Speaker 1: It's time for Coffee and Company, Fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 2: Nine day, Holy crap, I don't know who the hell
Speaker 2: we think when we.
Speaker 3: Are get off our show.
Speaker 1: Idiot, the kids are playing or tail off.
Speaker 4: Your cultures are.
Speaker 3: Screwing it up.
Speaker 1: Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Here's Nick Coffee?
Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started. Welcome in, Happy Thursday, everybody.
Speaker 2: Can I say it's a warm January twenty third edition
Speaker 2: of Coffee and Company? Can I say that?
Speaker 4: You can?
Speaker 2: Because it's it's not really warm, but it's certainly not
Speaker 2: as cold as it has been. We're a buff freezing,
Speaker 2: which is good. January's really kicked our ass if you
Speaker 2: think about winter weather. I mean, it's not just us,
Speaker 2: but for I guess comparison. We haven't had a January
Speaker 2: like this in quite some time. But I mean people
Speaker 2: are in destin Florida and they moved there, or just
Speaker 2: you know, in the South. I guess, not just dustin Florida.
Speaker 2: I keep mentioning Dustin when I talk about the South
Speaker 2: getting snow, because the visual of seeing snow there is
Speaker 2: just wild. But those people probably moved there to get
Speaker 2: away from it, and it may get chilly every now
Speaker 2: and then, but for snow to arrive probably not probably
Speaker 2: not not what anybody down there would want. But anyways,
Speaker 2: it is warmer and that has me feeling good. And
Speaker 2: we're with you for the next three hours. I say
Speaker 2: we because it's not just me. My name is Nick Coffee,
Speaker 2: the one and only Austin Montgomery. Thank you alongside who
Speaker 2: he was. You were missed yesterday, We thank you well
Speaker 2: you were missed. I mean, well, what do you mean
Speaker 2: I was missed?
Speaker 4: I was here?
Speaker 2: Well, I just missed it in your face that your
Speaker 2: that was that your way of saying you missed me too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I mean when you had to spend three
Speaker 4: two hours at the boat show with Tony and Dwhite's.
Speaker 2: So I just don't oh no, don't you act like
Speaker 2: oh no. I mean I could tell you were having
Speaker 2: fun throwing it all over social media right in my
Speaker 2: face that I'm hanging out with. Oh yeah, blame it
Speaker 2: on work, real convenient, blame it on work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something about being around Dwight. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Just just shoot me straight. I know we're not exclusive.
Speaker 2: I just look now, I know boundaries have been set.
Speaker 2: It's pretty clear. You're you know you're You're anywhere they
Speaker 2: want you, and you're not mine. So but what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to do is get around, take you when
Speaker 2: I can get you. You're out tomorrow too, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: it means it means solo tomorrow. That means we gotta
Speaker 2: make it. We gotta make it count today it's the
Speaker 2: last show of the week together.
Speaker 4: Sure, you're in tomorrow though, Right, you're gonna, You're gonna you're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I mean, who am I without you? I
Speaker 2: mean that's I mean.
Speaker 4: Might have to call in and say what's up so
Speaker 4: I can hear that sultry voice. I can. I could
Speaker 4: tell you that I'm sitting on a passenger of a
Speaker 4: boat that I'll never be able to afford. So that's
Speaker 4: always fun. If you ever go to the boat show
Speaker 4: and do.
Speaker 2: That, it would be really really wild if somebody had,
Speaker 2: like I don't know, the the the idea to kind
Speaker 2: of think, well, hey, why doesn't why doesn't Nick just
Speaker 2: take his show to the boat show? And that solves
Speaker 2: kind of everything. That wouldn't I mean, wouldn't that wouldn't
Speaker 2: that be like the wouldn't that make sense?
Speaker 4: Almost?
Speaker 2: We don't do a lot around here to we don't
Speaker 2: do a lot of things around here that makes sense,
Speaker 2: it seems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is what logic?
Speaker 2: I lose my producer because he's got to go to
Speaker 2: remote where we are currently doing business with, you know,
Speaker 2: the event the Boat Show. Like that would make life easier.
Speaker 4: I mean, can you imagine doing this show on an
Speaker 4: on an RV that's bigger than your house?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine somebody knowing this show exists that works here?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wild, wouldn't it?
Speaker 4: And people just instead of like that, people know what
Speaker 4: we do, what we're doing, Like, Hey, Nick, what are
Speaker 4: you doing here in office? Yeah? We got a show
Speaker 4: to run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's what I do. I'm gonna keep doing
Speaker 2: it until they tell me that I can't anymore.
Speaker 4: We'll get you to the Boat Show, buddy, one of
Speaker 4: these days.
Speaker 2: That's I used to. I've done my show there a
Speaker 2: couple of times, but that was when I was in midday.
Speaker 2: I guess Pam Drive. They just yeah, they don't they
Speaker 2: have no interest in it. So it's true.
Speaker 4: It's fun stuff over there.
Speaker 2: Oh it's awesome. I mean it's it makes me feel
Speaker 2: really poor. And even if I was somebody that did
Speaker 2: have a lot of money, I just that kind of
Speaker 2: stuff boats, campers, RVs. That's not really my jam. But
Speaker 2: I'm not anti. It's just, you know, I can't see
Speaker 2: myself ever in any position being like, yeah, I need
Speaker 2: to go get me a boat, or I need to
Speaker 2: go get me an RV. But I I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2: You can be someone that doesn't have the money or
Speaker 2: the interest in ever kind of that being part of
Speaker 2: your your life, your hobby. You know, you go on
Speaker 2: the road and go on trips, but just to see
Speaker 2: like the brand new RVs and the brand new boats
Speaker 2: that come out every year, like tor Bus, I mean it,
Speaker 2: I mean it. I mean it's amazing, and every year
Speaker 2: they're they're newer and nicer, more modern, and yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's it makes me jealous at times because again, like
Speaker 2: maybe I would who knows, I'll never be filthy rich,
Speaker 2: but if I was, maybe I would go buy a boat.
Speaker 4: Maybe we hit a couple of parlays, we can go
Speaker 4: buy one some of these boat and I'm sorry, some
Speaker 4: of these RVs have like RVs and campers, they have
Speaker 4: fold out patios so you can like sit.
Speaker 2: Oh I've seen that.
Speaker 4: Have like a patio outside. It's it's nuts. But you know,
Speaker 4: if you get one of those campers, I mean, you
Speaker 4: have to be in the business of having like a
Speaker 4: pickup truck or some sort of heavy duty truck that's
Speaker 4: gonna luck that thing around, because it's not like you
Speaker 4: could just buy a camper and just like take it.
