WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.519 In company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:06.280 Holy crap, I don't know who. 3 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:09.279 The hell we think when we are get off our show. 4 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:10.039 Idiots. 5 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:11.599 The kids are crying to turn off. 6 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:13.199 The cultures are screwing it up. 7 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:16.480 Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals. 8 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:19.640 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 9 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:21.399 Who's the kid here? 10 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:25.480 Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me? Now? Here's 11 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:31.600 Nick Coffee? 12 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.240 Roughly ninety seconds ago, right before Austin Montgomery fired up 13 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.159 the theme song to get us started, I wrapped up 14 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.840 a phone call with Tony Vinetti. I don't say that 15 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:47.000 just to brag, you know, but humble brag. I do 16 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:48.799 know Tony Vinetti, He's a pretty big deal. 17 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:50.119 But he went to Trinity, you know. 18 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:52.840 I feel like if that was true, he would say 19 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.520 that more. I know. He's very humble, yeah about it, Yeah, 20 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.679 keeps it pretty private. But I don't know how this happened. 21 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.079 But as I look down after I had hung up 22 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:03.200 the phone, I really you know, it went right back 23 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:05.799 to my contacts because I went to my contacts to 24 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:08.480 call Tony and he I don't know if he did 25 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.280 this at one point, I don't see him having the 26 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:13.719 the I mean, I'm sure he knows how to run 27 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.040 a phone, but he has set as an emergency contact 28 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.239 on my phone, which is kind of scary. Like so 29 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.959 if like I end up in a ditch and they 30 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:22.879 don't know who to reach out to and they just 31 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:24.920 look for emergency, I don't even know how you'd said it. 32 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.280 I probably did it sometime, you know, on accident, because 33 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:30.760 I wouldn't have done it intentionally. But what it's done 34 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.640 here is it does have me going from Wow, that's crazy. 35 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.760 They're gonna be calling Tony Vinetti if they found me 36 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.040 dead in a ditch. Yeah, And you know, I don't 37 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:41.159 know if that's the right person they should call or not. 38 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.959 But now I'm thinking, you know what Tony kind of 39 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.280 has been. I mean, he's not an emergency contact kind 40 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.120 of guy. Wouldn't want to burden him with that, but 41 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.200 he has kind of been like in a professional sense, 42 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.840 like my my, my uncle, my big brother. So you know, 43 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:54.680 I don't know if i'd rely on him to be 44 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:56.519 the guy that, you know, if I'm in a situation 45 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.799 and they just go and what is an emergency contact 46 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:01.920 for in your iPhone? Like do you have anybody said 47 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:02.760 have you ever even seen it? 48 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:03.239 No? 49 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:06.400 Now is it clear on here? Can you see like 50 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.000 where it's got. 51 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.960 That red Yeah, yeah, it says it right there emergency contact. 52 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:10.240 Yeah. 53 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:12.039 So, I mean I don't know if you have Tony, 54 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:13.960 I mean, if you're cool enough to have Tony Vannetti's 55 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.199 number like you do anyway, I mean, wouldn't you want 56 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.319 him to be the first person that is called if 57 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.520 you're in a pinch, if you're in danger, if you're 58 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:22.080 in peril. 59 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.479 Well, he's he's he's given great advice over the years, 60 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.240 that's for sure, and he's he's been good to me. 61 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:32.280 But the benefit of having Tony as the emergency contact 62 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:35.680 is that he has no emotion like he's he's emotionless. 63 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:36.719 Yeah, he doesn't. 64 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.039 He doesn't get sad, he doesn't. I mean, although I 65 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.400 have at times seen him, you know, kind of grow 66 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.879 a little bit of a heart And it doesn't happen often, 67 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:48.479 but it's happened then you woke up. But but like 68 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:50.319 maybe when it comes to like I don't know, the 69 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.240 coroner who would have to whoever calls and says, hey, 70 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.199 you know we need to you're the emergency contact. We 71 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.120 need to discuss do you know, Nick coffee, we need 72 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.199 to talk about it. He would at least be the 73 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:01.879 guy they don't have to worry about, you know, losing 74 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.680 his mind and being hysterical because he's he's emotionless, like 75 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:06.479 there's nothing that would you know, He's never too high 76 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.840 too low. So anyways, like a crocodile, as always, I 77 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:11.840 get a little distracted as we get the show started. 