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Speaker 2: As we take you up until six o'clock? Is it? We?
Speaker 2: Are we going to get more rain? I mean I've
Speaker 2: heard the updates there during the break from our our
Speaker 2: team over WKY Keep. I mean the sun's been shining
Speaker 2: and they keep talking about the river is cresting. Yes,
Speaker 2: which is good. Although although it wasn't it again. I
Speaker 2: don't know you guys heard, but I got up three
Speaker 2: thirty this morning. Hey did you know that? Yeah? I
Speaker 2: mentioned it yet.
Speaker 3: Wait wait a minute, were you on wha ass Yep?
Speaker 2: That was me three thirty way up call. Yes, this
Speaker 2: will be seven hours of radio for me today. It's
Speaker 2: dedicated to the game. I mean that, you know, love
Speaker 2: this love this stuff a little bit more muscular. I
Speaker 2: wanted to do ten today, but they said no, you
Speaker 2: got to go home. Yeah, they're gonna kick me out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 3: They've got to drag you out of here.
Speaker 2: But when I saw yesterday so many people being rescued
Speaker 2: by the first responder boats that look, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure they're not literally just like blow up boats, but
Speaker 2: they kind of look like it, right, Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I see that. And then this morning on my way
Speaker 2: and it was raining pretty good, and I'm like, this
Speaker 2: cannot be good. But then you know, it sounds like
Speaker 2: we've had some good sunshine. But then, you know, I
Speaker 2: go to De Mark with a Sea and see his
Speaker 2: latest update and he's he's scaring me again. That's what
Speaker 2: he's good. He's good at it.
Speaker 3: He's in his bag.
Speaker 2: He is in his bag. But he posted this about
Speaker 2: thirty I mean again, this is another example of you
Speaker 2: never know what you're gonna get weather around here this
Speaker 2: time of year. But when we get to the caves
Speaker 2: that we're in here Austin, like, I just assumed that
Speaker 2: the weather hasn't changed a whole lot since you know,
Speaker 2: I walked in here two and a half hours ago.
Speaker 2: But apparently there's like small hail possible in in in
Speaker 2: Bullet County on Barchtown Road about thirty minutes ago, and
Speaker 2: then earlier, Mark with the C posted another great example
Speaker 2: of the weak mid level wind energy today. Notice the
Speaker 2: storm pulsed in the west Louisville and then immediately collapsed,
Speaker 2: generating a new updraft to its southeast. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to see what's going on here, Mark, tell me what
Speaker 2: we're what we got so apparently there was hail and
Speaker 2: shively just within the last hour. So here I am
Speaker 2: thinking that it's decent weather and we got we got
Speaker 2: storms coming through, so stay safe everybody. I mean, I was, uh,
Speaker 2: who was it I was talking to. It's gonna drive
Speaker 2: me crazy because it's not even somebody anybody knows, But
Speaker 2: somebody said something that was really like unexpected, but man,
Speaker 2: so true. I was given somebody a hard time. Might
Speaker 2: have been one of the Yeah, it was one of
Speaker 2: my buddes who went on our trip with us to
Speaker 2: to uh to Navarre last week for spring break, and
Speaker 2: he was just talking about how like he never keeps
Speaker 2: up with the weather at all, Like he never even
Speaker 2: checks it, doesn't like doesn't pay attention. He just you know,
Speaker 2: he just you know, doesn't even pay attention, doesn't care
Speaker 2: you know, if he goes outside and it's hot. He
Speaker 2: goes in and you know, dresses appropriately that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, how could you not keep up? And
Speaker 2: he he kind of dunked on me, Austin, because he said,
Speaker 2: what am I gonna do about it? He's right, Mother
Speaker 2: Nature's gonna do what she's gonna do. True, and no reading,
Speaker 2: and there's no reason to worry about it. Although you know,
Speaker 2: I will say I'm glad that I, uh, I had
Speaker 2: I had my my my phone in front of me
Speaker 2: because when we were driving through Nashville. I mean, I again,
Speaker 2: I'm not following anybody who covers Nashville weather. And we're
Speaker 2: driving back from Florida, and I mean quite literally, like
Speaker 2: a tornado, you know, small tornado comes through downtown Nashville,
Speaker 2: like we're right there on the interstate next to it,
Speaker 2: and we didn't never known had it not been for
Speaker 2: like the iPhone that goes off automatically if you're if
Speaker 2: you you know, knows your location and you're near where
Speaker 2: there's as a tornado warning, and uh, you know, we
Speaker 2: took cover. And by the way, I did pull up
Speaker 2: YouTube TV on my phone to kind of because I
Speaker 2: knew if I went to local channels on YouTube TV
Speaker 2: while in Nashville, it'll it'll pick up where you are
Speaker 2: and show those local channels. And Mark's got a got
Speaker 2: a competitor in Nashville. Oh, a female meteorologist. Got to
Speaker 2: be honest with you. She was a little more dramatic
Speaker 2: than than Mark. What she now again, she was actually
Speaker 2: talking about a real tornado that was in fact, like
Speaker 2: you know, happening that she needed to make everybody aware of.
Speaker 3: But do you remember her name was? It was it
Speaker 3: Katie with the sea.
