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Speaker 2: hanging out with us. As you could expect. We've talked
Speaker 2: a lot about last night's big win for Louisville, big
Speaker 2: meeting the margin. They didn't have much trouble with cal
Speaker 2: and usually these are games that you know would just
Speaker 2: be not really I was about to say a waste
Speaker 2: of time. That would be terrible because it's not that,
Speaker 2: but you know, just doing what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 2: beating bad teams that used to just be so routine
Speaker 2: for Louisville hoops. And then obviously, you know, the last
Speaker 2: few years happened and it was routine to just get
Speaker 2: embarrassed nightly. But clearly a different world we are in
Speaker 2: now with Pat Kelsey. So one went away from making
Speaker 2: it a seventeen game turnaround in the regular season and uh,
Speaker 2: finishing eighteen and two in the ACC. And yes, the
Speaker 2: ACC is down, but and I wish it wasn't. So
Speaker 2: I don't want to say, I don't care, but it
Speaker 2: has not kept me or other Louisville fans from enjoying
Speaker 2: what a fun ride it's been so far. The revival,
Speaker 2: as Pat Kelsey says, is happening, and it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: It's time to welcome in a beautiful man. His name
Speaker 2: is Dan Kobe. He's a friend of mine. He is
Speaker 2: formerly of Woky and now he's nice, making move, nice,
Speaker 2: making television, making a show.
Speaker 3: He's living his life. Dan, how are we doing, brother?
Speaker 3: Good to hear from you?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm doing great now. I mean, typically the only
Speaker 4: person who tells me I'm beautiful is my wife. But
Speaker 4: I am happily going to take that compliment from you
Speaker 4: because it takes one to know one.
Speaker 3: Exactly, and and you know she should just know that.
Speaker 2: I you know, I'm sure you guys have known each
Speaker 2: other a long time. I know, you know you've got married,
Speaker 2: you have you your father and all that. But before that,
Speaker 2: I was around Dan Kube, so you know, I was
Speaker 2: kind of an I don't know if she if she
Speaker 2: knew you before I did. I don't know how deep
Speaker 2: Urol's relationship goes, but I'll always be able to call
Speaker 2: you my beautiful friend. And I know you've got a
Speaker 2: beautiful family now, and I'm happy that you're doing your thing.
Speaker 2: So since leaving TV, you've you've had a couple of
Speaker 2: different gigs, and I know you are involved in a
Speaker 2: project right now that a lot of folks around here
Speaker 2: locally have been talking about today, Sportstown. It'll premiere soon
Speaker 2: where essentially, you guys go out and you try to
Speaker 2: find the best sports towns there are in America and
Speaker 2: you give us behind the scenes looks as far as
Speaker 2: what makes these towns awesome before we kind of talk
Speaker 2: about the project itself. I want to know how this
Speaker 2: all came about, because I can tell you're super excited
Speaker 2: about it. I can tell you've got a great team
Speaker 2: working with you. The production quality of what you guys
Speaker 2: are doing is insane. So did when did the when
Speaker 2: did the light bulb go off to say, Hey, let's
Speaker 2: let's try to make this happen.
Speaker 4: About fifteen years ago in Kyley?
Speaker 3: That's awesome?
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, first and foremost, Sportstown. Our first episode is
Speaker 4: out right now, So if you head to our YouTube
Speaker 4: page Sportstown Show, you can watch it full.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, the origins of Sportstown go back to what I
Speaker 4: was in college. Actually, Nick, two or three of my
Speaker 4: producing partners and I went to Temple University. We did
Speaker 4: like the university's version of the news, and two of
Speaker 4: those guys ended up going on to open their own
Speaker 4: production company, and then I myself, of course, to TV.
Speaker 4: And then you know, our fourth guy is an ACE editor,
Speaker 4: so excuse me. So we kind of had all the
Speaker 4: pieces in place, it just kind of took a little
Speaker 4: while for us to sort of ramp up our abilities
Speaker 4: in order to do the show. But yeah, we've had
Speaker 4: this idea for a really long time. We've just been
Speaker 4: obsessed with like this question of you know what town
Speaker 4: does sports better than all the rest, and the only
Speaker 4: way to really figure it out is to get out
Speaker 4: there and go do it. So Sportstown is truly the
Speaker 4: search for America's best sports city. And we couldn't start
Speaker 4: the search anywhere else but Kentucky. We had to start
Speaker 4: in Kentucky because I'm the executive producer, one of a few,
Speaker 4: and I made that decision. So we came to Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So it features Lexington, which I'm looking forward to. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was already out now I'm gonna definitely
Speaker 2: check it out, and it looks it looks phenomenal. Again,
Speaker 2: this is something that you can watch on YouTube and
Speaker 2: maybe it ends up elsewhere at some point, But I mean,
Speaker 2: like this, the quality of this is phenomenal, and I'm
Speaker 2: a nerd for that kind of stuff. So like the
Speaker 2: every little detail about what you guys are doing, I
Speaker 2: mean this is you could just hand this off to
Speaker 2: Netflix if you wanted, and they wouldn't have to do
Speaker 2: much work to.
Speaker 3: It at all.
Speaker 2: But in this format sports talk radio, I've only I've
Speaker 2: born and raced here, lived in louis of my whole life.
Speaker 3: You know that about me?
