Speaker 1: All right, let's get it started the five o'clock hour
Speaker 1: here on a Monday. Yes, it is me. I hope
Speaker 1: you recognize my voice. If not, my name is Nick Coffee.
Speaker 1: I'm the host of this show, and this is what
Speaker 1: I usually sound like. Last week, it's not the voice
Speaker 1: of the last week. Yeah, last week was not a
Speaker 1: great I mean, I don't know how great my voice
Speaker 1: is in general, but I know last week wasn't great.
Speaker 1: What's nice. Thank you appreciate that. It's take all the
Speaker 1: compliments I can get. But we're back for a regular
Speaker 1: week here. We're getting it started on a Monday. And
Speaker 1: last week with my illness, with the snow days and NTI,
Speaker 1: it just felt like we were all out of whack.
Speaker 1: Austin had to go to the flea market Friday. I
Speaker 1: ended up taking the day just to get the voice rested,
Speaker 1: because it never really hit me that with what I do,
Speaker 1: it's hard for my voice to recover. Whenever I am
Speaker 1: talking for three hours on a talk show, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocked. I mean, I was talking to my doctor
Speaker 1: and I said, the voice is my throat doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm ill. But yeah, each day
Speaker 1: my voice gets worse. And you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was the medical degree, in the years of education
Speaker 1: to become a doctor that gave this this person the
Speaker 1: ability to realize something rather obvious that I hadn't really
Speaker 1: thought about, which is, yeah, your voice is never going
Speaker 1: to get better if you if you don't really let
Speaker 1: it rest. So we made the decision to just repurpose
Speaker 1: some some content from previous shows on Friday, while I
Speaker 1: got an extra day to let the voice heal. And
Speaker 1: we're there and a lot to react to, of course,
Speaker 1: as always on a Monday, a big weekend to react to,
Speaker 1: and we'll do exactly that and a lot more before
Speaker 1: we get out of here at six o'clock. But if
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Speaker 1: five three zero seven ninety. So I haven't talked a
Speaker 1: whole lot. In fact, I haven't talked much at all
Speaker 1: about Louisville's win against Florida State. And look, you had
Speaker 1: another opportunity to watch this team play. That has been
Speaker 1: fun as can be. I mean, the revival is happening
Speaker 1: right before our eyes, and it's just been awesome. I
Speaker 1: don't want it to end, and I hope it anytime soon.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this team goes on a long run. But with
Speaker 1: Florida State, you know, I look at their personnel, I
Speaker 1: know who they're coached by, and I find myself thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, eighty nine eighty one, that's that's
Speaker 1: better than you know, just win like you know, you
Speaker 1: were in control, you led for you never trailed at all.
Speaker 1: It was tied for twenty seconds to the beginning of
Speaker 1: the game. The lead did get down to like seven,
Speaker 1: So I found myself doing the balancing act of Okay,
Speaker 1: why aren't we about twenty seven? Why haven't we beat
Speaker 1: this team by you know, a billion, but also realizing,
Speaker 1: you know, that's a that's a silly ask and really
Speaker 1: unrealistic because you did win and it was never really
Speaker 1: in doubt. And as in Florida State's not what they
Speaker 1: used to be under Leonard Hamilton, they're clearly moving on
Speaker 1: from him. But they also when you watch him play,
Speaker 1: like they've got some players like what can can play.
Speaker 1: They got a big fella who had a phenomenal night
Speaker 1: owins that he said number twelve. I mean he had
Speaker 1: nineteen and nine. So look, Louisle could have been better.
Speaker 1: They could have been better defensively, trust me, they weren't perfect.
Speaker 1: But I also think, you know, this is probably what
Speaker 1: we're gonna get now. Maybe they do end up blowing
Speaker 1: out some more teams in these next four games to
Speaker 1: close out the regular season, but I just, you know,
Speaker 1: I want him to get a good seat so bad.
Speaker 1: But I think it's really you know that you're only
Speaker 1: going to be able to do with the committee. I mean,
Speaker 1: what it comes down to is, does the committee if
Speaker 1: Louisville finishes with just a loss to Clemson in the
Speaker 1: AC seats or yeah, just a loss to Clemson in
Speaker 1: the ACC Tournament, but they win every game the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. I feel like they're probably looking at
Speaker 1: a ceiling of like a five. Maybe if they end
Speaker 1: up winning out and beat Clemson and Duke, then I
Speaker 1: think maybe they could potentially get a three. We had
Speaker 1: a caller earlier that said he thinks they can get
Speaker 1: a two. I don't know about that, but maybe they
Speaker 1: would because they have a really good record. But maybe
Speaker 1: if they beat Clemson and then lose to Duke Or
Speaker 1: did I say that already?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I said that one already. So the scenario
Speaker 1: where they went out in the regular season and then
Speaker 1: lose to Clemson in the semis, at that point you're
Speaker 1: probably I don't want to say your ceiling is a six,
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't shock me if that's what it ends
Speaker 1: up being. So we know what it is. The rest
Speaker 1: of the way. You're probably gonna get a decent shot
Speaker 1: from some of these teams because they are now playing
Speaker 1: a top twenty Louisville team like there's a there's value
Speaker 1: on the line. He won't get them in the tournament
Speaker 1: because that's how bad these teams are. But when I
Speaker 1: found myself thinking, okay, we won by eight, why didn't
Speaker 1: we win by twenty, That's where I realized, look, stop,
Speaker 1: like this team has done phenomenal job thus far, and
Speaker 1: they've proven that you know, they can beat teams if
Speaker 1: they're not ready to play by a lot, and they've
Speaker 1: done it many times this year. And honestly, finding out
Speaker 1: right the game that there was a bug going around
Speaker 1: that made the one that made a lot more sense.
