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Speaker 4: I'm a Thornton's guy. It's part of the brand, like
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Speaker 4: Nick Coffee. That's me Austin Montgomery alongside today. What else
Speaker 4: can I get into to avoid having to talk about
Speaker 4: what happened last night? Anything else I need to plug?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this in all seriousness. We are going to
Speaker 4: talk about a lot of things, including Kentucky getting a
Speaker 4: huge win last night against Duke. But I didn't mention
Speaker 4: this yesterday, so I might as well mention it now.
Speaker 4: And this is something that I need to say. But
Speaker 4: it also gives me a little bit more time to,
Speaker 4: you know, avoid the obvious. Kentucky looked good last night.
Speaker 4: But the company man, mister John Alden, he's still you know,
Speaker 4: he's still with us. I learned long ago when people
Speaker 4: like get a different job, leave the company, get a promotion.
Speaker 4: When I say no longer with us, I used to
Speaker 4: just mean like they're no longer on the show. And
Speaker 4: then I realized that I actually killed somebody once, not really,
Speaker 4: but they assumed that like when I said he's no
Speaker 4: longer with us, they just boughdy died. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: got to be a little more careful with my words.
Speaker 4: But the company man, he's still with us, and he's
Speaker 4: still a part of the show, but he's kind of
Speaker 4: in like a hybrid role now because we had some
Speaker 4: shake up here last week that resulted in John being
Speaker 4: relied on a little bit more than he had been
Speaker 4: relied on previously. In fact, i'll just say it, he
Speaker 4: got called up to the big leagues. That's what's happening here.
Speaker 4: He's now on the mothership news radio eight forty whash
Speaker 4: you hear in the mornings with Tony Cruz, and I
Speaker 4: don't know how long that's going to be his schedule,
Speaker 4: but even if it is, he'll still mix in and
Speaker 4: be a part of the show. But we now have
Speaker 4: Austin Montgomery running the operation there in the control room
Speaker 4: doing a phenomenal job.
Speaker 2: So thank you from one company man to another.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: One company man do another, and I think there'll be
Speaker 4: there'll be plenty of opportunities for the three of us
Speaker 4: to make some magic here as a trio. So he did,
Speaker 4: you know, he didn't He didn't just disappear, and you know,
Speaker 4: he didn't die. He's he's with us, and he had
Speaker 4: a big announcement earlier this week that I was happy
Speaker 4: that they put it out there for the whole world
Speaker 4: to know. I found out a few weeks ago. But
Speaker 4: John the company man, he's going to be a dad. Wow,
Speaker 4: and his lovely wife Alicia are going to have a
Speaker 4: girl and a company baby. That's right, That's right. So
Speaker 4: congratulations to him. I kind of feel I kind of
Speaker 4: feel like he's growing up right before my eyes.
Speaker 2: Seriously.
Speaker 4: You know, John was fresh out of college whenever he
Speaker 4: first made his way over here as an intern, initially
Speaker 4: for Howie Lindsay, and then he kind of just stuck around,
Speaker 4: got a part time gig and then became full time.
Speaker 4: And obviously he's been a part of what I do
Speaker 4: here at Sports Talk seven ninety for the last you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of years roughly. So very happy for him
Speaker 4: and his family, and just because you don't hear his
Speaker 4: voice every day, he's still around and he'll be with us,
Speaker 4: you know, here and there. So just wanted to let
Speaker 4: everybody know, all right, let's let's get to it. I mean,
Speaker 4: how about how about that performance last night? Yeah, case
Speaker 4: Dan Musgrave, she was great at the KFC Center.
Speaker 3: Oh was she actually last night?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, she was.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something, I didn't know really what
Speaker 5: to expect from that, and I'm pretty sure everyone tunes
Speaker 5: into Sports Talk seven ninety to hear about the country
Speaker 5: concerts that go on here locally.
Speaker 2: But what a show. I don't know if do you
Speaker 2: know too much of her?
Speaker 5: You just kind of know. I know she's really hot, Yeah,
Speaker 5: very much. I know that confirmed last night being there
Speaker 5: in person.
Speaker 4: And I know she's a successful country music artist. And
Speaker 4: I know that if you if you did, and I'm
Speaker 4: not asking you to, I mean you can if you want.
