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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in as we get another week started.
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Speaker 2: mister John all on the alongside. And I can tell
Speaker 2: you that getting the week started is a lot better
Speaker 2: when you're coming off a weekend like Louisville just had.
Speaker 2: I mean Saturday night that was that was awesome, And
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean there's a lot more to unpack when
Speaker 2: it comes to what happened on Saturday night at Clemson
Speaker 2: as Louisville knocked them off for the first time. Put
Speaker 2: together not a perfect game. I don't even know if
Speaker 2: I can say they played like, you know, a complete game,
Speaker 2: but you know, easily one of the better performances of
Speaker 2: the season. I mean, in fact, it was. I mean,
Speaker 2: you beat Clemson, you won at their place. They were
Speaker 2: what ranked eleventh in the country at that time. I
Speaker 2: mean I felt good going in, but I hesitated, right,
Speaker 2: I was not scared, but I just I didn't want
Speaker 2: to lie to you and say, yes, I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna win. But I had I had a good feeling
Speaker 2: throughout because I really was impressed with what we saw
Speaker 2: at the end of the Boston College game. But what
Speaker 2: I didn't know, am I just it is this desperation mode,
Speaker 2: right just trying to find some type of a positive
Speaker 2: to you know, give me something to believe in as
Speaker 2: we on a team that we've never beat before. That's
Speaker 2: how you know I'm feeling good as a Louisville fan
Speaker 2: because I'm saying we we're two minutes in and I've
Speaker 2: said we like five times refer I mean, that's how
Speaker 2: strong I feel right now. That's where the vibes are.
Speaker 2: It just happens. So I didn't know, like, am I
Speaker 2: desperate or is there really something there? And I really
Speaker 2: don't know here we are, you know, after the Clemson
Speaker 2: went and I can't claim that, you know, they were
Speaker 2: able to go do what they did on the road
Speaker 2: in Death Valley, giving Clemson their first loss at home
Speaker 2: on a Saturday night in eleven years. But you know,
Speaker 2: maybe I was onto something because the defense, I mean,
Speaker 2: the defense finished really strong against Boston College, and then
Speaker 2: they went out there against Clemson, a much better team
Speaker 2: than Boston College, a team that really had been good
Speaker 2: offensively all year, and then the defense, Louis's defense just
Speaker 2: I mean, they picked up where they left off against
Speaker 2: Boston College. As far as just looking as if they
Speaker 2: they had an identity right, they were bouncing around out there.
Speaker 2: They were pretty confident in you know, it didn't look
Speaker 2: as if they were an organized that they they didn't
Speaker 2: know what they were doing or anything like that. There
Speaker 2: didn't seem to be a whole lot of confusion. And
Speaker 2: really the only worry in the second half was just
Speaker 2: did you give yourself a big enough lead, Like if
Speaker 2: in fact, they make a big run and the momentum
Speaker 2: is on their end in a major way, and the
Speaker 2: fans that you know didn't leave in the third quarter,
Speaker 2: do end up, you know, getting loud, and I just
Speaker 2: worried that eventually they were going to find their run
Speaker 2: and maybe Louisville didn't give themselves enough distance there, maybe
Speaker 2: they maybe they needed to score more touchdowns to feel safe.
Speaker 2: But we didn't ever really have to worry about that.
Speaker 2: And I think that I can only speak for myself,
Speaker 2: but the worry on my end wasn't because like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're going to choke this away. Here we go, We're
Speaker 2: going to find a way to screw this up. But
Speaker 2: I'm sure some people view it that way. But and look,
Speaker 2: I'm a pessimist in general. I mean that's that's my
Speaker 2: nature more so than an optimist. So you know, I
Speaker 2: never felt like it was in great hands until the
Speaker 2: very end of the game. But I think as a
Speaker 2: fan base, I mean, you you watched Louisville this year
Speaker 2: lose games that you know they could have won, and
Speaker 2: that's such a lame thing to say, right, like, well,
Speaker 2: we we could be three plays, four plays away from
Speaker 2: being undefeated, being a top ten team, like those were
Speaker 2: things that were said going into last week. And here's
Speaker 2: what was just really tough for me to balance. I
Speaker 2: believed it, like it was true but like Clayton a
Speaker 2: clamoring to that as if like that's the bright spot,
Speaker 2: Like you're still you're still trying to prop up losses
Speaker 2: and those aren't good because you never want to lose.
Speaker 2: So what a night it was in Clemson, South Carolina.
Speaker 2: You had their fans throwing trash on the field. I mean,
Speaker 2: you had your quarterback who went from being really afraid
Speaker 2: to run to all right, I'm gonna do a summersault
Speaker 2: in the end zone here and get us a score.
Speaker 2: Isaac Brown is not only one of, if not the
Speaker 2: best freshman running backs in the country, he may be
Speaker 2: one of the best running backs in the country overall.
Speaker 2: Like that sounds crazy, but there's some numbers I'm gonna
Speaker 2: share with you a little later on that I think
Speaker 2: really will put it in perspective how good this guy's been.
Speaker 2: And if you've been watching all year, like most Louisville
Speaker 2: fans have, then you know. But if you look at
Speaker 2: what he's doing as far as the amount of yards
Speaker 2: he's getting per carry, the amount of yards he's getting
Speaker 2: per game based off of how many times he actually
Speaker 2: carries the ball, I mean, he's still splitting not fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty by any means, but like, this guy has
Speaker 2: made the most of every you know, every opportunity he's gotten,
Speaker 2: So that is what we all wanted. Again, it doesn't
Speaker 2: erase the losses to Notre Dame, Miami and SMU, losses
Speaker 2: that we all kind of feel like, Man, get tightened
Speaker 2: things up a little bit in this game and a
Speaker 2: little bit more in that game, and maybe just slightly
Speaker 2: against Notre Dame, you could easily won. And again, I
Speaker 2: can only speak for me, but it's been a frustrating
Speaker 2: season because I think even when when you watch your
Speaker 2: team make mistakes that you feel like are avoidable and
Speaker 2: they come up short and they lose to teams that
Speaker 2: you know, you know they can beat, at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, you know they're still losing. But I
Speaker 2: think a lot of fans were sort of like me
Speaker 2: and realizing, you know, I'm watching this and again they're
Speaker 2: not getting the results that would really confirm what we believe,
Speaker 2: which is that they're a good team. So like, until
Speaker 2: they get you a result that confirms what you believe,
Speaker 2: it's hard to really know if, at least for me,
Speaker 2: it's hard for me to know. Okay, are my thoughts
Speaker 2: on this Louisville team. Are they based off of wishful thinking?
