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Speaker 2: So this is the third straight day that we have
Speaker 2: got the party started here at three o'clock, and the
Speaker 2: weather's beautiful, and we've got college basketball on it. It's
Speaker 2: gotten better each day, meaning I think the weather has
Speaker 2: actually gotten better each day. Although I thought we were
Speaker 2: supposed to get rained today, but no, it's just it's warm.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. Doesn't get much better than today, a little
Speaker 2: warmer than yesterday, but it's okay. I mean, nobody's gonna complain.
Speaker 2: And in the basketball games, as we get later into
Speaker 2: these conference tournaments, and of course you know the bigger
Speaker 2: conference tournaments have now gotten underway, you have better action
Speaker 2: and it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. So welcome in. Happy Thursday,
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Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven to ninety. Game Day for Louisville tonight,
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey's first postseason game in his time here at Louisville,
Speaker 2: the first postseason game of the Pat Kelsey era. Louisville
Speaker 2: taken on Stanford for the second consecutive game. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure I haven't even looked yet, but I would be
Speaker 2: willing to bet that if I go to at real
Speaker 2: card game on x slash Twitter, there'll be some kind
Speaker 2: of a factor stat about Louisville either playing an opponent
Speaker 2: for the second consecutive time previously, or that this is
Speaker 2: the first time that's ever happened, because it is kind
Speaker 2: of weird. In fact, no matter who won last night,
Speaker 2: it would have been a recent opponent, as Cal was
Speaker 2: also the team Louisville played round up regular season, So
Speaker 2: it is Stanford. And I mean, I'm feeling good. I
Speaker 2: feel confident in this team. I think there's something I
Speaker 2: guess a little tricky about playing a team back to back.
Speaker 2: I mean, you feel good because you know you beat them,
Speaker 2: you twenty pieced them at home. There's certainly gonna be
Speaker 2: no home court advantage for Stanford in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 2: I mean, they are quite literally on the opposite side
Speaker 2: of the United States, so doubt there's gonna be many
Speaker 2: Stanford In fact, I don't know a Stanford fan. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's because you know, we live very far away, but
Speaker 2: like they're gonna have no home court advantage. But there's
Speaker 2: something to be said about They've gotten one out of
Speaker 2: the way, right they played last night.
Speaker 3: They're loose.
Speaker 2: Now you could also say, well, they're winded. They you know,
Speaker 2: Louis has been resting, and again Louis will just beat
Speaker 2: them by twenty points. Well, we'll get into it. I
Speaker 2: don't want to act like this is some kind of
Speaker 2: a big game to where, you know, I mean it's
Speaker 2: a big game because you lose, and you leave Charlotte
Speaker 2: and then you enter the NAA tournament with really a
Speaker 2: bad taste in your mouth, really no moment in them.
Speaker 2: So tonight cards and the cardinal, and I'm feeling good
Speaker 2: and it's just nice again to.
Speaker 3: Be here where you've got all the all the.
Speaker 2: Everything lining up, right, we're getting we're getting into late
Speaker 2: in the week, close to the weekend conference tournaments, and
Speaker 2: then of course selection Sundays just days away, and to
Speaker 2: be alive and to be a part of it as
Speaker 2: a fan, it's it's it's something I feel like right now,
Speaker 2: I'll probably in the moment, I can tell you that
Speaker 2: I'll never take it for granted again.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe if Pat Kelsey's here for a long time and
Speaker 2: like making the tournament becomes just, you know, an expectation
Speaker 2: because you never not make it under Pat Kelsey, that
Speaker 2: would be really not even like if he just makes
Speaker 2: the tournament every year in Louisville loses early, then that
Speaker 2: wouldn't be a great thing. But I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 2: maybe once we get rolling here for the next I
Speaker 2: don't know, five six years, it will become routine once again.
Speaker 2: Because what was awful the last few years.
Speaker 3: I mean that that that.
Speaker 2: Was real outlier, right Like for the vast majority of
Speaker 2: all of all our lives as Louisville basketball fans, there
Speaker 2: was never anything close to what we had recently. So
Speaker 2: maybe one day it'll be routine and I won't take
Speaker 2: it and I will take it for granted. But I
Speaker 2: can tell you right now, I'm not taking it for granted.
Speaker 2: It's been awesome a big night of hoops all around. Though,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you've got Mark Pope coaching his
Speaker 2: first postseason game in his Kentucky tenure. They're taking on Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: who survived last night against Georgia. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's just because I know that there are a
Speaker 2: billion big Blue fans. I was gonna say big Blue bozos,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to. We don't need a name call.
Speaker 2: It's three h four and you know, as much as
Speaker 2: I am on the other side of this rivalry and
Speaker 2: always will be, it's hard to not at least you know,
Speaker 2: acknowledge that they have a billion fans and they show
Speaker 2: up like nobody else when it comes to this event,
Speaker 2: when it's in Nashville. I mean they've been, they've been really.
Speaker 2: I mean again this trust me. This is not like
Speaker 2: rivalry banter, rivalry smack talk, because look, Louisville, I mean,
Speaker 2: this will be if Louisville makes the second weekend this
Speaker 2: year easier said than done, this will be the I mean,
Speaker 2: this will be the first time in ten years they've
Speaker 2: done that. So again, this isn't about like taking a
Speaker 2: shot at Kentucky. In fact, it's not even a backhanded compliment,
Speaker 2: but it's actually a legitimate compliment. Like I mean this genuinely.
