Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 1: Getting off our show, idiot. The kids are crying or
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Speaker 1: They're supposed to be with your adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 4: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 5: I'm not over it yet, but I've moved on. That's
Speaker 5: my stance as far as what happened at Notre Dame
Speaker 5: on Saturday. But can you move on if you're not
Speaker 5: over it? I think getting over it is kind of
Speaker 5: part of being able to move on.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I'm lying to myself.
Speaker 5: How about this? Because I can't get over it, I
Speaker 5: have to move on? Does that work? Hopefully? So welcome
Speaker 5: in Happy Tuesday. It's coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's
Speaker 5: here on Sports Talk seven ninety, Nick Coffee, that is me.
Speaker 5: I hope you knew that. If not, now you do.
Speaker 5: The company man, Mister John Alden is back in the
Speaker 5: saddle after a nice, nice long weekend, some louder than
Speaker 5: life action and his Hoosiers are making some noise, even
Speaker 5: more so than they have been prior to this past week.
Speaker 5: Although it felt like it took, did it take it
Speaker 5: a little bit of a step further to where like, Okay,
Speaker 5: who the hell is Kurt Signetti got this Indiana team?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: So, John, welcome back. I'm happy to be happy to
Speaker 5: have you. You couldn't have been a better weekend. Good so
Speaker 5: you enjoyed the shows, enjoyed the shows.
Speaker 3: Enjoyed Indiana being you know, moving on to five and zero,
Speaker 3: enjoyed hitting a parlay in college football play.
Speaker 4: Things really couldn't have been better.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 5: Thanks for coming back and telling me how great things are.
Speaker 5: While I'm still depressed about Louisville Notre Name, and you know,
Speaker 5: I hope my tone is a little different today than
Speaker 5: it was yesterday. I think it already is, but man,
Speaker 5: it's still just I don't even want to talk about it,
Speaker 5: and we don't really need to. I'm sure we've done
Speaker 5: enough of that with the postgame show with yesterday. But
Speaker 5: you got to bounce back, and I'm eager to see
Speaker 5: what we get on Saturday with Louisville hosting a hot
Speaker 5: SMU team in Louisville coming off of a loss where
Speaker 5: they I mean, they don't even need to watch the film.
Speaker 5: I know they did, but if they watch the film,
Speaker 5: I'm sure they're even more you know, mad at themselves.
Speaker 5: But you know, you got to respond. It happens, and
Speaker 5: a win here actually doesn't change the perception of you,
Speaker 5: I don't think as far as nationally, but these guys
Speaker 5: need it. You know, they only have one loss. It's
Speaker 5: a loss at Notre Dame, losing by touchdown to a
Speaker 5: top sixteen team. Like it's not like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 5: you got to go out there and prove to yourselves
Speaker 5: that you're a good team. But I feel like they
Speaker 5: do need to prove to themselves that they can play
Speaker 5: a clean game of football, not mistake free, because hey,
Speaker 5: mistakes happen. Nobody's perfect, but just not what we saw
Speaker 5: in the last couple of weeks at times, with just
Speaker 5: the disorganization and the self inflicted wounds, right the shooting
Speaker 5: yourself in the foot. So anyways, we'll talk more Loisll
Speaker 5: football coming up here really throughout the show, along with
Speaker 5: a lot of other things. We got our back to
Speaker 5: back Monday night doubleheaders with Monday night football in the NFL,
Speaker 5: and if they're going to give us two Monday night games,
Speaker 5: let's make sure they do whatever they can to prevent
Speaker 5: a product on the field looking anything like what Miami
Speaker 5: and Tennessee looked like last night. I mean, that was disastrous.
Speaker 5: I mean it was Will Levis versus I've already forgot
Speaker 5: the name of the guy who started for the Dolphins,
Speaker 5: who was picked up off practice squad from the Ravens.
Speaker 4: Tyler.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's him.
Speaker 5: Thank you, very forgettable name and a very forgettable, forgettable
Speaker 5: performance from him last night. He looked decent at times
Speaker 5: in Baltimore, but man, you know, not so good last night.
Speaker 5: Tyreek Hill's upset on the sideline understand annily, So they've
Speaker 5: got some real weapons in Miami, But how about Tuwatugavalowa
Speaker 5: looking more valuable anytime the Dolphins take the field without him, everybody,
Speaker 5: I think everybody realizes he's a good player. I mean
Speaker 5: the game where he went down and we started talking
Speaker 5: about will he ever played football again. He wasn't having
Speaker 5: a good game then, But I mean the results without
Speaker 5: Tua make it quite clear how valuable he actually is.
Speaker 5: And then with Will Levis, I mean, it really is
Speaker 5: unbelievable how each week he's made some of the dumbest
Speaker 5: decisions you'll see a quarterback make. You know, I think
Speaker 5: each you know, not to say other guys don't make mistakes,
Speaker 5: because they do. There's been bad interceptions, bad plays. But
Speaker 5: I don't know, like maybe maybe each week of the
Speaker 5: NFL season, if you go and look at each quarterback
Speaker 5: and you try to evaluate which one made the biggest
Speaker 5: boneheaded decision, like Will Levis might be the guy. He
Speaker 5: might be four and zero. I mean, first drive of
Speaker 5: the game last night, throws an interception to a defensive
Speaker 5: lineman and goes to the sideline. You can visibly see him.
Speaker 5: Word say it, I didn't even see him. I mean
Speaker 5: that he's seeing ghosts. It's not good. And that's what
Speaker 5: happens when you have the type of start that he
Speaker 5: has had as the quarterback for the Titans this year.
Speaker 5: And you know, I don't want to pile on and
Speaker 5: make this a Kentucky Louisville thing, like this is nothing
Speaker 5: to do with the rivalry, but people who don't give
Speaker 5: a damn about the rivalry and football between Kentucky and Louisville.
Speaker 5: Are saying what nobody would say for a long time.
Speaker 5: He's never really been good anywhere. He's got a big arm.
Speaker 5: He's made some plays, he's he's got a you know,
Speaker 5: he's got a big arm. He carries himself like a quarterback.
