Speaker 1: That goes on with with the you know whoever our
Speaker 1: landlord actually is, meaning like the person who runs the facility,
Speaker 1: and letting our boss know, miss Christy, as far as like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to be banging the hell out of his
Speaker 1: bathroom for about seven eight straight hours. Do you think
Speaker 1: that could interrupt any of your broadcast? In broadcasting that's
Speaker 1: going on? And you know, if anybody would have thought
Speaker 1: about it, it clearly could have impacted us. So it worked
Speaker 1: out well to where I'm not there, but Austin, who's
Speaker 1: really not even that close to it, it still comes
Speaker 1: through every now and then.
Speaker 2: And the whole office is hearing it too. It's say,
Speaker 2: a topic of discussion more than anything.
Speaker 1: It's got to just be annoying as hell, right, like
Speaker 1: it just it never stops.
Speaker 2: So and look, God loves a working man, all right.
Speaker 2: It's true. We appreciate these people trying to spruce up
Speaker 2: four Street lives. Honestly, I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 2: in those bathrooms.
Speaker 3: Oh I have, Oh it's I mean I remember like
Speaker 3: if you were at the concerts at for Street Live,
Speaker 3: like that's where you had to go, and uh, you
Speaker 3: know you could go into the businesses that were open,
Speaker 3: but they weren't just gonna let people get And I'm
Speaker 3: not even sure how the concerts really are.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know PBR does stuff inside their facility, right, Yes, Well,
Speaker 1: any concert I have been to at for Street has
Speaker 1: been out like in that. You know, the main area
Speaker 1: of FROs Street down there right in front of UH
Speaker 1: where hard rock used to be in sports and social
Speaker 1: and those businesses. They're not just gonna let people who
Speaker 1: were there not giving them any money come in and
Speaker 1: use the bathroom, especially considering it's usually probably a lot
Speaker 1: of drunk people who you know, have been partying because
Speaker 1: there's a concert, so that if you're.
Speaker 2: Wearing that iHeartRadio shirt, you get the walk And that's
Speaker 2: I think that's been.
Speaker 1: My I was gonna say, we weren't. We weren't here
Speaker 1: whenever I was going to concerts many many years ago.
Speaker 1: So if you were there for a concert, you and
Speaker 1: unless you we're gonna go give one of these establishments business,
Speaker 1: which you could do that, you know, that's where you
Speaker 1: would go to the bathroom, and you know there would
Speaker 1: be an insane amount of people at some of these concerts.
Speaker 1: I mean that I'm sure they still have big ones now,
Speaker 1: I'm just not as big of a concert guy. In fact,
Speaker 1: they have. I remember leaving last spring and in the summer,
Speaker 1: there'd be a big turnout when we leave at six
Speaker 1: o'clock because there was a big artist there. It's just
Speaker 1: country night, Yeah exactly. I just don't go anymore. It's
Speaker 1: just not really my thing. But there would. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember seeing like I mean, I'm trying to I
Speaker 1: think it wasn't Jason now Dean. He was too big
Speaker 1: at the time. But there were artists who were big
Speaker 1: enough to like everybody knew who they were.
Speaker 2: We talked about on the show earlier. Yes, we justin Moore.
Speaker 2: He yeah, he was there a lot of times. Yes,
Speaker 2: but there was some big names.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this guy is still real big,
Speaker 1: But like Jake Owen would come in at the time.
Speaker 2: He was really he was really big, so there would.
Speaker 1: Be an unsane I mean, honestly, it kind of makes
Speaker 1: me sad because the like downtown for those kind of
Speaker 1: events like for Street, it was it was it was popping.
Speaker 1: As as the kids used to say, I'm sure they
Speaker 1: don't say that now. Maybe they say it's lit or
Speaker 1: is that yeah, Okay, I mean, it just felt like
Speaker 1: the place to be.
Speaker 2: There was a lot going on, but with a lot
Speaker 2: of people.
Speaker 1: So if you didn't, you know, the majority of the
Speaker 1: people would go to the bathrooms at at in you
Speaker 1: know the ones they're fixed right now. And I just
Speaker 1: remember thinking to myself and there's by the way, there's two.
Speaker 1: One is on the on the main level there and
Speaker 1: then the one is where but where we are, and
Speaker 1: that second that second floor, and they're identical. But maybe
Speaker 1: they've changed it since then. Maybe this is what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now when it comes to the work. But
Speaker 1: there was only one toilet and one urinal, and there
Speaker 1: would be thousands of people that would be needing. Like
Speaker 1: the line was insane. You know, by the time you
Speaker 1: got up there, the toilet was already completely overflowed or
Speaker 1: or somebody's passed out puking in there, so you just
Speaker 1: had to wait to use the urinal. And usually when
Speaker 1: you got up there to use it, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the floor is all wet like it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was an experience. And I remember one time this
Speaker 1: was this was like this is a memorable concert we
Speaker 1: went to because I was not of age, and uh
Speaker 1: I did I did you know I did something I
Speaker 1: probably wasn't supposed to do what we got hammered when
Speaker 1: we got to the place in the parking lot and
Speaker 1: just you know, we couldn't buy anything, so we drank.
