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Speaker 2: Now, here's Nick coffee. We've got some breaking news here
Speaker 2: to get the four o'clock hours started. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think the news actually broke, you know, before four o'clock,
Speaker 2: but I'm just now seeing it, so I'll share with
Speaker 2: you guys. So if I'm late, you know, I apologize.
Speaker 2: But I think it's worth mentioning because conference relignment is
Speaker 2: is is weird, and it moves the needle people who
Speaker 2: have no like there's no there's nothing with the PAC
Speaker 2: twelve Mountain West American. Like that's what's happening. Now. There's
Speaker 2: leagues in fear that the new PAC twelve is going
Speaker 2: to poach their members, but like, think about how many
Speaker 2: fans do not have anything to do with that where
Speaker 2: their program won't be impacted. But like it's I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's like a game of musical chairs. But this is
Speaker 2: I mean again, I think this is a surprise, but
Speaker 2: also now that I give it some thought, I'm not
Speaker 2: that surprised. So the let me just make sure I've
Speaker 2: got it right here. So the PAC twelve they have
Speaker 2: and I hate even calling at the PAC twelve because
Speaker 2: it's not that like by a technicality, from like a
Speaker 2: legal standpoint, I think they're able to say that, but
Speaker 2: like they're not. They were the leftovers and now they're
Speaker 2: just trying to honestly what they're trying to do, and
Speaker 2: it's just the facts. I can't really say I blame them,
Speaker 2: because it's all about survival. You got to look out
Speaker 2: for yourself. But but Washington State and Oregon State, they
Speaker 2: spent over a year claiming that they were basically the
Speaker 2: victims of big business in college sports, just to turn
Speaker 2: around and build a league that does the exact same
Speaker 2: thing and go out and try to poach other members
Speaker 2: of lower leagues and that would probably you know, ruin them.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're doing the exact same thing that they were,
Speaker 2: you know, and they were victims and they cried about it.
Speaker 2: So again I'm not really sure, like most wouldn't do
Speaker 2: the same thing. But I don't know, like they should
Speaker 2: have just realized what happened, realized who they were, and
Speaker 2: just said, okay, yeah, well joined the Mountain West and
Speaker 2: like and and and nobody would have had it or not,
Speaker 2: like nobody would have They're not relevant enough for people
Speaker 2: to make fun of, Like, damn, look at y'all on
Speaker 2: the Mountain West now, like because again, quite literally, let's
Speaker 2: go back ten years ago. If you would have said
Speaker 2: the Power five in ten years will be the Power four.
Speaker 2: And here's how it's gonna move around. You tell me
Speaker 2: which two schools you think are gonna be left out.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt these two schools would have been in
Speaker 2: the in the mix.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they you would have guessed them,
Speaker 2: maybe somebody would. But again, like if you're Vandy, you're
Speaker 2: a You're in a great league, and everybody need you
Speaker 2: need a punching bag. The Vandy punching bag is going
Speaker 2: to be needed in the SEC for a long time.
Speaker 2: So anyways, Washington State and Oregon State are trying to
Speaker 2: you know, and I and I say them because they're
Speaker 2: the only two teams there. They did, in fact, get
Speaker 2: what was it, four Mountain West teams to join them,
Speaker 2: Boise Fresno, which, by the way, neither of those are states,
Speaker 2: but Boise State and Fresno State, uh Co, Diego State,
Speaker 2: the other Norned state, and the Colorado State. So you know,
Speaker 2: that's a start, but that's clearly a punch to the
Speaker 2: gut to the Mountain West, There's no doubt about that. Well,
Speaker 2: Memphis two Lane in South Florida have all declined offers
Speaker 2: to join the PAC twelve and are going to remain
Speaker 2: in the AAC. So the PAC twelve is now going
Speaker 2: to be looking for other schools that are a little
Speaker 2: bit more within their geographic footprint. I suppose like UNLV
Speaker 2: utass State, Air Force, Gonzaga for basketball only, you know,
Speaker 2: and I think Memphis two Lane in South Florida. My
Speaker 2: guess here is that the reason they decline this is
Speaker 2: because they realize it's not that big of a difference
Speaker 2: for us, right, Like your neighborhood might be a little nicer.
Speaker 2: Gary Parrish does radio in Memphis and also covers college basketball.
Speaker 2: I heard him talking about this earlier today, and he's right.
Speaker 2: The PAC twelve would be a better neighborhood. You'll feel
Speaker 2: a little better about where you reside. Your neighbors are
Speaker 2: a little bit more superior than the bulk of what
Speaker 2: is in the American Athletic Conference. Right, However, it's not
Speaker 2: that big of a difference. And think about the travel
Speaker 2: you'd have to I mean, like it's just not worth it.
Speaker 2: You know, it would be like a very sad and
Speaker 2: desperate attempt to claim that you are in fact a
Speaker 2: power level school when in reality, no matter who ends
Speaker 2: up in this PAC twelve, they're not gonna like it's
Speaker 2: power four. Now it just is, and it's split up
Speaker 2: in two. There's two that are much more superior from
Speaker 2: a financial standpoint, and that's the Big Ten in the SEC,
Speaker 2: and then there's the ACC, who I think is now
Speaker 2: firmly in third, and then we'll see, you know, I
Speaker 2: think that's the real question in the future, is that
Speaker 2: who's gonna consistently fight for that third spot. I mean,
Speaker 2: we know who's gonna fight for, but who's gonna get it?
