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Speaker 6: All right, let's get it started. Happy Friday, Happy Valentine's Day.
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Speaker 6: for the weekend, and certainly a big weekend, no doubt.
Speaker 6: I mean, college basketball doesn't have that many weekends left,
Speaker 6: so for me, it's a big weekend for that reason alone.
Speaker 6: I love college hoops and sure enough we are we're
Speaker 6: not that far from the end. Of the regular season.
Speaker 6: I mean Louisville right now they have let's see one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 6: but they have six regular season games left, essentially three
Speaker 6: weeks left in the regular season, and I'm gonna enjoy
Speaker 6: all of it. Now. Louisville plays on Sunday at eight
Speaker 6: o'clock Austin Montgomery. You okay with that, because I got
Speaker 6: to tell you, I think I'm in the minority. I
Speaker 6: love a Sunday night game. I don't know, I'm kind
Speaker 6: of affy about it because selfishly, I just like knowing
Speaker 6: that I got nothing going on on Sunday nights.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a great way to look at it.
Speaker 6: If it's a Saturday afternoon, I may have, you know,
Speaker 6: I got I got my son's basketball games, I've got,
Speaker 6: you know, family commitments and stuff, because you know, it's
Speaker 6: that's what I'm got to be a family man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's usually nothing to do on Sunday.
Speaker 6: So you're right, iheartscatch you doing seventeen jobs these days.
Speaker 6: But yeah, there's a good chance that Sunday evening you
Speaker 6: won't be doing one of those, so you can be
Speaker 6: you can be relaxing and enjoying this Louisville basketball team.
Speaker 6: They take on Notre Dame against Sunday night at eight o'clock,
Speaker 6: so we can just see they played North Carolina on
Speaker 6: a Sunday night, right or was that right? Oh no,
Speaker 6: well actually no, no, here's what happened. They played Duke
Speaker 6: on a Sunday. They played Carolina on New Year's Day,
Speaker 6: which was a Wednesday. But because we had the holiday
Speaker 6: break and then we had to go back to work,
Speaker 6: that Wednesday felt like a Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was one of those.
Speaker 4: So anyways, we can just watch college hoops.
Speaker 6: Actually have a birthday party tomorrow for my daughter.
Speaker 4: We're going to go skating. It's going to be a
Speaker 4: lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday.
Speaker 4: I have not and by the way, she's living it up.
Speaker 4: We have celebrated her.
Speaker 6: Her birthday is February the eighth, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 6: this will be like our fifth celebration in some former fashion,
Speaker 6: which hey, you know, she's certainly not going to tell anybody.
Speaker 4: She doesn't want to celebrate your birthday.
Speaker 2: That's her birth month.
Speaker 6: When's the last time you went you went skating? Like
Speaker 6: I like, not ice skating, but like roller skating at
Speaker 6: a skating rink.
Speaker 2: Maybe when I was probably probably Maya's age, maybe when
Speaker 2: I was in like elementary school.
Speaker 4: Was it a thing to do when you were a
Speaker 4: kid like socially.
Speaker 2: I think it was like just getting out. I remember
Speaker 2: a couple of nights like going out like my mom
Speaker 2: and her front, like they made it like a big
Speaker 2: deal to go there. I just could never skate, so
Speaker 2: always stayed in that like small little corner where they
Speaker 2: just have like a block off for it, and I
Speaker 2: just I just never did it. I was always too
Speaker 2: scared to fall. I was too scared to fail as
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 6: I don't I could be totally off here. I feel
Speaker 6: like there can't be that many skating rinks still around.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know too much. There's the.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: It was the thing to do when I was a kid.
Speaker 6: So when I was in gosh really fifth sixth, seventh grade,
Speaker 6: that range if we were doing something socially like going
Speaker 6: somewhere the movies always was was an option. But we
Speaker 6: didn't have a movie theater close to us whenever I
Speaker 6: was a kid, so we would have to really hike
Speaker 6: it from Bullet County, you know, out in the in
Speaker 6: the suburbs and we would have to get a ride
Speaker 6: to like Stony Brook, which wasn't which wasn't that convenient
Speaker 6: for our parents. Then they ended up putting one in
Speaker 6: near where we live. That I think they put it
Speaker 6: in towards the end of my high school years. But anyways,
Speaker 6: skating and bowling. We had a bowling alley and we
Speaker 6: had skating and that was kind of what we did
Speaker 6: whenever I was young, that if you could get your
Speaker 6: parents to drop you off at skating, you get four
Speaker 6: hours same thing bowling. That would be global and it
Speaker 6: would be it. It'd be a lot of fun. And
Speaker 6: maybe that's still a thing and kids still do that,
Speaker 6: but it was a lot of fun. But yeah, I've
Speaker 6: she loved skating. So we're going to have her party
Speaker 6: at one of the skating rinks here in Louisville. I
Speaker 6: can't think of the name of it, but she is.
Speaker 6: She's remembered each of the last few skating parties that
Speaker 6: she's had. Because we sometimes go with her school as well,
Speaker 6: they'll have a little I think it's like once one
Speaker 6: time before for Christmas break, and then one time after
Speaker 6: Christmas break, her school will have like a night at
Speaker 6: the local skating rink, and she loves that we go
Speaker 6: and it's a lot of fun. But she knows that
Speaker 6: I've never I've never skated before whenever I'm with her,
Speaker 6: and she's been on me about it. So I'm gonna
Speaker 6: have to actually skate. So long story short, if I
Speaker 6: somehow break my neck, I'm gonna leave coffee and company
Speaker 6: to you. All right, It's it's yours if skating ends up,
Speaker 6: you know, either killing me, which I don't think that
Speaker 6: would be the case, but you never know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I are you nervous to skater?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 6: And no not because like I'm not nervous about like
Speaker 6: embarrassing myself. Yeah, but you know, like I'm old enough
Speaker 6: now to where just skating even if I don't try
Speaker 6: to go fast. But I'm just you know, let's say
Speaker 6: a very mild afternoon on the rink where I'm just
Speaker 6: kind of you know, I'm skating, but I'm not really
Speaker 6: giving in my all. I'll be using muscles that I
Speaker 6: don't typically use, and I'll be sore, and that's what
Speaker 6: I don't want because I'm getting old, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? Right Like that you can you can you
Speaker 6: can be someone that works out. Maybe you're active at
Speaker 6: the gym when it comes to just cardio stuff, but
Speaker 6: when you do like, for example, whenever, I bet if
Speaker 6: you are someone that that lifts weights, maybe not like
Speaker 6: every day, but it's part of your your lifestyle, your routine.
