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Speaker 3: I feel like I am starting the day off, the
Speaker 3: show off here with a win one minute in here,
Speaker 3: in fact less than a minute in, but it is
Speaker 3: three oh one. Because as I realized, oh, here we go,
Speaker 3: it's about to start the show. It's showtime, I realized
Speaker 3: my headphones were still in my backpack, and I use,
Speaker 3: I use. I guess they're called I mean, I call
Speaker 3: them headphones, but a lot of people call them earbuds.
Speaker 3: I guess because they're not the big cans that you
Speaker 3: put over your head and rarely, at least around here
Speaker 3: people I've worked with in radio over the years, I'm
Speaker 3: one of few people that likes to use these rather
Speaker 3: than you know, the big headphones. So they're like old
Speaker 3: think old iPhone where you didn't like, you didn't have
Speaker 3: just the lightning cable, like you actually had a headphone jack.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but I feel like the last
Speaker 3: iPhone that had a legitimate like audio jack on.
Speaker 2: It was that what eight years ago?
Speaker 3: Maybe it hasn't been that long, but either way, I
Speaker 3: use those because you know, they still connect into our
Speaker 3: board here and they are what I prefer. But the
Speaker 3: issue is one they're old and with that they could
Speaker 3: go out at any moment. But also they get real
Speaker 3: tangled up. So the music is on, which means it
Speaker 3: showtime and these things are like notted up, and somehow
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Speaker 2: So again, you knew.
Speaker 3: Already that we were fueled by Thornton's, but I just
Speaker 3: enjoyed telling you that every single day Louisville and Syracuse
Speaker 3: tonight rare a rare and I mean a very rare
Speaker 3: situation here. I mean, I guess this used to be
Speaker 3: kind of the norm. But Louisville is favored by nearly
Speaker 3: ten points on the road in a conference game. Think
Speaker 3: about that. Louisville currently is favored by eight points against
Speaker 3: Syracuse tonight, and in fact, let me double check here,
Speaker 3: I saw it was a little bit lower than that,
Speaker 3: but I think it's it's been steadily climbing. Louisville seemingly
Speaker 3: a bigger favorite every time I update the DraftKings sportsbook
Speaker 3: website here. Now, I'm sure you can see it at
Speaker 3: a different number elsewhere, depending on where you're looking. But
Speaker 3: that's when I'm looking at Louisville favored by eight points,
Speaker 3: and that is that is doesn't really mean much of anything.
Speaker 3: I'm sure a lot of people who don't care about
Speaker 3: sports gambling, they don't gamble themselves, they don't, they don't
Speaker 3: care at all. Maybe some people think I don't like
Speaker 3: when they're favored. They've been doing pretty well whenever they're
Speaker 3: you know, kind of the underdog, not expected to be
Speaker 3: to be to be very good. But it's another sign,
Speaker 3: one of the many signs that Louisville is heading back
Speaker 3: in the right direction. And look, it says a lot
Speaker 3: about Syracuse too. They're they're not very good. They're eight
Speaker 3: and eight overall, two and three in an ACC that
Speaker 3: we know is nowhere near what it once was. But
Speaker 3: they are coming off of a couple of straight vic
Speaker 3: a couple of wins. They've won two consecutive games with
Speaker 3: wins over Boston College and at Georgia Tech and or
Speaker 3: I guess at Georgia Tech at home and at Boston College.
Speaker 3: And they're at home tonight, so we shall see. Syracuse
Speaker 3: scares me a little bit because and by the way,
Speaker 3: Louisville could lose, because again they could lose to anybody
Speaker 3: if they don't play well. But when I say Syracuse
Speaker 3: scares me, it's because to me, they've got they've got
Speaker 3: some similar vibes to Louisville under Kenny Payne in my opinion,
Speaker 3: because they're not great. I don't know what their ceiling is,
Speaker 3: but they'll probably I mean, they're ninth right now in
Speaker 3: the ACC. They'll probably finish in the bottom tier, and
Speaker 3: they have way better players than what their record is
Speaker 3: going to Indycare. I mean, I can't act like they're,
Speaker 3: you know, the their elite, but I mean they've got
Speaker 3: some solid players to where they shouldn't be in the
Speaker 3: position that they're in. Although JJ Starling is their best player,
Speaker 3: a guy that clearly is is. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 3: missed all but nine games, but he did return. He's
Speaker 3: been back since the beginning of January, so they've got
Speaker 3: him back and since then they've been playing better. So anyway, Syracuse,
Speaker 3: they may end up. Who put it this way, Let's
Speaker 3: say they end up being one of the worst teams
Speaker 3: in the ACC overall, it'll be another situation that I
Speaker 3: would compare to Louisville to where it's because they're just
Speaker 3: that poorly coached, because they they aren't great, But man,
Speaker 3: they shouldn't be finishing close to dead last, and they're not.
Speaker 2: Right now, again, they're two and four.
Speaker 3: Miami, by the way, they're zero to five, so they're
Speaker 3: in last place by themselves.
Speaker 2: So Louisville Syracuse.
Speaker 3: Tonight, seven o'clock, and I'm confident. But I will tell
Speaker 3: you if Louisville wasn't you know, even if they would
Speaker 3: not have beat Pitt Even if they would have, I
Speaker 3: don't know. Maybe they split the games against Carolina and
Speaker 3: against Virginia, lost to Carolina, beat Virginia, beat Clemson.
Speaker 2: Then lost a.
Speaker 3: Pitch, which, by the way, all those things were. I
Speaker 3: mean that if you'd have said that two weeks ago,
Speaker 3: three weeks ago, whenever it is when that stretch of
Speaker 3: play started, I think a lot of people would have said, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know they can win more than that, but that
Speaker 3: wouldn't shock me. Well, here they are playing their best basketball,
Speaker 3: playing a type of basketball that I'm not sure any
Speaker 3: of us thought they were going to once we found
Speaker 3: out that they had all the injuries.
Speaker 2: But they're in a real groove right now.
Speaker 3: And that is why my confidence level is where it's at,
Speaker 3: because you know, Ques tonight.
