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Speaker 2: mister Kent Spencer from w h A S eleven. How
Speaker 2: we do it on this beautiful afternoon Kent.
Speaker 3: Man, I've loved it. I've been loving this fall break
Speaker 3: for my kids being nice a little bit, having a
Speaker 3: little bit of fun and then and then trying to
Speaker 3: get after it the office.
Speaker 2: Did you get a full week fall break when you
Speaker 2: were a kid, because I didn't.
Speaker 3: Oh, these things didn't exist.
Speaker 2: We got like two days off. I think like we
Speaker 2: would get a Thursday and a Friday, and I don't
Speaker 2: think they would call it fall break. They would call
Speaker 2: it something like, you know, teacher, the teachers had to work,
Speaker 2: but we didn't have to go to school. Now they
Speaker 2: get I mean they get a fall break, a big
Speaker 2: winter break, and a spring break. These kids don't know
Speaker 2: how good they have it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, they completely take take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that like if you have when
Speaker 3: you have like kids in high school sports, which which
Speaker 3: I have a daughter now, and you get a fall
Speaker 3: break and all these families who kind of aren't used
Speaker 3: to how athletics you know, works, and they're like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, they're making them practice during during fall break,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, yeah, they're in season, that's how this works.
Speaker 3: They're like, well, we booked.
Speaker 2: A vacation, and yeah, I guess if you only play
Speaker 2: like fall sports, then you know, you don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about that when it comes to the spring break.
Speaker 2: But yeah, even basketball, Like I mean, you get winter
Speaker 2: break and basketball is still going on. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess the parents that are new to it, they're learning. Yeah,
Speaker 2: despite a school break, there's still I mean, heck, they're
Speaker 2: in the there're most of these fall sports are in
Speaker 2: the are in the middle of a of a season,
Speaker 2: probably at a at a crucial time. So uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm envious of I'd love a fall break, just not
Speaker 2: not taking it doesn't take away from my vacation, Like
Speaker 2: I still got all my vacation days. But we would
Speaker 2: just get to get two weeks off at Christmas, a
Speaker 2: week off in the fall, week off in spring. The
Speaker 2: schedule that kids have when they're in school, they don't
Speaker 2: realize how good they have it when they have to
Speaker 2: start working forty hours a week. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: different world. But you were in South Bend, right, I was.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: I believe you said last week it was gonna be
Speaker 2: your first time there. Am I wrong about that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, it was. It was my first time in
Speaker 3: ten years ago. I was there in twenty fourteen, gotcha?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: So I was there for that one, and then I
Speaker 3: was there for this past Saturday.
Speaker 2: So before we get to the game itself, which was
Speaker 2: just a real head scratcher as far as all the mistakes,
Speaker 2: but it sounds like they made some big improvements from
Speaker 2: the last time most Louisville fans went ten years ago.
Speaker 2: It's still, you know, viewed as an all time destination,
Speaker 2: I think, just because of the history. But I remember
Speaker 2: hearing in twenty fourteen that like it was kind of
Speaker 2: a dump, and this time around it's much better.
Speaker 3: Can I And let me just be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I think about like twenty fourteen, Like I remember the
Speaker 3: night before because we went actually down there on a
Speaker 3: Friday to do stuff for the for the shows that night,
Speaker 3: and there was snow on the ground. It was like
Speaker 3: icye It was cold that weekend, like it was the weather.
Speaker 3: The difference in weather it was was astonishing. And as
Speaker 3: far as all the logistics and stuff like that, like
Speaker 3: from our end, I think that ended up being being fine.
Speaker 3: But I think I probably didn't come away as impressed
Speaker 3: the last time as I as I was this time
Speaker 3: with the whole just kind of game day vibe and
Speaker 3: game day experience. The way that I would probably sum
Speaker 3: it up is like there's so much history and so
Speaker 3: much nostalgia that's all over the place there, but it
Speaker 3: also feels like super modern. And as I was kind
Speaker 3: of walking, you know, like going to the stadium where
Speaker 3: we were parked, and you're kind of walking through the
Speaker 3: tailgate area, like everything seemed almost like a mac and clean,
Speaker 3: even like the tailgate areas and things like that. So
Speaker 3: I was I was super impressed. I love the fact
Speaker 3: that the stadium is just kind of right there and
Speaker 3: people just they walk around in certain events are going
Speaker 3: like you know, whether it's touchdown Jesus or the grotto
Speaker 3: or other other places, like everybody has kind of torn
Speaker 3: stuff and hanging out on campus. I think that's that's
Speaker 3: that's cool, and it really kind of makes you feel
Speaker 3: that that college football vibe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm I'm a weirdo. I've been twice, but
Speaker 2: both times it was for basketball games and not for football.
Speaker 2: But obviously you can still take in the campus and
Speaker 2: the Joy Center is really really nice. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you've got a chance to ever if if you've
Speaker 2: ever gone in there, but yeah, the campus is cool.