Speaker 2: Is it gonna be the Big ten or the Big
Speaker 2: twelve or the ACC. So I don't think anybody would
Speaker 2: have expected the American to retain schools that had an
Speaker 2: option to go to a PAC twelve who used to
Speaker 2: be a power league. But like I think it's just
Speaker 2: people using their brains and realizing, Yeah, USC in Washington
Speaker 2: and UCLA in Oregon, they're having insane travel Now Texas
Speaker 2: is having much different travel arrangements because they're in the SEC,
Speaker 2: right like we all but they also can handle that
Speaker 2: much better than you would ever be able to. Like
Speaker 2: Memphis two Lane in South Florida, they don't have the
Speaker 2: ability to. I mean, it's it's quite literally the best
Speaker 2: example I can give you right now of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is college, this is pro sports on steroids, Texas,
Speaker 2: Oregon that stuff, whereas yeah, there's nil players are getting
Speaker 2: paid at places like TWU Lane and Memphis, but like
Speaker 2: they don't have the resources to be able to just
Speaker 2: say yeah, let's do it and we'll worry about the
Speaker 2: finances later. Like they probably crunched some numbers and said,
Speaker 2: we don't even know for sure what the TV deal
Speaker 2: would look like in the Mountain West, we can't afford this.
Speaker 2: So I'm actually happy that they're staying in the American
Speaker 2: I don't really care, but like I think Washington State
Speaker 2: and Oregon State felt superior, like we'll go get anybody
Speaker 2: we want that's not in the acc SEC Big ten
Speaker 2: or Big twelve, and that's clearly not not gonna You
Speaker 2: can't do that because again, you know it's mean. But
Speaker 2: here's the here's the facts. You got left out for
Speaker 2: a reason. No, nobody, you were never a school that
Speaker 2: the other four probably even considered a little bit when
Speaker 2: it comes to expansion, just because you're who you are.
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Speaker 2: LNFCU dot com. All right, so question came in earlier
Speaker 2: on the text line. What I would say our biggest
Speaker 2: weakness is right now for Louisville football after three games.
Speaker 2: It's tough to say, but I will say this, quarterbacks
Speaker 2: have been able to run on us and Jeff talked
Speaker 2: about that today at the press conference. Just that they
Speaker 2: want to do a better job at keeping quarterbacks for
Speaker 2: being able to do that. Obviously, Jacksonville State's quarterback had
Speaker 2: a heck of a day. And then Haines King, who
Speaker 2: I think is a good player, Look again, he had
Speaker 2: I mean, he was a thread on the ground last
Speaker 2: year against some really good teams. So sometimes guys are
Speaker 2: just gonna make plays, and Haines King did that on Saturday.
Speaker 2: But again, I mean, fifty eight yards for a quarterback
Speaker 2: not ideal, but you know it wasn't as it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't to the point where like he was gashing
Speaker 2: you and you had no answer. So I worry about
Speaker 2: that a little bit. And defensively, I mean, Louisville made
Speaker 2: good plays, made big plays when it mattered, right, some
Speaker 2: fourth down stops. I mean Georgia Tech was three of
Speaker 2: five on fourth down. Louisville was one of one on
Speaker 2: fourth down. Georgia Tech was four or fifteen on third down.
Speaker 2: I mean that's I don't like that you gave up
Speaker 2: four hundred and ten yards total, but you know, overall,
Speaker 2: like the defense did a good enough job. You held
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech ten nineteen points. So I can't sider and
Speaker 2: say that the defense is like an issue or a concern.
Speaker 2: But maybe The reason that I'm spinning my wheels here
Speaker 2: is because maybe I'm expecting them to be perfect, which
Speaker 2: I don't know why I would do that. They were
Speaker 2: really good last year and they've been pretty good this year,
Speaker 2: all things considered. But you know, just because a big play.
Speaker 2: And I'm talking to myself here, so Nick, chill out,
Speaker 2: just because a big play breaks loose every now, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean your defense has issues. But I just
Speaker 2: think visually it looks like they don't have guys lined
Speaker 2: up where they need to be at times. It looks
Speaker 2: like at times there's some confusion. Now they're playing hard again,
Speaker 2: they're getting big stops when it matters. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think Louisville's defense when they do have big
Speaker 2: plays that you know, big plays that happen against this defense,
Speaker 2: where you don't feel like it was just a dude
Speaker 2: making a play. You feel like it was a mistake
Speaker 2: on your part. Nobody's perfect, But I don't think Louisville
Speaker 2: has a personnel problem defensively. I think they've got really
Speaker 2: good depth upfront. I think they really like what they
Speaker 2: have in the secondary. I mean, I think it's quite
Speaker 2: clear you're you know stan Kuon Clark is is I
Speaker 2: think living up to what a lot of people expected
Speaker 2: when it when you know, when you look at him
Speaker 2: being a guy to kind of emerge as a as
Speaker 2: a as a consistent you know, all acc type performer.
Speaker 2: And some of the transfers that have come in have
Speaker 2: been good, I mean Nicholson McDonald. So you know, long
Speaker 2: winded response there, but like, yeah, I would say quarterbacks
Speaker 2: are getting loose on us has been something that has
Speaker 2: concerned me, especially when you know you're going to play
Speaker 2: some good quarterbacks moving forward. But I think I'm nitpicking
Speaker 2: a little bit to like say the defense has been underwhelming,
Speaker 2: because again, you know they haven't. And here's what's also
Speaker 2: weird that like just frustrates me that you know nothing
Speaker 2: you can do about it. That was really your flight
Speaker 2: right now? Is it? Is it safe to say that
Speaker 2: we really only have one game to take data from
Speaker 2: because whatever happened, even though it was impressive, it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what you did against Jacksonville State and Austin p
Speaker 2: I mean, those numbers don't have I mean again they
Speaker 2: count when you go look at your averages and your
Speaker 2: stay like they're there. But we really right now as
Speaker 2: of September twenty third, I think really only have one
Speaker 2: real game to take stuff from. And you know, I
Speaker 2: don't think Louisville was clean against Georgia Tech, but I
Speaker 2: think Georgia Tech has been known under Brent Key to
Speaker 2: be able to do that. They they had it hectic
Speaker 2: for Georgia. George only beat him by score last year
Speaker 2: when they played. You know, there's a reason brin Key
Speaker 2: has been able to muddy it up and win games
Speaker 2: where he's supposed to be the loser. Right, He's got
Speaker 2: a great record. Again, there's not many teams. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'll pull it up here and again this I don't
Speaker 2: want to gasp Brint Key up too much because you know,
Speaker 2: it's not like he's about to become the next Nick Saban,
Speaker 2: although he did work for Nick Saban. But you know,
Speaker 2: going into that game, he had a track record of
Speaker 2: not only being able to keep it closer than what
Speaker 2: the game actually was, but also when outright. I mean again,
Speaker 2: if you look at yeah right here, let me make
Speaker 2: sure I've got yeah. So brin Key. He's now thirteen
Speaker 2: and four against the spread with ten outright wins as
Speaker 2: an underdog. He was thirteen and three going into that game,
Speaker 2: So you know, beating them the way you did is
Speaker 2: kind of how a lot of teams are gonna probably
Speaker 2: beat them, and even really good teams at times. Again,
Speaker 2: Georgia did it last year, and I don't I know,
Speaker 2: we keep I keep bringing up last year's Georgia Tech team,
Speaker 2: but they are a rare team where what made them
Speaker 2: have any level of like hype going into this season
Speaker 2: was because of what they brought back. Usually it's guys
Speaker 2: in the portal. They brought back three players last year
Speaker 2: offensively that really got better as the year went on.
