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Speaker 2: for the Monday night football action tonight, looking forward to
Speaker 2: to that matchup between the Falcons and the Eagles.
Speaker 3: You got anything in tonight's game at all? You?
Speaker 2: I mean, are you calling it? A week after having
Speaker 2: a successful wagering weekend.
Speaker 4: To get successful in terms of college football and nearly
Speaker 4: a successful NFL parlay. But unfortunately the Chiefs couldn't get
Speaker 4: it done for me, at least in terms of covering.
Speaker 4: But tonight, my biggest concern is I need Kyle Pitts
Speaker 4: to do well for my fantasy team because you and
Speaker 4: me both brother.
Speaker 2: In fact, he's I want badly to include Kyle Pitts
Speaker 2: here in my picks for the underdog fantasy play that
Speaker 2: we're going to put out there a little later. And
Speaker 2: I love Kyle Pitts. I's he's an easy guy to
Speaker 2: forget when he was a tight end at Florida and
Speaker 2: a forgotten season that was the year where we played
Speaker 2: college football, but like it was just weird twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: It was twenty twenty and he was unguardable. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could make the case he's best player in college football,
Speaker 2: and most people like remember that when you bring it
Speaker 2: up in the NFL. It just hadn't worked out. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's because he's had bad quarterback play,
Speaker 2: but I'm hoping that because I still think there's value
Speaker 2: in there in the in the in the pick as
Speaker 2: far as him going over, rather it be his his
Speaker 2: receptions or even yards. But uh, yeah, was he was
Speaker 2: he your first tight end pick? I assume when you
Speaker 2: drafted like I believe, Yeah, I believe so. I mean
Speaker 2: I think he would Taysom Hill. Okay, I think he
Speaker 2: would have to be. But that's what's like again, he
Speaker 2: should be a weapon, and like in Atlanta, just hadn't
Speaker 2: worked out. And I kind of feel like if if
Speaker 2: for some reason, with Kirk Cousins there and Kirk Cousins
Speaker 2: stays healthy and this guy still is not really an option,
Speaker 2: you got to wonder if maybe it is whatn't meant
Speaker 2: to be for Kyle Pitts in the NFL.
Speaker 3: But anyways, we'll get back into that a little bit
Speaker 3: later on.
Speaker 2: Some some news here locally that I'm sure a lot
Speaker 2: of you care about, at least I hope you do.
Speaker 2: If you're a Louisvillion, you would want to know who
Speaker 2: your police chief is. And Louisville has named Paul Humphrey,
Speaker 2: I should say not Louisville, but Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg
Speaker 2: has named Paul Humphrey the Louisville police chief, citing he
Speaker 2: is a proven leader, which I would agree. I've always
Speaker 2: been really impressed with Paul Humphrey, Louisville native from right
Speaker 2: here in me. This is his hometown. I believe he
Speaker 2: went to sant X High School. I think I saw
Speaker 2: Terry posting that. So congratulations to Chief Humphrey. Not a
Speaker 2: good look that there's been so many different chiefs within
Speaker 2: the LMPD office in the last I don't know however
Speaker 2: many years. Yeah, he's the sixth person in four years
Speaker 2: to lead LMPD. But I'd say, of all the leadership
Speaker 2: that they've had, I don't see why he's not worthy
Speaker 2: of an opportunity to get things good.
Speaker 3: Things had it in the right direction. So congratulations to
Speaker 3: Paul Humphrey. All Right, So.
Speaker 2: On Louisville, they're getting tested on Saturday, and I'm excited
Speaker 2: about that. I try, I am tried my best to
Speaker 2: not make it, to make it appear that they need
Speaker 2: to prove something to me again, Like I'm not bothered.
Speaker 2: I mean, why the hell will I be bothered. I'm
Speaker 2: a Louisville fan. I love seeing Louisville in the top twenty.
Speaker 2: I love seeing Louisville being listed as a team that's
Speaker 2: still like realistically has a chance to maybe make the playoff.
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody really knows just yet. It's still early.
Speaker 2: But like I think anybody that looks at Louisville as
Speaker 2: a legitimate top twenty team right now, no one they
Speaker 2: have not been tested yet, is justified with that opinion
Speaker 2: based off of the coach who's proven to be a
Speaker 2: pretty damn good coach, a team that was good last
Speaker 2: year and brought back a lot from last year, and
Speaker 2: in the areas that they didn't bring guys back, like
Speaker 2: the quarterback position, they appear to be better in that regard.
Speaker 2: So I don't wanted to make it sound as if, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm out on them. They got to show me something
Speaker 2: on Saturday against this Georgia Tech team, because That's not
Speaker 2: where I'm coming from. I'm just selfishly, as a fan,
Speaker 2: feenan to see what my team does when they play
Speaker 2: a real team, not Jacksonville State and not Austin p
Speaker 2: It's all you can do is take care of business.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, if Louisville would have gone through the
Speaker 2: motions against Jacksonville State and not covered twenty eight and
Speaker 2: a half points, probably wouldn't have meant anything long term,
Speaker 2: but it would have given some naysayers an opportunity to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they struggled against Jacksonville State and Ridge Rodriguez,
Speaker 2: So they've taken care of business. I think the best
Speaker 2: word to describe the first two weeks for this group solid.
Speaker 2: Not perfect, nobody is, but them being ten and a
Speaker 2: half point favorites here against Georgia Tech, I think is
Speaker 2: justified and I see no reason why they won't cover.
Speaker 2: Now we'll see how it all plays out, but I
Speaker 2: am excited to go watch this team play Saturday and
Speaker 2: again a real game where you see where you stand
Speaker 2: against another ACC team and you get a chance to
Speaker 2: start one to zero in league play. And right now,
Speaker 2: this Georgia Tech team, they they've probably got, they've probably
Speaker 2: got some fire underneath them, knowing that they came out
Speaker 2: and beat Florida State, made a statement, got themselves in
Speaker 2: the top twenty five, and then slipped up a couple
Speaker 2: weeks later, lost to QS on the road, and now
Speaker 2: two other teams have beaten Florida State worse than they did.
