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Speaker 3: could expect, we have been recapping a lot that went
Speaker 3: on since the last time we had this show. I
Speaker 3: did have the postgame show on Saturday, which was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun, but we did a light show Wednesday,
Speaker 3: no show Thursday and Friday because of Thanksgiving, which it
Speaker 3: was great to have that time off and spend with family.
Speaker 3: It was also great to see a little basketball go
Speaker 3: two out of three in the Battle for Atlantis and
Speaker 3: carry some momentum back. I know that may sound weird
Speaker 3: because of the last game being a loss, and they
Speaker 3: did lose one of their more talented players, but I
Speaker 3: mean Tennessee was was always going to be a tough
Speaker 3: game to win, and Tennessee right now looks like one
Speaker 3: of the best teams in the country. And then you
Speaker 3: beat Indiana, which I can't say that I trust Mike
Speaker 3: Woodson to salvage their rough start, but they have talent,
Speaker 3: and I still think Louisville beating them the way they
Speaker 3: did is going to have a lot of value on
Speaker 3: your resume. Maybe not because of like an eye test.
Speaker 3: Maybe Indiana ends up not being that good, but you
Speaker 3: beat them by thirty points and have a hard time
Speaker 3: with them being in the Big ten. I have our
Speaker 3: time seeing them as a Big ten team not being
Speaker 3: pretty pretty good when it comes to these net rankings
Speaker 3: when it's all said and done. So you know, I
Speaker 3: I going two to three in that event I thought
Speaker 3: was really best case scenario going in, and I thought
Speaker 3: that was going to be hard to do. It is
Speaker 3: kind of painful knowing that you know that third win
Speaker 3: the Battle Fortlantis Championship was right there and they just
Speaker 3: came up short. But all in all, I think it
Speaker 3: was a pretty successful holiday break there for the for
Speaker 3: the Louisville fan base. And one thing I wanted to
Speaker 3: mention because somebody asked me this earlier, did did I did?
Speaker 3: I go on KSR pre show with Billy today because
Speaker 3: Louisville one, and he said it. I think it. Maybe
Speaker 3: he said it when we weren't on the air, but
Speaker 3: I think he said it that this was this was
Speaker 3: agreed upon before the game was played. And I'll be
Speaker 3: honest with you, that is when I thought about it. Okay,
Speaker 3: like I love going on with Billy Love, Billy love
Speaker 3: helping him out Shannons on the road with with the
Speaker 3: KSR crew. So you know, he needs he needs a
Speaker 3: what do you call it, a second chair essentially, right,
Speaker 3: like a guy to just kind of you know, some reinforcement. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, just just some backup, right, And I thought, okay,
Speaker 3: well I want to help him out, but man, if
Speaker 3: Louisville loses, then, like I mean, I'm not really sure
Speaker 3: what I would even, Like I could probably just try
Speaker 3: to do the self deprecating thing like make fun of
Speaker 3: us and make fun of me to you know, keep
Speaker 3: myself from crimes.
Speaker 4: Works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like that was kind of going to be
Speaker 3: my mindset. But then at that point, I thought, you
Speaker 3: know what, no, like they were not losing to Kentucky
Speaker 3: and it wasn't a level of arrogance. If Louisvill can
Speaker 3: lose the stand for they losed anybody. But like I
Speaker 3: just knew that Kentucky had been so defeated and when
Speaker 3: they were probably you know, expected to be really resetting
Speaker 3: things and looking at it as a one game season
Speaker 3: beating Louisville to kind of finish on a high note
Speaker 3: despite the terrible year. I just knew that behind the
Speaker 3: scenes that like not not that I have like access
Speaker 3: to what's going on behind the scenes with UK football,
Speaker 3: but I know people who do, and you know, they
Speaker 3: were telling me that, look, now, there's not a whole
Speaker 3: lot of like, all right, we're going to come out
Speaker 3: here and be a brand new team. Like they were
Speaker 3: in a terrible, toxic situation. And I think because it
Speaker 3: was towards the end and they realized they had nothing
Speaker 3: to play for, you know, they were they didn't have
Speaker 3: a good week, and man, I really do believe that
Speaker 3: they had their worst game of the season. And I
Speaker 3: wish I could tell you that Louisville had a lot
Speaker 3: to do with it. I mean, technically Louisville did. I mean,
Speaker 3: they ran it down their throat. I mean he made
Speaker 3: big plays offensively, even at times without scoring touchdowns. So
Speaker 3: Louisville clearly looked like the better team in every way.
Speaker 3: But Cutter Bowley, that young man. Best of luck to him,
Speaker 3: but god, he was awful. I mean he was bad.
Speaker 3: And I know he's got talent and he's somebody that
Speaker 3: a lot of big time programs wanted, and he chose
Speaker 3: to stay home and go to Kentucky. But would you agree, Austin, Like,
Speaker 3: he couldn't have been much worse.
Speaker 4: No, he looked all sorts of out of sorts, and
Speaker 4: I think I was seeing some pictures of like his
Speaker 4: recruiting stuff, like even before he got to UK, and
Speaker 4: he just kind of looks safe. I mean, he just
Speaker 4: looks like a teenager, you know. Yeah, it was it
Speaker 4: was a boy amongst men in that specific game right there.
Speaker 4: I probably thought that they would have had a way
Speaker 4: better shot with vander Griff if they tried it and
Speaker 4: had a little bit of life once they got a
Speaker 4: winstad in the game, and.
Speaker 3: He threw two really good balls there for those touchdowns,
Speaker 3: and that.
Speaker 4: Helps us because I mean, honestly, you got experience. And
Speaker 4: this is something that you talked about on the postgame show.
Speaker 4: Because I'm a loyal listener to I tuned in, I
Speaker 4: clock in with you after every winner, every loss. But
Speaker 4: like there's a lot of people that were clamoring for
Speaker 4: him just last week when he came in and he
Speaker 4: had his debuts, and I guess when Kentucky's this down
Speaker 4: and the dumps just really only a couple throws will
Speaker 4: make you go like, all right, that's a new fresh face.
Speaker 4: We found our guy perfect just in time for the
Speaker 4: Louisville rivalry, which we've had a hold on over the
Speaker 4: last five or six years.
Speaker 3: But even who do.
