Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven nine day.
Speaker 2: Now here's Nick Coffee. Well, I'm not exactly Nick Coffee.
Speaker 3: I'm Scott Fitzgerald, if a filling in for the vacationing
Speaker 3: Nick Coffee. Nick taking well deserved two days off myself.
Speaker 3: John Alden down in studio, keeping your company here for
Speaker 3: the next couple of hours. I'll be back in tomorrow
Speaker 3: and then Nick will be back with you Wednesday to
Speaker 3: take you the rest of the way out, John, Do
Speaker 3: we know where Nick went this time? He went to
Speaker 3: Missouri last time, didn't.
Speaker 1: He So he's down for his annual trip to I
Speaker 1: believe it's Jacksonville.
Speaker 4: I maybe.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think I'm incorrect about that. He's in Florida somewhere. Okay, Also,
Speaker 1: real quick, he'll be He's off all week the underdogs.
Speaker 1: I've taken over Wednesday through Friday.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got you? Okay, Boss, all right? Cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say he's only going for a
Speaker 3: couple of days. That seems like could be a little
Speaker 3: bit Okay, good listen. Speaking of we got some announcements.
Speaker 3: We were talking about college football. Congratulations to Tyler Shook.
Speaker 3: He's been named one of the candidates for the eighty
Speaker 3: eighth Maxwell Award that is presented to the college player
Speaker 3: of the year that's been done so since nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 3: People expecting big things out of Tyler Shook. Also is
Speaker 3: it's Western Kentucky's quarterback TJ. Finley has been nominated to
Speaker 3: that watch list as well.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the College Football twenty five yet?
Speaker 1: John, the video game you referred? Yeah, right, So I
Speaker 1: don't have a PS five. I haven't played it myself,
Speaker 1: but I do have a lot of people in my
Speaker 1: circle that have been enjoying it, taking it in and
Speaker 1: I am a little jealous, to be honest. I haven't
Speaker 1: invested in a PS five or a new Xbox, but
Speaker 1: it's something that I definitely missed. The nostalgia trip. I
Speaker 1: talked about that earlier with some other things, but I
Speaker 1: think it looks like a good time.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people are.
Speaker 1: Doing the Road to Glory, creating their own player, doing
Speaker 1: that type of stuff, taking dynasties, taking the smaller schools
Speaker 1: and trying to make him big name powers.
Speaker 4: So that's a fun thing to do in that college
Speaker 4: football game.
Speaker 3: It is my son is all. He bought the pre release.
Speaker 3: He couldn't sleep before it came out. I know it's
Speaker 3: been a big deal. I'm not a big gamer guy
Speaker 3: myself personally. We used to play when he was younger.
Speaker 3: To me, the circle, circle, triangle, dot dot, that becomes
Speaker 3: a little complicated after a while.
Speaker 2: But he loves it.
Speaker 3: And to your point, he's doing the Road to Glory
Speaker 3: stuff and he absolutely loves it. Tyler Shook's used him
Speaker 3: quite a bit on the game. The game does paint
Speaker 3: ellenn in a nice picture, as it does Commonwealth in
Speaker 3: any other stadium you want to go. They've done a
Speaker 3: really good job with that, So good on them. I
Speaker 3: know that is a big deal. And speaking of college football,
Speaker 3: if you want to get out, whether you're a catfan
Speaker 3: or Card fan, and you want to see your teams,
Speaker 3: we're starting to get word now Kentucky fans are going
Speaker 3: to get their first look at this year squad. You
Speaker 3: can head to Lexington on Saturday. Open practice is going
Speaker 3: to start at eleven. It'll run through until twelve forty five.
Speaker 3: That'll be at the Joe Kraft Football Training Center. Admission
Speaker 3: is free. Unfortunately, in the event of inclement weather, that
Speaker 3: event will be canceled. So Kentucky is asking fans go
Speaker 3: ahead and log onto UK Athletics for any updates before
Speaker 3: you hit the road, because, as we can tell why,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be a bit dicey here this week. In fact,
Speaker 3: they just got an alert on my phone telling me
Speaker 3: that severe storms are possible tonight. They are updating that
Speaker 3: timeline as well, and it's kind of washed, rins and
Speaker 3: repeat all week. As you mentioned earlier, John, very humid
Speaker 3: out there as you make your way out or make
Speaker 3: your way home tonight. Now Cardinal fans coach bram is
Speaker 3: opening things up starting well, I guess is it Wednesday,
Speaker 3: July two days? Okay, So Wednesday to forty five they're
Speaker 3: going to open up on the grass practice fields off
Speaker 3: Floyd Street. Then August second you're gonna have a six
Speaker 3: o'clock chance to see the cards play. And then it's
Speaker 3: on August third, twelve forty five, and then the fifth, sixth,
Speaker 3: and eighth of August are all nine forty five as
Speaker 3: well as the ninth of August, all nine forty five practices.
Speaker 3: They're open to fans. You can go in and check
Speaker 3: them out. You have to behind the ropes and do
Speaker 3: not video and do not take pictures. I wonder how
Speaker 3: many times guys like Roco have to walk up and
Speaker 3: down tell folks stop with the cameras, stop.
Speaker 2: With the cameras.
Speaker 3: But I certainly understand now in the event of implement
Speaker 3: weather for the cards, they may move that inside, probably
Speaker 3: I would imagine to the Tregger Center so you'll be
Speaker 3: able to see them. But again, they open their season
Speaker 3: August thirty. First, they're gonna host Austin pe The governors
Speaker 3: are coming to town.
Speaker 2: So it won't be too long to remember I was here.
Speaker 3: I think it was like the first year I was
Speaker 3: here at the first or second year when they opened
Speaker 3: Papa John's.
Speaker 2: At the time Papa John's, it was so hot. I
Speaker 2: just remember people.
Speaker 3: You see people sitting in the stands and like the
Speaker 3: Grim Reaper was literally behind him and it was just
Speaker 3: like so they were like, can we cut out this?
Speaker 3: And that's when they you know, there was some talk
Speaker 3: they moved the rock. I like the rivalry game in
Speaker 3: the last game of the season, and maybe that's just
Speaker 3: the Michigan Ohio state guy in me. I never was
Speaker 3: a fan of rivalry games out of the get go. Never,
Speaker 3: I just I didn't like. It just didn't feel right
Speaker 3: because you got rivalry weekend in college football, and it's
Speaker 3: always late in the year unless it's that maybe what
Speaker 3: the third Saturday in October. I believe that's when Alabama
Speaker 3: and Tennessee play. I mean, there's certain rivalries that don't
Speaker 3: play at the end of the year, but most of
Speaker 3: them are at the end of the year. And I
Speaker 3: like the fact that Kentucky and Louisville play at the
Speaker 3: end because it works twofold one. If you're both in contention,
Speaker 3: there's a lot on the line when you play two.