Speaker 4: It doesn't drive it. It has to hitch on to
Speaker 4: something and then you go do your you go do
Speaker 4: your adventures that way. I guess that's the cheapest option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But like if you're I mean, it's just one
Speaker 2: of those things that if you buy one of those
Speaker 2: huge trucks that can haul it, I mean that's a
Speaker 2: huge expense itself, and you really just have to have
Speaker 2: to have that big of a vehicle in order just
Speaker 2: to carry it around. I mean, that's just it's another
Speaker 2: huge expense. But I'm sure there's people out there that
Speaker 2: may already have truck that could pull that. But I've
Speaker 2: seen exactly what you're talking about on TikTok. The newer
Speaker 2: RVs that are the newer campers that really have that
Speaker 2: like a back porch on the back of them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and somebody who has a huge following now on TikTok
Speaker 2: they tell the story of their family and I would
Speaker 2: never I mean I would never want to do this.
Speaker 2: I'm not passing judgment, but to me, it just sounds
Speaker 2: it's just something I can never imagine doing as somebody
Speaker 2: with a family. But they left their like, they left
Speaker 2: their jobs, they had, they homeschooled their kids, they sold
Speaker 2: their house. They have remote jobs where they can work
Speaker 2: from their camper, and they just travel across the country
Speaker 2: and they document it on TikTok and you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: they seem happy, they seem content. I feel like there'd
Speaker 2: be you know, I don't think that's a way for
Speaker 2: a kid to grow up. But hey, you know, so.
Speaker 4: You people just have it in them to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you raise your kids the way you want. And
Speaker 2: you know, I'm I'm not going to pass any judgment,
Speaker 2: so you know, I can't relate, but hey, they're doing
Speaker 2: it and they seem to be doing well. And again, camper,
Speaker 2: my dad has a camper. He's he's let us borrow it.
Speaker 2: A couple of times. So I'm a glamor more than
Speaker 2: a camper, if you know what I'm saying, just because
Speaker 2: that you know, that's that's the way to go. But
Speaker 2: I know I have friends that will go and and
Speaker 2: spend a weekend with just a backpack in a crazy
Speaker 2: yeah and a and a sleeping bag, and I just
Speaker 2: I think, man, more power to you. I would I mean,
Speaker 2: I I don't know. I mean I would when I'd
Speaker 2: be scared. Also, I would. I would. I'm not built
Speaker 2: for the conditions, and I would dive boredom, like you know, like, dude,
Speaker 2: props to you if you can be out in the
Speaker 2: woods and just entertain yourself. Not I I don't, I
Speaker 2: mean I would. I don't know what I would do.
Speaker 2: I'd be bored to death.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Some people just had that itch and
Speaker 4: them to really be so one with nature and go
Speaker 4: back to just your your basic day one human instincts
Speaker 4: and just be you with the world. Props to you.
Speaker 4: But no, I I just spent the last two weeks
Speaker 4: fighting for TikTok's. There's no way I could do that.
Speaker 2: It's a good point, yeah, very good point. So you
Speaker 2: not being here yesterday is not my only complaint today.
Speaker 2: My other complaint that I have here to start the show.
Speaker 2: I'm just there's a bitch and session for your boy
Speaker 2: today to do it. But I'm I'm pissed that we
Speaker 2: have to weigh as long as we do to watch
Speaker 2: this lowvell basketball team plague. And that's what sucked yesterday
Speaker 2: is because I felt like the game and you and
Speaker 2: I were texting late night on Tuesday. Yeah, late night
Speaker 2: text because I think we were like both in all
Speaker 2: of this team, and we've been it's been a fun ride.
Speaker 2: We've been talking about it since they started playing well,
Speaker 2: and really since day one, Pat Kelsey has even when
Speaker 2: things weren't great and they were losing games. I don't
Speaker 2: think anybody at any point really felt like, Okay, we
Speaker 2: didn't hire the right guy. But to have them in
Speaker 2: the position they're in now, it's amazing. And I feel
Speaker 2: like the game against SMU, probably because records were broken,
Speaker 2: they beat SMU as bad as they did in SMU.
Speaker 2: For what it's worth, they are at least one of
Speaker 2: the better teams in the ACC. It seems I feel
Speaker 2: like there's now more attention on Louisville than there has
Speaker 2: been at any point this season, and it's kind of
Speaker 2: been a gradual build because they're on a winning streak
Speaker 2: right now. They're up to nine. But I think everybody's
Speaker 2: looking at the schedule the rest of the way realizing
Speaker 2: they've already gotten the tough games out of the way
Speaker 2: in ACC play and they only have one loss and
Speaker 2: that's the Duke. And I think Louisville now is in
Speaker 2: a position to where, if they don't screw up, they're
Speaker 2: gonna get a really good seat. I mean, and it's
Speaker 2: gonna kill me if they're not in the top sixteen
Speaker 2: by the time we get that early look at the bracket,
Speaker 2: which they probably won't be. That's a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 2: They give you the top sixteen teams, so certainly there's
Speaker 2: a chance they wouldn't be there. But I just what
Speaker 2: it's all gonna come down to is how does the
Speaker 2: committee really evaluate the ACC And I can't. I mean,
Speaker 2: I have a feeling that they're going like what you
Speaker 2: see in bracketology as far as where the ACC stands
Speaker 2: with They've got one team, you know, that could lose
Speaker 2: every game and probably still make it. They wouldn't and
Speaker 2: that's stupid. To even say, because it wouldn't happen. But
Speaker 2: Duke is firmly in and they're a one seat, so
Speaker 2: they're good and I don't think they're gonna lose another game,
Speaker 2: by the way. And then you also have Louisville, who
Speaker 2: is clearly really you've got two teams kind of by
Speaker 2: themselves in their own spots. Louisville is by themselves because
Speaker 2: they're firmly in, looking like a four to five six
Speaker 2: seed that range between four and six right now. Duke,
Speaker 2: of course by themselves as the number as the number
Speaker 2: one overall seed. And then after that you're looking at
Speaker 2: teams that are probably I don't know, maybe an aid
Speaker 2: at best, and that's maybe Pitt and Clemson. So you know,
Speaker 2: I think all the bracketology that you see that reflects
Speaker 2: that I just just I mean, maybe I'm just a
Speaker 2: sheep here. I assume that that's correct. I assume that
Speaker 2: that seed range is where those teams would be if
Speaker 2: in fact that the selection committee put together the bracket today.