Speaker 2: So not to say that they're I mean, but again,
Speaker 2: they probably feel disrespected knowing their double digit dogs here
Speaker 2: because they were taking it to Louisville last year when
Speaker 2: they played this game in Atlanta until halftime and then
Speaker 2: Jeff and his staff made some adjustments and then Louisville
Speaker 2: kind of came out and really took over. But I'm
Speaker 2: excited for Saturday, no doubt about it. But again, when
Speaker 2: I keep talking about this first test, it's not because
Speaker 2: I have doubt, and it's not because I think that
Speaker 2: they're undeserving to be ranked where they are. It's just
Speaker 2: usually you don't get to this far in the season
Speaker 2: where you've got a chance to see some teams play
Speaker 2: multiple games that have you know, meaning and value and
Speaker 2: other than them just being two wins in the column.
Speaker 2: There's no value in playing those two teams that you played.
Speaker 2: Somebody's fault. That's just the way it is. So two
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Speaker 2: what the reaction is. I'm hopeful that it'll be a
Speaker 2: lot of people celebrating. Wouldn't be shocked if we get
Speaker 2: some fans calling in leaving to make the short trip
Speaker 2: from the stadium to what's the what's the place?
Speaker 3: Zack Brian at Bourbon and beyond? Yeah, what's it called though?
Speaker 2: The Highland Festival Ground? Like people in louis are gonna
Speaker 2: call it that.
Speaker 4: I think that's more of like a an outside Louisville
Speaker 4: thing because everybody just calls it the Expost Center the
Speaker 4: fair Grounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here here, Like if you're a if you're a louivillion,
Speaker 2: you just kind of know they just use that land
Speaker 2: over there next to the fairgrounds, right be the executive
Speaker 2: in right, Yeah, we don't call it anything. But like
Speaker 2: if you go to ticket Master or stub Hub to
Speaker 2: like try to get tickets, they've got to have a venue.
Speaker 2: They can't just say it's it's in the field at
Speaker 2: the Fairgrounds, right, Like, They've got a list, an actual venue.
Speaker 2: So when I see it called that, like it's gonna
Speaker 2: be at this place, I'm like, wait a second, where
Speaker 2: the hell's that? And then I'm like, oh, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: where they just decided to use that big piece of
Speaker 2: land and have the music festival there. But like, if
Speaker 2: you're in town and you're like, can you take us? Like,
Speaker 2: can you take us to the uh? Can you tell
Speaker 2: us the quickest way to get to the something?
Speaker 3: What is it called again? The Highland Festival Ground? Can
Speaker 3: you take us to the Highland Festival Grounds?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: People like, let's say you're bartender at the hotel, Like,
Speaker 2: they'll probably know where you're, why you're there, if you're
Speaker 2: wearing like you especially if you look the part like
Speaker 2: you're going to the music festival. But like I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people in Louisville, if they're asked by
Speaker 2: visitors to help them you know, what's a good place
Speaker 2: around the Highland Grounds, festival whatever, they'll look at you like,
Speaker 2: what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 4: So finally, they have built that up super fast over
Speaker 4: the last four years.
Speaker 2: Each time I drive in in the last few weeks,
Speaker 2: I can tell that there's more and more added to it.
Speaker 2: So look, I'm a little worried about the traffic situation
Speaker 2: just for everybody involved. But I do think we we
Speaker 2: we we really will have people that will leave the
Speaker 2: game and try to make it over there for the
Speaker 2: concert because you know Zach Brian will be He's the
Speaker 2: headliner right for Saturday. Yes, yeah, so, and then there's
Speaker 2: great great action or great enter action they call it
Speaker 2: action at musical festival.
Speaker 3: There's there's a lot of great action.
Speaker 2: Actually, I've been to some of these music festivals and
Speaker 2: seen some action, but that has nothing to do with
Speaker 2: the actual music. So look, I can't I don't want
Speaker 2: to be a poser because I'm not somebody that's really
Speaker 2: into music festivals. I don't plan on going to Bourbon
Speaker 2: and Beyond at any point, just because it's not really
Speaker 2: my thing. If I was going to go, it would
Speaker 2: be Saturday, but obviously because of the game, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to do that. But it is cool to see
Speaker 2: for two straight weeks like we are as far as
Speaker 2: music festivals having some of the bigger names in music
Speaker 2: across the planet, and in two weeks, for two weeks straight,
Speaker 2: there's going to be people from all over the world
Speaker 2: here to see that. And you know, Louisville when it
Speaker 2: makes the news nationally, I kind of feel like, more
Speaker 2: often than not in recent years, it's not been for
Speaker 2: good reason. It's not been for things that really shine
Speaker 2: a positive light on our city. But you know, we
Speaker 2: all know that's not how we are three hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty five days out of the year here. There's good
Speaker 2: things that go on in this city. I mean, clearly,
Speaker 2: we got our issues like everybody else. And usually with
Speaker 2: the way the news cycle works, you're more likely to
Speaker 2: be on the news and make newsworthy, be a part
Speaker 2: of newsworthy the headlines if something bad happens.
Speaker 3: But I think we do.
Speaker 2: I think we are becoming a music festival city. I mean, again,
Speaker 2: who am I to judge that. I don't go to
Speaker 2: a lot of them. But when you consider these two
Speaker 2: events specifically, and then you throw in I mean, Forecastle
Speaker 2: is still a thing, isn't it.
Speaker 3: No, it's actually been gone for a couple of years.
Speaker 3: What am I thinking of? You're thinking of Forecastle? It's
Speaker 3: just gone.
Speaker 4: They did something this year called Gazebo Fest. Okay, I
Speaker 4: don't know if it was by the same.
Speaker 3: People or not.
Speaker 2: I think that was Jack Harlow, wasn't it. He was there, Yes,
Speaker 2: I think that was his music festival. It might be
Speaker 2: he put on I remember seeing a bunch of flyers
Speaker 2: for it around time.
Speaker 3: Don't we have another big music festival that the Real Bird.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's not obviously a Louisville festival. You're thinking of Forecastle, but.
Speaker 2: I know Forecastle's been gone for a while, and yet
Speaker 2: I feel like there's been something in place of it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just you know, having a brain far because yeah,
Speaker 2: I've known that they kind of called it off for
Speaker 2: the last couple of years, and I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm maybe I'm just be Hometown Rising, which has been
Speaker 2: gone for a few years. They only did that once,
Speaker 2: and I don't know why. Like I know, is it
Speaker 2: Danny Wimmer who puts on all these events, Like I'm
Speaker 2: sure he could give a reason that makes total sense,
Speaker 2: But I don't know why you would. Maybe it just
Speaker 2: wasn't as profitable. Maybe it costs more money to get
Speaker 2: those kind of acts.
