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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how many of our listeners are into TikTok,
Speaker 2: meaning they utilize it or they just use it for entertainment,
Speaker 2: but it has been a big story in recent weeks,
Speaker 2: says one of the most popular platforms in the world
Speaker 2: will no longer be available to us here in the
Speaker 2: United States. And what I really remember about I guess
Speaker 2: the realization that TikTok was a huge thing that was
Speaker 2: clearly going to be a dominant social media platform was
Speaker 2: when it passed YouTube for the average time spent on
Speaker 2: the average time each experience you have when you open
Speaker 2: up the app or with YouTube, it's little differ because
Speaker 2: you obviously use apps, but you could also use YouTube
Speaker 2: on computers and whatnot. TikTok, I guess it's the same thing,
Speaker 2: but it's probably ninety nine point nine percent used on
Speaker 2: apps or used as an app on somebody's phone. So
Speaker 2: when people were spending more time there than YouTube per experience,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's now it doesn't sound as crazy, but
Speaker 2: I remember hearing that a few years ago. I'm thinking, Wow,
Speaker 2: I'm not the only one that just sometimes ends up
Speaker 2: there and two hours goes by and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 2: that was a real big waste or was it because
Speaker 2: I was actually entertained, wasn't productive, Probably should have been
Speaker 2: doing something different. But I've gotten lost within TikTok many
Speaker 2: many times, and I am going to be sad if
Speaker 2: in fact we can't utilize it anymore. But for me,
Speaker 2: it doesn't impact my livelihood. It just is something that
Speaker 2: I now do to entertain myself that won't be there
Speaker 2: and technically, like you can still do the same kind
Speaker 2: of thing elsewhere with Instagram reels and even like even
Speaker 2: Twitter now or x. If you go to a video
Speaker 2: and you just leave it playing until the end, it
Speaker 2: actually just goes to a different video and you scroll
Speaker 2: through it. It's basically like an I don't know if
Speaker 2: the algorithm what makes TikTok so cool is that it
Speaker 2: quite literally understands what you want to see. Like that's
Speaker 2: how it keeps you because the algorithm knows you really well.
Speaker 2: It's almost as if maybe they've got like some chip
Speaker 2: planet in your brain or something like that. I say
Speaker 2: that jokingly, but it is insane to me, Like I'll
Speaker 2: think of a guy I haven't seen on TikTok in
Speaker 2: a while, and boom, I'm scrolling through and there he is.
Speaker 2: It's just crazy how that works. So anyways, I bring
Speaker 2: all this up because apparently both Trump and Biden are
Speaker 2: looking for ways to keep TikTok around. This is according
Speaker 2: to this is from Washington Post. It says President elect
Speaker 2: Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would save
Speaker 2: TikTok from a ban or sale. The Washington Post reports
Speaker 2: the order would suspend enforcement of the TikTok ban or
Speaker 2: sale low or sale law for sixty to ninety days.
Speaker 2: So again, that was what I was thinking was best
Speaker 2: case scenario, that they're just gonna keep kicking it down
Speaker 2: the road to see if they can figure something out.
Speaker 2: But I guess they've kind of already done that. I
Speaker 2: feel like, I mean, this is it's been out there
Speaker 2: that we may lose TikTok in America for at least
Speaker 2: a year, I feel like, but I feel like some
Speaker 2: days the day unless they get this done.
Speaker 3: I feel like this also was a thing like during
Speaker 3: Trump's last year, like in twenty twenty. As we're heading
Speaker 3: into twenty twenty one, that that was something he also
Speaker 3: wanted to ban. So I feel like that it's always
Speaker 3: kind of been polluted out into the air, but the
Speaker 3: actual action just happened just you know, of them trying
Speaker 3: to facilitate and go through with it. Was just here
Speaker 3: recently in the last year, but I remember that being
Speaker 3: a talking point during Trump's first presidency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, social media is really at a weird place right
Speaker 2: now because it's clearly still always going to be a
Speaker 2: big thing. But I don't know which platform is really
Speaker 2: in a good place. Like X is just a humongous
Speaker 2: world of trolls and misinformation, but you know, entertaining and
Speaker 2: people star Boss Yeah, yeah, and that for a social
Speaker 2: media platform to be such a player in the game,
Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying, Like clearly it's one
Speaker 2: of the bigger ones out there, Twitter and X It's
Speaker 2: it's owned by Elon Musk. No platform has ever had
Speaker 2: this big of an issue with that, like the bot stuff,
Speaker 2: Like they have no way, Like people are able to
Speaker 2: create fake profiles in the masses in a way that
Speaker 2: that I've never seen anywhere else. I mean, it happens
Speaker 2: on Facebook, it happens everywhere, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: But but with X it's been it's been worse than
Speaker 2: it's it's worse than I've ever seen anywhere. And then
Speaker 2: Facebook is awful right now, like Facebook and Instagram is
Speaker 2: just nothing, but it's something that ads like. You don't
Speaker 2: see any of the stuff you want to follow into me.
Speaker 2: The algorithm is not it's not all that legit. So
Speaker 2: TikTok I feel like is thriving. But again we may
Speaker 2: not have it after Sunday. So there you go. All right,
Speaker 2: it's coffee and company, five o'clock hour here on a
Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon. Appreciate you hanging out with us. Two hours
Speaker 2: in the books. We've got one more to go, and
Speaker 2: I hope to finished strong as you could expect. We're
Speaker 2: still talking about how fun at least I am. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure others are an agreement, but Louislle basketball this year, man,
Speaker 2: it's been a fun ride so far. And there are
Speaker 2: more and more signs that this team isn't just doing
Speaker 2: better than where we were the previous few seasons. They're
Speaker 2: not just you know, taking advantage of a down acc
Speaker 2: I mean, they are doing those things, but I think
Speaker 2: they're good. I think the way they're playing right now. Defensively,
Speaker 2: the consistency they have with the production again, different leading
Speaker 2: scorers at a high clip every night. I mean they
Speaker 2: are really really in a groove. And then when you
Speaker 2: have nights like Tuesday at Syracuse where you shoot the
Speaker 2: hell out of the ball, I mean that's when you're
Speaker 2: really dangerous when you get chucki Hebberg going what six
Speaker 2: of nine from three, I mean, an insane stat line.
