Speaker 1: Alex our White lawyers to Distracted Driver dot Com and
Speaker 1: you know, they of course are our postgame show sponsor
Speaker 1: and we will have the postgame show this evening. But
Speaker 1: again big thanks to Alex for having us and hopping on.
Speaker 1: Also Eric Benson, it was really cool to hear them,
Speaker 1: and you guys heard. You guys heard a lot of
Speaker 1: it when it comes to just sort of the background
Speaker 1: and how they wanted to help out. And I realized
Speaker 1: whenever they were explaining it to me, how I just
Speaker 1: took it for granted that you know what, when I
Speaker 1: turned sixteen and I had a driver's license for the
Speaker 1: first time, I had a car, my father handed down
Speaker 1: one of his older cars to me, and I didn't
Speaker 1: have to worry about when I started working or started
Speaker 1: my adult life, like what am I going to do
Speaker 1: for a vehicle. And there's so many people out there
Speaker 1: that aren't fortunate to have that, including those that are
Speaker 1: in the foster care system that are clearly at a
Speaker 1: disadvantage than most people. So a really good cause. And
Speaker 1: you know, not to be corny, but I feel like
Speaker 1: we've never with trust me, I'm not making this political,
Speaker 1: but we are clearly very divided right now as a country,
Speaker 1: more so than I can ever remember in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: So I feel like the sentimental good stories of you know,
Speaker 1: reminding us that there are a lot of good. There
Speaker 1: is a lot of good out there when it comes
Speaker 1: to people that are doing kind acts for others. That
Speaker 1: hits a little different now than it ever did, just
Speaker 1: because again, if you turn on the television, if you
Speaker 1: pop open the Texic or the toxic wasteland of social
Speaker 1: media that you know, you're reminded more often than you're
Speaker 1: more often reminded how crazy we are right now at times,
Speaker 1: not everybody, but obviously like it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: I'll put it. So, I'm just ready for the selection
Speaker 1: to be over. But what I love hearing is that
Speaker 1: whenever they do, meaning Eric and Alex explain to other
Speaker 1: you know, partners essentially right, those who can help get
Speaker 1: them a vehicle up and running that maybe needed some
Speaker 1: work because it's a little bit older. They're willing to help,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like they don't even hesitate to say, yes,
Speaker 1: that's a great cause, we'd love to help out like that.
Speaker 1: That's again, to go back to what I said a
Speaker 1: moment ago, those kind of stories are are always worth sharing,
Speaker 1: and it's always nice to be reminded that there are
Speaker 1: good people out there doing good stuff to help others
Speaker 1: in need. But it just seems as if it it
Speaker 1: it it's needed more now than maybe it's ever been so.
Speaker 1: And also they've got Matt Hoffman is as Eric mentioned
Speaker 1: he was going to pick him. I thinkt gonna pick
Speaker 1: hm up from the airport. So yeah, they've got their
Speaker 1: big event tomorrow, the the Rad Revival. And if you
Speaker 1: are somebody like myself who loves the eighties and nineties,
Speaker 1: then I mean this is this is your event, so
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it'll be uh tomorrow at Paristown Hall. And
Speaker 1: I think I may have figured out a little date
Speaker 1: night for me and the wife, which you know, we
Speaker 1: don't get enough date nights at least not as much
Speaker 1: as we used to. So all right, let's uh, let's
Speaker 1: let's dive back in here to uh to to the
Speaker 1: football side of things, and we'll have the pregame show
Speaker 1: coming up here at six point thirty to get into
Speaker 1: you know, the Boston College matchup specifically. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Colin Lacey news, I would say that
Speaker 1: is you know, his decision is clearly an unpopular one
Speaker 1: in the eyes of most people. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a Louisville fan, this is certainly
Speaker 1: not news that you were happy to hear about. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: although if I was gonna, if I was forced to
Speaker 1: maybe provide a silver lining as far as a potential
Speaker 1: positive here, I would say that if he comes back,
Speaker 1: then you know that's a win because this year, like
Speaker 1: if you told, if you told, let's let's put it
Speaker 1: this way again. I'm not trying to act like anybody
Speaker 1: that's upset and just turned off by this new world
Speaker 1: of college athletics where players can do what Colin is doing,
Speaker 1: Like I totally understand it. But if you said to
Speaker 1: a Louisville fan after the loss to Miami, when you
Speaker 1: essentially realize you're two and two in league play at
Speaker 1: this point and you can still have a good year,
Speaker 1: no doubt, like I think they could go beat Clemson
Speaker 1: and if they do, hell yeah. And I've never been
Speaker 1: somebody that says they've got to go to the AEC
Speaker 1: Championship annually for it to be viewed as a as
Speaker 1: a really good season. So if I would have said
Speaker 1: after the Miami loss. Look, would you put Colin Lacy
Speaker 1: on the shelf if it meant you had him healthy
Speaker 1: all next year and he gets that year of eligibility.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you would answer it, but I
Speaker 1: would say yes. And it's not because I'm writing off
Speaker 1: this year as if it just doesn't matter anymore because
Speaker 1: they've lost three games. But he's a really good player,
Speaker 1: and I think you you know, not to say you'd
Speaker 1: be just fine without him, because clearly he's a valuable guy.