Speaker 3: I have no clue.
Speaker 4: From what I've heard is that with the country artists,
Speaker 4: a lot of them tour separately and don't do the
Speaker 4: whole festival thing. As much as you mentioned the money,
Speaker 4: I do think that is a part of it. There's
Speaker 4: more expensive in general.
Speaker 2: It just it wasn't, as I guess, financially friendly to
Speaker 2: put on the festival because it's really they're all the
Speaker 2: same thing.
Speaker 3: It's just different genres, right.
Speaker 4: And Bourbondon beyond his kind, they kind of have their
Speaker 4: own country flair now attached to it.
Speaker 3: It's kind of I mean, because heck Zach Bryan.
Speaker 4: I mean, and Tyler Childers. Oh, Tyler's there too, he
Speaker 4: is He's Sunday. I think he's Sunday.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of now, I'm kind of thinking maybe if
Speaker 2: I can grab a ticket from somebody here at Ilheart
Speaker 2: onmego Sunday. I don't know it'd get in the way
Speaker 2: of NFL, but if he's playing at night, like I
Speaker 2: can make it work. I love Tyler Schilders and he's
Speaker 2: somebody that like I will always I will always have
Speaker 2: a level of interest in seeing him live, just because
Speaker 2: I'm such a big fan and I love him. But
Speaker 2: he's he's he's another case study at least for me
Speaker 2: that I don't know why. But the fact that he's
Speaker 2: way more famous than he was when I was really
Speaker 2: starting to get into his music doesn't make me think
Speaker 2: any less of him.
Speaker 3: It doesn't. You know.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's a sellout. I still think the
Speaker 2: new stuff he puts out sounds amazing. But he he's somebody.
Speaker 2: He's the first guy that comes to mind for me
Speaker 2: at least right now when I think of like, I
Speaker 2: just don't, I don't get up. I don't get as
Speaker 2: excited for now that he's like super famous, and I don't. Again,
Speaker 2: that's nobody's fault and nothing's changed. It's just there's something
Speaker 2: about really being into a music, a musician or an
Speaker 2: artist or a band when you feel like you're kind
Speaker 2: of in early and you know eventually they're going to
Speaker 2: be big, but right now you kind of you don't
Speaker 2: have him to yourself, but it kind of feels like
Speaker 2: you do in a way. Like I saw Tyler Childers
Speaker 2: open up at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
Speaker 3: Not open up.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. He's made his debut at the Opry. He
Speaker 2: you know, the Opry is a weird set up anywhere.
Speaker 2: He only got to play like four songs just because
Speaker 2: of how they you know, what a what a typical
Speaker 2: night at the Opry, What that show really entails as
Speaker 2: far as how many different people they feature and whatnot,
Speaker 2: just different than like a concert, but like to be there,
Speaker 2: seemed like everybody that was there was from eater ingk
Speaker 2: Tucky because the knew big of a deal it was
Speaker 2: for him to be there making his debut at the
Speaker 2: Opry to hear how nerves he was and him acknowledged
Speaker 2: it after one of his songs like that was something
Speaker 2: that I think is really cool that I got to
Speaker 2: experience as a big fan of his. And I still
Speaker 2: listen to him all the time, like there's a guy
Speaker 2: and I don't even know if this was on the
Speaker 2: up and up er not meeting I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do it, but he performed. I want
Speaker 2: to say he performed at headliners like six seven years ago,
Speaker 2: and the guy who did the sound like yet, who
Speaker 2: was running live sound for his show, recorded everything that
Speaker 2: was coming from you know, the board, so you know,
Speaker 2: he ended up hearing me talk about how much I
Speaker 2: love Tyler Childers and how like I'm gonna go see
Speaker 2: him at at the Grand Ole Opry. And he emailed
Speaker 2: me and was like, hey, what your you know? He
Speaker 2: DMed me It's like, hey, what's your email address? And
Speaker 2: I sent it to him and he sent me. He
Speaker 2: sent me a dropbox link that is basically an entire
Speaker 2: live performance of Tyler Childer's playing like what seems to
Speaker 2: be like thirty songs. In fact, he has to break
Speaker 2: up a fight in the crowd by yelling at people
Speaker 2: to stop fighting mid song. Like but it's it's it's
Speaker 2: just him unplugged. It's like the it's I was going
Speaker 2: to see him. That's how That's the kind kind of
Speaker 2: setting i'd want to see him at. Not necessarily again,
Speaker 2: it'd still be fine. And I'm literally interested in going
Speaker 2: Sunday if I could make it work, but like hearing
Speaker 2: him in a smaller, more intimate setting with just really
Speaker 2: his guitar and his band and his vocals, Like, that's
Speaker 2: what That's my kind of jam. So anyways, it's cool
Speaker 2: we're having these events, man, I really they.
Speaker 3: Need to stick you up in top shelf VIP for
Speaker 3: Tyler Childers. Yeah, somebody.
Speaker 2: If somebody wants to do that, I would be I'd
Speaker 2: be more than fine with that. I really would, all right,
Speaker 2: So again Louisville Georgia Tech. Will get more into sort
Speaker 2: of the specifics of this Georgia Tech team a little
Speaker 2: later on in the week, but I do want to
Speaker 2: get back into the Kentucky stuff here, just because obviously
Speaker 2: they they had an impressive showing against Georgia to say
Speaker 2: the least. I mean, it doesn't mean anything when you lose.
Speaker 2: I mean you can still take some positives from it,
Speaker 2: as every fan of Kentucky should. But I mean they
Speaker 2: were back against the walls as lifeless as I can
Speaker 2: remember their fans being under Mark Stoops following that loss
Speaker 2: to South Carolina.
Speaker 3: I mean it. I mean even people.
Speaker 2: That I know that love Stoops were actually starting to
Speaker 2: throw out the name John Someraw. And I mean people
Speaker 2: who like I value their opinion, not just knuckleheads on
Speaker 2: the internet. I mean people that I know that I
Speaker 2: never thought would actually start thinking about life after Stoops
Speaker 2: And here he is coming out a week after that
Speaker 2: and has his team ready to play. If you did
Speaker 2: not know anything about either team and just watch that game,
Speaker 2: you would believe that those two teams are similar, like
Speaker 2: they're on the same level, and we all know they're not.