Speaker 1: Whenever you saw them look not lethargic like, I think
Speaker 1: this team brought the energy in the effort, but I
Speaker 1: think early on you could tell some of these guys
Speaker 1: were just tired right out of the gate, and it's
Speaker 1: probably because they've been dealing with a bug. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was the flu or what it was,
Speaker 1: but coach Kelsey had to get an IV before practice
Speaker 1: on Friday. Rain couldn't practice on Friday. A lot of
Speaker 1: other guys that practice Friday, it sounds like they'd missed
Speaker 1: some days of practice during the week because of the
Speaker 1: illness that was going around. So all things considered, I
Speaker 1: got nothing to complain about. I mean, Chucky Hepburn continues
Speaker 1: to be one of the best players in the country.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine points, broke a record, making seventeen of nineteen
Speaker 1: free throws. Also ended up with was it six steals
Speaker 1: that he had? I think it was six, maybe five?
Speaker 1: They pull it up now. Yeah, Chucky finished with let's
Speaker 1: see here, twenty nine points to go along with five steals,
Speaker 1: which I believe he's like the only player in college
Speaker 1: back basketball ever to have at least twenty nine points
Speaker 1: to go along with five steals. Also, Javon Hadley, a
Speaker 1: big game for him eighteen and eleven, one of the
Speaker 1: more versatile players you'll find. A tough matchup, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Terrence Edwards a quiet sixteen points on six of eleven
Speaker 1: from shooting. You got eleven from rain Smith as he
Speaker 1: knocked down three more triples. So again, Louisville really was
Speaker 1: just the same team they've been all year, and at
Speaker 1: times they led by fourteen to fifteen, but they ended
Speaker 1: up only winning by eight. But you know, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad somebody brought this up on the text line. And
Speaker 1: I know they're not saying that Florida State's good, but
Speaker 1: this is just an obvious point, like Florida State is
Speaker 1: the team that, like, you're probably not going to blow
Speaker 1: out because despite them having another underwhelming year and Leonard
Speaker 1: Hamilton's moving on at the end of the season, you know,
Speaker 1: they're still a sixteen and eleven team, and even though
Speaker 1: they've lost nine games league play, they haven't really been
Speaker 1: blown out that many times. I mean, Clemson got him bad,
Speaker 1: but right after Leonard Hamilton announced he was stepping down,
Speaker 1: they did go. They did win two in a row.
Speaker 1: In fact, they won Yeah, since Leonard Hamilton stepped down,
Speaker 1: I think this is probably the best way to describe
Speaker 1: Florida State. Again, this isn't me saying Louisville beat a
Speaker 1: really good team or that you know that win had
Speaker 1: a lot of value. People just don't realize it. But
Speaker 1: they are three and two since Leonard Hamilton decided to
Speaker 1: step down at the end of the season, and the
Speaker 1: only two losses they have are at Louisville and at Clemson.
Speaker 1: So again, like that that may not mean anything to you,
Speaker 1: but I think this Florida State team is going to
Speaker 1: try to play really hard for Leonard Hamilton in his
Speaker 1: last four games, and I think that I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that makes them dangerous depending on who they play.
Speaker 1: Although they have North Carolina tonight, they're at home. You
Speaker 1: betting on this one? Austin, So Carolina is project to
Speaker 1: win seventy nine to seventy seven according to Ken Palm.
Speaker 1: To me, this feels like a Florida State win because again,
Speaker 1: they're they're playing harder and where is it at It's
Speaker 1: at Florida State. Okay, I mean I don't know, man, Like,
Speaker 1: I probably won't bet on it just because I can't
Speaker 1: trust either of these teams. If it'd say a good
Speaker 1: emotional win for that because well and also let's keep
Speaker 1: in mind and the state isn't good. Yeah, I'm sure not.
Speaker 1: North Carolina isn't good. Like that's another big factor. So
Speaker 1: if Florida State's plus three and a half, I'm damn
Speaker 1: near tended to take to take Florida State money line, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of too close. Not like that, because again, Carolina,
Speaker 1: the fact that they're still mentioned to be like a
Speaker 1: potential tournament team is insane to me because again, they're
Speaker 1: having a really bad year for their standard, but they're
Speaker 1: also having a bad year in the ACC when we
Speaker 1: know the ACC is not great. I mean, we're sitting
Speaker 1: here at Carolina is ten and six in the ACC,
Speaker 1: seventeen and eleven overall, and their best win in the
Speaker 1: ACC is against SMU on January the seventh.
Speaker 2: Put it to you this way, would anybody else in
Speaker 2: the nation that had that resume or nother question?
Speaker 1: Yes? And look, they played such a challenging schedule in
Speaker 1: the non conference that and they played these games competitively.