Speaker 2: But maybe they're a little more higher on the ACC
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe they actually don't think that the
Speaker 2: teams on the bubble are worthy. So I don't think
Speaker 2: we're going to really know until selection Sunday, and you know,
Speaker 2: you can't really go off of like previous years because
Speaker 2: this is this is an outlier. This season for the
Speaker 2: ACC is just it's a different level of being down.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've had the same amount of teams kind
Speaker 2: of you know, flirting with with with you know, with
Speaker 2: the tournament or I mean, I guess in recent years
Speaker 2: the amount of teams that have made the tournament has
Speaker 2: has gotten lower. But of the four to five, usually
Speaker 2: they're safely in. They're just not great seeds. Right now,
Speaker 2: you've got, honestly, there's only two teams that I think
Speaker 2: you can say that you feel very comfortable that they're
Speaker 2: gonna make the tournament. I Mean, Carolina keeps losing. Pitt
Speaker 2: went on a four game losing streak after Louisville beat him.
Speaker 2: Clemson is probably in, but you know, they slip up
Speaker 2: and lose to a bum team, then that probably puts
Speaker 2: some ripe square back on the bubble. So I'm loving
Speaker 2: just every everything that's coming with Louisville being in this
Speaker 2: position where they're just they're playing well, they're starting to
Speaker 2: get some attention nationally. It's a cool story too, by
Speaker 2: the way, like Pat Kelsey really likable guy. I mean,
Speaker 2: if even Kentucky fans can admit they have a really
Speaker 2: tough time not liking the Louisville basketball coach, I think
Speaker 2: that speaks to how likable he is. He seems pretty
Speaker 2: pretty relatable and an easy guy to like and root for,
Speaker 2: so everything that comes with all that has just been fun.
Speaker 2: But now again I'm bum because we have to wait
Speaker 2: until we have to wait until you know, next Tuesday
Speaker 2: to watch him play. And again, for what it's worth,
Speaker 2: that game against another team that's not a tournament team.
Speaker 2: Wake Forest is also pretty hot right now. They're going
Speaker 2: to play Duke before they play Louisville, so I would
Speaker 2: imagine they're going to be coming in here on a loss,
Speaker 2: which you know, doesn't mean they won't be able to
Speaker 2: beat Louisville if they play well. But I just here.
Speaker 2: I mean, it hit me yesterday and I was kind
Speaker 2: of getting there the day of the SMU game. But
Speaker 2: I have no reason to believe this team is not
Speaker 2: going to come out and play really good defense and
Speaker 2: have balance scoring where maybe some guy gets you know,
Speaker 2: thirty like rain Smith or thirty two like Hadley got
Speaker 2: against Clemson, Like maybe that happens, but you know, you
Speaker 2: don't need anybody to do that specifically, Like if you
Speaker 2: have five to six guys getting around double figures, maybe
Speaker 2: three above double figures, maybe a couple with nine to ten.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really all like what Louisville is doing,
Speaker 2: not only to you know, to I guess Rain Smith's
Speaker 2: three point barrage and Chucky Hepburn getting sixteen assists, that's
Speaker 2: not I mean, those are records for a reason. Those
Speaker 2: that's the most amount of threes and assists that have
Speaker 2: ever been that have ever anybody's ever had for Louisville. Right,
Speaker 2: So it'd be foolish just said that that's like something
Speaker 2: you could expect. But outside of those milestones, really the
Speaker 2: way they're playing and what has led to them having
Speaker 2: such a you know, a streak here and they really
Speaker 2: look like a good team regardless of opponent. Those are
Speaker 2: things that are easy to replicate. It's not like they're
Speaker 2: doing this with pure luck. And I'm aware that if
Speaker 2: they were playing the same way and the competition was
Speaker 2: a lot tougher, maybe they wouldn't be able to come
Speaker 2: out with victories. And we'll never know, right, But they're
Speaker 2: also beating the hell out of some of these teams,
Speaker 2: and that matters too, And that's why they've jumped so
Speaker 2: much in these metrics, just because, yeah, they're beating teams
Speaker 2: that aren't in the top thirty or the top fifty
Speaker 2: even when it comes to the net, but they're beating
Speaker 2: them back and you can still you know, that doesn't
Speaker 2: really prove that you're great, but it's the best thing
Speaker 2: you can do when you play a team like that.
Speaker 2: So it's been a lot of fun, all right. It's
Speaker 2: coffee and company. Feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk
Speaker 2: seven ninety. I stopped in at Thornton's on my way
Speaker 2: in today. Had to get me one of these white
Speaker 2: Monster energy drinks. Got to have them. And you know,
Speaker 2: I went two three weeks without drinking on one of
Speaker 2: these energy drinks because I'm of the belief aston that
Speaker 2: energy drinks, like even though they tell you zero sugar
Speaker 2: and you know, ten calories, I'm just looking at this.
Speaker 2: I just assume there's no scenario that it's good for me. Sure,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, it can't be healthy.
Speaker 2: But I went three weeks without drinking it, and I
Speaker 2: noticed no difference at all. I mean, in fact, I
Speaker 2: felt tired. I felt like I missed it, but like
Speaker 2: my body didn't like, you know, I didn't lose weight.
Speaker 2: I mean, so I'm just going to assume that these
Speaker 2: are in fact good for me because I didn't do
Speaker 2: them for a few weeks. And I said, I said,
Speaker 2: do them like it's a drug, it's a drink. I
Speaker 2: didn't drink them for a few weeks, and I was
Speaker 2: you know, I would say, okay, now you're not a
Speaker 2: coffee drinker, right, No interesting, I will say this though,
Speaker 2: the what was your last name?
Speaker 4: Coffee?
Speaker 2: Then how about this? Did you know my father owned
Speaker 2: a coffee shop? Yes, I imagine what imagine when he
Speaker 2: was running his shop many years ago and people would
Speaker 2: stull you know, stumble in and and you know, make
Speaker 2: small talk and they would learn his name and man
Speaker 2: every I mean like I was, like, I remember asking him,
Speaker 2: did you have to like sell it? Like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I never thought of that. Like I feel like anybody
Speaker 2: with a brain no offense would realize, yeah, you've probably
Speaker 2: gotten that repeatedly. I'm not gonna make the pun joke
Speaker 2: like you know, but anyways, yes, I don't like coffee.