Speaker 2: If they played ten times, I don't think that game's
Speaker 2: close another time. But it was on Saturday and that's
Speaker 2: the only time they played. So credit to Kentucky. But
Speaker 2: the decision for Mark Stoops to punt when it's fourth
Speaker 2: and eight from midfield down one to Georgia with three
Speaker 2: minutes left. His kicker's got a great leg. All you
Speaker 2: need is one first down for that kicker to be
Speaker 2: in field goal range and you punt it away only
Speaker 2: to then get it back with nine seconds left on
Speaker 2: the clock on your own twenty five. I mean that's
Speaker 2: just that stoops having not enough stones to go for
Speaker 2: it because you have nothing to lose, Like, who would?
Speaker 2: You'll always find critics no matter what happens, right, Like,
Speaker 2: I know I said this earlier, so I guess I
Speaker 2: am being you know, I'm backtracking a little bit. But
Speaker 2: when it comes to the well if he you know,
Speaker 2: would he have to lose if you, if you go
Speaker 2: for it on fourth down and you don't get it, Like,
Speaker 2: who's gonna be upset at you?
Speaker 3: Honestly there'd be somebody, like somebody would say that was stupid,
Speaker 3: why they do that?
Speaker 2: But it doesn't change the fact that ten out of
Speaker 2: ten times, given the circumstances and everything factored in with
Speaker 2: you having nothing to lose, it's Georgia, you're down one,
Speaker 2: you're already at midfield. You could get the ball back
Speaker 2: with five minutes left and it wouldn't be a shocker
Speaker 2: if you never got back to midfield because you're playing Georgia.
Speaker 2: So like everything about that situation said go for it
Speaker 2: and just see what happens. And he didn't even have
Speaker 2: the stones to do that, and it you know, it
Speaker 2: cost his team, it really did. And it wasn't like
Speaker 2: one of the most egregious things I've ever seen a
Speaker 2: coach do as far as a decision. But like, I
Speaker 2: just don't know many other coaches because clearly Stoops is
Speaker 2: a conservative guy. I mean, we know that clock managements
Speaker 2: never really been his strength, but he's super conservative with
Speaker 2: a play calling. I'll stand by what I said. I
Speaker 2: think the offensive coordinator was a Busch Hampden or something.
Speaker 2: The guy they brought in from Boise State. He may
Speaker 2: be great.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's only been around for a few games here in Lexington.
Speaker 2: But to me, that's the kind of higher that Mark
Speaker 2: Stoops makes, so he can actually still have great influence. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm sure even if it is a coach, like for example,
Speaker 2: I think he clearly handed the keys over to Liam Cohen.
Speaker 2: Let Liam Cohen call plays, but like Stoops could step
Speaker 2: in and tell him, hey, we're not going to do that,
Speaker 2: Let's do this. Instead like you're going to always have
Speaker 2: to say so, but this is a guy I just
Speaker 2: feel like Stoops felt was And again, just just an
Speaker 2: observation from my end, Like I think, Butch Hampden's a
Speaker 2: guy that probably wasn't getting a lot of calls from
Speaker 2: SEC or Big Ten's coaches that wanted to bring him
Speaker 2: in to call the offense he was at Boise State,
Speaker 2: Stoops hired him, and you know, I think part of
Speaker 2: it's because he still feels like he could probably not
Speaker 2: bully him. I don't know what word to use here,
Speaker 2: but if you're a Kentucky fan, I think you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like Stoops has never really let the
Speaker 2: cuffs off of his ocs. That seems to be the case, so,
Speaker 2: you know, as conservative even though he's conservative. And again,
Speaker 2: I think the best way to describe it is what
Speaker 2: I said earlier, at least the best way for me
Speaker 2: to describe it. If he'd have gone for it on
Speaker 2: fourth and eight instead of punting, I don't think it
Speaker 2: would have been like, Wow, can you believe this guy,
Speaker 2: mister conservative decided to let his hair down a little
Speaker 2: bit here. Maybe he had a fireball shot at halftime
Speaker 2: or something, because he's loose now, man, he's out here
Speaker 2: going like nobody would have had that reaction because to me,
Speaker 2: it was such a logical thing that like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: go for it here, you got nothing to lose. It's
Speaker 2: fourth and eight three minutes left, you give them the
Speaker 2: ball back. I mean, and here's what's crazy. We'll never
Speaker 2: know this, but like, stoops, do you think he really
Speaker 2: had confidence he was gonna get the ball back? I mean,
Speaker 2: I know you were playing well, your defense had been
Speaker 2: lights out and they looked really good, and Georgia had
Speaker 2: no momentum offensively really the whole game consistently. But to me,
Speaker 2: it just seemed like a really weak thing to do,
Speaker 2: and it's an easy way for you to still lose
Speaker 2: and say, hey, you know, we play hard, like you
Speaker 2: didn't have the stones to really take a risk there.
Speaker 2: So again, if you're a Kentucky fan, I don't know
Speaker 2: how the hell you feel, right, I mean, that was
Speaker 2: certainly a tough way to lose in a game where
Speaker 2: you had a chance to win. You were right there
Speaker 2: with them, and you fell short and your coach didn't
Speaker 2: even have the gonads to go forward on fourth. It
Speaker 2: just seemed like a really tough way to lose, especially
Speaker 2: knowing that you are coming off of a terrible loss
Speaker 2: and you needed to win in a major way. And
Speaker 2: now you're one and two and you know you could
Speaker 2: realistically say you could be three and zero. I mean, now,
Speaker 2: had you beat South Carolina and let's say you beat
Speaker 2: them bad, maybe Georgia comes in a little bit with
Speaker 2: the different mindset. You never will never know. It's you know, hypothetical,
Speaker 2: but like, I don't know how Kentucky fans feel, because
Speaker 2: you absolutely can look at this and say, yeah, if
Speaker 2: we can compete like that with Georgia, we should. We
Speaker 2: should easily be able to get to six wins and
Speaker 2: go to a Bowl game and maybe not off one
Speaker 2: of these teams we're not supposed to because if we
Speaker 2: can play Georgia that close, maybe we beat Old miss
Speaker 2: or something like that. Like that, that's not a that's
Speaker 2: not a crazy thing to say. That's that's not a
Speaker 2: wild way to look at it at all. But also,
Speaker 2: aren't you more pissed off about South Carolina like I
Speaker 2: would be? And that's just me. I guess it's personal preference,
Speaker 2: Like it's all subjective. I would be mad knowing that, Hey,
Speaker 2: if you can come out there like because again, that's
Speaker 2: what That's why I'd be a liar if I said
Speaker 2: out predicted Kentucky to compete the way they didn't have
Speaker 2: a chance to win the game against Georgia. But I
Speaker 2: know they have better players than South Carolina. If they
Speaker 2: played South Carolina ten times, there's no way you get
Speaker 2: that same result again thirty one to six. So with
Speaker 2: all that said, like, how could you come out in
Speaker 2: a game that everybody knew was a must win that
Speaker 2: you really needed to have to kind of set the
Speaker 2: tone and lose in a bad, embarrassing way to South
Speaker 2: Carolina and then come out like it's just like it's
Speaker 2: gotta make you want to pull your hair out. So again,
Speaker 2: if I was a Kentucky fan, which I'm not, I
Speaker 2: would choose to look at this subject. I would choose
Speaker 2: to look at this from a positive standpoint and say, look,
Speaker 2: or wanted two should have beat South Carolina and they
Speaker 2: kicked our ass.