Speaker 1: I think we drink like yeah, I think I drank
Speaker 1: Yaeger and the Jaeger with not Red Bull because we
Speaker 1: were too poor. Yager in the black and green Monster
Speaker 1: energy drink, which is kind of like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like your that's like your bullet County Yaeger Jaeger Bomb.
Speaker 1: So we would drink that and you know, get pretty
Speaker 1: lit because we couldn't buy anything when we were in there,
Speaker 1: we weren't of age. And here's how the night started.
Speaker 1: We got out of the car. It was my buddy,
Speaker 1: my buddy.
Speaker 2: We caught him Rev.
Speaker 1: There was Mike and he drew a Pontiac and we
Speaker 1: were in the parking garage. Were probably in there, I
Speaker 1: don't know, thirty minutes just you know, trying to get
Speaker 1: a little buzz going before we walked in and he
Speaker 1: got out a lot. If it was him or it
Speaker 1: was with one of our other buddies, one of them
Speaker 1: ended up urinating in the parking garage. Like you know, hidden,
Speaker 1: but they weren' hidden enough to where they actually got
Speaker 1: a cop saw them and gave them a citation. Luckily
Speaker 1: though they didn't they didn't they didn't you know, ask
Speaker 1: anything about alcohol, and they did because honestly, now now
Speaker 1: that I'm older and realized, like how stupid that was.
Speaker 1: If they would have just like asked to look in
Speaker 1: the car, they could visibly see next to the vehicle
Speaker 1: that we had booze and we weren't of age, like
Speaker 1: they could have they could have done whatever they wanted, right,
Speaker 1: they could have given us citations. They could have you know,
Speaker 1: they could have held us accountable. But you know, we
Speaker 1: remember thinking there's a story he got got a ticket for,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I'm not even sure what the ticket was for.
Speaker 1: Like if you do, like, is that like indecent exposure.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's something they would take you
Speaker 1: to jail, but maybe they have discretion to like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is indecent exposure. But it wasn't as
Speaker 1: if this man was out here running around butt naked, right, right,
Speaker 1: So Anyways, we ended up you know, having a story
Speaker 1: to start, We had a great night. And I remember
Speaker 1: we waited in line, no joke, like thirty minutes to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, and a lot.
Speaker 2: Of people were like going to the garage.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean people with us, but like it
Speaker 1: wasn't uncommon to see somebody ducked off, like having their
Speaker 1: friends cover them so they could they could heurnate, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's this is like, this is straight up debauchery, right,
Speaker 1: Like this is just you know, just gross stuff. But
Speaker 1: like that's where we were at that time in life.
Speaker 1: And you know, we didn't have the stones to do
Speaker 1: it because our buddy had already gotten a citation. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have you know, you're he learned
Speaker 1: the hard way.
Speaker 2: He told me he was total.
Speaker 1: He had to coordinate all that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 1: we end up getting all the way up to the
Speaker 1: to the to the front of the line. We've waited
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, like a good chunk of the way through
Speaker 1: the concert, and by the time we got in there,
Speaker 1: we could see that there was just one urinal, and
Speaker 1: you know, and somebody was in the restroom, you know,
Speaker 1: going number two because there was a stall a urinal,
Speaker 1: and I just remember we got up there, and by
Speaker 1: the time we were there, the people in front of
Speaker 1: us were like, man, they could at least let two
Speaker 1: people go if this guy would get done, if this
Speaker 1: guy would ever complete his dump. So that's like, that
Speaker 1: was where everybody was as far as just like frustrated, Man,
Speaker 1: this line sucks as it is. There's only two places
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom, which you get in here,
Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, this guy's been. You know,
Speaker 1: this guy's been you know, you going number two for
Speaker 1: a long long time, right, And my buddy, who was
Speaker 1: the most intoxicated of all of us, he ends up
Speaker 1: We ended up making our way into the bathroom with
Speaker 1: still like two people ahead of us in line, and
Speaker 1: he just he just yelled, allowed, who bleeps at four street?
Speaker 1: Come on man, and and and it got a good
Speaker 1: laugh from everybody else in line. And then the guy
Speaker 1: in there goes, yeah, it's my bad. Guys almost done.
Speaker 1: And I just felt bad for.
Speaker 2: The guy, right, like, yeah, he's a good sport about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a good sport about it. But I
Speaker 1: just like, so now anytime, like you know, or in
Speaker 1: line for a bathroom somewhere, if we you know, I
Speaker 1: rarely do I get knights to just go hang out
Speaker 1: with the boys and go do stuff. But every now
Speaker 1: and then, like it's just a one liner within our
Speaker 1: crew of friends, like who bleeps at four streets?
Speaker 2: Like come on, like you know what I mean? So
Speaker 2: ironically enough, I was thinking that too. I mean, boy
Speaker 2: really had to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had to go. I mean like I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes, like in in events like that, concerts, games,
Speaker 1: I feel like your your psyche is in such a
Speaker 1: different place to where like even if you maybe could go,
Speaker 1: like you don't, like, it's just I never have to
Speaker 1: go in those moments. And I'm very thankful because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like doing road games. I'm very
Speaker 1: much a guy that prefers home court advantage when it
Speaker 1: comes to going number two. But you know, sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: it happens. So anyways, if they're going to continue to
Speaker 1: bang the hell out of whatever they're doing in that bathroom,
Speaker 1: hopefully they're adding more places for people to actually go
Speaker 1: to the restroom. Yeah that was needed the last time
Speaker 1: I used one of those restrooms. But anyways, we'll take
Speaker 1: you up till six o'clock. Get yourself for the weekend.