Speaker 2: So like I've been to other towns and I've talked
Speaker 2: about you know that's that's a good sports town, or
Speaker 2: you know that's that's a sports town that doesn't get
Speaker 2: enough credit. You you've traveled a lot, man, You've you've
Speaker 2: you know, your temple made as as you used to
Speaker 2: let us know quite a bit. And you're from Philly,
Speaker 2: but you've worked in different markets. Of course, you spent
Speaker 2: some time here in Louisville. You've traveled a lot for
Speaker 2: your job covering sports in other markets that maybe you
Speaker 2: didn't work. Do you feel like your experience in your
Speaker 2: career has kind of given you, uh, you know, a
Speaker 2: good feel for kind of which which towns you know
Speaker 2: right away you want to go profile.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a really good point, Nick, It's true too.
Speaker 4: I mean I spent a lot of time covering NFL teams.
Speaker 4: I worked in Green Bay, Wisconsin, I worked in Philly,
Speaker 4: I worked in New York in addition to working in Louisville.
Speaker 4: It just kind of gave me a really well rounded
Speaker 4: opinion of what makes a really great sports town. And
Speaker 4: it's kind of the accumulation of a lot of things, right,
Speaker 4: It's not just does your team win? It kind of
Speaker 4: comes down to, like how woven into the fabric of
Speaker 4: your community is your team. And Louisville and Lexington, where
Speaker 4: the first episode is based, I'm just great examples of that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Like, you know, you walk around town, everyone's in red
Speaker 4: and everyone's in blue. The culture like it is, it
Speaker 4: is the culture, But it's so much more than that too, man,
Speaker 4: Like the show is all about what do you do
Speaker 4: to fill the time when you're not at the stadium? Right?
Speaker 4: Like where are the twenty four, forty eight, seventy two
Speaker 4: hours that you're going to fill that time with if
Speaker 4: you are making the time investment to go to one
Speaker 4: of these cities. So we are curating the perfect sports
Speaker 4: weekend for you. So in the example of Lexington, right like,
Speaker 4: we show up three days before Kentucky played Arkansas last March,
Speaker 4: which ended up being Cali Parry's last game at rough.
Speaker 4: But you know, we're gonna take you to Keeenlan, We're
Speaker 4: gonna take you to Coolmore Farms where a triple Crown
Speaker 4: winners Justify live and American Pharaoh live. And then you know,
Speaker 4: we're hitting the Bourbon Trail, and then we're gonna go see,
Speaker 4: you know, some of the best eats in downtown Lexington.
Speaker 4: It truly is the accumulation of all those things like
Speaker 4: where do you stay, what do you eat, where do
Speaker 4: you go, in addition to the in game atmosphere, which
Speaker 4: you'll see like I'm thrown right into the student section,
Speaker 4: rep area, and it was it was a hell of
Speaker 4: a time. And you know, Lexington is great, Louisville is great,
Speaker 4: and there are a lot of amazing towns around this
Speaker 4: country that have a lot of the same thing going on.
Speaker 4: But you wouldn't typically think to travel to them. So
Speaker 4: what are the missions of the show is to be like,
Speaker 4: you know, you got to get out there, you got
Speaker 4: to go see these places, and each individual sports town
Speaker 4: is so unique and the show aims to really shed
Speaker 4: a light on why that is.
Speaker 2: What would you say, I'm gonna kind of put you
Speaker 2: on the spot here, but when it comes to things,
Speaker 2: when it comes to things that could be working against
Speaker 2: you as a town, that would be you know, up
Speaker 2: there in the top tier as far as best sports towns.
Speaker 2: What would be something that could maybe you know, like
Speaker 2: big markets that have all the pro teams and all that,
Speaker 2: Like there's so much going on to where it's not
Speaker 2: just sports. But I'm just thinking like what would be
Speaker 2: like maybe maybe a town that people would just assume
Speaker 2: is really.
Speaker 3: Big is as far as sports.
Speaker 2: And the culture because again, they've got all the teams,
Speaker 2: they've got teams that are successful, but like maybe you know,
Speaker 2: you think it's a snooze fest. It really isn't as
Speaker 2: good as people would think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know and in a lot of those towns,
Speaker 4: and Philadelphia is not one of these towns, right, but
Speaker 4: that that's what I know. I'm from there, but a
Speaker 4: lot of these towns that do have two, three, four
Speaker 4: major sports teams, right, Like professional sports teams can feel
Speaker 4: very sterile, like they don't have that nucleus, that center
Speaker 4: of gravity that kind of pulls everybody and gets everyone
Speaker 4: to kind of be on the same page in terms
Speaker 4: of what they cheer for.
Speaker 2: It makes sense, by the way, I never thought about that,
Speaker 2: but I could totally see that.
Speaker 4: Right, But like, you don't have that problem in Kentucky.
Speaker 4: One of the points I make in the episode because
Speaker 4: I lived here is there are no pro sports teams here.