Speaker 4: It's you, it's your lane when it comes to what
Speaker 4: we what we vibe to on the on the show today,
Speaker 4: when it comes to tunes, But I know if you
Speaker 4: played a few of them, I probably know them, but
Speaker 4: I just can't think of any off the top of
Speaker 4: my head.
Speaker 3: But she's a she's kind of a big deal, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a really big deal. I didn't know
Speaker 2: too much what to expect.
Speaker 5: I think I only knew like one or two of
Speaker 5: her songs from her last album, but this was her
Speaker 5: newer album tour. The girlfriend knows a lot more than
Speaker 5: I did, but I was I was very pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 5: I wasn't expected to be let down. I knew she'd
Speaker 5: be a good performer, but it was really really fun.
Speaker 5: The um Center is a great place for a concert.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that clearly was the performance I was referring to.
Speaker 4: But also there was a performance in Atlanta that, oh
Speaker 4: it was pretty it was pretty impressive. I mean, look,
Speaker 4: I said nothing would surprise me, but I was wrong.
Speaker 4: In Kentucky winning and beating Duke last night, that wasn't
Speaker 4: what really shocked me. In fact, I said many times yesterday,
Speaker 4: I really felt like they had a good shot at
Speaker 4: winning because the roles were reversed, meaning usually you'll see
Speaker 4: an older team be able to at this point early
Speaker 4: on in the season take advantage of being veterans, being
Speaker 4: a little bit more ready at that point. Now, it's
Speaker 4: still impressive. I mean I'm not acting like, you know,
Speaker 4: Kentucky won't be a good team this year, but it
Speaker 4: just kind of felt like, yeah, I could see I
Speaker 4: can see Kentucky, you know, holding out and being able
Speaker 4: to win a close game.
Speaker 3: And they did that.
Speaker 4: However, I didn't see them winning the way that they did.
Speaker 4: And it's still clearly was was a was an over
Speaker 4: It was a collective effort from everybody involved. Obviously, Andrew
Speaker 4: Carr was great, for Kentucky. But you know, I thought
Speaker 4: that if they were going to win that game, it
Speaker 4: would be a really high scoring game and it would
Speaker 4: just be Kentucky kind of outlasting them, like a shootout
Speaker 4: kind of thing, and they just hold on, maybe they
Speaker 4: make more free throws like that would have been the
Speaker 4: most likely scenario that I would have envisioned had they
Speaker 4: you know, if they won. And they did win, but
Speaker 4: and it wasn't. It wasn't a low scoring game by
Speaker 4: any means, but it wasn't a shootout and Kentucky didn't
Speaker 4: really have that much of a problem defending Duke. So
Speaker 4: I mean again, like that was that was impressive. And look,
Speaker 4: they've got a good team. And I know Kentucky like
Speaker 4: top to bottom, everybody within BB and the Big Blue Bozos,
Speaker 4: from the players, the fans, the coaches, like, I get
Speaker 4: why they're being of knock because I'd probably do the
Speaker 4: same thing. I don't blame them at all. I mean,
Speaker 4: not only was that a great sign for this current
Speaker 4: team for Mark Pope, but you're really winning the breakup
Speaker 4: right now and it's not close. And as we've discussed,
Speaker 4: you can act like that doesn't matter, but it does matter.
Speaker 4: I would believe you if you told me that it
Speaker 4: wasn't the first, maybe even the second thing that like
Speaker 4: popped into your mind after you realized, holy crap, in
Speaker 4: just his third career game as the coach, Mark Pope
Speaker 4: beat Duke. I think it's like the fourth time they've
Speaker 4: beat Duke in like the last sixty years or something
Speaker 4: like that. That stat blew me away, But I feel
Speaker 4: like it's true because of where it came from. I
Speaker 4: heard it on the KSR pregame show yesterday, so you know,
Speaker 4: I know they say facts are optional. They're not going
Speaker 4: to get facts wrong but make their team look bad.
Speaker 4: So Kentucky hasn't beaten Duke a whole lot, and they
Speaker 4: certainly considered them a rival and they got it done.
