WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.080 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:08.919 Sports Talk seven ninety. 3 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.160 Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:12.039 when we are. 5 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:15.480 Getting off our show, idiot. The kids are crying or 6 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:17.559 turning off crying. The countries are screwing it up. 7 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:20.920 Gold Plea inter murals, Brother, Goldpleay intermurals. 8 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.039 They're supposed to be with your adults, but they're really not. 9 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:25.760 Who's the kid here? 10 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:27.679 Who's the kid here? 11 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:42.960 Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee. 12 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.759 I'm not over it yet, but I've moved on. That's 13 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.679 my stance as far as what happened at Notre Dame 14 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:54.920 on Saturday. But can you move on if you're not 15 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:59.119 over it? I think getting over it is kind of 16 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:00.439 part of being able to move on. 17 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:02.640 I don't know. Maybe I'm lying to myself. 18 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:05.159 How about this? Because I can't get over it, I 19 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:08.719 have to move on? Does that work? Hopefully? So welcome 20 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.120 in Happy Tuesday. It's coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's 21 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.439 here on Sports Talk seven ninety, Nick Coffee, that is me. 22 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:17.519 I hope you knew that. If not, now you do. 23 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:20.079 The company man, Mister John Alden is back in the 24 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:24.200 saddle after a nice, nice long weekend, some louder than 25 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:28.359 life action and his Hoosiers are making some noise, even 26 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:31.000 more so than they have been prior to this past week. 27 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:32.680 Although it felt like it took, did it take it 28 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:34.599 a little bit of a step further to where like, Okay, 29 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.079 who the hell is Kurt Signetti got this Indiana team? 30 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:38.120 You know? 31 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.799 So, John, welcome back. I'm happy to be happy to 32 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.120 have you. You couldn't have been a better weekend. Good so 33 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:45.560 you enjoyed the shows, enjoyed the shows. 34 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.040 Enjoyed Indiana being you know, moving on to five and zero, 35 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.319 enjoyed hitting a parlay in college football play. 36 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:51.519 Things really couldn't have been better. 37 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:52.400 Good for you. 38 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:54.680 Thanks for coming back and telling me how great things are. 39 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:59.840 While I'm still depressed about Louisville Notre Name, and you know, 40 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:02.920 I hope my tone is a little different today than 41 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.319 it was yesterday. I think it already is, but man, 42 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:07.359 it's still just I don't even want to talk about it, 43 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.479 and we don't really need to. I'm sure we've done 44 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.199 enough of that with the postgame show with yesterday. But 45 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.240 you got to bounce back, and I'm eager to see 46 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.400 what we get on Saturday with Louisville hosting a hot 47 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:24.319 SMU team in Louisville coming off of a loss where 48 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:26.960 they I mean, they don't even need to watch the film. 49 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.680 I know they did, but if they watch the film, 50 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:33.039 I'm sure they're even more you know, mad at themselves. 51 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.800 But you know, you got to respond. It happens, and 52 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.080 a win here actually doesn't change the perception of you, 53 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.719 I don't think as far as nationally, but these guys 54 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:44.159 need it. You know, they only have one loss. It's 55 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.639 a loss at Notre Dame, losing by touchdown to a 56 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:48.919 top sixteen team. Like it's not like, oh my goodness, 57 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:50.800 you got to go out there and prove to yourselves 58 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.199 that you're a good team. But I feel like they 59 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:54.879 do need to prove to themselves that they can play 60 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:58.400 a clean game of football, not mistake free, because hey, 61 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.319 mistakes happen. Nobody's perfect, but just not what we saw 62 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:04.639 in the last couple of weeks at times, with just 63 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:12.000 the disorganization and the self inflicted wounds, right the shooting 64 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.599 yourself in the foot. So anyways, we'll talk more Loisll 65 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.639 football coming up here really throughout the show, along with 66 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.520 a lot of other things. We got our back to 67 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:23.719 back Monday night doubleheaders with Monday night football in the NFL, 68 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.680 and if they're going to give us two Monday night games, 69 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:29.400 let's make sure they do whatever they can to prevent 70 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:32.599 a product on the field looking anything like what Miami 71 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.919 and Tennessee looked like last night. I mean, that was disastrous. 