Speaker 1: They lost to Michigan State in overtime. That you get
Speaker 1: beat bad by Bama. They got beat by thirteen against Auburn,
Speaker 1: But again you just play these teams they played. They
Speaker 1: played Kansas, Auburn, Michigan State, Alabama, Florida in Ucla all
Speaker 1: before Christmas. They lost all those games. They lost all
Speaker 1: those games that I just mentioned to those teams, other
Speaker 1: than they beat LSU by I'm sorry, Ucla by two.
Speaker 1: So just because they played a loaded schedule, that's how
Speaker 1: they can be ten and six in the ACC with
Speaker 1: no meaningful wins really since I mean they beat SMU
Speaker 1: at home, so that's a quad two win, and yet
Speaker 1: they're still sniffing the bubble and they still have a
Speaker 1: decent number in the Ken Palm and the net. And
Speaker 1: it's just because they played a loaded schedule. They're a
Speaker 1: good example of you play a loaded schedule and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you win your games you're supposed to win
Speaker 1: for the most part, then you'll you'll not be terrible.
Speaker 1: So I just think nobody's considering when they do beat
Speaker 1: NC State or they beat Virginia, or they beat Syracuse
Speaker 1: or even pitt who's falling apart or Boston College. They
Speaker 1: needed over time, like they're not like they don't get
Speaker 1: the benefit of it out in my opinion, and the
Speaker 1: only benefit of out they would actually be able to
Speaker 1: get would be the brand, but that doesn't matter. Like
Speaker 1: this clearly is not like Hubert Davis coaching Carolina is
Speaker 1: not Roy Williams during his prime or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So again, Loivill beat Florida State, it was kind of
Speaker 1: just a take care of business game, and tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of the same thing because
Speaker 1: they're taking on a Virginia Tech team, who, we're being honest,
Speaker 1: is one of the I mean, I don't know, they
Speaker 1: were one of the worst teams in the league early
Speaker 1: on in league play when it started. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they've I mean to me, there's there's a bottom
Speaker 1: tier of the ACC that's really really bad, and that
Speaker 1: is Miami, Boston College, NC State, and then after that
Speaker 1: you've got another tier that is really bad in Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: Virginia Cal and Syracuse. And then after that you've got Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech. Those are all teams
Speaker 1: that are seven and nine in league play, and then
Speaker 1: you've got Carolina and Stanford that are kind of on
Speaker 1: their own with a nine and seven and ten and
Speaker 1: six record, and then after that, I mean, look, it's
Speaker 1: duke at the top by themselves. Clemson and Louisville still
Speaker 1: both fourteen and two. Louisville, of course has the tie
Speaker 1: breaker and that so they'll be the two seed if
Speaker 1: that's how it finishes. SMU and Wake Forest are now
Speaker 1: tied at eleven and five for fourth place, and then
Speaker 1: there's the drop off again. It's North Carolina, Stanford pitt
Speaker 1: and Florida State Georgia Tech. I guess you can put
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech in there, but to me, I mean, their
Speaker 1: best win is gosh, Virginia Tech's twelve and five overall,
Speaker 1: seven and nine in the leaguegue and the best win
Speaker 1: they have in league play, gosh, they just be at
Speaker 1: all seven of their wins Louis's opponent tomorrow, Virginia Tech
Speaker 1: and ACC play have come against like the worst of
Speaker 1: the worst. They still finish with Louisville Clemson. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like they're feel like their schedule
Speaker 1: has set up very beneficial for them, and yet they're
Speaker 1: still terrible. So the best win on the season for
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech is gosh, this is crazy. Their best win
Speaker 1: on the season is Florida State when they beat them
Speaker 1: at the end of January. So again tomorrow another game,
Speaker 1: louisll should just be able to take care of business.
Speaker 1: Then they'll come back on Saturday to play pitt And
Speaker 1: they actually finish the season with three straight home games,
Speaker 1: so hopefully Louisville can have some good crowds there to
Speaker 1: round out the irregular season. And look, you got a
Speaker 1: chance to finish eighteen and two in the ACC. That
Speaker 1: would make you twenty five and yeah, twenty five and
Speaker 1: six to close out the regular season. And you know,
Speaker 1: we do get caught up in talk in bracketology, seating
Speaker 1: quad one wins, all that stuff, because it matters, But
Speaker 1: sometimes it's nice to just look at that record and
Speaker 1: look at the wins and look at the beatdowns they've
Speaker 1: given to some of these teams, and you know, again,
Speaker 1: a lot of things can be true. Don't have to
Speaker 1: be one specific thing like Louisvill's taking advantage of the
Speaker 1: ACC being in a in a in a bad way.
Speaker 1: But they're also a good team that I think is
Speaker 1: proven that right now, especially since January. If they're if
Speaker 1: they come ready to play, which more often than not
Speaker 1: they do, and then they start making triples, I mean
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a tough beat for a lot of teams,
Speaker 1: and that's a good place to be in, especially considering
Speaker 1: you know where we were the last few years. All right,
Speaker 1: five x two five seven seventy nine hundred is the number.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in, Kirk. Captain Kirk, I should say, is with
Speaker 1: us here on Sports Talk seven ninety. What's happening? Man?
Speaker 3: Beat me up, Scottie.
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Brother?
Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty good. Well. You know this is going
Speaker 3: to be an off the wall question, but I gotta
Speaker 3: see where you where you may be on this. But
Speaker 3: how do you think Louisville would fare this year with
Speaker 3: a KP coach team with the ACC down as it is?