Speaker 1: A big weekend. It is Louisville and action tomorrow against Pitt,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to tell you like that. I'm
Speaker 1: and I thought about how I could frame this for
Speaker 1: the show because I don't want to be the guy
Speaker 1: that's like, hey, upset alert, it could happen. And I
Speaker 1: also don't want to be the guy that's that's overdoing
Speaker 1: it as far as being, you know, overly concerned about
Speaker 1: how Tuesday night looked and how close that game actually was.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna frame it this way. I know
Speaker 1: that Pitt is a better team than their record. Now again,
Speaker 1: you are what your record says, but I know that
Speaker 1: they have personnel that on any given night, if they
Speaker 1: play well, they could win and beat a lot of teams,
Speaker 1: including Louisville. So I'm I'm anxious to see tomorrow sort
Speaker 1: of how this team responds from a very sluggish performance
Speaker 1: at Virginia Tech and really a game that we saw
Speaker 1: them in a way we never have seen them before.
Speaker 1: And I believe it's just, hey, sometimes it's just not
Speaker 1: your night. That happens. That's life, that's sports, no matter
Speaker 1: what team you are. Also, they clearly have been dealing
Speaker 1: with a bug, a sickness that has probably spread to
Speaker 1: just about everybody. And even if they're well as far
Speaker 1: as you know, not having symptoms, they're not running a fever,
Speaker 1: you know that everything everything about them is probably good
Speaker 1: to go, other than stamina like fatigue like that, that's
Speaker 1: part of that's that's when you're sick. That you know.
Speaker 1: For me, I'm better now, Like I feel fine, but
Speaker 1: like my thing I had going on last week that
Speaker 1: caused me to miss some days and just clearly I
Speaker 1: couldn't speak a couple of days on the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of lingering, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I don't feel sick, but yet my voice is
Speaker 1: really still not exactly the same. At night, I get
Speaker 1: bad coughing spells. So, like, you know, I'm sure these
Speaker 1: guys are still kind of coming out of that, and
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that what we saw tuesday was just them. Really,
Speaker 1: I think you saw uncharacteristic mistakes. You saw uncharacteristic decisions,
Speaker 1: which I guess could technically be the same thing. And
Speaker 1: I believe that you could chalk it all up to
Speaker 1: just them being gassed, and that's what leads you to
Speaker 1: kind of not make the same decisions you typically make.
Speaker 1: Because your fatigue is getting in the way. So in
Speaker 1: a weird way, not a whole lot to gain tomorrow,
Speaker 1: a lot to lose. But I'm very anxious to see
Speaker 1: this team because I'm looking at it from this one.
Speaker 1: I want to see them bounce back and look a
Speaker 1: lot better and really look different than they did against
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. But also, although the resume won't really get
Speaker 1: a big boost if you beat Pittsburgh at home, that's
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do, I personally will feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about it because I know Pittsburgh has good players,
Speaker 1: really like Jeff Caple. Every year he's been there, mostly
Speaker 1: for the last four or five years, You've seen Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: in stretches and you think, Wow, this team's like really
Speaker 1: good and they play hard. I don't think that they're
Speaker 1: like a team that quits on their coach. They just
Speaker 1: aren't consistent in any way, and that, of course is
Speaker 1: a big problem. So Louisville Pittsburgh tomorrow. We'll talk a
Speaker 1: little more on the other side about what they're doing tomorrow.
Speaker 1: As far as trying to color coordinate the sections. I'm
Speaker 1: hopeful that it's a big hit, but I really have
Speaker 1: no clue what to expect. Also, Kentucky in action, They've
Speaker 1: got Auburn on Saturday, big opportunity for them, and again
Speaker 1: they've got nothing to lose in a lot to gain
Speaker 1: because Auburn, best team in the country, the number one
Speaker 1: overall seed. They're coming to Lexington and look, Kentucky, I
Speaker 1: mean their team this year that they probably win healthy,
Speaker 1: can look at every opponent and no, yeah, we could
Speaker 1: lose if we play in Auburn or a Florida in Alabama,
Speaker 1: but also we know we can win if healthy. Now
Speaker 1: that's the big kicker because apparently, according to Ryan Lemon,
Speaker 1: who would know, I mean, he is plugged in down
Speaker 1: there in Lexington as well as anybody, right, He's Ryan Lemon,
Speaker 1: He's plugged. He's plugged for sure. He says that Jackson
Speaker 1: Robinson didn't go through like shoot around, like warm ups
Speaker 1: practice today whatever they did, which could be a sign
Speaker 1: you know, they're just trying to keep him as fresh
Speaker 1: as possible, or maybe playing him the other night made
Speaker 1: it to where now he's got to sit a couple
Speaker 1: of games. I mean, it's been weird with their injuries,
Speaker 1: but big game for them tomorrow and again we'll get
Speaker 1: you set for the weekend, a lot to get to
Speaker 1: the NFL Combine still going on. There's some college basketball
Speaker 1: jobs that apparently are going to open up that I
Speaker 1: didn't expect. But I love doing the whole coaching carousel
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It was certainly different doing it last
Speaker 1: year because you know, I really have a vested interest
Speaker 1: in what happens with Louisville when they hire a coach,
Speaker 1: and so far it looks great. But man, there could
Speaker 1: be a big shake up across the sport, which I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think if that happens, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of hires made that feel like kind of
Speaker 1: flat because there's just not any big names left anymore.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a quick time out out of
Speaker 1: the way. It's a Friday. We're banging hammers, fixing bathrooms,
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Speaker 1: for hanging out with us again. We're gonna take you
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Speaker 2: For the weekend.
