker 3: the first stop at under four minutes, the clock is
Speaker 3: turned off and they set a target score, and the
Speaker 3: target score is eight points greater than the team that
Speaker 3: has the lead. So if it's sixty to fifty eight,
Speaker 3: the target score then becomes sixty eight, and that's how
Speaker 3: you win the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I'm with you in that. I
Speaker 1: like that. That makes it fun because when you saw
Speaker 1: Montrez Harrald go to the line, that just made it
Speaker 1: all that more exciting because then those free throws really
Speaker 1: meant something. You can't go up there and you can't
Speaker 1: just you know, kind of bank them up there. So
Speaker 1: look at some of the stats. Now here's some of
Speaker 1: the teams still live that you have in the tvt
Speaker 1: You have the Happy Valley Hoopers are taking on ebra
Speaker 1: Lean Drive. That obviously is the Penn State group we
Speaker 1: mentioned takeover BC and Carmen's Crew, and it's the Forever Koog's,
Speaker 1: which is the Houston alumni alumni taking on perhaps the
Speaker 1: most original name in TBT, team Colorado Keep it Basic, Yeah,
Speaker 1: featuring guess what the Colorado alumni. I didn't know Colorado
Speaker 1: had that many famous alumni that played basketball.
Speaker 3: I didn't know Penn State had that many alumni, right,
Speaker 3: I don't neither basketball.
Speaker 1: To your point, I did not either. When you start
Speaker 1: comparing the two teams head to head, the villain La
Speaker 1: Familiar are twelfth and fifteenth. When it comes to field
Speaker 1: goal shooting at forty seven point five percent and forty
Speaker 1: seven point three percent, La Familia is pointing up eighty
Speaker 1: six points per game to the vill seventy seven. La
Speaker 1: Familiar has the fourth best three point shooting percentage, with
Speaker 1: the vill at thirteenth. You know that we seen Cantor
Speaker 1: and La Familia turns it over on average nine times
Speaker 1: per game to the Ville's eight point three. So when
Speaker 1: you start looking at those numbers, then you go to
Speaker 1: the individual numbers. Kareem Cantor is so se in TBT
Speaker 1: in shooting. He's shooting just under seventy seven percent with
Speaker 1: sixty seven points. Eric Bledsoe comes in at tenth with
Speaker 1: fifty three points, and the well the former Trinity Shamrock
Speaker 1: David Johnson leads developed fifty points. He's shooting right at
Speaker 1: fifty percent. That's good for thirteenth in the league. So
Speaker 1: when it comes to game averages, Kareem Cancer is also
Speaker 1: second in the league. He's shooting about twenty two point three.
Speaker 1: Bled SE's tenth was seventeen point seven, then David Johnson's
Speaker 1: sixteen point seven, so they sound pretty evenly matched tonight
Speaker 1: and it should be a good game. It should, you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say though, it's TBT.
Speaker 3: If you're looking at spreads. One thing Nick talked about
Speaker 3: spreads last week. They have an updated spread right now
Speaker 3: La Famlia Kentucky's team currently favored by five points. I
Speaker 3: would take a little to cover that spread.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely. Well, it's rivaly, yeah, rivalry, and you know,
Speaker 1: and that's what we've seen in the Olympics. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting because I was listening to some of the players
Speaker 1: talk who had played in the past, and they said,
Speaker 1: believe it, because you think these guys will come in
Speaker 1: and gals and they play for big money contracts. There's
Speaker 1: a lot on the line. Everybody wants an NBA championship.
Speaker 1: But and this is something that's reflected worldwide. Dude, you
Speaker 1: put a name on the front of that jersey, like
Speaker 1: USA or Serbia in the case of Nikola Jokic, they said,
Speaker 1: that changes the dynamic that just you're just you're there.
