Speaker 1: It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: when we are get off our show, idiot, The kids
Speaker 2: are crying or turn off.
Speaker 3: The countries are.
Speaker 2: Screwing it up. Gold Play Intermurals, Brother, gold Play Intermurals.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 4: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Now?
Speaker 3: Here's Nick Coffee?
Speaker 5: All right, three o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon. Let's get
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Speaker 5: seven ninety. Nick Coffee. That's me the company man. That
Speaker 5: is the one and only mister John Alden. As we
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Speaker 5: Com and today's going to be a fun show. I'm
Speaker 5: going to speak it into existence. I'm going to believe
Speaker 5: in the power of positivity. But I will tell you
Speaker 5: that I come to you today for the first time
Speaker 5: in twenty seven days where I arrived here to the
Speaker 5: iHeart Studios at four Street Live in downtown Louisville in
Speaker 5: my twenty nineteen Volkswagen antlys. What a day to have
Speaker 5: that back John's I mean, you'd have thought I just
Speaker 5: told John some like big news and I wanted that reaction.
Speaker 5: I mean again, it wasn't anything he said. It was
Speaker 5: his face, like you're happy I got my car back,
Speaker 5: of course, And that another one of the many signs
Speaker 5: I've seen over the years that lets me know John's
Speaker 5: a good friend, because he's seen in a way more so, like,
Speaker 5: you know, I kind of stopped talking about the whole
Speaker 5: car situation because it didn't help me, and it probably,
Speaker 5: I mean, it probably wasn't great for the show, although people,
Speaker 5: I mean, there wasn't much more I could say, like
Speaker 5: the story kind of you know, it'd run its course.
Speaker 3: You got, you know, speaking in.
Speaker 5: Third person here, like I got railed by AutoZone and
Speaker 5: like that was the story, and you know, whatever happens happens,
Speaker 5: but like there wasn't a whole lot more to add.
Speaker 5: Anything new would just be honestly a bad thing for
Speaker 5: me to even bring up because it would take me
Speaker 5: somewhere mentally I didn't want to be. And honestly, I
Speaker 5: think towards the end you'll probably didn't believe some of
Speaker 5: the things I was saying, not not even a kidding,
Speaker 5: Like the way this whole thing played out, like you
Speaker 5: could make it up.
Speaker 1: It is very odd how it seemed like anytime you
Speaker 1: would talk about something that would be like the invitation
Speaker 1: for something new to happen after the fact.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, And that's why I stopped talking about it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've had people who, like I know personally,
Speaker 5: like even my family, like how about your car?
Speaker 3: Or wait a second, you still don't have your car?
Speaker 5: And I think, and I need to do better at
Speaker 5: this because it's just peopple who are not nosy or
Speaker 5: being you know, in my business.
Speaker 3: They care about me.
Speaker 5: They're people that I know and love, but they you know,
Speaker 5: I probably respond to them to where they're thinking of themselves. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm really really bummed for Nick that he doesn't have
Speaker 5: his car, but I know I'm never gonna ask him
Speaker 5: again because it just turns into where like I just
Speaker 5: you know, he wasn't a good experience. So I went
Speaker 5: to AutoZone, I bought a battery for my car, paid
Speaker 5: over two hundred dollars, and for twenty seven days I
Speaker 5: did not have a vehicle because I didn't have my vehicle,
Speaker 5: I should say, because they damaged it. And that's how
Speaker 5: long the whole process took. So I am happy to
Speaker 5: have it back, but I still have such a terrible
Speaker 5: feeling in my gut that I can't shake, and thinking
Speaker 5: about it still puts me in a bad place mentally,
Speaker 5: and I need somebody to help me get over it.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's not the end of the world. I
Speaker 5: have problems that are insanely small, tiny, or really not
Speaker 5: even even legitimate problems compared to what other people deal with.
Speaker 5: So I never want to do the poor me thing.
Speaker 5: But I think it's human nature for anybody to have
Speaker 5: dealt with what I've dealt with attos, with autos owned
Speaker 5: to feel like this is like I've been screwed, you know,
Speaker 5: And it happens right like we get bad breaks in
Speaker 5: life every now and then I still wake up every
Speaker 5: day realizing that I've had way more good breaks go
Speaker 5: my way than the other way around. And even if
Speaker 5: that ever wasn't the case, I wouldn't I would try
Speaker 5: to to live in a way where I think like that,
Speaker 5: just because who wants to feel sorry for themselves?
Speaker 3: Who wants to be a victim?
Speaker 5: That's no way to live, even if you have legitimate
Speaker 5: reasons to feel that way. That's not a fun you know,
Speaker 5: I just and I've always really, you know, I've never
Speaker 5: been one to give advice to anybody, because I don't
Speaker 5: feel like I'm worthy of giving advice to many people.
Speaker 5: But the best advice I've ever been given that I
Speaker 5: have always tried to really kind of not making my personality,
Speaker 5: but you know, just live by it, and that is
Speaker 5: don't worry yourself about things you can't control. And that's
Speaker 5: where I've towed the line here, like was this in
Speaker 5: my control? Could I should I have been a little
Speaker 5: more forceful with AutoZone? Should I have? I mean, clearly
Speaker 5: the mistake was trusting them, and now I know, but
Speaker 5: like for them to take my money, break my car
Speaker 5: and then give it back to me twenty seven days later.
Speaker 5: And yes, they did cover what it cost to fix
Speaker 5: what they broke, but like they still got up. I mean,
Speaker 5: they're still up on me when it comes to my Well,
Speaker 5: they got my money. And also you know I didn't
Speaker 5: have that car and they didn't care. I mean they were,
Speaker 5: you know, they were paying to get it fixed, but
Speaker 5: not in a timely way, not trying to in any
Speaker 5: way even really apologize for inconveniencing me. Inconveniencing me the
Speaker 5: only time that I ever got any level of like
Speaker 5: I understand, and it really wasn't like I'm sorry. It
Speaker 5: was like you know, when I would when I would say, like, hey,
Speaker 5: you broke my car, and nobody's caught to me, like
Speaker 5: I have to call five times to get a response.
Speaker 5: I understand, I understand, but like, no real like apology. Now,
Speaker 5: maybe them paying for getting it fixed. It's like they're
Speaker 5: I mean, and that is the acknowledgment. But I went
Speaker 5: yesterday to and I thought I was getting it back yesterday.
Speaker 5: But I've just you know, I told myself after last
Speaker 5: week whenever I think was it last week of the
Speaker 5: week before where I had my final meltdown I think
Speaker 5: it was right.
Speaker 3: Before I took off to go to Charlotte. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that's right.
Speaker 5: Like I just had a meltdown on the air and
Speaker 5: it wasn't planned or anything, and it was really embarrassing
Speaker 5: to be honest with you. But hey, I'm an open book,
Speaker 5: which is you know, I guess not what you see
Speaker 5: is what you get because you don't see me. What
Speaker 5: what you hear, what you hear is what you get,
Speaker 5: and it's and it's really me and this is really
Speaker 5: my life, and not to say that it's all that interesting,
Speaker 5: but I do know that you all can find some
Speaker 5: entertainment here and there by you know, things that go
Speaker 5: on with me, not because you know, I'm just that fascinating,
Speaker 5: but because you know, I think sometimes and I wouldn't
Speaker 5: have it any other way. Got a good life, but
Speaker 5: I think sometimes it's it's a Seinfeld episode. But I
Speaker 5: was just convinced that, like I'm not going to believe
Speaker 5: that I'm ever going to get this car back until
Speaker 5: I have it and I'm driving away. And that was today,
Speaker 5: but I had to go to aut I had to
Speaker 5: go to that auto's own story yesterday morning. And I
Speaker 5: haven't told you this John. But I went yesterday morning.
Speaker 5: It was first time I've gone in there since the
Speaker 5: day that you know, they had to tell my vehicle
Speaker 5: away because they broke it. And again it's like walking
Speaker 5: into a funeral home, like you know, I'm I'm like leaving,
Speaker 5: you know, what do you call it? The like the
Speaker 5: kitchen area of funeral homes where like people like go
Speaker 5: to like you know, yea, they get a snack and
Speaker 5: you know, just kind of you know, just relax a
Speaker 5: little bit as best you can, you know. And I
Speaker 5: felt like when I walked in yesterday morning, I was
Speaker 5: leaving like that break room area where people like eat
Speaker 5: and get snacks, and there were a lot of people
Speaker 5: that had arrived, but they hadn't seen the person who's
Speaker 5: really mourning the death of something like it just it
Speaker 5: felt awkward. Nobody made eye contact with me. Said Hey,
Speaker 5: I'm here to sign something. So that was at like
Speaker 5: nine o'clock yesterday morning, and I had to sign something
Speaker 5: that that stated that they did in fact, like I'm
Speaker 5: signing that they have paid for the damage.
Speaker 3: That they that they coused. So I called the.
Speaker 5: Dealership and I'm like, hey, they're gonna have me sign something.
Speaker 5: I just before I signed anything, which is essentially giving
Speaker 5: them full Hey your car is fixed, now, are you
Speaker 5: sure everything's good? And the dealership they've you know, I
Speaker 5: feel bad claiming they didn't they did anything wrong because
Speaker 5: they've been great. They gave me a vehicle to borrow
Speaker 5: and they didn't have to do that, so you know,
Speaker 5: he was pretty apologetic, and I didn't wan him to
Speaker 5: feel bad, but he was like, yeah, we just we
Speaker 5: just completely, we completely didn't look at something that we
Speaker 5: didn't think we needed to look at. But yes, what
Speaker 5: happened was due to the overall root of your issues
Speaker 5: that they tried to put your battery on backwards for
Speaker 5: three hours and it really really fried your car from
Speaker 5: from like an electronic standpoint, And he was like, it's
Speaker 5: on us. We didn't look at it, but we know
Speaker 5: they were able to convince auto's own or at least
Speaker 5: proved to them in some way, like you clearly cause
Speaker 5: this you're not going to be able to like because
Speaker 5: you already came and paid for one repair. You can't
Speaker 5: honestly state that like this was something that was done
Speaker 5: after the fact and I never left with it, Like
Speaker 5: I showed up, turned the car on, didn't work. So
Speaker 5: at that point I left, and I was worried about
Speaker 5: the whole dispute thing. And then finally they did agree
Speaker 5: to pay for it. So then I go yesterday to
Speaker 5: sign something and the manager, who I hadn't seen since
Speaker 5: that happened, and I felt bad for because she wouldn't
Speaker 5: look me in the eye. She was being polite, but
Speaker 5: she was being kind of awkward because I think she
Speaker 5: genuinely felt bad. And I'm a human. I know that
Speaker 5: nobody intended to break my car, and honestly, the repairs
Speaker 5: and like the process to like make it right. She
Speaker 5: doesn't even have say so, like she doesn't control that,
Speaker 5: so I know that. So I kind of feel bad
Speaker 5: for her because I think she feels bad. And she
Speaker 5: tells me, okay, now that we've got this sign, once
Speaker 5: I wrap up with this customer again, it's nine o'clock
Speaker 5: in the morning. Once I wrap up with this customer,
Speaker 5: I'm going to go and settle up with them and
Speaker 5: will be good to go.
Speaker 3: Art Well, thank you.
Speaker 5: Well that was at nine am show Stars yesterday. I
Speaker 5: call dealership. They're like, we no, they haven't been here.
Speaker 5: We haven't we haven't talked to them, So I'm thinking,
Speaker 5: oh my god, here we go again, like did I
Speaker 5: sign something? And I know what I signed. I took
Speaker 5: pictures of it, like I documented everything. But I'm thinking,
Speaker 5: like maybe they signed something, you know. I mean, I
Speaker 5: just I prepare for the worst and just will consider
Speaker 5: it a blessing and a prayer answered if it's not
Speaker 5: another disaster for me when it comes to this whole situation.
Speaker 5: So I called AutoZone during one over breaks yesterday and
Speaker 5: I'm like, hey, can I speak to you know? And
Speaker 5: I mentioned her name, the manager, and they were like,
Speaker 5: she's she's with somebody. You me take a message, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, she was supposed to go take care
Speaker 5: of something today for me and she hasn't yet, and
Speaker 5: I'm just I want, I need to know what the
Speaker 5: next step is.
Speaker 3: So I don't know she forgot.
Speaker 5: I don't know if if she was just busy, but
Speaker 5: she never called me back. But it's six so three
Speaker 5: yesterday I got a phone call as the service department
Speaker 5: was closing that said your car's ready, They've paid for
Speaker 5: it and you can come get it tomorrow morning, which
Speaker 5: was today, and I showed up and here we are.
Speaker 3: So I just I don't know.
Speaker 5: I've never been in the spot before where I am
Speaker 5: happy to have my vehicle back. And at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, I don't really think it wasn't intentional
Speaker 5: mistakes happened. It was clearly out of my control. But
Speaker 5: I just still feel like I was screwed over.
Speaker 1: And I think it's just because it went on for
Speaker 1: so long and there was no reason for it to
Speaker 1: take as long as it did, and for them to
Speaker 1: kind of treat you the way that they did that
Speaker 1: it's probably going to take a while to just I mean,
Speaker 1: you haven't been in this car for so long.
Speaker 5: You're feel like I feel like I got a new car,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like I feel like I
Speaker 5: got a brand new car.
Speaker 1: It'll probably take a while for you to get used
Speaker 1: to being in that car again, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sure, And and I would be it would be easier
Speaker 5: for me to just kind of block it out if
Speaker 5: it wasn't for a few different things. One, I made
Speaker 5: the mistake by making it content, which clearly has turned
Speaker 5: into you know, it occasionally being brought up, although it's
Speaker 5: kind of died down because I haven't talked about it
Speaker 5: as much because again, like the story had run its
Speaker 5: course and if I did talk about it, I would
Speaker 5: just get really really upset, and I would think that
Speaker 5: I'm never getting my car back, and I have no
Speaker 5: real course of action to like be made whole because
Speaker 5: if they wanted to fight this, and that's what scares me, honestly,
Speaker 5: if they wanted to fight this, they could, what would
Speaker 5: I do? You know, I could, I can embarrass them
Speaker 5: on my platform here, but like they don't care.
Speaker 3: They can obviously I'm not a lawyer, but like, how
Speaker 3: could they win? Well, they would just.
Speaker 5: Make me fight it to the point where even if
Speaker 5: I did in the end get a victory to where
Speaker 5: they had to fix it, I would be out with
Speaker 5: like attorney fees and inconvenience and a lot of my time. Yeah, So,
Speaker 5: like I mean, I'm trying to and I look, I
Speaker 5: don't even know if that's what would have played out
Speaker 5: if they did fight it and say they weren't responsible.
Speaker 5: But I'm trying to find a positive here. What I'm like, well, hey,
Speaker 5: at least they paid to fix it, because they could
Speaker 5: have not.
Speaker 3: But again, like.
Speaker 5: Would be an insane scenario for them to not try
Speaker 5: to fix it. So but my kids, my kids, you know,
Speaker 5: they care about their Dad, at least I think they do.
Speaker 5: I assume they love me. They tell me they do,
Speaker 5: and they act like they do. But they know about
Speaker 5: the whole car situation, so they're asking, like every day, Dad,
Speaker 5: what's going on with the car? When they're gonna get
Speaker 5: your car back? What's this car you're driving? I drove
Speaker 5: four different iheard vehicles for two weeks, and then since
Speaker 5: then I've been in a loaner from the from the dealership,
Speaker 5: which had been great, and then they got used to
Speaker 5: that one. They just thought it was Dad's new car.
Speaker 5: So you know, when I show up today after work
Speaker 5: and I've got my car, you know, hopefully they're excited
Speaker 5: and happy and they have the new car feeling like
Speaker 5: I do. And then I just never think about it again.
Speaker 5: But I drive past that damn auto zone every day.
Speaker 3: It's right everywhere I see it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't do this regularly, but sometimes I think about
Speaker 1: giving him the finger.
Speaker 3: Nick, do it, Just do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love to just drive past or walk past,
Speaker 1: or they'd have no clue who I am or why
Speaker 1: I'm doing.
Speaker 5: That, and and it sucks overall. But yesterday I wanted
Speaker 5: to be like a moment where it was over for
Speaker 5: me where I didn't think about it anymore. But that
Speaker 5: hasn't happened yet. And when I say a moment, I
Speaker 5: mean like when I was there at the store and
Speaker 5: the two people that were you know, at fault, like
Speaker 5: clearly seeing that they feel bad and that they know,
Speaker 5: like they're not disputing that they did anything wrong. I
Speaker 5: mean people make mistakes, you know, so like I'm trying
Speaker 5: to just look at it as hey, you know, this
Speaker 5: is the worst thing that ever happens to me, then
Speaker 5: I'll be okay, which is true. But it's just been
Speaker 5: I don't know, like I've never felt so helpless as
Speaker 5: if like I just got I'm just going to have
Speaker 5: to deal, you know. And you know, at the end,
Speaker 5: I got my car back and that's good, but that
Speaker 5: is what happened. Like I quite literally just had to
Speaker 5: you know, what was.
Speaker 3: I going to do? Call the cops?
Speaker 5: Be at the store every day with the employees who
Speaker 5: have no they have no they have no options to
Speaker 5: like help me or anything.
Speaker 3: They just you know shoot me towards the corporate area.
Speaker 5: You have to go with my boss and his boss,
Speaker 5: and they just turned into a whole mess. But been
Speaker 5: a long time and I was thinking on my way
Speaker 5: in today, maybe like just maybe Louisville football was kind
Speaker 5: of not themselves because I didn't have my car. I'm
Speaker 5: not one into superstitions, but like they played those two
Speaker 5: bump teams before my car broke, and then since then,
Speaker 5: you know, they had a close call against Georgia Tech,
Speaker 5: they lost to in a row bounce back against Virginia.
Speaker 5: So you know, I'm trying to find you know, me
Speaker 5: getting the car back instead of you know, worrying about
Speaker 5: the twenty seven days I was without it, I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna think, well, hey, now this is this is gonna
Speaker 5: send Louisville season in the right direction at a really
Speaker 5: high rate of speed. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 5: that's gonna happen or not, but I'm just trying to
Speaker 5: find ways to, you know, not be so bitter about it.
Speaker 5: What did Rick Partino used to lie to us and
Speaker 5: say get better, not bitter, as he's clearly been the bitter,
Speaker 5: a little bitch about Louisville forever. And I'm saying that
Speaker 5: now because we now know Luke Hancock put it out
Speaker 5: there yesterday that Rick just lied like he's been invited
Speaker 5: back to Louisville many times, not only by his former players,
Speaker 5: but like when they honored the twenty thirteen national championship
Speaker 5: team during Kenny's first year, they asked Rick to come.
Speaker 5: So like he just line about that stuff and that's
Speaker 5: what he does. But anyways, I'm gonna get better and
Speaker 5: not bitter. We got a loaded show today. Couple guys
Speaker 5: gonna join us. At three point thirty. We will talk
Speaker 5: with C. L. Brown from the Courier Journal. I'm a
Speaker 5: big fan of cel. I've followed his work over the
Speaker 5: years and think think the world of him. And I
Speaker 5: was gassing him up on radio Row last week in Charlotte,
Speaker 5: and he was just like, Hey, why don't you why
Speaker 5: don't you have me on? And I'm like, why do
Speaker 5: you say something? I'd love to have you on. You know,
Speaker 5: I just assumed that, you know, he's he's busy, he's
Speaker 5: got stuff to do, but he's he's cranking out some
Speaker 5: really good columns for the CJ. And he's got his
Speaker 5: podcast over there with the Curer Journals. So we'll have
Speaker 5: him on coming up with three talk about a variety
Speaker 5: of things, including some college hoops as well as Louisville
Speaker 5: football because they've got a big game coming up now,
Speaker 5: speaking of college football, We're going to talk at four
Speaker 5: to ten. He doesn't know, but we're calling him at
Speaker 5: four oh five. Like he said four ten, we're calling
Speaker 5: him at four or five. It' Zach Barnett, a football scoop.
Speaker 5: We'll get his thoughts on really the midway point of
Speaker 5: the college football season, and I'm sure he has some
Speaker 5: thoughts on this Louisville Miami matchup. So we'll talk to
Speaker 5: him around.
Speaker 3: Four to ten.
Speaker 5: And I'm getting I'm getting more and more excited about
Speaker 5: this matchup. I mean, I still can't tell you that
Speaker 5: I have like total confidence. But it's not because like I'm,
Speaker 5: you know, worried that Louisville's just gonna get hammered because
Speaker 5: they're not they're not good enough. I just I want
Speaker 5: him to really to continue to utilize the talent they
Speaker 5: have and stop making critical mistakes. And in a way,
Speaker 5: this kind of feels like Notre Dame week. And I'll
Speaker 5: explain myself here, because it seems like you've got an
Speaker 5: opportunity to take advantage of a big opportunity. And that's
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, you've got the opportunity to maximize an
Speaker 5: opportunity here with a good opponent that if you beat them,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of value there. Felt like the Notre
Speaker 5: Dame week, right like, even though that they had lost
Speaker 5: to Northern Illinois a couple of weeks prior, you know,
Speaker 5: beating Notre Dame at Notre Dame, like there was a
Speaker 5: lot on the line. And what made that loss and
Speaker 5: still makes it just to head scratcher, is that I
Speaker 5: don't think Notre Dame's that special and you had the
Speaker 5: opportunity to get a win with real value and you couldn't.
Speaker 5: You couldn't make it happen. But you also are looking
Speaker 5: at Miami this week kind of like you were looking
Speaker 5: at Notre Dame, and it's it's an opponent that you
Speaker 5: know could just beat you straight up even if you
Speaker 5: play well, because you know they got dudes like you do.
Speaker 5: In fact, there's going to be some clear advantages that
Speaker 5: Miami has, just like there were some advantages that Notre
Speaker 5: Dame has when it comes to personnel. You know, the
Speaker 5: SMU game, that was an opponent that I just thought,
Speaker 5: you know, I didn't know they I'd flat out did
Speaker 5: not think SMU would be able to do what they
Speaker 5: did in Louisville, and maybe we learned that they're going
Speaker 5: to be able to do that against everybody because they've
Speaker 5: reinvented who they are offensively once they made that switch
Speaker 5: to Jennings at quarterback. But you know, we learned the
Speaker 5: hard way that SMU isn't a team that you get
Speaker 5: right with because you are coming off of a tough
Speaker 5: loss to Notre Dame where you feel like you did
Speaker 5: a whole lot more to lose that game than they
Speaker 5: did to win it. But SMU made you pay. He
Speaker 5: still had a chance to win. But SMU was impressive.
Speaker 5: And again I'll give them credit. They were just better,
Speaker 5: didn't I didn't think anything SMU did was fluky as
Speaker 5: far as like they got lucky or anything. Now, Louisville
Speaker 5: still made mistakes, but SMU earned a lot of respect
Speaker 5: for me that day, which I'm sure there's still appreciative of.
Speaker 5: That's what they came here to Louisville Forest to get
Speaker 5: Nick Coffe's respect. But either way, you know, that just
Speaker 5: kind of felt like, Okay, we'll get right here. After
Speaker 5: that lost to Outer Dame and we learned the hard
Speaker 5: way we got beat and then Virginia, I mean, it
Speaker 5: was your worst opponent since Jacksonville State. So it was
Speaker 5: a game where you could still probably do what you've
Speaker 5: done in the previous two weeks and still hold on
Speaker 5: to win. And let me tell you what, that's exactly
Speaker 5: what happened. We can claim they made improvements and whatnot,
Speaker 5: and they did. I guess the defense wasn't wasn't quite
Speaker 5: the mess they'd been in previous weeks with the lack
Speaker 5: of communication and just looking disorganized. But like, let's be honest,
Speaker 5: Louisville still made a lot of big mistakes in that game,
Speaker 5: and they needed a late touchdown against for you know,
Speaker 5: against a Virginia team that I'm not sure it is
Speaker 5: very good to win. You're happy they won, but like
Speaker 5: I think, if I'm being honest with you, I think
Speaker 5: Louisville has kind of played the same way the last
Speaker 5: three weeks, meaning that they make mistakes that they should
Speaker 5: be able to avoid, and it's put them in situations
Speaker 5: to where they're either going to lose to good teams
Speaker 5: in SMU and Notre Dame or at least, you know,
Speaker 5: better teams than Virginia. So Miami on Saturday noon kickoff
Speaker 5: sold out Atmospheres should be great, and again the opportunities
Speaker 5: there and I'm hoping that the Jeff Brahm and his
Speaker 5: team can take take full advantage. All Right, some other
Speaker 5: things we'll get into today. The Louisville basketball team photo.
Speaker 5: So I'm very glad that about an hour ago, maybe
Speaker 5: it was longer than that. I didn't see it till
Speaker 5: about an hour ago that they did post the official
Speaker 5: team photo from yesterday's media day, and it looks a
Speaker 5: lot better than what we saw from the photo that
Speaker 5: was posted by Matt mcgavick yesterday. I'm going to start
Speaker 5: with this. I'm going to defend Matt mcgavick because Matt
Speaker 5: mcgavick did exactly what I think many others did, but
Speaker 5: for some reason, his photo that he put in a tweet,
Speaker 5: it got a quarter of a million views in roughly
Speaker 5: twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: And it was just a guy who's doing his job.
Speaker 5: He's using the limited time that they're giving the media
Speaker 5: members to do the player interviews at media day, and
Speaker 5: they're taking their team photos. So he just gets out
Speaker 5: his phone when he snaps a pick, he throws it
Speaker 5: up on Twitter and he starts interviewing people. Little does
Speaker 5: he know that like it. I don't know if you
Speaker 5: could have tried to get a worse picture than what
Speaker 5: they than what they got and what he got. And
Speaker 5: again it was not intentional in any way. I probably
Speaker 5: would have deleted it a little bit quicker than he did.
Speaker 5: But you know, the picture that's made its rounds, and
Speaker 5: I mean it was Louisville kind of going viral on
Speaker 5: Twitter and the college basketball world for having a team
Speaker 5: that you know, they all, I mean, I'll just say it,
Speaker 5: because they weren't expecting their picture to be taken. It
Speaker 5: wasn't the proper lighting and the professional photographer that works
Speaker 5: for the university in the athletic department. They were just
Speaker 5: you know, sitting there, you know, getting ready to be
Speaker 5: prompted on what to do, getting ready to have like
Speaker 5: the flash set up and all that. I don't know
Speaker 5: how the photography works, but it was just somebody who
Speaker 5: pulled out their phone and took a picture without anybody
Speaker 5: really looking. And they all look like they're very sleepy
Speaker 5: or high, depending on which way you want to look
Speaker 5: at it. Language not great as if they're posing.
Speaker 3: You know, they didn't. They weren't posing.
Speaker 5: They were just kind of you know, standing without anybody
Speaker 5: realizing that they're gonna get their picture taken. And I
Speaker 5: mean it, I hate that it turned into what it
Speaker 5: turned into. I'm happy that the U of L Twitter account,
Speaker 5: whoever's running that, is having some fun with it, because
Speaker 5: clearly it looks a lot better now.
Speaker 3: But it was.
Speaker 5: I mean, i'd be honest with you. It didn't make
Speaker 5: me feel any different about the team. It didn't make
Speaker 5: me start to question. Wait a second, I really thought
Speaker 5: Pat Kelsey put together a really good roster here. But
Speaker 5: these guys, man, they didn't look the part like I
Speaker 5: never and I never got to that place because again,
Speaker 5: it's just, you know, I knew what it was. It
Speaker 5: was somebody pulling out their iPhone snapping a picture when
Speaker 5: nobody in the picture was ready for it. But it
Speaker 5: couldn't have looked much worse. I mean, ye had guys
Speaker 5: with their eyes closed. You had guys looked like they
Speaker 5: just woke up from a nap. I mean, it was,
Speaker 5: it was. It was not great, and it's one of
Speaker 5: the many things that's happened. And I don't I don't
Speaker 5: think anybody has any bad intent, And who the hell
Speaker 5: am I It's tell people what they should do before
Speaker 5: they post.
Speaker 3: Something on the internet, right, do what you want.
Speaker 5: But there's been at least like three or four things
Speaker 5: that's happened the last month or so that I think
Speaker 5: people are trying. They're coming from a good place, and
Speaker 5: they do care about UVEL Athletics rather it be just
Speaker 5: they're a super fan, or maybe they work in media,
Speaker 5: but yet they don't hide that they favor Louisville like
Speaker 5: I do. But it's backfired and it's made us look bad,
Speaker 5: and we've we've kind of been the joke of the
Speaker 5: Internet at times. Now part of that, in fact, maybe
Speaker 5: not just a part of it, maybe the majority of
Speaker 5: that is because we have a fan base that we're
Speaker 5: you know, the fan base that that is our rival.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's a billion of them, and they're all
Speaker 5: anonymous on the internet under you know, RUPs, Renegade sixty seven,
Speaker 5: Big Blue Bozo.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I mean, they like the each they're you know, and
Speaker 5: there's there's every fan base in college sports has fans
Speaker 5: that live behind anonymous accounts and just troll people. And
Speaker 5: it's that's why I oftentimes refer to Twitter whatever you
Speaker 5: want to call it, as like a toxic wasteland. But
Speaker 5: what you have to keep in mind is that like
Speaker 5: the Kentucky fan base, I'm convinced that there's a billion
Speaker 5: of them. Compared to even other fan bases that we
Speaker 5: view as a as a big fan base, like, there's
Speaker 5: nowhere near as many of those big blue bozos as
Speaker 5: I call them. So you know, I get it. If
Speaker 5: there was a Kentucky team photo that looked like that,
Speaker 5: I mean I probably wouldn't have you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 5: have gone in on it like others have because I'm
Speaker 5: not somebody that like wants to invite someone to take
Speaker 5: a shot at my personal appearance, if you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like, I don't really go for personal appearance
Speaker 5: because I don't want that thrown back at me because
Speaker 5: I'm an easy target when it comes to that, I think.
Speaker 5: But anyways, if you haven't seen the new Louisville team
Speaker 5: photo that has been put out there, go check it
Speaker 5: out because it's a much better look than what was
Speaker 5: put out there yesterday. And again it got a quarter
Speaker 5: of a million views on Twitter, which again I think
Speaker 5: more than anything that speaks to the Kentucky fans just
Speaker 5: wanting to share it and be trolls all right quick break,
Speaker 5: we'll come back on the other side and welcome him in.
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Speaker 5: I'll start with I want to get to basketball in
Speaker 5: a moment when it comes to Louisville football. I mean
Speaker 5: this Miami matchup obviously big time game. You got a
Speaker 5: top six team coming in. Louisville has not really a
Speaker 5: deep history with Miami, but they played them a few times,
Speaker 5: been able to take advantage of opportunities to knock this
Speaker 5: team off.
Speaker 3: What's your feel for this game Louisville.
Speaker 5: I think despite being four and two, I think they've
Speaker 5: shown they've they've got a pretty good quarterback, they've got
Speaker 5: some good skill position players, and really, I don't think
Speaker 5: a lot of folks look at Louisville and feel as
Speaker 5: if they've got, you know, a team that's been underwhelming
Speaker 5: when it comes to personnel, but they've made a lot
Speaker 5: of mistakes that you feel like are.
Speaker 3: Avoidable at least. I do.
Speaker 5: Just curious, as we're a few days away, what you
Speaker 5: think of this matchup here certainly a chance for Louisville
Speaker 5: to send their season in a positive direction if they
Speaker 5: can pull off the upset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish I had a better feel on it,
Speaker 2: to be honest, to try and make some money off it.
Speaker 5: But and that's Louis's fault, right, You don't know how
Speaker 5: many mistakes they're gonna make that you feel are avoidable
Speaker 5: and all that.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, man, Well, when you take a step
Speaker 2: back from it, Louisville has two one possession losses.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: Like, It's not like you're looking at these games that
Speaker 2: they were overwhelmed by somebody's talent or lost up front
Speaker 2: in the trenches and got dominated in that respect. Neither
Speaker 2: one of those losses occurred that way. And really both
Speaker 2: of the losses was really because of a bad start.
Speaker 4: I mean, they played well in the second half.
Speaker 2: They played well after giving up, you know, twenty four
Speaker 2: points in the first half of both of those games
Speaker 2: to Notre Dame in SMU. So I think Louisville is
Speaker 2: in a good position where maybe they are being overlooked
Speaker 2: a little bit, and Miami is certainly coming in vulnerable
Speaker 2: having these last two wins, you know, having.
Speaker 4: To have a short of a miracle.
Speaker 2: But twenty five point comebacks don't come on trees, right,
Speaker 2: So that the one at Cow was crazy, and having
Speaker 2: that call overturned the hell Mary at the end of
Speaker 2: Virginia's tech game to win that game was also fortunate
Speaker 2: for Miami. So on one hand, I'm looking at it
Speaker 2: as is this the game where Miami's luck kind of
Speaker 2: runs out, or having a week off, did they come
Speaker 2: back in and this is this might be the toughest
Speaker 2: game on their schedule that they weren't expecting because next
Speaker 2: week they got Florida State and I know that being
Speaker 2: a rivalry for them, and before the season.
Speaker 4: That was the game, you know, so.
Speaker 2: This is gonna certainly be an interesting one on Saturday. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I thought Virginia was an opportunity for Louisville to finally
Speaker 5: I mean, look, the opportunity was there. The Notre Dame
Speaker 5: loss was one where you feel like, man, we made
Speaker 5: so many mistakes, and yet if you maybe take away
Speaker 5: two of them, we could say that we didn't play well,
Speaker 5: really hurt ourselves, but we wanted Notre Dame and it
Speaker 5: would be looked at as a win that had a
Speaker 5: lot of value. I mean, SMU, I'll give them a
Speaker 5: lot of credit. They just came in and they were better.
Speaker 5: I mean, Louisville didn't play great, but SMU really showed
Speaker 5: me something that I didn't know that they had. And
Speaker 5: I thought the Virginia game would be a chance for
Speaker 5: Louisville to go on the road play clean ball. Maybe
Speaker 5: not win by three scores or anything like that. But
Speaker 5: just you know, stop shooting yourself in the foot and
Speaker 5: that didn't happen. I'm looking at this Saturday's matchup against
Speaker 5: Miami is one of two things. One, if you keep
Speaker 5: making those mistakes. Miami is a team with the talent
Speaker 5: that I think they could really bury you if they're
Speaker 5: playing well and you continue to make you know, silly,
Speaker 5: you commit silly penalties, you're disorganized defensively. But it's also
Speaker 5: a chance where Okay, if there was ever a time
Speaker 5: for you to get right, it would be it would
Speaker 5: be this moment here. I just you know, I think
Speaker 5: for both teams, you know, as you mentioned Miami, they're
Speaker 5: probably feeling kind of fortunate that they were.
Speaker 3: Able to avoid two losses there. They could have easily
Speaker 3: gone the other way.
Speaker 5: But I'm kind of, you know, maybe this is just
Speaker 5: the pessimist in mecl but I kind of feel like
Speaker 5: Miami of old would have lost those games, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Like I'm actually, even though Cow's not
Speaker 5: a great team, I kind of feel like that the
Speaker 5: way they came back on the road like that, back
Speaker 5: against the wall, kind of made me fear that more
Speaker 5: than anything.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, Well, I think the difference
Speaker 2: is cam Ward. Yeah, he's special there, and yeah, brought
Speaker 2: the swagger back to the you. And I don't think
Speaker 2: at any point in that game, in that Cow game,
Speaker 2: where they thinking we don't have what it takes to
Speaker 2: come back because of that guy.
Speaker 4: So but the thing about.
Speaker 2: Cam Ward, I will say, and I think this goes
Speaker 2: back to this time at Washington State where he probably
Speaker 2: felt like he had to do everything well, he did
Speaker 2: have to do everything to kind of carry that offense
Speaker 2: and would maybe force some plays. I still think he
Speaker 2: has that tendency to instead of just going for the
Speaker 2: simple and going for the checkdown and you know, maybe
Speaker 2: you're not gonna get a first down and have to
Speaker 2: punt on that drive, but it's okay, you're gonna live
Speaker 2: to fight again. He's still I gotta make this play.
Speaker 2: He still has those tendencies and those flashes. So if
Speaker 2: Louisville can catch that cam Ward, that'll make you fill
Speaker 2: out more positive.
Speaker 5: Nick cel Brown of the Curry Journal is our guest
Speaker 5: joining us here on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 3: Let's shift gears here to basketball.
Speaker 5: Louisville coming in at number nine in the preseason eight
Speaker 5: in the preseason ACC poll, which not a big surprise
Speaker 5: to me. I think there's a lot of teams, really
Speaker 5: the majority of this league. I feel like it's a
Speaker 5: big question mark, And really, I think you could say
Speaker 5: that about a lot of college hoops teams, just with
Speaker 5: the new world we're in with the portal and so
Speaker 5: many new pieces and really just not knowing how good
Speaker 5: anybody's going to be. But I know you wrote about Louisville,
Speaker 5: you know, needing to be one of the programs to
Speaker 5: kind of help restore the reputation of the ACC. We
Speaker 5: chatted about this briefly last week, and you know, I
Speaker 5: should throw the disclaimer out there more than I do,
Speaker 5: because I've talked a lot in recent years about the
Speaker 5: ACC as a hoops league just kind of slipping and
Speaker 5: not being what it once was many years ago, and
Speaker 5: certainly not what it was when Louisville joined it. But
Speaker 5: I'm aware Louisville has been a big part of that.
Speaker 5: They were once really proud program that's been the worst
Speaker 5: team in this league the last couple of years, in
Speaker 5: two years where most would say the league was down overall.
Speaker 5: You know, when when you see like if the ACC
Speaker 5: ends up making it taking a step forward this year
Speaker 5: where those who cover the league like yourself can say, Okay,
Speaker 5: this this thing is heading in the right direction. There
Speaker 5: was a little bit of a of a lull there
Speaker 5: whenever you lost legendary coaches that decided to move on
Speaker 5: and retire.
Speaker 3: Who are those teams?
Speaker 5: Because I you know, I'll just say it, I would
Speaker 5: be shocked if that ends up happening, where the ACC
Speaker 5: does end up looking like one of the better leagues
Speaker 5: in college hoops. I'm just I don't have a whole
Speaker 5: lot of hope or faith that the league ends up
Speaker 5: being that great. Now, with that said, that could be,
Speaker 5: that could be something that Pat Kelsey could take advantage of.
Speaker 5: I mean, and if you're a Louisville fan, I think
Speaker 5: you hope that's what ends up happening. But as somebody
Speaker 5: who's covered this league for so long, not only here
Speaker 5: with the CJ, but during your time with the Raleigh
Speaker 5: News Observer, with the Athletic and ESPN, I mean, you
Speaker 5: know the ACC's history is a hoops league as well
Speaker 5: as anybody.
Speaker 3: What do you make of kind of where where the
Speaker 3: league is right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still kind of feel like it might be
Speaker 2: in a holding pattern of not getting back to what
Speaker 2: we expect. But I do see some some flashes that
Speaker 2: it's it's it's on the right track.
Speaker 4: It's it's gonna get back, you know.
Speaker 2: I think here in the next couple of years, because
Speaker 2: I think Clempson can be good. Obviously, Duke and Carolina
Speaker 2: are to me in a class by themselves.
Speaker 4: This year in the league, and then.
Speaker 2: I feel like the next year is like Wake Forest,
Speaker 2: I think should be very good. With the Hunter Salas
Speaker 2: coming back this season. He probably could have stayed in
Speaker 2: the draft and been picked last year. Them getting him
Speaker 2: back is huge for Wake and Steve Fords has kind
Speaker 2: of been knocking on the door of the NCAA Tournament
Speaker 2: there since he's since he's gotten there and they just
Speaker 2: haven't for whatever scheduling reasons or the lost at the
Speaker 2: wrong time, haven't got in. But I think this is
Speaker 2: the year they do it. I think Wake Clempson. I
Speaker 2: think Pittsburgh is a team that could also, you know.
Speaker 4: Help the league overall by being good. And Pittsburgh is
Speaker 4: a team too.
Speaker 2: Maybe if NC State doesn't run the table and when
Speaker 2: the A Tournament, maybe Pittsburgh actually gets into the NCAA Tournament,
Speaker 2: but they probably got bumped out by that miraculous run
Speaker 2: from NC State. But I think they're in a position.
Speaker 2: Jeff Caple has them in a position to kind of take.
Speaker 4: That next step too.
Speaker 2: But then after that, it's kind of like I mean,
Speaker 2: NC State, I think Kevin Keats has.
Speaker 4: Something to work with. Obviously, he's got two.
Speaker 2: Former UFL players with Brandon Huntley Hatfield and Mike James
Speaker 2: on his roster. They they could, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: carry over that momentum from the Final four and be
Speaker 2: a and I don't mean be a Final four team,
Speaker 2: but I mean like be a good team, be a
Speaker 2: solid team, be an NCAA tournament team. I really have
Speaker 2: questions about Miami. I'm not really sure. I think Virginia,
Speaker 2: when you have Tony Bennett, should be the faith of
Speaker 2: the ACC.
Speaker 4: He should be the coach.
Speaker 2: That does the the pr if you will for the
Speaker 2: league that Mike Cisseski and Roy Williams used to do
Speaker 2: it back in the day.
Speaker 5: He was more successful cel when he was competing against
Speaker 5: all the legends, like he would win this league regularly.
Speaker 5: Whenever you would say that, Okay, we'll never see a
Speaker 5: league with this many a league coach as ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what's what's hurt him is the portal.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure what Virginia's nil situation is, but
Speaker 2: I just don't think he's been as quick to be
Speaker 2: able to adapt because Tony teams are best when he
Speaker 2: a gets NBA level talent in there and b when
Speaker 2: he has some time to develop game, like to supplement
Speaker 2: that talent with guys who've been in the program and
Speaker 2: have developed. And the portal just kind of imploded that
Speaker 2: structure that he likes for his program. So it's it's
Speaker 2: and I look at their rockster and I don't see
Speaker 2: it same here.
Speaker 5: Them being at number five has to be Bennett still
Speaker 5: getting the bump because he's a national title coach and
Speaker 5: everybody respects him because them being at five is like
Speaker 5: the ultimate Okay, everybody's just guessing here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I think and when people hate the
Speaker 2: watching Virginia play, it's when he doesn't have talent, because
Speaker 2: that's when they have to muck it up and it
Speaker 2: becomes the very you know, the game kind of plods
Speaker 2: along and it's methodical and nobody wants to see it.
Speaker 2: But he still wins that way because he knows how
Speaker 2: to take you to the mud and wrestle, you know.
Speaker 2: But and I think this will be that kind of
Speaker 2: team this year that has to do that in order
Speaker 2: to win, and they'll they'll still win games. But the
Speaker 2: league needs for Virginia to be what it's been at
Speaker 2: his best, like from that run from like twenty fifteen
Speaker 2: to twenty nineteen where they were competing for the league
Speaker 2: title and won the national title in twenty nineteen. The
Speaker 2: league needs Virginia to.
Speaker 4: Get back to that.
Speaker 2: So I still think we're a couple of years away
Speaker 2: from saying the ACC is a ventaed league, you know,
Speaker 2: vented ACC again.
Speaker 4: But I do feel like it's on the way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you know, it wouldn't be a shock if
Speaker 5: they get a handful of teams in and those teams
Speaker 5: find a way to make a run.
Speaker 3: That happens.
Speaker 5: That's the NSAA tournament. But it used to be a
Speaker 5: weekly thing that if you had two games, rather it
Speaker 5: be a Monday for Big Monday, or you're playing on
Speaker 5: a Wednesday or whatever, and then of course you're doing
Speaker 5: the Saturday or the Sunday. More often than not, one
Speaker 5: of those two opportunities for ACC league members would be
Speaker 5: an opportunity for you to get a valuable win that
Speaker 5: really really helps you when it comes to fighting for
Speaker 5: a tournament spot. And that's where it's really stood out
Speaker 5: to be more than anything, is that you only end
Speaker 5: up having few opportunities and you beat teams in your league,
Speaker 5: but it doesn't give you much value. That's, you know,
Speaker 5: somebody who has followed Louisville basketball for a long time.
Speaker 5: You went from seeing that in the Big East every
Speaker 5: year to the ACC for the first I don't know,
Speaker 5: four or five years, and then lately it's just kind
Speaker 5: of it's kind of dropped off. I do think some
Speaker 5: of it is because of the perception of the league
Speaker 5: and the way they've gone about scheduling. Hopefully they can
Speaker 5: they can get past that. But one more question I
Speaker 5: had for you cl before we let you go. What
Speaker 5: years was it that you were the beat writer for
Speaker 5: U of L hoops. I know you had many roles
Speaker 5: at the CG over the years, but I could be
Speaker 5: wrong here, but I feel like when you were the
Speaker 5: beat writer for the CJ covering U of L men's basketball,
Speaker 5: like that was when the rivalry with Patino and cal
Speaker 5: was like at its peak.
Speaker 3: Am I wrong? Is my memory off there?
Speaker 4: That's correct?
Speaker 2: It was from old nine. Well old nine was that
Speaker 2: first basketball season that I covered, So it's from nine
Speaker 2: to thirteen.
Speaker 5: As soon, right, as soon as it I mean that
Speaker 5: that is quite literally. I think the era will go
Speaker 5: back many many years and say the rivalry as far
Speaker 5: as the fan base is was was so intense in
Speaker 5: that exact window of time because it was cal beying
Speaker 5: in Kentucky was still relatively new. Rick was trying to,
Speaker 5: you know, not be outdone by a guy he doesn't
Speaker 5: like who took a job that he wishes he never left.
Speaker 5: I mean that's the way it had played out. So
Speaker 5: when you see Rick back in Lexington in that like,
Speaker 5: what's your thoughts on all that? I feel like, given
Speaker 5: how you covered Rick and how kind of embedded you
Speaker 5: were with the program at the time, and knowing how
Speaker 5: Rick was like, there's probably nothing that would surprise you
Speaker 5: when it comes to stories about Rick Patino or what
Speaker 5: Rick Patino was gonna do.
Speaker 2: Well. I mean, if John calim Perry was still the
Speaker 2: head coach at UK and Patino went back for Big
Speaker 2: Blue Madness, that would be a story. But the fact
Speaker 2: that it's Mark Pope, you know, that's his guy. Like
Speaker 2: it would to me, I would be shocked if he
Speaker 2: didn't go, you know, like he's he's always shown support
Speaker 2: for his former players, and it's it's been said out
Speaker 2: there and you know I've heard on radio already. If
Speaker 2: Peyton Stee was the head coach right now, if Luke
Speaker 2: Hancock was somewhere as a head coach right now, Patino
Speaker 2: would be supporting those guys in the same way.
Speaker 4: You know, he would be in whatever college they were in.
Speaker 2: He would be in that gear and he would be,
Speaker 2: you know, lending his support, lending his enthusiasm.
Speaker 4: However, however he saw fit.
Speaker 2: So I don't know's it's not a big deal.
Speaker 4: I get it because of the rivalry. I get why.
Speaker 2: Some fans were kind of charged up about it, but
Speaker 2: it really isn't a big deal. He's not going to
Speaker 2: be carrying a blue flag during the season while Saint
Speaker 2: John's is laying.
Speaker 4: You know, he appeared.
Speaker 2: He still has connections and friends and people that go
Speaker 2: back from when he was at UK in the nineties
Speaker 2: in Lexington, and it was a good time. I think,
Speaker 2: if anything, there just hasn't been enough time that has
Speaker 2: elapsed from him leaving Louisville in the way that he
Speaker 2: did or in the way that got forced upon him.
Speaker 2: For there'll be healing for him to come back here.
Speaker 2: But obviously, UK, it's been twenty five years, you know,
Speaker 2: like it's been long enough.
Speaker 5: And more than anything, it's the coach now is a
Speaker 5: I who won a title and it was a captain
Speaker 5: for him, Like that's the I mean, that's the ultimate
Speaker 5: component there that made that whole thing kind of kind
Speaker 5: of fall into place. So like, I think both things
Speaker 5: can be true, Like it really isn't a big surprise.
Speaker 5: I don't think Rick did it to make anybody here
Speaker 5: at U of l MAD, certainly not as players and fans.
Speaker 5: But I also get why if you're a younger fan,
Speaker 5: like if you're five to six years younger than me,
Speaker 5: your only memory may be Rick coaching Louisville and you've
Speaker 5: seen him in blue even though you knew he coached there,
Speaker 5: you know, it probably did put you in a place
Speaker 5: you weren't expecting. But yeah, certainly been a big talking
Speaker 5: point here in the last few days. But CL really
Speaker 5: appreciate you making Tom first. We'll have to do this
Speaker 5: again sooner.
Speaker 2: I brother no doubt appreciate that, all right.
Speaker 3: Take care. That's cl Brown from the Courier Journal. Good stuff.
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Speaker 5: a corny Brad Paisley song for it, and I guess
Speaker 5: that's what this is here because I did get my
Speaker 5: car back for those who did, and here at the
Speaker 5: beginning of the show, because I know you guys have
Speaker 5: been losing sleep over it, right, You've been just stressing
Speaker 5: stressing out like crazy, worried about is is Nick going
Speaker 5: to get his car back? Well, I did get my
Speaker 5: car back today, twenty seven days without it because AutoZone
Speaker 5: broke it and then did pay to repair it. But
Speaker 5: that was also its own process. But yes, I've got
Speaker 5: my car back, all right. So this text came in
Speaker 5: during our conversation there was Cel Brown. It was really
Speaker 5: good to have cl on, and I'm going to hope
Speaker 5: to have him on as as a weekly guest because
Speaker 5: you know, he's great and known him for a long time,
Speaker 5: and he's somebody. And I was just telling John this
Speaker 5: during the break that whenever I first got a chance
Speaker 5: to actually get not necessarily inside access or anything like that,
Speaker 5: but I was I was given credential access to where
Speaker 5: I could go to games and you know, cover the team.
Speaker 5: And at that time, we're talking two thousand and nine,
Speaker 5: twenty ten, you know, it wasn't it wasn't that it
Speaker 5: was still relatively new, and I remember there were a
Speaker 5: lot of people who, you know, felt as if anybody
Speaker 5: that didn't work for a newspaper or a radio station
Speaker 5: like this one, or a TV station, if you got
Speaker 5: access and you were press conferences, I mean, they felt
Speaker 5: like a lot of those people felt like you were
Speaker 5: beneath him. And now it's a totally different world because
Speaker 5: the landscape has changed so much in the last fifteen years.
Speaker 3: But cl was always was always.
Speaker 5: Kind to me, and you know, you know, would would
Speaker 5: would you know, would would kind you know, not necessarily
Speaker 5: put me under his wing, but like when others would like,
Speaker 5: you know, be disgusted by my presence, he was always cool.
Speaker 3: Him and him and Chip.
Speaker 5: Cosby, who has has left the media world, but was
Speaker 5: also you know, around at that time, and you know
Speaker 5: always you remember those kind of things, so shout out
Speaker 5: to CL. But the text that came in said you
Speaker 5: mentioned Patino with CL. What was the story he did
Speaker 5: that Rick got really upset about I know of one,
Speaker 5: and actually was going to ask him about that at
Speaker 5: some point, just because you know, Patino has been talked
Speaker 5: about here lately and we'd have to get to break.
Speaker 3: But there was a story that CL wrote.
Speaker 5: There was not even any It wasn't it was I mean,
Speaker 5: it was just Rick losing his mind about something that
Speaker 5: he didn't need to lose his mind about. But I'm
Speaker 5: pretty sure CL talked about all the end. He was
Speaker 5: writing about the injury history that UVEL had as far
Speaker 5: as basketball, because there were guys that would get hurt
Speaker 5: and he and I don't have the column in front
Speaker 5: of me. It was many, many, many years ago, but
Speaker 5: he had talked to Preston Knowles, who had just left Louisville,
Speaker 5: and there was some kind of an insinuation that because
Speaker 5: they practiced so hard, that's why guys get hurt, like.
Speaker 3: During the season.
Speaker 5: And I don't really think that there was a pointed,
Speaker 5: you know comment it was just, you know, it was
Speaker 5: a storyline that Louisville was having some injury issues and
Speaker 5: guys were getting hurt and practice not in games. And Rick,
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure he like yelled at him during a
Speaker 5: press conference, meaning yelled at cl which would have been
Speaker 5: you know, for me at that time, it would have
Speaker 5: been a very scary thing. But you know, he's a
Speaker 5: grown up, and I think Rick came out the next
Speaker 5: press conference and apologized to him. All right, real quick,
Speaker 5: let's talk about Jefferson Animal Hospital. You guys know there
Speaker 5: are big events coming up this weekend on Saturday. Pints
Speaker 5: for pausing people, Bring your pet, bring your people. They're
Speaker 5: going to show you how pet, how pet blood donations work.
Speaker 5: They understand a lot of people out there myself andcluded
Speaker 5: wasn't even aware that that was a thing. Well it is.
Speaker 5: Your pets can donate blood. They may qualify to be
Speaker 5: a pet blood donor if your dog weighs less than
Speaker 5: fifty pounds and your cat weighs less than ten pounds.
Speaker 5: So and every time, every time there's a donation made,
Speaker 5: that can help save up to four to six lives.
Speaker 5: So it's Pines for Pausing People. Ten Am to two
Speaker 5: pm this Saturday. Jefferson Animal Hospital over there on outer Loop.
Speaker 5: You can give them a call at five two nine
Speaker 5: hundred pets or you can visit pet bloodbank dot com
Speaker 5: to get more information. So again it's coming up this Saturday.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll take a break, come back on the
Speaker 5: other side. Get Hour number two started right here on
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