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't help but think it would be
Speaker 3: an eight and twenty five season again, of course, but
Speaker 3: you know, I'm sitting around and I'm twiddling my thumbs,
Speaker 3: and I got all this going on in my head,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, man, I need to pick Nick's brain
Speaker 3: a little bit and see see what he would think
Speaker 3: about that. And I'll just let you talk and comment.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it. Kirk. Yeah, I mean I would,
Speaker 1: I would say it'll probably. My guess would be it
Speaker 1: maybe be like a two win bump, like at best,
Speaker 1: like if they ended up going I don't know if
Speaker 1: they There's nothing as far as the amount of losses
Speaker 1: that would surprise me because I just think they're I mean,
Speaker 1: like nothing's nothing. I mean when you have a five
Speaker 1: hundred record against Division two teams in exhibition games, and like,
Speaker 1: let's be real, the ACC wasn't great last year or
Speaker 1: the year before, and Louisville was still the worst team
Speaker 1: by themselves. So I think if it's the same team
Speaker 1: with that staff one, I don't know how they would
Speaker 1: ever even have been here, But I think they'd be
Speaker 1: better because I think they have good, better players and
Speaker 1: I think these guys have a good head about them,
Speaker 1: like they like there's leadership on the floor with these guys. Now,
Speaker 1: I think they're all a reflection of the coach. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they'd be better, but still a
Speaker 1: mess because look, I think when you consider like what
Speaker 1: has helped Pat Kelsey be able to get off to
Speaker 1: such a good start in year one, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the list is endless as far as things that
Speaker 1: you could that you could point out, but what we
Speaker 1: learned the hard way as far as things that are
Speaker 1: really important that you sometimes just get lost in watching
Speaker 1: your team and you don't think about it because it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's behind the scenes, kind of deep into
Speaker 1: the weeds. But like your culture, right, like what's the
Speaker 1: energy like? And I think these guys, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't want I've tried to say this conversation until the
Speaker 1: season ends, whenever that may be, because I have a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in Louisville basketball moving forward with Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 1: how could you not? Right? But I do at times
Speaker 1: ask myself, all right, how lucky do we actually get
Speaker 1: with Chucky Hepburn Because that guy's sensational. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: one of the best guards that I've ever watched play here.
Speaker 1: Now it's only been less than a season at this point,
Speaker 1: but I mean he's special, really special. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if Pat Kelsey could find another guy like that
Speaker 1: in the next ten years. Not because it's going to
Speaker 1: be insanely difficult because Louisville's going to have a tough
Speaker 1: time selling why players will want to come play here.
Speaker 1: But I just think Chucky's that good. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think he's one of the best players in the country,
Speaker 1: and I think it's numbers kind of prove that. You know,
Speaker 1: Jamon Hadley, he's kind of the perfect guy to have
Speaker 1: in this situation, a fifth year guy taking advance of
Speaker 1: the extra year of mature grown up who has really
Speaker 1: not only been the perfect guy as far as culture
Speaker 1: locker room, a guy who works his ass off, but
Speaker 1: he's also somebody that man with case and pryor going
Speaker 1: out so early, I'm really lucky. We're really lucky we
Speaker 1: had a guy like I mean like Javon who can
Speaker 1: clearly take on a bigger role and he's done it
Speaker 1: since Cason went out. He's a mismatched problem, right. He
Speaker 1: can take a smaller guy that wants to try to
Speaker 1: guard him on the perimeter, uses size and get to
Speaker 1: his spot in the paint. If you're a bigger guy,
Speaker 1: he'll step outside and knock down a jump shot or
Speaker 1: go around you and get fouled. So I think, again,
Speaker 1: it's really been kind of like the perfect storm. And
Speaker 1: I say that knowing that, yeah, they're actually missing two
Speaker 1: guys that would have played a lot. I think other
Speaker 1: guys got better and they were able to identify bigger
Speaker 1: roles that they needed to take on because of the injuries.
Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it, Like you don't have
Speaker 1: a guy like Cason Pryor who if shots are if
Speaker 1: three point shots are falling, And by the way, I
Speaker 1: wish he wouldn't have shot as many threes as he did.
Speaker 1: But like, let's say he's just a guy that's an energy,
Speaker 1: run the floor, block shots. I mean, like that's a
Speaker 1: weapon that you don't have, and yet you're still having
Speaker 1: a phenomenal season. Corn Johnson was the sixth Man of
Speaker 1: the Year in the PAC twelve. He's a different guard
Speaker 1: than you have on than you have right now. I
Speaker 1: mean he's a really good shooter, not Rayin Smith, because
Speaker 1: nobody is, but like he's a dynamic playmaker that could
Speaker 1: have made this team even more dangerous. But I sometimes,
Speaker 1: again just forget that you're missing guys that were supposed
Speaker 1: to be playing because of how good this team has been.