Speaker 2: So I think this team is really really starting to
Speaker 2: show that they're not just making the most out of
Speaker 2: what they have. They got a chance to maybe get
Speaker 2: a decent seat and maybe win a few games in
Speaker 2: this thing. I mean, you never know, right things could
Speaker 2: change and maybe they have a phenomenal finish and we
Speaker 2: get to the tournament and we realize, man, the ACC
Speaker 2: being weak really hurt us. Who knows, But all I
Speaker 2: know is I'm enjoying it as of right now. And
Speaker 2: some numbers I mentioned earlier that just kind of highlight
Speaker 2: how how well this group's playing right now. Rain Smith
Speaker 2: currently leads all Power five players in total three point
Speaker 2: field goals made and three point field goals made per game.
Speaker 2: He's made sixty I'm sorry, sixty five to three pointers.
Speaker 2: So he's making three point six per game and shooting
Speaker 2: thirty nine percent. James Scott, he doesn't score whole lot
Speaker 2: of points, but when he does, how do they come? Dunks?
Speaker 2: He dunks the ball and he currently is sixth in
Speaker 2: the country in overall dunks as far as total and
Speaker 2: dunks per game. And as we referenced earlier, rain Smith
Speaker 2: right now would break Taekwon Dean's record for three point
Speaker 2: field goals made per game in a season if its
Speaker 2: season ended today. Going to be to maintain that that
Speaker 2: that number for rain Smith, but wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 2: he does. Also James Scott, he won't break Montrez Harrol's
Speaker 2: record because I'm not sure anybody will, but as of
Speaker 2: right now, his dunks per game average would be third
Speaker 2: in school history. So again, those aren't things that like
Speaker 2: mean a whole lot as far as this team and
Speaker 2: how good they are. But we know Louisvill's had some
Speaker 2: really good players on some really good teams that have
Speaker 2: done some awesome things. There's some guys right now and
Speaker 2: play that are that are right there with them, and
Speaker 2: I know those teams that little you know a lot
Speaker 2: of those guys played on some great teams, but and
Speaker 2: I don't know how great this Louisville team is. What
Speaker 2: I do know is that as of right now, they've
Speaker 2: played a really tough schedule, right, the non conference portion
Speaker 2: of the schedule was loaded, And even if the ACC
Speaker 2: is down, which it is, you've played the toughest teams
Speaker 2: in the league already. So like, as of now, you've
Speaker 2: played a pretty damn tough schedule compared to everybody else.
Speaker 2: Now it'll get it'll get lighter throughout the rest of
Speaker 2: the season. Which again, that's that's that's what makes this
Speaker 2: whole thing awesome, meaning like they should continue to keep winning,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be a lot of fun, a whole
Speaker 2: lot of fun. All Right, we'll get to the phone
Speaker 2: lines coming up here in just one second. I certainly
Speaker 2: want to make sure we discuss this Bill Belichick situation
Speaker 2: where maybe maybe he doesn't want to go to the
Speaker 2: college level. He didn't sign a contract. Obviously, there's some
Speaker 2: jobs open, one big job open the Dallas Cowboys, So
Speaker 2: I would not be shocked at all if this ends
Speaker 2: up falling apart, because I'll go back to the day
Speaker 2: that Belichick decided to pursue the Carolina job, and he
Speaker 2: got hired. This just doesn't make any sense to me,
Speaker 2: Like I'll believe it when I see it. Even when
Speaker 2: it was reported he was at a press conference it
Speaker 2: was official. I still find it unbelievable that he's going
Speaker 2: to coach college football, where the game is clearly a
Speaker 2: lot different now than it's ever been. And I just
Speaker 2: feel like Belichick's style of coaching in every way is
Speaker 2: such a non fit right now with the NFL and
Speaker 2: in college. I mean, he's not going to be able
Speaker 2: to just be a grouchy boss and yell at people
Speaker 2: and be miserable like that. That won't work anymore. But
Speaker 2: as of now, he's still the coach at Carolina, I
Speaker 2: guess technically, but again, he doesn't have a contract. It's
Speaker 2: it's odd, all right, Babo. Two five is the number
Speaker 2: if you want to give us a call, and we
Speaker 2: will now welcome in Steve. Steve, how are we doing?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 5: Afternoon?
Speaker 4: Nick?
Speaker 5: How are you today?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: Listen a couple of quick points. I think that Bill
Speaker 5: Belichick won't go to the Cowboys. I just think he
Speaker 5: and Jerry Jones would probably last about fifteen minutes together.
Speaker 4: You're probably right, but I don't know a lot you
Speaker 4: go there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my main reason for calling is to ask you,
Speaker 5: since you have your fingers on the pulse of Louisville
Speaker 5: the football team, why do you think Jeff bram has
Speaker 5: decided Apparently I could be wrong, but decided to keep
Speaker 5: Ron English. It's question given the last couple of games
Speaker 5: of the season and the amount of points and yarready
Speaker 5: that Washington State dropped on them, I just what is
Speaker 5: your what are your thoughts on that situation?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Steve, I'll say this, I think Jeff is taking
Speaker 2: a big risk here because you've seen it play out
Speaker 2: in two seasons where the defense one just wasn't consistent
Speaker 2: in the first year and this year they were a
Speaker 2: big problem. They were a liability. And I've Ron English
Speaker 2: hasn't done enough good to where you feel like there's
Speaker 2: a really high ceiling there. And I can't prove this,
Speaker 2: It's just my opinion. I believe that when the def
Speaker 2: the players are always going to be held accountable to
Speaker 2: an extent, but I feel like some of the big
Speaker 2: issues Lowell's defense has had in the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's been because they didn't have players
Speaker 2: that were good enough. I think it's because of how
Speaker 2: they were led, maybe a bad strategy, bad game plan,
Speaker 2: miscommunication just I mean, heck, there's been mass confusion out there,
Speaker 2: so the defense as a whole. The numbers like they've
Speaker 2: they're not great, but it's not a number that would
Speaker 2: be like a fireable offense. And a lot of times
Speaker 2: when you win ten games and then you win nine,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't expect to be making changes at the coordinator position.