Speaker 1: It's a bigger purpose. I mean, you have all the
Speaker 1: money in the world, you don't need, you're not playing
Speaker 1: for bonus. But boy, when you put that USA, and
Speaker 1: especially if your team USA with the history and tradition
Speaker 1: that the Dream Teams have, which I think USA is
Speaker 1: going to win gold in men's and women's hands down.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to be pushed. They're gonna be pushed,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna win gold. And what's cool about basketball
Speaker 1: is in the cool thing. Why I say that is
Speaker 1: basketball has become such an international sport, which is what
Speaker 1: you want. You want your game to grow internationally because
Speaker 1: that's more balls. Anytime you get the world playing your game,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. And we started to see this with the
Speaker 1: original Dream Team and now the rest of the world
Speaker 1: is starting to catch up. And that's why. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you watched the game Sunday, but that's the
Speaker 1: team USA got that slow start against Serbia. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad team. There's some talent there, and
Speaker 1: then they pulled away. And right now I'm watching Team
Speaker 1: usas women and they're up by four against Japan in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. I mean, people around the world are
Speaker 1: playing basketball, and there's good players that play basketball. So
Speaker 1: basketball is always fun for me. In the Olympics, it's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite sports. And the beauty is we
Speaker 1: have the we had the peacock app and I love
Speaker 1: that app because yesterday we were in the house. I
Speaker 1: was doing some stuff upstairs, my wife was downstairs. My
Speaker 1: wife and daughter are gymnastics swimming kind of people. I'm
Speaker 1: more like. I like the boxing. I like the basketball.
Speaker 1: I also like to watch other sports that I haven't
Speaker 1: watched before I get in to watch. I can watch
Speaker 1: a few, except for maybe beach volleyball. Not a beach volleyball. Oh,
Speaker 1: so what is it? Why don't you like beach volleyball.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I fake volleyball. Well, it's no, and
Speaker 1: I love real volleyball. I love real volleyball, and I
Speaker 1: think we can talk about that later, because that's getting
Speaker 1: to be a bit that's gonna be a big thing
Speaker 1: right here in Louisville, coming up here at the end
Speaker 1: of this well, as we flipped the calendar over to August.
Speaker 1: But for me, beach volleyball, to your point, it's just
Speaker 1: it's beach volleyball. It seems more casual, right. It's just
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm not there with it, because
Speaker 1: I love the game and I love I love the
Speaker 1: whole thing about volleyball, and I love my son actually
Speaker 1: played they had boys teams when he was coming up
Speaker 1: through elementary school, they had boys teams that played. And
Speaker 1: I wish the male game would transcend that it just
Speaker 1: loses something I guess along the way, and then the
Speaker 1: ladies pick up. But when I watch real volleyball, it's
Speaker 1: it's such an exciting sport. It keeps you on the
Speaker 1: edge twenty four to seven. So I'll end up watching
Speaker 1: stuff like I watched a little volleyball this afternoon. Swimming
Speaker 1: I can. I can do swimming. I just have to
Speaker 1: be in the right mood for swimming. I you know,
Speaker 1: I have to be like if you start getting into
Speaker 1: like the fifteen hundred meter relay, I'm like, dude, okay,
Speaker 1: how long is this thing going on for? And and
Speaker 1: it's like and I tried. I tried today. I did
Speaker 1: try handball. I tried handball. That's another one. I can't
Speaker 1: get my hands wrong. It just doesn't sink fun intended.
Speaker 1: You're right, it doesn't sink up with me. As a
Speaker 1: hockey guy, I'm seeing hockey, but I'm watching people run
Speaker 1: around without a stick in a part, and I'm used
Speaker 1: to seeing that. My brain is making the disconnect. But
Speaker 1: I have enjoyed the rugby sevens, both men and women.
Speaker 1: That's been a lot of fun. I'm a big rugby guy,
Speaker 1: so I like the fifteen game. The sevens are fun.
Speaker 1: I get why the world loves sevens because it moves faster,
Speaker 1: and you know, to me, rugby is the way that
Speaker 1: football is supposed to be played. That's where we get
Speaker 1: the touchdown from. Because in rugby, when you score, you
Speaker 1: literally have to put the ball down. You have to
Speaker 1: touch it down in the end zone. I think rugby moves.
Speaker 1: I think the ladies have come a long way in rugby.
Speaker 1: I mean they have crystallized their game. Those are some
Speaker 1: athletes that play. I watched a lot of the ladies,
Speaker 1: so you know. But the nice thing is in today's technology,
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, you can see anything you want.
Speaker 1: You can watch any sport you want. And I encourage everybody.
Speaker 1: I was telling my son this the other day. I said,
Speaker 1: I encourage you sit down with the sport you'd never
Speaker 1: watched before. You may not like it, but sit down
Speaker 1: with it and take it in and keep an open mind.
