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Speaker 2: As I mentioned, we take you up until six o'clock.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm fired up for this weekend and I
Speaker 2: hate I feel like such a maybe hypocrites not the
Speaker 2: right word, John, But for months I was talking about
Speaker 2: how I couldn't wait for football season to get here,
Speaker 2: and it's here, but like, I'm looking forward to not
Speaker 2: having a Louisville game. And I know that sounds bad,
Speaker 2: because you know, I would love for Louisville to be
Speaker 2: in a matchup against a really good team where you
Speaker 2: get a chance to kind of see where they stand
Speaker 2: right see where they are against real competition. But you
Speaker 2: know what, I can't control the schedule. We've known that
Speaker 2: this was going to be an open date for a
Speaker 2: while now, and I'm just I'm excited to know that
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about doing a postgame show
Speaker 2: and I can, you know, just watch all kinds of
Speaker 2: different games. I don't have to focus in on just
Speaker 2: one in particular.
Speaker 1: But they're going to take in some Hoosiers and Bruins tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Night's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I mean of the nightcap, I mean, that
Speaker 2: might be one of the better. I mean, it just
Speaker 2: sounds weird saying a game that includes Indiana football could
Speaker 2: be viewed as one of the bigger games of the weekend.
Speaker 2: But I mean it is a weird conference matchup for
Speaker 2: these two teams, right, Indiana and UCLA being in the
Speaker 2: same league as just they've never played each other, which
Speaker 2: is interesting. Yeah, I mean, and that that doesn't really
Speaker 2: surprise me because again, like why would they right, I mean,
Speaker 2: when would they have maybe in a bowl game, like
Speaker 2: maybe the random non conference series. But when you're that
Speaker 2: far away, it's not as if, hey, we should play
Speaker 2: each other, because there's a lot of logistics, a lot
Speaker 2: of travel, you know, that would go into it. But
Speaker 2: looking at tomorrow night's games, I mean in the nightcap,
Speaker 2: I mean Indiana Ucla. We're not talking about ranked teams here,
Speaker 2: but it will give you a chance to kind of
Speaker 2: see where I guess both stand. But the competition for
Speaker 2: the evening games, I mean, you've got let's see here.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's not a whole lot out there. I
Speaker 2: mean Maryland Virginia that that's that's good.
Speaker 1: It's on ACC network.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a snooze fest. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 2: anybody cares about that. Tennessee looks really good, but they're
Speaker 2: playing kent State. I mean, Nebraska's got Northern Iowa, Kentucky, Georgia.
Speaker 2: That's a night game, and Georgia being the number one
Speaker 2: team in the country. That'll obviously give them a lot
Speaker 2: of you know, the people that want to watch them
Speaker 2: because they look insanely good. Kentucky obviously locally there'll be
Speaker 2: people that want to watch that. I don't know, though
Speaker 2: maybe their fans will, uh, you know, we'll U we'll, we'll, we'll,
Speaker 2: we'll turn it off. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Or Colorado Colorado State. That's a night game.
Speaker 2: Is that a night game? Okay, that's that's the one
Speaker 2: for me. Then for some reason, I was thinking that
Speaker 2: was a little bit earlier in the day, But now
Speaker 2: that's that's the game that I'll Here's what I'll probably
Speaker 2: be doing. I'll probably be going back and forth between
Speaker 2: those three. In fact, maybe I and depending on where
Speaker 2: I'm at. I don't know where I'm gonna be tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: but like, if I'm out somewhere, then they'll probably have
Speaker 2: all three on. But if I'm at home, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be going back and forth between Kentucky Georgia, but I
Speaker 2: probably won't be spending a whole lot of time there
Speaker 2: because I would imagine that's gonna be a real blood bath.
Speaker 2: And then U C LA Indiana will be the game
Speaker 2: that I'm keeping up with, not gonna wager on it,
Speaker 2: but just you know, interested to see what happens here.
Speaker 2: So it's a nice early test for uh for for
Speaker 2: for Signetti, and then the other game that I'm probably
Speaker 2: gonna have on more than especially like if it's a
Speaker 2: Colorado State, Like, if Kentucky's getting hammered, this might tell
Speaker 2: you really the level of hate I have for Colorado.
Speaker 2: John If Kentucky's getting hammered by Georgia, that's gonna be
Speaker 2: great for me to watch as a Louisville fan. And
Speaker 2: usually you want to stick around, you want to keep watching,
Speaker 2: right because you're enjoying seeing your Yeah, you want to
Speaker 2: see a blood bath, you want to see your rival
Speaker 2: get pummeled. But I think if if Colorado at the
Speaker 2: same time is getting rolled by Colorado State, I actually
Speaker 2: think I will be way more into watching Colorado get
Speaker 2: beat down than watching Kentucky, because, look, the rivalry factor
Speaker 2: is there. But man, I hate Colorado, and I it's
Speaker 2: weird for me to say it, because you know, it's
Speaker 2: not something that I'm proud of. But I'm at least
Speaker 2: going to be transparent. I'm a full blown hater. I
Speaker 2: think they're easy to hate. They make it very easy.
Speaker 2: I know I'm not alone, but man, what I'm most
Speaker 2: excited about this weekend is hopefully seeing Colorado once again
Speaker 2: get beat down. I was gonna say get humbled, that's
Speaker 2: not possible that I don't think it's possible. For Dion
Speaker 2: and his crew to get humbled because they have been
Speaker 2: served humble pie for quite literally a calendar year now
Speaker 2: and no humility. No, I mean, they're arrogant for no
Speaker 2: reason and it's pretty consistent. So anyways, I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to this weekend of college football. In fact, we had
Speaker 2: a wild night of college football last night that I'm
Speaker 2: not sure anybody really cared about. If you watched Texas
Speaker 2: State in Arizona State, then you watched a good game.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to call it a bad beat. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna call it me trusting a quarterback who I put
Speaker 2: too much faith in. There's a reason that Signette did
Speaker 2: not bring Jordan McCleod with him to the Big Ten
Speaker 2: because he knows he's turnover prone in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Here's what you can't do in a close game against
Speaker 2: a power four team when you're Texas State. Give the
Speaker 2: ball to the other team when it's tied late. They
Speaker 2: did it three times, three consecutive turnovers in the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter for Texas State, when they had the whole momentum
Speaker 2: on their side. That arena, not arena, that stadium I
Speaker 2: should say was rocking. They had a big touchdown score
Speaker 2: to put them up seven, and it felt like they
Speaker 2: were going to be in a good spot. And then
Speaker 2: of course they give up a quick touchdown and then
Speaker 2: on offense, just interception, fumble, interception, Just terrible. And I'll
Speaker 2: give Dillingham credit, the head coach of Arizona State. No
Speaker 2: clue how good they're going to be overall this year,
Speaker 2: but they were terrible last year. They were three and nine.
