Speaker 1: Now here's nick coffee.
Speaker 2: All right, five o'clock on a Friday, Let's do it.
Speaker 2: We've got a hell of a weekend coming up. I'm
Speaker 2: looking here. The college football playoff, of course, starts today
Speaker 2: Notre Dame in Indiana, and then we will have the
Speaker 2: other three games tomorrow. But there's no snow. I guess
Speaker 2: the snow melted they get did they clear it out?
Speaker 2: I mean I thought we were going to get a
Speaker 2: football game that had snow. I mean maybe. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm looking here, Rick Bose. It's just tweeted out of
Speaker 2: a picture about twenty minutes ago. In fact, he's got
Speaker 2: a video here too, because he is boots on the
Speaker 2: ground up there in South Bend covering this for WDRB.
Speaker 2: And there's no snow. I mean, there's like some snow
Speaker 2: you can see, like on the seats, but maybe it
Speaker 2: got warm enough to where it melts it or maybe
Speaker 2: they just got rid of it. But that I won't lie.
Speaker 2: That does sort of damp in a little bit of
Speaker 2: the of the hype for me. I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a great game, and I'm hoping Indiana can pull
Speaker 2: off the upset. But yeah, I was the picture that
Speaker 2: Notre Dame football Twitter account posted with the snowman were
Speaker 2: looking the stadium and the field that it just covered
Speaker 2: in snow. That was awesome to see, But it feels
Speaker 2: like years ago. Now. Yeah, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess it. I guess it melted because there's no
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what the actual temperature is.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm gonna look it up now because I'm
Speaker 2: very curious South Bend current temperature.
Speaker 3: I mean, when it was snow in earlier, it was
Speaker 3: freezing here, and I've noticed it's not as cold as
Speaker 3: it was, but it was wendy too, so.
Speaker 2: The highest thirty two. So maybe that just got it
Speaker 2: to I don't know, who knows, but either way should
Speaker 2: be a I mean, I hope it's a good game,
Speaker 2: and I'm hoping Indiana wins. But I think the Hoosiers,
Speaker 2: understandably so, are a tough team for a lot of
Speaker 2: people to figure out. But if you just now joined in,
Speaker 2: I just I think I talked about it in the
Speaker 2: four o'clock hour. I think if you were wanting and
Speaker 2: maybe you just don't want to, I don't know, but
Speaker 2: if you were wanting to believe Indiana could could could
Speaker 2: pull off an upset and get one win in this playoff.
Speaker 2: If you're somebody that wants to believe that Notre Dames
Speaker 2: of fraud, and you hope they get embarrassed, because anytime
Speaker 2: they make any playoff championship, two team, four team, twelve team,
Speaker 2: they get embarrassed. I just feel like the Indiana is
Speaker 2: the kind of team you could believe that would do
Speaker 2: it in Indiana. You know, regardless if they lose tonight,
Speaker 2: they still were a good team this year. And I
Speaker 2: hate that for Indiana fans because they truly could lose
Speaker 2: tonight in a close game and have no win. We're
Speaker 2: speaking of as far as, like you know, resume signature
Speaker 2: a team that you beat that other people think is good.
Speaker 2: But it still wouldn't take away the fact that they
Speaker 2: just would have gone eleven and two and you know,
Speaker 2: one of the best seasons they'll ever have. I mean,
Speaker 2: like I would hate that. You know, I guess more
Speaker 2: than you can't control the people are gonna say what
Speaker 2: they're gonna say, you have literally no control over it.
Speaker 2: But I know a win here against Notre Dame would
Speaker 2: would actually solidify the Hoosiers to a lot of people
Speaker 2: and you know, people can act like they don't care
Speaker 2: about that kind of stuff, but you do, right. I mean,
Speaker 2: like the same people who who try to like get
Speaker 2: their fan base to really embrace us against the world,
Speaker 2: We don't care what anybody thinks, when I know you
Speaker 2: do care, Like that's why you're saying us against the world,
Speaker 2: because you think everybody's out to get you, and really
Speaker 2: they don't. They're not that worried about you. But anyways,
Speaker 2: we'll get back into these matchups this weekend coming up shortly.