Speaker 2: I wasn't paying as much attention to h to the
Speaker 2: name oh gating more attention to her to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, just you know, because she's a great meteorologist
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 3: You just want to see her green screen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But she gave a lot of like oh uh
Speaker 2: oh god ah like instead of just like just tell
Speaker 2: me if we're gonna die, lady, like, oh I don't
Speaker 2: oh man, that does that doesn't look good. And she
Speaker 2: had like her colleague I think his name was Bill,
Speaker 2: Oh Bill, Bill, you see this Bill, Like, we don't
Speaker 2: know what we don't we can't, we don't know what
Speaker 2: you're talking about. Just tell us and here we are
Speaker 2: just on the side of the road trying not to
Speaker 2: die and uh yeah, very scary situation.
Speaker 4: But well, why you were gone last week? Did you
Speaker 4: see that? Uh Mark was kind of trending online on.
Speaker 3: TikTok because he went viral. Yeah, he went viral because
Speaker 3: of the well.
Speaker 2: You know, he put his hands because he's dramatic as hell.
Speaker 2: There was one it was due, there was one I
Speaker 2: was gummies in and I one of those. One of
Speaker 2: those popped up the videos of him on TikTok and
Speaker 2: it was like somebody not from louisll that was like
Speaker 2: you got to see this Louisville meteorologist. Dude is like
Speaker 2: he's he's like they were they couldn't contain. I think
Speaker 2: we probably are talking about the same video. But there's
Speaker 2: one where he's like walking to the like closer towards
Speaker 2: the camera for like for effect, dramatic effect, and then
Speaker 2: he like puts his hands in his pockets like I mean,
Speaker 2: I think we're talking about tornado here.
Speaker 4: Guys, because he was he was trying to explain like
Speaker 4: he was performing it is what he was doing.
Speaker 3: He was like his.
Speaker 4: Back, this isn't a tornado, like and he puts his
Speaker 4: hands in his pocket, walks forward like, hey, guys, this
Speaker 4: is a tornado. No, this is a tornado. And it's
Speaker 4: it's theatrics with that guy.
Speaker 3: He's like Rob Zombie.
Speaker 2: Great is that he has zero and I mean zero
Speaker 2: while on live television to know how anybody is reacting
Speaker 2: one way or the other to what he's saying. But
Speaker 2: my man, it's like he's on he's on stage because
Speaker 2: he you know, he's he's in he's behind it. He's
Speaker 2: in front of a green screen. He's in front of
Speaker 2: a camera. Like there's not an audience that he can see.
Speaker 2: It's not like he's checking what people are saying as
Speaker 2: it happens, but like he just knows to be like, guys,
Speaker 2: I mean, are we Are we taking this serious? I
Speaker 2: mean are we? I mean, come on now? And now
Speaker 2: he doesn't do what others do when they really want
Speaker 2: you to know they're all about. I mean, when Jay
Speaker 2: Carter's he rolls up those sleeves, that's when I know
Speaker 2: I gotta say my prayers. Yeah the sports coach, Yeah,
Speaker 2: sport coats off, sleeves are rolled up. You know a
Speaker 2: little bit of a sweat, you know, like a little
Speaker 2: bit of a sweat in the brow hair is starting
Speaker 2: to come ungelled. And what what I love about meteorology
Speaker 2: is that there's a cattiness to it, right, Like they
Speaker 2: don't really like publicly feud with one another, but they
Speaker 2: very Twitter has really exposed that. You wouldn't know as
Speaker 2: much if you just watched them on TV. But like,
Speaker 2: there'll be people that know what what Mark with a
Speaker 2: C is saying, and they want to they want to counter,
Speaker 2: like they want to basically maybe say the same thing
Speaker 2: but throw a little bit of a different twist so
Speaker 2: they could potentially, you know, be right, like there's a
Speaker 2: Caddy seventh grade girl, Uh, you know, component to some
Speaker 2: some meteorology beef that's out there, and I'm maybe it's
Speaker 2: a stretch to call it beef, but you know, they
Speaker 2: take what they like and I can respect it. I
Speaker 2: don't like being, you know, scared to where I think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna maybe you know, die, but you know, in
Speaker 2: fact I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: it'd be nice to get a heads up so I
Speaker 2: could take cover. But like sometimes when mother Nature's decided
Speaker 2: what she's gonna do, we just got to accept it.