Speaker 1: Saying with the opening ceremonies, you know, I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: I had to get off social media during the open ceremonies.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Goji era? Right? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: look it's everything. Is the beauty of the opening ceremonies
Speaker 1: at the Olympics is it's it's supposed to paint a
Speaker 1: picture for you of the host nation, and it's a
Speaker 1: lot of it's art, and last I checked, art was
Speaker 1: subject to a lot of interpretation. And let's be honest,
Speaker 1: there's people on social media. If you told them they
Speaker 1: want ten million dollars, people on social media still plain
Speaker 1: about it. Some people, some people on social media are
Speaker 1: just never happy. No matter what I mean, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I thought France hit a home run, I mean, and
Speaker 1: I said the same thing about China because it gives
Speaker 1: you a chance to sort of sort of see the
Speaker 1: country through their eyes. Although the Metallica tribute band was something,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was okay, it was a Metallica tribute band,
Speaker 1: is what I saw. Apparently this group that played is
Speaker 1: really good. I mean they're very popular, yes, so that
Speaker 1: they'll be it Louder than Life this fall too. They're
Speaker 1: not headlining any of the days, but they're one of
Speaker 1: the more popular meta from Europe. I totally get it. No,
Speaker 1: and I can respect that one hundred percent. But when
Speaker 1: I saw it, I didn't know who they were, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is Metallica and that's he That's
Speaker 1: one thing that bothered me. Don't play a cover song.
Speaker 1: If you go out there and you're gonna have your
Speaker 1: big moment on a stage like that, play your own music. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it is I thought. I thought they hit a home run.
Speaker 1: I thought they did a fantastic job in the opening ceremonies.
Speaker 1: But like I said, not everybody's happy, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's okay. These games were they most watched since twenty
Speaker 1: twelve London Games the opening ceremonies, and everybody's kind of
Speaker 1: in agreement that the London Games had one of the
Speaker 1: best opening ceremonies because I remember it was Daniel Craig
Speaker 1: was there, he was James Bond and people raved and
Speaker 1: raved about that. And so everybody tuned in to watch this.
Speaker 1: And we're going to crunch some numbers when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Olympics coming up later on in the show.
Speaker 1: And there's a reason why there are so many eyeballs.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why everybody wants to advertise on the Olympics.
Speaker 1: People watch this stuff The problem is is if you
Speaker 1: hang around on social media during the Olympics, all you
Speaker 1: hear is the people winding and complaining I'm not watched. Well,
Speaker 1: then to watch that was my thing. If because I like, look,
Speaker 1: I'll scroll social media. It doesn't bother me any tie,
Speaker 1: I get tired of it and then I'll put the
Speaker 1: phone down. But people were going out of their way
Speaker 1: to complain about the opening ceremonies. Well, if it bothers
Speaker 1: you that much, just don't watch, just tune out. There's
Speaker 1: plenty of other stuff on TV. And part of it
Speaker 1: I'm a little biased too though, because I spent the
Speaker 1: summer in ninety four in France. I was posting on
Speaker 1: an X during the ceremonies. We did a big battlefield
Speaker 1: tour the World War One battlefields and World War II
Speaker 1: battlefields and got to see a lot of France, and
Speaker 1: to me, it's a fantastic country. It's a country that's
Speaker 1: a proud country. And you know, if you can get
Speaker 1: past that cheesy freedom fry thing we did whatever that
Speaker 1: was back then, and you really do your history and
Speaker 1: look into the history of the French, there's some pretty
Speaker 1: badass people. I mean, they've been through a lot, and
Speaker 1: they really found their way and France has France has
Speaker 1: bailed us out enough times. So long story, short, salute
Speaker 1: to you France. As far as I'm concerned, in the
Speaker 1: Olympics have already been a success. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in more. Hey, we're just getting started on Scott Fitztreil
Speaker 1: filling in for the vacationing Nick Coffee. He is John
Speaker 1: Holden there in studio, he playing the tunes for us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back after this on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 1: ninety right, it is welcome back. I'm Scott Fitstruim filling
Speaker 1: in for the vacationing Nick Coffee. John Alden is in studio,
Speaker 1: he playing those hits for us.
Speaker 3: Who do we have there's John, It's Mark Chestnut Monday traditions.
Speaker 1: We always come back with our first break with it.
Speaker 1: Sure is Monday. Oh man, you're right, sure enough, because yeah,
Speaker 1: last time I was in I filled in, it was
Speaker 1: a Thursday Friday. I think, Oh that was nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I forget it's Monday. I gotta move through the week.