Speaker 2: I do want to once again give props to Danny
Speaker 2: buspom Kelly and the Louisville volleyball team as they have
Speaker 2: advanced to the national championship game and the way that
Speaker 2: thing played out last night was awesome. I mean it was.
Speaker 2: Volleyball itself has become so awesome to watch on TV.
Speaker 2: I don't seek it out, but if it's on, I'll
Speaker 2: find myself locked in. And of course when Louisville volleyball
Speaker 2: is in a big match with a really good team
Speaker 2: like you know, the postseason, like they've been, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's something that even if I'm not in front
Speaker 2: of a TV like I had it on my phone
Speaker 2: last night watching at the dinner table with my wife.
Speaker 2: She was a volleyball player herself in high school, so
Speaker 2: we were watching and it was exciting. But then once
Speaker 2: we left to leave dinner to go to put shak,
Speaker 2: which was a lot of fun. By the way, we
Speaker 2: had it or they had it on the TV as
Speaker 2: soon as we got there, and I was following and
Speaker 2: you know, keeping up with it throughout. But when I
Speaker 2: left the restaurant, it was like, yeah, you know this
Speaker 2: this man. I didn't well be because Pittsburgh's already beat
Speaker 2: you twice. They're really really good. Of the number one
Speaker 2: overall seed in the country for a reason, and they
Speaker 2: were playing really well. But then man Louisville caught a
Speaker 2: run and ran away with it. I mean just really
Speaker 2: just kind of took over and it was it was
Speaker 2: awesome to see. We also played some sound earlier. If
Speaker 2: you missed it, you can check out on the podcast
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey talking about just you know, not only given
Speaker 2: props and praise to Danny buspom Kelly in the volleyball program,
Speaker 2: but I mean he's become like a super fan and
Speaker 2: you know, you could tell it's genuine that's not just
Speaker 2: somebody who wanted to come to a press conference and
Speaker 2: say congrats ladies, best of luck to you. Go get it.
Speaker 2: He was breaking down the game and think trying to
Speaker 2: think of nicknames for players, and just really really good
Speaker 2: stuff to see from you know when it and I
Speaker 2: also talked about this a little bit earlier as well.
Speaker 2: When you have your coaches on campus all supporting one another,
Speaker 2: kind of sharing good positive energy, that doesn't mean anything
Speaker 2: when it comes to like winning, like you got to win,
Speaker 2: and this won't correlate to like I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: it could be healthy for your program, but it certainly
Speaker 2: can only help you when it comes to like your
Speaker 2: fans and your your base, right when they see other
Speaker 2: coaches supporting other programs within the university. Uh, and it's legit,
Speaker 2: it's genuine, like that's that's what you want, all right. Uh,
Speaker 2: let's see, I want to go to text line by
Speaker 2: way two six five three zero seven ninety is the
Speaker 2: number if you guys would like to would like to
Speaker 2: text in. And I didn't plan to go back here,
Speaker 2: but here we are, so I don't even remember how
Speaker 2: it got started. Oh yeah, I was talking about my
Speaker 2: wife because she's prepared she's prepared the home today because
Speaker 2: we are we are hosting a Christmas event tonight with
Speaker 2: her side of the family, my in laws looking forward
Speaker 2: to having them. And you know, she took the day
Speaker 2: off work and she's been cleaning the house, mopping the floors,
Speaker 2: I mean, making sure the house is in as best
Speaker 2: shape as possible. And I was just kind of saying,
Speaker 2: you know, I was kind of saying, how whenever she's
Speaker 2: in that mode, I just try to stay out of
Speaker 2: her way, because you know, she's it's a very serious
Speaker 2: thing for her. I feel like if I'm near her
Speaker 2: and she's cleaning up something that she feels like is
Speaker 2: dirty because of me, Like you know, then you know,
Speaker 2: maybe the twoilet seed or something like that, or like
Speaker 2: when I leave my beer cans in the shower, like
Speaker 2: you know, she I just don't want to be near
Speaker 2: her where she can either hit me or you know,
Speaker 2: yell at me, because you know, she's right, I shouldn't
Speaker 2: leave beer cans in the shower. But what you know,
Speaker 2: I'm a man.
