Speaker 1: It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety. Holy crap, I don't know who
Speaker 1: the hell we think we are. Get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 2: The kids are playing or trail off their countries.
Speaker 1: Are screwing it up.
Speaker 3: Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 4: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 4: I feel like today's one of those days. I don't
Speaker 4: even need to ask you, guys if you're ready. I
Speaker 4: know you're ready. I can feel it, I can sense it.
Speaker 4: You are ready to rock and roll. Here on a
Speaker 4: Wednesday edition of Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety, Nick Coffee. That is me, the
Speaker 4: company man, mister John all On alongside today. I know
Speaker 4: John's ready. I was in the I was in my car.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I do this. I usually park
Speaker 4: and just sit, and it's not because like I'm dreading
Speaker 4: getting out and walking into work. I love what I
Speaker 4: do for a living. I mean it's it's it's awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm very fortunate, and I don't really do like I don't.
Speaker 4: I just sit. I don't know why. I know a
Speaker 4: lot of people talk about when they get home and
Speaker 4: they pull in the driveway or the garage, they just
Speaker 4: kind of sit. I do that too, but I'd be
Speaker 4: a liar if I said it's because like I'm dreading
Speaker 4: what I'm about to walk into. I don't know, just
Speaker 4: something that something that I do. But anyways, I'm sitting
Speaker 4: there and all of a sudden, in my rear view,
Speaker 4: I can see somebody walking up the garage, and it
Speaker 4: reminded me of what you see when they show NBA
Speaker 4: players when they're in the bowels of the arena. They're
Speaker 4: walking in showing off a fresh outfit, game face on
Speaker 4: the cameras are showing them. That's what the company man
Speaker 4: looked like as he was strolling in here to our
Speaker 4: iHeart Studios today, So I know he's ready to rock and.
Speaker 5: ROLLA That may be the nicest compliment you've ever given me,
Speaker 5: the best hype up you've ever.
Speaker 4: Got, Oh dude, I can hype my guys up. If
Speaker 4: there's one thing I'm gonna I'm gonna hip the fellaws up.
Speaker 4: That's something that just is it's something that I I
Speaker 4: mean not to brag, but I'm good at it. I'm
Speaker 4: good at that. So I mean he's ready. I saw
Speaker 4: him walking in. I mean he looked like he was focused,
Speaker 4: looks like he was ready to put together a phenomenal
Speaker 4: show today. And that's what we're gonna try to do.
Speaker 4: So let's let's do it, shall we again? Coffee and Company,
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Speaker 4: It's seven ninety Louisville dot com. It's football season, folks.
Speaker 4: I mean we've got college football games tomorrow and then
Speaker 4: of course you've got Friday games as well. I mean,
Speaker 4: this weekend is just I mean, it's a it's a
Speaker 4: football frenzy. NFL starts next week, of course, a week
Speaker 4: from tomorrow. So I'm excited. And you know, I don't
Speaker 4: want to pick on anybody, but I couldn't help but
Speaker 4: just laugh at one of the emails I got earlier today.
Speaker 4: So I get emails from PR companies not because they
Speaker 4: know who I am, because like I'm on the list, right,
Speaker 4: they get all the email addresses for those that have
Speaker 4: a talk radio platform, and these PR companies are out
Speaker 4: there trying to pimp out whoever hired them to, you know,
Speaker 4: pimp them out. Right, Do you want to bring on
Speaker 4: this guest to talk about his book? He wrote, so like,
Speaker 4: they don't know that I'm a sports radio host, and
Speaker 4: then I don't give a damn about what they're promoting.
Speaker 4: I'm just one of many, and they do personalize it, right, Hi, Nick?
Speaker 4: And I'm sure you know they've got some kind of
Speaker 4: software maybe AI even that can generate you know, just
Speaker 4: by looking at the email address and knowing to just
Speaker 4: add first name here and then you know, the same
Speaker 4: message goes out to thousands of people. But you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, let me read it to you, Hi, Nick.
Speaker 4: I wanted to reach out as I'm working with Homer
Speaker 4: Simpson's favorite band of all time, legendary seventies rock band
Speaker 4: Grand Funk Railroad on the road following last year's American
Speaker 4: Band Tour. They'll be performing at the Louisville Palace on
Speaker 4: October seventeenth. We've got a show teaser you can watch here.
Speaker 4: Love to coordinate an interview with the original member Don
Speaker 4: Brew where he did vocals and drums for a feature
Speaker 4: to run ahead of the show, if possible, let me
Speaker 4: know more on Grand Funk Railroad below, Like, do you
Speaker 4: know it's football season here? Sir, with all due respect, No,
Speaker 4: I'm not interested.
Speaker 6: And then it's a Grand Funk Railroad season.
Speaker 4: Man, No, it's not not right, not now. John. I
Speaker 4: could sense that you were actually would be interested in that, right,
Speaker 4: Are you a Simpsons guy.
Speaker 5: I'm not a Simpsons guy, nor am I a Grand
Speaker 5: Funk Railroad guy. But I know that they're They're pretty
Speaker 5: instrumental when it comes to the history of rock in
Speaker 5: the United States.
Speaker 6: I know that much.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I know they are old. They're from the
Speaker 4: seventh Are they known from the Simpsons? They must be
Speaker 4: Like I was gonna say, why bring that into it?
Speaker 4: By the way, they must assume you're a Simpsons fan. Well,
Speaker 4: I don't say this like to brag, because I have
Speaker 4: nothing against it. It's one of the most successful shows
Speaker 4: ever as far as how long it's lasted. But I
Speaker 4: do feel like I am in a very small minority.
Speaker 4: I've never watched a second of The Simpsons never. I mean,
Speaker 4: is it still on?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 5: I think it's got a million seasons. I've never seen
Speaker 5: any like you you've never seen it either. I mean
Speaker 5: maybe clips here and there, but I've never sit down
Speaker 5: and set aside time to watch an episode of The Simpsons.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'd say it be impossible to not have like
Speaker 4: seen like it, clips of it or whatever on the internet,
Speaker 4: or like back in the day when I used to
Speaker 4: watch live TV before the streaming world existed, I mean,
Speaker 4: you'd see all kinds of promotional commercials about programming on
Speaker 4: different networks. Right and now that I think of it,
Speaker 4: I'm trying when I watch NFL games on Fox, I
Speaker 4: think that's when I see something about The Simpsons. But
Speaker 4: I've never watched it. And again it's not because I'm
Speaker 4: like it sucks. It's just, first of all, it's never
Speaker 4: really been It's just not my kind of thing. But
Speaker 4: I feel like it as long as it's been around.
