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Speaker 3: So a very very cold Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I mean I think, I mean it was like what
Speaker 2: eight degrees this morning or something like that.
Speaker 4: But felt like two.
Speaker 3: I mean it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was thinking about this earlier because we
Speaker 2: had the snowstorm that rocked us a little bit, really
Speaker 2: impacted a full week to an extent for some folks
Speaker 2: around here. That happened on January fifth. It's January twenty first,
Speaker 2: so I'm I don't know. I can't prove this, and
Speaker 2: it's certainly not relevant, but I think that there's been
Speaker 2: snow on the ground around here as many days consecutively
Speaker 2: than there ever has been that I can remember. I
Speaker 2: know that snowstorm happened in like nineteen ninety two or something,
Speaker 2: or was it ninety four? Maybe it was ninety four
Speaker 2: maybe either way, the big snowstorm that, of course a
Speaker 2: lot of folks talk about to this day.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that, but I don't remember that. I was
Speaker 3: so young.
Speaker 2: So it's we got a lot of snow, and it's
Speaker 2: been warm enough here and there to get a buff
Speaker 2: freezing and some of it melt but you got to
Speaker 2: keep in mind it doesn't stay that warm that long
Speaker 2: this time of year. And there's certain like my driveway
Speaker 2: at the top, not the hill. The hill is fine,
Speaker 2: but my driveway at the top, like where we pull
Speaker 2: into the garage, it's in the shade for like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's either in the shade or it's dark outside for
Speaker 2: you know, nearly twenty four of the twenty four hours
Speaker 2: that we get in a day. So it's just been
Speaker 2: a solid sheet of ice for a long time. And
Speaker 2: with this cold weather, I mean it's our pipes froze,
Speaker 2: which you know is one of those things that's never
Speaker 2: happened to me as a homeowner.
Speaker 3: I didn't really know what to do.
Speaker 2: Luckily we were able to, you know to I mean again,
Speaker 2: I was worried that we were you know, that that
Speaker 2: could be a big issue, which I know that it can.
Speaker 2: But now we've got like the the two sinks that
Speaker 2: we have in our in our bedroom bathroom, we've got
Speaker 2: those just kind of doing that slow drip. But the
Speaker 2: other like our kitchen and whatnot, it was fine our shower.
Speaker 2: So it is that kind of cold, and I'm ready
Speaker 2: for the cold weather to be over with I really am.
Speaker 2: Usually I'm somebody saying, hey, I can live with this,
Speaker 2: give us more snow, but no, I'm ready for it
Speaker 2: to be op It's just the cold weather is disrespectful
Speaker 2: out there. It's just brutal.
Speaker 4: It has been.
Speaker 5: And I know that we've gone on here and talked
Speaker 5: about what would you rather when it comes to the
Speaker 5: hot and cold weather?
Speaker 3: And I love that would you rather get?
Speaker 5: Absolutely and we, like you said, we've both been on
Speaker 5: an agreement. I hate when it's hot outside. But the
Speaker 5: last couple of weeks here have got me starting to
Speaker 5: maybe change my mind on that narrative a little more.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'll say that until I get back in my car
Speaker 5: after it's been sitting there in ninety degree weather and
Speaker 5: forty five percent human and I just hate life.
Speaker 2: Then i'd I've known for quite a while that I'm
Speaker 2: not necessarily built for the elements in one extreme way
Speaker 2: or the other. But man, this cold weather has been
Speaker 2: a real reminder that I'm soft because just getting I
Speaker 2: mean just getting out of the car, and keep in
Speaker 2: mind where we are, I mean, I'm in a garage,
Speaker 2: it's outside, I mean it's not warm, and the walkway
Speaker 2: from the garage to our front door. I mean it's covered,
Speaker 2: but it's still really cold.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So like I'm people out there working in this and
Speaker 2: they're a lot tougher than I am.
Speaker 3: So trust me.
Speaker 2: I know I sound like a big wimp compared to
Speaker 2: a lot of other people, but like my face still
Speaker 2: hurts two hours into the show just from that walk
Speaker 2: because it's so cold outside.
Speaker 5: You finally look comfortable because for the majority of the
Speaker 5: show you had you had layers on.
Speaker 4: Now you're I like that. I like that sweatshirt by
Speaker 4: the thank you.
Speaker 2: Yes I had, I had the hoodie and the coat
Speaker 2: just because like I hadn't, I hadn't thought out yet.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I need to throw back on and warm
Speaker 2: up because when I walk out of here in about.
Speaker 3: An hour, it's gonna be golady.
Speaker 2: So Bullet County Public School is where my my children,
Speaker 2: well my daughter goes to school. My son will, but
Speaker 2: he's not he's not old enough yet. They have they've
Speaker 2: decided to do it nt I day tomorrow and it's
Speaker 2: and I thought, okay, were we getting more snow and no,
Speaker 2: it's because of how cold it's going to be. And
Speaker 2: I mean I get it, like I'm not gonna be
Speaker 2: the guy that claims.
Speaker 3: Because look here this is the truth.
Speaker 2: We didn't have the ability to do NTI when I
Speaker 2: was a kid, and we certainly didn't have the ability
Speaker 2: to do it, you know, the generation before mine.
Speaker 3: So it's just an inconvenience thing. And I totally understand.
Speaker 2: Like sometimes I want to like scream because now we've
Speaker 2: got to figure out arrangements like to take care of
Speaker 2: of our of our my daughter, I mean, and another thing, daycare.