Speaker 4: They play last week? He didn't even look that in
Speaker 4: Texas the Texas game, and he didn't even really look
Speaker 4: all that impressive. He just looked a little bit better
Speaker 4: than what they were used to only for like less
Speaker 4: than a handful of plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was desperation on their end to just try
Speaker 3: to find some way to flip a switch and act
Speaker 3: like they weren't a terrible football team as far as
Speaker 3: results and that. And that was what I said at
Speaker 3: the beginning of the year when they lost to South
Speaker 3: Carolina by a billion, which obviously that doesn't look as
Speaker 3: bad now, and it looked like, man, if they can't
Speaker 3: beat that team, what are they going to do when
Speaker 3: they play Ole Miss and Texas and Georgia. They competed
Speaker 3: against the and That really speaks to how off the
Speaker 3: rails it was for Stoops where they could compete early
Speaker 3: on in those games, and even when they played Tennessee
Speaker 3: in Texas, they were more competitive against those teams.
Speaker 1: And they were Louisville.
Speaker 3: I mean, they just were so you know, they were
Speaker 3: never they were never in a good place, it felt like.
Speaker 3: But when they I just thought, Okay, best case scenario
Speaker 3: for Louisville is like if Kentucky ends up limping in here,
Speaker 3: not six and five like they were last year, because
Speaker 3: they weren't very good last year, but they were way
Speaker 3: better than they were this year. It's like, I just
Speaker 3: think it's it's really hard, no matter what you do,
Speaker 3: new quarterback, new life, try to wipe out the previous
Speaker 3: eleven games. Once you get out there and you get
Speaker 3: hit and there's any little bit of adversity, any little
Speaker 3: bit of momentum for your opponent, you crumble and you
Speaker 3: revert to what you've been all year because you can't
Speaker 3: just become a new team out of nowhere. And that's
Speaker 3: exactly what happened. But again, I think it was because
Speaker 3: if you remember, they got off the field pretty quickly
Speaker 3: the beginning of the game, which that actually, no, they
Speaker 3: they ran the ball twice of effectively and then had
Speaker 3: the fumble if you want to call it that he
Speaker 3: just ripped it out of his hands. And then next
Speaker 3: time out Louisville gets out there and they don't capitalize. Right,
Speaker 3: They had the mistouchdown pass to Isaac Brown, a bad
Speaker 3: ball from Schuck. You just overthrew him. And I just
Speaker 3: kept thinking, Okay, we're leaving the door open. And really
Speaker 3: Louisville did leave the door open for them until the
Speaker 3: midway through the third quarter, but they just I mean,
Speaker 3: it was a pretty pathetic showing for them all the
Speaker 3: way around. And I know a lot of their fans
Speaker 3: really weren't that surprised, right because I think they realized,
Speaker 3: even if they didn't want to say it, but they thought, okay,
Speaker 3: we might come out and play well because Stoops always
Speaker 3: has us ready in this game. I think as soon
Speaker 3: as you saw live action, I think Kentucky fans probably
Speaker 3: felt like, all right, this is who we are and
Speaker 3: I just want this to be over. And even when
Speaker 3: Louiell was only up two scores in the third quarter,
Speaker 3: I think they probably tried to And I don't want
Speaker 3: to be a psychologist, for Kentucky fans, but I think
Speaker 3: they probably try to think, okay, like, hey, they left us,
Speaker 3: they left us alive here, let's go do something you
Speaker 3: really didn't believe it was gonna happen. Because again, you
Speaker 3: know your team better than anybody. You watched them all
Speaker 3: year and they were bad. So Governor's cups backwards, back
Speaker 3: where it belongs, and I hope that it doesn't leave
Speaker 3: here for a long long time. And I really I
Speaker 3: think objectively, obviously you know what I'm going to say.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm clearly a Louisville fan, and I try
Speaker 3: to be honest and objective. But I think you ask
Speaker 3: anybody who covers college football objectively, who knows the sport
Speaker 3: objectively that doesn't lean red or blue, they would tell
Speaker 3: you that momentum, it makes it appear that things can change.
Speaker 3: Right maybe next year it's a totally unexpected situation where
Speaker 3: for both teams, where Kentucky's rolling and Louisville takes a
Speaker 3: huge step back. We don't know, but right now there's
Speaker 3: really not something you could point to if you're a
Speaker 3: Kentucky fan that should make you feel like you're about
Speaker 3: to start winning this thing again. So that's you know,
Speaker 3: that's all is right in this state now that the
Speaker 3: governor's cups back where it belongs. And again, I know
Speaker 3: some don't agree, but that's just it's just the truth.
Speaker 4: Just a little bit about the game. I'm kind of
Speaker 4: glad that it played out just how the way that
Speaker 4: we were sort of talking about it, like go up,
Speaker 4: say you can go up twenty points on them and
Speaker 4: then just really kind of just kill any sort of
Speaker 4: self esteem that they had because of the way that
Speaker 4: they were coming into that game. But there was still
Speaker 4: that anst because they were still at arm's length. Even
Speaker 4: though you're at twenty points. It's probably you know, like
Speaker 4: the caller earlier, Jerry should have been thirty one points.
Speaker 4: And then you have the easy start off the second
Speaker 4: half really good, and then you kind of get the
Speaker 4: Stanford flashbacks. Right then you kind of get the all right,
Speaker 4: is this a juice that they needed? But all in all,
Speaker 4: they just kind of fell flat right after that scoop
Speaker 4: and score when they were so close or when they
Speaker 4: were down there on their own territory and then that
Speaker 4: scoop and score.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was such a momentum swinging play. Whenever
Speaker 3: they actually had a chance to kind of claim a
Speaker 3: little bit of momentum and then they had the worst
Speaker 3: possible situation happened, and yeah, you know, I felt like
Speaker 3: and you just said something that kind of made me
Speaker 3: look at it from a different angle. I think to
Speaker 3: know that you should have been up a lot more,
Speaker 3: and you left it kind of opened for not doubt,
Speaker 3: but you know, you know you should have been up more,
Speaker 3: and you wondered if it was going to haunt you.
Speaker 3: That wasn't a good place to be in. But it
Speaker 3: never got to where like it's down to the wire,
Speaker 3: but you had a good enough lead and you just
Speaker 3: kind of let them sit back and implode. You kind
Speaker 3: of set back and just let them show that they
Speaker 3: were that bad this year. And you know, I enjoyed
Speaker 3: seeing how bad they were.
