WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.080 It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:21.519 Sports Talk seven nine day, Now here's Nick Coffee. 3 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:28.359 When it comes to getting engagement reaction on platforms like radio, 4 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:30.879 social media, you really never know what's gonna what's gonna 5 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:31.280 take off. 6 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:31.920 Uh. 7 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:35.320 And yesterday I was wrapping up dinner somewhere at a 8 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:37.359 place I won't name because one, they're not paying me 9 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.960 and also, uh, I was not impressed with their ranch dressing. 10 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:42.920 But I just threw it out there on Twitter, what 11 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.240 restaurant has the best ranch? And the amount of people 12 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:49.000 who had a strong opinion on this surprised me. But 13 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:54.280 then again, branch is pretty awesome. And I hate doing 14 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:55.840 this to you, John, because you can't relate. You're not 15 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:57.200 a rant. Have you ever had it? 16 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.240 Never even wanted to have it? It just to me. 17 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:03.679 I guess it's a noncondiment guy, Yeah, just just that 18 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.319 in mayonnaise. For some reason, the white sauce just I 19 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:07.159 can't get with it. 20 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:09.879 Oh. The only white condiment I think I have ever 21 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.760 wanted to try and tried was ranch. I'm not a 22 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:14.079 no mayonnaise. 23 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.239 And that gift on the tweet that you put out 24 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:17.359 there was a gross. 25 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:22.239 It was gross. No, No, I mean, I mean, but 26 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.680 that's because you're somebody who doesn't even like the thought 27 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.319 of eating any condiment sauce, especially ranch that's white, Like 28 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:31.159 probably really did gross you out, right, Yeah. 29 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.319 Branch is bottom tier, Like if I had to try, so, like, 30 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.239 you know, if I had to try all the sauces, 31 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:37.239 ranch would be near the bottom. 32 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:38.840 But you don't know that you don't like it, you 33 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:39.439 know that, right. 34 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:41.560 That's true, But you also thoughts. 35 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:43.400 But you also know you don't need it because you 36 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:45.439 can eat without it, and you've been eating just fine 37 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:47.120 and enjoying food without you know what I'm saying. So 38 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:49.840 it's like, you know, but yeah, there's a lot of 39 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:52.799 things that I've come to like over the years that 40 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:58.480 I tried on accident, and like, that's pretty good. Salad. 41 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.159 I remember thinking as a my mom would eat salad. 42 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.120 I'm like, who would eat leaves? What are you doing? 43 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:04.439 You're a sick individual? 44 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:04.680 Mother? 45 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.799 And then I had salad with ranch, and I'm like, oh, hell, yeah, 46 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:08.879 this is great. 47 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:09.719 Uh. 48 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.879 And then I remember we used to get I think 49 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:16.879 my mom would take us. I don't know why, and 50 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:19.199 she's probably listening. Maybe she can she can tell me. 51 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.280 We used to go instead of going to McDonald's to 52 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.319 get a happy meal, which we did that too, Mom 53 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:27.560 would take us to Hardy's. We would get hard and 54 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.520 maybe it was where we like our routine throughout the day. 55 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:33.319 And I think my sister was in school and my 56 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:35.639 mom at the time was to stay at home mom, 57 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:39.599 and she would take me and a girl that she 58 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:41.280 watched that she baby said we would go to. We 59 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:43.919 would go to Hardy's and we love Hardy's. But I 60 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.879 would get a burger plane so nothing on it, John 61 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.960 just a hamburger at a bun And then one time 62 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:52.400 they put cheese on it by accident because they messed 63 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:53.719 up the order, and I liked it. I'm like, oh 64 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:55.840 my god, I'm never not having burger with cheese on it. 65 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:58.080 So like I'm I'm a super picky eater. Again, I 66 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.439 always say this, I have the palette of a of 67 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:02.879 a of a you know, of a five year old. 68 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.840 Like there's a good chance that if you go to 69 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.240 a sit down restaurant a chain like what I get 70 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:11.800 is going to also be available on the kids menu, 71 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:14.879 but just you know, smaller, smaller serving of it, just 72 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:20.199 because you know, we're talking chicken fingers, boneless wings, traditional wings, burgers, pizza. 