Speaker 1: Then think of yourself at all until you you know,
Speaker 1: in fact, sometimes you probably should think of yourself a
Speaker 1: little more than you do whenever you just get wrapped
Speaker 1: up and being a parent. So he also told me
Speaker 1: that when it comes to, you know, going too every
Speaker 1: single game courtside with my media seat and all that,
Speaker 1: and and being away from my family on nights when
Speaker 1: Louisville basketball's playing and then they're playing on a Saturday, you know,
Speaker 1: those things take a lot of time if you go
Speaker 1: and do the full game day coverage. And he said,
Speaker 1: eventually you won't want to go. You'll want to be
Speaker 1: with your son. You will want to have those experiences,
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to do both and it'll be
Speaker 1: fine and you won't be caught up in what people say,
Speaker 1: oh it was. And he sit in courtside, he's he's
Speaker 1: just a fa Like he said, you won't it won't
Speaker 1: even matter. You'll miss going to games because you're going
Speaker 1: to watch your son play sports, your daughter play sports.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, right, it's a known thing, like
Speaker 1: I don't miss Louisville games. And now it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be there. I'm going to go do
Speaker 1: stuff with my family, so I didn't think he would
Speaker 1: be correct, but in fact was he was correct. So
Speaker 1: shout out to Benetti and congrats to to John and
Speaker 1: Alicia on becoming new parents. And again congrats on the
Speaker 1: sex brother first time having sex one exactly, A one
Speaker 1: for one, one for one. All right, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to throw it to you, man, because you've not probably
Speaker 1: you've probably been chomping at the bit this week to
Speaker 1: talk some football, because you've been probably talking football here
Speaker 1: and there in the mornings with Cruz and with mister
Speaker 1: Gus Allen. But what matchup on the board on Saturday
Speaker 1: are you most confident in when it comes to your.
Speaker 2: Picks, I'll say you, well, first of all, I do
Speaker 2: want to give myself a pat on the back for
Speaker 2: taking old miss money line last week. That didn't tell
Speaker 2: you for me, I've got another one that I'm not
Speaker 2: as confident enough to take the outright up set. But
Speaker 2: I love Tennessee plus nine and a half against Georgia,
Speaker 2: even though it is on the road. I'm starting to
Speaker 2: not be much a believer at all in this Georgia
Speaker 2: team being among the elite of the elite, and I
Speaker 2: know this is a home game for the Bulldogs. But
Speaker 2: I do feel like this is going to be a
Speaker 2: good opportunity for Tennessee to kind of take advantage of
Speaker 2: a reeling Georgia team. And I just even if they
Speaker 2: don't win, I think nine and a half is a
Speaker 2: pretty good spread for them to cover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably will stay away from this, but if
Speaker 1: I was going to play, that would be it. I
Speaker 1: just think it's too many points for a Georgia team
Speaker 1: that their loss to Ole Miss really made it to where.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess technically things could still work out
Speaker 1: for them, but this is probably the most adversity that
Speaker 1: George's hit under Kirby Smart, maybe since like his first
Speaker 1: year or something like that, to where they've had this
Speaker 1: many losses this late and they're clearly just not I mean,
Speaker 1: like last year they had the one loss and it
Speaker 1: kept them out of the playoff, right and before that
Speaker 1: they won two national championships in a row.
Speaker 2: So they're still really good.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think Tennessee's pretty good as well,
Speaker 1: and I believe Tennessee's young quarterback will in fact play,
Speaker 1: So again, I'll probably stay away from that, but if
Speaker 1: I was going to get in, that would certainly be
Speaker 1: what I would do as well. I've got a pick
Speaker 1: that I am so confident in that I'm worried that
Speaker 1: maybe there's something that I don't know, and it could
Speaker 1: be because I don't follow the big tennis close as you.
Speaker 1: How is Illinois only two and a half point favorites
Speaker 1: against Michigan State.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, and I base a lot of that
Speaker 2: off of the fact that I saw Indiana completely mow
Speaker 2: Michigan State to the ground on the road, and of
Speaker 2: course this Michigan State team will be going to Illinois. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just as confused about that one as you are.
Speaker 2: I like that, I don't kid it minus two and
Speaker 2: a half.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't understand how this isn't
Speaker 1: you know, six and a half seven? I mean, right
Speaker 1: now in the sports line projection here their formula twenty
Speaker 1: eight to sixteen. I mean that that absolutely seems like
Speaker 1: the score we could see. In fact, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked if Michigan State doesn't even put up sixteen because
Speaker 1: their offense isn't great and obviously Brett Brett Beilama is
Speaker 1: a really good defensive coach, so you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: keep in mind Also, Michigan State is coming off of
Speaker 1: a bye week, and prior to that they lost forty
Speaker 1: seven to ten to Indiana and then they lost at Michigan,
Speaker 1: who everybody now knows, this is nowhere near what they
Speaker 1: what they you know, not even what they were last year.