Speaker 2: So again, one thing I want to say real quick
Speaker 2: before we move on from the Georgia Tech thing, when
Speaker 2: they gave Brent Key that time out. And by the way,
Speaker 2: thank you to somebody on the text line who sent
Speaker 2: in a screenshot from their TV, like a picture of
Speaker 2: and I guess it's not a screenshow, but it's a
Speaker 2: picture of their TV. They paused it. You are so
Speaker 2: you hear this during the during the NFL games and
Speaker 2: do college college games they have rules analysts they do,
Speaker 2: don't they? Yes? Yeah, I don't know why, but I
Speaker 2: feel like they're not as not as utilized because Honestly,
Speaker 2: they're not necessary. Doesn't matter, like they don't bother me,
Speaker 2: But there's such a waste of time because they don't.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of these most of the time
Speaker 2: we have eyeballs. Therefore, like we can see it. We
Speaker 2: don't need you to ask Mike Pereira what happened we
Speaker 2: were watching? We know, yeah, ball came out. Now, they
Speaker 2: are valuable when they bring up things like very specific
Speaker 2: rules that maybe people don't know about because of a
Speaker 2: unique situation within a play. And that's this I've heard
Speaker 2: these guys say. It's not about when you signaled for it,
Speaker 2: it's about when the time out was actually granted to you.
Speaker 2: And he got his time out granted to him after
Speaker 2: the play had already started. The snap went over his head.
Speaker 2: I mean, and you know that's that's incompetence from an
Speaker 2: official that could have cost you a game. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know, rep's make mistake every game, but like that
Speaker 2: got me so hot. But I'm now seeing this picture
Speaker 2: that you sent in on the text line, and yeah,
Speaker 2: it's even worse than I realized as far as when
Speaker 2: he actually even it's one thing for him to be granted,
Speaker 2: but he didn't even signal for the time out until
Speaker 2: he clearly knew that that it was a disaster, and
Speaker 2: he did have that crab beaten grin look on his face.
Speaker 2: After the fact, he's pretty stoked. Like he doesn't change
Speaker 2: his expressions much, but I could just tell by looking
Speaker 2: at him he knew he got away with something there.
Speaker 2: Like most, he felt lucky that he was granted that
Speaker 2: time out, So the hell with those refs? Can I
Speaker 2: tell you something that I'm thinking? Speaking of refs, John,
Speaker 2: we were at my son's football game on Saturday and
Speaker 2: it was a heartbreaker. He lost in overtime and he
Speaker 2: cried his little eyes out at four years old, and
Speaker 2: it was so sweet, but also it broke my heart.
Speaker 2: But it was also a cool moment because, like I
Speaker 2: was the I had to carry him down to the
Speaker 2: down to midfield so he could get in line and
Speaker 2: shake hands with the other team, which he did. He was,
Speaker 2: you know, he just sad. He was he had his
Speaker 2: first loss, and he didn't know what that felt like.
Speaker 2: He didn't know what that was, and he was like,
Speaker 2: wait a second, we didn't win because the team played
Speaker 2: so good. I was so proud of those kids, man,
Speaker 2: and I was into it. I was running up and
Speaker 2: down the sideline, not like on the grass, but like
Speaker 2: by the because we got a little we got a
Speaker 2: little running back on our team that he's I mean,
Speaker 2: he's got some wheels on him. He had a couple
Speaker 2: of big time runs. So shout out to Joey and
Speaker 2: Maverick who played great for us and helped us, you know,
Speaker 2: potentially get another victory, but we lost in overtime. It's
Speaker 2: a great game overall. But my buddy who is one
Speaker 2: of the coaches, his son's on the team as well,
Speaker 2: Coach Steve. He's kind of like our sideline GM where
Speaker 2: he'll he'll be the one to get on the revs.
Speaker 2: He'll be because you've got to keep these kids organized,
Speaker 2: right Like we're in overtime about to you know, try
Speaker 2: to get a stop here to end the game. We
Speaker 2: got a kid that's got to come out because he
Speaker 2: refuses to put his mouthpiece in, and you know, it's
Speaker 2: crunch time. John and the kids like, yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to put it in, and you're not allowed
Speaker 2: to play if you have. So like we got we
Speaker 2: got parents, coaches running on the field holding a kid
Speaker 2: to get him out there in time and then picking
Speaker 2: up the kid that won't put his mouthpiece in to
Speaker 2: run off, and we're all like, yeah, it's just I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like we all are sounds wild watch little
Speaker 1: kid football, but that sounds nuts.