Speaker 2: You may take it any way you want, but they
Speaker 2: show up to Nashville one because it's a party, it's
Speaker 2: close to Kentucky, there's many fans, and Nashville's a good
Speaker 2: place to be right. It's also not super cheap. And
Speaker 2: I feel like if I was in the position where
Speaker 2: Louisville was in a conference where every year it was there,
Speaker 2: I mean, I try my best to get there, but man,
Speaker 2: I know how expensive Nashville can be. But anyways, what
Speaker 2: I'm getting at is they're probably going to have more
Speaker 2: fans there than any other fan base, and it probably
Speaker 2: won't be close. I guess Tennessee because again it is
Speaker 2: in Nashville, but I don't know. I mean, Tennessee's a
Speaker 2: football school, and to be fair, though they do have
Speaker 2: I mean, Tennessee has a big fan base that when
Speaker 2: basketball is good, they care. But they have been so
Speaker 2: bad in recent years, not only in this SEC tournament
Speaker 2: but in really the I mean, look at this. The
Speaker 2: last time they made a second weekend was in two
Speaker 2: thousand and was it twenty nineteen? I think it was,
Speaker 2: which again, like that that's a long time ago for them.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is This is from Chris Fisher,
Speaker 2: who covers Kentucky for twenty four seven Sports. Kentucky's lost
Speaker 2: five of their last six SEC tournament games and nine
Speaker 2: of their last eleven postseason games overall. So again, I
Speaker 2: only bring that up because I think that'll surprise a
Speaker 2: lot of folks, even though you're aware that it didn't
Speaker 2: end well with cal like that was a terrible way
Speaker 2: for him to go out when it comes to, you know,
Speaker 2: games that matter in the postseason, right winter go home
Speaker 2: in the Big Dance, And he never cared about the
Speaker 2: SEC Tournament and wanted his fans to know that throughout
Speaker 2: that Hey, you guys may travel here, pay a lot
Speaker 2: of money, you make it a big deal. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make it a point to let you know that I
Speaker 2: don't get a damn about this tournament. I mean that
Speaker 2: it's kind of great if you think about the entertainment
Speaker 2: value that you could sit back and get when it
Speaker 2: comes to Cali Perry trolling his own fan base. But anyways,
Speaker 2: they're they're there. They're always there, regardless of the losses
Speaker 2: they've taken in this event. The SEC Tournament, and I
Speaker 2: just kind of feel like they're going to roll, not
Speaker 2: necessarily to win the whole thing, but I think they
Speaker 2: roll tonight, and I think they're gonna beat Alabama tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I you know, tough to say that
Speaker 2: that's gonna happen with a certainty, because you know, Obama's
Speaker 2: really good and if Kentucky you know, I mean, they
Speaker 2: could lose tonight. Trust me, They're a team like most
Speaker 2: that's vulnerable and Oklahoma nearly got them when they played
Speaker 2: in Norman. But there won't be any Oklahoma fans there tonight.
Speaker 2: I would imagine at lea it's not many in Kentucky's
Speaker 2: gonna have a home home court advantage. And there's also
Speaker 2: something to be said about the crowd that goes to
Speaker 2: this event. And I think that's why it was such
Speaker 2: a such a bitter thing with their fan base, is
Speaker 2: that Cala Perry again wanted you to know he did
Speaker 2: not care despite how much you cared. But like, it's
Speaker 2: a different type of Kentucky fan that goes to Nashville
Speaker 2: and parties and gets hammered and loses. I mean, and
Speaker 2: you know, I don't mean to say that, like I'm
Speaker 2: not insulting them, but like the the Blues sweater vest,
Speaker 2: you know, businessman in his sixties that you know doesn't
Speaker 2: stand up ever at a game. And I'm not acting
Speaker 2: like that's all the Lower Bowl, but you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, that's stereotype. Like those aren't the people going
Speaker 2: and getting drunk in Nashville, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Those, So it's a difference.
Speaker 2: I actually think if they play well, which I mean,
Speaker 2: nobody's gonna be nobody's gonna be shocked if they do,
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like it'll turn into where they
Speaker 2: can really utilize some home court. I mean, it's crazy
Speaker 2: to say it, but let's be real, they're gonna have
Speaker 2: home court advantage in this tournament, in this tournament, regardless
Speaker 2: of who they play other than maybe Tennessee. So again,
Speaker 2: big night tonight here when it comes to to college basketball,
Speaker 2: and we've already had a busy day thus far, and
Speaker 2: we'll talk about Cooper fly for those who missed it,
Speaker 2: he suffered an ankle injury X rays word negative. It
Speaker 2: is an ankle sprain and it really just comes down to,
Speaker 2: I mean, monitoring his pain level and I guess the
Speaker 2: swelling and we'll talk about it. But if you haven't
Speaker 2: seen the video, it looks really really bad. I mean,
Speaker 2: X rays being negative is kind of a surprise for me.
Speaker 2: Now I know nothing about like I can't look at
Speaker 2: an injury and tell you the severity of it or
Speaker 2: really even what it is. But you know, he's a
Speaker 2: large man, seven foot tall, and he falls, he hits
Speaker 2: the ground, and it's a complete role. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you'd have told me, after looking at the replay that
Speaker 2: he broke his ankle, I would have believed you. That's
Speaker 2: how bad it looked. I mean, they take him to
Speaker 2: the wheel they take him to the back in a wheelchair.
Speaker 2: He comes back, he's got It seemed to be a
Speaker 2: to me, it seemed to be a really really major
Speaker 2: a real major sign of like overcompensating, Like I think
Speaker 2: they there seem to be a real force to make
Speaker 2: it look like he's fine.
Speaker 3: And I don't really know why you need to do that.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. I mean, he rolled his ankle. My
Speaker 2: guess is probably what a lot of people are guessing.
Speaker 2: They're not going to play on the rest of this tournament,
Speaker 2: because it'd be hard to imagine that he's gonna be
Speaker 2: fully healthy, and obviously you need him when it really matters,
Speaker 2: which is the NCAA Tournament, and having him out there
Speaker 2: with it like he was dressed out like he could
Speaker 2: play and he wasn't going to play, and he was
Speaker 2: walking to the the locker room after the game because
Speaker 2: he didn't come back to the bench fully dressed as
Speaker 2: if they were going to put him back in, and
Speaker 2: they weren't, and they did announce that he was out.
Speaker 2: But like when I watched him walk back, and trust me,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like I was going on in my way
Speaker 2: as you could expect. All cameras are on Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2: I mean all cameras are going to be on him
Speaker 2: if he plays or doesn't play in the NAA Tournament
Speaker 2: because that's just kind of a season he's had. He's
Speaker 2: the star of the sport, and he's marketable because of
Speaker 2: the NBA. Jeni Broom is getting just as much praise
Speaker 2: when it comes to the imp when it comes to
Speaker 2: being one of the best players in college basketball, and
Speaker 2: he may win the National Player of the Year. I
Speaker 2: still think it's going to go to Flag. But Flag
Speaker 2: has something that you rarely see anymore in college basketball,
Speaker 2: where he is the face of the of the sport.