Speaker 5: He's got a big arm. Like he's never done anything
Speaker 5: to look like a good quarterback. He hasn't ever won,
Speaker 5: didn't get the job done at Penn State, you know,
Speaker 5: couldn't win the gig there. Moved to Kentucky, and you know,
Speaker 5: they had some success. But like, his numbers were never crazy.
Speaker 5: He was just a guy leading the Kentucky offense. And
Speaker 5: in one season they put together one of the best
Speaker 5: seasons they've ever had, and that gets attention, and then
Speaker 5: you see the guy, Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Look at it.
Speaker 5: He's got a big arm, but like he's never really
Speaker 5: done anything statistically or you know, wins losses that like,
Speaker 5: really again, when they won ten games, that was a
Speaker 5: good season for Kentucky. All you can do is control
Speaker 5: who is on your schedule. I'm sorry. All you can
Speaker 5: is all you can lose beat he's on your schedule.
Speaker 5: You can't control it. So it's not like, you know,
Speaker 5: it proves he's bad. But when you look at the
Speaker 5: ten wins that they that they got in his first
Speaker 5: year at Kentucky when he was the starter, I mean,
Speaker 5: they weren't really beating anybody that was good at least
Speaker 5: not you know, a monument like the win that Kentucky
Speaker 5: just got against Old miss that's a monumental win for Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Will Levis never had anything close to that as a quarterback.
Speaker 5: That didn't mean he's bad, But like you know, when
Speaker 5: you take a chance on him in the first round,
Speaker 5: you know you have to realize if he has success here,
Speaker 5: it'll be the first time he's really had sustainable success.
Speaker 5: Because let's not forget his second season at Kentucky, they
Speaker 5: were very underwhelming. He lost to Vandy at home, and
Speaker 5: his numbers weren't as good. He beat Louisville both times
Speaker 5: and threw L's down both games NonStop, and that got
Speaker 5: Kentucky fans all horned up. But like as a quarterback,
Speaker 5: like he's I'm not saying he's the worst guy ever,
Speaker 5: but like with him being now the franchise quarterback for
Speaker 5: the Titans and him being this bad, Like, can it
Speaker 5: really be that big of a surprise, So last night
Speaker 5: they go to Mason Rudolph. We have Tyler Huntley and
Speaker 5: Mason Rudolph on Monday Night football. Hell yeah, just an awful,
Speaker 5: awful game, although the Titans are sticking with Will Evis
Speaker 5: is the starting quarterback, which you know makes sense. The
Speaker 5: ceiling I guess maybe higher for Will Levis than Mason
Speaker 5: Rudolph because if Rudolph was going to be the franchise
Speaker 5: quarterback for somebody, it would have probably already happened, right,
Speaker 5: But what a disgusting game. The other game was pretty
Speaker 5: good Lions Seahawks, So I guess it's beneficial that that
Speaker 5: was the protection. That was the safety net. You know,
Speaker 5: if the first game stinks, at least we have this one.
Speaker 5: And it was it was good. I mean, the Lions
Speaker 5: bounce back and Jared Goff, what a performance from that guy.
Speaker 5: Eighteen for eighteen set a new record, becoming the first
Speaker 5: quarterback an NFL history to throw for two hundred plus
Speaker 5: passing yards without throwing an incompletion. Let me think about
Speaker 5: that one hundred percent completion. Also caught a touchdown pass two.
Speaker 5: There are some numbers out there guys, and this is
Speaker 5: one of them, Jared Goff of all people, being the
Speaker 5: guy that throws for two hundred passing yards, completes all
Speaker 5: eighteen of his passes, and oh, by the way, he
Speaker 5: caught a touchdown pass two. The NFL is drunk as
Speaker 5: hell in the first month, Bizarro, NFL league, I mean
Speaker 5: just NFL can't speak National Football League is what I
Speaker 5: meant to say. Excuse me, I'm drunk too. It sounds
Speaker 5: like I can't I can't talk. But how about this
Speaker 5: Jared Goff? What a performance, what a game? And yet
Speaker 5: Dan Campbell still chose not to give him the game ball. God,
Speaker 5: that's such a hard oh football coach. And that's what
Speaker 5: Dan Campbell is. You look up hard o football coach
Speaker 5: in the dictionary. People always say that if you look
Speaker 5: something up in the dictionary, you'll see that the dictionaries
Speaker 5: I looked at never had pictures, although I probably haven't
Speaker 5: looked at a dictionary in thirty years. But here's what
Speaker 5: Dan Campbell had to say about his about his quarterback
Speaker 5: last night.
Speaker 6: Yeah well, I just gave the game ball to somebody else,
Speaker 6: so I feel awful, right, Yeah? No, I well I
Speaker 6: knew he played a heck of a game. I did
Speaker 6: not realize he was perfect. I did not know he
Speaker 6: was literally eighteen for eighteen I mean that, but but
Speaker 6: I knew he played really well. You could feel it, and.
Speaker 5: I believe him, but also find it very, very surprising
Speaker 5: that a head coach can get all the way to
Speaker 5: the postgame press conference. You know, he's got in the
Speaker 5: locker room, he's probably doing his radio interview first and
Speaker 5: then doing the press conference. Like for him to not
Speaker 5: know that his quarterback, I mean, that's instant. Like I
Speaker 5: kind of feel like it's not getting enough attention, Like
Speaker 5: that's insane. Eighteen for eighteen, and it wasn't because you know,
Speaker 5: he was throwing nothing but slants. I mean, this guy,
Speaker 5: through eighteen passes, had over two hundred yards and didn't
Speaker 5: miss one and oh, by the way, caught a touchdown pass.
Speaker 5: But I'm still not quite sure who's good and who's
Speaker 5: not in the NFL or four weeks in, we have
Speaker 5: an idea of which teams are better than others, but
Speaker 5: like those teams, like let's just say you pick a
Speaker 5: team that you would put in that bottom tier, a
Speaker 5: small tier, but you know, hey, this is one of
Speaker 5: the worst fourteen teams in the league, and then you
Speaker 5: go to the top. This is one of the best
Speaker 5: four teams in the league. We got a month's worth
Speaker 5: of data, four games for everybody. Nobody's had a buy yet, right,
Speaker 5: everybody's got four games under their belt. You take a
Speaker 5: team from that top tier, take a team from that
Speaker 5: bottom tier, and any result cannot surprise you given what we.
