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Speaker 2: They're supposed to.
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Speaker 2: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
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Speaker 3: All right, good afternoon, and welcome in Coffee and Company
Speaker 3: Guild by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 3: My name is Nick Coffee, Austin Montgomery alongside and every
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Speaker 3: yourself at home, and we're gonna have some fun over
Speaker 3: these next three hours. I'm coming to you from my
Speaker 3: cave in the basement. Austin he made his way in.
Speaker 3: Not a lot of people working today, I feel like
Speaker 3: in general, but you couldn't keep Austin out of there.
Speaker 3: N we probably could have been kind and maybe you
Speaker 3: know giving you. So let me let me start with this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look one thing you know about me, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna look out for my guys. Am I not, that's right,
Speaker 3: of course, you're a guy looker outer. Did you get
Speaker 3: offered a chance to stay in a hotel?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: I did, Okay, I just needed to know.
Speaker 2: No, it sounds intriguing because who doesn't like a night
Speaker 2: at a hotel? Right? But I literally live like six
Speaker 2: seven minutes away and it just someone could just like
Speaker 2: just drive straight down Market Street for six minutes and
Speaker 2: I should be fine. There's no need for a hotel,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: I was kind of worried that maybe you weren't offered
Speaker 3: the arrangements, the accommodations that the legendary other folks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, they they got the Tony Vannetti. They
Speaker 2: were doing it too. Also, did get offered super reimbursement?
Speaker 3: Sonetti got offered.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Vannettie hung out last night with Shannon
Speaker 2: the Dude and a couple other people down here. That's
Speaker 2: what they're talking about on the idea.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if it's because they just assumed, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think I was. Yeah, no, I didn't get offer
Speaker 3: the hotel because they knew I have remote equipment and
Speaker 3: I do my show remotely. That's right anyway, so it
Speaker 3: makes total sense.
Speaker 2: They offered me Uber reimbursement though, so I got to
Speaker 2: get an uber and uh it's and apparently I couldn't
Speaker 2: be getting reimbursed a lot of things. There's apparently a
Speaker 2: process to do that, and I don't know how. I've
Speaker 2: never never done it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to go through it with some travel
Speaker 3: Uh some years back, you know, like long ago when
Speaker 3: they did actually you know, look out for Yeah, that
Speaker 3: doesn't happen anymore. Although they will let me use the
Speaker 3: company vehicle to go somewhere if I can like tie
Speaker 3: into it's part for the show or whatnot. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, anything we can get around here, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything we can, any if we we can eat
Speaker 2: they I'll just yes, anything we can.
Speaker 3: I don't know what direction you were going, but you're right,
Speaker 3: anything we can get our I mean, that's why we don't.
Speaker 3: We don't do this for the money. We do. We
Speaker 3: do have probably some very prestigious salaries compared to some
Speaker 3: I hope you can sarcasm there, but we just do
Speaker 3: it because we went free stuff. Yeah, there are some
Speaker 3: occasional perks that come with this. So one of those
Speaker 3: is that I can sit here in my home and
Speaker 3: be warm and do the show and not have to
Speaker 3: get out in this weather. And I will say, hotel
Speaker 3: funds are always kind of kind of nice. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: have wanted to do it last night. But if I
Speaker 3: had to choose, can I occasionally get put up in
Speaker 3: a room? Or can I keep remote equipment at home
Speaker 3: to where I can conveniently broadcast, you know, whenever I
Speaker 3: want that, I would take the ladder. So anyhow, look
Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna get into it today because there's
Speaker 3: a lot to get into and I mean a whole lot.
Speaker 3: Great weekend for both college basketball programs around here, Louisville
Speaker 3: and Kentucky. The NFL regular season has come to an end,
Speaker 3: well pretty much come to an end, and we've got
Speaker 3: the playoffs, the playoff matchups all set up. So, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know how much it's going to be a
Speaker 3: topic today. I kind of feel like I want to
Speaker 3: address it once the dust settles, But man, it has
Speaker 3: continuously been busy for Jeff Bram and his team when
Speaker 3: it comes to the transfer portal. Every time I refresh Twitter,
Speaker 3: every time I look up, I feel like they're getting
Speaker 3: somebody committed to them in the portal. So there's a
Speaker 3: lot we will get to. But I will say to
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, talk about the obvious, the snowstorm
Speaker 3: that hit this region in a way that you know,
Speaker 3: I certainly wasn't expecting whenever they're right, they're right. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, I did not expect us to get
Speaker 3: anything close to what was being thrown out there as
Speaker 3: far as the amount of snow. Like I thought we'd
Speaker 3: get something. I thought it would be cold, But like
Speaker 3: I we haven't had. We haven't had this kind of
Speaker 3: girth when it comes to snow.
Speaker 2: That's right, Well speak for yourself, yeah, of the snow.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. So this is without question the most snow
Speaker 3: and the most that this area has been impacted by
Speaker 3: this kind of weather. I feel like in many, many years.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess in order to know if we've
Speaker 3: been impacted at the same rate we were back in
Speaker 3: I don't know, nineteen eighty four or whatnot, I don't
Speaker 3: know how you'd be able to measure that. But a
Speaker 3: lot of schools around here are closed, and they closed
Speaker 3: for just for two days, and I haven't looked to
Speaker 3: see if what they're talking about Friday is anything closed
Speaker 3: to what just happened. But not only did we end
Speaker 3: up getting I think you know the amount of snow,
Speaker 3: the inches that you know a lot of times people
Speaker 3: exaggerate the inches. Well that I'm not one to.
Speaker 2: Do it, but I know a lot of yes, depends
Speaker 2: on what you count the base at.
Speaker 3: Exactly, yeah, exactly, and it counts. So nonetheless, they not
Speaker 3: only did they get it right when it comes to that,
Speaker 3: it played out almost exactly the way I expected. And
Speaker 3: I guess maybe this is something to keep an eye
Speaker 3: on if you're trying to if you're trying to figure
Speaker 3: out which of the local meteorologists, or maybe it's not
Speaker 3: even local, maybe it's just somebody on the weather channel,
Speaker 3: I don't know, and you're trying to figure out which
Speaker 3: one you can trust the most. I would say, if
Speaker 3: they're all kind of on the same exact page, then
Speaker 3: I would say, then then that's probably a good sign
Speaker 3: that it's going to be accurate when it comes to
Speaker 3: the forecast. I mean, I'm sure there's been times where
Speaker 3: they all were on the same page exactly and it
Speaker 3: was the exact opposite that happens. But I feel like
Speaker 3: the only difference I saw was there were and I'm
Speaker 3: not going to mention any names because I know it's
Speaker 3: a very sensitive industry that is, you know, meteorology, whether
Speaker 3: the weather men and women. And I say that understanding that,
Speaker 3: like we have maybe the most vain jobs out there.
Speaker 3: We work in radio, right, we want a platform to
Speaker 3: yell and and you know, show ourselves. What we do
Speaker 3: is behind closed doors. People can't see what we look like,
Speaker 3: so don't take it as an insult. But the only
Speaker 3: difference I saw, and it was slight difference, was just
Speaker 3: maybe the regions and where in which it was gonna
Speaker 3: be the heaviest, Like some were saying that south central
Speaker 3: Kentucky wouldn't be impacted all that much. And I think they,
Speaker 3: you know, Austin, you're a wrestling guy, like I think
Speaker 3: they always kind of they want to slight what do
Speaker 3: you call it when you want to you slightly? You know,
Speaker 3: I guess in wrestling you can't really do it. So
Speaker 3: maybe I'm making a bad analogy here, but like they'll
Speaker 3: throw little barbs at each other to where it's not
Speaker 3: like they're, you know, calling out each other by name,
Speaker 3: but they'll know, Hey, this guy over here, Jude Redfield
Speaker 3: on on w d RB, who I love you, Jude.