Speaker 4: Didn't see a lot of I didn't see a lot
Speaker 4: of L's down this week, and you know, I was
Speaker 4: I was refreshing.
Speaker 3: I swear I didn't think of L's down one time
Speaker 3: during the game, not that I would, but like Kentucky
Speaker 3: would be down by multiple touchdowns in this game previously
Speaker 3: before it got out of hand, and would be doing
Speaker 3: L's Down like it was insane, Like I remember in
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, the last time Louisville had won it, Lynn Boden,
Speaker 3: not Lyn Bowden. I'm sorry Benny Snell. You know, he
Speaker 3: ended up having a great career there, but he lost
Speaker 3: to Louisville more than he beat him, I feel like.
Speaker 3: And also he was down like three touchdowns in the
Speaker 3: third quarter and was doing L's down on like a
Speaker 3: sympathy touchdown, like and it just kind of speaks to like,
Speaker 3: they can't control themselves. But that's how bad they were
Speaker 3: this year, and they were getting blown out so bad
Speaker 3: that there was there was no L's down for many
Speaker 3: players during the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they couldn't believe in themselves this year. Yea, And
Speaker 4: I love it. I love that Brom just ripped their
Speaker 4: souls out. Yeah, hopefully that means has got a good
Speaker 4: grasp on this rivalry going forward.
Speaker 3: Well. Yeah, and look, you can't you can't find a coach,
Speaker 3: regardless of how much money you would potentially have, that
Speaker 3: that can understand it the way that he does. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean he's gonna win them all. He clearly lost one already.
Speaker 3: But you know, I don't think we'll ever have to
Speaker 3: worry about well our players unders into this fan base
Speaker 3: and this city. I mean, they should know that, but
Speaker 3: I think the guy leading them it being something that
Speaker 3: he's experienced, that he can feel and he knows more
Speaker 3: about than maybe anybody, because you know, Jeff came to
Speaker 3: louisvill when it wasn't the cool thing to do. You know,
Speaker 3: Jeff came to Louisville before Louisville was able to really,
Speaker 3: I mean, they were just in a different planet as
Speaker 3: far as where they are now. What I mean by
Speaker 3: that is, you know, they're now in a power conference
Speaker 3: and they've had a Heisman Trophy winner, They've gone to
Speaker 3: BCS Bowl games. So you know, we'll never have we
Speaker 3: should never have to worry about, not not necessarily winning
Speaker 3: or losing, but we should never have to worry about
Speaker 3: like our homes. We just should never have to worry
Speaker 3: about what we had to worry about with Saturerfield when
Speaker 3: it comes to this rivalry, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk basketball really quickly here, so I
Speaker 3: and we'll continue to talk about it throughout the show.
Speaker 3: But I don't have a whole lot of time left
Speaker 3: in this segment. But I did mention the four o'clock
Speaker 3: hour being for hoops because overall, as I mentioned just
Speaker 3: a moment ago, the Battle for Atlantis, I still look
Speaker 3: at that as a awesome trip for this team. I
Speaker 3: hated that they lost the last game the way they did,
Speaker 3: and I hate that they lost Case in prior for
Speaker 3: the season, which, by the way, if you guys haven't
Speaker 3: heard that, maybe you've been caught up at work and
Speaker 3: you've just been very busy not keeping up with what's
Speaker 3: going on. They did confirm earlier today before Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 3: press conference that the Case and Pryor will be out
Speaker 3: for the season with a torn ACL. It really looked
Speaker 3: exactly like what you see when somebody has a torn ACL,
Speaker 3: and you know, I hate it. It sucks for him,
Speaker 3: sucks for this team. It changes things for them, no doubt.
Speaker 3: But I still think that you could have a team
Speaker 3: that ends up in the NAA Tournament. And maybe I'm
Speaker 3: just falling into the trap of the toxic platform that
Speaker 3: is Twitter now called X But you know, you get
Speaker 3: people out there acting like, well, okay, you just can't
Speaker 3: you just can't minimize how big of a deal this is.
Speaker 3: This is not something you come back from. We need
Speaker 3: to just shift all Pat needs to shift attention to
Speaker 3: recruiting for next year. Like what I mean, Case and
Speaker 3: Pryor good player, no doubt, and he was a big
Speaker 3: factor in why you were able to go to out
Speaker 3: of three and you know the game that you lost,
Speaker 3: he wasn't in there late to help you win. So
Speaker 3: I'm not minimizing anything about his value what he brings
Speaker 3: to the table. But you're replacing a guy who was
Speaker 3: averaging twelve points in six rebounds a game and shooting
Speaker 3: thirty five percent from the floor and shooting fifteen percent
Speaker 3: from three. I'm not here to tell you that, Like,
Speaker 3: it ain't no big deal. I'm trying to give you
Speaker 3: one of those Hey, two things can be true. You're
Speaker 3: not in a position to lose a guy like him,
Speaker 3: given the fact that you already have Trey Ore out
Speaker 3: for probably another month and Corin Johnson's probably I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't want to speculate, but it
Speaker 3: doesn't sound good Like I wouldn't be shocked if he
Speaker 3: ends up not playing this year. Just because when I
Speaker 3: hear he's getting his second opinion makes me think that
Speaker 3: they're trying to find some somebody that says you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: he can play through it, or maybe you don't need surgery.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know, And again I probably
Speaker 3: shouldn't been speculate, so there's no way to act like
Speaker 3: this is, oh, no big deal. But I also think
Speaker 3: when you when it comes down to what you have
Speaker 3: to replace, it's really not it's really not crazy to
Speaker 3: think that they could still end up having a good
Speaker 3: enough season to find themselves in the NAA Tournament. I mean,
Speaker 3: Cayson did a lot of good things for you, but
Speaker 3: I think caseon and this, I'm trying my best here
Speaker 3: not to to sound like I'm claiming that people are
Speaker 3: acting like he's better than he is, because I think
Speaker 3: he's a really talented guy. He's a six to ten
Speaker 3: guy that is not a great shooter, but he can
Speaker 3: occasionally make one. But he's a good athlete. He's got
Speaker 3: a good feel for the game, and he's a really
Speaker 3: good ball handler for a guy that's six ' ten.