Speaker 3: We know we're better than them. Georgia.
Speaker 2: Man, when do you get a chance to pull off
Speaker 2: a win like that? Not very often. We had it
Speaker 2: and it slipped away. But at least now we know
Speaker 2: we've proven to ourselves that we've got a good ball
Speaker 2: team that should be able to go out there and
Speaker 2: get six seven wins. Like that's a good way to
Speaker 2: look at it. However, there's another way to look at it.
Speaker 2: The other way to look at it would be clearly
Speaker 2: negative pessimistic, which maybe that's how some fans would naturally lean.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but what you did on Saturday really
Speaker 2: wasn't that crazy. In fact, what makes you different than
Speaker 2: Auburn last year?
Speaker 3: In Missouri? The year before.
Speaker 2: Last year, Auburn outplayed Georgia from start to finish, just
Speaker 2: like you did in fact, Auburn. I feel like that
Speaker 2: game as I remember it, Auburn hosted Georgia. It was
Speaker 2: Georgia's first row game in SEC play last year, and
Speaker 2: Auburn was the better team and still somehow lost. Uga
Speaker 2: held on just like they did against Kentucky, and Georgia
Speaker 2: went on to have a phenomenal season, only to lose
Speaker 2: to Alabama in the SEC Championship game. Auburn had a
Speaker 2: losing record and went on to lose to New Mexico
Speaker 2: State just a few weeks later. Missouri twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: two years ago, same situation. I remember this game too.
Speaker 2: I watched it as a sportsbook. Missoo outplayed Georgia, had
Speaker 2: all the momentum. Georgia somehow held on one twenty six
Speaker 2: to twenty two. Missouri went on to have a losing season.
Speaker 2: So just because you played Georgia close in Georgia's first
Speaker 2: road ACC game of the road SEC game of the season,
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you're about to start mowing down everybody on
Speaker 2: your schedule that's not as good as Georgia. In fact, again,
Speaker 2: there are two examples of teams that did exactly what
Speaker 2: you just did, and they stunk.
Speaker 3: Let's be real.
Speaker 2: They did Auburn last year terrible, especially for their standard. Missouri,
Speaker 2: I don't know they're terrible for their standard, but again,
Speaker 2: they had a losing record, lost him an ACC team
Speaker 2: in a bowl game.
Speaker 3: I think that year, all right, we.
Speaker 2: Gotta run quick break. We'll come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: Keep this thing rolling along, and we'll make fun of
Speaker 2: Florida State. That's fun to do, right. They paid Memphis
Speaker 2: over a million dollars to come in there and put
Speaker 2: them at zero and three. Why is it so satisfying
Speaker 2: seeing Florida State crumble?
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Stick around right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I
Speaker 2: don't know if this is just the genre, but like
Speaker 2: I didn't hear I couldn't hear any words like I
Speaker 2: could hear.
Speaker 3: Something dance music, dance music or something not a whole
Speaker 3: lot of uh steering. Is this a test?
Speaker 4: But that is the question you're asking though, right, Is
Speaker 4: this a test for Louisville with Georgia Tech this week?
Speaker 2: So this is the title of this is a test? Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: makes total sense then checks out. It's mean it's good
Speaker 2: energy here. I like it's good gym music. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: like I could see this being the music used for
Speaker 2: like a pump up, you know video, good stuff. All right,
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Speaker 2: the comp But hey man, mister John all on alongside
Speaker 2: is I've tasked him with finding songs that have something
Speaker 2: in the title chorus about being tested as Louisville is
Speaker 2: going to be tested on Saturday for the first time
Speaker 2: against Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: I didn't even see who they played or what their
Speaker 2: schedule looked like this past weekend, but they did play
Speaker 2: VMI in a game they had no trouble winning. Fifty
Speaker 2: nine to seven was the score in that one. So
Speaker 2: somebody asked him the text line, and I wish I
Speaker 2: had an answer.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I can certainly do some looking and maybe somebody can
Speaker 2: even help me out. But what Jeff Brohm's record is
Speaker 2: coming off of a bye? I could probably I mean,
Speaker 2: that wouldn't be that hard to go back and look.
Speaker 2: But you know last year coming off the bye, you
Speaker 2: bounced back in a major way. Unless my memory is off,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Louisville last week or last year unfortunately
Speaker 2: had a terrible timing with their bye and they ended
Speaker 2: up playing losing to pitt right after they beat Notre
Speaker 2: Dame and then had a week off, which, again you
Speaker 2: want to me weeks off sucked during college football season. Again,
Speaker 2: everybody has them in they're two now because of the
Speaker 2: playoff expansion, and you got to keep guys healthy. So
Speaker 2: like it's not new, but like I think even players
Speaker 2: would tell you they don't like bye weeks. You want
Speaker 2: to keep that rhythm going. And again, if you can
Speaker 2: get healthy, then yeah, it sets up well to have
Speaker 2: a bye week happen at a certain time. If you've
Speaker 2: got some guys banged up. But yeah, last year Louisville,
Speaker 2: Yeah they lost to Pittsburgh on the fourteenth of October
Speaker 2: and then didn't Plagua until the twenty eighth, but they
Speaker 2: bounced back and beat Duke, who was top twenty at
Speaker 2: the time, twenty three to nothing. So I don't have
Speaker 2: that information for you, but it is a good question.
