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Speaker 3: you can really take the show, not in any direction
Speaker 3: that you want. But I would assume that those that
Speaker 3: would be calling in would want to talk about what
Speaker 3: happened on Saturday level fans, obviously, I think trying to.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of Louisville fans kind of know
Speaker 3: how they feel about this team and this season and
Speaker 3: what happens Saturday and even what happened against Duke and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But what I think is that you're either comfortable completely
Speaker 3: and you are fine with saying, you know, not a
Speaker 3: moral victory guy, but man, if this team could compete
Speaker 3: with Kentucky or Duke, then they're going to be really good.
Speaker 3: And I think some people feel that way, but they
Speaker 3: feel uncomfortable talking about it, or like expressing that, or
Speaker 3: maybe they just feel uncomfortable internally because they're thinking, wait
Speaker 3: a second, why am I not angry? We lost by
Speaker 3: you know, eleven to Duke, and we lost by nearly
Speaker 3: double digits to Kentucky, and it's just, you know, I
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Speaker 2: Heard this before and I get it.
Speaker 3: But this person says, Nick, this is how programs like
Speaker 3: Louisville turn into De Paul. We end up finding satisfaction
Speaker 3: which is not being embarrassing, and we no longer even
Speaker 3: believe to have the same ceiling and heights that we
Speaker 3: once had. Sad well put and I think, well, one
Speaker 3: I disagree, I think you have. I mean, like De
Speaker 3: Paul didn't just wake up and become DePaul from one
Speaker 3: bad higher. I mean, and really De Paul was never Louisville.
Speaker 3: I mean, for being honest, I know they had a
Speaker 3: great run, you know, long long ago, and I just
Speaker 3: you know, maybe I'm way off. And in fifteen years
Speaker 3: I'll feel like an even bigger dumb ass than I
Speaker 3: do today. But I just don't see a scenario where
Speaker 3: Louisville basketball whatever fall the way some of those programs have.
Speaker 3: I mean, we did it for two years, made a change,
Speaker 3: and you know, I think Pat Kelsey's gonna do well here.
Speaker 3: Now will he get you to final fours? You know,
Speaker 3: nobody knows you can. You can choose to hope, you know,
Speaker 3: you can choose to believe that he will or believe
Speaker 3: that he won't. But the fact is only time will tell.
Speaker 3: But when you say you know, this is how you
Speaker 3: you know, this is how you you know your standard?
Speaker 3: Like I mean again, I go back to what I
Speaker 3: said earlier. What do you think can be done right
Speaker 3: now that could give you like a better game than
Speaker 3: what you saw on Saturday against Kentucky at Rupp Arena
Speaker 3: at their I mean, like.
Speaker 2: You nobody can.
Speaker 3: I don't think nobody should be happy, And like you know,
Speaker 3: and if you are happy, cool, and I want to
Speaker 3: I don't want to disrupt your happiness. But like I
Speaker 3: get it, there's no way losing ever feels like normal
Speaker 3: for Louisville basketball fans. But I just think context always matters,
Speaker 3: and and I just if I felt like I I mean,
Speaker 3: in fact, I try to be you know, try to
Speaker 3: be super genuine and tell you what I truly think
Speaker 3: and feel, and and understand that at times it may
Speaker 3: be a consensus thing. And I understand at times people
Speaker 3: half you know, maybe half agree, and I realize sometimes
Speaker 3: I'm in the minority.
Speaker 2: But I just can't. I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't take the feeling that I get from this
Speaker 3: team losing games and then manufacture some kind of energy
Speaker 3: towards any player or any coach, because like I know
Speaker 3: that they're like, this is not ideal, and yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: you can call it an excuse. I guess it is,
Speaker 3: but excuses are also just explanations, like you don't have
Speaker 3: to be happy about it, but like it does tell
Speaker 3: more like there's way, there's there's a lot more to
Speaker 3: this to this team's record being what it is than, like,
Speaker 3: you know, than than just the fact that they're losing games.
Speaker 2: So anyways, when it comes to.
Speaker 3: Just the stat line here, because I I felt like
Speaker 3: throughout that I watched a team play, you know, play
Speaker 3: a pretty good game, Like I felt like, you know, hey,
Speaker 3: the chuck he's playing really well, Terrence Severers is playing
Speaker 3: really well. Noah Waterman had some crucial mistakes here and there.
Speaker 3: Rain Smith you know, didn't shoot it as well from
Speaker 3: three as you know he can, but he also got
Speaker 3: a couple of timely buckets, did make a couple of threes.
Speaker 3: Javon Hadley was aggressive and you know, had to take
Speaker 3: more shots than he's probably used to. But you know
Speaker 3: he gave you ten and six and was was was
Speaker 3: battling in there. So the more I look at the number,
Speaker 3: the more I kind of found myself thinking, yeah, like
Speaker 3: recreating that is going to be really hard, but you
Speaker 3: probably wouldn't have to recreate it to that level to
Speaker 3: beat a lot of teams. This was Kentucky at rup
Speaker 3: and I said it before the game. They're really good.
Speaker 3: They're good in a different way than Kentucky has usually
Speaker 3: been good.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Cali Perry did it to where you know they're out
Speaker 3: there just they could. Kentucky had talent at times to
Speaker 3: where they could just give you a C plus effort,
Speaker 3: but they had some dudes that a lot of teams
Speaker 3: don't have, including Louisville. I think Lowell lost some games
Speaker 3: where that wasn't the case and that made it even worse.
Speaker 3: But like, this Kentucky team is not is not gonna
Speaker 3: beat you because they just have some dudes that you
Speaker 3: simply can't, Like, you just can't match up with. I mean,
Speaker 3: Butler looked like that on Saturday. But that's the best
Speaker 3: game of his career. And he'll never play a better
Speaker 3: game than that, not only because you know, he's not
Speaker 3: a thirty three point per game kind of guy, but
Speaker 3: like his numbers are insane. I mean, what a weird
Speaker 3: ass stat line. Thirty three points, six assists, three rebounds
Speaker 3: in thirty two minutes, made every field goal, he took
Speaker 3: ten of ten overall, six of six from three, yet
Speaker 3: he was seven of twelve from the free throw on
Speaker 3: he left five points on the table at the free
Speaker 3: throw line that he you know, could have had thirty
Speaker 3: eight and he didn't miss a shot. Like credit to
Speaker 3: that guy. He's good, But like, you know, he's not
Speaker 3: doing that every night. And you know, Kentucky, if they didn't,
Speaker 3: like let's just say they get eighteen from him, which
Speaker 3: of course would have been well above his average, that
Speaker 3: might not have been enough to beat Louisville. So you know,
Speaker 3: I wish they would have defended him a little bit better.