Speaker 2: Have right now. And I kind of hate it.
Speaker 5: There's a part of me that said, if you'd have
Speaker 5: told me that ahead of time, I'd have been like,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, give me the parody.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: And it's not even about wagering, because I didn't bet
Speaker 5: on the NFL this week, because why would I waste
Speaker 5: my money. I mean, I went out to lunch with
Speaker 5: my family, the two kiddos and my wife, had a
Speaker 5: nice lunch. NFL is just getting started. I get out
Speaker 5: the phone. I'm looking at which you know, I'm thinking
Speaker 5: about which app I'm going to go for as far
Speaker 5: as what I'm going to bet, and then I'm looking
Speaker 5: at my kids and I'm like, no, this money needs
Speaker 5: to go to them. This could be money that you
Speaker 5: know gets some donuts in the morning. Maybe you know
Speaker 5: my daughter, she needed money for a school field trip
Speaker 5: she's going on this week. That's that's better money. That
Speaker 5: money's better spent for that than me just throwing it
Speaker 5: down the drain betting on the NFL. And I'm sure
Speaker 5: there are some that have had success, but with these results,
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna assume you're all liars to make myself
Speaker 5: feel better, to make myself feel like. It's not you, Nick,
Speaker 5: it's everybody. The NFL is drunk, all right. If you
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Speaker 2: We do have one guest set to join us. That'll
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Speaker 5: We'll bring in mister Zach Barnett of FootballScoop dot com.
Speaker 5: Get his thoughts on you know everything going on in
Speaker 5: college football. A lot of realignment going on, but I
Speaker 5: think because it's the Mountain West in like the Mountain West,
Speaker 5: plus nobody really seems to care. But there's a lot
Speaker 5: of movement and shaking going on, which I know. I'm
Speaker 5: a nerd for realignment, always have been. But also Georgia
Speaker 5: and Bama. If you have no dog in the fight,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna get Zach's thoughts on this. If you
Speaker 5: do not have a college football team that you care about,
Speaker 5: or if you do have one, bit like you know
Speaker 5: you're not going to play for a national championship, how
Speaker 5: could you not say, give me Georgia and Bama. Now
Speaker 5: Texas is still up there, and maybe they're as good
Speaker 5: as those two, but the results, you know, the theater
Speaker 5: if you will, in the second half between those two teams,
Speaker 5: like I want to see it again. We might get
Speaker 5: three versions of it, right because those two teams can
Speaker 5: meet in the SEC Championship and they could also meet
Speaker 5: in the National Championship, and that wouldn't shock anybody if
Speaker 5: that's what ends up happening. All Right, some other things
Speaker 5: we'll get into today. John Rostein's in Louisville. John is
Speaker 5: he now he is. I could smell him. I knew
Speaker 5: he was here. Smells like Italian restaurant mixed with.
Speaker 2: New York City subway. That fits right, It fits right.
Speaker 5: I'm kidding. He probably smells great. In fact, I'm convinced
Speaker 5: he's a robot. Like what convinced he's like not a
Speaker 5: real person. But he watched Louisville's practice today, and this
Speaker 5: is what he does. He goes around to not every
Speaker 5: I mean, although if he did, would it shock you
Speaker 5: if John Rostein went to let me see, let me
Speaker 5: Virginia Military, like because it's Rostine and because he's like
Speaker 5: he wants his brand, like his brand building has been
Speaker 5: I'm the college basketball psychopath, and he's gonna, let you
Speaker 5: know what, every opportunity he gets. That's he's a nut
Speaker 5: for the sport of college hoops. But like, there's three
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty two teams, if he went to all
Speaker 5: of them, I can't say I'd be that shocked because
Speaker 5: it's rostin. I meanistically, I don't think that's possible. But
Speaker 5: he makes trips, He observes practice, and he posts, you know,
Speaker 5: his thoughts. He tweets out you know. In fact, he's
Speaker 5: already left Louisville and he's in election and to see
Speaker 5: what Mark Pope's got. So he shared some thoughts about
Speaker 5: Louisville from his time here and then posted a quick
Speaker 5: video and we'll let you hear it. And I you know,
Speaker 5: I'm out on Rostein. I think I said it for
Speaker 5: a while now, right, what did he pick Louisville? I
Speaker 5: got eleventh in the ACC and his rankings and then
Speaker 5: he he does a video. You know, again, this is
Speaker 5: just me being you know, I guess a homer. I suppose,
Speaker 5: because we have no clue just how good any team
Speaker 5: is that is so dependent upon I mean, like Louisville
Speaker 5: and Kentucky are in a rare spot where you get
Speaker 5: the personnel to feel pretty good. But it's all brand new.
Speaker 5: And that's why at times I got to back up
Speaker 5: and say, look, this is the absolute unknown, more so
Speaker 5: than we've ever had as college basketball fans around here
Speaker 5: with our teams, because it's iraly brand new, every coach,
Speaker 5: every player, all brand new. That's exciting, but it also
Speaker 5: the excitement I think can kind of make you forget that,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, we have no clue what we're gonna get.
Speaker 5: So this isn't even like a hot take. This isn't
Speaker 5: I mean, this is not egregious. But like to hear
Speaker 5: him say, he thinks Louisville it's got a chance to
Speaker 5: be a bubble team this year. I wanted to figure
Speaker 5: out his location here in Louisville and go give him
Speaker 5: a talking to. It's not And here's the thing, like,
Speaker 5: that's not a crazy thing to say. Louisville was a
Speaker 5: brand new team. They're coming off of two years where
Speaker 5: they were god awful three years really if you consider it.