Speaker 1: But they're not They're not that good of a team,
Speaker 1: you know. I know, Illinois has struggled. They're lost to Minnesota,
Speaker 1: you know, not a great one. However, they were underdogs
Speaker 1: in that game and Minnesota's turned out to be. Like
Speaker 1: maybe PJ. Fleck was right when he said something that
Speaker 1: you know, most coaches would never want to say, we're
Speaker 1: the best uh two and four two tamall time something
Speaker 1: like that, like, you know, which he actually might have
Speaker 1: been right, but it's just not something you typically want to,
Speaker 1: you know, brag about. But yeah, I uh, I've taken
Speaker 1: this one. I feel great about it. But if it
Speaker 1: doesn't come through, I'm just going to assume that those
Speaker 1: who set these lines knew something that none of us
Speaker 1: know and they got us. What's next for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of feel the same way about the
Speaker 2: next one that I'm taking, and that's BYU minus two
Speaker 2: and a half at home against Kansas, And I know
Speaker 2: Kansas is coming off a big win against Iowa State
Speaker 2: last week, which that was another game that I was
Speaker 2: confident in at least when it comes to what I
Speaker 2: thought the Cyclones will be able to do. But they
Speaker 2: now appear to be in reeling mode after they started
Speaker 2: off with a really good undefeated whatever it was, not
Speaker 2: to no record that it could that it was. But
Speaker 2: now you've got a BYU team who they're kind of
Speaker 2: in the same boat as Indiana where they're kind of
Speaker 2: fighting against committee, like is their schedule really that good?
Speaker 2: Are they going to be? Are they a legitimate playoff team?
Speaker 2: This is one of their another moments to not necessarily
Speaker 2: prove to the Committee that they're they're worth it. But
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna come into this game, especially with
Speaker 2: it being at home, knowing that they need to really
Speaker 2: take this Jayhawk team down convincingly to really show the
Speaker 2: Committee that they do belong, especially if they end up
Speaker 2: taking a loss at some point before the Big twelve Championship.
Speaker 2: So I think BYU minus two and a half is
Speaker 2: a fairly safe bet this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I mean, I've watched BYU very little
Speaker 1: since early on this year, and I can't claim to
Speaker 1: say if you watch them, you'll know that they're better
Speaker 1: than what the Committee's where the Committee is putting them.
Speaker 1: But I mean their resume is phenomenal here, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd say they're like the most.
Speaker 1: I actually think SMU has turned into the most disrespected
Speaker 1: team to the to the the Committee and the rankings
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But BYU, I mean I like that. I
Speaker 1: mean it's another one of those games where I'm surprised
Speaker 1: the lines not a little bit bigger. Now this next one,
Speaker 1: for me, it's it. I'm gonna trust my judgment here,
Speaker 1: trust my trust, my gut. But if it doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: it'll be because this team turns into what a lot
Speaker 1: of teams turn into when you start getting these weekly
Speaker 1: updates from the Committee to where you know you're feeling like,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, everything's it's it's it's it's in our control, right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: We we can't get too caught up in what the
Speaker 1: Committee thinks of us. We know that if we handle
Speaker 1: what we got to handle, we're gonna be there regardless
Speaker 1: because we're gonna win our conference. And that's SMU SMU
Speaker 1: is really good. Boston College is really not. They just
Speaker 1: made a quarterback change, Castellanos is transferring out. SMU looks
Speaker 1: looks better every time I watch them, and the now
Speaker 1: the number is huge, But SMU's at home and they
Speaker 1: have more. First of all, they have a huge, huge
Speaker 1: fan base, a lot of support, and they probably have
Speaker 1: more momentum than they've had since they got caught cheating
Speaker 1: before you and I were alive and when our parents
Speaker 1: were little kids. I mean, SMU is a monster right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're going to win the national championship.
Speaker 1: Maybe they end up getting humbled whenever they get to
Speaker 1: the college football playoff. We shall see. But right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, they beat the hell out of Pitt. Did
Speaker 1: have a close call against Duke, But other than that, man,
Speaker 1: they've been really, really impressive this entire season and that's
Speaker 1: a lot of points. Again, nineteen and a half is alive.
Speaker 1: But Boston College, you know, I know, they did beat
Speaker 1: QS last week and that was viewed as like them
Speaker 1: maybe getting their season turned around because they benched Castellanos
Speaker 1: and went in a different direction. But SMU at home
Speaker 1: with the momentum they have and look, maybe I need
Speaker 1: to rephrase the whole thing about them being a potential
Speaker 1: team that gets caught up in the rankings and they're
Speaker 1: not as focused. I mean, in fact, SMU dropped in
Speaker 1: the rankings and they still have I mean again, the
Speaker 1: comparisons to Texas and Penn State and SMU by every
Speaker 1: metric other than name brand is insane. And when you
Speaker 1: look at SMU dropping outside of the top twelve, top thirteen,
Speaker 1: I think they're like at fourteenth now or something like that,
Speaker 1: and those two teams are sitting in the top four.
Speaker 1: I mean, SMU is going to be hungry to make
Speaker 1: a statement and beating the hell out of Boston College
Speaker 1: probably won't do much for the committee, but you know
Speaker 1: it'll at least be all they can do in that situation.
Speaker 1: So I hate being so confident in a pick that
Speaker 1: has this many points nineteen and a half, but I'm
Speaker 1: believing in I'm believing in SMU here that.