72 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:40.879 I mean it was Will Levis versus I've already forgot 73 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.639 the name of the guy who started for the Dolphins, 74 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.439 who was picked up off practice squad from the Ravens. 75 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:46.879 Tyler. 76 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:48.199 Yes, that's him. 77 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.919 Thank you, very forgettable name and a very forgettable, forgettable 78 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.919 performance from him last night. He looked decent at times 79 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.800 in Baltimore, but man, you know, not so good last night. 80 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.120 Tyreek Hill's upset on the sideline understand annily, So they've 81 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.080 got some real weapons in Miami, But how about Tuwatugavalowa 82 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:10.680 looking more valuable anytime the Dolphins take the field without him, everybody, 83 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.360 I think everybody realizes he's a good player. I mean 84 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:15.599 the game where he went down and we started talking 85 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.680 about will he ever played football again. He wasn't having 86 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.079 a good game then, But I mean the results without 87 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.480 Tua make it quite clear how valuable he actually is. 88 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.920 And then with Will Levis, I mean, it really is 89 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.879 unbelievable how each week he's made some of the dumbest 90 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:38.680 decisions you'll see a quarterback make. You know, I think 91 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:40.920 each you know, not to say other guys don't make mistakes, 92 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.600 because they do. There's been bad interceptions, bad plays. But 93 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.240 I don't know, like maybe maybe each week of the 94 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.800 NFL season, if you go and look at each quarterback 95 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:52.879 and you try to evaluate which one made the biggest 96 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.079 boneheaded decision, like Will Levis might be the guy. He 97 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.160 might be four and zero. I mean, first drive of 98 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:02.399 the game last night, throws an interception to a defensive 99 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.920 lineman and goes to the sideline. You can visibly see him. 100 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:08.519 Word say it, I didn't even see him. I mean 101 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:10.639 that he's seeing ghosts. It's not good. And that's what 102 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:12.480 happens when you have the type of start that he 103 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:16.079 has had as the quarterback for the Titans this year. 104 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:18.040 And you know, I don't want to pile on and 105 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.879 make this a Kentucky Louisville thing, like this is nothing 106 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.360 to do with the rivalry, but people who don't give 107 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.480 a damn about the rivalry and football between Kentucky and Louisville. 108 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.199 Are saying what nobody would say for a long time. 109 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:35.120 He's never really been good anywhere. He's got a big arm. 110 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.639 He's made some plays, he's he's got a you know, 111 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:44.240 he's got a big arm. He carries himself like a quarterback. 112 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.240 He's got a big arm. Like he's never done anything 113 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:50.959 to look like a good quarterback. He hasn't ever won, 114 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.720 didn't get the job done at Penn State, you know, 115 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:57.720 couldn't win the gig there. Moved to Kentucky, and you know, 116 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.519 they had some success. But like, his numbers were never crazy. 117 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.720 He was just a guy leading the Kentucky offense. And 118 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.800 in one season they put together one of the best 119 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.000 seasons they've ever had, and that gets attention, and then 120 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:11.399 you see the guy, Yeah that makes sense. 121 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:11.759 Look at it. 122 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.279 He's got a big arm, but like he's never really 123 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:19.360 done anything statistically or you know, wins losses that like, 124 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.759 really again, when they won ten games, that was a 125 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.439 good season for Kentucky. All you can do is control 126 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:27.920 who is on your schedule. I'm sorry. All you can 127 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:29.920 is all you can lose beat he's on your schedule. 128 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:34.199 You can't control it. So it's not like, you know, 129 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:36.839 it proves he's bad. But when you look at the 130 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.399 ten wins that they that they got in his first 131 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.519 year at Kentucky when he was the starter, I mean, 132 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:47.480 they weren't really beating anybody that was good at least 133 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.879 not you know, a monument like the win that Kentucky 134 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:54.639 just got against Old miss that's a monumental win for Kentucky. 135 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.839 Will Levis never had anything close to that as a quarterback. 