Speaker 2: I would be a liar if I told you that,
Speaker 2: like it was entertaining, but like when you have a
Speaker 2: it is wild experience because the only people that would
Speaker 2: be interested is like watching their kids play. And at
Speaker 2: times I say it's not really football. But I will
Speaker 2: say this, I hate the rules of flag football. I
Speaker 2: think sometimes they're actually very counterproductive to teaching kids how
Speaker 2: to play football. But then again, like you can't really
Speaker 2: play football they're four, But you know now they're getting better,
Speaker 2: right like anything in life, repetition practice. You know, none
Speaker 2: of these kids have played football before they're four and
Speaker 2: five years old, right, so now that we're practicing, we're
Speaker 2: getting better, we're playing hard. So I'm no longer gonna
Speaker 2: say because one of the parents took issue with me
Speaker 2: saying this it's not really football, Well you're right, because
Speaker 2: now they're playing football, flag football that is, and they're
Speaker 2: getting better and it's awesome. But the reason now brought
Speaker 2: up the whole sideline thing was that my buddy Steve,
Speaker 2: who's one of the coaches, you know, I told him
Speaker 2: because I'm the guy that yells like, tell that ref
Speaker 2: that he tackled him and they didn't call it start
Speaker 2: the clock, Like I like, that's me, Like I'm not
Speaker 2: a coach, but like I'm coaching from the sideline, but
Speaker 2: not like coaching my coaching staff. Like I'm just you know,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not becoming that parent. And I told my
Speaker 2: buddy Steve. I was like, hey, make sure you get
Speaker 2: in the ear work those zebras talking about the officials.
Speaker 2: And my wife had never heard that referees can be
Speaker 2: referred to as zebras, and she thought it was so
Speaker 2: funny and laughed. And I didn't have the heart to
Speaker 2: like be like, yeah, I'm that funny, I'm that clever.
Speaker 2: And then I told her, like, you realize that's like
Speaker 2: a thing, right, She was like what, I've never heard
Speaker 2: that before. And I was like I could have been like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just made it up. I'm not funny. That's why
Speaker 2: that's why I work in the entertainment business. Connie. It's
Speaker 2: you know, you married, But you know, it got me
Speaker 2: thinking like there may be some other references within sports
Speaker 2: that like are out there. They're like, oh you know,
Speaker 2: they're they're played out, Like you know, it's not funny
Speaker 2: to anybody. It still gets referenced, but like she may
Speaker 2: hear for the first time and just think, man, Nick,
Speaker 2: you're so funny. So I love you so much, So
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I'll start thinking away to look,
Speaker 2: when you've been married this long, you always got to
Speaker 2: stay creative in ways to enter, you know, to to
Speaker 2: impress your significant other.
Speaker 1: And if I can, she also think that if kids
Speaker 1: didn't make weight, they got kicked off.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Like I couldn't control my laughter
Speaker 2: when she told me that, and she was so relieved
Speaker 2: that she was wrong. But then she started realizing, hey,
Speaker 2: can you not like talk about that to people? And
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh sure, honey, And then you know, I've
Speaker 2: talked about it many times on this show. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's just you married into content, baby, That's just that's life.
Speaker 2: That that's the life you chose, you know what you
Speaker 2: signed up for. But yes, so for those who don't know,
Speaker 2: little league football at every level, like to be a
Speaker 2: ball carrier, you have to wait, you have to make weight,
Speaker 2: you got it you can't be too heavy, and if
Speaker 2: you're heavy, they put x'es on your helmet and just
Speaker 2: I think this makes sense. What do you think, John,
Speaker 2: there's no limit for flag football because you're not being tackled,
Speaker 2: but they still go through the process of the way
Speaker 2: and thing. That way, kids can get more like they
Speaker 2: know that it's coming when they get older. They're not
Speaker 2: self conscious if they do, in fact get old like,
Speaker 2: they're gonna know, hey, I'm probably not gonna be a
Speaker 2: ball carrier. Like usually at every level of litle league football,
Speaker 2: I would say, you've got a small group of kids
Speaker 2: that you do have to kind of monitor are they
Speaker 2: going to be born line or not. Most of the kids,
Speaker 2: you know, there's no way they're going to be too heavy.
Speaker 2: And there's some kids you know there's no way they're
Speaker 2: going to be light enough. But we were in DestinE
Speaker 2: when they did the weigh ends for our for our
Speaker 2: organization overdoll chief shout out to the chiefs that we
Speaker 2: were in DestinE and and you know, there were a
Speaker 2: certain amount of kids on our older team that didn't
Speaker 2: make weight to carry the ball. And these are these
Speaker 2: are kids that are six and seven, and my wife
Speaker 2: thought that like if you didn't make weight, you couldn't
Speaker 2: like you couldn't play, Like they just basically would tell
Speaker 2: your parents, yeah, you got a fat ass kid. Maybe
Speaker 2: you could get him on a diet bring him back
Speaker 2: next year. Like I asked her, like, do you think
Speaker 2: they She was like, she's like, that's so sad. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, honey, I'm sure a lot of these
Speaker 2: kids know like, hey, I'm a lineman, I know where
Speaker 2: I am. I'm going to push people around. And she
Speaker 2: was like, but now they don't get to play. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, what you think that they just tell
Speaker 2: them they can't play? And she was like yeah, And
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, honey. But she was so
Speaker 2: happy to know that these kids weren't called fat asses
Speaker 2: and sent home. They got to play. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: love talking sports with my wife, not too because, like
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, she's because she knows sports, like she's
Speaker 2: I mean, she's she was screaming in the game like
Speaker 2: she knows. I don't want to make her out to
Speaker 2: be somebody who she watches sports, but like there's Little
Speaker 2: League stuff that she'd never know, right, Like she you know,
Speaker 2: she's probably not been around a lot of people in
Speaker 2: her social life that are screaming stuff at the referees
Speaker 2: and calling him zebra, So it makes sense that she'd
Speaker 2: never heard that. But yeah, I mean what I really
Speaker 2: really thought was so sweet was many many years ago.
Speaker 2: This is like right after we got married, when she
Speaker 2: started really getting into watching U of L Games. I
Speaker 2: think it was one of the Charlie Strong teams. You know,
Speaker 2: she kept her first, she kept saying friend, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess they're friends. And then like she kept doing
Speaker 2: it and I'm like, are you talking about his teammates.