Speaker 3: But you know, like I think this Kentucky team will
Speaker 3: will still end up being you know, despite how tough
Speaker 3: the SEC is. I think they're gonna end up having
Speaker 3: a lot of wins and probably get a really really
Speaker 3: good seed. So, you know, to know that Louisville was
Speaker 3: battling with him again doesn't mean you want doesn't mean
Speaker 3: you should be happy. But I just think context is
Speaker 3: always really really valuable. I mean, again, you can do
Speaker 3: with that what you will. But anybody reacting in a
Speaker 3: major way, really one side or the other because of
Speaker 3: you know, anybody you know reacting to these to the
Speaker 3: overall results as far as wins and losses, and not
Speaker 3: considering the injury situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just me. Do what you do. But
Speaker 2: like that's a huge part of it.
Speaker 3: Now again, maybe if Pat Kelsey had a fully healthy team,
Speaker 3: this team would still have the record that they have.
Speaker 3: We'll never know, and we can, you know, lose our
Speaker 3: minds trying to, you know, guess what would have what
Speaker 3: would happen if they'd be healthy. But I'm also not
Speaker 3: gonna just say, Okay, well, hey it doesn't matter. Every
Speaker 3: loss is the same, no context because that's just not
Speaker 3: you know, that's just not how it works.
Speaker 2: Now. If Pat Kelsey has three years here and.
Speaker 3: They're all underwhelming and there's there's a big circumstance that
Speaker 3: that that led to them, you know, losing and not
Speaker 3: being as good, and it wasn't anything he really could control.
Speaker 3: You know, at the end of day, I don't think
Speaker 3: it's gonna matter now, He'll never fall far enough to
Speaker 3: where mean again, I still think this team has the
Speaker 3: ability to make the NAA Tournament. My biggest worry now
Speaker 3: and again I'm not saying that I guarantee you that.
Speaker 3: But for those just now joining us, I am choosing
Speaker 3: to view the Duke game and the Kentucky game as growth, right,
Speaker 3: like there's something there. I'm not telling you to celebrate it.
Speaker 3: It still counts as a loss, and one of them
Speaker 3: was by eleven points, which who knows if that's even
Speaker 3: going to be viewed as a quality loss because it was.
Speaker 2: On your home floor.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm hoping that you get through the tough,
Speaker 3: tough games here with Carolina coming up at the end
Speaker 3: of the year, and who else do you have? You
Speaker 3: got Carolina in Florida State, Like this is a by
Speaker 3: the way, this Saturday will be actually a really really
Speaker 3: good case study because they're going to play a Florida
Speaker 3: State team that's not very good. They're eight and three,
Speaker 3: no wins to speak of, and you know, to be fair,
Speaker 3: I guess their losses aren't bad, but you know that's
Speaker 3: a team that, again, if you can beat West Virginia
Speaker 3: and Indiana, even if you have even though you had
Speaker 3: prior and you can compete with Duke and lead that
Speaker 3: game for thirty minutes plus, and you can give Kentucky
Speaker 3: the game you gave them on their home floor, then.
Speaker 2: You should go beat Florida State.
Speaker 3: So if they don't, then maybe I'll have the realization
Speaker 3: then they're like, all right, you know, I doubt it's
Speaker 3: gonna if they don't win that game. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's gonna because they didn't play hard. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's going to because you know, Pat Kelsey coached a
Speaker 3: terrible game. I just think it's going to be like,
Speaker 3: you know, you really have very little room for error,
Speaker 3: and you got to have to bring it every night.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe not to the level that you did
Speaker 3: against Kentucky, but like the idea where two of your
Speaker 3: foremost important players, like both have off nights. Winning in
Speaker 3: that situation, I think it's just going to be tough.
Speaker 3: So I'm still I'm still of the belief that this
Speaker 3: team can can you know, and I don't think I'm crazy,
Speaker 3: Like I don't. I mean, again, losing to good teams
Speaker 3: doesn't mean you're good. But again there's context there that
Speaker 3: if you can lose to Kentucky and yet compete with
Speaker 3: them the way you did for the majority of the game,
Speaker 3: then I don't think it's crazy to say you should
Speaker 3: be able to go be Florida State at their place,
Speaker 3: who's not been really good in a while.
Speaker 2: You've got each hey you Caroline at home?
Speaker 3: That one, I don't know, because Carolina has talent, but
Speaker 3: they've they've certainly been a little bit underwhelming as far
Speaker 3: as you know, big time wins.
Speaker 2: Virginia they stink this year. Let's be real, they do.
Speaker 3: So you know, I think we'll know mid early January,
Speaker 3: maybe mid January. Okay, did those really close wins? I'm
Speaker 3: sorry those really those those the losses to really good teams,
Speaker 3: some close, some not, Like was there any real value
Speaker 3: there or not? Like, you know, I'm choosing to think
Speaker 3: that there is, but I guess we'll find out, you know,
Speaker 3: once we get a little bit further on into the season.
Speaker 4: I think you mentioned patience and more or less growth
Speaker 4: right with these early games and going in facing touch.
Speaker 4: That's such a tough schedule early on because I think
Speaker 4: it's hard for fans, and I'll speak for on behalf
Speaker 4: at least the toxic Twitter environment, because hey, it's me.
Speaker 4: I'm the problem on Twitter sometimes, So I just like
Speaker 4: that just to be clear.