Speaker 4: Everyone lives and dies with the thirty five times a
Speaker 4: year the ball gets tipped up and then like and
Speaker 4: in addition to that, like the rivalry between Louisville and
Speaker 4: Kentucky is unlike anything else, Like we talk about it
Speaker 4: in silly like oh yeah, I'm you know, go Berts,
Speaker 4: I hate the Cowboys, Okay, sure, but like do you
Speaker 4: really hate the Cowboys? Because you don't, because if you're
Speaker 4: like familiar at all with Louisville and Kentucky, you don't
Speaker 4: like it pales in comparison to what Louisville Kentucky have
Speaker 4: going on in terms of a rivalry. So like that
Speaker 4: stuff is so rich and ingrained into the atmosphere and
Speaker 4: in the culture here, like those are things that we
Speaker 4: really want to explore, and quite honestly, like one of
Speaker 4: the most prevalent questions I've gotten today Nick is like, well,
Speaker 4: you lived in Louisville, why not do a Louisville episode,
Speaker 4: And I'll be honest with you, kind of keeping the
Speaker 4: powder drive for Derby. I want to go to Derby.
Speaker 4: Derby's my favorite days. Yeah, and I completely give it
Speaker 4: up to everyone who lives in Louisville. I love Derby Day.
Speaker 4: My first experience was twenty fifteen and I have never
Speaker 4: turned back. Like I watched all the precursor races. We
Speaker 4: have a Derby party at my house every year. You
Speaker 4: got the bugs, like I go for sure, and like
Speaker 4: one of my bucket list episodes is to be here
Speaker 4: for Derby Day in Louisville filming sports.
Speaker 2: Now, And it would there's so much going on in
Speaker 2: Louisville and really the state overall of sports. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it'd be a it would feel underwhelming if
Speaker 2: Derby wasn't included in some former fashion So look, save
Speaker 2: the best for last when it comes.
Speaker 3: To the cities.
Speaker 2: You guys potentially a profile in Kentucky. But you are,
Speaker 2: You're spot on when it comes to just the difference
Speaker 2: in the rivalry. And I really I'm clearly biased, but
Speaker 2: I always make this argument when it comes to why
Speaker 2: the Kentucky and Louisville rivalry one is different than most.
Speaker 2: But also you know, in my opinion, it's a little
Speaker 2: bit better because to me, rivalry is all about fans,
Speaker 2: fans or what makes a rivalry. Players come and go,
Speaker 2: coaches come and go. They can get embedded into the rivalry,
Speaker 2: but it's just different. Like your whole life as a
Speaker 2: Louisville or Kentucky fan, you're gonna stay disliking your rival,
Speaker 2: and you know there's gonna be some real value, some
Speaker 2: extra joy if you beat them, and some extra sadness
Speaker 2: if a loss ends up being to them. But in Louisville,
Speaker 2: there's so many of both, Like a lot of Louisville fans,
Speaker 2: and I'm one of them. You know, I'm all Louisville clearly,
Speaker 2: but like I have no problem in admitting that there's
Speaker 2: so many Kentucky fans in Louisville as well, Like there's
Speaker 2: a great mixture of both to where we all coexist together.
Speaker 2: If Louisville loses to Kentucky and football, there are people
Speaker 2: who are like, man, maybe I take a maybe I
Speaker 2: take a vacation day, a PTO day, because I don't
Speaker 2: want to go see the guy on the assembly line
Speaker 2: who's a Kentucky fan that's gonna give it to me
Speaker 2: because we lost. Like, it's just different. You have in laws.
Speaker 2: We all coexist together. And really, another thing that I
Speaker 2: think makes it special is that in both basketball and football,
Speaker 2: more often than not, the win doesn't change much for
Speaker 2: your season.
Speaker 3: Or your you know, your your your.
Speaker 2: Story, right, Like in basketball, if both teams are good,
Speaker 2: it's a good win to give, but if both teams
Speaker 2: are where they want to be, it's one meaningless non
Speaker 2: conference game in December, meaningless when it comes to like
Speaker 2: you know, it's not like it doesn't get you into
Speaker 2: the tournament or anything like that, but it's all about
Speaker 2: the fans. When it comes to football, I mean, we're
Speaker 2: not we're not playing. I mean maybe now in the
Speaker 2: playoff era, with it expanded, it could potentially happen. But
Speaker 2: like most more often than not, these teams are between
Speaker 2: six and six and eight and four. So a loss
Speaker 2: or when really doesn't change much about anything when it
Speaker 2: comes to the playoff race or really your Bowl game,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. So it's just like it's
Speaker 2: just for bragging rights around here, and it kind of
Speaker 2: makes us crazy because, like, you know, it shouldn't be
Speaker 2: this way, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Honestly,
Speaker 2: we're obsessed. We're obsessed with each other, and I love
Speaker 2: it so And I also you know, with Lexington, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say that I'm a rare Louisville fan, Dan, but
Speaker 2: like I am from Kentucky. My father's family is from
Speaker 2: out in the state, so like I'm a Louisville native,
Speaker 2: but like I'm also proud to be from Kentucky despite
Speaker 2: not being a Kentucky fan. I feel like there's not
Speaker 2: many people that say that, but I am. So, Like
Speaker 2: I know, Lexington is a great city and it's phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 2: Live there because it'd be weird as far as you know,
Speaker 2: the blue and the red, but like it's a great place.
Speaker 2: So like I'm looking forward to seeing I've already seen
Speaker 2: the trailer. I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys
Speaker 2: you put together because I'm sure, it's great. It'll be
Speaker 2: a little too much blue for my liking, but I'll
Speaker 2: do it because I love you. What did you learn
Speaker 2: about Lexington that you did not know? Obviously you took
Speaker 2: a lot of trips up sixty four to go watch
Speaker 2: Kentucky cover Kentucky during your time working here, but throughout
Speaker 2: the putting this together, what are some things or maybe
Speaker 2: one thing that maybe you were surprised to learn about Lexington.