Speaker 2: But the company man, he's a big coffee drinker, and
Speaker 2: he a couple of times when I was dragging ass,
Speaker 2: he would give me he would make a cup of coffee,
Speaker 2: and I didn't enjoy the taste. For some reason, I'm
Speaker 2: just not real big on drinking something that's warm. It
Speaker 2: just it just weird to me, just kind of seems
Speaker 2: like I'm drinking something that's bad. But but it did
Speaker 2: give me a nice pick me up. Like I mean,
Speaker 2: I at least felt the effect. That makes me understand
Speaker 2: a little more so why people have to have their
Speaker 2: coffee in the morning. It's like, oh, I'd eat my
Speaker 2: coffee and eat my coffee.
Speaker 4: Was it just like a straight black coffee?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it was. It was straight and again it
Speaker 2: didn't taste good, but it also wasn't terrible to where
Speaker 2: like I couldn't drink it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you need to find yourself like a nice creamer.
Speaker 4: I like to add all the superfluous stuff in.
Speaker 2: It, like a So you are coffee guy.
Speaker 4: I love whenever I can drink. Usually every day when
Speaker 4: I come to the office, I usually make me a cuffee.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's very like grown up of you. And here
Speaker 2: I am a little little teenage child with just nothing
Speaker 2: but these energy drinks that I'm sure, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure everything on the label is a lie.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 4: I have my own specific creamer that I like to use.
Speaker 4: It's like Hershey. It's right, It's like a Hershey caramel
Speaker 4: like vanilla type. It's just probably just a terrible sugar
Speaker 4: for you, but it enhances a coffee taste for me.
Speaker 4: As I've gotten older, I have like to have more
Speaker 4: of the coffee taste. Yeah, I drink coffee, but still
Speaker 4: I can with that bean. Maybe I can't. I can't.
Speaker 4: I can't do a black.
Speaker 2: And I'll stick with it. I'll stick with the energy
Speaker 2: drinks when it comes to uh, you know, my pick
Speaker 2: me up, because these taste good, like the carbonation, Like
Speaker 2: that's what I like. When it comes to soft drinks,
Speaker 2: I try not drink a lot of them. But when
Speaker 2: I crave a drink that's, you know, not a beer
Speaker 2: or water or I guess an energy drink, Like it
Speaker 2: doesn't really matter what soda it is. Like I'm more
Speaker 2: of a diet coke guy. I really love sprite, but
Speaker 2: but there's a certain it's really not about that. There's
Speaker 2: not many soft drinks I've had that I genuinely like,
Speaker 2: don't like like big red. I'm not a big red guy,
Speaker 2: but but I'll drink it like it's fine, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. But more than anything, it's just that
Speaker 2: carbonation that kick, the bite that you yeah, the bite
Speaker 2: that you get from a carbonated drink is delicious.
Speaker 4: What they call a guzzle gut. So if I find
Speaker 4: like a good like coffee or like, what did you say,
Speaker 4: a guzzle a guzzle gut, you know where it's. It's
Speaker 4: where you drink excessively fast.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll have my mind, my mind went elsewhere.
Speaker 4: But well.
Speaker 2: That just speaks to my maturity well or like thereof.
Speaker 4: I understand what you're saying. But if I find myself
Speaker 4: like a good coffee or like a good energy drink,
Speaker 4: I'm just more scared of I could put that down
Speaker 4: in like five minutes. Oh, I feel like I can't
Speaker 4: parse it out through like half an hour. And I
Speaker 4: don't know. I've seen people come in with like a
Speaker 4: McDonald's soda or like a polar pop or something that's
Speaker 4: lasted them the whole day. I don't understand me how.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what it is like, I'm not
Speaker 2: a fountain drink guy. Some people only want fountain drinks,
Speaker 2: they want the you know. And at Thornton's, they their
Speaker 2: fountain drinks are really popular and it's because they have
Speaker 2: the nugget ice and that's like a rare thing to
Speaker 2: where it's just those little bitty tiny nuggets and people
Speaker 2: love it. But yeah, I mean, I mean I can
Speaker 2: drink it. Like if I go to a restaurant or
Speaker 2: fast food and I get a drink, and it's fine.
Speaker 2: But like if I'm going to any place to get
Speaker 2: a soft drink and there's options can bottle, two liter fountain,
Speaker 2: I'm the last thing I'm probably gonna get is fountain.
Speaker 4: I don't true really know why I'll take a fountain
Speaker 4: over a can.
Speaker 2: How about this These mount Monster energy drinks you can
Speaker 2: get three for seven or two for five at Thornton's
Speaker 2: right now, which pretty good deal. And when I was
Speaker 2: checking out today, I put in my phone number because
Speaker 2: that's how I use my Refreshment Awards membership, and I
Speaker 2: think it reset for us. Yeah, so I put Initially
Speaker 2: I would just use the card itself, meaning like just
Speaker 2: the actual like there was a physical card, and then
Speaker 2: I realized, you know, hey, Nick, you should join everybody
Speaker 2: else in you know, the new world where you can
Speaker 2: just enter your phone number and it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: So I didn't add my phone number to it until
Speaker 2: a little bit later on in my time as a
Speaker 2: member of the Refreshment Awards program. So since the beginning
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty, since like February of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: so coming up on two years from now, two years ago,
Speaker 2: that's when I started using my phone number. Two hundred
Speaker 2: and forty visits and check ins with my membership. I
Speaker 2: feel like that's a lot. That's that's VIP status, okay,
Speaker 2: because I felt good because I saw the number, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, man, that that sounds like a lot, especially
Speaker 2: if you consider the reces that took place less than less.
Speaker 2: I mean, so again, if Thornton's ever wants to, you know,
Speaker 2: check on me to make sure I'm actually you know,
Speaker 2: showing love and and you know, put it this way,
Speaker 2: I bring up that number because it hit me, you
Speaker 2: know what this is. This is easily the most natural
Speaker 2: endorsement I've ever had in my life, because it's truly
Speaker 2: a part of the brand. I'll never forget. At a
Speaker 2: football game a couple of years ago. Because we've been
Speaker 2: with Thornton's for a long time now, we certainly appreciate
Speaker 2: their partnership and it's kind of a part of part
Speaker 2: of me, part of part of part of my show
Speaker 2: where fueled by Thornton's. Everybody knows it. But I was
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Speaker 2: and she was probably, I don't know, like six, and
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Speaker 2: care who her dad was talking to, and and and
Speaker 2: you know, he was like, hey, it's the guy from
Speaker 2: the radio. And she just blanks stare like, I don't
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Speaker 2: in me at all. And then he said it's the
Speaker 2: Thornton's guy, and she was like, oh, okay, that's all
Speaker 2: talks about. And I'm like, will you call will you
Speaker 2: call Thornton's right now and tell him that, because that
Speaker 2: that's gonna make me look good. But you know, that's great.
