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Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started hour number two here
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Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. And we did mention this
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the show, but I did not
Speaker 2: get much into it, and I really I wish I
Speaker 2: had more that I could add, but I don't, but
Speaker 2: it is certainly something worth bringing up. Louisville basketball has
Speaker 2: added a new player for the upcoming season, and obviously
Speaker 2: when you lose James Scott and there hadn't been a
Speaker 2: replacement yet, and then you find out that Ali Khalifa
Speaker 2: was still trying to get his eligibility situation figured out.
Speaker 2: As if now he's not eligible, obviously they're going to
Speaker 2: appeal that decision from the NCAA, and I think from
Speaker 2: what we know, I really don't see area where they
Speaker 2: would be able to claim that he's not he's not
Speaker 2: entitled to another season to play because he's only played three.
Speaker 2: But anyways, this edition was out of nowhere, at least
Speaker 2: for me. It seems like it was for a lot
Speaker 2: of folks. But Mohammed Kamara is the new edition. He
Speaker 2: is from Senegal. He's a twenty year old prospect who
Speaker 2: has been playing at NBA Academy Africa, and he's viewed
Speaker 2: as a four star prospect by twenty four to seven Sports.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's actually ranked in the twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven Sports rankings because I don't And it
Speaker 2: makes sense when it comes to ranking the top prospects
Speaker 2: in a class. When you're twenty years old and you've
Speaker 2: never played like prep school, AAU or even like high
Speaker 2: school basketball in the States, I think you can be
Speaker 2: like you can be evaluated, but it's tough to kind
Speaker 2: of know where you rank because again, yeah, you are
Speaker 2: starting your college career, but you're likely a little older
Speaker 2: than others, like, for example, I guess technically there is
Speaker 2: one service that ranks these players coming from overseas that
Speaker 2: are a lot older than eighteen but are technically going
Speaker 2: to be freshman like Sonny Frew is a top twenty
Speaker 2: five player in one of the rankings, but in another ranking,
Speaker 2: I think they just view him as a four star
Speaker 2: prospect because again, it's tough to know, you know, and
Speaker 2: if you did, if you chose not to rank these
Speaker 2: guys who come from who come from overseas, especially those
Speaker 2: that are already playing pro ball, I mean, I think
Speaker 2: it would be one hundred percent justified. But anyways, he's
Speaker 2: a six to a big average ten points, seven boards,
Speaker 2: three and a half assist, three steals, two and a
Speaker 2: half blocks a game, shot just about thirty eight percent
Speaker 2: from three to sixty percent overall. So I'm just reading
Speaker 2: and ripping these numbers because again, this is the first
Speaker 2: time I've heard of this guy. But here is a
Speaker 2: quote from Roland Houston, who is the high school coach
Speaker 2: and has as has been a part of NBA Africa,
Speaker 2: I believe, for quite some time. Here's how he describes
Speaker 2: the four star player. Quote, A competitive spirit, defensive intensity,
Speaker 2: He's a terrific teammate, he's a winner, and he has
Speaker 2: a good feel for the game. Obviously he's he comes
Speaker 2: from the same background as Gorgy Jang, which the Louisville
Speaker 2: fans are aware of. He's just unbelievable all around good person.
Speaker 2: But he's a tough kid. I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that this coach is comparing him to Gorgy, but just
Speaker 2: mentioning Gorgy and knowing that they do come from the
Speaker 2: same background. As far as Senegal, I'm all in Gorgy
Speaker 2: Jang one of the low key, Like I feel like
Speaker 2: he's one of the low key most beloved players we've
Speaker 2: ever had here, wouldn't you say, Austin Gorgi's up there, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that twenty thirteen group and really that run.
Speaker 2: It's hard because all those guys are loved, but Gorgye.
Speaker 2: There was an innocence to Gorgy. Oh of course that
Speaker 2: just made him so lovable. And he really listened to.
Speaker 3: Rick Bettino and like he he's a very.
Speaker 2: Receptive Yeah, and he you know, like he got a
Speaker 2: lot better from start to finish, Like he just wanted
Speaker 2: to work and get better and obviously turned that into
Speaker 2: a decade long career in the NBA. And now he's
Speaker 2: working for the front office of the Spurs. So uh.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people from the NBA seemed to
Speaker 3: also had the same sentiment though.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Was everyone seemed to love Gorgy because he also does
Speaker 3: a lot of off the court as well.
Speaker 2: When he was in Minnesota, they did a really they
Speaker 2: put a lot into it as well. They sent a
Speaker 2: lot of resources from their organization and even hired I
Speaker 2: think a production crew to really document and highlight all
Speaker 2: that he had done from had used his NBA money
Speaker 2: to go back and help improve where he grew up
Speaker 2: in Senegal. So yeah, and you don't end up in
Speaker 2: that position he's in. And I don't even know the
Speaker 2: title of it, but I mean he went straight from
Speaker 2: playing to being a front office staffer. You don't do
Speaker 2: that unless you have high regard in the NBA, which
Speaker 2: you know that can go a long way. So again,
Speaker 2: I'm not comparing this young man to Gorgy, but anytime
Speaker 2: I get to talk about Gorgey, I'm gonna do it
Speaker 2: because he's he's an all time great. The two best
Speaker 2: stories of Gorgy Jang, at least that I know of
Speaker 2: that I can think of, is he did not know
Speaker 2: that offensive foules counted, and he refused to come out
Speaker 2: of a game after he filed out because he you know,
Speaker 2: he's a pretty smart guy. They people forget. They initially
Speaker 2: ruled him ineligible. He had I believe a par a
Speaker 2: fixed score on one of the one of the tests.