Speaker 3: I guess the gut to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So she just gets in her zone. And I
Speaker 2: was telling, you know, it's telling. I was just talking
Speaker 2: about how you know, I stay out of her way,
Speaker 2: and you know, she's great, she's she's awesome. And somebody
Speaker 2: texted in and said, hey, Nick, can you help me
Speaker 2: help me out with this? I called my wife a
Speaker 2: trophy wife and she hit me upside the head and
Speaker 2: I thought I was giving her a compliment. And I
Speaker 2: think she thinks I insulted her. And he wanted me to, like,
Speaker 2: I guess say he won, but I had to, you know,
Speaker 2: trust the good old fashioned Google machine. And apparently trophy
Speaker 2: wife is a it is seen as something that can
Speaker 2: be viewed as here's what it says. A trophy wife
Speaker 2: as a wife who is seen as a status symbol
Speaker 2: for her husband, often in a derogatory way. Well, we
Speaker 2: have a woman who has texted him and said, I
Speaker 2: think you got it right. I wouldn't necessarily say derogatory,
Speaker 2: but if my husband referred to me as his trophy wife,
Speaker 2: I would assume he's referring to me as his possession
Speaker 2: and not really valuing me as a human being. Well,
Speaker 2: I hear you. I mean I've learned about this today
Speaker 2: because I don't I don't use that phray. I've never
Speaker 2: called my wife my trophy wife. I've never thought about it,
Speaker 2: but if I did, I would think I was being
Speaker 2: nice and here I would be acting like my wife
Speaker 2: is my possession and not a human being that you
Speaker 2: know has feelings and you know I love. How about
Speaker 2: don't say we don't help you out on here, fel
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe you guys all realize it's not something
Speaker 2: you should you should say to your wife, and and
Speaker 2: we're the ones learning on the fly here that you
Speaker 2: know we don't that we shouldn't say that. But are
Speaker 2: you with me? I mean, Austin, did you ever if
Speaker 2: you heard somebody refer to a woman as a trophy wife,
Speaker 2: or a husband refer to his wife as a trophy wife,
Speaker 2: would you have thought that that meant like would you
Speaker 2: have thought that it was derogatory?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I mean, now hearing like the actual definition of it,
Speaker 3: I can't understand.
Speaker 2: I thought I knew the definition, but I didn't.
Speaker 3: I just I just always kind of thought, maybe that's
Speaker 3: because I'm not smart anyways, But you're just calling like
Speaker 3: your wife a trophy, like trophies are good, yeah, nice
Speaker 3: and shiny, something that I want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something that everybody wanted but you got.
Speaker 3: But I guess it's something that they probably. I guess
Speaker 3: under that context, it's like someone that you you show
Speaker 3: off and that is just for you to like, I
Speaker 3: don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess maybe it can be viewed as like you're
Speaker 2: you're it's only for the looks, but at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, like it's still a compliment, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like you can be a trophy because
Speaker 2: I think you're hot and you're awesome and I love
Speaker 2: showing you off. But like it doesn't mean I don't
Speaker 2: value you and your feelings and you as a human.
Speaker 2: I mean, like attraction is is is at least a component.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's a major component when it comes to
Speaker 2: a lot of relationships. As we continue this this uh
Speaker 2: romantic you know, dating type show, which is not really
Speaker 2: what we're trying to do. But here we are Austin.
Speaker 2: You got you, you got engaged with the weekend. You
Speaker 2: asked the question. She said, yes, we congratulated you. Did
Speaker 2: you ever have any any like was there ever a
Speaker 2: moment where you who were worried like what She'd say, No,
Speaker 2: not when you bought the ring and knew you were
Speaker 2: doing it. You thought there was no scenario, she'd say, no,
Speaker 2: correct yes.
Speaker 3: I think I was more worried that she might not
Speaker 3: think that the timing and everything the surrounding was as
Speaker 3: romantic and everything that she wanted.
Speaker 1: It to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the reason I ask is because once I
Speaker 2: saw your big news, I was thinking, I like, there's
Speaker 2: no like I was gonna say, like she said yes, congrats.
Speaker 2: But then I thought, like a lot of people still
Speaker 2: say that, like she said yes. I mean, technically she
Speaker 2: does have to say yes. Yeah. But I think like
Speaker 2: now this day and age, ninety nine percent of men
Speaker 2: at any age that are proposing drop into the knee.