Speaker 3: You you on Twitter, as much as it may seem
Speaker 3: toxic to some like, you know, you have no control
Speaker 3: over it, and I don't want you to feel like
Speaker 3: you're you're you know, even if you had bad energy,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, it won't impact them, and if it did,
Speaker 3: then they got bigger problems, you realized.
Speaker 4: I just hope I just have a weird way of
Speaker 4: thinking that the universe is going to reward me if
Speaker 4: I just complain about it too much. But I guess
Speaker 4: it's probably time to get out of that bubble. But
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be hard for fans to pivot
Speaker 4: just because they were almost in the same situation as Kentucky.
Speaker 4: They got a new head coach that got away from
Speaker 4: their swaggy head coach.
Speaker 3: So we're not feeling we're not at all the guy
Speaker 3: situation this year, Like everything changed when you became a
Speaker 3: team that only has seven guys, and that that doesn't
Speaker 3: mean that you can't evaluate it and be like upset,
Speaker 3: but like we're not in the same situation at all
Speaker 3: as them.
Speaker 2: Well that we were, and it built up like I did.
Speaker 3: You weren't with me on Friday because of the because
Speaker 3: of the schedule, But like that was my point. This
Speaker 3: this had a climax ahead of time, like new era
Speaker 3: coaches that are I mean it was rivalry, renewed coaches
Speaker 3: restarting rivalry. They're they're very likable, they play similar styles,
Speaker 3: they built brand new teams from scratch, and you know,
Speaker 3: just knowing that, like they're and they weren't they weren't.
Speaker 3: They mean they've lost Cresa. They did have clearly they
Speaker 3: got Butler back in a major way. But like I
Speaker 3: just I wanted so badly it to be on better circumstances.
Speaker 3: But I'm also willing to say, because I know Kentucky
Speaker 3: fans hear this their own way. I'm also willing to
Speaker 3: say that even if Louisville was completely healthy. Had everybody doesn't.
Speaker 2: Mean they would have won.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the pivot to understanding that you are shorthanded,
Speaker 4: you're down to a seven man rotation. And I guess
Speaker 4: some people can look at it as a thirty thousand
Speaker 4: foot view that Kentucky gets a new head coach. It
Speaker 4: wasn't obviously, Mark Pope wasn't their first option, just like
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey was a Louisville's first option. So in a way,
Speaker 4: they're kind of in the same boat, brand new coach.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they would have been in the same boat,
Speaker 2: but this season they're not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but as everything's played out with injuries and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, and that hasn't hit Kentucky as much as
Speaker 4: it had. Of course, they lost Butler and Cresa, and
Speaker 4: we can we can talk about Cresa, but like I think,
Speaker 4: just fans are just more expecting, Well, how come they
Speaker 4: get to do that with the first year head coach,
Speaker 4: and how come they get the look like world beaters
Speaker 4: and go out there and have a good game with Gonzaga,
Speaker 4: and have a good game with Clemson, have a good
Speaker 4: game with beating Duke and then we're struggling to beat
Speaker 4: some of those teams.
Speaker 2: Just as well, but like the answer is obvious, so
Speaker 2: like you know, of.
Speaker 4: Course, yeah, And that's why I think for a lot
Speaker 4: of the fans, some of the bad reactions, it's it's
Speaker 4: hard to pivot to that because we're not in the
Speaker 4: same injury situation for them, So now it becomes like
Speaker 4: you said, in another month.
Speaker 3: But I don't I don't think it's a pivot. I
Speaker 3: think it's like I think, like, this is the first
Speaker 3: time I feel like.
Speaker 2: We've really hit. Like I didn't think Kenny Payne ruining
Speaker 2: the program for two years was like bad luck.
Speaker 3: Like I thought it sucked and I hated it, and
Speaker 3: it was, you know, like a product of really the
Speaker 3: whole thing from the beginning with Rick needing to be
Speaker 3: run out or at least was run out because like
Speaker 3: so you know, like I just looked at that as
Speaker 3: a product of like a lot of things, and you know,
Speaker 3: it needed to be changed, and it did after two years,
Speaker 3: like Louisville fans have felt like, oh my god, like
Speaker 3: we can't catch a break. I've had more you know,
Speaker 3: scanned things to go through as a fan in a
Speaker 3: five year window than any fan will have of any
Speaker 3: other team. Like I get all that, but this year
Speaker 3: for me, I do feel like it's it's just terrible luck.
Speaker 3: But again, when I say that, there are some and
Speaker 3: I know you're not saying that, But when I say that,
Speaker 3: I know some people Kentucky fans probably think like I'm
Speaker 3: out here acting as if everything would be perfect if
Speaker 3: they were healthy.
Speaker 2: I don't know that.
Speaker 3: I mean, in fact, Jason Pryor, they clearly miss him,
Speaker 3: but like they became a better shooting team when he
Speaker 3: stopped playing because he shot in a game and maybe
Speaker 3: made one. Sure, So like, I just hate being robbed
Speaker 3: of knowing. And you know, yes, I'm having to find
Speaker 3: like that level of like because again I think a
Speaker 3: lot of us are wired the same way, but to
Speaker 3: different extremes. So I guess now I just and maybe
Speaker 3: it's me just wanting to be a Homer and wanting.
Speaker 2: So badly for it to work out.
Speaker 3: For Pat Kelsey, I don't think it's that way, But like,
Speaker 3: I feel the same energy that everybody does, just because
Speaker 3: the situation sucks and the results are not good. But
Speaker 3: I can't again, I can't manufacture any feeling towards any
Speaker 3: player or coach on this team because I think the
Speaker 3: guys that are playing like they weren't brought here to
Speaker 3: play thirty plus minutes a game. Yeah, these lineups, the lineup,
Speaker 3: the rotation that he has is not one that he
Speaker 3: would have ever played with everybody healthy. And that doesn't
Speaker 3: mean that he's great and that everything would have been
Speaker 3: perfect had these injuries not happened. But like, I just
Speaker 3: don't have anywhere to direct like my frustration. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's going to be great here long term,
Speaker 3: none of us do.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see, like you said, in a month, we'll
Speaker 4: see where we're at, Like you said, like the January
Speaker 4: fourteenth mark, we'll see where we're at once we get
Speaker 4: into like the softer part of our schedule and see
Speaker 4: how battle tested that they really are with this rotation.