Speaker 2: Act or sat and he spoke I think, like seven languages.
Speaker 2: But the NCAA said, yeah, we can't determine if his
Speaker 2: curriculum that he that he had before he came to
Speaker 2: the United States to go to Huntington Prep. We can't
Speaker 2: determine if that curriculum was up to par with what
Speaker 2: we require. So he's ineligible. And I remember Rick went
Speaker 2: out of his way to really tell people, like they
Speaker 2: think this guy's not smart. He speaks, you know, he's
Speaker 2: like he's he didn't even know any English much when
Speaker 2: I first met him. Now he's he's clearly fluent enough
Speaker 2: to where he can have a conversation. He had a
Speaker 2: perfect score on one of these tests. So luckily the
Speaker 2: NCAA got it right. But you know, Gorgy, I think
Speaker 2: it might have been against might have been an exhibition game,
Speaker 2: but I mean I remember watching it on TV and
Speaker 2: he would not go out of the game, and he
Speaker 2: walked over to Patino like, hey, go to the scores
Speaker 2: table and tell him it's wrong. And Rick had to
Speaker 2: tell him like, no, those offensive files they count towards five.
Speaker 2: You filed out, my man.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. But it's so Gorgy, we got
Speaker 3: about it. Yes, it's it's adorable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then maybe one of my favorite it was
Speaker 2: one that I had heard from one of his teammates,
Speaker 2: because the class that came in in twenty twelve, I
Speaker 2: think it was, no, not twenty twelve, it was twenty ten.
Speaker 2: That was the class of Russ Smith, Gorgy Shang, and
Speaker 2: Elijah Justice and then Justin oh Justin something who didn't
Speaker 2: he Actually they found out about Gorge at Huntington PREV
Speaker 2: because they were recruiting Justin Coleman, who was a really
Speaker 2: big athletic guard, really highly regarded. He was a four
Speaker 2: he was a five star recruit in one of the
Speaker 2: thing by rivals, and he committed Louisville. And I don't
Speaker 2: know this for certain, but I've always believed that Rick
Speaker 2: took his commitment because he needed to, Like and Rix's
Speaker 2: never I don't think Rick's ever really cared about like
Speaker 2: like how fans are viewing things, but maybe just the
Speaker 2: optics of Caliperri just got hired at Kentucky and he
Speaker 2: already brought in John wall To, Marcus Cousins, Eric Bledze,
Speaker 2: so Daniel Orton, and then he reloaded the very next
Speaker 2: year with guys like Terrence Jones and Brandon night those
Speaker 2: guys deron Lamb. So Rick took Justin Coleman's commitment, and
Speaker 2: he was a really talented guy, but he didn't have
Speaker 2: any like committable offers from any of the big schools
Speaker 2: at the time because they all knew that academically he
Speaker 2: wasn't going to qualify. I think Rick took it knowing like,
Speaker 2: all right, we'll see what shakes out here, but there'll
Speaker 2: at least be some pub for me to get a
Speaker 2: five star recruit. And when doing that recruiting, when recruiting Coleman,
Speaker 2: they discovered Gorgie who played with Justin Coleman and Huntington Prep,
Speaker 2: and they recruited him, and Gorgiy helped bring a national
Speaker 2: championship here, which is, you know, obviously something that we
Speaker 2: will never forget, but that class. You know, you've got
Speaker 2: Gorge and Elijah Justice, who couldn't come from more opposite
Speaker 2: ends of the world. I don't just mean like geographically
Speaker 2: where they were born and raised, but we're talking about Pikeville, Kentucky,
Speaker 2: far eastern Kentucky. Elijah Justice the bullet his Patino called him.
Speaker 2: And then Gorgy Jang, who was still learning English, who
Speaker 2: had grew up in Senegal and had just become he had
Speaker 2: just come to the United States, like a year or
Speaker 2: two prior to arriving at Louisville, and they became good buddies.
Speaker 2: In fact, I don't know of this to be true,
Speaker 2: but I think I think during one of the holiday breaks,
Speaker 2: like Elijah took Gorgy back home to Pikeville to like
Speaker 2: go to Thanksgiving, and like just imagine Gorgy walking around
Speaker 2: Pikeville hanging out with I mean, you know, he's seven
Speaker 2: foot tall. So anyways, I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: a practice or if it was more of like a
Speaker 2: an open run. I really don't know the the the
Speaker 2: specifics as far as where it was other than it
Speaker 2: was on the basketball court at the practice facility. But
Speaker 2: Patino had to stop play because Elijah Justice was just
Speaker 2: getting to the rim and scoring, which you know, hard
Speaker 2: to envision that against you know, a lot. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was actually a better player. I think that people realized.
Speaker 2: But obviously, you know, you wouldn't expect him to be
Speaker 2: getting his work done at the rim, right, but he did,
Speaker 2: and Rick kind of stopped, I mean he kind of
Speaker 2: stopped the stop whatever they were doing, and blew up
Speaker 2: on gorge about like, you know, you got to be
Speaker 2: a REMP protector or whatever you're doing. Probably made some
Speaker 2: comments about how how the hell is this kid scoring
Speaker 2: on you, and and he just said, well, coach Bullet
Speaker 2: is my friend. And I just I mean, like, how
Speaker 2: wholesome is that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Like that's just like that's the sweetest thing ever. He was.