Speaker 1: I gotta press them on through the week. And you
Speaker 1: know that begs the question there, John, and that is
Speaker 1: there's been a push for a four day work week.
Speaker 1: There has been the question is if you get a
Speaker 1: four day work week, because I know a lot of
Speaker 1: places go to four days, like they leave early on
Speaker 1: Fridays in the summer. If if you have a four
Speaker 1: day work week, would you rather have that extra day
Speaker 1: on a Friday or a Monday.
Speaker 3: I think that's a good question. I think i'd rather have.
Speaker 3: I think i'd rather the work week be a Monday
Speaker 3: through thirty. I'd still keep them Monday. Sure, it just
Speaker 3: doesn't seem right to start the week on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3: But that's just my mental you know how. I've always
Speaker 3: seen it as maybe it wouldn't matter to certain people.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, And to your point, I I hate the
Speaker 1: fact because I love the NFL and I cannot wait
Speaker 1: for Sunday Night football. But the problem is I can't
Speaker 1: never stay up to watch it because I have to
Speaker 1: come in here. It's a good point. And when I
Speaker 1: get up, you know, my bedtime's eight thirty. I get
Speaker 1: to bed at eight thirty. Usually by about twenty after eight,
Speaker 1: I'm asleep on the couch, dog hops up in my lap,
Speaker 1: I'm dozing off. I'm up to bed. I'll watch about
Speaker 1: five minutes of Frasier on the TV, and I'll roll
Speaker 1: over and fall asleep. Now don't hear anything until I
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning to come in here. Which,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I like so I think for
Speaker 1: me to have Mondays, especially in a fall, that would
Speaker 1: be nice because then I could stay out watch Sunday
Speaker 1: night football. See Fridays, I'm always going to bed early
Speaker 1: anyway too, because I come in and do the show
Speaker 1: on Saturday. You make a good case though for having Monday.
Speaker 1: But you know, but then in the summertime, but but yeah,
Speaker 1: you know when they're saying, even my wife and never
Speaker 1: we're talking about that sometimes though in the summertime, it's
Speaker 1: nice though when you don't have that Monday you have
Speaker 1: to get up with. But to your point, to be
Speaker 1: off on a Friday, that's nice. See, my wife lives
Speaker 1: for the pool. She could take her book and sit
Speaker 1: at the pool all day and that's one of her
Speaker 1: favorite things to do, is just go and sit at
Speaker 1: the pool on a Friday. She loves because they have
Speaker 1: half days on Fridays, so she gets to go to
Speaker 1: the pool. And then she'll usually call me and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know you want to do uh you want to
Speaker 1: do a happy hour on Friday. And I can't relax
Speaker 1: on a Friday for a happy hour because I know
Speaker 1: I got to get up. Even if I have like
Speaker 1: one beer on a Friday, I'm like, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: sit right with me, you know. So I go to
Speaker 1: the gym Friday. When I get off, it tires me out.
Speaker 1: I go to bed early, I get up, I come
Speaker 1: in here on Saturday, and then Saturdays are my day
Speaker 1: and bluntney Saturdays of the day, I can just know,
Speaker 1: I go ahead, it's my free day. I don't go
Speaker 1: crazy eating wise, but I eat a little bit more
Speaker 1: liberally than I do any other day. And then I'm
Speaker 1: just relaxed. And the same with Sunday. That's that's the
Speaker 1: part for me. And here's the one thing.
Speaker 3: If you if you eliminate going to work on a Monday,
Speaker 3: then you eliminate the Sunday scaries, which I think people
Speaker 3: suffer from.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. And I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: that suffer from those days. I don't mind them. I
Speaker 1: don't mind them because one, I enjoy what we do here.
Speaker 1: So when I get up, like I usually spend part
Speaker 1: of the day Sunday preparing for the show on Monday
Speaker 1: when I jump. So when I come in here, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty much good to go. I've done a lot of
Speaker 1: prep already, so I just dial that up and I
Speaker 1: kind of find tune things in the morning, and so
Speaker 1: when we hit the airwaves like we did this morning,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go and boom, We're off and running.
Speaker 1: So I personally don't have the Sunday scaries. I have
Speaker 1: the more Sundays. Oh, I really want to watch this game,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to go to bed, and the
Speaker 1: problem is I, you know, I have to do. So
Speaker 1: I think Monday would be nice. I think people can
Speaker 1: kind of ease into the week a little bit easier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And here's the other argument though, that I think of.