Speaker 2: Maybe they lay down, maybe they get blown out. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: But in a weird way, it's kind of like Louisville
Speaker 3: has shown us. I mean, they've kind of told on themselves, right,
Speaker 3: They've played so well recently and beat teams that you know,
Speaker 3: are a lot better than Syracuse, and yet they've done it.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't because man, they just were knocking down
Speaker 3: an insane amount of tough shots. I mean they did
Speaker 3: that against Pittsburgh. Rain Smith went went insane and Chucky
Speaker 3: hit a big one late. So you know they're making shots.
Speaker 3: But as I've said throughout the last I don't know
Speaker 3: four wins, five wins. I mean they've won five in
Speaker 3: a row, so I guess it's probably yeah, since they
Speaker 3: since they started the new year. I feel like what's
Speaker 3: got me so excited and feeling better about this team
Speaker 3: than anything is that they're doing this and it's it's
Speaker 3: it's something that you can recreate every night.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you're not gonna have some breaks go your way.
Speaker 3: Sometimes your opponent's gonna have the night of their life.
Speaker 3: But like the things that has made Louisville look like
Speaker 3: a team that, Wow, not only should they make the tournament,
Speaker 3: maybe they win a game, maybe they win a couple
Speaker 3: of games. The level of play that that they've I
Speaker 3: guess stepped up to they're there, and again, it's it's
Speaker 3: most it's mostly off of just the fact that they're playing,
Speaker 3: Like think again, things that they can do every night. Now,
Speaker 3: you may have a uncharacteristically bad night when it comes
Speaker 3: to making shots, you may have somebody get in foul trouble,
Speaker 3: but you know what, I kind of feel like those
Speaker 3: things have actually played out in these last you know,
Speaker 3: five games or so, and yet you still have found
Speaker 3: ways to win. I mean, it sounds crazy to say,
Speaker 3: but this five games winning streak has been impressive and
Speaker 3: it's been fun as hell to watch as a fan.
Speaker 3: But they left a lot on the floor in nearly
Speaker 3: every one of those games. I mean, maybe not Virginia
Speaker 3: because they blew Virginia off the floor, but I mean,
Speaker 3: you go back to the North Carolina game, I mean,
Speaker 3: they shot it really poorly from the free throw line
Speaker 3: in that one. Didn't shoot it well from three either. Clemson.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, Javon Hadley go off, but other than that,
Speaker 3: you didn't have a great night from the three point line.
Speaker 2: You didn't really.
Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't necessarily good.
Speaker 3: And your top four leading scorers, I think we were,
Speaker 3: you know, we're struggling, but you know what, Jevon Hadley
Speaker 3: stepped up and.
Speaker 2: Gave you thirty two.
Speaker 3: And then against Pittsburgh, you shot it well from three,
Speaker 3: made a lot of them, and I'm trying to think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was free throws. I mean, the free throw issue
Speaker 3: was a real thing, and yet you still found a
Speaker 3: way to win. And I don't mean I feel like
Speaker 3: the foul situation was certainly a factor throughout the game.
Speaker 3: Yvonne had a couple early, had to sit for a
Speaker 3: stretch in the first half. Later on, Chucky clearly was
Speaker 3: in foul trouble had to defend a little bit differently.
Speaker 3: So again, they're winning and beating good teams, which that
Speaker 3: alone has everybody excited. That has put you in a
Speaker 3: position to where right now you feel like, man, we've
Speaker 3: got the majority of our tough games in league play
Speaker 3: out of the way, and we're in a pretty good spot.
Speaker 3: We should be able to keep this up, maybe drop
Speaker 3: a game or two, but even with that you'll still
Speaker 3: make the tournament. So again, the fact that they're playing
Speaker 3: well and winning is the ultimate factor in the excitement.
Speaker 3: But for me, what has me, I guess a little
Speaker 3: more giddy is just knowing that they haven't like it's
Speaker 3: not like we've seen them play the best game they're
Speaker 3: going to play, and there's no way to truly measure
Speaker 3: that and know, Okay, this is the best game they'll
Speaker 3: ever play, this is the second best game. Again, there's
Speaker 3: no way to truly measure that. But they've been able
Speaker 3: to win games by just playing really really hard and
Speaker 3: staying locked in, you know, making the play when it's
Speaker 3: necessary in these close games. Right, They missed a lot
Speaker 3: of free throws against Pittsburgh, but they made them when
Speaker 3: they mattered, and they made tough shots when it mattered
Speaker 3: in a tough environment. So I wish they played every night.
Speaker 3: I mean, because I've just enjoyed watching this team that
Speaker 3: much this season, because of all the circumstances, and because
Speaker 3: you know they're playing hard and they're playing well. I
Speaker 3: know they can't play every night, but you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Also, Kentucky, they are in action tonight taking
Speaker 3: on Texas A and M, coming off a big victory
Speaker 3: as they knocked off Mississippi State on the road. And
Speaker 3: I talked about this yesterday. I was just seeing which
Speaker 3: bracketologist had given the freshest update, and it was Jerry
Speaker 3: Palm of CBS who actually did one yesterday, and he
Speaker 3: had Kentucky as a four seed, which I thought was very,
Speaker 3: very odd. He had Louisville as a sixth seeds, So
Speaker 3: sounds weird from you know, a Louisville fan. Some of
Speaker 3: you Kentucky fans call me cardboy, but you know, I'll
Speaker 3: say it.
Speaker 2: I thought Palm was.
Speaker 3: A little little higher on Louisville than most would be,
Speaker 3: and I thought he was a little lower on Kentucky
Speaker 3: than most would be, And sure enough I checked the
Speaker 3: Bracketville one this morning in Kentucky sitting at a two seed.
Speaker 2: Louisville is it a seventh seed?
Speaker 3: But anyways, what I was getting at with Kentucky, that's a
Speaker 3: really good resume win that they got against Mississippi State.