Speaker 2: But all in all, and I mean this, and I'm
Speaker 2: being very sincere. I can always appreciate somebody who takes
Speaker 2: what they do seriously. Yeah times, maybe too seriously. But
Speaker 2: think about this. If you go to a maybe this
Speaker 2: is in the best example, but I was actually telling
Speaker 2: this to somebody the other day. If you go to
Speaker 2: a restaurant, a fast food place, sit down, whatever it
Speaker 2: may be, and your experience like is good all the
Speaker 2: way around. Where you got your food on time, it
Speaker 2: was delicious, it was exactly what you ordered. You didn't
Speaker 2: have to wait too long for the waiter or waitress
Speaker 2: to bring you another beer or a coke, whatever it
Speaker 2: may be. Like, your service was really good, but it
Speaker 2: was just because of what was done, not because of
Speaker 2: any type of like emotion or energy from the person,
Speaker 2: because really that's ultimately what matters. But I will say,
Speaker 2: I don't know how you could argue against this if
Speaker 2: you get the same exact service when it comes to
Speaker 2: like again what I just said. Your food's good, it's
Speaker 2: made to order, it's fresh, you're you're not looking around
Speaker 2: for your server, but one is way more clearly happy
Speaker 2: to be doing it than the other. You will notice
Speaker 2: that every single time you will leave now again, if
Speaker 2: you had great service and the waiter what, you know,
Speaker 2: chummy and happy, that's okay too. You're not gonna believe
Speaker 2: thinking that service was terrible. But if it's good and
Speaker 2: then somebody just looks like they're you know, they're enjoying
Speaker 2: what they do and they know they're good at it,
Speaker 2: like that goes a long way. So people who do
Speaker 2: meteorology meteorologists, I should say people who do people who
Speaker 2: do weather. I'm sure that's not the right way to
Speaker 2: describe it. You know, what they do is very important
Speaker 2: and they take themselves serious, and I can respect that.
Speaker 2: But sometimes, you know, sometimes it's a little much.
Speaker 3: Also very thankless job too.
Speaker 4: It's because no like you can just get back on
Speaker 4: the internet and say, boom, see told you we did
Speaker 4: get smacked with eight inches of snow or no.
Speaker 2: You're spot on. You never ever are even acknowledged or
Speaker 2: even nobody knows if you get it right. But if
Speaker 2: you get it wrong even a little bit, you're getting crushed.
Speaker 2: And that's why if you remember when we got that
Speaker 2: big winter storm in January, I probably overcompensated, but I
Speaker 2: did go out of my way to say, look, we're
Speaker 2: going to crush them when they're wrong, but when they're right,
Speaker 2: like because if you remember, everybody was pretty consistent for
Speaker 2: the most part about what they were projecting was gonna happen,
Speaker 2: and it was exactly what happened, like to a t
Speaker 2: the amount of snow we got, the time that it started,
Speaker 2: how long it would last. So you know, I'll give
Speaker 2: him some credit. Sometimes they get it right and they
Speaker 2: need they need acknowledgement. If we're gonna crush him wh
Speaker 2: they're wrong, let's prop them up when they get it right.
Speaker 2: All right. The big news today Pat Kelsey got a
Speaker 2: contract extension, he got a raise, and that's good news
Speaker 2: all the way around. He is now making three point
Speaker 2: six million dollars per year and that's a bump from
Speaker 2: his two point three million dollar contract that he signed
Speaker 2: last March. And he's also received some uh, I guess
Speaker 2: enhanced what do you call him performance bonuses? Right like
Speaker 2: he'll make the same amount of money for certain accomplishments
Speaker 2: like acc Coach of the Year, National Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2: But there's now some some some bigger incentives built in
Speaker 2: as far as uh, you know, if Louisville makes a
Speaker 2: if Louisville makes a final four, he will receive a
Speaker 2: let's see, the final four is a two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars bonus, and then he'll receive also, I
Speaker 2: think I'm reading this correctly, he'll receive a four hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars base increase, and he can get that up
Speaker 2: to two times. So if he makes a final.
Speaker 3: Four, face big bass.
Speaker 2: If he makes two final fours, he's going to be
Speaker 2: making eight hundred thousand dollars more a year. I have
Speaker 2: been to think that if he makes one final four,
Speaker 2: he'll get a new contract making him a lot more
Speaker 2: money than he makes now, or he won't be our coach. Right.
Speaker 2: I hate and again I probably was a little. I
Speaker 2: tried my best. It was probably a terrible segment, not
Speaker 2: that I do many great ones, but I don't think
Speaker 2: anybody's done anything wrong. This all in all is good news.
Speaker 2: But I would be a liar if I didn't share
Speaker 2: what I thought, and I think that's my job. I'm
Speaker 2: supposed to share my opinions. It really did, like I
Speaker 2: just we knew this was going to happen. He was
Speaker 2: going to get a contract extension. Josh was actually on
Speaker 2: with Terry Miners, a few weeks ago, and and you know,
Speaker 2: flat out said we're working on it, and they got
Speaker 2: it done. But I just assume this this raise would
Speaker 2: put him between four and five, and he's not far
Speaker 2: from four, but he's still not a top thirty paid
Speaker 2: coach in college basketball. And that I don't say that
Speaker 2: to say like, oh, that's an issue. Somebody's got to
Speaker 2: fix this right now, because you know, it's just it's
Speaker 2: Louisville is paying him probably the best that they can,
Speaker 2: right and I hope that he understands that. I think
Speaker 2: that he understands that. So again he got a big
Speaker 2: bump and pay, and I'm glad somebody reminded me of this.
Speaker 2: I kind of talked about it earlier, but on the
Speaker 2: text line, somebody mentioned he just got a one million
Speaker 2: dollar raise, whereas he probably never made anything close to
Speaker 2: a million dollars anywhere else he's ever coached. So when
Speaker 2: you look at you know, the latter he's climbed in
Speaker 2: the last three four years. My man's doing really well.