136 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.279 That didn't mean he's bad, But like you know, when 137 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:04.240 you take a chance on him in the first round, 138 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:08.040 you know you have to realize if he has success here, 139 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.519 it'll be the first time he's really had sustainable success. 140 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.720 Because let's not forget his second season at Kentucky, they 141 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:18.360 were very underwhelming. He lost to Vandy at home, and 142 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:22.399 his numbers weren't as good. He beat Louisville both times 143 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.480 and threw L's down both games NonStop, and that got 144 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:28.839 Kentucky fans all horned up. But like as a quarterback, 145 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:31.720 like he's I'm not saying he's the worst guy ever, 146 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.480 but like with him being now the franchise quarterback for 147 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:37.360 the Titans and him being this bad, Like, can it 148 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:42.480 really be that big of a surprise, So last night 149 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:44.759 they go to Mason Rudolph. We have Tyler Huntley and 150 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.560 Mason Rudolph on Monday Night football. Hell yeah, just an awful, 151 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:52.720 awful game, although the Titans are sticking with Will Evis 152 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.279 is the starting quarterback, which you know makes sense. The 153 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.160 ceiling I guess maybe higher for Will Levis than Mason 154 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.639 Rudolph because if Rudolph was going to be the franchise 155 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.000 quarterback for somebody, it would have probably already happened, right, 156 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.000 But what a disgusting game. The other game was pretty 157 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:14.439 good Lions Seahawks, So I guess it's beneficial that that 158 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:16.319 was the protection. That was the safety net. You know, 159 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.199 if the first game stinks, at least we have this one. 160 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.240 And it was it was good. I mean, the Lions 161 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.160 bounce back and Jared Goff, what a performance from that guy. 162 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:29.720 Eighteen for eighteen set a new record, becoming the first 163 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.840 quarterback an NFL history to throw for two hundred plus 164 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:37.519 passing yards without throwing an incompletion. Let me think about 165 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:43.080 that one hundred percent completion. Also caught a touchdown pass two. 166 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.600 There are some numbers out there guys, and this is 167 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.279 one of them, Jared Goff of all people, being the 168 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.759 guy that throws for two hundred passing yards, completes all 169 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:54.480 eighteen of his passes, and oh, by the way, he 170 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.960 caught a touchdown pass two. The NFL is drunk as 171 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.960 hell in the first month, Bizarro, NFL league, I mean 172 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.519 just NFL can't speak National Football League is what I 173 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.039 meant to say. Excuse me, I'm drunk too. It sounds 174 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.519 like I can't I can't talk. But how about this 175 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.840 Jared Goff? What a performance, what a game? And yet 176 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:20.000 Dan Campbell still chose not to give him the game ball. God, 177 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.080 that's such a hard oh football coach. And that's what 178 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.600 Dan Campbell is. You look up hard o football coach 179 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.120 in the dictionary. People always say that if you look 180 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:31.080 something up in the dictionary, you'll see that the dictionaries 181 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.240 I looked at never had pictures, although I probably haven't 182 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.799 looked at a dictionary in thirty years. But here's what 183 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.720 Dan Campbell had to say about his about his quarterback 184 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:40.279 last night. 185 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.399 Yeah well, I just gave the game ball to somebody else, 186 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:50.879 so I feel awful, right, Yeah? No, I well I 187 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:52.679 knew he played a heck of a game. I did 188 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.480 not realize he was perfect. I did not know he 189 00:09:55.559 --> 00:10:00.240 was literally eighteen for eighteen I mean that, but but 190 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:02.720 I knew he played really well. You could feel it, and. 191 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.080 I believe him, but also find it very, very surprising 192 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.480 that a head coach can get all the way to 193 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.600 the postgame press conference. You know, he's got in the 194 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:16.919 locker room, he's probably doing his radio interview first and 195 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:19.519 then doing the press conference. Like for him to not 196 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.159 know that his quarterback, I mean, that's instant. Like I 197 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.639 kind of feel like it's not getting enough attention, Like 198 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.879 that's insane. Eighteen for eighteen, and it wasn't because you know, 199 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.559 he was throwing nothing but slants. I mean, this guy, 200 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:35.759 through eighteen passes, had over two hundred yards and didn't 201 