Speaker 4: I mean, in fact, it's kind of clearly it has
Speaker 4: a huge fan base of people who love the Simpsons,
Speaker 4: or it wouldn't be on for you know, a million seasons,
Speaker 4: as you said. So anyways, again I'm not distracted, but
Speaker 4: did people know where we are here? It's end of August,
Speaker 4: it's about to go down. It's about to happen. I mean,
Speaker 4: it already has happened with a Week zero. That was
Speaker 4: just that was just the appetizer, right, and the appetiser
Speaker 4: was pretty filling. If I'm going to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: nice upset FSU going down SMU Nevada. I mean that
Speaker 4: was actually a weird game. SMU shouldn't have won, but
Speaker 4: they did. And then I don't think that this I
Speaker 4: knew how this game ended, but I had FS one
Speaker 4: on FS one on the TV the other night on
Speaker 4: Monday night when I was going to bed, just because
Speaker 4: they were replaying the game, and like, I didn't realize
Speaker 4: how exciting the very end of the NOVAA of the
Speaker 4: New Mexican New Mexico Montana State game. So you know,
Speaker 4: week zero it was a tease. But now we're here, folks,
Speaker 4: and I you know, with all due respect, I don't
Speaker 4: want to talk about the Grand Funk Railroad today.
Speaker 5: That doesn't even sound like a band name, to be honest.
Speaker 5: It sounds like I don't even know what it sounds
Speaker 5: like to be I mean, I told you I'm familiar
Speaker 5: with who they are, but Grand Funk Railroad. What's the
Speaker 5: first thing that comes to mind if you didn't know
Speaker 5: they were a seventies rock band.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think funk. I'm thinking like because I actually
Speaker 4: like funk. Funk is a legitimate genre that I'm a
Speaker 4: fan of. But says they're known as the American Band.
Speaker 4: The high energy five piece group includes original founding members
Speaker 4: Don Brine. We need to get another names, but now
Speaker 4: you have to play at least one Grand Funk Railroad return. Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: And that's why you're the best, Because you are. I
Speaker 4: didn't even need to tell him, folks, he knew it.
Speaker 4: Look at me stepping on the toes here as he
Speaker 4: arrived ready to deliver today, because that's what he does
Speaker 4: in the.
Speaker 6: Horn of Grand Funk rail Road before I came in
Speaker 6: the garage.
Speaker 4: That's what it was. That's why you had that pep
Speaker 4: in your step, and that had look in your eye
Speaker 4: of focus and just ready to ready to get after
Speaker 4: it today. Good stuff, all right. Speaking of good stuff,
Speaker 4: shout out to the Louisville volleyball team last night. I
Speaker 4: didn't talk much about it yesterday. In fact, I don't
Speaker 4: think I mentioned it at all. And it wasn't because
Speaker 4: you know, I was anti volleyball but you know, it's
Speaker 4: just not something that typically comes to mind whenever I'm
Speaker 4: on the air here, and I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 4: ever going to be a sport that really gets a
Speaker 4: ton of coverage on a platform like this, but there's
Speaker 4: no doubt it's a growing sport. And any time we
Speaker 4: talk volleyball, which is rare, I say the same thing.
Speaker 4: But I think it's worth saying again because it remains
Speaker 4: to be true. It's a really really undervalued television product.
Speaker 4: Now maybe not as much anymore, because last night, what
Speaker 4: a great way to get the volleyball season started. At
Speaker 4: the collegiate level. You had what four top ten teams
Speaker 4: playing Kentucky and Nebraska.
Speaker 6: I think was it, Yeah, it was Nebraska.
Speaker 4: And then of course Louisville in Wisconsin, and Louisville was
Speaker 4: able to hold on and win against the number three
Speaker 4: team in the country. I think they won in four sets. So,
Speaker 4: you know, Danny Busboom Kelly, you know, she like Jeff
Speaker 4: Walls and Dan McDonald and I know you know, as
Speaker 4: far as recency, Jeff didn't have his best season last year,
Speaker 4: but you know, wouldn't be shot. I mean, Jeff's kind
Speaker 4: of guy that if he goes to a final four
Speaker 4: any year, nobody's surprised. And with Dann McDonald, clearly things
Speaker 4: have fallen off a little bit, but I feel like
Speaker 4: momentum is heading in the right direction and they've been
Speaker 4: able to really utilize some good NIL funds to get
Speaker 4: back on track. But what I'm getting at is thatdie
Speaker 4: Bus from Kelly is now is now in the tier
Speaker 4: to where she has the program near the top in
Speaker 4: the country, certainly in the top tier among others, and
Speaker 4: in any moment, if that breakthrough happens and she wins
Speaker 4: a national championship, nobody's gonna be surprised. So by the way,
Speaker 4: that was, I forgot to turn the soundboard down. That
Speaker 4: was like an ad that almost started playing on If
Speaker 4: you heard that or not, John.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't hear it.
Speaker 4: It was like a little almost sound like a spaceship
Speaker 4: coming in. Might have been the Grand Funk Revival coming
Speaker 4: to hijack the show road, right, would I say the revival?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Basketball, Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: Anyways, So you know it's a It's when I talk
Speaker 4: about it being a good TV product, you can have
Speaker 4: no clue who any team is. Now, Clearly you do
Speaker 4: when it comes to But you can be someone just
Speaker 4: looking for live sports or just looking for something live
Speaker 4: to watch on television. You can stumble upon college volleyball,
Speaker 4: and even if you're not that exposed to the sport,
Speaker 4: or really you've never been exposed to it, you can
Speaker 4: you can easily understand how it works, how they score points,
Speaker 4: like what's going on, and it's high energy, there's very
Speaker 4: little downtime, like it's I enjoy watching it.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie to you and say I seek
Speaker 4: it out. But last night the wife, the kids went
Speaker 4: to bed relatively early for them. But this game they
Speaker 4: call it a game, with it a match. I think
Speaker 4: it's a match, right.
Speaker 6: Actually, that's a good question. I think you're correct.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm gonna be transparent and honest with you, like
Speaker 4: I'm not I if I start talking volleyball, I'll slip
Speaker 4: up and really show how much I don't know about it.
Speaker 4: But I think they call it a match, right, I think.
Speaker 6: So volleyball match? That sounds correct. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So this match, because there it was a double header,
Speaker 4: didn't start till very late into the evening, and I,
Speaker 4: I mean I kept it on until the very end
Speaker 4: because I was into it. It was good stuff. So
Speaker 4: shout out to the Loull women's volleyball I mean volleyball.