Speaker 6: If you're out shoveling snow for two hours, even though
Speaker 6: you lift weights, like you're using a specific muscle in
Speaker 6: a certain way that you're not usually used to and
Speaker 6: it's going to leave you sorece.
Speaker 2: So whole different kind of workout.
Speaker 6: And I'm in this, you know, I think I hope
Speaker 6: she has a You mentioned nerves and and and the
Speaker 6: first thing that came to mind for me, And this
Speaker 6: is just me being a dad and being somebody who
Speaker 6: you know, worries about everything in life. Uh, I just know,
Speaker 6: I hope she has a good turnout. We invited a
Speaker 6: lot of her friends from school, and uh, I just
Speaker 6: I've been to a couple of kids' birthday parties before
Speaker 6: where you could tell it was a very low turnout
Speaker 6: than what they were expecting, and it makes me sad,
Speaker 6: so like, I hope that doesn't happen. So anyways, if
Speaker 6: you if we invited you to come to my daughter's
Speaker 6: party tomorrow for skating and you are SVPED and you
Speaker 6: don't show up.
Speaker 2: I'm coming out after your ass. We got your name down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we we know who you are.
Speaker 6: We'll find you. You're watching well, In fact, I'll just
Speaker 6: bring her to your front door. We'll knock and say, hey,
Speaker 6: where were you today?
Speaker 2: Roll to the front.
Speaker 6: Look at this sad child that you made upset and
Speaker 6: now you know you ruined your birthday. I mean I
Speaker 6: probably won't be that dramatic, but I'll I'll be there too,
Speaker 6: me and you, and oh yeah, I like it. You're
Speaker 6: you're the muscle. Yeah, of course you're the muscle. You're
Speaker 6: the guy that knocks. You don't even say a word,
Speaker 6: just wait till somebody comes to the door. To stand
Speaker 6: there with like that posture straight up, just kind of
Speaker 6: waiting for somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Walter White said, I'm the danger.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you do have a You do have a build
Speaker 6: about you that if we put like a like a
Speaker 6: security suit on you. And I don't mean like an
Speaker 6: I mean like an actual, like a somebody that just
Speaker 6: looks like you are, Like, get you an ear piece,
Speaker 6: get you a suit, and you know, maybe just continuously
Speaker 6: have the same posture to where you're like, you know,
Speaker 6: law enforcement like you you look like you'd be secret
Speaker 6: service kind of protecting somebody.
Speaker 2: Exactly, a little eighty two back reception. I know that
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 4: Good stuff, all right?
Speaker 6: So, uh, before we dive in here, do we have
Speaker 6: anything tied to the event that's in town here that's
Speaker 6: a big deal every year? Is it the Farming Machinery Show?
Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, I don't know if you've had some on
Speaker 2: air winners for last week.
Speaker 6: So this has to be like this isn't just a
Speaker 6: big deal here, like people come from all over it
Speaker 6: seems right.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a lot of people there.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 6: At first I just thought it was something that you know,
Speaker 6: people in the area that of course that their industry
Speaker 6: is farming and whatnot that they but you can tell
Speaker 6: one there's a lot of I mean there's a lot
Speaker 6: of people downtown walking around, more so than I'm used
Speaker 6: to seeing whenever I come in for work or when
Speaker 6: I leave.
Speaker 4: But for Street Live, they have our They do it right.
Speaker 6: I mean, they do it the right way as far
Speaker 6: as what makes sense for them from a business standpoint.
Speaker 6: I don't like it, but I get it, Like they're
Speaker 6: not necessarily going to be open twenty four I mean honestly,
Speaker 6: like during the day, they're not open, Like there's not
Speaker 6: anything open down here, maybe other than Guy Fieri's. And
Speaker 6: it's just because to have people there working whenever you
Speaker 6: just don't get huge crowd, it wouldn't make a lot
Speaker 6: of sense. So when you have events like this, things
Speaker 6: that bring people to town, I mean that's when four Street's packed.
Speaker 6: So like when I get here yesterday and even today,
Speaker 6: like there's kind of already people mingling in four Street Live.
Speaker 6: And when we leave, I mean there's already, like yesterday,
Speaker 6: there was already a line to get into is it PBR.
Speaker 6: This is across the way here, yes, And that, by
Speaker 6: the way, that's exactly where you would expect people who
Speaker 6: want to go out to a bar to go is PBR.
Speaker 2: And they put in like a like an outdoor little
Speaker 2: bar area like they put up some towny.
Speaker 6: So look, I just I love where we are as
Speaker 6: far as our studio. I think it's cool that we're
Speaker 6: in four Street Live. It's also kind of nostalgic to
Speaker 6: know that I'm sitting here as we speak, in front
Speaker 6: of this microphone and in what used in the exact
Speaker 6: same spot I'm sitting now.
Speaker 4: This used to be a bar, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: like this was.
Speaker 6: Like the I've probably had many drunken nights five feet
Speaker 6: from where I'm sitting right now, many many many years ago,
Speaker 6: and it's just kind of wild to think about that
Speaker 6: we are.
Speaker 4: So have you ever been to Tango? Said cantina or something.
Speaker 6: We just called it tango, But that was a bar
Speaker 6: that that that was that was pretty pretty popular. I
Speaker 6: feel like whenever I guess maybe ten years ago, roughly
Speaker 6: around that era, and uh, it shut down. So if
Speaker 6: you know what I'm talking about when I say tango,
Speaker 6: just think of like that bar.
Speaker 4: It's now our iHeart location.
Speaker 6: Here in downtown louisvill which is pretty It's a pretty
Speaker 6: sweet set up, but anyways, there's just better vibes whenever
Speaker 6: there's more people are out and about downtown. Like yesterday,
Speaker 6: when I walked out, there was a guy who at
Speaker 6: six point fifteen looked to already be pretty deep into
Speaker 6: the beers, and he looked at me when I walked
Speaker 6: out of our building, and I guess he just noticed that, Hey,
Speaker 6: that's an iHeart place, and he said, hey, fellas Ryan
Speaker 6: Seacrest in there, and I said, no, he's not. Where's
Speaker 6: he at? I'm like, well, he doesn't work here, And
Speaker 6: I think he knew that.