Speaker 3: Like he's a matchup problem for other teams, and that's
Speaker 3: a real big thing you're gonna miss. But as far
Speaker 3: as just what he provided, I think, you know, Connie
Speaker 3: Russ is a talent. The young man. Now, maybe he
Speaker 3: has a tough adjustment period getting more minutes because he's
Speaker 3: a true freshman, but you can tell he has a
Speaker 3: lot of talent. He also has a lot of energy,
Speaker 3: like caseon. So you know it's not ideal. But I
Speaker 3: will say I'm a little surprised that people act as
Speaker 3: if they lost somebody that's average. I mean, do you
Speaker 3: I mean again, this team's probably gonna have different leading
Speaker 3: scorers throughout the season just because of how the rosters
Speaker 3: build and how they play. But you know, Cason Pryor
Speaker 3: is your third leading scorer on this team. Chuckie Hepburn
Speaker 3: is your All American caliber player. Like again, I don't
Speaker 3: want to make it sound like it's no big deal,
Speaker 3: but I think in a way this guy was maybe
Speaker 3: And again, this is a stupid thing to talk about,
Speaker 3: like which guy could you afford to lose the least?
Speaker 3: That kind of stuff, But I think losing Chucky and
Speaker 3: losing rain Smith would actually be a bigger dagger to
Speaker 3: this team than losing Cason. And it's not because I'm
Speaker 3: saying he's not valuable, but I think you can you
Speaker 3: can do some things to kind of make up for
Speaker 3: what you lost there to where it's not going to
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Speaker 3: is there any chance we see Pat Kelsey reinvent the offense? Well? No,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure you're gonna maybe i'd Actually, I
Speaker 3: don't know I'd be honest with you. I said this
Speaker 3: many times before the season started, and I've said it
Speaker 3: here and there throughout the young season. When when it
Speaker 3: when it when I'm reminded of it, and that is
Speaker 3: that we're still learning about him. We're still learning about
Speaker 3: him as a coach. Not you know, only are we learning,
Speaker 3: you know, how successful he's going to be, but like
Speaker 3: we're learning about things that you don't really notice or
Speaker 3: pick up on until you're in a situation. Like for example,
Speaker 3: we had a call her earlier who mentioned one of
Speaker 3: the questions that Pat got at the press conference about
Speaker 3: shooting percentages, and he actually had talked about it before
Speaker 3: they were actually before they played Indiana when they got
Speaker 3: to the Bahamas last week. In the presser prior to
Speaker 3: that Indiana game, when asked about three point shooting percentage.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think he's going to want to
Speaker 3: talk up his guys as shooters because he's I mean,
Speaker 3: it's in his best interest for this team to end
Speaker 3: up being a really good shooting team. That one of
Speaker 3: their strengths is that they can make a lot of threes.
Speaker 3: So it's there's there's multiple reasons why you would expect
Speaker 3: him to. Really, I don't know, I'm trying to find
Speaker 3: the right way to describe because I don't think that
Speaker 3: he was totally dismissive of the question, but he kind
Speaker 3: of instead of just acknowledging, what is a fact that
Speaker 3: this team is not shot it that well, he kind
Speaker 3: of just acted like, well, that's the last thing I'm
Speaker 3: worried about, because I think he look, he sees these
Speaker 3: guys in practice. He knows that they are able to
Speaker 3: make shots. But you're shooting twenty eight percent from three,
Speaker 3: and to be honest, the guy you lost, I mean
Speaker 3: he was shooting fifteen percent. Case in Pryor on the
Speaker 3: season was shooting fifteen percent, and it was he was
Speaker 3: five of thirty three. Man, I know that guys have
Speaker 3: the green light and you can be taken out of
Speaker 3: a game if you've got a good look within a
Speaker 3: rhythm and you don't take it. Because that's just what
Speaker 3: he wants to do. And I understand that. So I
Speaker 3: guess if you're asking if he's gonna change how they
Speaker 3: play offensively as far as like shot selection, I really
Speaker 3: don't think so, I really don't, And I think you
Speaker 3: can implement every every bit of what he wants to
Speaker 3: do his style, his identity as a coach, and yes,
Speaker 3: he built this team with pieces that fit exactly what
Speaker 3: he wants to do. I'd say they probably are missing
Speaker 3: a traditional big a little bit more than people realized
Speaker 3: that they would. I mean, obviously don't helped losing a
Speaker 3: six to ten guy in case in prior, but he
Speaker 3: wasn't somebody that you really felt like was going to
Speaker 3: you know, he wasn't much of a physical presence. But again,
Speaker 3: he's one of your bigger players, so you know, I
Speaker 3: think the Indiana game is a perfect example of what
Speaker 3: you can do when networks. Because Indiana or Louisville didn't
Speaker 3: shoot the ball that well. Against Indiana, I mean they did.
Speaker 3: I mean they made threes, and honestly, it probably was
Speaker 3: their best game of the season when it comes to
Speaker 3: three point shooting. So I probably shouldn't state that they
Speaker 3: didn't shoot it that well. But you know, in that game,
Speaker 3: I'm pulling up the numbers here. As a team, they
Speaker 3: shot thirty seven percent from the that's pretty good. I
Speaker 3: think they can do better, but like that's that's pretty
Speaker 3: good if you're making ten to twenty seven. So they
Speaker 3: made enough, and it really helped you put the game
Speaker 3: out of reach for Indiana because you can just bury
Speaker 3: a team if you get Rainsmith open and transition, he
Speaker 3: knocks down a couple and you're already up ten or twelve.
Speaker 3: So I think that was an example of when it
Speaker 3: works and you get a team playing out of their
Speaker 3: comfort zone, you have sped them up and they don't
Speaker 3: know what to do. They're turning it over left and
Speaker 3: right like Indiana was. They're missing layups because they're uncomfortable,
Speaker 3: they're out of their comfort zone. And you thrive in
Speaker 3: that style and that pace, And that's a team that
Speaker 3: I don't care what anybody says. Indiana's got a lot
Speaker 3: of talent, a lot of talent, but that didn't matter.
Speaker 3: Louisville was dictating the way the game was played, and
Speaker 3: Louisville was able to clearly do that a lot better
Speaker 3: than Indiana was. As far as just that frantic pace.
Speaker 3: Some people hear pace is like, okay, well you don't
Speaker 3: want to run with them, because man, they got great athletes.