Speaker 3: You know he's saying that there's gonna be actual snow
Speaker 3: in south central Kentucky. Well, I'm here to tell you,
Speaker 3: j Cardosi a wlkyh. He's a bomb and he's wrong.
Speaker 3: Like they're not gonna go They're not gonna go full heat,
Speaker 3: which would be hilarious.
Speaker 2: I mean that we'd call it getting call it getting heat, right,
Speaker 2: that's what you're saying.
Speaker 3: It's like Anchorman, Yeah, but with weather, you know, with
Speaker 3: the weather guts. But nonetheless, that was only difference I saw.
Speaker 3: Was there there were some making some slight changes as
Speaker 3: far as what they thought would happen in a certain region,
Speaker 3: But overall everybody seemed to be on the same page
Speaker 3: and they got it right. And I know there was
Speaker 3: there's probably many many people that wanted them to be
Speaker 3: completely wrong, not only so you could maybe I don't know,
Speaker 3: make fun of them and their industry, or maybe you
Speaker 3: didn't want it because you hate this weather and you're
Speaker 3: somebody that no matter what you're gonna have to work,
Speaker 3: and maybe you have to work more because of the
Speaker 3: type of work that you do. I mean, maybe it's
Speaker 3: more so needed when you have weather like this. I'm
Speaker 3: sure there are a lot of people that hate this
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, and I get it because it is inconveniencing.
Speaker 3: We were able to get my kids out of the house,
Speaker 3: which was very, very beneficial for me.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't get anybody to take them. I
Speaker 3: just threw them out in the snow and you know,
Speaker 3: hopefully they can survive out there. Well. I do the
Speaker 3: radio show because I I mean, I love my children.
Speaker 2: Come back when the when the when the street lights
Speaker 2: come on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, come yeah, come back later. I didn't really do that,
Speaker 3: by the way. You never know if people might take
Speaker 3: you serious. My kids are safe, but we got them.
Speaker 3: We got them situated to go to their to their
Speaker 3: to their grandma's. So, you know, that was a big
Speaker 3: game changer for me because I you know, I know
Speaker 3: I'm not the only person. I always feel bad when
Speaker 3: I say that, because you know, I'm a parent and
Speaker 3: people are probably maybe thinking this guy's a real a hole.
Speaker 3: He should he should cherish every second he gets with
Speaker 3: his kid. Uh. Well, you know, I know I'm not
Speaker 3: Maybe I am the bad guy here, but I know
Speaker 3: I'm not the only one. And I know there are
Speaker 3: people listening right now that totally agree. What are the
Speaker 3: things that, uh that that sucks about having schools closed
Speaker 3: and work from home or whatever it may be, where
Speaker 3: everybody's at home. Your kids can one drive you crazy,
Speaker 3: and sometimes you know you got to do stuff you can't.
Speaker 3: You know, you don't get the day off of school,
Speaker 3: you don't get the day off of daycare. So you
Speaker 3: know it, when it comes down to it, uh, I
Speaker 3: love snow days like this. I mean again, I went
Speaker 3: on a little bit of a of a to the
Speaker 3: left turn there and just got back to where I
Speaker 3: was going. But when it comes down to being able
Speaker 3: to kind of be you know, tucked away, I like it.
Speaker 3: Other than I did think I was gonna lose my
Speaker 3: mind on my children. But other than that, I kind
Speaker 3: of feel like, you know, maybe it's because I'm fortunate
Speaker 3: to be able to work from home like this, but
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like this is the first time
Speaker 3: around here in a long time where and I know
Speaker 3: not everybody, but a good chunk of the region, we're
Speaker 3: all just kind of snuggled up, staying warm and looking
Speaker 3: outside at the beautiful snow that we got, and it's
Speaker 3: kind of nice. It's not quite like the snow days
Speaker 3: that you got when you were when you were a kid, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, I'm sorry, Austin, you didn't get a
Speaker 3: chance to experience though she grew up in Arizona. No
Speaker 3: way you had a snow day right in Arizona.
Speaker 2: No way there is about. Sorry. There was someone that called,
Speaker 2: but then they just hung up. Sorry, So I just
Speaker 2: can always call if you want to. But I remember
Speaker 2: distinctly about two or three different snow days in Arizona,
Speaker 2: in Arizona, and how two of them being like on
Speaker 2: Easter around Easter time, and one actually being during I
Speaker 2: remember the football season. I'm pretty sure it was the
Speaker 2: night where I think it was the AFC Championship game
Speaker 2: the Colts and the Patriots, and the Colts made a
Speaker 2: good comeback and that so sent them to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And uh, I remember raining on that night. The snow
Speaker 2: was gone melted by like the very next day at
Speaker 2: sures are we talking here in this it was like
Speaker 2: thirty degrees like probably right at the freezing rain or Arizona. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's when it gets that, when it gets
Speaker 2: that cold, it's two jacket wearing weather, as I call it,
Speaker 2: and that's pretty bad. But I remember they canceled or
Speaker 2: they called school off or said that school was delayed
Speaker 2: until twelve if you want to come in, because come on, guys,
Speaker 2: where Arizona. Let us let us have fun in the snow.
Speaker 3: Well, So, like I think, you know, I'm sure every
Speaker 3: region has a reputation as far as how they deal
Speaker 3: with whether they don't often get we I feel and
Speaker 3: maybe it's just because, man, there were such great memories
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, But I feel like growing
Speaker 3: up in this area, there was a lot more snow
Speaker 3: like it was pretty common.
Speaker 2: When I visited a lot. That's what it felt like
Speaker 2: to It always felt like when I came back it
Speaker 2: was snowing.
Speaker 3: Like now, I think you can count on one hand
Speaker 3: each winter the last few years where we've actually gotten
Speaker 3: snow where you can look outside and see that it snowed.
Speaker 3: It wasn't just like you know, a dusting or whatnot.
Speaker 3: But I feel like when I was younger, even when
Speaker 3: we didn't get snow days which we got plenty of them.
Speaker 3: We still had, Like I just feel like once a
Speaker 3: week there'd be snow, Like I just remember there always
Speaker 3: being snow on the ground or there being some kind
Speaker 3: of snowy weather that impacted us when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's just because again those things were fun
Speaker 3: to me. But you know, this seems like the biggest
Speaker 3: that it's got, for this seems like the most impact
Speaker 3: that we've been in a while around here. But what
Speaker 3: I was getting at when it comes to the regions,
Speaker 3: like whenever right now, I would say we're probably to
Speaker 3: the neighbor. Our neighbors to the north probably look at
Speaker 3: us as whimps because you know, they get way more
Speaker 3: snow and like, you know, a couple couple of feet
Speaker 3: into much for them. I mean that's probably an exaggeration,
Speaker 3: but still like they're used to it and they think
Speaker 3: we're soft because maybe we can't drive when we get
Speaker 3: something like this, Well Arizona opposite, like we may we
Speaker 3: in Kentucky may look at what you guys do and
Speaker 3: how you bundle up and how you drive for like
Speaker 3: you know, some sleet and think like you guys can't
Speaker 3: handle it. So it's all it's all based off of
Speaker 3: I mean again, there's also a reason as to why,
Speaker 3: like the cities to the north and in the Midwest
Speaker 3: are are much more equipped to handle it, even the
Speaker 3: cities than on its biggest Leuisvell. It's because, you know what,
Speaker 3: they have a lot more resources. There's a lot more
Speaker 3: people that work for you know, for the government that's
Speaker 3: out there taking care of roads and those kind of things.
