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Speaker 2: It's still raining out there, at least it is where
Speaker 2: I am. It's not, uh, I mean, it's just been
Speaker 2: that consistent, occasional heavy, but like never really stopping. I'm
Speaker 2: often critical of meteorologists when they get it wrong and
Speaker 2: they're you know, and they really are trying to keep
Speaker 2: people safe and do a good job. And most of
Speaker 2: the time it's all in fun whenever I pick at them.
Speaker 2: But you know, there are some that I think just
Speaker 2: it's their nature. Maybe maybe it's not an intentional thing,
Speaker 2: it's just their personality and how they express things to
Speaker 2: where you know, they they've got you thinking you're gonna
Speaker 2: need to call everybody you know then you love and
Speaker 2: tell them goodbye because you know, mother nature is just
Speaker 2: gonna take us all out. So, you know, I'm critical
Speaker 2: of them, and I think at times if they predict
Speaker 2: something really really bad, like they project that it's happening
Speaker 2: and it doesn't, it's like a good thing, right, because
Speaker 2: nobody wants a really terrible, you know, mother nature related
Speaker 2: thing to happen. That could you know, hurt some people.
Speaker 2: I mean, so the relief of knowing they were wrong
Speaker 2: actually makes it to where like they're not really at
Speaker 2: times held accountable in my opinion. So I say all
Speaker 2: that to say they got it right. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure anybody I heard giving us updates on whether
Speaker 2: yesterday or even the day before, what they said is
Speaker 2: exactly what has happened. It was gonna start raining late
Speaker 2: late on Thursday, mostly actually Friday morning, and it was
Speaker 2: going to rain for a long time and not stop.
Speaker 2: And that's where we are right now. It sounds like
Speaker 2: the wind has slowed down a little bit. It's still
Speaker 2: a lot of people here in Kentucky, Ina without power,
Speaker 2: it looks like, but I'd say the worst of it
Speaker 2: has come and gone at least I hope that's the case, because, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, flooding is a real worry. And my we
Speaker 2: we had a basement flood at the house I'm at
Speaker 2: right now, which we've been here for I guess two
Speaker 2: years now, but we were here maybe I don't know,
Speaker 2: a month five weeks before we had the this basement flood.
Speaker 2: Had to get new car. It was just a pain
Speaker 2: in the ass. So we've had two basements that have
Speaker 2: flooded on us where we had to get you know,
Speaker 2: new carpet and you know that whole mess. So we
Speaker 2: are paranoid, my wife more than I because you know,
Speaker 2: she's more responsible, she's the adult in the relationship. But
Speaker 2: like we worry about that sump pump. The sump pump
Speaker 2: is if you know, you need it, if it's not operating,
Speaker 2: if it goes out, if it's if it just you know,
Speaker 2: can't keep up, then you're screwed. So you know, make
Speaker 2: sure yours. And I've heard of people who, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't think to go check your sump pump randomly,
Speaker 2: I mean I don't. I mean maybe during these types
Speaker 2: of situations you would, but like they didn't realize that
Speaker 2: it went out or it was unplugged because they were
Speaker 2: moving something around in that utility room. So this is
Speaker 2: the time where you need to check on it and
Speaker 2: make sure it's working because if not, you're gonna be
Speaker 2: You're gonna be screwed. All right, it's coffee and Company.
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Speaker 2: set for the weekend. Louisville Notre Dame, less than twenty
Speaker 2: four hours away. The storm, the storms and the weather
Speaker 2: overall has impacted Louisville's travel. It sounds like I believe
Speaker 2: they were expected to take a flight up to South Bend.
Speaker 2: That is usually how they travel. There aren't many places
Speaker 2: they go via bus. However, they did take the bus
Speaker 2: up today to South Bend, and it's an old school
Speaker 2: road trip. I would imagine this is the longest bus
Speaker 2: ride they've taken as a team in quite some time,
Speaker 2: and I choose to think of it as a good thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, either way, they're gonna have a full night's
Speaker 2: rest tonight for the game tomorrow. But maybe there's some
Speaker 2: more team bonding on a bus than which you'd get
Speaker 2: on a plane. I don't know, but I do know
Speaker 2: I am confident that Louisville will win tomorrow. I mean
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not that guy that's like I'm calling
Speaker 2: my shot the cars are taking them down, Like that's
Speaker 2: just not really not really my my style. Also, I
Speaker 2: don't think any I mean, let me ask you this, John,
Speaker 2: you're somebody who is now in the business. Do you
Speaker 2: think people really care about picks that people make.
Speaker 3: I think now so more than ever, people care more
Speaker 3: about you know, spreads and over enders and that stuff
Speaker 3: because there's money on the line. Back before sports betting
Speaker 3: was really all the rage it is now, I feel
Speaker 3: like it was a lot more common for people to
Speaker 3: care about just your regular picks.
Speaker 4: For Yeah, so for each of the games.