Speaker 4: He just he just wanted to. He just wanted to
Speaker 4: see what. You know, what I had to say?
Speaker 6: I guess but yeah it shed said, no, Ryan Seacrest
Speaker 6: not here, but I'll go get Bobby Bones for you.
Speaker 4: How about will that here?
Speaker 2: You go so I'll be here. We got aut Montgomery.
Speaker 2: That's that's why I had Seacrest at home. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I would be really good at that, by the way,
Speaker 6: because you know I can guess up the fellas. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's I I play that role in my group of friends,
Speaker 6: and I'll be I'm happy to do it for anybody
Speaker 6: I can. I can guess people up. And you gotta
Speaker 6: if you don't guess the fellows up, who's gonna do it?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: You gotta you gotta have somebody that can do it.
Speaker 2: Hey, you can't do it yourself.
Speaker 4: You get the confidence going.
Speaker 6: But like, what if I would have told this gentleman yesterday,
Speaker 6: I don't have Ryan Seacrest and Bobby Bones is in here,
Speaker 6: but let me go get Austin Montgomery got Austin.
Speaker 2: But you talked about the Austin, I.
Speaker 6: Would present it in a way to where he wouldn't
Speaker 6: know who I'm talking about maybe, but he would he
Speaker 6: would realize it's such an important name. He would just be, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: please please could you go get him? So anyways, I.
Speaker 2: Just walk out of there. My three X vikings.
Speaker 6: Friday Fridays are good for the vibe and uh it
Speaker 6: just it's nice knowing that there's a lot of people
Speaker 6: in town and uh, I'm I'm ready for the weekend.
Speaker 6: Hopefully you guys are as well. We're gonna have some fun.
Speaker 6: A lot of people have a three a weekend, That's right.
Speaker 6: I keep forgetting Yeah we don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: So do you get a comp day for that too?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just get like the whole basically, like the
Speaker 2: whole day off from promotions, and I just got to
Speaker 2: come in when the show starts.
Speaker 6: So but but promotions are you guys. So here's how
Speaker 6: they do it for us, and I'm gonna make sure.
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know how it wouldn't be the
Speaker 6: same for you. But there are days where the company
Speaker 6: as a whole and there's a lot more people that
Speaker 6: work for this company in a variety of different roles
Speaker 6: that are not on air people or producers. So, and
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about just people here, I mean I'm
Speaker 6: talking about all of the world who work for iHeart
Speaker 6: to where this is a holiday that that the company
Speaker 6: is shut down for, but the on air is still
Speaker 6: like programming is still on. So what happens and look
Speaker 6: at all evens out. But I just for some reason
Speaker 6: feel like I get like extra vacation days when we
Speaker 6: get these comp days. So will you be credited a
Speaker 6: vacation day because you.
Speaker 4: Are working on Monday?
Speaker 2: I think? So we'll get it.
Speaker 4: We'll get it worked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll find out because I mean you should. We'll
Speaker 2: call Ryan c. Krest ask.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll give them a call, baby Bobby Boem. Maybe
Speaker 6: they can help us out. We'll see, all right. So, uh,
Speaker 6: what I wanted to get into as we get this
Speaker 6: thing started is bracketology. And I am enjoying looking at
Speaker 6: every single bracketology update that's out there from anybody. In fact,
Speaker 6: I've seen some that takes me a few minutes to
Speaker 6: look at it to realize, Okay, this is clearly somebody trolling,
Speaker 6: like this is not really what any bracket.
Speaker 4: Would look like.
Speaker 6: But either way, Louisville being back in the mix for
Speaker 6: the tournament clearly right now looking like a tournament team
Speaker 6: if it started today, that has me excited and I
Speaker 6: was doing I wouldn't say a deep dive at Louisville's
Speaker 6: resume because it really I don't even know how you
Speaker 6: would do that, because it's actually pretty easy to figure out.
Speaker 6: I mean, when you break down their resume, what makes
Speaker 6: it impressive, what might be slightly concerning? What is you know,
Speaker 6: where they are with the net, the kin palm, that
Speaker 6: kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 6: I think I have a pretty good idea of what
Speaker 6: the best case scenario for Louisville is the rest of
Speaker 6: the way, and I want to get into that. Also,
Speaker 6: the latest update from Joel and already has an interesting
Speaker 6: potential match up in the second round that we'll get
Speaker 6: to coming up here just to moment, but I do
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Speaker 6: annual early snapshot of the bracket from the NCAA Selection Committee. Now, this,
Speaker 6: like it always is, is only going to be the
Speaker 6: top sixteen sixteen teams, so seeds one through four. We'll
Speaker 6: find out who that is tomorrow. And I think we
Speaker 6: have a pretty good idea as far as who the
Speaker 6: majority of those fourteen teams are going to. I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: sixteen teams are going to be. But for Louisville, like
Speaker 6: right now, I would say, just you know, again, none
Speaker 6: of us know.
Speaker 4: And by the way, I will give Leonardi some credit.
Speaker 6: He is somebody that has started to be transparent from
Speaker 6: his perspective, and he's not He's not doing what he
Speaker 6: would do if he was on the committee.
Speaker 4: He is actually doing all this bracketology.
Speaker 6: And I think this has always been the case, but
Speaker 6: I've always wondered, are you saying what you would do
Speaker 6: or are you saying what you think the committee's gonna do?
Speaker 6: And he has been a little bit more informative as
Speaker 6: far as how he comes to his updates as far
Speaker 6: as the bracket. He's basing it off of previous seasons
Speaker 6: as far as what the committee has done. And it's
Speaker 6: not the same committee every single year. But the process
Speaker 6: as far as who you know, the process as far
Speaker 6: as whoever it is that comes to how they see
Speaker 6: teams has really been the same for a long time.
Speaker 6: So for Louisville, he's got him currently as a seven seed,
Speaker 6: and I would say that's probably a safe assumption right
Speaker 6: now that there are seven. I wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 6: they're an eight. I don't think right now they would
Speaker 6: hit the sixth line, and I don't think right now
Speaker 6: that they would fall as far as an eight. So
Speaker 6: I think, you know, just guessing, I would say they've
Speaker 6: got a seventy five percent chance of being a seven
Speaker 6: seed currently and twenty five percent chance of being an eight.
Speaker 6: By the way, how about this, He's got Kentucky as
Speaker 6: a let's see, where is it?