Speaker 3: If one of you is out of contention, you can
Speaker 3: play no holds, bar and ruin their season and were
Speaker 3: at the We were at the game last year, and
Speaker 3: I mean, let's face it, Louisville fans were optimistic going
Speaker 3: into that game and Kentucky fans wanted nothing to do
Speaker 3: without optimism. And it was an exciting atmosphere. It was
Speaker 3: a crisp, sunny fall afternoon. It wasn't one hundred and
Speaker 3: twelve degrees. I remember my son and I making the
Speaker 3: walk from we parked over by old Cardinals Stadium there,
Speaker 3: which is not.
Speaker 2: A bad walk.
Speaker 3: I actually prefer to do that because by the time
Speaker 3: you get to your car, you just get in your
Speaker 3: car and leave, as opposed to parking in the greenlight.
Speaker 3: And I just remember being just a crisp afternoon sun
Speaker 3: was out.
Speaker 2: I mean that place was packed.
Speaker 3: I mean people were crowded in there, and people were
Speaker 3: standing and it just was exciting as opposed to games
Speaker 3: where you go I've been to one Kentucky Louisville game
Speaker 3: where it was the beginning of the season. It was
Speaker 3: ungodly high. You can't enjoy yourself. You're just you're cooking
Speaker 3: in the stands. Those those plastic seats are just hot
Speaker 3: to the touch when you're sitting there. So I don't
Speaker 3: know I prefer it, but you know, to each through
Speaker 3: on some people like the heat.
Speaker 1: Well, and here's the you mentioned being in contention and
Speaker 1: now you have the twelve team playoff. If that was
Speaker 1: in place last year, you could argue that Louisville would
Speaker 1: have been solidifying a playoff spot by that's Kentucky in
Speaker 1: that game. That Kentucky would have been the spoiler in
Speaker 1: that considering they did beat them last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you bring up a good point, John, because I
Speaker 3: really am. I went kicking and screaming into the new
Speaker 3: expanded Playoff. But for the reason you just mentioned, I'm
Speaker 3: kind of like warming up to that. What was really
Speaker 3: hard for me to get used to growing up a
Speaker 3: Big Ten fan.
Speaker 2: You're a note you guy.
Speaker 3: You know the Big Ten is the Big Ten and
Speaker 3: old you being an original Big ten member. Seeing that
Speaker 3: new book Big Ten, that was hard to really wrap
Speaker 3: my head around. But I get it. That's the thing.
Speaker 3: I get it now. I get Texas and Oklahoma in
Speaker 3: the SEC. That makes total sense. And I got a
Speaker 3: kind of reverse course because on the air with Tony Cruz,
Speaker 3: I just was I'm like.
Speaker 2: I'm not watching college football.
Speaker 3: It's not the college football I knew, and this, this
Speaker 3: and this, and as the more I'm starting to think
Speaker 3: about it, and the more my son's been home for
Speaker 3: the summer, more I talk to him about it, he's
Speaker 3: kind of selling me on it. The thing, I wish
Speaker 3: the ACC would get together and get something figured out here,
Speaker 3: because quite honestly, I'm tired of hearing football. I'm tired
Speaker 3: of hearing about Florida State and Clemson. I just I've
Speaker 3: never been a Clemson fan. I've never been a Dabos
Speaker 3: Swinny fan. I just I hope the ACC can find
Speaker 3: a happy medium here because I think Louisville fans with
Speaker 3: coach Brom have something special cooking. And I really think
Speaker 3: Cardinal fans deserve better. I mean, I remember, I remember
Speaker 3: when Paul Rodgers was with us in the atmosphere around
Speaker 3: the studio when they played that game with West Virginia.
Speaker 3: West Virginia came to town. And then that was also right
Speaker 3: around the time they played Rutgers. They were one and two.
Speaker 3: I mean that was when they were in the Big
Speaker 3: East and this place was hoppin'. I mean, Paul was
Speaker 3: dialed in, Everybody around the studio was dialed in. I mean,
Speaker 3: this was big time college football, and Cardinal fans deserve that.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, Ellen N's a beautiful stadium. It's a
Speaker 3: beautiful venue. They've done a lot with the student center
Speaker 3: on the end, and and you know, Louisville's an attractive
Speaker 3: get for a lot of recruits, and having the Brom
Speaker 3: family here and having Jeff Brawm at the Helm, that's
Speaker 3: that's just the cherry on top. So Louisville deserves better
Speaker 3: from the ACC. And I know that the AC. I
Speaker 3: watched a lot of the AEC. I listened to a
Speaker 3: lot of the speech. Speech is coming out of the
Speaker 3: a SEC kickoff event. They they've about had it with
Speaker 3: Florida State and Clemson, and this is the part. I
Speaker 3: don't know if Nick touched on this, So forgive me
Speaker 3: if I'm repeating anything Nick talked about. But Florida State
Speaker 3: and Clemson, you signed a contract. You signed the same
Speaker 3: deal everybody. That was not a problem when you sign that,
Speaker 3: and now you want out of it because you don't
Speaker 3: feel you're getting enough.
Speaker 2: You sign the contract.
Speaker 3: So I hope that the ACC can find a way
Speaker 3: to make this thing work. Or if you're Louisville Star,
Speaker 3: I mean you start looking going, okay, we got to
Speaker 3: turn this thing around because we we got to get
Speaker 3: out of this clown car and maybe move on to
Speaker 3: something better, because Louisville right now is capable of doing that.
Speaker 2: The portal has been very kind Louisville. We'll put it
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 3: Guys like I mean, you know, you take like Ashton
Speaker 3: g Alotti, amazing, amazing player. I mean there's there's some
Speaker 3: players this Tyler show. We'll see what he's got going on.
Speaker 3: It's not like he's just a spring Chicken. He played
Speaker 3: some ball out in Oregon. I mean, he's got he's
Speaker 3: got some talent to him.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what Louisville can do.
Speaker 3: But as far as you know college football on the horizon,
Speaker 3: Cardinal fans should be excited.