Speaker 2: But I worry that next year's offense is going to
Speaker 2: be so good, but we're gonna find out that they
Speaker 2: got to score forty two or more because the defense
Speaker 2: may just again they're just inconsistent. They've had games where
Speaker 2: they do come out ready to play and they do
Speaker 2: a pretty good job, but then you see just the
Speaker 2: exact opposite the next week, which again it's always going
Speaker 2: to be on the players to an extent, but when
Speaker 2: you have that kind of inconsistent inconsistency, I think that's
Speaker 2: the coach. I just I don't know what Jeff would
Speaker 2: lose by getting rid of Ron English. You could certainly
Speaker 2: do worse, but I don't know if you feel good
Speaker 2: about the ceiling with him leading you on defense. I
Speaker 2: think louis has had some good defensive players the last
Speaker 2: couple of years and we just haven't got the results
Speaker 2: that you would expect.
Speaker 5: Right, Okay, Nick, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Take care of Steve. Yeah, I mean, I don't want
Speaker 2: to pick on Ron English, but I just I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not even about he's got to go because of
Speaker 2: one specific stat, one specific game, one specific moment. It's
Speaker 2: just I think in two years time, and Jeff worked
Speaker 2: with him ye for years at Purdue as well. I
Speaker 2: don't know how. I think it might have been two
Speaker 2: years that he worked with him there, and we've discussed
Speaker 2: around English as his resume here. I mean, he was
Speaker 2: a DC at Michigan for two years, became a big name,
Speaker 2: came to Louisville for one year with Cragthorpe, then he
Speaker 2: became a head coach, was at Eastern Michigan for a while,
Speaker 2: in fact, five years, and he was awful. One of
Speaker 2: the worst records you'll see for a coach who coached
Speaker 2: five years of FBS football. He was eleven and forty six,
Speaker 2: seven and thirty in league play. So he actually had
Speaker 2: some issues on his way out as far as some
Speaker 2: allegations about, you know, not being nice to players or whatnot.
Speaker 2: So he ended up not coaching for a little while.
Speaker 2: In fact, he didn't coach for looks like three years,
Speaker 2: and then he became a d C at San Jose
Speaker 2: State for a year, Mississippi State as the safety's coach,
Speaker 2: Florida's the safety's coach for a few years. So I
Speaker 2: mean since his Michigan, since Eastern Michigan when he was
Speaker 2: a head coach. I mean, he didn't have any great jobs,
Speaker 2: and you know, he went from DC to position coach
Speaker 2: and then he kept moving around, which is not always
Speaker 2: a great Usually those are guys that are really big
Speaker 2: recruiters for you that do that. So he ends up
Speaker 2: being the co DC and defensive backs coach for Jeff
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one. So in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 2: then in twenty twenty two, their defense improved, so Jeff said, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is working, he's got he's got it rolling. Let's
Speaker 2: bring him with me to Louisville. And the beginning of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, they were really good defensively, right that
Speaker 2: it was a team that was that was where they
Speaker 2: were mostly due to defense rather than offense and then
Speaker 2: it kind of fell apart and then this year they
Speaker 2: I mean it just like you can make mistakes, you
Speaker 2: can a coach can have a bad day and a
Speaker 2: bad game plan and not expect to lose his job.
Speaker 2: Like they're not perfect. But I just think it's such
Speaker 2: a risk because again, you should feel pretty good about
Speaker 2: your offense being able to score points next year, and
Speaker 2: you know that your defense shouldn't have to, you know,
Speaker 2: be the steel curtain out there, right, But I think
Speaker 2: the inconsistency and at times when they're bad, like it
Speaker 2: just it really is bad. I mean that Stanford game.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Miami was a high powered offense,
Speaker 2: so maybe that's not a good example, but like there
Speaker 2: were there was arm tackling going on against SMU. They
Speaker 2: just had a terrible game plan and then then made
Speaker 2: some adjustments. But you know, even then you still had
Speaker 2: mass confusion, too many guys on the field. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of tricky because I don't think you could just
Speaker 2: look at numbers and data and results and say, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: no brainer, they should move on from him. I just
Speaker 2: think you kind of know what you have and continuing
Speaker 2: to keep it around. Again, this is I think this
Speaker 2: is one of the first things I said on the
Speaker 2: postgame show once they ended up surviving that game against
Speaker 2: Washington and the Sun Bowl, is that if we find
Speaker 2: ourselves in a situation next year just like that where
Speaker 2: we're thinking, oh my goodness, what is happening. The defense
Speaker 2: is crumbling, We're gonna lose this, We're gonna blow it.
Speaker 2: If that same situation is there again next year, I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like all fans will take their frustration
Speaker 2: and anger out on Brahm and not run English because
Speaker 2: like we kind of know that's what he does. That's
Speaker 2: we kind of know who he is. And yet Jeff
Speaker 2: still keeps him around, so you know, Jeff trusts him,
Speaker 2: and I hope it works out. But I'm not super
Speaker 2: confident that the defense next year will be you know,
Speaker 2: good enough, I mean good enough. And look, they don't
Speaker 2: have to be great. They just need to be reliable
Speaker 2: and they need to be consistent. And I think that's
Speaker 2: that's that's the two areas where I worry the most.