Speaker 4: So a great sign for Mark Pope. So again, I'm
Speaker 4: sure there's a lot of things that went into your
Speaker 4: mind right afterwards, like holy crap, I can't believe he
Speaker 4: did that. This is great, this feels awesome. But one
Speaker 4: of the many things that you were probably thinking about
Speaker 4: at that time when the game ended and you realize
Speaker 4: you held on in one. You were thinking about your ex,
Speaker 4: you were thinking about John Keller Perry, and you know,
Speaker 4: right now, the early stages of this breakup, you're winning
Speaker 4: in a major way, monster win for Pope and his team,
Speaker 4: and Cal, you know, he's he's not only looking exactly
Speaker 4: the same as he did when he was at Kentucky,
Speaker 4: which led to that thing kind of falling apart to
Speaker 4: where you needed to have the breakup that you had.
Speaker 3: But like he's.
Speaker 4: Starting to get you know, he's starting to get criticized
Speaker 4: more so than I feel like he usually does. Like
Speaker 4: people make fun of Cal for you know, flopping in
Speaker 4: the tournament right and just losing to teams like Oakland
Speaker 4: and Saint Peter's, and that's that's worthy of being made
Speaker 4: fun of. I make fun of him too. But now
Speaker 4: you have those that I guess are you know, more
Speaker 4: on the capitol j side of covering the sport. They're
Speaker 4: not out here to make jokes. They're not out here
Speaker 4: to really you know, entertain They're just they're they're given takes,
Speaker 4: right they are. They're given analysis, like you know, the
Speaker 4: field of sixty eight guys, right, those that you know
Speaker 4: that are the talking heads of the sport, Like they're
Speaker 4: really calling out how here he is at a new
Speaker 4: school and he's trying to do the same things that
Speaker 4: really made it go sour at Kentucky, and it's not.
Speaker 4: I mean, he doesn't have the same resources at Arkansas
Speaker 4: that he would at a place like Kentucky. So again,
Speaker 4: a big win last night for Kentucky. And you know,
Speaker 4: I didn't want them to win, but it happened. And
Speaker 4: I'd be a liar if I said I didn't think
Speaker 4: that they looked impressive. I mean, they've got they've got
Speaker 4: a good team. I don't know what their ceiling is.
Speaker 4: You know, they're certainly going to lose games this year.
Speaker 4: But you know, I don't even think they played that well.
Speaker 4: I mean, they played well enough, they made shots when
Speaker 4: it mattered. But if you just look at the numbers here,
Speaker 4: the biggest difference in this game was that Kentucky they
Speaker 4: made they made more three points shots. I mean they
Speaker 4: were ten of twenty five for forty percent. If you're
Speaker 4: shooting forty percent from three, that's a pretty good recipe,
Speaker 4: especially if you've got a team. I mean, again, they
Speaker 4: shot forty percent from three. And it wasn't just one
Speaker 4: or two or even three guys that really did did
Speaker 4: the bulk of the work. I mean, they had looks
Speaker 4: like four different guys made at least two three pointers.
Speaker 4: So you know, you build your roster to have guys
Speaker 4: that are, you know, shooters, you're gonna let them shoot.
Speaker 4: And they made forty percent of them. And that's a
Speaker 4: pretty good recipe. But everywhere else, I mean, neither team
Speaker 4: shot the ball great overall, forty percent roughly for both,
Speaker 4: thirty nine percent for Duke, forty percent for Kentucky. So
Speaker 4: Kentucky was ten of twenty five as mentioned forty percent.
Speaker 4: Duke was four of twenty three for seventeen percent. That's
Speaker 4: really the difference in the game. Both teams were the
Speaker 4: same at the free throw line seventy one percent. Kentucky
Speaker 4: had a few more turnovers. Duke had a four point
Speaker 4: edge on the backboard. Second chance points were pretty even,
Speaker 4: and I guess the other big difference here is the
Speaker 4: bench points. I mean, Kentucky they got balanced right. They
Speaker 4: were led by Andrew Carr, who played really well, especially.
Speaker 3: In the second half.
Speaker 4: O way, I think it's how you say the guy's
Speaker 4: name who transferred to Oklahoma State was he was solid.
Speaker 4: I mean, if he's making two out of three three
Speaker 4: pointers a night and putting up fifteen points and grabbing
Speaker 4: six boards. That's a that's like, that's production for Mark
Speaker 4: Pope that I don't really think anybody was expecting consistently.
Speaker 4: And then you had eight apiece from Brea Garrison and
Speaker 4: looks like Amari Williams had had ten, Lamont Butler with nine.