Speaker 2: They've bought the ring. They're doing it because they one
Speaker 2: know she's gonna say yes and wants to get married,
Speaker 2: or maybe they've been pressured to propose for a while.
Speaker 2: Not saying either of those things were your situation, but like,
Speaker 2: I don't know a guy that has ever been told
Speaker 2: no when proposing. I know it's happened, and I really
Speaker 2: can't envision. I just feel like you'd have to have
Speaker 2: like a I don't know, like I feel like you
Speaker 2: have a really bad read on your partner if you
Speaker 2: were proposing and they say no right exactly.
Speaker 3: You know, I've seen the videos as someone proposing at
Speaker 3: like I guess not so ideal situations like at games
Speaker 3: and stuff, and then the girls sitting there going like no, no,
Speaker 3: like get off your knee and stuff like that. But
Speaker 3: I'd never ran into or experienced being friends with anybody
Speaker 3: that has like got down on one knee and was
Speaker 3: ready to risk that moment and them just be like no,
Speaker 3: not right now. I know that would be pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 2: I've gotten I know people who've gotten engaged and then
Speaker 2: the wedding was off. Yes, that and that can be
Speaker 2: a variety of things, obviously, but maybe like maybe the girl,
Speaker 2: because I think this is there's a better chance the
Speaker 2: girl says yes and then like then she tries to
Speaker 2: figure out how she can get out of it than
Speaker 2: her telling you if it would take a lot to
Speaker 2: tell me if you're just being honest, you're being honest. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But if somebody's on one knee and they're asking you
Speaker 2: to to to marry, I mean, I know, I know,
Speaker 2: I know girls who have said yes to like I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't mean in high school, I knew a few
Speaker 2: girls that that I'm pretty sure they said yes to
Speaker 2: their prom day because they didn't have the hard to
Speaker 2: say no they didn't really want to go with them.
Speaker 2: They were like dating. I mean, if you can't say
Speaker 2: no to a prom date because you feel like they
Speaker 2: would let them down, imagine. I mean again, marriage is
Speaker 2: much bit different and much bigger than going to prom.
Speaker 2: But I feel like it would just be hard to
Speaker 2: tell somebody no. But hey, if you're being honest, at least.
Speaker 3: You're you know.
Speaker 2: And I also feel like if you've proposed once and
Speaker 2: they still want to be with you but they don't
Speaker 2: want to get married, or they just say they don't
Speaker 2: want to get married yet, like you ain't going back
Speaker 2: on one knee again, right, Like you can't take it
Speaker 2: imentually taking it twice, that would be really really it'd
Speaker 2: be really, really tough. I think for most dudes, when
Speaker 2: you think about proposing, you think about how can I
Speaker 2: pull off the proposal the best way. It's not about
Speaker 2: the worry of yes or no. It's like, well, she
Speaker 2: think this was a sweet way? Will she be surprised
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff? Was your fiance?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Was she surprised? Yes, she was? She was.
Speaker 3: I think she had She told me she had an
Speaker 3: idea was going to be that weekend either that or
Speaker 3: was going to be on Christmas morning, And to be honest,
Speaker 3: I never even thought about the Christmas morning thing. I
Speaker 3: think that would have been cool too, but the area
Speaker 3: that we were at was a little bit more romantic,
Speaker 3: and obviously we had a person there to like help
Speaker 3: kind of like record it coordinated. Yeah, I had had
Speaker 3: to smarten the guy up.
Speaker 2: Well, congratulations once again. Did you tell your family ahead
Speaker 2: of time?
Speaker 3: I told h Well, my dad kind of helped me
Speaker 3: co sign for the ring, so I had to get
Speaker 3: a loan.
Speaker 2: For the ring. He knew, he knew.
Speaker 3: He told me sadly not to tell my mom because
Speaker 3: my mom would have overthought and freaked out. He thought
Speaker 3: that she would have said something like said something to
Speaker 3: her and spoiled the surprise. And so I told my
Speaker 3: mom the day before. And I don't know if this
Speaker 3: is still a thing, dude, Like, do people still ask
Speaker 3: like the father for permission? Did you have to do that?