Speaker 2: I'm a Louisville fan, so like there are games that
Speaker 2: I think Louisville can lose, Like there's games where I
Speaker 2: don't expect Louislle to win. I mean, we just got
Speaker 2: through with the Kenny Payne are are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: But like I'm not, let me, let me, let me
Speaker 2: tease up, stick with me through two and a half hours,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna get my pick about what's gonna
Speaker 2: happen in the Louisville game. Like you know, I just don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I'm I I'm a fan like
Speaker 2: anybody else. So I just tune in and watch and
Speaker 2: hope for the best. And you know, so I'm just
Speaker 2: have never really been like what's your pick? Which you know,
Speaker 2: it's just not my kind of thing now when it
Speaker 2: comes to picking other games, when it comes to just wagering,
Speaker 2: I do that just in fun because it is fun,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know that has become a big big
Speaker 2: It's become a big not just a talking point. But
Speaker 2: when when it comes to sports gambling content, I mean
Speaker 2: it's very very popular within the you know, the entertainment world.
Speaker 2: Although it does it does irritate me. I mean, I
Speaker 2: I know what they're doing. They're trying to target people
Speaker 2: who they want to start betting on sports that maybe
Speaker 2: don't even watch sports that much. But like, why are
Speaker 2: there so many like a list celebrities that are the
Speaker 2: ones that are endorsing these sports books. I mean again,
Speaker 2: they are big, you know, they're they're influen their influencers, right,
Speaker 2: they're endorsing them. And if you see Jamie Fox or
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart pop up for a sports book, like it
Speaker 2: may catch your attention more than some loudmouth sports guy
Speaker 2: who's you know, a nobody, but he makes a lot
Speaker 2: of money on gambling. But like, I don't know, I
Speaker 2: just feel like that's a wasted Like it is Jamie
Speaker 2: Fox really gonna make you download whatever sports book he
Speaker 2: is honking so you can start betting. Like I don't know, again,
Speaker 2: no hate to Jamie Fox. I'm sure, he's getting paid
Speaker 2: a lot of money to do it, but like, to me,
Speaker 2: isn't that I just feel like, John, I get your
Speaker 2: thoughts on this. That's probably the attempt to get the
Speaker 2: people who aren't necessarily there's people who watch sports occasionally,
Speaker 2: but like if they were gonna do it, they would
Speaker 2: have already done it. Well, maybe now this a less
Speaker 2: celebrity talking about it is going to get him interested
Speaker 2: because they really like, you know, Kevin Hart and I feel.
Speaker 3: Like those Shack they kind of approach it from different
Speaker 3: angles Because Jamie Fox, I feel like he tries to
Speaker 3: come off as this real classy dude and maybe he
Speaker 3: maybe it's different with his company that he's endorsing. When
Speaker 3: Kevin Hart character, Kevin Hart acts like he's the casual
Speaker 3: dude eating wings on the couch, getting excited about whoever
Speaker 3: he's bet on for whatever game it is, look and
Speaker 3: whatever works.
Speaker 2: Clearly they keep spending money in their marketing efforts to
Speaker 2: to you know, with these big celebrities. But it just
Speaker 2: to me it seems like such a stretch. But I
Speaker 2: am somebody that would see it that way because it
Speaker 2: could be Kevin Hart or Tony Hart or Tony Venetti.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bet because that's what I want to do.
Speaker 2: There's not anybody that's like, it's just that I don't
Speaker 2: need you to market to me because I'm already doing it.
Speaker 2: So clearly they've got a strategy. I would imagine the
Speaker 2: person making those decisions within these big corporations that make
Speaker 2: billions of dollars, they know what they're doing. But anyways,
Speaker 2: what I'm saying is I think Louisvill's going to win.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be the guy that says I'm calling
Speaker 2: my shot, I'm predicting it. I just think they're a
Speaker 2: better football team. I think they're gonna be ready to play.
Speaker 2: Their coach, you know, Jeff Bram. You guys heard of him.
Speaker 2: He's pretty damn good coach in these games. Specifically a
Speaker 2: good coach overall, with a lot of success under his belt.
Speaker 2: But these are the kind of games. He has his
Speaker 2: team ready to play, and he's taken advantage of opportunities,
Speaker 2: and this is this is still a big opportunity for Louisill.
Speaker 2: Trust me, this will absolutely start changing how Louisville is
Speaker 2: viewed the rest of the way. Now, you gotta avoid
Speaker 2: a lost SMU next week, if you can get past
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, I mean, you need to avoid a lost
Speaker 2: SMU regardless. By the way, louis did open up as
Speaker 2: eleven point favorites in that game next Saturday. However, this
Speaker 2: would put Louisville in a position to where I think
Speaker 2: it'll be Miami Louisville and then Miami Louisville Clemson in
Speaker 2: that order, and then everybody else when it comes to
Speaker 2: the ACC and the thought of getting two ACC teams in,
Speaker 2: it really kind of depends on how things play the
Speaker 2: rest of the way out. So if Louisville does lose
Speaker 2: to Notre Dame tomorrow, it doesn't eliminate I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not even a conference game, so they could still get
Speaker 2: to the a SEC Championship. If they would we be
Speaker 2: able to win that, then they're in. But I hate
Speaker 2: that Notre Dame lost in Norland, Illinois, Like I was
Speaker 2: rooting for Norland Illinois to pull off the upset because
Speaker 2: it was great to see. But if they were undefeated
Speaker 2: and still look the same, like, let's say they found
Speaker 2: a way to drive there and punch one in and
Speaker 2: avoid that upset loss in Northern Illinois, they'd be viewed different,
Speaker 2: like they'd be ranked higher than Louisville. They would be
Speaker 2: they would probably be an even bigger favorite maybe, So
Speaker 2: you know, I just want the game to start. I'm
Speaker 2: ready to see where this team is and where they stand,
Speaker 2: how they stack up with an opponent like this on
Speaker 2: the road. The green that Notre Dame's gonna be wearing, obviously,
Speaker 2: it's been a big talking point. We talked about that
Speaker 2: yesterday with our guest who joined us to kind of
Speaker 2: preview the matt from that side of it. I think
Speaker 2: their green looks really really good, but I've never really
Speaker 2: thought about how different it is to what we typically
Speaker 2: see with Notre Dame. Like they're usually white, gold or
Speaker 2: that dark blue, and the green looks good. But like
Speaker 2: I think the visual tomorrow, Louisville wearing all white, which
Speaker 2: I love, their all white uniforms, in Notre Dame wearing green,
Speaker 2: which is something they only wear once a year. Like
Speaker 2: it's just gonna be it's just gonna be different than
Speaker 2: what you typically see in Notre Dame games. But right now,
Speaker 2: Louisville is still a touchdown underdog, and I'm surprised by that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm trying you know you said it earlier, John,
Speaker 2: so I don't feel like such a homer saying it.