Speaker 2: He had such an innocence to him. Yeah, and we
Speaker 2: just kind of saw him kind of we saw him
Speaker 2: grow up in a big way, and then of course
Speaker 2: along the way he became a really good player and
Speaker 2: helped bring us a national title. So I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if that's what this young man who committed the Louisville
Speaker 2: today is going to be able to do, but we'll see. Again.
Speaker 2: This is this edition of six eight. Big Man Mohammed
Speaker 2: Kamara is needed because you lost James Scott, so you
Speaker 2: needed to add a guy regardless, just to give you
Speaker 2: some depth. But also now you you have to have
Speaker 2: a little bit of an insurance policy, so to speak,
Speaker 2: when it comes to the Khalifa situation. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm none of us have a clue what to expect
Speaker 2: from the NCAA really in most instances, But the more
Speaker 2: I just look at the overall situation, I don't understand
Speaker 2: how that could review his appeal and say that he
Speaker 2: can't play like. I don't know what their basis could be.
Speaker 2: But what scares me is the NS double A at
Speaker 2: times has just said yeah, you know, because just because
Speaker 2: that's it. And I thought we were a way past
Speaker 2: that whole you know, n S double A just because
Speaker 2: it seems as if they'd been powerless lately and for
Speaker 2: good reason. But now they're telling us a guy who
Speaker 2: you know. Not only would it be a big hit
Speaker 2: for Louisville's front court if Khalifa can't play, but I
Speaker 2: think he could be really good in a way that
Speaker 2: maybe you wouldn't expect a typical big to be good,
Speaker 2: because I mean, this guy, the best asset he has,
Speaker 2: and it's not even close to his game, is passing.
Speaker 2: I mean, he can shoot it a little bit. He's
Speaker 2: not terrible around the rim. That didn't show much at BYU,
Speaker 2: but at Charlotte he was really good. I mean he
Speaker 2: was the Conference USA Freshman of the Year at Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Don't know people remember that or not or even knew that.
Speaker 2: I bet Austin didn't know that did you. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: he can play, but what makes him just different is passing.
Speaker 2: I mean Dark Pope, who of course coached ali at Byu.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's on record as saying that when they
Speaker 2: when they realized what they had as far as a
Speaker 2: big that could pass it, that they started to kind
Speaker 2: of change a lot of the things that they were
Speaker 2: doing in the half court to take advantage of this
Speaker 2: guy's vision and the way he could. You know, he
Speaker 2: just was a phenomenal passer. So I really hope they
Speaker 2: get it figured out. But what makes this to me
Speaker 2: an open and shut case is that they're claiming his
Speaker 2: eligibility clock counts in a year that did not count
Speaker 2: for anybody that actually played. How can you have a
Speaker 2: season that's a freebie for everyone, including you know, guys
Speaker 2: who played the full season, but then claim that the
Speaker 2: year he didn't play because of a red shirt that
Speaker 2: counts towards him. That makes fundamentally zero sense at all.
Speaker 2: I don't mean it gets so worked up, but I
Speaker 2: mean it's stupid. It's really really stupid. So anyways, we'll
Speaker 2: see again, Timeline, who knows as far as when the
Speaker 2: NUAA will review the review the appeal and make the decision.
Speaker 2: But I do think and somebody brought this up last week,
Speaker 2: and it's a good point that with nowadays, players always
Speaker 2: hiring lawyers, and that's what Ali has done. He's He's
Speaker 2: and I say s thing different every time I say Ali,
Speaker 2: I think it's Ali. I believe Ali is use that's
Speaker 2: how it's spelled. All right, Yeah it's Ali. So I'm
Speaker 2: sorry forgetting his name wrong as many times as I had,
Speaker 2: but Ali Khalifa. But he's he's hired an attorney. And
Speaker 2: I just think that when you have an attorney, and
Speaker 2: it's not just your school's compliance department that's working with
Speaker 2: the NC double A an attorney. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: reasons you should have an attorney for certain things. But
Speaker 2: the attorney can keep pestering the NC DOUBLEA like, hey,
Speaker 2: will you please review my client situation, and that may
Speaker 2: speed it up to where we don't have to wait
Speaker 2: a terrible amount of time. But again, well we'll certainly
Speaker 2: see something else we talked about earlier. If you guys
Speaker 2: missed it as the devastation in the state of Kentucky,
Speaker 2: not just the state of Kentucky, it's across multiple states,
Speaker 2: but we now have nineteen people that have died due
Speaker 2: to the storms that hit southern con southeastern Kentucky. I
Speaker 2: believe is probably the better way to describe it. But
Speaker 2: Laurel County, London, that area, I mean, for those who
Speaker 2: don't know, it's about seventy five miles south of Lexington.
Speaker 2: And I mean the ages of the folks who have died.
Speaker 2: This is according to our news partners over at Wolky.
Speaker 2: This was an update that we had about about noon
Speaker 2: today that there were a total of seventeen killed. And
Speaker 2: again I think that numbers jumped up two since then.