Speaker 2: One has become a stay away from me. I looked
Speaker 2: at it earlier this week and I think it was
Speaker 2: around sixteen and a half or you know, you know,
Speaker 2: a lot more manageable looking. But as it's gone up
Speaker 2: and I was putting together my board for the week.
Speaker 2: That just to me, of course, I don't pay attention
Speaker 2: to eight smu on you doube. Yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 2: lot you never know when a team's going to put
Speaker 2: in a down performance potentially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if this was at Boston College, if
Speaker 1: this was you know, maybe twenty one and a half,
Speaker 1: I probably still consider but stay away. But I I'm
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust SMU here. What else do you like?
Speaker 2: Actually? I like WKU minus twelve and a half against
Speaker 2: Louisiana Tech this weekend and it just at home. Really yeah,
Speaker 2: and I don't know much about you know, the personnel
Speaker 2: for each team. I know WKU is much better than
Speaker 2: Louisiana Tech. I think Louisian Tech maybe only has two
Speaker 2: or three wins on the season. So to me, although
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of you know, methods, why I'm
Speaker 2: choosing other than just you know, knowing I'm gonna lum
Speaker 2: of WKU and that they're typically pretty good against the
Speaker 2: bad CUSA teams. I like to think that wk you
Speaker 2: can get fourteen points or more, or as it's twelve
Speaker 2: and a half at this point, they can get a
Speaker 2: couple of scores on the is it the Bulldogs? Is
Speaker 2: that what Louisian Tech does?
Speaker 1: I think so, Yeah, I think so. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no way John Alden's the company man's alma mater is
Speaker 1: gonna lose the week that he announces that he's having
Speaker 1: a baby, you know what I mean. I mean it's
Speaker 1: they're not gonna let you down.
Speaker 2: And people asking me what the the female name for
Speaker 2: for Kurt would be, by the way, like Kurt Signet.
Speaker 2: Really I don't think there is one. Unfortunately, I would
Speaker 2: name my child after Kurt Signetti.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if you did, I wouldn't you know,
Speaker 1: I Uh, I wouldn't. I mean I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: The guys on top of the world. I mean it
Speaker 1: would be justified given how phenomenal Kurt Signette has been.
Speaker 1: But I can't think of the word Kurt or the
Speaker 1: name Kurt and thinking of like any type of female
Speaker 1: version of that. That's that's close to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the the simulation here for uh
Speaker 1: is that game tonight?
Speaker 2: No? They play? I think it's new. Yeah, there're CBS tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the the let's see, Yeah, I mean Western Kentucky.
Speaker 1: They're seven and one on the on the years at
Speaker 1: seven and two.
Speaker 2: Louisianteka is three and six. Yeah, I mean, look, this
Speaker 2: is and and w k U.
Speaker 1: I wish I could pull it up here on sports
Speaker 1: line because I know that this is not uncommon for them.
Speaker 1: They've been good against the spread for like years six
Speaker 1: and three this year, and usually they they'll cover as
Speaker 1: dogs at times, So here they are obviously favorites. They're
Speaker 1: a lot better than Louisiana Tech. So I like that.
Speaker 1: One probably won't be something that I that I get into,
Speaker 1: but I certainly do think that would if I was
Speaker 1: going to get in, that's the route that I would go.
Speaker 1: Now there's a game here that I want to get
Speaker 1: in on, but I can't figure out what to do,
Speaker 1: which probably means I shouldn't shouldn't get involved here. But
Speaker 1: miss Missouri and South Carolina right now, I think I
Speaker 1: just me just double check here on fan duel because
Speaker 1: I know this has changed in the last because what
Speaker 1: I'm looking at on sports line shows South Carolina minus fourteen,
Speaker 1: but I think now it's down to minus thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half. I want to take South Carolina here, but
Speaker 1: because I think that they're better, and you know they've
Speaker 1: got momentum Missouri has. You know, they were lucky to
Speaker 1: survive against their rival last week who's having a really
Speaker 1: bad year Oklahoma. It's probably one that I'll end up
Speaker 1: taking South Carolina. But I need your thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: Is that too many points? I mean, I know you're
Speaker 1: not as familiar with.
Speaker 2: I don't think i'll say this about Missouri. I think
Speaker 2: I think you would agree with me on this. Missouri's
Speaker 2: probably been the most overrated team in college football all
Speaker 2: season long. They get the bump simply because they're in
Speaker 2: the SEC and that their losses are to Alabama and
Speaker 2: what is it is Texas A and M their other
Speaker 2: loss in the season.
Speaker 1: So Missouri has lost to Texas A and M by
Speaker 1: thirty one, and they lost Tobama thirty three.
Speaker 2: They didn't score on them. So I just I don't
Speaker 2: hate Boston College.
Speaker 1: Their best win, dude, is Vandy and they beat them
Speaker 1: by three and they were lucky to win that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't like or I don't dislike
Speaker 2: the pick at all. I of course I won't be
Speaker 2: betting on it just because I don't feel like I
Speaker 2: ever do terribly great and betting on the SEC. I
Speaker 2: say that after taking Ole Miss money line last week.
Speaker 2: But uh, it's just a very it's a very weird game.
Speaker 2: You have a team that has has one extra loss
Speaker 2: in your their rank, two spots ahead of them, but
Speaker 2: they're also favored by two touchdowns. It's pretty crazy, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I have no doubt that South Carolina
Speaker 1: is gonna win. And it did jump up, by the way.