Speaker 2: I know they are. We'll see what they can do
Speaker 2: in year two.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you this, Scott, and if you
Speaker 1: don't have an answer to that's totally okay, because Nicks
Speaker 1: talked about this a little bit and I'm curious if
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on it. If the ACC were
Speaker 1: to implode, whatever that may look like. Yeah, just say
Speaker 1: Clemson in Florida State, find a way to get out
Speaker 1: of this grain of rights and that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: Where do you think Louisville would best be suited joining
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve, the Big Ten, or the SEC? Which
Speaker 1: conference do you think would reach out to them first.
Speaker 1: It's a great question. May again on the spot that
Speaker 1: may be too much, but I'm curious about thoughts on
Speaker 1: It's a it's a great question.
Speaker 3: I think ultimately probably the Big Twelve because I think
Speaker 3: the Big Ten is about tapped out.
Speaker 4: That's what Nick's thinking, the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yoah, I think I think the Big ten's tapped out,
Speaker 3: And to be honest with you, the Big Ten, I
Speaker 3: mean that alumni base is unreal. Not to say Louisville
Speaker 3: didn't have an alumni base. I'm not saying that, but
Speaker 3: I remember the year Illinois went to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3: And there's a tradition I had with a buddy of
Speaker 3: mine used to live here. We'd go out every no
Speaker 3: matter who plaid in the Rose Bowl. He and I
Speaker 3: would get up New Year's Day, New Year's afternoon, and
Speaker 3: we'd meet it one of the local establishments to watch
Speaker 3: the Big Bowl games. On New Year's Day, man Illinois
Speaker 3: comes walking in with just a ton of fans. I'm like,
Speaker 3: how many Illinois fans live here in Louisville and they
Speaker 3: came into roves. They have some pretty big fan bases.
Speaker 3: Now you send Louisville down, like if you've been on
Speaker 3: the road for Louisville for a Bowl game, they travel
Speaker 3: real well. I don't want to I don't hear me
Speaker 3: say that Louisville doesn't have a fan base. I'm just
Speaker 3: saying the Big Ten is kind of cut from a
Speaker 3: different bold right now, where's the Big twelve really suits Louisville?
Speaker 3: I think Louisville could excel in the Big Twelve the
Speaker 3: way Cincinnati couldn't. Of course, that may not be saying
Speaker 3: much because Cincinnati paid Louisville to take Scott Savage Field
Speaker 3: off their hands, and so.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Cincinnati's got a lot of issues up there.
Speaker 3: But I think the Big Twelve and I think winning
Speaker 3: cures everything, and the way the system is set up,
Speaker 3: as you just mentioned, you can go on and win
Speaker 3: a national championship.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter what conference you come from.
Speaker 3: And you know, I just don't want to see Louisville
Speaker 3: become like a note like Notre Dame is just come on,
Speaker 3: Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Figure it out.
Speaker 1: By the way, I do think the Big Ten would
Speaker 1: expand again if Notre Dames, if they came calling and
Speaker 1: needed the place to be a player. Yeah, I get you,
Speaker 1: and I don't understand that.
Speaker 3: I don't understand because look, I gotta be careful because
Speaker 3: I'm not a Notre Dame hater, but I'm just I
Speaker 3: grew up with I was glad when that rivalry with
Speaker 3: Michigan came to an end because I just didn't do
Speaker 3: anything for me. You know, Notre Dame played as a
Speaker 3: college hockey guy, Notre Dame played in Hockey East, which
Speaker 3: was at the time was kind of like the SEC
Speaker 3: for college hockey. Okay, that was where the good, good
Speaker 3: teams and good players were bubc you name it, yeaha
Speaker 3: YadA yah. Well, Notre Dame went to the hockey They
Speaker 3: went to Hockey East thinking Okay, we're going to play
Speaker 3: over here, until they start getting the tailkicked and they say, nah,
Speaker 3: we want to go to the Big Ten. Okay, so
Speaker 3: now you want to go to the Big ten. Now
Speaker 3: you want to play in the Big ten. Not doing
Speaker 3: real well in the Big Ten, but you got nowhere
Speaker 3: else to go. It kind of reminds me that scene
Speaker 3: in Hunt for Red October. We're sitting there and he goes,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, you want us to find you another
Speaker 3: missing submarine. I mean, it's like you'll get Notre Dame's
Speaker 3: kind of shopping around. Then you want to play in
Speaker 3: the AEC. But you don't want to play in the
Speaker 3: a SEC for football, but you want to play there
Speaker 3: for basketball. I mean, business wise, totally understand, totally understand,
Speaker 3: diversify yourself, diversify your investment, but that doesn't mean I
Speaker 3: gotta like it so.
Speaker 2: But that said, the entire.
Speaker 3: College sports landscape has changed and turned on its head
Speaker 3: as we know it. And as I was telling Tony,
Speaker 3: my old man would tell me about the day as
Speaker 3: the Big Eight. You don't know college football till you
Speaker 3: know at the Big eight Arkansas and Texas.
Speaker 2: Okay, Dad, yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3: I vowed I would never do that with my son,
Speaker 3: and I have it. So what he sees when he
Speaker 3: sees college football twenty five, he sees the new look
Speaker 3: Big Ten, he sees the twelve team playoff. That's all
Speaker 3: these folks are gonna know. That's all this next generation
Speaker 3: is gonna know. And right now, that's what they care about.
Speaker 3: They care about what this younger generation knows because other
Speaker 3: ones are gonna be spending money coming up. And so
Speaker 3: whatever college sports is doing right now makes total sense.
Speaker 3: And I l however, has turned the world upside In fact,
Speaker 3: when we hear from coach Chancellor Dugan, she talked a
Speaker 3: lot about an IL and what's what that's done for
Speaker 3: her at Bellamant and what that's doing to college athletics.
Speaker 2: Now along those lines, I was listening to.
Speaker 3: I don't know, if you get a chance to listen
Speaker 3: to Geno RIM's conversation he had a while back on
Speaker 3: Dann Patrick, and he said, that's a big reason why
Speaker 3: I that's something he helps does not change in women's
Speaker 3: college basketball, because the women stay generally with the teams
Speaker 3: in women's college basketball, unless like a Hailey van Lit
Speaker 3: who just jumps around all over the place.
Speaker 2: He said, there's there's truth to what happens there.