Speaker 5: So we'll let you hear what he had to say
Speaker 5: and his takeaways. Louis Alive coming up in a few days, folks.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try to h to give away some tickets
Speaker 5: to Louisville Live later this week, but I hope to
Speaker 5: see a great crowd there. Get the weekend started. I
Speaker 5: think it's homecoming at U of L.
Speaker 2: I don't. I may be wrong on that.
Speaker 5: In fact, I need to go look that up because
Speaker 5: it's one of those things as soon as I say it,
Speaker 5: I start to question myself. It was very confident that
Speaker 5: it was that it was homecoming, and then I said it,
Speaker 5: I'm like, wait a second, you're probably you probably are
Speaker 5: making that up. It does not look like it's homecoming. Sorry,
Speaker 5: homecoming is the Miami game. Sorry, this is the Rumble
Speaker 5: in the Jungle fiftieth yea. The theme for this game
Speaker 5: against SMU is Rumble in the Jungle fiftieth anniversary. It
Speaker 5: marks the fiftieth anniversary of Muhammad Ali and George George
Speaker 5: Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle fight. So we're gonna do
Speaker 5: our hometown legend Ali, which there's some times people have
Speaker 5: mentioned me, is the Ali tribute played out?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: Never to me, I think it's awesome. So not homecoming,
Speaker 5: but we're gonna honor Muhammad Ali, and that's that's always
Speaker 5: a great thing. So you get the weekend started on
Speaker 5: Friday night Louisville Live, a nooner on Saturday with an
Speaker 5: SMU team that's coming in here with a lot of momentum,
Speaker 5: and I kind of feel like this is like I'm
Speaker 5: more anxious for this game then I have been any
Speaker 5: of them. I mean the first two.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean.
Speaker 5: I didn't do a good job of of, you know,
Speaker 5: disguising how I really felt about how the season started
Speaker 5: with those two opponents. I mean, again, it's Indiana's fault,
Speaker 5: and you know, Louisville took care of business, beat those
Speaker 5: teams brains in essentially. But now that that's in the
Speaker 5: rear view, like I'll tell you how I really feel
Speaker 5: like that was awful, Like that was was torture. Sounds
Speaker 5: terrible to say when you're watching your team play and
Speaker 5: they're scoring a bunch of points looking good. But I'm
Speaker 5: somebody that wants to kind of see, you know, where
Speaker 5: we stand, and there was no opportunity to do that.
Speaker 5: So you go from Georgia Tech to Notre Dame Georgia Tech.
Speaker 5: I was just you know, I was I was ready
Speaker 5: to see what they look like against a real team
Speaker 5: that we heard of.
Speaker 2: With Notre Dame, I knew they could get beat.
Speaker 5: And of course the way it played out was was
Speaker 5: a disaster as far as all the mistakes. But this
Speaker 5: is I think, okay, this is truly a no. We're
Speaker 5: going to see where you stand because with Georgia Tech,
Speaker 5: you know you won and you covered. Wasn't a clean game.
Speaker 5: Georgia Tech's kind of a pesky team that can find
Speaker 5: a way to compete when they're big underdogs.
Speaker 2: They did that with Louisville.
Speaker 5: And then I don't even know how to feel about me.
Speaker 5: And again we don't need to get back into the
Speaker 5: noted I already have PTSD from something that just happened
Speaker 5: three days ago with this Notre Dame game, with all
Speaker 5: the turnovers and just just the mess that it was.
Speaker 5: But how this team comes out will be very telling
Speaker 5: in my opinion. And I don't mean you know, coming
Speaker 5: out and getting up by three scorers in the first quarter.
Speaker 5: I mean you know, coming out looking sharp, not making
Speaker 5: avoidable mistakes. And you know SMU when we talked about
Speaker 5: him after week one, really after week two, I mean,
Speaker 5: it was it was a bad look for him. They
Speaker 5: should have lost in Nevada. They got housed by boll.
Speaker 5: Actually they played BYU pretty competitively. Actually, now that I
Speaker 5: think about it, let me see, I.
Speaker 4: Think it was like fifteen to eight or very low score.
Speaker 5: Yeah, eighteen fifteen. Good memory on your part, John, So
Speaker 5: that looked like they may be in trouble because you
Speaker 5: know they'd already you know, they should have lost in Nevada.
Speaker 5: BYU wasn't ranked at the time. Well now BYU is
Speaker 5: one of the hottest teams in the country, and SMU's
Speaker 5: lost to them. Actually looks pretty impressive because it was
Speaker 5: a competitive game and BYU's blowing everybody else out. They
Speaker 5: made a quarterback change at SMU, and this would be
Speaker 5: a big win for them, And that's kind of where
Speaker 5: we are right now Louisville, because they've been a top
Speaker 5: twenty five team for the last few weeks and in
Speaker 5: the ACC. Let's be real, if you're in the league,
Speaker 5: you don't have a lot of chances to get ranked
Speaker 5: wins because there's not that many teams that are ranked right.
Speaker 5: So a big opportunity for SMU and a big opportunity
Speaker 5: for Louisville not to prove anything to you know, the
Speaker 5: college football world, but to prove to themselves that they
Speaker 5: can play a clean game and they can't take care
Speaker 5: of business, not just against teams that you know, don't
Speaker 5: have a pulse, but against a team that has momentum
Speaker 5: and has shown that they're they're at least solid.
Speaker 2: I think they're better than that.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to tell you that they're you know,
Speaker 5: they're uh, you know, going to in contention to win
Speaker 5: this league. I mean, maybe they will be, but I
Speaker 5: don't believe that just yet. All right, let's do this
Speaker 5: let's get to our first break. We'll come back on
Speaker 5: the other side. Keep this thing rolling along. We'll let
Speaker 5: you hear what John Rostein thinks about what he saw
Speaker 5: at Louisville practice. Louisville's practice today. I think he was
Speaker 5: there yesterday too. I could be wrong on that, but
Speaker 5: we'll get to that and a lot more. And if
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Speaker 5: Sports Talk seven ninety. We've got ourselves some college football
Speaker 5: reporting beef, and I'm here for it. So I think
Speaker 5: a lot of people who work in media, rather it
Speaker 5: be they are writers, they are blogger I mean journalists, bloggers,
Speaker 5: radio people, TV people, streamers. Like some people probably like
Speaker 5: to engage in like a feud with somebody that does
Speaker 5: the same thing as them. But I know a lot
Speaker 5: of people it just I would never want to do
Speaker 5: that because I feel like if I did truly let
Speaker 5: my emotions get involved, I would not look good. Like
Speaker 5: I don't think anybody looks good when they're fighting, like
Speaker 5: and sometimes getting nasty and letting their emotions get the
Speaker 5: best of them, like through tweets to other people that
Speaker 5: do what they do, Like it's just not a good look. However,
Speaker 5: I do know that like people love to see it.