Speaker 3: I feel like if I'm off every Monday, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure it would eventually become old hat obviously after enough
Speaker 3: time of it, but at first, I feel like having
Speaker 3: off every Monday would make it harder to get back
Speaker 3: into Like, oh, I actually have to go back to
Speaker 3: work tomorrow now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it does. It really does. To your point,
Speaker 1: I go and you and I were talking about this
Speaker 1: in the Joys of juggling two gigs. Yes, I find
Speaker 1: myself when I'm off during the week, I kind of
Speaker 1: I'm out of sorts. I'm not a whack. I have
Speaker 1: a pattern. I do what I do here, I go
Speaker 1: do the other gig. I do what I do there,
Speaker 1: and then I go to the gym. So when I
Speaker 1: come home, the day's been a good burn. And I
Speaker 1: think everybody can kind of feel that a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, you go and then like if you have
Speaker 1: slow days at work and you're not doing it a lot,
Speaker 1: it's almost harder to kind of relax, if that makes
Speaker 1: any sense.
Speaker 3: You may be sitting there wondering, like you may feel
Speaker 3: like that you need to be more productive than you
Speaker 3: actually actually are, and so it maybe it kind of
Speaker 3: feels like you have that itch, but you don't know
Speaker 3: where to scratch it at right exactly.
Speaker 1: And see, I didn't have that problem. See Saturday, I
Speaker 1: was just telling my daughter, I love my Saturdays. Saturdays.
Speaker 1: I get kind of a hall pass from my wife
Speaker 1: because she knows how you work six days a week.
Speaker 1: You get up as early as I do. I can
Speaker 1: come home Saturday, I'll knock off the show, clean up
Speaker 1: some production, go to the gym, come home, be home
Speaker 1: by noon. Sit in the chair and turn the ball
Speaker 1: game one. And my wife gives me a hall pass
Speaker 1: on that because she knows that work hard. Now, yesterday,
Speaker 1: like Sundays, I get up Sundays clean the house from
Speaker 1: top to bottom. Like yesterday was deep cleaning the bathroom day.
Speaker 1: There's nothing I hate more than clean it batho. Dude,
Speaker 1: that is so nasty. You don't realize how nasty your
Speaker 1: family is until you start cleaning bathrooms. But I go
Speaker 1: in and I deep clean the bad boys because my
Speaker 1: wife won't do it. She's already said, she goes, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. It grosses me out. I said, well,
Speaker 1: you do it every week. It's not that bad, but
Speaker 1: yeah it's And I have I have a family where
Speaker 1: they lose they the hair keeps cut, you know, the
Speaker 1: hair falls out. Oh yeah, that's my wife. She's the
Speaker 1: same way, right, And so like you're like white hair
Speaker 1: away and then it comes back. It's like out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: So your dog, our dog sheds like no tomorrow. So
Speaker 3: not only do you have the wife hair to deal with,
Speaker 3: we've also got the shedding dog hair.
Speaker 1: That's all over the place. What kind of dog do
Speaker 1: you all have?
Speaker 3: So she is a mix between an Australian shepherd and honestly,
Speaker 3: that's that's the only thing we know for sure. She
Speaker 3: kind of looks like she may have some some German
Speaker 3: shepherd in her as well. But she's also only forty pounds.
Speaker 3: She's really small and pretty pretty long and lanky. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but she she's you know, she's.
Speaker 1: The perfect size for us. So but she does shed
Speaker 1: a bunch, so you got to clean that up, so
Speaker 1: you know, when you when you get to all that.
Speaker 1: I guess the thing that I'm going for is lately
Speaker 1: on TikTok, somebody's I've been getting feeds in my TikTok
Speaker 1: the soun the nap Sundays because of you know, they
Speaker 1: play the Joe Buck SoundBite Fox NFL. I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: there you got in it. There's nothing greater than a
Speaker 1: crisp Sunday afternoon. Man, You're sitting on the couch and
Speaker 1: you kind of doze off and then you wake back
Speaker 1: up middle of the game, doze off a little bit,
Speaker 1: wake back up. I mean, those are the best.
Speaker 3: And I'd say what, I cannot wait. I know we're
Speaker 3: still a couple of months away from this, but I
Speaker 3: love when I can open the windows in the house.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, exactly what you're talking about, because it feels
Speaker 3: like you're you're kind of outside, but you're not. You're
Speaker 3: letting the fresh air and you don't have to run
Speaker 3: the air conditioner. It's something that you only get in September,
Speaker 3: really towards the end of September, a little bit of October.