Speaker 2: But Louisville paying a coach who they really like and
Speaker 2: want to keep forever. And hope, you know, again, it's
Speaker 2: just one season, but right now there's momentum. Not only
Speaker 2: has he put a good team together in his first season,
Speaker 2: he's now got a team in year two that is
Speaker 2: believed to be by those who covered college basketball, one
Speaker 2: of the top ten teams in the country right now.
Speaker 2: And Louisville clearly, you know knows that, and we last
Speaker 2: I checked, we you know, we care about basketball as much,
Speaker 2: if not more than anybody around here in college basketball,
Speaker 2: certainly up there. So I just to me, it really
Speaker 2: stands out that many I know they love him, I
Speaker 2: know they don't want to lose him, but that raise
Speaker 2: and pay I just I happen to believe that it's
Speaker 2: more so just the best they can do than okay,
Speaker 2: we'll give you a little bit of something for a
Speaker 2: good first year. But I could be totally wrong. Josh Hurd,
Speaker 2: I will say this he I don't want to speak
Speaker 2: for him, and I don't even want to insinuate that
Speaker 2: like this is this is something I believe. I'm just
Speaker 2: throwing it out There is just this scenario that isn't
Speaker 2: that crazy. Maybe he is saying, look, this is this
Speaker 2: is a this is a good bump for him after
Speaker 2: one year, and will continue to evaluate it on a
Speaker 2: year by your basis and make right as we need to.
Speaker 2: And if that's the case, then you know that makes
Speaker 2: sense given that Louisville is still paying any Payne a
Speaker 2: lot of money to not coach them. They just got done,
Speaker 2: I believe, paying Chris mac not to coach, and they
Speaker 2: are also dealing with they revenue shortfall where they did
Speaker 2: not have anybody buying tickets and showing up to games
Speaker 2: like we're used to around here. So clearly finances are
Speaker 2: not in great shape because of the basketball program in
Speaker 2: the previous regime that we had. So maybe this is
Speaker 2: just the best they can do, or maybe, you know,
Speaker 2: Josh is one of these ads that's gonna maybe change
Speaker 2: sort of how it's done, or maybe he's going to
Speaker 2: be unique compared to others and not give unnecessary extensions
Speaker 2: and raises. This was clearly necessary. I think you needed
Speaker 2: to give Pat a bump. I think he earned it,
Speaker 2: and clearly he agreed to it, he signed, and I
Speaker 2: assume he's really happy. But Josh Heard did something that
Speaker 2: a lot of athletic directors would not do. And when
Speaker 2: I say this, people act like I'm criticizing Josh Hurt,
Speaker 2: and I'm not. It's just the facts, Josh Heard or
Speaker 2: you know, Josh Magoo could have been the athletic director.
Speaker 2: And I still think Jeff Brown would have been the
Speaker 2: coach here. That's not a criticism of Josh Heard, that's
Speaker 2: just that's just the situation. Jeff Brohm, he wanted to
Speaker 2: come home to Louisville and it was time. But what
Speaker 2: led to the job opening is where I give Josh
Speaker 2: Hurt a lot of credit. Most athletic directors would have
Speaker 2: been scared of Jimmy Sexton, Scott Satterfield's agent, and they
Speaker 2: would have given Scott Saderfield that unneeded extension and we
Speaker 2: all know it wasn't worthy. But if it would have happened,
Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't even have wouldn't even have been that critical.
Speaker 2: I probably would have because I was really out on Saderfield.
Speaker 2: But like it's kind of just the cost of doing business.
Speaker 2: That's how this works, right, Like, if you've got a
Speaker 2: coach going up in their final year of their contract,
Speaker 2: they're gonna tell you how can I recruit? How can
Speaker 2: I build a staff when you guys aren't committed to
Speaker 2: me after one just one more year? And it's a
Speaker 2: legitimate point, but you can't use that to just get
Speaker 2: like that that's a bad way of doing business, right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right, but like you think you've you think you've
Speaker 2: earned more money in more years on your deal. Because
Speaker 2: if you feel like that, that's what you lead with.
Speaker 2: If you're leading with, how am I supposed to recruit, Well,
Speaker 2: it's because you're not good enough. You know, if you
Speaker 2: were good enough, the contract would have already been done
Speaker 2: and everybody would know you're going to be here for
Speaker 2: long haul. So that led to Scott Siderfield realizing I
Speaker 2: got to go find it because, to be fair, he
Speaker 2: would not have been able to succeed in any way
Speaker 2: if he didn't get a new contract because his staff
Speaker 2: was already falling apart because they were told he wasn't
Speaker 2: going to get a new deal. And honestly, like we
Speaker 2: never saw Scott Siderfield coach without Malie Cunningham as quarterback,
Speaker 2: never developed one here. So I bring all this up
Speaker 2: to say, you know, Josh did something then that I
Speaker 2: still think would be rare to do now, and it
Speaker 2: certainly was rare then. So maybe he's just going to
Speaker 2: be a little bit more mindful after, you know, learning
Speaker 2: the hard way that and I don't even know who.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not even worth getting into. But like
Speaker 2: Kenny Payne, clearly that was a bad hire, and I
Speaker 2: could acknowledge that. I've always said that you should never
Speaker 2: hire a guy who's never been a head coach at
Speaker 2: a place like Louisville. But at the time hard for
Speaker 2: me to be overly critical. Again, I'm not the one
Speaker 2: making the decision, I'm not qualified. So the guy who
Speaker 2: did make it, Josh, he was clearly influenced by others.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't say it, but we all know he was
Speaker 2: hiring Kenny alone. Was again, like, clearly a decision that
Speaker 2: didn't work out. But what I think was just a
Speaker 2: real sign of like what are you doing here? Is
Speaker 2: that why did he need that contract like that? That
Speaker 2: to me was like insanity. A guy who'd never coached
Speaker 2: before at all and he had a deal that like
Speaker 2: And I think what it comes down to is that
Speaker 2: Kenny quite literally did not want the job. He told it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I never actuate he wanted the job. And
Speaker 2: then I guess in order to actually get him you
Speaker 2: had to give him something that he wouldn't turn down,
Speaker 2: which was that crazy contract where he was paid a
Speaker 2: ton of money and had a crazy buyout. So maybe
Speaker 2: it's just Josh being a little bit more, you know,
Speaker 2: a little bit more mindful of how he's spending money.
Speaker 2: And if that's the case, makes total sense. But what
Speaker 2: I really mentioned here and there, as we've talked about
Speaker 2: this throughout the show today, is that because of what
Speaker 2: happened prior to to p K, you're now here still
Speaker 2: in what I believe is unfamiliar territory. That if, in fact,
Speaker 2: let me just give you a hypothetical, Let's say who's
Speaker 2: a who's a really which coach right now has like
Speaker 2: all the juice, like like real, like not just like good,
Speaker 2: but like momentum like this guy, man, he's right like
Speaker 2: Todd Golden.
Speaker 3: Todd Golden.
Speaker 2: Let's say that the Denver Nuggets decided they want Todd Golden,
Speaker 2: and let's say Florida's like, all right, we picked Todd
Speaker 2: Golden from the likes of San Francisco. Let's go get
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey. Yeah, he's at Louisville, but they're paying him
Speaker 2: three point six million. We can triple that. We wouldn't,
Speaker 2: but we can double that, and it's not a big
Speaker 2: deal because we're Florida we're in the sec we got
Speaker 2: we got bags of money. It's just unfamiliar territory to
Speaker 2: know that a school can look at Louisville and say, oh,
Speaker 2: we'll double their offer. Now, Louisville I don't think would
Speaker 2: ever let him leave. I think they would find money
Speaker 2: to match any offer that he got. But again, like
Speaker 2: Louisville's never been in a position where we have ever
Speaker 2: had to worry about our coach, Like when Danny turned
Speaker 2: down you cla and then you went from Denny to
Speaker 2: Rick Patino. I mean, it was always possible, but it
Speaker 2: would take a really unusual circumstance for you to lose
Speaker 2: your coach to another school because Louisville is one of
Speaker 2: the one of the premier programs. It's not the best job,
Speaker 2: but it's in the top ten certainly maybe top five.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, even if like Kansas opened and
Speaker 2: you're at Kentucky or vice versa, yes you could make
Speaker 2: the case that Kentucky's better, but you're at Kansas, like,
Speaker 2: I mean, you really want to rock if they want you,
Speaker 2: You're doing really well. You know, it's just not worth
Speaker 2: you know, shaking things up. So again, I don't think
Speaker 2: Louisvill's in any potential danger of losing Pat Kelsey, because again,
Speaker 2: I think they're doing the best they can and if
Speaker 2: an offer came in that Josh Urd knows. Hey, my
Speaker 2: job now is to retain this guy that we know
Speaker 2: has gone up to a great start of getting this
Speaker 2: thing turned around. All right, real quick, we'll talk about
Speaker 2: this on the other side. We got to get to
Speaker 2: a break, bet. I do at least want to share
Speaker 2: the news that was put out there just within the
Speaker 2: last twenty minutes by Jeff Goodman that Louisville and Indiana
Speaker 2: are going to play a non conference basketball game coming
Speaker 2: up this season, So Pat Kelcey versus Darien Debris. It'll
Speaker 2: be on December sixth, that Gamebridge Arena in Indianapolis, the
Speaker 2: arena of the Pacers. So love this non conference matchup,
Speaker 2: and Louisville needs as many of these as they can
Speaker 2: get if the ACC is like it was last year.
Speaker 2: And I don't even know if Indiana is going to
Speaker 2: be any good, But all I know is last year
Speaker 2: it bent that ass over at the Bahamas. I mean,
Speaker 2: that was problem me. I'm sure you know Indiana. They
Speaker 2: had a lot of other lumps along the way. But
Speaker 2: like that was the first time Indiana fans, all right,
Speaker 2: we try to convince ourselves Mike Woodson was going to
Speaker 2: be the guy and then Pat Kelsey showed up dunked
Speaker 2: on him.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you're not taking into account this recruiting
Speaker 4: class at Deverrises as that debris is bringing in, Like
Speaker 4: you can there occasion. These guys are fundamental, very tough
Speaker 4: minded and deceivingly athletic. And yes, deceivingly athletic. Okay, so
Speaker 4: you don't disparage those.
Speaker 2: He's got a type of those who don't know my
Speaker 2: man Devrez has added three transfers in the portal and
Speaker 2: live being wrong with it. But like it's a noticeable thing.
Speaker 2: All Caucasians doesn't mean they can't ball. I mean there's
Speaker 2: a lot of good Caucasian hoopers out there. Cooper Flag,
Speaker 2: you kidding me? But Nick Coffee, I don't know about that,
Speaker 2: but I appreciate the compliment. There you go, I like
Speaker 2: being you know, not nothing wrong with you know, I'm
Speaker 2: never gonna be complaining about getting gassed up here. All right,
Speaker 2: so let's take a break. We'll talk about this matchup
Speaker 2: that we're gonna have on the other side, because I
Speaker 2: do think more games like this is good for college hoops.
Speaker 2: And also Eric Crawford pointed out something from Josh Hurts
Speaker 2: Press conference day that I want to discuss. It's regarding
Speaker 2: conference re alignments. So again, we don't have a whole
Speaker 2: lot of time left, but stick around. We're going to
Speaker 2: make the most of what we have right here on
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Speaker 2: not a whole lot of time left. But earlier today
Speaker 2: Josh Hurt had his press conference to discussed a variety
Speaker 2: of things, one being Pat Kelsey's contract extension, as he
Speaker 2: is now making a lot more than he did a
Speaker 2: year ago, a million more. But you know, as we've discussed,
Speaker 2: at least I've discussed, I just I just assumed it'd
Speaker 2: be higher. But again, I'm sure they're doing what's most
Speaker 2: responsible for the university because obviously they're still paying for
Speaker 2: what happened. And you know, the last time they hired
Speaker 2: a coach prior to PK. But another thing that Eric
Speaker 2: Crawford pointed out is that, and I'll just read Eric's
Speaker 2: tweet directly. It's it's probably the first time I've heard
Speaker 2: Josh heard talking an Open Athletic Association meeting about anticipating
Speaker 2: further conference realignment shifts quote when TV contracts run out,
Speaker 2: and working to propose working to position Louisville to be
Speaker 2: on the right side of that shift. So I didn't
Speaker 2: hear Josh today, but I've always noticed whenever and this
Speaker 2: isn't a criticism, this is what probably most athletic directors do.
Speaker 2: But anytime the ACC's future would be brought up, obviously
Speaker 2: there's been some drama. There was the lawsuit with Clemson
Speaker 2: in Florida State, and you're locked in till twenty thirty six,
Speaker 2: whereas the other conferences are just you know, they're going
Speaker 2: to be able to re up a couple of times
Speaker 2: and make even more money than you're making now. They
Speaker 2: they did make a change to where you can actually
Speaker 2: earn more depending upon results and performance, which is the
Speaker 2: way it should be. In fact, I think you're actually
Speaker 2: going to see that be the next wave. I think
Speaker 2: the ACC believe it or not, Jim Phillips did do
Speaker 2: something that will become a trend which is realized, you know,
Speaker 2: especially when you got twenty million annually. Now you've got
Speaker 2: to share revenue. That could be the thing to where
Speaker 2: Alabama's no longer cool with Vandy getting the same cut
Speaker 2: from the SEC. Right, So there have been some improvements made,
Speaker 2: but Josh's usually just been like, you know, we value
Speaker 2: our conference. He's just given you the which you would
Speaker 2: typically hear an athletic director say who was speaking positively
Speaker 2: about the conference. So I'm not saying he didn't speak
Speaker 2: positively today, but at least mentioned making sure Louisville is
Speaker 2: prepared to be on the right side when that shift
Speaker 2: happens and the TV contracts. You know, here's what worries
Speaker 2: me about that Louisville could make some some drastic improvements.
Speaker 2: I mean, louis was already in a pretty good spot athletically.
Speaker 2: I mean, you just played in the AEC Championship game
Speaker 2: two years ago in football, you played in the AEC
Speaker 2: Championship in basketball, So when it comes to the ACC,
Speaker 2: you know, leftovers. If in fact the league gets rated,
Speaker 2: you're not going to be first in line, but you
Speaker 2: may not be far from it, right, I mean, you
Speaker 2: have a big reach, believe it or not. Your football
Speaker 2: viewership is up there towards the top of the league.
