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Speaker 3: I checked DraftKings and I'm not seeing any lines. Actually
Speaker 3: I lied, there is one here at DraftKings. As far
Speaker 3: as a line for tomorrow's college basketball games, Kentucky and
Speaker 3: Florida playing at eleven am, which is just weird and
Speaker 3: I don't really understand why they would play at eleven am. Usually,
Speaker 3: if that's the case, it's because of a certain scheduling thing.
Speaker 3: But they would choose to start their their slate of
Speaker 3: games at eleven.
Speaker 2: And not noon is kind of a head scratcher.
Speaker 4: But that kind of game is usually reserved, especially at
Speaker 4: rut for like night or maybe even just later on
Speaker 4: in the day.
Speaker 3: Noone basketball games on the weekend are not that uncommon
Speaker 3: by any means, but they're kind of I mean, I
Speaker 3: feel like though they're just a weird feeling. So eleven
Speaker 3: am an hour earlier is going to be even more weird.
Speaker 3: But currently Kentucky is They opened up at two and
Speaker 3: a half point favorites there, so I would imagine, you know,
Speaker 3: somebody asked this on the text line and I haven't
Speaker 3: even really thought about it because I doesn't really matter
Speaker 3: to me and and I probably won't wager on it,
Speaker 3: but somebody asked me if I think Louisville will be
Speaker 3: favored against Virginia, and I'm gonna guess know, just because
Speaker 3: they're on the road, But I wouldn't be shocked in
Speaker 3: any way if they are favored, because you know, they
Speaker 3: are coming off of a good win against Carolina and
Speaker 3: right now, really by every metric, they're they're they're they're
Speaker 3: a better team than than Virginia is, but not by
Speaker 3: a huge margin. And again, Louisvill's not in a position
Speaker 3: to where they're a team. You know, Louisville can lose anybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know, technically anybody can lose anybody when
Speaker 3: you get down to it, but with their injuries, and
Speaker 3: just because you know, we've seen it right, the the
Speaker 3: EKU close call, the UTEP close call. And I'm not
Speaker 3: overly critical about the way those games. I mean, it
Speaker 3: was in a good situation to be in to nearly
Speaker 3: lose both of those. However, I think you know, context
Speaker 3: is is pretty obvious as far as how you end
Speaker 3: up in those situations. It's not saying you should, but
Speaker 3: I get it. So here I am scrambling trying to
Speaker 3: see if we yeah, here we go. So tomorrow looks
Speaker 3: like we do have some spreads here from Fandel and
Speaker 3: Louisville and Virginia. Louisville is is favored.
Speaker 2: Did you know that yet? Austin? Any guesses Louisville favored?
Speaker 2: Any guess on the number? I'm gonna say four close,
Speaker 2: three and a half. Oh, that's not bad, I'll like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: all those numbers, Louisville minus three and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's uh.
Speaker 3: I'm a little surprised, but again I probably shouldn't, because again,
Speaker 3: Louisville right now is a better team than Virginia, and
Speaker 3: hopefully they go and show that and beat them tomorrow,
Speaker 3: and then they'll have Clemson on Tuesday at home and
Speaker 3: that's again, it doesn't it doesn't feel like it would
Speaker 3: be a big game for you in acc play typically,
Speaker 3: but Clemson will be one of the other rare opportunities
Speaker 3: you have for forgetting wins against, you know, teams that
Speaker 3: are going to be in the tournament at Quad one
Speaker 3: Quad two.
Speaker 2: Not sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would imagine Clemson will remain in the
Speaker 3: Quad one Quad two tier throughout the season, but I
Speaker 3: could be wrong. However, you know, you get to Clemson
Speaker 3: next week, So Virginia, Clemson, and Pitt are your next
Speaker 3: three games. Clemson and Pitt are two of the better
Speaker 3: teams in the league. You've already beat Carolina and the
Speaker 3: only time you're gonna play them, you only play Duke
Speaker 3: once and of course lost that game. You know, I
Speaker 3: know you can lose to just about anybody, but I
Speaker 3: kind of feel like if you're able to get through
Speaker 3: these next few games, you know, I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: that you're gonna go undefeated and run the table, but
Speaker 3: you would be in a position to where you you
Speaker 3: know that you should be able to if you well,
Speaker 3: beat anybody left. Easier said than done, though, because I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be a really tough matchup, and
Speaker 3: I think they're actually pretty damn good. Their resume doesn't well,
Speaker 3: the resume is pretty solid, but I actually think when
Speaker 3: it comes to just a talent standpoint, I think they're
Speaker 3: pretty good and I wouldn't be shocked if they end
Speaker 3: up being top three in the ACC when it's all
Speaker 3: said and done. So there's your early lines. Kentucky minus
Speaker 3: two and a half against Florida and Louisville minus three
Speaker 3: and a half on the road against Virginia. Or if
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Speaker 3: So when it comes to these NFL games this weekend,
Speaker 3: I mean, again, there's no doubt the Vikings Lions game,
Speaker 3: it's on paper. Who knows what it's going to look
Speaker 3: like if it actually delivers and gives us a great
Speaker 3: entertaining performance. But you got two teams that are fourteen
Speaker 3: and two, two of the best teams in the NFL.
Speaker 3: And this is for everything in the NFC. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm reading here at CBS Sports and I don't think
Speaker 3: they're wrong that this is perhaps the best regular season
Speaker 3: finale the league has ever had. The winner of this game,
Speaker 3: Wow takes the NFC, and we'll have home field advantage
Speaker 3: for the for the playoffs along with that first round
Speaker 3: by the loser is ending up dropping to the number
Speaker 3: five seed despite being a fourteen win team. That's crazy,
Speaker 3: and it'll be the first thirteen plus win wild card
Speaker 3: team in NFL history. So a lot is on the
Speaker 3: line here. Minnesota at Detroit Austin is a big time
Speaker 3: Vikings fan. No, I mean, what a world not only
Speaker 3: you know, to have this kind of a matchup, but
Speaker 3: like the Lions, more than anything, I want, I want
Speaker 3: insult your Vikings. They've not been like elite, right, but
Speaker 3: like the Lions have for the majority of my lifetime,
Speaker 3: the Lions were one of the bigger jokes in the NFL.