Speaker 2: There's no bus stop for daycare. But I would not
Speaker 2: be shocked if my kids daycare just decide, well, you know,
Speaker 2: school's out, so we aren't gonna go to Like we
Speaker 2: aren't gonna But quite literally, the reason they are canceling school,
Speaker 2: the reason they're doing the school at home tomorrow, is
Speaker 2: not because they're worried about roads or getting there. They're
Speaker 2: worried about kids waiting outside in this this temperature at
Speaker 2: the bus stop when you don't drive a bus to
Speaker 2: go get my kids and bring them the daycare. So
Speaker 2: I will I'll just probably do nothing and accept it
Speaker 2: and be angry. But like, that's the one thing I've
Speaker 2: never really been able to understand is that our daycare,
Speaker 2: which we love because our kids love it and they
Speaker 2: they've have grown up there like they followed the school
Speaker 2: in what they do, when in reality, that's the most
Speaker 2: flawed way for a daycare to operate, because, you know what,
Speaker 2: you become more, you become more of a need for
Speaker 2: us when we don't have the ability to send our
Speaker 2: kids to school. You don't have a bus. If I'm
Speaker 2: willing to get out and drive my child to you,
Speaker 2: why can't you be there?
Speaker 3: Like that's kind of what you do.
Speaker 2: It's interesting, So it's in I don't want to make
Speaker 2: it a big thing because I just get caught up
Speaker 2: and can't stop bitching about it, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: but I remember feeling very much like I felt vindicated
Speaker 2: because whenever this happened a couple of years ago, like
Speaker 2: I made it a bigger thing on the show than
Speaker 2: it ever should have been, just because I'm on the
Speaker 2: I'm on the air scrambling trying to figure out what
Speaker 2: I'm going to do with my kids because they're calling
Speaker 2: and saying, hey, you gotta come get kids. Now, we're
Speaker 2: closing doors because it's gonna snow. Well, I mean work,
Speaker 2: like I could just leave on the so you know,
Speaker 2: at times it became a thing because it quite literally
Speaker 2: was something I had to figure out, like live on
Speaker 2: the air and every and there's so many people that
Speaker 2: listen that either currently send their kids to daycare, they
Speaker 2: used to work at a daycare, they used to own
Speaker 2: a daycare, maybe they still send their kids to daycare,
Speaker 2: and they and every one of them who reached out
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, that's that's not normal for a daycare
Speaker 2: to just follow what a school system does, because again
Speaker 2: it's pretty common knowledge.
Speaker 3: You become more of something we need when we can't
Speaker 3: send our kids to school.
Speaker 2: So I'm hopeful that they won't they won't close, but
Speaker 2: we shall see.
Speaker 5: But Maya wasn't in school back when the whole COVID
Speaker 5: stuff was happening, right when they first introduced the NTI
Speaker 5: and the online classes.
Speaker 2: Or gosh now that so she was, but it was
Speaker 2: like it was pre school stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so she she's.
Speaker 2: Uh, she loves school, and I mean, like it's the
Speaker 2: best thing for us because, like you know, with her situation,
Speaker 2: her being special needs and intellectually disabled, there's clearly worry
Speaker 2: as parent as far as just some hardships that may
Speaker 2: come with that. Just some difficulties and we've had, you know,
Speaker 2: we've had issues like any parent of any kid will
Speaker 2: have when it comes to school. But as far as
Speaker 2: like just her not wanting to go, and I mean,
Speaker 2: she loves school so much, but she's been in school.
Speaker 2: Like when she gets older, she can tell people that
Speaker 2: she probably went to school longer than anybody, you know,
Speaker 2: not like a Tommy Boy situation. Well, you know a
Speaker 2: lot of people go to school for eight years rich Ard. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're called doctors. But she when she became I think
Speaker 2: it was three, she grew out of a program she
Speaker 2: was in called First Steps, which gave her speech therapy
Speaker 2: and occupational therapy and physical therapy too, like that helped
Speaker 2: her be able to start walking. Really great program that
Speaker 2: was just a great resource for us. But you age
Speaker 2: out at a certain age. I think it was three.
Speaker 2: So what you can do is you can start going
Speaker 2: to preschool and get the services there. So she's been
Speaker 2: in school since she was three years old. So yeah,
Speaker 2: she was technically in school around code. But but what
Speaker 2: happened then is with that stuff and again global pandemic
Speaker 2: will do this that they were just scrambling to try
Speaker 2: to like get kids to be able to finish the
Speaker 2: school year to where hers wasn't. It wasn't a necessity,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, it wasn't like a
Speaker 2: top priority because most kids that were there, they were
Speaker 2: only there for half the day and they weren't really
Speaker 2: getting education or curriculum. They were just utilizing, you know,
Speaker 2: the therapy that you can get. So, yeah, school's out
Speaker 2: tomorrow where we are at least you know, they're not going,
Speaker 2: and that's an inconvenience for a lot of people. We
Speaker 2: were talking earlier about the algorithm on social media, the
Speaker 2: things that they that they put on your timeline and
Speaker 2: your feed because they try to dictate what you want
Speaker 2: to see, of course, because you know, the more things
Speaker 2: they put on your feed that you're interested in and
Speaker 2: that you're interacting with, that you're engaging with, the more
Speaker 2: time you spend on their platform, which of course is
Speaker 2: what they want.
Speaker 3: Facebook knows me well.
Speaker 2: I love reading comments sections with parents bitching about the
Speaker 2: school system and what they're deciding to do with with
Speaker 2: snow days because it's you know, again here I am
Speaker 2: complaining about it to an extent where you know where
Speaker 2: I am, but you know, I know that it's just
Speaker 2: me even it's not going to do anything. And at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, if I was in the
Speaker 2: position that the people who are you know, in this position, big,
Speaker 2: big important decision as far as should we send the
Speaker 2: kids to school or not, You're you're always going to
Speaker 2: play it safe. You know, you can go to bed
Speaker 2: at night and it's a much bet. It's much easier
Speaker 2: night of sleep if you were cautious and you know,
Speaker 2: maybe the weather wasn't that bad. If you send them
Speaker 2: to school and you take a risk and you got
Speaker 2: accidents and all that, like, that's a totally different situation.