Speaker 5: It's entertainment for them, but it's entertainment, in my opinion,
Speaker 5: at the at your expense. Because I think like if
Speaker 5: I got into a radio feud with somebody, I think whoever,
Speaker 5: that would be like we would just look childish, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like it wouldn't it Just it's
Speaker 5: you know, so right now it's Brett McMurphy.
Speaker 2: Versus Nicole Arbach. Do you know who? You know? Both
Speaker 2: those people are John both of them. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's all about Gonzaga's move to the Mountain West,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna side with Brett McMurphy for a variety
Speaker 5: of reasons. I think Brett McMurphy is really he's been
Speaker 5: really good at what he's done for a long long time.
Speaker 5: He's been at ESPN, he's been at Fox, he's been
Speaker 5: at CBS, he's been with what do he call it?
Speaker 5: I think it used to be called Campus Insiders, then
Speaker 5: it became Stadium. Do they still exist they do?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Good question? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let they let Sham's contract run out, and I'm
Speaker 5: sure they're still around. But he was there and now
Speaker 5: he's with the Action Network, and he still breaks the
Speaker 5: biggest stories in conference realignment and in college football like
Speaker 5: he's I mean, I honestly don't know if i'd put
Speaker 5: anybody ahead of him.
Speaker 2: I think you can.
Speaker 5: Certainly put currently Pete Dammel in the conversation for breaking
Speaker 5: the most acurate stories first. But Brett's been doing it
Speaker 5: specifically with college football for longer. Pete's been all over
Speaker 5: the place, and he's, you know, he's good at what
Speaker 5: he does. So Nicole Arbach, I've never really been much
Speaker 5: of a fan. I think she's just at times just
Speaker 5: seems I don't know, I don't know her personally, but
Speaker 5: she comes off pretty unlikable and she's picking a fight
Speaker 5: like it's just it. To me, it seems like it's
Speaker 5: kind of silly, and she's the one tweeting through it
Speaker 5: as they say, you know what I mean, like because
Speaker 5: she's the one who's shown the emotion and like wanting
Speaker 5: to make a deal out of it. She's the one
Speaker 5: who's like responding to everybody and tweeting about it way
Speaker 5: more than McMurphy. McMurphy's just making jokes about her previously
Speaker 5: inaccurate reports. So and this is again, this is kind
Speaker 5: of funny to me, And I don't know how much
Speaker 5: you guys think it's funny, So I promise you won't
Speaker 5: spend a lot of time on it.
Speaker 2: However, Like.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's nerdy. But like last week, McMurphy's
Speaker 5: the one who put out there that Gonzaga would be
Speaker 5: leaving their conference. In fact, he tweeted out last week
Speaker 5: Gonzaga leaving West Coast Conference to join PAC twelve. Source
Speaker 5: told Action Network. PAC twelve still needs minimum of two
Speaker 5: football members by twenty twenty six, but Gonzaga, even without
Speaker 5: a football team, will receive a full conference share, so
Speaker 5: let's see. He later responded by saying, because she's pulling
Speaker 5: that first report, and then he's He later corrected himself
Speaker 5: by stating that they're leaving the Mountain West, but where
Speaker 5: like he responded, he updated his own update by stating
Speaker 5: it could be the PAC twelve or it could be
Speaker 5: the Mountain West. Right, So she then claimed that Gonzaga
Speaker 5: wasn't leaving. And then now she's claiming that, you know,
Speaker 5: she's reporting that like she had it first, that they
Speaker 5: are in fact joining you know, the PAC twelve, which
Speaker 5: they are, but she's claiming that what he put out
Speaker 5: last week was basically just not real, like, you know,
Speaker 5: wasn't accurate. His report was just he was guessing that
Speaker 5: it would he was guessing that would happen and end
Speaker 5: up being right whenever. She really has no basis to
Speaker 5: you know, to to mean, you know, it's such a silly,
Speaker 5: stupid thing. But what her her argument is that here's
Speaker 5: what she said, it's important to both be accurate and
Speaker 5: precise in reporting news. Uh and her other her other
Speaker 5: tweet today and he responded to, by the way, what
Speaker 5: else did she say? And again, I'm sure a lot
Speaker 5: of people don't care about this, but it is funny
Speaker 5: to me, and you know, yeah, rely, here's what she said.
Speaker 5: Reliable journalism means what you report is accurate when you
Speaker 5: report it. That's her stance is that he just guessed
Speaker 5: it and it came true, which who out there was thinking, Yeah,
Speaker 5: with football being the only thing that matters in realignment,
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the truth.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's all that matters when it comes to alignment.
Speaker 5: And who out there was guessing that Gonzaga would join
Speaker 5: the PAC twelve when it actually wouldn't help them in
Speaker 5: any way for what they're trying to do. They have
Speaker 5: to get to eight members as a football league to
Speaker 5: be even recognized by the College Football Playoffs as a
Speaker 5: as as a G five, like you know, a league
Speaker 5: that could they could potentially get a spot. So I
Speaker 5: don't know why she chose to. She got she got
Speaker 5: some stuff wrong about Meltucker when that was going on
Speaker 5: at Michigan State. Remember when he was at what he
Speaker 5: was fired and uh, you know he brought that up
Speaker 5: later and I think I think it all started with Meltucker.