Speaker 1: And this is this is a bad look for the NFL.
Speaker 1: I think it'll probably be entertaining. But instead of using
Speaker 1: an NFL team this year for Hard Knocks, because apparently
Speaker 1: no NFL team wanted to do it, They're going to
Speaker 1: feature North Carolina and Bill Belichick. Does that interest you
Speaker 1: at all, Austin, does that do anything for you?
Speaker 2: No, it's still weird that Bill Belichick is there.
Speaker 1: Totally agree, and I you know Billichick is what makes
Speaker 1: him interesting is that he's so not interesting right right
Speaker 1: when you think Amick and I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: a like a like I U, I am a little
Speaker 1: bit out of my lane here because I really enjoy
Speaker 1: that type of show. But I just I've never been
Speaker 1: able to get into Hard Knocks and I've never, I
Speaker 1: guess given it enough effort. But I'm not interested in
Speaker 1: behind the scenes stuff with like professional athletes. Some of it,
Speaker 1: like different storylines with different individuals that can be interesting
Speaker 1: to me, but like the behind the scenes stuff in
Speaker 1: an NFL locker room. It's not like I'm avoiding it,
Speaker 1: but like it just doesn't really do anything for me,
Speaker 1: because these are people that to me, like aren't that interesting,
Speaker 1: Like they're super like again, I respect them, They're phenomenal.
Speaker 1: They're in the NFL, and you know, if there's drama,
Speaker 1: that usually makes for good television that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: but Hard Knocks is super popular, and I feel like
Speaker 1: over time, as someone who again hasn't watched it ever
Speaker 1: as far as watching a season all the way through,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's certain NFL teams that have really
Speaker 1: just benefited from that exposure rather it be you know,
Speaker 1: they could still be a lousy team when it starts,
Speaker 1: but like you know, visibility can can always be a
Speaker 1: good thing for the most part. And you know, I
Speaker 1: just I can't imagine that North Carolina will give I mean,
Speaker 1: and again, like what's the ceiling here? As far as
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick giving us some riveting television with him leading
Speaker 1: a college program for the first time, I mean the overall, like, wow,
Speaker 1: I still think it's crazy this guy's coaching in college.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, that's what Austin just said, and
Speaker 1: I agree because it still doesn't seem real because if
Speaker 1: you just think about where Bill Belichick was two years ago, today,
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy, right, I mean, he's definitely rebranded in
Speaker 1: a way, but he's still not interesting at all. What
Speaker 1: makes him, I guess interesting even if that's the right one,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if that's the right word, is
Speaker 1: that he used to be lifeless and be it like
Speaker 1: a like a walking corpse who showed no emotion, no energy.
Speaker 2: Just looked dead and would give you cincinniety.
Speaker 1: Like so now he like smiles and looks like he's
Speaker 1: a real human, but that because he's been such a
Speaker 1: crumungeon forever.
Speaker 2: Like there's not a whole lot of range.
Speaker 1: There with Bill Belichick, right, Like is he really gonna
Speaker 1: be providing us with great entertainment, like maybe seeing the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes stuff as far as how his staff
Speaker 1: comes together, his girls, his girlfriend, yeah, his GM and whatnot,
Speaker 1: like that could be interesting to an extent. But like
Speaker 1: the fact that the NFL didn't have one team willing
Speaker 1: to participate in Hard Knocks was a real surprise for me.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's because I don't know,
Speaker 1: like if you were, I guess if you like the
Speaker 1: show that was they Netflix has done a show called
Speaker 1: Quarterback and is the one with receiver called receivers, I think.
Speaker 2: Yes, called receiver. Okay, have you have you watched the
Speaker 2: Receiver one? I just only watched the first couple episodes
Speaker 2: because that's Justin Jefferson is in it, and I don't
Speaker 2: think after like the first two or three he's really
Speaker 2: featured in much. It's who is it? It's Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 2: who's the George Kittle? And I'm on Ross Saint Brown
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson. I'm pretty sure that stuff.
Speaker 1: So you know, those are really well done. I mean
Speaker 1: Netflix does that stuff really well. So I wonder if
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff has made it to where Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks like isn't like you know, I don't even like
Speaker 1: does the does the team get to say so if
Speaker 1: they're gonna be on Hard Knocks, Like I don't really know.