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.639 miss one and oh, by the way, caught a touchdown pass. 202 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.320 But I'm still not quite sure who's good and who's 203 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.200 not in the NFL or four weeks in, we have 204 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:48.639 an idea of which teams are better than others, but 205 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:53.159 like those teams, like let's just say you pick a 206 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.240 team that you would put in that bottom tier, a 207 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.960 small tier, but you know, hey, this is one of 208 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.720 the worst fourteen teams in the league, and then you 209 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:04.720 go to the top. This is one of the best 210 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:06.600 four teams in the league. We got a month's worth 211 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.000 of data, four games for everybody. Nobody's had a buy yet, right, 212 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:12.799 everybody's got four games under their belt. You take a 213 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:14.879 team from that top tier, take a team from that 214 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:18.480 bottom tier, and any result cannot surprise you given what we. 215 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:21.759 Have right now. And I kind of hate it. 216 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:23.039 There's a part of me that said, if you'd have 217 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:24.399 told me that ahead of time, I'd have been like, 218 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:25.919 oh yeah, give me the parody. 219 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:26.639 No. 220 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.120 And it's not even about wagering, because I didn't bet 221 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.200 on the NFL this week, because why would I waste 222 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.399 my money. I mean, I went out to lunch with 223 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.600 my family, the two kiddos and my wife, had a 224 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:44.320 nice lunch. NFL is just getting started. I get out 225 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.360 the phone. I'm looking at which you know, I'm thinking 226 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:48.120 about which app I'm going to go for as far 227 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.000 as what I'm going to bet, and then I'm looking 228 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.679 at my kids and I'm like, no, this money needs 229 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.840 to go to them. This could be money that you 230 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.480 know gets some donuts in the morning. Maybe you know 231 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.240 my daughter, she needed money for a school field trip 232 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:01.639 she's going on this week. That's that's better money. That 233 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:03.840 money's better spent for that than me just throwing it 234 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.120 down the drain betting on the NFL. And I'm sure 235 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.919 there are some that have had success, but with these results, 236 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:13.919 I'm just gonna assume you're all liars to make myself 237 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:17.320 feel better, to make myself feel like. It's not you, Nick, 238 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:21.639 it's everybody. The NFL is drunk, all right. If you 239 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:23.159 want to take us with you wherever you go, you 240 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:25.639 can listen live on the iHeartRadio. Listen Live It's seven 241 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.440 ninety Louisville dot com. And if you want to be 242 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:30.279 a part of the show today you can. We'd love 243 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:31.879 to hear it from you. Phone lines are open five 244 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.679 oh two five seven one seventy nine hundred and you 245 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:36.200 can give us a call or you can text in. 246 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:39.360 Excuse me, text in on the L and N Federal 247 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.759 Credit Union text line five oh two six five three 248 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:43.360 zero seven ninety. 249 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:44.919 We do have one guest set to join us. That'll 250 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:45.840 be at four h five. 251 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.039 We'll bring in mister Zach Barnett of FootballScoop dot com. 252 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.720 Get his thoughts on you know everything going on in 253 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:57.200 college football. A lot of realignment going on, but I 254 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:01.240 think because it's the Mountain West in like the Mountain West, 255 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.759 plus nobody really seems to care. But there's a lot 256 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:05.639 of movement and shaking going on, which I know. I'm 257 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:09.320 a nerd for realignment, always have been. But also Georgia 258 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.279 and Bama. If you have no dog in the fight, 259 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:13.960 and I'm gonna get Zach's thoughts on this. If you 260 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.559 do not have a college football team that you care about, 261 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:19.240 or if you do have one, bit like you know 262 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:23.720 you're not going to play for a national championship, how 263 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:27.759 could you not say, give me Georgia and Bama. Now 264 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:32.440 Texas is still up there, and maybe they're as good 265 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.360 as those two, but the results, you know, the theater 266 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:38.039 if you will, in the second half between those two teams, 267 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:40.840 like I want to see it again. We might get 268 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:44.000 three versions of it, right because those two teams can 269 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:46.559 meet in the SEC Championship and they could also meet 270 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.720 in the National Championship, and that wouldn't shock anybody if 271 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.440 that's what ends up happening. All Right, some other things 272 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:59.639 we'll get into today. John Rostein's in Louisville. John is 273 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:01.919 he now he is. I could smell him. I knew 274 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:07.200 he was here. Smells like Italian restaurant mixed with. 275 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:14.480 New York City subway. That fits right, It fits right. 