Speaker 3: And by the way, those people are super important. And
Speaker 3: I'm sure you don't think about them often, but days
Speaker 3: like today and yesterday and even tomorrow, I'm sure we
Speaker 3: appreciate them out there because even when the roads aren't great, man,
Speaker 3: think about how bad they'd be if we didn't have
Speaker 3: anybody out there.
Speaker 2: There's a guy that lives like right on my block.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, here's the neighbor right behind me. But
Speaker 2: he drives a company truck. And what I've just now
Speaker 2: noticed this year, and maybe is because the first time
Speaker 2: they projected like a huge snow slash ice storm like this,
Speaker 2: but I noticed Saturday, right before everything like got pretty nasty,
Speaker 2: he had a snow plow on the front of his
Speaker 2: truck and on the back of it he had like
Speaker 2: a whole thing full of ice or full of salt.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, all right, let's go. This guy's looking
Speaker 2: out for us.
Speaker 3: It's just being a good member of the community.
Speaker 2: But I don't think. I don't think he got our
Speaker 2: block at all. Does not look good. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he forgot about us or forgot to turn on
Speaker 2: the switch. Why was driving off the work forgot you? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he must have forgot it. I thought that we were set.
Speaker 2: I looked at Sidney, right, we're good, We're good and no,
Speaker 2: so I mean not that I'm mad at you or anything.
Speaker 2: He just kind of he zigged and we zagged.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say this. We're gonna get to sports
Speaker 3: in a moment, I promised. But before we get to
Speaker 3: our first break, here, just a couple more things I
Speaker 3: wanted through out there, because I've my wife and I
Speaker 3: got into not an argument, but you know, she she
Speaker 3: feels a certain way and I think she's wrong. And
Speaker 3: what do I do. I'm a child. I take it
Speaker 3: to my radio show and try to get my listeners
Speaker 3: to convince me that I'm right and my wife's wrong.
Speaker 3: That's what any man would do. But she we were
Speaker 3: out yesterday, so we woke up last night or woke
Speaker 3: up yesterday morning, and sure enough, we woke up and
Speaker 3: it was already it was already a good amount of
Speaker 3: snow on the ground and it really never stopped. So
Speaker 3: we took the kids out did a little sledding in
Speaker 3: the driveway. This is where, you know, there's no nothing
Speaker 3: good other than one thing about having the hill in
Speaker 3: my in my driveway. I have a huge steep hill
Speaker 3: and it sucks really in every way, but yesterday we
Speaker 3: got to use it to sled and it was perfect.
Speaker 3: So there's again that's the only good thing that that
Speaker 3: comes with it. So we had we had a good
Speaker 3: time out there. And my wife she was out there
Speaker 3: just snow, you know, you shoveling snow, not to completely
Speaker 3: clear our driveway, but just to you know, kind of
Speaker 3: keep it, you know, to where it's not as bad
Speaker 3: as we we you know, the grass and what and
Speaker 3: that kind of thing as far as the accumulation. So
Speaker 3: it wasn't as if she got it completely clear, but
Speaker 3: she was about halfway through it. I was helping the
Speaker 3: kids sled and I one didn't want to, I didn't
Speaker 3: want to shovel, and I also, well, dude, I didn't
Speaker 3: want to shovel and also I didn't want her to
Speaker 3: keep doing it and making me feel bad. So I
Speaker 3: was like, babe, why, like do you really think this
Speaker 3: will this will be like this is gonna help because
Speaker 3: it's only gonna get We're only gonna get more snow later,
Speaker 3: we're gonna get some ice and sleep freezing rain. Then
Speaker 3: we're gonna get more snow after that. Like I said,
Speaker 3: I just I just feel like doing all that is
Speaker 3: is it's not really it's not really worth it, And
Speaker 3: and she kept going. So finally I was like, well, look,
Speaker 3: you're actually gonna make it worse. I didn't want to
Speaker 3: say it, but you're gonna make it worse because what
Speaker 3: you're doing is you're getting rid of a big part
Speaker 3: of the base to where all that's gonna be underneath
Speaker 3: it is ice. And she was like, no, no, you're wrong. Well,
Speaker 3: last night, after she had shoveled it, we were able
Speaker 3: to get out of the driveway and then get up
Speaker 3: the driveway, so I kind of think she felt like
Speaker 3: she won. Well then today, of course this morning it's snowed.
Speaker 3: Did it end up snowing quite a bit, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there was a I mean it was snowing really all morning,
Speaker 3: but there was I don't know, about an hour hour
Speaker 3: and a half where it was coming down harder than
Speaker 3: it was yesterday, at least where I was. So you know,
Speaker 3: here I am thinking, is it gonna be much slicker
Speaker 3: and much more difficult to drive up now that we've
Speaker 3: had another layer of like ice and sleet and they
Speaker 3: put more snow on it? And sure enough, like our
Speaker 3: our driveway, I bet it's like two and a half
Speaker 3: inches of ice. It's like an ice like it it's
Speaker 3: I mean, so not only could we not get back
Speaker 3: up the driveway, we couldn't walk up a bit walk
Speaker 3: up right because it was literally it's that steep and
Speaker 3: it's just nothing but ice and it's thick. So, like,
Speaker 3: the reason I feel like I can tell her that
Speaker 3: she's wrong is because we dropped the kids off earlier
Speaker 3: today at their grandmother's house and they haven't opened their
Speaker 3: garage or walked on their driveway since it started snowing
Speaker 3: Sunday morning. So we're talking about no footprints.
Speaker 2: Nothing, so just some fresh snow. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we end up pulling in her driveway and
Speaker 3: I could easily walk because it had like a layer
Speaker 3: over the ice to where you know it was it
Speaker 3: was really just deep enough to where and we had
Speaker 3: some more snow to where you could easily walk on
Speaker 3: that better and you could drive on it better. And
Speaker 3: I feel like ours would have looked like that if
Speaker 3: it wasn't for my wife. But anyways, now our our
Speaker 3: vehicle is, and when she gets back, she's gonna be
Speaker 3: sitting at it in the drive she's gonna be sitting
Speaker 3: at it in the street right next to our house
Speaker 3: because we can't get up. And I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, well, never mind, I'd be like that sometimes.
Speaker 3: Well I I was gonna say you can't get it
Speaker 3: up and then you know, and then you could have
Speaker 3: said that, well you know, I haven't had that issue.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, shout out doctor wood Leuvill Minsk, right. But
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like if I was, and she's
Speaker 3: she you know, Mercedes, she's pretty's yeah, she's pretty sassy.
Speaker 3: Like if I would have, you know, mentioned not being
Speaker 3: able to get it up the driveway, she may make
Speaker 3: some kind of remarking that's right, make me more insecure
Speaker 3: than already.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's most best not the poke, the pot,
Speaker 2: the bear.