Speaker 2: At least again it's working. I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: targeting six year olds, but if so, she at least
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if I end up missing and they're thinking
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Speaker 2: So good stuff. All right, we got a lot to
Speaker 2: get to today. We'll have some fun. I do want
Speaker 2: to talk well, actually, I want to let you guys hear.
Speaker 2: I thought about letting you hear the whole thing, but
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a it's a lot longer than
Speaker 2: an interview we would ever do, so we probably won't
Speaker 2: do that at Pat Kelsey, the man of the hour,
Speaker 2: the most popular man in this city right now, the
Speaker 2: guy that has brought this program back to life. He
Speaker 2: did an interview with the Field of sixty eight crew.
Speaker 2: My buddy John Fanta had a good back and forth
Speaker 2: with Pat Kelsey. So we'll let you hear's some snippets
Speaker 2: of that, and you know I've heard most of it,
Speaker 2: but I mean, he's the guy you want to hear
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's that I just think that
Speaker 2: they're kind of lame, or maybe we just need to
Speaker 2: refresh it more than we do. But you know, those
Speaker 2: those promos that you hear that are very very much generic,
Speaker 2: they're not commercials, but during the commercial breaks, it's that
Speaker 2: guy with the really awesome voice and he's talking about
Speaker 2: this is a sports station, Yeah, we love sports. He
Speaker 2: just did one of those, just played right before we
Speaker 2: came back from break, and I imagine you probably only
Speaker 2: heard it if you're listening on the radio. If you're
Speaker 2: listening on the stream, it probably was different. But he
Speaker 2: when he's emphasizing sort of just how much we're into sports.
Speaker 2: He references, well, he says this something about soiled jockstraps. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and there's not that that's that sounds like the gros.
Speaker 2: Just hearing that is the grossest thing that happens to
Speaker 2: me on a daily basis, just because of how great
Speaker 2: me just think about the soiled jockstrap like just pretty gross.
Speaker 2: It just I mean, I'm not trying to have to
Speaker 2: you know, like who even thinks to throw that in there?
Speaker 2: Really gross? But anyways, that's off. I feel like those
Speaker 2: are I mean, I think every sports station across the
Speaker 2: country probably has something like that. But I feel like,
Speaker 2: I mean, how many more times can they tell you
Speaker 2: about my Mooky Wilson rookie cart Austin. I mean, like
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, I mean like that, how
Speaker 2: many times can they let you know that that that
Speaker 2: not only is is Nick Coffee a big sports fan
Speaker 2: and knows sports, but he's got a Mookie Wilson rookie.
Speaker 4: Car or somebody knows where every single bathroom with the
Speaker 4: shortest line.
Speaker 2: And somebody's somebody's tickle. You know, maybe you'll find.
Speaker 4: Out where he's ticks.
Speaker 2: Like again, those I mean, the bar's pretty low. I
Speaker 2: would say as far as like making those genuinely like entertaining,
Speaker 2: I would rather go more generic than what we do.
Speaker 2: But again, clearly the folks that make that decision know
Speaker 2: more about that than I do.
Speaker 4: Probably makes more money than we do.
Speaker 2: Like I've had somebody come up to me once and
Speaker 2: ask me if I had a Mookie Wilson rookie card,
Speaker 2: and it went right over my head for a second,
Speaker 2: and then I was like, oh, actually that I ruined
Speaker 2: the moment because I wasn't prepared and didn't get it.
Speaker 2: But that's actually pretty clever for you to bring that
Speaker 2: up because kind of I feel like you kind of
Speaker 2: get the show if that's something you're gonna mention to me,
Speaker 2: because you know it's something we can we can make
Speaker 2: fun of. Also, last week, maybe it was a week
Speaker 2: before I get my week's missed weeks mixed up because
Speaker 2: I feel like January's been the longest year of my life.
Speaker 2: But we were talking about the guy who like wants
Speaker 2: you to know. Look, apparently people been saying that I
Speaker 2: sound like a lawyer. You'll be over my dead body.
Speaker 2: I hate lawyers. The guy who hates time shares and lawyers. Somebody,
Speaker 2: somebody came up to me. This is actually after my
Speaker 2: son's basketball game. It was like, man, that guy, you
Speaker 2: were right. I've noticed it every time I hear the commercial.
Speaker 2: He hates that people thought he might be a lawyer,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, now you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he even apologizes for it, even if you think
Speaker 4: he sounds like a lawyer.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, he had no clue that people were
Speaker 2: out there running their mouths saying this guy sounds like
Speaker 2: a lawyer, that he might be a lawyer. But he
Speaker 2: had to he had to set the record straight again.
Speaker 2: I just envisioned him walking in to do his spots
Speaker 2: for the radio ads that he buys, and he's like, look,
Speaker 2: I just put your scripts away. I got to use
Speaker 2: the time I'm buying to let him know. I'll be
Speaker 2: damned if they think I'm a lawyer, because that's not
Speaker 2: going to fly. But anyways, welcome back, Coffee and company.
Speaker 2: Feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety as
Speaker 2: we take you up until six o'clock currently, and I
Speaker 2: want to plug this site, teamerankings dot com because it'srictually
Speaker 2: They've actually got a pretty cool story it's some guys
Speaker 2: who I think as an IVY League school might have
Speaker 2: been might have been Yale, but they all went to
Speaker 2: Yale together and lived in the same place when they
Speaker 2: were going to school. And clearly, if you go to Yale,
Speaker 2: I would imagine you're pretty smart. Well, they've put together
Speaker 2: this website that has I mean, it's not super flashy,
Speaker 2: but it has really everything you want a reference when
Speaker 2: it comes to college basketball. You can go back and
Speaker 2: look at the against the spread record for teams in
Speaker 2: different seasons, and they've got a really cool tool that
Speaker 2: is that is called the Let me actually, let me
Speaker 2: pull it up to make sure. But yeah, the Team
Speaker 2: Rankings dot Com is the website. But when you go
Speaker 2: to the college basketball section of that, you can you
Speaker 2: can click on a team and like for Louisville right
Speaker 2: here at fifteen and five, you can where's it at? Well,
Speaker 2: it was easy to find on on my phone, but
Speaker 2: now I'm on their actual website. But what it gives
Speaker 2: you is the projection for your team in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: It's like it you know, every day, it updates every
Speaker 2: time your team plays. It updates obviously, but it gives
Speaker 2: you percentage chance of making the tournament, a percentage chance
Speaker 2: of getting an auto bid, the percentage you know, the
Speaker 2: seed that you're most likely to get based off percentages,
Speaker 2: and you know it's it could be wrong. I mean,
Speaker 2: I would say Louisville not making the tournament. What would
Speaker 2: need to happen for that to happen seems really unlikely.