Speaker 2: So I don't know if it's still a thing. I
Speaker 2: don't know that I had to. I don't believe my
Speaker 2: father in law would have thought anything of it if
Speaker 2: I didn't, but I but I did just and just
Speaker 2: told him and and it was pretty straightforward, and that's
Speaker 2: what it was. I feel like, man for for if
Speaker 2: that's still a thing, which I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 2: it's not. If that's still a thing, I can see
Speaker 2: that being a you know, maybe not like something you're
Speaker 2: worried is gonna say no. I would imagine if you're
Speaker 2: going to propose to a woman and you feel like
Speaker 2: she's gonna say yes, and you probably have somewhat of
Speaker 2: a relationship with her father, it's probably not going to
Speaker 2: be totally surprised. But like, that's that's a that's more
Speaker 2: of a nerve wrecking thing for me than anything else.
Speaker 2: I sure not about is she gonna say yes or no?
Speaker 2: But like what's what's her dad gonna say?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know if it's if it's when
Speaker 2: my sister, When my sister was proposed to uh, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure the first thing she said was not yes
Speaker 2: or no, but did you ask my dad? And that's
Speaker 2: such a her thing. But I kind of again, I
Speaker 2: don't know a lot of people that have gotten married recently,
Speaker 2: and the people that I do know that have been
Speaker 2: married somewhat recently, they've been together a really long time.
Speaker 2: So like it could be more of a formal like actually,
Speaker 2: it could be more of a formal like I'm not asking,
Speaker 2: but I'm telling you. You know what I mean, right, because
Speaker 2: like when you're when you're very very much grow like
Speaker 2: when you're you're in your thirties, like you don't need permission. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So again it's more of a formality of like letting
Speaker 2: you know, no baby dad said no. Sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, like maybe next time we didn't clean room.
Speaker 2: Maybe if you really really like I want to be
Speaker 2: with a woman, but you don't want to make that commitment,
Speaker 2: maybe you can just like get on her dad's bad
Speaker 2: side and just blame it all on him like I
Speaker 2: would ask you, but you know, could be cool with it.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's the easy way out. Guys. If you're in one
Speaker 3: of those relationships where you're kind of finding it hard
Speaker 3: to break off, just piss off their dad and then
Speaker 3: try to ask them can I marry camera.
Speaker 2: That'll speed up the process to end it. I believe,
Speaker 2: I really do, really organic all right. Uh so, before
Speaker 2: we get back into the college football playof stuff, which
Speaker 2: I want to talk about these matchups in our final
Speaker 2: segment coming up here. On the other side. We are
Speaker 2: going to be a little bit earlier today, uh, because
Speaker 2: we've got I think some women's basketball coming up. But
Speaker 2: when it comes to Louisville basketball tomorrow, a couple of
Speaker 2: people have asked about tray Ora if he's gonna play.
Speaker 2: I think Pat Kelsey actually might have said word for
Speaker 2: word that he knows tray Orra is not playing against
Speaker 2: Florida State tomorrow. But I wouldn't be shocked if he's
Speaker 2: back against North Carolina. I think that there's a real
Speaker 2: possibility that could happen, maybe even Eku, which I think
Speaker 2: that game is before Carolina. I think it is. Let
Speaker 2: me double check here, Yeah, you play. So you got
Speaker 2: two straight weeks with no games during the week obviously
Speaker 2: I had the week off this week, and then they
Speaker 2: will not play again until next Saturday when they do
Speaker 2: play Eku. So maybe that's when he is back. And
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried that that. Well, honey, people probably
Speaker 2: don't even have that high of an opinion on on
Speaker 2: trail Ray because he was one of the bigger names
Speaker 2: you heard about that did decide to transfer here to Louisville.