Speaker 2: Me just in denial that, like, I just can't accept
Speaker 2: the fact that this team has come up short in
Speaker 2: so many games that you know they should have won.
Speaker 2: But you know that result was their Saturday and they
Speaker 2: got it done. And who knows if this is actually
Speaker 2: what plays out. I mean, I'm not here at three
Speaker 2: h six on November the fourth gonna predict it and
Speaker 2: say it's happening. But like, we know this team can
Speaker 2: win out. If you can go beat Clemson at Clemson,
Speaker 2: you certainly know you can go beat Stanford, who's really
Speaker 2: really bad right now, you got pitted home for your
Speaker 2: last home game Senior Day. Pitt's a good team, but man,
Speaker 2: they looked beatable against SMU. I actually happen to think
Speaker 2: that that says more about SMU in the way that
Speaker 2: they have came into this league and just I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't want to say dominated, but they haven't lost
Speaker 2: anybody in the league yet, right. I Mean, their schedule
Speaker 2: clearly was beneficial for them in their first year in
Speaker 2: the league. But they look pretty good right now. So again,
Speaker 2: PITT is a team that I still think is good,
Speaker 2: and they've made a big turnaround from last year's disaster,
Speaker 2: So again Louisville could revert back. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: hope they don't. But for those that were really bummed
Speaker 2: about missing out on the playoff, missing out on the
Speaker 2: ACC championship game, I mean, those are all things that
Speaker 2: came and went relatively early in the season, which was
Speaker 2: a real gut punch, and it made it even more
Speaker 2: frustrating to know that, Man, if they would have just
Speaker 2: cleaned up some things here and there, you could be
Speaker 2: sitting in our early November as a top ten team
Speaker 2: and again like that's still missed opportunities that it's a bummer,
Speaker 2: there's no way around it. But I think this win
Speaker 2: against Clemson has proven that if you if you take
Speaker 2: I mean taking care of business would make it sound
Speaker 2: as if like it's not going to be a challenge,
Speaker 2: but if you can go do what you did against
Speaker 2: Clemson at their place and really dominate that game more
Speaker 2: so than the score indicative, that gets set a lot.
Speaker 2: But I really believe it this time around, Like Louisville,
Speaker 2: I mean, they were they were dominating that game and
Speaker 2: they should have. Again, there's not a lot of value here,
Speaker 2: but they should have beat Notre Dame, SMU and Miami.
Speaker 2: I mean that was probably more of just Miami being,
Speaker 2: you know, the better team, and maybe we say the
Speaker 2: same about SMU, But I know the defense that I
Speaker 2: watched in the beginning of the SMU game was not
Speaker 2: the defense I saw in the second half against Boston
Speaker 2: College and the defense that made the trip to Clemson
Speaker 2: South Carolina. So look, if you went out, there's really
Speaker 2: not a whole lot therefore you as far as like value, right,
Speaker 2: like pitt Is would be a solid win, but Stanford
Speaker 2: wouldn't be a win really worth talking about. And then
Speaker 2: of course Kentucky that'd be huge when it comes to
Speaker 2: the rivalry and getting bragging rights back on the Louisville side,
Speaker 2: but it's not something that like the result is going
Speaker 2: to be substantial. So and the reason I'm bringing this
Speaker 2: up is because what we talked about a lot in
Speaker 2: the offseason as far as big goals, right, let's try
Speaker 2: to make the playoff. They expanded it to twelve teams.
Speaker 2: You know, let's get to the ACC championship game. We
Speaker 2: got there last year, and we think we have a
Speaker 2: better team this year. Like those things were gone pretty
Speaker 2: quickly because of the losses, and that sucks. However, if
Speaker 2: you went out, what you can do is say you
Speaker 2: had back to back ten win seasons, and that has
Speaker 2: never happened around here? Has it back to back ten
Speaker 2: win seasons? I'm pretty sure that's never happened. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, big picture, you want playoff appearances, right, and
Speaker 2: you want to be competing for the ACC championship. But
Speaker 2: if they can win out and that includes beating Clemson
Speaker 2: for the first time, ending the Street Giggins, Kentucky, and
Speaker 2: then whoever you get in the bowl game, look, if
Speaker 2: you went out, you're gonna be nine and three, and
Speaker 2: you you know, I have no clue what the bowl
Speaker 2: situation is gonna look like this year because I actually
Speaker 2: think that by expanding the playoff, the issues we've had
Speaker 2: with like the bowl games just having so many opt outs,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get that even at a at a higher
Speaker 2: level than you ever have because again, when twelve teams
Speaker 2: get in and you're on the outside, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: opt outs all over the place. So you know, the
Speaker 2: bowl game is more of a question mark because we
Speaker 2: don't know who's going to play, Who's it's just tough
Speaker 2: to know but if in fact you do win out
Speaker 2: and go ten and three, and again, those two big
Speaker 2: things have value more so than most people realize. Beating
Speaker 2: Clemson for the first time. I don't care if Clemson
Speaker 2: would have been unranked. It's still nice to get to
Speaker 2: get that out of the way, right, because the longer
Speaker 2: you went in the ACC without beating the more the
Speaker 2: more it became a thing where like, wow, Louis never
Speaker 2: be Clemson, So it was huge get that win. And
Speaker 2: then again, it'll be huge to knock off Kentucky, regardless
Speaker 2: if they're any good or not at that time, so
Speaker 2: I'll be able to say, yeah, the big picture things
Speaker 2: that people really set out for you fell short. But
Speaker 2: ten and three, I don't know how anybody could say
Speaker 2: that wasn't a good season. In fact, it'd be a
Speaker 2: really good season, and it would once again remind you
Speaker 2: that you're lucky to have a head coach like Jeff
Speaker 2: Brohm and that the future is bright. So good stuff. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm still not in disbelief because I believed in this team,
Speaker 2: but man, we you know I needed that as a
Speaker 2: fan myself, because I've always liked I thought this team
Speaker 2: was good even though they were losing to good teams.