Speaker 3: And now they got Dan Campbell and they love football
Speaker 3: and they're I mean, he's the ultimate football guy, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I can't stand them, but yes, of course, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's he's doing what he can and obviously he's made
Speaker 4: the Lions more relevant than they ever have been. But
Speaker 4: I will say it's a lot of lot of chatter.
Speaker 4: They're they're they're puffing out their chests a little bit.
Speaker 4: These Lions fans just kind of coming out of nowhere
Speaker 4: and having one or two good seasons for the first
Speaker 4: time in their incredibly crummy history. But you know, they
Speaker 4: they've got the guys to do it, and they got
Speaker 4: the biggest thing that that's happened to them is Ben Johnson,
Speaker 4: their offensive coordinator. Yeah, decided not to go anywhere else
Speaker 4: last year and come back and he's definitely gonna get scooped.
Speaker 2: Up by some team next year. And so they're riding
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 4: Of course, the Vikings are riding it out, but the
Speaker 4: Vikings are doing this with and my god, who would
Speaker 4: have thought with Sam freaking Darnold, right, And he's actually
Speaker 4: proved in my point, you know, I'll just put my
Speaker 4: purple shades on.
Speaker 2: He's elite.
Speaker 4: He's been absolutely elite this year. But once again, it
Speaker 4: helps with all of his surrounding cast. And I think
Speaker 4: any quarterback mostly if you're living, breathing and you could
Speaker 4: throw the ball, is gonna thrive in that system. But
Speaker 4: it's gonna be good, dude, the it's gonna be a
Speaker 4: good game. I had nothing, Girsles. That's a huge notorious
Speaker 4: Vikings fan club here in Louisville. Oh yeah, so it's
Speaker 4: it's gonna be. It's gonna be really, really really.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I used to play the old Madden games way back
Speaker 4: in the day, and I was never good at them,
Speaker 4: but the I always would tune in to watch, like don.
Speaker 2: Take hold papers, Okay, I remember calling that Moss like on.
Speaker 4: ESPN, and that's all you saw was I'm just throwing
Speaker 4: bombs at Randy Moss and I'm like, well, maybe if
Speaker 4: I play with them, I'll start winning. And that's what
Speaker 4: I did in the video games, and that just slowly
Speaker 4: turned into My dad would come back from uh from
Speaker 4: watching the games on Sunday, and I always ask did
Speaker 4: the Vikings win? Did the Vikings win? And then I
Speaker 4: always get in my first Randy Moss jersey and then after.
Speaker 2: That it's it. It's been on. It's been heartbreak ever since.
Speaker 3: I mean, these two teams, of course are in the
Speaker 3: same division and are close to each other, but is
Speaker 3: it are they rivals? Because one, I feel like the
Speaker 3: NFL doesn't really have rivalries.
Speaker 2: I mean, you do.
Speaker 3: You have a lot of matt you have a lot
Speaker 3: of duos that have a lot of history and tradition together.
Speaker 3: But I just don't get a feel for like rivalries
Speaker 3: and pro sports quite as much as more because it's
Speaker 3: more personal individual rivalries. But also, like you, they've always stunk,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like it's it's hard to
Speaker 3: rival with somebody whenever, like you, you know, you're not
Speaker 3: really you're usually not worried about losing to them, even
Speaker 3: when you're not good.
Speaker 4: You're and we're now we're starting to reach that point
Speaker 4: where there are rivals because they're now actually good. But
Speaker 4: I hate the pack So the Packers have always been
Speaker 4: my go to, Like I hate them, So the Vikings
Speaker 4: and Packers have always been like the rivalry of the North.
Speaker 4: A lot of people want to say it's Chicago and
Speaker 4: Green Bay because I guess Chicago had at least technically
Speaker 4: Chicago has a championship and they're one little pop up
Speaker 4: season with that eighty five defense. But it's it's been
Speaker 4: more in terms of like relevance over the last twenty
Speaker 4: years and the Vikings of I think I saw a
Speaker 4: stat the other day they're the most winningest program to
Speaker 4: not have a championship in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I would totally I would never have guessed that, but
Speaker 3: hearing that, I would believe it.
Speaker 4: It makes sense when you talk about like the most
Speaker 4: wins in NFL history, like they're like right behind, like
Speaker 4: the Patriots, Cowboys and Steelers haven't broke through and they yeah,
Speaker 4: they just haven't broke through. Just just one before I die, dude,
Speaker 4: just one. Just just get to the dang thing, dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are clearly rivalries in the NFL, but it's just,
Speaker 3: you know, it's different than what you see in college.
Speaker 3: But I think the one that I would compare the
Speaker 3: most as far as just to feel for, you know,
Speaker 3: similar to the college rivalries is the Packers and the Bears,
Speaker 3: just because I feel like a lot of their fans
Speaker 3: are up there in that same region together and I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe I just feel like there's a lot
Speaker 3: of history there. But there also is with with the Vikings.
Speaker 3: I mean that whole division. Anybody that's in a division,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be some history because you play them more
Speaker 3: than you play anybody else.
Speaker 2: It's a black and blue division up there in the
Speaker 2: North YEP.
Speaker 3: So it should be a phenomenal game between the Vikings
Speaker 3: and the Lions. And as of right now, let me
Speaker 3: see if there's any been any movement here on this spread.
Speaker 2: Still at two I think for the Lions, right yep,
Speaker 2: two and a half, two and a half, two and
Speaker 2: a half for the Lions.
Speaker 4: I'll take the over in that game, because what's the
Speaker 4: over at right now?
Speaker 2: Let me let me guess fifty five fifty six, fifty
Speaker 2: six and a half.
Speaker 4: I'll probably say I take I'll probably take the over
Speaker 4: in that because I don't I don't think either team
Speaker 4: is going to stop each other. I think both teams
Speaker 4: have good defense, but the Lions are absolutely depleted. And
Speaker 4: once again, to go back to the Ben Johnson thing,
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson is he's figured out Brian floor Is. If
Speaker 4: there's anybody that's figured out the mad scientists of Brian
Speaker 4: flores Is, it's been Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2: So it's it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna have to become a shootout unless they want to
Speaker 4: try to change up everything and just try to pummel
Speaker 4: the Vikings on the ground with Jamiir Gibbs because he
Speaker 4: can do that. Then I'm looking for I'm looking for
Speaker 4: a shootout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would lean the over there as well. Another
Speaker 3: big game this weekend with a lot on the line,
Speaker 3: I mean, not as much as the one we just
Speaker 3: mentioned there between the Vikings and the Lions. But the
Speaker 3: stakes are pretty high with this Bengals Steelers game. Cincinnati
Speaker 3: needs to win if they're going to keep their playoff
Speaker 3: hopes alive, and because their game is on Saturday, what
Speaker 3: they can do is if they win, they can put
Speaker 3: a little pressure on the Broncos and the Dolphins to
Speaker 3: win on Sunday. Now, the Steelers, they need the Ravens
Speaker 3: to lose to have a chance at getting the AFC
Speaker 3: North title playoff seating still in play. As the Steelers
Speaker 3: look they can they can clinch I guess at least
Speaker 3: the number five seed if they do beat the Bengals,
Speaker 3: and they'll also knock the Bengals out of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: So there's there's a lot I guess there's more variables
Speaker 3: here as far as what the result is going to
Speaker 3: end up meeting for both of these teams. But it's
Speaker 3: pretty simple for the Bengals. I mean, they they got
Speaker 3: a gift from my Colts losing to the Giants, and
Speaker 3: now if they go out there and they win at Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: they're in. And uh, they've got some momentum. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think the Bengals this year have been it's hard
Speaker 3: to I was gonna say something that I don't even
Speaker 3: know if I believe, but I kind of believe it.
Speaker 3: They're probably like the best team that's record doesn't match
Speaker 3: how good they actually are. But that's not me telling
Speaker 3: you that they're like elite. They've had results this year
Speaker 3: that will remind you that they could lose to anybody
Speaker 3: like Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: That's literally their whole time.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow now on that team, I think that they're
Speaker 4: they're probably contending for a top five pick in the draft.
Speaker 2: Their defense is atrocious. I think I think he also
Speaker 2: is throwing it to the best receiver in the league.
Speaker 2: In my I know, Zach Taylor is a complete duficit.
Speaker 3: I don't disagree there. I mean I say this all
Speaker 3: the time. Burrow is worthy of every bit of credit
Speaker 3: that he gets. But he also, you know, like I
Speaker 3: went and watched him play through three interceptions. I mean,
Speaker 3: they beat the Titans and he did not have a
Speaker 3: factor in that on Titans suck and they beat him bad.
Speaker 3: But like, you know, he's great, But I think, you know,
Speaker 3: the conversation about him being an MVP, it would really
Speaker 3: only be because of the point you made that, Like, man,
Speaker 3: he's kind of the reason that they have a pulse.
Speaker 3: But what I don't understand is why there's not as much. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying take any credit away from Burrow at all,
Speaker 3: but he's got Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: And T Higgins.
Speaker 3: Okay, like T Higgins gonna be it's gonna be wide
Speaker 3: receiver one for somebody else because the Bengals won't be
Speaker 3: able to afford him and somebody else will. And he's
Speaker 3: really good. And Jamar Chase, I mean, he's I think
Speaker 3: you have in my opinion right now, it's one A,
Speaker 3: one B the two best receivers in the league, justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson and Jamar Chase. And they're different, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like they're both elite kind of in a
Speaker 3: different way because they're just different styles. But both are
Speaker 3: having phenomenal seasons. And I don't know, like, if you've
Speaker 3: got an offense that's that's that's got this kind of electricity, Yeah,
Speaker 3: your quarterback clearly is a factor, and like he deserves credit,
Speaker 3: but I feel like a again, there's no way to
Speaker 3: say without it sounding like I'm saying Burrow is not
Speaker 3: or the Burrow is getting more credit than he deserves.
Speaker 3: But usually you see others discussing his play acknowledging that
Speaker 3: he's got two weapons that like every quarterback in the
Speaker 3: league would probably die to have. Not to say there
Speaker 3: aren't other really good receivers in the NFL, but I
Speaker 3: just feel like Jamar Chase has in the Super Bowl
Speaker 3: season when they made it all the way to the
Speaker 3: super Bowl, and even this year where they're still alive
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, it's ninety nine percent about Burrow when
Speaker 3: you hear the talk of the Bengals. Yes, and he's great,
Speaker 3: but man, so is Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm not a big Joe Burrow apologist or sometimes there's
Speaker 4: you know, I get it, I understand with him. So, like,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't mind hating Joe Burrow from the side,
Speaker 4: but he's hard to hate on just because.
Speaker 3: He's Yeah, I mean, I think he's good, and I
Speaker 3: think I'm a bigger I mean, I'm not a Bengals fan,
Speaker 3: but I'm a fan of Burrow because of just you know,
Speaker 3: how he cares. I think like he's he carries himself well.
Speaker 3: And it's not like I'm saying he's a great dude.
Speaker 3: But I just feel like you can tell he's a
Speaker 3: real he's a gamer, he's he's mentally tough, he's got mocks, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: He's he's kind of a throwback a little bit in
Speaker 3: that way. So you know, he's got a quiet confidence
Speaker 3: about himself. And I really, you know, I got a
Speaker 3: ton of respect for him. I just feel like maybe
Speaker 3: because he has so much respect, that's why there's just
Speaker 3: not as much thought of like he also has. I
Speaker 3: mean you could make the case that, you know, if
Speaker 3: who we're gonna consider receivers for MVPJ Mark Chase would
Speaker 3: be candidate. I mean it's again, I don't think anybody
Speaker 3: would say he's not good, but like, he's clearly another
Speaker 3: reason why the Bengals have been able to have a
Speaker 3: bad defense. They've been very vulnerable at times and have
Speaker 3: some bad losses, but yet here they are A win
Speaker 3: against Pittsburgh not necessarily probable, but they could do it,
Speaker 3: and if they do, I don't think anybody's gonna be surprised.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have like the most losses of teams that
Speaker 4: scored like over thirty points this year, so their defense
Speaker 4: is not picking up there into the bargain.
Speaker 3: Doesn't it feel like these two teams have the exact
Speaker 3: opposite momentum right now? Yes, And I think that's telling
Speaker 3: in the spread, as the Bengals are currently favored by
Speaker 3: two and a half in the total there forty seven
Speaker 3: and a half. I lean the over just because of
Speaker 3: what I've seen from the Bengals, But I don't know.
Speaker 3: Last time I trusted the over, Russell Wilson decided to
Speaker 3: throw the ball to the other team.
Speaker 2: All lot ti right.
Speaker 3: I mean he he reappeared as bad Russ against the
Speaker 3: Chiefs and and that's gonna keep me from from having
Speaker 3: the confidence to look. But this is also again, this
Speaker 3: is what I love about the NFL. Like, clearly the
Speaker 3: Bengals have the momentum, and I just mentioned if they win,
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's gonna be super shocked. But like
Speaker 3: if Tomlin does what Tomlin does and they win an
Speaker 3: ugly game tomorrow, nobody's gonna be shocked either because that's
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 2: Is that game in Pittsburgh or Cincinnati?
Speaker 3: That game is I believe yeah's in Pittsburgh on the road,
Speaker 3: So it's.
Speaker 4: Going to be a good The AFC nor too that's
Speaker 4: those a bunch of teams that absolutely hate each other.
Speaker 4: I don't think any Browns fans like any Bengals fans.
Speaker 4: I don't think any Steelers fans like any that they
Speaker 4: hate it, like like the Ravens, like they they hate.
Speaker 4: Everybody hates each other in that division.
Speaker 3: I tell you what, I didn't realize the Chiefs Broncos
Speaker 3: game had had as much at stake as it does.
Speaker 3: So the Broncos, I mean they they're still alive. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they pretty much control all the chaos in the final
Speaker 3: day of the regular season. So all they got to
Speaker 3: do is win, and they're in as the seventh seed,
Speaker 3: the final team. But if they lose, it opens the
Speaker 3: door for Miami or Cincinnati to get in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: So again, am I wrong here? Is that what somebody's
Speaker 3: probably calling to tell me?
Speaker 2: I'm wrong? So if the Bengals win, they are in.
Speaker 2: I think they are. I think they know.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yes, I'm sorry, I had that wrong. I'm
Speaker 3: a dumb ass. So the Bengals need to win, and
Speaker 3: they need the Broncos.
Speaker 2: To lose, even though they already beat them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Broncos clearly the Broncos losing seems likely
Speaker 3: given the fact that the Chiefs are fifteen to one,
Speaker 3: but the Chiefs are also resting their starters, so like
Speaker 3: it wins, it does get dicey. And again I forgot
Speaker 3: to mention that because or maybe I did mention. I
Speaker 3: just had a brain farting for God. But yes, the
Speaker 3: win for the Bengals on Saturday, what it'll do is
Speaker 3: put more pressure on the Broncos to know that hey,
Speaker 3: they they gotta they gotta, they gotta win or it's over.
Speaker 3: And now if they if they if the Bengals lose
Speaker 3: and the Broncos lose, the Broncos would still get in
Speaker 3: right yeah and yeah yeah, So if Denver loses, you
Speaker 3: know what's what the Miami scenario.
Speaker 4: So I think I thought that Miami was eliminated. Maybe
Speaker 4: I wasn't just paying attention, but I think if I
Speaker 4: think Miami needs both of those team to lose in
Speaker 4: Miami needs.
Speaker 2: To wag yes.
Speaker 3: So it says this is the right up here from
Speaker 3: CBS on this game. It's just the this is by
Speaker 3: the way, the Dolphins at the Jets say, this game
Speaker 3: has has meaning if the Broncos lose, So that's it.
Speaker 3: So if the Broncos lose, the Dolphins will make the
Speaker 3: playoffs if they if they win, and I don't know,
Speaker 3: like if so, if what if? What if every team loses,
Speaker 3: Like if the Dolphins lose and the Broncos lose and
Speaker 3: the Bengals lose, who gets in?
Speaker 4: I would think the Broncos, But that would be weird
Speaker 4: considering that the Bengals just beat the Broncos, So I'm
Speaker 4: not necessarily sure. I guess it would depend on who
Speaker 4: else loses, and I think they might go by I
Speaker 4: don't know if they go by strength the schedule tiebreaker
Speaker 4: in the In the NFL, I think they go off
Speaker 4: of what's it called a familiar opponent?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, similar opponent thing.
Speaker 3: That's what they do in the The accs have breakers too,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I I need.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is when the NFL is
Speaker 2: at its best. This is madness right now. Like, this
Speaker 2: is not a.
Speaker 3: Playoff game, but it is for teams because you're playing,
Speaker 3: you're playing to get in, so it's essentially the surviving
Speaker 3: advanced kind of situation. So it should be great. And
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. I used to be
Speaker 3: kind of like, what are we doing here? It's Saturday,
Speaker 3: but I love that we get these late season Saturday
Speaker 3: NFL games. It's awesome, good stuff. All right, quick break,
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Killer Mike, quite the name for a bone crusher.
Speaker 3: You know you know what you're getting when it comes
Speaker 3: to a guy named bone crusher.
Speaker 4: Imagine who you think a rapper named bone Crusher is.
Speaker 4: And that's exactly who you.
Speaker 3: Think, exactly, exactly all right, it's Coffee and Company, and
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Speaker 3: here on a Friday afternoon, before we get out of
Speaker 3: here for the weekend. But some updates for Louisville football
Speaker 3: here as they've continued to add players in the portal
Speaker 3: and they're continuing to lose players in the portal, and
Speaker 3: I still feel like they're in a pretty good spot
Speaker 3: as far as there are guys that have left that
Speaker 3: for the most parts, you feel like, you know, you
Speaker 3: understand why they're leaving, and it's probably going to be
Speaker 3: a beneficial thing for both those players and for Louisville.
Speaker 3: There have been some guys that have left that I
Speaker 3: wish would have stuck around, So you know that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: That's the new world that we are in. But Harrison
Speaker 3: Bailey entered the portal, did not even know that he
Speaker 3: was available for another season of college football. He was
Speaker 3: the MVP of the Sun Bowl, and I thought he
Speaker 3: did pretty good. I mean, you know, he wasn't Tyler Shuck,
Speaker 3: but he also made enough plays and I would not
Speaker 3: be shocked at all if he starts somewhere next season.
Speaker 3: And you know, when I see red shirt senior, I'm
Speaker 3: just assuming that means that you are in your last
Speaker 3: year and it's because of a red shirt that you
Speaker 3: took before. But we're still in that window where anybody,
Speaker 3: when it comes to their eligibility, if they fight for
Speaker 3: another year, maybe they get it.
Speaker 2: I don't know his situation.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's been out of he's been in
Speaker 3: college for a lot longer than four years. But maybe
Speaker 3: I'm wrong because he has been at two different schools.
Speaker 3: Louisville was his third destination and he spent two years here.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, and it's really not that important,
Speaker 3: I suppose, because you know, he's moving on. But I
Speaker 3: feel like he's been in college for six years. Unless
Speaker 3: he was only at Tennessee for one year. Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: He spent his first two seasons at Tennessee and then
Speaker 3: he spent the twenty twenty two season and at UNLV. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so yeah, he's he's been in college for five years.
Speaker 3: I guess he'll get a sixty year because of you know,
Speaker 3: COVID or red shirt, whatever may be.
Speaker 2: Hey, music still on?
Speaker 3: Still do you want me to play it on the
Speaker 3: rebound on the on the way back in.
Speaker 2: No, No, I got it. You said that last time
Speaker 2: and you didn't know. I feel like lying, do you?
Speaker 2: So I don't got it.
Speaker 3: We'll see, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean here, we don't know,
Speaker 3: we don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: But well, you know what I figured. You like bone crushers.
Speaker 4: I keep it in your ear as much as you
Speaker 4: could and just keep lying to you.
Speaker 2: Bone crusher is is great.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so Harrison Bailey is going to transfer, and
Speaker 3: I think it, you know, makes total sense.
Speaker 2: Clearly.
Speaker 3: There's there's a quarterback for next season and his name
Speaker 3: is Miller Moss. Also, Louisville added a player today. A
Speaker 3: they got a commitment from another receiver.
Speaker 2: TJ.
Speaker 3: McWilliams is a receiver who's transferring in from Minnesota. Not
Speaker 3: super familiar uh with with his his career, but he
Speaker 3: spent two years at Minnesota and he's six foot, one
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety pounds.
Speaker 2: Row the boats, that's right, row the boat.
Speaker 3: But he's really he's really not played a whole lot
Speaker 3: during his time. So hopefully these guys can come in
Speaker 3: and help you. And again, I think the pieces you've
Speaker 3: added at receiver. We mentioned TJ McWilliams, who is coming
Speaker 3: from a Big Ten program but obviously has not played
Speaker 3: a whole lot thus far in his two seasons at Minnesota.
Speaker 3: And then you also look at Nebraska transfer Isaiah Nayer
Speaker 3: who committed yesterday, another receiver who has spent time at
Speaker 3: both Texas and Wyoming, and look, these guys may be
Speaker 3: great or they may just be you know, solid receivers
Speaker 3: that are getting a few catches a game, and that
Speaker 3: may be all you need as far as from the portal,
Speaker 3: because I think when it comes to Chris Bell and
Speaker 3: obviously Lacey, who super talented and man, he was pretty
Speaker 3: sensational at times in that Bowl game, and we started
Speaker 3: to see it before he decided to opt out.
Speaker 2: But you know, you could see this guy.
Speaker 3: Getting healthier each week, and you know you realize had
Speaker 3: something special there. I mean, heck, that first game he
Speaker 3: played against Notre Dame, he had a catch in that
Speaker 3: game that probably was the best catch anybody had this year.
Speaker 3: So also I'll mention Blue Hicks. I think he's a
Speaker 3: guy that probably deserved a little bit more run towards
Speaker 3: the end of last season. I would imagine he'll be
Speaker 3: on the field next year, So you know, these guys
Speaker 3: you're adding, there's not as much of a need there
Speaker 3: for you to go out and get Like last year
Speaker 3: when you went out and got Jacori Brooks, that was
Speaker 3: pretty necessary you need and Colin Lacy for that matter,
Speaker 3: because you were you were losing a lot of receiver
Speaker 3: with with Jamari Thrash moving on and some other guys
Speaker 3: that had graduated. So I don't know a whole lot
Speaker 3: about these guys. Although for what it's worth, Neayer is
Speaker 3: he's huge, six four two and twenty pounds, played an
Speaker 3: all nine games or in all twelve games, made nine
Speaker 3: starts this past year for Nebraska, thirty four receptions about
Speaker 3: five hundred yards, had five touchdowns, so this is certainly
Speaker 3: a good get. Now, he actually started his career at
Speaker 3: Wyoming and was second team All Mountain West, so you know,
Speaker 3: he actually does have a pretty good as a meaning mayor.
Speaker 3: So you add him with the guys that you have,
Speaker 3: and if McWilliams ends up being a pretty reliable guy,
Speaker 3: then I'd say that's just an added, a big time
Speaker 3: added bonus. All right, So let's quickly before we get
Speaker 3: to our next break, Let's talk about Kentucky football because
Speaker 3: they've not had a good offseason coming off of what
Speaker 3: was a really bad season, probably the worst season four
Speaker 3: Mark Mark Stoops.
Speaker 2: I mean just given you know.
Speaker 3: Clearly he had years where they won fewer games when
Speaker 3: he first got there, when he took over from for
Speaker 3: Joker Phillips. But this is a team that had some
Speaker 3: talented players. They had some expectations because he's been successful
Speaker 3: at Kentucky for their standard, and then they fell on
Speaker 3: their face and they were really bad this year. And
Speaker 3: maybe Stoops is going and getting these guys in the
Speaker 3: portal that you know that are just gonna be, you know,
Speaker 3: very similar to him, right. They're just bring their lunch
Speaker 3: pale every day, go to work. They're not big nil guys.
Speaker 3: They're just ready to play some ball. Because maybe Stoops
Speaker 3: is so turned off by the guys that he's had
Speaker 3: in recent years because of their you know, their their
Speaker 3: toxicity and whatnot.
Speaker 2: And I don't really know.
Speaker 3: I mean, Kentucky's had two guys arrested since the season ended.
Speaker 3: One of them has since transferred since his arrest. But
Speaker 3: when you hear about their bad culture, I mean, is
Speaker 3: it guys not showing up to practice is it guys
Speaker 3: just mailing it in because you know, you would think
Speaker 3: that some of these guys that are that have left
Speaker 3: Kentucky that you know, we're getting a lot of money
Speaker 3: to be at Kentucky, that have talent that they have
Speaker 3: shown at times in their career that they could be really,
Speaker 3: really good, you know, Kentucky. And not every fan is
Speaker 3: is treating this as like it's no big deal. I
Speaker 3: think some fans realize, yeah, not ideal to be coming
Speaker 3: off such a disastrous season and losing talented players that
Speaker 3: you're probably not going to be able to go replace very,
Speaker 3: very easily.
Speaker 2: But you know, it just sounds as if this was
Speaker 2: what you got.
Speaker 3: To do for Stoops because he's or this is what
Speaker 3: Stoops has to do because you know, the culture is
Speaker 3: just so bad. But and I'm I'm sure that was
Speaker 3: a factor to an extent, But I feel like if
Speaker 3: they would have found ways to win some games this year,
Speaker 3: would you still be looking to move on from these guys?
Speaker 2: And honestly, I.
Speaker 3: Don't, I don't believe by the way that every single
Speaker 3: guy that is left and I'm sure you know most
Speaker 3: Kentucky I mean, clearly they didn't want Damee Key to leave.
Speaker 3: I don't think they wanted hardly Gilmore to leave. The
Speaker 3: freshman who and by.
Speaker 2: The way, he was. Here are the two arrests they have.
Speaker 3: They had a football defensive back who was arrested I
Speaker 3: think over the weekend and he I don't know what
Speaker 3: the actual charge was, but I think it was something
Speaker 3: about I'll pull up the details here and kind of
Speaker 3: surprised looking at KOSR there's no there's no coverage of
Speaker 3: the arrest here. You would think that with the coverage
Speaker 3: that they provide for Kentucky football that they would be
Speaker 3: they would be covering. And I saw write up at
Speaker 3: Kentucky Sports Radio about the about the punter for Louisville
Speaker 3: that decided to opt out because of nil stuff. But
Speaker 3: I don't see I'm not seeing it much of anything
Speaker 3: when it comes to this Kentucky. You know, these two
Speaker 3: players for Kentucky that were that were arrested.
Speaker 2: See may miss that story. Could he missed it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we'll have to Maybe I'll maybe I'll give
Speaker 3: Nick Roush a call, let him know I know he's
Speaker 3: he's What about the big dog, hardest working man on
Speaker 3: the on the beat, the big dog coming to Louisville.
Speaker 2: I still have. I mean.
Speaker 3: I'm dying to one day figure out like is that
Speaker 3: completely made up or was there ever any real Like
Speaker 3: I could see Louisville maybe being fine with taking him
Speaker 3: on their staff and you know, sticking it to their
Speaker 3: rival and utilizing what he does well, which is recruit
Speaker 3: But the scenario where any school was going to pay
Speaker 3: him one point three million like he makes at Kentucky,
Speaker 3: that's just that was never gonna happen.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I feel like I thought I
Speaker 2: saw him at the UNC Louisville game the other day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the North Carolina opening on Belichick's staff that
Speaker 3: clearly Vince was feeding that to football scoop and and
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe maybe a call was made, but like,
Speaker 3: have a little self awareness, my man, Like the big
Speaker 3: dog needs an agent that does that that that helps
Speaker 3: him when it comes to like perception and like reading
Speaker 3: the room. Have some self awareness because yeah, he's a
Speaker 3: good recruiter at Kentucky, but there's nobody out there lining
Speaker 3: up to go get him because nobody's gonna pay him.
Speaker 3: That nobody would and I think he probably knows that.
Speaker 3: But the having everybody think you're gonna go to Louisville
Speaker 3: when it was never really gonna happen, and then the
Speaker 3: whole I don't know, I don't know much about the
Speaker 3: Carolina situation at all, but it was just so obvious
Speaker 3: that he wanted it out there to have another Well, wow,
Speaker 3: he's decided to stay at Kentucky. I mean, it just
Speaker 3: it's it's it's embarrassing to be honest with you. But anyways,
Speaker 3: Jordan Levitt, the defensive back for Kentucky, was arrested. This
Speaker 3: was on December thirtieth for reckless driving in possession of
Speaker 3: marijuana after he was spotted racing another vehicle on Bluegrass Parkway.
Speaker 3: And then also the recent arrest actually this was a
Speaker 3: while back. Hardly Gilmore Gilmore Hardly, what a weird name.
Speaker 3: He's a freshman receiver. He was arrested the week after
Speaker 3: the Governor's Cup game, and you know, clearly people knew
Speaker 3: about it and just didn't report it because you know,
Speaker 3: they take care of stoops out there. They don't want
Speaker 3: to report on the negative stuff. But anyways, he was
Speaker 3: arrested after assaulting somebody at a at a storage rental
Speaker 3: place in Lexington. He was charged with assault, So he
Speaker 3: I guess from what I understand, he was going to
Speaker 3: be disciplined and didn't like what discipline they had in mind,
Speaker 3: so he just left and hit the portal. So again,
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to to to go out of my
Speaker 3: way here, but like, I don't think it's crazy at
Speaker 3: all to say that their their off season has been
Speaker 3: as bad as their bad season, because I mean, they're
Speaker 3: not adding anybody that makes you feel like they're going
Speaker 3: to be any better than they were a year ago,
Speaker 3: and they're losing players left and right, and maybe you know,
Speaker 3: you know, you're thinking some you know, addition by subtraction.
Speaker 3: Do you really believe that deep down? Do you really
Speaker 3: think you know you're getting better by chip train them
Speaker 3: leaving a former ohiuse State running back. I mean dan
Speaker 3: Kie clearly is somebody didn't want to leave. I know
Speaker 3: Barry and Brown might have missed some practices, but like
Speaker 3: he's also somebody that can make plays that you know,
Speaker 3: whoever you bring in probably won't be able to.
Speaker 2: Make it all.
Speaker 3: So it's nice to see things shifting back to where
Speaker 3: they belong.
Speaker 2: Louisville the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Louisville with momentum heading in the right direction, good energy,
Speaker 3: good vibes, and the exact opposite for Kentucky football. So
Speaker 3: way it should be my opinion, give a lock her
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Speaker 3: I'm a little jealous of Austin because he was able
Speaker 3: to hit a big parlay last night.
Speaker 2: Was it college hoops only or was it five leg
Speaker 2: college hoops? She's son of a I was jealous man a.
Speaker 4: Huge, bad losing streak for a while, and finally came
Speaker 4: that shout out to my cousin Kayla for let me
Speaker 4: use her account those two hundred and fifty free bets.
Speaker 2: Keep that down. I wouldn't tell people.
Speaker 4: Well, let me handicap for her, because I told her, yeah,
Speaker 4: there you go. Yeah, So yes, it was logging on herself.
Speaker 2: She did it.
Speaker 4: She just asked me, hey, Austin, I need a little
Speaker 4: bit of need a little bit of knowledge.
Speaker 2: And you you hooked her up.
Speaker 4: I hooked it right on up, and she was gracious
Speaker 4: enough to split it with me. So five legs, five legs,
Speaker 4: and my gosh, I can't log into the account right now,
Speaker 4: so I can't tell you exactly what it was, but yeah,
Speaker 4: it was. It was pretty big and I was I
Speaker 4: was sweating the.
Speaker 2: Man. Which game was I watching last night? I think
Speaker 2: it was South Games last night, So Dakota.
Speaker 4: State and Pepperdine I think and Pepperdine. I bet against
Speaker 4: them a couple of days ago when Gonzaga had a
Speaker 4: twenty point lead on them and that dwindled and I
Speaker 4: think they lost by like four or five points. And
Speaker 4: it's Gonzaga's banned by the way, They're not. They're not
Speaker 4: going on any of the bet slips anymore. Mark Few
Speaker 4: is just an absolute fraud with the capital F R
Speaker 4: A U D. I'm done with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they screwed me earlier this year when they
Speaker 3: played UCLA.
Speaker 2: So I've had there, hadn't been at it's early.
Speaker 3: We haven't got there yet, but I'm sure by the
Speaker 3: time we get to like late January, maybe early February,
Speaker 3: there'll be a list of teams that I can just
Speaker 3: I know, I got to stay away from because I
Speaker 3: can't seem to get a read on him yet I
Speaker 3: keep betting on him, and I'm just wrong. But tonight
Speaker 3: not a great slate of games, but there are some
Speaker 3: decent ones. There's just not as many games. But there
Speaker 3: actually are some solid ones that I started looking at
Speaker 3: earlier because again I got the itch I needed to
Speaker 3: get some action, build a big parlay, and try to
Speaker 3: win some money. I was jealous of Austin's winnings last night.
Speaker 3: So what I want to do before we get out
Speaker 3: of here at the We'll do make this the last segment.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a pretty good idea of what I.
Speaker 3: Want to do after looking at it earlier, but I
Speaker 3: want to double check it before I share it with you,
Speaker 3: because maybe some lines have change, maybe I'm second guess
Speaker 3: some some stuff. But we've got Michigan State in Ohio State.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty damn good Friday night basketball game at
Speaker 3: eight o'clock.
Speaker 2: It is at Ohio State.
Speaker 3: I am man, I'm leaning taking just taking Ohio State
Speaker 3: money line, but I don't know. Maybe Michigan State's better
Speaker 3: than I'm giving them credit for.
Speaker 2: You got them plus two over there, two and a
Speaker 2: half yep.
Speaker 3: And then also Iowa in Wisconsin that's another game tonight
Speaker 3: in the Big Ten. I love Wisconsin, so yeah, I
Speaker 3: love Wisconsin. Here on a Friday night, that place is
Speaker 3: going to be rowdy. This is not a very good
Speaker 3: Iowa team in Wisconsin. I mean, they had some momentum
Speaker 3: to start the season and then they lost three in
Speaker 3: a row. But those three losses were all to top
Speaker 3: ten teams as far as the kin Pom. I mean,
Speaker 3: they lost three in a row, but it was to Michigan, Marquette,
Speaker 3: and Illinois. They have a win against Butler. They have
Speaker 3: a good win against Pittsburgh, who I still believes a
Speaker 3: good team, and they're actually in the top twenty five
Speaker 3: here in the kin Pom. This win didn't age well,
Speaker 3: but it was a beat down. They knocked off Arizona
Speaker 3: earlier this season, so I'm a believer in this Wisconsin team.
Speaker 3: So I like them there. Not sure if I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do the money line or do the spread.
Speaker 4: I got a good spread one for you. Got Wagner
Speaker 4: in Chicago State. Chicago State hasn't won a game yet,
Speaker 4: and they're nine and a half point favorites, and I'm
Speaker 4: looking at some projection sheets right now looking at a
Speaker 4: huge win for Wagner.
Speaker 2: The Seahawks give me some money.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stay away from that one just because I
Speaker 3: don't know anything about them. And I find when you
Speaker 3: bet on teams in the three hundreds, which is where
Speaker 3: Wagner and Chicago State are, you just really have no
Speaker 3: clue what to expect.
Speaker 2: Be what it's worth Wagner.
Speaker 3: Wagner is projected to win sixty six to fifty seven
Speaker 3: according to the kin Palm.
Speaker 2: What was the spread you had there? Nine and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that would uh be a bad beat there
Speaker 3: if it ends up being exactly what that score. But
Speaker 3: you know, Chicago State, for what it's worth, they're three
Speaker 3: sixty one in the kN Palm out I mean, and
Speaker 3: they're winless. So yeah, I mean that's not good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's not good. I mean, them keeping it close seems unlikely.
Speaker 3: But again, Wagner is also a team that you know
Speaker 3: is in the three hundreds, but clearly better than better
Speaker 3: than Chicago State. Now you got me thinking I need
Speaker 3: to add that because I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't dislike that at all. It's just whenever when
Speaker 3: I when you have two teams playing that you know
Speaker 3: are both in the bad tear you know category, and
Speaker 3: you know that one is probably a lot worse than
Speaker 3: the other, but technically both are still bad. I just
Speaker 3: have been you know, I wouldn't even say I've been burned.
Speaker 3: I've just been wrong by thinking that a bad team
Speaker 3: will beat anybody by a big number, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: That's just going to be a stink off of a
Speaker 2: game probably. I mean, like, I mean, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, how many teams are there? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So in the in Division one currently there are three
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty fourteen. Chicago State is three sixty one.
Speaker 3: The teams the teams worse than Chicago State Coppin State,
Speaker 3: Arkansas Pine Bluff, and Mississippi Valley State. However, we were
Speaker 3: in the bottom oh yeah, oh yeah. So there are
Speaker 3: only two teams in college basketball of the three sixty
Speaker 3: four that do not have a win, and Chicago State
Speaker 3: is one of them, along with Canisuussius. Yeah, Canisius, who
Speaker 3: is oh to thirteen?
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 3: No, but again, the other matchups here tonight Georgetown and Xavier.
Speaker 3: I I kind of want to Xavier's burned me this year,
Speaker 3: Sean Miller's got me, but I feel like I'm still
Speaker 3: not trusting ed Cooley and Georgetown. So that's the one
Speaker 3: I'm kind of probably gonna end up just saying, look,
Speaker 3: I've gone back and forth enough. I may just leave
Speaker 3: that one off. But you also have Nevada at New Mexico.
Speaker 3: That should be a really good game. I really like
Speaker 3: New Mexico in this matchup at home on a Friday night.
Speaker 3: Richard's usually pretty good in the spots. They have those
Speaker 3: Mountain West games on FS one that's a late one,
Speaker 3: by the way, eleven eleven PM. And then also Creighton
Speaker 3: at Marquette. Marquette has been phenomenal this year. They're projected
Speaker 3: to win by eleven in the UH in the King Palm,
Speaker 3: and the spread currently is sitting at.
Speaker 2: Let's see whereas it. I just had it. It's nine
Speaker 2: and a half. So again I like and I do too.
Speaker 2: I really like it.
Speaker 3: I really like it because Creighton has I mean, Creighton
Speaker 3: won lost one of their better one of their better players,
Speaker 3: and they still have a They still have one of
Speaker 3: the best bigs in the country. U in Ryan Cochbrenner.
Speaker 3: What Cock Brinner? I barely know her. You like that one't?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It just matter anyways, uh Cock Brinner. He's he's still
Speaker 3: very productive. But you know, they're they're not They're not
Speaker 3: as six, although they did they are.
Speaker 2: I forgot this. They did.
Speaker 3: They did get a they did get a pretty big win.
Speaker 3: They upset Saint John's on on New Year's Eve. WHI
Speaker 3: that's a big win form, So now I got us.
Speaker 3: But I still Marquette. I've watched them fully two times
Speaker 3: and I've seen bits and pieces of their games here
Speaker 3: and there. I'm a believer. You know, their loss to
Speaker 3: Dayton and they're lost to Iowa State. Those aren't terrible losses.
Speaker 3: And they're at home, they're better. I like, I like
Speaker 3: them to cover. That's a lot of points, especially for
Speaker 3: a Creton team that's coming off of a big victory
Speaker 3: against Saint John's.
Speaker 2: But I leen, I leen Creighton.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I got. My eye on, my
Speaker 4: degenerate eye on I got. I got stone Hill against Mercyhurst.
Speaker 4: How about that Mercyhurst versus stone Hill line right now
Speaker 4: is plus two for mercy Hurst, but over under with
Speaker 4: one thirty four projected a total score of one thirty six.
Speaker 4: I'll take the under in that game under one thirty four,
Speaker 4: for it should be a battle of two titans, the
Speaker 4: stone Hill Skyhawks and the Lakers of Mercyhurst.
Speaker 2: I did not I'd heard of stone Hill just because
Speaker 2: one of the mown like a high school team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like a made up team and a
Speaker 3: made up team and a teen sitcom. Right, Yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: be got mercy Hurst this weekend. Mercyhurst is the team
Speaker 3: that I'm not kidding you. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: heard of.
Speaker 2: Like if you if it was hard for me to say,
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 3: I used to be pretty good at knowing, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't name every team off the top of my head.
Speaker 3: But if you told me a team, are they real
Speaker 3: or are they fake? Or they Division one or whatever,
Speaker 3: I think I would have been. I feel like I
Speaker 3: would have been pretty good.
Speaker 4: What would win in a fight? A Skyhawk or a Laker?
Speaker 4: What is a Laker?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we gotta go. I think we
Speaker 2: gotta go. We gotta go Skyhak. I'm going Skyhawk. Yeah,
Speaker 2: give me Skyhawk. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So they're in the Northeast Conference. Mercyhurst is, and I'm
Speaker 3: telling you they have to be. I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 3: if this is their first year in Division one, because
Speaker 3: I feel like, I this is rare for me, and
Speaker 3: again it's not certainly not something to brag about, but
Speaker 3: I feel like I I would have known about them
Speaker 3: or at least heard of them if they weren't brand
Speaker 3: new two two D one. They are for Marie, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: which is where I have where I have some family.
Speaker 2: At here, isn't it. Yeah, let's see they joined the
Speaker 2: NAA C.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is gonna tell me when they joined, because
Speaker 3: I know nobody cares. This is the probably the least
Speaker 3: relevant thing we've ever discussed on this show, but I've
Speaker 3: got to know. And yes I'm correct, this is their
Speaker 3: first year in the in the Northeastern Conference.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 3: All right, we got to run one more hour left.
Speaker 3: We'll finish strong before we get out of here for
Speaker 3: the weekend. Stick around for the fop oclock hour. It's
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