Speaker 2: And we talked yesterday to a guy who knows Notre
Speaker 2: Dame as well as anybody. That's Tyler Horka, who's a
Speaker 2: beat writer for On three Sports covering the Irish. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's claiming they're gonna get their ass kicked,
Speaker 2: or I don't think anybody really feels that way. Maybe
Speaker 2: they do, but the spread just doesn't make a lot
Speaker 2: of sense to me, Like it's one of those spreads
Speaker 2: where you got to think, like, you know, what does
Speaker 2: Vegas know that we don't? What are what are they
Speaker 2: anticipating happens that we're not seen because Notre Dame. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: they blew the hell all out of Purdue, but a
Speaker 2: lot of teams are gonna do that. And you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't really like the world on fire against Miami, Ohio.
Speaker 2: They lost in a little Illinois and yes, I know
Speaker 2: Texas Tech at their place is a big win, but
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think if you remove the brand, yeah either way,
Speaker 3: I think if you remove the brand from both teams
Speaker 3: and you just take the results, even though Louisville would
Speaker 3: still be the away team. I think the spread would
Speaker 3: be a lot closer, maybe not necessarily in favor of
Speaker 3: Little maybe closer to like two and a half three
Speaker 3: something like that, if you remove the Notre Dame brand.
Speaker 2: And I understand, I totally understand that this is a
Speaker 2: big game for Notre Dame and there's a lot like
Speaker 2: this is like they know they've got Like this is
Speaker 2: not something they're gonna This game isn't going to like
Speaker 2: just they're not gonna come out flat, at least they shouldn't, right,
Speaker 2: Like it'd be a really bad sign for Marcus Freeman
Speaker 2: if his team comes out flat in this game where
Speaker 2: they've got a chance to pick up a win against
Speaker 2: the top fifteen team and not remove that terrible loss
Speaker 2: on their resume, but to tell people, hey, that was
Speaker 2: a fluke. We're gonna keep winning and we'll see if
Speaker 2: we get in Like that's what they that's what they
Speaker 2: need to do. But it's not as if Notre Dame
Speaker 2: under Marcus Freeman has a history or any kind of
Speaker 2: a pattern of like really getting it done when when
Speaker 2: when the spotlight's bright and they gotta win because they've
Speaker 2: lost to Marshall under him, we all know the NIU
Speaker 2: loss is there. He has a loss to Stanford, which
Speaker 2: doesn't sound as bad as those other two, but Stanford
Speaker 2: has been really bad in recent years. You know, they
Speaker 2: don't win. They don't mean he has a losing record
Speaker 2: at Notre Dame against top twenty five teams. And look,
Speaker 2: I know that most teams will probably have a losing
Speaker 2: record in the last few years against ranked teams, because
Speaker 2: beating ranked teams is not something that happens very often. However,
Speaker 2: he's a Notre Dame, so like, it's not as if
Speaker 2: you know, they can bank on this historic trend of
Speaker 2: just being a better team than most when look, they're good,
Speaker 2: but Louis was prettydamn good team too. And I really,
Speaker 2: you know, if you'd asked me last week, you know,
Speaker 2: let's say, immediately following the immediately following Louis's win against
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech, I don't even know when Notre Dame played
Speaker 2: Miam of Ohio. But if you had told me at
Speaker 2: that point not to ask what the opening line is,
Speaker 2: but to if you'd ask me what it'll be when
Speaker 2: it kicks off, I would have not said seven or
Speaker 2: seven and a half, and that's where it's at right now,
Speaker 2: And it doesn't change anything about how I feel about
Speaker 2: the game, because I know how this stuff works. But
Speaker 2: you know, I just I would have expected not all
Speaker 2: put it this way. It's not like I would have
Speaker 2: expected a whole lot more love for Louis because let's
Speaker 2: be real, they've only played one team that anybody's really
Speaker 2: heard of, and in that game, yeah, they won and
Speaker 2: they covered, but it was a different cover than you
Speaker 2: typically see. Right, They got some unexpected type of plays.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean that they're not deserving of credit for making
Speaker 2: those plays, but you don't expect to get a special
Speaker 2: team's touchdown and a defensive touchdown in the same game.