Speaker 2: Point So again, it's not It doesn't mean this is
Speaker 2: exactly how it's going to play out. But I'm enjoying
Speaker 2: everything I find that I come across when it comes
Speaker 2: to bracketology or net rankings and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: because you know, right now those things are getting better
Speaker 2: for the louis Well, clearly they're not looking like they're
Speaker 2: going to be like a one seed or anything like that,
Speaker 2: and that's certainly not possible given just you know where
Speaker 2: they are. But right now, ninety nine point nine is
Speaker 2: the percentage chance of them making the tournament, eight point
Speaker 2: seven percent chance of getting an auto bid, which that
Speaker 2: means winning the ACC So I mean, they clearly can
Speaker 2: beat anybody in the league outside of Duke, and who knows,
Speaker 2: maybe they could upset Duke, But I wouldn't want to
Speaker 2: play Duke right now if I'm being honest with you,
Speaker 2: I think I think they're really rounding into form. But
Speaker 2: Cel Brown brought a good point yesterday that Duke, they're
Speaker 2: the real They're the only team that anybody would believe
Speaker 2: is a real national championship contender in the ACC. But
Speaker 2: playing in a league like the ACC is this year,
Speaker 2: like maybe not getting tested for such a long stretch
Speaker 2: of time could really could really hurt them. So the
Speaker 2: chance of Louisville getting at large bid ninety one point one,
Speaker 2: which that's basically making making the tournament, getting getting in
Speaker 2: without needing to win your conference tournament, and this is
Speaker 2: you know, this is a little bullish. Like this to
Speaker 2: me is I have a hard time seeing that that
Speaker 2: that Louisville will be a four seed. But what I
Speaker 2: got to keep remembering and it's not like I forget it,
Speaker 2: but I guess more than anything, when I think seed line,
Speaker 2: it's just an unusual situation to be in for Louisville basketball,
Speaker 2: not to you know, be looking at at a bracket
Speaker 2: as far as bracketology, because this used to be what
Speaker 2: we do every year. There was really different conversations about
Speaker 2: are we going to make the tournament? In fact, during
Speaker 2: the awful years where it was just, you know, bad,
Speaker 2: beyond belief. I remember going back and thinking like, there's
Speaker 2: probably only been in my lifetime as a Louisville fan,
Speaker 2: Like by the time we got to January, I can
Speaker 2: think of like three years where I was worried about bubble,
Speaker 2: like are they going to make the tournament? Like we
Speaker 2: were pretty spoiled for a long long time. So it's
Speaker 2: been enjoyable up to this point. But what I meant
Speaker 2: about the rare and unusual situation is that Louisville was
Speaker 2: in the It's been in the ACC for a decade.
Speaker 2: They were in the Big East before that. I guess
Speaker 2: they had the one year holdover in the in the
Speaker 2: American Conference. But even the American Conference, the one year
Speaker 2: Louisville is in the American Conference in twenty fourteen, that
Speaker 2: league's better than the ACC is this year. It's not
Speaker 2: even close, to be honest with you. So what I'm
Speaker 2: getting at is, has there ever been a time where
Speaker 2: Louisville is a good team but certainly not an elite team.
Speaker 2: I don't think many are out there penciling them in
Speaker 2: for a Final four or anything like that. So you know,
Speaker 2: you're good, But it's not like you are elite yet
Speaker 2: you are expected to win every game left on your
Speaker 2: schedule right now, and it's one because yeah, you're playing
Speaker 2: really well, you've shown and you've proved that you're good
Speaker 2: enough to do that. That should be the expectation. Easier
Speaker 2: said than done, of course, But everybody left on your
Speaker 2: schedule you know you can beat, doesn't mean it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So it's just weird to know that Louisville the rest
Speaker 2: of the way from January twenty third on, they're gonna
Speaker 2: be in games that they should win, which means if
Speaker 2: they do, of course, wins just start piling up. And
Speaker 2: if Louisville ends up with that gaudy record of I
Speaker 2: don't know if they end the regular season, let me
Speaker 2: pull it up here, because if they in the regular
Speaker 2: season with a twenty six and five record, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna be a five seed, sixth seed. They're
Speaker 2: probably a four seed or better, I would imagine. Again,
Speaker 2: it's just weird to look at the rest of the
Speaker 2: because then this is a long winded way of me
Speaker 2: getting there. But when it comes to the seed that
Speaker 2: team rankings has for Louisville as far as the most
Speaker 2: likely seed twenty five point nine percent chance according to
Speaker 2: their numbers here is that they get a four seed,
Speaker 2: which I'm thinking right now, man, I don't know if
Speaker 2: they're a four seed, but you know what, if they
Speaker 2: keep playing the way they're playing, they're probably not gonna lose.
Speaker 2: And although there's not a whole lot of value in
Speaker 2: beating some of these teams on their schedule who are
Speaker 2: really bad, if you beat them really bad, you can
Speaker 2: continue to climb. So maybe a four seed truly is
Speaker 2: what's most likely, not necessarily because they're that good right now,
Speaker 2: or maybe not necessarily because they're you know, they're gonna
Speaker 2: end up getting a ton of big wins of value.
Speaker 2: But I you know, they just and this just sounds
Speaker 2: weird to say, but they shouldn't loose another game. It
Speaker 2: may happen. But what has me more confident than anything
Speaker 2: other than you know, the obvious watching them play, is
Speaker 2: that the things that they need that you would need
Speaker 2: to do to continue to run through this league are
Speaker 2: things that, like I would be highly stunned if those
Speaker 2: things go away, meaning, you know, showing up ready to play,
Speaker 2: being very physical, being really good defensively, having good balance
Speaker 2: where you're not needing somebody to give you twenty five
Speaker 2: a night. You know that, Hey, your best players can
Speaker 2: have an off night here and there, and more often
Speaker 2: than now, there's gonna be somebody else that can kind
Speaker 2: of pick up the slock. Sometimes they do it in
Speaker 2: a major way, like Hadley with thirty two and rain
Speaker 2: Smith making ten threes. So maybe four seed is what
Speaker 2: we should start. Kind of looking at three point seven
Speaker 2: percent chance to making the Final four right now, which
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not even thinking about that, but just
Speaker 2: to know that that's not like a zero point zero
Speaker 2: percent chances, I guess kind of exciting. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: find Kentucky's team sheet. While I do that, let's see here.