Speaker 2: It's certainly got a lot of history in nostalgia, and
Speaker 2: I know a lot of Louisville fans made the trip.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how it compares to other you know,
Speaker 2: fan bases that make it a destination to go there,
Speaker 2: but a lot of those fans that went, their drive
Speaker 2: back was was probably as frustrating as they've had felt
Speaker 2: after a lot of losses. Losing it Notre Dame by
Speaker 2: a touchdown is just you know, happens to most teams.
Speaker 2: In fact, regardless of how much you lose by most
Speaker 2: teams they go up to South Bend and play, they
Speaker 2: don't leave with the victory. What's more surprising to you
Speaker 2: the amount of unforced just you know, head scratching mistakes
Speaker 2: that Louisville made, or the fact that they made all
Speaker 2: those mistakes and yet still had a chance to win.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a weird game, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I kind of look at mistakes because
Speaker 3: you know, they had been so perfect when it came
Speaker 3: to turnovers kind of coming into the game, and and
Speaker 3: and when you're in sports long enough, you're like, man,
Speaker 3: this this stuff kind of evens out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're due. And some of the breaks that went
Speaker 2: their way against Georgia Tech, I mean they went the
Speaker 2: other way against against Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so like I kind of I kind of
Speaker 3: compare all these things to like a golf scorer. You know,
Speaker 3: like so many times you look at your golf score
Speaker 3: and you're like, man, I could have done this better.
Speaker 3: I could have done this better, could have done this better.
Speaker 3: It probably even out right, like you know, some of
Speaker 3: those turnovers that that Louisville had, you know, Notre Dame
Speaker 3: had some silly fumbles too, you know, Like I always
Speaker 3: I always kind of look at all these things kind
Speaker 3: of kind of even and out. But but that being said,
Speaker 3: they dug themselves such a hole, and it was I
Speaker 3: think at one point it was it was twenty one
Speaker 3: to seven, and I think Notre Dame had the ball,
Speaker 3: like you're in big time trouble right there, and they
Speaker 3: were able to kind of flip the script and get
Speaker 3: back into it. So I would imagine, you know, Jeff
Speaker 3: Brohm and and the cards, and even like Tyler Schuck
Speaker 3: was like, look, we look at this game as a
Speaker 3: game that we beat ourselves that and it's hard to
Speaker 3: argue kind of against that. And and not just with
Speaker 3: the turnovers. I would argue with like, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: some of the play calls that happened in certain situations
Speaker 3: like there was just there was just a lot of
Speaker 3: different things. But yet they still gave themselves a chance
Speaker 3: to at least tie the game, you know, and the
Speaker 3: and the closing minute you know of that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think, you know, just the rapid reaction
Speaker 2: as soon as the game ends, we go live here
Speaker 2: for the postgame show, and I think even this week
Speaker 2: it's kind of lingered. But it was the first time
Speaker 2: Louisville fans during the Jeff bram Era were frustrated with
Speaker 2: a loss where you felt like some decisions he made
Speaker 2: were a big factor, and you know, Jeff had a
Speaker 2: bad day. I don't I don't think anybody would disagree.
Speaker 2: I think he would agree. And it's just not something
Speaker 2: that you've said before as a Louisville fan, not to
Speaker 2: say he's been perfect. Clearly he's had I mean, they
Speaker 2: lost games last year and coaching is always a factor
Speaker 2: in that, but it was just just I felt like
Speaker 2: they would be ready to play, would be clean and
Speaker 2: not and not make those mistakes. But you're right, you know,
Speaker 2: at some point, you're It's just part of the game.
Speaker 2: It happens. It's not just football, it's sports. But it
Speaker 2: was worth something to see them make plays and fight
Speaker 2: back and have a chance to win. But man, those
Speaker 2: mistakes just never seem to end. The interception in the
Speaker 2: second half, which was easily avoidable, and then you know
Speaker 2: the debacle at the end where you get the delay.
Speaker 2: A game just a sloppy game overall. That's the word
Speaker 2: Jeff used quite a bit in his postgame press conference
Speaker 2: and even earlier this week and in his weekly press conference.
Speaker 2: So I guess my next question is is it safe
Speaker 2: to say or fair to say that Louisville from a
Speaker 2: personnelse standpoint four games in, you know, you don't seem
Speaker 2: to have any huge concerns. I think the pass protection
Speaker 2: wasn't great for Tyler Shuck. But if you're looking for
Speaker 2: a reason as a level of fan to be optimistic,
Speaker 2: I don't think you can look at your players and
Speaker 2: your talent level and feel like, well, you know, we
Speaker 2: just don't have the pieces or the guys that can
Speaker 2: compete at the top of the acc It's just about
Speaker 2: finding a way to put together a clean game.
Speaker 3: And it's and it's and it's trying to find the
Speaker 3: most consistent game as you can as you can find,
Speaker 3: because there's no I wouldn't put like, look at one
Speaker 3: position group and say, man, there is a glaring weakness there.
Speaker 3: They've got to mat these guys because they're not any good. Now.
