WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.160 Company fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:06.440 Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think 3 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:06.919 when we. 4 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:10.599 Are getting off our show, idiot, the kids are playing 5 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:12.800 or tear a lot and your coaches are screwing it up. 6 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.160 Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals. 7 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:19.280 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 8 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:21.039 Who's the kid here? 9 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:22.920 Who's the kid here? 10 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:23.800 Are you kidding me? 11 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:24.760 Now? 12 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:34.200 Here's Nick coffee. 13 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:38.280 So this is the third straight day that we have 14 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:41.640 got the party started here at three o'clock, and the 15 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.280 weather's beautiful, and we've got college basketball on it. It's 16 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.799 gotten better each day, meaning I think the weather has 17 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.159 actually gotten better each day. Although I thought we were 18 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:52.479 supposed to get rained today, but no, it's just it's warm. 19 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:55.960 It's beautiful. Doesn't get much better than today, a little 20 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.920 warmer than yesterday, but it's okay. I mean, nobody's gonna complain. 21 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:02.719 And in the basketball games, as we get later into 22 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.959 these conference tournaments, and of course you know the bigger 23 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.319 conference tournaments have now gotten underway, you have better action 24 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.280 and it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. So welcome in. Happy Thursday, 25 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.200 Happy game Day Coffee and Company. Philbuth Thornton's here on 26 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:20.159 Sports Talk seven to ninety. Game Day for Louisville tonight, 27 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:24.879 Pat Kelsey's first postseason game in his time here at Louisville, 28 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:27.280 the first postseason game of the Pat Kelsey era. Louisville 29 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:31.799 taken on Stanford for the second consecutive game. And I'm 30 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.799 sure I haven't even looked yet, but I would be 31 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:37.439 willing to bet that if I go to at real 32 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.879 card game on x slash Twitter, there'll be some kind 33 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:48.560 of a factor stat about Louisville either playing an opponent 34 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.680 for the second consecutive time previously, or that this is 35 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:53.400 the first time that's ever happened, because it is kind 36 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.439 of weird. In fact, no matter who won last night, 37 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.840 it would have been a recent opponent, as Cal was 38 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.920 also the team Louisville played round up regular season, So 39 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:04.000 it is Stanford. And I mean, I'm feeling good. I 40 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.000 feel confident in this team. I think there's something I 41 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.599 guess a little tricky about playing a team back to back. 42 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:14.439 I mean, you feel good because you know you beat them, 43 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.000 you twenty pieced them at home. There's certainly gonna be 44 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.000 no home court advantage for Stanford in Charlotte, North Carolina. 45 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.639 I mean, they are quite literally on the opposite side 46 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.919 of the United States, so doubt there's gonna be many 47 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.680 Stanford In fact, I don't know a Stanford fan. Maybe 48 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:31.520 it's because you know, we live very far away, but 49 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:35.039 like they're gonna have no home court advantage. But there's 50 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.879 something to be said about They've gotten one out of 51 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:39.120 the way, right they played last night. 52 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:39.520 They're loose. 53 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.680 Now you could also say, well, they're winded. They you know, 54 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:44.319 Louis has been resting, and again Louis will just beat 55 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.719 them by twenty points. Well, we'll get into it. I 56 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:48.159 don't want to act like this is some kind of 57 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:53.080 a big game to where, you know, I mean it's 58 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:54.840 a big game because you lose, and you leave Charlotte 59 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.879 and then you enter the NAA tournament with really a 60 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.319 bad taste in your mouth, really no moment in them. 61 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:06.599 So tonight cards and the cardinal, and I'm feeling good 62 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:07.800 and it's just nice again to. 63 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.000 Be here where you've got all the all the. 64 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.199 Everything lining up, right, we're getting we're getting into late 65 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.360 in the week, close to the weekend conference tournaments, and 66 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.400 then of course selection Sundays just days away, and to 67 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.960 be alive and to be a part of it as 68 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:26.560 a fan, it's it's it's something I feel like right now, 69 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.639 I'll probably in the moment, I can tell you that 70 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.039 I'll never take it for granted again. 71 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:31.960 But I don't know. 72 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:35.120 Maybe if Pat Kelsey's here for a long time and 73 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.479 like making the tournament becomes just, you know, an expectation 74 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.919 because you never not make it under Pat Kelsey, that 75 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:43.680 would be really not even like if he just makes 76 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:45.680 the tournament every year in Louisville loses early, then that 77 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:47.319 wouldn't be a great thing. But I'm just saying, like, 78 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.039 maybe once we get rolling here for the next I 79 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.599 don't know, five six years, it will become routine once again. 80 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.560 Because what was awful the last few years. 81 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.080 I mean that that that. 82 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:59.400 Was real outlier, right Like for the vast majority of 83 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:03.280 all of all our lives as Louisville basketball fans, there 84 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:06.120 was never anything close to what we had recently. So 85 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:10.120 maybe one day it'll be routine and I won't take 86 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.319 it and I will take it for granted. But I 87 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.240 can tell you right now, I'm not taking it for granted. 88 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:16.680 It's been awesome a big night of hoops all around. Though, 89 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.160 to be honest with you've got Mark Pope coaching his 90 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:23.800 first postseason game in his Kentucky tenure. They're taking on Oklahoma, 91 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:27.480 who survived last night against Georgia. And I don't know 92 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.439 if it's just because I know that there are a 93 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:34.600 billion big Blue fans. I was gonna say big Blue bozos, 94 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:35.959 but I don't want to. We don't need a name call. 95 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.120 It's three h four and you know, as much as 96 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.360 I am on the other side of this rivalry and 97 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.759 always will be, it's hard to not at least you know, 98 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.360 acknowledge that they have a billion fans and they show 99 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.519 up like nobody else when it comes to this event, 100 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.759 when it's in Nashville. I mean they've been, they've been really. 101 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:55.600 I mean again this trust me. This is not like 102 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.120 rivalry banter, rivalry smack talk, because look, Louisville, I mean, 103 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.800 this will be if Louisville makes the second weekend this 104 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.879 year easier said than done, this will be the I mean, 105 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.600 this will be the first time in ten years they've 106 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:11.800 done that. So again, this isn't about like taking a 107 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.800 shot at Kentucky. In fact, it's not even a backhanded compliment, 108 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.240 but it's actually a legitimate compliment. Like I mean this genuinely. 