Speaker 2: What the process is. They like they do because from
Speaker 2: what I NDErs and a lot of NFL teams don't
Speaker 2: really love the Hard Knocks. They don't really Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: the drama, and there's only I think the change the
Speaker 2: criteria for it a little bit like usually like you
Speaker 2: couldn't have been in the playoffs or something like the
Speaker 2: last two years or something. They they make it to
Speaker 2: where there's qualifications, where like, not a lot of great
Speaker 2: teams are in it. You're just seeing like a struggling
Speaker 2: team and the struggling drama, right turnoil. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 2: what That's what is more interesting. I think so.
Speaker 1: But when I say the teams, I know that, like
Speaker 1: the organizations have a say so, which is why they're here.
Speaker 1: But I'm just curious if you are an owner of a.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, he's just turn off. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 2: just lost power at my house. Wow, which either that
Speaker 2: or the Undertaker is going to show up.
Speaker 1: But if I lost power at my house, then we
Speaker 1: wouldn't be connected because I wouldn't have internet. Interesting, But
Speaker 1: did you see how I just got completely dark?
Speaker 2: It did? I'm expecting I'm expecting to see Michael Myers
Speaker 2: behind you. I'm just gonna blame it on that hammer.
Speaker 1: They must have hit something so hard in that four
Speaker 1: Street bathroom it took the power out here.
Speaker 2: In the Bullick County there. Yeah, we got the whole
Speaker 2: neighborhood probably out of power. This is pretty cool, though,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be that dark night.
Speaker 1: It's got to be like I flipped a breaker or something,
Speaker 1: which that would make sense because I have a space
Speaker 1: heater down here and it was on and I turned
Speaker 1: it off.
Speaker 2: Is Mercedes, there no no here again, if I trust me,
Speaker 2: if I didn't have.
Speaker 1: If I didn't have power, then you wouldn't hear me.
Speaker 1: So we're good there. But yes, I'm now it is.
Speaker 1: I mean it is pitch black dark in here right
Speaker 1: now because I'm in a I mean I'm in an
Speaker 1: unfinished basement that we've kind of like halfway finished that
Speaker 1: I use for like studio, uh the studio to do
Speaker 1: the show and also some videography stuff.
Speaker 2: But there's no windows.
Speaker 1: So like when I mean I have, I have my
Speaker 1: laptop in front of me. I don't even what the
Speaker 1: hell I was saying. I guess what I was saying.
Speaker 1: Like if you're if you're an organization and you like
Speaker 1: do your if you want to do it, and your players,
Speaker 1: like all of them say no, Like does the NFL
Speaker 1: Players Association get involved to where they say, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want your team that you owned to be
Speaker 1: on it, you've got to get sixty percent approval from
Speaker 1: your locker room. Like I'm sure that's not a thing,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it's a It may be dead now.
Speaker 1: The fact that they didn't get anybody to do it
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, that's that's surprised.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I did find the mid season Hard Knocks version this year.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch it all, but it was interesting because
Speaker 1: it was like dirt, like you're you're you're seeing really
Speaker 1: behind the scenes stuff and guys miked up really raw,
Speaker 1: real stuff when from a game that you just watched
Speaker 1: like two days ago, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: they followed that division the is a the NFCU North
Speaker 1: Bengal Steelers. That. Yeah, so that that was interesting enough.
Speaker 1: But like for me, and again this is just me,
Speaker 1: when they did like Last Chance You, I found that
Speaker 1: to be way better television than like Hard Knocks, just
Speaker 1: because I don't know who these players are that are
Speaker 1: at a junior college.
Speaker 2: They really have like relatable.
Speaker 1: Stories to an extent and then sometimes very unrelatable because
Speaker 1: they've probably had hardship that maybe we haven't, which is
Speaker 1: why they're there playing in junior college. I know Last
Speaker 1: Chance You, as far as football, they it was you know,
Speaker 1: you needed characters as far as the coaches and Jason
Speaker 1: Brown and Buddy Something that was it. Buddy Something. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, Buddy Gartty, that's the guy in Friday
Speaker 1: Night Lights. I can't think of who it was that
Speaker 1: was the buddy Buddy something, Buddy Stevens maybe for I feel
Speaker 1: like I just made it up. But the guy who
Speaker 1: was in the first few seasons of Last Chance You
Speaker 1: as the coach, the fat guy.
Speaker 2: Who you know, the one that everyone hates.
Speaker 1: No, that was Jason Brown. Oh okay, he was on
Speaker 1: the show, by the way. So and then they did
Speaker 1: another one in football where they did like a junior
Speaker 1: college in the West Coast, and their coach was really
Speaker 1: like he was certainly a character, and he was captivating,
Speaker 1: but he was really likable. So I know most people
Speaker 1: think of the coaches when it comes to Last Chance
Speaker 1: You and I get it, but I actually found it
Speaker 1: to be more interesting to hear.
Speaker 2: The stories of these guys who were sort.
Speaker 1: Of in, you know, in that position in junior college,
Speaker 1: just you know, trying to trying to make it. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure people will watch just because you know, Belichick
Speaker 1: is a figure. I mean, he's he's he's a legend
Speaker 1: in sports. But I just I'm thinking to myself, if
Speaker 1: I was like a if I was just you know,
Speaker 1: a crony in the in the meeting when they're discussing
Speaker 1: what do they do now that we don't have an
Speaker 1: NFL team, and somebody throws out the idea, well, how
Speaker 1: about an NFL coach who's making his way to college
Speaker 1: and he's going to try to get it done at
Speaker 1: the college level, now, Bill Belichick, And you know, he's
Speaker 1: a big name, and everybody's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I would, I would. I would just raise my hand
Speaker 1: and say, and what on what world do you think
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is going to be good for the camera?