Speaker 2: They will hold up.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't have a mean some of the
Speaker 3: What will be interesting to see is what the what
Speaker 3: the net rankings ends up doing with these SEC teams
Speaker 3: when they pile up losses, because there's gonna be some
Speaker 3: good teams in the SEC that finish with a five
Speaker 3: hundred record or right around there, and I kind of
Speaker 3: have a feeling that they'll still be ranked really really
Speaker 3: high in these formulas, including the net, which of course
Speaker 3: the NAA uses. So tonight Texas A and M's in town.
Speaker 3: They're ranked eleventh in the in the apeopole Wich. I'm
Speaker 3: only referencing that because that's what comes up here whenever
Speaker 3: I look at him on DraftKings. But in the net rankings,
Speaker 3: this Texas A and M team, they are sitting at
Speaker 3: number eighteen, so they're thirteen and three Overall, this is
Speaker 3: another chance for Kentucky to get a big resume win,
Speaker 3: and they get to face Texas A and M without
Speaker 3: their best player, Wade Taylor, who I feel like has
Speaker 3: been at Texas A and M for twenty five years.
Speaker 3: He's still out with the knee injury and will not play.
Speaker 3: He leads them in points at fifteen point seven average
Speaker 3: is about five assists a game, leads them there as well.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a guy that can. I mean he
Speaker 3: averaged nineteen points a game last year, has averaged sixteen
Speaker 3: or more in the last three seasons. So whoever's been
Speaker 3: filling in for him I did see has actually played
Speaker 3: really well in Taylor's absence, But still they're nowhere near
Speaker 3: as good of a team without way Taylor, and Kentucky
Speaker 3: gets a chance to get him tonight when they're not
Speaker 3: at one hundred percent. And you know, I'm not doing
Speaker 3: this to bring up well, hey, if they win, it
Speaker 3: doesn't it's not as impressive as you think because their
Speaker 3: best players. When I'm bringing it up. Why I'm bringing
Speaker 3: it up is to say that the formula doesn't know that,
Speaker 3: the net rankings don't factor that in. Maybe somebody on
Speaker 3: the committee would would would perk up and say, welly,
Speaker 3: just so you know that Kentucky win. Reminder they didn't
Speaker 3: have way Taylor. I mean, maybe somebody does that, but look,
Speaker 3: it's set up pretty nicely for Kentucky here. And when
Speaker 3: you have a loaded schedule like anybody in the SEC does,
Speaker 3: because that league is just insane right now, you'll tell
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't want anybody to get hurt, you're
Speaker 3: not rooting for it. But man, if you can catch
Speaker 3: a break like this, I mean, take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: Because you've got LSU at home on Saturday, and then
Speaker 3: you travel to Ole Miss, travel to Texas, then you
Speaker 3: host Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: So in a weird way.
Speaker 3: After the A and M game, I kind of feel
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, never mind, I was looking at the wrong schedule.
Speaker 2: Apologies.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Kentucky fans who know their schedule were yelling
Speaker 3: at me that I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: I was looking at A and M schedule.
Speaker 3: So after Kentucky plays A and M, then they have
Speaker 3: they Alabama at home, which of course the number four
Speaker 3: team in the country, and then after that you will
Speaker 3: go to Vandy, then to Tennessee, and then you host
Speaker 3: Arkansas at Ole Miss. So I mean if at Vandy's
Speaker 3: considered like the cupcake of the of the schedule, which
Speaker 3: they you know, have been at times. I mean, it's Vandy,
Speaker 3: but like this Vandy team, they'll probably finish towards the
Speaker 3: bottom of the SEC, I would imagine, But they're also
Speaker 3: ranked forty second in the net thirteen and three overall
Speaker 3: and might even make the tournament. So I hate just
Speaker 3: gassing up the SEC and basketball as much as I have,
Speaker 3: but I mean, what they do in the tournament will
Speaker 3: absolutely be a huge factor in.
Speaker 2: How people.
Speaker 3: I guess, remember how loaded this league was this year,
Speaker 3: and I don't think it's like a one time thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe they're a little bit down next year,
Speaker 3: but I mean, I just think there's programs in the
Speaker 3: SEC that have really invested in basketball, made it a priority,
Speaker 3: and here we are. But if you do nothing in
Speaker 3: the tournament and like, let's say you flame out and
Speaker 3: you only get like one team in the Elite eight,
Speaker 3: sounds hard to imagine. But if that was to happen,
Speaker 3: then everybody would say, well, it was overrated and it
Speaker 3: was all for nothing. But I'll be consistent. What gives
Speaker 3: you in basketball, specifically, what gives you the ability to,
Speaker 3: I guess, earn the benefit of the doubt until you
Speaker 3: get to the tournament and kind of show what your
Speaker 3: league can do when you get there is what you
Speaker 3: do in non conference, and the SEC was insanely dominant
Speaker 3: in the non conference portion of the college basketball.
Speaker 2: Slate this year.
Speaker 3: So I mean, that didn't guarantee that all these teams
Speaker 3: that make the tournament are going to go on deep runs.
Speaker 2: But I just I feel like this.
Speaker 3: You know, it's premature to say it now, because again,
Speaker 3: what you do in the postseason will be a factor
Speaker 3: in how people view your league. But as of now,
Speaker 3: this league is as good as any that I've seen
Speaker 3: in a long time. I can't remember a year where
Speaker 3: a league seems so deep in college basketball, and what's
Speaker 3: even crazy year ten years ago, the league was a
Speaker 3: joke in basketball, and yeah, not so much anymore.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 3: Of course, we'll talk a lot of college basketball today
Speaker 3: because you know, it's that time of the year, and
Speaker 3: we always talk college oops. That'll never change, but it
Speaker 3: kind of hit me today whenever I was putting the
Speaker 3: show together. Believe it or not, I do prepare for
Speaker 3: this show. I was just looking at all the games
Speaker 3: we have tonight because this is you know, now you're
Speaker 3: in the thick of things with conference play. There's so
Speaker 3: many conference matchups. I mean, you've got games because the
Speaker 3: Big Ten added West Coast schools, you now have like
Speaker 3: two eleven o'clock games between two Big Ten teams that
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to betting on. So it's awesome. I
Speaker 3: love college basketball. I've had to learn to love college
Speaker 3: basketball without having a team that really matters at all,
Speaker 3: because that's what the last two years were like, and
Speaker 3: it wasn't fun, but I was still able to enjoy
Speaker 3: college basketball.