Speaker 4: There's not a men's volleyball team, but anyways, they had
Speaker 4: a great start to their season last night, knocking off
Speaker 4: a top three team. And again, when you've got the
Speaker 4: personnel they've got coming back, led by Anna de Beer,
Speaker 4: who of course is a local product, an All American
Speaker 4: ACC Player of the Year last year, and of course
Speaker 4: she ended the match with a great block. You're in
Speaker 4: your I mean again, I'm not gonna be a phony
Speaker 4: and act like you know I I've some huge fan
Speaker 4: that goes to every match or anything like that. I've
Speaker 4: been to a couple over the years. And you know,
Speaker 4: but when you have a program on campus that is
Speaker 4: in the top tier of their sport, that again, at
Speaker 4: any moment, that breakthrough could happen to where you win
Speaker 4: the whole thing. You know, don't take that for granted
Speaker 4: because it hasn't happened yet for Jeff Walls, and it
Speaker 4: hasn't happened yet for Dan McDonald. And you know, again,
Speaker 4: at any moment, especially with Jeff Walls, that could you
Speaker 4: flip at the switch in your back and nobody would
Speaker 4: be shocked. But you know, never take those for granted
Speaker 4: any time, because you just never know when that you
Speaker 4: know that can go away. I mean, look at Louis
Speaker 4: of men's basketball. You know there was run there where,
Speaker 4: maybe not every year, you felt like you were right
Speaker 4: there to where you should win a national championship. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think there's been a couple of years where that's
Speaker 4: that's been the case, but you know, you always felt
Speaker 4: like you were good enough to compete with just about anybody,
Speaker 4: and on any given night wouldn't be a shocker if
Speaker 4: you won a game to advance you to the Final four,
Speaker 4: or maybe won a game to get you to the
Speaker 4: national championship game. And obviously when it comes to men's basketball,
Speaker 4: my goodness, a lot has changed since then. I think
Speaker 4: they're in a good place now. But anyway, shout out
Speaker 4: to Danny Busmim Kelly, her program, and all the fans
Speaker 4: that stayed late last night because it was it was
Speaker 4: a very very late night. All right, I guess we'll
Speaker 4: start where we have started many days, it seems like
Speaker 4: in the last week and a half, and that is
Speaker 4: Hamari Huggins Bruce. So it's official. He is on the roster.
Speaker 4: He is officially you know, practicing, and I guess he's eligible.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, there hasn't been anything official from
Speaker 4: the University of Louisville in regards to them appealing something
Speaker 4: or them awaiting clearance. They just I mean, it's been
Speaker 4: pretty vague. And I know, I yesterday I read what
Speaker 4: was over at Matt mcgavick's site, you know, kind of
Speaker 4: detailing things. And you know, I know Matt wouldn't put
Speaker 4: this out there unless he got it from somebody probably
Speaker 4: within U of L, meaning you know, a spokesperson for
Speaker 4: the program, and uh, you know, we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 4: I actually, let me let me see here did he
Speaker 4: update it? He might have updated it unless I'm looking
Speaker 4: at something old. Here we go, now, never mind, this
Speaker 4: is this is this was? There we go. I clicked,
Speaker 4: I clicked the wrong story. Apologies.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Here here, I'm gonna read it once again. Says that, uh,
Speaker 4: he will be immediately eligible to play so long as
Speaker 4: he meets certain academic requirements according to legislation passed by
Speaker 4: the n CULA earlier this year. Now, John, you're smarter
Speaker 4: than I am. I'm just gonna read that sentence one
Speaker 4: more time. You try to tell me with that big
Speaker 4: brain ears how to decipher this. We're gonna decipher things
Speaker 4: like the great Connor Stallions. Does he decipher for signals?
Speaker 4: John's gonna decipher this sentence for a dumb ass like me.
Speaker 4: He will be immediately eligible to play, so long as
Speaker 4: he meets certain academic requirements, according to legislation passed by
Speaker 4: the NCAA earlier this year. I'm not smart enough to
Speaker 4: read that sentence coherently. I mean, does that mean? What
Speaker 4: does that mean?
Speaker 5: It reminds me kind of of what Tyler Johnson went
Speaker 5: through last year for some reason. I don't know if
Speaker 5: it's the exact same thing.
Speaker 6: We no with him.
Speaker 4: They were just waiting like they knew that they had
Speaker 4: to wait for the nc double A okay here, I
Speaker 4: mean again like that. There's two sides of it that
Speaker 4: I keep going back and forth on. One is well,
Speaker 4: I mean, if he's here and he's practicing, they feel
Speaker 4: like he's gonna be able to play and they're good
Speaker 4: to go. The other side is well they're not. I mean,
Speaker 4: am I wrong here to say that if he was
Speaker 4: eligible to play and compete and be on the field
Speaker 4: for Saturday's game against Austin p they would say that
Speaker 4: in a statement, right, yes, So like maybe they don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, again, we don't even know if there are
Speaker 4: any rules anymore. Right, we're talking about the NCAA. So
Speaker 4: maybe there's a chance that they just, you know, they
Speaker 4: don't really know what they can and can't do. NCAA
Speaker 4: headn't returned to an email like they maybe they don't
Speaker 4: know what to do. But one thing I will say
Speaker 4: is that if somehow he is able to get out there,
Speaker 4: I mean, if like we find out, hey, no, he's here,
Speaker 4: he's good to go, Like, they can put him in
Speaker 4: the game if they want, they can start him on Saturday.
Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody yesterday who you know. Again,
Speaker 4: when I start yapping about things I don't really know
Speaker 4: and I'm just kind of guessing and speculating, I try
Speaker 4: not to mislead people. I try to make it pretty
Speaker 4: clear whenever I'm just you know, speculating and guessing. And
Speaker 4: I have no problem telling anybody when it comes to
Speaker 4: certain things like hey, I got no clue. I'm in
Speaker 4: the same boat as you guys. In fact, some of
Speaker 4: you guys made no more information than me. But they're
Speaker 4: gonna give guys like Jayden Thompson, Harris Hicks, Jelil McClain.
Speaker 4: They're gonna get their first crack at being that slot
Speaker 4: guy to fill in for Colin Lacey. And it really
Speaker 4: has nothing to do with the Marriy Huggins Bruce. It's
Speaker 4: just because they've they've been here and they've earned it.
Speaker 4: Like they've been they've been competing in camp and I
Speaker 4: think they are welcoming Amari back with open arms. When
Speaker 4: I say they, I mean the program meeting Jeff Brohm,
Speaker 4: but he left, So again, I don't think that they're
Speaker 4: doing this because oh no, he can't. He's gonna have
Speaker 4: to really start from the very bottom because he decided
Speaker 4: to transfer. I mean, this is a business now, this
Speaker 4: is pro sports, and Maury Huggins Bruce hit the portal
Speaker 4: and I don't even think Jeff brom could have blamed him. Right.
Speaker 4: They brought in Colin Lacey, which it's really starting to
Speaker 4: really starting to make me sad about him because we
Speaker 4: hear Jeff not only say, but if you watch the
Speaker 4: press conference, his face kind of set it too that
Speaker 4: he was really coming on before the injury and they
Speaker 4: were gonna use him in a variety of different ways.
Speaker 4: But also I'm looking at all these preseason lists, and
Speaker 4: I don't mean like awards watch list, but like, I've
Speaker 4: got a couple of you know, couple of PDFs that
Speaker 4: I pay for to get access to that can help
Speaker 4: me make wagers. One I'm gonna give it another shot.