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, his friend, he's friends, wide open. I'm like,
Speaker 2: they may not, like, honey, like, that's not you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't have the heart to tell her, don't call
Speaker 2: them that, because maybe she's right they are friends. Right, technically,
Speaker 2: she's not wrong. I mean, you would assume guys on
Speaker 2: the same team are friends at least out there when
Speaker 2: they're playing and competing, because you know, you want to win.
Speaker 2: You got to be on the same page. Anyways, shout
Speaker 2: out to my wife, all right, quick break, we'll come
Speaker 2: back on the other side. I don't want to let
Speaker 2: you hear when we return. Jeff Brohm. He was asked
Speaker 2: about the recruitment process when he played many many moons
Speaker 2: ago because he was recruited by Notre Dame and it
Speaker 2: just hit me in the fields. It reminded me that,
Speaker 2: you know, Brian, Jeff, even my man g Big Greg,
Speaker 2: like they picked Louisville when it wasn't the cool thing
Speaker 2: to do right. They were hometown you know, heroes, but
Speaker 2: like you know, Brian could have gone to Notre Dame
Speaker 2: or Tennessee whenever they were like, you know, Tennessee. So anyways,
Speaker 2: we'll let you guys hear that and keep this thing
Speaker 2: rolling along. We will get into the NFL as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just gonna tell you straight up, I'm
Speaker 2: never betting on the NFL again, Never gonna do it.
Speaker 2: And who the hell's good? Have we ever been three
Speaker 2: weeks in without any clarity as far as who's good
Speaker 2: and who's not? Stick with us right here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. But halfway through here on
Speaker 2: a Monday, if you are gonna be out and about,
Speaker 2: maybe you're not listening to us on the IHET radio app.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're in your vehicle. Just no, you could take
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Speaker 2: somebody on the text line mentioned that their their kid
Speaker 2: just graduated high school last year and hearing me talk
Speaker 2: about my son playing football at four and five years old,
Speaker 2: is is you know, making them miss those days? And
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll miss him whenever, you know, whenever they're
Speaker 2: not whenever he gets older. So yeah, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna live in the moment and enjoy it. That's what
Speaker 2: we're doing. It's fun. I didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 2: I don't think you really know what to expect with
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff whenever you know you're doing things
Speaker 2: for the first time as a parent, like getting your
Speaker 2: kids involved in sports. But it's been it's been a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. I love this team so much. Like
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know the kids. Any couple of
Speaker 2: them I know, but a lot of them I just
Speaker 2: know them because they're on my son's team and I
Speaker 2: see him at practice every day and whatnot. And I'm
Speaker 2: I was so proud of them on Saturday for playing
Speaker 2: hard and in a weird way. Maybe this makes me
Speaker 2: sound like a sick and twisted human being, but like
Speaker 2: I wasn't happy to see it. It made me sad, but
Speaker 2: to see the emotion they had knowing they lost, like again,
Speaker 2: that's like again, yes, that sound like such an a hole.
Speaker 2: Like that was good. It was a good thing. It
Speaker 2: wasn't but like I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's inevitable. Yeah, it means they care to get that age,
Speaker 1: Like it's sense. I mean maybe it's early, but it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's a cool experience.
Speaker 2: And like instincts kick in. Like you know, I'm sure
Speaker 2: if my son chooses to play sports as he gets older,
Speaker 2: and you know, his team loses when he's in high
Speaker 2: school or something, in basketball or football or whatever, like
Speaker 2: I would hope that he's not crime. Maybe he is,
Speaker 2: but like you know, I'm gonna be there to try
Speaker 2: to help him, you know. And I had to do
Speaker 2: that for the first time on Saturday, and you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like it wasn't it wasn't fun, but you know,
Speaker 2: I was happy to be there. That's why I like,
Speaker 2: you know, if that would have happened and it worked
Speaker 2: out to where, like I couldn't be there because of
Speaker 2: a Louisville game like I would have I would have
Speaker 2: felt like the worst person in the world, which I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been. Like some people can't go to their
Speaker 2: kids games because they have priorities, they've got jobs, they've
Speaker 2: got they got to look out for the family's livelihood.
Speaker 2: But it's been a lot of fun watching them, that's
Speaker 2: for sure, in his first year playing. All Right, let's
Speaker 2: go to the phone line. Five two, five' seven one
Speaker 2: seventy nine hundred is the number if you want to
Speaker 2: give us a call. Let's go to Allison. Allison, you're
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good, Nick, How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Great? Great to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nick, you can't be a blessed thing.
Speaker 2: And ah, it's true, not possible, right I Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Blessed Nana makes it to where like even if I
Speaker 2: wanted to be in Ahole, I don't think it'd be possible.
Speaker 2: I think you're right, Alison.
Speaker 3: And Saturday was pretty hot out there, so kudos to
Speaker 3: your wife. I know mine stuck it out too, and
Speaker 3: I was appreciating every second of it. But talking about
Speaker 3: your story earlier, I had two guys behind me with
Speaker 3: her wife, and the wife she said, oh, on the goodness,
Speaker 3: what is that they're throwing all out on the field,
Speaker 3: And the husband just put his head down and he said, honey,
Speaker 3: those are penalty flacks. And I thought, boy, we are
Speaker 3: doing good here then. So that that was a great
Speaker 3: moment that I had on Saturday that.
Speaker 2: Probably made you feel as if you got an expert
Speaker 2: on your hands compared to some people who have no
Speaker 2: clue how any of this works right.
Speaker 3: And another thing, I kind of have a question, and
Speaker 3: maybe John having another fan base too on this, why
Speaker 3: do opposing teams. I see a lot of Kentucky fans
Speaker 3: come to home Louisville games the same times that their
Speaker 3: teams are playing. And maybe this isn't done across the country,
Speaker 3: but I mean I had quite a few Kentucky cars
Speaker 3: with license plates that they got out and playing close
Speaker 3: and just walked into the UFL game, And I think,
Speaker 3: and your team is playing right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially when it's that hot, it's not convenient
Speaker 2: to be outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, my buddy is a diehard k
Speaker 3: game a fan and he lives close and like he
Speaker 3: went to the game and I'm like, why your team's playing.
Speaker 3: So I was just curious, you know, if you've seen
Speaker 3: it before or it happens to other places. I'm just
Speaker 3: curious because I would never catch myself going to another
Speaker 3: game when my team was playing.
Speaker 2: So I hang up, thank you, Allison. So that's a
Speaker 2: good question when it comes to real quick before on
Speaker 2: the in there are. Sports has been the part of
Speaker 2: my life forever as long as I can remember, Like
Speaker 2: whenever I was a kid, like it was all I
Speaker 2: did was basketball, and then you know, when I worked
Speaker 2: a real job for a while, it was it was
Speaker 2: my hobby, my passion. You know. When I wasn't working,
Speaker 2: I was trying to, you know, find a way to
Speaker 2: create a career for myself with something in sports. And
Speaker 2: now now I'm fortunate that that's the case. So when
Speaker 2: you're in your own bubble, you know, you like when
Speaker 2: I hear that people don't watch football on Saturdays and
Speaker 2: they don't watch the NFL, and the hell's what's wrong
Speaker 2: with you? But everybody's different, like I. So I say
Speaker 2: that to defend people who do, in fact, you know,
Speaker 2: at times say things and really show that they have
Speaker 2: they have zero knowledge about even the most basic level
Speaker 2: stuff when it comes to sports, and it sounds ridiculous
Speaker 2: to us, and I think it is. But you know,
Speaker 2: everybody's got their own interests, their own hobbies, so you know,
Speaker 2: I can't relate, but you know, everybody's different. So back
Speaker 2: to your question about fans from other teams showing up
Speaker 2: to games, I can't. First of all, if you live
Speaker 2: in Louisville and you are a Kentucky fan and you
Speaker 2: have like a significant other, you have family, you have
Speaker 2: you know, somebody that is close to you that is
Speaker 2: a fan, and they want you to go, like that's fine.
Speaker 2: Like again, you can do whatever you want, Like you
Speaker 2: can go and you can buy season tickets to Louisville
Speaker 2: football games and be a Kentucky fan if you want.
Speaker 2: I don't know why you do that, but again, do
Speaker 2: what you want to do. But that at least makes
Speaker 2: it make sense. And I have a lot of like again,
Speaker 2: my I have like my my my mom die heard
Speaker 2: Louisville fan. I mean, she's one of the reasons why
Speaker 2: I'm a big Louisll fan. My stepdad diehard Kentucky fan,
Speaker 2: he's one of I think he clearly wants to see
Speaker 2: Kentucky beat Louisville's brains at any time they play. But
Speaker 2: like I do know because I've known him a long time,
Speaker 2: He's not somebody that is just thinking about, oh man,
Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch those cards play so they lose,
Speaker 2: And I think he would go to a game and
Speaker 2: not really care about what happens, or maybe find himself
Speaker 2: cheering for Louisville. But he's a rare exception. But like, again,
Speaker 2: imagine being married to somebody and you know they want
Speaker 2: to go watch their team play twice in a twelve
Speaker 2: game season, and both times your team is playing, and
Speaker 2: you're like, uh, sorry, honey, you can't go. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna go, you better go with somebody else because I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be home watching my team. Like I mean, that
Speaker 2: may sound like a terrible thing to do as a husband,
Speaker 2: Like I probably do the same thing, but that's why
Speaker 2: i'd never married. No house divided with me.
Speaker 1: Like I've denied going to UK games because I'm an
Speaker 1: Indiana fan and i have no reason to want to
Speaker 1: be at a UK game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so let me ask you this though, like
Speaker 2: is it because you're just like I'll never walk foot
Speaker 2: in that place or it's just like that's not something
Speaker 2: at all I want to do.
Speaker 1: So I feel like people like the five of friend
Speaker 1: laws right in laws and then friends who lived in Washington.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Hey, you want to come out and hang
Speaker 1: out and go to the UK game. I'm like, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll come hang out, but I'm not going to
Speaker 1: sit there and cheer for Kentucky. I just want to
Speaker 1: let you know.
Speaker 2: That I can't imagine just randomly making plans to go
Speaker 2: to a Kentucky game. But I also can even say
Speaker 2: that there's ever been like a convenience thing of it
Speaker 2: because I'm not in Lexton. I live in Louisville. I
Speaker 2: did go to a Kentucky game. I don't really remember
Speaker 2: it when my when my friends went to school there,
Speaker 2: we tailgated and they had an extra ticket back in
Speaker 2: like two thousand and seven, maybe six, maybe two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight, and I ended up making it in for
Speaker 2: like a half and it was, you know, it was
Speaker 2: I was. I got really hammered at the tailgate and
Speaker 2: don't really remember a lot about it. But like, I
Speaker 2: didn't go in wearing Mississippi state gear or Kentucky gear.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what I Again, I don't remember much
Speaker 2: about it. Probably shouldn't, you know. I'm not bragging about that,
Speaker 2: but like just being honest with you. So again, I
Speaker 2: if you go to a if you go to a
Speaker 2: Louisville game wearing UK stuff while Kentucky is playing at
Speaker 2: the same time, I can't really think of any scenario
Speaker 2: where that would that would be not weird, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like, maybe it is in fact that, hey,
Speaker 2: I lost a bet to my buddy and I told
Speaker 2: him i'd go or something. I don't know, something like that.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure there are some legitimate reasons. If you
Speaker 2: talk to somebody, they would tell you like, well, funny
Speaker 2: you asked, here's how I ended up here while my
Speaker 2: team's playing and I'm watching Louisville in one of their seats.
Speaker 2: Like maybe they are crazy stories and you can do
Speaker 2: whatever you want to do. The more people there, that's
Speaker 2: good for Louisville, I suppose, But yeah, I just can't.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't relate. I don't really get why
Speaker 2: people do that. And the biggest reason, I guess, the
Speaker 2: biggest factor is that there are a ton, and I
Speaker 2: mean a ton of Kentucky fans that live in Louisville,
Speaker 2: So if you saw them there on Saturday, one odd
Speaker 2: that they would choose to come to this game when like,
Speaker 2: I feel like you're a dedicated fan if you're there
Speaker 2: in that heat, because it was brutal, But Kentucky was
Speaker 2: playing a little bit earlier, and they were playing a
Speaker 2: team that you know, the game was over pretty early
Speaker 2: because they were killing them. So maybe that's maybe that's
Speaker 2: how that ended up happening. But it's look, I've seen it.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've never done a vibe check at any
Speaker 2: Louisville game that did not have Kentucky fans there wearing
Speaker 2: Kentucky gear, like you know, so Alison, I'm sure, like
Speaker 2: you know if you are Actually I don't know, John,
Speaker 2: not that you go to like all the Indiana games,
Speaker 2: but like, would it be crazy to see a guy
Speaker 2: wearing Purdue gear at an IU game when I use
Speaker 2: playing you know, Tulane.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I've not been to nearly as
Speaker 1: many Indiana games in person. It's because it's, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot farther away than where I live from.
Speaker 2: But I feel like that would be unusual. But I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't want.
Speaker 1: To think it's definitely a lot more unusual because obviously
Speaker 1: Indiana is the bigger school in the state of Indiana,
Speaker 1: whereas here in Louisville, Kentucky still reigns supreme in the state,
Speaker 1: so it's a lot easier to find.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's Tucky fans. And that's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, like nobody wants to hear this, and I'm not, like,
Speaker 2: trust me, this isn't like I'm trying to dunk on anybody.
Speaker 2: It's just a fact that I hear people try to ignore,
Speaker 2: and that is that there are a lot of Kentucky
Speaker 2: fans that live here. I don't know if we'll ever
Speaker 2: find out the true divide of how many, but like
Speaker 2: I'm well aware this city has a lot of Kentucky fans,
Speaker 2: which is why I like I would this just from
Speaker 2: what I've experienced whenever I have interviewed, because they're because
Speaker 2: they're the first people I want to talk to vibe
Speaker 2: check right, like what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: And usually they'll have fun with it. And nobody's ever
Speaker 2: been like nasty towards me. However, you know, just from
Speaker 2: the brief interaction that I have, I get the sense
Speaker 2: that they're not even really that, like they're just like
Speaker 2: they're just trying to be silly and they're not really
Speaker 2: a diehard, like they're just there because of the social aspect.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, oh yeah, I'm gonna wear
Speaker 2: Kentucky because actually that's my team. If I could ask,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like, because if you were
Speaker 2: really a diehard Kentucky fan, you would be watching Kentucky
Speaker 2: and not being at a Louisville game.
Speaker 1: I'll say this whenever I was a kid, and so
Speaker 1: maybe this isn't the exact same thing because I was
Speaker 1: a lot younger than adults who do this. But whenever
Speaker 1: I would get dragged too, And I hate saying using
Speaker 1: the term drag. That's kind of what it was, just
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to be at U of L games,
Speaker 1: but my family was U of L fans. If I
Speaker 1: would go to those games, but i'd rather be watching Indiana,
Speaker 1: i'd wear my Indiana stuff. Now, again, it's probably weird
Speaker 1: even though I was a child, I guess, but it's weird.
Speaker 1: There's something about I guess, just I don't know, wanting
Speaker 1: to have your colors on. Yeah, you're in the you know,
Speaker 1: maybe enemy territory even though you're not playing against that
Speaker 1: team's spect time.
Speaker 2: Hey, look, I don't want to make this just about
Speaker 2: but the Kentucky fan base as huge as it is,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned, there's a lot of them that do
Speaker 2: live here in Louisville. And if you've been listening to
Speaker 2: talk radio on this station for you know, as long
Speaker 2: as it's been around Job Denny the Underdogs when they
Speaker 2: first started with Tony and Adam, I'd bet more than
Speaker 2: half of the callers. Well, let you know ahead of time,
Speaker 2: I'm a Kentucky fan. So like if they go to
Speaker 2: a game, you damn right there where in their blue,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter who's playing, because that's their team, right like that,
Speaker 2: That's just kind of how they are. So I would
Speaker 2: say just because of that and that behavior, i'd be
Speaker 2: willing to answer Allison's question, I would say that it's
Speaker 2: probably not insanely rare that it happens elsewhere in different
Speaker 2: states with different schools and whatnot, but I would say
Speaker 2: it's way more like you're gonna have a much better
Speaker 2: like if you took if you took a bet, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm going to this game no matter where it is,
Speaker 2: and I mean it, No matter where it is, am
Speaker 2: I going to see at least one Kentucky fan wearing
Speaker 2: Kentucky blue at a Louisville game? You know, maybe you
Speaker 2: do end up getting the rare situation where you show
Speaker 2: up and there's not one, but odds are going to
Speaker 2: be in your favor that you're gonna see one. So
Speaker 2: I mean, if I was a UK like, I'll put
Speaker 2: it this way. If you are a again, you can do
Speaker 2: what you want. I'm not trying to tell Kentucky fans
Speaker 2: or any fan what to do. I'm just you know,
Speaker 2: trying to, I guess, relate and understand it as best
Speaker 2: as possible. If you go to a Louisville game and
Speaker 2: they're not playing Kentucky and you wear your your UK gear,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean people should harass you. It doesn't mean
Speaker 2: people should, like, you know, be awful to you, because
Speaker 2: nobody should be awful to anybody under really any circumstance
Speaker 2: unless you know they're responding to something. But you cannot
Speaker 2: play victim if you get ragged, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like you can't play like, you can't act like that's normal,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's not a crime, But like, dude,
Speaker 2: don't go to a Kentucky Louisvill game. We're in UK
Speaker 2: stuff and be like, oh there, cause, like that's what
Speaker 2: you mean, what do you expect?
Speaker 1: Does that ever happen that you feel like? You don't
Speaker 1: really hear of the Louisville people invading UK games? And again,
Speaker 1: I know there's not nearly as many of them, but
Speaker 1: are there people that that happens to?