Speaker 2: So it's not about like, hey, why is anybody looking
Speaker 2: at louisvill look how great they are. It's just like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what may like what what does anybody
Speaker 2: look at Notre Dames? What do they see at Notre
Speaker 2: Dame that may makes them feel like they're deserving to
Speaker 2: being you know, a touchdown favored against the team that
Speaker 2: beat them last year and in fact bullied them. There
Speaker 2: was a late touchdown by Notre Dame that made that
Speaker 2: thing closer than it actually was, and look beating Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: I keep saying Texas Tech beating Texas Tech at their
Speaker 2: place in College Station. You know that's impressive, but also
Speaker 2: Texas Like, we have no clue what that A and
Speaker 2: M win means for Notre Dame. A and m's played
Speaker 2: McNee State, a terrible Florida team in Bowling Green that
Speaker 2: they barely beat since that game, so like, what's more
Speaker 2: of a What's what's of a what's a bigger tell
Speaker 2: with Notre Dame that they lost to NIU or that
Speaker 2: they beat Texas A and M in College Station? I mean,
Speaker 2: I think the one that stands out more than the
Speaker 2: other is the loss to NIU and n IU. Again,
Speaker 2: it's not just the random loss to a MAC team.
Speaker 2: NIU turned around lost to a terrible Buffalo team two
Speaker 2: weeks later. So tomorrow we've got pregame coverage starting at
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Speaker 2: calls and react to whatever it is that that happens
Speaker 2: between these two teams. Again, I'm confident, but it's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's not a confidence of like we're going
Speaker 2: to shock the world. It's and it feels good to
Speaker 2: be in this place because I don't feel like I'm
Speaker 2: confident that my team's going to go do something that
Speaker 2: they never do. I just think they're better and Jeff's
Speaker 2: this is the these this is where he shines. And
Speaker 2: I think in a way, Notre Dame, you know, they're
Speaker 2: the ones that have the pressure, right. I mean, both
Speaker 2: teams have a lot to gain by by winning this one,
Speaker 2: but there's more pressure on Notre Dame because if they lose,
Speaker 2: I mean, they might as well close it up the
Speaker 2: rest of the season. I mean, there's a there's no
Speaker 2: scenario they would get in. And when you are a
Speaker 2: not like you don't even have a chance to go
Speaker 2: to a conference title game randomly and like, if Notre
Speaker 2: Dame loses, I'm not literally saying they shouldn't finish their season, right,
Speaker 2: but like, think about it, John, if Notre Dame loses,
Speaker 2: everything else is just a waste.
Speaker 4: Do you think if because they.
Speaker 2: Can't rely on upsets in a league and go find
Speaker 2: a spot in the title game, they don't have a conference,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Do you think that if this happens enough times to
Speaker 3: Notre Dame over the course of this new twelve team
Speaker 3: playoff format, it would ever influence them to join a conference.
Speaker 2: It would have to be a scenario where they quite
Speaker 2: literally can say that not being in a league led
Speaker 2: to it. Like if you lose to Louisville and then
Speaker 2: Northern Illinois in the month of September, that's not a
Speaker 2: conference thing's fault, that's you not being good enough, right.
Speaker 2: But if it ever ends up to where they are
Speaker 2: truly not able to have that needed data point, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's how you get in automatically, is to win your league.
Speaker 2: They don't have a league, so they knew that they
Speaker 2: would never be able to get one of those top
Speaker 2: four spots in a VIBE. But they I mean there
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can find in really any
Speaker 2: sport a situation that's unique like this one with Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: They are a national program, whereas in college sports, no
Speaker 2: program is like totally national. I mean, there are clearly
Speaker 2: some big time programs like Alabama football or Kentucky basketball
Speaker 2: or Duke basketball that people just latch onto because they're
Speaker 2: you know, they're they just what do they call it,
Speaker 2: you know, they're they're they just, yeah, they're bandwagon. They
Speaker 2: like who's good. But Notre Dame has a national fan
Speaker 2: base because they're the Catholic school, and you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's an entire religion and they've got a lot of
Speaker 2: tradition as well. They did a movie that sucked called
Speaker 2: Rudy that is terrible. But you know, they don't like,
Speaker 2: they don't need to join a conference, and if any
Speaker 2: other school was in their situation, which again they can't,
Speaker 2: they can't even relate. Like it's just different. Nobody would
Speaker 2: join a league unless you had to because NBC is
Speaker 2: gonna give you that much money and you can go
Speaker 2: do whatever you want. You don't have to follow a league.
Speaker 2: You know, you can do whatever you want and you
Speaker 2: could still make the money that a lot of schools
Speaker 2: you know, are making in the Big Ten and in
Speaker 2: the SEC. I mean you looked it up not that
Speaker 2: long ago. It was very comparable, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were forty nine or might have been fifty,
Speaker 3: and then the SEC was right around the same.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I mean it makes no sense for them to
Speaker 2: join the league. I think it would have to turn
Speaker 2: out to where they've now had. Okay, we have because
Speaker 2: another factor. It's not just that like you don't have
Speaker 2: that chance to win a conference and go do it,
Speaker 2: but also the you know, you'd have to have really
Speaker 2: good teams that you felt like truly didn't get a
Speaker 2: chance to go play for a national championship because the
Speaker 2: conference championship game wasn't there for you to go get
Speaker 2: it done. Like this year, if they run the table
Speaker 2: after lou If let's say they lose to Louisville tomorrow
Speaker 2: and then they run the table, they'd still have to
Speaker 2: look in the mirror for not making it. You know,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be a conference thing. But again back to
Speaker 2: the original point, if they do lose tomorrow, they could
Speaker 2: at least if they're in a conference. See some upsets
Speaker 2: happen to where they'd fall into the title game. I
Speaker 2: mean Louisville last year, they had a good year. They
Speaker 2: went seven and one in their league. So it wasn't
Speaker 2: as if they just fell into it. But that happened
Speaker 2: because you know of how the schedule played out. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to our first break here in the five
Speaker 2: o'clock hour a little bit sooner than we typically do.