Speaker 2: It just was an unusual feeling for me and for
Speaker 2: them to go down there and be Clemson. It doesn't
Speaker 2: remove the losses you had earlier this year, but to
Speaker 2: know that the three teams that beat you, all of
Speaker 2: them are ranked in the top thirteen right now, and
Speaker 2: you lost to them all by one score, You're now
Speaker 2: back in the top twenty five. I mean, the middle
Speaker 2: of the season kind of rocky, right, some unfortunate results
Speaker 2: that were disappointing, no doubt, but they've got a chance
Speaker 2: to really finish strong here. And I think that's all
Speaker 2: you can ask at this point. We'll continue to, you know,
Speaker 2: react to what happened Saturday, and you know I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hell. I'll talk about the Clemson win for
Speaker 2: the rest of the the rest of the calendar year,
Speaker 2: if you guys want to, because that's how awesome it
Speaker 2: was to see Louisville go in there and beat them up.
Speaker 2: Have their fans behave the way they behaved. Still crying
Speaker 2: about calls this and that, Dabbos Sweeney not knowing how
Speaker 2: to do basic math, I mean, his decision to kick
Speaker 2: the extra point and not go for too late in
Speaker 2: the game. I mean, it was insane how the announcers
Speaker 2: were just like in disbelief themselves, just making fun of
Speaker 2: them for not knowing, Hey, what are you doing blocking
Speaker 2: two of their kicks too? Like, it was just it
Speaker 2: was awesome. It really was. What else is I can
Speaker 2: tell you what else is awesome. That is the fact
Speaker 2: that we've got college basketball going on right now. We've
Speaker 2: already had I think one game between like two I
Speaker 2: think the actual first game was against an NAI school
Speaker 2: took on I U p U I who is now
Speaker 2: being called IU Indie. I think that is correct, So
Speaker 2: that didn't really count because again, like that's and I
Speaker 2: hate that they do that, Like why is it that
Speaker 2: schools that are such like lower level, like bottom of
Speaker 2: the barrel d one like in the three hundreds, Why
Speaker 2: do they play NAI Division two JUCO seventh Region here
Speaker 2: like that, they can play those teams and they count
Speaker 2: as real games? Why? Like why is that not an exhibition?
Speaker 2: If if the NCAA selection committee cannot count it towards
Speaker 2: anything that you did, then it doesn't count. I mean,
Speaker 2: but anyways, I'm just nitpicking. But the first game was
Speaker 2: actually at noon, just wrapped up, not that long ago,
Speaker 2: Chris mack Is first game at Charleston knocked off Southern Illinois.
Speaker 2: We've got I think some games getting started, like right now,
Speaker 2: and then there'll be games of course all night. It
Speaker 2: feels like everybody is starting their season. Tonight is Indiana
Speaker 2: play to night.
Speaker 1: They play Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they're a little bit later than most. But
Speaker 2: I feel like if you pop open your sportsbook at
Speaker 2: whichever one you use, I mean you go to that
Speaker 2: college basketball. I mean it's heaven for me because I
Speaker 2: love this time of year and I love random college
Speaker 2: basketball games. But tonight is the first game for both
Speaker 2: programs around here. I mean Kentucky's taken on Ohio. Louisville
Speaker 2: of course has morehead state seven o'clock tip for both,
Speaker 2: and as you know, we are of course going to
Speaker 2: be doing our first I guess real like our postgame
Speaker 2: shows last two weeks, John, they were real, right like,
Speaker 2: we really did them. We reacted to what happened. But
Speaker 2: now we're going to be reacting to a real game.
Speaker 2: That's true, it's here. It's the Louisville basketball postgame show again.
Speaker 2: As soon as it ends, tonight will go live, and
Speaker 2: I would hope that we're reacting to a big win
Speaker 2: for the Cards. I mean, I will go ahead and
Speaker 2: say it. They're now favored by twenty one and a half.
Speaker 2: And I wouldn't touch this thing just because, I mean,
Speaker 2: and it's not because I'm worried that Morehead State's gonna
Speaker 2: come in here and beat you. I mean, if they do,
Speaker 2: then man, we got big problems. But I just, you know,
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it earlier, like if I was
Speaker 2: going to play this game, which I'm not what. I
Speaker 2: just lean on Louisville having a much better team with
Speaker 2: a lot better players, and know that Pat Kelsey at least,
Speaker 2: you know, we hope he's gonna have these guys ready
Speaker 2: to play to where you're not gonna see him going
Speaker 2: through going through the you know, the motions. Because it's
Speaker 2: Morehead State, I don't think you have to worry about
Speaker 2: all that. But it's still I mean, again, they've practiced
Speaker 2: for a while now, they got the extra exhibition games
Speaker 2: in the Bahamas, they had their two exhibition games that
Speaker 2: you know that have played out over the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. But it's still gonna be a work in progress.
Speaker 2: I think to kind of, you know, get everybody in
Speaker 2: sync because what they're going to be doing starting tonight
Speaker 2: is the first time they've ever done it, and that
Speaker 2: is playing against a different team in a real game.
Speaker 2: And yes, I know exhibitions. I mean unless somebody tells you,
Speaker 2: you don't know, they're not real games, right, unless you
Speaker 2: just kind of know, like scheduling whatnot. Well, this is this,
Speaker 2: This is different like Morehead State. And I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: my best to not be that guy that that worries
Speaker 2: fans about a loss here and acts like I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to do something for you know, just to troll
Speaker 2: or just to you know, shock value. That's not what
Speaker 2: I'm going for here. So when I say this, it
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that I don't expect Louisville to win, and
Speaker 2: I mean I think they win by double digits. But
Speaker 2: let's just you know, regardless of how good Louisville ends
Speaker 2: up being this year, here's here's something that is that
Speaker 2: we all need to just accept. Morehead State is going
Speaker 2: to be substantially better than the two exhibition teams you
Speaker 2: played and who you played in the Bahamas. So with that,
Speaker 2: it's a little more of an unknown as far as
Speaker 2: what we can expect from from this group tonight. I
Speaker 2: expect that they're going to play hard. I expect that
Speaker 2: they're going to play a lot of guys. They're going
Speaker 2: to show the type of depth they have, the balance
Speaker 2: that they have, and I expect them to win. But
Speaker 2: I think it opened up at sixteen and a half maybe,
Speaker 2: and now it's Louisville minus twenty one and a half,
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe maybe you're hammering it because you're confident.