Speaker 3: When players stay and fans can get attached, and they
Speaker 3: stay and they develop with a program, it does wonders
Speaker 3: for the program. But unfortunately, I think he even acknowledged
Speaker 3: to some degree, that's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think if you're eventually going to see it taper
Speaker 1: off with the men's sports too. That's kind of want
Speaker 1: to call it a salary cap, but there's going to
Speaker 1: come a point where the schools don't want to spend
Speaker 1: as much money as they're asking for. And maybe it
Speaker 1: won't change with the biggest of the biggest names, but again,
Speaker 1: the biggest of the biggest names that they had that
Speaker 1: NBA town of the NFL town, they're gonna jump to
Speaker 1: the league anyway, So hopefully there comes a point of
Speaker 1: no return or diminishing returns if you will when it
Speaker 1: comes to this INIL stuff and having some more continuity
Speaker 1: with these teams.
Speaker 2: Well, you're right.
Speaker 3: And when I was trying to figure out there was
Speaker 3: a softball player that signed a million dollar deal basically
Speaker 3: ANIL deal, I mean a softball and that's not tall
Speaker 3: you look if you listen to the show in the morning.
Speaker 3: I love college softball. These one greatest games out there.
Speaker 3: Moves fast, I love the action. The athletes are awesome.
Speaker 3: I couldn't hit anything off them. You're throwing me a
Speaker 3: sixty five mile an hour pitch. I'm not hitting that,
Speaker 3: bad boy, I guarantee you. But now they're talking about
Speaker 3: you're talking about a million dollar deal in college softball.
Speaker 2: That's just insane.
Speaker 3: Now, if NIL can get it to the point where
Speaker 3: and I've heard every coach say this, let's get some
Speaker 3: uniform standards, let's get this across the board, and let's
Speaker 3: reel it in, the problem is, can you put.
Speaker 2: That toothpaste back in the two? I guess you could.
Speaker 3: If you're the NCUABLEA, you can say, okay, okay, enough
Speaker 3: of this, we're done. But then against the NCUBA, so
Speaker 3: but then these athletes are driving the TV revenues, and
Speaker 3: the TV revenues are off the chart right now, Dude,
Speaker 3: they are off the chart. It is crazy to think
Speaker 3: what the TV revenues are doing, so I mean, you
Speaker 3: take those and college athletics in general.
Speaker 2: I don't know where we're going with this.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's happening, but all I know is
Speaker 3: it's a new generation and we just we as a
Speaker 3: fan base. And I don't want to use the word
Speaker 3: tolerate because I think that's too strong of a word.
Speaker 3: We as a fan base embrace it. And I think
Speaker 3: as long as a fan base embraces it because we
Speaker 3: have no choice, then it's going to continue to stay
Speaker 3: this way.
Speaker 2: And the question is does.
Speaker 3: The train keep roiling down the tracks, so to speak,
Speaker 3: uncontrollably until it actually implodes. And nobody wants to see
Speaker 3: that happen. I don't think it'll happen, but nobody wants
Speaker 3: to see it happen. It's just a different game.
Speaker 2: And I told my.
Speaker 3: Son, I said, the sad part, dude, is that you
Speaker 3: don't have he knows a little bit about it, but
Speaker 3: you won't be able to feel like, wait, why TBT
Speaker 3: is so special? It's special because a guy like Peyton
Speaker 3: Siva played his entire time at Louisville. Peyton Siva didn't
Speaker 3: jump around different programs. And David Johnson, a Trinity product,
Speaker 3: he stayed here, he stayed home. You know, with nil,
Speaker 3: you don't say I'm not saying that athletes don't do
Speaker 3: that in general. There are athletes that go to a
Speaker 3: school and play there for their entire four years. But
Speaker 3: the best of the best. Well, I think when think
Speaker 3: about what Hayley van Lyth would be had she stayed
Speaker 3: at Louisville her entire time and excel. I mean, people
Speaker 3: loved her, and then she bails and she goes to LSU.
Speaker 3: Now she left LSU, and now all anybody ever does
Speaker 3: is kind of ridicul her because she jumps around.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm just saying that I don't I
Speaker 2: don't want to pooh pooh in athletes opportunity.
Speaker 3: I don't want to tell an athlete, hey, you can't
Speaker 3: go out and get what's due to you. I'm a
Speaker 3: firm backer of name, image and likeness. I think athletes
Speaker 3: should be compensated. You can't just slap them on a
Speaker 3: video game and make a ton of money off a
Speaker 3: video game or you can't go out and pay these
Speaker 3: coaches these crazy salaries and let the coaches just leave
Speaker 3: whenever they want, and athletes got to sit out a year.
Speaker 3: We're in the right church, we're just not sitting in
Speaker 3: the same peer yet, and I think that needs to
Speaker 3: happen when college athletics does that. But then again, part
Speaker 3: of the appeal for college athletics for me was these
Speaker 3: are college athletes.
Speaker 2: They're not the NFL athletes. Dude, I mean you look
Speaker 2: at the NFL.
Speaker 3: I mean I remember back in the day when players
Speaker 3: will play their whole career for the same team. That's
Speaker 3: unheard of. Ezekiel Elliott's back with the Cowboys. I mean
Speaker 3: he bails and then he gets back with the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: So sports is changing. We're embracing it because we're fans
Speaker 3: and we love the game. And we were just talking
Speaker 3: about in the last hour how we can't wait to
Speaker 3: sit and watch the NFL games on Sundays.
Speaker 2: And the NFL is only a shred of what it
Speaker 2: used to look like, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: But long story short, I don't want to put p
Speaker 3: with NFL training camps are rolling on and part of
Speaker 3: the stuff in the news is I know Bengals fans
Speaker 3: are getting excited.
Speaker 2: Before we got a break, I went.
Speaker 3: I did want to talk a little bit about NFL
Speaker 3: training camps as they open up and so many storylines
Speaker 3: coming out of it.
Speaker 2: And I know, Bengals fans, you.
Speaker 3: Had that taste you got right there, right there at
Speaker 3: the super Bowl, could have won the thing, and now
Speaker 3: you're starting to realize how hard it is to get back.
Speaker 3: I'm a Lions fan. Look how close they were last year.
Speaker 3: Am I expecting them to do that again this year?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 3: But Bengals fans did get some good news at camp yesterday, however,
Speaker 3: A fourth round pick out of Biowa, Eric All returned
Speaker 3: after tearing his ACL.