78 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.400 But yeah, I also just wanted to brag about, you know, 79 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:15.719 I got tony of n Eddy's number. 80 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:16.039 Yeah. 81 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:17.639 I mean I feel like I'm a pretty big deal 82 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:19.560 by being able to say that. But anyways, let's get 83 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.280 it started. Welcome in Happy hump day coffee and company 84 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.680 with you here on a Wednesday, a very very very 85 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.199 cold day, you were out and about for lunch. I mean, 86 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.759 is it still insanely freezing outside? 87 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:33.280 Fez? 88 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:37.120 I mean, what's happened? And this is I would have 89 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.719 never even thought about this in any way if I 90 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.879 didn't witness this. So I was. I was coming from 91 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:47.319 Second Street to Muhammad Ali had actually I went over 92 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.240 to Southern Indiana earlier and came back on the Second 93 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:52.479 Street bridge just drove it straight down to Muhammad Ali 94 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.879 to take a rite and end up on the fifth Street, 95 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.280 which is where our garage is. But to the other 96 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:01.719 side there was somebody heading north and obviously there's there's 97 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.639 snow that has been plowed that's just kind of stacked 98 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:06.840 up on each side of the road, right like certain 99 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:09.039 people's driveways. If you've got a two lane driveway, it's 100 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.400 probably closer to one or maybe not even that, because 101 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.319 you've just basically been able to clear off a path 102 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.040 to where you can get your vehicle in and out. 103 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.879 So with this cold, freezing temperature, a lot of this 104 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:22.360 stuff that's been shoveled in different directions it's just sitting there, so, 105 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.759 you know, still frozen, but it's so cold outside that 106 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.519 it's not just like I mean, it's it's insanely frozen. 107 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:32.279 Like I don't, I don't know the right word to 108 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.319 use to describe it as being, you know, extensively frozen 109 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:37.639 more so than just you know, frozen. But somebody on 110 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.319 the other side they slightly maybe they were on their phone, 111 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.279 I don't know what it was, but they slightly veered 112 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:46.319 off to the right and they hit that hue, like 113 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.240 the frozen mound of snow that had been shoveled or 114 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:53.160 you know, plowed to the to the right side, the 115 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.120 front of their car, like the bottom of it hit 116 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:56.879 it and it broke, like. 117 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:57.360 It cracked it. 118 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:00.319 Like, so when you run into this stuff that's piled up, 119 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.160 I mean, you probably wouldn't want to do that under 120 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:05.040 any circumstance. But it's so cold that like you'll mess 121 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.199 up your car, like you'll like, you. 122 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.560 Know, ice blocks. Yeah, we'll be an iceberg. 123 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:10.879 That's what it is. 124 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:14.240 That's what it is. In the streets that have just 125 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.000 been plowed to where it was just stacked up on 126 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.040 one side or maybe both sides, that stuff has frozen 127 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:24.240 to where it's essentially a humongous iceberg. And that's dangerous 128 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.240 as hell. I mean again, if you're going off the road, 129 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.399 that's always dangerous, regardless of the weather and the circumstance. 130 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:32.399 But we don't even have the full lanes in certain 131 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:34.560 areas because they just haven't been able to clear off 132 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.319 that much space. And if you do, mean you don't 133 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:37.560 even have to veer off the road. You can just 134 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.839 not be paying attention and realize, you know, you hit that, 135 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.279 and you'll know right away, Like I I heard it 136 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.480 and it sounded like a car crash, and I guess 137 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:47.560 technically it kind of was, because the guy stopped and 138 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:49.079 got out and like you could just tell. But like 139 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.720 the front fender, it was an accurate one of those 140 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:54.480 what kind of accurate it was, but kind of a 141 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:56.879 sportier one that's set lower to the ground. And I 142 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:58.920 guess their front fender was. I guess a little. I mean, 143 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.839 I feel like any car that made contact would have 144 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:03.279 would have had some damage. 