Speaker 2: Want to try to keep this thing on track as
Speaker 2: best I can. Every time I open up Facebook, I'm
Speaker 2: continuing to see people just mad as hell that kids
Speaker 2: didn't go to school today. People who have no kids,
Speaker 2: who don't work in the school system, that don't have
Speaker 2: spouses that work in the school system. Why are you
Speaker 2: mad that a kid didn't have to go to school today.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. A couple of people did text
Speaker 2: them when we talked about it earlier. I'll share what
Speaker 2: they had to say. There's one reason I've heard that
Speaker 2: I think I can at least you know, I can understand.
Speaker 2: I don't agree, but like I get it. Also, some
Speaker 2: other games we want to talk about before we get
Speaker 2: out of here for the weekend, and who ell, who
Speaker 2: knows what else we're gonna get into it's a Friday,
Speaker 2: it's rainy, it's nasty, but hey, it's Friday. That Trump's
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Speaker 2: real quick on the Louisville matchup, I mean, I think
Speaker 2: it's pretty clear if you're looking at Notre Dame from
Speaker 2: the louis perspective, what you feel like you really need
Speaker 2: to emphasize, and that is containing the run game as
Speaker 2: best as possible. And I don't mean just containing the
Speaker 2: running backs who can get loose on you. They certainly
Speaker 2: do that against Texas Tech, but in their top twenty
Speaker 2: in the country in rushing yards, so that's clearly their
Speaker 2: identity right now. And it's not just the running backs though.
Speaker 2: Riley Leonard, I mean he's not been I think what
Speaker 2: they thought they were getting at Notre Dame, but he
Speaker 2: has been effective at making plays with his legs and
Speaker 2: Louisville has been prone in the last you know, few games.
Speaker 2: They've only played three, act like they've been playing for
Speaker 2: you know, months now, but twice they've had quarterbacks be
Speaker 2: able to get loose and make some plays and extend drives.
Speaker 2: And of the quarterbacks they've played, I wouldn't say Riley
Speaker 2: Leonard is as good as Haines King when it comes
Speaker 2: to that, because Haines King that's really just what he does.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's again one of four quarterbacks last year
Speaker 2: who had twenty five passing touchdowns and ten rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 2: So that's not Riley Leonard. But he has shown that
Speaker 2: he's a big body and he can pick and choose
Speaker 2: his spots pretty well as far as when he can
Speaker 2: make a play, get a first down and extended drive.
Speaker 2: So you got to keep that in mind. They've not
Speaker 2: been great through the air. That's why I think you're
Speaker 2: just gonna maybe not just give him all day, right.
Speaker 2: You want to try to get after him, make him uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: but you're better off with him in the pocket trying
Speaker 2: to beat you with his arm. And he's been a
Speaker 2: good quarterback throughout his career, but he's just not been
Speaker 2: consistent and for some reason, it has not clicked yet.
Speaker 2: With him at Notre Dame and his receivers, they just
Speaker 2: have not been I mean they've not been able to
Speaker 2: get it going through the air. Now, if you're Notre
Speaker 2: Dame and you're looking at Louisville, I don't really know
Speaker 2: what year conclusion is After three games, it's really one game, right,
Speaker 2: the first two games you throw them out the window,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. I mean, I'm sure they
Speaker 2: watch game film and what not to get more familiar,
Speaker 2: but the results in those games, the numbers in those games.
Speaker 2: You got a factor in who they played in Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a good team. I think I don't
Speaker 2: know how many games are gonna end up with this
Speaker 2: year as far as wins. But you know, Louisville won.
Speaker 2: They covered, they look pretty good, but they didn't. They
Speaker 2: didn't play clean football throughout. And I still think a
Speaker 2: lot of credit goes to Georgia Tech for that. I
Speaker 2: think that's what they do. But if I'm Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: I don't really know what I would try. I mean,
Speaker 2: what I would feel like I could exploit. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe it is that they've not done a good job
Speaker 2: at containing quarterbacks who can take off and make a play,
Speaker 2: but you got to know that Louisville is going to
Speaker 2: make sure that's something that they take away. A lot
Speaker 2: of people on the text line with me that they
Speaker 2: actually think Louisville will lose, but they're surprised that they're
Speaker 2: touchdown underdogs here to a Notre Dame team that you
Speaker 2: know has the worst loss of any power for team
Speaker 2: right now, don't they? I mean NIU, Yeah they're in
Speaker 2: the MAC. It's not an FCS team, but like NIU
Speaker 2: is now what two and one? It was great that
Speaker 2: NAU got ranked for a minute. Were they ranked when
Speaker 2: they lost to They probably were when they were.