Speaker 4: I just saw it? Where are they at?
Speaker 2: Where are they at?
Speaker 6: Because yeah, he has Kentucky as a three seed in
Speaker 6: the South region, and the one seed in that region
Speaker 6: would be Auburn, and two seed would be Houston, and
Speaker 6: the four seed in that region would be who is it?
Speaker 4: Michigan State?
Speaker 6: So Arkansas is apparently one of the last teams in
Speaker 6: currently according to Lenardi. In fact, they're the second to
Speaker 6: last team in George's the last team in according to Lenardi.
Speaker 6: So they would play Jacksonville State, of course, or a
Speaker 6: team that's a fourteen seed, teams like Jacksonville State, Northern Colorado,
Speaker 6: uncg Utah Valley, which would be interesting because Utah Valley
Speaker 6: if they're a fourteen seed in Kentucky's three, that would
Speaker 6: be a storyline because that's where Mark.
Speaker 4: Pope used to coach.
Speaker 6: But anyways, Kentucky would then play the winner of Illinois
Speaker 6: and the winner of the eleven seed, which is a
Speaker 6: play in game. So Arkansas is in a play in
Speaker 6: game against San Diego State, And I mean if Arkansas
Speaker 6: and Kentucky played in the second round, And by the way,
Speaker 6: totally just a guess as far as what Lenardi's doing
Speaker 6: here when it comes to where they would slot teams,
Speaker 6: but we know that they will absolutely if they've got
Speaker 6: four teams to put in a certain on a certain
Speaker 6: seed line and they realize that one of those four,
Speaker 6: like they're all the same as far as the seed
Speaker 6: the number, but one of those four would give you
Speaker 6: a better storyline to where in the second round or
Speaker 6: maybe even the first round, there would be more interest
Speaker 6: in that matchup. They're gonna do it. It's not like
Speaker 6: they're inspiring to set people up, but they will. I mean,
Speaker 6: it wasn't a coincidence that Richard Patino was the coach
Speaker 6: that coached against Chris Mack and his tournament appearance at Louisville.
Speaker 6: So if if it played out to where Kentucky's a
Speaker 6: three and Arkansas is in that play in spot, I
Speaker 6: mean that that that you know, that could play out
Speaker 6: to where they play in the second round, on which
Speaker 6: you have to what could be you know, I guess
Speaker 6: the bigger unknown there is what would Arkansas be able
Speaker 6: to even beat the eleventh seed they're playing, and if so,
Speaker 6: can they get past a six seed like in Illinois,
Speaker 6: a Missouri, a Maryland, or a UCLA. But the thought
Speaker 6: of them playing in the second round, I mean, it's
Speaker 6: Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: I don't want to.
Speaker 6: I want to be I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 6: I don't want to throw people off here and say something.
Speaker 6: But like I know Kentucky fans see that, and their
Speaker 6: butthole is real tight. Like I'm just gonna I'm just
Speaker 6: gonna put it out there, like I know that that.
Speaker 6: You may say to yourself, well, I hope we get
Speaker 6: another shot at them. No you don't, No, you don't.
Speaker 6: And look you may beat them, like you may beat
Speaker 6: them by twenty. Who knows what this ARKANSA teams can do.
Speaker 6: But I think the people who claim that they want
Speaker 6: to see Cali Perry in the tournament, I think they're
Speaker 6: lying because the scenario, like, again, you may win. It's
Speaker 6: not that you're necessarily like shaking in your boots. Although
Speaker 6: they did beat you and it didn't really seem that
Speaker 6: difficult for them to beat you.
Speaker 4: When they did.
Speaker 6: But the thought of Cali Perry in the tournament being
Speaker 6: the one that ends Mark Pope's first season.
Speaker 2: Poetic.
Speaker 6: I mean that would I mean, talk about a tough
Speaker 6: pill to swallow.
Speaker 2: It's a great WWE storyline.
Speaker 6: Too, Yeah, I mean that would be and that's exactly
Speaker 6: what it would be. It would be WWE, and I
Speaker 6: would love it all right real quick. In the in
Speaker 6: the East region, I didn't mention more so Louisville would
Speaker 6: be playing West Virginia in the seven to ten matchup
Speaker 6: in Lenardes's bracket, which they've already beat West Virginia. West
Speaker 6: Virginia's best players now out for the season. The coach's
Speaker 6: son debrees, I also, can can can you play against
Speaker 6: a team in the first round that you've already played
Speaker 6: in the regular season. I'm going to assume that you can,
Speaker 6: but I would, you know, I think maybe it's that
Speaker 6: you can't play a conference team until like the second
Speaker 6: weekend or so.
Speaker 4: Okay, but yeah, t I mean, look, well.
Speaker 2: Because Louisville played NC State when we were talking about
Speaker 2: them in.
Speaker 4: The if they got they took all the way to
Speaker 4: these sweets sixtent that's.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's right the second weekend, so that makes sense.
Speaker 6: So the two in that, you know, if Louisville, if
Speaker 6: it goes chalk, louisvill would get a rematch against Tennessee,
Speaker 6: which I wouldn't necessarily want to sign up for that.
Speaker 6: I think Louisville would certainly fare better against Ole Miss, Tennessee, Duke,
Speaker 6: even Kentucky if they played him again, but that's not
Speaker 6: to say they'd win. But if I'm picking two seeds
Speaker 6: to play, man, I would probably take Texas A and
Speaker 6: M Perdue in maybe Houston before I would take Tennessee
Speaker 6: just because.
Speaker 2: Give me Perdue. Honestly, I'm with you, give me some
Speaker 2: Matte Painter.
Speaker 6: So the one seed in that region in the East
Speaker 6: region would be in in Raleigh. Yeah, Duke is the
Speaker 6: number one seed in the East Region, and the number
Speaker 6: two was Tennessee. As I mentioned Arizona's three. The four
Speaker 6: is Michigan, so pretty competitive. Again if this ends, if
Speaker 6: this ends up being who you're with in your region,
Speaker 6: you know, I would say of all the one seeds,
Speaker 6: I don't know which one I'd want to play because
Speaker 6: I think they're all really good. But anyways, for those
Speaker 6: of you that are wanting to follow Louisville in the tournament,
Speaker 6: which I bet there's a lot more people than you
Speaker 6: would expect. I mean, you never know, but I think
Speaker 6: because we haven't been in the tournament so long, and
Speaker 6: this team has been such a fun, fun team to watch,
Speaker 6: and really the entire season has been such a fun
Speaker 6: ride so far, I wouldn't be shocked if there's people
Speaker 6: who really say, look, I don't care where they are,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna try my best to get there for the
Speaker 6: first round, second round, because the tournament's awesome, and man,
Speaker 6: we've been without these these moments for quite some time.