Speaker 1: So to answer your question, Kirk, they probably would have
Speaker 1: been better if it's the same team. But I really
Speaker 1: think it's been the perfect storm of a lot of
Speaker 1: different factors that has led to Louville being able to
Speaker 1: not only win, to safely feel in the tournament to
Speaker 1: be in the top twenty right now with just with
Speaker 1: four games left. But the way in which these guys
Speaker 1: go about it that's helped. I think fans not only
Speaker 1: get excited about louisvill basketball again, how could you not
Speaker 1: be excited you get a top twenty team. But man like,
Speaker 1: this group's gonna be remembered for a long time, and
Speaker 1: I just hope they finish strong. That's out of our control,
Speaker 1: of course, but I guess I need to take my
Speaker 1: own advice and just enjoy the ride until we get there,
Speaker 1: because if they win by forty or fifty tomorrow, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna love every second of it. Don't know what it's
Speaker 1: gonna mean. I mean, that'd be impressive, and that's an exaggeration,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I love this team. All right, quick break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back on the other side, talk a little
Speaker 1: Governor's Cup, because it certainly looks like the SEC may
Speaker 1: go to nine, and if that's the case, I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Governor's Cup's gonna survive much longer. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll take a look at Kentucky the rest of the
Speaker 1: way here, because I still get some pushback from Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans who say, hey, I don't know, if we slip
Speaker 1: up and lose to some of these teams left, maybe
Speaker 1: we would be a bubble team. I just don't see
Speaker 1: how it could happen. All right, quick break, we'll roll
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Speaker 1: That's right, coffee and company, wrapping up the five o'clock
Speaker 1: hour here. Well, we got thirty minutes left. I'm all
Speaker 1: over the place as far as time. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I keep thinking it's later than it is. But we
Speaker 1: got thirty minutes left and we will use that time wisely.
Speaker 1: This will be something that takes very little time to
Speaker 1: talk about. But I just found it to be kind
Speaker 1: of funny. And I'm also dying to know, like what
Speaker 1: kind of money they get for this. But Adrian Rojenarowski,
Speaker 1: of course, woj he surprisingly do a lot of us.
Speaker 1: Left his position as the NBA insider for ESPN, and
Speaker 1: he left for another job, not to go to a competitor,
Speaker 1: but to become the GM for Saint Bonaventure men's basketball,
Speaker 1: helping them raise nil money. He's a Saint Bonaventure alum,
Speaker 1: and in order to raise money, you know, they got
Speaker 1: to pay players like everybody else. Having WOJ makes them
Speaker 1: look cool, but they need money. So WOJ is auctioning
Speaker 1: off the iPhones that he's used when he was working
Speaker 1: for ESPN breaking NBA stories, right, the WOJ bombs, So
Speaker 1: the iPhones that produced the WOJ bombs he is auctioning off.
Speaker 1: He's also auctioning off his credentials that he has, like
Speaker 1: his badges, his press pass from ESPN during his time
Speaker 1: covering the NBA. And let's see here the iPhone used
Speaker 1: when he broke the Paul George Kawhi Leonard trade to
Speaker 1: the Clippers. I don't really remember that. I remember Kawhi
Speaker 1: going to the Clippers. But anyways, three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: is the current highest offer you can get his NBA
Speaker 1: Draft credential in twenty twenty three, the Wimby Draft two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. The iPhone that he used to break NBA
Speaker 1: suspending the season because of COVID, that's currently going for
Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty five dollars. So if that's the
Speaker 1: highest bid, that tells me the amount of money they're making.
Speaker 1: The other question I have that I'll never know the
Speaker 1: answer to is who would buy that? Who would want that? Like,
Speaker 1: that's what I was the same. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: get it, Like, is it's still.
Speaker 2: A fully functioning phone or is this something that they
Speaker 2: just keep just for Hey? You see that up there,
Speaker 2: that's Woj's phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't. I Yeah, again, I always sound
Speaker 1: like I'm being judgmental, and I guess I am, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound that way. But what would
Speaker 1: that phone do for you? Sitting in a case like
Speaker 1: he did? Maybe some clout with some NBA nerds that think,
Speaker 1: oh he's got Woj's iPhone, But like I forgot about
Speaker 1: Woj honestly. Yeah, And it's one of those things that like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand what value does it have in order
Speaker 1: for you to pay that much money? If you just
Speaker 1: if the only value you get, the only thing you
Speaker 1: get out of it is just knowing you have it,
Speaker 1: Like you can't do anything with it. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna use it as a phone, go get a different
Speaker 1: phone for cheaper. You can get a used iPhone for
Speaker 1: cheaper than that that was an iPhone for four years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I just again, I know it's the iPhone ten
Speaker 1: memorabilia and items. It's it's always been a big thing
Speaker 1: to some and I really always say the same exact
Speaker 1: thing any time it comes up. But I just can't
Speaker 1: help but like get distracted by like who who like
Speaker 1: what what's who would like use your money on something
Speaker 1: that you actually can you know, utilize, Like that's just
Speaker 1: you know, now.
Speaker 2: If it came with like all like a bunch of
Speaker 2: his notes and like all the contact information, which is
Speaker 2: probably just gonna be system rebooted anyway, then maybe I
Speaker 2: can see everything else just kind of corny. What woes
Speaker 2: is all those guys are pretty corny, like woes what's a.
Speaker 1: New guy shams? Like they're all they're just cornballs and
Speaker 1: I and I, you know, I they do a great job,
Speaker 1: but it's like it's sure I'll never know what it's
Speaker 1: like to be someone like woge right, somebody who's top
Speaker 1: dog among many in an industry of covering the NBA.