Speaker 3: But once you get into the thick of fall, you
Speaker 3: head towards November and Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: That stuff's done until the spring. That's exactly right, you know.
Speaker 1: And then and then you make that trip Hubers. Our
Speaker 1: is our most in our house that is non negotiable
Speaker 1: in every level. I mean, our family literally gets geeked out,
Speaker 1: Like when we're going to Heubers. Everybody's so excited all
Speaker 1: week and we go up there. You know, I hear
Speaker 1: people complain about the crowds all the time. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: because our kids are old now that I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I noticed there's a big crowd up there,
Speaker 1: but I don't notice it like I did when my
Speaker 1: kids were younger, If that makes any sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think maybe that could be a product of
Speaker 3: post COVID. I do feel like a lot of activities
Speaker 3: like hubers have never fully gotten back to where they
Speaker 3: were pre COVID, just because maybe some people found alternatives
Speaker 3: to go to you know, ordering. I mean, this might
Speaker 3: sound ridiculous, but ordering pumpkins or just getting them from
Speaker 3: Walmart that type of stuff instead of spending the time
Speaker 3: and going out and getting them at a place like
Speaker 3: Huber's or you know one of the other orchards that.
Speaker 1: Has that kind of stuff. Oh yeah, oh yeah, No,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of truth to that, and see the
Speaker 1: nice it used to be too, And I think that's why,
Speaker 1: to your point, why I don't notice as much, because
Speaker 1: I like I migrated more towards the NFL than college football.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about it when I was
Speaker 1: in last time, just because college football looked so much
Speaker 1: like the NFL now, And part of it's an age thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, college football was fun when
Speaker 1: I was back in my twenties and thirties, and now
Speaker 1: that I'm a little older, the NFL kind of suits
Speaker 1: me better. But boy, I remember days when, like Michigan
Speaker 1: would play Michigan State. My wife will going, hey, it's
Speaker 1: Humer's Day, and I'm like, no, no, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not Humor's Day, it's Michigan Michigan State Day. And and
Speaker 1: I mean that falls in because now you can open
Speaker 1: the whole of the can of worms. And now it
Speaker 1: comes to fall because I just saw in the record
Speaker 1: they had the wedding issue, and even said to my wife,
Speaker 1: I go, look, these weddings are in the record. Don't
Speaker 1: they usually come out in the spring. She goes, no,
Speaker 1: they're full weddings. Oh so it's time to start those
Speaker 1: conversations because you know, people playing the five o'clock weddings
Speaker 1: or I'm looking at five o'clocks on some of my phone,
Speaker 1: people playing the full weddings, and then you get that clash.
Speaker 1: I hear this all the time this time of year. Well,
Speaker 1: the game's on, dude, you're getting married. Bro, yep, you're
Speaker 1: getting married. I remember.
Speaker 3: So we had to move up our wedding because of COVID.
Speaker 3: I hate, I hate whenever I have to keep referencing COVID,
Speaker 3: but it is. My wife and I got married in
Speaker 3: that type of stuff. But we were originally supposed to
Speaker 3: get married on April fourth of twenty twenty. Well that's
Speaker 3: the same weekend as the final four, and obviously being
Speaker 3: a big college basketball town that we live in, there
Speaker 3: were some Kentucky fans, some Louisville fans even that were like, well,
Speaker 3: what happens if Louisville and Kentucky you're in the final four.
Speaker 3: You better have a TV. You better have the game on,
Speaker 3: because people are that concerned about that. And again, I
Speaker 3: love it just as much as the next person. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I don't know. I've never been one to complain
Speaker 3: about being at a wedding and needing to watch the game.
Speaker 1: And if you really want to pull your phone out,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Yeah, right right, one of those things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I saw that a lot in my son's games.
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of parents with their noses just
Speaker 1: in the phone. I mean, now, I get, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes if you're like my son, he wasn't the greatest athletically,
Speaker 1: and I understand, but that's your kid playing and your
Speaker 1: nose is buried in your phone. And what was fun?
Speaker 1: I used to I used to announce all the football
Speaker 1: games that they played over at Saint Martha. So you
Speaker 1: would sit up in this little makeshift kind of booth,
Speaker 1: you know, what have you, And so you could see
Speaker 1: people down below and I couldn't necessarily see you because
Speaker 1: they weren't facing you. But I mean, so many people
Speaker 1: on a Sunday afternoon, their kids are out there playing
Speaker 1: and they're buried in their phones watching the game. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't expect you to, you know, devote, you know,
Speaker 1: parents just I mean, I've watched my kid play sports before.