Speaker 2: And now you've got me curious. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: look into that because you know, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I believe in that.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in trends as much as people do.
Speaker 2: Like I'm just somebody that when I hear guys out
Speaker 2: there given their lock of the week for their picks
Speaker 2: when it comes to gambling in the last ten meetings
Speaker 2: in the last ten years, these you know, this coach
Speaker 2: has if he farted before the game, he's gonna score
Speaker 2: thirty or more points in the third quarter. Like because
Speaker 2: he did it five years ago has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with day. Like it might speak to like history of
Speaker 2: performing well, but like statistical statistical trends from previous seasons
Speaker 2: have nothing to do with the current season. So like
Speaker 2: and they're even more puzzling to me when you bring
Speaker 2: them up about coaches, coaches aren't even out the aren't
Speaker 2: even like if you're bringing up a stat and citing
Speaker 2: a coach as teams that have done this in that
Speaker 2: over multiple different eras, Like, I don't really see the
Speaker 2: value in that. But anyways, I'm gonna look into that,
Speaker 2: because again you've got me curious. All right, back to
Speaker 2: the texta lin and this text line says it's crazy
Speaker 2: to me, or this text on the text line, I
Speaker 2: should say, Ellen n Federal Credit Union text line five
Speaker 2: O two six five three zero s of a nineties
Speaker 2: the number if you'd like to text end. But this
Speaker 2: textas nigga's crazy to me that notreed Aim, with the
Speaker 2: lost in Northern Illinois, still has a better percentage chance
Speaker 2: than Louisville among many other teams at making the playoff.
Speaker 2: If they still somehow make the playoff despite that lost
Speaker 2: to Northern Illinois, would that encourage other teams to be
Speaker 2: independent and make their own schedule?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't mean to be so dismissive of
Speaker 2: your question, but the answer is no. Notre Dame is
Speaker 2: unique for a variety of reasons, but the most important
Speaker 2: reason is that they have value that really none of
Speaker 2: no other school could have as far as the national
Speaker 2: reach with their national television deal. So Notre Dame is
Speaker 2: not in a conference because they don't need to be
Speaker 2: in a conference, right the ways, you know, the biggest check,
Speaker 2: the biggest source of income I should say revenue that
Speaker 2: universities are making from their athletic department are their revenue
Speaker 2: sharing within these conference grain of rights deals with the
Speaker 2: TV networks. Right like the money the Big Ten is sharing.
Speaker 2: The biggest bit of money that everybody's getting is from
Speaker 2: the TV deal. Same thing in the SEC, same thing
Speaker 2: in the a SEC, even though it's not as lucrative
Speaker 2: as what's in the Big Ten in the SEC. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean Notre Dame is independent because they can be.
Speaker 2: They don't have to follow any conference like. They can
Speaker 2: be independent and make relatively the same amount of money
Speaker 2: as a lot of these Power five schools power four
Speaker 2: now because NBC will pay them that and they're not,
Speaker 2: you know, in NBC for their investment. You know, they're
Speaker 2: not in bed with an entire league. They're in bed
Speaker 2: with one school and all their games are going to
Speaker 2: be on NBC. And clearly that has been a very
Speaker 2: good investment from NBC or they wouldn't continue to have
Speaker 2: their television deal with Notre Dame. So Notre Dame is
Speaker 2: just they're rare nobody, and I don't even see a
Speaker 2: scenario where anybody else would be able to do that,
Speaker 2: because again, it's never been more important to have a
Speaker 2: lot of money aside within your athletic department. For I mean,
Speaker 2: that's always been the case, but it's I mean, whenever
Speaker 2: you end up having to start paying these student athletes
Speaker 2: close to twenty two million dollars annually, you know that
Speaker 2: not a lot of schools just have twenty two millions
Speaker 2: sitting around. Not a lot of schools probably just expected
Speaker 2: one day we're going to be here. So let's make
Speaker 2: sure we annually have twenty two million set aside just
Speaker 2: in case this day comes, so you get a little
Speaker 2: time to.
Speaker 3: Get prepared for it.
Speaker 2: Some schools will be able to do it just because
Speaker 2: they'll have the resources to bring in that kind of money.
Speaker 2: Others won't. So Notre Dame can be independent because NBC
Speaker 2: pays them enough money for their television deal to where
Speaker 2: they're not needing to be in the SEC or the
Speaker 2: Big ten. And I'm not I may look and I
Speaker 2: don't know, see if you can pull something up here, John,
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see what kind of money Notre Dame
Speaker 2: is getting annually from NBC comparatively to what like Ole
Speaker 2: miss is getting from the SEC, because obviously everybody gets
Speaker 2: the same share, because I would imagine that the SEC
Speaker 2: and the Big ten schools as of now are probably
Speaker 2: getting or probably making more money than Notre Dame. But
Speaker 2: Notre Dame is still getting a big chunk themselves from NBC.
Speaker 2: And there are benefits to where they can do their
Speaker 2: own thing. They they don't need a league, They can
Speaker 2: schedule whoever they want, and they have this great arrangement
Speaker 2: that the ACC I think stupidly has continued to honor,
Speaker 2: which is letting them essentially be in the league but
Speaker 2: not you know, you get to play what three or
Speaker 2: four of our league members every year in football, and
Speaker 2: then you're actually in the league in every other sport,
Speaker 2: like you know. I still go back to when Swofford
Speaker 2: had the ability to hold their feet to the fire
Speaker 2: and say, look, if you want to have a season
Speaker 2: this year and you want to play in our league,
Speaker 2: you've got to join. And one thing that nobody ever
Speaker 2: brings up is that it wouldn't have been in all
Speaker 2: a crazy request to do that, because here's the thing.
Speaker 2: They're already in the league in every other sport. They
Speaker 2: already are like halfway in the league in football, and
Speaker 2: Swafford had no interest in doing that, it seemed, And
Speaker 2: you know, I think that was a big miss.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be real, if Notre Dame ended up
Speaker 2: being forced to join the league, everybody was making rash
Speaker 2: decisions during a global pandemic, and if Notre Dame thought
Speaker 2: they weren't going to have a football season and the
Speaker 2: only way to have a football season was to join
Speaker 2: the ACC full time, hell, they might have done it.