Speaker 2: They're already three and oh this year. And they were
Speaker 2: dogs in that game for a good you know, and
Speaker 2: when it kicked off and they ended up winning. So
Speaker 2: I'm bummed about that because I trusted the Bills money
Speaker 2: line and that came through in a major way. I mean,
Speaker 2: and we'll get to two in just a second, because
Speaker 2: that's just a I mean, it's a very rare situation
Speaker 2: that hopefully it's a rarity when we look back on
Speaker 2: it many many years from now. But you know, let's
Speaker 2: be real. Football is a violent sport. If dudes just
Speaker 2: keep getting concussed consistently, their careers may be done by
Speaker 2: the time they're twenty five, twenty six. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: I love football like anybody else, and it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: We're going to continue to play the sport and love it.
Speaker 2: But there have been enough stories out there, situations from
Speaker 2: guys who played the game a long time that like,
Speaker 2: if you get a bunch of concussions, you shouldn't play.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if we're there with Tua. And it
Speaker 2: is one of the most talked about things right now
Speaker 2: in sports, maybe the most talked about thing in sports
Speaker 2: is what should Tua do should he retire? And I mean,
Speaker 2: I choose to believe the majority of those that are
Speaker 2: discussing it are doing it in a compassionate way, but
Speaker 2: none of us have a clue what like realistically he
Speaker 2: should or should not do. And I'm not even really again,
Speaker 2: I'm not even really sure doctors do. I mean, they
Speaker 2: would be much more able to determine what the most
Speaker 2: you know, logical thing to do from here on out
Speaker 2: for Tua is. But I mean, is it crazy for
Speaker 2: me to say that at some point, at some level,
Speaker 2: this is still kind of trial and error, right Like
Speaker 2: he could be a case study if he wants to
Speaker 2: keep playing and they clear him and then you find
Speaker 2: out twenty years the guy, you know, he's not all
Speaker 2: there upstairs like you know, and nobody wants to be
Speaker 2: that case study, right, I mean that would be terrible.
Speaker 2: So really a sad situation overall. But anyways, back to
Speaker 2: the college football side of things, Texas State Arizona State
Speaker 2: gave us a great game. Did you see the finish
Speaker 2: of that? John? What happened?
Speaker 1: I saw the I think there was a fumble on
Speaker 1: their own side of the field. Correct, that gave back
Speaker 1: to Arizona State.
Speaker 2: No, wasn't a fumble. They were trying to end the game,
Speaker 2: and uh it didn't work out that way. They took
Speaker 2: a knee I guess, assuming that the clock went end,
Speaker 2: but his knee hit the ground on fourth down with
Speaker 2: a second left on the clock. So somehow they Texas
Speaker 2: State got out there with a chance down three to
Speaker 2: put together one play with a second on the clock
Speaker 2: to potentially win the game. And it didn't and nothing happened.
Speaker 2: But afterwards Kenny Kenny Dillingham very very upset, in fact,
Speaker 2: disgusted with the way the refs. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: really know what again, I don't really know what is
Speaker 2: what his gripe is. I think if in fact you
Speaker 2: look at the replay, I don't mean, what do I know?
Speaker 2: But I feel like Texas State probably was entitled to
Speaker 2: that one play, and you know, but he'd already come
Speaker 2: out on the field into his interview. The kad coach
Speaker 2: of Everson was they did. They'd already thrown into it
Speaker 2: to SVP for Sports Center, and then they came back
Speaker 2: to the game because every by they let him have
Speaker 2: one more play. Yeah, you and I are finally speaking,
Speaker 2: because after a while they put a second back on
Speaker 2: the clock and ran another play. Could you explain to
Speaker 2: us what the referee told you there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm only out here right now, is right. Don't
Speaker 3: get fined.
Speaker 2: That's all I gotta say, because that was ridiculous. Fair
Speaker 2: enough given how they do and some of the games
Speaker 2: they have. Here's them taking a knee definitely Winna them
Speaker 2: down twenty one to seven.
Speaker 3: At one point, Arizona State comes on the road behind
Speaker 3: their young quarterback Sam Levitt.
Speaker 2: This is the This is the initial This is the
Speaker 2: initial interview. The one you heard at the beginning was
Speaker 2: him after the fact. But this is after the game,
Speaker 2: so he thought, and he's realizing they're going to put
Speaker 2: another second on while he's talking to Harry Lyles on
Speaker 2: the sideline.
Speaker 4: After review, it was determined there was one second on
Speaker 4: the clock when.
Speaker 3: The player's nave was down, the ball will replaced it
Speaker 3: the thirty yard.
Speaker 2: Wide, which he was the correct call.
Speaker 1: First up, Texas State has a chance, quick throw.
Speaker 2: Tossed it around a little bit here. Now that's going
Speaker 2: to turn into Arena League football and all of that.
Speaker 2: For that there we go, so Arizona State. So I
Speaker 2: like Dillingham because he's so young. He's the youngest head
Speaker 2: coach in college football at the power level and so
Speaker 2: far again, this is a big bounce back season for him.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens when they get into like competition
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve. But you know, three and oh,
Speaker 2: they won three games last year, so they're off to
Speaker 2: a much better start. And I love the fact that
Speaker 2: he realizes how lucky he is to be thirty three,
Speaker 2: thirty four years old, whatever it is, and be a
Speaker 2: head coach at Arizona State. That he if you remember,
Speaker 2: this didn't get national attention because it's Arizona State football.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. But I remember it because it stood out
Speaker 2: to me. There's all these coaches complaining about how the
Speaker 2: job is so much more difficult now than it used
Speaker 2: to be. And how they're so. I mean, listen to
Speaker 2: Mark Stubs complaining about having to do his job the
Speaker 2: job chain, right, that's life. I bet a lot of
Speaker 2: us have had jobs maybe the job we have now
Speaker 2: to work throughout your time as an employee of that employer,
Speaker 2: the role changes, you got to adapt. That's life. That's
Speaker 2: that's a lot of a lot of people have to
Speaker 2: do that. And he was pretty outspoken. Dillingham was and
Speaker 2: saying that, hey, like I'm fortunate to be able to
Speaker 2: do this. I'm not gonna You're not gonna hear me
Speaker 2: complaining about it, Like I think it's I think this
Speaker 2: is it's a dream job. We should all be fortunate.