Speaker 5: He reported that Meltucker was going to be fired, but
Speaker 5: it's essentially going to just take some time, which most
Speaker 5: things do, right, And that was last year. Well, she
Speaker 5: kept fighting and saying that like he wasn't going to
Speaker 5: be fired and that and like that wasn't going to
Speaker 5: be the case. Well, she not being wrong, but she
Speaker 5: claims that she wasn't wrong, but at the time he
Speaker 5: claimed that he was going to be fired, he was
Speaker 5: just guessing and he ended up being right. Like to me,
Speaker 5: she looks like she looks silly, but you know, because
Speaker 5: she's now claiming once again, she's doing the same thing again.
Speaker 5: She's claiming that the Gonzaga to the Pac twelve or
Speaker 5: the Mountain West. You know, it wasn't actually legitimately in
Speaker 5: the process last week. It was just he was guessing,
Speaker 5: which again he got it right. He knew this was
Speaker 5: in the works, and that's what's happened. And she's, you know,
Speaker 5: to me, she looks kind of silly, but I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm sure others will take her side. But anyways, as
Speaker 5: we speak, she's tweeting through it and responding to like
Speaker 5: all the trolls and defending herself, which to me is
Speaker 5: a real tell here as far as far as what's
Speaker 5: going on, is she known for more so basketball, football
Speaker 5: or both just college because.
Speaker 3: I think it's mainly football. A lot of people at
Speaker 3: least that I'm friends with that are fans of Big
Speaker 3: ten football teams, they're not really a big fan of
Speaker 3: Nicole Auerback, and I believe a lot of that stem
Speaker 3: from back in twenty twenty, she pushed for no football
Speaker 3: COVID season.
Speaker 5: And kind of wanted to be the face of we
Speaker 5: shouldn't do this. Yeah, and you know, there were a
Speaker 5: few of them.
Speaker 2: Who's the guy who? Gosh, I haven't heard much about
Speaker 2: him since then.
Speaker 5: He's still out there, but he was like the most
Speaker 5: adamant and like every day I feel like he would
Speaker 5: pin a column for USA Today just talking about how
Speaker 5: we were all gonna die essentially. I mean he didn't
Speaker 5: say that, but like, if we play football, everybody's dead.
Speaker 5: That was the tone of his articles. Dan something, what
Speaker 5: is his name? It's gonna drive me crazy.
Speaker 4: No, I'm thinking of somebody that comes on your show.
Speaker 5: It's not it's not Dan Wetzel, Dan Wolkin. And they
Speaker 5: made a lot of jokes about Wolcan being woke and
Speaker 5: all that.
Speaker 2: Even know who that is? Okay, you look at me
Speaker 2: like he didn't recognize who that was.
Speaker 5: I just didn't know that to who Yeah, to be
Speaker 5: So anyways, we'll move on. It's Coffee and Company. I
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Speaker 5: get at the text line in just a second, but
Speaker 5: I will, like, well, let's just do this. We'll get
Speaker 5: at the text line on the other side. I want
Speaker 5: to quickly read for you what John Rosstein had to
Speaker 5: say about Louisville basketball as he was in attendance for
Speaker 5: one of their practices earlier today.
Speaker 2: Let me see, he's got a thread going here.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 5: And by the way, he's not going to go to
Speaker 5: a practice and like talk about how the team stinks,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like, that's just not that's
Speaker 5: not realistic. But he had no problem saying that they're
Speaker 5: potentially a bubble team. But here's here's what he said,
Speaker 5: word for word. A brand new Louisville team with an
Speaker 5: entirely new roster is hard to figure out. Luckily, we'll
Speaker 5: know how ready they are six days into the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four to twenty twenty five season. Tennessee visits the
Speaker 5: five H two on Saturday, November the ninth. He goes
Speaker 5: on to mention that Louisville backcourt of Chucky Hepburn and
Speaker 5: Corn Johnson is deceptively good, cool, calm and experienced shifty
Speaker 5: can both shoot it really good duo. He says traditional
Speaker 5: big men are going to have issue matching up with
Speaker 5: Casein Pryor at center. Did Wonders as a pick and
Speaker 5: pop guy last season at South Florida, Louisville looks comfortable
Speaker 5: with five out. He also mentioned Long Beach State transfer
Speaker 5: Abubakar tray Ora doesn't believe in fifty to fifty balls
Speaker 5: place every single possession like it's his last underrated pickup
Speaker 5: for Louisville. So let me just give you this no
Speaker 5: offense to Rostein because I agree with literally everything he said,
Speaker 5: but that you can google Pat Kelsey's transfer portal and
Speaker 5: get what you just got. You know, that's not like like,
Speaker 5: that's not really I mean again, it's accurate, and you know,
Speaker 5: if that's what he observed, then that's what he should share.
Speaker 5: But like, I mean, we've heard everybody say that about
Speaker 5: each of those guys, So I was kind of hoping
Speaker 5: he'd give us something with some substance, and I guess
Speaker 5: that is substance. It's just, you know, it's it's kind
Speaker 5: of what was it was what was said about these
Speaker 5: guys before they got here. He also says that early
Speaker 5: predictions for him as far as Louisville starting five as
Speaker 5: CHUCKI Hepburn, Core and Johnson, Terrence Edwards, Javon Hadley and
Speaker 5: Cason Pryor would not be shocked at all if that
Speaker 5: is your lineup. Not saying I think it will be,
Speaker 5: but like, yeah, that's a pretty good five. Gives you
Speaker 5: a lot of versatility. I still think you.
Speaker 2: Need a little more in the paint.
Speaker 5: But you got guys like Hadley and Edwards who play
Speaker 5: pretty big for you know, non traditional bigs, and Edwards
Speaker 5: is not a big Hadley is kind of a as
Speaker 5: about as highbrid as you'll get. He's a Dwayne Sutton
Speaker 5: to me as far as a guy that will get
Speaker 5: a lot of rebounds. He'll physically, you know, use his
Speaker 5: size to to take advantage of guys that aren't his
Speaker 5: size that are guarding him on the wing. In case
Speaker 5: in Prior's he I mean, he's he's got the height
Speaker 5: you know, not a lot of you know, he's he's
Speaker 5: a little wiry, can stretch the floor and shoot the three.