Speaker 4: Well, I think you'll be surprised to learn that the
Speaker 4: show is called Sportstown, but it's really not that sports heavy,
Speaker 4: Like we are truly diving into the culture of the city.
Speaker 4: And while of course, like everyone bleeding Blue over there
Speaker 4: is a part of that, like we really want to
Speaker 4: get into the people and the places and like really
Speaker 4: get into what makes that specific talent unique. So that's
Speaker 4: a big part of the mission. But you know, one
Speaker 4: of the biggest things that I was maybe not surprised
Speaker 4: because I've lived here, I've seen it, and I've like
Speaker 4: fallen in love with the state. It's just how willing
Speaker 4: everyone is to help, you know. Like I'm not going
Speaker 4: to name names, but we were kind of down to
Speaker 4: two cities for where we wanted to shoot the pilot.
Speaker 4: One was Lexington and one was Duke. Oh there, I
Speaker 4: said it, and Duke was kind of like, hey, let
Speaker 4: us know when you get picked up by Netflix, so
Speaker 4: like kind of like, screw you, Duke. We're never going
Speaker 4: to go to Duke. But like Kentucky, to their credit,
Speaker 4: within like twenty five minutes of me explaining the concept
Speaker 4: of it, they were like, this sounds really cool. Come
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: That's like all it took.
Speaker 3: And they didn't have to do that right and they did,
Speaker 3: and that that made it a lot easier for you guys.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they didn't have to do it. And obviously
Speaker 4: like we're not shooting any of the game and honestly,
Speaker 4: the final score doesn't even matter because the game was
Speaker 4: a year ago. Like nobody cares. It's all about the
Speaker 4: end game atmosphere, and like they were just great to
Speaker 4: work with and we appreciated it. And the people in
Speaker 4: this state are so great. Like Buffalo Trace is like, yeah,
Speaker 4: come on up. Keenland was like how like you know
Speaker 4: what time going to be here? We'll I have hot
Speaker 4: chocolate ready for you. Like this is just a special
Speaker 4: a really special place. Man, and you know, my wife
Speaker 4: and I come back probably twice a year now, we've
Speaker 4: got two little ones, and I continue to think that,
Speaker 4: like we will continue to do that. This is just
Speaker 4: like a special place for me. And I think that
Speaker 4: starting this journey that I hope takes us legitimately across
Speaker 4: the country and at some point around the world doing
Speaker 4: the show. Uh, the fact that we started it here
Speaker 4: is always going to have like a real special place
Speaker 4: in my heart.
Speaker 2: Sure, all right, last one for you when it comes
Speaker 2: to like the future of this of this entire thing,
Speaker 2: Like when it comes like you, I know you you
Speaker 2: mentioned sort of looking and at where you guys are
Speaker 2: going to go next? What's that process look like as
Speaker 2: far as like making that final decision? When do you
Speaker 2: plan on like putting more Like I guess you've You've
Speaker 2: now given us a taste the first episode that there's
Speaker 2: a full full feature on Lexington, And obviously people are
Speaker 2: going to want to learn more about other towns kind
Speaker 2: of where are you guys at with this whole thing?
Speaker 2: What's what's next and what what?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: What can fans expect to hear from you guys when
Speaker 2: it comes to this project.
Speaker 4: Yeah, City of champions is up next. I'm talking, of course,
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Goberts.
Speaker 3: Are Are you familiar with Philly?
Speaker 5: I wasn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't aware.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're gonna go explore at least and we'll
Speaker 4: report back and let you know. So we'll do We're
Speaker 4: gonna do Philly this summer. And then we've got Green Bay,
Speaker 4: Wisconsin queued up for a great that'll be great up
Speaker 4: at Lambo. Yeah, really amazing place, very similar to Lecenton Louisville,
Speaker 4: Green Bay, Wisconsin. Actually, if you've never been, can't recommend
Speaker 4: it highly enough. And then we're kind of looking at
Speaker 4: maybe a winter date in Buffalo, New York, maybe Phil's
Speaker 4: Mafia tables that I'll be jumping through in my future,
Speaker 4: and then basically anywhere.
Speaker 2: Produke yep, I hear you, man, and I love seeing
Speaker 2: how energized and excited you are about this project. And
Speaker 2: I could tell you were happy to show it off
Speaker 2: to everybody. You and your team did a great job.
Speaker 2: And uh again I saw the trailer and was super impressed.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna watch the whole thing, and I wish
Speaker 2: you nothing but the best, Dan Great, I'm so glad
Speaker 2: to catch up with you, man, and I wish you
Speaker 2: nothing but success. I'm sure we will be in touch,
Speaker 2: and congrats to you man. Like I know, I can
Speaker 2: tell you put a lot into this. It's it's it's
Speaker 2: it's your baby, and you've got a good team of
Speaker 2: guys that you've known for a long time. So congrats
Speaker 2: to all you guys. Keep up the great work and
Speaker 2: we will catch up with you soon.
Speaker 4: Dan. Yeah, I appreciate it, brother, Thanks so much again.
Speaker 4: Catch it at Sportstown Show on all socials but specifically
Speaker 4: Instagram and YouTube Sportstown Show. And Hey, I'm in town
Speaker 4: for one night only and I'm gonna be at Feast
Speaker 4: at seven thirty and New lou Oh yeah, I'm hang out.