Speaker 4: But it was fun.
Speaker 3: They were also ranked. They had a worse ranking than
Speaker 3: Notre Dame even though they beat Notre Dame, which doesn't
Speaker 3: make any sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the day people, we all know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It'll never go away, and I'm not advocating that it should,
Speaker 2: but it really is silly this early in the year
Speaker 2: to act like we know where anybody truly stands. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's always been silly. I think the playoff and again,
Speaker 2: the way they do the playoff rankings. It's not just
Speaker 2: because we know those are the only ones that matter.
Speaker 2: But those playoff rankings are done differently than a people
Speaker 2: voters do it because they don't factor in just week
Speaker 2: by week. They factor in like you could lose and
Speaker 2: not fall off the number one spot if you've got
Speaker 2: that good of a resume, because one game doesn't just
Speaker 2: because you loss doesn't mean that body, you know, your
Speaker 2: body of work has shifted that much.
Speaker 3: So imagine what if they didn't do any rankings until
Speaker 3: the first unveiling of the college football playoff.
Speaker 4: Rankings and it was just random. Now, so when I.
Speaker 3: Say random, you don't know where you stand and tell
Speaker 3: you first.
Speaker 2: You thought you thought you thought you were looking like
Speaker 2: a top ten team for sure, maybe you're not even
Speaker 2: in the top twenty five. Yeah, I would hate that
Speaker 2: because we would all just I mean, I would be
Speaker 2: desperate to get some level of some reference point to
Speaker 2: see objectively where where even if I didn't agree with it,
Speaker 2: I could understand that you know, this is this is
Speaker 2: thirty people who are you know, objective here, and this
Speaker 2: is the way they see it. So I would hate it,
Speaker 2: But it would be good for college football because it
Speaker 2: would lead to more people talking about college football internally
Speaker 2: because we wouldn't have anything to like go off of
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, we just be yelling at
Speaker 2: each other's hands, chaotic. It would be Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: want that, but again it would probably be beneficial to
Speaker 2: where you know, the more people are talking about it,
Speaker 2: the more people are into it, the more people are
Speaker 2: debating about your sport, your product. It's good for that sport.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's see here when I said earlier that like,
Speaker 2: I don't understand why there's so many people who are
Speaker 2: are like their days been impacted somewhat negatively because kids
Speaker 2: didn't have to go to school today. And I guess
Speaker 2: some of the people listening didn't hear the beginning of that,
Speaker 2: and I'm trying I should clarify it more. I guess
Speaker 2: if you have a kid that goes to school, or
Speaker 2: you're a teacher and you want to go to like,
Speaker 2: it's totally different, Like it is a total total inconvenience
Speaker 2: to have a day off of school for your kids
Speaker 2: because of weather, You got to find childcare, you may
Speaker 2: not have the ability to work from home. There's all
Speaker 2: kinds of scenarios. Everybody's situation is different, but like, more
Speaker 2: often than not, I'd say it's not ideal for an
Speaker 2: unexpected off day for a kid who's in school, especially
Speaker 2: one that can't watch themselves at home. You know, that
Speaker 2: isn't like a teenager or something like that. So like
Speaker 2: the people in the text line that are telling me,
Speaker 2: like how inconvenience it is for them, they got to
Speaker 2: take a day off, they got to use a vacation day.
Speaker 2: If this happens, like I'm not talking about you, I
Speaker 2: get it, Like I understand. I don't think anybody's at fault,
Speaker 2: like I think, you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: they're looking out for kids safety when they make these decisions.
Speaker 2: And even if they got it wrong and they didn't
Speaker 2: really need that day off, they still can claim that.
Speaker 2: And I believe, you know, I try to see the
Speaker 2: best in people. I think when they make these decisions,
Speaker 2: they are in fact thinking of the safety of kids,
Speaker 2: which is what they should do. The people I'm talking about,
Speaker 2: it's those that don't have any This isn't impacting them
Speaker 2: at all. They don't have a kid in school, they
Speaker 2: don't work for the school system, they don't even have
Speaker 2: like a niece or nephew in the school system, or
Speaker 2: they've got kids that go to school elsewhere. That aren't. Again,
Speaker 2: if you just have the opinion, that's one thing. Everybody
Speaker 2: can have their opinion. Like if you think it's lame
Speaker 2: and weak and soft of society this day and age
Speaker 2: to not have kids go to school because it's windy
Speaker 2: and rainy, like you're entitled to your opinion. That's totally different.
Speaker 2: That's not at all what I'm getting getting at, but
Speaker 2: like for somebody to feel the need to continuously like
Speaker 2: post about it on social media, like why does it
Speaker 2: bother you that that much? And the reason I say
Speaker 2: that much is because we all have things in our
Speaker 2: mind that we don't think to just get out our
Speaker 2: phones and start typing away to post on social media.