Speaker 1: I think it started at South Carolina minus twelve and
Speaker 1: a half and now it's it went to fourteen. Now
Speaker 1: it's down to thirteen and a half. So South Carolina
Speaker 1: is that I mean, looking at South Carolina's resume, it's
Speaker 1: kind of wild. They they they are like Louisville to
Speaker 1: where they don't have the big win auctually I'm sorry
Speaker 1: they do. They have Texas A and M, which is
Speaker 1: a huge win for them because text A and M.
Speaker 1: You know, that's not the tex A M is not
Speaker 1: an elite team, but certainly a good that's a good win,
Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to say. But their losses are good.
Speaker 1: They lost to Alabama by just two points, they lost
Speaker 1: to Ole Miss and they got blown out. But now
Speaker 1: look at Ole Miss and then they lost to LSU,
Speaker 1: who you know, that's not a great loss, but it's
Speaker 1: certainly not a bad one. It was just about three points.
Speaker 1: So if you look at the two teams, they have
Speaker 1: very similar records. They have, you know, I think they're
Speaker 1: ranked right next to each other in the playoff rankings
Speaker 1: like twenty two and twenty three, or maybe that's the
Speaker 1: eight people. But you know, when you look at each
Speaker 1: each team week by week, I mean South Carolina's a
Speaker 1: lot better. So again a lot of points here. I've
Speaker 1: got two big favorites that I'm trusting, and my hope
Speaker 1: is that with it being this late in the season
Speaker 1: and the teams that are big dogs, maybe they just
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they submit late, and these two teams
Speaker 1: that have big spreads to cover, maybe they can they
Speaker 1: can find a way to pull through. All right, do
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on basketball? Like, I know you
Speaker 1: haven't paid much attention to it, and I don't blame you,
Speaker 1: especially that you've been having to get up at like
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning this week. But let me
Speaker 1: let me tell you what we've got in action, and
Speaker 1: I'll probably get to some of these games later because
Speaker 1: I already have a feeling for what I want to do.
Speaker 1: But listen to this slate just for Friday night, company
Speaker 1: Man Alabama at Purdue. I mean that's number two versus
Speaker 1: number thirteen. That's tonight Alabama basketball will be at Purdue,
Speaker 1: Arizona at Wisconsin number nine, number twenty one, Ohio State
Speaker 1: at number twenty three, Texas A and M number fifteen,
Speaker 1: Marquette at Maryland number twenty, Florida at Florida State. And
Speaker 1: then these are matchups that aren't ranked teams, but these
Speaker 1: are big matchups for early on in college basketball. I'll
Speaker 1: TISU at Michigan, SMU at Butler, Virginia at Villanova, Virginia
Speaker 1: Tech against Penn State, West Virginia at Pitt Georgia at
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. I mean that that's like a night of
Speaker 1: basketball that you would get like in the like the
Speaker 1: you know, the Prome time like us.
Speaker 2: Or something like that. Yeah, I'll tell you what. So uh,
Speaker 2: I do have a little bit of thoughts on Purdue Alabama.
Speaker 2: And it's more so and this may sound homeer ish
Speaker 2: of me, being of course an Indiana fan, but it
Speaker 2: wouldn't surprise me even though this game isn't Wes Lafayette
Speaker 2: If Alabama comes into Macki Arena and runs the table
Speaker 2: against the boiler Makers tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just don't think you can expect
Speaker 1: to replace Zach Eady's production really by anybody. I don't
Speaker 1: even mean, it's just not realistic. But like what they're doing,
Speaker 1: like they're just not I mean, Eadie, I know you're
Speaker 1: an Indiana fan, but I actually think you agree with
Speaker 1: me when I say this. We've had the conversation many times.
Speaker 1: Eadie was as rare as you'll find in college basketball
Speaker 1: for a guy that is that physically imposed, and yet
Speaker 1: he didn't need to come out of the game and
Speaker 1: get a lot of rest. I mean, he had good stamina,
Speaker 1: he was pretty strong around the rim obviously, you know
Speaker 1: you don't want to get him out and guarding perimeter players.
Speaker 1: But like the dudes for Purdue that have been able
Speaker 1: to put up some pretty good numbers, Foster loyal Or
Speaker 1: and then what's the other guy's name, Braden Smith? Is
Speaker 1: that his name?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You got them guards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, like those guys are good players, but they
Speaker 1: were able to put up numbers and really shine and
Speaker 1: even a minor role compared to Edie because of Edie.
Speaker 1: You know, without somebody that's going to command what Zach
Speaker 1: Edie commanded in college basketball, you're just I think, you know,
Speaker 1: they're just going to be. I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, Purdue will be a tournament team. They
Speaker 1: might even get a decent seed because I don't know
Speaker 1: how low to the Big Ten is, but like they're
Speaker 1: nowhere near going to be what they were the last
Speaker 1: few years. And Alabama is legit. They've had some I guess,
Speaker 1: some stretches of play where they look vulnerable, but the
Speaker 1: talent is there. It'll be a big time atmosphere, a
Speaker 1: big time moment, and I definitely think Bama is the
Speaker 1: play tonight. What's the spread?