Speaker 6: So if Louisville is a seventh seed, which I think
Speaker 6: again seven to six right now, I would say is
Speaker 6: most likely as it stands today, you could be in Cleveland, Wichita,
Speaker 6: Milwaukee if you're a seven seed, and if you end
Speaker 6: up being a six, you will end up in either Cleveland, Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Denver, yeah, or Denville.
Speaker 6: So I would say, honestly, of all those locations, Cleveland's
Speaker 6: probably the most I mean, I don't know how convenient
Speaker 6: it is, but given the other places that you would
Speaker 6: play if you're one of those seeds, I mean, that's
Speaker 6: probably the most convenient which Cleveland is not that close
Speaker 6: and last I check, Cleveland's not a real destination spot.
Speaker 6: But anyways, we are going to keep the romantic vibes
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Speaker 4: He'll join us at four oh five.
Speaker 6: We're gonna have a rom com movie draft that should
Speaker 6: be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 6: And coming up on the other side, I'm not gonna
Speaker 6: bore you with a bunch of numbers and quad one,
Speaker 6: quad two stats and all that, but I do want
Speaker 6: to give you at least what I think is best
Speaker 6: case scenario for Louisville and really what the ceiling is
Speaker 6: for them as far as the NCAA tournaments.
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Speaker 4: At at four o'clock, we're going to bring in mister Kin.
Speaker 6: Spencer from WHAS eleven, and then at four forty five
Speaker 6: we will bring in the one and only. In fact,
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Speaker 6: five oh five we'll have Kent Spencer, and then at
Speaker 6: four forty five we're going to talk to doctor Eric
Speaker 6: mclroy Prora at physical Therapy about a variety of things,
Speaker 6: including what he can tell us about the groin situation
Speaker 6: with Chucky. And clearly he looked fine in the game
Speaker 6: against in the game against NCY State the other night,
Speaker 6: and he later I don't know if he said it
Speaker 6: after the game, but it was revealed during the broadcast
Speaker 6: that he actually had a groin issue previously at Wisconsin
Speaker 6: and never missed any time. So it really does seem
Speaker 6: as if this was just a really this was just
Speaker 6: a safety measure, which again makes total sense. It certainly
Speaker 6: scared the hell out of me, and I know I'm
Speaker 6: not alone, but very happy to see that Chucky at
Speaker 6: least seems to be seems to be okay.
Speaker 2: I don't know if any other Louisville player has ever
Speaker 2: had their groin watched in the last week as much
Speaker 2: as Chucky.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, Taekwon Dean had groin slash hernie a
Speaker 6: kind of thing going on, but it wasn't to the
Speaker 6: level of I mean, taekwond was great, one of the
Speaker 6: best players he's ever played here, especial certainly one of
Speaker 6: the best shooters. But yeah, I don't remember they're being
Speaker 6: because again, the way things have played out for Louisville
Speaker 6: this year. I mean, look, if this was just you know,
Speaker 6: if you didn't already have injuries, if we didn't have
Speaker 6: a really fun season, you know that we were in
Speaker 6: the midst of that that clearly has been a fun ride.
Speaker 6: You already have injuries with other guys, you know, kind
Speaker 6: of when it rains at poors kind of thing. Because
Speaker 6: this team, I had every reason to to legitimately feel
Speaker 6: as if they were just cursed and they were snake bitten,
Speaker 6: and you know, because a lot of things that have
Speaker 6: happened were out of their control. I mean the loss
Speaker 6: of Case and prior korn Johnson. I mean that was
Speaker 6: not ideal, especially when you consider it happened like as
Speaker 6: soon as the season started. But they never played victim,
Speaker 6: they never felt sorry for themselves and put together a
Speaker 6: phenomenal month of January and just have been have been
Speaker 6: a team that looks to be safely in the tournament
Speaker 6: for like the last month and some change and then
Speaker 6: a potential loss of Chucky that could have left him
Speaker 6: out for a while. I mean, it could change, It
Speaker 6: could have changed that. So that's why I was so fearful.
Speaker 6: But you know, I'm glad to know that he's that
Speaker 6: he's okay.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So let's talk.
Speaker 4: About Louisville's resume.
Speaker 6: So if you were looking at Louisville top to bottom
Speaker 6: here and your objective, I think as mentioned, six and
Speaker 6: seven seed range makes total sense. I feel like that
Speaker 6: is I mean, if they were giving us not just
Speaker 6: the top sixteen teams tomorrow in that early snapshot that
Speaker 6: they give us each and every year, and they were
Speaker 6: giving us the entire field, I would be highly shocked
Speaker 6: if Louisville did not end up as a six or
Speaker 6: a seven. I'd say most likely seven. I think if
Speaker 6: anything that wasn't a seven, you'd be a six. But
Speaker 6: I guess maybe there's a small percentage chance that you
Speaker 6: would be an eight. So when it comes to what
Speaker 6: I guess the ceiling is as far as seeding, I
Speaker 6: really don't know if you can get higher than a five,
Speaker 6: and I think even a five might end up being
Speaker 6: kind of tough to do. I think the scenario where
Speaker 6: you end up getting a five seed or better and
Speaker 6: I guess five if you get if you get a four,
Speaker 6: because I think that's that's and I don't think that's
Speaker 6: likely in any way. But if you were to get there,
Speaker 6: that probably means that the teams that you have beat
Speaker 6: or that have beat you, they end up finishing strong
Speaker 6: to where the losses fall in the quad one range
Speaker 6: all of them do, and that you end up having
Speaker 6: some extra quad ones that aren't looked at as like
Speaker 6: valuable wins, but man, they still fall on the quad
Speaker 6: one range, and you're stacking up enough of those, so
Speaker 6: that throw that scenario out there like that would be
Speaker 6: a big factor. But Also, I think you'd have to
Speaker 6: beat Duke because there's nobody else in the ACC, not
Speaker 6: only on your schedule, but also in conference in the
Speaker 6: conference tournament. Like, no matter who you play in the tournament,
Speaker 6: there's only one team that would really give you significant
Speaker 6: value of a win, and that's Duke, and one you
Speaker 6: don't even know if you're gonna play them, and also
Speaker 6: beating them as much easier said than done. So I
Speaker 6: just think, realistically speaking, five is the best case scenario
Speaker 6: for this team. And what I mean, and the reason
Speaker 6: I say that is because right now, if you're just
Speaker 6: looking at notable wins, all losses, strength of schedule, where
Speaker 6: you fall in the net, where you fall in the
Speaker 6: Ken palm, where you are in quad one, quad two,
Speaker 6: I mean, I just think that that's that mean. I
Speaker 6: guess we'll start with this right now. You don't have
Speaker 6: any signature wins, and I guess that's all anybody. It's
Speaker 6: just whoever, what does a signature win or a resume win.