Speaker 3: You think?
Speaker 2: Man, I'm sure that's happened before. Like I remember years
Speaker 2: ago Billy Gillespie or maybe it was Tubby. I think
Speaker 2: it was Billy. They were playing Vandy and Vandy was
Speaker 2: pretty good, and Vandy beat the breaks off of Kentucky
Speaker 2: and in the big student section for Vandy and there's
Speaker 2: you know, obviously their courts set up different, right, there's
Speaker 2: student section right there in the at mid court because
Speaker 2: the benches are behind the goals, which is weird. There
Speaker 2: was the front and center. There was a guy wearing
Speaker 2: U of L shirt and I remember it was National
Speaker 2: TV you could see it. And I'm sure it's happened
Speaker 2: since then elsewhere, but it's just rare because here's the thing,
Speaker 2: like Kentucky has way more fans than Louisville that doesn't.
Speaker 2: Like again, like people are afraid to say that it's
Speaker 2: just true. It doesn't mean that they're they're a better
Speaker 2: fan base or anything like that. It's just it's just true.
Speaker 2: So just because of that, it's a it's a rare
Speaker 2: it's a more rare thing to see from from the
Speaker 2: Louisville side of it. And like there are fans of
Speaker 2: Louisville and lex and they text into the show and
Speaker 2: we've had people calling like you know what's happening. You can
Speaker 2: move around or maybe you just grew up in Lexton,
Speaker 2: but you became a Louisville fan. So like they exist,
Speaker 2: but it's there's not that many compared to how many
Speaker 2: there are Blue. So yeah, I mean what I was
Speaker 2: gonna ask if you're a Kentucky fan, and I told you, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you wear UK blue while Louisville's playing somebody else,
Speaker 2: like that's just kind of a lame thing to do.
Speaker 2: I think most Kentucky fans actually agree, but clearly some
Speaker 2: don't and some go and they you know, I don't
Speaker 2: know what they're expecting. But I think more than anything, John,
Speaker 2: it might just be I mean, among many things, I
Speaker 2: think one of the big things is that they just
Speaker 2: have to at all times make sure you know who
Speaker 2: the hell by cheer for. Yeah, Nick love the show,
Speaker 2: Kentucky fan. But you know, I mean people, most people
Speaker 2: come up and talk to me, say that. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back short segments to wrap up
Speaker 2: the four o'clock hour. It's coffee and company. Feel about
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Speaker 2: coffee and company wrapping up the four o'clock hour. We
Speaker 2: got another hour ago, so stick with us, and we
Speaker 2: got another game week here that we are getting started,
Speaker 2: a big one Louisville heading up to South Bend to
Speaker 2: take on the Notre Dame fighting Irish. We had somebody
Speaker 2: asked this question earlier, and I think you're right. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm biased here, but I think even if I
Speaker 2: was able to be one thousand percent objective, which I
Speaker 2: think I can, But you know, I'm sure some people say,
Speaker 2: hell no, cardboy, you you know you got a bird
Speaker 2: brain Loserville man, Like you know, I get it. I
Speaker 2: know some people just refused to believe that you could ever,
Speaker 2: you know, be honest with yourself, even though you have
Speaker 2: a team. But who would you say is a better
Speaker 2: matchup in college football this weekend outside of Georgia and Alabama.
Speaker 2: That's the best game and it's not even close. I mean,
Speaker 2: in fact, it's like a standalone, like elite matchup. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's a chance that could be the best matchup of
Speaker 2: the year, Right, you got number two verse number four.
Speaker 1: I think the only other argument could be number nineteen
Speaker 1: Illinois ndefeated Illinois, I should say at number nine, Penn State.
Speaker 2: You you're just a Littleville hater, John, I'm just I'm kidding. No,
Speaker 2: that's that's a good one. I don't buy at Illinois
Speaker 2: like is anything. But then again, you know they are four.
Speaker 1: I'm buying them to cover. That's seventeen and a half
Speaker 1: against Penn State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's gonna end up being the game that
Speaker 2: a lot of people like if I had to bet it,
Speaker 2: which nobody cares about my bets, and I'm so sad
Speaker 2: about how bad I am at it right now that
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna not talk about it. But to me,
Speaker 2: that seems like the most obvious thing ever is to
Speaker 2: take Illinois to cover and keep it competitive against Penn State,
Speaker 2: who really hasn't done anything yet that impressive despite being
Speaker 2: three and oh but James Franklin, like I don't trust him,
Speaker 2: betting against him or betting with him. I just had
Speaker 2: never been able to get a good read. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good matchup. That's a top twenty matchup. So
Speaker 2: you know, I would say Notre Day. I don't know,
Speaker 2: like maybe some would say that's a better matchup because
Speaker 2: those are undefeated teams. But you got number fifteen, number sixteen.
Speaker 2: You know, Louisville, they are now not being tabbed as
Speaker 2: like one of the best teams in the country. But
Speaker 2: I think I'm starting to see it now that they're
Speaker 2: getting the benefit of the doubt because they were really
Speaker 2: good last year. You know, it fell apart late. But
Speaker 2: like nobody he's gonna put Louisville in the top fifteen
Speaker 2: and say how the hell they get here? Right Like,
Speaker 2: I think they could look at their resume right now
Speaker 2: and say, yeah, they got one win that's worth talking about,
Speaker 2: and that one isn't even maybe that impressive, so you know,
Speaker 2: not that everybody's on the edge of their seat waiting
Speaker 2: to see where Louisville stands. But trust me, Notre Dame
Speaker 2: losing is something everybody likes, unless you're a Notre Dame fan,
Speaker 2: it seems, unless you bet on them or something like that.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's on Peacocks, so the viewership will
Speaker 2: be down compared to other games when they're on NBC.
Speaker 2: But Notre Dame is still a team that like, they
Speaker 2: get a lot of hate watch, right, especially if they're
Speaker 2: about to potentially lose. So it's a big matchup and
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