Speaker 2: But today it kind of hit me.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not only great because again, there's nothing
Speaker 3: I love more in sports, and there's something I love
Speaker 3: more than college basketball when it comes to sports. And
Speaker 3: I know I'm not alone. But whenever you're alive and
Speaker 3: your team is featured in the bracketology updates, you're checking
Speaker 3: other resumes to see kind of where you stack up.
Speaker 3: You're looking at the conference race to see maybe who
Speaker 3: can get the double by and the conference tournament. I
Speaker 3: mean those are things that I used to just you know,
Speaker 3: experience and didn't think much of it. And now it's
Speaker 3: fun again. So it's awesome. Some of the things we
Speaker 3: need to get into. Obviously, last night the Vikings, yikes,
Speaker 3: what a disastrous game for Sam Darnal in the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: I thought Aikman said it best. Everything that could go
Speaker 3: wrong seems to be going wrong for Minnesota. And I
Speaker 3: don't hear this mentioned a whole lot. Maybe it is,
Speaker 3: and I just I'm not hearing it. But you could
Speaker 3: make the case that Minnesota kind of a low key,
Speaker 3: tormented sports city. Like their fans, they've kind of had
Speaker 3: it rough, and I don't know why you don't seem
Speaker 3: to hear that as much. There's some fan bases out there,
Speaker 3: I guess some city as well. I guess more so
Speaker 3: a city thing than it is just a fan of
Speaker 3: a certain franchise.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 3: The Browns, like Cleveland fans other than Lebron coming and
Speaker 3: winning them a title, and obviously the Indians have had
Speaker 3: I guess now the Guardians have had success here and there,
Speaker 3: But like the Browns or the Browns like that, that's
Speaker 3: a city that most people probably feel sorry for their
Speaker 3: sports fans Minnesota. I don't hear that as much, but
Speaker 3: there's some evidence that will support that they've actually had
Speaker 3: they've had it rough, they really have. So now we
Speaker 3: have the NFL playoff matchup set for the second weekend.
Speaker 3: So we went from the Super wild Card to whatever
Speaker 3: this is.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I can't remember what they call it, but I don't care.
Speaker 3: It's NFL postseason and it's awesome. Some big time matchups,
Speaker 3: but no one, no bigger matchup than the MVP favorites
Speaker 3: going after it. Bill's Ravens looking forward to that one.
Speaker 3: We'll certainly talk about that. The Cowboys job's open, So
Speaker 3: I still think there's really nothing off the time able
Speaker 3: here for Jerry Jones because it's Jerry Jones. It's a job,
Speaker 3: as we discussed yesterday, that you can make the case
Speaker 3: that it's the best job in all of American professional
Speaker 3: sports because you know, it's the Dallas Cowboys. But you
Speaker 3: could also see anybody turn it down and kind of
Speaker 3: understand because you know you'd be working for Jerry Jones,
Speaker 3: and he may not be a terrible person, but like,
Speaker 3: there's a lot that comes with that job that you
Speaker 3: probably wouldn't want. And if you can't truly coach the
Speaker 3: way you want to coach, I mean, that makes it
Speaker 3: less appealing. I would imagine, especially somebody that knows they
Speaker 3: can get a job elsewhere, maybe they don't want to
Speaker 3: put a four year run together in Dallas where things
Speaker 3: are happening in a bad way and it's not their
Speaker 3: fault and they have no control over it, like I
Speaker 3: would avoid it if I was in that position. So
Speaker 3: maybe it is Dion Sanders who I didn't bring it
Speaker 3: up yesterday because it just didn't come to mind for
Speaker 3: me because I just can't imagine that an NFL team
Speaker 3: would actually do that. But again, it's it's the Dallas
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the Dallas Cowboys, and it's Jerry Jones,
Speaker 3: and obviously there's a connection there between Dion and and Jerry,
Speaker 3: so we shall see. I kind of want it to happen,
Speaker 3: just to see what would happen, I really do, but
Speaker 3: with his sons, and I mean, I just I can't
Speaker 3: see Dion in the way he you know, Dean. I'm
Speaker 3: sure there's a lot of respect from NFL players currently
Speaker 3: that realize how good of a player he was, and
Speaker 3: I'm not saying he would be like unlikable in the
Speaker 3: eyes of NFL players, but I just feel like the
Speaker 3: way he you know, I don't know, I don't think
Speaker 3: that kind of arrogance that he has always had would
Speaker 3: would really be good energy in a pro locker room,
Speaker 3: like for the team collectively. Maybe I'm wrong, but again,
Speaker 3: I just want. I want it to happen one because
Speaker 3: I don't care about the Cowboys and I just want
Speaker 3: to see, like would this be successful or would this
Speaker 3: be like you won't believe aw big of a joke
Speaker 3: this is. And I don't know if we're going to
Speaker 3: get to find out or not, but I hope we do.
Speaker 3: And something else I want to get to later. I
Speaker 3: don't know if if I'll end up spending much time
Speaker 3: or maybe it'll be one of those things that I
Speaker 3: mentioned in the first segment here that we just never
Speaker 3: get to because I'm terrible with clock management. But I
Speaker 3: watched the two episode docu series Can you call it
Speaker 3: a series if it's two episodes? It was documentary special
Speaker 3: on Netflix about the Jerry Springer Show, and it was
Speaker 3: it was awesome, it was wild, and I've got some
Speaker 3: thoughts on it, and I guess it's it's kind of
Speaker 3: one of the if you're like my age, you're a
Speaker 3: little younger or older, then like you remember what the
Speaker 3: Jerry Springer Show was I mean it was. I mean
Speaker 3: it beat Oprah in viewership. Think about that in the nineties,
Speaker 3: in the you know, in the early two thousands. Crazy
Speaker 3: and I kind of miss it. But there's also some
Speaker 3: sad stuff too, So maybe we'll do this. Maybe I'll
Speaker 3: save this for later in the week or something because
Speaker 3: I don't want to give away any spoilers. And you know,
Speaker 3: it's Game Day. But the Jerry Springer stuff is, I
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Speaker 3: So no Austin today, he's not here, and I believe
Speaker 3: he had something going on with the other gig that
Speaker 3: he has with us here at iHeart, which happens from
Speaker 3: time to time. We do lose him every now and
Speaker 3: then because he's also a part of our promotions team
Speaker 3: and there's certain events that he has to be at.