145 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.319 It changed insurance information with pile. 146 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.040 I quickly turned right and just realized, like damn, that 147 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.879 that's for it. I would have never noticed it had 148 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.399 it not been for the noise, like it was loud. 149 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:16.240 And it makes sense because again that that's I mean, 150 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:19.399 that's as frozen as as can get. So it's very cold, 151 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.959 and uh, I'm glad that we did get the roads 152 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:25.399 cleared off because with this temperature the last couple of days, 153 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:27.399 it's just been absolutely freezing. 154 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.639 Today is and yesterday I actually got to use a 155 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.240 fiance's car just to run to the store. And it's 156 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.839 the first day during the snow during this snow mgeddon 157 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:40.519 Icemageddon that's been going on since when last Saturday, that 158 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.480 since my roads are so bad, So they're still bad, 159 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:45.360 right my side roads are still. 160 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.519 Probably worse than it's ever been, honestly, right, I can't 161 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:48.279 how cold it is. 162 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:51.040 I can't get it's it's I got. I have to 163 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.319 maneuver the car out like Austin Powers when he's stuck 164 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:54.959 in the middle. 165 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:55.279 Of the hallway. 166 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:57.680 I got a backup, and like I gotta find the 167 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.920 perfect sweet spot because I'm sly and the tires are 168 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.879 spending when I'm trying to leave my my parking spot, 169 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:05.439 which I left a cone out there for so no 170 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:06.279 one else parks. 171 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:10.040 In front of it. Yeah, I I mean there's probably 172 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:12.160 still roads out there. I mean again, your street is 173 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.000 in Louisville. I mean it's not even far from where 174 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.680 we stand, and it's ugly, and I mean there are 175 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.680 probably way more roads out there that just never got 176 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:23.680 treated and people have been able to kind of make do. 177 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.279 But when it gets this cold, it's it's a different 178 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:29.600 level of like frozen. I mean, it's crazy. So stay warm. 179 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.279 I think we're gonna get some temperatures above freezing here 180 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.680 before too long, which will start another process of the melt. 181 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:38.079 But this time of year, even if you do get 182 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.560 temperature in the you know, at forty that'll do some 183 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:44.560 damage to this as far as melting it. But it's 184 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.399 gonna get blow freezing when it gets dark, and like 185 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:48.639 I think, in all honesty, let's we get some kind 186 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:50.639 of a heat wave where we are above freezing for 187 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:54.199 like consecutive days around the clock. This is gonna be 188 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:56.839 here for a while, which you know, if it doesn't 189 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:58.560 impact me, then it you know, no big deal. I 190 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.199 don't care. But I'm sure there's plenty of others that 191 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:02.879 that are to you. I mean, you just shared it. 192 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:04.639 It's still an issue. Your stream is still just a 193 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.560 big block of ice, which again is not ideal for us, 194 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.920 for anybody. All right again, Coffee and Company, that's us, 195 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:11.920 Nick Coffee, that is me. I hope you knew my name. 196 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.519 If not, now you do, and hope you remember it 197 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:16.399 to I hope to make an impression on you if 198 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.519 you are, if you are experiencing the Coffee and Company 199 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:20.800 ride for the first time ever. 200 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:24.920 Now you can now add producer to your list, producer 201 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:26.439 and show runner. 202 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:29.120 Produce Oh video. 