Speaker 1: But like I would feel like a like who, like
Speaker 1: who do I think I am? Like who would pay
Speaker 1: that for? You know what I mean? Like it's probably
Speaker 1: something that he didn't have in mind. But like somebody's
Speaker 1: just trying, like we're trying to utilize and really maximize
Speaker 1: everything we can get out of having Woje as our GM.
Speaker 1: He's the most famous person on our in our program
Speaker 1: from top to bottom. He's Woje. Maybe he can auction
Speaker 1: off some stuff, but I just feel like it would
Speaker 1: feel real like self serving and like like, for example,
Speaker 1: if I auctioned off anything of mine for a dollar,
Speaker 1: thinking somebody would want it because I had it, I
Speaker 1: would feel like the biggest douche. But again, I'm not
Speaker 1: Woje and I never will be, so like maybe I can't, like,
Speaker 1: for example, cameo. You know what cameo is.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's where you pay people to say, like happy
Speaker 2: birthday to you.
Speaker 1: I don't have a cameo. I don't eat a cameo.
Speaker 1: There would not be a high demand for cameo. But
Speaker 1: there was a girl who wrote me on Instagram a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, and I'll read to you what she said.
Speaker 1: We see if I can pull it up here. And why,
Speaker 1: by the way, why does why does one thing? I
Speaker 1: don't understand Why are there different in boxes within Instagram?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, yeah, like there's your primary, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a general one and then private.
Speaker 1: I don't get that either. Yeah. But there was this
Speaker 1: girl who wrote me and she said that her boyfriend
Speaker 1: was a let's see if I can find it here.
Speaker 1: She said that her boyfriend was a big, a big
Speaker 1: fan of the show and a fan of me. And
Speaker 1: his birthday she asked, I have had a cameo. She
Speaker 1: said his birthday was coming up, and she wanted to
Speaker 1: get him a video of me, you know, with you know,
Speaker 1: saying happy birthday to him and saying go cards. And
Speaker 1: she was like, if you don't have a cameo, I'll
Speaker 1: pay you. And I was like, appreciate the support, thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. I'll do it. You don't have to pay me.
Speaker 1: And she was like, but I don't mind, like I
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, no, I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: Like she could have been offering me anything and I
Speaker 1: would even if it was Again, I don't think she
Speaker 1: felt like she needed to do that. She just probably
Speaker 1: assume that's how it works, I guess, because there are
Speaker 1: other people. I guess. In fact, we have colleagues that
Speaker 1: have a cameo and if they're hustling making money good
Speaker 1: for them, And if I was able to do it
Speaker 1: and make money, then I would, but there'd be no
Speaker 1: demand for it, and I would one feel like a
Speaker 1: real loser having a page that nobody was interested in
Speaker 1: and just seeing that like I'm promoting Hey, if you
Speaker 1: give me twenty bucks, I'll record a video with a
Speaker 1: custom message and it's worth twenty bucks because I'm me like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just feels very pretentious, but hey,
Speaker 1: people make money on it and I did it for free,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's it would just feel really
Speaker 1: weird taking money from people because that's not like, again,
Speaker 1: what are they getting at that? I mean, they're listeners
Speaker 1: of the show, and it makes me feel good. That
Speaker 1: helps my ego to know that her boyfriend listens to
Speaker 1: the show and he's a big Louisal fan and he
Speaker 1: likes the show like that the that's the uh, that's
Speaker 1: the payment to me is just being told that he
Speaker 1: likes the show and listens. I always tell people this
Speaker 1: all the time when it comes to like anybody coming
Speaker 1: up to you and saying, hey, listen to your show
Speaker 1: a lot, or you know, just saying hey, you know
Speaker 1: you do a good job or whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: or people say, hey, listen, I heard what you said
Speaker 1: the other day. You're a dumbass, you know, as long
Speaker 1: as they're doing it in fun, like I appreciate that
Speaker 1: stuff too, like I don't want to be insulted, which
Speaker 1: I guess it's part of the job, but you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like even if people are interacting because
Speaker 1: they listen and it's not because they just want to
Speaker 1: say they like the show, or maybe they want to
Speaker 1: disagree with something I said or just asked the question
Speaker 1: about it, like that, that goes a long way, and
Speaker 1: it always feels good because in what we do, we
Speaker 1: never know how many people are listening. I mean, we
Speaker 1: know how many people are streaming, we know many people
Speaker 1: are downloading podcasts. We don't know how many people are
Speaker 1: listen the on terrestrial radio at any given moment. And
Speaker 1: I never even think about it, which I feel like
Speaker 1: has helped me be able to, you know, continue to
Speaker 1: do this. Not to say that I'm better than anybody
Speaker 1: else at it, but I'm just saying like, if there
Speaker 1: was a real time number at all times that we referenced,
Speaker 1: I would obsess over that, and I think not knowing
Speaker 1: and just kind of, you know, not really thinking much
Speaker 1: about it. It's made me comfortable. And also it's what
Speaker 1: I tell people when they ask me about like public speaking,
Speaker 1: because I had to give that speech at the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame of It a few weeks ago, a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I was I was genuinely nervous
Speaker 1: about that one, just because of what it was. But
Speaker 1: it was probably the most people I've ever talked to
Speaker 1: in front of a crowd in person, and that probably
Speaker 1: surprised some people. But I talk in a room by
Speaker 1: myself every day, and I never think about, Hey, Nick,
Speaker 1: don't say something stupid. Hey Nick, you better not you know,
Speaker 1: make a fool of yourself. You better get it right
Speaker 1: because you got you know, X amount of people listening.