109 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.759 You may take it any way you want, but they 110 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:26.839 show up to Nashville one because it's a party, it's 111 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.199 close to Kentucky, there's many fans, and Nashville's a good 112 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.879 place to be right. It's also not super cheap. And 113 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.920 I feel like if I was in the position where 114 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.120 Louisville was in a conference where every year it was there, 115 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:39.759 I mean, I try my best to get there, but man, 116 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.879 I know how expensive Nashville can be. But anyways, what 117 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:45.199 I'm getting at is they're probably going to have more 118 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.120 fans there than any other fan base, and it probably 119 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:50.079 won't be close. I guess Tennessee because again it is 120 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.360 in Nashville, but I don't know. I mean, Tennessee's a 121 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:55.079 football school, and to be fair, though they do have 122 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.720 I mean, Tennessee has a big fan base that when 123 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:01.879 basketball is good, they care. But they have been so 124 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:04.959 bad in recent years, not only in this SEC tournament 125 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:09.120 but in really the I mean, look at this. The 126 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:12.279 last time they made a second weekend was in two 127 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:16.839 thousand and was it twenty nineteen? I think it was, 128 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:22.040 which again, like that that's a long time ago for them. 129 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.399 I mean, this is this is This is from Chris Fisher, 130 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.839 who covers Kentucky for twenty four seven Sports. Kentucky's lost 131 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.160 five of their last six SEC tournament games and nine 132 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.879 of their last eleven postseason games overall. So again, I 133 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:36.680 only bring that up because I think that'll surprise a 134 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:38.839 lot of folks, even though you're aware that it didn't 135 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:41.199 end well with cal like that was a terrible way 136 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:42.600 for him to go out when it comes to, you know, 137 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:44.959 games that matter in the postseason, right winter go home 138 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.199 in the Big Dance, And he never cared about the 139 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:50.000 SEC Tournament and wanted his fans to know that throughout 140 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.120 that Hey, you guys may travel here, pay a lot 141 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.120 of money, you make it a big deal. I'm gonna 142 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:55.160 make it a point to let you know that I 143 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:57.199 don't get a damn about this tournament. I mean that 144 00:06:57.560 --> 00:06:59.480 it's kind of great if you think about the entertainment 145 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:01.399 value that you could sit back and get when it 146 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.000 comes to Cali Perry trolling his own fan base. But anyways, 147 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.800 they're they're there. They're always there, regardless of the losses 148 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.439 they've taken in this event. The SEC Tournament, and I 149 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.120 just kind of feel like they're going to roll, not 150 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.319 necessarily to win the whole thing, but I think they 151 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.720 roll tonight, and I think they're gonna beat Alabama tomorrow. 152 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.439 I mean, I I you know, tough to say that 153 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:21.279 that's gonna happen with a certainty, because you know, Obama's 154 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.319 really good and if Kentucky you know, I mean, they 155 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.240 could lose tonight. Trust me, They're a team like most 156 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.399 that's vulnerable and Oklahoma nearly got them when they played 157 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:30.600 in Norman. But there won't be any Oklahoma fans there tonight. 158 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.879 I would imagine at lea it's not many in Kentucky's 159 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.240 gonna have a home home court advantage. And there's also 160 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.120 something to be said about the crowd that goes to 161 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:39.519 this event. And I think that's why it was such 162 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:43.399 a such a bitter thing with their fan base, is 163 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.000 that Cala Perry again wanted you to know he did 164 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.279 not care despite how much you cared. But like, it's 165 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.399 a different type of Kentucky fan that goes to Nashville 166 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:54.040 and parties and gets hammered and loses. I mean, and 167 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:55.920 you know, I don't mean to say that, like I'm 168 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:01.519 not insulting them, but like the the Blues sweater vest, 169 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:06.680 you know, businessman in his sixties that you know doesn't 170 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.120 stand up ever at a game. And I'm not acting 171 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:10.639 like that's all the Lower Bowl, but you know what 172 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:12.839 I mean, that's stereotype. Like those aren't the people going 173 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:14.839 and getting drunk in Nashville, you know what I mean? 174 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:16.160 Those, So it's a difference. 175 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.639 I actually think if they play well, which I mean, 176 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.040 nobody's gonna be nobody's gonna be shocked if they do, 177 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:23.360 I kind of feel like it'll turn into where they 178 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.680 can really utilize some home court. I mean, it's crazy 179 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:28.560 to say it, but let's be real, they're gonna have 180 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.079 home court advantage in this tournament, in this tournament, regardless 181 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:35.480 of who they play other than maybe Tennessee. So again, 182 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.080 big night tonight here when it comes to to college basketball, 183 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.759 and we've already had a busy day thus far, and 184 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.519 we'll talk about Cooper fly for those who missed it, 185 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:47.000 he suffered an ankle injury X rays word negative. It 186 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:50.440 is an ankle sprain and it really just comes down to, 187 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:55.080 I mean, monitoring his pain level and I guess the 188 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:57.279 swelling and we'll talk about it. But if you haven't 189 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:01.440 seen the video, it looks really really bad. I mean, 190 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:04.639 X rays being negative is kind of a surprise for me. 191 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.519 Now I know nothing about like I can't look at 192 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:09.200 an injury and tell you the severity of it or 193 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.519 really even what it is. But you know, he's a 194 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.919 large man, seven foot tall, and he falls, he hits 195 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.480 the ground, and it's a complete role. I mean, if 196 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:21.080 you'd have told me, after looking at the replay that 197 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.240 he broke his ankle, I would have believed you. That's 198 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.039 how bad it looked. I mean, they take him to 199 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.000 the wheel they take him to the back in a wheelchair. 200 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.159 He comes back, he's got It seemed to be a 201 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.960 to me, it seemed to be a really really major 202 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.559 a real major sign of like overcompensating, Like I think 203 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.480 they there seem to be a real force to make 204 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:40.639 it look like he's fine. 205 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:42.080 And I don't really know why you need to do that. 206 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.720 It doesn't matter. I mean, he rolled his ankle. My 207 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:47.360 guess is probably what a lot of people are guessing. 208 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:49.360 They're not going to play on the rest of this tournament, 209 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.159 because it'd be hard to imagine that he's gonna be 210 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.000 fully healthy, and obviously you need him when it really matters, 211 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:01.000 which is the NCAA Tournament, and having him out there 212 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.000 with it like he was dressed out like he could 213 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.679 play and he wasn't going to play, and he was 214 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:12.600 walking to the the locker room after the game because 215 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:14.399 he didn't come back to the bench fully dressed as 216 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:15.600 if they were going to put him back in, and 217 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.200 they weren't, and they did announce that he was out. 218 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:20.679 But like when I watched him walk back, and trust me, 219 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:22.000 it wasn't like I was going on in my way 220 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.759 as you could expect. All cameras are on Cooper Flag. 221 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:26.360 I mean all cameras are going to be on him 222 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:28.480 if he plays or doesn't play in the NAA Tournament 223 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.080 because that's just kind of a season he's had. He's 224 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.799 the star of the sport, and he's marketable because of 225 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.679 the NBA. Jeni Broom is getting just as much praise 226 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.720 when it comes to the imp when it comes to 227 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:41.320 being one of the best players in college basketball, and 228 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.360 he may win the National Player of the Year. I 229 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.480 still think it's going to go to Flag. But Flag 230 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.960 has something that you rarely see anymore in college basketball, 231 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.360 where he is the face of the of the sport. 232 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.720 The hype is there, and he's also going to be 233 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.639 the first pick in the NBA draft, right, like it's 234 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.759 it's it's both things, right, So clearly he plays it 235 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.080 du he's great for the sport. But when you can, 236 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.320 when you when you know that, I mean, basically, this 237 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.279 is a p. This is three PR for the NBA, right, 238 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.279 because he could have gone the G League if that 239 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:12.200 was still a thing back then and we weren't in 240 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.399 the NIL world, still would have been the number one pick, 241 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:15.960 still would have been so many people know a lot 242 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.000 about But when you're playing at Duke, you're on TV, 243 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:19.240 national TV every night. 244 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:20.240 The spotlights on you. 245 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:23.039 So regardless of what happens with his health, he's gonna 246 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:26.320 still be talked about. And I just when they showed 247 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.159 him walking to the locker room, I felt like he 248 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.639 was trying to And again, maybe it's just the competitor 249 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:33.200 in him. I don't know, he's an eighteen year old kid, 250 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.720 but he's walking to the locker room and it's like 251 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:40.120 every few steps he's he's he looks like he's okay, 252 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.679 but kind of like maybe lightly lightly showing that he's 253 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:44.080 in pain. 254 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:45.679 And then then he has. 255 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:47.840 To kind of like stop for a mint, stop for 256 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.240 a millisecond and kind of regroup and then walk again. 257 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:51.960 It's like he just has to put some again, which 258 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:52.759 makes total sense. 259 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:53.279 He's hurt. 260 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:55.320 You saw the injury. If you haven't go look at it, 261 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:59.120 he is hurt. But I don't know why. What's what's 262 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:03.720 the harm in Duke just saying hey, you know doubt? 263 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:05.679 I mean, I get I guess saying anything is really 264 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.399 probably too early because you just don't know. But I'd 265 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.240 be shocked because Duke has nothing to gain by playing him. 266 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:11.840 They don't. 267 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:13.919 I mean, maybe they really want to stick it to 268 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:17.320 Pat Kelsey and Louisville and in that potential hypothetical matchup 269 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:21.200 in the championship game because they feel so disrespected that 270 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.000 Chuck he took home the Defensive Player of the Year 271 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:25.000 and Pat Kelsey was coach of the Year. But like 272 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:29.639 they don't they would gain in all honesty, they can't 273 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:32.000 jump ahead of Auburn for number one overall seed if 274 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.000 they win the ACC Tournament, and a loss today by 275 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.039 double digits to Georgia Tech would have probably it wouldn't 276 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:40.840 if it would have not knocked them off the one line, 277 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:44.240 so they have nothing to gain or lose in this event, 278 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:46.639 and that makes me think they're probably not going to 279 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.600 play him, unless, of course, like he's this freak where 280 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.240 he could have that kind of an ankle injury and 281 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.360 wake up tomorrow and be one thousand percent healthy. Doubt 282 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.759 that's the case, but we shall see. But they did 283 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.799 it down in that game. I mean, it was a 284 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.480 deficit that I felt like, all right, I mean, they're 285 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.080 probably not going to get killed, but man, this is 286 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.519 too big of a hole and Flag's hurt. They were 287 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:10.360 down twenty six to twelve, and it kind of lets 288 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:12.720 you know where Duke is this year and lets you 289 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:14.639 know what Cooper Flag is to the sport if you 290 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:17.799 didn't already know that. It became like one of those 291 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.039 big stories in sports where I feel like anybody talking 292 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:21.759 about anything is bringing up you see what happened Duke. 293 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:24.639 They're down, Cooper, Flag's hurt, wheel chair, locker room, like 294 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:28.720 became a big deal and looks some people were already 295 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:34.080 making the comparison, which it is premature, but if you're 296 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:36.440 going to do the hypothetical, I think there is a 297 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:40.639 real comparison. And if you're around my age, or a 298 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.559 little younger. You probably don't remember this. If you're a 299 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.240 little bit older than me, I'm sure you do. And 300 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.000 for me, if you're somebody that is my age or 301 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:51.879 at least close to it, it just depends on how 302 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:53.720 much you loved college basketball when you were a little kid. 303 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.399 But I remember this, I remember where I was finding 304 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.600 out it happened. But Kenyon Martin, Kenyan Martin was the 305 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.879 face of college basketball for Bob Huggins and Cincinnati in 306 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.960 the nineties, and in fact, I'm sorry he was in 307 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.759 two thousand and they were scary, and I don't think 308 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.080 even Duke this year is as scary as that Cincinnati 309 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.279 team was. Now, again, that was twenty five years ago. 310 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:16.639 I was twelve, so therefore, I you know, it's not 311 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.279 like I can give you the full starting lineup for 312 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:21.360 that team that Bob Huggins had. But Kenyan Martin was 313 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:25.200 a monster, a bully of college basketball. He actually played 314 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.679 as if he knew everybody was afraid of him, and 315 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.360 he embraced that. And I don't mean like afraid that 316 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.279 he was going to beat him and score twenty. They 317 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:34.000 were afraid he was going to hurt him. Like Kenyon 318 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.559 Martin was that guy. And I kind of feel like 319 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.679 Austin's age difference here with me is to where you 320 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:41.679 probably don't remember that at all, do you, Like you 321 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:42.559 know Keny Martin is. 322 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:44.919 Yeah, Yeah, I remember, and I probably. 323 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:46.720 In Cincinnati though, like because again you probably I was 324 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.320 gonna say, you probably just too because I was. I 325 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.320 was eleven going on twelve, which would have made you 326 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:53.320 what like five or six. 327 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.919 Yes, yeah, and I obviously wasn't paying much attention, but 328 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:58.679 you know, you hear the lore of it and how 329 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:02.039 Kenya Martin was because I remember monster dude. Oh dude, 330 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.440 I remember, like, let's just say, for reference, like when 331 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.559 Anthony Davis was doing his thing at Kentucky, there were 332 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.559 a lot of people that were drawing parallels to how 333 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.879 he was probably the most dominant player since Kenya Martin was. 334 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:16.840 So that's how I kind of really understood it. 335 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:18.600 And Kenyon Martin was one of those guys that even 336 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.480 if you were not into college basketball in a big 337 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:24.639 way and they're not a they were in Conference USA, 338 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.799 he was such a I mean he was appointment viewing 339 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:29.559 because he was again, he was a bully out there, 340 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:31.720 and I mean he dunked on everybody I mean, he 341 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.279 was really fun to watch, but also kind of you know, 342 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:35.919 Louivill had to go up against him a couple of 343 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:38.759 times a year because obviously the Conference USA connection. But 344 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.279 he got hurt in the first game. In fact, let 345 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.279 me pull it up here, because yeah, they played on 346 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.120 a Thursday afternoon, and I'd gotten out of school and 347 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.080 my father picked me up and he's the one who 348 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.320 told me, and that's this conference tournament or Conference two 349 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:55.720 thousand first round or first game. I think they got 350 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.440 a buy, of course, but in two thousand they played 351 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.720 on a Thursday afternoon and he got hurt and was 352 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.039 out for the rest of the season, and you know, 353 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.480 there wasn't much left and it, you know, it changed 354 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.000 everything for Cincinnati. I mean that that I kind of 355 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.440 we'll never know, it's twenty five years ago, but it 356 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:14.679 just seemed as if that Cincinnati team was just viewed 357 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:16.919 as like, yeah, they're gonna have to really screw up 358 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.720 to not win the whole thing because they're just bullying everybody. 359 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.480 But what became a bigger story is that once he 360 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.600 was clearly out and you know, they're in Conference USA, 361 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.440 Cincinnati went from being a one then they got dropped 362 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.320 down to it two, and of course they got past 363 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.279 the fifteen seed, but then fell short against Tulsa, who 364 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.360 was the I think the seven seeds, so they lost 365 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:41.600 in the round of thirty two. And it's got to 366 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:43.559 be something that even as we speak right now, as 367 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.799 I'm saying this, if you're a Cincinnati fan or somebody 368 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:47.679 familiar with the like, that's got to be one of 369 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:49.480 the most depth, Like when you think of the all 370 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.919 time gut punch, what IFFs in your program. Kenyon Martin 371 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.000 getting hurt has to be it for Cincinnati because that 372 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.039 was their best team they ever had with Huggins or 373 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:03.039 Cronen whoever, and he has if he stays healthy, different situation. 374 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:03.399 Now. 375 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.759 It also became a thing because there and again I'm 376 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:09.240 not going to try to act like I remember every 377 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:11.799 little detail about that season, but the other one seeds, 378 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:14.839 I'm sorry, the one seeds in that tournament you had 379 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.559 Arizona when loud Oldson had it, Roland, I know you're 380 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.680 familiar with that era. Austin loud Olsen was the man. 381 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:23.680 Stanford had the number one seed, which is wild that 382 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:25.640 kind of I kind of feel like that's weird to 383 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.759 me because I don't know if Stanford's ever been good 384 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.720 in basketball and they play louisvill plays them tonight when 385 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:33.640 or you you know, or you get your ass sent 386 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.039 home from Charlotte early and you got a bad taste 387 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.880 in your mouff for selection Sunday me revisiting the Kenyon 388 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.920 Martin injury here twenty five years ago. Yeah, in looking 389 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.880 at which one seed stole it from Cincinnati because of 390 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.319 the Kenyon Martin injury. That could be really weird voodoo, right, 391 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:50.599 Like this is weird energy. If I had told you, 392 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:53.079 if I'd have told you yes or no, Austin, has 393 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.440 Stanford basketball ever been a one seed in the tournament? 394 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.319 If you get it correct, you get a billion dollars 395 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:00.359 you would have without hesitation, said source knowledge. Yeah, so 396 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.759 they were a one seed and in two thousand and 397 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:06.200 I don't I mean, they did have like two dudes 398 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.480 who I remember like being the you know, the nerdy, 399 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.880 great student white shooters. Like that's what I mean, that's 400 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.680 what Stanford is. It's it's an academy. It's it's it's 401 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:18.000 an academic school. So one of the seeds was Arizona. 402 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:20.559 Michigan State was the one seed they won it that year. 403 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:22.799 The last time the Big Ten won a national championship, 404 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:26.400 and then the other one seed was Duke and then 405 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.200 you know, Stanford. So my guess is that Cincinnati lost 406 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.480 their one seed to Stanford and probably shouldn't have. And 407 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.519 that was a real big talking point. It's because the committee, 408 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:38.680 just because they knew Cincinnati was not going to be 409 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.680 the same thing without Martin, they had a tough time 410 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:42.799 putting them on the one line. 411 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:43.039 Right. 412 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:45.480 Similarly, you knew that when. 413 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.240 Jordan Travis got hurt, the College Football Playoff Committee could 414 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:50.359 not look at Florida State like they were legitimately gonna 415 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:53.680 you know it just so it sucks, but like you know, 416 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:57.240 it is what it is now with Cooper flag if 417 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:59.519 he's I mean, well not, we probably won't know, like 418 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.559 for example, this day and age, and maybe maybe you know, 419 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.599 had that not happened, I was gonna throw out a 420 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:09.200 hypothetical that I'm not even really sure how we could 421 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:11.960 ever potentially get there, But that became a thing like 422 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.160 Cincinnati should have kept it private that he was that hurt, 423 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:16.000 because it did hurt them as far as their seed. 424 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:17.279 And there is a big difference, by the way, and 425 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:19.119 being a one in a two there is, I mean, 426 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.599 just no way around it. So anyways, Cooper Flag, I 427 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.240 would imagine that he'll he'll set out the rest of 428 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:27.000 this tournament, and obviously that bodes well for Louisville. I 429 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:29.039 kind of feel like we shouldn't even go there yet 430 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.160 because you got to get past Stanford tonight. And of 431 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:33.880 course Clemson's a good team. They're playing well and they're 432 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:35.279 likely going to win the night and that's who you 433 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:35.960 get tomorrow. 434 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:37.640 But if no. 435 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:40.559 Cooper Flag, let me put it this way, if Cooper 436 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.559 Flagg is out the rest of this tournament, Duke will 437 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:47.160 still be the favorite to win it. They will, sure, 438 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.839 and they look really good today. Kon Kinnepple is a 439 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:53.720 really good player, and you could see that if Cooper 440 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:57.519 Flag wasn't, you know, leading Duke in every single statistic 441 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:02.079 like he is, then Con Knipple, a top five freshman, 442 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.359 a top five incoming recruit, he'd probably get a lot 443 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:07.759 more run. And I don't mean I shouldn't say run, 444 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:09.519 he gets playing time, but he would be utilized a 445 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:11.799 little bit differently because he can score it and today 446 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:13.599 he did that. And how about Georgia Tech, I'll give 447 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.000 him credit. Man, they got nothing to play for I mean, 448 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:18.839 and they they hung with Duke and they were giving 449 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.160 Duke the business when Flag was out there before the injury, 450 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:22.279 so you know. 451 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.240 It get rejected at the rambat point. I mean, it's 452 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.000 nasty and let's you. 453 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:30.000 Know, I'm I'll be honest with you. I want him 454 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.039 to be healthy and to play tomorrow or in on Sunday, 455 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.759 or in on Saturday if we get there, because I'll 456 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:37.240 take whatever. 457 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:38.559 You look, you can't control it. 458 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:40.279 So if he's out in Louisville is able to somehow 459 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:41.440 win it, that'd be great. 460 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.200 I'm not going to complain. 461 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:44.279 I'm not gonna, you know, give you the asterisk, but man, 462 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:46.359 I would you know, I want to play them at 463 00:20:46.359 --> 00:20:49.200 their best just because even if you lose, that will 464 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:50.880 help you when it comes to the committee, like it 465 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.119 would be. You know, you'll take it. You can't control it. 466 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.200 It's it's it's something like a lot of things this year. 467 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:56.759 We just got to roll with it. We can't control 468 00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:59.440 the The ACC stinks, But man, it would feel a 469 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.880 little bit underwhelming to know that you could get that 470 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:08.000 ACC championship potentially and that you still wouldn't be able 471 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:10.559 to capitalize on the real value that you should have 472 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:13.160 because the committee would say, well, you beat him without flags. 473 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:14.680 I hope he's healthy. I hope he's able to go. 474 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:17.720 But that block where he got rejected at the rim 475 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.559 that if he doesn't get hurt not long after that, 476 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:23.160 that that's that's that's probably got a billion views on 477 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:25.240 social media by now. Yeah, no, and it's still been 478 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:28.079 It's still been viewed. But obviously everything about Flag is 479 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.680 now in the rear view because the focus as we speak, 480 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.759 is all about, you know, his injury and how healthy 481 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:34.279 he's going to be. 482 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:36.759 I'm sure Duke's social media admin didn't like that. 483 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:39.119 Did you see that? They doubled down yesterday? 484 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:41.359 Did they know? I haven't. I haven't went back to 485 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:42.160 him since. 486 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:47.000 This behavior again, I'll I'll just reiterate, does it doesn't 487 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:48.880 make any sense? Like what are you like? What are 488 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:54.640 you like? It's not only it's not only like you know, 489 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:57.559 how can this benefit you? It's like, what are you thinking? 490 00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:00.519 This is going to make you look like? It's just 491 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.079 so stupid. So Flag, of course is likely going to 492 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.279 be National Player of the Year. 493 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:04.880 We know that. 494 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:08.960 So yesterday they decided to tweet out and I'm trying 495 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.880 to scroll through it myself because it's just weird behavior, 496 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:14.240 Like it doesn't make any sense. It's almost like they 497 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:17.440 genuinely and and trust me, this is not Hey, we're 498 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.519 in your kitchen. We're living rent free. Because if Duke 499 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:25.240 is worried about Louisville, that would be insanity. I mean, 500 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:27.240 let's just be real, Duke. I mean, Duke shouldn't really 501 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:29.759 be worried about anybody. Duke's the program that does have 502 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.319 to kind of like laugh at Kentucky. We don't think 503 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:38.039 your rival like Kentucky fans Duke, Kentucky's biggest non conference rivals, Duke. 504 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:40.559 Duke's like, we don't even like we forgot about you, 505 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:43.240 Like Duke does not embrace any rivalry other than Carolina. 506 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:45.240 So don't I don't believe. 507 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:47.519 That they're obsessed, but like they're still really bothered that 508 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:50.079 Pat Kelsey deservedly one Coach of the Year and Chucky 509 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:53.440 Hepburn deservedly won Defensive Player of the Year. But I'm 510 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:55.240 trying to scroll down here because it was something along 511 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:56.640 the lines and I'll find it before we get out 512 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.400 of here. It wasn't anything crazy compared to what we 513 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:00.079 saw earlier this week, or they might have deleted it, 514 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:02.559 but they went out of their way to say Cooper 515 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:07.240 Flag was the only finalist on any of the national awards, 516 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:10.359 meaning not just ACC Player of the Year, not you know, 517 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:12.319 not just National Player of the Year, not just I mean, 518 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:15.680 it was almost like, you know, you have to remind 519 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.960 folks that any award he didn't get from the ACC 520 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:23.599 is a crime, because clearly he's the only ACC player 521 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.839 that's a finalist for all these other various awards when 522 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:27.960 it comes to National Player of the Year, Freshman of 523 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:29.920 the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, all that kind 524 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:32.960 of stuff. It just like it just it screams insecurity 525 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:36.720 for a program that has absolutely nothing to be insecure about, 526 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:37.119 you know what I. 527 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:39.920 Mean, Yeah, no, absolutely, and you're going out of your 528 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:41.000 way to do it. That's the whole. 529 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:42.880 It's the one thing if it just comes up in conversation, 530 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:45.640 this is the official Twitter account of the program, who 531 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:47.680 is just trying to trying to, you know, put stuff 532 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:49.839 out there to look like a petty little bitch. 533 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:53.079 And they're retweeting and re like or quote tweeting like 534 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:55.400 stat muse and all of that. 535 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:57.759 It's just very odd behavior. It might be a little 536 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:00.680 kid running it, right and it's definitely some that probably 537 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:01.279 just turned out. 538 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:03.599 Have you seen the really really really short guy who's 539 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:06.000 a walk on for them that got in on senior Day. No, 540 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:09.279 I didn't go look him up because I'm convinced now 541 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:12.480 due because the way he kind of like, you know, 542 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:14.480 he kind of he's kind of like the team mascot 543 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:16.880 like he's and I hate calling him short. He's probably 544 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:18.279 taller than me, but you know, he was out there 545 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:20.200 playing on senior day, short. 546 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:23.079 On athletic white guy. 547 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.039 So you know, he I don't know, with his personality 548 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:28.440 and his like social media silliness, I kind of feel 549 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:30.960 like he's running their Twitter account. That would actually make 550 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:33.440 it make sense. And at that point, if they put 551 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:35.480 it out there that was the case, I would actually 552 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:37.240 just think, Okay, that's kind of funny because like you 553 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:38.200 would never expect that. 554 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:40.359 I mean, maybe they're under the uh maybe they are 555 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:44.480 under the impression that, uh, what do you say, like 556 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:48.319 not all publicity is bad publicity or whatnot, because I mean, 557 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.160 they are getting interactions, they're getting cooked by several other 558 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:53.799 fan bases, but maybe they see that as a positive. 559 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:55.799 I don't know, I don't know, if I don't. 560 00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:57.559 Know what kind of feather in their cat that they 561 00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:59.480 think this is but it's just odd behavior. 562 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:01.400 I'm with you, man, I'm with you. And by the way, 563 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.759 the kid I was talking about, his name is Spencer 564 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:08.839 Hubbard and he is I mean, he's five foot eight. 565 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:11.440 Yeah right, I was listed it. I was listed at 566 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:16.200 five ten for Saint Catherine College when I've never been 567 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:17.759 five to ten. I think I was five to seven 568 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:21.720 at the time. But like he went off on senior day, 569 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:24.319 like he was in his bag and like that. He's 570 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:26.000 kind of like a you know, a lot of like 571 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:28.839 walk ons now can can can kind of play into 572 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:32.359 being the walk on on TikTok and Instagram and get 573 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:34.519 millions of followers and like blow up, you know what 574 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:36.079 I mean. There's been some guys that's been kicked off 575 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.319 teams because they really just walk on with a good 576 00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:40.960 GPA to get access to stuff and use it to 577 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:42.799 grow their online brand, which, to be honest with you, 578 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.400 that's not a bad idea. But anyways, we got to 579 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:46.599 get you a break. We're way too late. We'll come 580 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:48.039 back on the other side, get you caught up. A 581 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:51.039 lot of games have already taken place today and there's 582 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.839 currently some games going on right now. Wake Forest up 583 00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:57.160 too on North Carolina. It is a good game thus far, 584 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:59.839 so stick with us. We're taking you up till six. 585 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:02.960 It's a beautiful day. It's March. We got college basketball 586 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.519 going on. We got the first postseason game for Pat 587 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:09.359 Kelsey tonight. I'm I'm aroused now. 588 00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:13.559 Back to coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports 589 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:14.680 Talk seven nine day. 590 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.119 That's right, Coffee and company, field by Thornton's on Sports 591 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:20.839 Talk seven ninety nit coffee. The tribal chief Austin Montgomery 592 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.839 alongside back with us today. You don't know how, you 593 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:25.400 don't know what you have till it's gone. And he 594 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:27.880 was gone yesterday. So we're gonna we're gonna savor the 595 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:31.119 presidents today because we certainly certainly missed him. But big 596 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:33.680 shout out to my man Carl Blanton. I said this 597 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:36.079 on the show yesterday, Austin, you won a deep bench 598 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:38.519 in March, and we can go to the bench and 599 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:39.640 we can bring in Carl Blant. 600 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:41.279 We're doing okay. He's like your Tim Henderson. 601 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:43.960 I mean, he did the damn thing and I and 602 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:48.200 in all honesty, he's just doing us a favor. Clearly 603 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:50.160 he's a paid employee, but we have a part time 604 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:53.079 crew that they do this because they love it and 605 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:55.200 they also have lives and other things to where like 606 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:58.279 it just comes down to them deciding do they want 607 00:26:58.279 --> 00:27:00.880 to help us out if somebody can't, like if Austin's 608 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.519 got to go somewhere, or if somebody's on Baker, because 609 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:05.079 we just have we have a very thin bench right 610 00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:09.039 now when it comes to producers. But for for us, 611 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:11.720 you know, when Carl and Radio Rick are available, I 612 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:13.559 mean we're gonna we're gonna take advantage of it. But 613 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:17.880 not only is is is Carl a pro Like you know, 614 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:21.079 he wanted to make sure throughout the show, every minute 615 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:22.039 that would pass during. 616 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:24.480 A commercial break, three minutes Nick, three minutes Nick. 617 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:27.079 And I'm like, he's on his stuff right now, he's 618 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:29.279 in his bag. Man, he's he knows it's March, he 619 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:31.680 knows it's time to perform. No, I mean he's. 620 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.799 He's also like when you see him in the hallways, 621 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:35.440 he's a genuinely sweet guy. 622 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:38.599 Oh, he's a he's awesome. He's an angel. And I'll 623 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.400 say this and this is not like, this is not 624 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.079 me putting any kind of pressure on you. And I'm 625 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:49.319 not not trying to show insecurity, but like I do 626 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:51.920 like when Carl, because Carl just kind of sits back 627 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.960 does his thing. He's checking the phone lines. I mean, 628 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.759 he's running the operation. But when I and I make 629 00:27:57.799 --> 00:27:59.880 a when I have a line or something that you 630 00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:02.960 know might be borderline funny. You know, Carl's nemverer. I 631 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:04.880 think spoke on the show. But I like to look 632 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:06.359 at the monitor and see that I got a little 633 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.440 chuckle out of him for something I said, right, yeah, 634 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:10.559 and he kind of you know, it's kind of he 635 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.480 doesn't even probably even know I'm looking. But like when 636 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:14.960 I can see that somebody's getting, you know, a little 637 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:17.599 humor out of my jokes, you know, it feeds the 638 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:20.000 insecurity that I have that, like, you know, at least 639 00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:21.039 somebody thinks I'm funny. 640 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:21.720 So thank you, Carl. 641 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:24.519 I feel like if your joke lands with him, you're good. Yeah, 642 00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:25.319 I mean, you're golden. 643 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:27.720 We were talking so so the company man joined us 644 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:30.319 yesterday to catch up and we were talking about what 645 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:35.079 a data miss pregnancy because his wife's wife's due in May, right, 646 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:37.440 and we were talking about was closed. 647 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:38.160 I know, it's crazy. 648 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.839 I was referencing the craving that my wife had for pickles. 649 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:42.839 During her pregnancy. 650 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:45.680 And you know, I was sharing some stories and got 651 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:47.799 a couple of laf set of Carl and I was like, okay, 652 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:49.559 And then you know that what that does is it 653 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:51.880 feeds my confidence from like, Okay, you got this, Nick, Yeah, 654 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:54.559 you're rolling today. So again we missed you yesterday. Happy 655 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:55.359 to have you back. 656 00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:56.799 And thank you. I was. 657 00:28:56.839 --> 00:28:58.599 I was out at the the YOUM Center doing the 658 00:28:58.680 --> 00:29:02.880 Disturbed concert. You Disturbed either a big heavy metal guy. No, 659 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.279 not at all, Like down at the side. 660 00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:07.119 I don't dislike it, but I don't like if you'd 661 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:08.920 have told me Disturb broke up ten years ago. 662 00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:10.000 To believe you, I didn't know. 663 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:14.039 But I'm also like impressed that they were able to, Like, 664 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:16.359 I mean, again, what do I know? But I would 665 00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:18.440 have never guessed that that who were they with? It 666 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:21.720 was somebody else, right three days grace like seven does. 667 00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:24.279 So they were clearly the headliner, right, yes, Okay, I 668 00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:27.079 thought it was maybe like a duo headliner kind of thing. 669 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:28.759 But the fact that they got the Young Center, I 670 00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:30.319 mean that, I mean I would not have guessed that 671 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.160 they were touring arenas like the YOUM center. 672 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:33.440 Oh, dude, I shout out to him. 673 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:35.240 Yeah, dude, shout out to disturb I like some of 674 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:37.200 their mut He's like yeah, like the sound of silence 675 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:38.960 and shout out to the guitar hero. Because that's how 676 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:41.480 I kind of I developed my taste for heavy metal. 677 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:42.880 I think there's a lot of people that did the 678 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:43.640 same thing, dude. 679 00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:45.519 As far as the path of like understanding what it 680 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.079 is and appreciating it and learning about it, well, we. 681 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.079 Talked about it before that, and like like Tony Hawk 682 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:53.519 games and especially wrestling games that got you down to 683 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:56.359 like the indie grudge post grunge rock, like Three Days 684 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:58.599 Grace and Breaking Benjamin and all that. But I get 685 00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.759 there at like four forty five. Ivan's supposed to be 686 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.599 there at like five ish. I get there about fifteen 687 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:07.880 minutes early. The whole lobby just absolutely slammed. I've been 688 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.720 out there for Luke Combe's, Morgan Wall and the country concerts, 689 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:14.720 which is huge popular. It's never like that at five o'clock. 690 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.400 It was jumping for some disturbed last night. 691 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:18.759 It makes a lot of sense as to why I 692 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:21.119 hit traffic, more so leaving here yesterday than I having 693 00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.640 a long time. Oh wow, yeah, whenever I'm heading again. 694 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:25.440 I'm terrible with knowing which street as well. But when 695 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.559 you turn right on Fish Street out of the garage 696 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:29.680 to leave, and then you take that first immediate right, 697 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:30.880 is that Liberty? 698 00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:32.839 Yes, I think it's literally the first one as soon 699 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:34.240 as you turn out of here. Yeah, it's Liberty. 700 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:37.160 So you know, I'm just going Liberty down to First 701 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:39.480 to get on sixty five South. That's my path every 702 00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:42.079 day when I leave, and you just get when you've 703 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:45.319 got people hustling to get to Second Street to get 704 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.319 closer to the umcenter, that's where it just gets. I mean, honestly, 705 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:53.519 coggested past that, past that light, meaning the intersection between 706 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:57.519 Second Street and Liberty, there's never anything yeah, but butever 707 00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:59.440 but like you just got to get through, like people 708 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:01.240 stopping in the middle of the lane because they thought 709 00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:02.759 they could make the yellow and they didn't, and then 710 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:05.759 they got to move around. I mean, in fact, yesterday 711 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:08.599 the real issue wasn't just the jam of people like 712 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:13.359 semi trucks downtown, like get out of here, like like, look, 713 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:15.319 I'm sure you didn't want to end be here. You're 714 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.720 probably more stressed than anybody because you're moving an eighteen 715 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.519 wheeler in a downtown area, but like, get the hell 716 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:24.240 out of here, man, Like you're just in the way. 717 00:31:24.359 --> 00:31:25.799 And I know you wouldn't be here if you didn't 718 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:28.000 have to. So I hate to be so insensitive, but 719 00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:34.200 like I mean, any eighteen wheeler in downtown Louisville between you. 720 00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:36.799 Know, really gotta be a nightmare, really really really. 721 00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.559 Anytime, but like three pm to seven pm, Like everybody 722 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:43.680 hate you, man, Like everybody just wants you gone because 723 00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:44.440 you're just in the way. 724 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:46.640 You can't stop at a light with me nothing. 725 00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:50.000 You could actually be driving as flawlessly as possible in 726 00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:53.079 an eighteen wheeler in downtown and people are still gonna think, like, 727 00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:54.240 get get out of here. 728 00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:55.680 You're just in the way. 729 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:59.319 It's also because like I think Hall, like Fifth Street 730 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:02.279 from Market one is still dealing with that gas leak 731 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:04.559 that we had about three or four weeks back, because 732 00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:05.240 they're just digging. 733 00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.559 Is that where they're just destroying downtown? Okay, it makes sense, 734 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:11.680 then that's I mean, that's not helping. I mean, and 735 00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:12.799 that's the kind. 736 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:14.839 Of stuff that like clearly they have to do it 737 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:17.880 or it's a safety issue. So and it's clearly been 738 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:20.440 a big priority because they they've been at it since 739 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:22.160 they realized they had to, you know, do whatever they 740 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:24.480 got to do. But that can't be an easy thing 741 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:27.599 to like put back together, right, I mean, just digging 742 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:29.559 deep into the ground in downtown Louisville. 743 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.839 I feel like the machinery every single day has gotten bigger. 744 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:36.519 As I'm like, told her, set you up for that one. 745 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:38.359 It's March, man, I didn't think of that. Well, you're 746 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:39.240 on your game. 747 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:41.920 Yeah, I mean, the machinery in March is always bigger 748 00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.480 just because it's good. It's good energy, you know, yeah, 749 00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:47.440 good stuff. So real quick, some scores from around the country. 750 00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.480 Caliperri and Arkansas. Uh, they fell short today against ole 751 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:55.839 Miss at a game that really was neck and neck 752 00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.400 in the second half, and it looked like just maybe 753 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.559 Arkansas was going to be able to stop and cal 754 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:02.759 could do what he doesn't usually do, which is, you know, 755 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.720 win in the SEC tournament. But Ole Miss wins eighty 756 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:09.559 three to eighty. And the next game up here in 757 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:12.519 Nashville will be Texas and Texas A and M, which 758 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.400 I mean Texas is one of those teams that, again 759 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.920 I just don't understand how like, I'm sorry, if you're 760 00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:24.079 six and twelve, eighteen and fourteen, I will I will 761 00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:28.519 absolutely one thousand percent acknowledge how loaded and how good 762 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:32.200 the SEC is. There's really no way to dispute it. 763 00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:37.880 But teams like Texas and teams like I mean, even 764 00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:42.279 dare I say Vandy, Like, the fact that they're still 765 00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.640 being considered is just it. It's only like there's nothing 766 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:50.359 they've done that'll tell you that they belong, not a thing. 767 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.640 It's just that they aren't, you know it. Really it 768 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:56.799 comes down to their numbers, right, Their net and their 769 00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:58.960 ken palm is not as bad as you think it 770 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.079 would be for a team that's eighteen and fourteen or 771 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:04.400 six and six and twelve in their conference. So, I mean, 772 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:06.559 there's a part of me that says, the Committee may 773 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.880 surprise us because we've got people out here putting teams 774 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:12.920 on the bubble, that you're only doing it based off 775 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:18.400 the fact that their net and their quad one and 776 00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:19.559 quad two is what it is. 777 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:20.679 There's really nothing else. 778 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:24.000 And yes, that stuff matters, but it's not the end all, 779 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.239 be all, and there have been times where the Committee 780 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:30.639 will acknowledge, Yeah, the only reason we would even consider 781 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:33.960 this team is because our flawed formula has them ranked 782 00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:37.760 in like the top thirty five or forty. We can 783 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.000 use our brain and also understand that, like that's a 784 00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:43.599 flaw in the formula and they don't belong. Like there's 785 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:45.400 some people like again Louisville, I don't even want to 786 00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:48.079 talk about their seed until they get past Stanford, because 787 00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:51.440 you lose to Stanford tonight, you're definitely an eight or worse. 788 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:53.519 Like there's just no way around it. In my opinion. 789 00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:56.000 I don't know that I'm guessing like anybody else, but 790 00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:58.480 I think when you're seeing all these other teams, it's 791 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:02.519 like it's like you're entering I'm gonna use a I'm 792 00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:06.719 gonna use a weird analogy here. So for Louisville, there 793 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:09.000 when you look at the other teams that they're competing 794 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:16.760 against for a seed line, you're talking about Creighton, Gonzaga. 795 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:19.079 I meant Zaga is not a good example. But we'll 796 00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:25.559 use Creighton, Creighton and Yukon, We'll use Oklahoma, how about 797 00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:32.360 U C. L A, maybe even Illinois, Kansas b YU. 798 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:35.320 Like that's who that's that's that's the neighborhood you're in 799 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:39.199 right now. Seemingly when it comes to seed line and 800 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:42.320 you're you know, let's say we're on a we're on 801 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:46.360 a What's a Good Dating show? Where like they're like 802 00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:49.719 the Bachelor, yeah, or the Bachelorette. Like let's say, let's 803 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:53.079 say the it's the the Bachelorette is when all the 804 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:56.000 dudes are fighting for the lady. Right, Okay, so we're 805 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.880 all we're all on the Bachelorette and we're all entering. 806 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:00.760 Do they live in how I think they do? 807 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:01.000 Right? 808 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:02.320 Yeah, it's like some sort of house. 809 00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:11.480 So Louisville, those teams I mentioned, Louisville, Creighton, Yukon, Kansas, Illinois, 810 00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:16.559 throw Missouri in there, Arizona. We're all entering the house 811 00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:20.199 and we're getting ready to meet the bachelorette to make 812 00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:23.599 an impression. Okay, and we got to get ready and 813 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:26.119 in the getting ready processes the conference tournaments. 814 00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:29.320 Okay, Well, Louisville, they're entering the house. 815 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.400 They forgot their luggage, they got no they got no 816 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:34.920 they got no good drip they got they got no 817 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:37.920 good drip. They they don't even have anything to fix 818 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:39.239 their hair. I can't relate. 819 00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:39.960 I don't have hair. 820 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:42.960 But like they they're showing up and just hoping that 821 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:46.360 just some good old fashioned charisma. Yeah, maybe a real 822 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:48.360 charming a real charming smile. 823 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:49.400 Someone that can make it lay. 824 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:52.400 Yeah, can make an impression because they've gotten not a 825 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.480 lot to work with before selection Sunday. Selection Sundays when 826 00:36:55.519 --> 00:37:02.079 you make your first impression. We've got Kansas, Illinois, Yukon, Creighton, 827 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:05.599 They've got they've got suits to choose from. Oh yeah, 828 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.320 they've got I mean they may even. 829 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:09.159 A little a little look quick boatox. Right? 830 00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:11.360 Oh yeah, men, go boatox, don't they. I mean, I 831 00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.440 haven't done it yet, but I'm not trust me. I'm 832 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:15.119 I'm I'm vain enough to where if I need to 833 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:16.719 do botox to look better, I'll do it. 834 00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:21.360 Oh yeah, they're secure engineers or like designers or construction worker. 835 00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:23.719 That's that's the conference tournaments where you go to the 836 00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:26.119 sec man. You're picking your you're picking the best suits 837 00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:28.320 in the world because you got opportunities to get all 838 00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:32.719 dulled up, right, you got opportunities to get dapper, because 839 00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:34.559 that's what the conference tournament is. You get you know, 840 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:36.599 you got a lot of room to grow and look good. 841 00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:41.199 You can enter selection Sunday. I mean you leave selection. 842 00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:44.719 If you leave the conference tournament. With two more quad 843 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.360 one wins, you might as well be walking up to 844 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:50.880 meet this this bachelorette with the nicest suit anybody could 845 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.320 have ever found. Sure, with Louisville, they got nothing. They 846 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:57.639 beat Clemson, that's that that. Honestly, I think it does, 847 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:00.840 in fact clearly give them another good win. But because 848 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:02.719 it's the same team, I could see the committee saying, Okay, 849 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:04.480 we already knew you did that, you know what I mean, Like, 850 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:05.480 we already knew you could do that. 851 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.840 So your bad is basically saying, like Louisville's like when 852 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:12.159 you're trying to set somebody also another set you up. References, well, 853 00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:14.800 like are they hot, Well they got a great personality. 854 00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:18.639 No, I think I think Louisll's hot. Right, Here's what 855 00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:18.880 it is. 856 00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:22.320 Louisville's hot, and they're intriguing because of how newly hot 857 00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:26.639 they are, right like damn like rich is ugly last year. Yeah, okay, 858 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:29.079 I'm going to hit follow here on Instagram because like 859 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:32.519 something pop it off right now. So there's the intrigue there. 860 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:35.519 But then they're like reminded. Yeah, I mean, but come on, 861 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.880 you know, like Louisville was one eight games last year. 862 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:40.280 He's just an interior designer. 863 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.280 So I still stand by what I said for the 864 00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:44.159 last couple of weeks that as much as we want 865 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:46.679 to obsess and I'm obsessing over the numbers and the 866 00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:49.960 bracketology that's out there, the committee can is just gonna 867 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.159 have to decide how they want of you Louisville, because 868 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:54.800 you could look at Louisville as a team where you'd say, look, 869 00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:59.559 no bad loss, they won, we value winning. 870 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:03.119 They're twenty six or twenty five and six, or they. 871 00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:06.280 Could say, yeah, but who they beat. Let's look at 872 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.800 a team that's got double or more than double the 873 00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:11.960 losses Leisvelle has, but they also have two more wins 874 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:14.159 of value like it. It's gonna come down to how 875 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.400 they choose to view Louisville. So you know, the teams 876 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:19.280 I mentioned aren't teams that Louisville. I mean, those are 877 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:20.320 teams fighting to get in. 878 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:21.079 But like. 879 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.199 Here, I am gonna defend the ACC. I know Carolina 880 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.840 has had a lot of misses against Quad one teams, 881 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:33.280 but look at what I mean, Look at teams like Georgia, 882 00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:37.320 look at teams like I mean Texas. How's Texas being 883 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:42.280 considered Ohio State shouldn't get in Indiana, if I'm being honest, 884 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.920 shouldn't get in. But if they do, it's just gonna 885 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:48.159 because the committee's gonna say, well, hey, we know they 886 00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:50.960 lose a lot. They showed us that, but like maybe 887 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:52.480 they just lose a lot because they're in a good league. 888 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.000 And yes, their league is a factor, but man, can 889 00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:55.719 we get back to. 890 00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:56.519 Call me old school? 891 00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:58.960 Winning and losing shouldn't matter more than it does. Quick 892 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:00.960 break keep a locked her here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 893 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:05.320 Now back to coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 894 00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:07.360 Sports Talk seven nine day. 895 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:11.440 Here we go, hips moving in a way I didn't 896 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:12.119 know possible. 897 00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:14.119 Yeah, they were for me, they're still going. 898 00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:16.559 I mean, it's it's it's not even it's not even 899 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:17.920 something I'm. 900 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.119 Attempting to do. It's just it's just happening. It's happening. 901 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:23.239 I'll tell you what else is happening, or let me 902 00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:25.639 better say it, what's not happening. I'm not falling on 903 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:27.559 the sword for the clock management here because that was 904 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:29.360 an eight minute commercial break. That's why we have very 905 00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:32.320 little time left. I don't know clock. Oh yeah, with 906 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:35.400 an l yep, Yep, that's right. So we'll see. I mean, 907 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.719 I I mean, I don't want to just say goodbye 908 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:40.840 as soon as we come back, but I think I'm 909 00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:42.519 gonna have to because I want to keep this thing on. 910 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:44.239 Because here's what happens. If I take this up to 911 00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:46.519 four o'clock one, that gives me, I mean, it's less 912 00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:49.480 than two minutes now, so then we already start way late. 913 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:51.239 So like, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna bail here, 914 00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:54.320 and I'm gonna, you know, blame it on an eight 915 00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:56.400 minute commercial break, which I'm not sure how possible. That's 916 00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:58.360 one of those things that nobody looked at that. If 917 00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:00.960 you told anybody above us that's somebody created an eight 918 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:03.480 minute commercial break, I mean, they wouldn't be in trouble, 919 00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:05.679 but they would say that was a mistake. Somebody overlooked that. 920 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:09.760 So we'll make sure they're not that long. The rest 921 00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:12.840 of those show. Link is only good in certain instances. 922 00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:16.360 In fact, I honestly Link's overrated if I'm if I'm 923 00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:18.440 being honest myself, That's that's what I always say, right, 924 00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:20.039 That's what I always say. All right, quick break two 925 00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:21.960 hours left a lot more to get into it's game day. 926 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:24.440 I'm fired up. Let's uh, let's have some fun.