Speaker 4: We'll talk, we'll talk Sportstown, will drink some bourbon splushies
Speaker 4: and we'll get after it. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Good stuff. That is Dan Coop.
Speaker 2: Always appreciate him giving us some of his time. And
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you, and I tell you guys, Dan's
Speaker 2: a super talented guy.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And if you are someone that enjoys the documentary TV
Speaker 2: show kind of stuff that features sports, I mean this
Speaker 2: is this is right up your alley and Dan's one
Speaker 2: of those guys that moved to town. He bounced around.
Speaker 2: He mentioned Green Bay. He was there for a little while,
Speaker 2: Buffalo and uh and ended up in Louisville and we connected,
Speaker 2: became buddies. He used to be on the show once
Speaker 2: a week and Uh, really really good dude, Really happy
Speaker 2: for him. And gosh, it makes me realize how long
Speaker 2: I've been doing this, because you know, like around the
Speaker 2: time Dan had come and gone and was leaving. You know, man,
Speaker 2: I was still pretty early on in my time here
Speaker 2: at I Heeart And now you know, my daughter was.
Speaker 3: A baby baby.
Speaker 2: Now I got two kids. Dan wasn't married. Now he's
Speaker 2: married with two kids, and we've kind of grown up.
Speaker 2: It's kind of sad. And this music is like perfect
Speaker 2: for what I'm saying, Like I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: like working the soundtrack back there, Austin, but like for
Speaker 2: what I'm for what I'm saying, like this music is
Speaker 2: like I perfectly fitting with it. So Rob Thomas forya, Yeah,
Speaker 2: good stuff. A right quick break, We'll come back on
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Speaker 2: I see, for the most part, are like wholesome and
Speaker 2: like kind of funny, right, Like you can still find people,
Speaker 2: you know, you can find anything. Yeah, Like it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, you know what, hell yeah, like if somebody's
Speaker 2: you know, having fun kind of maybe making a fool
Speaker 2: of themselves, or you know, if somebody's you know, put
Speaker 2: it this way, like if somebody's extremely overweight but they're
Speaker 2: feeling good and they're dancing having fun. Like you may
Speaker 2: find some people making jokes about like their appearance, because again,
Speaker 2: like the internet is where people go to do that
Speaker 2: that are very miserable humans. But then you'll also be
Speaker 2: people like hell yeah, you go, you know, in fact,
Speaker 2: you go, girl, yeah. Well, And I don't know why
Speaker 2: I've not seen this elsewhere on social media. It's mostly
Speaker 2: just like a TikTok comment thing that I've seen, and
Speaker 2: maybe it's what the younger generation is saying, But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not in that world anymore. But you know what,
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, that's that's what I see a lot of
Speaker 2: people comment, like if somebody's out there just you know,
Speaker 2: dancing or you know whatever, like you know what, hell yeah,
Speaker 2: And I'm I and I again, I'm not doing it justice,
Speaker 2: but like usually when it when I read that comment
Speaker 2: based off of what I saw in the TikTok, it
Speaker 2: usually fits and it and it goes well.
Speaker 3: So so anyways, you know.
Speaker 2: I, if you don't want to leave your name, you
Speaker 2: don't have to. Again, we'll still utilize the text line,
Speaker 2: but I just want to start saving names so I
Speaker 2: can you know, then I and then you know, I
Speaker 2: won't know you, but I'll feel like, you know what,
Speaker 2: here we go.
Speaker 3: It's John and Saint Matthews.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 5: He seems a little bit more personality exactly a character.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly all right, As you could expect, a lot
Speaker 2: of talk about Louisville hoops after last night's went against
Speaker 2: Cal took care of business, and I didn't really talk
Speaker 2: about this earlier, but somebody asked as far as the
Speaker 2: winded team that I've seen, because I don't think I've
Speaker 2: been over the top about it, but I'm also just
Speaker 2: going to be real and tell you what I observe.
Speaker 2: It really wasn't even like a criticism. It was just
Speaker 2: an observation that that I think was pretty noticeable, and
Speaker 2: that was they just looked tired lately. The four games
Speaker 2: prior to last night, they just I think looked fatigue,
Speaker 2: looked a little bit worn down. Maybe didn't get a
Speaker 2: hand up on a shooter like they previously were earlier
Speaker 2: in the season. Maybe the fatigue led to them making
Speaker 2: a questionable decision in the half court offensively, maybe a
Speaker 2: quick trigger to shoot it because of the And I
Speaker 2: don't really I mean, again, there's no way to know
Speaker 2: if these guys are truly wined. I can just base
Speaker 2: it off of what you see, right, Like, I think
Speaker 2: your eyes are pretty honest with you when it comes
Speaker 2: to that kind of stuff. But like, there's no way
Speaker 2: to know for sure. And I just because the season
Speaker 2: has been so fun and I feel like this team
Speaker 2: has shown that despite not having a ton of opportunities
Speaker 2: to get big resume wins really at all in January on, like,
Speaker 2: they've got some pieces that I could see them making
Speaker 2: a run to the second weekend. I really could so
Speaker 2: like the thought of them just running out of gas
Speaker 2: and being really tired and like you know, just just
Speaker 2: running on e in the postseason and falling short like
Speaker 2: that was you know, they could happen, but like I
Speaker 2: just I was fearful of that and I don't want
Speaker 2: it to happen. And I also don't think I'm making
Speaker 2: it up. And I don't know why I've become so
Speaker 2: like paranoid about people think. I think what's happened is
Speaker 2: I've learned about myself this year that everybody who listened
Speaker 2: to the show deep down knows I was honest about
Speaker 2: everything when it comes to Kenny Payne.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't manufacture anything.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't even really opinion at the end.