Speaker 1: My mind's been wandering, going, Okay, I got I got
Speaker 1: this to do this week. I got this bill, I
Speaker 1: gotta pay, I gotta do this. I totally understand that,
Speaker 1: but man, you know, I don't want to everybody's well,
Speaker 1: you never looked at your phone. I go. I may
Speaker 1: have glanced at my phone to check a score, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't actively sit there and watch a game. And
Speaker 1: I've seen that so much. If you're gonna do that,
Speaker 1: just stay home, I mean, because then your kid turns
Speaker 1: around to sees you in the stands and you got
Speaker 1: your phone, your nose buried in your phone. You're not
Speaker 1: even watching your kid. I've seen that happen. I've seen
Speaker 1: kids look up and you know, parents are just there
Speaker 1: in the phone watching the game.
Speaker 3: It's like, and not too long ago, the easy solution
Speaker 3: was to just record it.
Speaker 1: And watch when you get home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now, I guess now that it's so much easier
Speaker 3: and streaming is so much more accessible nowadays than it
Speaker 3: was five to ten years ago. Than you why wait
Speaker 3: when you guys have it right now. And that's the
Speaker 3: way people think nowadays.
Speaker 1: To your point, when my daughter she's twenty five, now, well,
Speaker 1: my daughter turned like three or four. I made the
Speaker 1: mistake one time, and I'm guilty of this. I'm not
Speaker 1: sitting here trying to sit heading shoulders above anybody else.
Speaker 1: My daughter had her birthday party at one of these
Speaker 1: gyms that they have for kids. Dude, I brought one
Speaker 1: of those portable TVs because it was Michigan, Ohio State weekend.
Speaker 1: My wife and I did not talk for three days
Speaker 1: after that. And I see, now that i'm older, I
Speaker 1: see she was right. In fact, we went to a
Speaker 1: wedding over at the ul Speed Museum just a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and one of the girls we picked up
Speaker 1: to go evidently her husband was out of town at
Speaker 1: a baseball game or something. We said, we're so and so,
Speaker 1: and she goes, oh, oh, he's out of town with
Speaker 1: the guys they had a baseball game, and go too
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, I used to
Speaker 1: be that guy. I was that guy. So when I
Speaker 1: talk about all this, I'm no angel. I mean I've
Speaker 1: been there, I've done this, and now that I'm older,
Speaker 1: I now see where I was wrong. And my wife
Speaker 1: was totally justified, like I couldn't understand, like you do
Speaker 1: understand this is Michigan, Ohio State, and mois like, I
Speaker 1: don't care that you do understand. This is your daughter.
Speaker 1: And now I totally understand that. And it's not like, look,
Speaker 1: my daughter will tell me to this day she goes dad.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember that birthday party, and I probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have noticed you watching the game. But it was
Speaker 1: something bigger, and it was something bigger than my wife.
Speaker 1: So when we bring this up and we talk about
Speaker 1: because this is going to happen again this year, falls
Speaker 1: getting right, ramp up, football games are coming up, fall
Speaker 1: weddings are coming up. I'm just saying it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: And it sounds like it's been happening for generations too.
Speaker 1: This isn't something new. No, it'll happen again, but maybe
Speaker 1: something that we can all pay a little bit more
Speaker 1: attention to and see what goes down. So all right, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's enough of our high horse, right, we got a
Speaker 1: big show coming up for you. We still got two
Speaker 1: hours to unpack. Here. We're gonna talk a little TVT mania.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Bellomin women's coach Chancellor Dugan on
Speaker 1: the state of women's sports. We're gonna preview, preview Kentucky
Speaker 1: high school football across the entire state. We're not just
Speaker 1: talking inside the Waterson, We're talking across the state. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do that. And I caught up with Ben Rhoads yet,
Speaker 1: two time Craftsman Truck Series Champion, Rating Series Champion, went
Speaker 1: to high School holy Cross right down in Dixie Highway.