Speaker 2: He wasn't you know, the level of a prior or
Speaker 2: a chucky Hepburn or even a korin Johnson. He's a
Speaker 2: nice piece. I was always really high on him, and
Speaker 2: he did not necessarily live up to that in the
Speaker 2: first couple of games we saw. So what I was
Speaker 2: getting ready to say is I'm worry about like maybe
Speaker 2: I'm maybe I'm hyping him up too much, but I
Speaker 2: just I just think a guy that you know can
Speaker 2: defend and that you know can rebound and is another
Speaker 2: body like that alone is going to help you. Now
Speaker 2: how much it's going to help you, I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but like anything you get from him is better than
Speaker 2: which is a good thing because he's not been available
Speaker 2: and you are very very thin. So I'm kind of
Speaker 2: I'm kind of cautiously optimistic that this guy could really
Speaker 2: change some things for you because he's in If you
Speaker 2: go back and look at his stats at Long Beach State,
Speaker 2: I mean, he was kind of a jack of all trades,
Speaker 2: a guy who really stuffed the stat sheet, but he
Speaker 2: made his biggest impact doing everything but scoring. However he
Speaker 2: did he did actually score. I mean, he was a
Speaker 2: guy that I mean, and I'm trying to pull up
Speaker 2: his stats here, but at Long Beach State, cater Treo
Speaker 2: ra Here's his stat line what he averaged, because it's
Speaker 2: really a rare stat line. Twelve points, eight and a
Speaker 2: half rebounds, in four and a half assists. He also
Speaker 2: had a triple double in two games last season. And
Speaker 2: this is a six foot four five forward. Like I
Speaker 2: don't I wouldn't call him a guard, but then again,
Speaker 2: like I also don't really know if i'd call him
Speaker 2: a big man, Like I guess he's just a true tweener.
Speaker 2: But he's not a shooter, so he's not really gonna
Speaker 2: help you out there. But one of the best things
Speaker 2: about him is that he knows who he is as
Speaker 2: a player, Like he's not out there trying to do
Speaker 2: something that is without that is outside of his game.
Speaker 2: And he's also not going to jack up a lot
Speaker 2: of threes, which I think now is a good thing
Speaker 2: because one, he's not a great shooter. And I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, we can all I think we can all
Speaker 2: agree they at times, they've been they've been too trigger
Speaker 2: happy with a three, despite Pat Kelsey wanting that to
Speaker 2: be really what they do and a big part of
Speaker 2: their their identity. At times he can just get a
Speaker 2: little you know, we've all you know, we watched this team.
Speaker 2: We know at times when when we see them shoot
Speaker 2: thirty plus three is a game we're thinking abou ourselves,
Speaker 2: like Jesus, we get it. But you don't have to
Speaker 2: fire it up as much as you are so you know,
Speaker 2: rebounding in defense, that stuff matters. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to his assists, I mean four and a half is
Speaker 2: not like super impressive, But I actually feel like because
Speaker 2: like if they do trust that that ability from him
Speaker 2: as far as being a distributor, I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: at all if when you get into the half court
Speaker 2: and you know, you are trying to figure out what
Speaker 2: formula you have to get you a decent look, Like
Speaker 2: what can you do? Like things we've seen recently, they've
Speaker 2: they've run some direct sets for rain Smith. They let
Speaker 2: Chucky kind of, you know, pick his spots and isolate
Speaker 2: when he can, and that works at times. Terrence Edwards
Speaker 2: Junior're coming off the pick and roll really kind of
Speaker 2: figuring out, you know, you know, picking his spots as well.
Speaker 2: If Trey or can be a guy that can distribute
Speaker 2: in the half court and you know, make life a
Speaker 2: little easier for guys like Noah Waterman and Javon Hadley,
Speaker 2: or maybe he finds rain Smith in the corner for
Speaker 2: a three. I mean again, I'm cautiously optimistic that Louisville
Speaker 2: will become not a substantially better team, and it may
Speaker 2: not even show up in the points department. But I
Speaker 2: think this guy can help. And you know he's not
Speaker 2: gonna be back tomorrow, it sounds like, but soon. And
Speaker 2: you know that can help this team. Now, how much
Speaker 2: we'll have to see quick break, we'll come back on
Speaker 2: the other side. We'll tell you what the payouts are
Speaker 2: as far as what the monetary value is to be
Speaker 2: being in this college football playoff. Stick around right here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: us as we we usually take you till six o'clock.