Speaker 3: That's true. Like if we're talking who's better in transition
Speaker 3: at running the floor and dunking on somebody's head, I
Speaker 3: would say that Louisville probably won't be great at that
Speaker 3: compared to some other really good teams they play this year.
Speaker 3: It's more about just frantic up and down, and at
Speaker 3: times it frustrates louisvill fans. Right, you're thinking, why they
Speaker 3: held you jack up that three, We're seven seconds into
Speaker 3: the shot clock. You could have made a few more passes,
Speaker 3: got a better look, value the possession, like this is
Speaker 3: still new to us to what we're getting used to it.
Speaker 3: So you saw a great example of if a team
Speaker 3: doesn't and I think quite literally Mike Woodson showed up
Speaker 3: thinking it doesn't matter what they want to do. We're better,
Speaker 3: We've got better players, We're just gonna go win, and
Speaker 3: it backfired on them in a major way where they
Speaker 3: lost that game by twenty eight points and it should
Speaker 3: have been forty. I'll never forget the press at the
Speaker 3: end of that game where they scored seven unanswered points
Speaker 3: in the final twenty nine seconds to take that from
Speaker 3: a thirty five point victory to a twenty eight point
Speaker 3: victory for Louisville. So that was a really good example.
Speaker 3: And I think the next day when you played West Virginia,
Speaker 3: they did a much better job at not letting Louisville
Speaker 3: get into what they wanted to do. And every team's
Speaker 3: going to do that, right the blueprint is now out
Speaker 3: on Louisville as far as what you can do to
Speaker 3: make them a tougher team to or you know, an
Speaker 3: easier team to beat, and that is get him playing
Speaker 3: slower than the half court because that's not really their
Speaker 3: comfort zone. So I will say this, the West Virginia game,
Speaker 3: to me, was so impressive because of that. Louisville played
Speaker 3: a game that really is not I mean, that's the
Speaker 3: first time we've saw them in a game where actually Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Tennessee did it to them, and you saw how in
Speaker 3: the half court, man they didn't have an answer. Well,
Speaker 3: you found an answer when you're in the half court.
Speaker 3: And teams have clearly made it a point to not
Speaker 3: let you get into what you want to do. They
Speaker 3: have a bigger they're a bigger dictator in pace of play,
Speaker 3: style of play, and that's going to happen because that's
Speaker 3: what any good team would do, is to make sure
Speaker 3: that their emphasis is let's not change who we are,
Speaker 3: but let's also not let them get into controlling how
Speaker 3: this game is going to be played as far as
Speaker 3: pace and style. So I think West virgin You did
Speaker 3: that on Thanksgiving. The next day, Oklahoma did it, and man,
Speaker 3: they ran some half court sets that were really, really impressive.
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding you when I say this. I'm not
Speaker 3: even making a bad joke here. Porter Moosa is a
Speaker 3: really good coach. You know why people don't know that
Speaker 3: because Sister Jean's old ass took a spotlight. That's the
Speaker 3: guy who went to the Final four at Loyola and
Speaker 3: had like two really good runs at Loyola, and it
Speaker 3: was all about Sister Jean. I'm not even kidding you.
Speaker 3: Like a Sister Jean Merchant, Yeah, I mean she absolutely
Speaker 3: was all people thought about during that run. And you know,
Speaker 3: would they go Sweet sixteen, Final four? I think they.
Speaker 4: Didn't, didn't they They made the championship one year, didn't they?
Speaker 3: No, they din't playing a title game, Okay, but they
Speaker 3: made it. They I know they had a Final four
Speaker 3: and I'm pretty sure they was a final They had
Speaker 3: a Sweet sixteen at some point. So he's a good coach.
Speaker 3: He's really good. I love his action in the half court.
Speaker 3: Like I think he's a really good coach. And when
Speaker 3: it comes to that, but people probably don't know it
Speaker 3: as much as they should, because again, he wasn't somebody
Speaker 3: that you even really knew a whole lot about during
Speaker 3: that Cinderella run because it was all about Sister Jean.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that to make fun of Sister Gene.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that's why, like you probably don't have
Speaker 3: as much respect for him as a coach as you should.
Speaker 3: At least that's the way I see it. So anyways,
Speaker 3: you found your answer in the half court. Give the
Speaker 3: ball to Chucky Hepburn and let him be your guy
Speaker 3: that initiates everything. He can go get a bucket himself.
Speaker 3: He can score the ball, he can make shots, he
Speaker 3: has such a great change of pace when he's got
Speaker 3: the ball in his hands. And I don't know what
Speaker 3: was said to him when they got to the Bahamas,
Speaker 3: or maybe before they took off to go there, but
Speaker 3: the way he played and what he said after games
Speaker 3: makes it quite clear that somebody told him, look, dude,
Speaker 3: you got the goods young man. Like I know, this
Speaker 3: is a team and Pat Kelsey's teams have always been
Speaker 3: great because of a collection of players and really not
Speaker 3: one individual that can just do some things out there.
Speaker 3: But Chucky Hepburn is far and away your best player,
Speaker 3: not even close. So like they're still going to try
Speaker 3: to Pat Kelsey's I'm not going to say, hey, look,
Speaker 3: you take every shot. We're just going to hand you
Speaker 3: the keys and tell everybody else to get out of
Speaker 3: the way, because again, you're not going to change your identity.
Speaker 3: Pat's not gonna just start being a different kind of
Speaker 3: coach now that he's at Louisville. But I think also
Speaker 3: he's dealing with a point guard. And he said it,
Speaker 3: he said it after the game when they beat West
Speaker 3: Virginia that he's never he's never seen an individual point
Speaker 3: guard performance that he coached in quite like that. And
Speaker 3: that's how good Chuck. He was so in the half court.
