Speaker 1: Be a game that would give me some real anxiety
Speaker 1: when Louisville wasn't good, I didn't really care about this
Speaker 1: game because it was one of many that you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of just expected to lose. But to be fair, Virginia,
Speaker 1: there's no team that has given Louisville more problems in
Speaker 1: the ACC than this Virginia team, and they didn't give
Speaker 1: them any trouble a couple of weeks ago when Pat
Speaker 1: Kelsey went in there and beat them by twenty. They're
Speaker 1: clearly down in a major way, and they'll be making
Speaker 1: a coaching change at the end of the year because
Speaker 1: Tony Bennett bailed on them before the season started. So
Speaker 1: the ACC needs Virginia to be better than they are
Speaker 1: right now, because the league needs a lot of teams
Speaker 1: to be better. Like Louisville was a big factor in
Speaker 1: the ACC's real fall in recent years. In fact, they
Speaker 1: were the worst team for two straight years in a
Speaker 1: two year stretch where the ACC was maybe as bad
Speaker 1: as it's ever been, although maybe this year is the
Speaker 1: worst year. So Louisville right now has at least done
Speaker 1: their part to try to get back on track. I'm
Speaker 1: sure in a different ACC many years ago, they probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't be sitting as the second best team in the league.
Speaker 1: But at least they're heading in the right direction. But
Speaker 1: I think whoever takes over at Syracuse when that job
Speaker 1: opens up, whoever takes over at Miami Florida State was
Speaker 1: bad and now they're they're They're not great, but they're
Speaker 1: Leonard Hamilton's having a little bit of a bounce back
Speaker 1: season right now, but he's also nearly eighty years old.
Speaker 1: So these jobs who they hire like it could be
Speaker 1: somebody we don't even know, It could be a name
Speaker 1: that we're not thrilled by, but whoever it is, like,
Speaker 1: these teams need to be good again, because I've not
Speaker 1: seen anything quite like this as far as the ACC
Speaker 1: in a seven eight year stretch, going from easily one
Speaker 1: of and at times even the best league in the
Speaker 1: country to now just being a league that looks like
Speaker 1: a you know, has been Duke is still creaming the crop.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to get defensive for the ACC last
Speaker 1: night because I was watching Fox Sports. They had I
Speaker 1: think it was the was the Rutgers one of the
Speaker 1: Big ten matchups Ruggers and somebody else I was watching
Speaker 1: and Casey Jacobs and former Stanford Whang. He's one of
Speaker 1: the analysts for Fox Sports, and he was talking about
Speaker 1: the ACC during their wrap up show and he said
Speaker 1: something about Duke, and I thought, that's that's that's asinin
Speaker 1: and then I realized, wait a second, he's right. He
Speaker 1: said that Duke this year is like Gonzaga has been
Speaker 1: for many years in their league. And more than anything,
Speaker 1: that speaks to how good Duke is. But also it
Speaker 1: speaks to how the second best team is Louisville, who
Speaker 1: I think is good. Maybe I'm biased, I don't know
Speaker 1: how good, but clearly they're playing some pretty good basketball.
Speaker 1: They've beaten some decent teams along the way, they played
Speaker 1: a really challenging schedule, so we'll see how this season finishes.
Speaker 1: But you know, Louisville was the worst team in this
Speaker 1: league by a long shot. Now again, nothing left from
Speaker 1: those two seasons currently, so maybe that's not worth mentioning.
Speaker 1: But still, I mean, I wanted to be defensive, like
Speaker 1: that's a crazy take, You're out of your mind, But
Speaker 1: he's kind of right. I mean, Duke is Duke will
Speaker 1: run the table this year, and they should. I mean,
Speaker 1: they may slip up and to somebody, but it would
Speaker 1: have to be like a big slip up. They are
Speaker 1: going to play Carolina. I mean, they'll play the other
Speaker 1: teams in the league that are believed to be, you know,
Speaker 1: tournament worthy, but even the teams that right now are
Speaker 1: believed to be in the tournament according to Joey Brackett's
Speaker 1: we talked about this yesterday, So I don't want to
Speaker 1: regurgitate too much, but this is just a real eye
Speaker 1: opener to where the league is right now. Because Leonardi
Speaker 1: doesn't see the bracket, he's going off of his opinion
Speaker 1: and the formula of the net rankings that the NCAA uses.
Speaker 1: So maybe he's off here, but I don't I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocked if he's actually correct in how he values
Speaker 1: this league. So Duke is safely and they're a one seed.