Speaker 2: We've hat it. We don't have that much time this
Speaker 2: time around, though, so we'll make the most of what
Speaker 2: we have. When it comes to tonight'skin, We've talked about
Speaker 2: this one. I think Indiana's got a chance to not
Speaker 2: just cover, but maybe win. We'll see. Maybe I'm way
Speaker 2: off and maybe the Hoosiers get humbled here. But the
Speaker 2: rest of the games, I'm starting to sense that Tennessee
Speaker 2: is becoming like a trendy upset pick. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's if that's just because people think that Ohio
Speaker 2: State is that checked out, but I mean, you got
Speaker 2: to keep in mind that would be I mean, that
Speaker 2: would be disastrous for Ryan Day. I mean, it's already
Speaker 2: been kind of a disastrous season in a weird way
Speaker 2: for him, just because of what was invested in the roster,
Speaker 2: and and they had been getting beat by Michigan and
Speaker 2: then Harball leaves, Michigan takes a big step back, and
Speaker 2: yet they still beat you. So I have a hard
Speaker 2: time seeing that happen. And honestly, more than anything, it's
Speaker 2: because Tennessee's one of those teams that I think is
Speaker 2: pretty good, but I'm not sure how good. You know.
Speaker 2: I think they're clearly a talented team. They've got a
Speaker 2: high powered offense, but well, the hopewed offense didn't really
Speaker 2: deliver as much this year as I think they were
Speaker 2: expecting under Josh Hypel. But I just have a hard
Speaker 2: time seeing that actually being a win for Tennessee. But
Speaker 2: maybe I'm wrong. And then Texas and Clemson. You know,
Speaker 2: Texas is believed to be like loaded with talent and
Speaker 2: they're in the playoff with you know, a good seed
Speaker 2: because you know they're good, but they're one of those
Speaker 2: teams where they also just because of how the schedules
Speaker 2: set up, you know, there's no loss that says that
Speaker 2: they're bad. I mean, they lost to Georgia twice, that
Speaker 2: was it, but they also didn't end up really playing anybody.
Speaker 2: That like was a statement. So in a weird way,
Speaker 2: we're kind of gonna get it. We're kind of geting.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get a chance to see just how like
Speaker 2: is Texas real or not because they even't had the
Speaker 2: opportunity to play a team like Clemson this year. I mean, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Clemson took a step
Speaker 2: back this year and really only got in because they
Speaker 2: won their way in and they're they're the last seed
Speaker 2: in this whole thing. But yeah, I I don't I
Speaker 2: don't think Clemson will win. But I'm also kind of
Speaker 2: shocked at the spreads. As big as it is because
Speaker 2: I just don't think you know, to me, Texas is good,
Speaker 2: but I think Dabble can cover twelve and a half.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe I'm wrong. And then the SMU Penn
Speaker 2: State game, that would is it me or has this
Speaker 2: been the game Austin that like people have talked about
Speaker 2: the least, the only thing people have mentioned that they
Speaker 2: might not sell out, Like this game has no juice
Speaker 2: at all. It's the noon game tomorrow. And I mean,
Speaker 2: probably not a good thing to be saying about a
Speaker 2: lot of these teams here, because there's nothing that says
Speaker 2: they're bad. And but but Penn State, Texas, and Indiana
Speaker 2: I think are all a SMU. They're all teams that
Speaker 2: you really can't like they beat the teams they were
Speaker 2: supposed to beat, and the teams that they lost to
Speaker 2: were all like understandable losses that didn't really put a
Speaker 2: put a stain on their resume. I do this all
Speaker 2: the time. I mean, there are there are many records
Speaker 2: in college because you only play twelve regular season games, like,
Speaker 2: there are so many instances, in so many ways, you
Speaker 2: can end up at the end of the year really
Speaker 2: not knowing if you're very good or not. And I would,
Speaker 2: and I hate that, you know, I want to know
Speaker 2: every week where my team stands. And all these teams,
Speaker 2: there's not a single one of the twelve that I
Speaker 2: think are frauds and like they're not any good, but
Speaker 2: there are you know, there are some that if you've
Speaker 2: got haters and doubters of a few of these teams,
Speaker 2: they certainly have I guess, you know, maybe not evidence
Speaker 2: that proves one way or the other, but it certainly
Speaker 2: leaves it open for doubt if a team is like