Speaker 2: He played for the Hawkeyes. He also played for Michigan
Speaker 2: prior to that.
Speaker 3: The guy when he's healthy is phenomenal, and you've seen
Speaker 3: when you get Joe Burrow a healthy wide receiver what
Speaker 3: he can do. Eric talking at camp a little bit
Speaker 3: about some of his concerns as he gets back into
Speaker 3: the mix.
Speaker 5: Really, I just been worrying about being confident with my
Speaker 5: knee and like just not being scared to cut on it,
Speaker 5: and I'm not, but that was really my main focus,
Speaker 5: Like throughout the inside recovery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so he's he's gonna spend some time this
Speaker 3: week prioritizing things along the banks of the Ohio at
Speaker 3: Bengals camp, namely this he.
Speaker 5: Just running routes and getting that feelback when running the
Speaker 5: routes and making sure that I can plant real, real
Speaker 5: hard on my knee.
Speaker 3: And I mean, this guy's a player if you can
Speaker 3: get him to stay healthy and get Joe Burrow a
Speaker 3: solid wide receiver like he got Jamar ch. I mean,
Speaker 3: you got Jamar Change, you got and you got all
Speaker 3: those guys, right Eric All is under a sestimated Burrow
Speaker 3: can do some damage right now. Though right now that
Speaker 3: it looks like the odds on favorite to win the
Speaker 3: AFC North.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got Russell Wilson at quarterback, Jerry Pickett
Speaker 3: coming in behind him. So the question is will Jered
Speaker 3: Pickett start. Russell's gonna start, no doubt, but we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens. I think it is safe to say in
Speaker 3: the National Football League that the AFC North is the
Speaker 3: division to.
Speaker 2: Beat this year.
Speaker 3: So we shall see Bengals by the way up in
Speaker 3: the preseason A week from Saturday, the Buccaneers are coming
Speaker 3: to town. They're heading off to Chicago. They'll wrap up
Speaker 3: the preseason at home against Indianapolis. Their season opener is
Speaker 3: set for September eighth, when New England comes to town. Hey,
Speaker 3: you're gonna take quick break while we come back, get
Speaker 3: talk a little bit more. Mat We're we're gonna get
Speaker 3: you updated on these Olympic games as well. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about that. He's John Olden, I'm Scott Fitzgoe. We're back
Speaker 3: after this on Sports Talk seven ninety. Oh yeah, is
Speaker 3: that my Oh well played, mister Alden, well played. They
Speaker 3: were just concert But I wasn't mistaken there. I think
Speaker 3: they were just in Cincinnati. Oh yeah, yeah, they played
Speaker 3: up in Cincinnati, and then we're going over to indian
Speaker 3: and then they were coming back there. You know, they
Speaker 3: were going to Chicago and then they were coming back
Speaker 3: this way. Oh it takes me back to my San
Speaker 3: Diego days. Dude, we like bringing the California vibes when
Speaker 3: you're with Scott. Oh, thank you, bro, thank you give
Speaker 3: me some slightly stupid we're cooking with gas, which you
Speaker 3: gotta be careful when you play them.
Speaker 2: Hey, as is John Alden.
Speaker 3: Of course, I'm Scott Finstrawby with you next couple days
Speaker 3: after an underdog's going to take you home. The rest
Speaker 3: of the week is Nick Coffee is taking a well
Speaker 3: deserved vacation before his life gets real busy over the
Speaker 3: next few months. He's gonna go right out of Louisville
Speaker 3: football right into basketball. And as we were talking about
Speaker 3: TVT Mania hitting the airwaves tonight nine o'clock, they're gonna
Speaker 3: tip it off from down at historic Freedom Hall. Now
Speaker 3: I will say this, I did do another check of tickets.
Speaker 3: There are plenty. I'll say there's plenty of seats. I
Speaker 3: use that term loosely in the end zones. I call
Speaker 3: them the end zones in the end. So I got
Speaker 3: one two. You're talking to section three twenty four, So
Speaker 3: those of you familiar with Freedom Hall, you got the
Speaker 3: upper rows are available there. However, section three twenty eight, No.
Speaker 3: Three twenty seven is pretty much sold out. Now, that
Speaker 3: had a lot of seats in it this.
Speaker 2: Morning when I was on the air with Tony Cruz.
Speaker 3: That you're looking at, it's probably got one, two, five,
Speaker 3: six seven seats left in that section.
Speaker 2: So they're starting to sell out.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a good time at Freedom wholl Nine o'clock
Speaker 3: is your tip tonight. General manager twenty Beckham as the
Speaker 3: general manager of the UK team Lave Familiar, admits it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a pretty electric atmosphere.
Speaker 4: I mean it's gonna be electric.
Speaker 6: I mean like we went and my assistant coach jas
Speaker 6: Mar Ferguson, we went out to the game last weekend.
Speaker 6: You know, just the energy with you know, there was
Speaker 6: in the building with day game and then seeing this
Speaker 6: is how many tickets and so old for this game.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 3: Former Ubel player Rees Gains admits everybody should be excited
Speaker 3: for this one.
Speaker 7: You know, we had a little park atmosphere a little
Speaker 7: bit with the way things that referee and the physicality
Speaker 7: of the game and the attitude of the players. I mean,
Speaker 7: these guys just love playing basketball. So these are true
Speaker 7: basketball players have always played with the heart, always played
Speaker 7: with the soul, who did everything they had on the
Speaker 7: floor just for the game and not for much else.
Speaker 7: So this this is going to be an exciting for everybody.
Speaker 3: And right now, thirty three dollars will get you in
Speaker 3: the door. So if you're on your way home, tonight,
Speaker 3: you're thinking, hey, let's go to the game. You dial
Speaker 3: it up and say let's go. Thirty three bucks can't
Speaker 3: beat that, though, I don't think. I don't think you
Speaker 3: can beat that. Not if you want to go see
Speaker 3: this robbery game, it's going to be on fire for sure.
Speaker 3: Also going on as we speak is the Olympic Games.
Speaker 2: We've had them on all day here.
Speaker 3: In fact, right now, I'm currently watching women's rugby sevens
Speaker 3: Team USA women's basketball.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert.
Speaker 3: If you were dB ring it when you get home,
Speaker 3: tune out for just a few minutes. Right now, it
Speaker 3: looks like Team USA in commanding lead over Japan ninety
Speaker 3: eight is sixty eight two thirty six to go in
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, so it looks like they're well on
Speaker 3: their way to winning that one. As I mentioned, I
Speaker 3: have no doubt that Team USA is going to win
Speaker 3: gold in basketball men's and women's.