276 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:18.399 I'm kidding. He probably smells great. In fact, I'm convinced 277 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:20.639 he's a robot. Like what convinced he's like not a 278 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.399 real person. But he watched Louisville's practice today, and this 279 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.279 is what he does. He goes around to not every 280 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.639 I mean, although if he did, would it shock you 281 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:32.799 if John Rostein went to let me see, let me 282 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:36.799 Virginia Military, like because it's Rostine and because he's like 283 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:40.639 he wants his brand, like his brand building has been 284 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.639 I'm the college basketball psychopath, and he's gonna, let you 285 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:49.399 know what, every opportunity he gets. That's he's a nut 286 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:52.440 for the sport of college hoops. But like, there's three 287 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:55.159 hundred and sixty two teams, if he went to all 288 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:58.279 of them, I can't say I'd be that shocked because 289 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.639 it's rostin. I meanistically, I don't think that's possible. But 290 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:06.159 he makes trips, He observes practice, and he posts, you know, 291 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:09.840 his thoughts. He tweets out you know. In fact, he's 292 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:11.720 already left Louisville and he's in election and to see 293 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:16.679 what Mark Pope's got. So he shared some thoughts about 294 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:19.960 Louisville from his time here and then posted a quick 295 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:23.240 video and we'll let you hear it. And I you know, 296 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:26.559 I'm out on Rostein. I think I said it for 297 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.200 a while now, right, what did he pick Louisville? I 298 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:32.399 got eleventh in the ACC and his rankings and then 299 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.519 he he does a video. You know, again, this is 300 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.960 just me being you know, I guess a homer. I suppose, 301 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:40.639 because we have no clue just how good any team 302 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:44.080 is that is so dependent upon I mean, like Louisville 303 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.480 and Kentucky are in a rare spot where you get 304 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:49.200 the personnel to feel pretty good. But it's all brand new. 305 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:52.200 And that's why at times I got to back up 306 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.759 and say, look, this is the absolute unknown, more so 307 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:58.720 than we've ever had as college basketball fans around here 308 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.679 with our teams, because it's iraly brand new, every coach, 309 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.399 every player, all brand new. That's exciting, but it also 310 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:08.799 the excitement I think can kind of make you forget that, 311 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.039 oh yeah, we have no clue what we're gonna get. 312 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.919 So this isn't even like a hot take. This isn't 313 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.120 I mean, this is not egregious. But like to hear 314 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:20.879 him say, he thinks Louisville it's got a chance to 315 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.519 be a bubble team this year. I wanted to figure 316 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:24.240 out his location here in Louisville and go give him 317 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:27.519 a talking to. It's not And here's the thing, like, 318 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.039 that's not a crazy thing to say. Louisville was a 319 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:32.399 brand new team. They're coming off of two years where 320 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:35.600 they were god awful three years really if you consider it. 321 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.639 So we'll let you hear what he had to say 322 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:42.960 and his takeaways. Louis Alive coming up in a few days, folks. 323 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:44.960 I'm gonna try to h to give away some tickets 324 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.480 to Louisville Live later this week, but I hope to 325 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.200 see a great crowd there. Get the weekend started. I 326 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:51.559 think it's homecoming at U of L. 327 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:53.200 I don't. I may be wrong on that. 328 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:55.000 In fact, I need to go look that up because 329 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:56.600 it's one of those things as soon as I say it, 330 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:58.960 I start to question myself. It was very confident that 331 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.840 it was that it was homecoming, and then I said it, 332 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.480 I'm like, wait a second, you're probably you probably are 333 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:08.000 making that up. It does not look like it's homecoming. Sorry, 334 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:12.920 homecoming is the Miami