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Speaker 2: think about Mayor Greenberg showing up and sitting behind the
Speaker 2: UK bench at Rupp Arena. He's the mayor of Louisville,
Speaker 2: not Lexington. I did see that. Uh in fact, some
Speaker 2: I don't know if somebody was trying to do a
Speaker 2: I gotcha moment. But and by the way, Craig is
Speaker 2: Craig Kreg Greenberg is a big Louisville fan. He's he's
Speaker 2: uel alum. He loves the cards and I can tell
Speaker 2: you that firsthand. And and why he was at the
Speaker 2: UK game, man, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Nor fellow co star on Netflix.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. Yeah, we had a big We're
Speaker 2: big big featured very much so in that uh that
Speaker 2: Netflix special. But somebody posted a picture like somebody took
Speaker 2: a picture of their TV during the A and M
Speaker 2: and Kentucky game and you can see, uh, Mayor Greenberg
Speaker 2: and his lovely wife Rachel right there behind the bench
Speaker 2: watching the game. And I don't know, I didn't see
Speaker 2: on his social media if he was promoting that he
Speaker 2: was there, would certainly make sense that he would not,
Speaker 2: but I don't know that he was also trying to
Speaker 2: hide it. But somebody shared it and he he shared there.
Speaker 2: He shared their tweet kind of I guess, you know,
Speaker 2: calling him out that he was there and said one
Speaker 2: night only and then hashtag go cards. So look this
Speaker 2: UF people are really bothered by this. I can't say
Speaker 2: that I'm like totally shocked because we care about this
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. We're sick os when it comes to
Speaker 2: the rivalry, right and there's kind of a rivalry with
Speaker 2: the city of Louisville and the rest of the state
Speaker 2: is they're not I've never really been able to relate
Speaker 2: to that because I actually I'm a weirdo. I love the
Speaker 2: state of Kentucky. That's where my's my heritage, It's where
Speaker 2: I'm from. I think there's I mean, I know, we
Speaker 2: get a bad rap for you know, good reason at
Speaker 2: times as far as a reputation, but man, this state
Speaker 2: is special. I love it. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Speaker 2: But you know, when it comes to UK, no, I'm out.
Speaker 2: I'm a Louisville fan and I live in Louisville. My
Speaker 2: address has been Louisville for you know, the majority of
Speaker 2: my life, so I don't. For me, it's just about
Speaker 2: like UK because of the rivalry and sports, but for
Speaker 2: others it's not right. Like you know, there are there
Speaker 2: were certain cities that were part of some kind of
Speaker 2: a study. This was years ago, but it didn't shock me. There,
Speaker 2: like Louisville had many people, like the percentage of people
Speaker 2: that live in Louisville, that if they could, they would
Speaker 2: remove Louisville from the state of Kentucky and put it
Speaker 2: in a different state or have it be its own state,
Speaker 2: because that's how much they don't like the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So and I don't know if it was like a
Speaker 2: two way street in both, but it was an interesting
Speaker 2: read from a few years back. And I also didn't
Speaker 2: realize that the state of Illinois so badly does not
Speaker 2: want to claim Chicago in any way. I don't really
Speaker 2: know why, other than maybe you know. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's a variety of reasons for that, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it. The rivalry is are real thing. So
Speaker 2: if you are bothered by that, I'm not at all
Speaker 2: can't relate, but I guess I can't say that I'm surprised,
Speaker 2: But you also have to keep in mind, he's the mayor,
Speaker 2: he's a politician. He absolutely is a big time Louisville fan,
Speaker 2: went to school there. I mean, he's he is Louisville
Speaker 2: all the way. What do they say, he's black and
Speaker 2: red till he's dead. Mayor Greenberg is, but he also
Speaker 2: is the mayor of a city that has a ton
Speaker 2: of Kentucky fans. I mean, I don't know what the
Speaker 2: actual breakdown is. We'll never know for sure. There was
Speaker 2: a study done many many, many years ago. I think
Speaker 2: it was like Courier Journal Eric Crawford days there, because
Speaker 2: I believe he's the one who. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was a very popular article, column, whatever, it was,
Speaker 2: just because it gave us some kind of a reference
Speaker 2: point of what the percentage is as far as people
Speaker 2: in Louisville, Kentucky fans are Louisville fans, and at the
Speaker 2: time it was slightly Louisville I believe, which I could
Speaker 2: believe that, but I think Louisville fans, not all of them,
Speaker 2: but some of them, they don't. They refuse to believe
Speaker 2: that there are as many Kentucky fans in Louisville as there is.
Speaker 2: They're everywhere man, Like there's a gazillion of them seemingly
Speaker 2: across the planet, and there's a lot of them here.
Speaker 2: And again I always say, that's why this rivalry is
Speaker 2: so great here in Louisville. So because of that, like,
Speaker 2: he can't be anti UK in Louisville because again, the
Speaker 2: city of Louisville likes he's gonna have to be pro
Speaker 2: cars over the Cats, and he does that, and it's
Speaker 2: clearly his view. But even if he hated Kentucky, he
Speaker 2: wouldn't he wouldn't be wise to say that, because you know,
Speaker 2: he's a politician. That's you know. So it works, all right,
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Speaker 2: So Bill Belichick, as we now know it, did not
Speaker 2: sign a contractor has not sign a contract yet at
Speaker 2: North Carolina despite accepting the job a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: And it sounds like this is not uncommon in college.
Speaker 2: But I don't I mean, is that true? Not signing
Speaker 2: a contract. But it says here, this is from CBS Sports,
Speaker 2: that this issue does introduce a great area as to
Speaker 2: how much, if any, of the ten million buy out
Speaker 2: would be paid if he does leave for the NFL.