Speaker 2: They will be pushed, but they will win.
Speaker 3: The US volleyball team, however, dropped the heartbreaker today, falling
Speaker 3: to China in five sets. They got off to a
Speaker 3: slow start, they couldn't get it back. And here's one
Speaker 3: big time spoiler alert. Might want to dial out for
Speaker 3: a few minutes. I know a lot of people want
Speaker 3: to go home watch this in primetime, so I'll give
Speaker 3: you a few minutes to punch out and then come
Speaker 3: back and join us. The US men's gymnastics team is
Speaker 3: back on the podium after winning the bronze medal in
Speaker 3: the team final. Team USA finishing behind Japan and China
Speaker 3: with a total score of two fifty seven point seven
Speaker 3: nine to three. The US combined for forty four point
Speaker 3: zero three points in the vault for their lone victory
Speaker 3: in the single event. It was Asher Hong leading the
Speaker 3: way with the score of fourteen point eight three to three.
Speaker 3: It's the first time the men's team has earned a
Speaker 3: medal since capturing the bronze in the two thousand and
Speaker 3: eight Summer Games in Beijing. I did not know that.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting stat and elsewhere. This warms my heart
Speaker 3: on so many levels. The women's rugby seventh squad made history.
Speaker 3: They became the first team to advance to the semi finals.
Speaker 3: They get a seventeen to seven win over Great Britain. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: their next opponent is going to be New Zealand, and
Speaker 3: New Zealand knows the thing or two about rugby, just
Speaker 3: say it's.
Speaker 2: A big deal.
Speaker 3: And in the pool, the United States continues to collect medals.
Speaker 3: In women's swimming, it was Kadie Grimes coming away with
Speaker 3: the silver medal in the four hundred meter individual medley.
Speaker 3: Emma want came in third to take the bronze. Luke
Speaker 3: Hobson captured the bronze medal in the men's two hundred
Speaker 3: meter freestyle that in the final. Ryan Murphy won the
Speaker 3: bronze in the men's one hundred meter backstroke final and
Speaker 3: a men's fencing, nick it Cain took down Japan's Kauzzuki
Speaker 3: Imura to take home the bronze and the individual foil competition.
Speaker 3: That's pretty fun watch. I got fencing on in here
Speaker 3: right now. John, That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of obscure and maybe obscure. I don't
Speaker 1: want that to sound like a negative comment, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you get with the Olympics
Speaker 1: that you don't get at any other time of the year,
Speaker 1: and really once every four years.
Speaker 4: You got me intrigued.
Speaker 1: Want to watch some that's surfing, and not necessarily because
Speaker 1: I want to watch the sport of surfing, but you
Speaker 1: mentioned how it can be just a relaxing experience. I
Speaker 1: can imagine a cup of coffee on the couch, lazy
Speaker 1: boy chair, whatever may be, just watching some of them,
Speaker 1: some good old boys doing some surfing.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: You know, it reminds me of back in the day
Speaker 3: when they used to have ABC's Wide World of Sports
Speaker 3: on and I used to love that as a kid
Speaker 3: because they would always go and show you the sports
Speaker 3: you never you weren't able to see.
Speaker 2: There were a couple of surfing events they used to
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 3: Jim McKay used to do that and as a time,
Speaker 3: of course, you only had three channels, so you didn't
Speaker 3: have all the outletting and the outlying venues to watch,
Speaker 3: and you had that to watch, so you were able
Speaker 3: to see that and it's exciting. I mean, this is
Speaker 3: what I love about the Olympics. It's not it's two weeks.
Speaker 3: You get two weeks to watch sports. I think is
Speaker 3: really cool about this is that there's gonna be storylines
Speaker 3: that come out of these games.
Speaker 2: And that's why it's almost.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's not sad, but it's kind of it's melancholy
Speaker 3: when they have the closing ceremonies because you start thinking
Speaker 3: about the cool storylines that have become, you know, and
Speaker 3: so when the Olympics, everybody remembers Carrie Strug and what
Speaker 3: she did.
Speaker 2: And there's people that come into the Olympics.
Speaker 3: You never even heard of that become international superstars and
Speaker 3: the storylines that are awesome. In fact, watching fencing now
Speaker 3: and there's a Taiwanese fencer that has just won gold.
Speaker 3: It looks like it's one of the first time he's
Speaker 3: ever worn to metal. You see that excitement if you
Speaker 3: do watch in primetime tonight, watch the Japanese when they
Speaker 3: came home with the gold. I mean that stuff, that's
Speaker 3: just some money. You just can't replicate that stuff. I
Speaker 3: did want to mention, by the way, some University of
Speaker 3: loisl swimmers that are in action to Ilia. And forgive
Speaker 3: me if I butcher these names people because I try,
Speaker 3: I really do. I just with women's tennis all the time.
Speaker 3: Ilia Subertsev. I hope I got that right. Is moving
Speaker 3: on to the finals of the eight hundred meter free.
Speaker 3: He finished with a time of seven fifty six sixty seven.
Speaker 3: He swims for Uzbekistan. He finished fourth in his heat
Speaker 3: that put him into the finals. And then anybody who knows.
Speaker 3: Louisville Swimming knows.
Speaker 2: The Abiiro name. That's for sure.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow with Nicholas Abiiro swimming for Brazil, He's gonna swim
Speaker 3: in the two hundred fly, and Dennis Loachdev swims for Israel,
Speaker 3: will Muriel sort So Tory swims for Brazil.
Speaker 2: They'll be part of the four by two hundred relay.
Speaker 3: Well, Dennis Petroshav will swim the two hundred breaststroke, and
Speaker 3: then you'll see a lot of the local swimmers that
Speaker 3: get into that. To your point, John, being an IU guy,
Speaker 3: I looked up some of the medals, like the universities
Speaker 3: and how many medals they won over the history of
Speaker 3: the Olympic Game trame the all time list.
Speaker 2: Indiana is eleventh. That doesn't seem too surprised.
Speaker 1: And you have a lot of guys, or to say guys,
Speaker 1: but the primary star right now Lily King. She haply
Speaker 1: got five gold medals and I know she's going for
Speaker 1: some more this time around. And I haven't kept up
Speaker 1: too much. I don't know how much she has done
Speaker 1: so far, if anything, but I do know this may
Speaker 1: be her final Olympics of her career potentially, so this'll
Speaker 1: be good to see what she does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right, and that's a great observation on
Speaker 3: your apartment.