Speaker 3: If you're unable to get into what you want to do,
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think we're gonna see it, but man,
Speaker 3: I'd be cool. I'd be cool if it turned into like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we didn't get up the floor before everybody else for
Speaker 3: somebody to get a transition three, not a fast break bucket,
Speaker 3: but like you know, Noah Waterman snuck out or Noah
Speaker 3: Waterman got a rebound and didn't do an outlet pass
Speaker 3: because he's got the greenlight to just get up the
Speaker 3: floor and play fast, and sure enough he found rain Smith,
Speaker 3: who's spotting up in the corner three ball. Like, if
Speaker 3: you don't get into that, get it to Chucky and
Speaker 3: then I think at that point, be a little more
Speaker 3: selective with your shots. I don't think it's gonna happen,
Speaker 3: and it doesn't mean that, like, you know, who knows,
Speaker 3: maybe this team ends up becoming a really good three
Speaker 3: point shooting team, because one thing we can all agree on,
Speaker 3: Losing case In Pryor sucks because he's just talented and
Speaker 3: one of your better players and you already have two injuries,
Speaker 3: Like it sucks, but nobody can tell me we lost
Speaker 3: a shooter. I mean, I know his three point shooting
Speaker 3: last year was fine at South Florida, but like there
Speaker 3: was a reason case In Pryor was open every damn
Speaker 3: time because the opponent's like, yeah, we'll take that because
Speaker 3: if he's slashing getting too the rim, that's where we're
Speaker 3: in a little bit of a tougher spot. But if
Speaker 3: he wants to shoot threes, we're not gonna maybe dare him,
Speaker 3: but man, like we'll live with him firing up ten
Speaker 3: threes making one, and I don't mean to pile on
Speaker 3: especially now that he's injured. I feel terrible for him,
Speaker 3: but like you're you're not losing a guy that you
Speaker 3: know is valuable when it comes to making three point shots.
Speaker 3: So to answer your question, and I don't really know
Speaker 3: that you just asked him, he's going to recreate the offense.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you're probably still gonna see a
Speaker 3: lot of the same and there's gonna and there's there's
Speaker 3: good reason for that, because you know that if the
Speaker 3: game just gets sped up, let's just say for forty
Speaker 3: percent of the game it is played at that frantic pace,
Speaker 3: that's still gonna benefit you more than it's probably gonna
Speaker 3: bit off anybody else. Now, what you don't want is
Speaker 3: scoring droughts and going into lolls like we've seen before,
Speaker 3: and you know, there's not as much consistent stops at
Speaker 3: times during that frantic pace to where like, if you're
Speaker 3: put it this way, if you're getting into what you
Speaker 3: want to do but not making shots and you're not
Speaker 3: scoring a bunch of points off of turnovers from the
Speaker 3: other team, that's where I think your danger zone against
Speaker 3: good teams just because you know this team is not
Speaker 3: loaded with talent, so you're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 3: the same stuff. I just hope that everybody gets a
Speaker 3: little more comfortable after the Bahamas with it being Dare
Speaker 3: I say in the half court that Chucky Hipburn showed
Speaker 3: and I don't, And I don't know why you wouldn't
Speaker 3: want to do that, because he's not just somebody who
Speaker 3: is your best option to go create for him himself
Speaker 3: or others. I think Chucky's really really good and he
Speaker 3: showed that again. He went up, he went head to
Speaker 3: head with Javon small Court, the guard for West Virginia.
Speaker 3: He's having one of the he's having a phenomenal season.
Speaker 3: He's one of the best guards in the Big twelve
Speaker 3: right now, i'd say, and Chucky went head to head
Speaker 3: with him and both played well. But obviously Chucky got
Speaker 3: the best of him. So you know, him having thirty
Speaker 3: two against West Virginia. I know a lot of that
Speaker 3: came in overtime, but he also got to the line
Speaker 3: a lot. He shot seventeen free throws like that can
Speaker 3: be something. And this is something that they did a
Speaker 3: good job in the Bahamas. Get getting into the bonus
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So I don't want to put
Speaker 3: so much pressure on Chucky, but it isn't really about Hey,
Speaker 3: you need to really step up your your productivity, even
Speaker 3: more so because you lost case in Pryor. It's more
Speaker 3: so than anything, because look, you got something special there.
Speaker 3: That guy's a really good player, and he was just
Speaker 3: too passive before they got to the Bahamas and somebody
Speaker 3: talked something into him, or it might have been Peyton.
Speaker 3: I know he was really complimentary of Peyton as far
Speaker 3: as being a good mentor to him, and there's no
Speaker 3: better mentor I think you could get than Peyton Siva.
Speaker 3: But he played with confidence, He played aggressive, made big
Speaker 3: time shots, was always in the moment, and before that
Speaker 3: we didn't see it. And I think more than anything,
Speaker 3: it may not even may not even have been lack
Speaker 3: of confidence. But he wasn't asked to do that at Wisconsin, right,
Speaker 3: and he knows that, like there's gonna be his job
Speaker 3: is to be the point guard and run the team.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I wish I did know as
Speaker 3: far as what happened to make it to where he
Speaker 3: just kind of went out there and played with that
Speaker 3: kind of confidence because it was it was huge, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean twelve against Oklahoma. He was too quiet early
Speaker 3: on and I was a little I mean I was
Speaker 3: a little worried that maybe he got complacent again. He
Speaker 3: did step up in the second half, made made some
Speaker 3: big plays to kind of, you know, keep you in
Speaker 3: it late. But he needs to be the most aggressive
Speaker 3: guy on your team. He needs to be taking I think,
Speaker 3: the most shots for this team to be a tournament
Speaker 3: team that maybe can win a game or two when
Speaker 3: they get there. And I would have said that before
Speaker 3: Case and Pryor got hurt. So again, losing priors is tough,
Speaker 3: but I find myself kind of feeling like I am
Speaker 3: in the minority and thinking that this is not ideal.
Speaker 3: You become less talented. You got three key guys injured.
Speaker 3: But I've seen enough from everybody else to where I
Speaker 3: feel like you can still go out there and put
Speaker 3: together a good enough season to get into the tournament.
Speaker 3: And the net rankings came out today, by the way,
Speaker 3: the first edition, which I'm sure by now everybody knows
Speaker 3: what that is. It's the it's the formula the NCAA
Speaker 3: uses to really, I mean, it's not the only thing
Speaker 3: they use, but they use it more than anything. Right,
Speaker 3: there's ken palm, there's the ape pole, there's the eye test.
Speaker 3: What they put more into the process of seeding teams
Speaker 3: and deciding who gets in the tournament is their own formula.
