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Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in Game Day edition Coffee and
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Speaker 5: Nick Coffee, Austa Montgomery with you for the next next
Speaker 5: three hours. And it is game day. And I'm sure
Speaker 5: this is one of those things that could be made
Speaker 5: fun of.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe you don't realize it, but you're putting yourself
Speaker 5: out there and giving you know, your your rival or
Speaker 5: just you know, anybody who wants to be a jerk
Speaker 5: the ammunition to you know.
Speaker 4: Make fun of you.
Speaker 5: But Louisville SMU, I'm sure it's not a game that
Speaker 5: many people are aware is even happening outside of you know,
Speaker 5: Louisville fans and SMU fans, and I guess just big
Speaker 5: time college basketball fans, right those who you know cover
Speaker 5: the ACC. They realize what we have this evening at
Speaker 5: nine o'clock in Dallas. But you know, I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: be real. I'm I've said it many times, probably more
Speaker 5: than I need to. I'm just enjoying the ride, and
Speaker 5: the ride has got us to this point where you've
Speaker 5: got a chance to go get a road victory against
Speaker 5: a seem that right now, I would say is easily
Speaker 5: the third hottest team in the ACC outside of Duke
Speaker 5: and Louisville. And that may not mean a whole lot,
Speaker 5: right but hey, it's when it comes to the rest
Speaker 5: of the schedule that you have here. This is your
Speaker 5: best opportunity the rest of the way to get a
Speaker 5: win that's going to have some value. Now, who knows
Speaker 5: what the value is actually going to be at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, but right now, today it's a
Speaker 5: big opportunity. I mean, this SMU team, you know their
Speaker 5: favor they opened up as one and a half point
Speaker 5: favorite's actually I'm sorry it was it was just a point,
Speaker 5: not the hook. And as of right now, let me
Speaker 5: just double check here. I haven't seen much movement since
Speaker 5: this morning, but yeah, it's actually moved slightly now we
Speaker 5: have the hook, so it's SMU minus one and a half.
Speaker 5: So Pat Kelsey, he's a dog in this game. His team,
Speaker 5: they're underdogs, and I kind of feel like they've had well,
Speaker 5: I don't know. It's going to lie to you and
Speaker 5: say that I feel like they've kind of had they've
Speaker 5: had that underdog kind of chip on their shoulder, But
Speaker 5: I really, I really don't think that's the case. I
Speaker 5: think they're viewed that way because the run that they're
Speaker 5: on right now is one that I can tell you
Speaker 5: hand up. Personally, I didn't expect to see it. I
Speaker 5: didn't think that they would go over a month without
Speaker 5: losing a game since the Kentucky game. They have they
Speaker 5: have lost, and yeah, they had a close call against dKu,
Speaker 5: And yes, I'm aware of some of the teams they've
Speaker 5: played aren't necessarily great, but I don't care about that.
Speaker 5: So I actually think now that I'm going back in
Speaker 5: time here, when they got into January, right, that's and
Speaker 5: this is the stretch since then, Carolina at home, Virginia
Speaker 5: on the road, Clemson at home, Pittsburgh on the road,
Speaker 5: Syracuse on the road, and then Virginia at home. That's
Speaker 5: that's what they've done here so far this month in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five, and since then, I feel like they
Speaker 5: play is if they are I mean, dare I say
Speaker 5: not the bully, But you know, they're not playing like
Speaker 5: they're timid and they're like they're not they're not getting
Speaker 5: hot and you know, putting some magical run together like Rudy.
Speaker 4: They're they're out there.
Speaker 5: Beating teams for the most part pretty bad. I mean,
Speaker 5: they're they're hammering some teams, and at times they've done
Speaker 5: it with some really good individual performances that are just
Speaker 5: you know, like wow, where did that come from? Or Wow,
Speaker 5: that guy probably gonna be tough to see him having
Speaker 5: a game quite as good as this one, right, Like
Speaker 5: Javon Hadley had thirty plus rain Smith, we saw what
Speaker 5: he did against Pittsburgh and then the team as a
Speaker 5: whole really just shot shot the lights out against Syracuse.
Speaker 5: So but those are things that now we know, like
Speaker 5: when it happens, it's not a big shock. So I'm
Speaker 5: feeling good today. Louisville Basketball Tonight, nine o'clock tip nobody
Speaker 5: really likes the late tip. I'm not one that you
Speaker 5: know is in favor of everyone loves the late tip
Speaker 5: late well late tip off for basketball. Oh yeah, different things,
Speaker 5: but yes, I think one is really any I mean
Speaker 5: late early, whatever you'll take it.
Speaker 4: Basketball. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm not a big fan of the of the nine
Speaker 5: o'clock late games, and it used to be because I
Speaker 5: would have to do a postgame show, which obviously that's
Speaker 5: not an issue this season. But I just know that
Speaker 5: when the game ends, regardless of what happens tonight, I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna be able to sleep. I'm gonna because you know,
Speaker 5: you're it's like, uh im gonna try to get and
Speaker 5: I'm sure everybody listening, who's you know, a lunatic to
Speaker 5: some extent like I am during these games, Like I
Speaker 5: rarely sit down. I'm usually standing the whole time, especially
Speaker 5: if like it's a close game and it's a big
Speaker 5: game where there's a lot on the line. If it's
Speaker 5: you know, you're up thirty against somebody, then I'm kind
Speaker 5: of chilling. But if this is like a tight game
Speaker 5: and it's neck and neck throughout and Louisville either holds
Speaker 5: on to win or maybe they let it slip late,
Speaker 5: whatever happens. Like think think the movie Step Brothers. I'm
Speaker 5: sure you've seen that, right, Austin.
Speaker 2: Of course, one of my favorite movies ever.
Speaker 5: Like imagine sweating when Brennan or Dale asks Brennan why
Speaker 5: he's sweating, and he said he was watching cops, Like
Speaker 5: cops is high alert, Like you know, wow, Like what
Speaker 5: that's an adrenaline Probably not the greatest comparison, but like
Speaker 5: there's a yeah, there's adrenaline involved in the game, win
Speaker 5: or lose, especially if if it's a blowout one way
Speaker 5: or the other, then it won't be as big of
Speaker 5: a deal. But that's my biggest issue now. That just
Speaker 5: shows how old and washed I am is that this
Speaker 5: game is probably not going to end till around eleven
Speaker 5: o'clock or later, and it'll take me a while to
Speaker 5: to like kind of wind and where I'm ready just
Speaker 5: to just fall asleep.
Speaker 4: Maybe I can rely on something to help me do
Speaker 4: that tonight.