Speaker 1: But I think this would have been a lot different.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you know. We're learning ourselves how
Speaker 1: we react to this because it's all brand news, So
Speaker 1: I don't know how I would react or how others
Speaker 1: would have reacted. But if it was a hey, he's
Speaker 1: still dealing with some nagging pain discomfort from the collarbone
Speaker 1: injury and the surgery to where in order of him
Speaker 1: potentially getting hurt again, he's just gonna get healthy and
Speaker 1: utilize the loophole if you will, that he could come
Speaker 1: back for an extra year if he doesn't burn the
Speaker 1: full year of eligibility. I would have said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that makes sense. Now he still might come back
Speaker 1: to Louisville. But what he's doing is knowing he's got
Speaker 1: options and knowing he's got the ability to go put
Speaker 1: some more money in his pocket. And it's again, I
Speaker 1: get both sides of it meeting. I get why fans
Speaker 1: are bothered by it and turned off and thinking that,
Speaker 1: you know, the college sports landscape that they grew to
Speaker 1: love is now not what it once was. Like, I
Speaker 1: get all that, but I also get it from his perspective.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is, you know, these
Speaker 1: guys are employees now and this has turned into a
Speaker 1: lucrative job that you can only do for a few
Speaker 1: years for a lot of these athletes. So seeing them
Speaker 1: prioritize their own needs and you know, relentlessly pursue the
Speaker 1: best possible opportunities for themselves and their immediate family, that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a surprise. It's new. We're not used to it.
Speaker 1: But if you really think about it from that perspective,
Speaker 1: I think you would do the same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: because what Colin Lacey's doing is really I think I
Speaker 1: think with the overwhelming majority of the American workforce would do.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a chance to extend his career
Speaker 1: as a college football player and make more money that
Speaker 1: could potentially I don't want to say it could be
Speaker 1: life changing money, but I think Colin Lacy rather it's
Speaker 1: it here, it's at Louisville, his first job, whatever it
Speaker 1: is after football, and I don't know, maybe maybe he
Speaker 1: does play in the NFL for a few years. Maybe
Speaker 1: he plays in the NFL for a long time. But
Speaker 1: I would say unless he uses his NFL money and
Speaker 1: invest it in like a business that's booming, whatever career
Speaker 1: he would get in after football, Like let's just say
Speaker 1: he's a practice squad guy for a couple of years
Speaker 1: and then he realizes he's going to have to find
Speaker 1: a career post football. I'd be willing to bet that
Speaker 1: next year, if it's at Louisville or if it's elsewhere,
Speaker 1: he'll make more money in twenty twenty five playing college
Speaker 1: football than he probably will at whatever that job is
Speaker 1: that he does after football. So like it it is.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it's full for him to
Speaker 1: not take advantage of it, although I kind of believe that,
Speaker 1: but again, to say that it's foolish to not quit
Speaker 1: on your team, like they just sound so off and
Speaker 1: it is so again, it's you know, what I think
Speaker 1: the NCAA should do here is make some changes to
Speaker 1: this rule about red shirting. That rule exists for different reasons.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is the reason they
Speaker 1: started letting you play a fifth year if you only
Speaker 1: played in it at maximum at the MAXI amount of
Speaker 1: four games, like it doesn't count as a year of eligibility.
Speaker 1: They did that because guys were on the depth chart
Speaker 1: at second a third string for two years at times
Speaker 1: playing one snap in one game and two three snaps
Speaker 1: in the second season in different games, and that would
Speaker 1: be half their college career like that. You know that
Speaker 1: didn't make any sense. You know, this used to be
Speaker 1: there used to be a saying for that, and you know,
Speaker 1: may rest in peace. He's passed away recently and it's
Speaker 1: very sad. But Steve Kragthorpe, like there used to be
Speaker 1: a thing where oival fans would say you got crackthorped.
Speaker 1: He would burn years of eligibility without even thinking like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're terrible, We're going to have three or four wins.