Speaker 2: It was just stating facts of like how bad things were.
Speaker 2: But I, you know, because it's an everyday thing because
Speaker 2: you know, that's what we do. We talk loisll basketball
Speaker 2: in college basketball season around here. We're always going to
Speaker 2: do that, like because it became just the same conversation
Speaker 2: every day because there was no difference, there was no change.
Speaker 2: It was dead on arrival essentially, meaning last year, year
Speaker 2: or two of Kenny Payne. When you come out and
Speaker 2: lose to Kentucky Wesley and before your regular season starts,
Speaker 2: when you know you've got a team with better players
Speaker 2: than them, Like it was just dead on arrival, right,
Speaker 2: So to kind of just have the same kind of
Speaker 2: conversation about Louisville hoops for the majority of this, for
Speaker 2: really the whole season. You know, like there are certain
Speaker 2: people that just you know, even though they don't agree,
Speaker 2: they hear it enough. Like this guy's over the top.
Speaker 2: All he does is talk about how bat Kenny Payne sucks. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't the only thing I talk about,
Speaker 2: but that's the only way we could talk about it.
Speaker 2: There was really nothing else. It was a very easy
Speaker 2: thing to assess. So for me, I just I got
Speaker 2: I was uncomfortable being viewed as this guy who's overly
Speaker 2: negative all the time. And sometimes I would get worked
Speaker 2: up in yell, but not because I wanted the overlly negative,
Speaker 2: because I was pissed off because I care. The program
Speaker 2: that you know, in a sad way is like an
Speaker 2: escape for me. It gives me happiness and it gives
Speaker 2: me sadness when it's not going well, like and I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people listening absolutely relate to what.
Speaker 3: I'm just what I just said, like it was just
Speaker 3: what we had to do.
Speaker 2: And I never thought I'd be there talking about a
Speaker 2: Louisville team that bad, because you know, whoever thought Louisvill
Speaker 2: would be that bad for those two years. So I
Speaker 2: think that's why whenever I do mention they look tired
Speaker 2: or they didn't play well or that was a bad
Speaker 2: stretch of play. Like I'm not saying anything crazy. Sometimes
Speaker 2: it's not even legitimate like.
Speaker 3: Criticism.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it is, but it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's more more more so an observation than anything else.
Speaker 2: Like it's not me telling you that I'm worried about
Speaker 2: the team. It's like, hey, they didn't have a good night.
Speaker 2: It wasn't there night they you know, they played poorly
Speaker 2: in this area, whatever it may be. And I it's
Speaker 2: it's not by design, it's not even something that I've
Speaker 2: got in my mind to do. But like anytime I
Speaker 2: mentioned something that's not positive about this team, I just
Speaker 2: automatically start doing the word vomit thing and trying to
Speaker 2: be like, you know, hey, just so you know, I
Speaker 2: still like this to not being critical and I don't
Speaker 2: need to do that. I'm overcompensating and I don't. And again,
Speaker 2: I guess it's probably one because I do love this team,
Speaker 2: but also, like, you know, nobody wants to be that
Speaker 2: guy right now because Louisville basketball.
Speaker 3: Who knows what happens the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: But I mean, like this is still unreal to think about,
Speaker 2: as far as how much they've improved from one year
Speaker 2: to the other and knowing the injuries didn't keep them
Speaker 2: from potentially going, you know, eighteen and two in the
Speaker 2: ACC and safely making the tournament. Like nobody wants to
Speaker 2: be the guy that's like anti Pat Kelsey, and lord
Speaker 2: knows I'm not.
Speaker 3: I love the man.
Speaker 2: I take a bullet for him, I think, I don't
Speaker 2: know I want to put I don't want to put
Speaker 2: myself in that position because I don't want to take
Speaker 2: a bullet. But like, if you know, he needed a
Speaker 2: guy to step in front of him to take a bullet,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'd be able to stop myself.
Speaker 2: That's how much I love this man. So I guess
Speaker 2: more than anything, it's my insecurities as a human being.
Speaker 2: I don't want people to think I'm anti Kelsey at all,
Speaker 2: and maybe they will because they heard me. You know,
Speaker 2: just tell it like it is about KP for as
Speaker 2: long as we had to do that. Same two letters,
Speaker 2: different order, different human being, different life. One is a
Speaker 2: basketball coach, a phenomenal one.
Speaker 3: The other is not.
Speaker 2: That we went from KP to p K. And it's
Speaker 2: a very very big difference, very big difference. I'm not
Speaker 2: kidding you guys when I tell you sometimes this just
Speaker 2: turns into my own personal therapy session. I just get
Speaker 2: the yap and like I'm laying on that long couch
Speaker 2: at a shrink's office. It just, you know, it kind
Speaker 2: of happens that way. Speaking of the man himself, Pat Kelcey,
Speaker 2: this was him in the locker room last night after
Speaker 2: Louisville got the win, and you know, you a little
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Look here as far as him talking
Speaker 2: about these guys, these seniors, and I think he might
Speaker 2: I think he might curse in this, but I think
Speaker 2: it's a kirstword.