Speaker 6: It's sometimes hard to do that on a normal day,
Speaker 6: just try to wind down from just a laundry of
Speaker 6: work and just doing it after a game, win or lose.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be tough sometimes I'm so like mentally exhausted
Speaker 5: that I can't even like I can't, my brain can't
Speaker 5: put in the work needed in order for me to
Speaker 5: actually flip the switch to go into okay, let's go
Speaker 5: night night. You know what I'm saying, Like, it's just
Speaker 5: you know, it's sometimes it happens. But Louisville tonight, nine
Speaker 5: o'clock tep again. The kin pump projection is SMU winners tonight,
Speaker 5: seventy nine to seventy seven. So I mean, I haven't
Speaker 5: I would. I'd be shocked if, in fact, this team
Speaker 5: is doing a whole lot of the behind the scenes,
Speaker 5: they're not giving us a chance. Let's go prove something.
Speaker 5: I mean, that stuff matters. In fact, you know, some
Speaker 5: of my favorite teams I've watched over the years at
Speaker 5: Louisville had their their you know, have had success when
Speaker 5: it comes to like you know, in fact, I'll just
Speaker 5: say it, Louisville basketball obviously is a program that that
Speaker 5: you know, has had a lot of great success over
Speaker 5: the years. More often than not, when we've watched games,
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess just removed the last few years
Speaker 5: from your memory. But we usually feel like we're gonna
Speaker 5: win because we're a top ten program of all time.
Speaker 5: But there's also been times where you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: let's just think back to when Louisville finally, like you know,
Speaker 5: became a big deal. Right there was you know, the seventies,
Speaker 5: which were great, but then in eighty they broke through
Speaker 5: and won a national championship, and of course that was
Speaker 5: the first one, and that was a big deal.
Speaker 4: I say it like I remember it.
Speaker 5: I wasn't alive yet, but I know that winning a
Speaker 5: championship does sort of kind of put you in a
Speaker 5: different tier. They've been flirting with it before that they
Speaker 5: won a title, and then at that point, you know
Speaker 5: they've arrived. But yet they had to go eighty three
Speaker 5: the dream game, like Kentucky still wouldn't play it. Well,
Speaker 5: it turned out you got to play them because you've
Speaker 5: made it that far in the tournament and you beat them, so,
Speaker 5: you know, even even though it's not really been that
Speaker 5: way for a long time. Thankfully, because Denny Kur made
Speaker 5: this program one of the best of all time, and
Speaker 5: there was a great run by a guy named Rick
Speaker 5: Patino here that that kind of helped sustain the overall
Speaker 5: status of the program. And now we got work to do, obviously,
Speaker 5: because things haven't been so great since Rick left. But
Speaker 5: so far, Pat Kelsey seems like he's doing a really
Speaker 5: good job just in the I mean again, less than
Speaker 5: twenty games in, he's already got Louisville ranks. So, you know,
Speaker 5: I think what you hear from this group and from
Speaker 5: Pat Kelsey consistently, it's really I mean, it sounds exactly
Speaker 5: like what they're supposed to say and what you would
Speaker 5: expect to say, which I guess that is true, but also.
Speaker 4: I just think it's the truth.
Speaker 5: Like I think this group mostly built off, built built
Speaker 5: with guys who've played college basketball for a really long time, veterans,
Speaker 5: grown men that came to Louisville, you know, probably for
Speaker 5: you know, a business decision, right they knew that they'd
Speaker 5: be able to be compensated, they'd play for a big
Speaker 5: time program, and they love the idea of kind of
Speaker 5: turning things around at a place like this. So, you know,
Speaker 5: I think the maturity of this group has has made
Speaker 5: it to where they really do approach this day by day,
Speaker 5: game by game. They don't think about anything other than
Speaker 5: who's up next, and let's go, let's just keep this rolling.
Speaker 5: Because man, this is fun. We can tell, you know,
Speaker 5: and I'm not saying the players have said this directly,
Speaker 5: you can tell that they do appreciate the fans support,
Speaker 5: and even crowds that we would talk about on this show,
Speaker 5: like because somebody would claim, can you believe where where's
Speaker 5: everybody at? How is there only fourteen thousand people at
Speaker 5: a game? Like we would have those conversations because you know,
Speaker 5: I get it, fans bring it up. It's still something
Speaker 5: that is probably a little tough to get used to.
Speaker 5: If you've been going to games consistently for the last
Speaker 5: few years, you're probably looking at these crowds as of
Speaker 5: late as if it's.
Speaker 4: You know, standing room only.
Speaker 5: But if you went away for a while and then
Speaker 5: you came back recently, you're probably thinking, yeah, there's not
Speaker 5: as many people. But these players, even if they've had
Speaker 5: success elsewhere, they didn't have what we have here, I mean,
Speaker 5: because not many do. I mean, that's just the reality
Speaker 5: of it. So they're enjoying it, and I think they're
Speaker 5: you know, I just have a hard time and this
Speaker 5: is a good place to be. I have a hard
Speaker 5: time expecting my team to have a real letdown.
Speaker 4: It can happen. It's part of life, it's part of sports.
Speaker 4: I guess maybe.
Speaker 5: Technically you could say they're due for like a dud performance,
Speaker 5: but like, until they show me that there's any sign
Speaker 5: of that happening, I'm gonna assume that they're gonna come
Speaker 5: ready to play. They're gonna keep doing things that you
Speaker 5: know are controllable, and that is playing really good defense,
Speaker 5: making sure that.
Speaker 4: You're not getting out worked. You may have a game where.
Speaker 5: The stats are pretty comparable as far as second chance
Speaker 5: points or you know, rebounds.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 5: Whatever it is, just make sure you're not on the real,
Speaker 5: you know, the losing end of that of that equation
Speaker 5: when it comes to just things that you can control.
Speaker 5: So they've been consistent, I mean, this is this This
Speaker 5: team has has put themselves in a spot to where
Speaker 5: I now expect them to come out and play the
Speaker 5: way they've played for the last however many games. I mean,
Speaker 5: I know, technically they're on an eight game winning streak,
Speaker 5: which is great in every win counts, but I really
Speaker 5: feel like when they came out on New Year's Day
Speaker 5: against Carolina that there was just something a little bit different.
Speaker 5: There was a little bit more of an edge a
Speaker 5: little bit more fire, And I hate even bringing that
Speaker 5: up because it sounds like before then that they didn't
Speaker 5: have that. I think throughout the entire season, this group's
Speaker 5: done a really good job of kind of maintaining high
Speaker 5: level of energy and effort. And sometimes they played poorly,
Speaker 5: and you know, sometimes they got blown out. But I
Speaker 5: just I don't mean, we'll never know, and you know,
Speaker 5: it's not worth getting into, but I realized the competition
Speaker 5: as of late in the last eight games is not
Speaker 5: you know, Tennessee, Duke or Kentucky or Ole Miss. But
Speaker 5: maybe this is just wishful thinking on my end. Again,
Speaker 5: we'll never know. I think the team Louisville has become
Speaker 5: in the last eight games, or really the last six
Speaker 5: games specifically, I think you know, you probably you know
Speaker 5: you'd lose to those teams more often than you'd win,
Speaker 5: because we're talking about some of the best teams in
Speaker 5: the country. Duke'snumber one and the KNPOM. I mean, Tennessee
Speaker 5: slipped up and lost, but they're still an elite team. Kentucky,
Speaker 5: you know they can be beat, but they're pretty damn
Speaker 5: good too. They can beat anybody when they play well.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think Louisville's a team that right now, again,
Speaker 5: you're probably not going to win more than you'll lose
Speaker 5: against those caliber teams.
Speaker 4: But I'm kind of hoping that Louisville.
Speaker 5: Can keep this run going to where we find ourselves
Speaker 5: in the tournament with a matchup against one of those teams,
Speaker 5: just to kind of see where we stand. And look,
Speaker 5: you're gonna have chances to play some good teams the
Speaker 5: rest of the way. I mean, I look at the
Speaker 5: rest of the ACC and it's certainly not scary by
Speaker 5: any means. But if you get to the ACC tournament,
Speaker 5: I mean, maybe you get Duke again. I mean again,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to play Duke right now. I mean
Speaker 5: actually I would, because I'd just like to see where
Speaker 5: Louisville stands and see how they would do. But like
Speaker 5: I think Duke right now, I mean, maybe they're just
Speaker 5: benefiting from this ACC slate, like you know, like everybody
Speaker 5: claims Louisville is. But I think Duke is as good
Speaker 5: as anybody in the country and could win the whole thing.
Speaker 5: So it's just nice to know. I mean, I've been
Speaker 5: thinking about this game here and there all day, and
Speaker 5: it used to be like I have to ride the
Speaker 5: last couple of years, I'd have to remind myself that that,
Speaker 5: you know, Louisville plays, because it just wasn't something that
Speaker 5: you you know, you had on your your mind because
Speaker 5: you were excited about. But obviously a little bit different now.
Speaker 5: So the seventh longest active wind streak in college basketball
Speaker 5: currently is Louisville at number eight. And here's still hoping
Speaker 5: they can, uh, they can get it to nine games. Tonight,
Speaker 5: late tip at UH at nine o'clock, Austin perks up.
Speaker 4: When I say late tip. I can tell it's just
Speaker 4: something that just stand.
Speaker 5: You know, he could be in there working up his parlays,
Speaker 5: cooking up something special for the books. But then, you know,
Speaker 5: I hear I say late tip, and he's just looking
Speaker 5: around like wait, wait, wait oh yeah, uh what.
Speaker 6: I'm sitting here checking numbers, spreads, and I just hear
Speaker 6: I hear late tip, and just like like a doberman,
Speaker 6: my ears just go up.
Speaker 4: I hear you, I hear you, man. All right.
Speaker 5: So last night was the national championship game in college football,
Speaker 5: and I felt, you know, insecure about the way, you
Speaker 5: know about as somebody who loves college football I mean,
Speaker 5: I was, I mean, I felt like a poser. I
Speaker 5: felt like a fraud claiming that I'm a big time
Speaker 5: college football guy because I just I couldn't really, I
Speaker 5: couldn't get into one the whole playoffs themselves once she
Speaker 5: got passed, like the first couple of games, and like
Speaker 5: last night, I mean, I didn't. It did not feel
Speaker 5: at all like we were actually about to watch the
Speaker 5: national championship game of college football. And the obvious, the
Speaker 5: obvious reason here is that you know, this is new.
Speaker 5: We are not We're not usually closer to February than
Speaker 5: we are December when you crown a national champion. And
Speaker 5: it's because they've expanded the playoff and that's a good
Speaker 5: thing overall. But I do kind of feel like they gotta,
Speaker 5: they gotta, they gotta do something because last night, I mean,
Speaker 5: you've you've got Notre Dame in Ohio State, two humongous
Speaker 5: brands in college football, and right as soon as it
Speaker 5: kicked off, it seemed like there were many out there
Speaker 5: that were finally willing to just put it out.
Speaker 4: There say, yeah, this just feels weird, like this just this.
Speaker 5: Just doesn't seem, you know, like sum's off here and
Speaker 5: I felt that, you know, for for a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks really uh and then of course, like last night,
Speaker 5: you know, I watched it, uh and and you know,
Speaker 5: it was nice to see Notre Dame. I guess late
Speaker 5: made you at least think that there's a chance they
Speaker 5: could maybe come back and tie it up. But it
Speaker 5: really never felt like Ohio State wasn't gonna win the game.
Speaker 5: And Notre Dame still has a lot to be happy about,
Speaker 5: and I don't see them slowing down at any point.
Speaker 5: The Ohio State story weird to kind of claim, oh,
Speaker 5: it's a good story, but because you know, they're not
Speaker 5: some up and comer. They they're a multi time national
Speaker 5: championship winner and they won another one. But I just
Speaker 5: think the whole Michigan component was was was I think
Speaker 5: beneficial for them. Probably crazy to say that, but I
Speaker 5: really I really do feel like they they were able to,
Speaker 5: uh you know, they were able to to kind of
Speaker 5: just you know, lock in.
Speaker 4: And I mean again, I've.
Speaker 5: Tried to put into words why I feel like they
Speaker 5: benefited from that, and maybe maybe I'm just full of it,
Speaker 5: but I think there's a level of like playing loose
Speaker 5: and care free knowing that there's really no scenario like
Speaker 5: if they would have gotten blown out by Tennessee at home,
Speaker 5: which they didn't.
Speaker 4: They blew Tennessee out.
Speaker 5: I think there was so much toxicity within their fan
Speaker 5: base because of the Michigan loss and just because they
Speaker 5: feel very underwhelmed with what Ryan Day has been able
Speaker 5: to do with all the great teams he's had since
Speaker 5: he's been there, that like it really would have just
Speaker 5: been a continuance of where they were, Like I don't mean,
Speaker 5: I guess it could have gone a different level up,
Speaker 5: like a higher level up. But man, like Ohio State's
Speaker 5: fans when they lost to Michigan, like they were probably
Speaker 5: as down as they've been in a long long time.
Speaker 4: And yeah, they've been worse than that.
Speaker 5: Like obviously they've had some years where they're not great,
Speaker 5: but I mean, they're Ohio State.
Speaker 4: They always expect to be great. So it's kind of
Speaker 4: weird how it worked out.
Speaker 5: To where I kind of felt in a weird way
Speaker 5: like happy for them they were able to get it done,
Speaker 5: and then I feel gross knowing that that's the way
Speaker 5: I feel, because like Ohio State's a very easy fan
Speaker 5: base and program to you know, I mean, I respect him.
Speaker 5: They're one of the best of all time. They've got
Speaker 5: a huge fan base. They care as much, if not more,
Speaker 5: than anybody else. But you know, they've been real arrogant,
Speaker 5: and usually you don't want to, you know, feel good.
Speaker 5: Hey good for those arrogant fans that have a bunch
Speaker 5: of national championships already. You know, that's usually not the
Speaker 5: kind of program that you feel good if they get
Speaker 5: it done. But they were down bad in a major
Speaker 5: way against Michigan, and they they found a way to
Speaker 5: win the national championship.
Speaker 4: And look, they were the best team.
Speaker 5: I mean they they started playing in the playoffs, of course,
Speaker 5: you know, against some of the best teams in the country,
Speaker 5: like the team that everybody knew that they could be,
Speaker 5: and maybe they were that earlier this year, but I
Speaker 5: don't know, I mean, they had I mean, this is
Speaker 5: I don't think it's crazy to say that even when
Speaker 5: they were coming up short against Oregon, who by the way,
Speaker 5: is a really good team, and they got the best
Speaker 5: of them in that first matchup when they played they
Speaker 5: nearly lost to Nebraska, who wasn't good. They had a
Speaker 5: couple of other games where it was closer late than
Speaker 5: it probably should have been. And then of course, you
Speaker 5: know they lost to Michigan. But it's almost like they
Speaker 5: were playing tight because they realized, hey, our rival has
Speaker 5: been better than us as of late. They're coming off
Speaker 5: a national championship. Here we are, there's no more harball.
Speaker 5: We have the best roster in the country, and we
Speaker 5: paid a lot of money for it. Like maybe there
Speaker 5: was some real pressure internally to like go out there
Speaker 5: and actually ball out. And I really don't think we
Speaker 5: saw anything close to this Ohio State team in the
Speaker 5: last few games. I mean, again, they were good. They
Speaker 5: clearly did enough to where they could lose that game
Speaker 5: late have two losses and still safely being the College
Speaker 5: football Playoff.
Speaker 4: But with all that said, like there.
Speaker 5: Just seemed to be a different looseness to them in
Speaker 5: the last few games where they just kind of were
Speaker 5: playing as if they weren't you know, there wasn't any
Speaker 5: there was no like they weren't tight. They were not
Speaker 5: in a point where you felt like they were they
Speaker 5: were pressing by any means, and I think early on
Speaker 5: you saw that. But as far as the schedule, like
Speaker 5: we can get into it because I don't have the
Speaker 5: perfect solution, but college football season. Ending this late just
Speaker 5: doesn't feel right. And I you know, I have in
Speaker 5: mind what I would do, but I also don't know,
Speaker 5: you know, if if, if it's what others would prefer,
Speaker 5: but like college football should.
Speaker 4: Start earlier than it does. There's no reason why why
Speaker 4: it doesn't.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, if it's because you feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, school doesn't start, that doesn't matter. You know
Speaker 5: how many sports start before the semester actually starts in August.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think I see no reason why you
Speaker 5: shouldn't have a few weeks of college football where you're
Speaker 5: not competing with the NFL. I think that would be
Speaker 5: good for the sport in every way, and it would
Speaker 5: make it to where you could do this, and it
Speaker 5: just didn't feel you know, if there's no changes in
Speaker 5: next year, we're in the same position and it doesn't
Speaker 5: feel weird because you know it'll be the second time
Speaker 5: we're here. Then you know, maybe they just keep it
Speaker 5: the same, the same, But I know I would the
Speaker 5: only one that just kind of felt like this thing
Speaker 5: was flat, man.
Speaker 4: And what's wild though, is.
Speaker 5: That like the SEC wanted you to believe that it
Speaker 5: was flat, and you just didn't feel the same because
Speaker 5: they weren't there, and like, give me a break. I mean, like, well,
Speaker 5: let's be real. They they the big, big programs from
Speaker 5: that conference historically, they didn't they didn't go far enough
Speaker 5: to where they were able to kind of you know,
Speaker 5: they were out earlier than they probably expected. And yeah,
Speaker 5: the numbers were down as far as viewership in some
Speaker 5: of those games in like the semi finals.
Speaker 4: And I mean again, we'll.
Speaker 5: Get to this later, because the SEC like is telling
Speaker 5: on themselves that they don't want it to be about
Speaker 5: how good you are or what you do. They just
Speaker 5: wanted to be a popularity contest. And people who you know,
Speaker 5: paid a lot of money that have a platform that
Speaker 5: you know, were out there talking college football to a
Speaker 5: big audience. Like they have no awareness that like their
Speaker 5: arguments have turned into where they don't think you should
Speaker 5: have to win. It should just be a popularity contest,
Speaker 5: which is embarrassing the.
Speaker 2: Most popular people in Cancun.
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Speaker 5: Day So had a couple of people ask this on
Speaker 5: the text line in the first segment. Well, one person
Speaker 5: sent in the screenshot. The other asked the question if
Speaker 5: I was surprised that Louisville didn't end up in the
Speaker 5: in the AP Top twenty five poll the final one,
Speaker 5: and I'm not. I think Louisville losing to Stanford. I'm
Speaker 5: not someone that thinks that like that really kept them
Speaker 5: from getting into the college football Playoff. I mean, clearly
Speaker 5: it would have changed a lot as far as their numbers,
Speaker 5: and they probably would have been right there on the
Speaker 5: outside looking in as far as where they're ranked, which
Speaker 5: honestly probably would have made us more upset. We would
Speaker 5: have been thinking about not the Stanford game. But like
Speaker 5: any look, I think you can still go back to
Speaker 5: the Notre Dame game, specifically the SUMU game to an extent,
Speaker 5: especially the beginning of that game, and then Miami. I
Speaker 5: just think you played a better team than they beat it,
Speaker 5: but you had a crucial mistake that you just can't
Speaker 5: really make really a sequence more than anything, a sequence
Speaker 5: in you against a really good team that you just
Speaker 5: kind of feel like, okay. Whenever Louisville had the penalty
Speaker 5: on special teams and they ended up, you know, needing
Speaker 5: to go what like ninety eight yards to score in
Speaker 5: the first play on that potential ninety eight yard drive,
Speaker 5: they coughed it up and Miami scored. It's just one
Speaker 5: of those plays where you feel like, okay, when you're
Speaker 5: playing a team that's at that time that good. Hard
Speaker 5: to imagine that kind of a swing and you being
Speaker 5: able to still win. It's possible. So you know, I'm
Speaker 5: not surprised they're not there. Them losing the Stanford really
Speaker 5: did change a whole lot and what I've done as
Speaker 5: a Louisville fan to try to kind of you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, there don't even do about it now. I
Speaker 5: still feel really good about I mean, in fact, I
Speaker 5: think Louisville has a chance to be really good next year.
Speaker 5: But as you know, if you listen to me a
Speaker 5: little bit, I've thrown it out there. I have some
Speaker 5: brief moments of panic when I think, like I would
Speaker 5: hate for this team to be really, really good offensively
Speaker 5: to where they're putting up big time performances against anybody
Speaker 5: because they're you know, their role, and they've got just
Speaker 5: mean Right now, you've got two running backs that I
Speaker 5: think would start for maybe just about any not any
Speaker 5: team in the country, but most I think Colin Lacey
Speaker 5: and Chris Bell collectively are two guys that could be
Speaker 5: two of the best receivers in the ACC next year.
Speaker 5: And I have the belief that Miller Moss is going
Speaker 5: to be a guy that Jeff brom.
Speaker 4: Can really utilize. So I feel good. I just worry that.
Speaker 5: We may be in a position where the defense makes
Speaker 5: us sweat it out and we have to you know,
Speaker 5: it's late and you're worried, or maybe you end up
Speaker 5: losing a game because your offense is scored in forty
Speaker 5: two or something, but it's not enough. So, you know,
Speaker 5: I still feel good about Louisville football, but that Stanford
Speaker 5: loss was a big one. Now, Louisville football, I really
Speaker 5: feel like under any era, any you know, in my lifetime,
Speaker 5: any any Louisville team, not any Louisville team, but even
Speaker 5: most of the really good Louisville teams that I remember
Speaker 5: that you know, I remember at the time realizing, hey,
Speaker 5: this is a special team. I'm probably going to remember
Speaker 5: this year for a long time. There's always that game
Speaker 5: that you shouldn't lose, that you lose, and I kind
Speaker 5: of thought Louisville had already gone through that three times
Speaker 5: by the time they lost to Stanford. But no, like
Speaker 5: Notre Dame, I mean, they beat you, and Notre Dame's
Speaker 5: Notre Dame, same thing. I mean, SMU. That was a
Speaker 5: game whereas much as Louisville did some stuff on their end,
Speaker 5: and I just think their game plan defensively, and that
Speaker 5: one was so poor to start. I mean, Jeff was
Speaker 5: pretty pretty clear about that after that game ended. That
Speaker 5: you lost to good teams that you know, took advantage
Speaker 5: of you having a missqueue.
Speaker 4: They took advantage of you.
Speaker 5: Making a mistake or not having the right game plan,
Speaker 5: and that's what good teams do. Stanford is a game
Speaker 5: that you had no business losing at all, and that stinks.
Speaker 5: But at the same point in time, Louisville, I think
Speaker 5: even other really good teams that I remember have had
Speaker 5: games like that that just you know, it's the clunker,
Speaker 5: if you will. And had Louisville not lost to Stanford,
Speaker 5: they would have probably finished in the top fifteen, and
Speaker 5: they probably would have played in a different bowl game
Speaker 5: than the one that they played in, and who knows
Speaker 5: what would have happened. So you know, I'm not that
Speaker 5: worried that they missed the top twenty five final AP Pole.
Speaker 5: They ended up coming in as the third team as
Speaker 5: far as receiving votes, So I guess technically, if you
Speaker 5: want to rank past twenty five, you would be twenty eight.
Speaker 5: But maybe they end up in the preseason AP Pole
Speaker 5: next season.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, part of me says, who cares, But that
Speaker 5: kind of stuff does matter. I mean, the AP Pole
Speaker 5: shouldn't matter because it technically is not utilized in any way.
Speaker 5: At least we're told it's not utilized in any way
Speaker 5: when the committee is putting together the College Football Playoff rankings.
Speaker 5: But I don't know how others haven't realized. It's all
Speaker 5: you see, like it sets the narrative, right if a team.
Speaker 4: Like Penn State.
Speaker 5: Penn State finished the season as a top five team,
Speaker 5: and I'm not here to tell you that Penn State
Speaker 5: wasn't good, but I don't know if they're top five
Speaker 5: or top twenty five, Like they don't have any wins
Speaker 5: that really mean a whole lot, and any team they
Speaker 5: played that was, you know, better than them they lost.
Speaker 4: I think they're good.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be a liar and tell you that I
Speaker 5: think they stink. But Penn State, if they started unranked
Speaker 5: this year, they're not top five because they wouldn't have
Speaker 5: had a win that would have catapulted them up.
Speaker 4: So like where you start, like it matters, Like I
Speaker 4: wish they would get rid of the Ape Pole.
Speaker 5: To be honest with you, I didn't have that opinion
Speaker 5: two or three months ago, but it became quite clear
Speaker 5: when you have these mega conferences and it's impossible for
Speaker 5: everybody to have the same level of competitiveness within their
Speaker 5: league schedule. Where you start, like where the perception of
Speaker 5: you is at the beginning, Like that kind of stuff matters.
Speaker 5: So I'm not you know, I'm not surprised they're not
Speaker 5: there because the loss to Stanford clearly was a killer
Speaker 5: as far as your resume and how people look at
Speaker 5: you at the end of the season. But you know,
Speaker 5: they got a schedule that's manageable next year, no doubt,
Speaker 5: and maybe maybe next year is the breakthrough year. For them.
Speaker 5: One thing I have kind of consistently said throughout really
Speaker 5: the last I don't know, three four months, maybe not
Speaker 5: that long. But really, since you know, since this the
Speaker 5: regular season was kind of rounding rounding out, I think
Speaker 5: you're gonna be able to say and I think we
Speaker 5: can say that you two years ending the Jeff brom era,
Speaker 5: you have some good momentum, right.
Speaker 4: You took a little bit of a step back, I suppose.
Speaker 5: When it comes to the second year, because the first year, obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, it didn't end well as far as the momentum,
Speaker 5: you had none of it. You lost the last three
Speaker 5: games you played, but still you won ten games in
Speaker 5: the regular season, you had a big marquee victory against
Speaker 5: Notre Dame, and you played in the ACC title game.
Speaker 5: So I mean that was that was a good year
Speaker 5: and this year wasn't quite as good. But for what
Speaker 5: it's worth, and I'm you know, maybe this is just
Speaker 5: me picking out a stat to just make.
Speaker 4: Louisville look good.
Speaker 5: But the PCs formula, which is still I mean, it's
Speaker 5: still it's a formula.
Speaker 4: You know, it still exists.
Speaker 5: It's not utilized, it's not referenced by anybody anymore as
Speaker 5: far as like college football coverage, but it's still out there.
Speaker 5: And Louisville ended up having one of the toughest schedules
Speaker 5: in the country this past year, and you know, to
Speaker 5: go nine and four, I suppose it was. Yeah, nine
Speaker 5: and four was their record at the end of the season.
Speaker 5: To go nine and four knowing you played one of
Speaker 5: the toughest schedules you've played in the history of the school.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying.
Speaker 5: We should party about it, but again, I still think
Speaker 5: you have some momentum two years into the Jeff bron era.
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Speaker 5: Louisville SMU tonight.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize it until yesterday.
Speaker 5: Kentucky's off this week, so they're sitting on that loss
Speaker 5: against Alabama at home, and they'll be back in action
Speaker 5: this weekend against Vandy, a team that you know they
Speaker 5: should beat. But man, Vandy another example of Hey, if
Speaker 5: Andandy's one of the worst teams in your conference, that
Speaker 5: speaks to how good your conference is. Because Vandy, I mean,
Speaker 5: they're sitting at fifteen and three overall and they just
Speaker 5: beat Tennessee, so I mean, and heck, Vandy's only losses
Speaker 5: are to Mississippi State and Missouri, two teams that right
Speaker 5: now are ranked and are going to be in the
Speaker 5: tournament for sure, and they were close losses too. And
Speaker 5: then they did lose to Drake earlier this year, but Drake.
Speaker 5: Keep an eye on Drake, which probably not something many
Speaker 5: people care about, but Drake. They had a weird two
Speaker 5: game losing streak at the beginning of this year where
Speaker 5: they lost to Illinois Chicago and Murray State, two teams
Speaker 5: in their conference, the Missouri Valley, and that really did
Speaker 5: a number on their analytics. But Ben McCollum, we had
Speaker 5: one of our callers used to mention Ben McCollum's name
Speaker 5: quite a bit during the last couple of years, really
Speaker 5: just last year because he was the Division two coach.
Speaker 5: That was just I mean, he was the Geno Arima
Speaker 5: of Division two basketball, really, and he was going to
Speaker 5: get an opportunity at a big time program, and well,
Speaker 5: I'm not a big time program, but he was gonna
Speaker 5: be able to take a jump up. He was gonna
Speaker 5: be able to step up and get a head coaching
Speaker 5: job at the D one level, and Drake's the one
Speaker 5: who hired him. So Drake's coach left to go to
Speaker 5: West Virginia and they're killing it. He took his son
Speaker 5: with him and Ben McCollum, who was at I kid you,
Speaker 5: it's like something Central Missouri. I'm gonna have to look
Speaker 5: it up now. It's not relevant, but it was a
Speaker 5: Division two school and I'm pretty sure it was Missouri,
Speaker 5: So yeah, he was. He was the head coach at
Speaker 5: Northwest Missouri State for about fifteen years and won a
Speaker 5: bunch of national championships and he's now at Drake. Well,
Speaker 5: he brought I believe, I believe he brought his whole
Speaker 5: starting five from that Division two team and they're I mean,
Speaker 5: he brought his team with him and they were having success,
Speaker 5: which is crazy because they're sixteen and two right now,
Speaker 5: seventy three in the net Drake is and if they
Speaker 5: didn't slip up and lose to teams they had no
Speaker 5: business losing to Illinois Chicago and Murray State, they'd undefeated.
Speaker 5: I mean, they probably still wouldn't be like ranked because
Speaker 5: you know they're playing in the Missouri Valley, but they
Speaker 5: have win against Vandy. They beat Miami before we knew
Speaker 5: Miami was going to be you know, this bad. They
Speaker 5: beat FAU, who is still probably the premier team in
Speaker 5: their own in their conference. So I'm not acting like
Speaker 5: they're they're elite, but you know, Drake is Drake's not
Speaker 5: as bad of a loss for Bandy as some people
Speaker 5: might expect. But anyways, this is something, you know, I
Speaker 5: keep seeing all these signs, and I don't mean like
Speaker 5: actual you know, like billboard signs or you know, an
Speaker 5: actual sign somebody's holding up, but just things that remind
Speaker 5: me that.
Speaker 4: We're back, little things and.
Speaker 5: Here where I you know, this is five six hours
Speaker 5: removed from this experience I had earlier on Facebook, and
Speaker 5: I kind of can't believe that, like I even did that,
Speaker 5: not like I did something crazy, but you know, I
Speaker 5: kind of just blocked out and did it because you know,
Speaker 5: that's how excited into this Louisville basketball season I am.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of you listening are on Facebook,
Speaker 5: some of you probably not on it as much as
Speaker 5: other I think everybody you know kind of uses that
Speaker 5: platform in their own way, right, I mean there's a
Speaker 5: lot of people on it that view it. In fact,
Speaker 5: I guess that's really all social media, would you say, Austin.
Speaker 5: There's so many people that have everything. They're just not
Speaker 5: active in posting, but they're looking at everything because it's
Speaker 5: just a good.
Speaker 2: You know, they have it on their phone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like that's really what Twitter's turned into. There's so
Speaker 5: many people on Twitter that check everything but do not
Speaker 5: post anything or have never posted anything. So anyways, I
Speaker 5: was on Facebook and I was I was in the
Speaker 5: car rid line dropping off my daughter and I was
Speaker 5: waiting for a couple of buses to come through. So
Speaker 5: I got my phone out and I'm just scrolling Facebook.
Speaker 5: And this is one of the complaints I have about Facebook.
Speaker 5: One of the many complaints is of late, Like I
Speaker 5: don't know what Facebook thinks of me or who they
Speaker 5: think I am, but like the algorithm things you target
Speaker 5: me with, Like you you're off, Like we need to reset.
Speaker 5: Like the people that they think I know, Why would
Speaker 5: you think I know these people? You ever seen that
Speaker 5: on Facebook? The people you may know? Yeah, Like I
Speaker 5: don't know who it is. So anyways, they just have
Speaker 5: two friends, you know. It's ads that target me. It's
Speaker 5: I mean the Facebook timeline. And to be honest with you,
Speaker 5: as much as we talk social media with TikTok and
Speaker 5: all that, the Facebook timeline is the worst of anything
Speaker 5: right now, if I'm being honest with you, because it's
Speaker 5: just like anything I see, it's not it's not something
Speaker 5: that like I'm like I was looking for or that
Speaker 5: that you know, I feel like would fit the algorithm
Speaker 5: for me. So anyways, I'm now seeing groups that I'm
Speaker 5: not a part of that they're showing me, like a
Speaker 5: recent post and a public group on Facebook that maybe
Speaker 5: I maybe they think I would like, And I guess
Speaker 5: they know I'm a Louisville fan, and you know that
Speaker 5: they knew that much about me to where there was
Speaker 5: a group called Louisville Cardinal Fan Zone and it, you know,
Speaker 5: just popped up there as soon as I popped up
Speaker 5: in Facebook, and I read a comment and it and
Speaker 5: it just it burned me up. And I again, I
Speaker 5: don't know why I cared so much. Looking back, like
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, what was wrong? Like why would I can't
Speaker 5: believe I would even care to even read the whole
Speaker 5: post or let alone interact with it. So I'm sitting
Speaker 5: there waiting to be able to pull up and get
Speaker 5: my daughter out of the car and walk her to
Speaker 5: the to her classroom and whatnot. And I'm just stewing
Speaker 5: over what this Louisville fan said in this Facebook group. So,
Speaker 5: you know, I get back in the car, I now
Speaker 5: make the move to drop Moose off at daycare, and
Speaker 5: as soon as I walk in to take him into daycare,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm still thinking about how ridiculous it was
Speaker 5: what somebody said.
Speaker 4: It's not like I, you know, it felt like I
Speaker 4: was that it went like I was.
Speaker 5: Angry, but like it clearly got it did enough to
Speaker 5: me to where I felt like, Okay, I need to request.
Speaker 4: To join this group so I can comment to this person.
Speaker 5: And sure enough I did it, Austin, And I think
Speaker 5: that's a sign like, hey, I love this team in
Speaker 5: this season so much. I'll be damned if I'm gonna
Speaker 5: let somebody on Facebook who claims to be a Louisville fan,
Speaker 5: you know, not be enjoying this.
Speaker 4: So it's not per stick up for your team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it also after the fact, and now that
Speaker 5: I'm speaking about it right now, like it also, I
Speaker 5: used to worry a little bit about myself because when
Speaker 5: I had to talk about it every day to an extent,
Speaker 5: and sometimes it was all we talked about because you know,
Speaker 5: louis of basketball being as bad as they were for
Speaker 5: a couple of years, Like that's not normal in any way,
Speaker 5: Like it's it's kind of like, wait a second, is
Speaker 5: this really happening? Like people were freaking out, So, you know,
Speaker 5: and by the way, it's what I do. There would
Speaker 5: be people that would call in that would wait on
Speaker 5: hold for thirty minutes to then ask me why I
Speaker 5: keep talking about Louisville basketball, like I'm the problem. And
Speaker 5: and at the end of the day, it's not personal,
Speaker 5: like people want to hear what they want to hear,
Speaker 5: Like me just not talking about louis of basketball at
Speaker 5: all because they're terrible, wouldn't be. I mean, that's not
Speaker 5: what this job is. So I tried to remind myself, like, hey,
Speaker 5: this is just part of it. This is something we
Speaker 5: probably never would would we'll ever experience again. And because
Speaker 5: I'm the person that you know, has the platform and
Speaker 5: we do talk lovel basketball regardless of what's going on
Speaker 5: around here, usually throughout the entire year, because we care
Speaker 5: so much. When it's this bad, people are gonna think
Speaker 5: I'm like going out of my way to be negative,
Speaker 5: and I never really thought that was the case at all,
Speaker 5: But then occasionally I would get my own head and
Speaker 5: I would think, like, am I that bad?
Speaker 4: Like I am?
Speaker 5: I am I overdoing it as far as how bad
Speaker 5: things are, And look, no, not at all. And anybody
Speaker 5: who thought that, I hope you didn't you know, think
Speaker 5: it was. I hope you didn't like hate me because
Speaker 5: of it. But like, look at where we are now, Like, no,
Speaker 5: I should have been more heavy handed about how big
Speaker 5: of a joke it was that the program was.
Speaker 4: In the position that they were in.
Speaker 5: So you know, for me not even really having any
Speaker 5: any I mean, it was just like instant reaction to
Speaker 5: where I just had to comment like I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 4: I didn't I would. I didn't give it a whole
Speaker 4: lot of thought.
Speaker 5: I just once I once I, once I got back
Speaker 5: to the car after taking both my children to where
Speaker 5: they needed to go for the day, I had to
Speaker 5: let this person have it. And I I probably shouldn't
Speaker 5: have done that. I doubt that it did anything of good,
Speaker 5: but at least it made me feel better in the
Speaker 5: moment and we got to get to a break.
Speaker 4: But I'll read to you the.
Speaker 5: Comment from somebody that just got be fired up, and
Speaker 5: I'll read to you what I said, and you know,
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like I was respectful, but at
Speaker 5: the end of the day, like you know, I was
Speaker 5: the The amount that I wrote in response is a
Speaker 5: real telling sign of how like it was bothered me
Speaker 5: that much, like I wrote like a novel on it,
Speaker 5: which is just again, this is weird behavior that like,
Speaker 5: I don't even know where it came from for me,
Speaker 5: but if anything, I'm just gonna have.
Speaker 2: To chalk it. It's always been there, baby.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to chalk it up that like this
Speaker 5: is just how much I'm into Louisville basketball, and man,
Speaker 5: I love this team. I'm enjoying the ride, and I
Speaker 5: you know, here I am getting on people for being
Speaker 5: negative with all this.
Speaker 6: That's this is something that you should honestly continue doing.
Speaker 2: I'll be stay in that.
Speaker 6: Group infistrate those people pillage there there there there group.
Speaker 4: You have no clue.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I posted the screenshot of what the uh well, actually,
Speaker 5: never mind, I'm not gonna tell anybody that. I'll just
Speaker 5: I'll keep you listening because I want to share with
Speaker 5: you what was said and then what I said, and
Speaker 5: I'm just curious to.
Speaker 4: Get you know, I'm curious.
Speaker 5: You know, you don't have to call in or text
Speaker 5: in and tell me what you think, but I just
Speaker 5: I want to put it out there because I feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, again, it's another sign that we're healing and
Speaker 5: and and that's a good thing. Keep it locked right here.
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Speaker 5: All right, so I read the Facebook post during the
Speaker 5: break for the first time since you know, I responded
Speaker 5: to it, and it's.
Speaker 2: Still like.
Speaker 5: I want to just laugh at it, like that's ridiculous. Wow,
Speaker 5: the things you see on the Internet. But like I'm
Speaker 5: also I also would be a liar if I told
Speaker 5: you that it did that. It didn't make me mad,
Speaker 5: It just it just irritates me. But there's a Facebook group,
Speaker 5: and if you missed the whole story, I don't know how.
Speaker 5: I kind of guess I guess I blocked out. But
Speaker 5: I was just scrolling through social media like a lot
Speaker 5: of people do, and I saw a Facebook group that's
Speaker 5: called Louis of the Cardinals fan zone, and it was
Speaker 5: I guess referring it as a like, hey, because what
Speaker 5: you see now is all kinds of stuff you don't
Speaker 5: follow on social media, which I don't really understand that,
Speaker 5: but that's that's not uncommon now.
Speaker 4: You see things that you're wondering, why am I seeing this?
Speaker 4: I didn't choose to see this.
Speaker 5: But they just want to throw stuff in front of you,
Speaker 5: thinking that you know, they may know you better than
Speaker 5: you know yourself, and they do know me well enough
Speaker 5: on Facebook to know that I'm a Louisville fan clearly,
Speaker 5: and I ended up joining this group just so I
Speaker 5: could comment on the first post that I saw.
Speaker 4: And this is what was said.
Speaker 5: We're the only fan base I know that gets carried
Speaker 5: away with being ranked, like celebrating when their team is
Speaker 5: eleven when their team has a well, a lot of
Speaker 5: bad grammar here, but when there is eleven games to go,
Speaker 5: plus the ACC tournament and potential NCAA tournament, assuming we
Speaker 5: take care of our business, rankings doesn't mean a thing.
Speaker 5: Hopefully the players block it out and don't pay much
Speaker 5: attention to it. So this is essentially somebody saying they're
Speaker 5: bothered that the fans are excited that Louisville is ranked,
Speaker 5: and that the rankings don't mean anything. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of basketball to be played still, and basically saying we're
Speaker 5: the only fan base that does this kind of acting like,
Speaker 5: get it together, fans, you're embarrassing you're embarrassing me by
Speaker 5: celibate rating that Louisville was ranked.
Speaker 4: And I think that's why, Darius, that's what really got me.
Speaker 5: And before I decided to really just you know, I
Speaker 5: don't even know if it was a decision to just
Speaker 5: happened before I started working up a response, I went
Speaker 5: and just kind of looked at the entire feet and
Speaker 5: the majority, the vast majority of the fans like totally
Speaker 5: agree with me. And this person who could scout me,
Speaker 5: this person who who initially posted it, like he kept
Speaker 5: doubling down as if rankings don't matter, We've got to focus.
Speaker 4: There's still a lot on the line.
Speaker 5: And one it was kind of adorable because I mean,
Speaker 5: I've been there before, but I now kind of remind
Speaker 5: myself often and it's really because look, we can look ahead.
Speaker 5: If I can't look ahead, it would change really how
Speaker 5: we do this show. Like, by the way, fans do
Speaker 5: not matter at all when it comes to that. If
Speaker 5: you are worried about your fan base talking up a
Speaker 5: game that's you know, two games away because it's a big,
Speaker 5: big deal and you think it's going to keep your
Speaker 5: team from like, you know, staying locked in, then you've
Speaker 5: got an issue with your coach and your team.
Speaker 4: That shouldn't be the case. So that's one thing.
Speaker 5: But like just the thought of Louisville fans being in
Speaker 5: the wrong for you know, being excited that this team
Speaker 5: is playing well, This is what my response was.
Speaker 4: You ready Austin to hear it.
Speaker 5: So you think it's an issue for fans to be
Speaker 5: excited about the program taking steps to get back to
Speaker 5: where they belong. Your bothered fans are celebrating being ranked
Speaker 5: for the first time in four years when they've won
Speaker 5: twelve games total in the previous two seasons.
Speaker 4: Make that make sense.
Speaker 5: Your point is that there are still eleven games left,
Speaker 5: so why are fans happy about being ranked?
Speaker 4: Make that make sense.
Speaker 5: Outside of showing up and getting loud at the young
Speaker 5: fans have no impact on what happens on the court.
Speaker 5: You act like the team is going to slip up
Speaker 5: because fans are happy and applauding their recent success with
Speaker 5: your logic, we shouldn't be happier celebrate anything until the
Speaker 5: season is over. What fun would that be? Being ranked
Speaker 5: right now doesn't mean anything for Selection Sunday, but Louisville
Speaker 5: being ranked after two disastrous seasons is a storyline within
Speaker 5: the sport and a sign of how good of a
Speaker 5: job Kelsey is doing. Our five star point guard is
Speaker 5: sharing all the love Lovla is getting, which can only
Speaker 5: help with getting the attention of other recruits. I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: but this is one of the wildest takes I've ever
Speaker 5: seen on this app, given how terrible things have been
Speaker 5: in recent years. The fan base was so toxic with
Speaker 5: struggles over the past few years, and now they're happy
Speaker 5: to see things headed in the right direction, and you're
Speaker 5: bothered by that. With all due respect, that makes no sense.
Speaker 6: I mean it just sounds like a logical response. Yeah
Speaker 6: it was, and a completely illogical posts.
Speaker 5: And I'm not bringing it up to like use the
Speaker 5: platform here to be like, oh I dunked on this
Speaker 5: guy on Facebook.
Speaker 4: I'm just it to me. It's another sign of like,
Speaker 4: you know, like I would.
Speaker 5: Never go and get into the weeds, but I couldn't
Speaker 5: help myself because that's how much I love this team.
Speaker 2: Well, surely got some good replies, Yeah, is it your numbers? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean, like, you know, the first comment was screaming
Speaker 5: from the rooftops, and then you know there's a bunch
Speaker 5: of you know, so again trust me, Like, I I'm
Speaker 5: sure this person who said it means well, but I
Speaker 5: just you know, everybody's different, and I've I've never ever
Speaker 5: gonna tell anybody how to be a fan. This guy
Speaker 5: can be a fan whichever way he wants. But I
Speaker 5: just I can't in any way rep my head around
Speaker 5: given just the overall phenomenal vibes that are that are
Speaker 5: here with us right now within Louisville Basketball that somebody
Speaker 5: yesterday was was irked that fans were sharing and you know,
Speaker 5: happy that the team is ranked again. Took Pat Kelsey
Speaker 5: less than twenty games to get Louisville ranked, and it
Speaker 5: took him how many games to surpass the amount that
Speaker 5: Kenny Payne got in two years?
Speaker 4: And like that's it's a normal thing.
Speaker 5: Like if you want fans to just sit back and
Speaker 5: not be happy because like the job's not done, the
Speaker 5: season's not over with your logic, I guess we'd still
Speaker 5: have two thousand people showing up to games. Like it's
Speaker 5: just an asinine way.
Speaker 4: To look at it. But again, people can do whatever
Speaker 4: they want.
Speaker 5: And I wasn't trying to tell this guy like he's wrong,
Speaker 5: but I just you know, like he's he's upset that
Speaker 5: fans are happy, and I just as a fan myself,
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, here, like think about let me let
Speaker 5: me give you like some perspective on how you're coming off,
Speaker 5: because it's insane to think that fans wouldn't be super
Speaker 5: excited right now like that, imagine having that response like
Speaker 5: that that be your take, and then like also then
Speaker 5: complaining if like the crowds aren't great, like well, wait
Speaker 5: a second, you told us we shouldn't be happy yet, Like.
Speaker 6: It's just I don't know, I just well, I wonder
Speaker 6: just what his take was last year and then the
Speaker 6: last two years?
Speaker 2: What was this this guy? I don't know. Do we
Speaker 2: have a name? Do you want to call him out?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Invite them to the show?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: No, I don't want to do that because I don't
Speaker 5: because the reason I didn't bring up any name or
Speaker 5: really send anybody directly to it just because it's not
Speaker 5: personal by any means. But I just you know, I
Speaker 5: can't I can't relate. But a lot of people and
Speaker 5: I don't believe this. I don't know because I don't
Speaker 5: know who this person is at all. I've never even
Speaker 5: seen their profile. All I did was see their common
Speaker 5: in this group. But once I said what I said,
Speaker 5: there's other people claiming that this is somebody that maybe
Speaker 5: bothered that Louisville's good because they wanted Kenny Payne to
Speaker 5: still be the coach. I just I refuse to believe
Speaker 5: those people exist at this point in the game, like
Speaker 5: meaning where we are now. But if so, then like again,
Speaker 5: I mean, you can do whatever you want. But if
Speaker 5: like you're if you're bothered by Louisville winning and you
Speaker 5: and you think it should still be Kinny Paine here,
Speaker 5: you're a Kenny Payne fan, Which is funny. Imagine saying
Speaker 5: that you're a Kiney Paint fan and not a Louislle fan.
Speaker 6: I just noticed that that crowd has been awfully silent
Speaker 6: over the last month. Not a lot of people screaming
Speaker 6: from the mountaintops about how can you look.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of other people.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of other people who were doing that
Speaker 5: that are now just enjoying the success. And that's fine
Speaker 5: because again I learned throughout that disastrous tenure, that.
Speaker 4: We were in a position, especially in.
Speaker 5: What we do, to kind of see people reacting to
Speaker 5: something in a variety of different ways, and I can't.
Speaker 5: I hope we never are there again to see it,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Like it's just a product
Speaker 5: of where we were, and again, hopefully that's never happening
Speaker 5: again around here. Quick break, we got two more hours
Speaker 5: left right here on Sports Talk seven ninety s