Speaker 2: I mean they probably would have done it, and that
Speaker 2: would have changed everything. You'd have a much different view
Speaker 2: of the A. I mean again, you'd be able to
Speaker 2: go back to the table with ESPN and say, look, huh,
Speaker 2: we got some more value. Now, let's redo this deal.
Speaker 2: And Notre Dame. As much as people want to make
Speaker 2: fun of them and act as if they aren't as
Speaker 2: relevant as they claim to be, maybe not with big
Speaker 2: time wins. Right, they don't win in the playoff, they
Speaker 2: don't win when they get to the National Championship game.
Speaker 2: But they still have a value in a reach that
Speaker 2: even if you hate them, you would know by adding
Speaker 2: them like they're Again, that's why when John and I
Speaker 2: have talked about the compensary alignment stuff when it comes
Speaker 2: to the power for the only like legitimate, and it's
Speaker 2: really not legitimate because I think there's going there's no
Speaker 2: scenario that Notre Dame would want to leave their independence.
Speaker 2: But like if they did, every league would want them,
Speaker 2: and there's not really anybody's out There's not anybody out
Speaker 2: there for any other league or independent status that would
Speaker 2: that would garner any kind of attention like that.
Speaker 4: Here's the answer to your question. So Notre Dame is
Speaker 4: raking in about fifty million dollars a year from NBC
Speaker 4: and then each of the SEC schools from ESPN is
Speaker 4: forty nine million, So they're okaking just a little bit
Speaker 4: more so very similar. So that to answer your question,
Speaker 4: that's why Notre Dame can stay independent. If you went independent,
Speaker 4: you wouldn't be able to pay for anything. I mean,
Speaker 4: where would your money come from? Again, you have you know,
Speaker 4: there's all kinds of revenue streams when it comes to
Speaker 4: ticket sales, and there's all kinds of hell. Lear Field
Speaker 4: or IMG are paying you multiple million dollars a year
Speaker 4: so they can go and hustle and make money off
Speaker 4: your brand and all that kind of stuff as a university.
Speaker 4: So there's all kinds of revenue streams, but the biggest
Speaker 4: one has to be what you get from your television
Speaker 4: deal in your conference. All right, speaking of money, how
Speaker 4: about Florida State suing the conference because they feel as
Speaker 4: if it's a crime essentially, that they are being forced to,
Speaker 4: you know, honor their agreement to sign the grant of
Speaker 4: rights and be a member of the ACC. They feel
Speaker 4: as if they have surpassed this league and now they're
Speaker 4: being held back. I don't have the legal jargon in
Speaker 4: front of me, but we all know what it is.
Speaker 4: They feel like they're better than the ACC. They didn't
Speaker 4: even make any bones about it. I mean, Clemson is
Speaker 4: essentially doing the same thing as far as their lawsuit.
Speaker 4: But you know, Clemson wasn't as delusional. I mean, and really,
Speaker 4: Florida State viewing themselves as a bigger brand than the
Speaker 4: majority of the ACC is not delusion in fact, it's reality.
Speaker 4: But to assume that like now we're gonna We're gonna
Speaker 4: put it all out there. We're filing a lawsuit. We
Speaker 4: know we're better than you. You all are beneath us,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna fight like hell because we are Florida State.
Speaker 4: We'll rack up legal fees and all that because we can,
Speaker 4: because we're Florida State. And then you come out and
Speaker 4: start your season zero to two against honestly two great examples.
Speaker 4: If Florida State has got their attorney in the courtroom
Speaker 4: and he's just you know, he's just riffing off the
Speaker 4: cuff about how Florida State shouldn't be held down and
Speaker 4: held back because they just know they're better. Georgia Tech
Speaker 4: and Boston College might be the first two teams that
Speaker 4: he brings up as an example. And those two teams
Speaker 4: beat you, and then you lose to Memphis on Saturday
Speaker 4: in a game where you paid Memphis one point two
Speaker 4: million dollar i'm sorry, one point three million dollars and
Speaker 4: they beat you twenty to twelve. Now, ohen three, Florida
Speaker 4: State has now started oh and three three times in
Speaker 4: the last fifty years. It happened in nineteen seventy six
Speaker 4: under Bobby Bowden and then it happened under Mike Norvel
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one, and sure enough, it's happened again
Speaker 4: here in twenty twenty four. I mean, isn't it crazy
Speaker 4: to think about Mike Norvel losing his job? Even if
Speaker 4: they like, they're gonna be a bad football team this year,
Speaker 4: make no mistake about it. They'll win games like they're
Speaker 4: not gonna be oh and twelve. But they're a bad
Speaker 4: football team. It's been evident since day one. I think
Speaker 4: the noise about how bad they are is only going
Speaker 4: to make things worse for them. But even if they
Speaker 4: went like three and nine. I mean, he's not getting fired,
Speaker 4: is he. It's just crazy the drop off from being
Speaker 4: a team that could have been in the College Football
Speaker 4: Playoff had Jordan Travis not been hurt to now being
Speaker 4: the laughing stock of college football.
Speaker 3: Oh, and they are, make no mistake about it. It's
Speaker 3: just different.
Speaker 4: He won't get fired because of what happened last year,
Speaker 4: But if it continues in the next season, then that's
Speaker 4: a different story. He might be the next billion apier,
Speaker 4: maybe getting fired in mid season.
Speaker 2: I mean, he signed last year because he tried to
Speaker 2: make people think he was gonna he was that Alabama
Speaker 2: wanted him and they didn't. But he was like one
Speaker 2: of many coaches who were able to not many, but
Speaker 2: a handful of coaches that were able to parlay a
Speaker 2: good year that job opening up, and then your employer
Speaker 2: decides to open up the checkbook and really lock you
Speaker 2: down long term. So he signed an eight year extension
Speaker 2: with more than eighty four million before incentives, and that
Speaker 2: is a fresh contract. So like the buyout, it cost
Speaker 2: sixty five million dollars to get rid of him. I
Speaker 2: mean yeah, I mean if you right now, he'd be
Speaker 2: paid sixty five million not to coach the seminals and
Speaker 2: it would be you know, like that's just you thought
Speaker 2: you were gonna have to worry about money for nil
Speaker 2: and money for paying the athletes. WI you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to start doing. You may have to worry about getting
Speaker 2: money to get rid of this guy again. If he
Speaker 2: goes two to ten. I don't think they could even
Speaker 2: like they there's no way they can move on from
Speaker 2: him because they can't pay that.