Speaker 2: Let me see what two and a half in favor
Speaker 2: of Alabama and one one thing that aure hammering it
Speaker 2: there without Daniel Jacobson. That's the guy I mentioned a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, who is the seven foot four
Speaker 2: guy who is kind of the pseudo replacement for Zach
Speaker 2: Ed's not you know, he wasn't, of course expected to
Speaker 2: be somebody to be nearly as good, but he's out
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season. I believe for the
Speaker 2: boiler Man.
Speaker 1: Yes, and they've got another giant that they put in.
Speaker 1: But I think it's like the young kid who like
Speaker 1: is probably not even going to get it. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's going to play, but he's playing time is going
Speaker 1: to because of the guy you mentioned has been hurt. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to dance on the grave
Speaker 1: of Purdue because I don't think that that. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're going to fall off completely,
Speaker 1: but they're not going to be nearly what they were
Speaker 1: in recent years.
Speaker 2: And Alabama, maybe they come out upset Alabama tonight.
Speaker 1: No, not happening. We're taking it hammer Bama minus two
Speaker 1: and a half. Bama football is taking some steps back
Speaker 1: this year. Bama is a basketball school now, at least
Speaker 1: tonight they are, let's hope that happens, like is a
Speaker 1: football school. They they've right, Hell yeah, hell yeah. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you stop and by again. Congrats on the big news,
Speaker 1: and we'll certainly certainly get you back in here next week.
Speaker 2: Look forward to it.
Speaker 1: Thanks brother. All right, we'll take a quick break here,
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. Keep it locked on a Friday afternoon
Speaker 1: here Coffee and Company. Philbouth Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: So we just wrapped up a conversation with the company
Speaker 1: man in regards to all the college football games this
Speaker 1: weekend given picks, and obviously discussing the college basketball games
Speaker 1: tonight as well. And I'm a little overwhelmed. And it's
Speaker 1: a reminder to me that, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you'd call college basketball and niche thing, because it's
Speaker 1: popular enough to where like it. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: like nobody cares about it, but it's just a distant,
Speaker 1: a long distance away, I should say, from the sports
Speaker 1: that really generate a lot of money that has led
Speaker 1: to conference I mean, like put it this way, the
Speaker 1: NFL's king and college football is far behind the NFL,
Speaker 1: but college basketball is far behind college football when it
Speaker 1: comes to viewership. So you know, when I see all
Speaker 1: these games tonight in college basketball, I'm like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: Like this is overwhelming, Like how am I supposed to
Speaker 1: watch all these great games at once? And you also
Speaker 1: look over at college football, which is not typically a
Speaker 1: Friday night thing. I mean, college football rarely do you
Speaker 1: have many games, certainly good games on Fridays, But tonight,
Speaker 1: I mean you've got two let's see two Big ten
Speaker 1: one Big ten game, so two Power four games, one
Speaker 1: Big ten matchup UCLA and Washington, Houston and Arizona, which
Speaker 1: aren't great games, but small spreads there, which usually leads
Speaker 1: to a lot of people wanting to wager on it.
Speaker 1: So here I am thinking like, Wow, this is a
Speaker 1: this is an unusual Friday night with some really good
Speaker 1: college football college hoops. But yet I would imagine the
Speaker 1: vast majority of people tonight are gonna not even be
Speaker 1: aware of the games in college football, in college basketball.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be wanting to get into this Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: and Jake Paul fight, and with it being on Netflix,
Speaker 1: like Netflix can give us numbers as far as the viewership,
Speaker 1: but like they could make it up, couldn't they. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't assume that they would do that, especially whenever
Speaker 1: they've got advertisers paying an insane amount of money to
Speaker 1: be affiliated and have their brand embedded within this humongous event.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure they're you know, there's probably some leality
Speaker 1: the word you can't you can't fib but it's also
Speaker 1: not like you know, it's not we don't get viewership
Speaker 1: from from this the same way we're gonna get viewership
Speaker 1: numbers from And I don't mean the amount, I just
Speaker 1: mean how we get the numbers. It's different than how
Speaker 1: you get on you know, a live televised thing. This
Speaker 1: is just strictly going to be on Netflix. So do
Speaker 1: you think this? You know, Netflix has done some live
Speaker 1: events before. The one that stands out to me, and
Speaker 1: they haven't done many of them, but the one that
Speaker 1: stands out to me is the roast of Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I kind of forgot about that, so I
Speaker 1: watched it after the fact, but it was live and
Speaker 1: it was really really good by the way, but I
Speaker 1: don't know like how well it did as far as
Speaker 1: what they were expecting when when you know, when they
Speaker 1: were putting it out there.
Speaker 3: So I'm actually surprised that I could see something like that,
Speaker 3: like a roast being like a part of it. But
Speaker 3: when we want to talk about like this fight tonight
Speaker 3: is free with your Netflix subscription or I guess if
Speaker 3: you don't have it, you're gonna have to pay for
Speaker 3: the subscription. But it seems like this would be the
Speaker 3: fight where Netflix wants to try out like you have
Speaker 3: to pay like an extra add on and if they
Speaker 3: kind of wanted to test to drive that well.
Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm trying to find the list of
Speaker 1: the live events that Netflix has had, because they haven't
Speaker 1: had many of them. And the reason I'm bring the
Speaker 1: whole thing up is because I feel like they've got
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance. In fact, they're probably expecting to
Speaker 1: break whatever their record was for most watched event that
Speaker 1: was live, right, I mean maybe I'm because there's no
Speaker 1: way that the roast of Tom Brady would have done
Speaker 1: more live numbers than what this is going to do. Now,
Speaker 1: what I don't know is are they leaving this up
Speaker 1: for people to watch after the fact, because that would
Speaker 1: take a lot away, wouldn't it, to.
Speaker 3: Like go back and actually stream again. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 3: good question. I don't Can you still do? You could
Speaker 3: still do that with the Tom Brady want right?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's one of those things to where it's like
Speaker 1: it's you know, that's not a sporting event, to where
Speaker 1: you're not really going to be spoiled by the outcome,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You can hear that somebody
Speaker 1: said this, or maybe there's a little clip of it
Speaker 1: that somebody has shared on social media. But like, if
Speaker 1: you're not watching this live, good luck on not being
Speaker 1: able to figure out who won. And at that point
Speaker 1: you may still tune in, but it's not the same,
Speaker 1: Like the incentive is really gone to watch the event
Speaker 1: if you know what happens, well, you know before you
Speaker 1: end up watching. So you know, every time I pop
Speaker 1: open Twitter, Facebook, whatever it is, Instagram, like all I'm
Speaker 1: seeing is and I'm sure it's the algorithm and and
Speaker 1: you know a lot of targeting everybody on the planet
Speaker 1: to let them know that this event is happening so
Speaker 1: they should watch it. But also just people that I
Speaker 1: know are posting things like where's everybody watching? And you know,
Speaker 1: it's been a long time, it's been a boxing match
Speaker 1: like that the last time. Again, I could be way
Speaker 1: off here. This is not really my lane. So if
Speaker 1: I'm way off and I'm an idiot, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just another day here. But I feel like, for me,
Speaker 1: the last time I felt this type of anticipate and
Speaker 1: you know, interest in an event like this was when
Speaker 1: whenever we got Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. Like that
Speaker 1: was a big deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was huge because they did like a they
Speaker 3: did a whole tour where they were going through like
Speaker 3: stadiums and stuff and doing like the press conferences, and
Speaker 3: they got really personal too.
Speaker 1: And they did a great job of marketing that to
Speaker 1: where there. I mean, they were really doing the same
Speaker 1: kind of things that you see for all these events. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe they went a little bit more international as far
Speaker 1: as where they went to promote it and have those
Speaker 1: you know, press conferences that kind of stuff to promote.
Speaker 1: But you know, I thought initially when I heard that
Speaker 1: this was going to happen, that I would have no
Speaker 1: interest in it. But you know, hearing both of them,
Speaker 1: especially hearing Connor McGregor, I mean, he's pretty good when
Speaker 1: it comes to, you know, talking, Oh yeah, And I
Speaker 1: remember thinking like, man, I can't wait for this. I
Speaker 1: don't have to expect I don't even know who I
Speaker 1: want to win, but man, I can't wait. And this
Speaker 1: doesn't really have that same feel for me. But clearly
Speaker 1: it's a it's a big deal, and I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: get some kind of numbers at some point as far
Speaker 1: as how many people tune into watch live, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure it will be more than anybody that's gonna be
Speaker 1: watching these uh, these matchup. You know, I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in my own bubble here because I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, will you kidding me? We got Houston and
Speaker 1: Arizona tonight kicking off at ten o'clock. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: up late. I'm gonna be betting on that. Hopefully I'm riding,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully that's that's the last leg of a
Speaker 1: parlay that I need to hit.
Speaker 2: Talking about the real Wildcats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but for me, you know that like that, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I am the only, maybe the only person on
Speaker 1: planet Earth that's interested in that, unless, of course, you
Speaker 1: know you're a Houston or an Arizona fan. Both teams,
Speaker 1: by the way, aren't very good this year in football. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then the other matchup again Ucla and Washington, another
Speaker 1: matchup of teams that are kind of mid for you know,
Speaker 1: for further level. So on the basketball side, you know,
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about the the Purdue in
Speaker 1: the Alabama game, which is a huge early season game
Speaker 1: for college basketball. The lines moved already, it's now Alabama
Speaker 1: minus three and a half. And I really I really
Speaker 1: like that one. Uh, even I like it even at
Speaker 1: three and a half. I would take it. I would
Speaker 1: take it up to five and a half, just because
Speaker 1: I think Alabama uh is is clearly a better team
Speaker 1: with more talent, and as i'm I don't think the
Speaker 1: Purdue is going to be able to I mean, look there,
Speaker 1: their entire run there for the last few years was
Speaker 1: relying on a giant and really playing through him, and
Speaker 1: it worked. I don't fault them for that, but now,
Speaker 1: you know, you need other guys to kind of step
Speaker 1: up and kind of carry the load, and I think
Speaker 1: collectively they just don't have enough to where they can
Speaker 1: they can expect to beat a team as good as Alemama.
