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Speaker 2: When it comes to getting engagement reaction on platforms like radio,
Speaker 2: social media, you really never know what's gonna what's gonna
Speaker 2: take off.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And yesterday I was wrapping up dinner somewhere at a
Speaker 2: place I won't name because one, they're not paying me
Speaker 2: and also, uh, I was not impressed with their ranch dressing.
Speaker 2: But I just threw it out there on Twitter, what
Speaker 2: restaurant has the best ranch? And the amount of people
Speaker 2: who had a strong opinion on this surprised me. But
Speaker 2: then again, branch is pretty awesome. And I hate doing
Speaker 2: this to you, John, because you can't relate. You're not
Speaker 2: a rant. Have you ever had it?
Speaker 3: Never even wanted to have it? It just to me.
Speaker 3: I guess it's a noncondiment guy, Yeah, just just that
Speaker 3: in mayonnaise. For some reason, the white sauce just I
Speaker 3: can't get with it.
Speaker 2: Oh. The only white condiment I think I have ever
Speaker 2: wanted to try and tried was ranch. I'm not a
Speaker 2: no mayonnaise.
Speaker 3: And that gift on the tweet that you put out
Speaker 3: there was a gross.
Speaker 2: It was gross. No, No, I mean, I mean, but
Speaker 2: that's because you're somebody who doesn't even like the thought
Speaker 2: of eating any condiment sauce, especially ranch that's white, Like
Speaker 2: probably really did gross you out, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Branch is bottom tier, Like if I had to try, so, like,
Speaker 3: you know, if I had to try all the sauces,
Speaker 3: ranch would be near the bottom.
Speaker 2: But you don't know that you don't like it, you
Speaker 2: know that, right.
Speaker 3: That's true, But you also thoughts.
Speaker 2: But you also know you don't need it because you
Speaker 2: can eat without it, and you've been eating just fine
Speaker 2: and enjoying food without you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, but yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: things that I've come to like over the years that
Speaker 2: I tried on accident, and like, that's pretty good. Salad.
Speaker 2: I remember thinking as a my mom would eat salad.
Speaker 2: I'm like, who would eat leaves? What are you doing?
Speaker 2: You're a sick individual?
Speaker 3: Mother?
Speaker 2: And then I had salad with ranch, and I'm like, oh, hell, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is great.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then I remember we used to get I think
Speaker 2: my mom would take us. I don't know why, and
Speaker 2: she's probably listening. Maybe she can she can tell me.
Speaker 2: We used to go instead of going to McDonald's to
Speaker 2: get a happy meal, which we did that too, Mom
Speaker 2: would take us to Hardy's. We would get hard and
Speaker 2: maybe it was where we like our routine throughout the day.
Speaker 2: And I think my sister was in school and my
Speaker 2: mom at the time was to stay at home mom,
Speaker 2: and she would take me and a girl that she
Speaker 2: watched that she baby said we would go to. We
Speaker 2: would go to Hardy's and we love Hardy's. But I
Speaker 2: would get a burger plane so nothing on it, John
Speaker 2: just a hamburger at a bun And then one time
Speaker 2: they put cheese on it by accident because they messed
Speaker 2: up the order, and I liked it. I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I'm never not having burger with cheese on it.
Speaker 2: So like I'm I'm a super picky eater. Again, I
Speaker 2: always say this, I have the palette of a of
Speaker 2: a of a you know, of a five year old.
Speaker 2: Like there's a good chance that if you go to
Speaker 2: a sit down restaurant a chain like what I get
Speaker 2: is going to also be available on the kids menu,
Speaker 2: but just you know, smaller, smaller serving of it, just
Speaker 2: because you know, we're talking chicken fingers, boneless wings, traditional wings, burgers, pizza.
Speaker 3: What's the most There has to be something that you
Speaker 3: like that's kind of out there, though I feel like
Speaker 3: everybody has their thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because well so it'll be out there for you,
Speaker 2: but not for like most people like sushi, okay, like
Speaker 2: fried sushi, like I would never want to try. And
Speaker 2: my wife's good at this. She's good at a lot
Speaker 2: of things, but she is someone that if you don't
Speaker 2: just try something that she's offering you when it comes
Speaker 2: to food, she's she's insulted and she's not gonna let
Speaker 2: it go. There's a lot of things I've tried because
Speaker 2: of that. I don't want to, you know, happy wife,
Speaker 2: happy life, So like I don't want that too. But
Speaker 2: she more diverse with eating than me. Yes, well everybody
Speaker 2: is with you.
Speaker 3: But like I mean, I'm not the most picky. Like
Speaker 3: I love any seafood. Give me any seafood and I'll
Speaker 3: try that. Give me frog legs whatever that.
Speaker 2: Well, and then I'm glad you said that because I
Speaker 2: would never touch that stuff. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 2: what is like the most. Like, it's not there's no
Speaker 2: exotic type food that I like I again, a like,
Speaker 2: that's what makes me feel like such a poor sometimes
Speaker 2: because like the nicest restaurants I've ever been to, I
Speaker 2: look at the menu and I'm like, I'm good, just
Speaker 2: bring me a beer. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 2: to get, and like if you go to a steakhouse
Speaker 2: that's and I like steak, it's just not something that
Speaker 2: I like. Again, I can get a double quarter pounder
Speaker 2: with cheese at McDonald's and then get a burger from
Speaker 2: the best burger joint that somebody has tabbed in this
Speaker 2: town as the elite of the elite, and I'll be
Speaker 2: just fine with the McDonald's, like I, you know, just
Speaker 2: because it's just I'm not super I'm I'm very basic,
Speaker 2: and you know, I got a weak palette.