Speaker 2: But for me, I just you know, I can see
Speaker 2: this thing again. If they do cover, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to be totally stunned. But like, if they win this
Speaker 2: game by fourteen fifteen something like that in that range,
Speaker 2: that won't shock me at all, and I'm curious to
Speaker 2: see if that's the result. It'll, you know, how it
Speaker 2: looks will clearly be a big, a big talking point,
Speaker 2: and we'll react to it tonight because you know, that's
Speaker 2: that's that's what we do. I kind of have some nerves,
Speaker 2: but it's not because I think they're gonna lose. It's just,
Speaker 2: you know, I guess more than anything, it's like when
Speaker 2: you go through what Louisville went through the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. I don't know if I'll ever not have
Speaker 2: a little bit more awareness that like an upset could happen,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, John, Like, yeah.
Speaker 1: It could be a little bit. I'm sure it's difficult
Speaker 1: to shake that that monkey off your back even though
Speaker 1: it is gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again like it feels like it's still we
Speaker 2: all know this is a new world. You have a
Speaker 2: you have a good coach, and you have a team
Speaker 2: that already, even an exhibition play even in the Bahamas,
Speaker 2: you can see they are a team. They have an identity,
Speaker 2: They are a reflection of their coach, which is which
Speaker 2: is a good thing. So like it's not like I'm worried,
Speaker 2: oh did we get another Kenny Payne. No, but seeing
Speaker 2: Louisville night in and night out for the last two years,
Speaker 2: lose to some of these types of teams and really
Speaker 2: have to compete their ass off just to be able
Speaker 2: to sometimes survive and win, Like I guess, you know,
Speaker 2: never saying ever, do I.
Speaker 1: See there's three hundred teams in action today? Is that
Speaker 1: that's real? Right? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly looks like it that is, Well, I don't
Speaker 2: know three hundred teams in action, well, because I'm still.
Speaker 1: There's three to four hundred total Division One teams or no,
Speaker 1: that's not even true.
Speaker 2: I'm still scrolling. Yeah, there's three three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: something Division one teams. Okay, so yeah, I guess Indiana
Speaker 2: would be one of the rare teams that's not playing.
Speaker 1: There are four Big Ten teams also, excuse me, three
Speaker 1: Big Ten teams playing on Wednesday. I'm sure there's a
Speaker 1: handful of others as well, but yeah, as far as
Speaker 1: the Big Ten goes, Indiana, Rutgers, and Minnesota all waiting
Speaker 1: to play their opener on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a nice distraction because tomorrow's election Day.
Speaker 2: And like, as somebody who can just get lost in
Speaker 2: college basketball heaven like today where so many games are
Speaker 2: going on and most of the most of the matchups
Speaker 2: aren't great, but there are some decent ones. I mean,
Speaker 2: Baylor and Gonzaga play tonight, Ohio State in Texas play tonight.
Speaker 2: A and M in Central Florida is a decently sneaky
Speaker 2: good game. Missouri and Memphis those are two Top fifty
Speaker 2: caliber teams. And then there's some other games that, like,
Speaker 2: I'm interested in, but I would totally understand if others aren't.
Speaker 2: Like Wichita State is playing at Western Kentucky tonight. I
Speaker 2: think that's actually got a chance to be a pretty
Speaker 2: good game. So college basketball season like is officially here,
Speaker 2: and it's awesome. And again the pack Kelsey era gets
Speaker 2: started tonight at seven o'clock. Will react to it as
Speaker 2: soon as it ends right here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 2: ninety also Mark Pope taken on Ohio they play at
Speaker 2: seven as well. I don't know a whole lot about Ohio,
Speaker 2: but I would expect is it Ohio? I know, I'm
Speaker 2: so it's Right State? Right?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: What do I keep saying Onio?
Speaker 1: It's not Ohio? I'm pretty sure it's right yees State.
Speaker 2: I'm an idiot. So they play right State?
Speaker 1: Who, by the way, correct?
Speaker 2: I believe? Yeah. So anyway, either way Ohio or Right State,
Speaker 2: I'd say the result is probably going.
Speaker 1: To be their favored by nineteen would be the same.
Speaker 2: So it's here. It's here the new eras officially start,
Speaker 2: and uh, I know Louisville fans and Kentucky fans both
Speaker 2: are excited about about that. All right, something else we
Speaker 2: will get into here because it's already come up on
Speaker 2: the text line, and I'm not gonna lie and act
Speaker 2: like I haven't thought about it myself in the last
Speaker 2: couple of days, Like I've not been worried a whole
Speaker 2: lot about the Governor's Cup matchup, but really thinking about
Speaker 2: it a ton since Saturday night, because I mean, beating
Speaker 2: Clemson was was awesome. It was needed in a major way,
Speaker 2: not only because you'd never done it before. But I
Speaker 2: think we now can look at the rest of this
Speaker 2: season and have realistic expectations that are, hey, why can't
Speaker 2: you go win out now? One of those teams that
Speaker 2: you would have to beat to do that is Kentucky
Speaker 2: and like they're they're done right, Like they're gonna beat
Speaker 2: Murray State and then they'll beat Texas or sorry, they'll
Speaker 2: lose to Texas and then you know they'll they'll play Louisville,
Speaker 2: and I would imagine Louisville will be favored, but again,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Like what I've been saying in recent
Speaker 2: weeks is well, we'll get there when we get there,
Speaker 2: because I didn't even want to think about the scenario
Speaker 2: playing out. That would be a nightmare scenario. But I
Speaker 2: think that's where we are right Like they lost to Tennessee,
Speaker 2: you know, they were more competitive I think than most expected.