Speaker 6: There's really no defined metric that tells you what you
Speaker 6: know what in fact qualifies as that because it can
Speaker 6: just be one person's opinion. But I think Louisville's best
Speaker 6: win being Clemson, which I don't think that. I know
Speaker 6: that that is their best win, and that win got
Speaker 6: better looking whenever you saw them knockoff Duke and then
Speaker 6: beat the hell out of Carolina. I mean, that's Louisville's
Speaker 6: best win and is most likely going to be their
Speaker 6: best win the rest of the season.
Speaker 4: So that's not a good thing.
Speaker 6: It's not alarming, but like, you're not going to have
Speaker 6: any win unless you be Duke in the ACC Tournament.
Speaker 6: That is going to really look like, damn, that was impressive.
Speaker 4: What a win.
Speaker 6: Now you have a lot of wins, right I mean,
Speaker 6: Louisville is sitting here currently with it is it eighteen
Speaker 6: or nineteen wins?
Speaker 4: They pull up their record here, I know.
Speaker 6: They have, so right now Louisville is sitting at nineteen
Speaker 6: and six overall. So you got your your one went
Speaker 6: away from twenty and of your six losses, only one
Speaker 6: is legitimately like a bad loss, but it's not the worst.
Speaker 6: It's Georgia Tech. They're in the top. They're right at
Speaker 6: one hundred, so I think if they end up, I
Speaker 6: don't know what the range is for the Quad three,
Speaker 6: but nonetheless, that's your one isolated bad loss.
Speaker 4: Every other loss.
Speaker 6: Even if Oklahoma doesn't make the tournament, that's not a
Speaker 6: bad loss. It's a neutral site, and their top fifty
Speaker 6: still in the kin palm, so I mean that's that's
Speaker 6: not a bad loss. And then the other losses again,
Speaker 6: some of them were beat downs like Ole Miss and Tennessee,
Speaker 6: but you didn't lose to bad teams. So Louisville's resume overall,
Speaker 6: when you think about the best thing on it, it's
Speaker 6: got to be where you fall in the net. So, like,
Speaker 6: what we need this selection committee to do is really
Speaker 6: value the net because right now, if you're just looking
Speaker 6: at every every element of the resume and you're going
Speaker 6: to say what what stands out as the best aspect
Speaker 6: of the resume, it has to be where you fall
Speaker 6: in the net rankings. And right now you're sitting just
Speaker 6: outside the top twenty five at number You were twenty
Speaker 6: seven yesterday, you're down, you're down to twenty eight today,
Speaker 6: So twenty eight in the in the net, twenty five
Speaker 6: in the kN palm. Like, you just really need to
Speaker 6: hope that they value that because if they start looking
Speaker 6: at other things to I guess prop up Louisville best
Speaker 6: win is not going to be impressive, and there's nothing
Speaker 6: you can do about that. You played a tough schedule
Speaker 6: and you know, you lost to mostly good teams that
Speaker 6: you played other than one meaning Georgia Tech. So there's
Speaker 6: not going to be any scenario unless you somehow beat
Speaker 6: Duke in the a SEC tournament where you're gonna have
Speaker 6: a real signature win.
Speaker 4: And really, I mean your quads, I mean.
Speaker 6: You need the you need the teams that are borderline
Speaker 6: to finish on the right side of the quad one
Speaker 6: Quad two, because that's gonna you know, again, it doesn't
Speaker 6: It's not like put it this way, if Indiana ends
Speaker 6: up finishing in the top fifty of the of the
Speaker 6: net and they're fifty seventh, right now, that's a quad
Speaker 6: one win. Let's say they finished forty seventh, then it
Speaker 6: qualifies as a quad one win. That gives you another
Speaker 6: valuable win as far as the most value value that
Speaker 6: you can have. Quad one, Quad two, Quad three, Quad four. However,
Speaker 6: like their committee's gonna know that that's not the same
Speaker 6: thing as getting a quad one win when you beat
Speaker 6: a top five team, right, so your quad ones aren't
Speaker 6: gonna be all that impressive again, Clemson if they stay
Speaker 6: in the top thirty of the net, that's a quad one. Oklahoma,
Speaker 6: that's a loss. So right now they're at forty eight.
Speaker 6: If they stay in the top fifty, that's a quad
Speaker 6: one loss. West Virginia they're still in the top fifty,
Speaker 6: so that's a quad one win because you played them
Speaker 6: on a neutral site. So let's see, right now, Louisville
Speaker 6: sits with a total of they're four and five in
Speaker 6: quad one games. That's not bad that. In fact, I
Speaker 6: would say right now, if that remains, then that'll look
Speaker 6: like a pretty impressive that that'll be.
Speaker 4: You know, again, it does matter which quad one wins
Speaker 4: you have.
Speaker 6: Louisville's four aren't super impressive in man on any given day,
Speaker 6: they could fall out of being quad ones because again,
Speaker 6: you need two teams to stay in the top fifty
Speaker 6: that are borderline, and you need one team to enter
Speaker 6: the top fifty that's borderlined. And look, Clemson's one loss
Speaker 6: away from I mean, Clemson's at twenty nine. If Clemson
Speaker 6: falls to thirty one, that's a quad two win because
Speaker 6: you beat them at home.
Speaker 4: So if you and.