Speaker 2: But ten women, seven men. Their ages range from twenty
Speaker 2: five to seventy six. And I mean, if you just
Speaker 2: look at the complete devastation that is that is in
Speaker 2: that that you know the footage. I mean, again, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of different pictures and video clips that show
Speaker 2: I guess, different levels of devastation, but I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I've ever really and maybe it's because I'm paying closer
Speaker 2: attention to it because it did take place here in
Speaker 2: our state. But I mean, I look at the neighbor
Speaker 2: this stretch of this neighborhood that is completely demolished, and
Speaker 2: I just I mean, the first thing that came to
Speaker 2: my mind is that if you were right there, there's
Speaker 2: no way you survived. And I don't know that. I mean,
Speaker 2: I have no way of knowing that, but like that,
Speaker 2: it just looks that awful. It's not just to where all, well,
Speaker 2: they lost their roof, half their house collapsed, their vehicle
Speaker 2: flipped over and now it's two yards over. I mean,
Speaker 2: all that stuff is scary and can still be insanely dangerous,
Speaker 2: but this area is completely demolished in a way that
Speaker 2: something only a storm like this could do, and it's
Speaker 2: just it's it's tragic. So at least one of the
Speaker 2: folks who died is is from the neighboring Somerset area,
Speaker 2: which is I guess Pulaski County. So yeah, to the
Speaker 2: number of nineteen, it's seventeen that were that were in
Speaker 2: Laurel County, and then the other two one was a
Speaker 2: woman in Pulaski County and the other is a woman
Speaker 2: who died in Russell County, which I guess is in
Speaker 2: that area. So there are a that have been in
Speaker 2: the hospital at the UK Hospital being treated for those injuries.
Speaker 2: It says that three of those remaining critical condition, but
Speaker 2: four have been upgraded to fair and three are now
Speaker 2: in good condition despite you know, being treated for the injuries. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the storms knocked out power for about one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy thousand people across the state, and as a Saturday,
Speaker 2: there are more than seven hundred personnel on the ground
Speaker 2: helping to restore power. So, I mean, the storms were
Speaker 2: bad enough in the area here to where there are
Speaker 2: still people in our area that lost power. You know,
Speaker 2: my sister, she lives in Mount Washington, and she had
Speaker 2: a tree from her neighbor's house across the street that
Speaker 2: fell over and she couldn't get in her driveway. She
Speaker 2: was out of power. So again that's that's nothing compared
Speaker 2: to what others have gone through. But again, I mean,
Speaker 2: this was a kind of storm that even though where
Speaker 2: it was the most devastating, is still very far away
Speaker 2: from us. I mean, that's how crazy it is. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure everybody felt that to an extent on Friday,
Speaker 2: just how bad it was. We got from dinner, and
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't, you know, in watching the coverage
Speaker 2: on TV, it didn't seem as if we were specifically
Speaker 2: in a spot that was super super you know, vulnerable
Speaker 2: for something catastrophic to happen. But I mean it was
Speaker 2: it was whipping. I mean, what were you doing Friday night?
Speaker 2: I mean do you were you out of that? Okay,
Speaker 2: I believe me. I heard it. You know many people
Speaker 2: that lost power? No, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Surprised we didn't. I'm shocked so far. I'm not even
Speaker 3: going to pollute the air with it.
Speaker 2: Well, oh, if you're backing up, you don't want to
Speaker 2: put it out there. Well I have, I have.
Speaker 3: I've been fortunate enough to at our location we have
Speaker 3: not lost power through any of.
Speaker 2: The storms so far. Well, can I tell you something, Yeah,
Speaker 2: my wife and I just had this exact conversation to
Speaker 2: where we have been so lucky for a variety of
Speaker 2: reasons in life. But I mean when weather has happened
Speaker 2: and it's been bad as far as damage or power,
Speaker 2: which again, like you know, that's that's a that's a
Speaker 2: result you'll be fine with compared to some people who
Speaker 2: you know, lose their homes and some lose lives. But
Speaker 2: losing power can be dangerous in certain situations. But like
Speaker 2: do you have do you have underground power lines? Do
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't know, And you may not know, Like, honestly,
Speaker 2: I don't think I would. I don't think I would
Speaker 2: know or pay attention if my wife didn't tell me this.
Speaker 2: But every place we've lived has always had underground power lines.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't always mean that you're guaranteed to keep power,
Speaker 2: because where the power comes from for your underground lines
Speaker 2: usually comes from a place where it's not underground. Right,
Speaker 2: But we've just been really, really lucky. Like we'll have
Speaker 2: people that are a street over that will be without
Speaker 2: power for a day or two because of terrible storms,
Speaker 2: and we've just been lucky. And I told her, eventually
Speaker 2: it's gonna our luck's gonna run out. But I know,
Speaker 2: I know now why you said, I'm not even gonna
Speaker 2: put it out there, Cause you know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of things in life we've just become used to having
Speaker 2: so much so that like it's impossible to not take
Speaker 2: it for granted until you lose it. Electricity is certainly
Speaker 2: one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I feel like this last storm was probably
Speaker 3: worse than the one that we had probably like a
Speaker 3: month or so.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we had all the floods. Absolutely that was
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 3: Where like all the sirens were going off and going crazy.
Speaker 3: But I didn't I didn't hear any of this past Friday.
Speaker 2: I heard.
Speaker 3: The worst that we had happened to us was like
Speaker 3: the trash cans were everyone's trash cans were like blown
Speaker 3: in the street basically and kind of traveled like half
Speaker 3: a block down.
Speaker 2: We had the I guess again, we were lucky. The
Speaker 2: scariest thing that's happened to us was and this was
Speaker 2: last year, I believe, maybe last spring, maybe roughly around
Speaker 2: a year ago, and we weren't really paying attention to
Speaker 2: the local news that Sunday afternoon. It was like around noon,
Speaker 2: maybe one o'clock. We were just hanging out in the
Speaker 2: house doing laundry that kind of stuff. The kids were
Speaker 2: playing in the rooms, and we could feel wind like
Speaker 2: we could like it was something you noticed just by,
Speaker 2: you know, the noise. And we then turned on the
Speaker 2: local news and they did go into like telling you
Speaker 2: hate big time thunderstorms. Nobody said anything but a tornado,
Speaker 2: I don't believe. And it wasn't anything crazy as far
Speaker 2: as you know, like I don't, it probably isn't. Isn't
Speaker 2: a memorable storm compared to some others that have been devastating.
Speaker 2: But we just happened to look outside at the perfect
Speaker 2: time because we realized, man, this wind is getting crazy.
Speaker 2: And our trampoline at the time wasn't bolted down, and
Speaker 2: it the way it lifted up like it weighed less
Speaker 2: than a pound and just floated through and it got
Speaker 2: jammed between so our neighbor's house. They've got a fence
Speaker 2: that I guess, you know, cuts off halfway between where
Speaker 2: the property you know, their property line ends and our starts,
Speaker 2: and our trampoline just got completely lodged within the side
Speaker 2: of our house and their fence. And I mean it's
Speaker 2: one of those things where had had there been a
Speaker 2: little bit more space, it could have flown all throughout
Speaker 2: our neighborhood ended up damn it, it could have killed somebody.
Speaker 2: I mean. So now we learned to both are trampoline
Speaker 2: down to where that kind of stuff won't happen. So yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, let's get to it break, We'll keep this
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Speaker 2: that comes from your TV rights deal. But at times
Speaker 2: I wonder why it's such a big talking point, and
Speaker 2: then I realize, well, because if you're a program that's
Speaker 2: not in the SEC, the Big Ten, the ACC or
Speaker 2: the Big twelve. You're not bringing in near the money
Speaker 2: that those programs are in those conferences, and the chances
Speaker 2: of you having long term sustainable success is just unlikely.
Speaker 2: So it's not our money then go in our pockets,
Speaker 2: but you're program having deep pockets and getting those big
Speaker 2: annual checks that come from these TV rights deals. It
Speaker 2: is important. So today has I guess pulled up the
Speaker 2: tax records that show the amount of money that came
Speaker 2: in for the Power conferences in twenty twenty four and
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is going to be a surprise,
Speaker 2: but the Big ten brought in more money and it
Speaker 2: really really wasn't close. So for total revenue at the
Speaker 2: final at the ending of the twenty twenty four year,
Speaker 2: the Big Ten, and again this is this is the
Speaker 2: total for the for the conference, not what each team got,
Speaker 2: but the conference as a whole, nine hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: eight point one million for the Big Ten, the SEC
Speaker 2: eight hundred and thirty nine point seven million. There's big
Speaker 2: gaps here, by the way, I mean, that's a substantial
Speaker 2: gap between the Big Ten and the SEC. I do
Speaker 2: think moving forward that will even out a little bit.
Speaker 2: And I think the SEC's current deal, as far as
Speaker 2: the terms and the amount of years on the deal,
Speaker 2: the SEC will probably end up having more money before
Speaker 2: too long than than anybody. But the ACC came in
Speaker 2: third with seven hundred and eleven point four million that
Speaker 2: they shared among their members, the PAC twelve five hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty six point six million, and then the Big
Speaker 2: twelve four hundred ninety three point eight million. So again
Speaker 2: despite the PAC twelve no longer existing, which I guess
Speaker 2: it kind of does, doesn't it. I mean, it's they're
Speaker 2: still running like the league. They added leftovers from the
Speaker 2: Mountain West. I suppose some schools decided to stay in
Speaker 2: the Mountain West. So what we really have here is
Speaker 2: a power for and the Mountain West is just now
Speaker 2: the leftovers Oregon State, Washington State, and then some of
Speaker 2: the schools that decided to leave the Mountain West. And
Speaker 2: I think they might have taken some schools from maybe
Speaker 2: a different league as well. But what we talked about
Speaker 2: last week, this was something that got brought up, I
Speaker 2: believe on on Friday show. I get the days mixed up,
Speaker 2: but the schools that are worried about being so far
Speaker 2: behind the SEC, and the big ten in the schools
Speaker 2: that you know filed lawsuits against the ACC because they
Speaker 2: want out of their granted brights deal because they just
Speaker 2: they know the way the deal is currently locked in,
Speaker 2: they're going to fall further behind. So what the ACC
Speaker 2: did here is the right thing, because one, this ends
Speaker 2: the lawsuits, which is just a bad look for everybody
Speaker 2: that you got two real valuable members of your league
Speaker 2: suing the conference, and the conference, by the way, having
Speaker 2: to use money to fight its own members, which we'll
Speaker 2: get to that in a moment. But nonetheless, the way
Speaker 2: in which they've set it up to where now if
Speaker 2: you are successful and you bring in a lot of
Speaker 2: viewership and you are one of the big factors in
Speaker 2: the strong viewership the ACC has, you will be compensated
Speaker 2: for that. So the new revenue sharing model, the ACC
Speaker 2: is going to distribute forty percent of its TV deal
Speaker 2: evenly among all the members of the league that are
Speaker 2: not expansion members, so think everybody outside of SMU CAL
Speaker 2: and Stanford. The other sixty percent is going to be
Speaker 2: distributed based on ratings from basketball and football games, with
Speaker 2: the football viewership carrying more weight in the overall calculations.
Speaker 2: So the ACC is locked in until twenty thirty six,
Speaker 2: but the annual amount of money that you've been getting
Speaker 2: will now be much more if you are a program
Speaker 2: that can bring viewership to the league. And that's this,
Speaker 2: I think is the best course of action to kind of,
Speaker 2: I guess, stop the infighting between the league members and
Speaker 2: really it's just it's two schools and then the ACC.
Speaker 2: But what I did not know that I think is
Speaker 2: is kind of, you know, a bad look is that
Speaker 2: the money that the ACC had to use to fight
Speaker 2: the lawsuits in court against Clemson and Florida State like
Speaker 2: that took money away from the league. And I don't
Speaker 2: really know what's the league supposed to do where they
Speaker 2: supposed to get that money from. But luckily those lawsuits
Speaker 2: are now over And by the way, the total share
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty four, this is according to David Teel,
Speaker 2: who covers the ACC has done it for a long time.
Speaker 2: Louisville was at forty six point four million, which I'm
Speaker 2: trying to find out where that ranks among other members.
Speaker 2: But just for reference, forty six point four you were
Speaker 2: ahead of wake Forest, who was at forty three forty
Speaker 2: three million, even Virginia was forty four point seven, forty
Speaker 2: three point nine for Virginia Tech. So again, with all
Speaker 2: the moving and shaken that's taken place, the musical chairs
Speaker 2: that has taken place in college sports with the conference
Speaker 2: ree alignment. As much as I complain about the ACC
Speaker 2: at times just simply not being as good as I
Speaker 2: thought it would be, and I don't think that's a
Speaker 2: strong take. I mean, the ACC in basketball has substantially
Speaker 2: dropped off in recent years. The league confirmed that with
Speaker 2: their decision to eliminate two games from the conference schedule,
Speaker 2: and then in football. I don't think the football gap
Speaker 2: is as big as as it's portrayed by some. But
Speaker 2: I can also say, yeah, the AC at best is
Speaker 2: the third best conference, and it'll probably be that for
Speaker 2: a while, because you know, the Big Ten was already
Speaker 2: a good league, got better, added Oregon and Washington and
Speaker 2: USC and Cal. The SEC was already really good. They
Speaker 2: added Texas in Oklahoma. So being third is not a
Speaker 2: bad place to be realistically, And you can still be
Speaker 2: third but also have maybe five teams that everybody views
Speaker 2: as a legitimately top tier college football programs, and I
Speaker 2: think you being able to bring in more money than
Speaker 2: you used to be able to bring in because you
Speaker 2: are one of the big dogs of the league. That
Speaker 2: makes it to where you can sustain that success. So
Speaker 2: not to nerd out on numbers too much, but that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. You know, I get why some fans
Speaker 2: wouldn't care or really follow it or have much interest,
Speaker 2: but it is important to the overall health of your
Speaker 2: athletics program. And as much as the lawsuits from Clemson
Speaker 2: and Florida State were annoying, especially the Florida State side,
Speaker 2: where they just felt so entitled and they really didn't
Speaker 2: have near the accomplishments to speak of that they thought,
Speaker 2: and again it was annoying. However, the best case scenario
Speaker 2: for the ACC survival is to retain those two schools.
Speaker 2: I mean, it just is now. They got to get better,
Speaker 2: we all know that. But yeah, the ACC, I'll put
Speaker 2: it this way. The ACC right now, I think is
Speaker 2: in a better spot than it's been in the last
Speaker 2: couple of years as far as just the future. Because
Speaker 2: right now, even though some are probably lying about being
Speaker 2: happy and being content with this new change with the
Speaker 2: revenue sharing, at least, you know, I guess the best
Speaker 2: thing you could say right now is for better or worse,
Speaker 2: we're all locked in together. We can't go anywhere, so
Speaker 2: we might as well just try to make the best
Speaker 2: of the situation. And making the best of the situation
Speaker 2: is just competing and getting better. And I do think
Speaker 2: the league took a step in the right direction last
Speaker 2: year as far as being a better conference, but how
Speaker 2: much I don't really know. And maybe for the first
Speaker 2: time ever we can say that the ACC was innovative
Speaker 2: because I think making this adjustment to where the schools
Speaker 2: that now are gonna make more money are the ones
Speaker 2: who in fact bring the most value by bringing more
Speaker 2: eyeballs to the product that is ACC football and basketball,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be able to make more money. And I
Speaker 2: just think maybe I'll be wrong here, but if you
Speaker 2: look at the Big Ten, the SEC, even the Big twelve,
Speaker 2: everybody for the most part is locked in at the
Speaker 2: same share equal shares. Now, it's probably not like that.
Speaker 2: Initially I would imagine that Texas and Oklahoma maybe they
Speaker 2: had to wait a certain amount of time before they
Speaker 2: get full equal shares. Same thing for Oregon, Cal and
Speaker 2: Cow But Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA. If those schools.
Speaker 2: Maybe there was a timeline of when they would get
Speaker 2: an equal share, but whatever it is, I think with
Speaker 2: money certainly still be I mean, look the ACC, the SEC,
Speaker 2: the Big Ten, all these power conferences. I mean, they're
Speaker 2: still bringing in a big amount of money. But the
Speaker 2: recent ruling that I guess still isn't final as far
Speaker 2: as the revenue share, where these schools are going to
Speaker 2: have to share twenty one or twenty two million dollars
Speaker 2: something like that with the student athletes. You know that
Speaker 2: money's come. That money. You now have a twenty plus
Speaker 2: million dollar bill annually that you didn't used to have.
Speaker 2: So I think there's going to constantly be ways that
Speaker 2: these schools are trying to figure out where they can
Speaker 2: save money, where they can bring in more money. I
Speaker 2: don't want to present it as if they're going broken.
Speaker 2: They got to really cut expenses, but again, I think
Speaker 2: a twenty million dollar bill that you have to pay
Speaker 2: every year is a big expense for anybody, regardless of
Speaker 2: your financial situation. So it would not shock me if
Speaker 2: those in the in the SEC and those in the
Speaker 2: Big Ten start to say, hey, why is Rutgers getting
Speaker 2: the same amount of money as us we're Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Why is Georgia cool with Vay in Kentucky getting the
Speaker 2: same exact share that they get? So I don't really
Speaker 2: know what what kind of legal fight they have as
Speaker 2: far as being able to claim that, because again, what happened.
Speaker 2: The ACC just decided to cave and and do this
Speaker 2: and just tell probably Boston College and and wake Forest
Speaker 2: and those that don't bring a lot of viewership like, hey, sorry,
Speaker 2: but this is the way it is. If you don't
Speaker 2: like it, you can leave. And I doubt it ever
Speaker 2: got to that point. But if those like if wake
Speaker 2: Forest or Boston College or who else? Who else is
Speaker 2: just like doormat ACC, I feel like I'm blanking on
Speaker 2: one of them. But either way, like if they had
Speaker 2: to leave, where would they go? Whatever we're attack, Yes,
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech's a good one, but also they're they're weird.
Speaker 2: But yes, I think they still fall in line and
Speaker 2: they fall in that same, that same tier. But if
Speaker 2: they were to, you know, they were upset that they're
Speaker 2: now getting an equal share to Clemson or Florida State
Speaker 2: or Loislle for that matter, and they wanted to take
Speaker 2: their and go home. Where would they go? That would
Speaker 2: put them in a better situation than being a less
Speaker 2: than in a Power four league. I mean, that's the
Speaker 2: better situation regardless of it. So it's really just about
Speaker 2: survival at this point. So anyways, let's get too a
Speaker 2: quick break. We'll come back on the other shide. Wrap
Speaker 2: up the four o'clock hour. It is Coffee and Company,
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Speaker 2: That's right, we were wrapping up the four o'clock hour
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is Coffee and Company,
Speaker 2: Nick Coffee and Austin Montgomery taking you up until six o'clock.
Speaker 2: So with this being the ninth show for me and
Speaker 2: then it's all she wrote for Coffee and Company. For
Speaker 2: those who know, I'm moving to has starting June second,
Speaker 2: I'll be taking over as the host of Kentucky and
Speaker 2: His Morning News with Tony Cruz retiring. And cannot express
Speaker 2: how grateful I am for the opportunity and for those
Speaker 2: that have said very very nice things and you know,
Speaker 2: wished me well and congratulated me. I appreciate that more
Speaker 2: than I'll ever be able to, uh to to let
Speaker 2: you know. And I'm also not surprised that there may
Speaker 2: be something that's like they're gonna put this guy over
Speaker 2: there on has I mean who you know? Like I can,
Speaker 2: I can just envision the who let who let this happen?
Speaker 2: And that's okay. You know, that's what excites me and
Speaker 2: motivates me about this opportunity, knowing that it will be different,
Speaker 2: it'll be a challenge, uh, but you know that's what's
Speaker 2: gotten me as excited as I've been in a long,
Speaker 2: long long time in uh, in my career. So just
Speaker 2: letting you know, if you weren't aware, let's make the
Speaker 2: most of these, uh these these final shows that we
Speaker 2: have left because next Friday it'll be it'll be a wrap.
Speaker 2: And again, as far as what happens after, not not
Speaker 2: something I have any involvement in. But I will certainly
Speaker 2: share my thoughts and I'll also be able to share
Speaker 2: whatever they allow me. Don't know what that's gonna be,
Speaker 2: but I'm not surprised that many have asked sort of
Speaker 2: what becomes of this? But I don't know, that's the
Speaker 2: honest answer. And will I be able to share anything.