Speaker 1: Spend some time with him. Great conversations. Great to be
Speaker 1: back with you for the next couple of days. I'm
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald's John Alden. We're back after this on Sports
Speaker 1: Talk seven ninety we are jamming thanks to John Olden
Speaker 1: down in Studio E. I'm Scott Fitzgerald again. He is
Speaker 1: John Olden, filling in for the vacationing Nick Coffee, taking
Speaker 1: a well deserved vacation. Big of course, nothing but TBT
Speaker 1: Madia here in Louisville.
Speaker 4: You know, we wish it was in Rup, but you know,
Speaker 4: this is going to be a lot of fun to
Speaker 4: go down there. Hopefully we get a row win. I
Speaker 4: mean we're just excited, you know, just to you know,
Speaker 4: have a LOUISVOVERUS Kentucky game in July is crazy, so
Speaker 4: we can't wait the field, the energy, you know, get
Speaker 4: out there and try to get a win.
Speaker 1: That is former Kentucky player Tyler Yulis on the TVT
Speaker 1: game tonight between Lot Familia and The vell. Meanwhile, Reese
Speaker 1: Gaines had this to say.
Speaker 2: To look different than obviously the true Robbie, would you
Speaker 2: know when you're in your college teams, you know this
Speaker 2: is a little bit slightly different. What the intensity is
Speaker 2: going to be there. The passion is still going.
Speaker 1: To be there. So exciting. I know fans are heading
Speaker 1: out there. There are plenty of seats available in the end zones.
Speaker 1: Mind you, it's up in the end and in the
Speaker 1: corner at Freedom All thirty three dollars will get you
Speaker 1: in the door. Tip off tonight is at nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: The winner is advancing to the semi finals and the
Speaker 1: winners will earn one million dollars. Not too shabby of
Speaker 1: a payday. Be interesting how they split that out, John,
Speaker 1: see if.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some of the broadcasts, it shows they've at least
Speaker 3: depending on which network. Guess it's been on the Fox Networks.
Speaker 3: But they'll show in the corner how each of them
Speaker 3: will divvy it up depending on which team.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, because it's not an even split.
Speaker 3: I guess it depends on the roles and how many
Speaker 3: minutes are playing that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so they probably got this all figured
Speaker 1: out and how they're going to do this, and then
Speaker 1: you start delving into the bracket. The game prior to
Speaker 1: that is going to be the Ohio State alumni taking
Speaker 1: on what I assume is going to be those are
Speaker 1: the folks from Boston College. I need to look at it.
Speaker 1: You get my mouse back here on the computer, and
Speaker 1: I can tell you they.
Speaker 3: Got the folks from Dayton Red Scare Red Scares to
Speaker 3: Ohio State's the other game tonight, and then tomorrow we've
Speaker 3: got Happy Valley Hooper's Penn State versus the Zoo Crew,
Speaker 3: which is Pittsburgh, as well as Forever Kops, the Houston
Speaker 3: alumni and Team Colorado.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, looking at takeover BC. I was trying
Speaker 1: to see some of these players that I recognized. I
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of them that are in here.
Speaker 1: It's just scattered throughout. So either way, I don't think
Speaker 1: a lot lot of folks are really concerning themselves with
Speaker 1: the game before. I think they're all just excited just
Speaker 1: to see Kentucky and Louisville and it. I mean, you
Speaker 1: could get these two together. I've said this before. You
Speaker 1: can get these two together, and you know, basket weaving
Speaker 1: and and fans would go to town over it. And
Speaker 1: it's fun for the city, it's fun for the environment,
Speaker 1: especially Louisville fans. You know, look, my heart goes out
Speaker 1: to you. My son's a big, big Louisville fan, and
Speaker 1: I watched him. I watched him just absolutely just suffer
Speaker 1: through what's happened to Louisville basketball. I you know, for me,
Speaker 1: Michigan football fell down before they won the National champions
Speaker 1: they didn't fall as far as Louisville basketball did. And
Speaker 1: you know, Louisville fans deserve better. It sounds like they're
Speaker 1: gonna get better. I know Nick's gonna talk a lot
Speaker 1: about that when he gets back. As they ramp up
Speaker 1: for basketball season. But it sounds like both programs got
Speaker 1: two great coaches put in place and should be exciting
Speaker 1: tonight to say the least. Hey, we're gonna break the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. When we come back, we'll talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more of the Olympics, talk about some
Speaker 1: stuff going on there. Busy, busy day, busy night on hand.
Speaker 1: Have him up here in the monitor watching some women's
Speaker 1: basketball as well going on, So we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: and more. We're back after this on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 1: ninety