Speaker 4: It didn't help me much last year. There's another one
Speaker 4: that was pretty useful. But they're mentioning like best transfers
Speaker 4: at receiver, best transfers coming out of the G five,
Speaker 4: all Americans at just this position, best ten receivers in
Speaker 4: the country, and like Colin Lacy's name's popping up everywhere.
Speaker 4: So it's a bummer to see him go. And he
Speaker 4: has great credentials, an impressive resume, which is why when
Speaker 4: you're a Mario Huggins Bruce and you see this guy
Speaker 4: coming in, Hey, no hard feelings, love you guys, but
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go back home and do what's best for
Speaker 4: me and you know, try to compete there and get
Speaker 4: a starting spot. Well it didn't work out. He didn't
Speaker 4: get a starting spot, so he's back here at Louisville,
Speaker 4: and it's a good thing. But if he is giving
Speaker 4: the green light, and he's eligible to play right now.
Speaker 4: I still think you're gonna see other guys get a chance,
Speaker 4: not just this week, but next week before they decide
Speaker 4: not to say he won't get a snap here or there.
Speaker 4: Maybe they'll throw him out there. But you know, I
Speaker 4: think me yesterday mentioning if they start Huggins Bruce, it
Speaker 4: would say a lot more about what they think of
Speaker 4: those guys than anything else. I think that probably triggered
Speaker 4: somebody to say, hey, you know, let him know that
Speaker 4: these guys we you know, cause again I talked about it.
Speaker 4: Maybe it wasn't yesterday, but I know upset it at
Speaker 4: some point. I think when it comes to the receiver position,
Speaker 4: Jeff Brohm likes the talent that he has. He likes
Speaker 4: the pieces that he has. Obviously they're much better at
Speaker 4: that spot if they have called a lacy back, but
Speaker 4: he likes what he has to work with. Therefore, you know,
Speaker 4: it's just about can you become a consistent playmaker when
Speaker 4: it matters, you know, against against another opponent, when the
Speaker 4: lights are on, when it's you know, when it's when
Speaker 4: it's real. So he's here, he's practicing, is he actually
Speaker 4: eligible that I don't know, so we'll see. All right,
Speaker 4: we're loaded today. Yesterday I made it an executive decision
Speaker 4: on behalf of the city of Louisville to ban andy casts.
Speaker 4: He might have redeemed himself today with a new list.
Speaker 4: We'll take a look at that. And also we're getting closer, folks.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow we got college football, and then of course it's
Speaker 4: it's college football Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. You
Speaker 4: kid me. It's good stuff. So I want to get
Speaker 4: into some of the some of the games I'm interested
Speaker 4: in wagering on, and again you won't. You guys know
Speaker 4: how this works, right. You can either listen to me
Speaker 4: share why I'm betting something and think, man, this guy
Speaker 4: knows his stuff. I'm getting in on this, or you
Speaker 4: can be like, man, I am gonna do what I
Speaker 4: did last year, put a nice little chunk in the
Speaker 4: kid's college savings account. Fading knicks picks. Let's do it again.
Speaker 4: We'll send the kids to whatever school they want. Tuition
Speaker 4: won't be a problem. So whatever you want to do,
Speaker 4: do exactly that. But we are going to talk about
Speaker 4: some sports wagering. We're gonna be joined by Alex Kupper
Speaker 4: coming up at four oh five. He'll give us his
Speaker 4: thoughts on you know, this matchup, and we're not going
Speaker 4: to talk a lot about Austin p Why would we
Speaker 4: do that. But Cup can give us some perspective as
Speaker 4: far as what it's like as a player when you
Speaker 4: know you're about to go against a team that's just
Speaker 4: there to again collect the check. Bend over, take a
Speaker 4: butt whoopin. People get uncomfortable when I say bend over.
Speaker 4: I don't know why you can been over. You've been
Speaker 4: over entire shoe Folks like you guys are perverts. When
Speaker 4: I say bend over, people, you guys are, get your
Speaker 4: head out of the gutter. Grow up?
Speaker 6: Would you.
Speaker 4: Can you guys match my maturity level? That was sarcasm.
Speaker 4: If you didn't, if you didn't pick up on that.
Speaker 4: So again, we're loaded today and I hope you guys
Speaker 4: will stick with us. We'll let you guys be a
Speaker 4: part of the show. Five oh two five seven seventy
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Speaker 4: five three zero seven ninety and I'm waiting for an RSVP.
Speaker 4: On another guest, We're gonna talk to Brian Edwards from
Speaker 4: Vegas Insider at some point Vegas Insider, I barely know her.
Speaker 4: Can I keep doing that?
Speaker 6: Or is that gonna?
Speaker 4: Is that gonna get stick?
Speaker 6: I think you can keep doing that because I.
Speaker 4: You know, when you say, Insider, what was you know?
Speaker 1: What was?
Speaker 4: What was the other one?
Speaker 6: I did the other day?
Speaker 4: Something I remember? You know what I'm talking about though,
Speaker 4: something about like I barely know or who was it?
Speaker 4: It's gonna drive me crazy. Anyways. Uh, he's got like
Speaker 4: six jobs now, so he was doing his live show
Speaker 4: for Vegas Insider. I think it is earlier today, and
Speaker 4: I'm trying to see if he's gonna be able to
Speaker 4: do a fourth or five thirty today. If not, we'll
Speaker 4: get him on tomorrow. Still with us again, it's Coffee
Speaker 4: and Company. We are feeling about Thornton's right here on
Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety. It's a very known song.
Speaker 6: Right this is their biggest tip.
Speaker 4: I would say, text line let me know like that.
Speaker 4: I would be lucky to have a conversation with this
Speaker 4: this great group. And look, I'm just not familiar, but
Speaker 4: let me ask you this. If you told this gentleman,
Speaker 4: I've already forgotten his name.
Speaker 6: The Dawn guy. I can't remember his name either, Don Brewer,
Speaker 6: Don Brewer Grant.
Speaker 4: If you told Don Brewer from Grand Funk Railroad, Hey,
Speaker 4: we're gonna promote your your show coming up in Louisville.
Speaker 4: We're gonna put you on with a thirty six year
Speaker 4: old sports talk radio host who doesn't know who you are,
Speaker 4: gonna be a real he would say, what do you do?
Speaker 4: He'd fire this pr coump. He would like, it doesn't
Speaker 4: make any sense, Like I'm not gonna make him look good.
Speaker 4: I don't know what about him.
Speaker 6: He didn't need me.
Speaker 5: I'd have one question for me to say. I would
Speaker 5: just say, how does it feel to out last Black Sabbath?
Speaker 5: Because they're retired, they're from the same era.