Speaker 2: And I just thought that stood out to me and
Speaker 2: I remembered that. So I kind of liked this young
Speaker 2: guy Dillingham, but last night, like he started to actually
Speaker 2: to me act like the coaches that I that you know,
Speaker 2: are hard to stomach at times because they treat us
Speaker 2: all like we're idiots, like you can claim that was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I'm only out here, so I don't get fine, dude,
Speaker 2: did you watch the play? Yeah, the knee was down
Speaker 2: with a second on the clock. That's the rule, Like
Speaker 2: you're not a victim here, like that's what happened and
Speaker 2: you still won, so kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
Speaker 2: But either way, maybe I'm just bitter because I lost.
Speaker 2: I had a two leg parlay last night. Bill's money line,
Speaker 2: no sweat there at all. And then of course I
Speaker 2: trust Texas State to get it done and they couldn't
Speaker 2: do it. And look, that's part of it, right, You
Speaker 2: win some, you lose some, And it's the first beat
Speaker 2: for me to where I trusted a team in a
Speaker 2: major way and they should have won. They just shot
Speaker 2: themselves on the foot. And again, be so thankful, John,
Speaker 2: be so thankful that Jordan McCloud is not with Signetty,
Speaker 2: because I mean fourth quarter turnovers, Canon, I mean fourth
Speaker 2: quarter turnovers in a tie game, when you got the
Speaker 2: crowd on your side, they're singing deep in the hot
Speaker 2: of Texas. I mean they're going crazy down there in
Speaker 2: San Marcos. Dick whacker Field was electric and Jordan McCleod
Speaker 2: not big enough for the moment, not big enough of
Speaker 2: the moment at all. So anyways, yes, I'm bitter, very bitter.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna take our first break coming up
Speaker 2: here in just a couple of minutes a little bit
Speaker 2: earlier than we usually do because we're gonna bring in
Speaker 2: Zach Barnett, a football scoop. We'll talk with him in
Speaker 2: regards to this weekend's matchups in college football. We talked
Speaker 2: to him each and every week, and scheduling wise, we
Speaker 2: had to do it a little earlier than we usually do,
Speaker 2: so we'll bring him on around three to two get
Speaker 2: his thoughts on this weekend's matchups. Also a lot more
Speaker 2: to get into throughout the show, we are going to
Speaker 2: have another giveaway for the Brooks and Doune tickets. We've
Speaker 2: got another pair of tickets to give away. In fact,
Speaker 2: I may I may end up having two to give
Speaker 2: away today. I'm trying to get confirmation on that. As
Speaker 2: soon as I do have confirmation, I'll be sure to
Speaker 2: let you know. I don't think the two of conversation
Speaker 2: is it's not a fun thing to discuss, right and
Speaker 2: we like to have fun on Fridays. But I'd say
Speaker 2: it is maybe the biggest, the biggest story in sports
Speaker 2: right now, and it's it's rare. I mean, it's I
Speaker 2: can't think of any any similar situation where a guy
Speaker 2: has quhen healthy been a really good player. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think the investment that the Dolphins made in him
Speaker 2: was a wise investment, given the fact that not everybody
Speaker 2: has a great quarterback, and when healthy, he was pretty good.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's the best, but every team would
Speaker 2: love to have a really, really good quarterback. There's not
Speaker 2: as many great quarterbacks out there as there are NFL teams.
Speaker 2: So when you have one that you know may not
Speaker 2: be the best, but he's certainly in that tier that
Speaker 2: is above you know, average and above the majority of
Speaker 2: the guys in the league at that position, you got
Speaker 2: to invest in him. And they did that. And now,
Speaker 2: of course you know, he may never play again, And
Speaker 2: that sounds like such an exagger like that's way we're
Speaker 2: and yes, it is getting way ahead of ourselves to
Speaker 2: say he may ever play again. But given what we
Speaker 2: know and what we saw last night, if he didn't
Speaker 2: play again, it really shouldn't shock a lot of people.
Speaker 2: And therefore I don't think it's as crazy to say
Speaker 2: that as it might sound. So anyways, real quick, before
Speaker 2: we get to our first break again a little earlier
Speaker 2: than usual, I mentioned a wild night in college football
Speaker 2: last night. It wasn't just because of what happened in
Speaker 2: that Texas State Arizona State game. Did you see the
Speaker 2: South Alabama score? Didn't they break a record of some
Speaker 2: offense or something like that. Eighty seven to ten was
Speaker 2: the score. It was the most points in an FBS
Speaker 2: game since nineteen ninety one. Yeah, so they blasted Northwestern
Speaker 2: State eighty seven to ten, as they scored the most
Speaker 2: points since nineteen ninety one. The last time that happened
Speaker 2: was when Fresno State beat New Mexico ninety four to seventeen.
Speaker 2: And it's you know, not a big surprise here that
Speaker 2: this is a South Alabama record and a Sun Belt
Speaker 2: record for a team to score eighty seven points. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen the exact right up as far as what
Speaker 2: happened at the end of the game, but I don't
Speaker 2: even think they played a full game like I think
Speaker 2: towards the end they had a shorter they had a
Speaker 2: shorter clock for the fourth quarter. I could be wrong there.
Speaker 2: Maybe that was just somebody, you know, saying that's what
Speaker 2: they should do, But it wouldn't shock me if they did.
Speaker 2: I mean again, eighty seven to ten, and I had
Speaker 2: no clue that major Applewhite was the South Alabama head coach.