Speaker 6: By the way, your quad two losses Georgia Tech, so
Speaker 6: and I don't see them. I mean, they'd have to
Speaker 6: lose to one of the really really bad teams, which
Speaker 6: they might because they're not very good overall. But they've
Speaker 6: shown they can play better than the record indicates, and
Speaker 6: they've played well since beating Louisville. So again, I think
Speaker 6: you need the committee to really value the net because
Speaker 6: that's the best thing you got going is that you're
Speaker 6: a top thirty maybe top twenty five team in the
Speaker 6: NET and the kN palm, and you need the teams
Speaker 6: that we just reference to finish strong. Rather it be
Speaker 6: in Oklahoma that beats you or a Indiana West Virginia
Speaker 6: who you beat and you know, if they're top fifty,
Speaker 6: that's quad one. But again, there's no real like, there's
Speaker 6: no scenario Indiana ends up being a really valuable quad one.
Speaker 6: I mean it's bottom of the barrel quad one, a
Speaker 6: neutral site with a team with teams that are barely
Speaker 6: in the top fifty. So yes, it'll it'll it'll be
Speaker 6: best case scenario that those those qualifies quad ones and
Speaker 6: not quad twos. But the committee's going to realize that,
Speaker 6: you know, Louisville's potential five quad one wins, I mean,
Speaker 6: it's not the same as. Let's just chuse Kentucky. You know,
Speaker 6: they've got a lot of quad one wins. In fact,
Speaker 6: they probably have as much as anybody now that I
Speaker 6: think about it. Their quad one wins include you know,
Speaker 6: a neutral site winn against number two Duke, a road win.
Speaker 6: Well they call it neutral, but actually I don't know how
Speaker 6: they do that because they played Gonzaga in Spokane a
Speaker 6: road game, but they didn't play it in on Gonzaga's
Speaker 6: home floor. So if that, if that's a I mean,
Speaker 6: either way, it's still it's still gonna have value. But
Speaker 6: they also have a top four win against Florida. I mean,
Speaker 6: they beat Tennessee twice. So again, if you take Louisville's
Speaker 6: four quad ones in Kentucky's four best quad ones, yeah,
Speaker 6: we can say that we both have four quad ones,
Speaker 6: but really it's not the same planet as far as
Speaker 6: the value that you get. And I'm not picking on Louisville.
Speaker 6: I'm just stating that, you know, you just need them
Speaker 6: to say, Okay, Louis's won a bunch of games. They
Speaker 6: only have one quad two loss. All other losses are
Speaker 6: quad ones, and although they're not super impressive, they do
Speaker 6: you have four to five quad one wins. So with that,
Speaker 6: we're gonna put them. We're gonna put them at A five.
Speaker 6: I think to get above a five, you're really gonna
Speaker 6: have to beat Duke, which is easier said than done.
Speaker 6: And I know it sounds crazy that if you finish
Speaker 6: with the record of you've got six games left, if
Speaker 6: you finish twenty five and six in the regular season,
Speaker 6: you'll probably if you beat these teams bad, you will
Speaker 6: probably end up honestly getting closer to top twenty ish
Speaker 6: in the kN Palm and the net, and that'll be good.
Speaker 6: And if you're thinking, well, how could you be top
Speaker 6: twenty in the kN Palm or net? How could you
Speaker 6: do that and have twenty six regular season wins and
Speaker 6: not be higher than a five seed, it's.
Speaker 4: Because we are in very unfamiliar territory.
Speaker 6: I've never seen Louisville basketball in any time that I've
Speaker 6: been a fan and followed them as they try to
Speaker 6: get the best seed possible for the tournament, where you
Speaker 6: have such little to gain the rest of the regular
Speaker 6: season and really everything to lose. And by the way,
Speaker 6: I haven't mentioned Florida State Florida State because Louisville beat
Speaker 6: them at their place in Florida State. They're one of
Speaker 6: the teams that doesn't have a great record, but they
Speaker 6: they did play a pretty challenging non conference schedule. So
Speaker 6: like right now, Florida State is up to number eighty
Speaker 6: three in the in the net, I really don't know
Speaker 6: how they're gonna do it, but if they finish in
Speaker 6: the top seventy five, that'll that'll get you another quad
Speaker 6: one win. Which, by the way, Florida State they beat
Speaker 6: Wake Forest the other night, so I mean that's a
Speaker 6: win that certainly helped them. So again, I hate to
Speaker 6: nerd out on numbers so much, but I just I
Speaker 6: think right now, if Louisville continues to win, which they should,
Speaker 6: look who they play the rest of the season. Like,
Speaker 6: we know, they can slip up and lose anybody, but
Speaker 6: I'm they've proven to be a pretty consistent team when
Speaker 6: it comes to being ready to play, and I don't
Speaker 6: think it's any kind of and look, I'm not saying
Speaker 6: it's gonna be something we should brag about, but they
Speaker 6: should finish the season with what I just mentioned.
Speaker 4: A twenty six and is it twenty six and six?
Speaker 4: Let me see here?
Speaker 6: Yeah, right now, they have six wins, So if they
Speaker 6: finished the season twenty five six, I mean, that'd be great.
Speaker 6: But I just I don't think it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 6: bump them up higher than a five, which that's okay,
Speaker 6: I mean, I'll take it. Look, I'm just happy they're
Speaker 6: gonna be in the tournament this year. I would if
Speaker 6: Louisville hasn't hadn't gone through the previous few seasons and
Speaker 6: the ACC was you know, the way it is, and
Speaker 6: the SEC is getting so much love, I may be
Speaker 6: a little bit more irritated by it and calling out
Speaker 6: the inconsistencies with how how come this team loses?
Speaker 4: And by the way, even if I.
Speaker 6: Wasn't just kind of, you know, riding the honeymoon season
Speaker 6: and just happy to be here at this point, which
Speaker 6: I'm not, if Louisville gets a five seed loses to
Speaker 6: a twelve, like, that's gonna be tough to take. But
Speaker 6: my point is this, I don't know how anybody can
Speaker 6: do the whole well, why is nobody held accountable in
Speaker 6: the SCC Like I would love to knock the SEC
Speaker 6: as a league, I can't do it.
Speaker 4: They're that good.