Speaker 2: While I do that, let me quickly update you on
Speaker 2: what I What I mentioned last night, just absolute chaos
Speaker 2: in the SEC. And this is gonna sound made up
Speaker 2: like there's no way it's true, but it is, uh
Speaker 2: and it's it's it's crazy. There were three, yeah, three
Speaker 2: three SEC basketball games last night, and Georgia Ole Miss
Speaker 2: in South Carolina led for one one hundred and nineteen
Speaker 2: minutes and fourteen seconds of the one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: minutes of the game time, and all three of those
Speaker 2: teams lost. Hear me out Georgia, olem miss In South
Speaker 2: Carolina all led for about ninety nine point nine nine
Speaker 2: percent of their games and lost. I mean that is
Speaker 2: that not crazy? I mean Florida. I mean I saw
Speaker 2: them lose to Missouri at home, which I feel like
Speaker 2: was kind of a bad loss for them, although Missouri
Speaker 2: has played well and has some good wins. But they
Speaker 2: nearly lost to South Carolina, which I think would have
Speaker 2: been a bad loss, but they were able to come
Speaker 2: back from fourteen down to knock off South Carolina. Here
Speaker 2: is Florida down one with twelve seconds left. Be the
Speaker 2: decision maker, hedge out on Clayton.
Speaker 4: Richard on the drive.
Speaker 3: Richard got it.
Speaker 2: Were four point eight.
Speaker 3: Here they go right two one.
Speaker 2: Right at the fuzzer missed it and the Gators pull off.
Speaker 3: They'll come from behind wind.
Speaker 2: In in probable fashion, and that's a huge win for
Speaker 2: Florida because they still would be safely in the tournament.
Speaker 2: In fact, there are They're seventeen and two start at ties,
Speaker 2: their best start in school history, so you know they're
Speaker 2: a good team. A loss last night wouldn't have really
Speaker 2: changed that. But when you know that South Carolina, although good,
Speaker 2: they're ten and well, they're not good by the way.
Speaker 2: South Carolina is the dad of that league. South Carolina's
Speaker 2: ten and nine and now zero to six in league plays.
Speaker 2: So but again, if South Carolina is the worst team
Speaker 2: in your league and they've got Florida on the ropes,
Speaker 2: they were leading Florida for ninety nine point nine percent
Speaker 2: of the game, doesn't that just speak to how good
Speaker 2: the league is? Like, you know you're going to take
Speaker 2: some losses when you get into play in Auburn and
Speaker 2: Bama and Kentucky and Tennessee and Texas, A and M
Speaker 2: in Mississippi State, like, those are gonna be games that
Speaker 2: the likelihood of you beating all those teams just seems unlikely. Therefore,
Speaker 2: when you play a team like that, you gotta beat them.
Speaker 2: And that's where Arkansas last night really really gave Georgia
Speaker 2: a tough l because Arkansas no boogey Flan. They're winless
Speaker 2: in SEC play until last night, and they ended up
Speaker 2: coming through, which not only was a wild finish, but
Speaker 2: a wild cover. So here is a it's a tie game, it's.
Speaker 3: A tie yeah, ten seconds to go.
Speaker 2: Tied at sixty five, Arkansas's got the ball here there
Speaker 2: he goes, Wagner off the mark zero, we're jacket. So
Speaker 2: theo this this qualifies as a bad beat for sure.
Speaker 2: Did you have Did you have Arkansas or Georgia last night? Austin? No, okay,
Speaker 2: did you see what happened here? So Arkansas was minus
Speaker 2: one and a half and they were tied at sixty
Speaker 2: five one point eight seconds left and do Thiero makes
Speaker 2: the first free throw, He's got a second one, and
Speaker 2: he misses the second free throw, and I don't know
Speaker 2: how it happens. I don't know. Like Georgia. Again, I
Speaker 2: hate saying this because it is a serious thing that
Speaker 2: he probably shouldn't joke about, because you know people might
Speaker 2: run with it and think you're being serious. But it
Speaker 2: was one of those games, kind of like Louisville against
Speaker 2: Stanford that if I if I came in blind and
Speaker 2: you just presented me evidence and said this team threw
Speaker 2: a game, they shave points, I would have to believe
Speaker 2: you that was Georgia last night because after Theerro misses
Speaker 2: his first his second free throw, they didn't even try
Speaker 2: to get a rebound. He just got his own offensive
Speaker 2: rebound off the free throw and put the ball back
Speaker 2: in at the buzzer. Therefore, Arkansas ends up winning sixty
Speaker 2: eight to sixty five. And if you you know, if
Speaker 2: you bet, if you bet Georgia, that's a bad beat
Speaker 2: for you, especially considering Georgia was winning the whole game
Speaker 2: and they were and they were underdogs. Like, that's a
Speaker 2: bad beat, absolutely what that is. But again, same example,
Speaker 2: Arkansas was zero and five. If you're Georgia, yeah, you've
Speaker 2: got a good win against Kentucky, but you really haven't
Speaker 2: done much other than that, although you do beat You
Speaker 2: did beat Saint John's, which is a quality win for
Speaker 2: you out of conference. But you know, when you loo
Speaker 2: when you are Florida and you loosed and you were
Speaker 2: you know, you ended up beating South Carolina, but a
Speaker 2: loss there would have really been one that you just
Speaker 2: needed to avoid. And Georgia I feel like they desperately
Speaker 2: needed to avoid one. ESPEC Actually they needed to avoid
Speaker 2: it more so because they're probably more like a bubble
Speaker 2: type team than Florida. Florida is seventeen and two now,
Speaker 2: so a bad beat. And then this was actually two
Speaker 2: good teams and if you're all Miss, I mean, what
Speaker 2: a choke job. You led the majority of the game
Speaker 2: like the other two teams here in the SEC did,
Speaker 2: and sure enough, I mean just gave it away. Ole
Speaker 2: Miss is up to sixty two to sixty with nineteen
Speaker 2: point eight left, they're at the free throw line, and
Speaker 2: this is how it ended.
Speaker 5: In and out chance for A and M down two
Speaker 5: sixteen seconds left, A bassa key for three of the lead,
Speaker 5: first lead in the game.
Speaker 4: For A and M.
Speaker 5: Panilla tied up in the back court, shakes Taylor into
Speaker 5: the front court. Here's breakfield was six up the.
Speaker 2: Glass, no good rebound, just a mess in that town end.
Speaker 5: Am takes its first lead on its last possession and
Speaker 5: the Aggies are gonna escape box for.