Speaker 2: Former South Alabama head coach. What's his name? He followed
Speaker 2: Kaylen n Borck? Yeah, Womac. He followed Kaylen Daboor to Bama,
Speaker 2: didn't he did? Yeah, left a head coaching job to
Speaker 2: go be an OC for is he DC? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well maybe he was holding that offense back last year
Speaker 2: because they scored eighty seven points last night. I would
Speaker 2: have I would, I would. I would assume that that's
Speaker 2: more so to do with the opponent, Northwestern State, which
Speaker 2: why do I feel like Northwest?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: What is are they known? I know it's not, but
Speaker 2: it reminds me of the school in the waterboy, although
Speaker 2: I think that's south like Southwest Louisiana State. But anyways,
Speaker 2: they got their ass kick last night. Notable alumni at
Speaker 2: Northwestern State at Orgeron Coacho, how about that a shame?
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, We'll come back on the other
Speaker 2: side again. We're gonna bring him in. He' Zack Barnett
Speaker 2: FootballScoop dot Com. Keep it locked right here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety. It's right Coffee and company rolling along
Speaker 2: on a Friday afternoon here on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out with us. Also thanks to the
Speaker 2: one the only mister Zach Barnett, who joins us now
Speaker 2: here to talk from college football. He of course covers
Speaker 2: college football for FootballScoop dot com. Zach, I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: with maybe the most important question I've ever asked you
Speaker 2: and has nothing to do with the football. We've been
Speaker 2: giving away Brooks and Done tickets all week on this show.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do it again later today. What is the
Speaker 2: best Brooks and Done song ever?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 2: Ooh, that's a good one. That's a good one. I
Speaker 2: mean I would have never assumed that would be your guest,
Speaker 2: but like, that's a great song. I mean, I'm a
Speaker 2: little biased because I love Brooks and Done, and I
Speaker 2: don't mean, in fact, I don't know how anybody couldn't
Speaker 2: love Brooks and Done. But when it comes to like
Speaker 2: we were looking at the opening act. They got David
Speaker 2: Lee Murphy dust on the bottle party crowd. He's opening
Speaker 2: up when they come to Louisville in April, But like,
Speaker 2: give him a few songs, because Brooks and Dun could
Speaker 2: be out there for three or four hours and never
Speaker 2: run out of hits. I feel like.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, there was a summer in my youth
Speaker 3: where I got I grew up with basically listening to
Speaker 3: to rock and hip hop as as we all did. Sure,
Speaker 3: there was a summer when I got really into country
Speaker 3: music and it ain't nothing about you.
Speaker 2: Was that don't do something for me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a great song.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could just speak Brooks and Done lyrics
Speaker 2: and you'd be sharing wisdom to the younger generation. Right.
Speaker 2: They may not like the sound because they're you know,
Speaker 2: they're younger, they're listening to probably mumble rap, but there's
Speaker 2: a lot of wisdom, a lot of good stuff within
Speaker 2: the Brooks and Done cat logging. I'm happy that you
Speaker 2: and I are at an age where we got to
Speaker 2: experience that a little bit. So shout out to U.
Speaker 2: What brooks and Done.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick up my two kids from middle school
Speaker 3: here in about an hour and a half and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have some Brooks and Done playing and.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hell yeah, let me know, because I mean
Speaker 2: that that's some wholesome fatherhood stuff right there.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: That's uh, that's good stuff. All right, Speaking of good stuff,
Speaker 2: what's the what's the game you are most interested in
Speaker 2: watching this week? In Week three of college football, there's
Speaker 2: a handful of good games I'm interested in, But is
Speaker 2: there one that stands out to you that you're really
Speaker 2: anxious to see the result.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and neither one has really anything to do with
Speaker 3: the National Championship chase. But Texas A and M at
Speaker 3: Florida and Memphis at Florida State. Starting with the last
Speaker 3: one first, I mean, Florida State, there's no telling how
Speaker 3: bad it can get if this team starts zero to three,
Speaker 3: And I mean, I don't think so. But I can't
Speaker 3: sit here and say that Florida State's better than Memphis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's it's a legit point.
Speaker 3: We're going to find out where the bottom is on
Speaker 3: Florida State, and Memphis is going to see Florida State's
Speaker 3: best game, and there's no telling what that is. Maybe
Speaker 3: they go out there and win by twenty. Memphis is
Speaker 3: a we think is a really solid team. They haven't
Speaker 3: played anybody yet. Florida State may play it's best game
Speaker 3: and beaten by three touchdowns. Florida State may play its
Speaker 3: best game and lose by seven points. And I mean
Speaker 3: they're there. I don't think the average fan has an
Speaker 3: appreach well, let me let me am in that statement,
Speaker 3: I don't think the fans outside of college football have
Speaker 3: an appreciation for how much a freak out I know
Speaker 3: one three start can lead to in this sport, because
Speaker 3: suddenly the mind goes to well, Florida State has already
Speaker 3: lost a number of their high school commits, but how
Speaker 3: many people are are are poaching our best players right now?
Speaker 3: What's the portal going to be like?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: In this in Florida State fans mind, the only only
Speaker 3: things standing between the programs somewhat staying on track and
Speaker 3: complete oblivion is beating Memphis on Saturday, and so I
Speaker 3: can't wait to see the result of that game.
Speaker 2: Who needs it more? The Gators or the Aggies In
Speaker 2: the other.
Speaker 3: Game you mentioned the Gators, I mean, the Aggies haven't
Speaker 3: won a road game since twenty twenty one, but they're
Speaker 3: still in the the Mike Elko honeymoon phase so much
Speaker 3: that such a thing exists anymore. But again, Florida's even
Speaker 3: more in that in that spot than Florida State is. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Florida State has hired a fall and and Florida fans
Speaker 3: have been expecting this somewhat, but again it's the same
Speaker 3: thing of I can't think of another game in college
Speaker 3: football where the subtext is going to be so clear
Speaker 3: that at this point, if you asked me what team
Speaker 3: I think DJ Lagway plays quarterback for next year, my
Speaker 3: my answer is Texas A and M. Whatever, whatever. If
Speaker 3: this guy is even close to what he thinks he's
Speaker 3: we think he's going to be, then he'll break whatever
Speaker 3: record there is of most money quarterbacks ever gotten a
Speaker 3: portal because he'll be a true sophomore and Texas A
Speaker 3: and M's basically his hometown team, and that program has
Speaker 3: an endless appetite to win and they're very much unsettled
Speaker 3: at quarterbacks. So this could be the showcase game for
Speaker 3: DJ Lagway for the portal if he plays well in
Speaker 3: Florida loses.
Speaker 2: What do you make of this LSU South Carolina game?
Speaker 2: South Carolina should have lost Old Dominion in Week one.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess credit them for holding on and winning,
Speaker 2: but it was a very uninspiring performance for them. Well,
Speaker 2: then they come out and just beat the breaks off
Speaker 2: Kentucky in a game where, to be honest, South Carolina
Speaker 2: their defensive line they were bullies. But I mean, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say that South Carolina played a great game. They
Speaker 2: took advantage of mistakes made, which hey, that's what you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do, so credit them for the win. But like,
Speaker 2: I think if you just look at the overall performance
Speaker 2: and you know, the score does matter when you consider
Speaker 2: the performance, but like, I don't think that they looked
Speaker 2: like they're a dangerous team that people really had wrong
Speaker 2: when they observed that close win against Old Dominion. LSU.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, you know, they lose to USC,
Speaker 2: a good team, you know, who do you think? I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously I would say that LSU probably needs this one more.
Speaker 2: But are you Are you somebody that thinks South Carolina
Speaker 2: could pull off this win at home again? I felt
Speaker 2: like after watching them in Week one, they may be
Speaker 2: one of the worst teams in the SEC, And now
Speaker 2: I feel like it's kind of brewing as kind of
Speaker 2: a trendy pick for people to think the game Cocks
Speaker 2: to pull off the win here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd be lying if I said I had a
Speaker 3: clear read on either one of these teams. That's why
Speaker 3: my head makes me lean towards LSU. But that might
Speaker 3: just be brand biased. Because LSU has been traditionally third
Speaker 3: than South Carolina. I LSU in some ways struggled last
Speaker 3: week with their opponent. I want to say it's Ma Knees,
Speaker 3: but it's not. It's something that maybe Nichols. They struggled
Speaker 3: with them their offense in some ways more than they
Speaker 3: did with the USC. And oh they got they.
Speaker 2: Got out rushed by like one hundred yards. I believe
Speaker 2: I saw that stat from this great college football writer
Speaker 2: named Zach Barnett. I think he pointed that out over
Speaker 2: the weekend, that LSU got out gained, but I think
Speaker 2: it might have been right around one hundred yards by Nichols.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the USC loss looks better considering they went
Speaker 3: out and pushed to shut out this past weekend. But
Speaker 3: LSU's old performance, it's kind of mirror images of each other.
Speaker 3: That some great individual talent in this game, I mean
Speaker 3: some You can make an argument the three most freak
Speaker 3: athletes of the entire sport are gonna be on the
Speaker 3: field in this game, but the teams around them are.
Speaker 3: It seems like pretty good is the ceiling for whoever
Speaker 3: wins this game.
Speaker 2: Zach Barnette FOOTBA Scoop is our guest here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven to ninety. I'm to the point where I
Speaker 2: just assume there's no scenario where Dion and his trio
Speaker 2: because I think Deon Sanders is actually a private football coach.
Speaker 2: I think he is a private football coach for his
Speaker 2: sons and Travis Hunter, and he's a politician, a hype man,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of played out. I feel like for
Speaker 2: nearly a calendar year now, and there's never been any
Speaker 2: ounce of humility within any of that circus. A loss
Speaker 2: to Colorado State is maybe not likely, but could certainly happen.
Speaker 2: I mean, am I Am I a fool for thinking
Speaker 2: that maybe at some point we will get like d
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not gonna just quit and walk away
Speaker 2: like mid season, but like for all the hype, all
Speaker 2: of the carrying themselves as if they've accomplished something special,
Speaker 2: a loss here, I mean that, you know that would
Speaker 2: put him at one and two and the one win
Speaker 2: was a nearly a near loss against an FCS team,
Speaker 2: Like when does when does it explode at Colorado? I
Speaker 2: guess that's the best question to ask here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think the the the answer here is
Speaker 3: if they lose this game, like the Colorado fans. It
Speaker 3: was euphoria to start the fact that this program, which
Speaker 3: was such an afterthought was suddenly the hot topic in
Speaker 3: all of sports this time last year. And then, for
Speaker 3: as bad as last year got towards the end, they're
Speaker 3: still close in some games and they still showed massive
Speaker 3: improvement from how just pathetic that program had been under
Speaker 3: the previous regime. But now if you go out and
Speaker 3: lose to a a team you beat last season, which
Speaker 3: you've already done in Nebraska, but be your little brother
Speaker 3: in the state. And I mean, you best believe if
Speaker 3: if Colorado State wins this game, they're probably rushing the
Speaker 3: field considering it will be the biggest game they've ever
Speaker 3: had at their still newer stadium. You're gonna see Colorado
Speaker 3: fans be absolutely, out absolutely and outwardly pissed at Dion
Speaker 3: and you'll see people, you know, openly wishing for him
Speaker 3: to go ahead and move on and for them to,
Speaker 3: you know, openly wish for the bygone days of Carl Durel,
Speaker 3: where it was, yeah, at least we were bad, but
Speaker 3: at least but we weren't embarrassing. So if they lose
Speaker 3: this game, it's it's gonna get ugly, I think within
Speaker 3: the fan base, and you're going to see a big
Speaker 3: fight there. And then also that's the thing to watch
Speaker 3: is if Colorado starts two and six or something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't see anyway, Schadur and Travis Hunter finished out
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 2: Put on the shelf, no doubt.
Speaker 3: They clearly hate their teammates, specifically the quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: But their teammates gotta hate them even worse, right geez.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So when they make up an injury for
Speaker 3: both of those guys, when they start two and six,
Speaker 3: the level of quit within the locker room will be
Speaker 3: able to be measured from outer space.