Speaker 3: They're not perfect. Nobody is. Everybody makes mistakes. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, pass protection can be pretty good at times,
Speaker 3: but guess what it can break down. That's just football,
Speaker 3: and and all of that stuff is the same, you know,
Speaker 3: whether it's offensive line or whether that's assignments. You know
Speaker 3: early on in the game, and by the way, some
Speaker 3: of those assignments creeped up later in the game, like
Speaker 3: sometimes you're gonna have a bust, but can you make
Speaker 3: up for the bust? So no, I don't think from
Speaker 3: a personnel standpoint like I have, I have great concerns.
Speaker 3: It's just like, how do you play situationally and time, score, momentum,
Speaker 3: all of that stuff, Like, you know, because cause you're
Speaker 3: gonna you're gonna play against teams that are built in
Speaker 3: a very similar fashion, how do you can you make
Speaker 3: those plays in the moments? You know? Last year and
Speaker 3: Jeff you know, Brown says this all the time, like, look,
Speaker 3: they got into a lot of tight games in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. They were able to make the winning plays
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. Can this group be able to
Speaker 3: do the exact same thing this year going forward? Because
Speaker 3: there's still gonna be in a lot of tight games
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter moving forward this season. I firmly
Speaker 3: believe that.
Speaker 2: I'm with you and you know last year, I think,
Speaker 2: you know, this is just something I as somebody who
Speaker 2: you know loves sports and I played growing up. I
Speaker 2: feel like if you find yourselves in close games late,
Speaker 2: but you consistently can find ways to dig deep and
Speaker 2: make the place to win and get out. Some would say, man,
Speaker 2: you're due for a loss, or it's luck, But also
Speaker 2: I think that's a skill and a trait that a
Speaker 2: team can develop to stick with it. And they did
Speaker 2: it last year from start to finish. They had their
Speaker 2: backs against the wall against Georgia Tech in a major way.
Speaker 2: And really, as you mentioned, there were many games last
Speaker 2: year where they made the winning plays to get it done.
Speaker 2: But this year, you know, so far they've been in
Speaker 2: I guess maybe two of those games. The Georgia Tech
Speaker 2: game was also kind of weird, how it just you know,
Speaker 2: you thought it was going to be maybe a field
Speaker 2: goal that wonted, and yet Louisville won and covered. But yeah,
Speaker 2: with SMU on the schedule coming up Saturday, I mean,
Speaker 2: is that really the point of emphasis? Just kind of
Speaker 2: tightening some things up and not hurting yourself so much
Speaker 2: because you know, you look at the box score from
Speaker 2: last week, I mean, they were pretty damn good other
Speaker 2: than those turnovers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, you know against Georgia Tech too, you
Speaker 3: know you're you've got plays that Louisville was able to make.
Speaker 3: I always said, like big momentum changing plays against Georgia
Speaker 3: Tech Louisville dominated those moments, and there are moments that
Speaker 3: you really don't account for, right Like, can you really
Speaker 3: account for Haines King making that play and then you
Speaker 3: getting a you get in a scoop and score touchdown
Speaker 3: or like an interception or pick six or whatever it was,
Speaker 3: right Like, you can't really account for those things. Do
Speaker 3: you really account for the block field goal that lands
Speaker 3: right in your dude's arms and he could just you know,
Speaker 3: he can make a house? Yeah, Like like you those
Speaker 3: are things that like you don't draw up now. You
Speaker 3: have to be aggressive and you have to be ready
Speaker 3: to attack those moments. But those are those are some
Speaker 3: of those plays that like, hey, it just went in
Speaker 3: your favor on that day. But like against an SMU,
Speaker 3: like you know, one of the things are like the
Speaker 3: busts early on in games. I know that that really
Speaker 3: has bothered Brohm so far this season. Can you tighten
Speaker 3: that up? Can you make it? Can you make it hard?
Speaker 3: Especially in your house against an SMU team that has
Speaker 3: to be quite honest with you, looked really really impressive
Speaker 3: so far this season. Because remember when we were looking
Speaker 3: we were talking about Louisville versus Georgia Tech they they
Speaker 3: won a hard fought game against Florida State, and we
Speaker 3: were like, I don't know how much that win looks.
Speaker 3: SMU smashed Florida State.
Speaker 2: Yea, they embarrassed.
Speaker 3: So this is like we're talking about something you know,
Speaker 3: completely different, and you know, the Notre Dame game. I'm
Speaker 3: sure this is the one thing that and I remember,
Speaker 3: like Charlie Strong used to say this all the time,
Speaker 3: don't let a game beat you twice. You know, like
Speaker 3: you know, you can have a game that you felt
Speaker 3: like you should have had and maybe it slips away.
Speaker 3: Don't let it beat you twice. One of the things
Speaker 3: that I would say in the in the postgame news
Speaker 3: conference after Notre Dame is is whether it was Jared
Speaker 3: Dawson or whether it was Colin Lacey, Like they fully
Speaker 3: grasped the fact that, yes, this is one loss, but
Speaker 3: we still have everything in front of us that we
Speaker 3: want to accomplish this year. We can still win the
Speaker 3: ACC Football Playoff. It's all still it's all still right there.
Speaker 3: It's a bump in the road, but I still felt
Speaker 3: that they were very confident. They need to be that way.
Speaker 2: On Saturday, Kent Spencer of WHS eleven is our guest
Speaker 2: joining us here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's switch
Speaker 2: gears here to Kentucky, who's coming off of easily one
Speaker 2: of the biggest wins that Mark Stoops has had in
Speaker 2: his time at Kentucky. And obviously, you know, we'll see
Speaker 2: how the rest of the season plays out with both
Speaker 2: these teams. And I'm not here to say that, you know,
Speaker 2: ole Miss isn't going to be great, because I mean,
Speaker 2: I think they've got a chance to be really, really
Speaker 2: good this year. But what I took away from that
Speaker 2: game kent was that I feel like as much as
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops gets criticized for conservative play and just some
Speaker 2: of the decisions he makes, and you know, coaches get
Speaker 2: criticism whenever you lose, that's part of it. But I
Speaker 2: felt like that was really a masterclass by Mark Stoops
Speaker 2: because they were able to play that game at a
Speaker 2: pace that really almost felt like ole Miss never really
Speaker 2: got the game started. They got a touchdown drive at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the game, and then I think they
Speaker 2: did the same thing in the second half, and really
Speaker 2: from then on they were never really full comfortable. I mean,
Speaker 2: they got one loss that's just a real head scratcher.
Speaker 2: That's South Carolina played Georgia close and then they and
Speaker 2: they picked up a monster win. I mean, I actually
Speaker 2: think Kentucky's got a chance to be pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the record will show it, because
Speaker 2: they still have Tennessee and Texas and Louisville and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But I think it's wild to see Kentucky now compared
Speaker 2: to where we were talking about him after that South
Speaker 2: Carolina loss. As you said, it wouldn't have been a
Speaker 2: shock to anybody if the bottom completely fell out, bottoming that.
Speaker 3: Well, and there's a you know, it's a funny thing
Speaker 3: like when you look at their schedule up to this point,
Speaker 3: their record is what you thought it would be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just it's just swapped, right. They should have beat
Speaker 2: South Carolina. Everybody thought they were gonna lose, do all miss, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then you had and then you had a very
Speaker 2: competitive game against Georgia that nobody would have expected.
Speaker 3: I don't think, and nobody thought and nobody thought they
Speaker 3: were going to be competitive against Georgia, you know, and
Speaker 3: I I sure didn't, And I didn't think they had
Speaker 3: a chance to go down there and beat Old Miss.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, one of the things that I
Speaker 3: think when you look at them, and it's it's pretty
Speaker 3: clear to see right now, like their defense is really good.
Speaker 2: It's nasty. It looks like an NFL defense with the upfront,
Speaker 2: the size they've got.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, it's it's it's really really good. And you know,
Speaker 3: so far to this point, and we'll see if this,
Speaker 3: if this is something that that continues. Is like, man,
Speaker 3: when they when they get you, you're they bring you
Speaker 3: to the ground. And I know that sounds like simple enough,
Speaker 3: but how many mistackles do you see in college football?
Speaker 3: And like they're they're pretty sure tacklers and when they
Speaker 3: get there, they've got some bad intentions, which is what
Speaker 3: you what you have to do. And so I think
Speaker 3: their defense is really really good. After that South Carolina game,
Speaker 3: whether it was via injuries or maybe making some change ups,
Speaker 3: I think that they has they have shared some things
Speaker 3: up on that offensive line. They've gotten better there. They
Speaker 3: still have a ways to go, but it's gotten better.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna be guilty as charged. Like we were
Speaker 3: up in the press box at South Bend and they
Speaker 3: had the game on up there, so we were we
Speaker 3: were watching it then and even against maybe like against
Speaker 3: Georgia he made some of these throws and then last
Speaker 3: week against Ohio, Like, I think the more he plays
Speaker 3: and the more confidence he gets because he's been a
Speaker 3: backup his whole life, Like Brock Vandergriff's got talent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tough kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a tough kid. So I think they found
Speaker 3: somebody there, right, Like, I think they found somebody that
Speaker 3: they feel really good about, you know, going for the
Speaker 3: rest of the season. I don't know what it needs.
Speaker 3: I feel like the next three weeks after this by week,
Speaker 3: and I can be wrong on a place or two,
Speaker 3: I think they got They got Vanderbilt at home. I
Speaker 3: think they go to Florida and maybe have Auburn at home.
Speaker 3: That's a big three game stretch for them because it
Speaker 3: really gets, you know, things, the Screws really start to
Speaker 3: tighten down the stretch of their season. And so that's
Speaker 3: a that's a big three weeks for that program moving forward. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Max Harrison, it doesn't look like he's going to be
Speaker 3: back anytime soon. That's going to be a big loss
Speaker 3: at the secondary. But you know what, they played pretty
Speaker 3: well without even Old Miss. But you know, and one
Speaker 3: of the things in the old miss game and it's
Speaker 3: almost like we'll even go back to Louisville Notre Dame
Speaker 3: if you don't mind for a second. Like Mark Stoops
Speaker 3: kind of had to change the stripes a little bit
Speaker 3: in that game, right, Like he had to, like they
Speaker 3: slowed it down and they dumbed it down, but right
Speaker 3: like he had to make some gutty calls and he
Speaker 3: had to make some gutty decisions and do some gutty
Speaker 3: things in order for them to be able to pull
Speaker 3: off that win. Like he had to change his stripes
Speaker 3: just a little bit. Now on the flip side, you know,
Speaker 3: like I thought, Jeff Brohman and Louisville Notre Dame, Like
Speaker 3: there was moments where I was like I wouldn't make
Speaker 3: that call, but you know what, he would, and his
Speaker 3: fan base loves him for it because you know, like
Speaker 3: Jeff is going to be super aggressive and that's just
Speaker 3: the way it is. And you may at times you
Speaker 3: may disagree with it, but guess what, if it works,
Speaker 3: you're gonna love it, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 3: that's just the way that that he is on how
Speaker 3: he goes about his his game plan. But with Stoops,
Speaker 3: he's always so so conservative and he had to try
Speaker 3: to change it around a little bit to get his
Speaker 3: team over the hump.
Speaker 2: And it paid off. I would imagine if your stoops,
Speaker 2: you know, you were able to see Okay, yeah, if
Speaker 2: we do take a risk, I've got some weapons that,
Speaker 2: you know, make that decision a little bit easier. Barion
Speaker 2: Brown's a tough guy to cover, and I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked if that play works more often than it doesn't,
Speaker 2: dependent upon you know, the situation. I just think their
Speaker 2: defense is so good that their offense really doesn't have
Speaker 2: to do a whole lot. But I think their offense
Speaker 2: actually has the pieces to be you know, successful. I mean,
Speaker 2: Dank he's really good as well at running back their
Speaker 2: missing chip train. I mean, I guess they don't really
Speaker 2: know what they're missing. He's never played yet, but the
Speaker 2: I forget the name of the guy who stepped in
Speaker 2: and actually done pretty well. I think he's one of
Speaker 2: the lead, one of the top rushers in the SEC.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if I was a Kentucky fan, I mean
Speaker 2: I would be looking at at the rest of this
Speaker 2: schedule and saying, hey, you know, stopping ole miss and
Speaker 2: containing them offensively, you know, that's that doesn't mean you're
Speaker 2: going to be able to do it against Tennessee and Texas,
Speaker 2: but it's got to make you feel better about it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would. I would not have expected we'd
Speaker 2: be here talking about Kentucky like this following that South
Speaker 2: Carolina loss. But to your point, their record is, I think,
Speaker 2: exactly what everybody said it would be, which you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's a silver lining I think if you're if
Speaker 2: you're a Kentucky fan, all right, real quick, I got
Speaker 2: to ask you this, Ken. We've done this I think
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, and it's been a roller
Speaker 2: coaster of a season when it comes to the NFL
Speaker 2: right now, because any result can't really surprise you, and
Speaker 2: I guess you can always say that in the NFL.
Speaker 2: But to see just like a team that you thought
Speaker 2: might be the worst team in the league beating a
Speaker 2: team that was unbeaten. That's happened multiple times so far.
Speaker 2: So right now, who would you say are the four
Speaker 2: best teams in the NFL?
Speaker 3: Four best teams in the NFL? I would say the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know how you cannot say the Chiefs. Agree?
Speaker 3: Give me the Detroit Lions. Like, give me, give me
Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need they got a big win and need
Speaker 2: it in a major way to erase those first couple
Speaker 2: of losses.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, so I think they've hit a couple. They've
Speaker 3: hit a couple, They hit a couple of speed bumps
Speaker 3: to start their season. But I think they've they've course
Speaker 3: corrected quite nicely. By the way, there's a big one
Speaker 3: on Sunday in the Jungle. But I'll put them up
Speaker 3: and then I'll go back to the NFC, maybe the
Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they're unbeaten and they've they've looked good
Speaker 2: so far. It's hard to I mean hard to trust
Speaker 2: them because they've had starts where they look pretty solid
Speaker 2: and then it falls apart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean, like, but but the thing about
Speaker 3: it is, like the only team I would say that
Speaker 3: I fully trust is the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: And that's been and that's got to be based off
Speaker 2: of like just what they've done over the years, because
Speaker 2: they found ways to win games when it hasn't been
Speaker 2: pretty this year, and they've they've looked It's not saying
Speaker 2: they've looked terrible, but you know, I think nearly every
Speaker 2: one of their games outside of one, which it's not
Speaker 2: as if they played a ton of them. But like
Speaker 2: they could have easily lost to the to the to
Speaker 2: the to the, they should have lost to the Bengals.
Speaker 2: They easily could have lost to the Ravens. Heck, the
Speaker 2: Titan or the Titans, but the Falcons had.
Speaker 3: A chance for bringing that back up.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm sorry, but hey, the Bengals got their first win.
Speaker 2: That's got to make you feel better, right, would have
Speaker 2: been really really bad if Andy Dalton beat them like
Speaker 2: that would have been that would have been very sad.
Speaker 2: But it didn't happen, right, Yeah, but hey, they got
Speaker 2: their first win, and you know, you got to start somewhere.
Speaker 2: But Ken, I appreciate the time as always, good stuff.
Speaker 2: Always enjoy the conversation, Have yourself a good weekend and
Speaker 2: we'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Brother, Hey baby, thank you?
Speaker 2: All right, that's Ken Spencer whas eleven Really good stuff.
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Speaker 2: on a Thursday afternoon on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 2: Make sure you tune in on game day Saturday. We
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Speaker 2: Kickoff of course, is at noon on ESPN, and then
Speaker 2: we'll go live as soon as it ends, probably around
Speaker 2: three p thirty ish. I would say it's a guess,
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Speaker 2: dot Com. All right, so this is one of those
Speaker 2: things that I feel sorry for this person However, this
Speaker 2: is a human that, like, given his career, his success, like,
Speaker 2: he's probably not somebody that many would ever feel sorry for.
Speaker 2: But as Shannon Sharp, who was a really really good
Speaker 2: NFL player, really good tight end, had himself, you know,
Speaker 2: a hell of a career, and I don't really know
Speaker 2: what he did early in his retirement, but he's become
Speaker 2: one of the bigger, the bigger personalities. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess he's an analyst. He clearly knows the game, but
Speaker 2: like he's he's a And by the way, I'm a
Speaker 2: big fan of Shannon Sharp. I think he's really really entertaining.
Speaker 2: I think he has a good balance to where he
Speaker 2: I actually enjoy listening to him talk football and talk
Speaker 2: about his career. But also he's just he's kind of
Speaker 2: funny to me. But I do feel sorry for him
Speaker 2: after hearing a story that he shared on his podcast
Speaker 2: with Mark Cuban. So he made a ton of money
Speaker 2: in his NFL career, and he's making a lot of
Speaker 2: money now for ESPN. So I would imagine if he's smart,
Speaker 2: he'll never run out of money. He'll probably always be
Speaker 2: very very well off, but he could be maybe I
Speaker 2: don't know. One of the richest people of all time.
Speaker 2: That's not my tax bracket, so I don't really know how,
Speaker 2: you know, what you would need to be worth as
Speaker 2: far as your net worth to be one of the
Speaker 2: richest people of all time. But Shannon Sharp had just
Speaker 2: signed with the Ravens and he had money. This was
Speaker 2: way back in the day, and his agent was kind
Speaker 2: of helping him when it comes to finances.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm sorry it wasn't his agent, it was
Speaker 2: his financial guy. So he had a financial advisor as
Speaker 2: a young NFL player, which I'm sure most of them do.
Speaker 2: And he said he really wanted to buy three hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth of Google stock, and his financial guy
Speaker 2: advised against it, saying it'd be a bad investment because
Speaker 2: it's overpriced. That would now be worth three trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: According to Mark Cuban, here is the clip from the podcast.
Speaker 4: I remember when Google came out and they thought that
Speaker 4: the shares were going to open up about eighty five
Speaker 4: dollars this year, and I remember sitting to my financial
Speaker 4: guys and I'm like, oh, you know what. I had
Speaker 4: just signed with the Ravens, so I had some money
Speaker 4: and I was like, man, I'd like to buy you know,
Speaker 4: three hundred thousand dollars worth. Well, it opens up at
Speaker 4: went fifteen and he says it's overpriced, and so you
Speaker 4: know it's going to come back.
Speaker 5: But they don't have the profit. Yeah, hey, I've done
Speaker 5: that for you. I know you're not the first one
Speaker 5: to say it's like in video. It's like in video
Speaker 5: right now, right, Like I told my son, my son
Speaker 5: wanted to invest in, and he bought some and I'm like,
Speaker 5: you know, I'd rather see it come down first, and
Speaker 5: my son's like, got you who's the expert now right?
Speaker 4: And how many times has Google split?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: I mean you know it's worth over three trillion dollars
Speaker 5: three trillion dollars trillions trillions, I mean not billions, that's
Speaker 5: a thousand billions, a trillion dollars.
Speaker 4: So that my investment, I'd have been a billionaire.
Speaker 2: With you right, get fucked up. We got it, We
Speaker 2: get it, we got it. I double hit the dumb button.
Speaker 2: So I think everybody heard the what we needed to
Speaker 2: hear there. Sorry I didn't have the podcast. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: they'll they'll, they'll get a treat. And I wouldn't if
Speaker 2: somebody was gonna slip up and say a word you
Speaker 2: can't say on the radio. I probably would have gone
Speaker 2: with you and Sharp, but it was Mark Cuban. But
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like even if you are somebody
Speaker 2: that is that is as wealthy as Shannon Sharp, but
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: I mean, he's clearly making great money now with ESPN,
Speaker 2: but you got to keep in mind he hadn't played
Speaker 2: the game in a long time, and the contracts back then,
Speaker 2: you know, what he was making then should have still
Speaker 2: been a lot to where he should be doing fine.
Speaker 2: But like it's a different world now and he hadn't
Speaker 2: played the game in a long time. So I don't care.
Speaker 2: If I was well off with a net worth of
Speaker 2: I don't know, eighty million, it would kill me. And
Speaker 2: I'm somebody who overthinks everything I get in my own
Speaker 2: head a lot. I don't know if i'd ever get
Speaker 2: over that. And you know, you can blame your financial guy,
Speaker 2: but I mean, it's your money. You can do whatever
Speaker 2: you want. But if you're a fresh out of college
Speaker 2: and you're just now in a situation with that kind
Speaker 2: of money, I would trust the financial guy before I
Speaker 2: would make that kind of decision. I would hope that's
Speaker 2: not still his financial guy. I gotta hang get. I
Speaker 2: can't relate. I've never I've never invested money, and I
Speaker 2: don't think I probably ever will as far as like,
Speaker 2: you know, a big chunk of money to hopefully see
Speaker 2: a good return. I mean, maybe one day I have
Speaker 2: money like that, but I don't now, and I don't
Speaker 2: see a scenario where I'm you know, in that position.
Speaker 2: Not to act like I'm you know, I'm poor, but
Speaker 2: you know, to be able to you know, if you've
Speaker 2: got money to invest, you're taking a risk that's just
Speaker 2: money you have, honestly to lose. Now, maybe you're a
Speaker 2: bad investor and you take risks that you shouldn't take.
Speaker 2: But like, if you could invest one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in something three hundred thousand dollars like Shannon Sharp, like
Speaker 2: you know going in you may not get that back,
Speaker 2: and you're willing to live with it. But that would
Speaker 2: eat me alive, wouldn't it you?
Speaker 3: John?
Speaker 2: Yeah, But what do you do with a trillion dollars? Well,
Speaker 2: technically so the value is a trillion for Google, but
Speaker 2: you know the way they describe it share, yeah, the way,
Speaker 2: But again, there aren't that many billionaires out there, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, he'd be like the football Elon Musker like that.
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by people who might have made that kind
Speaker 2: of investment and turned it an insane profit, making them
Speaker 2: potentially billionaires, because I just I'm of the belief, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just I would you know, I know that's not
Speaker 2: the case, but just when I think of people who
Speaker 2: are insanely rich, like with a B, not an M,
Speaker 2: but a B, I think of its being somebody that
Speaker 2: that is famous that if you said their name, I
Speaker 2: would know. But I'm fascinated about people who live a
Speaker 2: very modest life low key. Clearly they're not they're not
Speaker 2: living on the streets, but like they don't need the
Speaker 2: insanely humongous mansion. They've just got a moderate mansion, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like, I don't know, fascinated by
Speaker 2: people who have all that money and yet they don't
Speaker 2: they don't really want people to know. I don't think
Speaker 2: i'd want people to know if I was rich. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I'm the same way, But I also know that,
Speaker 2: like I don't know how I would act if I
Speaker 2: was rich, because I've never you know, really being that
Speaker 2: kind of like that's wealthy, and that's like really just
Speaker 2: you're a very unrelatable person to the vast majority of
Speaker 2: the world. And you're very fortunate, you know. And and
Speaker 2: I'm sure many people who have put themselves in that
Speaker 2: situation they worked their ass off, or maybe they got lucky.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe they were, maybe they're married into it.
Speaker 2: Like the lady who divorced Bezos. I mean, like I
Speaker 2: don't know what her career was before she married him,
Speaker 2: but her biggest move financially was divorcing him and getting
Speaker 2: a big chunk of his money. Did you know Kentucky,
Speaker 2: by the way, is the is I think it was.
Speaker 2: It ranked forty ninth out of fifty as far as
Speaker 2: states with prenups, Like, nobody in Kentucky does the prenup. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't think my wife and I did the prenup.
Speaker 2: Oh you would. You don't know if you did a prenup,
Speaker 2: that means you probably didn't, right, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: aware of what it is. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think it'd be a very I know why people
Speaker 2: don't do it. It'd be a very awkward conversation, especially
Speaker 2: for those who get married young. Feels like we both
Speaker 2: did get divorced, Yeah exactly, exactly, or like, you know, hey,
Speaker 2: I want to make sure, yeah we're we're getting married,
Speaker 2: We're gonna share life together, but you I want to
Speaker 2: make it clear that what's mine's mind like that? That
Speaker 2: to me, that would be a very uncomfortable conversation. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to a break. We'll come back here on
Speaker 2: the other side. Wrap this thing up. It is coffee
Speaker 2: and Company. Feel by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: So next week on Wednesday and Thursday, I will be
Speaker 2: in Charlotte for the ACC basketball tip off. We are
Speaker 2: going to have coach Kelsey on the show on Thursday.
Speaker 2: That's the day for I think all players and coaches.
Speaker 2: There's like nothing public about the event that's out there.
Speaker 2: There's just emails that have come in from you know,
Speaker 2: the media contact, but like there's been no like I
Speaker 2: don't know if they're doing it differently this year, but
Speaker 2: I do have a spot set up on Radio Row,
Speaker 2: so we'll be there Wednesday Thursday. Wednesday is when the
Speaker 2: commissioner is going to talk, but I'm not really sure
Speaker 2: how they're I don't really know the plans, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, but I know we're set up and
Speaker 2: coach Kel's is expected to be on with us in
Speaker 2: the four o'clock hour and then and I also so
Speaker 2: don't know which players are going with Louisville, but whoever
Speaker 2: it is, whichever two players are there, we should have
Speaker 2: them on as well. So another sign that basketball season
Speaker 2: is around the corner. I know football is the focus
Speaker 2: right now for obvious reason. But Friday tomorrow just a
Speaker 2: day away Louisville Live. I mean, that's the first official
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball event for Pat Kelsey here as the coach.
Speaker 2: It's not a real game. It's just a chance to
Speaker 2: see the players and they'll be introduced and usually that's just,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, it's just a party. Let them get
Speaker 2: out there and dance and try to entertain the crowd
Speaker 2: or whatever it is they want to do. But as
Speaker 2: I talked about yesterday, there's gonna be real value for
Speaker 2: those in attendance to you know, listen as Lance McGarvey
Speaker 2: announces each and every player, so you can, you know,
Speaker 2: take notes and put a name to a face and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Because this is unfamiliar circumstances here where you have an
Speaker 2: entire new team. I do think a lot of fans
Speaker 2: are familiar with the roster for the most part, or
Speaker 2: at least decently, just because it was very exciting to watch.
Speaker 2: Should all come together. But I mean talk about a brand.
Speaker 2: I mean we've talked about brand. A brand new team
Speaker 2: has been mentioned many times, but it's usually in the
Speaker 2: previous world. It would be because you've got guys who
Speaker 2: played two minutes a game that are now going to
Speaker 2: be starters. Now you got guys that you'll be seeing
Speaker 2: for the first time. And I think this person on
Speaker 2: the text line earlier this week mentioned it more so
Speaker 2: to just kind of you know, for effect, which I
Speaker 2: get it, but maybe they're maybe it's true. Like I
Speaker 2: have to remind myself at times that like I followed
Speaker 2: this way more than most because it's, you know, one,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a huge fan, but also like it's kind
Speaker 2: of part of what I do right, not to say
Speaker 2: we need to break down the roster every day, but
Speaker 2: not a great look for me if I'm not familiar
Speaker 2: with the personnel on the basketball teams around here, but
Speaker 2: like if the starting five walked in without uniforms on
Speaker 2: somewhere like to dinner, you know, there'd be a lot
Speaker 2: of people that wouldn't know who they are. Hopefully that
Speaker 2: changes once the season starts, because I think these guys
Speaker 2: are a good group of dudes who certainly have talent.
Speaker 2: But you know, you could you could you could say,
Speaker 2: you know, just in you know, the rare times I've
Speaker 2: been around any of these guys since they got here,
Speaker 2: even though louisvell is coming off of a few really
Speaker 2: tough years, and the dudes who played college basketball for
Speaker 2: a long time, even they have not been in the
Speaker 2: college game when Louis has been relevant, but they come
Speaker 2: from places like South Florida and Long Beach State BYU
Speaker 2: to where you know, this is like Louis is different.
Speaker 2: You know, our fan base is just different. And I
Speaker 2: mean that in a good way, all right. Jefferson Animal Hospital,
Speaker 2: once again, not only do you need to keep them
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Speaker 2: your pet or you just want to find a new
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Speaker 2: pet to get checked up on. I mean that obviously
Speaker 2: there's a lot of value there, but also their blood
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Speaker 2: hundred pets. All Right, you got any action tonight, John,
Speaker 2: you're making any wagers my friend?
Speaker 1: Tonight, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I do have a parlay for the weekend, but we
Speaker 2: can save that for I may just I may just
Speaker 2: tail you because you got the momentum. In fact, you
Speaker 2: may not want that because that could be bad luck
Speaker 2: for you. But we do have a couple of games tonight,
Speaker 2: Sam Houston State and UTEP and Texas State and Troy.
Speaker 2: I do like I do like Texas State. They burned
Speaker 2: me earlier this year, but Troy's really down. So on
Speaker 2: the NFL side. Pretty decent game for a Thursday. The
Speaker 2: Buccaneers have been really impressive so far this year, and
Speaker 2: obviously the Falcons, you know, they don't have a great record,
Speaker 2: but you know, I think they're clearly better with Kirk
Speaker 2: Cousins than they were with whoever was quarterback last year,
Speaker 2: Desmond Ritter, poor guy who Louisville native was pulling for him.
Speaker 2: But get what did he last in the league two years?
Speaker 2: He's already out. It's tough, all right, Have a good night, everybody.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow right here on Sports Talk
Speaker 2: seven ninety