Speaker 1: Like I never think about that. Maybe I should more
Speaker 1: so than I do. But knowing like my paranoia, I'm
Speaker 1: better off just you know, letting it rip, just preparing
Speaker 1: myself getting in here, turning on the microphone and doing
Speaker 1: whatever it is you call this. But yes, Woj is
Speaker 1: bidding out, he's auctioning off his iPhones and his credentials,
Speaker 1: and anything helps when it comes to Nile money, anything
Speaker 1: helps all right, let's see what do we want to
Speaker 1: transition to here. I guess we'll go ahead and get
Speaker 1: this out of the way. We'll have more time to
Speaker 1: talk about it once they come to a decision. But
Speaker 1: right now, the SEC is about to decide what they're
Speaker 1: going to do with their schedule, meaning eight game league
Speaker 1: schedule like it's been for a long time. Are they
Speaker 1: going to go to nine? And Heather Dinners of ESPN,
Speaker 1: let's see what the latest report, because it sounds like
Speaker 1: everybody in the league wants to go to nine, or
Speaker 1: at least a lot of people want to go to nine.
Speaker 1: But this is from ESPN says scheduling is at the
Speaker 1: heart of the at the heart of several issues right
Speaker 1: now because the SEC is still playing eight conference games
Speaker 1: when others are playing nine. Why does it matter? Because
Speaker 1: the selection committee used to strength to schedule as one
Speaker 1: of its factors when ranking teams in already subjective measure
Speaker 1: considering the scheduling inequities from league, league and within their
Speaker 1: own conferences. Indiana, for example, didn't play Oregon. Yeahda yetta,
Speaker 1: We don't need to get to that. But here's a
Speaker 1: quote from an anonymous college football playoff source to Heather
Speaker 1: Dinnish at ESPN quote, if we're going to try and
Speaker 1: have some uniformity and standardization, everybody's got to move to
Speaker 1: non conference games because you're never going to get strength
Speaker 1: of schedule right if some are playing eight and some
Speaker 1: are playing nine. While there is a sense among sources
Speaker 1: that the SEC is closer than ever to moving to
Speaker 1: nine conference games, Sankee first wants to know what playoff
Speaker 1: format will look like and how the selection committee weighs
Speaker 1: strength of schedule. So look, who knows what they're gonna
Speaker 1: end up doing, but going to nine is the right
Speaker 1: thing to do, and the ACC should go to nine
Speaker 1: as well. Every power league should play nine. It's best
Speaker 1: for everybody. I think. Now what that would likely end
Speaker 1: up in is Kentucky backing out of the Governor's Cup game,
Speaker 1: And I guess we won't know for sure until they're
Speaker 1: forced with that decision. But what I think is the
Speaker 1: not so much talked about factor that wasn't a factor
Speaker 1: until recently is the new settlement with the NCAA and
Speaker 1: the revenue sharing that has to go on moving forward,
Speaker 1: because what you're doing, like if you have a non
Speaker 1: game conference schedule, you're probably not gonna see many home
Speaker 1: and homes with non conference opponents because you've got nine
Speaker 1: games that are gonna be in your league. If you
Speaker 1: play in a good league, I'd say the majority, certainly
Speaker 1: more than half will likely be against good teams. And
Speaker 1: then the other three days you're just gonna have guaranteed
Speaker 1: home games against bums that you pay to come in.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that won't give you a good strength schedule,
Speaker 1: but if your leagues could, it won't matter. And also
Speaker 1: you're gonna need that date to open up to make money.
Speaker 1: Right Like, if you've got a non game SEC schedule
Speaker 1: and it works out to where you've got five on
Speaker 1: the road and four at home, and then you've got
Speaker 1: a neutral site game against somebody in your non conference,
Speaker 1: and then you play your rival at their place, that
Speaker 1: would put you at I guess five six home games potentially,
Speaker 1: and you won as many home games as possible because
Speaker 1: in college football, when you open up your gate, whether
Speaker 1: you're playing Popcorn State or LSU, it's a payday that
Speaker 1: you need, and you need it now more than ever
Speaker 1: because now you've got to share revenue. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a twenty million dollar bill to pay out the college
Speaker 1: athletes every year, So like making sure you have as
Speaker 1: many home games as possible is the financial decision that
Speaker 1: a lot of these schools are gonna make. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think Kentucky's scared of Louisville, but it's going
Speaker 1: to be impossible for them to do this and not
Speaker 1: make it look like they're scared. And I don't think
Speaker 1: they're scared now. Clearly the programs seem to be going
Speaker 1: in a much different direction. I think when this thing
Speaker 1: finishes up, if it does, we'll look back and see
Speaker 1: the game where they got us here at LNN in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three as a fluke kind of thing, because
Speaker 1: I think I expect Bram right now with the momentum
Speaker 1: they have in where Kentucky as I expect, and you know,
Speaker 1: you never know, maybe you lose to them, but I
Speaker 1: expect Louisville to be able to kind of hold up
Speaker 1: there in now. I think the Governor's Cup should stay
Speaker 1: with Louisville, not only because you know, you want to
Speaker 1: be chr rival, but like Kentucky, I don't see them
Speaker 1: being any better this year than they were last year,
Speaker 1: and you've got them at home, so I just know
Speaker 1: their fans would not want that game to go away.