Speaker 3: And Louisville because they've played the Battle for Atlantis against
Speaker 3: three good teams and an elite team in Tennessee. Here
Speaker 3: they are with two losses, but they're still in the
Speaker 3: top thirty. I mean they're five and two and their
Speaker 3: losses one by a lot to Tennessee. But it doesn't
Speaker 3: hurt you that much because Tennessee right now is number
Speaker 3: one in the country in the net rankings. And against
Speaker 3: this Oklahoma team, I mean they're now sitting at they're
Speaker 3: sitting at whereas Oklahoma are they behind you?
Speaker 4: I don't even know if they're in the top twenty five.
Speaker 3: Let's see, Yeah, they're Wow, they're in the they're thirty seven.
Speaker 3: For some reason, earlier I thought that that they I
Speaker 3: saw them up higher. So Louisvill is actually ahead of them,
Speaker 3: which you know, isn't you know? I Mean it's not ideal,
Speaker 3: but they and they did beat you, so they've got
Speaker 3: they've got that but you can play. And I'm not
Speaker 3: saying this is the way that it should be. I've
Speaker 3: complained about this for a long time, but it is
Speaker 3: what it is. Maybe this is now the year where
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, great, I love these net rankings
Speaker 3: because it favors Louisville. If you're playing really really good
Speaker 3: teams and you're competitive and you lose a close game,
Speaker 3: it really doesn't hurt you in these numbers. I mean,
Speaker 3: they don't factor in losing and winning as much as
Speaker 3: I think they should. But hey, use it, use it
Speaker 3: to your advantage. Like, for example, well, when you play
Speaker 3: Duke coming up? Is that Sunday by the way, yes,
Speaker 3: it is Sunday at six o'clock. What a random I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't love the spot there. But you do have
Speaker 3: a home game against Duke, and that's I mean, that's exciting.
Speaker 3: But when you play Duke, who is currently ranked number
Speaker 3: four in the net rankings, if you play them competitively
Speaker 3: and you lose by like I don't know, three or
Speaker 3: four points, I wouldn't be shocked if you jump up
Speaker 3: substantially in these numbers. Like when I say substantially, I
Speaker 3: mean like I think jumping up four spots after a
Speaker 3: loss would be substantial because you lost. So I think
Speaker 3: if you can compete against the really good teams and
Speaker 3: win a couple of them, like tomorrow night against Ole Miss,
Speaker 3: you're going to realize that once you get to the
Speaker 3: ACC teams you played in the Bahamas, which we all
Speaker 3: know they could have easily gone three and o in
Speaker 3: the Bahamas. Those like those teams are substantially better than
Speaker 3: I think seventy five percent of the ACC, maybe more
Speaker 3: than that, like Carolina and Duke's going to be a
Speaker 3: tough out. Pittsburgh's off to a phenomenal start, their number
Speaker 3: five right now in the net rankings, but elsewhere. I
Speaker 3: mean not to say you won't slip up and lose
Speaker 3: to some of these teams, but I mean the ACC,
Speaker 3: the issues they've had in basketball, as far as just
Speaker 3: declining as a hoops league, it ain't going anywhere. In fact,
Speaker 3: it's I think continuing to be a downslot, and I
Speaker 3: don't like that, but hey, take advantage of it. In
Speaker 3: year one of the Pat Kelsey era. All right, quick
Speaker 3: break what we'll do on the other side here as
Speaker 3: we wrap up the four o'clock hour. Haven't talked about it. Yet.
Speaker 3: But last night, man, both fan bases, it seemed to
Speaker 3: be a big talking point, not really among each other,
Speaker 3: like as far as Louisville Kentucky fans going back and forth,
Speaker 3: but Kentucky fans thinking, oh my god, no, we can't
Speaker 3: lose the big dog. We can't lose the big dog
Speaker 3: to Louisville. And then on the Louisville side thinking yeah,
Speaker 3: like I don't know we'd need him or want him.
Speaker 3: But man, if it makes them sad, come on down.
Speaker 3: And it's it was all for nothing. And I don't
Speaker 3: know a damn thing about what really happened, but I
Speaker 3: have a theory, an educated guess as far as what happened,
Speaker 3: and I think it was a failed to attempt from
Speaker 3: Vince Marrow. I mean that's the way I see it.
Speaker 3: All right, don't go anywhere. We'll wrap up the four
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Speaker 3: until six o'clock, So hang out with us. I'm Nick Coffee.
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Speaker 3: So look, Kentucky football in a in a really tough spot. Man,
Speaker 3: you hate to see it, and I hope you can
Speaker 3: sense the sarcasm there, but they want their coach gone.
Speaker 3: He's not walking away from nine million dollars a year.
Speaker 3: They're defensive coordinators trying to get out and I really
Speaker 3: don't know for sure, like what happened with Vince Marrow,
Speaker 3: but he's done this many times where he either legitimately does
Speaker 3: have another opportunity that he's not going to take, but
Speaker 3: he wants to utilize his relationships with people who cover
Speaker 3: Kentucky to have them float stuff out there that you know,
Speaker 3: probably one isn't going to happen, and maybe sometimes like
Speaker 3: it's just not even real. I mean, he has had opportunities.
Speaker 3: I think Michigan was a school that wanted to bring
Speaker 3: him back and or wanted to bring him there. And
Speaker 3: I don't know if he was there before, but I
Speaker 3: feel like he has roots in the Big Ten. Maybe
Speaker 3: I'm just making that up, but and he decided to stay,
Speaker 3: Like I think there's at least been once where he
Speaker 3: did in fact decide to stick around. But then like
Speaker 3: every year there's and it always comes from like Justin
Speaker 3: Rowland who covers Kentucky for Rivals, or somebody within KSR.
Speaker 3: And here's here's what I will say. And I've said
Speaker 3: this before, and I really want to emphasize this. I
Speaker 3: don't believe that any of them make this up, and
Speaker 3: it is technically in their best interest if they're getting
Speaker 3: information from the program rather be a coach himself or
Speaker 3: somebody connected. I mean, that's the game, you share that.