Speaker 1: They're probably the second one seed behind Auburn. Louisville is
Speaker 1: up to a sixth seed according to Lenardi, which hey,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty good spot right now. And
Speaker 1: although you don't have a whole lot of opportunities to
Speaker 1: get big wins that are going to significantly boost your resume,
Speaker 1: you do have a lot of wins likely if you
Speaker 1: keep playing the way you're playing, and that certainly won't
Speaker 1: hurt you. So I don't know. Maybe this team's ceiling
Speaker 1: is like a five or four. We'll see. So the
Speaker 1: two teams right now that are safely in as of today,
Speaker 1: and again it's just Lenardi, So maybe he's wrong, but
Speaker 1: I'd say just about everybody projecting a bracket right now
Speaker 1: would be close to, you know, on the same page
Speaker 1: with him. So Louisville is a sixth seed, Duke as
Speaker 1: a one seed. Those are the only two teams that
Speaker 1: right now are safely in. There are three teams that
Speaker 1: are on the bubble. You've got Clemson as an eight seed,
Speaker 1: and they don't. They're only there because they have that
Speaker 1: really valuable win against Kentucky, which is a great win
Speaker 1: for Clemson. So Clemson is in as an eight seed
Speaker 1: right now. And then you've got Carolina and Pittsburgh as
Speaker 1: nine seeds, which because you now have the play in games.
Speaker 1: I still think that's bubble, but it's on the good
Speaker 1: side of the bubble. A nine seed, I think used
Speaker 1: to be considered you're really dangerous. Now you don't have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of wiggle room, but like you're not
Speaker 1: you could lose the game and you're not gonna fall
Speaker 1: out of the field. But with the issue is that
Speaker 1: you are right now. You have very little opportunity if
Speaker 1: you're Carolina, Pittsburgh or Clemson, to really boost your resume
Speaker 1: because the league just doesn't give you that many opportunities
Speaker 1: to do that. And if you slip up and lose
Speaker 1: to one of these teams that are in the bottom half,
Speaker 1: it'll crush your numbers. Doesn't necessarily mean you're out, but
Speaker 1: like a loss or two to Virginia Cal Florida State,
Speaker 1: even I know Wake Forest is playing well and they've
Speaker 1: got a good record in league play, but they're not
Speaker 1: even sniffing the bubble right now. So those are losses
Speaker 1: that will crush you when it comes to your resume,
Speaker 1: like the net and all that. So I don't see
Speaker 1: a scenario where the league only gets two in but
Speaker 1: three four is certainly a realistic thing, and that's just crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy to see. And that's why Louisville's recent run here
Speaker 1: and they're just winning basketball games, which this is the
Speaker 1: longest ACC winning streak I think that Louisvill's ever had,
Speaker 1: which is awesome to see, and clearly It's not like
Speaker 1: you're knocking off top ten teams on a weekly basis
Speaker 1: right now. But you already have cleared what is easily
Speaker 1: the toughest stretch of play in acc action. So it
Speaker 1: didn't mean you can put it on cruise control and
Speaker 1: just expect to go out there and beat anybody like
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to keep playing well, and I think
Speaker 1: this team will do that. So Tomorrow's game against Virginia,
Speaker 1: it's a much different field than than what it used
Speaker 1: to be. And that's a good thing. And I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you, even though Tony Bennet's not there and
Speaker 1: Virginia is not good right now, if I didn't just
Speaker 1: see Louisville go on the road and beat them by twenty,
Speaker 1: I probably would still have a little bit of worry. Like, man,
Speaker 1: this team just always gives us trouble. But again, this
Speaker 1: Louisville team with Pat Kelsey, they don't seem to be
Speaker 1: vulnerable to Virginia, and this Virginia team, to be fair,
Speaker 1: is not what they once were. Another big game tomorrow,
Speaker 1: Kentucky taken on Alabama. That'll be one of the best
Speaker 1: games of the day in college basketball. In fact, it
Speaker 1: might be the best game of the day if we're
Speaker 1: being honest. I mean, yeah, I mean I'm looking here
Speaker 1: at the kin palm. You've got a handful of ranked matchups.
Speaker 1: But Bama and Kentucky that one is. That's the two
Speaker 1: highest ranked teams that are playing each other. Kentucky is
Speaker 1: projected to win ninety to eighty nine according to kin Pom,
Speaker 1: and I haven't Is there a spread up for this one?
Speaker 1: Have you seen it yet? Let me see? Yeah, here
Speaker 1: we go. Fan on DraftKings has kentuckypadat Kentucky is two
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites over Bama here, which I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised at all. I would have guessed it would
Speaker 1: have been closer to like one and a half. But
Speaker 1: what I You know this, there are some games that
Speaker 1: Kentucky's been able to win this year that really could
Speaker 1: have gone either way. And I don't say that to
Speaker 1: discredit them, because that's a lot of really good, bad,
Speaker 1: really good teams playing really good teams. That's usually what happens,
Speaker 1: right it's close, you know, both teams are great, and
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna make the place necessary to win. And Kentucky
Speaker 1: has done that enough times to where I'm I'm willing
Speaker 1: to say that that's a part of their identity, like
Speaker 1: that's that's part of what they do. They find ways
Speaker 1: to win close games at times when when the games
Speaker 1: are played at their style, and it's really been pretty consistent.
Speaker 1: The three teams that have been able to beat Kentucky,
Speaker 1: they did one thing. They were able to keep the
Speaker 1: game from being played at the pace that Kentucky wants,
Speaker 1: with as many possessions as Kentucky wants. And that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're guaranteed to beat Kentucky because they have found
Speaker 1: ways to win those kind of games too. Right, They
Speaker 1: beat Mississippi State, who really wanted to kind of slow
Speaker 1: them down and beat them up like Georgia did, like
Speaker 1: Ohio State did. They knocked off Gonzaga where they were
Speaker 1: getting blown out and then Pope made some adjustments and
Speaker 1: they found a way to win. So it's not as
Speaker 1: if they can't win those games. But the only three
Speaker 1: teams that have been able to do it, they played
Speaker 1: a specific style. Alabama is not going to do that.
Speaker 1: They're going to be who they are, NATO, It's to
Speaker 1: be honest with you. He in my opinion is the
Speaker 1: I don't want to see the innovator, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's true, but as far as coaches that
Speaker 1: really embraced this modern style of basketball where it's we're
Speaker 1: doing everything we can to generate a lot of good
Speaker 1: looks from three shots near the rim or getting to
Speaker 1: the free throw line. That is that you know, there's
Speaker 1: not gonna be any long twos. We're not running sets
Speaker 1: to get somebody a mid range jumper. We are out
Speaker 1: here executing to get those three things in rhythm, threes,
Speaker 1: free throw line, or if we can get to the rim,
Speaker 1: we'll do that like that's what they want to do,
Speaker 1: and others coaches are doing it clearly, Mark Pope and
Speaker 1: Pat Kelsey. That is their style. That is what led
Speaker 1: to them having success elsewhere to get the jobs they
Speaker 1: have now. But Natoates broke through at Alabama and made
Speaker 1: a Final four like he to me is the guy
Speaker 1: that is kind of the leader of this new era
Speaker 1: of basketball. So there's no way they're going to make
Speaker 1: any adjustments to what they're doing. They're going to come
Speaker 1: in and play the way they play and hope it
Speaker 1: works out. And it may work out because they're good,
Speaker 1: but nobody's been able to beat Kentucky, yet that wants
Speaker 1: to play the way Kentucky wants to play Florida. Florida
Speaker 1: came in, they were hot, and it looked like, man
Speaker 1: Florida is is just better at this think Kentucky and
Speaker 1: Florida is still a good team. But since they're lost
Speaker 1: to Kentucky, have they lost two more times? I know
Speaker 1: they lost to the all S at home the other
Speaker 1: night to was it LSU I think no?
Speaker 2: Was it Missouri?
Speaker 1: Yes it was Missouri. You're right, yes, so, and that's
Speaker 1: not like a bad, bad loss by any means. But
Speaker 1: you know, that's a game at home you should win.
Speaker 1: If you're like, if you're Florida and you're losing at
Speaker 1: home to Missouri, you look at the rest of the
Speaker 1: SEC schedule and you think, okay, well we let one
Speaker 1: get away. Now we got to go steal one that
Speaker 1: maybe we're not supposed to win if we're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to think we can win the ACC. So that should
Speaker 1: be a really good game, and I'm I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, actually, I probably won't be watching it if
Speaker 1: it's at the same time as the louisvill game, which
Speaker 1: I kind of think it is now I'm curious. Let
Speaker 1: me see. I know Louisville plays at noon and Kentucky
Speaker 1: also plays at noon, so I'll probably, you know, keep
Speaker 1: up with their score here and there, but obviously I'll
Speaker 1: be locked into this Louisville Virginia game. We also have
Speaker 1: NFL playoffs coming up here this weekend, which I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that coming up a little bit later
Speaker 1: on here within the within the five o'clock hour. But
Speaker 1: tomorrow's tomorrow's theme, the promotion for this game against Virginia,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna let me let me see if I can.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, I mean, I know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure if they're if they're
Speaker 1: branding it for some if if there's a certain tagline
Speaker 1: they're using for this game. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: and get it right. But they they put together a
Speaker 1: really awesome promo video that is narrated by Cornell Bradley,
Speaker 1: who if you know Louisville basketball, and I don't just
Speaker 1: mean Louisville Cardinal basketball, I mean basketball in the Louisville community. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a legend. The Dirt Bowl, an event that has
Speaker 1: gone on for a long, long time here in Louisville.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, don't I don't feel like, I don't
Speaker 1: feel like I don't need to give any kind of
Speaker 1: explanation as to what it is. But it was a
Speaker 1: really good message that Louisville basketball is not I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the city's team. This is not just the school.
Speaker 1: Obviously it is university and that's that's the huge component
Speaker 1: to it. But for years, for generatations, Louisville Natives have
Speaker 1: felt like this is dirt team, like Louisville Basketball is
Speaker 1: the pro team. And it was a really good tip
Speaker 1: of the cap to sort of, you know, the culture
Speaker 1: of basketball here in this in this community, which, of course,
Speaker 1: if you've been around long enough and you're you're you're
Speaker 1: familiar enough, the dirt ball is a big deal. And
Speaker 1: I want just let you guys hear uh this this awesome,
Speaker 1: awesome narration by the legend here Shawnee part the.
Speaker 3: Dirt bol the heart of Louisville basketball.
Speaker 4: This is where the city comes together and where the
Speaker 4: game is built on grit, pride and tradition. That legacy
Speaker 4: doesn't only reside in Shinee Pork, it's here living in
Speaker 4: this team in every dump and every block in every steel,
Speaker 4: every loose ball, in every rebound. Louis basketball is built
Speaker 4: on the same foundation, gret, pride, and tradition.
Speaker 3: To honor Daddy, we.
Speaker 1: Needed more than jerseys.
Speaker 4: We needed a triviune to work it all started. These
Speaker 4: jerseys are more than they look. They're a connection to
Speaker 4: the blacktop rattles, to the name and games that helped
Speaker 4: build this city's love for battle. They're a reminder of.
Speaker 1: Work become.
Speaker 3: This is tradition, this is legacy, this is horrible, vastly walk.
Speaker 4: Ran.
Speaker 1: I said, the right, so that part there, when you
Speaker 1: hear bang, I said, bang, there's many that know exactly
Speaker 1: what that is. And when I said when I said
Speaker 1: his name, you knew exactly you know what he's known
Speaker 1: for a guy who has been on the mic at
Speaker 1: the dirt ball for decades, probably even you know, I
Speaker 1: mean a long long time, probably longer than I even realized.
Speaker 1: But Cornell Bradley having him be a part of that
Speaker 1: was really really cool. And I have a this isn't
Speaker 1: like a great story, but it was something that I'm
Speaker 1: glad happened because I at a young age, without really
Speaker 1: I would have not known a whole lot about the
Speaker 1: Dirt Bowl, and I wouldn't have known anything about Cornell Bradley.
Speaker 1: But when I was in high school, it was my
Speaker 1: soft it was my junior year. We played a game
Speaker 1: at Shawnee High School, So North Bullet High School. We
Speaker 1: went to Shawnee to play game, and we never played
Speaker 1: there before. I knew of Shawnee, I knew the school,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really know what to expect. And we
Speaker 1: get there and they're doing the you know, they've got
Speaker 1: a PA announcer like most high school teams do, and
Speaker 1: they're introducing the starting lineups. And usually when you're on
Speaker 1: the road number twelve coffee, like they're not they're not
Speaker 1: really gonna gash you up. They're not really going to
Speaker 1: be into it. It's just like a formality, right like
Speaker 1: Bucket Johnson like that when you score, like that's that's
Speaker 1: that's just how it is. And it's not like they're
Speaker 1: disrespecting you. That's just the way it is. But they
Speaker 1: usually introduced the road team first, right, Well, he was
Speaker 1: introducing us like he was I mean, he was my
Speaker 1: hype man or hype like not just me, but like
Speaker 1: he had some he had some real real energy and
Speaker 1: it was it was, and I'm like, this is this
Speaker 1: is different. And then of course he did it for
Speaker 1: Shawnee as well, and he certainly turned it up a
Speaker 1: notch or two for them because he was the guy
Speaker 1: that calls their games. And I'm not sure if he
Speaker 1: still does now, but I know he did then. This
Speaker 1: was back in like two thousand and four, two thousand
Speaker 1: and five, and I just remember thinking, like, man, I
Speaker 1: can there's an energy here, like there's this is like
Speaker 1: knowing when you make a shot, this guy is going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, hyping you up more than even
Speaker 1: if you were on your home floor with the local
Speaker 1: guy that's doing the PA at your high school. And
Speaker 1: it was just a cool energy man and he was
Speaker 1: bringing a lot of a lot of energy. And I
Speaker 1: made the first shot of the game. I don't think
Speaker 1: I scored much, but in that game, I made the
Speaker 1: first shot and I made a three. And you know, still,
Speaker 1: this was before I realized that he actually would bring
Speaker 1: the same level regardless of who's scoring. So I made
Speaker 1: a three. He's I think he's on the stage at
Speaker 1: the high school. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't remember him
Speaker 1: being at scores table, but anyways, you know, it's an
Speaker 1: empty gym. We're playing. Yeah, we played at six o'clock.
Speaker 1: The girls played at seven thirty, so this is a
Speaker 1: weekday at six o'clock. There's not a whole lot of
Speaker 1: people there, so I wasn't expecting to really hear anything.
Speaker 1: After I made a shot and all of a sudden, bang,
Speaker 1: I said, bang, And he did it after anybody made
Speaker 1: a three, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever,
Speaker 1: and like, we never experienced anything like that, you know,
Speaker 1: at all, and it was just really cool. We end
Speaker 1: up winning, and I just remember that. And then my dad,
Speaker 1: my father was one who told me like who he
Speaker 1: was and kind of introduced me to what the Dirt
Speaker 1: Bowl was talked about, Errol Griffith and his time. You know,
Speaker 1: how big of a phenom he was before he got
Speaker 1: to Louisville, and how the legends tell the stories of
Speaker 1: griff showing up at a young young age out there
Speaker 1: just dominating when he's like fourteen and he's playing against
Speaker 1: grown men, and just kind of it really got me
Speaker 1: interested in the culture of Louisville basketball more so than
Speaker 1: just Louisville meeting the University of Louisville. And I'm a
Speaker 1: nerd for that kind of stuff. So like, I just
Speaker 1: all I've understo, like I understand what the Dirt bol is,
Speaker 1: and to have the folks at U of L reach
Speaker 1: out and do this, it's just a really it's just
Speaker 1: a really cool connection. And there's people who aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: like into basketball the way I am that that know
Speaker 1: what the Dirt Bowl is and know Cornell Bradley so
Speaker 1: well done and the Dirt Bowl itself. Like what I
Speaker 1: find fascinating is there's so many guys in Louisville that,
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons, it didn't work out where
Speaker 1: they were able to have great careers in high school
Speaker 1: and go on and play in college. And obviously there's
Speaker 1: been many guys that have that have played in the
Speaker 1: NBA that are from Louisville, not U of L. But
Speaker 1: just you know, there's to say we've got countless guys,
Speaker 1: but there's been a lot of really good talent to
Speaker 1: come out of Louisvel over the years, especially back long
Speaker 1: before I was around. And there's guys that again didn't
Speaker 1: have that same opportunity that it didn't work out for.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was grades, maybe they just had some issues
Speaker 1: in life. That kind of kept them from reaching their potential.