Speaker 3: Leave i'let her think she got the wind.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is we never had snow like well,
Speaker 2: like I said, aside from like the two times where
Speaker 2: it actually snowed but it relatively melts away. Well, I
Speaker 2: lived on a military base. So now we lived in
Speaker 2: a valley. We're surrounded by mountains, and the mountains always
Speaker 2: got snow. So what they did for like on the
Speaker 2: military base, like the start of December, they would have
Speaker 2: like like a wonderland type of thing out there for
Speaker 2: and they would go get the trucks full of snow
Speaker 2: from the mountains and bring them down and there would
Speaker 2: be like three big, huge lots of snow and that's
Speaker 2: where kids could play in it and kind of get
Speaker 2: that snow experience. So like that, I that was our
Speaker 2: snow day.
Speaker 3: He's basically, I mean, I'm sure everybody's as different. And
Speaker 3: I think and this is just me as a kid being,
Speaker 3: you know, thinking my era. You know, I had it
Speaker 3: the best, which I think that's a good thing because
Speaker 3: you means you enjoyed your childhood and whatnot. But I
Speaker 3: feel like we got enough snow days to where they
Speaker 3: were like a huge deal, Like we weren't missing weeks
Speaker 3: of school. You know, it wasn't as if, like you know,
Speaker 3: we were out all the time, And it wasn't as
Speaker 3: if like we got one or two every school year.
Speaker 3: We would get probably like five to seven a year,
Speaker 3: spread out from you know, December to February, and you
Speaker 3: never and we never got it. I mean, there were
Speaker 3: a couple of storms where you knew for sure, all right,
Speaker 3: we're not having school, But more often than not, the
Speaker 3: majority of the snow days I had when I went
Speaker 3: to school in the Bullet County Public school system in
Speaker 3: the nineties, you knew you were going to get something,
Speaker 3: but you didn't know how bad it was gonna be
Speaker 3: mm hm. And you didn't know. I mean, we were
Speaker 3: right there on the tempting. I feel like one of
Speaker 3: the quickest things I learned in school was, you know
Speaker 3: what what freezing tim is? Thirty two degrees? Because I want,
Speaker 3: I knew I needed to know if we get any snow,
Speaker 3: how cold is it gonna be? Am I gonna have
Speaker 3: a chance to maybe have a snow day. So the
Speaker 3: majority of the days I got I woke up earlier
Speaker 3: than I probably usually did just a little bit. I
Speaker 3: was more awake because I was so eager to just
Speaker 3: get up and either turn my TV on or run
Speaker 3: to the living room and turn on turn on the
Speaker 3: TV I wasn't already on, and I waited. I sat
Speaker 3: in front of that at that TV. You watch that ticker,
Speaker 3: the bottom ticker.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 3: And I knew Anderson County always getting out of school,
Speaker 3: and I knew occasionally beth Haven Christian School would be closed.
Speaker 3: Breckinridge always closed always, but bullet, That's when I knew
Speaker 3: if we hit Breckinridge and they went to Carroll County, Nope,
Speaker 3: we gotta go to school. Unhappy. Nick Coffee as a
Speaker 3: youngster didn't like, oh wow, because you cause you're because.
Speaker 2: You're right there.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, watching the numbers in the power Ball, Baby,
Speaker 3: that's what it's all about. And and I'd cherish the
Speaker 3: moment when I would find out we were get a
Speaker 3: snow day.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: And I hate now that kids don't get to experience that. Man,
Speaker 3: they got their parents, got an automated text, they got
Speaker 3: they got an app for it, they're getting a push notification,
Speaker 3: they got the Facebook page.
Speaker 2: For the school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you don't know what it's like
Speaker 3: to I mean, the thrill for a seven year old,
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? It's that? And now you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't get it, and I you know, I hate
Speaker 3: it for the generation. I hope, I hope it doesn't
Speaker 3: impact this this society down the line, because that was
Speaker 3: a very very rewarding experience for me, very cathartic. Yes,
Speaker 3: good stuff. All right, let's get to a quick break.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll you know, get this thing back on the rails.
Speaker 3: Maybe we won't. It's kind of a snow day. We're
Speaker 3: having some fun. We have to talk about Louisville basketball
Speaker 3: going to Virginia and went in by twenty points. If
Speaker 3: you don't love this team, I don't. I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about how good they're gonna be, But I don't know
Speaker 3: how you don't love watching this team play. Man this Uh,
Speaker 3: it's been a fun ride so far for Pat Kelsey
Speaker 3: and they're getting better. That's awesome. Mark Pope his team, yuck.
Speaker 3: They played really well and beat a really good Florida.
Speaker 2: Didn't he get arrested?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there isn't. Mark Pope and election and that got arrested.
Speaker 3: That's true. I don't know if it's him or not.
Speaker 2: Some poor guy, I had to get sacrificed.
Speaker 3: That actually did happen in December. That's a real thing. Also,
Speaker 3: I got a lot of takeaways, believe it or not
Speaker 3: from the NFL season wrapping up as we head into
Speaker 3: the postseason. Austin won't we won't talk too much about
Speaker 3: your vikings because I know that was tough last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was pretty bad.
Speaker 3: That was tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to be a good team, go
Speaker 2: out there and pete good teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was but hey, look still you still are
Speaker 3: in the midst of a great year and would actually
Speaker 3: want to get to later when it comes to this
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. Is I feel like momentum is huge
Speaker 3: entering the postseason in the NFL, and some teams have
Speaker 3: a lot of it, some teams don't. So anyways, we
Speaker 3: got a lot more to get to stick aroundright here,
Speaker 3: it's Coffee and Company. Feel about Thornton's on Sports Talk
Speaker 3: seven ninety.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Coffee and Company with Nick Coffee on
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Speaker 3: That's right, it's coffee and Company. If feel about Thornton's
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Speaker 3: with us here on a Monday afternoon Nick Coffee, Austin
Speaker 3: Montgomer That's us, and I was hoping that we would
Speaker 3: have our first, you know, kind of normal week. I'm
Speaker 3: big on routine and structure, and we will have a
Speaker 3: full work week at least around here. But it doesn't
Speaker 3: feel normal because of the conditions out there.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: It does look like the power outages have been have
Speaker 3: been pretty pretty minor pretty light.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it seemed like. Oh you know, I
Speaker 2: know that that's what everyone's scared of when all this
Speaker 2: stuff comes, and that's why everyone shops like the world
Speaker 2: was ending. But I haven't heard or seen too many
Speaker 2: down power lines or people that's had to go somewhere
Speaker 2: else because their power was out or heard cable went out.
Speaker 2: But I guess that's a spare Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think right now. In Jefferson County, LGNE is estimated that
Speaker 3: there were thirteen hundred people of customers without power. That
Speaker 3: was as of about one o'clock this afternoon. So I
Speaker 3: mean that is pretty light as far as the amount.
Speaker 3: But again, imagine being one of those thirteen hundred people
Speaker 3: thinking it's yeah, easy for you to say there's not
Speaker 3: many affected, you know, when it's used. So if you
Speaker 3: do have no if you've got no power, I feel
Speaker 3: for you because that that's the worst. That's where none
Speaker 3: of this is in any way fun at all, because
Speaker 3: not only are you you know, you're not able to
Speaker 3: go out and do anything because everything's closed, but you
Speaker 3: have no power, so you don't, you don't, you don't
Speaker 3: want to stay in your home. So I hopefully everybody
Speaker 3: gets power back soon. But that's typically how it works
Speaker 3: to where once everything is is kind of over and
Speaker 3: it gets colder and dark, and it freezes and there's wind,
Speaker 3: that's when you start seeing, you know, the electricity become
Speaker 3: issues with the down power lines and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I wasn't here for the one that the storm that
Speaker 2: they always reference, so one was like two thousand and nine, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: storm that that one.