Speaker 3: And I'll be consistent then because and I'm glad you
Speaker 3: brought that up, because I think you know, as much
Speaker 3: as it may sound like, I'm giving these dudes in
Speaker 3: Pad a pass right now. If you mess around, start
Speaker 3: losing to teams like Syracuse in Virginia who we know
Speaker 3: aren't very good, Like, yeah, the injuries will still be
Speaker 3: a factor, but I think at that point you can say, no,
Speaker 3: we know you're better than what you're doing now, like
Speaker 3: why aren't you playing better? Why aren't you you know?
Speaker 3: So I think it'll you know, we'll see. I'm hoping
Speaker 3: they can beat those teams. They should.
Speaker 2: But I like where this conversation is going. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go on.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take this to the other side because I
Speaker 3: think Austin, I hear a lot of myself in Austin
Speaker 3: when it comes to the emotion as a fan. And
Speaker 3: you know, maybe it's because I'm a little bit older,
Speaker 3: maybe because you know, I've had to you know, I've
Speaker 3: had to just you know, I've just changed. But this
Speaker 3: has been an interesting case study for me because.
Speaker 5: A lot more mature than I am.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, maybe I am.
Speaker 5: I'm still cut my teeth in that that says a.
Speaker 3: Lot about you if I'm a lot more mature than you,
Speaker 3: because I don't know if I'm known for my maturity.
Speaker 3: But anyways, we'll keep this conversation rolling along. Stick around.
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Speaker 3: If you did miss it over the weekend, I imagine
Speaker 3: you did not. But Miller Moss quarterback transfer, did commit
Speaker 3: to Louisville and by the end of the by the
Speaker 3: end of the let's see, Yeah, I'm gonna make sure
Speaker 3: I've got something of reference here. I'll get you updated
Speaker 3: as best I can as far as who's because Miller
Speaker 3: Moss is and the only guy they've added. They've added
Speaker 3: a few other pieces that they feel really good about.
Speaker 3: But I was I was looking through the roster and
Speaker 3: the depth chart and the participation you just as far
Speaker 3: as like guys who did play last year, even if
Speaker 3: it was just on special teams, and you know, I
Speaker 3: think you're gonna start to see guys. Well, put it
Speaker 3: this way, I think on the on the offensive line,
Speaker 3: they're gonna still recruit high school kids and they're gonna
Speaker 3: hope to develop them, but they're also probably gonna like
Speaker 3: be very dependent upon veterans in the portal on the
Speaker 3: old line, and sometimes it'll work out really well for you.
Speaker 3: And then sometimes maybe you know it won't, but I
Speaker 3: think the quarterback position and the old line and really
Speaker 3: just in the try instance, you're gonna always see guys
Speaker 3: add a added to the roster.
Speaker 2: From the portal.
Speaker 3: But elsewhere I think it'll it'll depend upon, you know,
Speaker 3: did you get hit extra hard with you know, graduation
Speaker 3: at a certain position, like you know, and sometimes there's
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of like for example, at running back,
Speaker 3: you don't need anybody in the portal a running back
Speaker 3: like you just don't. I mean, unless, of course, you
Speaker 3: end up losing one of these two young stars, which
Speaker 3: I don't think you will, but you know, and at receiver,
Speaker 3: you know you need help a receiver, and they're recruiting
Speaker 3: some guys, but you don't need I mean, you've got
Speaker 3: Corey Bell, uh not Corey Bell, Chris Bell coming back.
Speaker 3: And I think he did have I think it's safe
Speaker 3: to say he had a big step up this past year.
Speaker 3: I mean, could have been better, and at times he
Speaker 3: was struggling, but you know, he's a playmaker. He's a
Speaker 3: guy that you can I think you know you can
Speaker 3: rely on. And Colin Lacey, I mean we never even
Speaker 3: got to see him fully healthy and he really started
Speaker 3: to show what he can do. So, yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 3: still go look at receivers, You're gonna host some guys
Speaker 3: for visits. You're gonna bring guys. But it's not like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we got to go like we gotta go get a
Speaker 3: guy who can be elite at that position. So you know,
Speaker 3: I'm still trying to figure out my comfort zone as
Speaker 3: far as balancing transfer portal talk and it being you know,
Speaker 3: somewhat interesting radio. But anytime you get a new quarterback,
Speaker 3: I think that's worth discussing. We did talk about it
Speaker 3: in the in the three o'clock hour. He's a guy
Speaker 3: that Jeff Brom trusts and we know what he can
Speaker 3: do against Louisville, and that's not the only reason you
Speaker 3: bring him in, but nice to have that one kind
Speaker 3: of out of the way, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Now you can kind of and I think Miller Moss
Speaker 3: is a guy that'll probably give you the ability to
Speaker 3: potentially bring in more weapons on offense. You know, obviously
Speaker 3: there's a way more factors than just that when it
Speaker 3: comes to bringing in guys in the portal. But I'd
Speaker 3: say Jeff Brom and what he does as a play caller,
Speaker 3: and now having Miller Moss, a guy that you know,
Speaker 3: Jeff's clearly going to want to air it out and
Speaker 3: let this guy really get loose out there. That can
Speaker 3: only help you when it comes to being an intriguing
Speaker 3: destination for offensive players that are in the portal. All right,
Speaker 3: let's see five O two five seven seventy nine hundred
Speaker 3: is the number if you guys want to jump in
Speaker 3: and uh, we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 2: This text says Nick, hate to say it, Hate to
Speaker 2: say it.
Speaker 3: Because I'm not a huge fan of you, but I
Speaker 3: think you put it perfectly well what I mean, I
Speaker 3: I mean I would have read that regardless.
Speaker 5: But just jump this email find you well.
Speaker 3: But this person goes on to say that nobody's happy
Speaker 3: with the way the season has gone as far as
Speaker 3: wins and losses, but this is really best possible scenario
Speaker 3: given what they have to work with. Yeah, and again,
Speaker 3: I know people hear it like how they want to
Speaker 3: hear it, and I knew that going in. So this
Speaker 3: person says, UK played seven. This is this is from Twitter.