203 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:32.399 No real, Well, I'm yeah, yeah, I got you. 204 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.240 I got you yesterday. I try to block that out 205 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:35.840 because that's something that puts me in a in a 206 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.399 negative space. But here you are gassing me up, giving 207 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.480 me props. And I appreciate that because yes, not only 208 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.279 did I host a show yesterday, but for two hours 209 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.320 of it, I was producing and it it it. We 210 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.320 finished the show. Like I was going to say we 211 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:51.559 had no issues, but I think we did have a 212 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.360 couple of issues. But you know what we look this 213 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.159 is coffee and company because at the root I'm a 214 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:59.320 company man. It's right produce. You want me to host, 215 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:01.000 you mean to do weather? You mean the traffic up things. 216 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.799 I'll do whatever you guys need. That's wha Yeah, I 217 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:06.080 mean I'll go on AMZ right now and play some 218 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.320 honky talk if we need it. Like, I'll do whatever 219 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.440 whatever I can for the for the fine folks here 220 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:11.120 at iHeart media. 221 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:12.039 So do a hodown? 222 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:13.720 Don't Is that a dance? 223 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:14.320 I don't know? 224 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:18.000 That just sounds dunter. It does sound it does sound country, 225 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:19.600 but I don't like it. I feel like a hodown 226 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:21.080 is what is? 227 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.120 What is a country dance? A square dance? I guess 228 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.639 you say that doesn't sound as flashy, but line dancing line? Yeah, 229 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.879 like like the PBR girls do across the street. 230 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:30.639 How about this. I don't even really know what it is, 231 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:32.360 but it sounds good. I can boot scooting boogie. 232 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:33.840 That's right, that too. 233 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.960 We'll leave it at that. So all right, here we 234 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.639 are ten minutes in and I'm about to just you know, 235 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.519 explode here. Not in that way, pervs, but I'm just 236 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:45.919 I want to talk. I want to talk about Louisville 237 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:48.360 basketball once again, folks, because how about this team going 238 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.399 on the road last night and just beating the hell 239 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:53.279 out of Syracuse eighty five to sixty one. It is 240 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:56.039 nice to be able to have a level of expectation 241 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.679 that these guys are going to come out play really, 242 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:03.039 really hard, play well. I mean, look, they're due for 243 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.000 a bad game, clearly, I'm not saying that they're gonna 244 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.320 have one, but I'm just saying they've continued to play well. 245 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.519 They've maintained a level of play since the beginning of 246 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.639 January that has been awesome to see. And I don't 247 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.039 see them slowing down. I know Syracuse stinks and know 248 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.200 the ACC stinks, but you know what, I don't care 249 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.480 because that's not something Louisville can control. And even if 250 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.120 all that is true, which it is, like I've said 251 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.679 it all year, the ACC is lousy this year, but 252 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:32.440 that doesn't have anything to do with how that doesn't 253 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.320 factor in to Pat Kelsey and what this group's been 254 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:37.919 able to do not being impressive. What people at times 255 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.639 that thin get caught up in is Louisville fans being 256 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.279 this excited, meaning more excited than they've been in a really, 257 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.799 really long time, does not mean that they think they 258 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:47.000 have the best team in the country and that they're 259 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.240 about to go out and ending. By the way, the 260 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:55.759 bat signal for insecure Kentucky fans is Louisville fans acknowledging 261 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:58.840 their wind streak that they're in the tournament if it 262 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:02.159 started today, than being excited like we had the Kumba 263 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:04.840 Yao rivalry stuff, which you know still exist. I think 264 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:07.799 Louisville fans are having a hard time genuinely disliking Mark 265 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:09.519 Pope because he's a hard guy to dislike. I know 266 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:11.559 many Kentucky fans feel the same way, but like, look, 267 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.360 just because Louisville fans are excited, it makes sense. They've 268 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.799 been terrible for years, We've been lifeless. Now we have 269 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.200 life and we're playing good basketball. We feel pretty good 270 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:21.879 about where we are. That doesn't mean that the Louisville 271 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:23.919 fans are claiming That's one of the things that has 272 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:28.320 really exhausted me about the rivalry stuff is just because 273 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.240 somebody is excited or is happy that their team is 274 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.240 doing well, there's a segment of the rivalry where the 275 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:39.120 other side will weaponize that against you and you know, 276 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.279 make it seem as if you think that your team 277 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.799 is the best in the country. Like, no, it's not 278 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:47.679 the case. So I've been enjoying it thoroughly. But and 279 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:49.759 I probably don't need to throw this out there as 280 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.639 much as I do, but just to be clear, my excitement, 281 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.919 my love for this team as fun as it's been, 282 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.399 as I've been super repetitive about it throughout. I mean, 283 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:59.600 this has kind of been reruns lately because here we 284 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.000 are coming in to talk about a louis basketball game 285 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.960 that happened the night before, and I'm still feeling the 286 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.080 same way I did for the last few weeks, but 287 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:09.200 even more so. Right this group is playing really good basketball, 288 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:10.559 and I think they have a chance to be to 289 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.159 be pretty good to where maybe they make a run 290 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.080 in the tournament and get to the second weekend. And 291 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.279 I don't think that's a crazy thing to say. The 292 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.799 ACC being really down doesn't mean Louisville can't do that. 293 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.519 So both things can be true. Louisville can be a 294 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.559 team that's getting better, that has really kind of hit 295 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:25.960 their stride in this new version of themselves that doesn't 296 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.279 include case In Pryor and Korin Johnson like I think 297 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:32.480 they could. All that's true, but the ACC also can 298 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:34.919 be bad like and you know, as I've said all along, 299 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.080 use it to your advantage. So eighty five to sixty 300 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.519 one was a score last night, I mean just some numbers. 301 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.480 I mean rain Smith continuing to be Rain Smith. I 302 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:44.759 mean he now after last night. I'll double check this, 303 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:46.919 but I looked at it this morning and I'm pretty 304 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.279 sure the stats were updated. Ray Smith is now averaging 305 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:54.159 more three point shots made per game than any player 306 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.320 in college basketball from the power four level. So I mean, 307 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.879 he had ten points of pretty quiet ten points last night. 308 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.840 And I bring up rain just because, you know, as 309 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.840 much as we've talked about the shooting struggles this team 310 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:09.919 has had at times, one they didn't have those last night, 311 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.480 but also even throughout that, rain Smith has come here 312 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.120 and been one of the best shooters in the country. 313 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:16.200 And then Chucky he burned. I mean last night, I 314 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:19.080 mean he was insane. I mean Chucky six of ten 315 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.840 from three twenty four points, I mean eight of thirteen 316 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:26.039 from the field overall, seven assists. I mean, the guy 317 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.840 was sensational. And then Javon Hadley, you know, kind of 318 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.879 a quiet night. But we're talking thirteen points ten rebounds 319 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:38.759 on six of eleven from the floor and I'm pretty sure. Yeah, 320 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.279 I mean, listen to this stat line. Back to Chucky. 321 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.919 Chucky was twenty four seven and I thought he had 322 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.080 where does this? Yeah, Chucky didn't have a steal, which 323 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:50.799 was kind of surprising to me. But anyways, back to 324 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:56.720 Javon Hadley thirteen points, ten rebounds, three assists. And again, 325 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.039 when you're getting this kind of production consistently, and I 326 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.480 don't mean you're gonna get twenty seven every night from 327 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:04.519 Chucky or thirty two every night like you did with 328 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.639 Javon against Clemson, but the odds of you getting one 329 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.360 of like four or five guys to really bring it, 330 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.120 at least one of them on any given night, Like 331 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.639 there's much more probability that happens than like one guy 332 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.480 needing to be great every single night. I mean, look, look, 333 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:23.840 this is your leading scorers in the last seven games 334 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:29.159 here last night Chucky twenty four against QES, rain Smith 335 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.799 twenty five against pit Jevon Hadley thirty two against Clemson, 336 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.519 tray Orra fifteen against Virginia, Chucky twenty six against Carolina, 337 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:40.039 Terrence Edwards twenty against dKu, Rain Smith twenty seven against FSU. So, 338 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.879 I mean, this team, I think is legitimately in a 339 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.000 position to where if they keep this up, if they 340 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.440 maintain this level of just you know, being locked in, 341 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:53.120 being so good defensively, and you know they just keep 342 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:55.639 doing what they're doing, this team could make a run 343 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:57.159 in the tournament. I mean, again, you could also lose 344 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.159 to anybody if you don't play well. But they've now 345 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:03.639 done this for a long enough stretch that it would 346 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:06.480 be a real surprise if they show up and aren't 347 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:10.000 playing with this kind of intensity, with this kind of togetherness. 348 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:12.240 I mean, it's just it's been a really, really, really 349 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.840 fun ride. And last night again it seemed like like 350 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.960 the win against Pittsburgh felt to me like it was 351 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:23.159 the game where you had more national noise out there 352 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:25.279 about how good of the job Pat Kelsey's doing at 353 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:27.480 Louisville than we've had at any point. It's been there, 354 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.399 here and there, especially when they got off to a 355 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:32.240 good start in the Bahamas. I mean, it's been out there, 356 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:34.879 but the pit win it kind of took it to 357 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.480 a different level as far as Okay, anybody that's got 358 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:39.600 a platform that reaches a lot of people talking college 359 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:41.919 basketball went out of their way to make sure they 360 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.399 mentioned Kelsey and what he's doing at Louisville last night. 361 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:49.480 To me, it kind of felt like it was not 362 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:51.480 the national think these were some great games last night. 363 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.919 Louisville Syracuse was not one of them. But I think 364 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.960 the more that they keep succeeding and the more it 365 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.799 gets talked about, the more people are going to think, like, hey, 366 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:06.120 Pat Kelsey's in his first year, guy from Charleston, good coach, 367 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.039 but he had to build a team from scratch. They 368 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.840 had no momentum. I know Louisville's great, but like Pat 369 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:13.720 deserves all the credit, but man, how did they get 370 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:16.919 so bad? How did they end up in that position 371 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.159 where they won twelve games in two years? And then 372 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.960 you know, it's like people I rarely hear it, but 373 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.200 occasionally you'll see somebody on Twitter, and in fact, we've 374 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:27.919 had a text or we've had a caller mention it. 375 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.799 Why you keep bringing up Kenny Payne. He's part of 376 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.600 the story, guys, he is, I mean, he's part of 377 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.320 He's gone. But like, one of the reasons why Louisville 378 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.840 fans feel so great about Pat Kelsey winning here and 379 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.360 you know, giving you some momentum is because of what 380 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.080 happened with Kenny Payne being here. It wouldn't feel as special, 381 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.519 this would be normal, this would just be I mean, 382 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.159 in fact, in let's go back ten years. If Louisville's 383 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.840 results ten years ago were exactly what we have right now, 384 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.559 you know what we're doing. We're probably bitching. We're probably 385 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:58.480 talking about how you were just beating all the teams 386 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.919 were supposed to beat and yet we ain't beat anybody 387 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.160 when it comes to Kentucky Duke and you know Tennessee 388 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:05.799 like that cause that that was where we were then. 389 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:09.359 We're not there now. So you know, the reason why 390 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:11.599 this feels so great is because of how bad things 391 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:13.359 were in the previous two years. And you know who 392 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:15.680 was responsible for that was Kenny Payne. So I don't 393 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.640 think a nobody's going out of their way to like 394 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.319 bag on him, but like the scenario where Louisville is 395 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.400 in this position with this kind of turnaround and fans 396 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:29.480 energized and excited at this level in Pat's first you know, 397 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:33.359 the first half season that he's been here. Kenny's a 398 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.480 part of that, like, and it's also a large It's 399 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:38.880 puzzling that Louisville was ever as bad as they were 400 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:41.839 to people that didn't experience it every day like we did. 401 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:46.240