Speaker 2: So this could just be a strategic move on Bill's
Speaker 2: part that says, look, I'm if I do get an
Speaker 2: offer from the NFL, I didn't sign anything, so therefore
Speaker 2: I can just go without anything in writing. They I mean,
Speaker 2: but but isn't that the agreement of employment? Like you
Speaker 2: you agree that you're gonna be our coach, and here's
Speaker 2: what we're gonna pay you. And then there's also a
Speaker 2: lot of things within the deal that are part of
Speaker 2: the arrangement in the situation, and one of those is
Speaker 2: that you have to pay ten million dollars if you leave,
Speaker 2: because that's that's the job we're gonna pay you. We're
Speaker 2: covering our ass a little bit here by making sure
Speaker 2: we'll get ten million from somebody if you bolt on us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So what is this. I'm just taking his word
Speaker 6: for it.
Speaker 2: I guess. I mean, but like he's like that that's
Speaker 2: not a mistake, you know what I mean, Like, that's not, oh, well,
Speaker 2: forgot to sign it. Like there's clearly he's like Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick is doing this to leave an option open for him.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's no other reason why he wouldn't sign it.
Speaker 2: But two things are going to happen. He'll sign it
Speaker 2: or they'll probably force the issue. And if he doesn't
Speaker 2: sign it, like maybe maybe he isn't going to be
Speaker 2: their coach because they're they're idiots if they let this
Speaker 2: ride right like you, I mean, because he could I
Speaker 2: mean technically, right now, he could leave and nobody pay
Speaker 2: anything and next year maybe he has one really good
Speaker 2: season at North Carolina. Although I don't know when you
Speaker 2: when you, But again, maybe that's why you put that
Speaker 2: ten million dollar buyout in there, because you realize, man,
Speaker 2: this guy may not even be here that long. He's eighty.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not that old, but he's old, and
Speaker 2: he may just be using us to get another opportunity
Speaker 2: in the NFL. Well, we'll bring him on knowing all
Speaker 2: those things, but with some protection here a ten million
Speaker 2: dollar buyout. But if he hadn't signed it, then, I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess there's really nothing set in stone. Like I
Speaker 2: think they were stupid for hiring him anyway, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, but they decided to do it, and
Speaker 2: I don't see a scenario where this is like a
Speaker 2: good thing, like long term. But I've been wrong many
Speaker 2: times before. Maybe I'll be wrong about that. All right,
Speaker 2: Before we get to the phone lines, I have to
Speaker 2: share with you one of my one of my favorite
Speaker 2: moments so far in the college basketball season that I'm
Speaker 2: sure none of you were aware of or care about.
Speaker 2: But this is hilarious to me. This is one of
Speaker 2: those things that just makes college sports different and fun.
Speaker 2: So Maine the Main the Main Bears. I think it's
Speaker 2: the main Block. There's the Main Black Bears. I think
Speaker 2: that's the name of their mascot. They are a Division
Speaker 2: I school. I think they're in like the Northeast Concert
Speaker 2: in North Northeast Conference. But uh, they played a game
Speaker 2: today against in j I T. Austin. Putting you on
Speaker 2: the spot, can you tell me the name of the
Speaker 2: school that is in j I T. What does it
Speaker 2: stand for?
Speaker 6: Let me guess, New Jersey Instrument of Technology.
Speaker 2: Institution of Technology. Yes, and you got it? Oh, good job,
Speaker 2: got it. It sounds the top of this dome right now,
Speaker 2: what's the what's the movie with Justin Long where they
Speaker 2: make up college. It's like when Jonah Hill first becomes
Speaker 2: is it called accepted? I think it's called accepted?
Speaker 6: I think so, yeah, the fake college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fake college. That sounds like like I don't
Speaker 2: know what it was called. I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 2: Accepted name, accepted college name? Movie?
Speaker 6: What was it?
Speaker 2: What was it called? It was the South Harriman Institute
Speaker 2: of Technology. So this is the uh, this is the
Speaker 2: New Jersey instrode Technology, which is again a real school.
Speaker 2: So they played a college basketball game today, like already
Speaker 2: it's over, So I'm sure this is part of like
Speaker 2: the way they have to hustle to keep the lights
Speaker 2: on at a place like that. But what they did
Speaker 2: is they had a bring the kids to the game
Speaker 2: like field trip. So these two teams played Maine and
Speaker 2: n J played earlier today and a really close game,
Speaker 2: and the only people that were there were school kids.
Speaker 2: Different schools brought buses, so it was a field trip
Speaker 2: for the local schools. And honestly, it's not a terrible
Speaker 2: idea if I'm being honest, because I mean, minor league
Speaker 2: teams do stuff like this all the time. The low
Speaker 2: level colleges that need people to show up to their
Speaker 2: games and buy tickets, Like you got to get creative,
Speaker 2: I mean in a major way. So they might have,
Speaker 2: in all honesty, had one of their bigger crowds just
Speaker 2: because there's a bunch of kids there. I mean, how
Speaker 2: many people you think are showing up to a main
Speaker 2: NJ game on a random Wednesday night. Probably not many,
Speaker 2: but there's a bunch of busses full of kids. So
Speaker 2: I bring this up because of this. It was a
Speaker 2: big time, big time finish here. This is the This
Speaker 2: is the last play, or at least one of the
Speaker 2: last plays. Never the backboard five o'clock open for three
Speaker 2: on the rebound, got it?
Speaker 6: And that's Lopez unless you have the shush to the crowd.
Speaker 2: So the reason I bring this up is because the
Speaker 2: guy calling the game is not there. He's calling it
Speaker 2: from zoom, which isn't that uncommon anymore in broadcasting, But
Speaker 2: like they don't even they don't even like hide that anymore,
Speaker 2: Like ESPN. This is on ESPN Plus, they just got
Speaker 2: like a webcam up with a score bug and there's
Speaker 2: this guy in the corner on a camera like not
Speaker 2: in the shot, but like he's on his think of
Speaker 2: a zoom window. When you're on a zoom call. That's
Speaker 2: how they're calling the game. That's the level we're talking about.