Speaker 2: as good as advertised. And maybe I'm just basing it
Speaker 2: off of the most recent performance from Texas, but man,
Speaker 2: that SEC Championship game between those two teams, I mean,
Speaker 2: it was lousy, like it well it was. It was
Speaker 2: not a good game at all. And that doesn't mean
Speaker 2: because it wasn't It wasn't like super entertaining that the
Speaker 2: teams aren't good, but like it just looked like two
Speaker 2: decent teams out there. And I know that's not the case,
Speaker 2: but like, if you didn't know that you were watching
Speaker 2: the SEC Championship game and you were just watching those
Speaker 2: two teams play, I don't think it would have been
Speaker 2: a good look for either of them. But again, maybe
Speaker 2: that was maybe that was an outlier. All right, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to to to well. I was gonna check and
Speaker 2: see if we've had If we don't have enough time
Speaker 2: to get into what I wanted to get into, but
Speaker 2: I will. I will use the little time we have
Speaker 2: to just give you another example of how you can
Speaker 2: clearly tell the Kentucky football fan base really hates their
Speaker 2: coach and they are not happy with everything. So check
Speaker 2: this out. Austin, the UK Athletics twitter account tweeted this
Speaker 2: out bb In, thank you for joining us at Krogerfield
Speaker 2: this past season. This is a reminder to please clean
Speaker 2: up tailgate areas by this weekend. Season long tailgaters, please
Speaker 2: clean up areas and remove tents. If not removed by
Speaker 2: this weekend, leftover items will be subject to removal. Which
Speaker 2: I don't think that's like a crazy thing to put
Speaker 2: out there, but it is a sign of not reading
Speaker 2: the room. Let me give you some of the responses here.
Speaker 2: I don't tailgate, but this is a reminder to polase
Speaker 2: fire the underachieving, underachieving head football coach and hire someone
Speaker 2: who cares to win for this home crowd. This says,
Speaker 2: read the room, guys should probably just clean it up
Speaker 2: and hope somebody shows up next season. Will I will,
Speaker 2: if Mark will? Can we clean up the coaching staff
Speaker 2: as well? How do you claim a season long tailgate?
Speaker 2: You have such strict rules for tailgating along. I should
Speaker 2: have read that one ahead of time that was going
Speaker 2: to go in the direction I can't go. This says,
Speaker 2: this is a reminder to get a coach who wins
Speaker 2: football games. I mean auction the trailers that are left
Speaker 2: to fund nil and Stoops's buyouts, like they hate their
Speaker 2: football program right now, and I'm kind of enjoying that.
Speaker 2: But anyways, any big plans for you this weekend other
Speaker 2: than just enjoying all the sports we're gonna have.
Speaker 3: Yep, we're gonna do that. And then any Christmas events
Speaker 3: I just said, we might go. I forget what the
Speaker 3: places called, but it's out there in like Paris Town
Speaker 3: or like that that like you walk.
Speaker 2: It, yeah, Paristown Hall area where they've got like the
Speaker 2: ice skating stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, No, it's it's something else. Maybe I'm thinking
Speaker 3: off of like River Road. It's it's like a hole
Speaker 3: lit up like guard yeah yeah, oh yeahard or something.
Speaker 2: I looked at it. I looked at it yesterday because
Speaker 2: we were gonna go and they weren't. They they're only
Speaker 2: open on the weekends. But yes, I know exactly what
Speaker 2: you're talking about. It looks beautiful and there's no better
Speaker 2: time to do it because Christmas is almost here, right.
Speaker 3: That's right. And I'm going Sunday Vikings, Vikings and Seahawks.
Speaker 2: I'm going to Girsels.
Speaker 3: It's a big Vikings bar and they're actually having some
Speaker 3: guys from U some people from the Minnesota Vikings like
Speaker 3: organization down there, and some cheerleaders because they're going out
Speaker 3: to I guess they send people out to scout some
Speaker 3: of the bars and stuff, and they should be doing
Speaker 3: some stuff, so it should be funny at the reserve
Speaker 3: tables so.
Speaker 2: They figure out, like in different cities, which place is
Speaker 2: like the watch spot. That's right, Yeah, yeah, that's really cool,
Speaker 2: good stuff. All right, We'll have a good weekend. Everybody
Speaker 2: enjoy it, and we'll be back at it on Monday
Speaker 2: right here on Sports Talk seven ninety
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