Speaker 2: More often than not, when somebody does that and it's
Speaker 2: a gripe, it's something that really triggered them more than
Speaker 2: maybe most things, because they are they they gotta let
Speaker 2: I gotta let people know about this. It's insane that
Speaker 2: these kids are this week and they don't even have
Speaker 2: to go out and at the bus stop when it's raining,
Speaker 2: and that those are the people that I'm that I'm
Speaker 2: referring to, like I just would it's not I mean again,
Speaker 2: you're gonna do what you're gonna do. I'm not judging
Speaker 2: you to say you're a terrible person. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to understand why it bothers you that much. And again,
Speaker 2: most people who respond or responding as people who I
Speaker 2: understand why would be an inconvenience for you. But one
Speaker 2: person says that it's all about the taxpayer impact, and
Speaker 2: that federal public education funding is equivalent of zero point
Speaker 2: fifty one percent of total taxpayer income. So I think
Speaker 2: what you're saying is like, if they're not in school,
Speaker 2: like maybe they like your tax dollars are for them
Speaker 2: to be going to school, and your money's being wasted
Speaker 2: if they don't. Is that what you're saying their money like,
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to understand what that means.
Speaker 3: If that's what he's saying, I don't get how the
Speaker 3: argument makes sense because they make up the day or
Speaker 3: I mean, and now again, if you're doing intel, it's
Speaker 3: a different store.
Speaker 2: But if you've got to add days, then you know
Speaker 2: it's going to cost more money for.
Speaker 3: Storing or to like keep the school open and you know,
Speaker 3: pay for the businesses and that time stuff.
Speaker 2: I think this person did, in fact deliver what I
Speaker 2: was asking something that at least like again, I'm not
Speaker 2: you know, and hey, that's the way you see it cool,
Speaker 2: Like I really don't mean but that that is somebody
Speaker 2: who at least can bring I think it's a little
Speaker 2: much for you to be losing sleep over that and
Speaker 2: maybe posted on Facebook and call in Marty Polio the
Speaker 2: worst names ever. But like that at least is something.
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of silly, But hey, you have
Speaker 2: your opinion. I have mine speaking of Martin Polio. Maybe
Speaker 2: nobody's told me otherwise. Maybe it is a coincidence, but
Speaker 2: I don't think it is, considering the fact that this
Speaker 2: was probably a questionable decision for them to call off
Speaker 2: school like they did last night because of wind and rain.
Speaker 2: I mean, to me, it's just about keeping kids safe
Speaker 2: and always making sure you're not going to risk it.
Speaker 2: But the fact that he then decided to announce his
Speaker 2: retirement today, not effective immediately, but effective as of July,
Speaker 2: I mean it's got to be related to this. I mean,
Speaker 2: I would stand corrected if in fact there's you know,
Speaker 2: there's other reasons, and I'm sure this isn't the only reason.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, this guy's taken a beating in the
Speaker 2: public for the for the JCPS situation in the last
Speaker 2: few years, the JCPS debacle in recent years, and look,
Speaker 2: that's his job. I mean, it's a tough gig. What
Speaker 2: did Venetti say on Twitter about job?
Speaker 3: He said, what's worse electrodes to the privates or being
Speaker 3: the JCPS superintendent?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that somebody has what's the voltage?
Speaker 2: It's It's one of those jobs that I it's a
Speaker 2: thankless gig, and it's one of those jobs that I
Speaker 2: oftentimes think, like God, like, I'm sure it pays well,
Speaker 2: and you are working a job that is very important,
Speaker 2: helping children, helping a school system that you know is
Speaker 2: here to develop children and make an impact on their
Speaker 2: lives and everybody's lives. Like it, It's certainly something you
Speaker 2: do for a labor of love. But like you can
Speaker 2: do other things and go home at night knowing you're
Speaker 2: helping people that you know, other jobs that don't have
Speaker 2: what this comes with, Because I actually think, again, what
Speaker 2: do I know just an outsider's opinion who doesn't have
Speaker 2: a kid in school in JCPS. I'm not an employee
Speaker 2: at JACPS. Clearly they've made mistakes. They would tell you that,
Speaker 2: but I think some of the issues that go on
Speaker 2: at JCPS a route to those issues. The root of
Speaker 2: those issues is parents that you know, kids aren't getting
Speaker 2: good guy to they don't know how to behave anymore,
Speaker 2: or maybe their kids aren't terribly behaved. But like, and
Speaker 2: I'm about to do it, John, I'm about to be
Speaker 2: beck in Marjorie. But if a teacher told my parents
Speaker 2: I did this or I did that, there wasn't a conversation.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a well let's get let's get together and
Speaker 2: see what happened. I know my Nicholas, he I know
Speaker 2: he wouldn't do that. There was no conversation. That's what
Speaker 2: because my parents respected that teachers were not going I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's teachers that my parents didn't like, but teachers
Speaker 2: were gonna get the benefit of doubt when it comes
Speaker 2: to their parent And I'm not even saying they always
Speaker 2: deserve that, but like, there are some parents who refuse
Speaker 2: to believe that their kids would ever do something wrong.
Speaker 2: And like, if your kids are misbehaving, not just you know,
Speaker 2: your typical misbehaving at school, but I mean like being
Speaker 2: badass kids that you know would be in jail if
Speaker 2: they were old enough, and that happens a lot. People
Speaker 2: don't mean I'm I'm not saying this for shock value.
Speaker 2: This is real life stuff here, Like there's some badass
Speaker 2: kids out there, not just in JCPS everywhere, but like
Speaker 2: JCPS is a huge school district. But if they're being
Speaker 2: bad ass kids at school and getting in trouble and
Speaker 2: going home and it's not being related to them that
Speaker 2: their behavior is unacceptable, teachers can't win, administrators can't win.