Speaker 6: I don't think people are crazy when they say things
Speaker 6: like it's the best college basketball conference we've ever seen. Now,
Speaker 6: you could say that now, but we all know if
Speaker 6: they flame out in the tournament, then that won't be
Speaker 6: true because it won't mean these teams aren't really good
Speaker 6: and deserving of the seeds. But last I checked, regardless
Speaker 6: of how stupid it can seem at times college basketball,
Speaker 6: you were viewed by what you do in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 6: It's kind of silly because one game that could ruin
Speaker 6: your season and ended earlier than you expected. When you
Speaker 6: enter the Big Dance with twenty seven wins or whatever
Speaker 6: it may be like, that doesn't define at all, But
Speaker 6: yet it kind of does in college hoops, which again
Speaker 6: it's really silly, but it's how it's always been and
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have it any other way. All right, quick break,
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Speaker 6: decent platform that's got some popularity, but when it comes
Speaker 6: to sports, it really where they stand out is that
Speaker 6: they have better access to like MBA and MLB, which
Speaker 6: I don't care about.
Speaker 4: So when it comes to.
Speaker 6: Live TV, all I really ever watch is sports, and
Speaker 6: the sport that I would lose my mind if I
Speaker 6: didn't have access to would be college basketball. So happy
Speaker 6: to see that these two sides were able to get
Speaker 6: it figured out, at least for the time being, so
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Speaker 6: zero seven ninety. This text says, Nick, do you think
Speaker 6: James Scott is going to have to wear the mask
Speaker 6: all season? You said something yesterday that I noticed as well.
Speaker 6: He seems very uncomfortable and downright frustrated. To have to
Speaker 6: wear it, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: In fact, I've got some sound here from Pat Kelsey
Speaker 6: that I'll play for you guys, as he talked about
Speaker 6: the whole mask situation with James Scott on the UH
Speaker 6: on the on the press press conference in Raleigh after
Speaker 6: the game on Wednesday. So, and I haven't even heard
Speaker 6: this show, but I do have it here in our
Speaker 6: in our sound bank. But look, James Scott did look
Speaker 6: very uncomfortable. You could tell he was. He was not
Speaker 6: not in any way comfortable, not enjoying it by any means,
Speaker 6: which I don't know who would enjoy it. But if
Speaker 6: he does have to wear it, he'll get us, He'll
Speaker 6: get he'll get more comfortable. I mean, it's not ideal,
Speaker 6: but I think the more he has to wear it,
Speaker 6: the more he plays, the more it won't be, the
Speaker 6: more it won't be so weird for him. But the
Speaker 6: issue with his mouth, I mean, that was I mean,
Speaker 6: that was crazy what happened to him. And if you saw,
Speaker 6: I have a tough time watching it. But like, I
Speaker 6: don't even think as bad as he looked with that
Speaker 6: blood gushing out of his mouth, looked like he just
Speaker 6: got you know, hit with a hammer. The injury when
Speaker 6: you see what actually happened, like if you watch somebody,
Speaker 6: if you watch whoever that player was for Miami that
Speaker 6: fell on his face, I mean that. I feel like
Speaker 6: that could have hurt him much more severely. And I
Speaker 6: say that knowing that he did have his two front
Speaker 6: teeth not only broken and knocked out, but the you know,
Speaker 6: the root of them was jammed up into his gums.
Speaker 6: He didn't just have to have like new teeth put
Speaker 6: in and get that fixed. He had to have little
Speaker 6: pieces of his tooth or his two front teeth removed
Speaker 6: from his gum. Like it's awful. So with that, with
Speaker 6: all that, I wouldn't be shocked if he has to
Speaker 6: wear it long term. But I guess we'll find out
Speaker 6: on Sunday or maybe Pat Kelsey's already told us and
Speaker 6: I don't know, but here's what he had to say
Speaker 6: about the mask after the game on Wednesday against North
Speaker 6: Carolina State.
Speaker 5: Our Engineering school at the University of Louislle. I don't
Speaker 5: know if you guys know this yet, but James went
Speaker 5: over there and they like they built the mask, you know,
Speaker 5: they form fitted to his face. They have all that
Speaker 5: technology over there. I mean, we made one phone call
Speaker 5: and the Dean and all of them were like, come
Speaker 5: on over. I mean, that's Louisville. That's how much fast
Speaker 5: all matters here. And they kind of designed his own mask.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's such a nice week kid that's tough
Speaker 5: as nails. When he has that thing on, man, he
Speaker 5: looks like the bad guy in a in a one
Speaker 5: of those murdered movies or something like that, and he's
Speaker 5: got like, you know, he's got the lines right there
Speaker 5: like I don't know, animal lecter type thing. I don't
Speaker 5: know what it is. I saw him like, James, you
Speaker 5: look mean.
Speaker 2: I don't think he was like in the mood to
Speaker 2: hear that.
Speaker 5: He looked mean, and he's got all this dental work
Speaker 5: that just happened and broken bones in his face. But
Speaker 5: he's tough. And you know, James is from right down
Speaker 5: the road, so coming back here means a lot to him.
Speaker 5: His mom's here, his grandfather's here, who he's named after.
Speaker 5: His grandfather's a veteran. He's out there. If you guys
Speaker 5: saw him in the wheelchair, it was just awesome for
Speaker 5: him to see his grandson, his namesake, out here on
Speaker 5: the biggest stage in the acc catching lobs, getting his
Speaker 5: teeth knocked out, the whole gamut, it's pretty darn cool.
Speaker 4: I gotta be honest with you. I James Scott. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 6: How I would pick a favorite player on this team
Speaker 6: because I love all these guys, but I love everything
Speaker 6: about James Scott. That's not to say he's the best
Speaker 6: player on the team or that he's got, you know,
Speaker 6: a world of potential, although I do think he has
Speaker 6: a lot of potential. But to me, if you went
Speaker 6: into a laboratory and said, create a guy that plays
Speaker 6: not skill set, but like the way he plays, the
Speaker 6: way he goes about his business, his mindset, if Pat
Speaker 6: Kelsey was creating that kind of a guy in a
Speaker 6: video game, it would be James Scott. I mean he
Speaker 6: plays hard, super selfless and will do anything that you
Speaker 6: need him to do, does not at all step outside
Speaker 6: of his game, and he's tough. He's tough, and I
Speaker 6: just when I think about Pat Kelsey finding players that
Speaker 6: you know, he knows may be a little raw, he
Speaker 6: knows that maybe don't have that five star billing, I
Speaker 6: think a guy's like James Scott, and I don't think
Speaker 6: there easy to find. But to me, he is everything
Speaker 6: that Pat Kelsey looks for in a player, other than,
Speaker 6: of course talent and ability, but like a guy that
Speaker 6: is going to embrace the culture that Pat Kelsey instills.
Speaker 4: So good stuff.
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