Speaker 2: But you know, they still lost. They're gonna be one
Speaker 2: in seven in SEC play, They're gonna have four wins
Speaker 2: when they play Louisville and their season will essentially be
Speaker 2: over in that. You know, that would be un Louisville
Speaker 2: to then go ahead and end it for him. Now,
Speaker 2: regardless if they beat Losville or not, they're not going
Speaker 2: to a bowl game. But the scenario that I've been
Speaker 2: worried about is man like they're gonna they're gonna have
Speaker 2: house money, Like they're gonna literally come alive that week
Speaker 2: knowing they have nothing to play for other than beating
Speaker 2: Louisville again, beating their rival, and they know they've been
Speaker 2: pretty successful at doing that. So and look, if that's
Speaker 2: the case, then it's still on Louisville to go out
Speaker 2: there and and in the street beat them. You you
Speaker 2: should feel right now like you are clearly a better
Speaker 2: team than them. I mean, you're gonna win. We als,
Speaker 2: saw how it played out last year, but like that
Speaker 2: would be the I mean again, like if they somew
Speaker 2: if Louisville wins these next two games, which I think
Speaker 2: they should, Kentucky goes one and one with a loss,
Speaker 2: to Texas and a win against Murray and then Louisville
Speaker 2: somehow still doesn't win. Like that would be one of
Speaker 2: the most demoralizing things I can ever think of as
Speaker 2: a Louisville football fan. And I know that makes people
Speaker 2: uncomfortable when I say that, because they're like, wouldn't be
Speaker 2: the no, Like I'm I never shy away from how
Speaker 2: important the rivalry is, and I wish more people would
Speaker 2: be like honest with themselves and admit that, yeah, those
Speaker 2: wins mean a lot more when it comes to value,
Speaker 2: and they hurt a lot more. Even if you know,
Speaker 2: like Kentucky was great this year and Louisville lost to him,
Speaker 2: he would be a little bit more understandable, but it
Speaker 2: still would be a pain that you don't want to
Speaker 2: experience because you never want to lose to your rival.
Speaker 2: So I listened to the beginning of KSR today and
Speaker 2: I assume they would just be talking about basketball, but
Speaker 2: of course they you know, they did kind of recap
Speaker 2: the Tennessee game and whatnot, and to hear that at
Speaker 2: least two of the guys I think it might have
Speaker 2: been Drew and Matt, but Ryan was more so on
Speaker 2: the side of like I want Stoops to get recommitted.
Speaker 2: And I'm paraphrasing. I don't know what he said, but
Speaker 2: like they're you know, Kentucky fans, I feel like would
Speaker 2: be totally fine if they find out at the end
Speaker 2: of the season that they're gonna go in a different direction.
Speaker 2: It's not because they hate Stoops and they think that
Speaker 2: he's given them a fireable offense, but like he seems
Speaker 2: checked out. The signs are there, but you know, you
Speaker 2: have no ability to go to a bowl game. Like
Speaker 2: what if Stoops like says, hey, I'm gonna call it
Speaker 2: a career, I'm gonna walk away, but we got one
Speaker 2: more thing to do, like and they come out fired
Speaker 2: up fresh new season, Like, that's a nightmare that I
Speaker 2: don't want to experience. But again, we'll get there when
Speaker 2: we get there. But the scenario that looked likely looks
Speaker 2: a little more likely now because again Louisville did pull
Speaker 2: off a big win. They now know they can win
Speaker 2: every game left on this schedule. But the one that
Speaker 2: I'm you know, uneasy about is Kentucky. Because here's what's crazy.
Speaker 2: I still look at Kentucky's personnel. They have been banged
Speaker 2: up lately, but I look at their personnel and you know,
Speaker 2: their quarterback play has been you know, subpar and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But like some of these teams that we believe and
Speaker 2: actually know are really good, Kentucky's been competitive against them
Speaker 2: in stretches like they shouldn't be this bad. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, It's a game day edition of Coffee and Company,
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Speaker 2: This time of the year, Mondays are not the best
Speaker 2: day of the week for me or for us, because
Speaker 2: you know that's I mean, it just wouldn't make sense
Speaker 2: to say that Monday's the best day of the week.
Speaker 2: But man, when it comes to just having an endless
Speaker 2: amount of things to react to and discuss Mondays around
Speaker 2: here this time of year, I mean, a lot going on,
Speaker 2: and that makes that makes it fun, That makes it awesome.
Speaker 2: It makes it even more awesome whenever I can start
Speaker 2: the week coming off of a good gambling weekend. I
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on, John, but I'm hot. Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm happy for it. I'm hot, not hot, but props
Speaker 2: to you for being hot. I feel dirty because I'm
Speaker 2: winning parlays with Indiana included. And I don't know why,
Speaker 2: but I feel like, you know, you need to be
Speaker 2: cut in in some way these.
Speaker 1: Times where I was betting on Indiana to cover and
Speaker 1: it helped me out a few different times. But there's
Speaker 1: been too many scenarios that for me going into the
Speaker 1: weekend were so suspect where I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't want to bet on the Hoosiers just in
Speaker 1: case they let me down this weekend. But I wish
Speaker 1: I was in on that action.
Speaker 2: Because it'd be a double you know, it'd be a
Speaker 2: double double negative there, right, Like, not only did you
Speaker 2: there's nothing worse than betting, and if it's a parlay,
Speaker 2: your your your leg that included your team because you're
Speaker 2: like it got you because then you're like, well, come on,
Speaker 2: let's not let emotions get in the way. But I'm not.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no emotion for me. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: happy to see Indiana doing well, but I mean I
Speaker 2: thought them minus seven and a half at Michigan State
Speaker 2: was the easiest play of the week and it ended
Speaker 2: up being exactly that, so, I mean even earlier today.
Speaker 2: I ended up taking Charleston minus three and a half
Speaker 2: and I parlayed that with the over of one forty
Speaker 2: seven and a half and got that one done. I
Speaker 2: did get greedy last night and bet on my Colt's
Speaker 2: money line, which was just a terrible thing. But it's okay.
Speaker 2: I was already doing well enough over the weekend where
Speaker 2: I fell. Okay, it'll be fun to it because I
Speaker 2: wanted to cheer for them. They make me sad, but
Speaker 2: that's my team. If I was gonna quit them, I
Speaker 2: would have. I would have. I would have done it.
Speaker 2: I think I kind of tried to do it after
Speaker 2: they lost to the Jaguars and all they needed to
Speaker 2: do was beat the Jaguars, who I believe might have
Speaker 2: been winless or had one win at the time winless,
Speaker 2: and they, you know, like that's that was like all right,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna leave, do it now. And I tried,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't do it. When you have emotionally been
Speaker 2: when you've emotionally invested into a team for as long
Speaker 2: as you know, for for a long time, I feel
Speaker 2: like you can't not be a fan. You can tell yourself, like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm going to distance myself not get into it as much.