Speaker 2: And again I don't think it's the same at all,
Speaker 2: and it's certainly inconvenience to parents, but they now have
Speaker 2: Like I thought we'd never get snow days anymore. I
Speaker 2: remember after the pandemic when they started doing NTI I
Speaker 2: was I was sad for children because I thought they'll
Speaker 2: never get to experience the awesomeness that comes with a
Speaker 2: snow day. And clearly that's been wrong, because there have
Speaker 2: been many snow days since then, especially in the last
Speaker 2: few weeks. Now, you know, I'm sure there's factor that decide, Okay,
Speaker 2: are we gonna have a traditional snow day.
Speaker 3: Are we going to do remote learning?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I don't know JCPS is gonna
Speaker 2: do the same thing, but it is gonna be really
Speaker 2: really cold, and it's not I mean, keep in mind
Speaker 2: the temperature tomorrow morning. Like, let's say, what do you
Speaker 2: think the earliest time is for a kid to be
Speaker 2: at a bus stop? Like it's probably I mean, depending
Speaker 2: on if you're in high school and you it's like
Speaker 2: seven am or I think even pre seven. I think
Speaker 2: even before seven am, you probably got some kids that
Speaker 2: are getting you know, showing up at the bus stop
Speaker 2: and at that time tomorrow, I mean it's gonna be
Speaker 2: at that time, it will be a warm three degrees
Speaker 2: and that is not even that is not even the windshill.
Speaker 2: Like that's literally just what what the temperature is going
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: So I get it. I wouldn't want to be at
Speaker 3: the bus stop either, So we'll see.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard you think about JACPS, but wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked if they make the same decision and the other
Speaker 2: school systems around here.
Speaker 3: All Right, it's game day, Louisville SMU.
Speaker 2: We've talked not as much about it in the last
Speaker 2: hour or so, but Obviously it was a big part
Speaker 2: of our lead in because it's a big game. To
Speaker 2: an extent, there's something on the line tonight. A loss
Speaker 2: doesn't kill you, but you know, if you're Louisville, you
Speaker 2: want to keep this roll, and you are on an
Speaker 2: eight game winning streak, one of the longest winning streaks
Speaker 2: in college basketball, and a win tonight is different than
Speaker 2: the other wins that you could potentially.
Speaker 3: Collect the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: This is the last opportunity for you as of now
Speaker 2: to get a valuable win, meaning a quad one win.
Speaker 3: SMU is a top forty team.
Speaker 2: They'd have to fall out of the top seventy five
Speaker 2: in order for them, I'm sorry, the top seventy five
Speaker 2: for them to not be a quad one win for Louisville,
Speaker 2: so this late in the year, I have a hard
Speaker 2: time seeing them fall that far. So again, not to
Speaker 2: claim that it's some big resume win. I mean right now,
Speaker 2: SMUs not in the tournament and a loss to Louisville
Speaker 2: isn't going to cripple them as far as their resume,
Speaker 2: but clearly it's their last opportunity as well to get
Speaker 2: a win, so they need it more than Louisville, but obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, Louisville can benefit from it as well. So
Speaker 2: it's just been so awesome this ride. And I'm so
Speaker 2: repetitive when it comes to talk about this team because
Speaker 2: I feel like I've been doing reruns for the last
Speaker 2: few weeks because it's just been kind of the same thing. Man,
Speaker 2: they're playing really good basketball. I'm one of the many
Speaker 2: fans out there that is just loving watching this team play.
Speaker 3: I talked about it a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 2: I get sad when we get late in the first
Speaker 2: half because I'm like, oh, come on, it's almost halftime,
Speaker 2: and then we only get twenty more minutes of this. Like,
Speaker 2: I'm loving it, and it's been a fun ride so far.
Speaker 2: And one thing I didn't want to bring up here
Speaker 2: that if you weren't with us earlier in the show,
Speaker 2: you missed it. This is just a sign of I mean,
Speaker 2: one of the many signs that Louisville basketball is, you know.
Speaker 3: Is getting back.
Speaker 2: But I forget that they're without two players that were
Speaker 2: supposed to be really important to this team. And it's
Speaker 2: for a variety of reasons. One because they're playing well,
Speaker 2: but man, it's also because there's nothing you can do
Speaker 2: about it, right, Like, I'm not even going to bring
Speaker 2: Kenny Pain into this, but like even other coaches I
Speaker 2: think would have been a little calculated in regards to
Speaker 2: making sure it's not forgotten that if there's a loss,
Speaker 2: or if there's a setback, or if there's an upset
Speaker 2: that you're on the wrong end of, don't make excuses,
Speaker 2: but find a way to float it out there to
Speaker 2: remind people, well, I'm without Casein pryor I'm without Corn Johnson,
Speaker 2: I didn't have kidor until you know, mid or early January.
Speaker 2: But Pat Kelsey, I mean, I think what you see
Speaker 2: is what you get. He didn't make excuses. He certainly
Speaker 2: didn't let these players make excuses. They didn't play victim.
Speaker 2: They literally had a really really tough run of bad
Speaker 2: luck with those injuries, and they I forget about it
Speaker 2: because they're still playing well without those guys, And that's
Speaker 2: just it's a little thing.
Speaker 3: But in fact, it's not a little things.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's actually a big thing, because again,
Speaker 2: I think even really good coaches will find a way
Speaker 2: to make excuses. That's just not how Pat Kelsey is wired.