Speaker 2: It's not number one, but you know, you're you're pretty
Speaker 2: you're doing pretty well when it comes to you know,
Speaker 2: the rest of your league. Now, again, what really factors
Speaker 2: in is always seemingly inconsistent as far as what leagues
Speaker 2: would really want when they do out, when they do expand,
Speaker 2: but that ship is eventually going to happen. But when
Speaker 2: the TV contracts run out in the SEC and the
Speaker 2: Big ten and they re up, and they maybe want
Speaker 2: to expand to add more money. If you're in the ACC,
Speaker 2: like it's twenty thirty six until you can leave, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I just I still believe
Speaker 2: the ACC. Whatever happens, the benefit is that they're all
Speaker 2: stuck together because nobody's gonna be able to leave. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: they did reduce I guess what it cost to get
Speaker 2: out of the conference, but it's still not a reasonable
Speaker 2: or realistic thing for seemingly any school unless they went
Speaker 2: out and got like private funding to take care of it,
Speaker 2: which I guess is possible. But again, I just I
Speaker 2: think Eric was spot on that. You know, Josh usually
Speaker 2: doesn't even mention that, and he wasn't asked. He just
Speaker 2: mentioned that they're working to make sure that the athletics
Speaker 2: department is solid successful, gaining momentum to where when you
Speaker 2: do get to that point and there is sort of
Speaker 2: a divide, has Josh said a shift that you're you're
Speaker 2: on the right side of it, all right? Uh? Rick
Speaker 2: Patino year one in saane A, year two, I should
Speaker 2: say and say at Saint John's was was successful. They
Speaker 2: fell short in the tournament, and of all teams to
Speaker 2: send Patino in Saint John's home, it was Calipari and Arkansas,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure is still a real, you know, a
Speaker 2: real issue for Rick. I mean, he can say what
Speaker 2: he wants, but that of all of all coaches to
Speaker 2: endure season, you never want your season to end at all.
Speaker 2: But like, there's no way there could be a coach
Speaker 2: who who would have been further behind Caliperry as far
Speaker 2: as the list of coaches that you would prefer to
Speaker 2: in your season. So anyways, Rick still has momentum. I
Speaker 2: think he'll end up putting together another really good team.
Speaker 2: And we all know he's a great coach, but he's
Speaker 2: now in his you know, he's now in where he belongs,
Speaker 2: I think, and that's New York City, right. He's he's
Speaker 2: he's a city slicker. He's Ricky p He is not
Speaker 2: the big ticket in town in New York because you know,
Speaker 2: they've got pro teams, the Knicks, the Jets, the Yankees,
Speaker 2: the Mets. I mean even Brooklyn, like Saint John's is
Speaker 2: nowhere near a top priority for those who cover sports
Speaker 2: in that market. It's New York City. However, Patino gives
Speaker 2: them their best chance of getting some real momentum because
Speaker 2: they were really good this year, won the Big East
Speaker 2: for the first time in like forever. And he's Rick Patino.
Speaker 2: He's a he's he himself is a larger than life
Speaker 2: figure within sports that you know, he's still not probably
Speaker 2: getting the love he'd get if he was in a
Speaker 2: small market like Louisville. But like, he's Rick Patino, so
Speaker 2: he would probably be wise to try to, you know,
Speaker 2: get Yankees fans, Mets fans, Jets fans, Giants fans who
Speaker 2: have no allegiance or care at all about Saint John's basketball,
Speaker 2: Like maybe they adopted for the first time in their
Speaker 2: life as fans because it's New York's team and it's
Speaker 2: Rick Patino. But he said something that that you know,
Speaker 2: didn't do him any favors as far as getting Yankees
Speaker 2: and Mets fans to join in on the red storm.
Speaker 2: So I'm reading here from NJ dot com. This is
Speaker 2: Adam Zagoria, who shared Rick Petina. Let me see where's
Speaker 2: the quote? Yeah, he asked, he's Rick Petino says he's
Speaker 2: always been a fan of both the Mets and the Yankees,
Speaker 2: and and here here is why. Here's why. Here's his
Speaker 2: explanation to that. This is when I guess he threw
Speaker 2: out the first pitch at a Mets game recently.
Speaker 4: I think you're on record saying you or both the
Speaker 4: Yankees and Mets fan, what was the nature of your
Speaker 4: baseball fan I'm growing up in today.
Speaker 5: Well, as a kid, I used to go watch Mickey Manno,
Speaker 5: Roger Maris even reserves like Hector Lopez, Johnny Blanchet, Kuebec,
Speaker 5: Richison Cletis boy, one of a great third basement of
Speaker 5: all time. White he fought on the mound, Yogi, And
Speaker 5: you know it's you grow up as a youngster sitting
Speaker 5: in the bleach of seats, I think for a dollar
Speaker 5: eighteen at the time, if I can remember with my
Speaker 5: two girl cousins while I lived with my grandmother in
Speaker 5: the Bronx. But I was always a met fan of
Speaker 5: Kuzman and Siva and going back to Tommy ag and
Speaker 5: I'm one of the few people that rooted for both teams.
Speaker 5: Anything with n Y on it, I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 5: behind it.
Speaker 2: So I don't really have any criticism for what he
Speaker 2: says there because of the position that he's in. He'd
Speaker 2: be foolish too. I mean, that's probably the right play,
Speaker 2: but when you talk about like a rivalry, nobody wants
Speaker 2: to hear that, right, Like if you are a Yankees
Speaker 2: fan and you hear that he also supports the Mets
Speaker 2: the hell out of here Rick vice versas same thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's probably not something you really care that
Speaker 2: much about, because you probably don't care about saying Jo's basketball,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, But you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: like whenever Louisville fans, I don't think it's ever been
Speaker 2: like a big deal. But Mayor Greenberg, he is a
Speaker 2: U of L fan for real, Like he is a
Speaker 2: big supporter of u of L when they're playing Kentucky.