Speaker 2: But like, I don't know if you can just no
Speaker 2: longer be a fan of some somebody or something that
Speaker 2: you a team, a school, rather be an NFL team,
Speaker 2: NBA team, whatever. Like if you've invested and you've been
Speaker 2: a rider die for a long time, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you can get out. You can try, but I
Speaker 2: feel like it'd be really, really difficult to do. So
Speaker 2: I bet on the Colts, but you know, I didn't
Speaker 2: expect him to win. I was just throwing away money
Speaker 2: because on earlier in the day I ended up hitting
Speaker 2: a four legger in the NFL. I had the over
Speaker 2: in the Broncos Ravens game that was that was easy.
Speaker 2: Had the over in the Dolphins Bills game. That one
Speaker 2: was a little bit more of a sweat, but it
Speaker 2: worked out. And then I just took money line Commanders
Speaker 2: money line Falcons that was plus seven forty twenty dollars.
Speaker 2: Wager paid me one sixty eight. And then the day
Speaker 2: before I had Indiana minus seven and a half. I
Speaker 2: did the over in Arizona, Central Florida fifty five and
Speaker 2: a half. And then I took Carolina minus two and
Speaker 2: a half against Florida State just because I couldn't believe
Speaker 2: that number. All it took was like one score, and
Speaker 2: you know from Carolina and Florida State rollover. So I
Speaker 2: should probably just retire right now from betting.
Speaker 1: What a weekend.
Speaker 2: But you know, yeah, I mean I've I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm like, something can't be right.
Speaker 1: It's the balance though, because again I was having a
Speaker 1: couple of good weekends in a row not too long ago,
Speaker 1: and you were down, and then now the power is
Speaker 1: shifted back over to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to sync up in some way. We've
Speaker 2: got to figure out and maybe maybe college basketball starting now.
Speaker 2: That's that's where we aligned together and we just we
Speaker 2: tear it up this year. I'm hoping. I'm hoping that's
Speaker 2: the case. But we shall see. All right. It's coffee
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Speaker 2: but people love the donuts. Well, now people are talking
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Speaker 2: All right, Tonight, Louisville moorehead State seven o'clock kick or tip,
Speaker 2: I should say just a tip seven o'clock. We'll do
Speaker 2: the postgame show as soon as it ends, live right here,
Speaker 2: reacting to whatever it is that happens, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: a little more basketball when we get to the four
Speaker 2: o'clock hour. But I do want ourmind, folks, if you
Speaker 2: are just now joining us, we're getting it rolling again.
Speaker 2: We had two exhibition postgame shows. I mean again, they
Speaker 2: were real postgame shows. We reacted to what we saw,
Speaker 2: but and I'm glad we did it because it was
Speaker 2: nice to go live as soon as those things were
Speaker 2: ending and you could tell that man, there's some excitement
Speaker 2: here of this new era. But we all know that
Speaker 2: it didn't mean it didn't count. Those weren't real games. Tonight,
Speaker 2: it's real, and they're going to be challenged in a
Speaker 2: way that they haven't been challenged ever. And what I
Speaker 2: mean by that is when I say they're going to
Speaker 2: be challenged, I don't mean that they might. I mean
Speaker 2: they could still win this thing about thirty points. I'm
Speaker 2: not predicting that, but I'm just saying, like I'm just
Speaker 2: letting you know, Morehead State is way better than anybody
Speaker 2: they've played up to this point, in the exhibitions that
Speaker 2: they played at the um Center or the ones they
Speaker 2: played in the Bahamas, and that is exciting to me
Speaker 2: because I'm going to see them again. If you have
Speaker 2: to win at the Buzzer against Morehead State, probably not
Speaker 2: a good sign, but like just to know that, you
Speaker 2: know you are playing a real team in a real game,
Speaker 2: that alone is exciting times. All right, So back to
Speaker 2: what happened on Saturday against Clemson. I mean, one person
Speaker 2: has called me out on the text line, and I
Speaker 2: don't I'm not single on this person out, but like
Speaker 2: just just rolling through here, what's come in? One person
Speaker 2: has questioned me saying like that, we you know, we dominated,
Speaker 2: we kicked their ass, and I mean maybe there's some
Speaker 2: numbers that like you could reference that would make me
Speaker 2: reconsider that. But I mean I watched the game, and
Speaker 2: I say this to somebody that really never felt like
Speaker 2: it was it was safe. I mean I did towards
Speaker 2: the end, but I mean the way the Louisville defas
Speaker 2: consistently got off the field, made big stops, special teams
Speaker 2: coming up huge. Obviously Brock missing that first field goal
Speaker 2: that was I mean, it's one of those things where
Speaker 2: you're thinking, Okay, here we go again. You know, miskicks happened,
Speaker 2: but you just feel like when you're playing at a
Speaker 2: place like Death Valley, where Clemson hasn't lost a home
Speaker 2: Saturday night game in eleven years, you just I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, Okay, good chance that's going to come back
Speaker 2: as like a missed opportunity. You had a chance to
Speaker 2: get momentum, put some points on the board early, and
Speaker 2: you couldn't get it done. Well, it didn't matter. I
Speaker 2: mean that is where this team Saturday looked to me
Speaker 2: similar to last year's team as far as just execution,
Speaker 2: because it you know, these guys they're human, they know
Speaker 2: of it. Man, we had two opportunities. We got off
Speaker 2: the field twice on defense and really set the tone defensively,
Speaker 2: and the offense couldn't get enough done to put any
Speaker 2: points up missfield goal, didn't take advantage of the other opportunity,
Speaker 2: and you know, the defense came right back out there
Speaker 2: and continue to play well and couldn't be happier for
Speaker 2: this group. And maybe you're right, maybe I am exaggerating
Speaker 2: it a little bit, but I feel like if you
Speaker 2: watched that game from start to finish and you didn't
Speaker 2: know anything about who was ranked, what, who had what
Speaker 2: record in acc play, I mean, louisll was a better team.
Speaker 2: They had a better running back who's a true freshman
Speaker 2: than Phil Maffa, who has been good for them all year.