Speaker 4: You could you could do it like you if you
Speaker 4: if you put ten minutes into preparing an interview, you
Speaker 4: would do a really good job because, like you know,
Speaker 4: you're you way more musically in cline than I am,
Speaker 4: even about music that is way before my time, but
Speaker 4: even more so before your time.
Speaker 6: Yes, and that.
Speaker 4: Would like that's actually that would be a good question,
Speaker 4: Like that would be that's a nice light question that
Speaker 4: just would make that interview conversational. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: And I would just be so uncomfortable knowing I'm swe
Speaker 4: out of my element. Does that make sense?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd get it.
Speaker 4: It's like whenever somebody randomly brings me a guest when
Speaker 4: we're doing a live show somewhere, like, I'm just not built.
Speaker 4: I'm not as good as others when it comes to
Speaker 4: being able to handle that.
Speaker 5: Like one of you, I remember you told me one
Speaker 5: of your very first interviews. I think it was a
Speaker 5: w KU administrator or something like that.
Speaker 4: So we did a we did. It was when I
Speaker 4: worked for a different station and we were doing a
Speaker 4: show at a golf course. And I don't believe it
Speaker 4: had anything to do with this event. I think we
Speaker 4: were just there doing a remote at the golf course,
Speaker 4: but it was. It was when w KU was doing
Speaker 4: their Topper tour. And like that's kind of like the
Speaker 4: Cardinal Caravan, kind of like Who's your Indiana does the
Speaker 4: who what they call it?
Speaker 6: I don't know if I can't remember the name, but yeah,
Speaker 6: but they.
Speaker 4: Go to all kinds of places across the state just
Speaker 4: to kind of promote you know it's it's a it's
Speaker 4: a comedic common thing with an athletic athletic department. So
Speaker 4: they're there, and uh the s I d at WKU
Speaker 4: at the time, I think thought I was there because
Speaker 4: I just I wanted to you know, I wanted to
Speaker 4: get I wanted to be up close and personal with
Speaker 4: the you know, the brass of the athletic department at
Speaker 4: Western Kentucky. So and I knew this guy. His name
Speaker 4: was Stats. He went by Stats, went to Trinity. He's
Speaker 4: like my age, and he's he was a PR superstar
Speaker 4: at a young age, and he, I guess just thought
Speaker 4: he was hooking me up. He brought uh, he brought
Speaker 4: Ray Harper over to the to the to the table.
Speaker 4: I was doing the show and he just had him
Speaker 4: sit down. Ray Harper is just doing what he's told him.
Speaker 4: Who the hell I am? So like, I guess that
Speaker 4: was an invitation. Hey, we've got you, Ray Harper. I
Speaker 4: think there's a big miscommunication. They just assumed I was
Speaker 4: there for them and I wasn't. So Ray Harper puts
Speaker 4: on a headset. The WKU basketball coach, I knew one
Speaker 4: player on his team. It was George Fant who had
Speaker 4: just it was probably the highest ranked high school recruit
Speaker 4: to come to Western Kentucky. He's from Bowling Green, by
Speaker 4: the way. He's actually an NFL player right now, an
Speaker 4: offensive lineman. But he was a highly ranked guy, probably
Speaker 4: not the highest ranked WKU's had because you know, what's
Speaker 4: his name was there buying all the players before it
Speaker 4: was before it was legal to do it. Who's the
Speaker 4: guy they moved on from WKU. Stansbury, Yeah, Stansbury. So anyways,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just, I mean, i' I'm just yapping,
Speaker 4: don't even know what I'm saying, not even sure what's
Speaker 4: coming out of my mouth. And I think I asked
Speaker 4: him just five different questions about one specific player who
Speaker 4: was just an incoming freshman who never played a game,
Speaker 4: and he looked at me kind of like, the Hell's
Speaker 4: wrong with this guy? And I'm just so I always
Speaker 4: remember that, and maybe if that didn't happen, I'd be
Speaker 4: a little more comfortable. But I always go back to
Speaker 4: that Ray Harper interview when somebody just, you know, whenever
Speaker 4: I'm out of my element and I'm interviewing somebody, not
Speaker 4: only that I wasn't prepared for, but like that, I
Speaker 4: don't know a whole lot about like, believe it or not,
Speaker 4: when we bring on some of our guests that are
Speaker 4: joining us on behalf of our partners, I put a
Speaker 4: lot of time into educating myself enough to where I
Speaker 4: can have a conversation and ask questions without sounding as
Speaker 4: if like I'm speaking a foreign language to them. So
Speaker 4: like whenever I'm at the ACC Basketball media Days, which
Speaker 4: by the way, I'm gonna go to that next month,
Speaker 4: and they just bring over a random coach like one
Speaker 4: that's not really like that, that's not really what this
Speaker 4: show is. But also like no offense, I don't really
Speaker 4: have any interest in talking to them, but they assume
Speaker 4: that if you're there, then you want all the coaches,
Speaker 4: and that's just you know, it's not really my thing
Speaker 4: and more than you mean, I'm sure people would love
Speaker 4: to hear coaches more so than me, But like I
Speaker 4: just I don't know, I don't know enough of I
Speaker 4: can't fake that I'm really interested in talking to somebody.
Speaker 4: Does that make sense? Yes, Vannetti's great at that, and
Speaker 4: I shouldn't assume that he's faking it. He's faking it
Speaker 4: a lot of the time. He's faking it when he
Speaker 4: had interested in talking to me. That's just who that
Speaker 4: she's a good sales Oh absolutely, he is nobody better.
Speaker 4: But anyways, shout out to a Grand Funk Railroad. I'll
Speaker 4: tell you this. They got a lot of free plug
Speaker 4: today on this show. They did we need to do
Speaker 4: the exactly don't know the palace? Now you do exactly?
Speaker 4: Now you do October seventeenth. So so there you go.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll get back into football coming up here shortly.
Speaker 4: But I do want to share with you something that
Speaker 4: that I think I'm going to have a hard time doing,
Speaker 4: and that is, you know, not being able to control
Speaker 4: myself from defending Pack Kelsey when those that still somehow
Speaker 4: believe that Kenny Payne was wronged come after my man,
Speaker 4: p K. And the reason this is on my mind
Speaker 4: is because I'm looking at pictures here on social media
Speaker 4: because I knew I smelled something funny when I got
Speaker 4: out of my car today, Mark.
Speaker 6: Pope's and Louisville John oh Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Pat Kelsey, Mark Pope and Mayor Craig Greenberg
Speaker 4: are I mean, I guess it's concluded now. It was
Speaker 4: earlier this afternoon, but they were speaking at what is
Speaker 4: the event here. It is the leadership Louisville luncheon, and
Speaker 4: again both Kelsey and Pope along with Mayor Greenberg Any
Speaker 4: be Shears there as well, So the big brass here
Speaker 4: and when it comes to basketball in this state as
Speaker 4: well as leadership in Louisville and in this state with
Speaker 4: Greenberg and besher So, you know, I see Kelsey here
Speaker 4: looking like a million bucks, and you know, I go
Speaker 4: back to what I saw earlier today I had I
Speaker 4: had to get into the weeds once again on Twitter,
Speaker 4: and I just couldn't help myself. Well you know how
Speaker 4: I couldn't help myself when people would try to act
Speaker 4: like I was like my criticism and just what I mean,
Speaker 4: it is criticism, but it was just stating the obvious.