Speaker 2: But think about what he just said there. He just
Speaker 2: shushed the crowd. Yes, mains aj Lopez hit a big
Speaker 2: three to beat in j I T and then shush
Speaker 2: the entire crowd made up entirely of school children on
Speaker 2: a field trip.
Speaker 3: Fantam just talking a bunch of eight year olds.
Speaker 6: Hope give to the crowd.
Speaker 2: I mean that's great, isn't it. That's fantastic, And there's
Speaker 2: no scenario a minute left into the game that he
Speaker 2: didn't realize that that everybody they're watching is a young child,
Speaker 2: Like I kind of love it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You show up, you show up in my domain where
Speaker 2: I go to work. This is what you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: Just to think it's probably like a bunch of Fortnite
Speaker 3: robots playing kids that are just like trolling you.
Speaker 6: And he's just like so bent up about it.
Speaker 2: He's got to, yeah, call their mom and tell him
Speaker 2: to come pick him up if they need to go home,
Speaker 2: because because this is this is what we do here
Speaker 2: at at Maine. Actually Maine went into n J I
Speaker 2: t I wouldn't expect a kind of energy from Maine.
Speaker 2: When I think Maine, I think Cooper flag now and
Speaker 2: I think cold and happy people. I don't know, Maine
Speaker 2: seems like a nice state. I feel like people would
Speaker 2: be nice for May.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm a very forgotten state. Not trying to jab
Speaker 3: at anyone from Maine, but it's like it's I answered
Speaker 3: a there is like a trivia question when I went
Speaker 3: to trivia last week and the answer was Maine. And
Speaker 3: I just thought of literally every other Northeast state, but like,
Speaker 3: I just miss Maine.
Speaker 2: What do you think are the most like obscure states? Maine's,
Speaker 2: Maine's certainly up there, just because it's literally up there
Speaker 2: on its.
Speaker 3: Own, and Maryland maybe because that's right around like New
Speaker 3: York and like Rhode Island.
Speaker 6: It's like now a place that you really.
Speaker 2: See see those like Vermont, Rhode Island, those real small states.
Speaker 2: Vermont certainly very like Vermont's one you'll just forget, like
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like if you're listing them
Speaker 2: all and you're and you're missing a few, and you
Speaker 2: got a reference and figure out which ones you can't
Speaker 2: think of?
Speaker 6: Vermont.
Speaker 2: Vermont's probably in there. Yeah, any any any state that
Speaker 2: has two versions of it, you easily remember, like North Dakota,
Speaker 2: South Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware, it's like a,
Speaker 2: yeah's honestly, Delaware may be Delaware is ahead of A
Speaker 2: is ahead of Vermont. Really, I would say so, because
Speaker 2: because Delaware I can't think of. I cannot tell you
Speaker 2: a single thing about And maybe that maybe just because
Speaker 2: I'm a dumb ass, but like, who knows anything about Delaware?
Speaker 2: I know I don't, And I think when you're a
Speaker 2: smaller state, which I'm not even sure how small Delaware is,
Speaker 2: but like those small states are easy to forget. I
Speaker 2: don't think you know, people spend a whole lot of
Speaker 2: time traveling to the Dakotas or to like why Own,
Speaker 2: But like those states are those states are humongous as
Speaker 2: far as size. So therefore, you know, you know that
Speaker 2: that little area where all the small states on the
Speaker 2: northeast are like, it's it's very easy to forget those places.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure they're beautiful. I'm sure they are.
Speaker 3: I was driving through Philadelphia last year when me and
Speaker 3: Billy went to WrestleMania, and I guess it's a little
Speaker 3: bit north of Philadelphia. But you see like Delaware like whatever,
Speaker 3: thousand whatever, one hundred miles away like in the next exit,
Speaker 3: and it just it just occurred to me, Delaware forgot
Speaker 3: that that.
Speaker 6: Was a state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not that literally is exactly what just happened
Speaker 2: with you when you mentioned Delaware. I'm like, oh, wait
Speaker 2: a second, is that that is a state? Right? Like
Speaker 2: I forgot it existed? But yes, it is in fact
Speaker 2: the state?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Five two if I have seven one seventy nine hundred
Speaker 2: is the number if you want to jump in and
Speaker 2: give us a phone call, and we will go back
Speaker 2: to the phone lines now and welcome in AC. How
Speaker 2: are you AC?
Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm thinking so much for my call.
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 4: Yes? I want to talk about a label Cardinals, because
Speaker 4: you talked about probably like twenty min twenty five minutes
Speaker 4: talk about the Cardinals football. Can I chime on? Can
Speaker 4: I chime in? Okay, here's the thing about your Cardinals,
Speaker 4: including Kentucky Walcott. How embarrassing. I need to talk about
Speaker 4: the bad defense? How embarrassing? This is what I found.
Speaker 4: It's so embarrassing. SMU went to the playoffs then you
Speaker 4: had Arizona State. Matter of fact, these are the two
Speaker 4: teams who make their debut that on their respective conference.
Speaker 4: How embarrassing that Louisville did not even make it? But
Speaker 4: check this out. How embarrassing is that Indiana Hoosiers they
Speaker 4: made it to the playoffs, but Kentucky and Louisville they
Speaker 4: never did. So I think you know how people talk
Speaker 4: about Ryo. People should scrutinize Ryan Day, what's his name,
Speaker 4: Kirby Smart, the big time coaches. I think you should
Speaker 4: put Jeff brim and what's his name? Stoops in that
Speaker 4: category too. You get millions of dollars and you cannot produce.
Speaker 4: And now it's not fourteen playoffs, it's twelve teen playoffs.
Speaker 4: So sure I'll get them at press this he's done.
Speaker 4: What's your excuse me?