Speaker 3: I guess I like a good burger, but I only
Speaker 3: put things like bacon as topping on a burger that's good.
Speaker 2: I like bacon, and then that's I guess that's where
Speaker 2: I feel a little sometimes. I feel like insecure about
Speaker 2: like fine dining because my wife, who's a great cook.
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't just say that, like because
Speaker 2: you know, there's people that have cooked for me that
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't tell them, but like that
Speaker 2: that's not their strength. The kitchen, is it. My wife
Speaker 2: hates cooking, and she is great at it. My sister's
Speaker 2: a great cook. She loves cooking. So I've been able
Speaker 2: to eat some good stuff over the year, So maybe
Speaker 2: that's why I feel this way. But I could go
Speaker 2: to a really really nice steakhouse and get a you know,
Speaker 2: get a get a surloin, get a New York strip whatever,
Speaker 2: get you know, a t bone filet mignon, and get
Speaker 2: it perfectly made to how I like, which is medium
Speaker 2: to medium rare, usually medium rare. And I could also
Speaker 2: get eat a steak that my wife made at home,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure I could tell you which one was
Speaker 2: restaurant prepared and which one was not. But I would
Speaker 2: be just fine with the one that was not in
Speaker 2: ninety to one hundred dollars steak. And that's not because
Speaker 2: like again she's a great cook. But like I just
Speaker 2: don't like to meat eating is more of like not
Speaker 2: just like I mean, I like I eat junk food,
Speaker 2: like I don't eat super healthy And there's a times
Speaker 2: where you know, I can't stop eating chips and k
Speaker 2: so because I you know, I'm just people binge eat
Speaker 2: sometimes and just you know, want to want to pig
Speaker 2: out on snacks. But when it comes to the like
Speaker 2: the meal stuff, I'm fine, Like I'm fine with whatever,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, for me when it goes
Speaker 2: when it comes to going out to eat, I'll be honestly,
Speaker 2: I would say food is still like the top priority,
Speaker 2: but it's close with atmosphere for me. Like if I'm
Speaker 2: going to a sports bar, like there's got to be
Speaker 2: something on the menu that I like to eat, but overall,
Speaker 2: like if it's got good, if they got you know,
Speaker 2: they got they got cold beer, and they got a
Speaker 2: bunch of TVs and they got you know, your typical
Speaker 2: sports bar food, I'll find something I like and I'll.
Speaker 3: Be good to go. I'm with you on the atmosphere,
Speaker 3: that's why. And I won't name specific restaurants, but I
Speaker 3: prefer one steak like one chain steakhouse versus another because
Speaker 3: the other one is just way too crowded all the time. Dude,
Speaker 3: only know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know which one you're talking about. So
Speaker 2: the one like so the of all the people who
Speaker 2: shared their thot on ranch dressing, I will say that
Speaker 2: there was one restaurant that got more not votes, but
Speaker 2: more people mentioned this one than any other, and it
Speaker 2: really wasn't close, and that was Texas Roadhouse. I really
Speaker 2: do like Texas Roadhouse ranch. Other people mentioned Rooster's. Rooster's
Speaker 2: ranch is good. I like it. I don't love it
Speaker 2: as much as others. Rooster's food is great, but I
Speaker 2: wouldn't when I think of all the great stuff at Roosters,
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think of their ranch, but it is good.
Speaker 2: And then a lot of people mentioned Jets Pizza when
Speaker 2: they're ranch. I've never had that, but I will tell
Speaker 2: you the best ranch I have ever had, and I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, maybe it was because I was
Speaker 2: new to salad and ranch at the time. But when
Speaker 2: I was at Saint Catherine College, whatever food vendor they
Speaker 2: used to supply the cafeteria, I mean, food was good,
Speaker 2: by the way, but the ranch was. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was out of this world and I would eat like
Speaker 2: five because that's the one of the perks of you know,
Speaker 2: being on I lived there. Nobody else lived there unless
Speaker 2: you were an athlete, because it's in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 2: and the majority of the people who lived on lived
Speaker 2: on campus. No, no joke. The majority of people who
Speaker 2: lived on campus at Saint Catharine College were nuns, not kidding.
Speaker 2: So you know, we had access to the cafeteria all
Speaker 2: all the time, not twenty four seven, but honestly not
Speaker 2: far from it. So we would eat on there all
Speaker 2: and we could eat whatever we wanted. And I wouldn't
Speaker 2: I would go through like four salads a day, and
Speaker 2: I'm talking like not just on the side. That would
Speaker 2: be my meal, just a big old salad, and I
Speaker 2: would you know, I would go to town. So somebody,
Speaker 2: in fact, two different people had mentioned the ranch dressing
Speaker 2: that they had when they went to e Ku was
Speaker 2: their favorite ranch. And I'm just willing to I don't
Speaker 2: know where this was purchased from. If this was like,
Speaker 2: you know, Gordon Foods, Like there's a lot of vendor,
Speaker 2: like restaurants sometimes buy the same supplies from the same people,
Speaker 2: like you know what I'm saying, Like they provide those
Speaker 2: kind of things to all these restaurants, chains or local restaurants,
Speaker 2: whatever may be. I think isn't Gordon Yahfs. So I
Speaker 2: don't know where the ranch came from, but I would
Speaker 2: not be shocked if like those two schools had the
Speaker 2: same supplier. You know what I mean. So anyways, twelve
Speaker 2: minutes in the five o'clock hour with football season here,
Speaker 2: we're talking food, but food and foot football, Yeah, it
Speaker 2: kind of goes together. Right.
Speaker 3: You talked about food with Kendrick Casket.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, all right, it's coffee and company.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate you hanging out with us. I did start the
Speaker 2: show by letting everybody know I don't want to do
Speaker 2: the whole attendance thing because if the forecast is accurate
Speaker 2: on Saturday, that will lead to a lighter crowd than
Speaker 2: what we want because we want it to be full.
Speaker 2: And I've always well, I mean again, I said it earlier.
Speaker 2: I wish every Louisville athletic event that ever opened doors
Speaker 2: for fans to come in and view the experience, the game,
Speaker 2: the match, whatever. I wish it was full and you'd
Speaker 2: have people lining up to the interstate to get in.
Speaker 2: But I know that's not realistic and I'm not somebody
Speaker 2: that can fake that. I really care one way or
Speaker 2: another about attendance, Like it's you need good attendance for
Speaker 2: the support of the athletic department, and it's not a
Speaker 2: good look if you have lightly attended games, because recruits
Speaker 2: want to play in front of big crowds. Like, I
Speaker 2: understand how important it is, but I can't give you
Speaker 2: any fake energy about what other people are doing. And
Speaker 2: I also can't you know, like I just don't. I've
Speaker 2: never been able to understand why in sports, especially I
Speaker 2: feel like in college sports, there's way more focus on
Speaker 2: people who don't go to a game than the people
Speaker 2: who do go to a game. And I just like,
Speaker 2: who the hell am I to tell somebody and try
Speaker 2: to influence and lecture somebody on what to do with
Speaker 2: their time and like how to spend their money, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, if people decided, hey, I'm not gonna go
Speaker 2: to the game against Austin P Saturday, because you know,
Speaker 2: it's Louisville against Austin P and there's a good chance
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some storms there, Like you got to
Speaker 2: you gotta have a set on you to look at
Speaker 2: somebody and tell them they're doing something wrong with when
Speaker 2: it comes to that, Like, I mean, first of all,
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be you shouldn't feel entitled to tell anybody
Speaker 2: what they should and shouldn't do. But like, I just
Speaker 2: don't want the postgame show to have callers complaining about
Speaker 2: attendance because the game was a blowout and nobody there's
Speaker 2: not a whole lot to really react to from that
Speaker 2: other than you know, the obvious that you curb stops
Speaker 2: your opponent. But like, it took me back when I
Speaker 2: thought when I saw everybody mentioning the forecast and we
Speaker 2: an update from Winberg, which I'll share with you in
Speaker 2: just a minute. I just remember going back to one
Speaker 2: of the days where there was a rain game and
Speaker 2: somebody called in drunk and and that's fine, by the way,
Speaker 2: I don't mean you can call him drunk. In fact,
Speaker 2: usually that makes for better radio, you can't. You know,
Speaker 2: we don't want to have John working too hard on
Speaker 2: the dumb button, but like you know, it's there for
Speaker 2: a Reasoneah, we get lively after the postgame or after
Speaker 2: the game's in on these postgame shows. It's a lot
Speaker 2: of fun, at least usually is. But anyways, I just
Speaker 2: like I just wish there would be more of a
Speaker 2: awareness that as much as we love Louisville, Kentucky, and
Speaker 2: we're diehard fans. We want to compete at the very top.
Speaker 2: We want to show that we are a proud fan
Speaker 2: base that shows up, shows out, supports our program. Like
Speaker 2: at some point in time, like just like realize you
Speaker 2: can be a diehard fan and realize, yeah I don't
Speaker 2: want to go sit in the rain for three hours,
Speaker 2: Like that doesn't make you a bad fan. So who knows.
Speaker 2: Maybe they still have a pack crowd. But I just
Speaker 2: I'm putting it out there now. I don't have any
Speaker 2: energy in regards to like strong opinions one way or
Speaker 2: the other about the turnout. If it's great, then great.
Speaker 2: But if it's a light crowd because of the opponent
Speaker 2: in the weather, I don't mean Again, people have the
Speaker 2: platform to call in and react to whatever they want.
Speaker 2: We can have the conversation, but I just I don't
Speaker 2: care if that's the case, Meaning if that crowd is
Speaker 2: lighter than we would have ever expect, then we would
Speaker 2: have ever wanted because of the rain. Yeah that's not great,
Speaker 2: but like it's life, and it doesn't It's not an
Speaker 2: indictment on the fan base at all. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think Louis of vans over the years have shown that
Speaker 2: they will show up and show out when it's a
Speaker 2: big game, and they've they've done that. They sold out
Speaker 2: two games last year, the two biggest games on the schedule,
Speaker 2: and the other games that they didn't sell out, you know,
Speaker 2: were not against great opponents, or the weather was crappy
Speaker 2: like the Duke game. The weather was terrible. I mean
Speaker 2: it was gloomy, like misty. It was cold, and you know,
Speaker 2: somebody wanting to sit on their couch and cheer on
Speaker 2: the team and drink their own beer, Like that's just
Speaker 2: that's how being a sports fan, I think has evolved.
Speaker 2: Like you'd have it, you have some people would have
Speaker 2: you believed that back in the day it could be
Speaker 2: monsooning in every seat in every stadium in the SEC
Speaker 2: and the Big ten would be full, and like, maybe
Speaker 2: that is the case, but I don't buy that. So again,
Speaker 2: I hope that we have great crowds this year for
Speaker 2: football season. But I will say this, the home schedule
Speaker 2: sucks and it's nobody's fault. That's just the way it
Speaker 2: played out this year. There's the only good game on
Speaker 2: the home slate this year is Miami. Other than that, like,
Speaker 2: if you're going, you're going because of Louisville, not because
Speaker 2: of the opponent. Now, maybe the Georgia Tech game ends
Speaker 2: up getting a good build because obviously they're coming off
Speaker 2: of a monster upset in Week one. Could be two
Speaker 2: ranked teams playing. If that's the case, then I would
Speaker 2: throw Georgia Tech in there. But I just I'm fearful
Speaker 2: that there's gonna be people wanting to yell about fans
Speaker 2: that didn't go, and look, you do what you want.
Speaker 2: I just can't understand how people spend their heart on
Speaker 2: money go to a game and look around and see
Speaker 2: an empty seat, or see somebody sitting down, or see
Speaker 2: somebody drinking beer on the flight deck, and they're pissed
Speaker 2: in that ruined their experience, Like you can't control that,
Speaker 2: Like if that bothers, you don't go. Like I don't
Speaker 2: know anyways, uh So the bye games, right, you know
Speaker 2: that Austin p I keep forgetting their name because that's
Speaker 2: how little they matter. They're coming in to get a
Speaker 2: check and get a butt whooping. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: schools around the country that are doing that. That's how
Speaker 2: this works. But Brett McMurphy has put together a breakdown
Speaker 2: of which schools are getting the fattest checks to get spanked,
Speaker 2: And uh I found it to be interesting, not a real,
Speaker 2: not a whole not not you know, not a big
Speaker 2: shock when you consider, you know, when you consider the
Speaker 2: schools that can pay the most money for you to
Speaker 2: come in and get a beat down are the schools
Speaker 2: that usually have, you know, a lot of success. But uh,
Speaker 2: here is the list, Well that's the wrong. Here we go.
Speaker 2: Here's the Payday Games top ten of the weekend. One
Speaker 2: point nine million. That's a tie, three way tie. WKU
Speaker 2: is gonna go to Alabama and get one point nine mil.
Speaker 2: New Mexico gonna go to Auburn and get one point
Speaker 2: nine mil. Um asked to go to Georgia and get
Speaker 2: one point nine mil. Uh, Fresno State is gonna get
Speaker 2: one point one. They're gonna get one million, eight hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars to go to Michigan. Oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: this is this season, not just this weekend. I apologize.
Speaker 2: But although WKU in Alabama is this weekend, Arkansas is
Speaker 2: gonna is gonna Arkansas State is gonna get one point
Speaker 2: eight to go to Michigan. Later in the year, Akron
Speaker 2: getting one point eight million to go to Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Same thing with Western Michigan. They're getting one point eight
Speaker 2: to go to Ohio State. And then Colorado State will
Speaker 2: get one point eight million for going to Texas. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be real. Coaches don't want to schedule
Speaker 2: those games, right, I mean they don't because like if
Speaker 2: you're a Colorado State what's his name? Is it Norvel?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Isn't? Yeah J Norvell at Colorado State. I mean, do
Speaker 2: you think he wants to go to Texas? Like maybe
Speaker 2: he sees it as an opportunity to get a big win,
Speaker 2: but like you could also get beaten down, Like that's
Speaker 2: a ninety nine percent chance of a loss. But you
Speaker 2: know what that one point eight million, it's probably some
Speaker 2: of that. It's got to be going to a Drew salary, right,
Speaker 2: Like there's probably not payday's quite like that on you know,
Speaker 2: on the schedule for many many teams. So I don't
Speaker 2: know what the amount of money is is out there
Speaker 2: for smutic or not SMU but Southern Myss to come
Speaker 2: to Kentucky or for Austin p to come to Louisville. However,
Speaker 2: you know, last week. It was Montana State who ended
Speaker 2: up going to New Mexico and beating them and walking
Speaker 2: out with a three hundred and sixty thousand dollars check.
Speaker 2: Can there be a better feeling if you're running the
Speaker 2: athletic department and that happened. You got paid to go
Speaker 2: pull off an upset that puts your program not on
Speaker 2: the map, but like, it's a notable thing for an
Speaker 2: FCS team to go in and beat a G five team.
Speaker 3: They were probably already hype seeing they were favored in
Speaker 3: that game. They had a real chance from the get go.
Speaker 2: It was so weird seeing that they were they were
Speaker 2: two touchdown favorites when before it kicked off, I feel
Speaker 2: like and a half or something crazy crazy. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to the phone lines here. Five O two
Speaker 2: five seven seventy nine hundred is the number. If you
Speaker 2: want to give us a call. We will welcome in. Steve, Steve,
Speaker 2: you're on Sports Talk seven ninety. How are you, sir? Steve?
Speaker 3: You with me?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 2: Well, I saw you doing doing good? What's uping radio?
Speaker 1: You hear me? All right?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir? You got me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Hey, Just want to touch on we didn't
Speaker 2: sell the Duke game because that was a Saturday before.
Speaker 3: Or after Halloween and we're kind of a party town.
Speaker 2: And we are, Oh, yes we are, and then uh no,
Speaker 2: you're right, man, this season is a little disappointing.
Speaker 3: You know, Miami looks good.
Speaker 2: We'll probably have another ACC team, you.
Speaker 3: Know, doing looking well through the season that we can
Speaker 3: look up to.
Speaker 2: But you know, this season's a little a little bit
Speaker 2: of a downer, you know, looking at a schedule. That's it.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate the call, Steve. Yeah. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: like Duke was not looked at, I think on paper
Speaker 2: before the season started as a chance to like have
Speaker 2: a big game, but it played out that way because
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, Louisville had that terrible timing with the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh loss and then a bye week that was just brutal.
Speaker 2: But Duke, if you remember last year, you know, they
Speaker 2: they had some momentum. I mean they should have beaten
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and they didn't. I mean, they should have
Speaker 2: won that game, and then they they lost to Florida State,
Speaker 2: but it was competitive. I feel like that was one
Speaker 2: of the more competitive game games for Florida State last year.
Speaker 2: So when you know they were a four I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: a five and two team when they came to Louisville,
Speaker 2: Duke was but if you remember, there was some legitimate
Speaker 2: there was some legitimate buzz surrounding that game because Louisville,
Speaker 2: of course, was coming off their first loss, and Duke
Speaker 2: had a really good resume, right, their losses were to
Speaker 2: really good teams. They beat North Carolina State twenty four
Speaker 2: to three. That was one of the only that was
Speaker 2: one of only three losses that NC State had. So
Speaker 2: maybe there'll be a team this year, as as Steve
Speaker 2: mentioned there that could end up you know, by the time,
Speaker 2: like by the time they were on the schedule, you
Speaker 2: feel like, oh, you know this this is actually unexpectedly
Speaker 2: set up to be an opportunity to not only get
Speaker 2: a valuable win, but the opponents got some momentum. Therefore,
Speaker 2: fans are more in line to want to be there
Speaker 2: because they feel like there's you know, it's a bigger game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, you play pitt at the end
Speaker 2: of the year, that's your last home game, and then
Speaker 2: you've got Miami, which of course you know is that'll
Speaker 2: be the big I mean, that is the biggest game
Speaker 2: of the year at home, right now and then SMU.
Speaker 2: I mean even if SMU didn't get embarrassed and nearly
Speaker 2: lose to Nevada in Week zero, I mean, SMU just
Speaker 2: they just don't there's not a The brand of SMU
Speaker 2: is not one that I think is just gonna be
Speaker 2: the goal SMU's in town. Like Lowell played Virginia Tech
Speaker 2: last year and they killed them, But like Virginia Tech's
Speaker 2: a big enough brand to where like it's not okay,
Speaker 2: we got to be there, but like you know, that's
Speaker 2: a program that has history, tradition and a fan base,
Speaker 2: So yeah it is. I mean again, it's nobody's Fallis's
Speaker 2: just kind of how it played out. And Indiana should
Speaker 2: have been a home game this year, and that wouldn't
Speaker 2: be like, uh, oh you better, you better get ready
Speaker 2: when you bring the Hoosiers to town, because you know
Speaker 2: they're not They've never been very good consistently, but they
Speaker 2: are a Big ten team and they would have fans
Speaker 2: that I think would come because you know, we're not
Speaker 2: far from Bloomington. Who do we blame for that? We
Speaker 2: can't blame Signetti.
Speaker 3: I think it's Tom Allen's fault.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like why would they let him do that
Speaker 2: when they know he probably wasn't going to be there.
Speaker 3: I guess in the off chance that he would have
Speaker 3: been around, I mean he only so they were three nine,
Speaker 3: and a lot of his losses were by one score
Speaker 3: or less. I mean, a few things going his way.
Speaker 3: He may have still been.
Speaker 2: Still defending Tom Allen. Signetti better not be listening because
Speaker 2: that's disappointing. I'm just I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 2: But hey, Signette's brought that up too. He says, I
Speaker 2: win those games. He says, he wins the one score game.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Signette's got a lot of confidence. I can't lie. I do.
Speaker 2: I do like it, And we will see moving forward
Speaker 2: how Jeff wants to schedule, because when he was at Purdue,
Speaker 2: you know they would go very light in the non
Speaker 2: conference because they had nine Big Ten games and you
Speaker 2: know they're Purdue, but eight ACC games a league that
Speaker 2: is not as good as the Big Ten. Like I
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if he will try to get
Speaker 2: a Marquee non conference game every year because this year,
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got Notre Dame back to back seasons,
Speaker 2: but like in that counts because that's a non conference game,
Speaker 2: but you have the game on the schedule because of
Speaker 2: your conference affiliation in ACC and Notre Dame having that relationship,
Speaker 2: so you know that counts, like I can't. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe if you have Notre Dame, you don't want to
Speaker 2: go add an SEC team, but when you don't have
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, like, let me look at the schedule next year,
Speaker 2: and you know, I know people say I never criticized Brahm,
Speaker 2: and I don't feel like I've really needed to do
Speaker 2: that a whole lot. I mean, when he loses, that's
Speaker 2: something that everybody should be criticized for. But like, you know,
Speaker 2: ten wins last year, it's hard for me to act
Speaker 2: like any it was anything other than a very successful
Speaker 2: debut season for Jeff. It sucked the way it ended,
Speaker 2: and you know, losing to Kentucky, you know that sucked.
Speaker 2: So clearly there's some criticism there. But next year's schedule
Speaker 2: I want to be critical because I give Kentucky fans
Speaker 2: a lot of crap about their non conference schedule because
Speaker 2: they play in the SEC eight games and then they
Speaker 2: have Louisville, and then they usually play the worst teams
Speaker 2: they can find Louisville. Next year eight ACC games in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Their non conference games are EKU, James Madison, and Bowling Green,
Speaker 2: So like that non conference schedule sucks, I mean, am
Speaker 2: I wrong? And your home games are Bowling Green, James Madison,
Speaker 2: e KU, Kentucky, Boston College, Cal And you do have
Speaker 2: Clemson at home next year, so that's something. But other
Speaker 2: than that, man, it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Like this year you got one Marquee home game and
Speaker 3: that's it.
Speaker 2: They do close out the year or actually I'm I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: this doesn't say the date of the games, but they
Speaker 2: will play at Virginia Tech. There's no way there's been
Speaker 2: a member join a league and go as long as
Speaker 2: Louisville did without ever having to go to play in Blacksburg.
Speaker 2: Blacksburg's supposed to be like with the best atmosphere you'll
Speaker 2: find in the ACC, maybe in college football when they're good,
Speaker 2: and Louisville will have been in the league eleven years
Speaker 2: and it'll be their first trip to Blacksburg because I
Speaker 2: want to go, because it's supposed to be a great atmosphere.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side.
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Speaker 2: seven ninety. All right, So, I mean I'm looking more
Speaker 2: and more here at this Minnesota team. They're winning the night, John,
Speaker 2: I mean they're winning.
Speaker 3: I think they're winning by a couple of touchdowns, maybe more.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're winning.
Speaker 3: They hate to not give North Carolina any credit, but
Speaker 3: I just feel like they're not giving Minnesota any credit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think if you look at the portal,
Speaker 2: and again, it's all relative to are you valuing a
Speaker 2: guy who's produced at a really, really impressive rate but
Speaker 2: it's not at a high level, or are you somebody
Speaker 2: that looks at guys who've been added to a roster
Speaker 2: that didn't play. But man, they came from LSU, they
Speaker 2: came from Clemson, you know what I mean. So that's again,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm way wrong here, but I think the Minnesota
Speaker 2: team went out and got guys who they're plugging in
Speaker 2: that you know, are jumping up a notch, but they've
Speaker 2: also been really good. And then Carolina's got some guys
Speaker 2: from Clemson and A and M and I think maybe
Speaker 2: a guy from Georgia and they may be great. Like
Speaker 2: maybe they didn't get to get on the field at
Speaker 2: those schools because it's too crowded, there's too many good players,
Speaker 2: or maybe you know, they weren't good enough to play
Speaker 2: there and they might not be good enough to be,
Speaker 2: you know, a big impact player at their new school man.
Speaker 2: The first few weeks is really hard, and it always
Speaker 2: has been because you're learning about teams, But now it's
Speaker 2: the ultimate unknown. I mean, you just don't mean you'll
Speaker 2: see results. I think annually, as long as we have
Speaker 2: the portal being the way that it is and it's
Speaker 2: such an impact, it's such a heavily used way to
Speaker 2: build your roster. Every year you're gonna have every year
Speaker 2: where you have two first two maybe three weeks, there'll
Speaker 2: be results that when you look back on them in
Speaker 2: late November, it won't it won't make sense, and the
Speaker 2: only way to make sense of it will be, well,
Speaker 2: it took them a little time to really get acclimated
Speaker 2: because you know, you're putting a lot of new pieces together. Yes,
Speaker 2: they've probably been working together since spring, they had fall camp,
Speaker 2: but it's not the same as, you know, being out
Speaker 2: there when the lights are on in a real game
Speaker 2: against a real opponent. Are you are you gonna watch
Speaker 2: the Colorado game.
Speaker 3: I'm probably going to flip back and forth between that
Speaker 3: and Minnesota. You and see, I think they're on at
Speaker 3: the same exact time.
Speaker 2: I can't think of a team that has been so
Speaker 2: good at being easily hateable than Colorado. I mean, I
Speaker 2: haven't even talked about this story. I mean, they got
Speaker 2: mopped by Oregon last year and it was so great
Speaker 2: to see. And we find out courtesy of Front Office
Speaker 2: Sports that after they got beat down, Colorado contacted the
Speaker 2: PAC twelve by Oregon having unauthorized access to practice film
Speaker 2: and data following their forty two to six loss. Like again,
Speaker 2: not taking questions from a guy with a sharp pencil
Speaker 2: in your market who will call you out for your
Speaker 2: Shenanigans soft losing forty two to six and wanting to
Speaker 2: call the league about practice film getting in their hands
Speaker 2: illegally soft like Deon Sanders, I mean, is what would
Speaker 2: he need because I think he could go forward eight again.
Speaker 2: John and people those who still think, like, oh, prime man,
Speaker 2: he's got they would still say the same nonsense because
Speaker 2: they don't. It's it's it's truly what Dan Lanning said,
Speaker 2: It's about flash. You know, they're fighting for clicks. They
Speaker 2: want to be big in Hollywood. They don't care about winning.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I think what makes me so frustrated
Speaker 2: about the Deon Sanders stuff is that I actually believe
Speaker 2: he could continue to be the same kind of coach,
Speaker 2: meaning not winning, and he's still going to get way
Speaker 2: more pub way more notoriety than most And like, if
Speaker 2: that's his goal, then he's damn good at it. But
Speaker 2: like I thought, like I thought he wanted to win,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he does, but like this to me
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like a guy that's prioritizing. He should be hungry,
Speaker 2: humble and quiet right now so he can go shock
Speaker 2: a lot of people and win big and bounce back
Speaker 2: from a disastrous and it really, here's the thing. It
Speaker 2: shouldn't be labeled as a disastrous season for Deon Sanders,
Speaker 2: but it is labeled as that by a lot of
Speaker 2: people because of how much flash he carries and how
Speaker 2: much he presents himself as is if he's accomplished something
Speaker 2: as a coach, which he hasn't. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like I can't even watch Colorad.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna if they're ever getting blown out, I'll turn
Speaker 2: it on. I just I you know, call me a
Speaker 2: hater if you want. But like ESPN and everybody, I
Speaker 2: guess again, it's all about what moves the needle, play
Speaker 2: the hits, and prime losing is still a hit because again,
Speaker 2: it gets attention, it gets clicks, it gets viewership. Like
Speaker 2: he has that effect, and that's a talent. Credit to him.
Speaker 2: But call me old fashioned. I'd rather talk about somebody
Speaker 2: that actually matters in the world of college football, rooted.
Speaker 3: In substance, not flash rooted in substance. Today we talk
Speaker 3: with our pads.
Speaker 1: You're talking for your helmet, right, every moment the Cinderella
Speaker 1: story's over, man, Right, they're fighting for clicks, we're fighting
Speaker 1: for wins.
Speaker 3: There's a difference, right, there's a difference.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: This game ain't gonna be playing in Hollywood. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be played on the grass. Right, It's gonna be played
Speaker 3: on the grass.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: That fires me up every time.
Speaker 3: That Really, the more we hear that, the more cinematic
Speaker 3: it feels. And I know he's it's kind of funny
Speaker 3: because he's trying to not be Hollywood, but that could
Speaker 3: be in a Hollywood film.
Speaker 2: Oh hell, she just gave well, especially the way I
Speaker 2: mean again, Oregon at that time especially had reason to
Speaker 2: carry themselves a little bit like Colorado because they actually
Speaker 2: have something to back up. Colorado never did, and yet
Speaker 2: they were before that game. If you remember it was
Speaker 2: a masterpiece, a cinematic masterpiece by whoever creates the creative content,
Speaker 2: visually for Oregon football, where they were out there with
Speaker 2: their cameras with their sonys, getting all the footage of
Speaker 2: Colorado talking smack to them like they're about to curb
Speaker 2: stomp them forty two to six, when in the end
Speaker 2: it was the other way around. I mean, love to
Speaker 2: see it, love to see it. I'm a little worried
Speaker 2: about Oregon though, Like I think they're good, and I
Speaker 2: think Dan Lanning's a future star. I truly believe that
Speaker 2: he did turn down Alabama. I think it's the only
Speaker 2: coach that genuinely had you know, had probably the shouldn't
Speaker 2: to say, yeah, let's let's work this out. I want
Speaker 2: to come, but he didn't want to do it. And
Speaker 2: then they turned to Kaitlyn de Boor. I mean, because
Speaker 2: I'm in my head, I don't know what's right. The
Speaker 2: right way to say it is what And that sounds
Speaker 2: weird to me.
Speaker 3: Because he has the e er instead of a arcis
Speaker 3: b o a R would be Boor like the animal.
Speaker 2: It's just the stupid last name.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry coach of Alabama football.
Speaker 2: And I say that as someone with the last name
Speaker 2: of a drink but not spelled the same. So like,
Speaker 2: you know, I get it all right real quick. I
Speaker 2: love this rivalry. And I just saw an exchange between
Speaker 2: two anonymous fans that just talk hateful, hateful stuff online
Speaker 2: about the rivalry. Uh, you know they're anonymous, they don't
Speaker 2: they don't like they don't they have an anonymous identity online,
Speaker 2: so like they they don't really have a line they
Speaker 2: can't cross, right, Like they'll say whatever and know that
Speaker 2: it will never be tied to them. And sometimes they're
Speaker 2: just car they're harmless fans being fans. But then sometimes
Speaker 2: you know, they just get crazy. And there's a Twitter
Speaker 2: account called Kentucky hoops ig. It's got six hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety nine followers, and it's a picture of Mark Pope
Speaker 2: and Pat Kelsey standing next to each other from yesterday's
Speaker 2: a leadership event here in Louisville, and it says little
Speaker 2: brother because obviously Mark Pope's taller than Pat Kelsey. As
Speaker 2: a short guy, myself, like, it's clearly not something we
Speaker 2: can control. So short jokes have never in my life
Speaker 2: ever bothered me, because I've never I mean, I just
Speaker 2: I guess accepted that I'm going to be short, and
Speaker 2: quite literally, it is something I can't control. You can
Speaker 2: control being fat, you can't control being short and tall.
Speaker 2: So like you know, when people would when I play basketball,
Speaker 2: I would oftentimes get you know, jokes about my height
Speaker 2: and you know, and then I would play and they
Speaker 2: wouldn't they wouldn't joke as much anymore. But like I've
Speaker 2: been short, like it's I'm not adjusting. I'm not figuring
Speaker 2: out life as a short person. I'm five foot eight
Speaker 2: and that's on the short side. And like I'd never
Speaker 2: given any thought. And I'm sure Pat Kelsey is the same, right,
Speaker 2: Like the short jokes that he's getting is because there's
Speaker 2: really nothing they can I mean not to say they
Speaker 2: mean they don't like him because he's a Louis As coach,
Speaker 2: but like we're still early on. Neither of these guys
Speaker 2: have coached a game yet. Like there'll be something said
Speaker 2: a dig a jab here or there, and then you'll
Speaker 2: start using that, but for now it's just appearance based
Speaker 2: criticism because there's nothing else you can go off of.
Speaker 2: But this texting, this tweet again and said little brother,
Speaker 2: and it just has the picture of Mark Stoops or
Speaker 2: not marks Mark Pope being very tall and Pat Kelsey
Speaker 2: not This Louisville fan responded and said, bad as tall
Speaker 2: as that racist you named your arena after. And that's
Speaker 2: a picture of Adolph Bruh. Like, I don't bring that
Speaker 2: up to say, like that's, like, you know, some hilarious joke.
Speaker 2: But like went from just acknowledging that our coach is
Speaker 2: short to bringing in that rape, bringing up that racist
Speaker 2: ass coach that they are. It's just I mean, that's
Speaker 2: that's the toxic people will go to the deepest depths. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how tall was Adolf Rup? I mean, no way he would.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's see here. I feel like he was tall.
Speaker 2: He played, like you know, back in the eighteen hundreds
Speaker 2: he played, But like I think, I don't think he
Speaker 2: was short. But there was a picture that they posted
Speaker 2: in that response that shows up with one of his
Speaker 2: players and he looks, you know, he looks very short.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side,
Speaker 2: wrap this thing up, get out of here, and go
Speaker 2: watch some college football tonight. The real action, though, will
Speaker 2: be taking place at Overdale Elementary as my uh my
Speaker 2: Overdale Chiefs, my four and five year old flag football team.
Speaker 2: They got a scrimmage tonight, that's the real action, but
Speaker 2: they'll be football after that. You can bet on all right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back and wrap it up right here.
Speaker 2: On Sports Talk seven ninety I mentioned this earlier but
Speaker 2: never really got into it. And it's not, you know,
Speaker 2: something that's going to need need to take up much time,
Speaker 2: but it is worth mentioning because it's important now, right
Speaker 2: nil and the five to two circle collective. I mean
Speaker 2: when you look at how the rosters come together for
Speaker 2: Jeff bram in the last two seasons, and obviously looking
Speaker 2: at what pack Kelsey was able to utilize to build
Speaker 2: a brand new team from scratch with some really good players,
Speaker 2: and we know INIL was a big factor. So this guy,
Speaker 2: Pete Nachos, he works for on three Sports, and he
Speaker 2: has put together in his mind who he thinks the
Speaker 2: ten best INIL collectives are in college sports. And you know,
Speaker 2: this guy, for what it's worth, is hired by on
Speaker 2: three Sports to specifically cover INNIL, which you know, it's
Speaker 2: not only is it important, but I think it's interesting
Speaker 2: as well, just to see what other schools are doing
Speaker 2: from a creative standpoint. And just to know which schools
Speaker 2: appear to be in great shape, you know when it
Speaker 2: comes to money. So Louisville they're collective, the five O
Speaker 2: two circle, Dan Furman and those guys, they came in
Speaker 2: at number nine, so they were top ten. Ohio State
Speaker 2: eighteen seventy Society in the foundation is there an il collective?
Speaker 2: Is that one or two? I don't know. Tennessee has
Speaker 2: the Spire Sports Group at number two, Texas One Fund
Speaker 2: at number three, Oregon is at number four. They're anile
Speaker 2: collective is called Division Street Miami at number five. Caine's Connection,
Speaker 2: the Grove Collective is Ole miss they're at number six.
Speaker 2: The Battle's End is Florida State's collective. They're at seven
Speaker 2: eighteen ninety. Nebraska is Nebraska's collective at number eight, and
Speaker 2: then I mentioned Louisville fiveboh two circle at number nine,
Speaker 2: and then Missouri. Every true Tiger is there is their collective.
Speaker 2: So five sec teams two Big ten, three acc That's
Speaker 2: how it That's how it shakes out. So uh, you know,
Speaker 2: with Louisville, they're clearly in good shape and the results
Speaker 2: speak that to be true. As far as what they're
Speaker 2: what they've been able to do, you know, with Kentucky's collective,
Speaker 2: I feel like they're in a good spot. But I don't,
Speaker 2: you know, I can't, you know, I don't really know.
Speaker 2: I would. I bet Kentucky's in IL is probably competitive
Speaker 2: with some of the best out there as far as
Speaker 2: you know, other than the elite of the elite. But
Speaker 2: I think Kentucky's in IL probably doesn't make as much
Speaker 2: noise because they're in IL. Resources were probably mostly used
Speaker 2: to keep players right. Louisville had to use nil obviously
Speaker 2: to keep Ashton Julotti. But like, it just doesn't it doesn't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make as much noise. It was really scary
Speaker 2: looking at the window there. I didn't know what was
Speaker 2: going on behind it. It called me by surprise. All right,
Speaker 2: we're out of time, you guys. Enjoy your evening. We're
Speaker 2: back at it tomorrow right here on Sports Talk seven
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