Speaker 4: It was just acknowledging what was happening. It really wasn't
Speaker 4: opinion based. And people would claim that, you know, acknowledging
Speaker 4: the lotwle of basketball had fallen to a level nobody
Speaker 4: ever thought possible. Was That's just me manufacturing that because
Speaker 4: I'm a hater and I'm you know, anti Kenny Payne,
Speaker 4: Like still can't believe people thought that way. And yet
Speaker 4: there are people now and I don't want to act
Speaker 4: like this is a big representation. It's a tiny, tiny minority,
Speaker 4: and I need to just get over it. I need to,
Speaker 4: you know, just not let myself get caught up in it.
Speaker 4: But I have a hard time. So I'll share with
Speaker 4: you some context here to what I'm referring to. So
Speaker 4: Mark Pope, as you know, landed Malachi Moreno, I think
Speaker 4: it was earlier this month, and that's a big time
Speaker 4: recruit kid right there in their backyard in Lexington. And
Speaker 4: then also Jasper Johnson. I mean, he's going to make
Speaker 4: his decision next week at Woodford County High School and
Speaker 4: the belief is that he's going to go to Kentucky,
Speaker 4: which again I've been pretty clear, that's huge for Kentucky,
Speaker 4: that's huge for Mark Pope. Do those kids come to
Speaker 4: Kentucky if they're not from Kentucky, Probably not, but either
Speaker 4: way it doesn't matter. You know, they weren't gonna come
Speaker 4: to Kentucky probably and now they are, and you know
Speaker 4: that would be a big get for them. I won't
Speaker 4: try away from that. But one of the people who
Speaker 4: still believe Kenny Payne was wronged and that he was
Speaker 4: a good coach, I can't even speaking on people who
Speaker 4: think that and believed, like I can't. I just can't
Speaker 4: in any way process or comprehend that anybody could have
Speaker 4: that thought and actually believe it. But they do, and
Speaker 4: it fascinates me. But this tweet came out yesterday, I
Speaker 4: guess it was, and I saw it this morning. If
Speaker 4: Pope lands both Malachi Moreno and Jasper Johnson, Pat Kelsey
Speaker 4: is on the clock. Kelsey has yet to land his
Speaker 4: first commitment for the class of twenty twenty five. The
Speaker 4: honeymoon is over. We need recruits. That's a real person
Speaker 4: meaning what they're saying. That's not sarcasm, that's not trying
Speaker 4: to troll, because it's the same person that you know
Speaker 4: at times had blocked me and came at me personally
Speaker 4: about like, you know, my appearance and about you know
Speaker 4: me personally. If you don't like me, that's fine. But
Speaker 4: like when I tell you Kenny Payne was allows he coach,
Speaker 4: I'm stating an obvious fact. That's not even an opinion,
Speaker 4: that's factual. There's evidence that supports that as a fact.
Speaker 4: You go to the dictionary awful coach, they probably will
Speaker 4: reference him as an example. Maybe the lead example, So
Speaker 4: you say things like that, and again, that's not personal
Speaker 4: about Kenny Payne's him. That's aout him as a coach,
Speaker 4: and it would lead to people, you know, just being
Speaker 4: the worst Kenny Payne. He hasn't he won four games
Speaker 4: in year one. Nick Coffee, you look like you were
Speaker 4: you know, you look like a deformed beaver. I was
Speaker 4: told one time I looked like I was conceived by
Speaker 4: a ball, a beaver and a bald lesbian, which actually
Speaker 4: was pretty pretty. That was one where I was reading
Speaker 4: the mean comments that i'd gotten and I said that
Speaker 4: when my wife laughed, and I've never let her live
Speaker 4: it down. She thought that was funny. She must think
Speaker 4: it's true. Well, you had kids with me, so the
Speaker 4: joke's on you, honey. Anyways, Like, what do we do
Speaker 4: with these with people who put this stuff out there
Speaker 4: into the air. I know the answer, ignore it, but
Speaker 4: I can't because it's it's it's insane to me that
Speaker 4: people believe that, and it's not. Again, it's a small group.
Speaker 4: And the responses here, you know, are are exactly the
Speaker 4: way I'm feeling. And and my response was this, like
Speaker 4: the last staff did not recruit at all, not a
Speaker 4: single visitor last fall during a ten win football season.
Speaker 4: And yet fans like this, and you're not a Louisville fan,
Speaker 4: you're a Kenny Payne fan, right that you. I mean
Speaker 4: that that's what it is. But they shamefully defended that
Speaker 4: man at all costs when he didn't do anything. He
Speaker 4: didn't he didn't try. And Pat Kelsey and his staff
Speaker 4: they're gonna put together a really good class. I don't
Speaker 4: know where it's gonna I don't know how many guys
Speaker 4: they're gonna get. And that's just like somebody trying to
Speaker 4: set this guy up for failure. And you know, they'll
Speaker 4: claim that that's how it worked out with Kenny. It's
Speaker 4: not at all. Kenny Payne showed us from day one
Speaker 4: he was incompetent, he was not qualified, was gonna be terrible,
Speaker 4: and it played out exactly that way. And I say
Speaker 4: this with sincerity. The best thing that ever happened was
Speaker 4: that man being consistent because we knew right like from
Speaker 4: day one, he never did anything that showed you in
Speaker 4: any way that things were gonna be okay and he
Speaker 4: was gonna be able to I mean not only I
Speaker 4: mean like not even succeed like he was so bad
Speaker 4: and we all know that, and I just thought we
Speaker 4: were all removed from the toxicity of that era. And
Speaker 4: yet because there's a lot of people who were probably
Speaker 4: in the same I shouldn't say a lot, but you know,
Speaker 4: you know, there was a handful of fans that still,
Speaker 4: you know, just acted as if it was all the
Speaker 4: fans fault because we were negative and like the stuff
Speaker 4: that Kenny Paine said in his last press conference at Louisville,
Speaker 4: like they believe they agreed with him. I just can't
Speaker 4: process that.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 4: I think that's somebody that's more of a Kenny Paine
Speaker 4: fan than a Louisville fan. But nonetheless, a lot of
Speaker 4: those people that were in that small minority have completely
Speaker 4: all bought in, and you know, they realized that they were,
Speaker 4: you know, just and again there's something to be said
Speaker 4: about just hey, if he's your coach, you're that big
Speaker 4: of a fan, you're just going to support, support, support,
Speaker 4: be a fan the way you want to be a fan.