Speaker 1: But like I remember some of those guys that I
Speaker 1: played against, I played with. There's a guy that I
Speaker 1: played AAU with my junior years. His name is Terrence Britt.
Speaker 1: He played at Fern Creek High School. To this day,
Speaker 1: one of the best players I've ever watched that I've
Speaker 1: ever played against and alongside with. And you know, he
Speaker 1: had some academic issues and didn't get recruited by the
Speaker 1: bigger schools because they just knew he wouldn't qualify and
Speaker 1: played JUCO briefly, and like, I don't know last i'd
Speaker 1: heard Terrence had fallen on some hard times, but I
Speaker 1: remember not that long ago, I was looking at the
Speaker 1: paper and he won MVP of the Dirt Ball and
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's what that is. Like there's guys that
Speaker 1: didn't have maybe the net, they didn't have the resources,
Speaker 1: or they just had some some hardships that kept them
Speaker 1: from realizing their potential unfortunately. But man, they could hoop
Speaker 1: and when they want to go show what they can do,
Speaker 1: like the Dirt Bowl is for that. And I remember
Speaker 1: seeing that and thinking, like, man, likes that's one. I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised because he was one of the best players
Speaker 1: I've ever watched. Like I'm not kidding you. I believe
Speaker 1: better circumstances for him, he'd be an NBA and I
Speaker 1: don't even think he played past a year Juco. But
Speaker 1: shout out to Cornell Bradley, and I really hope that
Speaker 1: this you know, everything they're doing to get people there,
Speaker 1: I hope it works out, man, because this team deserves
Speaker 1: it and the fans, I mean, like, you want to
Speaker 1: be able to be a part of a game in
Speaker 1: an atmosphere where it feels like, hey, not only are
Speaker 1: we winning and this is fun. Look around. This place
Speaker 1: is more crowded than it's been in a long time.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, We'll never know. I mean, you
Speaker 1: never know for sure, but I'm hopeful that that's tomorrow
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Speaker 1: and I was looking at all the songs in this
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Speaker 1: they you know, bang their head to Chris Catan and
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. I love that. I love that
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Speaker 1: It's one of the many movies that I will acknowledge
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I can acknowledge movies
Speaker 1: are stupid and still enjoy them, and maybe that speaks
Speaker 1: to my sense of humor. And maybe I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm an idiot, but I'm not the only idiot,
Speaker 1: because those movies were pretty popular for a reason. Sure,
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Speaker 6: I mean, you can't claim a championship if it's not
Speaker 6: inside your building.
Speaker 1: Sure sure, let me let me ask you this though, Tyrone,
Speaker 1: you sat on hold for thirty minutes, and I do
Speaker 1: appreciate that, appreciate you listening. But like it's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five as a long time ago, that being the the
Speaker 1: ammunition as Hater Tyrone, hater of Louisville probably hater of me,
Speaker 1: Like I want you to bring something a little more
Speaker 1: fresh than that, my man, like that that's a less
Speaker 1: stale man.
Speaker 6: It's like you trying to scribble stuff that and just
Speaker 6: saying it's twenty twenty five. Let it go. But you
Speaker 6: can't let something go that didn't happen. Nick, You know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. I got love for you, but you
Speaker 6: got to change the story lane, because what you're saying
Speaker 6: is what all Louisville fans say, and it did not happen.
Speaker 6: Y'all want to erase something. But if Kentucky did that
Speaker 6: same stuff, I would hear the same type of rhetoric
Speaker 6: that I'm hearing on this radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't you but don't you understand that's how
Speaker 1: this works. That's literally what the rivalry is is things
Speaker 1: that your team would do that your rival would make
Speaker 1: fun of. Like there's so many things that Kentucky fans
Speaker 1: and Louisville fans defend, but if their team did it,
Speaker 1: they would they would make like they would defend it
Speaker 1: like you make fun of it if it's down, but
Speaker 1: if it's you. You find like that, you know that
Speaker 1: rivalries are really really petty. Let me give you an example, Tyrone.
Speaker 1: Louisville fans are getting made fun of by KSR Matt
Speaker 1: Jones for for giving away tickets, and I look, I
Speaker 1: think it's silly, but I'm not surprised or bothered because again,
Speaker 1: it it's a rivalry. That's what we do. We go
Speaker 1: back and forth. But like, no, Joe Caliperi against Morehead State,
Speaker 1: not that long ago he bought was it two thousand
Speaker 1: tickets to give away to people, So like there's so
Speaker 1: many examples of when your team does it, it's it's whatever.
Speaker 1: But if it's the rival, you load up and you
Speaker 1: make fun of them like that, like that's just what
Speaker 1: this is, man like.
Speaker 6: But man, that you put it in that perspective, I
Speaker 6: could walk away and bets for again now because now
Speaker 6: now I'm beginning to like you getting it because I
Speaker 6: can't really stand our Louisville fans because they make me
Speaker 6: want to phuot because they don't say stuff to make
Speaker 6: no common sense, and they always throw an asterisk or
Speaker 6: half stuff. And like you said, it's saying it's supposed
Speaker 6: to be funny. I can live with that because that's
Speaker 6: funny to me, So I can live with it. Y'all
Speaker 6: will y'all championship.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tyrone. I appreciate it. Just so you folks
Speaker 1: know it's now real. It happened because Tyrone hater. Tyrone
Speaker 1: on the line said, I appreciate you hanging out and
Speaker 1: appreciate you calling in. Man. Look, I love the back
Speaker 1: and forth. I don't usually do much here with the
Speaker 1: platform to just encourage the In fact, it's wild today
Speaker 1: of all things. I just referenced that when Wayne Blackshir
Speaker 1: played at Louisville, Louisville won a national championship, and that
Speaker 1: got Tyrone itching to call in and you know, go
Speaker 1: back and forth, because again that's what this is. But
Speaker 1: you know, I love the back and forth, but like
Speaker 1: I don't that just seems like a very very old
Speaker 1: jab from from BBN. Like to be honest with you, bro,
Speaker 1: we've given you way better ammunition than the banner stuff.
Speaker 1: R I mean, not super lately, but you know, like
Speaker 1: so anyways, thank you for calling in. All right. Text
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Speaker 1: is an old school listener. He's been doing it since
Speaker 1: day one. This is Kirk. I used to like it
Speaker 1: when you not Austin's dad Kirk. But I like it
Speaker 1: when people would send in texts and leave a name,
Speaker 1: even if it's like not a real name, like there
Speaker 1: were there was somebody showed it to one of our
Speaker 1: remotes who went by I think like upper Crust Bill.
Speaker 1: I think that's the name, and I just didn't really
Speaker 1: have I didn't know what to expect. But he showed
Speaker 1: up to one of our remotes at Boombaughs and like
Speaker 1: would not have expected. What I see on the text
Speaker 1: line and read from Upper Crust Bill was that. But
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Speaker 1: it's not your Kirk. It's not your Kirk, it's not
Speaker 1: your dad. But if it is, I'll stand corrected. But anyways,
Speaker 1: he said, you know what's gonna happen in the NSAA tournament.
Speaker 1: They're going to either put Louisville in the eight nine
Speaker 1: game with Louisville or Saint John's being the eight nine,
Speaker 1: or they're gonna put Louisville Louisville against Charleston if Charleston
Speaker 1: wins their conference. I mean, I'd say the probability of
Speaker 1: that happening is not high. But if in fact, the
Speaker 1: seeds are trending to be where they could be matched up,
Speaker 1: where maybe Louisville is a five and Charleston's a twelve,
Speaker 1: or Louisville's a nine and Saint John's is an eight,
Speaker 1: I mean, if they have the ability to do that,
Speaker 1: they will, I mean, make no mistake about it. I
Speaker 1: do not think it was a pure coincidence that Louisville
Speaker 1: played Minnesota in Max's tournament in the first year, Like
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I don't think they were conspiring
Speaker 1: to get us. But if they have the ability to
Speaker 1: pick a matchup that, you know, as far as the
Speaker 1: teams and the seeds, it makes sense, right, nobody was
Speaker 1: misseeded in that in that game it was the seven
Speaker 1: to ten and Louisville was the seven, Minnesota was the ten,
Speaker 1: And when they're looking at the sevens and the tens,
Speaker 1: if they have a chance to put a matchup together
Speaker 1: that also has a storyline to it. They'll do that
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, this is innertainment.
Speaker 1: So still I still think the probability of that happening
Speaker 1: is low. But if in fact it lines up to
Speaker 1: where those teams that you mentioned, for those of Chris
Speaker 1: Max at Charleston, I don't see how that would happen
Speaker 1: because they win their league. They're probably looking at Actually,
Speaker 1: let me let me look this up here, because Pat
Speaker 1: Kelcey and I don't know, maybe Mac and his team
Speaker 1: don't win their league this year, but they're they're in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat to do it right now. They actually
Speaker 1: got a pretty good win last night on the road.
Speaker 1: But Charleston played Alabama in the first round last year,
Speaker 1: and I remember when Alabama was as a seed. They
Speaker 1: had to be like a top seed, right, like not
Speaker 1: a one or two, but close to it. I would imagine, yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go the NAA tournament last year, one seed, right, No,
Speaker 1: Obama wasn't. They made a final four. But they weren't
Speaker 1: a one seed Alabama. Let's see where are we here?
Speaker 1: They were a they were four seed. So in that
Speaker 1: same region, Charleston was the thirteen seed, So I don't
Speaker 1: think Charleston's going to be twenty seven and seven like
Speaker 1: they were with Kelsey last year, but they're off to
Speaker 1: a good start, so I would say Charleston's ceiling this
Speaker 1: year would be thirteen. I don't think they could get
Speaker 1: higher than that, and I think if they win their league,
Speaker 1: they're probably looking at like fourteen. So Louisville would need
Speaker 1: to be what a Louisville would need to be of
Speaker 1: five seed to play them or maybe a three seed
Speaker 1: to play them, And I just don't see Louisville being there,
Speaker 1: but I could be wrong. But yeah, again, I'll go
Speaker 1: back to what I just said, not to repeat myself,
Speaker 1: but if in fact it just plays out to where
Speaker 1: the seed lines are a match up, then they'll probably
Speaker 1: pick the teams that would give somewhat of a of
Speaker 1: an intriguing mean look, Pat Kelsey and Chris Mack playing
Speaker 1: each other in the tournament would be insane, Like I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna leave it that like that, not to say
Speaker 1: like they would like they're gonna fistfight each other, But
Speaker 1: those two guys, well, I'll buy love both those guys,
Speaker 1: and I know they have a good relationship and I
Speaker 1: probably have already done too much here by like insinuating
Speaker 1: that there's like bad blood and there's not. There's just
Speaker 1: a lot of history. And I mean Kelsey having the
Speaker 1: job and having success like that's crazy probably to Chris
Speaker 1: Mack just because of how things have played out. Mac
Speaker 1: was here and didn't work out and it was mostly
Speaker 1: because of timing and some other things, and now Kelsey
Speaker 1: is here. And just to just to make it clear
Speaker 1: that I'm not acting like this would just be a
Speaker 1: game where there would be a lot on their minds
Speaker 1: that week for a variety of reasons. They both come
Speaker 1: from the Skip Prosser tree. They both looked at him
Speaker 1: as a father figure from what I understand, and whenever
Speaker 1: Skip passed away, and it was a heavy thing for
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys, they were kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: all there for each other. And I'll just say this
Speaker 1: two things to just make it, you know, to make
Speaker 1: it clear that I'm not saying that like Chris has
Speaker 1: bad blood. I think he's genuinely happy for Pat. He
Speaker 1: saw my reaction at the time to like the initial
Speaker 1: hiring of Pat Kelsey, and I wasn't critical of Pat.
Speaker 1: I was just kind of critical of the process, like
Speaker 1: this is what happened. Is is like I never would
Speaker 1: have expected with such an important hire, you hire somebody
Speaker 1: that you know is just at a lower level. And
Speaker 1: clearly here we are many months later and Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 1: freaking killing it. Like Mack called me, was like, hey, chill, chill,
Speaker 1: that's my guy. He's a great man. Like he'll be
Speaker 1: fine there. I don't know how it's gonna work out,
Speaker 1: but like take it like wanted me to be nice.
Speaker 1: Not that he would matter. I don't think Pa Kelsey
Speaker 1: would ever care about anything I say. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying like that that speaks to the respect that he
Speaker 1: has for Pat and and and their their their friends.
Speaker 1: But Dino, let me just let me just say, Dino,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, Dean, I'm gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 1: Like that was when Dino Gattio extorted Chris Mack, and
Speaker 1: that played out the way that it did a way
Speaker 1: that Mac didn't want it to play out, but he
Speaker 1: had no control over, meaning he did not want that
Speaker 1: to be public. He didn't want Dino to be federally prosecuted.
Speaker 1: But the school had no choice that well, they had
Speaker 1: a choice, but the school chose to go that route,
Speaker 1: and that muddied up some things within that world. That tree,
Speaker 1: those guys that kind of all came up at the
Speaker 1: same time with skip. Does that make any sense at all?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like I'm I'm kind of trying not
Speaker 1: to be super vague, but like if they had that
Speaker 1: would be it would be a really awkward thing, but
Speaker 1: it could happen. You never know.
Speaker 2: That was my dad did text me. That was my dad,
Speaker 2: that text That was our Kirk.
Speaker 1: Really that was about about it. You're Kirk, he said,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 2: He said, what's up?
Speaker 1: Nick? Appreciate Kirk. He's he's a he's a big time
Speaker 1: listener and he loves his cards. Man. Yeay, you like me.
Speaker 1: We were born into this, right, we had no choice.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be a little of a Cardinal fans because of
Speaker 1: because of our old our old men.
Speaker 2: And he's the reason that I got into Louisville. And
Speaker 2: and I know you've met him a couple of times before,
Speaker 2: but he is a big vibes. He's he's exactly me.
Speaker 2: I'm exactly him. We're one and the same. And also
Speaker 2: I have a couple of other people that just texted me.
Speaker 2: They love the show too. Cameron and Kirsten show Mouse
Speaker 2: as if they're going to dinner. So shout out to them.
Speaker 2: The few friends of ours. We appreciate them listening. He's
Speaker 2: a Kentucky fan, Nick, but he tunes into the show
Speaker 2: all the time, and he just he enjoys listening to
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Speaker 2: listened to Terry and he just he's uh eating an
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Speaker 1: we appreciate you letting us in. All right, quick break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back on the other side. Wrap it up.
Speaker 1: Talking a little uh little NFL playoffs. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see what happens, but I'm also getting a little bit
Speaker 1: of a little bit anxious. I'm confident in the Ravens,
Speaker 1: but I also know that they could go into Buffalo
Speaker 1: and lose because Buffalo is a really good team and
Speaker 1: clearly they're amped up for this game that this is
Speaker 1: going to be, in my opinion, the biggest atmosphere Lamar's
Speaker 1: played in in the NFL. I mean that. I know
Speaker 1: he played in Kansas City and all that, and Kansas
Speaker 1: City is great, but like this is big for Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Kansas is Kansas City's always going to be a tough environment.
Speaker 1: They got a huge fan base, but like they've been winning,
Speaker 1: they're expected to win. The Baltimore Ravens are favorites in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: If you don't think Buffalo is going to be juiced,
Speaker 1: Y're wrong. And I'm hoping Lamar can pull it out.
Speaker 1: But there's some other good games as well that we'll
Speaker 1: talk about as we wrap it up right here on
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Speaker 1: That's right, we're wrapping it up here on a Friday afternoon,
Speaker 1: getting out of here for the weekend in just a
Speaker 1: few minutes. But what a weekend. We've got some big
Speaker 1: time basketball games, certainly around here locally, but Saturdays this
Speaker 1: time of year man a ton of good college hoops games,
Speaker 1: but also the NFL playoffs, and the NFL of course
Speaker 1: dominates in everything they do when it comes to viewership interest,
Speaker 1: and we've got some big time matchups. I kind of
Speaker 1: think we're gonna get We're gonna get chalk here as
Speaker 1: far as favorites moving on outside of and we may
Speaker 1: still get the Eagles over the Rams, but I think
Speaker 1: the Rams. I'm still surprised to see it at six points.
Speaker 1: I thought by now it would have been lower than that.
Speaker 1: But again, maybe I'm not crediting the Eagles enough for
Speaker 1: having such a good season, But the Rams, I just
Speaker 1: think if you look at them the last I don't
Speaker 1: know however many weeks they've been, they look like they're
Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the league. And I
Speaker 1: know Minnesota obviously didn't have a good game the other night,
Speaker 1: but I think the LA had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with that as well.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, they're really well coached, they're really Jared Verse
Speaker 2: just coming on the scene, and just absolutely the defense
Speaker 2: is playing a lot better. I mean, you could check
Speaker 2: their last few games out the Cardinals to like nine points.
Speaker 2: Ever since they have ever since that shootout against Buffalo,
Speaker 2: their defense has been outstanding. That coupled with Sean McVay
Speaker 2: and Matt Stafford the pedigree. I really love them over
Speaker 2: the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I you said it best yesterday
Speaker 1: when it comes to that duo McVay and what's his
Speaker 1: name Stafford? Yeah, Stafford. I was gonna say Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: but he's there, stat Pafford, That's what I used to
Speaker 1: call him. So those two when it's clicking and their
Speaker 1: defense is playing well, like, that's it. That's a you
Speaker 1: know they can slip up. But I know Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: not looking at this Rams team as a team that
Speaker 1: you know has the record that they have, which is,
Speaker 1: let me see the NFL websites, you know for the
Speaker 1: teams it doesn't include you got to you gotta count
Speaker 1: up the actual record. And the reason the only reason
Speaker 1: I was going to bring up the record, it's actually
Speaker 1: not relevant at all because my point is that the
Speaker 1: the record does not really give you a good feel
Speaker 1: for how good this team is because of how well
Speaker 1: they've played. They looked like they were going to be
Speaker 1: bums earlier this year, and they had some injury issues.
Speaker 1: Both puk and Akua and and Cooper Cup were out
Speaker 1: and now they're not, and they're playing well, and yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a team that's better than the ten and
Speaker 1: seven record shows and the Eagles are good too. Like,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, because the Eagles early on
Speaker 1: were winning, but it was ugly and they were complaining
Speaker 1: about their coach being a loser, which I kind of
Speaker 1: think he is. That was mean, but he just kind
Speaker 1: of seems like such a deweed, Yeah, Sirianni. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: I had no clue that for fourteen and three, Like
Speaker 1: I knew they were good, but I didn't know they
Speaker 1: were that good. But Saquan has helped them out so true.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's two running backs that a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought were not having a whole lot left in
Speaker 1: the tank. Henry and I mean that's a storyline in
Speaker 1: the NFL this year, these guys. Barkley's not super old
Speaker 1: but clearly been injury prone, and both Barkley and Henry
Speaker 1: have been phenomenal this year. So last question I got
Speaker 1: for you before we run out of time. Are you
Speaker 1: we want the Ravens to win? Are you confident? I'm
Speaker 1: not as confident as I want to be. Oh yeah, absolutely, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm confident now, feel better game. Yes, now feel better.
Speaker 2: Let's ride, let's rock in, lock in baby,