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call, AC. I appreciate a lot,
Speaker 2: A lot to unpack there, my man. I really don't
Speaker 2: know where where we were going there. I know SMU
Speaker 2: making it to the So is it embarrassing? Who is
Speaker 2: it embarrassing for that SMU made it? I guess Louisville
Speaker 2: in Arizona State. That I a lot to unpack there,
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I would say Jeff Brohm's going to
Speaker 2: get a pass from fans for not making the playoff
Speaker 2: in his second season as the coach, but maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: Also got a text from our guy in sales, Joe.
Speaker 3: He said, Vermont is the home of Ben and Jerry's.
Speaker 2: Shout out Ben and Jerry.
Speaker 6: If you like ice cream, there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wouldn't have remembered that, but now that Joe
Speaker 2: has informed us, I'm that's when That'll be the one
Speaker 2: thing I think of when I think of Vermont now
Speaker 2: is they got Ben and Jerry's. In fact, our man,
Speaker 2: the company man, John Olden, he recently went on vacation,
Speaker 2: I guess towards the end of the summer, and I
Speaker 2: think he might have went to Vermont.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it was because he's doing the thing
Speaker 3: with his wife where they go to a random place everything,
Speaker 3: and that's awesome. Yeah, I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is about a road trip
Speaker 2: where I don't know where I'm going that makes it
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Like there's certain places cities that
Speaker 2: obviously I love and I go to as much as
Speaker 2: I can because I enjoy them, and I know what
Speaker 2: I'm getting into. I've been there before. But the spontaneousness
Speaker 2: of hitting the road and ending up in a place
Speaker 2: you didn't expect you to be because you just kind
Speaker 2: of stopped for the night and you ended up having
Speaker 2: fun or just going to a play shoot you didn't
Speaker 2: have any expectation for. So I'll give you an example this.
Speaker 2: There's nothing I can sell you on why this place
Speaker 2: is great, and I'm not really sure that it is.
Speaker 2: But when LOUISLL played in the NAA Tournament the last time,
Speaker 2: which was in twenty nineteen, Yeah, twenty nineteen, they were
Speaker 2: in the first round matchup against Minnesota, and the game
Speaker 2: was played in Des Moines, Iowa. And I'd never I
Speaker 2: knew nothing about Iowa, knew nothing about Des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2: I had no expectation. I guess, if anything, maybe low
Speaker 2: expectation because I'm just thinking, like I have no clue
Speaker 2: what to expect. It can't be that great because I
Speaker 2: don't hear a lot of people saying they're going to Iowa.
Speaker 2: But I made the trip, and I think because the
Speaker 2: bar was low and I had no clue what to expect,
Speaker 2: Like I ended up exploring, having some fun, pretty good
Speaker 2: bar scene there, so you know, don't want to mislead
Speaker 2: you like I'm some crazy partier that's just stopping anywhere
Speaker 2: and taking over a town. But there is something awesome,
Speaker 2: like what I wanted to do when I turned thirty
Speaker 2: and I'm only thirty seven this summer. We talked about
Speaker 2: this a lot on the show at the time, which
Speaker 2: is crazy to think it's been that long, But on
Speaker 2: my thirtieth birthday, I wanted to rent a car and
Speaker 2: drive across the country and then fly back and just
Speaker 2: not really have a whole lot of planning, right like
Speaker 2: I'll know in the vicinity of where I want to
Speaker 2: get to one day, stop in this city, stop in
Speaker 2: that place. But I just wanted to go on a
Speaker 2: long road trip that lasted many many days as I
Speaker 2: trek across the country and at that time, like I
Speaker 2: would have never done it by myself ever, and my wife,
Speaker 2: you know, she's she's great, but she she kind of
Speaker 2: she kind of talked me out of doing it and
Speaker 2: wouldn't do it with me and then told me that
Speaker 2: you know, it wouldn't be safe for me to do it,
Speaker 2: and then she just booked us a trip somewhere else
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, okay, well that's fine. But now
Speaker 2: that I'm older, when I turn forty, if I haven't
Speaker 2: done it yet, I'm gonna do it then. And she's
Speaker 2: either with me or she's not. And we're gonna hit
Speaker 2: the road and we're gonna have We're gonna and who knows,
Speaker 2: maybe I go north John or or Austin. Maybe I
Speaker 2: go north and lay my hat in Vermont or Delaware.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe that's maybe that's where I end up
Speaker 2: somewhere like that could be. Maybe maybe I hid all
Speaker 2: the way up to Maine.
Speaker 6: All that.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's technically the mains the head of the
Speaker 3: United States, right when you think of.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the most northern part for sure. Yeah, there
Speaker 2: you go. Good stuff.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take our last break. We'll come back
Speaker 2: here on the other side and we will finish strong.
Speaker 2: Certainly some more to get into, including some high school
Speaker 2: sports news, which we rarely talk about. But there's some
Speaker 2: teams here locally that are going to be switching districts,
Speaker 2: which reminds me that they changed that stuff all the time,
Speaker 2: and I don't know why. Also, there was apparently some
Speaker 2: meeting today in Lexington, which with the KHSAA Julian tack
Speaker 2: At the Commissioner. He talked about the transfer issue that
Speaker 2: is going on in high school. Yes, it's an issue.
Speaker 2: There's not a portal, but transferring is an issue in
Speaker 2: the high school levels as well, and it's mostly due
Speaker 2: to athletics. And I mean, I know people don't like it,
Speaker 2: but kids should be able to go if kids should
Speaker 2: be able to move and play wherever they want their kids.
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Speaker 2: I don't find myself oftentimes being desperate to play devil's
Speaker 2: advocate and go against the grain, but I do feel
Speaker 2: like this is one of those things that I am
Speaker 2: I am in the minority on when it comes to transfer,
Speaker 2: not just for college kids but high school kids too.