Speaker 5: And that's as far as personnel like that would be
Speaker 5: my one potential concern as far as just like matchups,
Speaker 5: like if you get a big dude, like when you
Speaker 5: play Indiana and the Bahamas, I mean they got a
Speaker 5: big dude that is big around, not just big in height,
Speaker 5: and he's pretty damn good transfer from Arizona.
Speaker 2: What's his name, Umar Ballo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's a guy that not to say
Speaker 5: you can't beat him because of that, but like he's
Speaker 5: gonna be a matchup problem for you because you don't
Speaker 5: have necessarily the girth, and not many teams will. But
Speaker 5: you know, that would be my potential concern. There's ways
Speaker 5: to play around that. But anyways, I still have a
Speaker 5: hard time seeing Trey Ora not starting because to me,
Speaker 5: he does so much.
Speaker 2: He was the first guy to get that.
Speaker 5: Gold jersey that they give out meaning that you were
Speaker 5: the best player in practice, and he does that. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's not like a natural score. He doesn't shoot the
Speaker 5: three ball well, but he can make such an impact
Speaker 5: for your team without ever taking a shot.
Speaker 2: I mean he can.
Speaker 5: He can dunk on your face if he wants, if
Speaker 5: the opportunity presents itself, you know, he can get out
Speaker 5: in transition and score. He's you know, he can get
Speaker 5: to the rim if need be, in the matchup is
Speaker 5: in his favor. But I happen to think that you've
Speaker 5: got so many guys that are coming to your program
Speaker 5: where they were the man. I mean, even Corn Johnson,
Speaker 5: who didn't start, he was a sixth Man of the
Speaker 5: Year in the Pac twelve, gets a lot of shots
Speaker 5: when he plays Chuckie, Hepburn. A guy that can run
Speaker 5: the show, a guy that you know also is a
Speaker 5: score if need be. Edwards is the Sun Belt Player
Speaker 5: of the Year last year. Hadley a vital guy for
Speaker 5: Colorado prior one of the better players for South Florida.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you've got a lot of guys
Speaker 5: who have been sort of not the best player maybe
Speaker 5: on their team, but certainly in the mix for it.
Speaker 5: But I think with Trey Ora, he's a guy that
Speaker 5: like will do so much for you and you don't
Speaker 5: have to worry about him taking a bunch of shots.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: He's going to do a lot of things to get
Speaker 5: certain players in the rights. You know, he's I mean,
Speaker 5: he's a rare player when it comes to everything he
Speaker 5: brings to the table because he's a good passer, really
Speaker 5: good rebounder, great defender. I mean he's six ' five
Speaker 5: and yet he's he's got length that you'd see from
Speaker 5: somebody who's six ' ten. So as we get closer,
Speaker 5: I'm still as excited as I you know, ever since
Speaker 5: watching this team play, I realized, Okay, this team's gonna
Speaker 5: be fun to watch, and I actually think they got
Speaker 5: a chance to be really good. I could be wrong,
Speaker 5: you know, because of the competition they played, it's tough
Speaker 5: to really know. But as we get closer, I'm I
Speaker 5: mean as far as lineups and whatnot, like Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 5: gonna have I mean, he's gonna have a he's gonna
Speaker 5: have to figure I mean, figuring this team out as
Speaker 5: far as what makes the most sense with lineups. I'm
Speaker 5: sure in practice you're able to get a feel for it,
Speaker 5: but there's certain things you just don't know until you
Speaker 5: get out there in a real game and you're playing
Speaker 5: a real team. And sure enough, whenever you know they
Speaker 5: played Tennessee, that's a real team. That's the top twenty,
Speaker 5: top fifteen team, depending on where you look. All let's
Speaker 5: get to our next break. We'll come back on the
Speaker 5: other side. Get to the text line, do'll forget it?
Speaker 2: Four h five.
Speaker 5: We'll bring in Zach Barnett, a FootballScoop dot Com to
Speaker 5: talk some college football. It's Coffee and Company Field by
Speaker 5: Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Good selection,
Speaker 5: John good, good stuff here.
Speaker 4: Like mac Miller.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well, before early early Macmiller, I was a
Speaker 5: really big fan of and I didn't never dislike him,
Speaker 5: but as he you know, like like a lot of
Speaker 5: artists with me, and once he got more famous, it
Speaker 5: just wasn't you know, wasn't necessarily my cuppe's. He but
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Speaker 5: Vets dot com. All right, So, in the last couple
Speaker 5: of days, we've had some some legendary sports figures pass away.
Speaker 5: Yesterday it was Pete Rose actually twice in.
Speaker 4: The same day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully I didn't just speak somebody into dying today
Speaker 5: by saying that fingers crossed. But to Kimmy with Tumbo
Speaker 5: and Pete Rose, I'll started to give me with Tumbo
Speaker 5: because he is somebody that was a part of an
Speaker 5: era that is that I cherish in the NBA, you know,
Speaker 5: and he was he was a rare guy as far
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the big man at that time.
Speaker 5: You've got a Loajuan mourning ewing. I'm sure I'm blinking
Speaker 5: on some others that were all time greats that played
Speaker 5: you know in the nineties, early nineties and whatnot, late eighties.
Speaker 5: But to Kimby was a guy that just was I mean,
Speaker 5: he could take over a game, be somebody that you
Speaker 5: absolutely recognized nearly on every possession because he was so
Speaker 5: dominant defensively. And you know, there are probably kids right now,
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe teenagers, maybe guys. Heck, you could
Speaker 5: be in college right now. I mean, I forget that
Speaker 5: I'm thirty six years old, and when to Kimi Mtumbo
Speaker 5: was dominating the league defensively and doing that finger swat
Speaker 5: like I'm sure there are kids that have done that
Speaker 5: in high school in recent years that don't even know
Speaker 5: who started it. Well, that's who started it. To Kimmy
Speaker 5: Mtumbo also quite a He was quite the character as well,
Speaker 5: which I found to be pretty funny. You know, stories
Speaker 5: about him have come up on podcasts in recent years,
Speaker 5: how funny he was. Some things he would say. He
Speaker 5: also did a lot of great stuff for many people
Speaker 5: in his home country, and you know, just stories that
Speaker 5: you know, warm your heart so rip to to Kimi Mtumbo.