Speaker 1: Why are you playing, you know as true freshmen on
Speaker 1: special teams and wasting a year of eligibility. I don't
Speaker 1: think the insteadly made that rule change because of Cragthorpe,
Speaker 1: But it was intended to not burn an entire year
Speaker 1: for young guys who got their first taste of action
Speaker 1: on special teams and then never played again. It's not
Speaker 1: necessarily meant for guys that are doing what Colin Lacy's doing.
Speaker 1: But again, right now, as the rule stands, he's taking
Speaker 1: advantage of it. And again I wish I had answers
Speaker 1: to the nil component, And I don't, meaning like I
Speaker 1: don't know if he got paid up front, if he's
Speaker 1: still owed, much like I don't know the stipulations of
Speaker 1: his contract. But as I've said the last couple of
Speaker 1: days since this became a big story, there's nothing in
Speaker 1: a contract that states that he has to do anything
Speaker 1: in regards to playing football. Because they're technical was still
Speaker 1: not allowed to pay for play. It's probably a contract
Speaker 1: about marketing appearances. And maybe he sticks around and does
Speaker 1: his marketing appearances till December, viniets the portal and dips
Speaker 1: and goes out where Like that's also a real possibility
Speaker 1: that could play out. All right, we got a break
Speaker 1: coming up here in just a moment, But I did
Speaker 1: not expect this to get as much interaction on social
Speaker 1: media as it did. But I posted this earlier today,
Speaker 1: and yes I did take this idea from a UK
Speaker 1: account that I don't It's called Rare Rookies and I
Speaker 1: only know of this not because I follow Rare Rookies.
Speaker 1: But KSR was talking about it the other day and
Speaker 1: I saw Matt's cliff that he posted on Twitter where
Speaker 1: somebody put together a just a graphic that showed the
Speaker 1: headshots of all I guess the former Kentucky players that
Speaker 1: have transferred that are still playing college basketball today. And
Speaker 1: it hit me that for Louisville Man, with the turnover
Speaker 1: they've had just in the last few years, there's so
Speaker 1: many guys that you've probably forgotten about, like you don't
Speaker 1: even remember. So I put up all the there's sixteen
Speaker 1: guys that I posted that played at u of L
Speaker 1: in the last three years that are still playing college basketball.
Speaker 1: And again it doesn't have I mean, some of the
Speaker 1: pictures don't have the name of the team. Some do,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't have a name, it just has their face.
Speaker 1: And there's some guys that I completely forgot about. But
Speaker 1: I mean there used to be, like you know, there
Speaker 1: used to be a back and forth between Louisville fans,
Speaker 1: and I used to do this with my buddies, like, hey,
Speaker 1: name the most random and easily forgotten former Louisville basketball
Speaker 1: or football player, like a guy that you know, you
Speaker 1: would never think of until somebody brought it up, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that guy was pretty good. That won't be
Speaker 1: a thing anymore because they'll be endless amounts of guys
Speaker 1: who you don't remember at all because they were there
Speaker 1: a year and transferred like everybody else does now. But
Speaker 1: this was a wild run where Louisville, of course, was
Speaker 1: in a situation from a basketball standpoint that we hope
Speaker 1: they'll never be in again. We never thought they would be,
Speaker 1: but that's why you've had, Like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: roster turnover now in college sports because of the new rules,
Speaker 1: but with Louisville, it's been insane on the basketball side,
Speaker 1: just because of the obvious situation where they've you know,
Speaker 1: they've been they were terrible for a while. But Dre Davis,
Speaker 1: I bet there's people listening that did not realize Dre
Speaker 1: Davis was still playing college basketball. He's at Old Miss
Speaker 1: matt Cross, remember that name. He was at Louisville, transferred
Speaker 1: to actually started his career at Miami, transferred to Louisville.
Speaker 1: Then he went to UMass to play for Frank Martin.
Speaker 1: Now he's a fifth or sixth year guy at SMU.
Speaker 1: Fabio Vasilli played here for one year for Kenny Payne.
Speaker 1: And the conversations about some of these guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's another one of those flashbacks to like, Wow,
Speaker 1: can you believe we did that? Can you believe we
Speaker 1: hired Kenny Payne? And then like tried to, you know,
Speaker 1: act like it wasn't the worst thing ever. I mean again,
Speaker 1: I realized pretty quickly, but like we talked ourselves into
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Fabio Basilly, he's the guy, He's the answer
Speaker 1: for Kenny Payne, and clearly that didn't work out. Devin
Speaker 1: Ree showed up here, played for a year in Kenny's
Speaker 1: first season. Shooter from Mississippi. He's now at Louisiana Tech.