Speaker 2: So the portal is clearly it's chaotic, and you you know,
Speaker 2: they should have a little bit more regulation as far
Speaker 2: as what it is like you shouldn't be able to
Speaker 2: transfer mid season, like there should be more rules, but
Speaker 2: the overall ability to be able to decide where you
Speaker 2: want to play, you should be able to do that
Speaker 2: and not be penalized by losing a year of eligibility
Speaker 2: and sitting out or really sitting out at all. Like
Speaker 2: that shouldn't be a thing because these are students right now. Again,
Speaker 2: it's all going to change, and it already has. But
Speaker 2: I mean, technically, even whenever they're going to be getting
Speaker 2: rev share, which they start next year, college athletes will
Speaker 2: share revenue with the university they play for, they're still
Speaker 2: not going to be considered employees. But what I'm getting
Speaker 2: at is if Johnny and the Band or Bobby in
Speaker 2: the Debate Club wanted to switch schools, you think they're
Speaker 2: gonna make them sit out. No, the reason that that rules,
Speaker 2: those rules have ever existed is because of competition. But
Speaker 2: it should be consistent, Like there's why because a team
Speaker 2: may lose their best player, you shouldn't be able to
Speaker 2: go play elsewhere. Like it just doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 2: but it's always been that way, Like people are real
Speaker 2: adamant about. There's so many Like the reason I'm bringing
Speaker 2: this up is because today Julian Tack at the KHSAA
Speaker 2: Commissioner and you mentioned there where a total of Yeah,
Speaker 2: KJSA Commissioner Julian Attacket. This is from Jason Franks of
Speaker 2: the Courier Journal. He says the Julian Tacking says the
Speaker 2: number of transfers are up over last year, with eight
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven transfers processed already during this school year,
Speaker 2: which of course is just midway through, so not a surprise.
Speaker 2: But a lot of it is because of athletics. And
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be able to go to school at a
Speaker 2: place where you don't live, like that's illegal actually, But
Speaker 2: if your parents move and you you move to play
Speaker 2: at a school because you just simply want to go
Speaker 2: there and play basketball, they should not tell you that
Speaker 2: you have to sit out. And there's other I mean,
Speaker 2: and what's happened with KHS Double A over the years
Speaker 2: is what's happening with the NABA Now. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of kids that have been able to just hire
Speaker 2: a lawyer in the Nuba caves and let the or
Speaker 2: in the KHS DOUBLEA caves and lets them do whatever
Speaker 2: they're trying to do because they know they don't have
Speaker 2: a legal right to tell them that they can't do that.
Speaker 2: So just like you know, there's some similarities there, so
Speaker 2: it is, you know, prop like kids who transfer in
Speaker 2: high school. I'd say there's a not all of them,
Speaker 2: but I'd say it's more likely that in high school
Speaker 2: you're transferring because you're having a hard time realizing that
Speaker 2: you're not as good as you thought you'd be, or
Speaker 2: that you know you're not your parents you know aren't
Speaker 2: aren't aware that you're not a star, and you're transferring
Speaker 2: because you're not getting enough playing time and you're coming
Speaker 2: off the bench or something like that. That clearly happens
Speaker 2: in the college level as well, but I'm sure some
Speaker 2: transfers from the high school r for doing it to
Speaker 2: because they want to play for a better program. But
Speaker 2: I think now you probably see a ton of transfers
Speaker 2: because mommy and daddy think that the coach is picking
Speaker 2: on him by not having them in the starting line
Speaker 2: or something like that, or not being the starting quarterback.
Speaker 2: So it's probably something that in the end it's going
Speaker 2: to be a regret later in life. But it still
Speaker 2: doesn't mean people shouldn't be able to do it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's become a real thing to where you've got even
Speaker 2: in Louisville here, I know there are high school kids
Speaker 2: that are notable because they are some of the better
Speaker 2: players in the city of Louisville and obviously have some
Speaker 2: college interest. And you know, it's not uncommon to know
Speaker 2: of a guy that played and had a really good year,
Speaker 2: a really good career high school wise in this area
Speaker 2: and he played for two or three different schools. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's not super common, but it's also not that uncommon
Speaker 2: anymore either where you went to school Austin and Arizona,
Speaker 2: did they like what was your like? Were you all like,
Speaker 2: was it one school in the county? Were you part
Speaker 2: of a big school system? I guess you could call
Speaker 2: it a big school as to an.
Speaker 3: Extent the TUSD Tuson Unified School disc gotcha.
Speaker 2: So the reason ask is because they're reshuffling the districts,
Speaker 2: like some schools are moving from one district to another.
Speaker 2: They're remapping it, I guess. And it's got a local
Speaker 2: tie to me here because the twenty third district now
Speaker 2: includes Bullet Central, North, Bullet Southern, and more, which is
Speaker 2: that that's the district North Bullets and but they've added
Speaker 2: Bullet East and now evangel is going to the twenty
Speaker 2: fourth district, which is Dubois Academy, evangel Christian Fern Creek, Jaytown, Mercy,
Speaker 2: and Whitfield Academy. So I'm sure nobody cares or thinks
Speaker 2: about this at all, But for years I think it
Speaker 2: might have been right after I graduated high school, not
Speaker 2: all the Bullet County schools have been in the same district,
Speaker 2: which makes no sense at all. Like, again, you probably
Speaker 2: don't aren't real familiar with the area out there, but
Speaker 2: there can't be many many schools out there that are
Speaker 2: sharing a county but not in the same district. And
Speaker 2: they've never really known what to do with the Bullet
Speaker 2: County schools. Are they Louisville? Are they fifth region? They
Speaker 2: were eighth region for a long time. But I think
Speaker 2: it makes more sense to have all the county schools
Speaker 2: in the UH in the same district. And now they're
Speaker 2: doing it once again. I feel like these schools have
Speaker 2: moved around a ton. All right, we're out of time.
Speaker 2: Talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm.