WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:07.040 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:15.960 Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick coffee. 3 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:19.320 All right, let's get the five o'clock hours started here 4 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.679 on a Wednesday afternoon coffee and company fueled by Thornton's. 5 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:25.039 Here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 6 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.600 I'm coming to you live from Charlotte, North Carolina at 7 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:31.960 the Weston Hotel as the ACC basketball media days are 8 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:35.759 going on. They call it the ACC basketball tip off. 9 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.119 And I see a few people and I stole this 10 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:42.920 joke from from from from Joe Ovi's who does a 11 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.280 sports radio in uh In, I think Raleigh. But just 12 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.200 a tip, just a tip, and if you know, you know, 13 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.399 But yeah, tip off season's not here yet, but it's 14 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:54.960 getting close. Louislle basketball will have their first real game 15 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.000 in less than a month, which, you know, saying that 16 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:58.439 out loud makes me realize. 17 00:00:58.119 --> 00:00:59.200 How close we actually are. 18 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.600 But also it's crazy to me to think that, you know, 19 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:04.439 we're halfway through the football season. 20 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:06.799 Essentially, I mean goes by quick. 21 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.200 I am somebody who waits impatiently for many many months, 22 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.599 seemingly many more months than actually you know, takes place, 23 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.040 but goes by too quick man. I mean, John, Indiana's 24 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.280 halfway through, there's six and o Bowl eligible. Yeah, I 25 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.159 mean does it feel like the season just started. 26 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:23.640 Yeah? 27 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.400 And I do think that the regular season itself always 28 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.280 seems to go by fast, but it is the entirety 29 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:31.000 of the season as a whole is going to get 30 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.159 elongated a little bit with the twelve team playoff. And 31 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:36.519 I don't know how many people will actually pay attention 32 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.079 to the bowl games that aren't playoff games this year, 33 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:41.400 But I do think overall, once we get to the 34 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.280 end of the year and we've been through this twelve 35 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:45.480 team playoff. 36 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.719 That will we'll say it's been a full year. You know, 37 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:49.400 it'll feel like a full year at that point. 38 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:51.599 And you mentioned you don't know how many people are 39 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.239 going to be watching. I'm not sure how many players 40 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:54.599 are going to be playing. I mean, they're going to 41 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.719 have to find a way to incentivize those exhibitions, and 42 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.760 it's going to have to be for money or you know, 43 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:02.120 you just won't do it unless you're just one of 44 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.239 those guys that just clearly just wants to, you know, 45 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.239 have one more you know, one more game where you're 46 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.000 out there, we're in the uniform, that kind of stuff. 47 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.639 And I don't mean to, you know, mock that, because 48 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:13.639 although it seems corny to some, but it is a 49 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.439 special thing. But like, outside of that, if you're somebody 50 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:20.960 that has, you know, a future in football, or even if. 51 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:22.560 You don't know, if even if you don't know that 52 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:23.199 you do, but you. 53 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.919 Think you might, like you know, playing in a game 54 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.960 that really is an exhibition game, that now, like the 55 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.479 perception of these games, like the public opinion is that 56 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:34.919 like nobody really like we're already kind of there, but 57 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:36.840 it's only gonna get worse now that the playoffs expanded 58 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:37.439 and you're gonna have. 59 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:38.120 More players opt out. 60 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:41.039 There's gonna be bowl games that like even fans of 61 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.000 certain teams won't remember what bowl game their team was in, 62 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:45.000 and if they won, you. 63 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:46.280 Know what would be really interesting. 64 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:48.919 And maybe I hope I'm not the first person to 65 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:50.680 come up with something like this, and maybe it's not 66 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.280 even a good idea at all, But what if instead if, 67 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.319 like if your team doesn't make the twelve team playoffs, 68 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.719 let's just say the committee or somebody comes up with 69 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.240 a whole bunch of different like four team pods, right 70 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:04.080 that you just have two one off games or like 71 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:06.560 you know, kind of a semi final start sort of 72 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:10.199 a format and the winner between that that pot if 73 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.120 you will, where you play two games, if you win 74 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:14.240 two of them, you win a whole bunch of nil 75 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.240 money for your school something like that give you a 76 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:17.120 reason to keep playing. 77 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.360 Yeah, they've got to find some way to make it worthwhile, right, 78 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.159 And I'm open to any idea, including that one, you 79 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:27.400 know what I mean. Like it's because like to make 80 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:31.000 it worse, coaches in these games, they're more focused on 81 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:33.639 the portal, you know what I mean, Like at that point, 82 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.800 the portal's open and players are available, and like you're 83 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.199 balancing preparation for a bowl game that you know is 84 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.120 kind of like, you know, not meaningless, but just you 85 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.319 know what, are you more worried about beating a team 86 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:46.919 in a bowl game that you don't really want to 87 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:48.639 be in because you think your team should have been better, 88 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:53.000 or going out and making sure you're recruiting players in 89 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:54.879 the portal to be better next year? Like it's such 90 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:59.240 a mess, it really is. So, you know, Louisville season, 91 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.159 you know, hopefully it actually get started on Saturday. I mean, 92 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:04.840 I don't want to dramatize it and act like it's 93 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:06.919 way worse than it actually is. But I don't think 94 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:08.919 anybody would have expected Louisville football to be in the 95 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.479 position that they're in now. And as I've said all week, 96 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.120 even said it on the postgame show, it could be worse. 97 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.519 It could be a very humbling experience. And it is 98 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:19.959 humbling to see that Louisville, you know, had SMU come 99 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.839 in here in their first year in the league and 100 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:24.360 not only beat you, but it wasn't fluky. Yeah, you 101 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:27.279 made some mistakes that could have been avoided, but objectively speaking, 102 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.959 if you watch that game, you would say SMU's better. Now, 103 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.160 maybe if Louisville tightened some things up. They play this 104 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:36.879 game ten times, maybe Louisville wins way more than half 105 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.519 of the matchups, but that didn't matter, and we'll never know. So, 106 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.319 you know, when I say finally getting it started, I 107 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.160 mean just you know, looking like a well prepared team, 108 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.480 looking like a team that is locked in. And I'm 109 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:52.399 just throwing out all these you know, filler words essentially, 110 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.639 and I know what it sounds like, but like when 111 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:00.720 you are sloppy and you make mistakes that you know 112 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:04.079 are avoidable, and yet you know you still continue to 113 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.839 make them and you just don't look like you you know, 114 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.079 you look flat as far as your energy, Like that's 115 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.680 that that's why those filler words are you so often 116 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.120 because you know that's that's I think they I think 117 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:21.319 it fits right, Like you're not sharp, you're sloppy, you know, 118 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:24.240 to really just you know, be blunt. You know, it's 119 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:25.959 hard to call yourself a good football team and you 120 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:27.000 make those kind of mistakes. 121 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:28.519 But again, it could be worse. 122 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:32.000 You could you could come out and realize that, you know, 123 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:33.680 you went on and got a quarterback, and the reason 124 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.079 that you're sitting here at three and two instead of 125 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.680 five and zh is because he stinks. You know, you're 126 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:40.839 having to rely on a freshman running back and that's 127 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:44.160 never ideal. And maybe you're just you know, really suffering 128 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.920 because Donald Cheney isn't the guy you needed him to 129 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.680 be from Miami, and Maurice Turner's hurt, and the dude 130 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.920 from you know, Penny Boon he left, so now you 131 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:55.959 got to rely on a freshman. But no, the freshman, 132 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.439 if everybody's here and everybody's healthy, Isaac Brown is still 133 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.759 the guy you want. The ball get you still want 134 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:04.800 him getting the ball in his hands for the majority 135 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:05.319 of the carries. 136 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:07.240 So although it. 137 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.079 Gives me a reason to think that if they do, 138 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.959 you know, tighten things up, they can go on and 139 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.839 win some games and have a strong season, you know, 140 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.000 although I believe that, again, it's it's more frustrating, you know, 141 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.079 feeling as if those are things that you you should have, 142 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.720 you shouldn't have to worry about on you know, mid 143 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.360 in mid October in year two. But this Virginia game, 144 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.720 you know, I don't. We're going to talk to somebody 145 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.639 who covers Virginia tomorrow on the show just to get, 146 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.199 you know, their perspective on the matchup. It's Greg Madia, 147 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.319 who covers the Uh, the Cavaliers? Are they the Who's 148 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:41.759 are the Cavaliers? I mean, I guess I'll have to 149 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.720 ask Locklan McLain, But I've always just referred I mean, 150 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:45.600 I feel like the only people call them the who's 151 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:46.920 are the people who like went there. And I don't 152 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.079 even you know, I don't get it, but I've always 153 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.839 called them like the I mean, they're the Virginia Cavaliers. 154 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:53.399 I don't know why that that's not just what they 155 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.639 referred to as But anyways, Greg Madia covers Virginia for 156 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.959 The Daily Progress in Charlottesville and join us tomorrow. And 157 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:03.360 if you're Virginia, you got to look at I mean, 158 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:05.680 you got to look at this as an opportunity to, 159 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:10.040 you know, to kick Louislle while they're down. You're at home. 160 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:13.480 You know, you've played them pretty competitively at their place. 161 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:16.600 You know, it's been a weird series, to be honest 162 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.360 with you, when it comes to Virginia and Louisville. I mean, 163 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:20.600 obviously Louisvill's first year in the ACC they went to 164 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:24.600 Charlottesville and lost, and that was you know, of that 165 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.839 of that nine and three regular season. You know, at 166 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.160 that time, you know the playoff even exists. 167 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:31.040 Then I don't know if it did. 168 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:33.680 It's twenty fourteen, right when it began. 169 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:35.240 Yeah, I guess it would have been the first year 170 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:35.680 of the playoff. 171 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.319 I mean, it wouldn't have mattered because, you know, the 172 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:38.959 Louisville could have easily gone ten and two with their 173 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.519 only losses being Florida State and Clemson, and they had 174 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.360 that one, you know, head scratching loss to Virginia and 175 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.639 then when Lamar One heisman and later. Of course, they 176 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:54.879 ended up losing to Houston and then Kentucky and then LSU, 177 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:56.920 so like it fell apart late. But if you remember 178 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.480 that year they played at Virginia, Virginia might have been 179 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.480 as bad as they've ever been since Louisll's been in 180 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.439 the ACC. And had it not been for you know, 181 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.319 a big play from Lamar Jackson to Jalen Smith in 182 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.319 the end zone, Louisville would have been upset. So Virginia. 183 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:13.079 You know, the players on the current team, I don't 184 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.120 even know if they have the I mean, I don't 185 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.000 even know if they know about those games, because again, 186 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.160 that was a long time ago, and most rosters right 187 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.480 now are filled with guys who played for different schools 188 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.959 last year. But you know, this is a game you 189 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:27.240 can absolutely lose. I don't think that they will, but 190 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:29.199 I'm willing to acknowledge that. When I say that, it's 191 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:32.679 just because I'm still believing that this is a good team. 192 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.480 Well I shouldn't say'm believing that they're a good team. 193 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:36.519 I'm believing they have the capability to be a good team. 194 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.480 But when you're three and two, your best wins Georgia Tech, 195 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:42.720 and it's a game that you know, I don't even 196 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:44.759 think you played that good in it. 197 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:46.120 It's hard to say you're a good team. 198 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:48.799 And if you had to side with you know, if 199 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.159 you had to side one way or the other, are 200 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.320 you a good team or a bad team? You're going 201 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:54.080 to base it off results, And I'm sorry, but I 202 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.279 don't look at anything you did against Jacksonville State and 203 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.279 Austin p and claim that that supports you being good 204 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.960 or bad. So when games that like, you know, you 205 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:07.000 can tell anything you're wanted to and that's not good. 206 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.200 And I can get you know, I can sense some real, 207 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:17.039 not not necessarily you know, nerves from the fan base. 208 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:18.759 But I think, you know, we're kind of all on 209 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.519 the same page, Like nobody's looking at this as like, Okay, 210 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:25.399 you know we've lost to Notre Dame and SMU, and 211 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:27.960 you know we could have won those games and we 212 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.120 made mistakes, but those are actually some pretty good teams. 213 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.960 I mean, we played Notre Dame at their place, and SMU. 214 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.200 You know, they got a really good offense and they 215 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.240 came ready to play. Like I think we all know that. 216 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.879 But you know, despite everybody being well aware that Virginia 217 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.519 is a notch below the two teams that just beat you. 218 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:46.480 I think we all know when you make those kind 219 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.080 of mistakes that this little of the team has made, 220 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:51.000 you can get beat you mean, and if you don't 221 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:55.279 come ready to play, you will, So we'll see what happens. 222 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:56.519 One thing I do know that's gonna happen is we're 223 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:59.120 gonna have be covered for pre and postgame coverage. 224 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.360 It'd say three thirty kickoff, right, I think it is. 225 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.080 I keep forgetting the game times. I believe it is. 226 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:06.480 Then noon kickoff next week. 227 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:09.919 Yes, Miami, it's three thirty kickoff here in Charlottesville, and 228 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:12.200 then noon next week. I keep getting mixed up. But 229 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.840 we'll have an hour before kickoff. We'll start the pregame show. 230 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.759 It's the Louisville Fotball Pregame Show presented by Pillow Windows 231 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.799 and Doors of Central Kentucky and Jefferson Animal Hospital. And 232 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:22.679 then the postgame show will start as soon as it ends, 233 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.879 and certainly we'll be reacting to whatever it is that happens, 234 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:29.960 and I'm hoping it's a win, but either way, we'll 235 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:31.600 talk about it on the loisll Football Post Game Show 236 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.000 presented by Alex R. White, Lawyer's suite distracted driver dot Com. 237 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.519 I'm not sure if it's because I'm tired slightly dehydrated. 238 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:42.120 I mean, my flight did board at four o'clock, which 239 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:43.919 or at six o'clock, which means I had to get 240 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.120 up at four o'clock and you know, get ready and 241 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.600 be at the airport to go through security. 242 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:49.519 And all that. 243 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:51.240 So like, I don't know, but my voice is fading. 244 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:52.919 Is it sounding as bad as I feel like it is. 245 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.600 It's not as bad as how recent Reese Davis sounded 246 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:57.960 on the call for the Cow game this past weekend. 247 00:10:57.960 --> 00:10:59.240 That was while let me get a drink of water 248 00:10:59.240 --> 00:10:59.799 really quick here. 249 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:03.559 It makes sense too because in relation to that, for you, specifically, 250 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.639 he had to get up really early for college game 251 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:08.360 day at six am Eastern time whenever it was or 252 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.919 I guess it was nine am Eastern but six am Pacific, 253 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.000 and so whenever he had to go and call the 254 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.320 game from Miami Cow, I mean, he sounded like he 255 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.320 was he was dying whenever he was doing the play 256 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:19.240 by play with PROD. 257 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:19.879 Something like that. 258 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:23.200 Right, No, no, no, no, no, I remember turning on that game, 259 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:25.960 and I don't know if I can initially tell it 260 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:26.840 was Rhys Davis. 261 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.279 But I was like, what in the world is this? 262 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:30.279 This sounds terrible. 263 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:34.360 Yeah, I mean I don't say this to sound like 264 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:37.960 a badass, because it's actually just stupidity on my part, 265 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.960 because I'm sure i'd be better off and you know, 266 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.240 more energized. But I don't need a lot of sleep, 267 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:47.000 so like throughout the day, I've not felt like, oh man, 268 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:48.879 I've been up since four o'clock. I'm really tired. And 269 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:50.799 again I don't say that because like I don't need 270 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.720 a lot of sleep. I can perform on you know, 271 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.679 an hour of sleep. It's just you know, whenever I 272 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.519 just get to yap and and you know, that's when 273 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:00.440 it hits me, like that's you know, i'd learned this, 274 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.080 by the way, Like one of the signs of being 275 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.480 like exhausted is like your voice. I mean, I haven't 276 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.000 been talking to anybody other than these last three hours. 277 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.840 But you know, considering what this, what this is meaning, 278 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:12.759 this job and this show, I probably talk more in 279 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.080 a two hour period than people do in an entire day. 280 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.279 And you know that's why my voice will if I'm 281 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.440 not if I'm not careful and I'm not rested and hydrated, 282 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.960 my voice will just go. But you know, I'll get 283 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:27.840 some rest tonight. I'll be able to sleep in a 284 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:31.000 hotel room without young children kicking me in my back 285 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.799 in their sleep. Whenever the kids, you know, wake up 286 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:35.080 and mill of the nite and come and get in 287 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.799 bed with us, I mean in their sleep, they just 288 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.159 assault us. Like you know, one day, John, you'll be there. 289 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.799 I'm sure you know your kids won't sleep in bed 290 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:45.759 with you and your wife as long as mine have. 291 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:49.519 But like, and I'm convinced now, like they're not asleep, 292 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.879 they're just trying to like get away with assaulting their parents. 293 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:53.320 You know what it's like. 294 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.639 Whenever we get asleep, Moose will just just just you know, 295 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:59.000 roll over and let this left hand just completely, you know, 296 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:00.879 like he has no control all over and just slaps 297 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:01.720 me right in the face. 298 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:03.840 When I was a kid, I used to whenever I 299 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.120 would climb into my parents' bed, I would get behind 300 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.759 them so like I was almost like their head rest, 301 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.879 which I don't know if that's I don't know, but 302 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:12.279 I did. 303 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:13.200 I made it work. 304 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.159 Well if you found your spot and you weren't really 305 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.639 like you know, you know, in between, and I'm sure 306 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:18.679 they probably slept better. 307 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:19.320 You know that. 308 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:23.600 In fact, that's probably you know, it's probably a strategic 309 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:25.559 move on your part because you know you're kind of 310 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:26.679 just finding your own spot. 311 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:28.360 You're not really taking their spot, right. 312 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.080 Yeah, you're just a s didn't know how to deal 313 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:31.600 with it. But you know, you know, you grow out 314 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:32.399 of that cramp, right. 315 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:33.120 Oh, you do. 316 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:34.799 And you know, as a parent, you get used to it. 317 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.679 Like my wife, you know, she can sleep through all that. 318 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:39.320 I don't. 319 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.679 Like, I'm you know, maya show roll over and just 320 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.840 need me in the back and I'm like, oh my god, 321 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:46.960 I'm gonna be peeing blood tomorrow. 322 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:48.759 Lady. What are you doing? 323 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.039 What agent does that start at? 324 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:53.759 The role the moving and the sleep just coming in 325 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:56.120 and oh gosh, in the bed. 326 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.600 You know, I'm not embarrassed to say it, because you know, 327 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.559 I'm not embarrass but anything when it comes to me 328 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:04.000 being a parent, and you know, because everybody everybody's different, 329 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.480 you know, like everybody's kids, everybody's situation is different. But 330 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:08.679 I know some people are really you know, there are 331 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.879 people who I know have their kids still occasionally get 332 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:12.240 in bed with them and sleep with them, or maybe 333 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:13.759 they go they go to bed with them and like 334 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.039 they feel ashamed to say that, and that's like, you know, 335 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.559 I'm not judging you, but like, my kids never have 336 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.360 fully slept in their beds, like like full time. Like 337 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:23.840 they've had some stretches, Like for a while when Maya 338 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.639 was a baby, baby, she was in her crib and 339 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:28.639 then she got really really sick one time and she 340 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.440 had to be she had to be hospitalized for a 341 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.039 few days, and I think she was just so scared 342 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:37.000 that she just wanted to be in bed with her mom, 343 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:40.879 and like since then, that's what she wants now. Occasionally 344 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.360 they'll fall asleep on the couch when we're watching TV, 345 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:44.919 and we'll put them in their bed and they'll stay 346 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.039 there for a while. But man, the only time that 347 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:53.000 they've ever woken up like where they never once were 348 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:56.720 with us at any point is when we're traveling and 349 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.240 they're like, you know, I don't know, maybe because they're 350 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.679 on vacation and they're more tired, they just pass out 351 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:03.000 and we got to wake them up the next day. 352 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.000 They could have fell asleep in the parking lot on 353 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:07.200 the ground and you know, slept fond because they're that tired. 354 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:08.120 That's how kids run. 355 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.679 But you know, if they have somebody stay over, like 356 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.120 a friend or you know, a cousin or something, then 357 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.519 then they're they're they're less inclined to want to come 358 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.720 snuggle with us. But uh, yeah, I mean tonight, you know, 359 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.720 I mean I'll miss my family and you know, we'll 360 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:24.440 do the FaceTime and I'm sure one of them will 361 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.080 cry because they miss me, and it'll make me feel 362 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:27.440 like a big piece of crap because. 363 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.120 I'm away from them. 364 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.879 But yeah, I know, and it's it's just part of it, 365 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.080 and I wouldn't you know, it's it's life, and it's 366 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.960 not you know, trust me, there's many, many, many kids 367 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:38.759 who are not with their I remember, with my kids 368 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:40.080 all the time, and you know, if I got to 369 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:41.600 get out of town for a couple of days, you know, 370 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.200 for work, it's fine. But you know there's some like 371 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:47.000 over the road truckers and all that kind of stuff. 372 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.320 Like it's you know, it's life. But you know, despite 373 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.039 me missing them tonight, I will probably wake up in 374 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:54.320 the middle of the night and go to the bathroom 375 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:55.799 and realize, oh my god, I get to go back 376 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:57.639 to bed for you know, maybe four or five hours, 377 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.720 and I don't have to worry about getting assaulted. I 378 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.120 don't have to worry about, you know, Moose telling me, Hey, 379 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.200 I need some milk. So you know I'll miss him, 380 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.039 but kind of not, if I'm being honest with you. 381 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:09.679 All Right, Tomorrow at four o'clock, Pat Kelsey gonna join 382 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.320 us here on the show as we are here live 383 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.679 in Charlotte for the a SEC basketball tip off, And 384 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:17.279 I'm gonna try and I've already got some questions lined 385 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.799 up that I hope uh won't. I'm not gonna tease 386 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.240 it like I've got. You know, you won't believe what 387 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.480 I'm gonna ask him. I'm gonna really, you know, I'm 388 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:25.200 gonna put him on the spot, like you know, It's 389 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:26.799 not what I'm gonna do. But you know he's done 390 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.960 a lot of talking since he got hired, because that's 391 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.440 what you do. I mean, you should be transparent and 392 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:34.799 you know, be as visible as possible when you are 393 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:36.360 the coach at a program like Louisville, but when you're 394 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.159 the new guy and everybody's trying to get to know 395 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:39.759 you and you're trying to get some life back in 396 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:42.759 this fan base and get these guys energized. Makes sense 397 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.559 to do as much media interviews as possible, but I'm 398 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.159 gonna try to, you know, hit some spots that maybe 399 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.399 you know, he hasn't talked about before, and not to 400 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:54.000 make it you know, totally personally about him, but you know, 401 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.799