Speaker 2: And I think hopefully it's just because of who he is,
Speaker 2: and we never see some we never see a side
Speaker 2: of him that's gonna make excuses and all that. But
Speaker 2: also he's so hung like he's at Louisville. He's probably
Speaker 2: at a job like this earlier than he anticipated. I'm
Speaker 2: sure he always believed he could get here, but he's
Speaker 2: got this opportunity and he's not gonna make excuses or
Speaker 2: feel sorry for himself. He's gonna put everything he has
Speaker 2: into succeeding here, and so far he's doing that, and
Speaker 2: it's just been it's been a lot of fun, a
Speaker 2: whole lot of fun. And the reason I wanted to
Speaker 2: bring this up is because there are a lot of
Speaker 2: different college basketball.
Speaker 3: Stat guys.
Speaker 2: You know, some would just call them college basketball nerds,
Speaker 2: And I'm a college basketball nerd, but I'm not a
Speaker 2: smart enough nerd to be able to be able to
Speaker 2: put together a formula that could give you like the
Speaker 2: Ken palm or the bart torvirick. But Evan Mayowaka is
Speaker 2: one of the college basketball guys that I follow that
Speaker 2: has some really good data that I just find interesting.
Speaker 2: And this is just again, like Louisville. Right now, there's
Speaker 2: only one team in college basketball that have suffered more
Speaker 2: from injuries as far as based on minutes per game
Speaker 2: missed by players that were supposed to be a big
Speaker 2: part of the rotation or were a big part of
Speaker 2: the rotation before injury. McNee State is the only team
Speaker 2: that can claim that they have had a worse deal
Speaker 2: of bad luck with injuries. Louisville they look they've been
Speaker 2: one of the stories. And again, I talked about this
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, maybe it was last week.
Speaker 2: It's kind of all a blur because it's just been
Speaker 2: such a fun ride. But whenever I see people out
Speaker 2: there really gassing up Pat Kelsey, as far as he
Speaker 2: should be National Coach of the Year, he should be
Speaker 2: acc Coach of the Year.
Speaker 3: I just see that initial point and I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: hell yeah, the guy's killing it. He's doing great.
Speaker 2: But then they throw in he's doing this despite not
Speaker 2: just what he inherited, he had to build a team
Speaker 2: from scratch, but also he's without Corn Johnson in case
Speaker 2: in Pryor. I forget that. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: fans do, because they didn't use it as an excuse.
Speaker 2: They just kept they kept working, like they kept plugging away,
Speaker 2: And I think the maturity has stood out in a
Speaker 2: variety of ways this year. And one of the things
Speaker 2: that this isn't a Hey, Nick was right, you guys
Speaker 2: are wrong. But I could tell that when they were
Speaker 2: losing to Duke despite out playing them for thirty minutes,
Speaker 2: when they came up short against Kentucky at Rup, but
Speaker 2: yet that was a really competitive game where they were
Speaker 2: going back and forth, and look, I thought there was
Speaker 2: a good showing despite the loss. I could tell internally
Speaker 2: that these guys knew that they were getting more comfortable,
Speaker 2: they were getting better despite losses. And I think, again,
Speaker 2: that speaks to maturity.
Speaker 3: And we'll see.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Pat's gonna want to build his
Speaker 2: team like this every year. Certainly he's got a freshman
Speaker 2: coming in next year that's going to be really special.
Speaker 3: Canai Rus is going to be a sophomore.
Speaker 2: But if you can get the right guys that are
Speaker 2: kind of about the right things, there's value in having
Speaker 2: veterans that are you know, are that are mature, that
Speaker 2: are growing ass men like I don't think Louisville, I
Speaker 2: don't think. I don't think it's just a coincidence or
Speaker 2: a random stat that Louisville is in the position they
Speaker 2: have all circumstances considered like, I don't think the fact
Speaker 2: that they're an old team is just a random thing.
Speaker 2: I think that's part of why they're where they are.
Speaker 2: And again, it's been a fun ride. We'll talk a
Speaker 2: little bit more about this SMU team, specifically on the
Speaker 2: other side and something that we've talked about in the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. If Lenardi's right, it may happen,
Speaker 2: and that is a potential matchup in the NSAA tournament
Speaker 2: with a very familiar face. So we get to that
Speaker 2: in a lot more. Keep it locked right here. It's
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Speaker 6: I try not to try to say real even keyo
Speaker 6: and focused on the next thing. Obviously, I'm well aware
Speaker 6: that our team's playing well and we've had some success,
Speaker 6: but I think there's a time and place for doing
Speaker 6: that getting above the trees. And there are little moments
Speaker 6: when not even about the success, just the sense of
Speaker 6: gratitude that I have for where I am and what
Speaker 6: I'm able to do whether it's I'm up at the
Speaker 6: Dome at Syracuse and I watched so many games there
Speaker 6: over the years, and the great teams of Jim Beaheim,
Speaker 6: and just for a second in the middle of the game,
Speaker 6: is the clock's ticking. I look around, go, holy cow, man.
Speaker 6: I'm coaching University of Louisville at the Dome and I
Speaker 6: can't say the name of the dome because I forget
Speaker 6: what it is. It was always the Carrier Dome. So
Speaker 6: that answers that question. And then the other question I
Speaker 6: believe was what challenges do they present? What challenges don't
Speaker 6: they present? They present every way shape or form their dynamic,
Speaker 6: their fast paced, very good rebounding team. They can score
Speaker 6: from all different positions on the floor. They're extremely skilled.
Speaker 6: They're trippic rebounding team like you name it, and you
Speaker 6: know we have to be on it. It's gonna be
Speaker 6: a very, very big challenge.
Speaker 2: That was Pat Kelsey yesterday before the team took off
Speaker 2: to Dallas, which is wild.
Speaker 3: We talked about the weather earlier.
Speaker 2: It is snowing in Texas, which does happen from time
Speaker 2: to time, but they're getting more snow than they typically get.