Speaker 2: I you very strong.
Speaker 3: The top the top colleges to put universities into the Olympics,
Speaker 3: of course, have been They're all West Coast schools.
Speaker 2: They're USC, UCLA. You know, I want to say, is
Speaker 2: you see one of the UC schools.
Speaker 3: I'll have to go back and check, but you know,
Speaker 3: you see those those storylines, and those are the school
Speaker 3: Stanford puts a lot of folks in routinely into the
Speaker 3: Olympic Games. So it's exciting and it kind of dovetails
Speaker 3: the conversation we have surrounding international sportsmanship. And you know
Speaker 3: some of the international amateur stars. Now, the big reason
Speaker 3: why everybody is watching some of the numbers behind the
Speaker 3: Olympic Games. They have fourteen worldwide Olympic corporate partners. Now,
Speaker 3: NBC Universals spent seven point six five I have billion
Speaker 3: dollars to renew their broadcast rights.
Speaker 2: You're not going to spend that kind of money if
Speaker 2: people aren't watching. I mean that goes without saying.
Speaker 3: According to this, According to wallet hub, NBC has already
Speaker 3: made one point two billion dollars from ad revenue domestic
Speaker 3: ad sales. This is what they sold before the game started.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just crazy. So they're gonna have nine
Speaker 3: plus hours of daytime coverage each day for the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Fifty nine percent of US plan to watch at least
Speaker 3: part of the games this year.
Speaker 2: So that's over.
Speaker 3: Half four billion global viewers are expected for the Olympics.
Speaker 2: But here's the telling stat. Because I do this, I
Speaker 2: didn't think so.
Speaker 3: Eighty five percent of the viewers are going to use
Speaker 3: second screen devices to watch the games.
Speaker 2: I have the app on my phone, I watch you.
Speaker 2: I sit on my phone and watch.
Speaker 3: Them, and I'll watch like right now, I'm watching via
Speaker 3: the I've got the Peacock app up here in the studio.
Speaker 3: We got beach volleyball, we got women's basketball, rugby seven's,
Speaker 3: and fencing, which is awesome because I'm sitting here watching
Speaker 3: all these at the same time.
Speaker 2: Seventy four This number was a little higher than I thought.
Speaker 3: Seventy four percent of people prefer to watch Olympic action
Speaker 3: live when their schedule allows, as opposed to primetime. Because
Speaker 3: I was worried, I told John Off the arr I
Speaker 3: was worried about giving out scores because I didn't know
Speaker 3: people we getting DVL right, And.
Speaker 1: It kind of goes back to what we talked about
Speaker 1: earlier when you were talking about people who sit and
Speaker 1: watch games and stuff, like they maybe at their child's game,
Speaker 1: sitting at a bit, you know, they're sitting in the stands,
Speaker 1: that type of a thing. Now that streaming is so
Speaker 1: much more accessible and it's not hard to get good
Speaker 1: quality video, people can watch it anywhere they want. They
Speaker 1: may be sitting down and work while they're listening to us,
Speaker 1: also watching the Olympic games, there could be a I
Speaker 1: mean you mentioned earlier it's the time of the year.
Speaker 1: If you're bored at work, this is the time to
Speaker 1: just get your phone out and do other things.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, and it's right right. In fact, Tony asked
Speaker 3: me today on the show. He says, do you think
Speaker 3: people are doing the March Madness thing at work? And
Speaker 3: I said, no, there's no boss button on the Olympic streams.
Speaker 3: I don't think people are tuning in the way they
Speaker 3: do at work with March Madness, especially in these parts.
Speaker 2: But I do think people pay attention.
Speaker 3: But then they go on to say fifty percent of
Speaker 3: people watch TV highlights and replays of earlier events. I'll
Speaker 3: go home tonight after we're done. I'm gonna go home,
Speaker 3: take care of the puppy, get a shower, sit down
Speaker 3: on the couch, and I'll watch stuff I watched today.
Speaker 3: But what's cool is we as a family consider on
Speaker 3: watch this stuff. We kind of geeked the Olympic games
Speaker 3: in our house. So it's one of the few times,
Speaker 3: like I put out on X last night, that we
Speaker 3: were all sitting around the dinner table. And then like
Speaker 3: my son, especially since college football twenty five came out,
Speaker 3: he never comes out of his room when he's home
Speaker 3: when he's not working, which is cool. I don't have
Speaker 3: a problem with that. I mean I did the same
Speaker 3: thing when I was a kid. But even in the Olympics,
Speaker 3: he comes down and sits with us, and so we
Speaker 3: all sit and watch the games together, even sometimes we've
Speaker 3: seen the events. My daughter got up yesterday morning and
Speaker 3: she was watching watching gymnastics, but then she was sitting
Speaker 3: with us at night watching games. So a lot of
Speaker 3: people viewing these games, and that's why there's so much
Speaker 3: money spent on these They said that if you wanted
Speaker 3: to go into and you wanted to see these games live.
Speaker 3: Two point five million tickets were sold to overseas residents.
Speaker 3: And I can testify that because when I was watching
Speaker 3: the rugby sevens France, I'm talking about the men. Now,
Speaker 3: France is a huge rugby country. They're a rugby country
Speaker 3: like Louisville, Kentucky's a basketball state. And even in the
Speaker 3: sevens game, and they sold out their stadium. In fact,
Speaker 3: I'm watching Australia in Ireland right now to perennial powers
Speaker 3: in rugby in general, and that stadium is packed. And
Speaker 3: this is for women's rugby seven and Australia has a
Speaker 3: twenty six to nothing lead on Ireland, but that stadium
Speaker 3: is packed. People are going to those now if you
Speaker 3: did want.
Speaker 2: To go to the games.
Speaker 3: By the way, two percent increase in hotel prices, that
Speaker 3: shouldn't surprise anybody.
Speaker 1: And just waiting, it's four years'll be here in the US, right,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right, And that'll be coming off of two
Speaker 1: years removed from the World Cup. That's that's exactly a
Speaker 1: lot of big years coming up for the United States, dude.