Speaker 2: The hype is there, and he's also going to be
Speaker 2: the first pick in the NBA draft, right, like it's
Speaker 2: it's it's both things, right, So clearly he plays it
Speaker 2: du he's great for the sport. But when you can,
Speaker 2: when you when you know that, I mean, basically, this
Speaker 2: is a p. This is three PR for the NBA, right,
Speaker 2: because he could have gone the G League if that
Speaker 2: was still a thing back then and we weren't in
Speaker 2: the NIL world, still would have been the number one pick,
Speaker 2: still would have been so many people know a lot
Speaker 2: about But when you're playing at Duke, you're on TV,
Speaker 2: national TV every night.
Speaker 3: The spotlights on you.
Speaker 2: So regardless of what happens with his health, he's gonna
Speaker 2: still be talked about. And I just when they showed
Speaker 2: him walking to the locker room, I felt like he
Speaker 2: was trying to And again, maybe it's just the competitor
Speaker 2: in him. I don't know, he's an eighteen year old kid,
Speaker 2: but he's walking to the locker room and it's like
Speaker 2: every few steps he's he's he looks like he's okay,
Speaker 2: but kind of like maybe lightly lightly showing that he's
Speaker 2: in pain.
Speaker 3: And then then he has.
Speaker 2: To kind of like stop for a mint, stop for
Speaker 2: a millisecond and kind of regroup and then walk again.
Speaker 2: It's like he just has to put some again, which
Speaker 2: makes total sense.
Speaker 3: He's hurt.
Speaker 2: You saw the injury. If you haven't go look at it,
Speaker 2: he is hurt. But I don't know why. What's what's
Speaker 2: the harm in Duke just saying hey, you know doubt?
Speaker 2: I mean, I get I guess saying anything is really
Speaker 2: probably too early because you just don't know. But I'd
Speaker 2: be shocked because Duke has nothing to gain by playing him.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe they really want to stick it to
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey and Louisville and in that potential hypothetical matchup
Speaker 2: in the championship game because they feel so disrespected that
Speaker 2: Chuck he took home the Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 2: and Pat Kelsey was coach of the Year. But like
Speaker 2: they don't they would gain in all honesty, they can't
Speaker 2: jump ahead of Auburn for number one overall seed if
Speaker 2: they win the ACC Tournament, and a loss today by
Speaker 2: double digits to Georgia Tech would have probably it wouldn't
Speaker 2: if it would have not knocked them off the one line,
Speaker 2: so they have nothing to gain or lose in this event,
Speaker 2: and that makes me think they're probably not going to
Speaker 2: play him, unless, of course, like he's this freak where
Speaker 2: he could have that kind of an ankle injury and
Speaker 2: wake up tomorrow and be one thousand percent healthy. Doubt
Speaker 2: that's the case, but we shall see. But they did
Speaker 2: it down in that game. I mean, it was a
Speaker 2: deficit that I felt like, all right, I mean, they're
Speaker 2: probably not going to get killed, but man, this is
Speaker 2: too big of a hole and Flag's hurt. They were
Speaker 2: down twenty six to twelve, and it kind of lets
Speaker 2: you know where Duke is this year and lets you
Speaker 2: know what Cooper Flag is to the sport if you
Speaker 2: didn't already know that. It became like one of those
Speaker 2: big stories in sports where I feel like anybody talking
Speaker 2: about anything is bringing up you see what happened Duke.
Speaker 2: They're down, Cooper, Flag's hurt, wheel chair, locker room, like
Speaker 2: became a big deal and looks some people were already
Speaker 2: making the comparison, which it is premature, but if you're
Speaker 2: going to do the hypothetical, I think there is a
Speaker 2: real comparison. And if you're around my age, or a
Speaker 2: little younger. You probably don't remember this. If you're a
Speaker 2: little bit older than me, I'm sure you do. And
Speaker 2: for me, if you're somebody that is my age or
Speaker 2: at least close to it, it just depends on how
Speaker 2: much you loved college basketball when you were a little kid.
Speaker 2: But I remember this, I remember where I was finding
Speaker 2: out it happened. But Kenyon Martin, Kenyan Martin was the
Speaker 2: face of college basketball for Bob Huggins and Cincinnati in
Speaker 2: the nineties, and in fact, I'm sorry he was in
Speaker 2: two thousand and they were scary, and I don't think
Speaker 2: even Duke this year is as scary as that Cincinnati
Speaker 2: team was. Now, again, that was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2: I was twelve, so therefore, I you know, it's not
Speaker 2: like I can give you the full starting lineup for
Speaker 2: that team that Bob Huggins had. But Kenyan Martin was
Speaker 2: a monster, a bully of college basketball. He actually played
Speaker 2: as if he knew everybody was afraid of him, and
Speaker 2: he embraced that. And I don't mean like afraid that
Speaker 2: he was going to beat him and score twenty. They
Speaker 2: were afraid he was going to hurt him. Like Kenyon
Speaker 2: Martin was that guy. And I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: Austin's age difference here with me is to where you
Speaker 2: probably don't remember that at all, do you, Like you
Speaker 2: know Keny Martin is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I remember, and I probably.
Speaker 2: In Cincinnati though, like because again you probably I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, you probably just too because I was. I
Speaker 2: was eleven going on twelve, which would have made you
Speaker 2: what like five or six.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, and I obviously wasn't paying much attention, but
Speaker 4: you know, you hear the lore of it and how
Speaker 4: Kenya Martin was because I remember monster dude. Oh dude,
Speaker 4: I remember, like, let's just say, for reference, like when
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis was doing his thing at Kentucky, there were
Speaker 4: a lot of people that were drawing parallels to how
Speaker 4: he was probably the most dominant player since Kenya Martin was.
Speaker 4: So that's how I kind of really understood it.
Speaker 2: And Kenyon Martin was one of those guys that even
Speaker 2: if you were not into college basketball in a big
Speaker 2: way and they're not a they were in Conference USA,
Speaker 2: he was such a I mean he was appointment viewing
Speaker 2: because he was again, he was a bully out there,
Speaker 2: and I mean he dunked on everybody I mean, he
Speaker 2: was really fun to watch, but also kind of you know,
Speaker 2: Louivill had to go up against him a couple of
Speaker 2: times a year because obviously the Conference USA connection. But
Speaker 2: he got hurt in the first game. In fact, let
Speaker 2: me pull it up here, because yeah, they played on
Speaker 2: a Thursday afternoon, and I'd gotten out of school and
Speaker 2: my father picked me up and he's the one who
Speaker 2: told me, and that's this conference tournament or Conference two
Speaker 2: thousand first round or first game. I think they got
Speaker 2: a buy, of course, but in two thousand they played
Speaker 2: on a Thursday afternoon and he got hurt and was
Speaker 2: out for the rest of the season, and you know,
Speaker 2: there wasn't much left and it, you know, it changed
Speaker 2: everything for Cincinnati. I mean that that I kind of
Speaker 2: we'll never know, it's twenty five years ago, but it
Speaker 2: just seemed as if that Cincinnati team was just viewed
Speaker 2: as like, yeah, they're gonna have to really screw up
Speaker 2: to not win the whole thing because they're just bullying everybody.