Speaker 4: But your best player, at least the guy that everybody
Speaker 4: thought was gonna be your best player. And I heard
Speaker 4: a lot of people saying this before the season started,
Speaker 4: and I didn't disagree, but it was incorrect last night.
Speaker 4: Jackson Robinson, he didn't mean was he there last night?
Speaker 4: I mean I say that sarcastically. He played twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 4: He didn't do a thing, and twenty seven minutes he
Speaker 4: had one point because he made one of three free throws,
Speaker 4: had one rebound, didn't have an assist. I mean again,
Speaker 4: talking about somebody who played twenty seven minutes and essentially
Speaker 4: just took up one of the five spots on the floor.
Speaker 4: That's what he did in twenty seven minutes, and it
Speaker 4: didn't matter. Kentucky still beat Duke. So if they'll be
Speaker 4: able to win game because Jackson Robinson's the guy that
Speaker 4: everybody said, look, he's going to have to be the
Speaker 4: best player.
Speaker 3: Can he really take over?
Speaker 4: Can he turn it on when you're playing elite teams
Speaker 4: with elite talent like a duke? And he didn't even
Speaker 4: do a damn thing and it didn't matter. So very
Speaker 4: encouraging for Kentucky, and I'm jealous. Louisville had an opportunity
Speaker 4: to kind of do the same thing and put together
Speaker 4: the same type of performance on Saturday against Tennessee, and
Speaker 4: you know, they didn't come close to doing what was
Speaker 4: done last night. So doesn't mean I think Louis's going
Speaker 4: to have a terrible season and that Kentucky's going to be,
Speaker 4: you know, a billion times better.
Speaker 3: But we got a call like it is.
Speaker 4: We've now seen each of these two teams play nobody's
Speaker 4: and they look good. And then we saw each team
Speaker 4: play a real opponent, and one team looked outmatched in
Speaker 4: a major way and looked like they have a lot
Speaker 4: of work to do, whereas the other team pulled through.
Speaker 4: And I'm not even sure you saw Kentucky playing close
Speaker 4: to their best. So you know, another obvious observation for me,
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag really talented. Thirty two points at twenty six,
Speaker 4: sorry thirty two minutes, had twenty six points twelve boards,
Speaker 4: just so you can tell the guy's got a lot
Speaker 4: of ability. You know, there's not really anything I saw
Speaker 4: last night that I would that I would say like
Speaker 4: is a weakness for him. But it might have been
Speaker 4: Cel Brown, who was on the show last week or
Speaker 4: the week before. I remember talking with him about Cooper Flag,
Speaker 4: you know, asking do you believe the hype? Do you
Speaker 4: think this guy is as good as advertised? And he
Speaker 4: said yes, but he brought up one potential thing that
Speaker 4: that could that could hurt this Duke team. It probably
Speaker 4: won't matter long term for a guy like Cooper Flag,
Speaker 4: who's just that talented, but this Duke team, they're gonna
Speaker 4: need Cooper Flagg to kind of just take over. And
Speaker 4: he tried to do it at times last night. He
Speaker 4: had that late turnover, of course, that was crucial. He
Speaker 4: also made some tough shots down the stretch. Like I
Speaker 4: think he to say like he looked way overrated. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you'll hear some people say that.
Speaker 3: I didn't view it that way.
Speaker 4: I mean, again, he led all scores with twenty six points,
Speaker 4: but he didn't look comfortable being the guy to just
Speaker 4: take over. That's not something you go to the gym
Speaker 4: and work on. That's not something you you know, get
Speaker 4: a bunch of reps.
Speaker 2: Mike's on. Oh I had it off.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought, well, I heard you take a drink Son.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't know I heard that, but.
Speaker 3: Weird, did you take a drink?
Speaker 4: I did, but the mic was off. Oh never mind.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it happens. But anyways, with Cooper Flag like, you
Speaker 4: don't just you don't just become the alpha, and you
Speaker 4: can get more comfortable at it, but a lot of
Speaker 4: that really is just your personality, right, that's how you.
Speaker 4: And it seems like when you when you were looking
Speaker 4: to find anybody bringing up a potential weakness or a
Speaker 4: concern about this guy who has more hype entering college
Speaker 4: than anybody since Zion Williamson, that is what I heard that,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe he won't really become table embracing the
Speaker 4: role of like, all right, everybody, get out of my way,
Speaker 4: let me go to work.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be the guy. And I think he.