Speaker 3: Him with the win.
Speaker 2: So I watched the end of that game, and man,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's recency and I can't really think if
Speaker 2: another one off the top to compare to it. But
Speaker 2: if you told me to give you an example of
Speaker 2: somebody stealing a game from somebody, that is absolutely what
Speaker 2: Texas A and M did And kind of feels like
Speaker 2: Buzz Williams the kind of guy that'll do that to
Speaker 2: you every now and then. But oh, miss, I mean again,
Speaker 2: like that's not a bad loss by any means. But again,
Speaker 2: when you play in such a loaded league, you know
Speaker 2: you're gonna take losses and it still doesn't mean you're
Speaker 2: a bad team. So you want to make sure when
Speaker 2: you do get a night where you're playing one of
Speaker 2: the bad teams, you take care of business. Or if
Speaker 2: you're playing anybody and you have a big lead, don't
Speaker 2: let it slip, because man, your wins you could be
Speaker 2: I mean, there's gonna be teams that finished close to
Speaker 2: five hundred and the sec that might be Final four
Speaker 2: type teams. I mean, that's how good I think the
Speaker 2: league is. But I guess we'll see in March quick Break,
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Speaker 2: Quick segment before we wrap up the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: Still got a couple more hours to go, so stick around.
Speaker 2: No update from Lenardi or Jerry palm just yet, and
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it earlier. You really would be
Speaker 2: wasting a lot of time if you updated every day.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, maybe you wouldn't be wasting time,
Speaker 2: because I think there are people that if they knew
Speaker 2: there was an update every day, they would look at it.
Speaker 2: But a lot of work to reset every single day.
Speaker 2: So maybe I'm maybe I'm getting greedy here wanting them
Speaker 2: to update more often than they are. But actually, and
Speaker 2: here's here's another issue. I didn't realize. I wasn't following
Speaker 2: Joelnardi on on Twitter and he'll update, and I guess
Speaker 2: this is just how it works at publishing at ESPN
Speaker 2: dot com. But he'll he'll update like his he'll take
Speaker 2: like a screenshot of a document that shows seed lines,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, overall stuff. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to like the actual ESPN dot com website and the
Speaker 2: ESPN app showing you his updated bracket, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe he's got to file it to somebody, then they've
Speaker 2: got to go in and publish. But yeah, he'll you
Speaker 2: can actually get a quicker update from him if in
Speaker 2: fact you are you know, following him on social media,
Speaker 2: And I didn't realize it wasn't following him. So anyways,
Speaker 2: right now, the latest from him has the one seeds
Speaker 2: are Auburn, Iowa State Duke in Alabama, and the two
Speaker 2: seeds are Marquette, Florida, Tennessee, and Kansas, and Kentucky is
Speaker 2: the number one three seed along with Oregon Purdue in
Speaker 2: Michigan State. So the reason I bring that up is
Speaker 2: because on the Kentucky team sheet, like I referenced louisll
Speaker 2: was earlier, you know, they got a ninety nine point
Speaker 2: nine percent chance of making the tournament, a four point
Speaker 2: six chance of getting in auto bid, which means that's
Speaker 2: the percentage chance of them winning the SEC tournament. But
Speaker 2: their most likely seed right now, it's really competitive because
Speaker 2: well it could go either way. They've got an eighteen
Speaker 2: point nine percent chance to get a three seed, which
Speaker 2: is is the most likely seed according to this these numbers,
Speaker 2: But just under that at eighteen point two is the
Speaker 2: percentage chance of getting a four seed. The third most
Speaker 2: likely is a tie, where they've got a fourteen point
Speaker 2: nine percent chance of getting either a two or a five.
Speaker 2: So look, I think Kentucky's anywhere between a two or
Speaker 2: a five. I really do, and the opportunity is there
Speaker 2: to get it to for sure if they keep rolling
Speaker 2: through the SEC or if they roll through the SEC,
Speaker 2: but that just seems unlikely. So that's like for Kentucky,
Speaker 2: you know, they're loss to Georgia as of now. It's
Speaker 2: not a terrible loss on the road, but it looks
Speaker 2: like a loss that you know you probably shouldn't have
Speaker 2: had because you know you're gonna like Alabama beating you
Speaker 2: is nothing. I mean, that's a good team that will
Speaker 2: beat I mean, Alabama's one the best teams in the country.
Speaker 2: So you know, those are losses that suck. You don't
Speaker 2: want them, but like you just have to expect that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. So Georgia not exactly. And Vandy, who they
Speaker 2: have this weekend. Vandy just beat Tennessee. Vandy's not a
Speaker 2: terrible team by any means, but they're clearly in the
Speaker 2: bottom tier year of the league. And it's just it's
Speaker 2: weird how those games have so much significance now for
Speaker 2: these SEC teams because you slip up and lose to
Speaker 2: the bottom tier, and then you throw in all the
Speaker 2: losses that you get to the really good teams, maybe
Speaker 2: you get a couple wins against those teams to where
Speaker 2: your resume is still pretty solid. But I just it's
Speaker 2: crazy to think about the worst record within SEC that's
Speaker 2: gonna be a tournament team because they play eighteen league games,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a team with a losing record in
Speaker 2: that league that makes the tournament. I mean, I just
Speaker 2: don't see how you want. But anyways, with Lonardi, he
Speaker 2: does not have Louisville as a four as of right now,
Speaker 2: which doesn't surprise me. I think five is probably the
Speaker 2: the ceiling for the Well see, five is probably the
Speaker 2: highest you're going to see them anywhere right now, and
Speaker 2: then I've seen some some still have them as a six,
Speaker 2: which I also understand. But again, it's just weird to
Speaker 2: being in this position where when you're projecting your seed
Speaker 2: on selection Sunday rather than you know, assessing where it
Speaker 2: is right now. Well, you just have to consider that
Speaker 2: if this Louisville team continues to just do what they're doing,
Speaker 2: which I have no reason I think they won't, they're
Speaker 2: going to roll through the rest of their schedule and
Speaker 2: that won't give them a whole lot of chances to
Speaker 2: get big wins. In fact, they have none when it
Speaker 2: comes to getting big wins. But they're gonna start stacking
Speaker 2: up wins. And their strength of schedules is already pretty
Speaker 2: strong given the fact that they played a loaded non
Speaker 2: conference schedule. So four to me sounds like, oh, let's
Speaker 2: pump the brakes. That seems kind of unrealistic, But no,
Speaker 2: I think it is realistic. All right, quick break, we've
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