Speaker 3: So I've been told that's why he's not here today.
Speaker 3: But usually he tells me ahead of time, Hey not
Speaker 3: going to be here, or hey can only be here
Speaker 3: for two hours. He didn't tell me yesterday, so I'm
Speaker 3: a little a little worried maybe that he decided to
Speaker 3: know show because his vikings decided to be the biggest
Speaker 3: embarrassment of the NFL postseason thus far, which maybe will
Speaker 3: be a team that's a little more embarrassing than them,
Speaker 3: And maybe embarrassing isn't even like the right way to
Speaker 3: describe it, because I mean, it was an embarrassing performance,
Speaker 3: but they had a great year. But then again, you're
Speaker 3: not really that surprised when when like the result last
Speaker 3: night really wasn't that surprising, right, I mean, the Rams
Speaker 3: had a lot of momentum, They've got some championship pedigree
Speaker 3: with Sean McVay. I mean, they had a lot of momentum.
Speaker 3: Actually they are on fire. And the Vikings were good
Speaker 3: all year. But you knew deep down the guy that
Speaker 3: was under center, Sam Donald, he was Sam Donald, and
Speaker 3: he was playing out of his mind, earned himself a
Speaker 3: lot of money by helping Minnesota to a phenomenal season
Speaker 3: in the regular season only though, so and the question
Speaker 3: now is how much money did he lose with the
Speaker 3: way last week in Detroit went, and then of course
Speaker 3: last night as they followed the Rams. So I mean,
Speaker 3: it was an upset, but surprising like the level of it,
Speaker 3: I don't I mean, I don't think it's that shocking
Speaker 3: because the Vikings, you know, are the Vikings. And for
Speaker 3: those who don't realize the connection here, Austin is a
Speaker 3: big Vikings fan. And and I'm you know, he didn't
Speaker 3: seem real confident yesterday, and he has been pretty up.
Speaker 3: I mean, he think he's mentioned it on the show,
Speaker 3: but he says it a little differently off the air.
Speaker 3: He's not a fan of Donald. Even when Donald was
Speaker 3: having success, he didn't feel like that that this was
Speaker 3: sustainable and looks like he ended up being right and
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson And I mean, I'm I'm trying to gather
Speaker 3: my thoughts here because Lamar in the postseason that being
Speaker 3: like a talking point nationally.
Speaker 2: Like I understand it, I get it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's the one thing I'm sensitive to
Speaker 3: and and I don't really understand why. Like I think
Speaker 3: I've a as somebody who's a Louisville fan wants to
Speaker 3: see Lamar do really well. I feel like I've been
Speaker 3: pretty good about not getting too worked up about the
Speaker 3: critics of Lamar, because I mean, he'll be I mean,
Speaker 3: I think more than anything, like he's he's proven all
Speaker 3: those people wrong and you don't really hear a whole
Speaker 3: lot of it anymore. I Mean, the guy is I mean,
Speaker 3: those who claim he needs to win in the postseason
Speaker 3: for him to be solidified as one of the best
Speaker 3: of all time, I mean, I think they're wrong, but
Speaker 3: like that's not a hot take, that's that's kind of
Speaker 3: how this works, and I feel like I know that,
Speaker 3: But then again, I'm triggered when it comes to Lamar,
Speaker 3: because I just feel like anybody claiming that he's not
Speaker 3: as great as we all know he is, then you know.
Speaker 2: That would well, gosh, I got a little distracted here.
Speaker 3: I'll get back on track in just a second, because
Speaker 3: I don't want to share something with you about Lamar.
Speaker 3: But our boss, which I guess I can say his name,
Speaker 3: he just scared the you know what out of me
Speaker 3: because I got an email that popped up on the
Speaker 3: computer right in front of me, and I didn't have
Speaker 3: outlook open, so it's just a little prompt message at
Speaker 3: the bottom right corner. And Gus Allen, of course is
Speaker 3: he's the man in charge when it comes to talk
Speaker 3: programming around here. In fact, i'll read you his email title.
Speaker 3: It's program director NewsRadio eight forty WHS director of Spoken
Speaker 3: word Programming in the Kentucky market. So I mean, how
Speaker 3: about that title. He's an impressive guy. So I get
Speaker 3: a notification that he sent me an email on the
Speaker 3: title of it says farewell address, and I'm thinking, oh no,
Speaker 3: like we're not finding out he's not leaving, is he
Speaker 3: so like, I just completely lost my train of thought
Speaker 3: and opened the email and it actually is the It
Speaker 3: is the Biden farewell address that I guess we're airing
Speaker 3: on news radio eight forty WHCHS tomorrow night. So a
Speaker 3: little panic, and that made me kind of you know, lose, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson in the playoffs. So the reason I want
Speaker 3: Lamar to win so badly is just because the noise
Speaker 3: out there about him not winning in the postseason. But
Speaker 3: I just need to remind myself that even if they
Speaker 3: win against Buffalo but then they lose to Kansas City
Speaker 3: like that, it'll still be talked about. If he makes
Speaker 3: it all the way to the super Bowl and they lose,
Speaker 3: it'll still be talked about, Like it'll still be something
Speaker 3: people bring up. Now, if he wins a super Bowl,
Speaker 3: that will be awesome. That'll be phenomenal. I would have
Speaker 3: a hard time thinking anybody would claim he's not one
Speaker 3: of the best ever as far as accomplishments.
Speaker 2: I mean not the I mean like.
Speaker 3: He but but you know, clearly that's the only thing
Speaker 3: right now in his resume that doesn't put him in
Speaker 3: that tier of best quarterbacks of all time. To be honest,
Speaker 3: with you. But Lamar is in a status right now
Speaker 3: with his career I mean again, two MVP trophies, the
Speaker 3: third is likely on the way. He's still relatively young,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you, so like he's I mean,
Speaker 3: he's proven to be, like he is one of the
Speaker 3: biggest names in professional sports across the planet, certainly in
Speaker 3: the NFL here in America. And when you are in
Speaker 3: that tier, you have elevated yourself to that status, there's
Speaker 3: always going to be conversation about you, and some of
Speaker 3: it's going to be those that want that are you know,
Speaker 3: playing Devil's advocate or you know, being haters, And I
Speaker 3: just need to accept that. There's certain things I'm aware of,
Speaker 3: like how protective I am and how like sensitive I
Speaker 3: can be about it. I feel like I have good
Speaker 3: awareness of that, but I never feel like coming with Lamar.
Speaker 3: And then once it becomes, you know, a talking point
Speaker 3: on the show where I hear loud Mouse talking about
Speaker 3: his career and doubting him and acting as if he's,
Speaker 3: you know, the worst guy in the league when it
Speaker 3: comes to postseason time, Like I don't it just it
Speaker 3: gets me so Colin Cowhard, this was actually why I
Speaker 3: wanted to talk about this. Colin Cowhard, I feel like
Speaker 3: in recent years has been more pro Lamar than he
Speaker 3: used to be. But what happens with these big talking heads,
Speaker 3: they they you know, they got to they gotta go
Speaker 3: back and forth.
Speaker 2: Right, it gets a little too stale, really, it gets stale.
Speaker 3: When they've just you know, given the same kind of
Speaker 3: because really, Lamar Jackson, what your take on him a
Speaker 3: year ago was, really there shouldn't be much of a
Speaker 3: different take now, right, He's been as good as he
Speaker 3: was a year ago when he won MVP. The Ravens
Speaker 3: are having just as good of a season as they
Speaker 3: did a year ago, it seems so, you know, but.
Speaker 2: If you stay the same it gets boring.
Speaker 3: So like these guys, they go back and forth at times,
Speaker 3: and I do think overall Cowhardt's still a little prolem
Speaker 3: He's more pro Lemar than than some. But two weeks ago,
Speaker 3: exactly two weeks ago yesterday, this is something that Cowhard
Speaker 3: said on his show about Lamar Jackson and Sam Donald.
Speaker 4: This roster isn't great. There's no bot Lamar Jackson, Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4: Look at the numbers. Who do you trust more in
Speaker 4: a playoff game? Are you sure, and Lamar and I
Speaker 4: love Lamar, but when I said years ago, I said,
Speaker 4: there's Samandrew Luck.
Speaker 3: Here, So I mean that was more how how he
Speaker 3: that's That was more about how much he thinks that
Speaker 3: Darnald is actually really good than it is like anti Lamar.
Speaker 3: But kind of makes me rethink my strategy of being
Speaker 3: an on air host, because you know, Colin Cowherd, he's
Speaker 3: doing a lot better than I am, making a lot
Speaker 3: more money than I am, and clearly he's a lot
Speaker 3: better at this than I am. But maybe just saying
Speaker 3: outlandish things like maybe it is worth doing because it
Speaker 3: could you know, it could elevate you. But anyways, we'll
Speaker 3: talk a little more about the NFL playoffs later on
Speaker 3: within the show, and then of course get more into
Speaker 3: the matchups as we get later, as we.
Speaker 2: Get later into the week. It is game day today, I.
Speaker 3: Guess you'd say game night, Louisville, Syracuse, seven o'clock, and
Speaker 3: I don't know. Somebody asked on the text line, which
Speaker 3: I do love that people ask this on the text
Speaker 3: line because you can get this information at a lot
Speaker 3: of places. I mean this in fact, a quick Google search.
Speaker 3: You could even ask Siri and she'll probably tell you.
Speaker 3: But we do have people that still ask questions like
Speaker 3: what channel is the game on tonight? And I don't know,
Speaker 3: So here I am looking it up for you because
Speaker 3: I need to know myself. Tonight this game will be
Speaker 3: on the ACC Network, So at seven o'clock the ACC Network,
Speaker 3: that's where you can watch it. And I you know,
Speaker 3: I'm hoping Louisville can continue this run that they're on.
Speaker 2: They should.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know they could lose, because they could
Speaker 3: lose to anybody if they don't play well and have
Speaker 3: a bad night. But the team that we've seen in
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks, if that same team shows
Speaker 3: up tonight, I feel like they could even have an
Speaker 3: off night again at the free throw line, which you
Speaker 3: don't want, but like they should win tonight.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm getting at.
Speaker 3: And Pat Kelsey, I don't know if you think it's
Speaker 3: worth getting into comparisons here, because clearly, coaching at Winthrop
Speaker 3: and coaching at Charleston it's different than coaching at this level.
Speaker 3: But I think clearly the formula he put together that
Speaker 3: made him so successful at those two schools, I think
Speaker 3: it's the same thing he brought with him here and
Speaker 3: it's working. So make of this what you want. However,
Speaker 3: if you go back to all the other times Pat
Speaker 3: Kelsey's teams have been let's see, yeah, Louisville, this is great.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just for those who like to nerd
Speaker 3: out on some of these numbers. At the best wager
Speaker 3: is a really good Twitter x account that just gives
Speaker 3: this good informative stuff when it comes to sports betting,
Speaker 3: especially college basketball. But Louisville has been a six and
Speaker 3: a half point or more road favorite in a conference
Speaker 3: game just three times since twenty twenty. Today's the first
Speaker 3: time since January thirteenth of twenty twenty one, which was
Speaker 3: the COVID year where they played during COVID not MAX year,
Speaker 3: but the not MAX last year, but the year before that.
Speaker 3: So let's see Pat Kelcey as a road conference favorite
Speaker 3: of three possessions or more. He's eleven and one at
Speaker 3: Charleston and twenty eight zero at Winthrop, so one loss
Speaker 3: in thirty one games in his coaching career when he's
Speaker 3: been in this position where he's been again favored by
Speaker 3: this range of points three possessions or more in a
Speaker 3: road game, and again that may seem like numbers that
Speaker 3: that may not mean anything to you, and that's fine,
Speaker 3: But we're still learning about Pat Kelsey in a way.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think we're going to see something
Speaker 3: that's really gonna step stand out in surprises at this
Speaker 3: point in the season. But you know, we haven't really
Speaker 3: seen his energy whenever he's he's riding high like this.
Speaker 3: I think when you listen to him and you I
Speaker 3: mean you watch him coach, I mean, I think he's
Speaker 3: been the same guy. You can tell he's a little
Speaker 3: a little bit happier because obviously he's probably pleased with
Speaker 3: the way his team's playing and he's having success. It's,
Speaker 3: you know, it's the human element of sports, right He's
Speaker 3: a coach, he's a human, his team's playing well.
Speaker 2: You can tell he's really happy.
Speaker 3: But as far as like, I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 3: I mean, I would hope that this success just fuels
Speaker 3: them to where they realize, man, this is awesome. They
Speaker 3: now have a real belief in themselves, and I don't
Speaker 3: think they've ever shown at any point this year that
Speaker 3: they don't think they're good. In fact, I think they've
Speaker 3: shown throughout the year that even when they do have
Speaker 3: a bad night, they get beat bad or they nearly
Speaker 3: lose to a team like Eku, they typically come back
Speaker 3: and have turned the page and they play hard. But
Speaker 3: I would love to know what was said or what happened,
Speaker 3: or really what that switch was from the Eku miracle,
Speaker 3: because that's really.
Speaker 2: What it was.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: You should have lost that game, let's be honest, but
Speaker 3: you did Noah, Waterman came through in a big way.
Speaker 3: So after that they came out against Carolina and that's
Speaker 3: when I noticed that they were animals defensively, and their
Speaker 3: attention to detail and the scout was really standing out.
Speaker 2: They were beating everybody to loose balls.
Speaker 3: They were, I mean really, for the most part, other
Speaker 3: than the Clemson game, they've dominated the backboard. And it's
Speaker 3: not that they didn't show signs of that early on
Speaker 3: in the year. But man, when we hit January, something
Speaker 3: changed with this group in a good way, of course.
Speaker 2: And it's not that they were terrible before that.
Speaker 3: But again, I'm probably not articulating it the way that
Speaker 3: that I want, at least effectively. But man, they've won
Speaker 3: these last four games, which again say what you want
Speaker 3: about the ACC but I think these last really the
Speaker 3: last five games, it tells you that they can at
Speaker 3: least be one of the better teams in the ACC.
Speaker 3: But like they're doing this and yet they haven't had
Speaker 3: that night where they've avoid that. They've yet to have
Speaker 3: a win in this stretch where you can't single out
Speaker 3: something on the stat sheet that you know should be
Speaker 3: better free throws, turnovers, foul trouble, just you know, poor
Speaker 3: nights from from the three point line. So if if
Speaker 3: you tighten up those things, which again seems like it's
Speaker 3: you know, a simple fix. I mean, we don't even
Speaker 3: know what the ceiling for this team can end up being.
Speaker 3: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side.
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Speaker 3: still playing here, Sam, Sam.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 6: Nick? How are you, sir?
Speaker 2: Doing okay? How much yourself?
Speaker 7: I'm doing all right? Well, I just want to say
Speaker 7: thank you for all you do in all the community.
Speaker 7: I am a master student up here at Indiana, but
Speaker 7: I'm from Louisville, so listening to you makes me feel
Speaker 7: like I'm right back at home. So I just want
Speaker 7: to say thank you for all that.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. Man. I think that means a
Speaker 2: lot of same.
Speaker 7: Thanks, Sam, absolutely, and I am I am from Louisville,
Speaker 7: So I grew up Louisville basketball. You know, I grew
Speaker 7: up going with my dad and Grandpaul to Freedom Hall
Speaker 7: and you know, seeing Rick Patino and watching these just
Speaker 7: great teams play. You know, and Kenny Payne being here,
Speaker 7: you know, these two seasons he was here killed me mentally,
Speaker 7: just overall. And you know, I don't think I'm the
Speaker 7: only one who feels that way, but I found myself
Speaker 7: not being able to watch sports, and you know, and
Speaker 7: not even just Louisville, but Louisville football, louisvill basketball, even
Speaker 7: though we were good at football. But seeing that Pat
Speaker 7: Kelsey is here, I don't know what he's doing, but
Speaker 7: the fire it has been put in me. You know,
Speaker 7: I was watching all these I was at the Duke game,
Speaker 7: and even though we didn't win, I was really hopeful it.
Speaker 7: You know, it was a great first half, didn't well
Speaker 7: well for the most part, Yeah, absolutely, And I watched Clemson.
Speaker 7: I was pumped. And then we get to this Pittsburgh
Speaker 7: game and when we run that out of bounce play
Speaker 7: and rain Smith hits that three in front of the bench,
Speaker 7: I got out of my chair and fist bumped the air.
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 7: I couldn't have been more happy at that point.
Speaker 6: It is so nice and breath taking to have these
Speaker 6: guys here, and I just could not be more excited
Speaker 6: for this season.
Speaker 7: And it's already been a.
Speaker 3: Pleasure Yep, it's been awesome, and Sam, I appreciate you listening,
Speaker 3: appreciate the kind words. Yeah, I think with it was.
Speaker 3: I always try to remind myself when it comes to
Speaker 3: the two years that Louisville basketball was lifeless and just
Speaker 3: really in a place that nobody ever thought it would be.
Speaker 3: I kind of benefited from, you know, one being able.
Speaker 3: I guess to use this show as a as a
Speaker 3: platform for therapy to kind of talk through it. But
Speaker 3: you know what, because it's it's kind of part of
Speaker 3: what I do, right, Like, my job is to come
Speaker 3: on the radio for three hours every day and during
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a Louisville basketball fan, of course, but
Speaker 3: even if I wasn't, like the job would be to
Speaker 3: talk about Louisville hoops because we're in Louisville and we
Speaker 3: care about college basketball, and this city has a ton
Speaker 3: of college hoops fans, most of them from two sides.
