WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:07.120 It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:08.919 Sports Talk seven ninety. 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:11.199 Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think 4 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:14.960 when we are get off our show, idiot, The kids 5 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:15.919 are crying or turn off. 6 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:17.079 The countries are. 7 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.920 Screwing it up. Gold Play Intermurals, Brother, gold Play Intermurals. 8 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.079 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 9 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:27.719 Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? 10 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:29.559 Are you kidding me? Now? 11 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.560 Here's Nick Coffee? 12 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.079 All right, three o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon. Let's get 13 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:43.920 it started, ladies and gentlemen. Let's do it, shall we? 14 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.200 Coffee and Company fuel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk 15 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.359 seven ninety. Nick Coffee. That's me the company man. That 16 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.399 is the one and only mister John Alden. As we 17 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.520 take you up until six o'clock, take us with you 18 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.079 wherever you go, whatever you're doing, whatever you have planned, 19 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.000 or maybe you don't even know what you have planned, 20 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.079 because you just kind of, you know, let things happen. 21 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:04.920 Just know, whatever it is you're doing, you can take 22 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.000 us with you and you can listen live on the 23 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.239 iHeartRadio app. Also listen live at seven ninety Louisville dot 24 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.319 Com and today's going to be a fun show. I'm 25 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.480 going to speak it into existence. I'm going to believe 26 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:20.159 in the power of positivity. But I will tell you 27 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:23.159 that I come to you today for the first time 28 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:28.439 in twenty seven days where I arrived here to the 29 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:32.799 iHeart Studios at four Street Live in downtown Louisville in 30 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:38.239 my twenty nineteen Volkswagen antlys. What a day to have 31 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.760 that back John's I mean, you'd have thought I just 32 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.560 told John some like big news and I wanted that reaction. 33 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:46.079 I mean again, it wasn't anything he said. It was 34 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:47.879 his face, like you're happy I got my car back, 35 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:50.640 of course, And that another one of the many signs 36 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:52.760 I've seen over the years that lets me know John's 37 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:57.079 a good friend, because he's seen in a way more so, like, 38 00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.319 you know, I kind of stopped talking about the whole 39 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.120 car situation because it didn't help me, and it probably, 40 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:04.280 I mean, it probably wasn't great for the show, although people, 41 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.000 I mean, there wasn't much more I could say, like 42 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.599 the story kind of you know, it'd run its course. 43 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:11.479 You got, you know, speaking in. 44 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.560 Third person here, like I got railed by AutoZone and 45 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.000 like that was the story, and you know, whatever happens happens, 46 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:18.719 but like there wasn't a whole lot more to add. 47 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:23.439 Anything new would just be honestly a bad thing for 48 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:25.879 me to even bring up because it would take me 49 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.560 somewhere mentally I didn't want to be. And honestly, I 50 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.400 think towards the end you'll probably didn't believe some of 51 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.319 the things I was saying, not not even a kidding, 52 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:35.919 Like the way this whole thing played out, like you 53 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:36.960 could make it up. 54 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:39.400 It is very odd how it seemed like anytime you 55 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:42.639 would talk about something that would be like the invitation 56 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:44.439 for something new to happen after the fact. 57 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.439 Oh yeah, And that's why I stopped talking about it. 58 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.439 I mean, I've had people who, like I know personally, 59 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.439 like even my family, like how about your car? 60 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.240 Or wait a second, you still don't have your car? 61 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:58.879 And I think, and I need to do better at 62 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:02.879 this because it's just peopple who are not nosy or 63 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:04.599 being you know, in my business. 64 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:05.879 They care about me. 65 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.599 They're people that I know and love, but they you know, 66 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:11.240 I probably respond to them to where they're thinking of themselves. Well, 67 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.919 I'm really really bummed for Nick that he doesn't have 68 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.879 his car, but I know I'm never gonna ask him 69 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:17.960 again because it just turns into where like I just 70 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:21.680 you know, he wasn't a good experience. So I went 71 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.759 to AutoZone, I bought a battery for my car, paid 72 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:27.560 over two hundred dollars, and for twenty seven days I 73 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:31.560 did not have a vehicle because I didn't have my vehicle, 74 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.360 I should say, because they damaged it. And that's how 75 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.759 long the whole process took. So I am happy to 76 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:41.840 have it back, but I still have such a terrible 77 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.280 feeling in my gut that I can't shake, and thinking 78 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.479 about it still puts me in a bad place mentally, 79 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.000 and I need somebody to help me get over it. 80 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:52.840 I mean, it's not the end of the world. I 81 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:59.759 have problems that are insanely small, tiny, or really not 82 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:03.000 even even legitimate problems compared to what other people deal with. 83 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:04.639 So I never want to do the poor me thing. 84 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.759 But I think it's human nature for anybody to have 85 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:11.719 dealt with what I've dealt with attos, with autos owned 86 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:15.319 to feel like this is like I've been screwed, you know, 87 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.360 And it happens right like we get bad breaks in 88 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.639 life every now and then I still wake up every 89 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.240 day realizing that I've had way more good breaks go 90 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:25.759 my way than the other way around. And even if 91 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:27.920 that ever wasn't the case, I wouldn't I would try 92 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.600 to to live in a way where I think like that, 93 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:33.839 just because who wants to feel sorry for themselves? 94 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:34.959 Who wants to be a victim? 95 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:37.519 That's no way to live, even if you have legitimate 96 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:39.759 reasons to feel that way. That's not a fun you know, 97 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.600 I just and I've always really, you know, I've never 98 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.240 been one to give advice to anybody, because I don't 99 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:47.839 feel like I'm worthy of giving advice to many people. 100 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.680 But the best advice I've ever been given that I 101 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:55.120 have always tried to really kind of not making my personality, 102 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.920 but you know, just live by it, and that is 103 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:03.079 don't worry yourself about things you can't control. And that's 104 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.879 where I've towed the line here, like was this in 105 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.800 my control? Could I should I have been a little 106 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.360 more forceful with AutoZone? Should I have? I mean, clearly 107 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.120 the mistake was trusting them, and now I know, but 108 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.560 like for them to take my money, break my car 109 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.920 and then give it back to me twenty seven days later. 110 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.160 And yes, they did cover what it cost to fix 111 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.680 what they broke, but like they still got up. I mean, 112 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.920 they're still up on me when it comes to my Well, 113 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:35.879 they got my money. And also you know I didn't 114 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.240 have that car and they didn't care. I mean they were, 115 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:40.480 you know, they were paying to get it fixed, but 116 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.399 not in a timely way, not trying to in any 117 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:48.839 way even really apologize for inconveniencing me. Inconveniencing me the 118 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.879 only time that I ever got any level of like 119 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:55.360 I understand, and it really wasn't like I'm sorry. It 120 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.879 was like you know, when I would when I would say, like, hey, 121 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.600 you broke my car, and nobody's caught to me, like 122 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:03.399 I have to call five times to get a response. 123 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.439 I understand, I understand, but like, no real like apology. Now, 124 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.600 maybe them paying for getting it fixed. It's like they're 125 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:14.199 I mean, and that is the acknowledgment. But I went 126 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:18.040 yesterday to and I thought I was getting it back yesterday. 