Speaker 2: And I know he ended up having a lot of yards,
Speaker 2: but I mean Isaac Brown, I mean he's pretty special.
Speaker 2: Your quarterback was a lot better. I felt like, I mean, again,
Speaker 2: Shuck's numbers, I don't know what it is like. His
Speaker 2: numbers never really make it look like he's quite as
Speaker 2: good as as he looks, if that makes sense. And
Speaker 2: I'm aware that obviously, you know I'm a Louisville fan.
Speaker 2: So maybe I'm just looking at him thinking he's way
Speaker 2: better than than than than he is. But like he's
Speaker 2: getting a lot of love. I mean, it's not to
Speaker 2: the point where, you know, people say he's the best
Speaker 2: quarterback in the country, but like if you watch Louisville,
Speaker 2: you don't feel like they have any issue with a
Speaker 2: quarterback being able to make the plays that Jet Brahm
Speaker 2: is calling. So again, maybe I'm maybe I'm getting a
Speaker 2: little bit ahead of myself. I mean, I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the numbers here because you got me wondering, Okay, maybe
Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe I'm wrong here, Maybe maybe Louisville
Speaker 2: didn't dominate that game. And to be fair, the numbers
Speaker 2: don't really back it up. Louisville three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: six total yards to Clemson's four hundred and fifty. They
Speaker 2: had more passing yards, but overall, I mean, by the
Speaker 2: way I'm looking at the stat broadcast, which is like
Speaker 2: the live like it's the most live way to keep
Speaker 2: up with the game. That is not when you're not there,
Speaker 2: like if you're watching it on television, rather it be
Speaker 2: standard cable or you're streaming on YouTube TV. STAT broadcast
Speaker 2: will always be like two plays ahead of you because
Speaker 2: it's like real time. There's no it's just a it's
Speaker 2: just a live scoreboard essentially with every stat, live play
Speaker 2: by play, that kind of stuff. So this is quite
Speaker 2: literally like the most act I mean, this is this
Speaker 2: is what is utilized by every college that that you know,
Speaker 2: when it comes to major Division one sports. And I'm
Speaker 2: looking at this and I'm just thinking, like, is this true.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to double check on some of this. Again.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine these numbers would be incorrect, but it
Speaker 2: almost makes it seem insane that Louisville won when you
Speaker 2: look at the difference in numbers. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would say Clemson having the ball fifteen minutes longer
Speaker 2: than Louisville did is probably an explanation for the numbers
Speaker 2: being kind of wonky when it comes to you know,
Speaker 2: which team dominated. But right now, Louisville, I mean, they're
Speaker 2: back in the top twenty five, and I'm happy to
Speaker 2: see that. You know, I oftentimes say that the app
Speaker 2: pole really doesn't I mean put it this way, the
Speaker 2: ap pole doesn't matter, but perception matters, and people gather
Speaker 2: the perceptions made by who's ranked who's not that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. So I think both things can be true.
Speaker 2: Like nobody's making the playoff ranking, nobody's making the playoff
Speaker 2: base to where you are in the eight people. And
Speaker 2: now that we get our first look at the college
Speaker 2: football playoff rankings tomorrow night, like people, probably I won't
Speaker 2: even reference the AP poll anymore. And by the way,
Speaker 2: why have they not just made it a thing? And
Speaker 2: maybe they have and I'm just not remembering it. Whenever
Speaker 2: we get our first rankings, they should only show those
Speaker 2: numbers on TV? Do they do that?
Speaker 1: I think they switched them beginning this week because of that, okay.
Speaker 2: Because I know at one point they didn't, and it
Speaker 2: was really confusing because there's no like there's These are
Speaker 2: quite literally the only rankings that do matter as of
Speaker 2: tomorrow when we get them. So look happy to see
Speaker 2: them back in the top twenty five in the AP poll,
Speaker 2: and I expect them to be in the top twenty
Speaker 2: five in the college football playoff rankings. I mean, again,
Speaker 2: if we're and I believe I say this sort of
Speaker 2: being sarcastic because I know that it's supposed to be
Speaker 2: that way, but sometimes you have to wonder, like, what
Speaker 2: are you basing on off of with some of these rankings. Hey, look,
Speaker 2: Louisville is not going to make the college football playoffs,
Speaker 2: so trust me. That's when I say I think they're
Speaker 2: going to be ranked. It's not like I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: then we got next week. We'll see where we are now.
Speaker 2: Louslle's not making the playoff. But if you can finish
Speaker 2: in the top twenty five of these rankings every time
Speaker 2: they're released this year and finish the season in there
Speaker 2: despite not making it, there's some value there. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of ways you can track who's had
Speaker 2: success in the playoff area, playoff era, I should say,
Speaker 2: And you know, then, of the amount of appearances you've
Speaker 2: made in those rankings is something people reference. And I
Speaker 2: do think it does speak to legitimacy. I think it
Speaker 2: speaks to relevance. So I think they'll be in the
Speaker 2: top twenty five. I really do, and they there's no
Speaker 2: reason why they wouldn't be if in fact it's based
Speaker 2: off of resume. Because again, I mean Louisville has three losses.
Speaker 2: I mean all three of those teams are going to
Speaker 2: be in the top fifteen. I would say, I mean,
Speaker 2: thirteen is the a people, but I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: if maybe, you know, maybe SMUs at fifteen, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And they just knocked off Clemson at Clemson, and you know,
Speaker 2: the other wins they have aren't great. But like you know,
Speaker 2: Louisville right now as a six and three football team
Speaker 2: has one really really good win. I guess maybe no
Speaker 2: other decent win, to be honest with you, but you know,
Speaker 2: at least Virginia and Boston College. I mean, do they
Speaker 2: have losing records now, maybe they do, but when it
Speaker 2: comes to resume, the quality of your loss does matter,
Speaker 2: and Louisville has to be the best six and three
Speaker 2: team as far as quality of loss. Now, again, as
Speaker 2: I just put that together on the fly, As far
Speaker 2: as how to word it, it's not something you should
Speaker 2: brag about it, right, It's not something that's that impressive,
Speaker 2: but like I do think it you know, for me,
Speaker 2: more than anything, it just gives me more assurance that, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: despite them losing those three games earlier than you know,
Speaker 2: we all would have expected, they are a pretty good
Speaker 2: team and they have the ability to go you know,
Speaker 2: they could win out and if they do they'll certainly
Speaker 2: finish the season in the top twenty five, which, hey,
Speaker 2: I know the goal was probably set higher than that
Speaker 2: before the season started, but you know, all you can
Speaker 2: do now is finish as strong as possible, and I
Speaker 2: hope they do exactly that.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you this, Nick, real quick. Sure do
Speaker 1: you think the committee will give indian a more credit
Speaker 1: or less credit than the AP poll?