Speaker 2: I also don't know, but when I I can, if
Speaker 2: I can, I will, I'll pass along anything that I'm
Speaker 2: allowed to share. But this is a really nice text
Speaker 2: that comes in from somebody on the text line. By
Speaker 2: the way, if you want to text in, you can
Speaker 2: BABO two four three eight ninety seventy three is of
Speaker 2: the L and N Federal Credit Union text line. This
Speaker 2: person said some nice things, and I don't need to
Speaker 2: read all that because you know, I'm sure you don't
Speaker 2: want to hear it'd be very, very self deprecating for
Speaker 2: me to just read only nice things that are said.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's better radio when I read insults that
Speaker 2: I get on the air, which that happens from time
Speaker 2: to time as well. But the question is essentially, what
Speaker 2: was my favorite like moment with with seven ninety And
Speaker 2: I don't know, and I hate to, you know, answer
Speaker 2: that so directly as if, but I've thought about that,
Speaker 2: you know a lot of There's been a lot on
Speaker 2: my mind in the last gosh, really a long time,
Speaker 2: not just the last few weeks. But this is this
Speaker 2: has been a long process and it's been on my
Speaker 2: radar as something that could potentially happen for well over
Speaker 2: a year. So I've done a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of thinking about you know, a lot of things when
Speaker 2: it comes to just my career and whatnot. But there
Speaker 2: really is not one specific moment within this show. And again,
Speaker 2: all the shows have kind of been the same in
Speaker 2: a way. And I don't mean that each show in
Speaker 2: the midday spot of noon to three in the mornings
Speaker 2: and then now like clearly there's a different element to
Speaker 2: being morning Drive, midday and afternoon Drive. But as far
Speaker 2: as what you get from me, it maybe it hasn't
Speaker 2: always been the same. I'm sure you know it's changed
Speaker 2: over the years, but throughout the three different time slots
Speaker 2: and the non plush years, I really I've tried, I've
Speaker 2: tried my best to think of one specific moment that
Speaker 2: was like, Wow, that was that was special? Can you
Speaker 2: believe it? And I think one of the reasons that's
Speaker 2: helped me kind of you know, live in the moment
Speaker 2: and really be in disbelief that it's actually been a
Speaker 2: non plush year thing for me is a good thing
Speaker 2: because I never felt like totally not necessarily fulfilled, but
Speaker 2: I never felt like, Okay, well it doesn't get any
Speaker 2: better than that, So maybe now just become complacent that
Speaker 2: I mail it in. You know, I've just this is
Speaker 2: the longest thing I've done in my life outside of
Speaker 2: I guess a what a thirteen year stint in the
Speaker 2: public school system and a fourteen year marriage to my
Speaker 2: lovely wife, and then non plus years here. I mean,
Speaker 2: I've worked at this company longer than I work for
Speaker 2: any other company. As I talked about on Friday, there's
Speaker 2: really nothing in I mean there's I don't care how
Speaker 2: old you end up living. Hopefully we all live to
Speaker 2: a very old age and have a great life. But
Speaker 2: ten years doing anything is a long stretch of time
Speaker 2: for anybody, I would say, And that's what I've been
Speaker 2: able to do, but also not really being able to
Speaker 2: truly believe that it's been this long. Has has I
Speaker 2: think been a good thing to where I did live
Speaker 2: in the moment. I never took it for granted, and
Speaker 2: I think that's the way that it should be. But
Speaker 2: I would say what I what was the most enjoyable
Speaker 2: for me that I feel like was also a good
Speaker 2: thing for the show is that, without realizing it, it
Speaker 2: kind of played out for me that taking the show
Speaker 2: on road trips, right traveling for different reasons, and then
Speaker 2: doing a live show from a hotel in a different town,
Speaker 2: doing a live show. I did a live show in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen at the cafeteria at the Barclay Center in
Speaker 2: Brooklyn because that was the only place I could get
Speaker 2: set up and that was like, that wasn't something that
Speaker 2: I'd planned on doing, but you know, it was kind
Speaker 2: of like a journey and I shared the experience and
Speaker 2: I learned that people really do kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: gravitate towards that, like it's almost like they're not with
Speaker 2: me on the road trip, but there's stories that come
Speaker 2: with it that, you know, at times my life has
Speaker 2: felt like a Sondfeld episode, and sometimes I'm able to
Speaker 2: share that those kind of stories and experiences with you
Speaker 2: and to hear that people remember that and they, you know,
Speaker 2: look at it as something that they enjoyed. Hearing about
Speaker 2: that makes me, you know makes me, i guess more
Speaker 2: than anything, feel like I'm going to feel like I'm
Speaker 2: a more interesting person than I'd realized. So yeah, I've
Speaker 2: got some planned for next week as far as just
Speaker 2: kind of not a timeline, but just to look back
Speaker 2: on some fonn thing and uh, next week will be
Speaker 2: different than this week just because I'm I mean, I
Speaker 2: hate to say it, but I'm gonna I'm gonna really
Speaker 2: make it, make it really feel like, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: going out with a bang. Not like I've got any
Speaker 2: crazy special guests or anything like that, but just I'm
Speaker 2: gonna soak it all in and we'll continue to talk
Speaker 2: about what needs to be talked about when it comes
Speaker 2: to sports around here, because this is what we do.
Speaker 2: We always will. But they'll also be a layer to it,
Speaker 2: that is, you'll know this is this is it. It's
Speaker 2: the last ride. We shouldn't call it that, right because
Speaker 2: these people are That's like, that's when I think of
Speaker 2: the last ride. I've always I just think of the
Speaker 2: Jordan Bulls documentary now like it used to be a
Speaker 2: saying you got one last ride, which I guess it
Speaker 2: still as a saying, but I just often, I just
Speaker 2: all all the time think of the Bulls whenever I
Speaker 2: think of that. All right, let's get to a top
Speaker 2: of the hour break. We've got the five o'clock cour
Speaker 2: coming your way. A lot more to get into, including
Speaker 2: Scotti Scheffler's win at the PGA Championship. The more success
Speaker 2: Scotty Scheffler has it's probably a bad thing for LMPD
Speaker 2: as far as the you know that story never dying,
Speaker 2: So we can get into that at Also, Drew Brees
Speaker 2: gassing up our boy Tyler Shuck as well as Jeff
Speaker 2: Brohm this weekend, and he can keep saying there's going
Speaker 2: to be a quarterback competition. I mean, Tyler Chef's gonna
Speaker 2: be the starting quarterback for the Saints this year. And
Speaker 2: also there's an updated list of the most wins in
Speaker 2: college basketball since twenty twenty. So in the twenty twenties,
Speaker 2: who's won the most games. I think some of these
Speaker 2: programs that are on here will surprise you, but there
Speaker 2: is a common component with all of them that I
Speaker 2: want to get to. So stick around. We got at
Speaker 2: the five o'clock hour coming up next right here on
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven to ninety