Speaker 3: And you know, and it's funny you were talking you're
Speaker 3: gonna take us down the World Cup road. It's funny,
Speaker 3: how did you see what's so exciting because and I'm
Speaker 3: glad you mentioned that because I was going to bring
Speaker 3: up with it. We've got a lot of soccer to
Speaker 3: talk about. This it's getting ready to happen. But Louisville
Speaker 3: has been selected is one of the cities where these
Speaker 3: World Cup teams are going to come over and they
Speaker 3: can make Louisville their home. And what they do is
Speaker 3: they come here and this is kind of their home base.
Speaker 3: And so if they're playing a match somewhere in North
Speaker 3: North America, they'll practice, they'll train here, they'll stay here,
Speaker 3: and then they'll simply just fly out to wherever the
Speaker 3: match is. What it's in Chicago, it's in Mexico City,
Speaker 3: wherever it is. But that's a testament to the facilities
Speaker 3: that Louisville has at Lynn Family Stadium.
Speaker 2: And that's why tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: You're going to see one of the top tier teams
Speaker 3: in Germany coming here and play. In fact, they they're
Speaker 3: going to feature the guy who scored the winning goal
Speaker 3: for Germany in the World Cup in twenty fourteen, Mario
Speaker 3: get And of course we're talking about I intracked Frankfurt,
Speaker 3: who are coming in from Germany's Bundeslig and for their
Speaker 3: head coach Dino Todd Moler aces they're just impressed with
Speaker 3: what they see here in Mavo.
Speaker 8: We are really happy. So the people are a good
Speaker 8: the facilities on top. Also the stadium here is really nice.
Speaker 8: I have been to the game on Saturday. It was
Speaker 8: a good atmosphere in the stadium and we like it here.
Speaker 2: And he's talking about the facilities that are here.
Speaker 8: It's impressive, but I mean if you compare to Germany,
Speaker 8: I think it's the same. Also in the second division
Speaker 8: they have also top facilities. But like I said before,
Speaker 8: it's amazing here and I think the coach here and
Speaker 8: also the team they have very good opportunities here to
Speaker 8: train and.
Speaker 2: You know, so, I mean, this is what you're getting
Speaker 2: from the Germans.
Speaker 3: And it's been interesting to watch everybody in race LuSE
Speaker 3: City and the success. Now they currently move back into
Speaker 3: the top spot with their win over Mono Ray and
Speaker 3: now they have the best parker in the USL. And
Speaker 3: it's my daughter who just met her boyfriend. He was
Speaker 3: not a soccer fan either and then became a soccer fan.
Speaker 3: Living here in Louisville and now he's a season ticket
Speaker 3: holder for lou City and our producer Joe Jackovino, she
Speaker 3: I can tell you this.
Speaker 2: I worked with her for almost ten years. She doesn't
Speaker 2: do sports.
Speaker 3: She is a season ticket holder for Racing Louisville, which
Speaker 3: and if you go to the games, the thing I
Speaker 3: like best about the gives Have you been to a
Speaker 3: game yet? Job?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, I remember you saying that. You know
Speaker 3: what I love is I love standing in the end zone.
Speaker 4: Yes, I sit in the regular seats.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, I love that fact. And then I
Speaker 3: love just going and standing like I'll go to the
Speaker 3: other end of the stadium and stand with the supporters
Speaker 3: group and just take that all in. And I've been
Speaker 3: to places like when I lived in Germany, I saw
Speaker 3: Dortmund play. I've seen the wall of Dortmunt. I've seen
Speaker 3: that environment and it was just the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 3: And to see Louisville put itself on the map now
Speaker 3: with I mean, I hosted the National Championship for soccer.
Speaker 3: You got Louse City, Roland, Racing is getting there. Racing
Speaker 3: is right, They're right there and you look at all
Speaker 3: the players on the world stage out of the NWSL.
Speaker 3: Sophia Smith yesterday for Team USA, I mean had two
Speaker 3: goals and it's captivating everybody.
Speaker 2: But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, Louisville is a really cool place to be
Speaker 3: right now on so many levels. And even Lexington's getting
Speaker 3: it going to as well. Lots of good stuff, that's
Speaker 3: for sure. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. He is John Alden. We
Speaker 3: are filling in for the next couple days. The Afternoon
Speaker 3: Underdogs are going to take you home Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3: Nick Coffee is back with you on Monday. We're back
Speaker 3: after this on Sports Talk seven ninety. Oh yeah, there
Speaker 3: you go, brother. There's my slightly Stupid.
Speaker 4: I tell you, I love the acoustic guitar.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, if you like them, give them, give them
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Speaker 3: There's some there's some lyrics in some of their stuff,
Speaker 3: but but it's it's not done in a bad way.
Speaker 3: We'll put it that way. If you're in a mellow mood, bro,
Speaker 3: that's all the mellow mood vibes. That is a California.
Speaker 1: This isn't quite in the same vein as slightly Stupid,
Speaker 1: but this Friday, I'm seeing Creed Scott, Are you really
Speaker 1: Creed's kind of a devisive band over the years in
Speaker 1: terms of howl Now they're kind of treated like a
Speaker 1: Nickelback type of band, but they do they bring similar vibes,
Speaker 1: not to the same level as slightly stupid, but they're
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Speaker 3: To every now and of course, dude, of course, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's Pride Motion Beach, California. It takes me back to
Speaker 3: my San Diego days. And I was lucky enough to
Speaker 3: live in San Diego for years. And man, I told
Speaker 3: my wife and said, if we ever do win the lottery,
Speaker 3: it's a winter home in San Diego, summer home in
Speaker 3: Macina Island. That's where we're living. Hey, listen, we're gonna
Speaker 3: take a break when we come back. Coach Chancellor Dugan,
Speaker 3: women's basketball coach at Belloman University's gonna talk to us
Speaker 3: about the state of women's college basketball, in the state
Speaker 3: of women's athletics.
Speaker 2: Why is it so popular now?
Speaker 3: She'll talk about that they just gave her a contract extension.
Speaker 3: And Fletcher Long and I with Kentucky Prep Gridiron dot Com,
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a look we're gonna preview three weeks
Speaker 3: from Friday is the high school football season. We're gonna
Speaker 3: look at not just life inside the Waterson but around
Speaker 3: the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky. Fletcher and I are out
Speaker 3: with our weekly reviews every Saturday morning, too, so you'll
Speaker 3: hear that. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. He's John Alden. We're riding home.
Speaker 3: We did today and tomorrow afternoon. Underdogs will take you
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