game. Sorry, this is the Rumble 335 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.920 in the Jungle fiftieth yea. The theme for this game 336 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:20.880 against SMU is Rumble in the Jungle fiftieth anniversary. It 337 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:24.119 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Muhammad Ali and George George 338 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.720 Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle fight. So we're gonna do 339 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:31.000 our hometown legend Ali, which there's some times people have 340 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.920 mentioned me, is the Ali tribute played out? 341 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:34.039 No? 342 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.759 Never to me, I think it's awesome. So not homecoming, 343 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:42.880 but we're gonna honor Muhammad Ali, and that's that's always 344 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.200 a great thing. So you get the weekend started on 345 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:49.920 Friday night Louisville Live, a nooner on Saturday with an 346 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.240 SMU team that's coming in here with a lot of momentum, 347 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:57.440 and I kind of feel like this is like I'm 348 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.519 more anxious for this game then I have been any 349 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:02.559 of them. I mean the first two. 350 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:03.599 I mean, I mean. 351 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.119 I didn't do a good job of of, you know, 352 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:12.039 disguising how I really felt about how the season started 353 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.920 with those two opponents. I mean, again, it's Indiana's fault, 354 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:19.839 and you know, Louisville took care of business, beat those 355 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:23.960 teams brains in essentially. But now that that's in the 356 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.319 rear view, like I'll tell you how I really feel 357 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.559 like that was awful, Like that was was torture. Sounds 358 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.279 terrible to say when you're watching your team play and 359 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.119 they're scoring a bunch of points looking good. But I'm 360 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.200 somebody that wants to kind of see, you know, where 361 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:39.359 we stand, and there was no opportunity to do that. 362 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.200 So you go from Georgia Tech to Notre Dame Georgia Tech. 363 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.519 I was just you know, I was I was ready 364 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.119 to see what they look like against a real team 365 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:46.680 that we heard of. 366 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.519 With Notre Dame, I knew they could get beat. 367 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:51.799 And of course the way it played out was was 368 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.279 a disaster as far as all the mistakes. But this 369 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:58.319 is I think, okay, this is truly a no. We're 370 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:00.359 going to see where you stand because with Georgia Tech, 371 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:04.640 you know you won and you covered. Wasn't a clean game. 372 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:07.559 Georgia Tech's kind of a pesky team that can find 373 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:09.400 a way to compete when they're big underdogs. 374 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:14.720 They did that with Louisville. 375 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:14.400 And then I don't even know how to feel about me. 376 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:16.119 And again we don't need to get back into the 377 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.400 noted I already have PTSD from something that just happened 378 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:20.279 three days ago with this Notre Dame game, with all 379 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.480 the turnovers and just just the mess that it was. 380 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.440 But how this team comes out will be very telling 381 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:31.240 in my opinion. And I don't mean you know, coming 382 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.839 out and getting up by three scorers in the first quarter. 383 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:38.519 I mean you know, coming out looking sharp, not making 384 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:44.079 avoidable mistakes. And you know SMU when we talked about 385 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.440 him after week one, really after week two, I mean, 386 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:49.599 it was it was a bad look for him. They 387 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.440 should have lost in Nevada. They got housed by boll. 388 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:55.119 Actually they played BYU pretty competitively. Actually, now that I 389 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.519 think about it, let me see, I. 390 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.839 Think it was like fifteen to eight or very low score. 391 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:02.119 Yeah, eighteen fifteen. Good memory on your part, John, So 392 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:05.680 that looked like they may be in trouble because you 393 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.559 know they'd already you know, they should have lost in Nevada. 394 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:10.920 BYU wasn't ranked at the time. Well now BYU is 395 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:13.240 one of the hottest teams in the country, and SMU's 396 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:15.200 lost to them. Actually looks pretty impressive because it was 397 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:19.200 a competitive game and BYU's blowing everybody else out. They 398 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:21.759 made a quarterback change at SMU, and this would be 399 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:24.640 a big win for them, And that's kind of where 400 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:27.920 we are right now Louisville, because they've been a top 401 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:30.680