Speaker 3: We're allowed to play. But like here we go.
Speaker 6: Here's what's cool about this deal. You know, many of
Speaker 6: you guys in this room right you coming here for
Speaker 6: one year and you guys played three years at another
Speaker 6: institution and that place is special.
Speaker 5: To it, and it should be.
Speaker 3: But what you guys have done in this town, what
Speaker 3: you've done to.
Speaker 6: Endear yourself to this city forever, is something special, though.
Speaker 6: And those guys that are playing in their last game
Speaker 6: here in the Young Center, it will be emotional, like
Speaker 6: you guys played here for twenty seven years. That's the
Speaker 6: legacy you guys have left.
Speaker 1: One of excellence.
Speaker 5: One I'm winning.
Speaker 6: One Of'm re establishing this great program into back into
Speaker 6: one of the top in college basketball. And we're gonna
Speaker 6: pay tribute to you guys on Saturdays, or we're gonna
Speaker 6: win a big game on senior Night for you guys.
Speaker 3: Imagine not wanting to play for that man.
Speaker 5: It's my coach.
Speaker 2: I mean, Austin's in there, grin and ear to ear
Speaker 2: like you're about You're about to suit up.
Speaker 3: Aren't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me in the corner, just just like, hey,
Speaker 2: you need a couple of fouls.
Speaker 3: I got you.
Speaker 5: You mean a set of screen for Chuck, I got you.
Speaker 3: I mean like a brick wall, yep, I mean yeah.
Speaker 2: I like the thought of you being like the muscle,
Speaker 2: right Like if anybody's getting squirrely with with with Chucky,
Speaker 2: with with Hadley, you.
Speaker 3: Know you just you're there arm arms crossed to last
Speaker 3: night from the.
Speaker 2: Flat like you get yeah you got, you got five
Speaker 2: fouls to give and they can be flagrance.
Speaker 5: Right on the offensive. You just need me to just
Speaker 5: just be a guy.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to be too corny because I
Speaker 2: know at times it can get it can sound like that,
Speaker 2: and we like to have fun here. But in all seriousness,
Speaker 2: like a coach is a leader, like that is really
Speaker 2: what the job is.
Speaker 3: You are leading.
Speaker 2: You're also you know, you're coaching ex's and o's, and
Speaker 2: there's so many different ways to do it right, Like
Speaker 2: you can be yourself and go about it the way
Speaker 2: you are more naturally as a human being, right Like
Speaker 2: some guys, like for example, Tom is a real fiery guy,
Speaker 2: in your face, real like, you know, real intense, not
Speaker 2: afraid to get after somebody, and you know that's just
Speaker 2: I think that's probably who he is as a guy.
Speaker 3: But there's other coaches that are super loose, super.
Speaker 2: Casual that you know, you rarely see him yell at all,
Speaker 2: or like Matt Paynter. You know, he went to the
Speaker 2: National Championshi Game last year. He's been really successful at
Speaker 2: Perdue and yeah, they've had some early bounces in the tournament,
Speaker 2: but like I feel like Matt Painter, he's done more
Speaker 2: with that Purdue rosters, the rosters that he's had than
Speaker 2: most would so like there's all kinds of different ways
Speaker 2: to do. At the end of the day, you're a leader,
Speaker 2: and I think Pat Kelsey clearly knows enough about ball
Speaker 2: and he's got a good staft by the way, which
Speaker 2: I don't know if these guys are getting enough credit.
Speaker 2: Brian Cleman has been a phenomenal DC all year. I
Speaker 2: mean he's been a great coach, a great asset in general,
Speaker 2: but you can tell his attention to detailed defensively is
Speaker 2: so precise. Like last night, you know, the col was
Speaker 2: bringing the ball at the floor midway through the first
Speaker 2: half and he's jumping up out of his chair running
Speaker 2: to Kelsey on the on you know, up there right
Speaker 2: near the the scores table, because he sees something they're
Speaker 2: about to get into, like he knows what they're about
Speaker 2: to do, and you know, it's just you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's in all aspects. This has just been such
Speaker 2: a fun, fun ride, and I you know, you never know, right,
Speaker 2: like we've been really like have we ever really have
Speaker 2: we ever even had a postgame presser from PK that
Speaker 2: like was were the fans were like in a bad way,
Speaker 2: Like even early on when he started losing, he was
Speaker 2: losing the good teams, and you know, it's the first year,
Speaker 2: like you know, I mean I remember, and to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, I would say, as far as like
Speaker 2: the energy, and this seems like it was ten years ago,
Speaker 2: but as far as like the negative energy, it wasn't
Speaker 2: like everybody ready to fire the guy.
Speaker 3: But I feel like it was such a letdown when they.
Speaker 2: Got crushed a byt Tennessee just because there was I mean,
Speaker 2: it just played. It's it it played out to where
Speaker 2: you had in his second career game, he's playing a
Speaker 2: top ten Tennessee team who is out top five and
Speaker 2: you had a white out, you had a really good
Speaker 2: crowd there and like you just got you got blown out,
Speaker 2: and like that was tough and it just was a
Speaker 2: you know, to get it was such a climax. And
Speaker 2: then to just have it completely ripped from you, it
Speaker 2: was it was pretty pretty low. And then from then
Speaker 2: on though, the other losses were you know, against against
Speaker 2: good teams for the most part, and the Georgia Tech
Speaker 2: loss was the one loss that was a real head scratcher.