Speaker 2: All right, Zach, I know you have a busy afternoon ahead,
Speaker 2: and there's no more important thing you're gonna do than
Speaker 2: get the kids and introduce them to some good Brooks
Speaker 2: and done. But I have to ask you this. My
Speaker 2: producer John, he's a big Indiana Hoosier fan, and Kurt
Speaker 2: Signetti has ignited some real life within the Hoosier football
Speaker 2: fan base. Believe it or not, there is a Hoosier
Speaker 2: football fan base, Zach. If they do go on the
Speaker 2: road and knock off UCLA, they're favored right now in
Speaker 2: that game. I don't think you guys are going to
Speaker 2: start publishing articles that Indiana is in the hunt for
Speaker 2: the Big Ten championship, but that would be I mean again,
Speaker 2: at this point, they haven't beaten anybody, and UCLA's really down,
Speaker 2: but like Indiana like that, that would be a heck
Speaker 2: of a sign for the early part of the Signetti era,
Speaker 2: right yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean we talked about him that hire a little
Speaker 3: bit on my show here in Dallas back when he
Speaker 3: got hired just because he brought uh, unlike Dion, he
Speaker 3: brought real juice to that to that program of an
Speaker 3: actual coach that proved substance you can win football games. Yes.
Speaker 3: So there was a good article this week in the
Speaker 3: La Times about how many fans from programs like in
Speaker 3: Indiana and Minnesota that haven't been to the Rose Bowl
Speaker 3: in lifetimes, uh, that they're going to bring out there,
Speaker 3: and so I think it should be a good scene
Speaker 3: for what I expect to be a Hoosier's victory.
Speaker 2: You hear that, John, Good stuff, Good stuff right there, Zach.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you man for making time for us on
Speaker 2: short notice. Enjoy your weekend and enjoy that moment with
Speaker 2: the kids. Man playing Brooks and done for them. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's gotta be. It's gonna be a great bother moment
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Take care of brother, see soon. All right, it's Zach
Speaker 2: Barnette FootballScoop dot Com. Always appreciate him making time for us, John,
Speaker 2: You hear that some love for signetty baby.
Speaker 1: He's getting me bricked up enough already.
Speaker 2: I mean, when's the last time, in all seriousness? When's
Speaker 2: because I don't want to. I'm not trying to poke
Speaker 2: fun and I know you know that I'm not doing that,
Speaker 2: of course, because this is not a huge game in
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things when it comes to college football.
Speaker 2: But when's the last time you felt like Indiana had
Speaker 2: a moment like this where they have a chance to
Speaker 2: again go out and beat a team that they're favored against.
Speaker 2: Right it's not as if people think that they're gonna
Speaker 2: get blown out about three touchdowns, but you know it
Speaker 2: would be it would be.
Speaker 1: I think the favorability thing is key because Indiana being
Speaker 1: favored in any matchup against a power opponent on the
Speaker 1: road is not something that I can ever remember happening.
Speaker 2: That's a great point, like when's the last time Indiana
Speaker 2: was favored in a road game against a Big ten team?
Speaker 1: Maybe Perdue in the good Tom Allen years, but not
Speaker 1: during Jeff's time though, right Who's time? Jeff bram at Perdue?
Speaker 1: Like I mean, oh no, because the beginning of Tom
Speaker 1: Allen was still the end of Darryl Hazel, I believe, so.
Speaker 2: I think them Meryl Hazel's got about that man that again,
Speaker 2: anytime people talk about it, it didn't. It was one
Speaker 2: of those things that was so asinine. It really didn't
Speaker 2: trigger me because sometimes I can't like sometimes know like, hey,
Speaker 2: don't get into the weeds, don't argue with people that
Speaker 2: are making just illogical points. And I couldn't help myself
Speaker 2: when it come when it would come to like the
Speaker 2: Kenny Payne stuff, when people would act like it was
Speaker 2: understandable for Kenny to be so bad as a coach,
Speaker 2: Like I couldn't help myself when it comes to that.
Speaker 2: It was so egregious for people to claim brom wasn't
Speaker 2: worthy to be our coach because of his record at Purdue,
Speaker 2: that I didn't have the energy to even look at
Speaker 2: someone who who would make those kind of claims. But
Speaker 2: if you go look at the record that Purdue had
Speaker 2: at I mean at the.
Speaker 1: Hazel era is something that I don't know if you
Speaker 1: could replicate it if you tried.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to pull up the stat
Speaker 2: here because again, his record at Purdue was not great,
Speaker 2: but like, clearly they had more. So yeah, here's what
Speaker 2: it was at Purdue, Jeff Brom he ended up having
Speaker 2: a winning record in Big Ten play during his six years.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a winning record by a bunch, but they
Speaker 2: had a winning record. He also went three and oh
Speaker 2: versus top three teams in the country went unranked. Kind
Speaker 2: of a random stat but impressive. Nonetheless, So when people
Speaker 2: would bring up the fact that Bram, you know, because
Speaker 2: I think he actually did he have a losing record
Speaker 2: at Purdue maybe in the first season. No, I know
Speaker 2: he had, Look, he had losing seasons there. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'll pull it up here just because I'm curious. But again,
Speaker 2: while I look at the number of when I look
Speaker 2: at Jeff's overall record there at Purdue, the one thing
Speaker 2: I wanted to look at that I found here was
Speaker 2: that Darryl Hazel in four seasons was three and twenty four.
Speaker 2: Danny Hope in four seasons was thirteen and nineteen. And
Speaker 2: Jeff brom In, let's see here, how many years was
Speaker 2: he there? She was there longer than I realized. He
Speaker 2: was there for six years, and he was thirty six
Speaker 2: and thirty four overall, twenty six and twenty five. Again,
Speaker 2: he had two six and three seasons in Big Ten plays.
Speaker 2: So again, like the record itself is not something to
Speaker 2: go crazy about, but the context always matters. And like,
Speaker 2: I just used to lose my mind when people would
Speaker 2: bring that up, and then I just realized, Okay, no,
Speaker 2: anybody who doesn't understand that, like, winning at all at
Speaker 2: Purdue in the last twenty years has been almost impossible.
Speaker 2: So anyways, uh, and I look, Purdue tried to claim
Speaker 2: they were a better football school, like a better job
Speaker 2: than Louisville, like, and it was just insane like that
Speaker 2: crazy people are out there saying crazy stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So I'll bring that up to say, I hope that
Speaker 2: Signetti puts that stupid Purdue football program in the ground.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2: They mean they'll be favored in that game, right, Purdue sucks.
Speaker 1: Unless I mean Purdue has one of the toughest schedules
Speaker 1: in college football. They play eleven Power five opponents, which
Speaker 1: is absolutely insane.
Speaker 2: Louisville did last year too, eleven eleven Power five oponents.
Speaker 1: Some of them just sucked. It was a problem. And
Speaker 1: that's the same same with Purdue though.