Speaker 3: Was pretty bad, right, Yeah, My parents were without power
Speaker 3: for no joke, nearly two weeks. Oh wow, I'd have
Speaker 3: been longer. Actually, yeah it was.
Speaker 2: They had to postpone some looival games too.
Speaker 3: If it was straight ice like it was just to
Speaker 3: me it was in clearly ice is the most dangerous
Speaker 3: I think substance you can you can have on the roadways.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure there's other ways that I mean,
Speaker 3: clearly you gotta be careful out there, but snow and ice,
Speaker 3: it's really a different world when it comes to just
Speaker 3: how dangerous it can be, especially how deceptive it can be,
Speaker 3: because you can quite literally not even think the road's
Speaker 3: wet in a certain spot, and you know you'll realize
Speaker 3: pretty quickly if you run over ice and you weren't
Speaker 3: expecting it. So I guess the cold weather at this
Speaker 3: point is really what is what you need to be
Speaker 3: worried about, because I think for the most part, the
Speaker 3: snow and freezing rain, that kind of stuff, I feel
Speaker 3: like it's gone for the rest of the week until
Speaker 3: maybe Friday. I think Friday is the next storm we
Speaker 3: are potentially gonna get great. Yeah, we'll see, we shall see.
Speaker 2: I'm not scared of my bad I'm not scared of
Speaker 2: slipping on ice just to hurt myself. I'm selfishly more
Speaker 2: scared of I know, someone just probably saw that and
Speaker 2: they think it's funny, because I think that that's funny,
Speaker 2: and like to hell, if my tailbone got broken, I
Speaker 2: just I just don't want someone looking inside. Is that
Speaker 2: that guy from across the street, he just busted all over,
Speaker 2: busted ass all over the place.
Speaker 3: I nearly I fell earlier today and it wasn't terrible.
Speaker 3: And yesterday I nearly fell a few times. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's just because I'm so scared of
Speaker 3: falling and like not not even I'm to the point
Speaker 3: where I don't care if anybody sees it, Like again,
Speaker 3: that wouldn't be ideal. I would prefer if I'm going
Speaker 3: to fall, I would like nobody to see it. But
Speaker 3: my only worry is like, don't hurt yourself, because man,
Speaker 3: it could be it could be painful. You can like
Speaker 3: seriously hurt yourself. It's not careful. And yesterday when I
Speaker 3: nearly fell but didn't, and then today the two times
Speaker 3: I nearly felt but didn't, I get angry after the fact,
Speaker 3: not like relieved. I'm like, oh my god, what the hell?
Speaker 3: Because when you don't expect it, and then you know,
Speaker 3: I'm not good with the ice I was. I mean,
Speaker 3: I did the I had my kids, uh tablet and
Speaker 3: you know, because they were trying to navigate through it
Speaker 3: as well. And I had my kids, uh little I've
Speaker 3: had tablet and I'm holding it and I all of
Speaker 3: a sudden just start. My one foot starts to slip,
Speaker 3: and then I'm doing like I'm, I'm, I'm. My feet
Speaker 3: are going back and forth on the ice and I'm you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was probably it was probably two seconds, but it
Speaker 3: felt like ten seconds.
Speaker 2: Fake fall is worse than a real fall.
Speaker 3: And I didn't actually fall, but I gathered myself, but
Speaker 3: I nearly fell, and I was so angry, and then
Speaker 3: my kids started laughing and it kind of made me
Speaker 3: not not as angry. But yeah, if I would have fell,
Speaker 3: it would have been it would have been bad.
Speaker 1: Like it was.
Speaker 3: It was either you better catch yourself and get balanced,
Speaker 3: or one of these feet's gonna slip too far and
Speaker 3: you're gonna go up in the air and you might
Speaker 3: you might need to say a quick prayer.
Speaker 2: That's yep, that's what it's what it mine is My
Speaker 2: reputation's at stake here. Don't look like a full don't.
Speaker 3: Fall, Yeah, but I mean, like, you know, don't don't
Speaker 3: get yourself killed because you're trying to make yourself not
Speaker 3: look as foolish during a fall. That would be worse.
Speaker 3: It's a bad way to go out, that's true, a
Speaker 3: really bad way to go out. All right, so the
Speaker 3: NFL playoffs are now are now set after this this
Speaker 3: weekend's games, And really what it came down to was
Speaker 3: the Bengals were the I think the Bengals were the
Speaker 3: were the team that really, you know, was alive still
Speaker 3: heading into their last game, and two plausible things needed
Speaker 3: to happen, and one of them did. They ended up
Speaker 3: beating the Steelers in Pittsburgh, but then they needed the
Speaker 3: Broncos to lose to Chiefs, and you know, once that
Speaker 3: game played out, Austin I kind of felt like, all right, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I guess it makes total sense that the
Speaker 3: Chiefs would not be looking to do the Bengals any
Speaker 3: favors at all. Like, you know, I'm not a Bingles
Speaker 3: fan myself, but I know a lot of my friends.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of friends that are, and I
Speaker 3: know they were. They were kind of like, yeah, well
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. Like they wanted to beat the Steelers
Speaker 3: to keep hope a lot, but they kind of deep
Speaker 3: down felt like it's we talked about it on Friday
Speaker 3: that really the most unlikely thing to happen that needed
Speaker 3: to happen for the Steelers was not the for the Bengals.
Speaker 3: Was not beating the Steelers. It was more so, well
Speaker 3: the Chiefs give a damn like, why would they even
Speaker 3: like they may actually just want to end the game
Speaker 3: and get it over.
Speaker 2: With, right, Yeah, And you can tell by how they
Speaker 2: were literally like on their there, maybe not even their
Speaker 2: second string, and then the Broncos just devoured them. And
Speaker 2: probably because and Andy Reid probably won't tell you this,
Speaker 2: but you it's you probably don't want to end up
Speaker 2: having to face Joe Burrow in the playoffs. And once again,
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not like the big Joe Joe Burrow defender,
Speaker 2: like I know, how weird talk about how good he was.
Speaker 2: I actually heard some analysts say, well, the NFL playoffs
Speaker 2: are now missing out because there's no Joe Burrow, and
Speaker 2: we probably need to settle down on that. They probably
Speaker 2: should have had a better season, but yeah, that's uh,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs weren't doing them any favors, and probably because
Speaker 2: they didn't want the chance to run into them because
Speaker 2: they Joe's kind of been there, there, there, there there kryptonite.
Speaker 3: I mean, they should they probably would feel pretty good
Speaker 3: about their chances against anybody when they're at home, but Burrow,
Speaker 3: the build up that would be there if somehow Burrow
Speaker 3: got in the playoffs and he's making that trip to
Speaker 3: Arrow ahead. Yep, for that, I mean that would be
Speaker 3: I mean not to say Pat ma Holmes wouldn't come
Speaker 3: out in the ball because you know, there's there's not
Speaker 3: many games where there's been high pressure, hot stakes and
Speaker 3: he and he hasn't been able to come through. But yeah,
Speaker 3: there's no doubt if you're if you're the it's not
Speaker 3: even really about you being fearful of them, it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll avoid that if we can because and we also
Speaker 3: have they had nothing to gain by winning. So here
Speaker 3: here are the matchups that we'll have coming up this
Speaker 3: weekend in the wild card weekend, the Chargers are going
Speaker 3: to take on the Texans. That'll be the first game
Speaker 3: on Saturday, and then we've got the Steelers and the
Speaker 3: Ravens that'll be at eight o'clock on Saturday, and then
Speaker 3: on Sunday, Broncos and Bills at one o'clock, Packers and
Speaker 3: Eagles at four thirty, and then the late game will
Speaker 3: be the Commanders and the Buccaneers. And then this has
Speaker 3: got to be new right, a Monday playoff game. I
Speaker 3: kind of feel like this Vikings Rams game. I kind
Speaker 3: of feel like the maybe this is like the second
Speaker 3: or third time, because now that I'm looking at it again,
Speaker 3: I'm going back in time thinking, Okay, maybe I do
Speaker 3: remember there being a playoff game. I'm trying to remember
Speaker 3: bat today or a Sunday, but I kind of think
Speaker 3: one day. I feel like one time they had a
Speaker 3: playoff game on a weekday during the day because of
Speaker 3: like COVID stuff, because of like weather or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty I'm pretty sure you're right. I can't
Speaker 2: remember anything that's been done on a Monday.
Speaker 3: But look, the more playoff games they give us, the
Speaker 3: better it is. I think super wild Card Weekend, the
Speaker 3: product of the NFL is pretty awesome. Therefore, any and
Speaker 3: when the games aren't super competitive, the NFL dominates when
Speaker 3: it comes to viewership, and the playoff games have typically
Speaker 3: But I mean, I feel like we've been fortunate in
Speaker 3: the NFL in recent years to where even if even
Speaker 3: if it's not a team that you you want to
Speaker 3: win because you're not a fan or maybe you're not
Speaker 3: winning your bets, when it comes down to just some
Speaker 3: of these actual games themselves, the back and forth we've been.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was one year I think it was
Speaker 3: a few years ago where I'm thinking to myself, We'll
Speaker 3: never get a weekend like that to where you had
Speaker 3: like three thrilling games. So I do want to I
Speaker 3: don't want to jinx it. I don't know if we're
Speaker 3: gonna get that this time around, but the playoffs typically deliver.
Speaker 3: And I'm certainly pumped about all these games this week.
Speaker 3: And I'd say the one that will get the most attention,
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, is it, well two things. One,
Speaker 3: the Ravens and the Steelers is not a game that like,
Speaker 3: I mean, I know the Steelers, of course are are
Speaker 3: are a good team. They've got no momentum, but they're
Speaker 3: a good team. But like if the Ravens are, Like
Speaker 3: if there's gonna be a bunch of chat this week
Speaker 3: about could Lamar Jackson win. I mean, you can't really
Speaker 3: control that if you're Ravens and Lamar, but like as
Speaker 3: somebody who is clearly gonna pull for the Ravens specifically
Speaker 3: because Lamar, like if we're talking about you know, and
Speaker 3: again it's not to say that it's super easy, but
Speaker 3: I just feel like I'm gonna be annoyed if there's
Speaker 3: a whole lot of build up of like can Lamar Like, No,
Speaker 3: the Ravens already better team than the Steelers. They could lose,
Speaker 3: because you know anybody can lose, it's the NFL. But like,
Speaker 3: it would be a disaster if Lamar in the Ravens
Speaker 3: can't get past the Steelers. And again in the NFL,
Speaker 3: you know, anybody can get beat. But if this team
Speaker 3: really is as good as we know they are, as
Speaker 3: far as what we've seen at times, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: one thing to do in the postseason, but when this
Speaker 3: team is clicking and they've got their defense not being
Speaker 3: so vulnerable, and they've got a good balance with Henry
Speaker 3: and Lamar on the ground, you got say Flowers making plays,
Speaker 3: Bateman's having a breakout year. I mean, the Ravens should
Speaker 3: win this game without question. So I'm sure that'll get
Speaker 3: some chatter around here because of Lamar. But I think
Speaker 3: the two games that I'm most interested to watch, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think actually the biggest game is going to be
Speaker 3: the Vikings Rams, because the Rams have some momentum, they're
Speaker 3: playing well, and the Vikings had a phenomenal season coming
Speaker 3: off a tough loss last night to the Lions. But
Speaker 3: I'm also interested in the Buccaneers Commanders game. I just feel,
Speaker 3: you know, that's probably me just nerding out because I
Speaker 3: think both guys here are pretty interesting. Baker Mayfield has
Speaker 3: kind of resurrected his career, and yeah, and you know
Speaker 3: they've got a home game in the playoffs, and if
Speaker 3: he wins another playoff game for the Buccaneers, I think
Speaker 3: that's another sign that you know, this guy, they thought
Speaker 3: he was dead, they thought he would never play again,
Speaker 3: was playing scout team defense for the Panthers, and now
Speaker 3: here he is for back to back seasons getting Tampa
Speaker 3: to the playoffs. So the Commanders, I just want to
Speaker 3: see if if we can get the same magic from
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll be pulling for the Buccaneers, to be
Speaker 3: honest with you, but I mean the Commanders when it
Speaker 3: comes to Daniels, I mean, if he has the same
Speaker 3: magic he's had this season into the playoffs, I mean
Speaker 3: they're gonna be a threat. And you don't see it
Speaker 3: very often, Like he's clearly getting a lot of attention Austin.
Speaker 3: Anybody watched keeping up with the NFL at all knows
Speaker 3: that Jaye Daniels has been talked about quite a bit,
Speaker 3: but like I kind of feel like there's not enough
Speaker 3: noise about how this is one of the best. Like
Speaker 3: nobody's saying he's not great, but he's the best rookie
Speaker 3: quarterback in the NFL in a long long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure, he has good structure around him. To Dan
Speaker 2: Quinn as one heck of a.
Speaker 3: Coach, that's usually how it works to but he's got he's.
Speaker 2: Got weapons, he's got Brian Thomas, he's got they got
Speaker 2: a lot over there, so and he's just he's very electrifying. Dude.
Speaker 2: He is like watching almost like Lamar Jackson a few
Speaker 2: years ago. So that's uh, that that's that's fun to see.
Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin, that's who I was thinking of there. That's
Speaker 2: a really good that's a really good connection. That's going
Speaker 2: to be a really good game.
Speaker 3: I know, I I uh, I kind of feel like
Speaker 3: the NFL. Maybe it's because we just I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, it's so wide open, and it's
Speaker 3: just because I want to ignore the Chiefs because you know,
Speaker 3: I want to see them lose. You know, the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: even if you know there weren't some things that I
Speaker 3: find to be pretty unlikable about their whole uh circus.
Speaker 3: They're clearly the the big dog, right Goliath, so like
Speaker 3: I would like to see them taken down. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of elite franchises out there that have had dynasties,
Speaker 3: and really it just comes down to you want to
Speaker 3: see the dynasty, and it's really personal. It's just sorry,
Speaker 3: we've had enough. We've had enough seeing you'd be great
Speaker 3: and everybody talk about how great you are. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I've been ready for that to happen for the Chiefs
Speaker 3: for quite some time. So I guess they still are,
Speaker 3: you know, the premier team in the NFL until somebody
Speaker 3: drops them down. But other than that, man, I feel
Speaker 3: like it's pretty open. I mean, there are a lot
Speaker 3: of teams that, like, if they make it deep into
Speaker 3: the playoffs, I can't sit here and say that I'm
Speaker 3: going to be shocked. I mean the Ravens, I put
Speaker 3: them there. I wouldn't say that about the Chargers, certainly
Speaker 3: the Bills, but hey, the Broncos have been good this year.