Speaker 2: That is different than most the losses you have, and
Speaker 2: you only have six, by the way, but like they've
Speaker 2: been on top of the world. Like he kind of
Speaker 2: just as much as you were probably disappointed, I think
Speaker 2: we kind of realized, hey, that happens.
Speaker 3: Like you're gonna you're not gonna win every game.
Speaker 2: So like we're gonna have throughout Pat's time here, years
Speaker 2: that aren't as good as this one. We're gonna have years.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have like games where you're like, what the
Speaker 2: hell happened? This was crazy, and you know that's just
Speaker 2: how it works. But it has been such a fun
Speaker 2: ride thus far that I don't think whatever happens in
Speaker 2: the tournament will have any impact on the way I
Speaker 2: view this season and what this group did for us
Speaker 2: as far as, you know, getting this thing back on track,
Speaker 2: not only with winning, but like it's a it's a
Speaker 2: really infectious thing. Whenever Louisville fans, you know, more of
Speaker 2: them started coming out once the team started winning, and
Speaker 2: there was a momentum and the players fed off of that,
Speaker 2: and then they could sense that Okay, these guys are
Speaker 2: coming back to life.
Speaker 3: It's really a revival like this. This is like now I.
Speaker 2: Know why this place is special when it comes to
Speaker 2: college hoops. So they're a special group and I know
Speaker 2: they're going to have It's not like an expection. It's
Speaker 2: not like I'm saying, I hope. I know they're going
Speaker 2: to have a great crowd there on Saturday, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure I hope. You know, we'll see what happens, but
Speaker 2: I'd be shocked if they don't win and finishing the
Speaker 2: season overall, in you know, regular season, in Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 2: first year, you know, to be able to say that
Speaker 2: you went eighteen into albeit a down league, but still
Speaker 2: an eighteen and two record in league play for anybody
Speaker 2: in any league is something.
Speaker 3: To feel good about.
Speaker 2: But also just overall, twenty five and six, are you
Speaker 2: kidding me? And that's you know, that's that's that's what's
Speaker 2: probably going to happen. And it's still at times just
Speaker 2: doesn't seem real. And I'm not, you know, bitter about it,
Speaker 2: but like, imagine that they didn't lose to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: They play Georgia Tech nine more times in Atlanta. They
Speaker 2: probably win every one of them just because they're clearly better.
Speaker 2: Like imagine what I mean, I can't imagine it being
Speaker 2: more of a LoveFest than it is now. But to
Speaker 2: be honest with you'd probably be sitting in like the
Speaker 2: top ten, would you not?
Speaker 3: Clearly?
Speaker 2: I mean you already right now with that loss, have
Speaker 2: the second longest winning streak in college basketball among Power
Speaker 2: five teams. So anyways, quick break, we'll come back and
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Speaker 2: All right, so very little time left here before we
Speaker 2: get out of here, but real quick, I wanted to
Speaker 2: let you guys hear the the the clip here. This
Speaker 2: is from the Ryan Rossillo podcast and Todd McShay was
Speaker 2: on to talk about the man who's been talked about.
Speaker 2: I feel like just as much as any quarterback in
Speaker 2: the draft in the last few weeks. Obviously, he's not
Speaker 2: going to be taken before cam Ward or Shad or Sanders,
Speaker 2: but Tyler Shuck he's he's definitely he's seemingly helping his
Speaker 2: chances of getting taken pretty early in this draft.
Speaker 7: And there's immense growing intrigue for Tyler Shuck. And he's
Speaker 7: the most NFL ready of all these quarterbacks. He's bigger,
Speaker 7: he's faster, he's got just a strong an arm like
Speaker 7: he's up there with cam Ward, Stronger armed than Dark,
Speaker 7: stronger armed than Shador. Yeah, you can say he's twenty
Speaker 7: five and had three injuries, but they're bone breaks, they're
Speaker 7: not like it's not chronic stuff that's going to affect
Speaker 7: him long term. We're protecting our quarters a lot longer,
Speaker 7: ball placements out standing on tape. It's just one year
Speaker 7: of tape. I'm telling you, Tyler Shuck, it won't surprise
Speaker 7: me if he winds up being the best quarterback from
Speaker 7: this class.
Speaker 2: When it's that is honestly the best. That's the highest
Speaker 2: praise I've heard of any from anybody about Shuck. And
Speaker 2: I think again, like part of this is that the
Speaker 2: quarterback crop is not great, but that's gonna help Shuck
Speaker 2: because even if a quarterback crop is the worst in
Speaker 2: the history of the NFL, teams are still gonna not
Speaker 2: be able to resist the urge of taking a quarterback.
Speaker 2: And I think him being twenty five, to me is
Speaker 2: a benefit. Like maybe you think, well, how much better
Speaker 2: can he get? I mean, he can tighten some things up, clearly,
Speaker 2: but like that's a benefit that like you don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about Like my team drafted Anthony Richardson, who
Speaker 2: was never a winner at any level.
Speaker 3: As a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Anyways, I'm not bitter at all, Right, how can out
Speaker 2: everybody