127 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.879 But I've just you know, I told myself after last 128 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:23.800 week whenever I think was it last week of the 129 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:25.920 week before where I had my final meltdown I think 130 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:26.360 it was right. 131 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:27.959 Before I took off to go to Charlotte. Yeah, I 132 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:28.519 think that's right. 133 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.000 Like I just had a meltdown on the air and 134 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.319 it wasn't planned or anything, and it was really embarrassing 135 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:35.160 to be honest with you. But hey, I'm an open book, 136 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.319 which is you know, I guess not what you see 137 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.160 is what you get because you don't see me. What 138 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:40.959 what you hear, what you hear is what you get, 139 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:42.759 and it's and it's really me and this is really 140 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.839 my life, and not to say that it's all that interesting, 141 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.680 but I do know that you all can find some 142 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.759 entertainment here and there by you know, things that go 143 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.600 on with me, not because you know, I'm just that fascinating, 144 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.439 but because you know, I think sometimes and I wouldn't 145 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:00.279 have it any other way. Got a good life, but 146 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.720 I think sometimes it's it's a Seinfeld episode. But I 147 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.959 was just convinced that, like I'm not going to believe 148 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:08.480 that I'm ever going to get this car back until 149 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.759 I have it and I'm driving away. And that was today, 150 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.920 but I had to go to aut I had to 151 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.000 go to that auto's own story yesterday morning. And I 152 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.240 haven't told you this John. But I went yesterday morning. 153 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:19.600 It was first time I've gone in there since the 154 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.160 day that you know, they had to tell my vehicle 155 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.879 away because they broke it. And again it's like walking 156 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.600 into a funeral home, like you know, I'm I'm like leaving, 157 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.720 you know, what do you call it? The like the 158 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:35.879 kitchen area of funeral homes where like people like go 159 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:39.240 to like you know, yea, they get a snack and 160 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.279 you know, just kind of you know, just relax a 161 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.319 little bit as best you can, you know. And I 162 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.800 felt like when I walked in yesterday morning, I was 163 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.439 leaving like that break room area where people like eat 164 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:52.720 and get snacks, and there were a lot of people 165 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.000 that had arrived, but they hadn't seen the person who's 166 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.319 really mourning the death of something like it just it 167 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.519 felt awkward. Nobody made eye contact with me. Said Hey, 168 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.079 I'm here to sign something. So that was at like 169 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.480 nine o'clock yesterday morning, and I had to sign something 170 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.839 that that stated that they did in fact, like I'm 171 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:11.759 signing that they have paid for the damage. 172 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:15.079 That they that they coused. So I called the. 173 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.399 Dealership and I'm like, hey, they're gonna have me sign something. 174 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.480 I just before I signed anything, which is essentially giving 175 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.120 them full Hey your car is fixed, now, are you 176 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:29.120 sure everything's good? And the dealership they've you know, I 177 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:31.560 feel bad claiming they didn't they did anything wrong because 178 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.399 they've been great. They gave me a vehicle to borrow 179 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.039 and they didn't have to do that, so you know, 180 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.039 he was pretty apologetic, and I didn't wan him to 181 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:40.360 feel bad, but he was like, yeah, we just we 182 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:43.639 just completely, we completely didn't look at something that we 183 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:45.639 didn't think we needed to look at. But yes, what 184 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:49.320 happened was due to the overall root of your issues 185 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:51.799 that they tried to put your battery on backwards for 186 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.879 three hours and it really really fried your car from 187 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.879 from like an electronic standpoint, And he was like, it's 188 00:08:57.919 --> 00:08:59.399 on us. We didn't look at it, but we know 189 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:01.759 they were able to convince auto's own or at least 190 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.600 proved to them in some way, like you clearly cause 191 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:06.320 this you're not going to be able to like because 192 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:10.720 you already came and paid for one repair. You can't 193 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.159 honestly state that like this was something that was done 194 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.039 after the fact and I never left with it, Like 195 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.519 I showed up, turned the car on, didn't work. So 196 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.320 at that point I left, and I was worried about 197 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.279 the whole dispute thing. And then finally they did agree 198 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.200 to pay for it. So then I go yesterday to 199 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.679 sign something and the manager, who I hadn't seen since 200 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.679 that happened, and I felt bad for because she wouldn't 201 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:30.320 look me in the eye. She was being polite, but 202 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:31.799 she was being kind of awkward because I think she 203 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:33.720 genuinely felt bad. And I'm a human. I know that 204 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:38.799 nobody intended to break my car, and honestly, the repairs 205 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.399 and like the process to like make it right. She 206 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:44.440 doesn't even have say so, like she doesn't control that, 207 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.039 so I know that. So I kind of feel bad 208 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.799 for her because I think she feels bad. And she 209 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.519 tells me, okay, now that we've got this sign, once 210 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:54.559 I wrap up with this customer again, it's nine o'clock 211 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.320 in the morning. Once I wrap up with this customer, 212 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.759 I'm going to go and settle up with them and 213 00:09:59.159 --> 00:09:59.720 will be good to go. 214 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:00.679 Art Well, thank you. 215 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.519 Well that was at nine am show Stars yesterday. I 216 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.720 call dealership. They're like, we no, they haven't been here. 217 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.240 We haven't we haven't talked to them, So I'm thinking, 218 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.759 oh my god, here we go again, like did I 219 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:15.639 sign something? And I know what I signed. I took 220 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.519 pictures of it, like I documented everything. But I'm thinking, 221 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.960 like maybe they signed something, you know. I mean, I 222 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.559 just I prepare for the worst and just will consider 223 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.080 it a blessing and a prayer answered if it's not 224 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:30.480 another disaster for me when it comes to this whole situation. 225 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.720 So I called AutoZone during one over breaks yesterday and 226 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.799 I'm like, hey, can I speak to you know? And 227 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:39.159 I mentioned her name, the manager, and they were like, 228 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:42.159 she's she's with somebody. You me take a message, and 229 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.200 I'm like, yeah, she was supposed to go take care 230 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:49.679 of something today for me and she hasn't yet, and 231 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:51.600 I'm just I want, I need to know what the 232 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:52.360 next step is. 233 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:54.399 So I don't know she forgot. 234 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.080 I don't know if if she was just busy, but 235 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.879 she never called me back. But it's six so three 236 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.360 yesterday I got a phone call as the service department 237 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.960 was closing that said your car's ready, They've paid for 238 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:10.120 it and you can come get it tomorrow morning, which 239 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.480 was today, and I showed up and here we are. 240 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:18.200 So I just I don't know. 241 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.919 I've never been in the spot before where I am 242 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.879 happy to have my vehicle back. And at the end 243 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.159 of the day, I don't really think it wasn't intentional 244 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.600 mistakes happened. It was clearly out of my control. But 245 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.440 I just still feel like I was screwed over. 246 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:37.960 And I think it's just because it went on for 247 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:40.080 so long and there was no reason for it to 248 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.039 take as long as it did, and for them to 249 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:45.240 kind of treat you the way that they did that 250 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.320 it's probably going to take a while to just I mean, 251 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:49.960 you haven't been in this car for so long. 252 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.639 You're feel like I feel like I got a new car, 253 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:54.080 you know what I mean, Like I feel like I 254 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:55.120 got a brand new car. 255 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.039 It'll probably take a while for you to get used 256 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:58.480 to being in that car again, I'm. 257 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.360 Sure, And and I would be it would be easier 258 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.879 for me to just kind of block it out if 259 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:08.039 it wasn't for a few different things. One, I made 260 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:11.039 the mistake by making it content, which clearly has turned 261 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:14.919 into you know, it occasionally being brought up, although it's 262 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:16.559 kind of died down because I haven't talked about it 263 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.639 as much because again, like the story had run its 264 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:20.399 course and if I did talk about it, I would 265 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.320 just get really really upset, and I would think that 266 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:23.960 I'm never getting my car back, and I have no 267 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:27.960 real course of action to like be made whole because 268 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.919 if they wanted to fight this, and that's what scares me, honestly, 269 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.759 if they wanted to fight this, they could, what would 270 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:35.919 I do? You know, I could, I can embarrass them 271 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.919 on my platform here, but like they don't care. 272 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:40.879 They can obviously I'm not a lawyer, but like, how 273 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.120 could they win? Well, they would just. 274 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:45.720 Make me fight it to the point where even if 275 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:47.559 I did in the end get a victory to where 276 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:49.360 they had to fix it, I would be out with 277 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:53.879 like attorney fees and inconvenience and a lot of my time. Yeah, So, 278 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.759 like I mean, I'm trying to and I look, I 279 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:58.799 don't even know if that's what would have played out 280 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.440 if they did fight it and say they weren't responsible. 281 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.320 But I'm trying to find a positive here. What I'm like, well, hey, 282 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.080 at least they paid to fix it, because they could 283 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:06.320 have not. 284 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:07.399 But again, like. 285 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.519 Would be an insane scenario for them to not try 286 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.240 to fix it. So but my kids, my kids, you know, 287 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.039 they care about their Dad, at least I think they do. 288 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:20.600 I assume they love me. They tell me they do, 289 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.000 and they act like they do. But they know about 290 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.559 the whole car situation, so they're asking, like every day, Dad, 291 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:27.960 what's going on with the car? When they're gonna get 292 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.039 your car back? What's this car you're driving? I drove 293 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.759 four different iheard vehicles for two weeks, and then since 294 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:35.720 then I've been in a loaner from the from the dealership, 295 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:38.159 which had been great, and then they got used to 296 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.080 that one. They just thought it was Dad's new car. 297 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:42.879 So you know, when I show up today after work 298 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:46.000 and I've got my car, you know, hopefully they're excited 299 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.399 and happy and they have the new car feeling like 300 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.320 I do. And then I just never think about it again. 301 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.440 But I drive past that damn auto zone every day. 302 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:55.399 It's right everywhere I see it. 303 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:55.639 Now. 304 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:57.879 I don't do this regularly, but sometimes I think about 305 00:13:57.879 --> 00:13:58.840 giving him the finger. 306 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:00.480 Nick, do it, Just do it. 307 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:02.840 I mean, I love to just drive past or walk past, 308 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:04.559 or they'd have no clue who I am or why 309 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:05.159 I'm doing. 310 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:11.080 That, and and it sucks overall. But yesterday I wanted 311 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:14.960 to be like a moment where it was over for 312 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.799 me where I didn't think about it anymore. But that 313 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:19.879 hasn't happened yet. And when I say a moment, I 314 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:21.399 mean like when I was there at the store and 315 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.879 the two people that were you know, at fault, like 316 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:28.159 clearly seeing that they feel bad and that they know, 317 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.080 like they're not disputing that they did anything wrong. I 318 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.080 mean people make mistakes, you know, so like I'm trying 319 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.399 to just look at it as hey, you know, this 320 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.080 is the worst thing that ever happens to me, then 321 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.480 I'll be okay, which is true. But it's just been 322 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.440 I don't know, like I've never felt so helpless as 323 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.120 if like I just got I'm just going to have 324 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.679 to deal, you know. And you know, at the end, 325 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:49.600 I got my car back and that's good, but that 326 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.120 is what happened. Like I quite literally just had to 327 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:52.759 you know, what was. 328 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:53.919 I going to do? Call the cops? 329 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.039 Be at the store every day with the employees who 330 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.519 have no they have no they have no options to 331 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:02.559 like help me or anything. 332 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:06.600 They just you know shoot me towards the corporate area. 333 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:08.679 You have to go with my boss and his boss, 334 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.320 and they just turned into a whole mess. But been 335 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.200 a long time and I was thinking on my way 336 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:19.000 in today, maybe like just maybe Louisville football was kind 337 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.200 of not themselves because I didn't have my car. I'm 338 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.320 not one into superstitions, but like they played those two 339 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:29.039 bump teams before my car broke, and then since then, 340 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:31.600 you know, they had a close call against Georgia Tech, 341 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:34.200 they lost to in a row bounce back against Virginia. 342 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.480 So you know, I'm trying to find you know, me 343 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:40.440 getting the car back instead of you know, worrying about 344 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.240 the twenty seven days I was without it, I'm just 345 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.480 gonna think, well, hey, now this is this is gonna 346 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:47.639 send Louisville season in the right direction at a really 347 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:49.360 high rate of speed. I mean, I don't know if 348 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:50.759 that's gonna happen or not, but I'm just trying to 349 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.000 find ways to, you know, not be so bitter about it. 350 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.759 What did Rick Partino used to lie to us and 351 00:15:55.799 --> 00:16:00.600 say get better, not bitter, as he's clearly been the bitter, 352 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:04.200 a little bitch about Louisville forever. And I'm saying that 353 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:06.320 now because we now know Luke Hancock put it out 354 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:10.559 there yesterday that Rick just lied like he's been invited 355 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:13.399 back to Louisville many times, not only by his former players, 356 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.039 but like when they honored the twenty thirteen national championship 357 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.240 team during Kenny's first year, they asked Rick to come. 358 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:22.720 So like he just line about that stuff and that's 359 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.639 what he does. But anyways, I'm gonna get better and 360 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.000 not bitter. We got a loaded show today. Couple guys 361 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.200 gonna join us. At three point thirty. We will talk 362 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.879 with C. L. Brown from the Courier Journal. I'm a 363 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.279 big fan of cel. I've followed his work over the 364 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.519 years and think think the world of him. And I 365 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.159 was gassing him up on radio Row last week in Charlotte, 366 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:45.559 and he was just like, Hey, why don't you why 367 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.159 don't you have me on? And I'm like, why do 368 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:49.919 you say something? I'd love to have you on. You know, 369 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.200 I just assumed that, you know, he's he's busy, he's 370 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:54.639 got stuff to do, but he's he's cranking out some 371 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:56.799 really good columns for the CJ. And he's got his 372 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.159 podcast over there with the Curer Journals. So we'll have 373 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:01.159 him on coming up with three talk about a variety 374 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.480 of things, including some college hoops as well as Louisville 375 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.640 football because they've got a big game coming up now, 376 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:09.480 speaking of college football, We're going to talk at four 377 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:11.960 to ten. He doesn't know, but we're calling him at 378 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:13.680 four oh five. Like he said four ten, we're calling 379 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:15.799 him at four or five. It' Zach Barnett, a football scoop. 380 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:19.079 We'll get his thoughts on really the midway point of 381 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.400 the college football season, and I'm sure he has some 382 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:25.440 thoughts on this Louisville Miami matchup. So we'll talk to 383 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:26.119 him around. 384 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:26.359 Four to ten. 385 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.119 And I'm getting I'm getting more and more excited about 386 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:32.200 this matchup. I mean, I still can't tell you that 387 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:36.000 I have like total confidence. But it's not because like I'm, 388 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:39.160 you know, worried that Louisville's just gonna get hammered because 389 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.359 they're not they're not good enough. I just I want 390 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.680 him to really to continue to utilize the talent they 391 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:49.079 have and stop making critical mistakes. And in a way, 392 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:50.799 this kind of feels like Notre Dame week. And I'll 393 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:56.319 explain myself here, because it seems like you've got an 394 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:02.200 opportunity to take advantage of a big opportunity. And that's 395 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.279 I mean, yeah, you've got the opportunity to maximize an 396 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.359 opportunity here with a good opponent that if you beat them, 397 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.359 there's a lot of value there. Felt like the Notre 398 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.920 Dame week, right like, even though that they had lost 399 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.319 to Northern Illinois a couple of weeks prior, you know, 400 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:20.119 beating Notre Dame at Notre Dame, like there was a 401 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.519 lot on the line. And what made that loss and 402 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:24.119 still makes it just to head scratcher, is that I 403 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.359 don't think Notre Dame's that special and you had the 404 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:30.480 opportunity to get a win with real value and you couldn't. 405 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.680 You couldn't make it happen. But you also are looking 406 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.200 at Miami this week kind of like you were looking 407 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:40.079 at Notre Dame, and it's it's an opponent that you 408 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:42.000 know could just beat you straight up even if you 409 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.119 play well, because you know they got dudes like you do. 410 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.960 In fact, there's going to be some clear advantages that 411 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.960 Miami has, just like there were some advantages that Notre 412 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.119 Dame has when it comes to personnel. You know, the 413 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:56.519 SMU game, that was an opponent that I just thought, 414 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.160 you know, I didn't know they I'd flat out did 415 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:00.680 not think SMU would be able to do what they 416 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.519 did in Louisville, and maybe we learned that they're going 417 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:04.440 to be able to do that against everybody because they've 418 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:08.440 reinvented who they are offensively once they made that switch 419 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.720 to Jennings at quarterback. But you know, we learned the 420 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:13.640 hard way that SMU isn't a team that you get 421 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:16.279 right with because you are coming off of a tough 422 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:18.079 loss to Notre Dame where you feel like you did 423 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:20.680 a whole lot more to lose that game than they 424 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.119 did to win it. But SMU made you pay. He 425 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.519 still had a chance to win. But SMU was impressive. 426 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:27.839 And again I'll give them credit. They were just better, 427 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:30.960 didn't I didn't think anything SMU did was fluky as 428 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.799 far as like they got lucky or anything. Now, Louisville 429 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.880 still made mistakes, but SMU earned a lot of respect 430 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:40.319 for me that day, which I'm sure there's still appreciative of. 431 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:41.839 That's what they came here to Louisville Forest to get 432 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:44.160 Nick Coffe's respect. But either way, you know, that just 433 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:46.839 kind of felt like, Okay, we'll get right here. After 434 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:48.359 that lost to Outer Dame and we learned the hard 435 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:51.839 way we got beat and then Virginia, I mean, it 436 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:54.920 was your worst opponent since Jacksonville State. So it was 437 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:57.839 a game where you could still probably do what you've 438 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:01.640 done in the previous two weeks and still hold on 439 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:03.359 to win. And let me tell you what, that's exactly 440 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.079 what happened. We can claim they made improvements and whatnot, 441 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:11.960 and they did. I guess the defense wasn't wasn't quite 442 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:14.559 the mess they'd been in previous weeks with the lack 443 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.400 of communication and just looking disorganized. But like, let's be honest, 444 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:20.559 Louisville still made a lot of big mistakes in that game, 445 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.119 and they needed a late touchdown against for you know, 446 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:25.440 against a Virginia team that I'm not sure it is 447 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:28.519 very good to win. You're happy they won, but like 448 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.759 I think, if I'm being honest with you, I think 449 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:33.880 Louisville has kind of played the same way the last 450 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:37.960 three weeks, meaning that they make mistakes that they should 451 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:40.039 be able to avoid, and it's put them in situations 452 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:43.799 to where they're either going to lose to good teams 453 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.039 in SMU and Notre Dame or at least, you know, 454 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:51.799 better teams than Virginia. So Miami on Saturday noon kickoff 455 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:56.519 sold out Atmospheres should be great, and again the opportunities 456 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:58.440 there and I'm hoping that the Jeff Brahm and his 457 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:01.960 team can take take full advantage. All Right, some other 458 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:06.440 things we'll get into today. The Louisville basketball team photo. 459 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.359 So I'm very glad that about an hour ago, maybe 460 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:13.119 it was longer than that. I didn't see it till 461 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:15.839 about an hour ago that they did post the official 462 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:21.480 team photo from yesterday's media day, and it looks a 463 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:24.880 lot better than what we saw from the photo that 464 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:27.160 was posted by Matt mcgavick yesterday. I'm going to start 465 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:29.720 with this. I'm going to defend Matt mcgavick because Matt 466 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.599 mcgavick did exactly what I think many others did, but 467 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.960 for some reason, his photo that he put in a tweet, 468 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.920 it got a quarter of a million views in roughly 469 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:42.880 twenty four hours. 470 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:47.240 And it was just a guy who's doing his job. 471 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:53.559 He's using the limited time that they're giving the media 472 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:57.240 members to do the player interviews at media day, and 473 00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.640 they're taking their team photos. So he just gets out 474 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:01.759 his phone when he snaps a pick, he throws it 475 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.519 up on Twitter and he starts interviewing people. Little does 476 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.240 he know that like it. I don't know if you 477 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:12.039 could have tried to get a worse picture than what 478 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:14.400 they than what they got and what he got. And 479 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:17.680 again it was not intentional in any way. I probably 480 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:19.720 would have deleted it a little bit quicker than he did. 481 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:23.119 But you know, the picture that's made its rounds, and 482 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:25.440 I mean it was Louisville kind of going viral on 483 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.599 Twitter and the college basketball world for having a team 484 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:31.720 that you know, they all, I mean, I'll just say it, 485 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:34.880 because they weren't expecting their picture to be taken. It 486 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:38.519 wasn't the proper lighting and the professional photographer that works 487 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:41.319 for the university in the athletic department. They were just 488 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:44.240 you know, sitting there, you know, getting ready to be 489 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:46.599 prompted on what to do, getting ready to have like 490 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:48.359 the flash set up and all that. I don't know 491 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:50.720 how the photography works, but it was just somebody who 492 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:52.799 pulled out their phone and took a picture without anybody 493 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.160 really looking. And they all look like they're very sleepy 494 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:58.319 or high, depending on which way you want to look 495 00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:01.920 at it. Language not great as if they're posing. 496 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:03.440 You know, they didn't. They weren't posing. 497 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.799 They were just kind of you know, standing without anybody 498 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:11.319 realizing that they're gonna get their picture taken. And I 499 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:14.680 mean it, I hate that it turned into what it 500 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.000 turned into. I'm happy that the U of L Twitter account, 501 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:20.599 whoever's running that, is having some fun with it, because 502 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:22.039 clearly it looks a lot better now. 503 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:23.880 But it was. 504 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:26.039 I mean, i'd be honest with you. It didn't make 505 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:28.279 me feel any different about the team. It didn't make 506 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.480 me start to question. Wait a second, I really thought 507 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:34.000 Pat Kelsey put together a really good roster here. But 508 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:35.799 these guys, man, they didn't look the part like I 509 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:38.240 never and I never got to that place because again, 510 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:39.759 it's just, you know, I knew what it was. It 511 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:42.359 was somebody pulling out their iPhone snapping a picture when 512 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.960 nobody in the picture was ready for it. But it 513 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:47.640 couldn't have looked much worse. I mean, ye had guys 514 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:49.200 with their eyes closed. You had guys looked like they 515 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:51.200 just woke up from a nap. I mean, it was, 516 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.000 it was. It was not great, and it's one of 517 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:56.920 the many things that's happened. And I don't I don't 518 00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:59.440 think anybody has any bad intent, And who the hell 519 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:01.680 am I It's tell people what they should do before 520 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:02.160 they post. 521 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:03.720 Something on the internet, right, do what you want. 522 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:06.400 But there's been at least like three or four things 523 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:09.079 that's happened the last month or so that I think 524 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:11.920 people are trying. They're coming from a good place, and 525 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:14.119 they do care about UVEL Athletics rather it be just 526 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.200 they're a super fan, or maybe they work in media, 527 00:24:16.359 --> 00:24:18.720 but yet they don't hide that they favor Louisville like 528 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:23.000 I do. But it's backfired and it's made us look bad, 529 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:25.519 and we've we've kind of been the joke of the 530 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:28.720 Internet at times. Now part of that, in fact, maybe 531 00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:30.839 not just a part of it, maybe the majority of 532 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:33.640 that is because we have a fan base that we're 533 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:35.880 you know, the fan base that that is our rival. 534 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:38.480 I mean, there's a billion of them, and they're all 535 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:44.440 anonymous on the internet under you know, RUPs, Renegade sixty seven, 536 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:47.000 Big Blue Bozo. 537 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:48.440 You know. 538 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.279 I mean, they like the each they're you know, and 539 00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:53.799 there's there's every fan base in college sports has fans 540 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:57.319 that live behind anonymous accounts and just troll people. And 541 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:00.480 it's that's why I oftentimes refer to Twitter whatever you 542 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.200 want to call it, as like a toxic wasteland. But 543 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:04.839 what you have to keep in mind is that like 544 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:09.279 the Kentucky fan base, I'm convinced that there's a billion 545 00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:12.319 of them. Compared to even other fan bases that we 546 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:14.599 view as a as a big fan base, like, there's 547 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:18.279 nowhere near as many of those big blue bozos as 548 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:20.799 I call them. So you know, I get it. If 549 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:24.920 there was a Kentucky team photo that looked like that, 550 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:28.079 I mean I probably wouldn't have you know, I wouldn't 551 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:30.240 have gone in on it like others have because I'm 552 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:33.559 not somebody that like wants to invite someone to take 553 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:35.240 a shot at my personal appearance, if you know what 554 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:37.640 I'm saying, Like, I don't really go for personal appearance 555 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:40.319 because I don't want that thrown back at me because 556 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:42.200 I'm an easy target when it comes to that, I think. 557 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:45.960 But anyways, if you haven't seen the new Louisville team 558 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:47.799 photo that has been put out there, go check it 559 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:50.240 out because it's a much better look than what was 560 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.799 put out there yesterday. And again it got a quarter 561 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.880 of a million views on Twitter, which again I think 562 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:58.920 more than anything that speaks to the Kentucky fans just 563 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:03.240 wanting to share it and be trolls all right quick break, 564 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:04.880 we'll come back on the other side and welcome him in. 565 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.920 He is cl Brown of the Courier Journal. And don't 566 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:10.880 go anywhere. We're taking you up till six o'clock, so 567 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.240 keep it locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 568 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:17.880 That's right Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's here on 569 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:21.960 Sports Talk seven ninety, rolling along on a Wednesday afternoon. 570 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.119 Appreciate you hanging out with us. We also appreciate our 571 00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:25.920 friends over at Thornton's. 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Brother? 584 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.400 I can't complain Nicholas good Man Man. 585 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:53.480 I'll start with I want to get to basketball in 586 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:56.839 a moment when it comes to Louisville football. I mean 587 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:01.240 this Miami matchup obviously big time game. You got a 588 00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:05.160 top six team coming in. Louisville has not really a 589 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:07.480 deep history with Miami, but they played them a few times, 590 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:09.680 been able to take advantage of opportunities to knock this 591 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:10.200 team off. 592 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:12.720 What's your feel for this game Louisville. 593 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:15.000 I think despite being four and two, I think they've 594 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.559 shown they've they've got a pretty good quarterback, they've got 595 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.920 some good skill position players, and really, I don't think 596 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:21.880 a lot of folks look at Louisville and feel as 597 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:24.599 if they've got, you know, a team that's been underwhelming 598 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:26.400 when it comes to personnel, but they've made a lot 599 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:27.720 of mistakes that you feel like are. 600 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:28.680 Avoidable at least. I do. 601 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:31.400 Just curious, as we're a few days away, what you 602 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:33.599 think of this matchup here certainly a chance for Louisville 603 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:36.079 to send their season in a positive direction if they 604 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:37.400 can pull off the upset. 605 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:40.559 Yeah, I wish I had a better feel on it, 606 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.920 to be honest, to try and make some money off it. 607 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:45.079 But and that's Louis's fault, right, You don't know how 608 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:47.839 many mistakes they're gonna make that you feel are avoidable 609 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:48.279 and all that. 610 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.839 I'm with you, man, Well, when you take a step 611 00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:55.920 back from it, Louisville has two one possession losses. 612 00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:56.799 That's it. 613 00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:00.359 Like, It's not like you're looking at these games that 614 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:05.480 they were overwhelmed by somebody's talent or lost up front 615 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:09.240 in the trenches and got dominated in that respect. Neither 616 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:12.559 one of those losses occurred that way. And really both 617 00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:16.119 of the losses was really because of a bad start. 618 00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:18.279 I mean, they played well in the second half. 619 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.880 They played well after giving up, you know, twenty four 620 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:24.160 points in the first half of both of those games 621 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:28.200 to Notre Dame in SMU. So I think Louisville is 622 00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:31.400 in a good position where maybe they are being overlooked 623 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:36.039 a little bit, and Miami is certainly coming in vulnerable 624 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:40.319 having these last two wins, you know, having. 625 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:43.119 To have a short of a miracle. 626 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:46.359 But twenty five point comebacks don't come on trees, right, 627 00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:50.720 So that the one at Cow was crazy, and having 628 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:53.160 that call overturned the hell Mary at the end of 629 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:58.319 Virginia's tech game to win that game was also fortunate 630 00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:01.279 for Miami. So on one hand, I'm looking at it 631 00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:04.160 as is this the game where Miami's luck kind of 632 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:08.279 runs out, or having a week off, did they come 633 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:12.440 back in and this is this might be the toughest 634 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:15.920 game on their schedule that they weren't expecting because next 635 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.680 week they got Florida State and I know that being 636 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:22.000 a rivalry for them, and before the season. 637 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.960 That was the game, you know, so. 638 00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:29.039 This is gonna certainly be an interesting one on Saturday. Yeah. 639 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:32.319 I thought Virginia was an opportunity for Louisville to finally 640 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.400 I mean, look, the opportunity was there. The Notre Dame 641 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:37.440 loss was one where you feel like, man, we made 642 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.279 so many mistakes, and yet if you maybe take away 643 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:43.119 two of them, we could say that we didn't play well, 644 00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:45.720 really hurt ourselves, but we wanted Notre Dame and it 645 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:47.119 would be looked at as a win that had a 646 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.440 lot of value. I mean, SMU, I'll give them a 647 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:51.000 lot of credit. They just came in and they were better. 648 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:54.200 I mean, Louisville didn't play great, but SMU really showed 649 00:29:54.200 --> 00:29:55.839 me something that I didn't know that they had. And 650 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:57.559 I thought the Virginia game would be a chance for 651 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:00.559 Louisville to go on the road play clean ball. Maybe 652 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.759 not win by three scores or anything like that. But 653 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:05.400 just you know, stop shooting yourself in the foot and 654 00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:08.359 that didn't happen. I'm looking at this Saturday's matchup against 655 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:11.559 Miami is one of two things. One, if you keep 656 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.039 making those mistakes. Miami is a team with the talent 657 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:16.160 that I think they could really bury you if they're 658 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.680 playing well and you continue to make you know, silly, 659 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.119 you commit silly penalties, you're disorganized defensively. But it's also 660 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:23.799 a chance where Okay, if there was ever a time 661 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:26.039 for you to get right, it would be it would 662 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:28.000 be this moment here. I just you know, I think 663 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:30.640 for both teams, you know, as you mentioned Miami, they're 664 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:32.759 probably feeling kind of fortunate that they were. 665 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:34.880 Able to avoid two losses there. They could have easily 666 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:35.759 gone the other way. 667 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:38.119 But I'm kind of, you know, maybe this is just 668 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:40.599 the pessimist in mecl but I kind of feel like 669 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.920 Miami of old would have lost those games, you know 670 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:44.920 what I'm saying. Like I'm actually, even though Cow's not 671 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:46.759 a great team, I kind of feel like that the 672 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:48.880 way they came back on the road like that, back 673 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:51.119 against the wall, kind of made me fear that more 674 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:51.599 than anything. 675 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:54.799 To be honest with you, Well, I think the difference 676 00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:58.680 is cam Ward. Yeah, he's special there, and yeah, brought 677 00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:02.319 the swagger back to the you. And I don't think 678 00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.920 at any point in that game, in that Cow game, 679 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:08.359 where they thinking we don't have what it takes to 680 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.000 come back because of that guy. 681 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:12.839 So but the thing about. 682 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:14.599 Cam Ward, I will say, and I think this goes 683 00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:17.319 back to this time at Washington State where he probably 684 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.440 felt like he had to do everything well, he did 685 00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:22.200 have to do everything to kind of carry that offense 686 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.720 and would maybe force some plays. I still think he 687 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.440 has that tendency to instead of just going for the 688 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:33.359 simple and going for the checkdown and you know, maybe 689 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:34.960 you're not gonna get a first down and have to 690 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.000 punt on that drive, but it's okay, you're gonna live 691 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.839 to fight again. He's still I gotta make this play. 692 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:45.400 He still has those tendencies and those flashes. So if 693 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.799 Louisville can catch that cam Ward, that'll make you fill 694 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:49.680 out more positive. 695 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:52.039 Nick cel Brown of the Curry Journal is our guest 696 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:54.359 joining us here on Sports Talk seven to ninety. 697 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:56.759 Let's shift gears here to basketball. 698 00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.440 Louisville coming in at number nine in the preseason eight 699 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:02.799 in the preseason ACC poll, which not a big surprise 700 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:05.240 to me. I think there's a lot of teams, really 701 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:06.799 the majority of this league. I feel like it's a 702 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:08.480 big question mark, And really, I think you could say 703 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:10.240 that about a lot of college hoops teams, just with 704 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:12.079 the new world we're in with the portal and so 705 00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:14.599 many new pieces and really just not knowing how good 706 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:18.119 anybody's going to be. But I know you wrote about Louisville, 707 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:21.480 you know, needing to be one of the programs to 708 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:24.480 kind of help restore the reputation of the ACC. We 709 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:26.960 chatted about this briefly last week, and you know, I 710 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:29.880 should throw the disclaimer out there more than I do, 711 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.359 because I've talked a lot in recent years about the 712 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.960 ACC as a hoops league just kind of slipping and 713 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:37.799 not being what it once was many years ago, and 714 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.799 certainly not what it was when Louisville joined it. But 715 00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:42.680 I'm aware Louisville has been a big part of that. 716 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:45.200 They were once really proud program that's been the worst 717 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:47.839 team in this league the last couple of years, in 718 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:51.759 two years where most would say the league was down overall. 719 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.839 You know, when when you see like if the ACC 720 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:57.319 ends up making it taking a step forward this year 721 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.240 where those who cover the league like yourself can say, Okay, 722 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:02.599 this this thing is heading in the right direction. There 723 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:04.960 was a little bit of a of a lull there 724 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:07.839 whenever you lost legendary coaches that decided to move on 725 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:08.559 and retire. 726 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:10.319 Who are those teams? 727 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:12.759 Because I you know, I'll just say it, I would 728 00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.319 be shocked if that ends up happening, where the ACC 729 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:17.880 does end up looking like one of the better leagues 730 00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:20.519 in college hoops. I'm just I don't have a whole 731 00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:22.839 lot of hope or faith that the league ends up 732 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:24.519 being that great. Now, with that said, that could be, 733 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:26.799 that could be something that Pat Kelsey could take advantage of. 734 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.920 I mean, and if you're a Louisville fan, I think 735 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:30.640 you hope that's what ends up happening. But as somebody 736 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.640 who's covered this league for so long, not only here 737 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:35.440 with the CJ, but during your time with the Raleigh 738 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:38.480 News Observer, with the Athletic and ESPN, I mean, you 739 00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:41.160 know the ACC's history is a hoops league as well 740 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:41.880 as anybody. 741 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:43.279 What do you make of kind of where where the 742 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:44.200 league is right now? 743 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:48.279 Yeah, I still kind of feel like it might be 744 00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:52.440 in a holding pattern of not getting back to what 745 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:56.799 we expect. But I do see some some flashes that 746 00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:59.559 it's it's it's on the right track. 747 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.720 It's it's gonna get back, you know. 748 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:04.279 I think here in the next couple of years, because 749 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:08.800 I think Clempson can be good. Obviously, Duke and Carolina 750 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:12.480 are to me in a class by themselves. 751 00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:13.840 This year in the league, and then. 752 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:17.119 I feel like the next year is like Wake Forest, 753 00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:20.360 I think should be very good. With the Hunter Salas 754 00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:24.800 coming back this season. He probably could have stayed in 755 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:28.559 the draft and been picked last year. Them getting him 756 00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.800 back is huge for Wake and Steve Fords has kind 757 00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:34.039 of been knocking on the door of the NCAA Tournament 758 00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:37.079 there since he's since he's gotten there and they just 759 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:40.159 haven't for whatever scheduling reasons or the lost at the 760 00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:42.480 wrong time, haven't got in. But I think this is 761 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.159 the year they do it. I think Wake Clempson. I 762 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:51.239 think Pittsburgh is a team that could also, you know. 763 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:55.559 Help the league overall by being good. And Pittsburgh is 764 00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:56.559 a team too. 765 00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:59.639 Maybe if NC State doesn't run the table and when 766 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:03.960 the A Tournament, maybe Pittsburgh actually gets into the NCAA Tournament, 767 00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:09.719 but they probably got bumped out by that miraculous run 768 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.079 from NC State. But I think they're in a position. 769 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:16.400 Jeff Caple has them in a position to kind of take. 770 00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:17.159 That next step too. 771 00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:22.039 But then after that, it's kind of like I mean, 772 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.880 NC State, I think Kevin Keats has. 773 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:27.400 Something to work with. Obviously, he's got two. 774 00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:31.280 Former UFL players with Brandon Huntley Hatfield and Mike James 775 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:34.960 on his roster. They they could, you know, kind of 776 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.800 carry over that momentum from the Final four and be 777 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:40.719 a and I don't mean be a Final four team, 778 00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:43.199 but I mean like be a good team, be a 779 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:47.280 solid team, be an NCAA tournament team. I really have 780 00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:52.679 questions about Miami. I'm not really sure. I think Virginia, 781 00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:56.199 when you have Tony Bennett, should be the faith of 782 00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:56.840 the ACC. 783 00:35:57.239 --> 00:35:58.760 He should be the coach. 784 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:03.159 That does the the pr if you will for the 785 00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:07.920 league that Mike Cisseski and Roy Williams used to do 786 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:08.719 it back in the day. 787 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.239 He was more successful cel when he was competing against 788 00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:13.679 all the legends, like he would win this league regularly. 789 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:15.719 Whenever you would say that, Okay, we'll never see a 790 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:17.559 league with this many a league coach as ever. 791 00:36:18.760 --> 00:36:22.280 Yeah, I think what's what's hurt him is the portal. 792 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:27.000 And I'm not sure what Virginia's nil situation is, but 793 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.400 I just don't think he's been as quick to be 794 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:33.639 able to adapt because Tony teams are best when he 795 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:38.559 a gets NBA level talent in there and b when 796 00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:42.519 he has some time to develop game, like to supplement 797 00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:45.519 that talent with guys who've been in the program and 798 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.920 have developed. And the portal just kind of imploded that 799 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.039 structure that he likes for his program. So it's it's 800 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:56.400 and I look at their rockster and I don't see 801 00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:58.159 it same here. 802 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.000 Them being at number five has to be Bennett still 803 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:03.719 getting the bump because he's a national title coach and 804 00:37:03.719 --> 00:37:05.719 everybody respects him because them being at five is like 805 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:07.440 the ultimate Okay, everybody's just guessing here. 806 00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:12.960 Yeah, yeah, but I think and when people hate the 807 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:16.920 watching Virginia play, it's when he doesn't have talent, because 808 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:18.960 that's when they have to muck it up and it 809 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.719 becomes the very you know, the game kind of plods 810 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.840 along and it's methodical and nobody wants to see it. 811 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:30.159 But he still wins that way because he knows how 812 00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:32.320 to take you to the mud and wrestle, you know. 813 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:36.000 But and I think this will be that kind of 814 00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.119 team this year that has to do that in order 815 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:41.400 to win, and they'll they'll still win games. But the 816 00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:45.079 league needs for Virginia to be what it's been at 817 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:49.960 his best, like from that run from like twenty fifteen 818 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.159 to twenty nineteen where they were competing for the league 819 00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:56.039 title and won the national title in twenty nineteen. The 820 00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:57.239 league needs Virginia to. 821 00:37:57.159 --> 00:37:58.000 Get back to that. 822 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:02.079 So I still think we're a couple of years away 823 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:06.239 from saying the ACC is a ventaed league, you know, 824 00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:07.679 vented ACC again. 825 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:10.840 But I do feel like it's on the way. 826 00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:13.920 Yeah, And you know, it wouldn't be a shock if 827 00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:16.400 they get a handful of teams in and those teams 828 00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:17.639 find a way to make a run. 829 00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:18.119 That happens. 830 00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:21.480 That's the NSAA tournament. But it used to be a 831 00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.599 weekly thing that if you had two games, rather it 832 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:25.639 be a Monday for Big Monday, or you're playing on 833 00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:27.639 a Wednesday or whatever, and then of course you're doing 834 00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.239 the Saturday or the Sunday. More often than not, one 835 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:32.840 of those two opportunities for ACC league members would be 836 00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:35.039 an opportunity for you to get a valuable win that 837 00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:37.519 really really helps you when it comes to fighting for 838 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:40.000 a tournament spot. And that's where it's really stood out 839 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:42.199 to be more than anything, is that you only end 840 00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:45.119 up having few opportunities and you beat teams in your league, 841 00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:47.239 but it doesn't give you much value. That's, you know, 842 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:49.679 somebody who has followed Louisville basketball for a long time. 843 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:51.679 You went from seeing that in the Big East every 844 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:54.079 year to the ACC for the first I don't know, 845 00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:55.920 four or five years, and then lately it's just kind 846 00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:57.800 of it's kind of dropped off. I do think some 847 00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:59.519 of it is because of the perception of the league 848 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:02.840 and the way they've gone about scheduling. Hopefully they can 849 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:04.559 they can get past that. But one more question I 850 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:06.639 had for you cl before we let you go. What 851 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:09.199 years was it that you were the beat writer for 852 00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:11.639 U of L hoops. I know you had many roles 853 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:13.480 at the CG over the years, but I could be 854 00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:14.880 wrong here, but I feel like when you were the 855 00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:18.159 beat writer for the CJ covering U of L men's basketball, 856 00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:20.760 like that was when the rivalry with Patino and cal 857 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:21.719 was like at its peak. 858 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.159 Am I wrong? Is my memory off there? 859 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:26.159 That's correct? 860 00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:31.400 It was from old nine. Well old nine was that 861 00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:34.679 first basketball season that I covered, So it's from nine 862 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:35.920 to thirteen. 863 00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:38.480 As soon, right, as soon as it I mean that 864 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:41.360 that is quite literally. I think the era will go 865 00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:44.000 back many many years and say the rivalry as far 866 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:47.239 as the fan base is was was so intense in 867 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:50.079 that exact window of time because it was cal beying 868 00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.920 in Kentucky was still relatively new. Rick was trying to, 869 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:55.840 you know, not be outdone by a guy he doesn't 870 00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:57.960 like who took a job that he wishes he never left. 871 00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.559 I mean that's the way it had played out. So 872 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:02.480 when you see Rick back in Lexington in that like, 873 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:05.079 what's your thoughts on all that? I feel like, given 874 00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:08.000 how you covered Rick and how kind of embedded you 875 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:10.079 were with the program at the time, and knowing how 876 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:12.760 Rick was like, there's probably nothing that would surprise you 877 00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:14.679 when it comes to stories about Rick Patino or what 878 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:15.719 Rick Patino was gonna do. 879 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.039 Well. I mean, if John calim Perry was still the 880 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:24.199 head coach at UK and Patino went back for Big 881 00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:27.639 Blue Madness, that would be a story. But the fact 882 00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.639 that it's Mark Pope, you know, that's his guy. Like 883 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:34.320 it would to me, I would be shocked if he 884 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:39.320 didn't go, you know, like he's he's always shown support 885 00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:43.960 for his former players, and it's it's been said out 886 00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:47.360 there and you know I've heard on radio already. If 887 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:49.480 Peyton Stee was the head coach right now, if Luke 888 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.320 Hancock was somewhere as a head coach right now, Patino 889 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.840 would be supporting those guys in the same way. 890 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:57.960 You know, he would be in whatever college they were in. 891 00:40:58.079 --> 00:40:59.760 He would be in that gear and he would be, 892 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:03.639 you know, lending his support, lending his enthusiasm. 893 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:05.519 However, however he saw fit. 894 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:09.039 So I don't know's it's not a big deal. 895 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:13.920 I get it because of the rivalry. I get why. 896 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:17.960 Some fans were kind of charged up about it, but 897 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:20.920 it really isn't a big deal. He's not going to 898 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:24.559 be carrying a blue flag during the season while Saint 899 00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:25.800 John's is laying. 900 00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:27.639 You know, he appeared. 901 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.400 He still has connections and friends and people that go 902 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:34.599 back from when he was at UK in the nineties 903 00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.880 in Lexington, and it was a good time. I think, 904 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:41.239 if anything, there just hasn't been enough time that has 905 00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:45.119 elapsed from him leaving Louisville in the way that he 906 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:48.280 did or in the way that got forced upon him. 907 00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:51.559 For there'll be healing for him to come back here. 908 00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:55.280 But obviously, UK, it's been twenty five years, you know, 909 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.079 like it's been long enough. 910 00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:59.800 And more than anything, it's the coach now is a 911 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:01.920 I who won a title and it was a captain 912 00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:04.760 for him, Like that's the I mean, that's the ultimate 913 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:06.840 component there that made that whole thing kind of kind 914 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:08.400 of fall into place. So like, I think both things 915 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.360 can be true, Like it really isn't a big surprise. 916 00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:12.360 I don't think Rick did it to make anybody here 917 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:14.760 at U of l MAD, certainly not as players and fans. 918 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:16.920 But I also get why if you're a younger fan, 919 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:18.760 like if you're five to six years younger than me, 920 00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:21.760 your only memory may be Rick coaching Louisville and you've 921 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:23.679 seen him in blue even though you knew he coached there, 922 00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.119 you know, it probably did put you in a place 923 00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:29.000 you weren't expecting. But yeah, certainly been a big talking 924 00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:31.079 point here in the last few days. But CL really 925 00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:32.800 appreciate you making Tom first. We'll have to do this 926 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:33.480 again sooner. 927 00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:36.280 I brother no doubt appreciate that, all right. 928 00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.599 Take care. That's cl Brown from the Courier Journal. Good stuff. 929 00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:40.719 As always with cl We'll take a quick break, come 930 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:42.679 back on the other side, wrap up this three o'clock 931 00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:45.400 hour and keep the party rolling along. It's coffee and company. 932 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:47.639 Feel bout Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 933 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:53.880 I think for every you know, real life situation, there's 934 00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:56.320 a corny Brad Paisley song for it, and I guess 935 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:58.199 that's what this is here because I did get my 936 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:00.320 car back for those who did, and here at the 937 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:01.599 beginning of the show, because I know you guys have 938 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:03.800 been losing sleep over it, right, You've been just stressing 939 00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:07.360 stressing out like crazy, worried about is is Nick going 940 00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:08.800 to get his car back? Well, I did get my 941 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:11.679 car back today, twenty seven days without it because AutoZone 942 00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:14.719 broke it and then did pay to repair it. But 943 00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:18.280 that was also its own process. But yes, I've got 944 00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:20.119 my car back, all right. So this text came in 945 00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.400 during our conversation there was Cel Brown. It was really 946 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:23.840 good to have cl on, and I'm going to hope 947 00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:26.159 to have him on as as a weekly guest because 948 00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:28.599 you know, he's great and known him for a long time, 949 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.480 and he's somebody. And I was just telling John this 950 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.800 during the break that whenever I first got a chance 951 00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:35.639 to actually get not necessarily inside access or anything like that, 952 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.920 but I was I was given credential access to where 953 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:41.800 I could go to games and you know, cover the team. 954 00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:44.639 And at that time, we're talking two thousand and nine, 955 00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:47.800 twenty ten, you know, it wasn't it wasn't that it 956 00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:50.199 was still relatively new, and I remember there were a 957 00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:53.079 lot of people who, you know, felt as if anybody 958 00:43:53.079 --> 00:43:56.480 that didn't work for a newspaper or a radio station 959 00:43:56.599 --> 00:43:59.239 like this one, or a TV station, if you got 960 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.320 access and you were press conferences, I mean, they felt 961 00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:03.679 like a lot of those people felt like you were 962 00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:05.840 beneath him. And now it's a totally different world because 963 00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:08.400 the landscape has changed so much in the last fifteen years. 964 00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:11.559 But cl was always was always. 965 00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:14.239 Kind to me, and you know, you know, would would 966 00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.000 would you know, would would kind you know, not necessarily 967 00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:19.000 put me under his wing, but like when others would like, 968 00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.880 you know, be disgusted by my presence, he was always cool. 969 00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:24.079 Him and him and Chip. 970 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:27.119 Cosby, who has has left the media world, but was 971 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:30.079 also you know, around at that time, and you know 972 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:32.440 always you remember those kind of things, so shout out 973 00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:34.760 to CL. But the text that came in said you 974 00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:38.960 mentioned Patino with CL. What was the story he did 975 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:42.599 that Rick got really upset about I know of one, 976 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:44.280 and actually was going to ask him about that at 977 00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:47.400 some point, just because you know, Patino has been talked 978 00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:49.199 about here lately and we'd have to get to break. 979 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:51.760 But there was a story that CL wrote. 980 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:54.000 There was not even any It wasn't it was I mean, 981 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:55.880 it was just Rick losing his mind about something that 982 00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:57.639 he didn't need to lose his mind about. But I'm 983 00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:00.320 pretty sure CL talked about all the end. He was 984 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.920 writing about the injury history that UVEL had as far 985 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:05.159 as basketball, because there were guys that would get hurt 986 00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:09.840 and he and I don't have the column in front 987 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:11.559 of me. It was many, many, many years ago, but 988 00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:14.559 he had talked to Preston Knowles, who had just left Louisville, 989 00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:18.280 and there was some kind of an insinuation that because 990 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:21.480 they practiced so hard, that's why guys get hurt, like. 991 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:22.199 During the season. 992 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:24.880 And I don't really think that there was a pointed, 993 00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.000 you know comment it was just, you know, it was 994 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.360 a storyline that Louisville was having some injury issues and 995 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:33.599 guys were getting hurt and practice not in games. And Rick, 996 00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:35.719 I'm pretty sure he like yelled at him during a 997 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:37.760 press conference, meaning yelled at cl which would have been 998 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:38.840 you know, for me at that time, it would have 999 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.119 been a very scary thing. But you know, he's a 1000 00:45:41.199 --> 00:45:43.199 grown up, and I think Rick came out the next 1001 00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:45.559 press conference and apologized to him. All right, real quick, 1002 00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:47.760 let's talk about Jefferson Animal Hospital. You guys know there 1003 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:50.599 are big events coming up this weekend on Saturday. Pints 1004 00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.000 for pausing people, Bring your pet, bring your people. They're 1005 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:57.119 going to show you how pet, how pet blood donations work. 1006 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.320 They understand a lot of people out there myself andcluded 1007 00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:02.599 wasn't even aware that that was a thing. Well it is. 1008 00:46:03.079 --> 00:46:06.000 Your pets can donate blood. They may qualify to be 1009 00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:09.239 a pet blood donor if your dog weighs less than 1010 00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:11.519 fifty pounds and your cat weighs less than ten pounds. 1011 00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:15.719 So and every time, every time there's a donation made, 1012 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:17.599 that can help save up to four to six lives. 1013 00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:19.920 So it's Pines for Pausing People. Ten Am to two 1014 00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:23.079 pm this Saturday. Jefferson Animal Hospital over there on outer Loop. 1015 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:26.199 You can give them a call at five two nine 1016 00:46:26.239 --> 00:46:29.199 hundred pets or you can visit pet bloodbank dot com 1017 00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.840 to get more information. So again it's coming up this Saturday. 1018 00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:33.400 All right, we'll take a break, come back on the 1019 00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:35.400 other side. Get Hour number two started right here on 1020 00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:39.880 Sports Talk seven ninety