Speaker 1: Certainly they could win, and they are at home. But
Speaker 1: it looked and Matt Painter had success, He had wins
Speaker 1: before he had you know, he had the giant zach
Speaker 1: Edy to to to rely on. And maybe some of
Speaker 1: these guys on this roster emerge as you know, the
Speaker 1: guys that were really good for him prior to the
Speaker 1: zach Edy era. But I know what Bama has, and
Speaker 1: I just I'm surprised it's not a bigger number. And
Speaker 1: again it already is moving a little bit now. Another
Speaker 1: game that probably doesn't have much much interest from you guys,
Speaker 1: is is there's some some local connection here. So Chris
Speaker 1: macis team's off to a good start at Charleston. They
Speaker 1: are two and zero, and you know, the wins that
Speaker 1: they do have are, you know, nothing crazy. But they
Speaker 1: beat Southern Illinois by ten. They beat South Florida by fifteen,
Speaker 1: which that was a pretty pretty charged up atmosphere and
Speaker 1: game because South Florida had just lost their coach. Now
Speaker 1: maybe you could say, well, maybe they weren't playing well
Speaker 1: because of losing their coach who passed away, and that's
Speaker 1: a tragic thing. And look, I'm surprised they even played
Speaker 1: the game, to be honest with you. But South Florida's
Speaker 1: a decent team. That's a pretty good win for them
Speaker 1: to beat him by fifteen. Well, now they've got Fau,
Speaker 1: of course they're the FAU. No longer has Dusty May,
Speaker 1: they have now John Jackus, who I don't know who
Speaker 1: that is. But Florida Atlantic's coming off a loss to
Speaker 1: Central Florida and right now it is Charleston minus one,
Speaker 1: and I just happen to think that Charleston will will
Speaker 1: win this thing. Maybe not ugly, but you know, Charleston's
Speaker 1: got a big that I'll just say it like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how it played out, And yes, we talked
Speaker 1: about it earlier in the week. It's not like I'm
Speaker 1: not changing my tune. But there's a big guy for
Speaker 1: Charleston who was I think the player of the year
Speaker 1: in that league, the CAAA last year. And again, just
Speaker 1: for my curiosity, I would love to know did he
Speaker 1: want to stay at Charleston, Did Pat Kelsey not want
Speaker 1: him to come with him to Louisville? What led to
Speaker 1: him just staying there and not coming to Louisville. Because
Speaker 1: this is a six ' ten, two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five pound big who on the season and the numbers
Speaker 1: are a little bit skewed because they've only played two games,
Speaker 1: but my man is averaging thirty points, nine rebounds, and
Speaker 1: four assists in shooting sixty four percent from the floor.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's exactly the kind of big that Louisville
Speaker 1: does not have. And I just, you know, i'd love
Speaker 1: to know if he didn't want to come. Pat tried
Speaker 1: to get him to come, and he said no, maybe
Speaker 1: he was going to come, And then Mac got the
Speaker 1: job and Mack was able to convince him to stay
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure, but he's killing it. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was already the player of the league in their
Speaker 1: year in the player of the year in their league
Speaker 1: last year, and obviously off to a great start to
Speaker 1: repeat as that now now Florida Atlantic. The local connection.
Speaker 1: I wasn't just saying that because of Chris Mack now
Speaker 1: coaching at Charleston, but fau's leading scorer is Caleb Glenn,
Speaker 1: who's averaging fourteen points and shooting sixty percent from the floor.
Speaker 1: Caleb's also a guy that I think could have potentially
Speaker 1: helped this team, but you know, understandably so guys want
Speaker 1: a fresh start. And then another name that heck, I
Speaker 1: feel like this is a name that a lot of
Speaker 1: people would remember, but I could be way off because one,
Speaker 1: you know, it's been a long time and I can't
Speaker 1: believe this guy's still playing college basketball. But also, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you wouldn't understand the local connection. But Key Key
Speaker 1: Tandy is a former I mean he played here in
Speaker 1: the state of Kentucky. I believe it's from Hopkinsville, and
Speaker 1: I think, let's see here, I'm pretty sure he started
Speaker 1: his career at Xavier with Macroup. Might have been let's see. Gosh,
Speaker 1: it's been so long. Where the hell is time going? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he played his first season at Xavier was when
Speaker 1: Mac was already Mack was already at Louisville. But I
Speaker 1: know Mack recruited him clearly some familiarity there. But he
Speaker 1: ended up at Xavier for a while, and then last
Speaker 1: year he played at Jacksonville State, and then now he's
Speaker 1: at FAU. So every time I go to look at
Speaker 1: teams that I'm gonna bet on or bet against, you know,
Speaker 1: teams involved in me that I'm gonna wager on, I
Speaker 1: go to look at rosters and there are so many
Speaker 1: names that I one forgot about and didn't realize that
Speaker 1: they've transferred, or I'm thinking, how the hell's that guy
Speaker 1: still in school? But you know, these guys are able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that COVID year, And you know
Speaker 1: this will be the last year where you get just
Speaker 1: an extra year because your college experience was impacted by
Speaker 1: the global pandemic. So the next time you'll see guys
Speaker 1: utilizing extra years, it'll be because of red shirts. And
Speaker 1: they can't do it as easily in basketball as you
Speaker 1: can in football. It's pretty easy to do in football,
Speaker 1: you can play four games not like your role, or
Speaker 1: play four games have a big role on a team
Speaker 1: that you can tell stinks, and just decid, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: out of here. I'm gonna move on and not sacrifice
Speaker 1: this entire year. I'm quitting. I mean, louisll saw it
Speaker 1: with Colin Lacy. So yeah, some good basketball tonight, some
Speaker 1: good football as well, and also a big boxing match.