73 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.319 What's the most There has to be something that you 74 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:23.680 like that's kind of out there, though I feel like 75 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:24.639 everybody has their thing. 76 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:27.800 Yeah, because well so it'll be out there for you, 77 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.800 but not for like most people like sushi, okay, like 78 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:35.560 fried sushi, like I would never want to try. And 79 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.479 my wife's good at this. She's good at a lot 80 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:41.400 of things, but she is someone that if you don't 81 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.039 just try something that she's offering you when it comes 82 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.120 to food, she's she's insulted and she's not gonna let 83 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.199 it go. There's a lot of things I've tried because 84 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.039 of that. I don't want to, you know, happy wife, 85 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.800 happy life, So like I don't want that too. But 86 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.319 she more diverse with eating than me. Yes, well everybody 87 00:03:59.400 --> 00:03:59.759 is with you. 88 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.719 But like I mean, I'm not the most picky. Like 89 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.039 I love any seafood. Give me any seafood and I'll 90 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.240 try that. Give me frog legs whatever that. 91 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:08.879 Well, and then I'm glad you said that because I 92 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.319 would never touch that stuff. I'm trying to think of 93 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.879 what is like the most. Like, it's not there's no 94 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.240 exotic type food that I like I again, a like, 95 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:19.759 that's what makes me feel like such a poor sometimes 96 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:23.199 because like the nicest restaurants I've ever been to, I 97 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.360 look at the menu and I'm like, I'm good, just 98 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:28.160 bring me a beer. I don't I don't know what 99 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.160 to get, and like if you go to a steakhouse 100 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.759 that's and I like steak, it's just not something that 101 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:37.600 I like. Again, I can get a double quarter pounder 102 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:41.439 with cheese at McDonald's and then get a burger from 103 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.879 the best burger joint that somebody has tabbed in this 104 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.279 town as the elite of the elite, and I'll be 105 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:49.759 just fine with the McDonald's, like I, you know, just 106 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:53.040 because it's just I'm not super I'm I'm very basic, 107 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.079 and you know, I got a weak palette. 108 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:58.319 I guess I like a good burger, but I only 109 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.399 put things like bacon as topping on a burger that's good. 110 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:04.680 I like bacon, and then that's I guess that's where 111 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.959 I feel a little sometimes. I feel like insecure about 112 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:11.360 like fine dining because my wife, who's a great cook. 113 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:12.800 By the way, I don't just say that, like because 114 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:14.560 you know, there's people that have cooked for me that 115 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.399 I you know, I don't tell them, but like that 116 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:18.480 that's not their strength. The kitchen, is it. My wife 117 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.120 hates cooking, and she is great at it. My sister's 118 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:24.399 a great cook. She loves cooking. So I've been able 119 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:25.680 to eat some good stuff over the year, So maybe 120 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:26.959 that's why I feel this way. But I could go 121 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.600 to a really really nice steakhouse and get a you know, 122 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:33.959 get a get a surloin, get a New York strip whatever, 123 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:37.160 get you know, a t bone filet mignon, and get 124 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:39.680 it perfectly made to how I like, which is medium 125 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.000 to medium rare, usually medium rare. And I could also 126 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:45.560 get eat a steak that my wife made at home, 127 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.480 and I'm sure I could tell you which one was 128 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.879 restaurant prepared and which one was not. But I would 129 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.279 be just fine with the one that was not in 130 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.360 ninety to one hundred dollars steak. And that's not because 131 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:59.199 like again she's a great cook. But like I just 132 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.800 don't like to meat eating is more of like not 133 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:04.360 just like I mean, I like I eat junk food, 134 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.639 like I don't eat super healthy And there's a times 135 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:08.360 where you know, I can't stop eating chips and k 136 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.480 so because I you know, I'm just people binge eat 137 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.040 sometimes and just you know, want to want to pig 138 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:14.680 out on