Speaker 3: I mean, they just paid.
Speaker 2: I mean, by the way, I don't have the specifics
Speaker 2: in front of me, and I don't want to just
Speaker 2: ramble about something without having details and facts, but the
Speaker 2: belief is that Florida State's Athletic Department has been really
Speaker 2: in a bad way financially. I mean, that's why Vince
Speaker 2: Tyre was somebody they were really interested in because Vince
Speaker 2: and I think Vince was a fine ad here, but
Speaker 2: Vince was somebody that was viewed from a business standpoint,
Speaker 2: specifically as far as numbers. What he did at u
Speaker 2: of L, especially during COVID, like it was impressive among
Speaker 2: his peers of athletic directors in Florida State. I mean,
Speaker 2: they've had a variety of issues over the years, but like,
Speaker 2: financially they just haven't made the best decisions. And that
Speaker 2: usually doesn't come down to just the athletic director. However,
Speaker 2: the athletic director is in charge of, you know, the
Speaker 2: athletic department. So I mean, there's no way they could
Speaker 2: even like they're probably looking at if he goes six
Speaker 2: and six the next two years, they're not firing him.
Speaker 3: They can't.
Speaker 2: I mean I say they can't. I guess you can
Speaker 2: always find a way. They have been trying to get,
Speaker 2: you know, funding from other ways to try to buy
Speaker 2: out of the ACC but like, how rich would it
Speaker 2: be if in the end, like I don't if he
Speaker 2: gets fired and they ended up using like you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, let's just say they fired him because he
Speaker 2: didn't win a game this year. Unlikely, but like if
Speaker 2: that played out, would that not be like the ultimate
Speaker 2: like proof that your lawsuit was silly and your claim
Speaker 2: of being I mean, you already you've already shown us
Speaker 2: this year that you thinking that you're this superior is
Speaker 2: really laughable. You're zero and three with losses to bad
Speaker 2: teams at least, you know, teams that weren't supposed to
Speaker 2: be good this year. So I don't know, you never
Speaker 2: say never, but to me, it just seems like Florida State,
Speaker 2: they thought they were they were, they had re arrived,
Speaker 2: and now they get left out of the playoff. They
Speaker 2: gave their coach a bunch of money, he might actually stink,
Speaker 2: and they're stuck with him. Right, quick break will come
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Speaker 2: up the four o'clock hour, and we've got all week
Speaker 2: to you know, look ahead to some of the big
Speaker 2: matchups in Week four of college football. Obviously, one that's
Speaker 2: being talked about quite a bit right now is Oklahoma
Speaker 2: in Tennessee. Is Tennessee's just i mean, completely obliterating anybody
Speaker 2: they play, and they'll have a much bigger test this
Speaker 2: week than they did in their recent game against whatever
Speaker 2: MAC team. It was Kent State who they beat seventy
Speaker 2: one to nothing. But I got admit, I've been really
Speaker 2: impressed with Josh Hipel at Tennessee and it's been pretty
Speaker 2: evident that he's he's the right guy for Tennessee, and
Speaker 2: they made the wrong choice for head coach really since
Speaker 2: Phil former left, it seemed. But I had no clue
Speaker 2: of his connection Oklahoma. Didn't know that he was a
Speaker 2: former Oklahoma player, didn't know that he at one point
Speaker 2: was let go by Bob Scoops when he was there
Speaker 2: as a coach. So you got to think he's I mean,
Speaker 2: he's going to want to win for obvious reasons, but
Speaker 2: there's a little something extra there. I would say for
Speaker 2: Joshipel to go back to Norman, and you know, I
Speaker 2: know Bob Scoops in the coach there anymore, But still
Speaker 2: there's something extra there no doubt.
Speaker 3: Did you see the wake Forest and ole misscore I'm
Speaker 3: sure you know ole Miss took care of business those
Speaker 3: part of my parlay. There you go. Forty to six
Speaker 3: was the score.
Speaker 2: I felt like it could have been worse, and uh
Speaker 2: after the game, which I do love that this came
Speaker 2: after the game, and maybe maybe we'll find out that
Speaker 2: maybe Lane maybe misled us a little bit. I'm not sure. However,
Speaker 2: like to get your ass kicked in then back out
Speaker 2: of the game after you get killed, that's weak because
Speaker 2: that's what's happened. So lank Keivin did did let everybody
Speaker 2: know in the press conference afterwards that the return game
Speaker 2: that is supposed to take place, which I think that
Speaker 2: game took place?
Speaker 3: Was that in? Was that in? That wasn't net wake Forest?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 3: Surely that wasn't. I believe it was on the road
Speaker 3: to Wake Forest?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess yeah, because that makes sense as to
Speaker 2: why they're a little upset, because, yeah, they're buying out
Speaker 2: Wake Forest after getting killed. Had their athletic director notify
Speaker 2: Ole Miss's athletic director they're buying out of the rest
Speaker 2: of that contract, and.
Speaker 3: Uh, taking a page out of the n in a playbook.
Speaker 2: But to give Indiana a little bit of credit, they
Speaker 2: did it before they played. That's true, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like even if they would have won.
Speaker 3: And they still played the neutral site matchup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like you know they but we knew heading
Speaker 2: into that game in Indie that they had already decided
Speaker 2: they weren't gonna do it anymore. Yes, wake Forest was
Speaker 2: gonna wait and see, right, like, let's see how bad
Speaker 2: do we get killed? Then we'll decide if we want
Speaker 2: to make that trip to Oxford. And you know they
Speaker 2: decided not to make that trip. So again, we've got
Speaker 2: the rest of the weekend. We'll get into it a
Speaker 2: little bit in the five o'clock hour here to talk
Speaker 2: about some of the big matchups coming up this upcoming weekend.
Speaker 2: But the NFL not over yet. We've got Monday Night
Speaker 2: football tonight. I've got some picks I want to share
Speaker 2: with you guys for underdog Fantasy. I've got what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna what I'm gonna put together and hopefully I win
Speaker 2: some money. I know I was happy to see that
Speaker 2: that win yesterday on the Underdog Fantasy apps. So again
Speaker 2: we'll get to that in the five o'clock hour and
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