Speaker 1: We've got to get to a break. I want to
Speaker 1: come back on the other side, wrap up the four
Speaker 1: o'clock hour, and then we'll hit the home stretch five
Speaker 1: o'clock on a Friday. That's just about roughly fifteen minutes away.
Speaker 1: So stick around. It's coffee and company. Feel about Thorton's
Speaker 1: right here on Sports Talk seven to ninety. So apparently
Speaker 1: Kentucky is one of just six states where you cannot
Speaker 1: bet on this this fight tonight between Jake Paul and
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson. I don't know how I'm trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: like how there was some because again, there are sports
Speaker 1: books in a handful of states, and certain states you
Speaker 1: can in certain states you can. I don't really know
Speaker 1: what that comes down to. I wouldn't bet on it.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of people would, and I
Speaker 1: feel like, I don't know the majority of the people
Speaker 1: I'm seeing complaining about not being able to bet, or
Speaker 1: the people that I'm seeing that are betting. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all on Jake Paul or people wanting to bet
Speaker 1: on Jake Paul, either because they just think Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: is too old or because they you know, because they
Speaker 1: think it's it's all set up for him to basically
Speaker 1: pay Mike Tyson twenty million dollars so he can beat him. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll be clear, I don't know that that. It's not
Speaker 1: that I'm telling you that anybody that thinks this is
Speaker 1: real is wrong. I don't know. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: if we ever later found out that it was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a setup here and it was kind
Speaker 1: of stage, I don't think anybody would be that shocked.
Speaker 1: Now I'm looking at a slow motion video here from
Speaker 1: the slap because Mike Tyson in very small, small underwear
Speaker 1: at the way, and I mean very small underwear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I know, like that's you know, but
Speaker 1: like they were like you could wear the style of
Speaker 1: underwear that he was wearing that wouldn't have been that small,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like it was just, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe be a little uncomfortable briefs.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. So uh.
Speaker 1: Anyways, the slap, I mean, I'll be honest, that kind
Speaker 1: of seemed a little stage. However, somebody slowed it down
Speaker 1: and showed it from the rear view, like from behind Paul,
Speaker 1: and he played it off really well, like it didn't
Speaker 1: look as if Mike put a whole lot into it,
Speaker 1: but he got rocked. Yeah, I'm gonna see if I
Speaker 1: can find this video. I'll send it to you because it,
Speaker 1: I mean, it kind of makes me think that, you know,
Speaker 1: it gets me a little more excited because if in
Speaker 1: fact it is, like I'll be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: would love more than anything to see Mike Tye kill him.
Speaker 1: Of course, now not because like I hate the guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like, man, I want to tune
Speaker 1: in to see this, but like, this guy has really
Speaker 1: never been humbled. Although Austin did alert me that he
Speaker 1: has lost a boxing match before, and I got don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't have any recollection of that. Like, I feel
Speaker 1: like it would have been a huge deal where he
Speaker 1: finally got taken down by somebody. Yeah, and I feel
Speaker 1: like it would have it would have led to people
Speaker 1: no longer really being interested in this whole thing, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It was a decision and it was like sometime last year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they didn't really build that hype up all too much,
Speaker 3: but I know that him and Tommy Fury really kind
Speaker 3: of hated each other and there was there was a
Speaker 3: lot of back and forth, at least internet wise. I
Speaker 3: don't think that made the mainstream just because I mean,
Speaker 3: he was actually fighting a kind of like legit training
Speaker 3: boxer and it's not it's not getting the Anderson Silva,
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson, for whatever it's worth, Nate Robinson love.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it seem like they respect each other, like both sides.
Speaker 3: Tyson and Paul Yeah. Yeah, so, I mean, like I said,
Speaker 3: they've gone on each other's podcast, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: that Tyson has came out and not like in door,
Speaker 3: but like he said, he respects what he's doing and
Speaker 3: the stuff in the boxing industry. And that's why I
Speaker 3: think I was kind of shocked when I heard that
Speaker 3: they were gonna fight, And I think that's where a
Speaker 3: lot of people came up, like all right, guys, this
Speaker 3: might be a little bit staged.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Mike Tyson had a and if even
Speaker 1: look again, if this is some setup, Tyson has done
Speaker 1: some things that I think have actually made me at
Speaker 1: times question if it really is. So maybe it is
Speaker 1: all legit, or maybe he's just really good and knows
Speaker 1: how to promote it. But there's a clip that I'll
Speaker 1: send to you to play in the five o'clock hour
Speaker 1: of him talking about being a natural born killer. And
Speaker 1: like I didn't just believe him that he might kill
Speaker 1: Jake Paul. I believed him that. Like, no, he lives
Speaker 1: his life thinking that he was naturally born to kill people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Mike Tyson is a scary dude. He's a
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