Speaker 4: Tried at times, but he just one of two things,
Speaker 4: and it's probably it's actually probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: He didn't he wasn't comfortable doing it, and it caused
Speaker 4: him to you know, struggle here and there late trying
Speaker 4: to make some big plays, or maybe Kentucky just took it.
Speaker 4: You know, they realized, Hey, we know who they're going
Speaker 4: to we know who they're going to rely on when
Speaker 4: it's when it's time to uh, you know, time to
Speaker 4: close out a game, and we're gonna we're gonna be
Speaker 4: ready to stop him.
Speaker 3: We're gonna, we're gonna double, We're gonna swipe.
Speaker 4: I think it was who was it that had that
Speaker 4: swipe on the ball that you know was one that
Speaker 4: might have been Lamont Butler one of the bigger defensive
Speaker 4: plays late in the game. So again, if you're Kentucky,
Speaker 4: I get it. Yet, that's huge for you guys, especially
Speaker 4: to get the new era started with a.
Speaker 3: Win like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I hate it, but it happened, and I
Speaker 4: gotta you know, I gotta call like it is. We
Speaker 4: gotta be honest.
Speaker 5: Well, you know you brought up that stat earlier WHATSR did,
Speaker 5: and it prompted me to go look up just the
Speaker 5: Champions Classic all time records. So Kentucky has faced Duke
Speaker 5: six times in the Champions Classic, and believe it or not,
Speaker 5: they even did at three to three with yesterday, And
Speaker 5: do you care to you care to take a guess
Speaker 5: of who has the most wins out of those four
Speaker 5: teams in the Championship Classics overall history.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm gonna say it's either Duke or Kansas. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna lean that it's that it's Duke.
Speaker 5: It's Kansas, Okay, So Kansas, yes, sir, Well before yesterday
Speaker 5: there were nine and five all time, So that just
Speaker 5: puts them at ten and five for the whole season
Speaker 5: or for the whole series.
Speaker 2: Then it's Duke.
Speaker 5: Then it's Kentucky and Michigan State has kind of been
Speaker 5: getting dog walked by everybody.
Speaker 2: In that series.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure the contract has been renewed at
Speaker 4: some point to where there's no ability to make a swap.
Speaker 4: But man Ukon needs that spot, don't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Villanova would have been good a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago.
Speaker 4: Or yeah, when they had their run going, which, by
Speaker 4: the way, they lost again last night.
Speaker 2: You see that.
Speaker 4: I didn't see that Saint Joe's beat Villanova, and then
Speaker 4: last week they lost to an IVY League team. It
Speaker 4: might have been was it Yale or Princeton? One of
Speaker 4: those teams. So in recent years, when it comes to
Speaker 4: these legends that either get forced out, decide to walk away,
Speaker 4: whatever it may be, they've had influence and who takes
Speaker 4: over for him, and every one of these coaches I
Speaker 4: feel like has for the most part underwhelmed. I know,
Speaker 4: Hubert Davis made the run to the championship game, but
Speaker 4: outside of that, and you can't.
Speaker 3: Just take that away that has real value, right, But.
Speaker 4: Other than that, like, I feel like Carolina has always
Speaker 4: had the talent and the ability, and you know that
Speaker 4: if they beat anybody then it won't surprise you. But
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like overall it's been slightly underwhelming
Speaker 4: under the Hubert Davis here. I mean, they missed the
Speaker 4: tournament one year I believe, did they or maybe the
Speaker 4: year I thought they were gonna miss the tournments the
Speaker 4: year that they got hot and made it all the
Speaker 4: way to the championship game. But either way, you can
Speaker 4: throw Kyle Neptune in there with Jay Wright's replacement, a
Speaker 4: guy that Jay Wright clearly made sure got the job
Speaker 4: after he walked away, and they're gonna have to go
Speaker 4: find the new coach now because this guy's I mean,
Speaker 4: he was potentially on the hot seat last year and
Speaker 4: then I guess following last year, then he enters this
Speaker 4: year with a rough start. But who else was Like,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of other coaches that have stepped
Speaker 4: in just that we're you know, Greg gard took over
Speaker 4: for bo Ryan, who again, that's not a that's not
Speaker 4: an elite job. And I don't think that Bo Ryan
Speaker 4: is an elite coach, but that's a similar situation to
Speaker 4: where he had influence and just handing it off to
Speaker 4: his guy and it hadn't worked.