Speaker 3: Both sides, by the way, are in the elite category
Speaker 3: of all time programs.
Speaker 2: So you know, it was part of my job.
Speaker 3: So like there was a layer of it to where
Speaker 3: it's like, well, you know what, it's what you got
Speaker 3: to do. And even if my team's not bad or
Speaker 3: even even if my team stinks, I'd still prefer being
Speaker 3: in my position to where this is.
Speaker 2: What I do.
Speaker 3: So what I'm getting at is Louis of basketball. For
Speaker 3: a lot of people, it's an escape from from their
Speaker 3: everyday life. Right they're in school, they're working. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, they look forward like it's not it's maybe
Speaker 3: escape's not the right way to describe it, but it's
Speaker 3: something that you know is there to give them a
Speaker 3: whole lot of joy. And I'm with you, I'm in
Speaker 3: the same boat. But joy or sadness, you know, it's
Speaker 3: there's a component of my life to where it's part
Speaker 3: of it regardless.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So I think I try to remind myself of that
Speaker 3: because you know, like people will call in and say, man,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I hate that you have to do this.
Speaker 3: I feel so bad for you'd have to do these
Speaker 3: postgame shows, and I get what they meant, and it
Speaker 3: was nice of them to say that. But I actually
Speaker 3: kind of benefited from that in a way because good
Speaker 3: or bad, this is what I'm gonna have to talk
Speaker 3: about regardless. So like just knowing that going in made
Speaker 3: it a little bit different. So to Sam's point, Louis
Speaker 3: of Basketball for so long, has has brought joy to
Speaker 3: so many people, and it became a huge part of
Speaker 3: your life. I mean it's a big part of our
Speaker 3: culture here in this area. Our weekends during the season sometimes,
Speaker 3: in fact, more often than not, the you know, the
Speaker 3: good weekend, bad weekend is dependent upon what your what
Speaker 3: your team did Louis of Basketball or Kentucky basketball. So
Speaker 3: to have that go to a level that, again none
Speaker 3: of us ever thought it would be ad. I mean
Speaker 3: what I've probably said more than anything when it comes
Speaker 3: to just what that was, the experience like lifeless. Like
Speaker 3: I think lifeless is the word I've probably used more
Speaker 3: than any when I describe the where we were as
Speaker 3: a fan base, as a program. I mean it was,
Speaker 3: I mean we were a part of the college basketball
Speaker 3: season the last two years, but man, it really didn't
Speaker 3: feel like it. I mean it was it felt like
Speaker 3: a chore to watch them, and it was hard to
Speaker 3: watch them at some at times. And I know some
Speaker 3: people didn't watch a lot because they just you know,
Speaker 3: they couldn't. And you knew that your program needed to
Speaker 3: lose with Kenny in order for there to be no
Speaker 3: doubt that they need to move on from him. Therefore,
Speaker 3: I do believe people when they would call in and
Speaker 3: say I'm happy they lost, and although it sounds awful,
Speaker 3: like I get it. So you know, we've gone from
Speaker 3: being at a point where we never thought we'd be lifeless,
Speaker 3: just just completely lifeless, to now you're getting that unexpected
Speaker 3: success and that's that's that's again, that's a satisfying as
Speaker 3: I think you can get when it comes to watching
Speaker 3: your team, right, I mean, if your team's winning, especially
Speaker 3: winning at a high level, and there's a lot of
Speaker 3: accomplishments that come with it, that's great, regardless of if
Speaker 3: it was expected or not. But I do think the
Speaker 3: you know, to you know, when you enjoy it in
Speaker 3: real time, I think if if you didn't feel like
Speaker 3: it was possible, it was uncertain, or it's the ultimate surprise,
Speaker 3: I mean that that that so that again, that's what's
Speaker 3: happening now is Louisville basketball is has clearly made a
Speaker 3: huge jump from the last two years. As it stands
Speaker 3: right now, they're on a roll. They're right outside the
Speaker 3: top twenty five looking like a tournament team, which of
Speaker 3: course is a is a big step up from where
Speaker 3: they were previously. But it's the elements that Pat Kelsey's bringing.
Speaker 3: I mean, look when you when it comes to the
Speaker 3: players being kind of a reflection of him, which I
Speaker 3: think they are, which is a good thing. It's what
Speaker 3: you want, especially if you know it's a guy who
Speaker 3: carries himself well and seems like, you know, he's pretty
Speaker 3: good at what he does. And so far pack Kelsey'
Speaker 3: shown them. But I think even fans like look at
Speaker 3: everything that we're seeing on the floor and of course
Speaker 3: the results on the court, and it's hitting us in
Speaker 3: our feels, probably in a way we weren't expecting. I
Speaker 3: think we all knew this would be better than it
Speaker 3: was under Kittie Payne and that we would be happier,
Speaker 3: but I think the way it's all kind of played
Speaker 3: out has made it just you know, this has been
Speaker 3: the funnest season and I can remember in a long
Speaker 3: long time. I have no clue how it's going to end,
Speaker 3: but so far it's been awesome and I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: All.
Speaker 3: Right, we got two more hours, so stick around and
Speaker 3: we will be back in just a few minutes. To
Speaker 3: keep this thing rolling along. We'll talk a little more
Speaker 3: about this. Deon Sanders Dallas Cowboys rumor.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I guess it's not a rumor.
Speaker 3: We know that they met, they talked, and I guess
Speaker 3: now it just comes down to is that who Jerry
Speaker 3: Jones wants to take.
Speaker 2: Over for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Also, Isaac Brown picked up another big time accomplishment which
Speaker 3: again just further supports what a lot of people believe
Speaker 3: the that's Louisville football next year should be, you know,
Speaker 3: should be able to go into the season feeling like, hey,
Speaker 3: we got we've got a schedule in front of us
Speaker 3: that if we take care of business, we can be
Speaker 3: in the playoff hunt. So two more hours left right
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