Speaker 1: Like on what planet will he be interesting and entertaining?
Speaker 1: And again, the bar's low, right, like because he was
Speaker 1: dead for twenty years, seemingly winning super Bowls and you know,
Speaker 1: not having any I mean, he was lifeless, and now
Speaker 1: he like laughs, and he's got a hot girlfriend that's
Speaker 1: young enough to be his granddaughter wearing a Super Bowl rings. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean again, that's that's a difference. But still let's
Speaker 1: think about the range here, like as much as the
Speaker 1: as much as like the coaches, like for example, like
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, like he's kind of a lunatic. Yeah you
Speaker 1: like him or not, He's a character you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like there's something there. People can either love
Speaker 1: watch him or hate watch him. With Belichick, I don't
Speaker 1: really know what you do. There's not He's not gonna
Speaker 1: do a whole lot. Didn't didn't didn't the Lions do
Speaker 1: it last year? I feel like they did, or maybe
Speaker 1: the year before. I know they were on it recently.
Speaker 2: I think it was the year before before they did
Speaker 2: the No, it was like three years ago, I think
Speaker 2: when they first got Dan Campbell because as I was
Speaker 2: just kind of looking up the qualifications, that's one of
Speaker 2: the things that you had to have a first year
Speaker 2: head coach in place to have a playoff berth in
Speaker 2: the past two seasons, and they have. They haven't appeared
Speaker 2: on Hard Knocks in the past ten years. Basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure people will watch it, but
Speaker 1: I just, more than anything, I felt like it was
Speaker 1: it was it was a sign to the NFL that
Speaker 1: maybe this thing's going away, all right. So tomorrow Louisville
Speaker 1: and Pitt six o'clock tip and they are trying to
Speaker 1: stripe out the young Center. So if you are in
Speaker 1: a section that is an even number, you are to
Speaker 1: wear red. If you were in a section that is
Speaker 1: an odd number, you were to wear black, and they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of marketing material out there as far as,
Speaker 1: like you know, to give you a visual of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty simple. If you look at your
Speaker 1: ticket and you see that the last number is a
Speaker 1: one black, if the last number is a two, even
Speaker 1: you wear red. Very simple, but it would look really cool.
Speaker 1: And obviously this year, I'm happy that it has not
Speaker 1: been a bigger storyline or I guess talking point. It
Speaker 1: has been discussed, like the fact that Louisville has a
Speaker 1: coach that is easily one of the top, if not
Speaker 1: the top candidates for National Coach of the Year in
Speaker 1: his first year. I mean, the revival what he set
Speaker 1: out to do is exactly what's happening right now. Louisvell's
Speaker 1: winning basketball games. I mean, they've got twenty wins before
Speaker 1: February ends, they're safely in the tournament. They're going to
Speaker 1: get a double BUYD in the ACC. So not to
Speaker 1: say that it's been per and who knows how things
Speaker 1: play out in March when you get to the NAA Tournament,
Speaker 1: but like you couldn't have really scripted much better, Like
Speaker 1: you couldn't have scripted a path for Pat Kelcey as
Speaker 1: of February twenty eighth. That would be much better than
Speaker 1: this as far as like real realistic, right, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like you could have said, well, hey,
Speaker 1: you could be undefeated. Well that wasn't realistic. I mean
Speaker 1: you could argue that if you'd have told somebody before
Speaker 1: he ever like this right after his press conference that
Speaker 1: Louisville was going to be entering the month of March
Speaker 1: with was it twenty one wins and six losses and
Speaker 1: safely in the tournament a two seed, a top twenty
Speaker 1: team in both poles. I don't think anybody would have
Speaker 1: said that was realistic.
Speaker 2: But here we are.
Speaker 1: So it's been great, But yet you just haven't seen
Speaker 1: the young center close to being full for a men's game.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to dive too much into this
Speaker 1: because I always just get I get I kind of.