Speaker 3: So anyways, a lot to get into.
Speaker 4: We'll take our first break coming up here in just
Speaker 4: a second, but I do want to set the table
Speaker 4: for you. We're gonna have some fun today, right Austin.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what we're here to do. Oh, We're
Speaker 4: here to bring the vibes and hopefully give you guys
Speaker 4: a better afternoon. So stick with us. We'll take you
Speaker 4: up till six o'clock. We're going to talk about the
Speaker 4: college football playoff rankings. No real big shocker last night,
Speaker 4: but the Big ten is clearly getting the benefit of
Speaker 4: the doubt that the SEC usually gets in. The SEC's
Speaker 4: upset about it, and I understand why. I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't want the SEC to get preferential treatment all the time,
Speaker 4: but like there's some rank there's some teams in the
Speaker 4: Big ten that you're just giving them the benefit of
Speaker 4: doubt that I don't think. I think they're less worthy
Speaker 4: of it than the SEC. So we'll get into that. Also,
Speaker 4: I think the committee, whoever the spokesperson is for the
Speaker 4: Committee this year, I think it's the Michigan Athletic Director,
Speaker 4: there's one thing they could just say every week when
Speaker 4: they give us an update and try to explain it.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't make everybody happy, and clearly people would still
Speaker 4: say these aren't in order the way they're supposed to
Speaker 4: be as far as the rankings, but it would eliminate
Speaker 4: this endless.
Speaker 3: How did you do that? Why did you do that?
Speaker 3: What's your justification for that?
Speaker 4: So nobody's talking about it, But there's one thing they
Speaker 4: could do the committee that that would make it to
Speaker 4: where you would you know, you'd still have people complaining,
Speaker 4: but you wouldn't be trying to solve this puzzle in
Speaker 4: your head as far as how they came up with
Speaker 4: what they came up with. So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 4: As for the louisvill basketball side. They're going to be,
Speaker 4: of course, you know, back in action next week against Bellerman.
Speaker 4: So they've got that ten day break after that lost
Speaker 4: to Tennessee. And I've got a theory in regards to
Speaker 4: Pat Kelcey and his offense, his style of play. And
Speaker 4: it's not like it's not a criticism, but as I
Speaker 4: continue to think back to what happened on Saturday, the
Speaker 4: way things played out, and Louisville just really had a
Speaker 4: tough time competing, and there's a lot of factors in that,
Speaker 4: but one of it was. One of those factors was
Speaker 4: that they tried to get into their style, what they
Speaker 4: want to do, who they are, and Tennessee was ready
Speaker 4: to stop it and had no trouble stopping it. And
Speaker 4: the more I think back to that, the more I realize,
Speaker 4: you know, this is a learning experience for everybody, including
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey, and I'm confident that he'll put everything he
Speaker 4: has into getting it figured out and making sure that
Speaker 4: things like Saturday don't happen again. They're gonna lose games.
Speaker 4: They're probably gonna lose games this year, maybe by that
Speaker 4: same margin at times. I Mean, I hate to say that,
Speaker 4: but that's just basketball, it's college hoops. But I think
Speaker 4: there's a clear difference in where he's been prior to
Speaker 4: Louisville and what you're gonna see night in and night
Speaker 4: at at Louisville. And I'm not just talking about well, yeah,
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Speaker 4: So Louisville is up to number nineteen in the latest
Speaker 4: college football playoff rankings, and I really don't think that
Speaker 4: there's a whole lot of room for them to to
Speaker 4: climb a whole lot higher. But I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 4: maybe I'm wrong, because Louisville's value right now is their
Speaker 4: win at Clemson and their losses being to all really
Speaker 4: good teams that the committee currently still views as top
Speaker 4: fifteen teams. So the opportunities left are at Stanford, which
Speaker 4: you're you're favored about twenty points, so you're I think
Speaker 4: you're you're gonna you should win that one, and even
Speaker 4: if you win and cover, I'm not sure that that
Speaker 4: gives you a chance to really, you know, to improve
Speaker 4: your your resume. And then you play Pitt at home.