Speaker 1: And I think if your Stoops, you're already in a
Speaker 1: tough spot with your fans as it is, just after
Speaker 1: the way last year played out. If they announced that
Speaker 1: the nine game schedules happening, and let's say Stoops has
Speaker 1: another year where he's you know, mediocre, maybe he's six
Speaker 1: and six, and then they announced they're getting rid of it,
Speaker 1: like maybe maybe Barnhard will fall on the sword because technically,
Speaker 1: you know he's the ad, but Stull everybody will know
Speaker 1: that it's Stoops having to say so as well, and
Speaker 1: your fans wont it. Like I just think big picture.
Speaker 1: I get it from a financial standpoint, and you need
Speaker 1: to make sure you're winning as much as possible. But
Speaker 1: there would be no way to spin it as if
Speaker 1: you're not scared, like if you don't play Louisville, because again,
Speaker 1: you're gonna split that every year. One game is gonna
Speaker 1: be at home, the next year is gonna be on
Speaker 1: the road, so you're not having Like what the SEC
Speaker 1: is gonna do if they go to nine is they're
Speaker 1: gonna make sure they have three non conference games against
Speaker 1: teams that are all coming to their place. To play,
Speaker 1: and they'll probably schedule as lightly as possible because they
Speaker 1: want to just make sure they got they have automatically
Speaker 1: have three wins before they get to league play. And
Speaker 1: again I get that, but like rivalries are what makes
Speaker 1: sports great. And if Stoops really wanted and if he's
Speaker 1: going to be their long term, which I don't see
Speaker 1: why he won't because I don't think they're ever going
Speaker 1: to fire him, but if Stoops wants to be their
Speaker 1: long term and he like, he has to understand, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could beat two mac teams in an ek you
Speaker 1: every year and that gives me, It gets me halfway
Speaker 1: to Bowl eligibility. The bar's not too high Kentucky for football,
Speaker 1: It just isn't. But you know, like by playing Louisville
Speaker 1: and beating them, you have a much better chance of
Speaker 1: going six and six with a win against Louisville and
Speaker 1: being viewed as a guy they want to keep around.
Speaker 1: But if you go six and six and it's and
Speaker 1: you didn't even play Louisville, like I just you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of value in beating your rival in
Speaker 1: this state in football, we know that and getting rid
Speaker 1: of it having fans not have the chance to watch
Speaker 1: their team play their rival anymore stinks, But you're also
Speaker 1: taking away a very valuable win. If you can get it,
Speaker 1: it can change your life. You can be mediocre or
Speaker 1: downright not very good you beat your rival. Nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: rewrite the story, but they're gonna They're gonna the people
Speaker 1: who really you know, who matter, your fans, your customers,
Speaker 1: They're gonna feel a different way if your struggles also
Speaker 1: include beating your rival. And that's just something I think
Speaker 1: people need to keep in mind. All right, quick break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back and wrap it up on the other side.
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Speaker 1: Probably talked more resume net ranking, Ken Palm Quad one,
Speaker 1: Quad three. We've probably talked more about that than we
Speaker 1: really ever should this season, but sometimes I nerd out
Speaker 1: a little too much on it. But real quick, just
Speaker 1: to give you an update. Indiana winning on Sunday yesterday
Speaker 1: against Purdue helped Louisville potentially turn their win against the
Speaker 1: Hoosiers to a Quad one win because it's a neutral site.
Speaker 1: Indiana's got to be in the top fifty for that
Speaker 1: to be a Quad one and currently they're now up
Speaker 1: to number fifty six. So Oklahoma, that's a loss, but
Speaker 1: it's now Quad two because Oklahoma is not in the
Speaker 1: top fifty. Now Oklahoma is at fifty one. They beat
Speaker 1: somebody on Saturday. I think it might have been was
Speaker 1: at A and M or Mississippi State, I don't remember
Speaker 1: who it was. But they gotta they got a needed win.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma was free falling in a major way and they
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta win that that. You know, again, these
Speaker 1: things are how meaningful, how valuable it actually is, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but you know you're talking about two games
Speaker 1: that I mean those two teams Indiana in Oklahoma. If
Speaker 1: they end up both finishing in the top fifty, which
Speaker 1: again Oklahoma's one spot away, Indiana six spots away, that
Speaker 1: that those aren't going to be like, wow, we can't
Speaker 1: hold that Oklahoma loss against Louisville because it's a Quad one.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna look and see that it's it
Speaker 1: was two spots away potentially from being Quad two. And
Speaker 1: then with Indiana, same thing. The win is not going
Speaker 1: to be looked at like you beat Duke, but you
Speaker 1: would be able to have a loss removed from the
Speaker 1: Quad two category, which you already have one and that's
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech and that's not changing. And then also you
Speaker 1: would have another Quad one win because you beat Indiana.
Speaker 1: And I mean, all I'm saying is that can't hurt you,
Speaker 1: can only help you. All Right, we're out of time,
Speaker 1: you guys, enjoy your evening. We're back at it tomorrow
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