Speaker 4: But I don't think that's being a fan. Again, Why
Speaker 4: bring up like that's just looking for like it's the
Speaker 4: first time I've seen what I hope wouldn't happen, which
Speaker 4: is somebody trying to find an opportunity to criticize Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 4: So then maybe they can feel a little bit better
Speaker 4: about the way the Kenny Payne era ended. And by
Speaker 4: the way, again he's going to put together a good class,
Speaker 4: not to mention, he landed the ninth best recruit in
Speaker 4: program history, the ninth best player that's ever committed to
Speaker 4: Louislle is Kahani rus who's the only freshman on this team. So, I,
Speaker 4: you know, I should ignore it. I should leave it alone,
Speaker 4: but I can't. If I could, I would, I could,
Speaker 4: I would, all right, five two the number if you
Speaker 4: want to give us a call. You can also text
Speaker 4: in on the Ellen and Federal Credit Union text line.
Speaker 4: Let's go to the phone lines and welcome in mister Steve. Steve,
Speaker 4: how are you doing today?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: Nick, I can hear the anger of your voice. I
Speaker 3: wish you could let it go because it's over and
Speaker 3: it's done.
Speaker 2: Uh you know.
Speaker 3: And I would tell this person, well, gee, p K
Speaker 3: is getting a visit from the number one recruit in
Speaker 3: the country on during the uh you know, the October
Speaker 3: thing that they're going to do this year.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just think that you know that it's
Speaker 3: just ridiculous and how much longer do we have to
Speaker 3: put up with this crap? Who knows? But I think
Speaker 3: one of the funniest and most pathetic, maybe not funny.
Speaker 3: Who is the recruit that came into town and got
Speaker 3: off the plane and then went up to Lexington.
Speaker 4: I forget already forgotten his name.
Speaker 5: But I know that, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean that was just so sad, empathetic, and I
Speaker 3: think that's when our program hits probably as low as
Speaker 3: it could go at that point, even though they lost
Speaker 3: more games after that happened, but it was just such
Speaker 3: a I love your show and I wish you will
Speaker 3: hopefully you'll let it go.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate it. Steve. Yeah, that was I
Speaker 4: mean that was again, there were countless things you could
Speaker 4: just you could just stack up that that really is
Speaker 4: just a out of you know, doesn't seem real, right,
Speaker 4: Twilight Zone, like this can't be happening. Yeah, I forgot
Speaker 4: about that kid. He was from Boston, I think it was.
Speaker 4: And you know, there was reports that because that's what
Speaker 4: Kenny and it guess what Kenny tried to do is
Speaker 4: to and when everybody was worried in fact, worry was gone.
Speaker 4: Everybody was well aware of what this was, you know,
Speaker 4: because he didn't recruit at all. He did not recruit
Speaker 4: in In in the twenty twenty five or im sorry,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four class, like he didn't. They didn't have
Speaker 4: any visitors. At one point, they were the only Power
Speaker 4: five school that did not have a commitment, and I
Speaker 4: think they ended up being the only school that never
Speaker 4: got a freshman to commit, you know. And then of
Speaker 4: course he was fired and now we had we have
Speaker 4: Khani rus in the mix. But yes, that was just
Speaker 4: I mean, that was that was something added to the list.
Speaker 4: So again I will look, I'll try to move on,
Speaker 4: and I you know, if anything, I'm transparent, but like
Speaker 4: that just that aid at me because I'm thinking, like
Speaker 4: we're so removed from it, and yet momentum is great
Speaker 4: right now for basketball, I mean, couldn't be better.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: Again, We'll see what happens when the season's here, and
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be able to win some games
Speaker 4: and give fans something to not only be excited about
Speaker 4: this year, but something to believe in moving forward to
Speaker 4: where you feel like the program is going to be
Speaker 4: in great shape in years to come and trying to
Speaker 4: manufacture some non existent failure there in recruiting. It just
Speaker 4: it took me back to the dark place, John, and I.
Speaker 6: Don't want to go back.
Speaker 4: No, no, specifically, I mean, I doubt that, but I mean,
Speaker 4: and that's the thing. This was some rando, but it's
Speaker 4: somebody out recognize pawn the platform who was oftentimes acting
Speaker 4: as if my criticism in my comments were a part
Speaker 4: of Kenny Payne's failure like it, you know, which, I
Speaker 4: appreciate you thinking I have some kind of an impact
Speaker 4: like that. But anyways, let's go back to the fall lines.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Jeff. Jeff, you're on sport Stock seventy ninety.
Speaker 4: What's happening here?
Speaker 7: You goes, thanks for taking my call. Like I'm I
Speaker 7: lived in a little fifteen years and like a most
Speaker 7: of my family's UFL fans, I'm a UK fan, but
Speaker 7: like I follow u of L since Betino, and I
Speaker 7: just think like the UFL fan base, and I'll be honest,
Speaker 7: I'm being dead honest being a UK fan. When things
Speaker 7: are hot at Louisville and things are banging like that,
Speaker 7: there's no better atmosphere than at the Young Center. And
Speaker 7: the thing is is, like you, like the fans have
Speaker 7: long suffered so much because of Kenny Payne. I just
Speaker 7: think like they're just psychologically they might be freaking out.
Speaker 7: At the same time they have delusions of graender because
Speaker 7: obviously louisvel is the top ten all time program. They
Speaker 7: want things to happen overnight. The same thing with a UK,
Speaker 7: like people just people have got to let the process
Speaker 7: take hold. The guy's young, he's exciting, he's charismatic, he's electric,
Speaker 7: just like a lot like Pope, embrace it. I mean,
Speaker 7: people have to understand the old guards leaving, cal Perry's
Speaker 7: getting old, Rick Mattino, all these all the stuff that
Speaker 7: you know, we have identified I'm in my early forties,
Speaker 7: that we've identified as success in our states, of our
Speaker 7: state as a UK or U of l Fan as
Speaker 7: far as basketball, that success of those of those those coaches.
Speaker 7: They're gone and we have to embrace the new breed.
Speaker 7: And it's gonna take Tom to for that level to
Speaker 7: get back up. But I know I understand people as
Speaker 7: much as they're getting paid in the and everything, they
Speaker 7: want to get to the top as quick as possible.
Speaker 7: But it's gonna take Tom you know, and and now
Speaker 7: with college basketball there's more parody. You're gonna have mid
Speaker 7: mid majors, smaller colleges that's gonna have way more success.
Speaker 7: And that's just the way it is now. But they're
Speaker 7: gonna definitely, I will say, they're definitely gonna have to
Speaker 7: take hold and do well at the NIL. But I
Speaker 7: I really like this coach, uh, Jeff.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the phone call. Look, I think that it's
Speaker 4: you know, from what I do, you know, from my perspective,
Speaker 4: meaning you know, talking sports every day to both fan bases,
Speaker 4: this is exciting and you know, take the rivalry stuff
Speaker 4: out of it. These two guys are young, energetic, they're fiery,
Speaker 4: they're passionate. They know that they are very fortunate to
Speaker 4: have the jobs they have, and I think that enthusiasm
Speaker 4: that they bring has rubbed off on both fan bases.