Speaker 1: I don't say I get carried away, but like, I
Speaker 1: just think there's a bigger factor here that nobody talks
Speaker 1: about enough, which is people just don't go to games
Speaker 1: like they used to. The generation now that is, you know,
Speaker 1: really into Louisville basketball. Louisville football or even can like
Speaker 1: buying season tickets is something that down the line, the
Speaker 1: only way people the only reason people are gonna do
Speaker 1: it is because their family has always done it, or
Speaker 1: maybe they just have the means to do it. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that know they can go
Speaker 1: to every single game that they want to go to
Speaker 1: and spend substantially less money. So you know, I just
Speaker 1: I think we may see moving forward, really like, here's
Speaker 1: what I would love to see, and I think it's realistic.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd love to see every game sold out.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see every game full. I just don't
Speaker 1: think that's realistic at all. But if you've got like
Speaker 1: let's say the ACC in two three years is way
Speaker 1: better than it is now, and it's back to where
Speaker 1: you've got, you know, six seven teams ranked and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not the best league in the country, but one
Speaker 1: of the top three in night in and night on
Speaker 1: an ACC play, you're playing good teams that matter and
Speaker 1: their big brands all that kind of stuff. So like
Speaker 1: in those games, maybe not sold out, but maybe you're
Speaker 1: getting like consistently nineteen twenty thousand and then maybe for
Speaker 1: like the big games, right like let's say Duke's come
Speaker 1: into town. You guys, are you know, Duke and Louisville
Speaker 1: or Todd for first place in the ACC and Duke's
Speaker 1: got you know, Duke's got a Duke team, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like a Cooper flag kind of team,
Speaker 1: and Louisville has got a chance to maybe knock them off,
Speaker 1: and they're also, you know, really good. Those are games
Speaker 1: I hope will sell out or at least get really
Speaker 1: close to it. And I think that's realistic for those
Speaker 1: kind of games. But then when you play Popcorn State
Speaker 1: and teams nobody's heard of, and or even teams like
Speaker 1: Boston College when they come to town, or Virginia Tech
Speaker 1: when they come to town, Like, those are games that
Speaker 1: nothing would shock me, right, Like, in fact, the biggest
Speaker 1: surprise to me would be like a sellout. And it's
Speaker 1: not because anybody did anything wrong. It's not because the
Speaker 1: team's not good. It's not because the team doesn't have support.
Speaker 1: It's just people don't go to those Like there's so
Speaker 1: many more things that you could, well, I'm even gonna
Speaker 1: say that, like I was gonna say, there's so many
Speaker 1: more things you can do to distract yourself which is true.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is that, like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to talk yourself out of not sitting on your
Speaker 1: couch and watching that game on TV just because there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of juice there when
Speaker 1: Boston College is come into town or Winthrop's coming to town.
Speaker 1: So I think realistically we could get there to where
Speaker 1: for the big games, you're looking at close to twenty.
Speaker 1: For the really big games that have big time, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot on the line. Maybe you could get
Speaker 1: to selling out like Kentucky that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 1: then the other games, like it's just whatever. But this year,
Speaker 1: even whenever you had big games, you know, I thought
Speaker 1: the crowd who was there phenomenal. I mean the energy
Speaker 1: and the um Center and the Lower Bowl for the
Speaker 1: games I went to, and I went to quite a few,
Speaker 1: they were awesome. But obviously he looked upstairs and there
Speaker 1: wasn't a ton of people. So I would hope that tomorrow,
Speaker 1: like the people that do go those in the lower Bowl,
Speaker 1: they do their homework, meaning they know they've got to prepare.
Speaker 2: I've got I'm.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be wearing black, I'm supposed to be wearing
Speaker 1: red because that would be I think again, it doesn't
Speaker 1: it's not what we're going to hang a banner over it,
Speaker 1: but it would be I think it would be a
Speaker 1: good look that like the people that are, you know,
Speaker 1: it would just first of all, it would look. It
Speaker 1: would look good to not mess it up knowing that
Speaker 1: the school has, you know, the program has absolutely promoted
Speaker 1: this for well over a week now. And if like
Speaker 1: you show up and you can't even tell by looking
Speaker 1: at it at the game or looking at it on
Speaker 1: television that this was even a thing. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not the end of the world, but it wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be a great look.
Speaker 1: But I just I hope that that there's at least,
Speaker 1: you know, a good a good mixture of each set.
Speaker 1: I just hope it doesn't look bad. And I'm curious, like,
Speaker 1: will the announcers acknowledge that. They probably won't if it's
Speaker 1: like not a good look, unless they just want to
Speaker 1: be jerks about it. But when I was at the
Speaker 1: games this year, and I went to like six or
Speaker 1: seven of them, I mean again, the lower Bowl, the
Speaker 1: people that were there, man, there was more energy than
Speaker 1: I can remember in a long time watching a Louisville
Speaker 1: basketball game in person, and you'd see fans who don't
Speaker 1: even know each other, but they're sitting near each other.
Speaker 1: They would get they would you know, just get just
Speaker 1: start shooting that, you know what, chatting and collectively being
Speaker 1: like in this awesome. Can you believe this? This feels great.
Speaker 1: I love this team. I mean, Austin, you and I
Speaker 1: were there together. There was a guy who sat behind
Speaker 1: us at the Clemson game who traveled in and he's
Speaker 1: from Louisville's family still lives here, but he doesn't. And
Speaker 1: he came back and I think he was like by himself,
Speaker 1: but he was just like this is awesome, Like I
Speaker 1: had to come and see. Yeah, because again, like it's
Speaker 1: part of the process, the revival.
Speaker 2: So we never had a stripe out before, have I nothing?
Speaker 2: It's just been the solid color ones. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a stripeout ever happening before. But
Speaker 1: here's to hoping that it's a it's a good look.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our first time out. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's our second time out. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit distracted because I'm sitting here in the dark. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go flip a breaker and see if I can
Speaker 1: get some power back down here where I'm at, because
Speaker 1: if not, eventually this equipment will die. So hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: get it. We'll get it worked out. But it's a Friday,
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Speaker 1: So we have some good news. Dan Gavitt, he's the
Speaker 1: NCAA president. He's the guy who actually he didn't take
Speaker 1: over for Mark Emert, did he That's a guy who
Speaker 1: has like a very very common name. But anyways, he
Speaker 1: is I think he's the he's the basketball guy for
Speaker 1: the NCUBLEA. But he tells CBS Sports that one there
Speaker 1: is not any plans to have a vote on NCAA
Speaker 1: tournament expansion in the next couple of months whenever they,
Speaker 1: I guess have their meetings to talk.