snacks. But when it comes to the like 139 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.959 the meal stuff, I'm fine, Like I'm fine with whatever, 140 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.759 to be honest with you, for me when it goes 141 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:22.279 when it comes to going out to eat, I'll be honestly, 142 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.040 I would say food is still like the top priority, 143 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.600 but it's close with atmosphere for me. Like if I'm 144 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:33.279 going to a sports bar, like there's got to be 145 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:35.519 something on the menu that I like to eat, but overall, 146 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:37.639 like if it's got good, if they got you know, 147 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.120 they got they got cold beer, and they got a 148 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.120 bunch of TVs and they got you know, your typical 149 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.160 sports bar food, I'll find something I like and I'll. 150 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:46.560 Be good to go. I'm with you on the atmosphere, 151 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.639 that's why. And I won't name specific restaurants, but I 152 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:52.279 prefer one steak like one chain steakhouse versus another because 153 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.199 the other one is just way too crowded all the time. Dude, 154 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:56.199 only know what I'm talking about. 155 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:57.680 Oh yeah, I know which one you're talking about. So 156 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.279 the one like so the of all the people who 157 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:03.600 shared their thot on ranch dressing, I will say that 158 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:07.639 there was one restaurant that got more not votes, but 159 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:10.240 more people mentioned this one than any other, and it 160 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.439 really wasn't close, and that was Texas Roadhouse. I really 161 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:17.759 do like Texas Roadhouse ranch. Other people mentioned Rooster's. Rooster's 162 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:19.319 ranch is good. I like it. I don't love it 163 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.600 as much as others. Rooster's food is great, but I 164 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:23.959 wouldn't when I think of all the great stuff at Roosters, 165 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:25.959 I don't necessarily think of their ranch, but it is good. 166 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.879 And then a lot of people mentioned Jets Pizza when 167 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.199 they're ranch. I've never had that, but I will tell 168 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.040 you the best ranch I have ever had, and I 169 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:36.920 don't know. I mean, maybe it was because I was 170 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.600 new to salad and ranch at the time. But when 171 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:43.720 I was at Saint Catherine College, whatever food vendor they 172 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:49.519 used to supply the cafeteria, I mean, food was good, 173 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.959 by the way, but the ranch was. I mean, it 174 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.800 was out of this world and I would eat like 175 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:57.759 five because that's the one of the perks of you know, 176 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.360 being on I lived there. Nobody else lived there unless 177 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.839 you were an athlete, because it's in the middle of nowhere, 178 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.040 and the majority of the people who lived on lived 179 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.160 on campus. No, no joke. The majority of people who 180 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.360 lived on campus at Saint Catharine College were nuns, not kidding. 181 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.720 So you know, we had access to the cafeteria all 182 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.399 all the time, not twenty four seven, but honestly not 183 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.279 far from it. So we would eat on there all 184 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:19.959 and we could eat whatever we wanted. And I wouldn't 185 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:21.720 I would go through like four salads a day, and 186 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.399 I'm talking like not just on the side. That would 187 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:26.279 be my meal, just a big old salad, and I 188 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.439 would you know, I would go to town. So somebody, 189 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.639 in fact, two different people had mentioned the ranch dressing 190 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.720 that they had when they went to e Ku was 191 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:36.480 their favorite ranch. And I'm just willing to I don't 192 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:38.440 know where this was purchased from. If this was like, 193 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.159 you know, Gordon Foods, Like there's a lot of vendor, 194 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.440 like restaurants sometimes buy the same supplies from the same people, 195 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:45.840 like you know what I'm saying, Like they provide those 196 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.279 kind of things to all these restaurants, chains or local restaurants, 197 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.039 whatever may be. I think isn't Gordon Yahfs. So I 198 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.120 don't know where the ranch came from, but I would 199 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.720 not be shocked if like those two schools had the 200 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:00.879 same supplier. You know what I mean. So anyways, twelve 201 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.879 minutes in the five o'clock hour with football season here, 202 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:05.879 we're talking food, but food and foot football, Yeah, it 203 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:06.799 kind of goes together. Right. 204 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:08.600 You talked about food with Kendrick Casket. 205 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.799 That's right, that's right, all right, it's coffee and company. 206 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.360 We are fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 207 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.480 Appreciate you hanging out with us. I did start the 208 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:17.120 show by letting everybody know I don't want to do 209 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:21.399 the whole attendance thing because if the forecast is accurate 210 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:23.679 on Saturday, that will lead to a lighter crowd than 211 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:25.399 what we want because we want it to be full. 212 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:28.639 And I've always well, I mean again, I said it earlier. 213 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:32.720 I wish every Louisville athletic event that ever opened doors 214 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:36.600 for fans to come in and view the experience, the game, 215 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:39.399 the match, whatever. I wish it was full and you'd 216 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.200 have people lining up to the interstate to get in. 217 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.799 But I know that's not realistic and I'm not somebody 218 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.519 that can fake that. I really care one way or 219 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.600 another about attendance, Like it's you need good attendance for 220 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:51.840 the support of the athletic department, and it's not a 221 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.480 good look if you have lightly attended games, because recruits 222 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:56.039 want to play in front of big crowds. Like, I 223 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:59.879 understand how important it is, but I can't give you 224 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.159 any fake energy about what other people are doing. And 225 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.519 I also can't you know, like I just don't. I've 226 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.519 never been able to understand why in sports, especially I 227 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.759 feel like in college sports, there's way more focus on 228 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:12.919 people who don't go to a game than the people 229 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:14.879 who do go to a game. And I just like, 230 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.840 who the hell am I to tell somebody and try 231 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.679 to influence and lecture somebody on what to do with 232 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.399 their time and like how to spend their money, you know. 233 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.960 I mean, if people decided, hey, I'm not gonna go 234 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:29.519 to the game against Austin P Saturday, because you know, 235 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.559 it's Louisville against Austin P and there's a good chance 236 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:35.159 there's gonna be some storms there, Like you got to 237 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:36.759 you gotta have a set on you to look at 238 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:38.720 somebody and tell them they're doing something wrong with when 239 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.320 it comes to that, Like, I mean, first of all, 240 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.320 you shouldn't be you shouldn't feel entitled to tell anybody 241 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.879 what they should and shouldn't do. But like, I just 242 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:48.600 don't want the postgame show to have callers complaining about 243 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:51.840 attendance because the game was a blowout and nobody there's 244 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:53.240 not a whole lot to really react to from that 245 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:54.960 other than you know, the obvious that you curb stops 246 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:56.879 your opponent. But like, it took me back when I 247 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.799 thought when I saw everybody mentioning the forecast and we 248 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:01.600 an update from Winberg, which I'll share with you in 249 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.759 just a minute. I just remember going back to one 250 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.720 of the days where there was a rain game and 251 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.559 somebody called in drunk and and that's fine, by the way, 252 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:10.039 I don't mean you can call him drunk. In fact, 253 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:11.879 usually that makes for better radio, you can't. You know, 254 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:13.679 we don't want to have John working too hard on 255 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:15.759 the dumb button, but like you know, it's there for 256 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.080 a Reasoneah, we get lively after the postgame or after 257 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:19.799 the game's in on these postgame shows. It's a lot 258 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.759 of fun, at least usually is. But anyways, I just 259 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:29.200 like I just wish there would be more of a 260 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:34.519 awareness that as much as we love Louisville, Kentucky, and 261 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.440 we're diehard fans. We want to compete at the very top. 262 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:38.240 We want to show that we are a proud fan 263 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.720 base that shows up, shows out, supports our program. Like 264 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.000 at some point in time, like just like realize you 265 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:45.600 can be a diehard fan and realize, yeah I don't 266 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:46.919 want to go sit in the rain for three hours, 267 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:49.080 Like that doesn't make you a bad fan. So who knows. 268 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:50.720 Maybe they still have a pack crowd. But I just 269 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:52.879 I'm putting it out there now. I don't have any 270 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:56.320 energy in regards to like strong opinions one way or 271 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.240 the other about the turnout. If it's great, then great. 272 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:00.440 But if it's a light crowd because of the opponent 273 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.679 in the weather, I don't mean Again, people have the 274 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.639 platform to call in and react to whatever they want. 275 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:09.240 We can have the conversation, but I just I don't 276 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.679 care if that's the case, Meaning if that crowd is 277 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.679 lighter than we would have ever expect, then we would 278 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.919 have ever wanted because of the rain. Yeah that's not great, 279 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.200 but like it's life, and it doesn't It's not an 280 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:20.960 indictment on the fan base at all. I mean, I 281 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.879 think Louis of vans over the years have shown that 282 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.159 they will show up and show out when it's a 283 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.159 big game, and they've they've done that. They sold out 284 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.039 two games last year, the two biggest games on the schedule, 285 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.039 and the other games that they didn't sell out, you know, 286 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:34.559 were not against great opponents, or the weather was crappy 287 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.440 like the Duke game. The weather was terrible. I mean 288 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:40.600 it was gloomy, like misty. It was cold, and you know, 289 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.039 somebody wanting to sit on their couch and cheer on 290 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.320 the team and drink their own beer, Like that's just 291 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:49.120 that's how being a sports fan, I think has evolved. 292 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.320 Like you'd have it, you have some people would have 293 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:55.759 you believed that back in the day it could be 294 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.679 monsooning in every seat in every stadium in the SEC 295 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:00.279 and the Big ten would be full, and like, maybe 296 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:04.120 that is the case, but I don't buy that. So again, 297 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.120 I hope that we have great crowds this year for 298 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:10.600 football season. But I will say this, the home schedule 299 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.519 sucks and it's nobody's fault. That's just the way it 300 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:16.240 played out this year. There's the only good game on 301 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.759 the home slate this year is Miami. Other than that, like, 302 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.799 if you're going, you're going because of Louisville, not because 303 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.320 of the opponent. Now, maybe the Georgia Tech game ends 304 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.320 up getting a good build because obviously they're coming off 305 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.759 of a monster upset in Week one. Could be two 306 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.399 ranked teams playing. If that's the case, then I would 307 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.840 throw Georgia Tech in there. But I just I'm fearful 308 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.600 that there's gonna be people wanting to yell about fans 309 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:40.679 that didn't go, and look, you do what you want. 310 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.000 I just can't understand how people spend their heart on 311 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:46.320 money go to a game and look around and see 312 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.279 an empty seat, or see somebody sitting down, or see 313 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.360 somebody drinking beer on the flight deck, and they're pissed 314 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.720 in that ruined their experience, Like you can't control that, 315 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.360 Like if that bothers, you don't go. Like I don't 316 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:00.320 know anyways, uh So the bye games, right, you know 317 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:05.279 that Austin p I keep forgetting their name because that's 318 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.879 how little they matter. They're coming in to get a 319 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.600 check and get a butt whooping. There's a lot of 320 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:12.320 schools around the country that are doing that. That's how 321 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:17.120 this works. But Brett McMurphy has put together a breakdown 322 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.799 of which schools are getting the fattest checks to get spanked, 323 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.279 And uh I found it to be interesting, not a real, 324 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:27.320 not a whole not not you know, not a big 325 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:31.360 shock when you consider, you know, when you consider the 326 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.279 schools that can pay the most money for you to 327 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:34.639 come in and get a beat down are the schools 328 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:37.679 that usually have, you know, a lot of success. But uh, 329 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.399 here is the list, Well that's the wrong. Here we go. 330 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:46.799 Here's the Payday Games top ten of the weekend. One 331 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:51.559 point nine million. That's a tie, three way tie. WKU 332 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.440 is gonna go to Alabama and get one point nine mil. 333 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.320 New Mexico gonna go to Auburn and get one point 334 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.399 nine mil. Um asked to go to Georgia and get 335 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:07.480 one point nine mil. Uh, Fresno State is gonna get 336 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.600 one point one. They're gonna get one million, eight hundred 337 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.559 and fifty thousand dollars to go to Michigan. Oh, I'm sorry, 338 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:17.159 this is this season, not just this weekend. I apologize. 339 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.879 But although WKU in Alabama is this weekend, Arkansas is 340 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:23.600 gonna is gonna Arkansas State is gonna get one point 341 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:25.879 eight to go to Michigan. Later in the year, Akron 342 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:27.840 getting one point eight million to go to Ohio State. 343 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:30.120 Same thing with Western Michigan. They're getting one point eight 344 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:32.039 to go to Ohio State. And then Colorado State will 345 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:34.440 get one point eight million for going to Texas. So, 346 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.399 I mean, let's be real. Coaches don't want to schedule 347 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:45.639 those games, right, I mean they don't because like if 348 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.240 you're a Colorado State what's his name? Is it Norvel? 349 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:49.000 Yes? 350 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:49.559 No? 351 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:53.360 Isn't? Yeah J Norvell at Colorado State. I mean, do 352 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.039 you think he wants to go to Texas? Like maybe 353 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.519 he sees it as an opportunity to get a big win, 354 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:01.000 but like you could also get beaten down, Like that's 355 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.559 a ninety nine percent chance of a loss. But you 356 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.759 know what that one point eight million, it's probably some 357 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:08.559 of that. It's got to be going to a Drew salary, right, 358 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:12.720 Like there's probably not payday's quite like that on you know, 359 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.440 on the schedule for many many teams. So I don't 360 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:19.480 know what the amount of money is is out there 361 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.200 for smutic or not SMU but Southern Myss to come 362 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.559 to Kentucky or for Austin p to come to Louisville. However, 363 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.480 you know, last week. It was Montana State who ended 364 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.639 up going to New Mexico and beating them and walking 365 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.759 out with a three hundred and sixty thousand dollars check. 366 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.120 Can there be a better feeling if you're running the 367 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.200 athletic department and that happened. You got paid to go 368 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.919 pull off an upset that puts your program not on 369 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.320 the map, but like, it's a notable thing for an 370 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.360 FCS team to go in and beat a G five team. 371 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.600 They were probably already hype seeing they were favored in 372 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:54.600 that game. They had a real chance from the get go. 373 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:57.080 It was so weird seeing that they were they were 374 00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.480 two touchdown favorites when before it kicked off, I feel 375 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.799 like and a half or something crazy crazy. All right, 376 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.039 let's go to the phone lines here. Five O two 377 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.039 five seven seventy nine hundred is the number. If you 378 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.759 want to give us a call. We will welcome in. Steve, Steve, 379 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:14.240 you're on Sports Talk seven ninety. How are you, sir? Steve? 380 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:14.640 You with me? 381 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:16.000 Hey? 382 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:17.960 Well, I saw you doing doing good? What's uping radio? 383 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:20.680 You hear me? All right? 384 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:21.640 Yes, sir? You got me? 385 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:23.079 Yeah? 386 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.400 Yeah, yeah, Hey, Just want to touch on we didn't 387 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.680 sell the Duke game because that was a Saturday before. 388 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.119 Or after Halloween and we're kind of a party town. 389 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:36.039 And we are, Oh, yes we are, and then uh no, 390 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:38.319 you're right, man, this season is a little disappointing. 391 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:39.920 You know, Miami looks good. 392 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.240 We'll probably have another ACC team, you. 393 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:44.599 Know, doing looking well through the season that we can 394 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.079 look up to. 395 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.079 But you know, this season's a little a little bit 396 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.319 of a downer, you know, looking at a schedule. That's it. 397 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.680 Thank you. I appreciate the call, Steve. Yeah. Yeah, So 398 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:54.759 like Duke was not looked at, I think on paper 399 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.680 before the season started as a chance to like have 400 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:58.519 a big game, but it played out that way because 401 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.680