Speaker 2: But what became a bigger story is that once he
Speaker 2: was clearly out and you know, they're in Conference USA,
Speaker 2: Cincinnati went from being a one then they got dropped
Speaker 2: down to it two, and of course they got past
Speaker 2: the fifteen seed, but then fell short against Tulsa, who
Speaker 2: was the I think the seven seeds, so they lost
Speaker 2: in the round of thirty two. And it's got to
Speaker 2: be something that even as we speak right now, as
Speaker 2: I'm saying this, if you're a Cincinnati fan or somebody
Speaker 2: familiar with the like, that's got to be one of
Speaker 2: the most depth, Like when you think of the all
Speaker 2: time gut punch, what IFFs in your program. Kenyon Martin
Speaker 2: getting hurt has to be it for Cincinnati because that
Speaker 2: was their best team they ever had with Huggins or
Speaker 2: Cronen whoever, and he has if he stays healthy, different situation.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: It also became a thing because there and again I'm
Speaker 2: not going to try to act like I remember every
Speaker 2: little detail about that season, but the other one seeds,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the one seeds in that tournament you had
Speaker 2: Arizona when loud Oldson had it, Roland, I know you're
Speaker 2: familiar with that era. Austin loud Olsen was the man.
Speaker 2: Stanford had the number one seed, which is wild that
Speaker 2: kind of I kind of feel like that's weird to
Speaker 2: me because I don't know if Stanford's ever been good
Speaker 2: in basketball and they play louisvill plays them tonight when
Speaker 2: or you you know, or you get your ass sent
Speaker 2: home from Charlotte early and you got a bad taste
Speaker 2: in your mouff for selection Sunday me revisiting the Kenyon
Speaker 2: Martin injury here twenty five years ago. Yeah, in looking
Speaker 2: at which one seed stole it from Cincinnati because of
Speaker 2: the Kenyon Martin injury. That could be really weird voodoo, right,
Speaker 2: Like this is weird energy. If I had told you,
Speaker 2: if I'd have told you yes or no, Austin, has
Speaker 2: Stanford basketball ever been a one seed in the tournament?
Speaker 2: If you get it correct, you get a billion dollars
Speaker 2: you would have without hesitation, said source knowledge. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: they were a one seed and in two thousand and
Speaker 2: I don't I mean, they did have like two dudes
Speaker 2: who I remember like being the you know, the nerdy,
Speaker 2: great student white shooters. Like that's what I mean, that's
Speaker 2: what Stanford is. It's it's an academy. It's it's it's
Speaker 2: an academic school. So one of the seeds was Arizona.
Speaker 2: Michigan State was the one seed they won it that year.
Speaker 2: The last time the Big Ten won a national championship,
Speaker 2: and then the other one seed was Duke and then
Speaker 2: you know, Stanford. So my guess is that Cincinnati lost
Speaker 2: their one seed to Stanford and probably shouldn't have. And
Speaker 2: that was a real big talking point. It's because the committee,
Speaker 2: just because they knew Cincinnati was not going to be
Speaker 2: the same thing without Martin, they had a tough time
Speaker 2: putting them on the one line.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Similarly, you knew that when.
Speaker 2: Jordan Travis got hurt, the College Football Playoff Committee could
Speaker 2: not look at Florida State like they were legitimately gonna
Speaker 2: you know it just so it sucks, but like you know,
Speaker 2: it is what it is now with Cooper flag if
Speaker 2: he's I mean, well not, we probably won't know, like
Speaker 2: for example, this day and age, and maybe maybe you know,
Speaker 2: had that not happened, I was gonna throw out a
Speaker 2: hypothetical that I'm not even really sure how we could
Speaker 2: ever potentially get there, But that became a thing like
Speaker 2: Cincinnati should have kept it private that he was that hurt,
Speaker 2: because it did hurt them as far as their seed.
Speaker 2: And there is a big difference, by the way, and
Speaker 2: being a one in a two there is, I mean,
Speaker 2: just no way around it. So anyways, Cooper Flag, I
Speaker 2: would imagine that he'll he'll set out the rest of
Speaker 2: this tournament, and obviously that bodes well for Louisville. I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like we shouldn't even go there yet
Speaker 2: because you got to get past Stanford tonight. And of
Speaker 2: course Clemson's a good team. They're playing well and they're
Speaker 2: likely going to win the night and that's who you
Speaker 2: get tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But if no.
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag, let me put it this way, if Cooper
Speaker 2: Flagg is out the rest of this tournament, Duke will
Speaker 2: still be the favorite to win it. They will, sure,
Speaker 2: and they look really good today. Kon Kinnepple is a
Speaker 2: really good player, and you could see that if Cooper
Speaker 2: Flag wasn't, you know, leading Duke in every single statistic
Speaker 2: like he is, then Con Knipple, a top five freshman,
Speaker 2: a top five incoming recruit, he'd probably get a lot
Speaker 2: more run. And I don't mean I shouldn't say run,
Speaker 2: he gets playing time, but he would be utilized a
Speaker 2: little bit differently because he can score it and today
Speaker 2: he did that. And how about Georgia Tech, I'll give
Speaker 2: him credit. Man, they got nothing to play for I mean,
Speaker 2: and they they hung with Duke and they were giving
Speaker 2: Duke the business when Flag was out there before the injury,
Speaker 2: so you know.
Speaker 4: It get rejected at the rambat point. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: nasty and let's you.
Speaker 2: Know, I'm I'll be honest with you. I want him
Speaker 2: to be healthy and to play tomorrow or in on Sunday,
Speaker 2: or in on Saturday if we get there, because I'll
Speaker 2: take whatever.
Speaker 3: You look, you can't control it.
Speaker 2: So if he's out in Louisville is able to somehow
Speaker 2: win it, that'd be great.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to complain.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna, you know, give you the asterisk, but man,
Speaker 2: I would you know, I want to play them at
Speaker 2: their best just because even if you lose, that will
Speaker 2: help you when it comes to the committee, like it
Speaker 2: would be. You know, you'll take it. You can't control it.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's something like a lot of things this year.
Speaker 2: We just got to roll with it. We can't control
Speaker 2: the The ACC stinks, But man, it would feel a
Speaker 2: little bit underwhelming to know that you could get that
Speaker 2: ACC championship potentially and that you still wouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to capitalize on the real value that you should have
Speaker 2: because the committee would say, well, you beat him without flags.
Speaker 2: I hope he's healthy. I hope he's able to go.
Speaker 2: But that block where he got rejected at the rim
Speaker 2: that if he doesn't get hurt not long after that,
Speaker 2: that that's that's that's probably got a billion views on
Speaker 2: social media by now. Yeah, no, and it's still been
Speaker 2: It's still been viewed. But obviously everything about Flag is
Speaker 2: now in the rear view because the focus as we speak,
Speaker 2: is all about, you know, his injury and how healthy
Speaker 2: he's going to be.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Duke's social media admin didn't like that.
Speaker 2: Did you see that? They doubled down yesterday?
Speaker 3: Did they know? I haven't. I haven't went back to
Speaker 3: him since.
Speaker 2: This behavior again, I'll I'll just reiterate, does it doesn't
Speaker 2: make any sense? Like what are you like? What are
Speaker 2: you like? It's not only it's not only like you know,
Speaker 2: how can this benefit you? It's like, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2: This is going to make you look like? It's just
Speaker 2: so stupid. So Flag, of course is likely going to
Speaker 2: be National Player of the Year.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 2: So yesterday they decided to tweet out and I'm trying
Speaker 2: to scroll through it myself because it's just weird behavior,
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't make any sense. It's almost like they
Speaker 2: genuinely and and trust me, this is not Hey, we're
Speaker 2: in your kitchen. We're living rent free. Because if Duke
Speaker 2: is worried about Louisville, that would be insanity. I mean,
Speaker 2: let's just be real, Duke. I mean, Duke shouldn't really
Speaker 2: be worried about anybody. Duke's the program that does have
Speaker 2: to kind of like laugh at Kentucky. We don't think
Speaker 2: your rival like Kentucky fans Duke, Kentucky's biggest non conference rivals, Duke.
Speaker 2: Duke's like, we don't even like we forgot about you,
Speaker 2: Like Duke does not embrace any rivalry other than Carolina.
Speaker 3: So don't I don't believe.
Speaker 2: That they're obsessed, but like they're still really bothered that
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey deservedly one Coach of the Year and Chucky
Speaker 2: Hepburn deservedly won Defensive Player of the Year. But I'm
Speaker 2: trying to scroll down here because it was something along
Speaker 2: the lines and I'll find it before we get out
Speaker 2: of here. It wasn't anything crazy compared to what we
Speaker 2: saw earlier this week, or they might have deleted it,
Speaker 2: but they went out of their way to say Cooper
Speaker 2: Flag was the only finalist on any of the national awards,
Speaker 2: meaning not just ACC Player of the Year, not you know,
Speaker 2: not just National Player of the Year, not just I mean,
Speaker 2: it was almost like, you know, you have to remind
Speaker 2: folks that any award he didn't get from the ACC
Speaker 2: is a crime, because clearly he's the only ACC player
Speaker 2: that's a finalist for all these other various awards when
Speaker 2: it comes to National Player of the Year, Freshman of
Speaker 2: the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, all that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. It just like it just it screams insecurity
Speaker 2: for a program that has absolutely nothing to be insecure about,
Speaker 2: you know what I.
Speaker 3: Mean, Yeah, no, absolutely, and you're going out of your
Speaker 3: way to do it. That's the whole.
Speaker 2: It's the one thing if it just comes up in conversation,
Speaker 2: this is the official Twitter account of the program, who
Speaker 2: is just trying to trying to, you know, put stuff
Speaker 2: out there to look like a petty little bitch.
Speaker 4: And they're retweeting and re like or quote tweeting like
Speaker 4: stat muse and all of that.
Speaker 3: It's just very odd behavior. It might be a little
Speaker 3: kid running it, right and it's definitely some that probably
Speaker 3: just turned out.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the really really really short guy who's
Speaker 2: a walk on for them that got in on senior Day. No,
Speaker 2: I didn't go look him up because I'm convinced now
Speaker 2: due because the way he kind of like, you know,
Speaker 2: he kind of he's kind of like the team mascot
Speaker 2: like he's and I hate calling him short. He's probably
Speaker 2: taller than me, but you know, he was out there
Speaker 2: playing on senior day, short.
Speaker 3: On athletic white guy.
Speaker 2: So you know, he I don't know, with his personality
Speaker 2: and his like social media silliness, I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like he's running their Twitter account. That would actually make
Speaker 2: it make sense. And at that point, if they put
Speaker 2: it out there that was the case, I would actually
Speaker 2: just think, Okay, that's kind of funny because like you
Speaker 2: would never expect that.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe they're under the uh maybe they are
Speaker 4: under the impression that, uh, what do you say, like
Speaker 4: not all publicity is bad publicity or whatnot, because I mean,
Speaker 4: they are getting interactions, they're getting cooked by several other
Speaker 4: fan bases, but maybe they see that as a positive.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know, if I don't.
Speaker 4: Know what kind of feather in their cat that they
Speaker 4: think this is but it's just odd behavior.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, man, I'm with you. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the kid I was talking about, his name is Spencer
Speaker 2: Hubbard and he is I mean, he's five foot eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I was listed it. I was listed at
Speaker 2: five ten for Saint Catherine College when I've never been
Speaker 2: five to ten. I think I was five to seven
Speaker 2: at the time. But like he went off on senior day,
Speaker 2: like he was in his bag and like that. He's
Speaker 2: kind of like a you know, a lot of like
Speaker 2: walk ons now can can can kind of play into
Speaker 2: being the walk on on TikTok and Instagram and get
Speaker 2: millions of followers and like blow up, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. There's been some guys that's been kicked off
Speaker 2: teams because they really just walk on with a good
Speaker 2: GPA to get access to stuff and use it to
Speaker 2: grow their online brand, which, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: that's not a bad idea. But anyways, we got to
Speaker 2: get you a break. We're way too late. We'll come
Speaker 2: back on the other side, get you caught up. A
Speaker 2: lot of games have already taken place today and there's
Speaker 2: currently some games going on right now. Wake Forest up
Speaker 2: too on North Carolina. It is a good game thus far,
Speaker 2: so stick with us. We're taking you up till six.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day. It's March. We got college basketball
Speaker 2: going on. We got the first postseason game for Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey tonight. I'm I'm aroused now.
Speaker 1: Back to coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports
Speaker 1: Talk seven nine day.
Speaker 2: That's right, Coffee and company, field by Thornton's on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety nit coffee. The tribal chief Austin Montgomery
Speaker 2: alongside back with us today. You don't know how, you
Speaker 2: don't know what you have till it's gone. And he
Speaker 2: was gone yesterday. So we're gonna we're gonna savor the
Speaker 2: presidents today because we certainly certainly missed him. But big
Speaker 2: shout out to my man Carl Blanton. I said this
Speaker 2: on the show yesterday, Austin, you won a deep bench
Speaker 2: in March, and we can go to the bench and
Speaker 2: we can bring in Carl Blant.
Speaker 3: We're doing okay. He's like your Tim Henderson.
Speaker 2: I mean, he did the damn thing and I and
Speaker 2: in all honesty, he's just doing us a favor. Clearly
Speaker 2: he's a paid employee, but we have a part time
Speaker 2: crew that they do this because they love it and
Speaker 2: they also have lives and other things to where like
Speaker 2: it just comes down to them deciding do they want
Speaker 2: to help us out if somebody can't, like if Austin's
Speaker 2: got to go somewhere, or if somebody's on Baker, because
Speaker 2: we just have we have a very thin bench right
Speaker 2: now when it comes to producers. But for for us,
Speaker 2: you know, when Carl and Radio Rick are available, I
Speaker 2: mean we're gonna we're gonna take advantage of it. But
Speaker 2: not only is is is Carl a pro Like you know,
Speaker 2: he wanted to make sure throughout the show, every minute
Speaker 2: that would pass during.
Speaker 3: A commercial break, three minutes Nick, three minutes Nick.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, he's on his stuff right now, he's
Speaker 2: in his bag. Man, he's he knows it's March, he
Speaker 2: knows it's time to perform. No, I mean he's.
Speaker 4: He's also like when you see him in the hallways,
Speaker 4: he's a genuinely sweet guy.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's a he's awesome. He's an angel. And I'll
Speaker 2: say this and this is not like, this is not
Speaker 2: me putting any kind of pressure on you. And I'm
Speaker 2: not not trying to show insecurity, but like I do
Speaker 2: like when Carl, because Carl just kind of sits back
Speaker 2: does his thing. He's checking the phone lines. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's running the operation. But when I and I make
Speaker 2: a when I have a line or something that you
Speaker 2: know might be borderline funny. You know, Carl's nemverer. I
Speaker 2: think spoke on the show. But I like to look
Speaker 2: at the monitor and see that I got a little
Speaker 2: chuckle out of him for something I said, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: and he kind of you know, it's kind of he
Speaker 2: doesn't even probably even know I'm looking. But like when
Speaker 2: I can see that somebody's getting, you know, a little
Speaker 2: humor out of my jokes, you know, it feeds the
Speaker 2: insecurity that I have that, like, you know, at least
Speaker 2: somebody thinks I'm funny.
Speaker 3: So thank you, Carl.
Speaker 4: I feel like if your joke lands with him, you're good. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, you're golden.
Speaker 2: We were talking so so the company man joined us
Speaker 2: yesterday to catch up and we were talking about what
Speaker 2: a data miss pregnancy because his wife's wife's due in May, right,
Speaker 2: and we were talking about was closed.
Speaker 3: I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: I was referencing the craving that my wife had for pickles.
Speaker 3: During her pregnancy.
Speaker 2: And you know, I was sharing some stories and got
Speaker 2: a couple of laf set of Carl and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: And then you know that what that does is it
Speaker 2: feeds my confidence from like, Okay, you got this, Nick, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're rolling today. So again we missed you yesterday. Happy
Speaker 2: to have you back.
Speaker 3: And thank you. I was.
Speaker 4: I was out at the the YOUM Center doing the
Speaker 4: Disturbed concert. You Disturbed either a big heavy metal guy. No,
Speaker 4: not at all, Like down at the side.
Speaker 2: I don't dislike it, but I don't like if you'd
Speaker 2: have told me Disturb broke up ten years ago.
Speaker 3: To believe you, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: But I'm also like impressed that they were able to, Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, again, what do I know? But I would
Speaker 2: have never guessed that that who were they with? It
Speaker 2: was somebody else, right three days grace like seven does.
Speaker 2: So they were clearly the headliner, right, yes, Okay, I
Speaker 2: thought it was maybe like a duo headliner kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But the fact that they got the Young Center, I
Speaker 2: mean that, I mean I would not have guessed that
Speaker 2: they were touring arenas like the YOUM center.
Speaker 3: Oh, dude, I shout out to him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, shout out to disturb I like some of
Speaker 4: their mut He's like yeah, like the sound of silence
Speaker 4: and shout out to the guitar hero. Because that's how
Speaker 4: I kind of I developed my taste for heavy metal.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of people that did the
Speaker 3: same thing, dude.
Speaker 2: As far as the path of like understanding what it
Speaker 2: is and appreciating it and learning about it, well, we.
Speaker 4: Talked about it before that, and like like Tony Hawk
Speaker 4: games and especially wrestling games that got you down to
Speaker 4: like the indie grudge post grunge rock, like Three Days
Speaker 4: Grace and Breaking Benjamin and all that. But I get
Speaker 4: there at like four forty five. Ivan's supposed to be
Speaker 4: there at like five ish. I get there about fifteen
Speaker 4: minutes early. The whole lobby just absolutely slammed. I've been
Speaker 4: out there for Luke Combe's, Morgan Wall and the country concerts,
Speaker 4: which is huge popular. It's never like that at five o'clock.
Speaker 4: It was jumping for some disturbed last night.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense as to why I
Speaker 2: hit traffic, more so leaving here yesterday than I having
Speaker 2: a long time. Oh wow, yeah, whenever I'm heading again.
Speaker 2: I'm terrible with knowing which street as well. But when
Speaker 2: you turn right on Fish Street out of the garage
Speaker 2: to leave, and then you take that first immediate right,
Speaker 2: is that Liberty?