Speaker 4: You know, that one some value, but certainly not now
Speaker 4: enough to where you're going to really probably jump ahead
Speaker 4: of teams that that have you know, that are currently
Speaker 4: ahead of you unless they lose. And even if you know,
Speaker 4: a one loss team loses one game and they're now
Speaker 4: sitting and I don't know, eight and two and you're
Speaker 4: seven and three at one point. Like again, just because
Speaker 4: you lose doesn't mean that you automatically jump ahead of
Speaker 4: people who or you jump behind people who were, you know,
Speaker 4: on your heels. So I know some people are still
Speaker 4: thinking like, well, hey, there's a path, there's you know,
Speaker 4: and I don't. I don't do whatever you want. I'm
Speaker 4: not trying to ran on anybody's preade. I just I
Speaker 4: can't fake it, Like I think there's any scenario that
Speaker 4: Louisville makes the playoffs despite them now being I guess what,
Speaker 4: seven spots away. But that's not really how it works, right,
Speaker 4: It's there's certain spots that are slotted for teams that
Speaker 4: accomplish this. This means, so you know, I don't think
Speaker 4: it's possible, but you know, I guess the only time
Speaker 4: will tell. But then even saying that makes me think
Speaker 4: that I'm like under the impression that there's any remote
Speaker 4: hope that it happens.
Speaker 3: And it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: But hey, being nineteen is a good place to be,
Speaker 4: and you should win the rest of the games on
Speaker 4: your schedule, and if you do that, who knows where you.
Speaker 3: Could end up.
Speaker 4: I will say Louisville is starting to get more love
Speaker 4: from some national folks out there that cover college football,
Speaker 4: but you know it's not necessarily because they think Louisville's great,
Speaker 4: but they're using Louisville as an example to I guess
Speaker 4: crush the committee for really prioritizing two leagues, the SEC
Speaker 4: in the Big Ten when it comes to this twelve
Speaker 4: team playoff, and it's nice to see Louisville getting some love.
Speaker 4: It's nice to, you know, for people to call out
Speaker 4: the fact that, you know, Louisville should be a top
Speaker 4: fifteen team because.
Speaker 3: All their loss you know.
Speaker 4: So I just you know, if I told you that
Speaker 4: certain teams in the Big Ten and the in the SEC,
Speaker 4: you know, shouldn't be ranked where they are and that
Speaker 4: they're getting favoritism from the committee, I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: believe that, Like I think, you know, my argument has
Speaker 4: always been this, the Big ten in the SEC are
Speaker 4: the best leagues, but I don't believe that the gap
Speaker 4: is what they think it is. And also the top
Speaker 4: tier of those leagues deserves the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 4: more often than not. But you know, if you're gonna
Speaker 4: be a like, for example, Eli Drinkwitz, he said, and
Speaker 4: this is what coaches say.
Speaker 3: So I don't want to pick on him.
Speaker 4: He's a dork, but I mean, like, I'm not surprised,
Speaker 4: and he's not the last coach that's gonna say this
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. Drink Witz said, any team in the
Speaker 4: SEC that finishes with ten wins on their season should
Speaker 4: be in the playoff. Well, I'm pretty sure Missouri could
Speaker 4: end up being ten and two at the end of
Speaker 4: the year and not having a win we're worth talking about,
Speaker 4: so like that's not really the case. So, like you know, anyways,
Speaker 4: but they're up to nineteen and I'm gonna guess, just
Speaker 4: a guess here, I think the highest they could possibly get,
Speaker 4: even with chaos going on, it's probably like maybe fourteen.
Speaker 4: That No, that's what I said last week, like the
Speaker 4: the crazier things have happened, or the dumb and dumber
Speaker 4: clip that Austin has played. You're telling me there's a chance,
Speaker 4: Like I don't even like I don't even want to
Speaker 4: jokingly reference those things we're not entertaining because well because
Speaker 4: it's just not possible. Like I don't know, I've yet
Speaker 4: to see somebody give me a scenario, even if you
Speaker 4: want to acknowledge that said scenario is like the least
Speaker 4: likely thing to happen, Like I can't even think of
Speaker 4: a scenario where endless amounts of chaos take place and
Speaker 4: Louisville ends up being one of the twelve teams in
Speaker 4: the playoff. I just I don't really think that it's possible.
Speaker 4: But you know, maybe somebody can present something that proves
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