Speaker 2: Sure, right, dude, I actually you know, maybe this is
Speaker 2: just me wanting to pile on Purdue here. I think
Speaker 2: Notre Dame bounces back and covers with ease against Purdue.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, because again, Northern Illinois did take it
Speaker 2: to uh with Purdue.
Speaker 1: They they had a bye week and Week two and
Speaker 1: the only thing you have on them right now is
Speaker 1: Indiana State, which again, like when Indiana faced Western Illinois,
Speaker 1: is a no name. They're horrible and that's all they
Speaker 1: what excuse me? They won that what forty five to nothing,
Speaker 1: and that's all you have on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so right now, perdue forty nine to nothing. That's
Speaker 2: the only game they've played.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a buy in Week two.
Speaker 2: It's a weird It is a weird buy. You're right,
Speaker 2: And so Notre Dame of course had the twenty three
Speaker 2: to thirteen win over A and M at A and
Speaker 2: M put them in the top five, and then they
Speaker 2: lose to Northern Illinois sixteen to fourteen. But right now,
Speaker 2: just for what it's worth, if anybody's interested in this,
Speaker 2: because it's not on my card, as they say, I
Speaker 2: don't really have a card. I just opened up an
Speaker 2: app and make bets. But Notre Dame in Perdue has
Speaker 2: been one that I've been really interested in potentially getting
Speaker 2: in on because right now it is Notre Dame minus eight.
Speaker 2: It was Notre Dame minus sixteen when it opened. It's
Speaker 2: now now it's shrunk in half. That's a lot, I know.
Speaker 2: And look it is, I mean, it's it's at Purdue,
Speaker 2: but like, and they will have a good environment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they sold out Indiana State, which is pretty while
Speaker 1: to be honest.
Speaker 2: No, and you know I know of this because talking
Speaker 2: to the Broms when they were up there, like, they
Speaker 2: were very, very appreciative of the support that they had
Speaker 2: from fans even when things weren't going great. They have
Speaker 2: a huge alumni based clearly, but obviously I don't if
Speaker 2: people know this now. But Tony even Eddy's sun it
Speaker 2: goes up there, so goes to school there, So you
Speaker 2: know he's been up there and he's been taken in
Speaker 2: the games and whatnot, and it's just different. Man, like
Speaker 2: they're I wouldn't say that they have like great elite
Speaker 2: tradition that like nobody can match, but like a lot
Speaker 2: of other Big Ten programs. In fact, like most Big
Speaker 2: Ten programs, their traditions just so much longer historically than
Speaker 2: a program like Louisville. So even though they've been pretty
Speaker 2: pretty bad historically, right, like I had some moments, but like,
Speaker 2: they're not an elite program by any means when it
Speaker 2: comes to the Big Ten Football conference. But you know
Speaker 2: what good or bad, even if it is more bad
Speaker 2: than good, like your grandfather, his father, Like, they've probably
Speaker 2: all been going to Purdue games and supporting them. So
Speaker 2: that's really how you have I mean, and I always
Speaker 2: talk about this. The reason the Big Ten has so
Speaker 2: much value is because they have such humongous alumni basis.
Speaker 2: They usually are state schools, like to Whery, even if
Speaker 2: you didn't go to school there, the vast majority you know,
Speaker 2: of the state of Indiana, they love the Hoosiers, although
Speaker 2: oddly enough Southern Indiana. I feel like there's more Louisville
Speaker 2: and Kentucky fans. But that's a conversation for a different day.
Speaker 2: But I think I may just talk myself into it.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to parlay. It'll be a straight bet,
Speaker 2: probably a small piece of action, but I'm going Irish
Speaker 2: minus eight. I don't know how we started talking Purdue here,
Speaker 2: but we did it, and I'm now convinced they're going
Speaker 2: to get killed tomorrow. We'll see, And honestly, it's wishful
Speaker 2: thinking because I want, no want Notre Dame to look better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's bad enough that they lost in Northern Illinois.
Speaker 2: I don't even think they should be ranked, but they are.
Speaker 2: But if Notre Dame, like if this is a nightmare
Speaker 2: scenario here, if Louisville ends up because note whose Notre
Speaker 2: Dame have before they get to Louisville, because they'll play
Speaker 2: next week, I believe, or maybe they're on a buy.
Speaker 2: So if Purdue somehow beat Notre Dame and then after that,
Speaker 2: you know, they end up bouncing back with the win
Speaker 2: against Miami Ohio, which is the game between Perdue and Louisville.
Speaker 2: If they're two and two with losses to Purdue in
Speaker 2: Northern Illinois, I mean, Louisville could still lose that game,
Speaker 2: and that would be such a punch to the gut
Speaker 2: because you would get like if Notre Name was unbeaten,
Speaker 2: you lost to them at their place, you could still say, hey,
Speaker 2: that's not an acc game. We still have a chance
Speaker 2: to actually go have a really special season. But like
Speaker 2: in a weird way, like it's it's crazy to say.
Speaker 2: But if they start two and two, which I don't
Speaker 2: think they will, and you somehow lost to them up
Speaker 2: there in South Bend, I think that look like.
Speaker 1: A bad loss, you'd probably I say you, Louisville would
Speaker 1: be favored in that game. I believe if they were
Speaker 1: two and two and Louisville was unbeaten.
Speaker 2: Still, yeah, yeah, I think it would depend on specifically
Speaker 2: what happens against Georgia Tech. But no, I think that's
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I could see that scenario. If
Speaker 2: that scenario played out, I think you may be right.