Speaker 3: Yes, I think it's literally the first one as soon
Speaker 3: as you turn out of here. Yeah, it's Liberty.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm just going Liberty down to First
Speaker 2: to get on sixty five South. That's my path every
Speaker 2: day when I leave, and you just get when you've
Speaker 2: got people hustling to get to Second Street to get
Speaker 2: closer to the umcenter, that's where it just gets. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 2: coggested past that, past that light, meaning the intersection between
Speaker 2: Second Street and Liberty, there's never anything yeah, but butever
Speaker 2: but like you just got to get through, like people
Speaker 2: stopping in the middle of the lane because they thought
Speaker 2: they could make the yellow and they didn't, and then
Speaker 2: they got to move around. I mean, in fact, yesterday
Speaker 2: the real issue wasn't just the jam of people like
Speaker 2: semi trucks downtown, like get out of here, like like, look,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you didn't want to end be here. You're
Speaker 2: probably more stressed than anybody because you're moving an eighteen
Speaker 2: wheeler in a downtown area, but like, get the hell
Speaker 2: out of here, man, Like you're just in the way.
Speaker 2: And I know you wouldn't be here if you didn't
Speaker 2: have to. So I hate to be so insensitive, but
Speaker 2: like I mean, any eighteen wheeler in downtown Louisville between you.
Speaker 3: Know, really gotta be a nightmare, really really really.
Speaker 2: Anytime, but like three pm to seven pm, Like everybody
Speaker 2: hate you, man, Like everybody just wants you gone because
Speaker 2: you're just in the way.
Speaker 3: You can't stop at a light with me nothing.
Speaker 2: You could actually be driving as flawlessly as possible in
Speaker 2: an eighteen wheeler in downtown and people are still gonna think, like,
Speaker 2: get get out of here.
Speaker 3: You're just in the way.
Speaker 4: It's also because like I think Hall, like Fifth Street
Speaker 4: from Market one is still dealing with that gas leak
Speaker 4: that we had about three or four weeks back, because
Speaker 4: they're just digging.
Speaker 3: Is that where they're just destroying downtown? Okay, it makes sense,
Speaker 3: then that's I mean, that's not helping. I mean, and
Speaker 3: that's the kind.
Speaker 2: Of stuff that like clearly they have to do it
Speaker 2: or it's a safety issue. So and it's clearly been
Speaker 2: a big priority because they they've been at it since
Speaker 2: they realized they had to, you know, do whatever they
Speaker 2: got to do. But that can't be an easy thing
Speaker 2: to like put back together, right, I mean, just digging
Speaker 2: deep into the ground in downtown Louisville.
Speaker 4: I feel like the machinery every single day has gotten bigger.
Speaker 4: As I'm like, told her, set you up for that one.
Speaker 4: It's March, man, I didn't think of that. Well, you're
Speaker 4: on your game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the machinery in March is always bigger
Speaker 2: just because it's good. It's good energy, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: good stuff. So real quick, some scores from around the country.
Speaker 2: Caliperri and Arkansas. Uh, they fell short today against ole
Speaker 2: Miss at a game that really was neck and neck
Speaker 2: in the second half, and it looked like just maybe
Speaker 2: Arkansas was going to be able to stop and cal
Speaker 2: could do what he doesn't usually do, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: win in the SEC tournament. But Ole Miss wins eighty
Speaker 2: three to eighty. And the next game up here in
Speaker 2: Nashville will be Texas and Texas A and M, which
Speaker 2: I mean Texas is one of those teams that, again
Speaker 2: I just don't understand how like, I'm sorry, if you're
Speaker 2: six and twelve, eighteen and fourteen, I will I will
Speaker 2: absolutely one thousand percent acknowledge how loaded and how good
Speaker 2: the SEC is. There's really no way to dispute it.
Speaker 2: But teams like Texas and teams like I mean, even
Speaker 2: dare I say Vandy, Like, the fact that they're still
Speaker 2: being considered is just it. It's only like there's nothing
Speaker 2: they've done that'll tell you that they belong, not a thing.
Speaker 2: It's just that they aren't, you know it. Really it
Speaker 2: comes down to their numbers, right, Their net and their
Speaker 2: ken palm is not as bad as you think it
Speaker 2: would be for a team that's eighteen and fourteen or
Speaker 2: six and six and twelve in their conference. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's a part of me that says, the Committee may
Speaker 2: surprise us because we've got people out here putting teams
Speaker 2: on the bubble, that you're only doing it based off
Speaker 2: the fact that their net and their quad one and
Speaker 2: quad two is what it is.
Speaker 3: There's really nothing else.
Speaker 2: And yes, that stuff matters, but it's not the end all,
Speaker 2: be all, and there have been times where the Committee
Speaker 2: will acknowledge, Yeah, the only reason we would even consider
Speaker 2: this team is because our flawed formula has them ranked
Speaker 2: in like the top thirty five or forty. We can
Speaker 2: use our brain and also understand that, like that's a
Speaker 2: flaw in the formula and they don't belong. Like there's
Speaker 2: some people like again Louisville, I don't even want to
Speaker 2: talk about their seed until they get past Stanford, because
Speaker 2: you lose to Stanford tonight, you're definitely an eight or worse.
Speaker 2: Like there's just no way around it. In my opinion.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm guessing like anybody else, but
Speaker 2: I think when you're seeing all these other teams, it's
Speaker 2: like it's like you're entering I'm gonna use a I'm
Speaker 2: gonna use a weird analogy here. So for Louisville, there
Speaker 2: when you look at the other teams that they're competing
Speaker 2: against for a seed line, you're talking about Creighton, Gonzaga.
Speaker 2: I meant Zaga is not a good example. But we'll
Speaker 2: use Creighton, Creighton and Yukon, We'll use Oklahoma, how about
Speaker 2: U C. L A, maybe even Illinois, Kansas b YU.
Speaker 2: Like that's who that's that's that's the neighborhood you're in
Speaker 2: right now. Seemingly when it comes to seed line and
Speaker 2: you're you know, let's say we're on a we're on
Speaker 2: a What's a Good Dating show? Where like they're like
Speaker 2: the Bachelor, yeah, or the Bachelorette. Like let's say, let's
Speaker 2: say the it's the the Bachelorette is when all the
Speaker 2: dudes are fighting for the lady. Right, Okay, so we're
Speaker 2: all we're all on the Bachelorette and we're all entering.
Speaker 3: Do they live in how I think they do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like some sort of house.