Speaker 3: It says, imagine if Chucky got eighteen such a such
Speaker 3: a dumb maybe I don't think they may missed something or.
Speaker 2: Out a typo.
Speaker 3: But this says UK played seven guys twelve minutes or more.
Speaker 3: You play, you've all played seven guys twelve minutes are
Speaker 3: more pretty similar, Yeah, and you're you're completely losing seven
Speaker 3: guys in the issue. I mean seven having seven guys
Speaker 3: available that like you like, you can't there's nobody on
Speaker 3: the The only guy that they have available now to
Speaker 3: put in the game that like is a scholarship player,
Speaker 3: somebody that you know, I don't know if he's so
Speaker 3: bad and proud, like, I don't know how he can't
Speaker 3: get more run like he can just push somebody around,
Speaker 3: run the floor, like, I don't know what makes him
Speaker 3: so vulnerable. But you know, they don't want to play him,
Speaker 3: and I kind of wish they did at times, just
Speaker 3: to give some guys, you know, a little bit a
Speaker 3: little bit of a fresher, you know, fresher set of legs.
Speaker 3: But when you have seven guys and it's completely imbalanced,
Speaker 3: that's the issue. You can look, you can you can
Speaker 3: play seven guys, and you can play seven guys that
Speaker 3: that really fit with what you want to do, and
Speaker 3: that be your core rotation. The issue is seven guys
Speaker 3: is one. You have very little room for foul trouble
Speaker 3: slight injury, like if Chucky Hepburn and Terrence Edwards, it's
Speaker 3: both happened to get in foul trouble. One's hurt, one's
Speaker 3: in foul trouble fouls out. I guess you're letting rain
Speaker 3: Smith run the show. And look, that's why again people
Speaker 3: have selective hearing. When I tell you that Louisville's injuries
Speaker 3: were a factor, therefore, I kind of see some positives
Speaker 3: in this despite it being a loss. People act like
Speaker 3: I'm saying that means that Louisville would have won if
Speaker 3: they were healthy. I never said that Kentucky's really good.
Speaker 3: Nobody said they weren't. Like that is such an example
Speaker 3: of selective hearing, as if I I mean when I
Speaker 3: said that, you know, they ended up getting thirty three
Speaker 3: points out of Butler. It wasn't a knock on him.
Speaker 3: It was again somebody with big blue bozo ears heard
Speaker 3: that and thought, hmmm, he's saying that the Kentucky got
Speaker 3: lucky and they needed thirty three to beat Louisville. No,
Speaker 3: but like, that's not an ideal night for him and
Speaker 3: you won't count on that consistently, and you don't need
Speaker 3: that consistently. I also said, Louisville, you know twenty six
Speaker 3: from Chucky hepburn, Like, man, that's great, but damn, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you can rely on that, because that's
Speaker 3: a lot to expect out of somebody on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: Like again, you have selective hearing. If you heard that
Speaker 3: reference of the thirty three points they got from Butler
Speaker 3: and you act like I said, that's why they won.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a factor. The guy was great, sensational.
Speaker 3: So again, that's what I hate more about. I guess
Speaker 3: kind of my stance and how people view it is
Speaker 3: not that people disagree, and it's really not even that
Speaker 3: like people call me moral victory guy, because I really
Speaker 3: don't care.
Speaker 2: What irritates me that I wish didn't irritate me as much.
Speaker 3: As it does is those that hear me factoring in
Speaker 3: real explanations as to why I feel the way I
Speaker 3: feel despite this team losing, and people take that and
Speaker 3: use it as if I said Louisville would be the
Speaker 3: number one team in the country if nobody got hurt.
Speaker 3: Nobody said that. Not even again, people hear what they
Speaker 3: want to hear.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 3: It's what I hate about this more than anything, and
Speaker 3: I love everything else about for the most part, Like
Speaker 3: people hear what they want to hear, they get so
Speaker 3: triggered and just decide to form their own delusional takeaway
Speaker 3: from from somebody's thoughts. Like I don't think I've at
Speaker 3: any point acted like Kentucky was lucky or that. I
Speaker 3: mean I have I talked about the dust up near
Speaker 3: the benches. No, like I mean, I you know, but
Speaker 3: in a way the rot like this, that's actually a
Speaker 3: tell because I know, in fact, like I was super
Speaker 3: quiet over the weekend for you know, a few different
Speaker 3: reasons on on social media, and I don't think anybody
Speaker 3: really missed me, but you know who did. Trolls of
Speaker 3: Kentucky fans who were dming me were yeah, and just
Speaker 3: you know, just being insulting, being a holes and all that.
Speaker 3: And that's I'm not like wanting sympathy. That's just how
Speaker 3: this is. Like I know, I know where I'm at,
Speaker 3: But like, because I didn't give you what you wanted,
Speaker 3: you wanted tears and like you wanted me to hate
Speaker 3: my team. You wanted me to be questioning if Pat
Speaker 3: Kelsey's a good coach, you wanted me, you know, to
Speaker 3: be worried that Louisville was going to be terrible forever.
Speaker 3: And you don't believe that after watching that game, because
Speaker 3: you know, you probably expected to have a better showing,
Speaker 3: and you you know, you know that I'm not way
Speaker 3: off as far as feeling like, hey, you know what,
Speaker 3: who knows how good this is going to end up being?
Speaker 3: But I still kind of, you know, like, I think
Speaker 3: Kentucky won't even admit it. They probably some of their
Speaker 3: fans would block out or pass out if they if
Speaker 3: they thought of it. But I think Louisville earned some
Speaker 3: of their respect, not because you know, they think they're cute,
Speaker 3: but like Louisville came in there and played a pretty
Speaker 3: good game against Kentucky on their home, on their home floor,
Speaker 3: and you know, Kentucky shot fifty eight percent from the field.
Speaker 3: And again when I say those things that they shot
Speaker 3: fifty eight percent from the field and fifty two percent
Speaker 3: from three and you know, beat Louisville and didn't cover,
Speaker 3: they take that as like an insult because I'm a
Speaker 3: Louisville fan, instead of just realizing, like damn Kentucky played well.