Speaker 4: And by the way, both fan bases were not thrilled
Speaker 4: to know that these were the guys that were going
Speaker 4: to be their coaches. However, you know, all it took
Speaker 4: was these guys kind of introducing themselves, talking about their
Speaker 4: plan and and really sharing their passion and appreciation for
Speaker 4: the gig to where, you know, fans bought in and
Speaker 4: now we got to wait and see, you know, when
Speaker 4: the wins were, when the wins are going to come.
Speaker 4: But he mentioned being a Kentucky fan and just you
Speaker 4: know how Louisville when it's rock and it's rocking, and
Speaker 4: he's right then he said, you know, I mean, I'll
Speaker 4: just say this, as much as Louisville has been through
Speaker 4: with a basketball program, we're not well mentally. We know
Speaker 4: that we're broken. But right now we have genuine excitement
Speaker 4: and enthusiasm and I think Pat Kelsey has delivered on that.
Speaker 4: And that was that's the first task, right he can't
Speaker 4: coach games till the seasons here, but he's put together
Speaker 4: a good team. He has energized the fan base. There's
Speaker 4: real excitement, and that's that's the first step. Are we
Speaker 4: got to get to a break. We'll come back on
Speaker 4: the other side. Wrap at the three o'clock hour right
Speaker 4: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Speaking of enthusiasm and
Speaker 4: you know, excitement, The Villains, which is the u OFL
Speaker 4: Student Student Section student group, and they have sold out
Speaker 4: all of their memberships officially for the first time in
Speaker 4: nearly ten years. So again that's just another example of momentum, morale, enthusiasm,
Speaker 4: it's there and that you know, I want all the
Speaker 4: sports that you've all to do great, but everything's got
Speaker 4: to you know, I mean, everything's better when your main
Speaker 4: sports men's basketball and football are in a good place.
Speaker 4: And obviously little of basketball they haven't started their season yet,
Speaker 4: but but there's clearly it's already regardless of what happens overall,
Speaker 4: you're in a better position now than you were with
Speaker 4: the previous regime. And hoops, Jeff Brom's coming off with
Speaker 4: ten one season. So all right, we have very little
Speaker 4: time left here in the three o'clock hours, so let's uh,
Speaker 4: let's go to the phone lines once again. We've got
Speaker 4: another Jeff that's joining us. Jeff, you're on Sports Talk
Speaker 4: seven ninety. What's happening?
Speaker 2: Hey, Nick, thanks for the thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7: I love the show.
Speaker 2: I'm thanking forward to the start of football and this
Speaker 2: year's basketball season. Uh, but I do have a question
Speaker 2: that has that has just weighed me down for a
Speaker 2: couple of years, and I just think you're the best
Speaker 2: guy that answer it, probably because you're the only one
Speaker 2: with the testicular fortitude to answer it.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: But it seemed that before the hire of KP. Kiddy Faine,
Speaker 2: that a lot of a lot of that momentum, if
Speaker 2: you will, was kind of brought on by a lot
Speaker 2: of the local sports guys, you know, like you're you know,
Speaker 2: not saying you, but got to know what you mean?
Speaker 2: I got you, so I guess what I'm wanting to
Speaker 2: know is what And it was almost seemed like there
Speaker 2: was inside things that nobody else knew. The public didn't know.
Speaker 2: They were like, just trust this, Kenny Payne's our guy.
Speaker 2: Can you shed any light on what any of that
Speaker 2: may have been that caused us to go in the
Speaker 2: direction of hiring our own Billy Gillespie here in the
Speaker 2: form of Kenny Payne. And I'll shut up and listen.
Speaker 4: All right, Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate it, and I
Speaker 4: appreciate you acknowledging the testicular fortitude that I do carry.
Speaker 4: I'll say this, I think that there were there was
Speaker 4: a couple of people that probably felt that they would
Speaker 4: benefit with Kenny Payne being the coach, just because maybe
Speaker 4: access and maybe maybe they have a relationship with him
Speaker 4: or somebody close to him to where you know, it
Speaker 4: was like, hey, this, but I also think that a
Speaker 4: lot of people believed he would succeed here. I think
Speaker 4: that it's just you know, and I don't have a
Speaker 4: lot of thought enough time to really get into it, Jeff,
Speaker 4: But what I will say is this, Louisville Basketball should
Speaker 4: have never hired somebody who'd never been a head coach
Speaker 4: before they did it, because at the time, coaches who
Speaker 4: had been successful that would be interested, that were actually
Speaker 4: had co which is, were guys that most people would
Speaker 4: be turned off by, myself included, like I thought to myself, no,
Speaker 4: don't go get Matt McMahon at Murray State. I don't
Speaker 4: want to hire Kenny Payne because he's never been a
Speaker 4: head coach, but hey, at least that guy. There's the
Speaker 4: connection here. And the biggest lie was that Kenny Payne
Speaker 4: was this ace recruiter. Kenny Payne recruited at Kentucky with
Speaker 4: John cal Perry. I mean not to say anybody could
Speaker 4: do that, but let's be real here. So I just
Speaker 4: think it was all everybody was misled about what he
Speaker 4: actually did at Kentucky. And that's not to say he
Speaker 4: didn't have any value there, but like any everything he
Speaker 4: did as an assistant coach really didn't have anything to
Speaker 4: do with what comes with being a head coach. And
Speaker 4: I think enough digging, enough talking, or would would would
Speaker 4: would tell you that. But I just think it were
Speaker 4: you know, as far as you're asking about those in
Speaker 4: the media, those that have a platform like this, they
Speaker 4: were advocating for Kenny. Maybe they believed in him. I
Speaker 4: don't know. Maybe they thought that it would give them
Speaker 4: a chance. Because look a lot of people in what
Speaker 4: this is, they want to be latched. They want to
Speaker 4: latch onto a coach and have a relationship and have
Speaker 4: access and whatnot. And I can't lie and act like
Speaker 4: that's not a beneficial thing. But you know, I'm a
Speaker 4: Louisville fan to where like I thought to myself, uh, oh,
Speaker 4: like this, it's a good story. He might recruit. But
Speaker 4: I just you know, I was never the guy that
Speaker 4: said you better not do it, it'll ruin the program.
Speaker 4: Nobody could have ever seen it playing out the way
Speaker 4: that it did. But I just like Louisville basketball is
Speaker 4: not a place you hire a guy who's never coached before.
Speaker 4: And we learned the hard way about that. All right,
Speaker 4: quick break, Alex Cupper's gonna join us coming up here
Speaker 4: on the other side. Two more hours to go, right
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