Speaker 2: So Louisville, those teams I mentioned, Louisville, Creighton, Yukon, Kansas, Illinois,
Speaker 2: throw Missouri in there, Arizona. We're all entering the house
Speaker 2: and we're getting ready to meet the bachelorette to make
Speaker 2: an impression. Okay, and we got to get ready and
Speaker 2: in the getting ready processes the conference tournaments.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Louisville, they're entering the house.
Speaker 2: They forgot their luggage, they got no they got no
Speaker 2: they got no good drip they got they got no
Speaker 2: good drip. They they don't even have anything to fix
Speaker 2: their hair. I can't relate.
Speaker 3: I don't have hair.
Speaker 2: But like they they're showing up and just hoping that
Speaker 2: just some good old fashioned charisma. Yeah, maybe a real
Speaker 2: charming a real charming smile.
Speaker 3: Someone that can make it lay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can make an impression because they've gotten not a
Speaker 2: lot to work with before selection Sunday. Selection Sundays when
Speaker 2: you make your first impression. We've got Kansas, Illinois, Yukon, Creighton,
Speaker 2: They've got they've got suits to choose from. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: they've got I mean they may even.
Speaker 3: A little a little look quick boatox. Right?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, men, go boatox, don't they. I mean, I
Speaker 2: haven't done it yet, but I'm not trust me. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm I'm vain enough to where if I need to
Speaker 2: do botox to look better, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're secure engineers or like designers or construction worker.
Speaker 2: That's that's the conference tournaments where you go to the
Speaker 2: sec man. You're picking your you're picking the best suits
Speaker 2: in the world because you got opportunities to get all
Speaker 2: dulled up, right, you got opportunities to get dapper, because
Speaker 2: that's what the conference tournament is. You get you know,
Speaker 2: you got a lot of room to grow and look good.
Speaker 2: You can enter selection Sunday. I mean you leave selection.
Speaker 2: If you leave the conference tournament. With two more quad
Speaker 2: one wins, you might as well be walking up to
Speaker 2: meet this this bachelorette with the nicest suit anybody could
Speaker 2: have ever found. Sure, with Louisville, they got nothing. They
Speaker 2: beat Clemson, that's that that. Honestly, I think it does,
Speaker 2: in fact clearly give them another good win. But because
Speaker 2: it's the same team, I could see the committee saying, Okay,
Speaker 2: we already knew you did that, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: we already knew you could do that.
Speaker 4: So your bad is basically saying, like Louisville's like when
Speaker 4: you're trying to set somebody also another set you up. References, well,
Speaker 4: like are they hot, Well they got a great personality.
Speaker 3: No, I think I think Louisll's hot. Right, Here's what
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 2: Louisville's hot, and they're intriguing because of how newly hot
Speaker 2: they are, right like damn like rich is ugly last year. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to hit follow here on Instagram because like
Speaker 2: something pop it off right now. So there's the intrigue there.
Speaker 2: But then they're like reminded. Yeah, I mean, but come on,
Speaker 2: you know, like Louisville was one eight games last year.
Speaker 3: He's just an interior designer.
Speaker 2: So I still stand by what I said for the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks that as much as we want
Speaker 2: to obsess and I'm obsessing over the numbers and the
Speaker 2: bracketology that's out there, the committee can is just gonna
Speaker 2: have to decide how they want of you Louisville, because
Speaker 2: you could look at Louisville as a team where you'd say, look,
Speaker 2: no bad loss, they won, we value winning.
Speaker 3: They're twenty six or twenty five and six, or they.
Speaker 2: Could say, yeah, but who they beat. Let's look at
Speaker 2: a team that's got double or more than double the
Speaker 2: losses Leisvelle has, but they also have two more wins
Speaker 2: of value like it. It's gonna come down to how
Speaker 2: they choose to view Louisville. So you know, the teams
Speaker 2: I mentioned aren't teams that Louisville. I mean, those are
Speaker 2: teams fighting to get in.
Speaker 3: But like.
Speaker 2: Here, I am gonna defend the ACC. I know Carolina
Speaker 2: has had a lot of misses against Quad one teams,
Speaker 2: but look at what I mean, Look at teams like Georgia,
Speaker 2: look at teams like I mean Texas. How's Texas being
Speaker 2: considered Ohio State shouldn't get in Indiana, if I'm being honest,
Speaker 2: shouldn't get in. But if they do, it's just gonna
Speaker 2: because the committee's gonna say, well, hey, we know they
Speaker 2: lose a lot. They showed us that, but like maybe
Speaker 2: they just lose a lot because they're in a good league.
Speaker 2: And yes, their league is a factor, but man, can
Speaker 2: we get back to.
Speaker 3: Call me old school?
Speaker 2: Winning and losing shouldn't matter more than it does. Quick
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Speaker 2: Here we go, hips moving in a way I didn't
Speaker 2: know possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were for me, they're still going.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's it's not even it's not even
Speaker 2: something I'm.
Speaker 3: Attempting to do. It's just it's just happening. It's happening.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what else is happening, or let me
Speaker 2: better say it, what's not happening. I'm not falling on
Speaker 2: the sword for the clock management here because that was
Speaker 2: an eight minute commercial break. That's why we have very
Speaker 2: little time left. I don't know clock. Oh yeah, with
Speaker 2: an l yep, Yep, that's right. So we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 2: I I mean, I don't want to just say goodbye
Speaker 2: as soon as we come back, but I think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to because I want to keep this thing on.
Speaker 2: Because here's what happens. If I take this up to
Speaker 2: four o'clock one, that gives me, I mean, it's less
Speaker 2: than two minutes now, so then we already start way late.
Speaker 2: So like, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna bail here,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna, you know, blame it on an eight
Speaker 2: minute commercial break, which I'm not sure how possible. That's
Speaker 2: one of those things that nobody looked at that. If
Speaker 2: you told anybody above us that's somebody created an eight
Speaker 2: minute commercial break, I mean, they wouldn't be in trouble,
Speaker 2: but they would say that was a mistake. Somebody overlooked that.
Speaker 2: So we'll make sure they're not that long. The rest
Speaker 2: of those show. Link is only good in certain instances.
Speaker 2: In fact, I honestly Link's overrated if I'm if I'm
Speaker 2: being honest myself, That's that's what I always say, right,
Speaker 2: That's what I always say. All right, quick break two
Speaker 2: hours left a lot more to get into it's game day.
Speaker 2: I'm fired up. Let's uh, let's have some fun.