Speaker 3: I mean, in fact, it's a Louisville issue that Kentucky
Speaker 3: was able to shoot fifty eight percent from the field,
Speaker 3: like defend them better.
Speaker 2: So it's just how this works.
Speaker 3: But that was a very unintentional way of I think,
Speaker 3: kind of telling on yourself that like I'm not because
Speaker 3: I'm not giving you what you want, which is like
Speaker 3: melt down outrage you. Then hear me reference that your
Speaker 3: guy had thirty three and it's probably gonna be tough
Speaker 3: for him to ever play that good again. I didn't
Speaker 3: say it was luck. Dude had a phenomenal night, didn't
Speaker 3: miss a shot. Take that whichever way you want. Louisville
Speaker 3: might have lost to Kentucky by just as much or
Speaker 3: more fully healthy. We'll never know, and that's not really relevant.
Speaker 3: But I'm just I mean to act as if there
Speaker 3: aren't real factors at play here. And I guess what
Speaker 3: triggered me here is that like to act like the
Speaker 3: seven individuals makes it equal.
Speaker 2: No, I mean what happened here was.
Speaker 3: Louisville did not have as much balance the top meaning
Speaker 3: the point guard spot, and at the true five spot
Speaker 3: they got a lot of guys that are kind of
Speaker 3: you know, tweeers that you can use as far as
Speaker 3: being versatile, but now you're kind of just stuck with
Speaker 3: all those guys to where you can't really counter somebody
Speaker 3: who wants to go really really big. Obviously, you know
Speaker 3: Waterman's a big guy, but again, if you know ball
Speaker 3: and you watch and have vision, you can see he's
Speaker 3: not your traditional towering big same thing with James Scott,
Speaker 3: like you know, and that's an issue. Like if I'm
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey, i would think, Okay, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: do that again. I'm not going to find myself because
Speaker 3: right now, prior, I mean, he would give you more size.
Speaker 3: He's more athletic, he's got good length, but prior wouldn't
Speaker 3: fill that void. That void was. It was something we
Speaker 3: discussed before he ever got hurt.
Speaker 2: You know. Even Khalifa is a guy that, yeah he's.
Speaker 3: Big, but he's he's a finesse big. In fact, he's rare.
Speaker 3: He's a guy that is probably one of your best
Speaker 3: three point shooters and maybe your very best passer, but
Speaker 3: outside of that, you probably shouldn't expect a whole lot
Speaker 3: more from him. So like if I'm past, I'm playing
Speaker 3: against these kind of teams pretty regularly, right, like they
Speaker 3: can throw some big dudes at you that you don't like.
Speaker 3: You need to get one of those guys. And they
Speaker 3: and I don't know how much they tried. Obviously they
Speaker 3: went after Jade and Quaintan's and he would have given
Speaker 3: them some more size and presents. But you know, he's
Speaker 3: not a towering big. He's or he is a big
Speaker 3: He's a eighteen year old kid. So you know what,
Speaker 3: I'll never know, and maybe I will find out at
Speaker 3: some point, but there's a big guy at Charleston.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's if it's a visa issue,
Speaker 2: if it's.
Speaker 3: Portal like, I don't know, but he did not I
Speaker 3: don't know if he didn't want to come with Pat,
Speaker 3: or Pat didn't want him to come, or if it
Speaker 3: was just something that couldn't be done. But there's a
Speaker 3: big guy for Chris Mack that is one of the
Speaker 3: best bigs in the country. He was the player of
Speaker 3: the year in that league last year and he stayed
Speaker 3: at Charleston, and he would be and I'm again I'm
Speaker 3: sure there is an explanation, but he would be a
Speaker 3: perfect piece to this team and probably wouldn't be one
Speaker 3: of their I mean, I know Charleston's not this level,
Speaker 3: so you always have to kind of tone down what
Speaker 3: you would expect from somebody making that jump. But like
Speaker 3: he would, he would, he would help in a major way.
Speaker 3: So you know, seven guys for Louisville, first of all,
Speaker 3: that isn't a lot. And honestly with Kentucky, yeah they
Speaker 3: played seven. Again, this is somebody just manufacturing the nut.
Speaker 3: Well I shouldn't say manufacturing, but you know, picking specific
Speaker 3: numbers to try to act like both teams were in
Speaker 3: the same spot. Kirk Crisa didn't play because he's hurt.
Speaker 3: Lamont Butler played thirty two minutes, so you had you know,
Speaker 3: you had the guards you wanted. And if you chose
Speaker 3: not to play Garrison more than five minutes, I mean
Speaker 3: you still could have, but you know, or more than god,
Speaker 3: Garrison played a lot more than I thought. He played
Speaker 3: twenty four minutes. You know, you have the ability to
Speaker 3: put Perry out there. In fact, if I was Mark Pope,
Speaker 3: I would play Perry more. He knows more than I'll
Speaker 3: ever know about who he should play, because you know
Speaker 3: he's the coach. But like Travis, Perry can can can
Speaker 3: take the minute you were giving Cresa, and I think
Speaker 3: give you more. That's just what I think of him
Speaker 3: as a player. So here I am taking the bait, chasing,
Speaker 3: you know, chasing this down the street when I probably
Speaker 3: shouldn't have. But like the seven players argument one, Louisville
Speaker 3: didn't have any other options other than walk ons. And
Speaker 3: if you choose to play seven guys twelve minutes and
Speaker 3: more than fine.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 3: If I could pick only seven guys for Louisville, that's
Speaker 3: on the roster. Let's say everybody's healthy, including Khalifa, including Rogers.
Speaker 3: If I could pick the best seven man rotation, I'd
Speaker 3: still be able to claim that this team doesn't have
Speaker 3: a lot of depth, and that would be true, but
Speaker 3: it would I think, remove the excuse a little bit
Speaker 3: more from me as far as because it's not just
Speaker 3: the seven, it's it's you're playing lineups that he'd never
Speaker 3: want to play. Now he has to play because of
Speaker 3: what's going on, and some of that is because of
Speaker 3: just bad luck with injuries, but also, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: he should have not tucked away those two scholarships. But
Speaker 3: I also think people have to consider who you sell.