Speaker 2: He's all in on Louisville. He went to u of L. Like,
Speaker 2: trust me, Craig is absolutely a Louisville fan for like,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. But he's also the mayor of
Speaker 2: the city that you have a humongous amount of both fans,
Speaker 2: and he'd be a fool to be out here, you know,
Speaker 2: making like acting like he hates UK. So it's just
Speaker 2: kind of you know, I guess playing the game. But
Speaker 2: to no surprise, a lot of Yankees and Mets fans
Speaker 2: were like, yeah, get the hell out of here, because look,
Speaker 2: if you live in Louisville or if you just live
Speaker 2: if you live around here, you know, and you're in
Speaker 2: the rivalry. I do believe that there are some that
Speaker 2: absolutely because I know these people, they're they're you know,
Speaker 2: if I didn't know them, I wouldn't believe it. But
Speaker 2: I've known them, and these are real people that you know,
Speaker 2: have proven me wrong. You can love and be a
Speaker 2: diehard fan of one and not hate the other. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you can be a diehard or even
Speaker 2: like a real big fan of both, I really don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm sure there are exceptions and you can
Speaker 2: do whatever you want. I can't prove you wrong. But
Speaker 2: like to me, and this is, this is one of
Speaker 2: the things that makes us unwell as how serious we
Speaker 2: take it. If you tell me that you are a
Speaker 2: diehard Louisville fan but you also support UK, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you this, You're not a diehard Louisville fan. I
Speaker 2: have no I have no uh you know, I have
Speaker 2: no authority. I can't rule who is you knew whatever
Speaker 2: you want, But like to me, I don't know how
Speaker 2: it would be possible to really love Louisville and honestly
Speaker 2: not hope for the worst for Kentucky. I know that
Speaker 2: sounds so childish and petty, but like, that's what this is, folks,
Speaker 2: we're nuts about this stuff.
Speaker 4: What about an instance where it's like, because I've always
Speaker 4: heard it to where like I grew up in Lexington
Speaker 4: all around it, but I went to school at Louisville,
Speaker 4: so like that's where I graduated.
Speaker 3: Cheer for me, I.
Speaker 2: Think those are those are exceptions where it does make
Speaker 2: sense to where you don't hate both, but you clearly
Speaker 2: have to have a preference because if you love them
Speaker 2: both the same. You don't meet the energy to like
Speaker 2: be one of us. Yeah that makes sense. I mean,
Speaker 2: I again, who am I to say that? But it's
Speaker 2: just the way I feel. All Right, Do we have
Speaker 2: time to take our last break real quickly or do
Speaker 2: we just want we can't? Okay, quick break, We'll come
Speaker 2: back and wrap it on the other side.
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Speaker 2: Well things just made a mistake because if you listen
Speaker 2: to on podcasts, you just heard me raw there doing
Speaker 2: a very very awful attempt at it's sounding like Luke Combs,
Speaker 2: but it was good. Luke. Luke Combs is one of
Speaker 2: I love him. It's one of a few. He's the
Speaker 2: only one I could think of. I know, there's not
Speaker 2: I know there's more than just Luke Combs that it's played,
Speaker 2: and I just I kind of stopped in my tracks,
Speaker 2: Like this guy's just awesome. He's he's very original, and
Speaker 2: you know, he kind of put a stop to you
Speaker 2: gotta be a pretty boy with you know, girly jeans.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm mostly talking about like Luke Bryan,
Speaker 2: right like he like like there's nobody, and look, he's
Speaker 2: a you know, he's he's just a bigger guy. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna say he's like a hideous thing to look at.
Speaker 2: But like when they when he started writing number one
Speaker 2: hit after number one hit, they had no choice but
Speaker 2: to make him, uh you know, one of the top
Speaker 2: top guys in country music. Right, yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 2: he's so talented and uh, you know, his story is
Speaker 2: really genuine too, and he tells at least when I
Speaker 2: went to sa him in concert, he did about how
Speaker 2: like he has three songs that he demoed for record
Speaker 2: companies that all eventually ended up becoming number one, but
Speaker 2: they all turned him away, and it was like, you
Speaker 2: you know, we just can't. He just can't do it
Speaker 2: with you, Like, you know, you could be a writer,
Speaker 2: but not like the artist. And it was awesome to
Speaker 2: see him actually, you know, become what he's turned into.
Speaker 2: But also you know, like I mean, his talent just
Speaker 2: kind of spoke for itself, right, And and people I
Speaker 2: think can really sense the genuineness of like that guy.
Speaker 2: I feel like everything he sings about and you know,
Speaker 2: everything we see of him, like that's not in any
Speaker 2: way an act for Hollywood like that's just him and
Speaker 2: that that is that goes a long way. So shout
Speaker 2: out to Luke Holmes. All right, you're heading over to
Speaker 2: the bats tonight, sure, and bringing the vibes, right.
Speaker 4: That's right, I'm bringing the vibes facing the Indianapolis Indians
Speaker 4: a tribe.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a long night for the tribe.
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Speaker 4: Whenever they strike out, I'll give him the Nelson haha
Speaker 4: for here you go.
Speaker 3: Let's go throw throw them off their game.
Speaker 2: Good stuff. All right, we'll back to do We'll be
Speaker 2: back tomorrow. Good when everybody