Speaker 1: Camari Lands remember that guy, and this is crazy Kamary Lands.
Speaker 1: He's now at Middle Tennessee State. So he played at
Speaker 1: four different high schools in high school. He's now played
Speaker 1: three different played for three different schools. In college basketball.
Speaker 1: This guy's played for a new team for seven straight years.
Speaker 1: I mean that's insane. He was at Arizona State last year.
Speaker 1: Now now he's at Middle Tennessee State. Roosevelt Wheeler he's
Speaker 1: at East Tennessee State. When he transferred from Louisville ended
Speaker 1: up at Richmond or a No DCU, and then now
Speaker 1: he's at Etsu. Jalen Withers a sixth year senior who's
Speaker 1: at North Carolina. And then the others are guys that
Speaker 1: played here recently, like within the last year, so like
Speaker 1: Tyler Johnson's at Wake Forest, Caleb Glenn is at FAU
Speaker 1: Jalen not Jalen, But what is his name? DePaul helped
Speaker 1: me out here. He's a local kid. Why can I
Speaker 1: not think of his name? JJ Trent, I don't know why,
Speaker 1: why I completely blanked out like that. And then Dannalo
Speaker 1: Danalo Javnovich, like you may don't even know who that is.
Speaker 1: He played here last year and he's now at Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: And then Curtis Williams, he's now at Georgetown. Good shooter
Speaker 1: from last year's team, Trey White is now at Illinois,
Speaker 1: his third school in three years. Dennis Evans remember the
Speaker 1: seven foot ten guy I mean, he wasn't that tall,
Speaker 1: but he looked like it. He's now at Grand Canyon.
Speaker 1: Sky Clark is at UCLA. And then who else was it?
Speaker 1: Mike James is at n C State. And then and
Speaker 1: then also check this out, Brandon Helly Haffield. I forgot
Speaker 1: to even put him in this list. He's also at
Speaker 1: n C State. Also, Austin helped me out with this earlier.
Speaker 1: I forgot about Kron Davis. He is now at Louisiana Lafayette.
Speaker 1: And then this is a name that I would be
Speaker 1: shocked if if you're a doallhard little ven you remember
Speaker 1: this name. But if you're not, and you casually follow you,
Speaker 1: you probably don't know who this is. Gabe was Knitzer,
Speaker 1: So Gabe Wiz Knitzer was here for I think a
Speaker 1: year or two and he transferred to Ohio and he
Speaker 1: decided not to not to use his fifth year, so
Speaker 1: he you know, he didn't take advantage of the COVID year.
Speaker 1: So anyways, hope those guys have a good life and
Speaker 1: a good career the rest of the way. But man,
Speaker 1: it's nice to have a fresh start here for louisvill Hoops.
Speaker 1: All right, we got to get to our last break,
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Speaker 1: Driver dot Com. Certainly appreciate them for having us out
Speaker 1: here today. But I'm I'm I'm picking up on the
Speaker 1: vibes that Alex was was was putting out earlier in
Speaker 1: regards to just optimistic because I and again I don't
Speaker 1: think I've been. I mean i've been I've been critical
Speaker 1: and I've been uh, I mean, I don't think I've
Speaker 1: been overly animated as far as like losing my mind
Speaker 1: over you know, I mean me being overly negative. Really
Speaker 1: wasn't even the Kenny painnair. That was more so just
Speaker 1: like me acknowledging what was happening. It wasn't even an opinion.
Speaker 1: It was just the reality of the situation. And then
Speaker 1: I would get I would get hot whenever people would
Speaker 1: try to like act as if we weren't witnessing what
Speaker 1: we were all witnessing. So I say all that to say, like,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just frustrated because I know this team
Speaker 1: has the ability to be better than the record shows,
Speaker 1: and I think tonight is the night where it's not
Speaker 1: going to move the needle nationally. If Louisville beats Boston
Speaker 1: College by a few touchdowns, because you know that's that
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a shock because I think most people view
Speaker 1: Louisville as a better team. But if they were able
Speaker 1: to win, and I don't mean about three touchdowns, but
Speaker 1: if they win and they look good doing it, they
Speaker 1: play clean, put it all together without you know, a
Speaker 1: bunch of mistakes, that could go a long way for
Speaker 1: these guys, this team, and it could really put them
Speaker 1: in a good mental place as they head down the
Speaker 1: stretch here and you know, the final four games of
Speaker 1: the season. Crazy, how quickly the season's gone by. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll take a thirty minute break essentially for the for
Speaker 1: the for the for the pregame show that's getting ready
Speaker 1: to start here at six point thirty. And then again
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