Speaker 3: If everybody's healthy, who you getting with value in the
Speaker 3: portal that wants to come and be the eleventh man
Speaker 3: off the bench for Pat Kelsey in his first year
Speaker 3: at Louisville. Nobody like again. People hear that as me
Speaker 3: making excuses. It's just it's an explanation. Doesn't mean things
Speaker 3: are gonna be great, doesn't mean everybody's perfect. I'm not
Speaker 3: really defending anybody. I'm just providing context in facts that
Speaker 3: I think make this make a little more sense.
Speaker 2: I wasted a segment on that.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. No, we'll dive back in.
Speaker 5: I don't waste anything, brother, Ye, we'll die.
Speaker 2: Back in on the other side. Keep it lock right
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Speaker 3: Day, I'll give you an example of something you've heard
Speaker 3: me reference from time to time and.
Speaker 2: Really for a while, is how easy it is to
Speaker 2: just get got on Twitter.
Speaker 3: And I wouldn't have even thought to like, check this
Speaker 3: out because I don't really care, but it would be
Speaker 3: worth mentioning. On the show The Kentucky the Kentucky Football Program,
Speaker 3: Mark Steope says has found his quarterback. We talked about
Speaker 3: Miller Moss committing to louisvill over the weekend, and you
Speaker 3: know that's a big deal. I mean, anybody who's out
Speaker 3: there knowing that their future at quarterback is going to
Speaker 3: be in the hands of a transfer at least for
Speaker 3: the next season, you know who that is is a
Speaker 3: big deal. Quarterbacks is a really important position. So I
Speaker 3: just assumed, Okay, yeah, this is legit, but like I'm
Speaker 3: not I'm not real Uh, I'm not real aware of
Speaker 3: who we got to look out for on Twitter in
Speaker 3: the big Blue Nation side. That's just going to be
Speaker 3: out here throwing up fake stuff to see if people
Speaker 3: fall for it.
Speaker 2: So Duke quarterback.
Speaker 3: Transfer Malik Murphy, he commit, well, he didn't commit to Kentucky,
Speaker 3: but there was a report that he was going to visit.
Speaker 3: And then somebody you know, just briefly changed their Twitter
Speaker 3: name to Malik Murphy, changed their picture, and like I
Speaker 3: didn't even think to like click on the profile, and
Speaker 3: sure enough I decided to because I you know, I
Speaker 3: wasn't super familiar with the guy and it's not a
Speaker 3: real account. And like you've got people out here who
Speaker 3: run you know, blogs or you know, they have a
Speaker 3: pot like they have a they have a they have
Speaker 3: a digital following covering the team in some form of fashion,
Speaker 3: maybe as a fan or whatever. And like, because they
Speaker 3: knew he was visiting, it would make sense that a
Speaker 3: kid would maybe pop out a tweet saying, hey, I'm
Speaker 3: all in, and it was you know it was.
Speaker 2: It was all fake.
Speaker 3: So he is visiting, that's real, But he is not committed,
Speaker 3: and he's if you're a Kentucky fan. He had a
Speaker 3: good year for Duke and Manny Diaz. I don't know
Speaker 3: what the ceiling is for him, but he was a
Speaker 3: big time recruit coming out of high school, ended up
Speaker 3: going to Texas. He's from California and didn't didn't get it,
Speaker 3: I mean, kind of fell behind other quarterbacks at Texas.
Speaker 2: Transferred to Duke this.
Speaker 3: Past year and had a really really good, really good
Speaker 3: season for him. Completed sixty percent of his passes, twenty
Speaker 3: nine hundred yards, twenty six touchdowns, twelve interceptions. So if
Speaker 3: that's Mark Stoups's guy, you could certainly do a lot worse.
Speaker 3: But he's not a dual threat, which I think you'll
Speaker 3: probably see some people just making that assumption. But he's
Speaker 3: a guy that is gonna he's gonna hurt the opposing
Speaker 3: defense in the pocket and the other quarterback. It looks like,
Speaker 3: according to Kasar, that that Kentucky's looking at bringing in
Speaker 3: as a kid who is transferring from Incarnate word I
Speaker 3: think is the name of the school, which, yes, that
Speaker 3: is a real school and they are lower level, but
Speaker 3: they've actually had they actually had a really real I
Speaker 3: mean they've they've they've been cranking out some high powered
Speaker 3: offenses and there have been some guys that have came
Speaker 3: from that school and I think, like even Houston Baptist
Speaker 3: that have ended up really producing at a high level
Speaker 3: once they transfer up out of out of that program.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this kid Calzada, I think it's how you
Speaker 3: say that, Yeah, Kelzada. He is a former Texas A
Speaker 3: and M quarterback who you know, and I think you're
Speaker 3: gonna see this.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3: Of different paths that guys take as college athletes. Now,
Speaker 3: you know, for example, these two guys that are visiting Kentucky,
Speaker 3: You've got a guy who started off at Texas, couldn't
Speaker 3: couldn't really do much, got a chance to show what
Speaker 3: he was as a starting quarterback at a slightly lower level,
Speaker 3: still power forward, but obviously Duke is not Texas and
Speaker 3: he was pretty good. So now he wants to to
Speaker 3: re enter the portal and see if he can get
Speaker 3: get another opportunity at a higher level program or maybe
Speaker 3: one that just wants to pay him more money. Same
Speaker 3: thing here, this guy, and I think you, I mean,
Speaker 3: it sounds crazy, but at the quarterback position, I don't
Speaker 3: think anything's off the table as far as guys doing
Speaker 3: things that you know in a previous world, because we're
Speaker 3: in a new world now.
Speaker 2: But guy's doing things that you just think like, huh
Speaker 2: wait what.
Speaker 3: But the longer you sit like you just got to
Speaker 3: get out there and show what you can do, even
Speaker 3: if it's at a lower level, like the path to
Speaker 3: get on the field out of high school, not even
Speaker 3: you know, out of high school without playing at a
Speaker 3: different college first, you're still going to see that happen.
Speaker 3: But man, I think that's going to be really, really rare,
Speaker 3: because here's the thing. If you're unproven doesn't mean you're bad,
Speaker 3: but you just haven't been out there to show what
Speaker 3: you can do. But now guys aren't really going to
Speaker 3: be able to get out there and show what they
Speaker 3: can do unless they're forced to do that, meaning there's
Speaker 3: no other options. And it's not because your coach thinks
Speaker 3: should stink. It's because you know, if you know, you know,
Speaker 3: it's your livelihood at State.
Speaker 2: You need to win, and like it or not, you
Speaker 2: could have a.
Speaker 3: Quarterback who had all the offers, had all of the
Speaker 3: juice coming out of high school, all the hype, five
Speaker 3: star whatever. If you don't go out there and bring
Speaker 3: in there's an available quarterback in the portal that is
Speaker 3: fine to compete and you can get him. Like you
Speaker 3: need to go do that, I mean taking you know,
Speaker 3: just saying okay.
Speaker 2: Yup, you're up.
Speaker 3: Because there's been some pushback about the Pierce Clarkson situation.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's good enough to be the
Speaker 3: quarterback here long term. I haven't heard much that tells
Speaker 3: me that, like he's for sure is. But I also
Speaker 3: never want to act like I'm hearing that he's not
Speaker 3: any good and that he's going to leave. But like,
Speaker 3: if you're Pierce Clarkson, you may be waiting forever to
Speaker 3: become the guy here unless there's unexpected things that play out,
Speaker 3: like you getting the nod because the transfer was a
Speaker 3: bum or you getting the opportunity.
Speaker 2: Because the guy got hurt.
Speaker 3: So I'm not asking Pierce Clarkson to leave by any means,
Speaker 3: but like I just think the quarter we've already seen
Speaker 3: a lot of change in the quarterback position as far
Speaker 3: as how coaches are going to go about getting a
Speaker 3: guy in to be the starter. I mean, they're going
Speaker 3: to use free agency the transfer portal unless they've got
Speaker 3: a proven guy. And you can be really good and
Speaker 3: not proven and yet still have a tough time, Like
Speaker 3: when you don't have to start a first year quarterback
Speaker 3: who's never been a guy in that position, you're more
Speaker 3: likely than you're more likely to not do that. You're
Speaker 3: gonna you're gonna go get somebody else like Brock Vandergriff
Speaker 3: five star guy out of high school I believe, or
Speaker 3: maybe four star, but with to Georgia to play, he
Speaker 3: played behind some really good quarterbacks that didn't really prove
Speaker 3: that he was any good or not. But there was
Speaker 3: not enough out there to show that he wasn't worth
Speaker 3: the hype and the recruiting momentum that he had. So
Speaker 3: then he goes to Kentucky. Well he kind of stunk.
Speaker 3: I mean, he wasn't the problem. He wasn't the biggest
Speaker 3: reason why. But he clearly is somebody they're willing to
Speaker 3: move on from. They did it before the season ended.
Speaker 3: They benched him for a true freshman, So I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's it's a very interesting dynamic now because this this
Speaker 3: this path, it should no longer mean that you think,
Speaker 3: oh wow, this dude was a five star quarterback who
Speaker 3: signed with Texas A and M, and now he's an
Speaker 3: Incarnate Word. Like I'm sure many, I'm sure the majority
Speaker 3: still have that exact feeling when you hear that or
Speaker 3: that same reaction. But I think you're gonna see guys
Speaker 3: do this because they just want to, Like, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to kind of go do that in order to
Speaker 3: be the next guy in the portal, right, even though
Speaker 3: what you did at Incarnate Word isn't Kentucky or A
Speaker 3: and M where you were previously. Like, if you want
Speaker 3: coaches to say that's my guy for the next season,
Speaker 3: I have a hard time thinking you're gonna get that
Speaker 3: nod and get that approval unless there's no other options.
Speaker 3: And that doesn't mean you're not a good player. It's
Speaker 3: just when coaches can use the portal and they all come.
Speaker 3: That's what's wild to me is that, Yeah, the playing
Speaker 3: field might have been a little bit more even maybe
Speaker 3: if everybody had to stick around, maintain their roster and
Speaker 3: you know, stick with the same guys every year, really
Speaker 3: show that they can develop players like I'm sure the
Speaker 3: good old days were are something these coaches really missed.
Speaker 3: But let's not act like these guys don't benefit from
Speaker 3: it substantially as well. At times it's a it's a
Speaker 3: give and take kind of thing. And the bigger programs,
Speaker 3: let's be honest, the coaches who do in fact, when
Speaker 3: they complain, it becomes news because you know, they lead
Speaker 3: big time programs. Those hypocrites are the ones that actually
Speaker 3: benefit from it more than anybody, right like Lane Kiffin
Speaker 3: talking about how it's complete chaos. Lane Kiffin is gonna
Speaker 3: go out and build for the second straight season, probably
Speaker 3: one of the best rosters from the portal. So, like,
Speaker 3: you know, they complain and they're going to But like
Speaker 3: the ones who you actually see making the news or
Speaker 3: making an article because of their comments about the new world, yeah,
Speaker 3: they may not like it, and they may be right
Speaker 3: when it comes to there needing to be more structure,
Speaker 3: but they're benefiting from it more than anybody.
Speaker 2: So anyways, we are in a new world. There's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that.
Speaker 5: All Right.
Speaker 3: We got the five o'clock hour coming up next, one
Speaker 3: more hour of my therapy session.
Speaker 2: I need this, I needed this.
Speaker 3: I've been kind of just sulking thinking about what happens Saturday,
Speaker 3: because you know, I'm encouraged with this team still, but
Speaker 3: you never want to lose to anybody, especially your rival.
Speaker 3: But I've enjoyed kind of getting it all out, and
Speaker 3: we got one more hour to go, so stick around.
Speaker 2: We'll have some fun. It's five o'clock. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: We're not that far from Christmas. We'll have some good vibes,
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