Speaker 3: Maybe the Broncos end up knocking off Buffalo. That's easier
Speaker 3: said than done. The Eagles finished with some real, real momentum.
Speaker 3: The Packers not as much, but you know, they're a
Speaker 3: good team. And then of course the Vikings of the Rams.
Speaker 3: I think actually the winner of that game, I mean
Speaker 3: I might pick them to go all the way to
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Rams are sneaky. The Rams are like a
Speaker 2: sneaky good team, especially especially when you consider the head
Speaker 2: coach and a quarterback matchup, Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay.
Speaker 2: Those are two guys that's won the Super Bowl before
Speaker 2: they got all their weapons back. Now going to LA
Speaker 2: because there's been I mean, LA is really not a
Speaker 2: home field advantage, but the guys that you have, like
Speaker 2: the talent around that one's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell facing the teacher and Sean McVeagh. Also put
Speaker 2: to mind that the Vikings only two other the only
Speaker 2: two losses to two teams that they lost to have
Speaker 2: been the Vikings and or to have been the Lions
Speaker 2: and then the Rams. And then they played them back
Speaker 2: to back. So Minnesota lost to in a row. After
Speaker 2: they lost to Detroit the first game, they had to
Speaker 2: travel to l a short rest Thursday night football, and
Speaker 2: then they lost to the Rams airs. So now it's
Speaker 2: kind of going into a similar situation. But I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to count my squad out just yet.
Speaker 3: Oh not at all. I think I think the I
Speaker 3: think they'll win.
Speaker 2: You know, they the two point favor right now.
Speaker 3: They did take a tough loss in the season, but
Speaker 3: they're they're not to the point where you can claim
Speaker 3: that like they've significantly lost momentum, just had a very
Speaker 3: bad game. Yeah, the Rams are clearly a hot team
Speaker 3: that got good at the right time and really have
Speaker 3: been able to ride that momentum, and clearly getting their
Speaker 3: guys back at receiver has helped. But the Vikings have
Speaker 3: been a phenomenal team this season, and right yeah, the
Speaker 3: playoffs are gonna be gonna be awesome. All right, let's
Speaker 3: do this. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back
Speaker 3: on the other side. I'll finish up the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: Given my thoughts on the Louisville basketball win at Virginia,
Speaker 3: I stuttered a little bit there, because you know, I
Speaker 3: think my thoughts are pretty much the same as everybody else's.
Speaker 3: This team is playing really well right now. They're getting
Speaker 3: more and more comfortable in their new version of themselves,
Speaker 3: which of course doesn't include some players they wish they had.
Speaker 3: But man, Pat Kelsey really making the most with what
Speaker 3: he has to work with, and it's exciting. It is exciting.
Speaker 3: So stick around right here on Sports Talk seven.
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Speaker 3: Dy So, I believe I heard that it was just
Speaker 3: the second ever Louisville victory at Virginia over the weekend,
Speaker 3: Dinny Crumb, I think one. I think, I think I
Speaker 3: saw Denny went one in three in three games at Virginia.
Speaker 3: During his time, Rick Patino and Chris Mack beat Virginia
Speaker 3: not many times, but when they did do it, it
Speaker 3: was at home, not at Virginia. And obviously the other
Speaker 3: coach is Kenny Payne, being the only other coach that
Speaker 3: had coached at Virginia, we know there were no wins there.
Speaker 3: So Pat Kelsey, in his first trip, what does he do,
Speaker 3: did something that hasn't been done in a long long time,
Speaker 3: and it only happens for the second time in program history,
Speaker 3: and he beat him by twenty points. And look, I
Speaker 3: know that Virginia is not good. Trust me. That's why
Speaker 3: I said before the game, you know, this is a
Speaker 3: game that Louisville needs to win for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 3: I mean, one, you always need to win and want
Speaker 3: to win, but like this would be a loss that
Speaker 3: may not have even killed you when it comes to
Speaker 3: the kin palm, but it's certainly not a good loss.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think Louisville for me personally, and
Speaker 3: I guess this is just me looking at it from
Speaker 3: my own way as a fan myself. You know, I
Speaker 3: was pretty I guess accepting of the of the losses
Speaker 3: to the good teams, even though some of them were ugly.
Speaker 3: And maybe accepting is not the right word to use,
Speaker 3: because you know what, am I gonna do no longer
Speaker 3: be a fan if I find something unacceptable. There's been
Speaker 3: a lot of bad stuff happened in Louisa basketball in
Speaker 3: my lifetime to where there's really not anything they could
Speaker 3: do and not make me love them, now that I'm
Speaker 3: being honest, that's just kind of the.
Speaker 2: Way it is.
Speaker 3: But you know, I looked at the loss to Tennessee
Speaker 3: and I didn't like it. You never want to get
Speaker 3: beat by twenty two points at home, even if you
Speaker 3: knew Tennessee was great. I didn't look at that as
Speaker 3: you know, like I mean to me, I just think
Speaker 3: that was all right, we'll have to fit. These guys
Speaker 3: for the first time are actually seeing somebody be able
Speaker 3: to take them out of their comfort zone. And now
Speaker 3: while all being a brand new team, they've got to
Speaker 3: you know, they got they gotta work through it and
Speaker 3: figure out what are they gonna do when teams try
Speaker 3: to slow them down? So you know, then they go
Speaker 3: to the Bahamas, played well there, came up short against Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: As we discussed last week, that's the one that I
Speaker 3: still feel like will be one that got away. But
Speaker 3: then you know, you lost to Ole Miss. You gotta
Speaker 3: beat bad and that sucked. They probably will never shoot
Speaker 3: as poorly as they did this season is they did
Speaker 3: that night. I think it was also just kind of
Speaker 3: a they hit a wall a little bit. They were
Speaker 3: missing layups, obviously couldn't make a three point shot, and
Speaker 3: they played a team similar to Tennessee that can really
Speaker 3: ugly it up and take you out of what you
Speaker 3: want to do. And I think knowing that you got
Speaker 3: confirmation that you don't have case in prior, you don't
Speaker 3: have Corn Johnson you know, I just think it was
Speaker 3: you know, you were kind of just due to get
Speaker 3: your butt kicked given all this, you know, And I'm
Speaker 3: not saying that we should just accept that and it's okay,
Speaker 3: but I just again, I think there was an explanation
Speaker 3: as to why that one was as bad as it was. Well,
Speaker 3: then from then on you have the Duke game, and again,
Speaker 3: yes you lost, but I mean they I chose just
Speaker 3: to look and find value in that loss. And I know,
Speaker 3: big picture, you know, you should never want to lose,
Speaker 3: but and I didn't want them to lose, but I
Speaker 3: think everybody knows what I mean, Like them competing with
Speaker 3: Duke and out playing Duke for thirty minutes, it's not
Speaker 3: a win. It's still a loss. But like I could see, okay,
Speaker 3: this group is starting to get a little more comfortable
Speaker 3: with this new version of themselves, meaning they're still going
Speaker 3: to try to do a lot of the same things
Speaker 3: they want to do the way that pack Kelsea built
Speaker 3: the team. But the rotation, right, you no longer have
Speaker 3: guys that you thought you'd have for a you know,
Speaker 3: for a lot of minutes in case in Prior and
Speaker 3: Korn Johnson, So you know, again the Duke loss sucked,
Speaker 3: but you know, I thought that thirty minutes about playing them,
Speaker 3: that that was at least worth something to make me
Speaker 3: feel like, Okay, once you get to playing teams that
Speaker 3: you know aren't Duke, maybe you'll start winning. And then
Speaker 3: they had the close win against UTEP and then the
Speaker 3: Kentucky game. Again it's the rival, so you know, gross
Speaker 3: to even act like a loss isn't the worst thing
Speaker 3: in the world of those guys. But those guys are
Speaker 3: pretty good, especially at upp Arena. And I also, you know,
Speaker 3: think Louisville held their own and competed, and I think,
Speaker 3: you know, you play that game ten times, maybe Louisville
Speaker 3: gets a few. If you play that game a bunch
Speaker 3: of times in Louisville had their full team. Who knows,
Speaker 3: we'll never know. It's not relevant, but you know I
Speaker 3: thought that despite it being to those guys and it
Speaker 3: being another loss, I was still thinking, Okay, you know
Speaker 3: what these when they start finding themselves, you know, in
Speaker 3: a stretch of play where it's not Duke, Kentucky, Ole,
Speaker 3: miss In Oklahoma, in West Virginia and Indiana all in
Speaker 3: like a twenty day window, maybe they'll start winning because
Speaker 3: you know, the schedule's gonna lighten up. And really that's
Speaker 3: what's happened here. I mean, I know they nearly lost
Speaker 3: to EKU and that was a real scare and that
Speaker 3: would have absolutely changed everything as far as how we're
Speaker 3: looking at this season. Probably not fair, but it just would.