Speaker 2: And I don't know the percentage of parents who operate
Speaker 2: like that, but clearly there's enough to where there's nothing
Speaker 2: school administration can do. In fact, there's something there's some
Speaker 2: kids to where I would bet that there's nothing parents
Speaker 2: can do, Like some kids are.
Speaker 3: Just bad in enabling though all teachers are liberal buffoons
Speaker 3: or snowflakes, and that you know, that's the problem with
Speaker 3: the school system.
Speaker 2: Is jenial what they think. I mean, your wife is
Speaker 2: a teacher, I don't know if and she's never really
Speaker 2: grade trust me. I mean that's not something that I
Speaker 2: have have heard, like directly, but I know about it.
Speaker 2: I mean I know that exists. I mean liberal snowflakes
Speaker 2: is what a lot of people probably yelled today when
Speaker 2: they woke up when they saw that kids weren't going
Speaker 2: to school right.
Speaker 3: Like PCPs didn't know the badasses of Bullet County.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, you should have seen Jerry Dudey. You
Speaker 2: think we're liberals in this county, got another thing coming, baby,
Speaker 2: it's red Kingdom on the on this side. Just so,
Speaker 2: I mean, like, I mean, you know, I think people
Speaker 2: know where I am politically, if anywhere, but you know,
Speaker 2: let's be real, a lot of Trump flags uh within
Speaker 2: walking distance to where I'm sitting right now. And that's
Speaker 2: not a bad thing. I'm not saying like that means
Speaker 2: that like these people are flawed. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot more uh a lot more red
Speaker 2: over here than blue in uh in in in Bullet County,
Speaker 2: but not with UKU of L. It's actually the opposite.
Speaker 2: Although I will say this, man, I see way more
Speaker 2: U of L representation in Bullet County than I ever have,
Speaker 2: And I don't know if I just wasn't paying attention before,
Speaker 2: but it's nice to see.
Speaker 3: I think I know the movement from you know, people
Speaker 3: moving out into Bullet County.
Speaker 2: And I would say, I would say that the county
Speaker 2: outside of Jefferson that has the most Louisville fans in
Speaker 2: the city of Kentucky would probably be Bullet and Oldham.
Speaker 2: That'd be my guess. And I want to say Bullet
Speaker 2: would have more, but I don't know enough about Oldham County.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they. I mean, I know they
Speaker 2: have Louisville fans there, and Louivel fans are everywhere. I mean,
Speaker 2: and this show. Not to say that, like our biggest
Speaker 2: listener base is just Rando's out there in different parts
Speaker 2: of the state, but like they don't they can't turn
Speaker 2: on their radio in Paduka, Kentucky and listen to this.
Speaker 2: I mean, they could try. Signal might be that good,
Speaker 2: but you know, they they don't get it anywhere else,
Speaker 2: so they got to they gotta come here to get
Speaker 2: their fix because they're Louisville fans. So like I hear
Speaker 2: from those people because they're like, hey, I'm out here
Speaker 2: in you know, such and such county. But it's nice to,
Speaker 2: you know, hear U ofl sports and whatnot. So not
Speaker 2: to say that there's no Louisville fans anywhere other than
Speaker 2: Jefferson County. That's not the case at all. But I
Speaker 2: would say the biggest bulk of them outside of Jefferson
Speaker 2: County would probably be Bullet or Oldham, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe Shelby. I don't know. Shelby I think has a
Speaker 2: lot of UK fans. UK fans Avery they're again I'm
Speaker 2: not kidding. You could go to Pluto and run into
Speaker 2: a UK fan and they'd have a UK shirt on
Speaker 2: and you wouldn't even have to approach them. They would
Speaker 2: come to you and probably let you know they're a
Speaker 2: UK fan, and they might not even know, Like you
Speaker 2: could be a different form of life, you could be
Speaker 2: an alien and they would just not be able to
Speaker 2: resist throwing l's down at at you, because that's that's
Speaker 2: that's their nature. It's what they do. All right, quick
Speaker 2: break will come back on the other side. Wrap this
Speaker 2: thing up. It's coffee and company. Feel about Thornton's right
Speaker 2: here on sport Stalk seven ninety there's no doubt both
Speaker 2: fan bases here when it comes to basketball are super
Speaker 2: excited for these new eras for different reasons and some
Speaker 2: I guess for the same reason just it's fresh, it's new.
Speaker 2: I think both guys have really convinced their fans that
Speaker 2: they're you know, they're not only you know, worthy of
Speaker 2: the job, but they're they're appreciative of it. They you know,
Speaker 2: they understand what the gig is. So we've seen that
Speaker 2: with the donations that came in with Nil when Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey took over, which helped him go out and build
Speaker 2: this big roster. But this Kentucky fan base, we know
Speaker 2: they're massive, and Mark Pope's one of their own. But this,
Speaker 2: I mean, Big Blue Madness has fallen off in recent years.
Speaker 2: Nobody would tell you otherwise. They sold out tickets for
Speaker 2: that in twenty four minutes. Rough Arenas sold out twenty
Speaker 2: four minutes the entire arena for Big Blue Madness, and
Speaker 2: that just speaks to how excited they are for for
Speaker 2: Mark Pope. And I you know, we'll see if he
Speaker 2: can if he can win, but uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: that's it's pretty impressive. I'll give him credit for that,
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