Speaker 5: In fact, there's some other things about to Kimi Mtumbo,
Speaker 5: I want to get you a little later on that
Speaker 5: are in fact quite funny. He wasn't just you know,
Speaker 5: a dominant NBA player defensively, he was also apparently a
Speaker 5: really funny guy that you know. We didn't get a
Speaker 5: chance to see that a whole lot, at least I
Speaker 5: don't remember. Maybe we did, but I was pretty young
Speaker 5: when when he was playing. And then Pete Rose, you
Speaker 5: know Pete Rose, when he's come up in you know,
Speaker 5: my time in sports media, broadcasting whatever. It's really just
Speaker 5: been about. It's been about the Hall of Fame, like
Speaker 5: is he ever gonna be forgiven and led into the
Speaker 5: Baseball Hall of Fame? Because obviously you know, and it is.
Speaker 5: It is wild steven A. Smith, who rarely what I
Speaker 5: cite as someone who makes a really good point. Usually
Speaker 5: steven A's just yelling and it's for shock value. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't take steven A. Smith that serious. A lot
Speaker 5: of people do. To me, He's just there to be
Speaker 5: an entertainer and get a reaction. Not to say he's
Speaker 5: just a big dummy to know anything, but like he'd
Speaker 5: probably even tell you he's there to you know, yell
Speaker 5: and take hard stances and whatnot. But there are people
Speaker 5: who've been, you know, forgiven for murder before baseball, forgave
Speaker 5: Pete Rose. And I know we don't need to get into, like,
Speaker 5: you know, specifically what it is that he did. It
Speaker 5: makes it to wear because honestly, he clearly did things
Speaker 5: that like is shameful when it comes to baseball. But
Speaker 5: does that mean he's not one of the all time greats?
Speaker 5: Like I don't think anybody who wants him out of
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame would tell you he isn't one
Speaker 5: of the best players of all time. And I'm not
Speaker 5: a you know, I'm not a Bengals fan or a
Speaker 5: Reds fan. And I've talked about this before, but a
Speaker 5: lot of my friends are because you know, it's the
Speaker 5: closest pro teams to us when it comes to baseball
Speaker 5: and football. And I've always kind of lived through those
Speaker 5: fans because I'd be a phony to say I'm a
Speaker 5: fan because I don't have sadness when they lose. I
Speaker 5: don't really get that excited.
Speaker 2: When they win. I like to see him win.
Speaker 5: But like saying I'm a fan always feels like I'm
Speaker 5: I'm you know, I'm a poser. So Cincinnati fans, Like,
Speaker 5: I think it's a really, really good sports town, but
Speaker 5: when it comes to like a professional sports town in
Speaker 5: my lifetime, they've been pretty bad for the majority of it,
Speaker 5: to where like they've just been sad. But like when
Speaker 5: they're good man, they're they're they're into it and in
Speaker 5: their passion. Well, Pete Rose was such a big deal
Speaker 5: to the city of Cincinnati for so long that like,
Speaker 5: there are people that are old enough to be my
Speaker 5: dad that worship Pete Rose because of their dad. Like,
Speaker 5: you know, he was a legend. And obviously didn't watch
Speaker 5: him play. I wasn't alive, but you can tell just
Speaker 5: by watching highlights, and obviously this is one of the
Speaker 5: things that people say about him when they talk about
Speaker 5: his career. Like again, I've never played competitive baseball, don't
Speaker 5: watch a whole lot of baseball, So despite being somebody
Speaker 5: who talks sports for a living, I'm not qualified to
Speaker 5: talk baseball in any way. But I at least feel
Speaker 5: like I can say, yeah, that checks out. You can
Speaker 5: tell when you watch him play he played harder than anybody.
Speaker 5: Like in baseball, sometimes you can be playing really hard
Speaker 5: and just because of what the sport is, it's not
Speaker 5: something that really stands out Pete Rose. I mean that
Speaker 5: guy's running through people. You can see how much emotion
Speaker 5: he had when he played, and he's a legend in Cincinnati,
Speaker 5: and I would I mean again, it wouldn't shock me
Speaker 5: at all if And I don't want to get into
Speaker 5: the whole Hall of Fame thing because it's honestly one
Speaker 5: of the most played out topics in all sports, like
Speaker 5: Shapete Rose be in the Hall of Fame, Barry Barry
Speaker 5: Bonds be in the Hall of Fame. But how how
Speaker 5: awful would it be for them to now after he's
Speaker 5: dead let him in? And I say that knowing how
Speaker 5: awful it sounds what I just said, right, because you
Speaker 5: would want him to get honored to show appreciation, But
Speaker 5: why not do way he's alive, Like one would have
Speaker 5: been a difference in doing it now than doing it
Speaker 5: a year ago, you know what I mean, Like it
Speaker 5: would still be worth doing for his family and for
Speaker 5: people to really honor him.
Speaker 2: But like, how about we do that stuff before he's dead?
Speaker 5: I mean it would almost be kind of and this
Speaker 5: is this sounds terrible because it would be it would
Speaker 5: be a nice gesture, but I think it would also
Speaker 5: look kind of shameful to have him die knowing you
Speaker 5: never forgave him.
Speaker 4: As far as patronizing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so RP, Pete Rose, RP to Kim
Speaker 5: and Bittumbo and hopefully you know there's not a third
Speaker 5: today because you know that would be bad and not
Speaker 5: that there would be. But I have, you know, I
Speaker 5: think I might have. I don't want to jinx it.
Speaker 5: We got another two hours, so don't go anywhere. We've
Speaker 5: got coming up next joining us, we'll be Zac Barnett
Speaker 5: FootballScoop dot com to talk some college football stick around
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