Speaker 3: But they came out against North Carolina, played really well,
Speaker 3: and same thing against Virginia. See you beat Virginia by
Speaker 3: twenty points. That helped you jump I think it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean you were fifty three in the Kenpom when
Speaker 3: you played Virginia. You're now fortieth. So that win beating
Speaker 3: them by twenty points, that's a metric win. That is
Speaker 3: more than just the win on your record. Also, you
Speaker 3: know the kin Pom is adjusted with other results from
Speaker 3: other opponents as well, So you know, Louisville is in
Speaker 3: a pretty good spot. And the North Carolina and Virginia game,
Speaker 3: like they just came out and I don't want to
Speaker 3: overdo it and sound really corny, but like they just
Speaker 3: came out and in whooped Virginia's ass, to be honest
Speaker 3: with you, I mean they only had a five point
Speaker 3: lead at halftime. But like Louisville just looked like they're
Speaker 3: playing with a lot of confidence right now. But it's
Speaker 3: not because they're shooting insanely well. In fact, they haven't
Speaker 3: shot well from the three the last couple of games,
Speaker 3: I mean against against Virginia, they were seven of seven
Speaker 3: of nineteen, so you know that's actually that's not bad.
Speaker 3: That's thirty six percent, But they only made seven of them.
Speaker 3: That's not usually a good recipe for this louisvill team
Speaker 3: to only make seven threes. But man, they were just
Speaker 3: I mean they out rebounded them forty two to twenty five,
Speaker 3: you kidding me, had fifteen assists, had fewer turnovers, had
Speaker 3: six deals. I mean, they were they were dominant. Like
Speaker 3: their their confidence is just because I think they're starting
Speaker 3: to realize, Okay, all right, now we've got a little continuity.
Speaker 3: Now we have Now we have better rhythm as a
Speaker 3: group because we now know, Hey, for the last month
Speaker 3: or so, it's been these seven guys that are play
Speaker 3: and each guy I think has kind of found their
Speaker 3: comfort spot as far as where they fit with his
Speaker 3: team and what they need to do for this group
Speaker 3: to be successful. And then you throw in cater Triore,
Speaker 3: and you know he's the kind of guy that just
Speaker 3: with what he brings to the table. And by the way,
Speaker 3: you got a chance to see exactly what he brings
Speaker 3: to the table against Virginia. Fifteen points off the bench,
Speaker 3: high energy, good defense, I mean he that performance from him,
Speaker 3: I feel like was as good as I mean that.
Speaker 3: I don't want to act like he can't play better
Speaker 3: than that, because who knows. He's only played in you
Speaker 3: know what three games, four games now in total. But
Speaker 3: fifteen points in sixteen minutes, had eight rebounds, I mean,
Speaker 3: really high energy guy. And back to what I was saying,
Speaker 3: when you consider what he does well, like, it's not
Speaker 3: about hey, where do we find a spot for him
Speaker 3: within the offense?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: What kind of set do we need to run to
Speaker 3: get him him going? No, he's just out there to
Speaker 3: give you what he gave you. Like his fifteen points
Speaker 3: I mean in sixteen minutes is really impressive. But it's
Speaker 3: because like he just right place, right time. He never
Speaker 3: stops working. He's on the backboard, he can run the floor.
Speaker 3: So again, if you're getting anything close to that consistently,
Speaker 3: that changes things for you. I mean, look, when you
Speaker 3: feel like for the most part, Terrence Edwards and Chucky
Speaker 3: Hetburn are gonna do their thing, and then maybe you
Speaker 3: get Javon Hadley, like for example, Hadley had eleven because
Speaker 3: Edwards didn't have a great night, only had seven points.
Speaker 3: And then you're going to the bench and fifteen points
Speaker 3: per game for rain Smith off the bench. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's gonna have off games, but it's not
Speaker 3: something that's where to where you think, like, you know,
Speaker 3: you can't get that consistently. That's actually right around his
Speaker 3: average rank. Smith's averaging thirteen and a half points per
Speaker 3: game off the bench. So when you've got a guy
Speaker 3: that is producing that consistently, you know, that's a good
Speaker 3: weapon to have. And again I don't maybe I'm getting
Speaker 3: my hopes up here when it comes to or getting
Speaker 3: getting ahead of myself, I should say when it comes
Speaker 3: to Trey Oray, because again we haven't seen a whole
Speaker 3: lot of him, but if you're familiar with what he
Speaker 3: did at Long Beach State, you know that that's what
Speaker 3: you saw on Saturday against Virginia. And I just feel
Speaker 3: like this team, you know, I know it sounds like
Speaker 3: I'm just going overboard here because I know they didn't
Speaker 3: beat a great Virginia team, and I know North Carolina
Speaker 3: is down, but like they're playing really well right now
Speaker 3: and they're playing with a lot of confidence because they're
Speaker 3: just out working everybody and and they're just their defensive
Speaker 3: their attention to detail on the defensive scout has been
Speaker 3: phenomenal the last few games. So if they start shooting better,
Speaker 3: because again, not good shooting nights at all for Louisville
Speaker 3: against No North Carolina or really even Virginia they only
Speaker 3: made seven of them. So you know, on a good
Speaker 3: shooting night, when they bring all those other things I've
Speaker 3: mentioned that are super important, I mean, maybe this team
Speaker 3: starts to dominate some of these bad ACC teams. I
Speaker 3: know they can lose to anybody. We learned that against
Speaker 3: KU and UTEP. But man, they're playing really good right now.
Speaker 3: And it's just awesome to see the confidence that this
Speaker 3: group has because again it's not because they're just riding
Speaker 3: a heater and they're waiting for a heat check. They're
Speaker 3: just out there playing really good defense, out working teams
Speaker 3: on the backboard, and it's been fun to no doubt.
Speaker 3: All Right, we got two more hours left to stick around.
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Speaker 3: for the next couple of days at least. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm that's what i'm seeing here. But it's gonna be cold,
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