Speaker 2: About the future.
Speaker 1: So despite it being discussed, it's really not something that
Speaker 1: they plan to actually address. At least as of now,
Speaker 1: they don't. But he also said that there's a possibility
Speaker 1: that there's really no decision on expansion at all in
Speaker 1: the near future. So I don't think it needs to expand.
Speaker 1: If it does go from sixty eight to seventy six
Speaker 1: or whatever it was they proposed, I mean, that won't
Speaker 1: really do a whole lot to change the turn for
Speaker 1: me as far as me enjoying it, because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy it regardless. But any expansion we do with tournaments
Speaker 1: or playoffs and professional sports, it's it's quite literally just
Speaker 1: about money. I mean, have you ever felt like there
Speaker 1: was a team that didn't make it to the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Rather it be the NFL, the NBA, And look, they've
Speaker 1: they've expanded a bunch lately, right, So like it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not because there's teams that you know,
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you can, you know, give
Speaker 1: them the opportunity. Maybe they didn't have the best of seasons,
Speaker 1: but man, they should have the opportunity to still at
Speaker 1: least maybe make some magic happen. But I mean, it's
Speaker 1: never about that. It's just about money. So there's more
Speaker 1: INTAA tournament games, there's more inventory, and the more inventory
Speaker 1: the nsablea tournament has, the more money they're gonna make
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be profitable. I mean, inaa tournament is
Speaker 1: is really how the NCAA exists as an organization. When
Speaker 1: it comes to money, it's a billion dollar business. So
Speaker 1: you add more games, it's even more money. But even
Speaker 1: the play in games lately have I think felt like
Speaker 1: just a waste of time. I mean, yeah, you'll occasionally
Speaker 1: get a team that gets hot and makes a run.
Speaker 1: I mean we've now had two teams that have made
Speaker 1: it all the way to the Final four from the
Speaker 1: play in spot VCU did it back in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: Mick Cronin and UCLA did it back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: So and look, those are good stories, I suppose, and
Speaker 1: good stories you know that helps the you know, helps
Speaker 1: the event helps.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's it's good for everybody.
Speaker 1: But let's be clear, it's not because like, well, that
Speaker 1: proves that they were you know, if you like if
Speaker 1: you end up making a run of the Final four
Speaker 1: and you had to get into the field of sixty
Speaker 1: four by playing in in those playing games, all it
Speaker 1: does is prove that you underachieved in the regular season.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of those things that just
Speaker 1: really irks me, and I'll move on from it because
Speaker 1: if I fact don't, then I'll just talk about way.
Speaker 2: More than we need to.
Speaker 1: But the you can't tell me we're not one of
Speaker 1: the sixty eight best teams, or you can't tell me
Speaker 1: we're not one of the twelve best teams when it
Speaker 1: comes to the college football Playoff. I mean again, it's
Speaker 1: not about that. It's about what you do. Results matter.
Speaker 1: You have to actually go out and do something and
Speaker 1: prove it and earn it. It can't just be what
Speaker 1: people think you're capable of because of your roster. And
Speaker 1: I don't know why. And to me that seems and
Speaker 1: I'm not a very smart guy, but to me, that
Speaker 1: seems like one of the most obvious things that nobody
Speaker 1: else really acknowledges. Right like when the SEC is honking
Speaker 1: about Alabama and South Carolina being deserving to get in
Speaker 1: Ole miss because well, you know, you can't tell me
Speaker 1: we're not one of the twelve best teams. Well, you
Speaker 1: didn't do anything at all that would make anybody believe
Speaker 1: you are one of the twelve best teams.
Speaker 2: You didn't.
Speaker 1: You didn't, you know, And even if like people still
Speaker 1: believe you could be one of the twelve best teams.
Speaker 1: When it comes to your potential and your personnel, you.
Speaker 2: Didn't do it.
Speaker 1: So like winning in the playing game and then making
Speaker 1: the final four, it doesn't actually change anything about what
Speaker 1: you did before the tournament started. But anyways, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like the says here that it's possible that the
Speaker 1: this is from CBS Sports matt In Orlander. It's possible
Speaker 1: THENTABA decides to hold off on final verdict on this
Speaker 1: matter until twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven. There's
Speaker 1: still ample time to wait and see. The current media
Speaker 1: deal with CBS Sports and Warner Brothers runs through twenty
Speaker 1: thirty two, so I'm not necessarily like thinking it's going
Speaker 1: to be a disaster, But I I'm very much in
Speaker 1: the in the camp of we don't need to expand
Speaker 1: the INSTABA tournament. In fact, they'll never do it because again,
Speaker 1: you know it just financially wouldn't make any sense to
Speaker 1: do something that would maybe lose you money, but like
Speaker 1: the event would be better if we didn't have the
Speaker 1: playing games.
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