Speaker 3: And my wife.
Speaker 2: I love her, and I don't want to insinuate that
Speaker 2: she's wrong because she's smarter than I am. But was
Speaker 2: she messing with me to say that it's gonna be
Speaker 2: snowing in Destin, Florida. That's where we go, that's our
Speaker 2: family vacation. That's kind of like the place we love.
Speaker 2: And I just cannot snow in Louisiana. I can't imagine
Speaker 2: they're being like, I just can't. There's no visual that
Speaker 2: I can that I can you know in my mind
Speaker 2: process of there being snow on the ground or snow
Speaker 2: on the beach in.
Speaker 3: Destin, Florida.
Speaker 2: But hey, the uh the the place we go to,
Speaker 2: uh not every time we go. They've got like their website,
Speaker 2: they've got like a live like like a live stream
Speaker 2: just like a camera that's sitting up like on the
Speaker 2: roof of the place that you can see the beach
Speaker 2: and whatnot, just to kind of you know, when you're
Speaker 2: about to leave to go on your trip, you can
Speaker 2: you can tune in and and you can pull it
Speaker 2: up and see that you know, hey, it's not you know,
Speaker 2: it's not great here. I don't have a big beautiful
Speaker 2: beach in front of me. But man, I'll be you know,
Speaker 2: I'll be able to see myself on this camera before
Speaker 2: too long. So maybe if it is getting, if they
Speaker 2: do get the snow they're expecting, maybe I can check
Speaker 2: it out. But yeah, just the we get told how
Speaker 2: we are not built for the cold weather and snow
Speaker 2: from the folks that are north of us, because you know,
Speaker 2: they're a little bit better equipped to handle it. They've
Speaker 2: got you know, they're more used to it, they've got
Speaker 2: more resources. But we can probably look at the folks
Speaker 2: south of us that may get a little dusting and
Speaker 2: not know what to do. But hey, get you're used
Speaker 2: to what you know, which you get on an annual basis.
Speaker 2: And I think everybody has had more snow, at least
Speaker 2: on this side of the country than they typically get.
Speaker 4: But yeah, go out and enjoy it. Make some snow angels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did see that there's going to be a
Speaker 2: big group of I don't want to say big group,
Speaker 2: like they're going to be dominating the arena. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what the arena is at SMU, but I know
Speaker 2: they are in the Dallas area. And there was a
Speaker 2: guy who sit out of tweet yesterday that I retweeted.
Speaker 2: He says, coach Pete, we will have twelve Dallas based
Speaker 2: Louisville alumni strong tomorrow, screaming from Section two hundred. And
Speaker 2: this is again one of the little things that just
Speaker 2: these guys probably you know, went to u of L.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're from the city of Louisville, and now they
Speaker 2: call Dallas home, and they've probably been thinking about it
Speaker 2: for the last few weeks, like, hey, they're coming here,
Speaker 2: and I mean they might still go even if Louisville
Speaker 2: wasn't good, because you know, it's their team and they
Speaker 2: never get a chance to see them when they're in Texas.
Speaker 2: But there's just such good vibes right now with Louisville basketball,
Speaker 2: and it's it's an awesome thing.
Speaker 3: But look, I will be honest.
Speaker 2: I I don't know what kind of a real opponent
Speaker 2: this is. I'm not going to act like SMU isn't
Speaker 2: as good as Pat Kelsey just said that they are,
Speaker 2: because clearly, you know he knows more about basketball than
Speaker 2: I ever will.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I think what's got me a little.
Speaker 2: Conflicted is that my gut is telling me that like
Speaker 2: Louisville should win regardless of SMU is as good as
Speaker 2: he says they are, because Louisville is a better team
Speaker 2: and they've been more battle tested, like you know, but also,
Speaker 2: you know, SMU is a good enough team to where
Speaker 2: maybe they come out ready to play and maybe they
Speaker 2: expose Louisville in a way and show something that maybe
Speaker 2: makes this team more vulnerable than we've realized in these
Speaker 2: last these last few weeks. So again, currently the spread
Speaker 2: here in this game as of right now. Last I checked,
Speaker 2: it was SMU minus one and a half hook and
Speaker 2: it is let's see, got so many games tonight, so many,
Speaker 2: so many games. Yeah, I was gonna say, so many
Speaker 2: games for me to lose money on.
Speaker 3: All right, Louisville.
Speaker 2: It is still Louisville, still want and a half point underdogs.
Speaker 2: So you know, I don't think this is the kind
Speaker 2: of group that's going to like use that as real
Speaker 2: fuel and motivation because I think, you know, they're probably
Speaker 2: I mean I said this earlier. I think the cliche
Speaker 2: thing that you hear from coaches is often true, meaning, hey,
Speaker 2: we're just worried about the next game. You know, the
Speaker 2: next game is the most important. You know, what did
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey say? Young Harris is the most important game
Speaker 2: in the history of this program because it's the next game,
Speaker 2: and everybody wants to have that mindset, like everybody meaning coaches, players,
Speaker 2: because you know, if you're real with yourself that like
Speaker 2: you shouldn't get complacent. You should always But it's hard, man,
Speaker 2: it's hard not to look ahead. It's hard to kind
Speaker 2: of keep that same level of intensity and focus. But
Speaker 2: I think with this team, you know, an acc play specifically, like,
Speaker 2: they really have shown that they're not thinking. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're not thinking about their seed, they're not thinking about
Speaker 2: being ranked. I hope that they realize that there's a
Speaker 2: little more juice within the fan base because they keep
Speaker 2: winning and things like them being ranked has now happened.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I'm.
Speaker 2: Hopeful that this is the kind of group that'll just
Speaker 2: use that as more fuel to kind of keep it
Speaker 2: rolling and keep getting better and better. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: so that was a long winning way of me saying.
Speaker 3: I really have no clue what to expect.
Speaker 2: My gut tells me that, like, Louisville should win even
Speaker 2: if SMU plays well, because I think they're better. I
Speaker 2: think it'll be a competitive game, but who knows, Maybe SMU,
Speaker 2: maybe it's their night. We shall see. All I know
Speaker 2: is that I hope they can keep this streak going.
Speaker 2: It's been over a month since they lost a game.
Speaker 2: And again, this is what was said after the Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: game that hey, this is right now, on paper, the
Speaker 2: toughest challenge you have left. Now. Pitt's kind of falling
Speaker 2: a part since then, but still thankfully that will always
Speaker 2: be a quad.
Speaker 3: One win because it was a road game.
Speaker 2: But now who you are, you know, you got passed,
Speaker 2: you got past pit which was which was a tough game.
Speaker 3: Then you went on the road and beat QS.
Speaker 2: You took care of business against Virginia the other night
Speaker 2: or the other day, and now you've got a game
Speaker 2: that you know, you know is the toughest one at
Speaker 2: least as of right now when it comes to just
Speaker 2: you know, on paper.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: But nine o'clock tip, just a reminder for those of
Speaker 2: you that weren't paying attention, and maybe you got out
Speaker 2: a routine to paying attention to the time of the tip,
Speaker 2: because you know, the last couple of years, it's just
Speaker 2: not been something you've been super just the yeah, focused on, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just the tip tonight at nine o'clock, so maybe get
Speaker 2: a nap when you get home, or maybe just you know,
Speaker 2: maybe stay up la.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I stay.
Speaker 2: Up probably later than the average you know person my
Speaker 2: age with young kids that get up really early. So
Speaker 2: you know, I'm it's not uncommon for me to go
Speaker 2: to bed at like two thirty. I mean, that's not
Speaker 2: super common, but you know, if you know, like last night,
Speaker 2: I think I realized as I was on the recliner
Speaker 2: watching TV and realizing I should probably go to bed,
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I really should have gone to bed two
Speaker 2: hours ago into two thirty. So I usually stay up late,
Speaker 2: but I know there's a lot of folks that see
Speaker 2: the nine o'clock tip off and they're like, yeah, nah, like.
Speaker 3: This is this is not crazy.
Speaker 2: But I would imagine in previous years, it was a
Speaker 2: little more easy for you to just say, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't need to watch. I'll I'll pop open YouTube TV
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning and rewatch it and click the option of
Speaker 2: like just you know, the key plays, or maybe you'll
Speaker 2: watch the condensed version. I mean, you know, it'll be
Speaker 2: a lot tougher for you to do that now because
Speaker 2: you probably are just like me, and you can't wait
Speaker 2: to watch this team play, and you know, for what
Speaker 2: it's worth, there's there's some real value tonight.
Speaker 3: I hate having to like talk about the and I.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't do it as much as I do, But I
Speaker 2: guess it's just me, you know, trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: make it clear to everybody that I'm aware that Louisville
Speaker 2: being the second best team in the ACC says more
Speaker 2: about the ACC than it does anything else. Like, I
Speaker 2: think everybody knows that, so I probably shouldn't keep mentioning it.
Speaker 2: But I also think both things can be true. That
Speaker 2: the ACC is really down and this Louisville team has
Speaker 2: shown that they can still be pretty good. Like I
Speaker 2: don't think I could be wrong, but if Louisville ends
Speaker 2: up taking care of business the rest of the way,
Speaker 2: and I just have a look, I can't see a
Speaker 2: scenario where they go undefeated the rest of the season,
Speaker 2: they could lose tonight.
Speaker 3: But it's just weird knowing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like every team on the schedule, if they play
Speaker 2: really just close to the way they've played in the
Speaker 2: last six games, they should win. They should win some
Speaker 2: of these games by a lot, So the thought of
Speaker 2: them finishing undefeated just seems unrealistic. But like if they do,
Speaker 2: let's say they lose one. Let's say the game they
Speaker 2: lose is when they I mean, even even the road
Speaker 2: games they have aren't against the good teams in the league. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, and I don't know how many good teams
Speaker 2: there are, but they're road games, you know, games where
Speaker 2: you would think that they'd be a little bit more vulnerable.
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech they stink, they're They're one of the worst
Speaker 2: teams in the league. I mean again, louisll could slip
Speaker 2: up and lost anybody. But like the other road games
Speaker 2: they have, notre Aim, NC State, they're not good at all,
Speaker 2: Boston College, Georgia Tech, like you go on the road
Speaker 2: and play most of the bums outside of course tonight
Speaker 2: at SMU. So you know, when I was just going
Speaker 2: to give them one loss because they'll eventually, you know,
Speaker 2: have a bad night, I don't really, I mean, maybe
Speaker 2: it's tonight, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But let's say they only lose.
Speaker 2: One more before the end of the regular season, they
Speaker 2: could make it to the semis of the ACC Championship
Speaker 2: or the a SEC Tournament. And at that point, like
Speaker 2: I don't think it's crazy to think they could end
Speaker 2: up with like a four seed. I mean, that sounds crazy,
Speaker 2: but it's not because again, they're already in a pretty
Speaker 2: good spot when it comes to the numbers, and look,
Speaker 2: I realize there's not a ton of opportunities for value,
Speaker 2: but they're already sitting in the top thirty. And if
Speaker 2: they keep winning and they beat some of these teams bad,
Speaker 2: they're going to continue to climb. And what really helps
Speaker 2: them is their non conference schedule, Like they are potentially
Speaker 2: going to be able to hopefully have earned the benefit
Speaker 2: of the doubt, meaning we're again the committee can say, yeah,
Speaker 2: both things are true.
Speaker 3: This acc yikes.
Speaker 2: We've never been here on selection Sunday realizing how bad
Speaker 2: the league is. But you know what, Louisville they're an exception.
Speaker 2: They're not worthy of like a one, two or three,
Speaker 2: or maybe even a four. But they've had a pretty
Speaker 2: good record and they played a really good non conference schedule,
Speaker 2: So we're gonna we're gonna feel comfortable slotting them at
Speaker 2: like a five seed. So I mean, again, I need
Speaker 2: to stop because there's been two different people that have
Speaker 2: that have today kind of mentioned it. I don't feel
Speaker 2: like I've been that bad at it today. But I
Speaker 2: do know that I find myself thinking when I mentioned
Speaker 2: Louisville's success and their potential record in the league, play
Speaker 2: that I do always make sure to put it on
Speaker 2: the front in the end, have said, you know, comment
Speaker 2: that I'm aware of the ACC stinks, but like that
Speaker 2: really doesn't mean Louisville's not a pretty good team. In fact,
Speaker 2: I don't think it is a factor at all. It'd
Speaker 2: be different if you were barely getting by some of
Speaker 2: these teams. So you have any you have any, Like
Speaker 2: I'm sure you haven't watched SMU this year. I'll be honestly,
Speaker 2: they're the only ACC team I haven't watched a second
Speaker 2: of Yeah, but actually.
Speaker 4: One of the ACC teams I kind of still forget about.
Speaker 3: But like, are you worried? Like are you have they
Speaker 3: played well enough for you? Because look, you you're you're
Speaker 3: wired kind of like how I used to be.
Speaker 2: But I still got a little bit of that DNA
Speaker 2: and me, you know what I'm saying, So like, you know,
Speaker 2: I uh, I just I feel like the way they've played,
Speaker 2: Even if I wanted to be pessimistic and wanted to
Speaker 2: expect the worst, hope for the best. I'd be lying
Speaker 2: to myself because from what I've seen, and again big
Speaker 2: factor would be knowing what SMU looks like. But I
Speaker 2: also know that they needed a buzzer beater to beat
Speaker 2: the Virginia team that Louisville's just bent over twice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So like, I think they played well enough to where
Speaker 2: I'm going in the night, like, yeah, they should win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I mean I feel confident about it.
Speaker 5: I'm just a little bit more uncomfortable with how close
Speaker 5: the numbers and the metrics say six good point.
Speaker 2: I mean that that that usually makes people kind of
Speaker 2: feel I mean, there's a reason that they make a
Speaker 2: lot more money than we do when it comes to bedding,
Speaker 2: because they typically are right more than we are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I don't know if it's just going to
Speaker 5: be a desperation, you know, I don't know if it's
Speaker 5: cliche time time zone change. You know, their bodies are
Speaker 5: gonna be at like, uh a little bit later once
Speaker 5: you go down to Texas. It's going to another half
Speaker 5: of the country.
Speaker 3: But now you got me nervous.
Speaker 4: But that's I feel like that's we got.
Speaker 3: We've got a bunch of old guys they need, they're
Speaker 3: gonna want to be in bed by.
Speaker 5: A that's true, but hopefully the the the childlike energy
Speaker 5: of Pat Kelcey and that coaching staff is able to
Speaker 5: just kind of push them through to the night. And
Speaker 5: I know that they had a Miami sucks, but they
Speaker 5: blew them out a couple of days ago, And I
Speaker 5: don't know, maybe it's so I don't. I haven't done
Speaker 5: too much research on them, and I'm kind of just
Speaker 5: in the I don't know gray area about my takes
Speaker 5: on SMU already. Like I said, I kind of keep
Speaker 5: forgetting that them cal Stanford are still in the ACC.
Speaker 5: So when I see them on our schedule, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's right. So like I don't, I don't factor them
Speaker 5: in too much.
Speaker 3: But can I give us here? Can I give us
Speaker 3: a pat on the back here? Because we we we
Speaker 3: had the.
Speaker 2: Opportunity and a lot of people probably would have done it.
Speaker 2: That's a path to do a lot of fake taking,
Speaker 2: meaning where we could act like we are very familiar
Speaker 2: with uh, you know, with this SMU team, But like no,
Speaker 2: like I haven't watched a second of them. I know
Speaker 2: I know their personnel, I don't know who their coaches. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Andy Infield, who was at USC. Yeah, but yeah, like
Speaker 2: you you know it now that you're reminded, But like
Speaker 2: it's not something that's just on your brain because you're
Speaker 2: not thinking a whole lot about SMU. So again, I
Speaker 2: don't want to act like I'm I'm I'm confident because
Speaker 2: I think they stink I'm confident because.
Speaker 3: Louisvill's played so well. Yes, but also.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe I learned the hard way that this
Speaker 2: SMU team really hit their stride just like Louisville did.
Speaker 2: But here's some I mean, they've got a familiar face,
Speaker 2: Matt Cross. Can I believe he's still playing college basketball?
Speaker 2: Did you not know he was at SMU? No, that
Speaker 2: dude's not a doctor yet. No, he's at SMU and
Speaker 2: he is. He's having a I mean he's having a
Speaker 2: good season. I mean, right now, he's averaging Okay, now
Speaker 2: I'm worried ten points, eight rebounds, a couple of assists.
Speaker 2: So you know, he's their third leading scorer. They're led
Speaker 2: by Booby Miller, who transferred to SMU after playing last
Speaker 2: year at Wake Forest. And he's putting up good numbers
Speaker 2: and you know, he's having a good season fourteen point
Speaker 2: six assists. But you know, he's somebody that I've seen
Speaker 2: play at Wake and even at Central Michigan. And again,
Speaker 2: like I'm sorry, Booby Miller could be better than he is.
Speaker 2: Louisville's still going to have a better point guard because
Speaker 2: Chucky hepburn. I mean, look, Chucky has has had games
Speaker 2: that you don't even realize that he was not super
Speaker 2: efficient when it comes to shooting the ball. And it's
Speaker 2: because when somebody brings up Chucky had an off night,
Speaker 2: they're probably just talking about that he went, you know,
Speaker 2: three of eight from the field or something, because you're
Speaker 2: thinking to yourself, off night. He was a pest defensively
Speaker 2: and created all kinds of havoc. He had seven assists, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm pretty sure Chucky's had seven or
Speaker 2: more assists like the last six games. So you know,
Speaker 2: if Chucky does what he did against Syracuse, where he's
Speaker 2: doing all those things and he's knocking down a bunch
Speaker 2: of threes, then Louisville's gonna be in a good position.
Speaker 2: And I'm not too worried about Booby Miller.
Speaker 5: But again, I know some Booby and boot By with
Speaker 5: a p oh woh boohuss. That's cool, right, Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's less cool to sound the alarm? Is that the
Speaker 5: booby alarm? Yeah, booby trap? And then another fall into
Speaker 5: one of those.
Speaker 2: Their second leading scorer is Chuck Harris, who is a
Speaker 2: transfer from Butler, and you know, he's a fine player.
Speaker 2: And one guy that really I wouldn't say worries me,
Speaker 2: but I'm very intrigued to watch is a true freshman
Speaker 2: who is from Turkey. He's seven foot two, two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty five pounds cement yigoty Oglu, I believe is
Speaker 2: how you say that he's for you again? Seven to two,
Speaker 2: playing twenty four minutes a game, and he's he's averaging
Speaker 2: ten points, just under ten, nine point six and six
Speaker 2: and a half board, shooting fifty six percent from the field.
Speaker 2: So he's clearly one of the better freshman that we
Speaker 2: have in the ACC. And I mean, I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to pull up now now now I'm looking at the
Speaker 2: real nerding, the real nerdy analytic numbers when it comes
Speaker 2: to pace of play, because what I instantly think of
Speaker 2: when I see that this guy is playing twenty four
Speaker 2: minutes a game and he's seven ft two twitter and
Speaker 2: sixty five pounds. I'm thinking, Okay, let's make this big
Speaker 2: guy run because man like, he's probably not nearly as
Speaker 2: suited to play the type of style that Louisville wants
Speaker 2: to play, because you know, it's harder for those guys
Speaker 2: to move. But maybe I'm wrong, Maybe he's this big, giant,
Speaker 2: thick in rem run.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't haven't seen him play a whole lot, but
Speaker 2: I would imagine they're not gonna want to play super
Speaker 2: fast with a guy like that. But then again, they
Speaker 2: just I mean, right now, they've been as much as
Speaker 2: Louisville's been the story for good reason. This SEMU team
Speaker 2: has been on fire. I mean, they scored one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventeen points against Miami. Now, they did have a
Speaker 2: dud game as far as scoring against Virginia, but they
Speaker 2: had ninety three in their.
Speaker 3: Game against Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: They've had other games where they're above one hundred and
Speaker 2: acc play one zero three against Boston College. So this
Speaker 2: level team has been really good defensively, really good the
Speaker 2: last six games. And if they keep if they keep
Speaker 2: that up tonight, I'm confident they'll get it done.
Speaker 3: Let's get to our last break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back on the other side and wrap it
Speaker 2: up right here on Sports Talk seven ninety Now.
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Speaker 2: We're wrapping this thing up here, very little time left,
Speaker 2: and I'm just looking here at what I want to
Speaker 2: bet on the night. And when you're when you're struggling,
Speaker 2: you're having some issues. I'm very fortunate, like a lot
Speaker 2: of people, to be able to turn to my parents.
Speaker 2: Still very close to my parents. They're healthy, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm getting to the point now where I got to
Speaker 2: keep reminding myself, like, hey, you know they're getting older.
Speaker 2: I should cherish my time with them. But how about
Speaker 2: my dad, the old man, the Mark Coffee Parlay special Here,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna ride what he's going with and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna share with you guys, because maybe you want to
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 4: Throw all the records, everything that you know about betting.
Speaker 2: At And by the way, he's got at least one
Speaker 2: leg here that I know you were big on Mississippi
Speaker 2: State plus eight and a half at Tennessee. He's got
Speaker 2: Vandy plus twelve at Bama. He's got Ohio State plus
Speaker 2: Tenant Purdue. He's got Wisconsin plus three and a half
Speaker 2: at UCLA, and he's got Louisville plus one and a
Speaker 2: half at SMU. So I asked him, and I was
Speaker 2: so happy that he knew what I meant when I
Speaker 2: asked the question, and I got this from you. But
Speaker 2: he sent that not even maybe realizing. I'm sure he
Speaker 2: did know. But all of them are dogs, I said,
Speaker 2: are the dogs barking Martead? He said, yep, So he's
Speaker 2: not confidence.
Speaker 4: Fire emojis as you can.
Speaker 2: I will, I will, and no kidding, Like I haven't
Speaker 2: looked at a few of those games. The one that
Speaker 2: I just don't know about because I just I think
Speaker 2: U c l A is fade territory. But teams that
Speaker 2: go out west have had a tough time when they
Speaker 2: make that adjustment, and Wisconsin's going to LA.
Speaker 5: So like that has been playing better the last couple
Speaker 5: of weeks. Yeah, yeah, ever since our guy went on
Speaker 5: that ramt.
Speaker 2: Well, initially that backfired, but now they're starting to starting
Speaker 2: to clean some things up.
Speaker 3: But we're out of time. Have a good night, everybody,
Speaker 3: Let's let's go cards