Speaker 3: So I don't think anybody's lying. I think they're being
Speaker 3: misled and I think they're being used, and it happens
Speaker 3: very often. So when I make fun of Vince Merrill's
Speaker 3: name coming up for jobs, I'm not clowning the people
Speaker 3: who put it out there. I'm clowning I guess. Really
Speaker 3: him and Pits Merrow is not really involved in a
Speaker 3: lot of game planning, not really involved in a lot
Speaker 3: well I shouldn't say game plann because I don't know
Speaker 3: that for certain, but I know on the sideline during
Speaker 3: the game he's not really relied upon for much and
Speaker 3: maybe a lot of assistants aren't like that. But for
Speaker 3: people to act as if like Southern miss was gonna
Speaker 3: hire him as a head coach like that's insane, Like
Speaker 3: that's just not real life. Didn't he get mentioned for
Speaker 3: like the Cincinnati job or something when it opened up
Speaker 3: before they hired Sadderfield. Like when I say mentioned, I
Speaker 3: just mean like Kentucky fans are talking about, oh, we
Speaker 3: gotta oh we don't want to lose him, and look,
Speaker 3: it's nice to be wanted. And clearly he's a guy
Speaker 3: that is golden in Lexington. They can be as bad
Speaker 3: as they are this year, and the big worry is
Speaker 3: how do we keep the big dog? So whenever it
Speaker 3: became a thing yesterday from somebody within KSR, it was
Speaker 3: Nick Roush, who is very connected to Kentucky football. And
Speaker 3: a lot of people didn't know this, but Nick Roush
Speaker 3: is Jeff Bram's cut. Did you know that Austin?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I did not. Is that not crazy to think about
Speaker 3: because he's like a Kentucky terrorist, Like he's a he's
Speaker 3: like one of the worst as far as trolling Louisville.
Speaker 3: I know, I know Nick, and I like Nick a lot,
Speaker 3: and I think he works his ass off and what
Speaker 3: he does. But you know he would acknowledge like he's
Speaker 3: he's a terror when it comes to going back and
Speaker 3: forth like he's somebody that when you think about Jam,
Speaker 3: I just wish we could shut those Kentucky fans up,
Speaker 3: the ones who are, you know, gloating on Twitter and
Speaker 3: taking shots at the rival. I think it's from here
Speaker 3: in Louisville, isn't. Yeah, he went to his sales. He's
Speaker 3: I don't know the exact connection. I think I have
Speaker 3: a guess of the South. I think I have a
Speaker 3: I think I think I know how the connection is
Speaker 3: as far as relationship. But it's not my business to
Speaker 3: share that. But it hit me yesterday that you know,
Speaker 3: and that's to me, that's what made it to where like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm at least willing to acknowledge that there may be
Speaker 3: at least something here. As far as Nick being the
Speaker 3: one to break the news that Louisville wants Vince Marrow
Speaker 3: because Nick, I don't know if he has a lot
Speaker 3: of close access to U of L. I think he
Speaker 3: has some, clearly, just because of what he does and
Speaker 3: obviously because of his family. But that made it real
Speaker 3: for a lot of people that there could be something here.
Speaker 3: And I'm not here to tell you that it's not real,
Speaker 3: but I have a hard time believing that there was
Speaker 3: ever any real threat of Vince Marrow leaving Kentucky to
Speaker 3: go to Louisville, because one, who does that make sense?
Speaker 1: For?
Speaker 3: Like who what? Vince Marrow made one point three million
Speaker 3: dollars last year at Kentucky. Who's justifying that at Louisville?
Speaker 3: Who's paying that? Like, why would you do that? That's
Speaker 3: a lot of money. And he's a good recruiter and
Speaker 3: that matters now, But like if you're going to go
Speaker 3: steal your rival's lead recruiter because you do value what
Speaker 3: he can do, and you actually, you know, also are
Speaker 3: willing to acknowledge it to be nice to stick to them,
Speaker 3: and they can no longer get good talent there because
Speaker 3: he's the guy that brings the good talent to Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, but you can't make it make sense from
Speaker 3: a financial standpoint, And Vince Mayrow would not leave Kentucky
Speaker 3: to take a pay cut to go to Louisville and
Speaker 3: become a villain. Like it made no sense now what
Speaker 3: I did not know? And I learned this yesterday, and
Speaker 3: this makes sense. Jeff Brom and Vince Merrill were teammates
Speaker 3: in the XFL for the Orlando Rage. I had no clue.
Speaker 3: I had no clue. Vince Merril played football in the XFL,
Speaker 3: so they do have a relationship. I do know that
Speaker 3: when the coaching change happened, Vince he does a lot
Speaker 3: of respect for Brom and Bram's family and whatnot. So
Speaker 3: you know, I knew they were friendlier than the previous
Speaker 3: staff at U of L was with the UK guys
Speaker 3: because they just got shoved in lockers by the big
Speaker 3: dog and stoops because they were whimps. It seemed like,
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't mean to make it personal, but
Speaker 3: that's what it seemed like. So you know, last night
Speaker 3: there's people claiming maybe Vince was gonna leave all and
Speaker 3: I just I just like when something just sounds so
Speaker 3: insanely unbelievable in every aspect, it usually isn't true. And
Speaker 3: Matt did say this morning that Lowell made a big
Speaker 3: run at him, and again I don't I believe Matt
Speaker 3: got that information from somebody. I think he's making it up.
Speaker 3: But here's what I here's what. I had a really
Speaker 3: really hard time believing they were going to go try
Speaker 3: to hire Vince Mayrow and pay him one point three
Speaker 3: or four million, Like that's just not really Like that
Speaker 3: made it to me not real. Now, if he was
Speaker 3: trying to find a landing spot because Stops was gonna
Speaker 3: be leaving, that would make sense, but he would go
Speaker 3: where Stoops was gonna go like that, he wouldn't. I mean,
Speaker 3: he might consider other options, but like the scenario where
Speaker 3: he comes to Louisville just made no sense at all.
Speaker 3: And I would have been okay with it if, like
Speaker 3: you know, it ain't my money they're spending and if
Speaker 3: it brings you more talent and it makes them worse
Speaker 3: than hell, yeah, But like I just couldn't get into
Speaker 3: it because I just one, we've seen this before where
Speaker 3: he gets mentioned for certain things, and like I just
Speaker 3: I don't think much of it has ever been really true.
Speaker 3: But that's all anybody was talking about last night, the
Speaker 3: big dog goodness. All right, Well, take a break. We
Speaker 3: got the five o'clock hour coming your way, and a
Speaker 3: lot more to get into as we continue to react
Speaker 3: to a phenomenal holiday break. Kind of shaking off the
Speaker 3: rust a little bit today, But I've had fun, so
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