Speaker 2: They may be the favorite. All right, quick break, we'll
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Speaker 2: Coffee Happy. There's no Louisville football this weekend? What is
Speaker 2: your problem, dude? I mean, I can't control it. I'm
Speaker 2: not the it's not my I have no impact on
Speaker 2: the schedule. I'm not necessarily happy, but like, I can't
Speaker 2: control it. And when there's no Louisville football but a
Speaker 2: lot of other football, I can just kind of sit
Speaker 2: back and observe and honestly watch it stress free. To
Speaker 2: be fair, I've not been stressed at all during games
Speaker 2: against you know, butt Crack State and Butthole Tech and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's part of the schedule. So I'm look,
Speaker 2: I can't wait for next Saturday. And I could be
Speaker 2: wrong whether we'll certainly be a factor, but I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna see a really good crowd for the Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech game, because look, it's not just it's Louisville. Although
Speaker 2: we've always kind of as a fan base, I feel
Speaker 2: like been like this where we need a big attraction,
Speaker 2: Like we're not gonna like, you can't convince us that
Speaker 2: we have to be there to watch Louisville play Austin
Speaker 2: p Now again if fans do, like you want fans
Speaker 2: to be there. But like I just thought, I think
Speaker 2: people are kind of reading the room a little bit
Speaker 2: more about like, wait a second, you're not gonna go
Speaker 2: and spend five hours at a football game when your
Speaker 2: team plays a team you've never heard of. Like, you know,
Speaker 2: people got lives, they got things going on. You can
Speaker 2: still watch and observe and keep up and support the
Speaker 2: team and whatnot. But I think Georgia Tech, even though
Speaker 2: it's not a marquee opponent, it's the first ACC game,
Speaker 2: hopefully weather it's on our side. It's three thirty in
Speaker 2: the afternoon, and it's an ACC game. You're coming off
Speaker 2: a ten win season an ACC championship appearance. So I
Speaker 2: don't I'm not going to give you any kind of
Speaker 2: a number as far as a guestimation of attendance, but
Speaker 2: I think you'll see a good, rowdy crowd there and uh,
Speaker 2: you're still coming excited bourb and Beyond though next week
Speaker 2: it'll be interesting. Yeah, it's true, man, I we'll get
Speaker 2: to that in the four o'clock hour. I think it's
Speaker 2: not crazy to say this is the biggest musical event
Speaker 2: of all time in Louisville, like, given everybody that's on
Speaker 2: the line. Again, I'm not even a music guy, so
Speaker 2: maybe I'm off base and saying this, but if you
Speaker 2: look at just who's there for that four day stretch
Speaker 2: next week at Bourbon and Beyond, have we ever had
Speaker 2: anything like that? And I don't again, And it's all
Speaker 2: it's all a matter of opinion and preference when it
Speaker 2: comes to like who's better, but like the artists that
Speaker 2: are gonna be there as far as where they are
Speaker 2: right now in their career, as far as like intrigue
Speaker 2: and attraction, like there'll be people from across the world.
Speaker 1: Is coming to see this, and Tyler Childers obviously the
Speaker 1: two biggest when it comes to the younger guys, and
Speaker 1: then you got Sting on one of the headlining spots
Speaker 1: and then Dave Matthews Bandons in one as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, I got family that lives far away that
Speaker 2: never comes to see us, but they're coming to Louisville
Speaker 2: next weekend and it's not to see us. I mean
Speaker 2: they're gonna see We're gonna hang out with them and
Speaker 2: have fun, but like they're here for the festival. So anyways,
Speaker 2: let's get to the phon lines here before we get
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Speaker 2: to Chris. Chris, what's happening on Friday?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: How you guys doing?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to make a point. Brom beat uh,
Speaker 4: Brom beat Ohio State and that was impressive. And he
Speaker 4: had a kid that I knew. I know his uncle,
Speaker 4: Ron del Moore, kid that played for Trinity with my son.
Speaker 4: I just think that with college football nowadays, it's if
Speaker 4: you got a wide receiver, a quarterback, some good DV
Speaker 4: he's a middle linebacker, and a defensive end that's really good,
Speaker 4: are halfway good? You can do some stuff and it's
Speaker 4: it's it's about having that tight end. And of course
Speaker 4: you have to have a line. I'm not saying that's
Speaker 4: made up of eleven players. But I think that Jeff
Speaker 4: bron is good when the players fit his scheme. Sure
Speaker 4: are you picking up what I'm throwing down?
Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt about it. I think that's why Colin
Speaker 2: Lacy was such an intriguing transfer for Louisville because there
Speaker 2: was there was some belief that he could really utilize
Speaker 2: him in a way that he utilized Rondell. And look,
Speaker 2: not many can do what Rondell more did it perdue.
Speaker 2: He was sensational. I hate that he's had an injury,
Speaker 2: some injury issues in the pros, But no, I think
Speaker 2: there's no doubt Jeff. He's an offensive guy, and I
Speaker 2: think there's certain pieces that he sees and he thinks, Okay,
Speaker 2: I can really utilize this guy in a variety of ways,
Speaker 2: and he did that at Purdue. It's a weird thing,
Speaker 2: but I think Rondell is very instrumental in Jeff's career
Speaker 2: because the splash he made when Rondell was there early on,
Speaker 2: especially that big win against Ohio State that you referenced,
Speaker 2: that kind of put Jeff on the map a.
Speaker 4: Little bit, right, And it's funny, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 4: a fun fact you mentioned. You mentioned the Marshall Tucker Band.
Speaker 4: Now I'll tell you something that you don't know about me.
Speaker 4: You probably don't know that I'm a Christian hip hop artist,
Speaker 4: but I'm on a soundtrack with Marshall Tucker Band in
Speaker 4: a movie called Angel Camouflock.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, that's awesome, man. I did not know that.
Speaker 4: I knew about the Marshall Tucker Band, you know, because
Speaker 4: they were a famous band. But it was kind of
Speaker 4: cool being on the soundtrack. I had a song on
Speaker 4: there called I'm Tired and it was a movie with
Speaker 4: Barbar Streissen's husband. It was a low budget movie, but
Speaker 4: low budget in Hollywood could be two or three million.
Speaker 4: But it was a movie that Michael Brolin started in.
Speaker 4: So you're right about that larger than life. But I
Speaker 4: think Louisville's always been like a test market and we
Speaker 4: get a lot of good concerts for being in the Midwest,
Speaker 4: and I just think it's a good market for venues
Speaker 4: and for groups to come to. And it's always been
Speaker 4: like that over the years, even going back to the
Speaker 4: rap days with run DMC and all of that.
Speaker 2: So well, Chris, I appreciate the call man. Not many
Speaker 2: can say that they are. They're featured on a track
Speaker 2: with the Marshall Tucker Band, so heck, I mean, I
Speaker 2: keep that in my back pocket and throw it out
Speaker 2: there pretty consistently to people because that, again, not many
Speaker 2: people can say that. So congrats to you, Chris, and
Speaker 2: appreciate you listening, appreciate you calling as well. We'll take
Speaker 2: a quick time out. We've got two hours left here
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