Speaker 2: I think we'll give them more.
Speaker 1: I'm the same.
Speaker 2: I'm just I mean, I'm just guessing, yeah, because you know,
Speaker 2: they should factor in how you look and not just
Speaker 2: by winning, but like how you're winning and what you're doing.
Speaker 2: And I mean, Indiana is any edit right now is
Speaker 2: the perfect example of a team that quite literally is
Speaker 2: leaving no room for doubt when it comes to the schedule.
Speaker 2: Now again, people can still claim they haven't beaten like
Speaker 2: a great team yet, but they know, I mean, they're
Speaker 2: killing everybody. It's been crazy to see whether it's Indiana
Speaker 2: team's doing all right, quick break will come back on
Speaker 2: the other side, wrap up the three o'clock hour right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven to ninety. One of the
Speaker 2: things that I would advise you to never really get
Speaker 2: into an argument with a college football fan about is
Speaker 2: scheduling and like strength the schedule, because you know, I
Speaker 2: feel like people can just you know, there are numbers
Speaker 2: that will either confirm or prove you incorrect as far
Speaker 2: as like what you're running with, like the SEC. There
Speaker 2: are sometimes numbers where their league is not, like, is
Speaker 2: not that challenging as much as they think it is.
Speaker 2: Now more often than not, it's the toughest. I mean,
Speaker 2: it is the toughest league in the country. But I
Speaker 2: say all this to say Louisville strength of schedule has
Speaker 2: been brought up quite a bit over the years, especially
Speaker 2: last year when they were very fortunate for the schedule
Speaker 2: to kind of play out the way that it did,
Speaker 2: and going into this year, like it was still something
Speaker 2: that was mentioned by you know, mostly our rival Kentucky fans,
Speaker 2: And look right now, like one of the reasons why
Speaker 2: I still just can't even I can't even I'm not
Speaker 2: going there yet as far as like what I think
Speaker 2: happens in the Governor's Cup game. But Kentucky does have
Speaker 2: a really, really, really tough schedule this year, But Louisville
Speaker 2: does too, not as tough as Kentucky's. But like any
Speaker 2: anybody claiming well, Louisville's six and three and they don't
Speaker 2: play anybody like Louisville's played right now, let's see currently
Speaker 2: if you look at the current strength of schedule, irritates
Speaker 2: the hell out of me. Here we go, Yeah, strength
Speaker 2: of schedule right now as of as of the nine
Speaker 2: games they've played, louisville schedule currently ranks ninth in the country.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's thirteenth in the Sagarin. It is ninth
Speaker 2: in the ESPN FPI. Now again, you're one in four
Speaker 2: against you know, the good teams you've played, But that
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. You could have a really strong schedule and
Speaker 2: not be good. But Louisville is six and three and
Speaker 2: they have right now a decent record, and if they
Speaker 2: finish the season nine in three in the regular season
Speaker 2: and their strength of schedule ends up being, you know,
Speaker 2: top twenty five. Like, just tell anybody that wants to
Speaker 2: tell you, well, yeah, you did that because you didn't
Speaker 2: play anybody like that's that's just that's nonsense. And I
Speaker 2: like the way they have this set up here at
Speaker 2: ESPN dot com. Now, the FPI is clearly a flawed
Speaker 2: formula in many ways. It's proven to be that but
Speaker 2: they give you your current strength of schedule and your
Speaker 2: remaining strength of schedule. So now, right now, Louisville's remain
Speaker 2: like their current strength of schedule is ninth in the
Speaker 2: country top twenty five, I'm sorry, top ten, which again
Speaker 2: that makes sense, right you look at the teams they played,
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, Miami, SMU, Clemson. I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: those are the best teams in the country, but like,
Speaker 2: those teams are pretty good, really good. And now the
Speaker 2: rest of the schedule, with your three games Stanford pitt
Speaker 2: in Kentucky, your remaining strength of schedule is seventieth, so
Speaker 2: it's gonna You know, what you've done here is you've
Speaker 2: proven that you you should win out like you really
Speaker 2: I shouldn't see you have no excuse because you know,
Speaker 2: things happen. But Saturday against Clemson, for me as a
Speaker 2: fan was the confirmation that what I think and believe
Speaker 2: this team is capable of doing is certainly true. And
Speaker 2: I know a lot of you guys were with me,
Speaker 2: right Like, That's what made it so frustrating. Nobody wants
Speaker 2: to lose it in any way. It would have been
Speaker 2: a punch to the gut to like, line up against
Speaker 2: these teams you played so far this year and get
Speaker 2: murdered like that would be terrible, right, but knowing that
Speaker 2: you've played them that close should make it to where
Speaker 2: you know, you know you needed to get one of
Speaker 2: those one of them, I mean, Clemson in Kentucky were
Speaker 2: two things on the back half of this schedule, despite
Speaker 2: the playoff not being realistic and the ACC championship game
Speaker 2: no longer being realistic, Like getting these two would still
Speaker 2: give Louisville a season where they could have a good
Speaker 2: finish and have wins that really you know, they have
Speaker 2: more value than other than just another you know win
Speaker 2: in the column. Right you snap the well you finally
Speaker 2: beat Clemson for the first time, and you could potentially
Speaker 2: snap the streak against Kentucky. Buy a Kentucky strength to
Speaker 2: schedule right now, number two, the remaining strength to schedule
Speaker 2: number eight, And you know what, whole being on the
Speaker 2: schedule is one of those factors. It just is. They
Speaker 2: won't admit that, but like it is you're telling me
Speaker 2: Murray State, I mean Texas is the other one. But
Speaker 2: like Kentucky's schedules really really strong, and you know what,
Speaker 2: one of those reasons if regardless, if they want to
Speaker 2: believe it or not. Is Louisville all right? We got
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