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Speaker 2: ninety short week obviously with the holidays, but man, what
Speaker 2: a lot to get into. This week has turned into
Speaker 2: really for the last I don't know decade or so,
Speaker 2: it's just been a humongous week for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2: But really locally, I mean Louisville of course, they've got
Speaker 2: their season family coming up to Kentucky. That's that's been
Speaker 2: I mean, I still that the game is the last
Speaker 2: game of the year, and I don't think I'll ever
Speaker 2: be to a point where I'm going to say that
Speaker 2: I would prefer it here rather than when it was
Speaker 2: where it was for you a long long time. When
Speaker 2: they reknew the series, it was the first game of
Speaker 2: the season for a long time, and then I don't
Speaker 2: remember how many times it was played as the third
Speaker 2: game of the year when it was in Lexington. But
Speaker 2: then whenever Louisville joined the ACC that's when it moved
Speaker 2: to the end of the year. And I've just been
Speaker 2: thinking about it for the last couple of days. Is
Speaker 2: of course, all attention has shifted on the Louisville side
Speaker 2: to Kentucky. But I still hate that it's the last
Speaker 2: game of the year. I really do. But hey, there's
Speaker 2: nothing you can do about it that won't be an
Speaker 2: excuse if Louisville comes up short, but a lot to
Speaker 2: get into when it comes to that matchup, and we'll
Speaker 2: certainly do that. But also, you've got the first year
Speaker 2: of the College Football Playoff expanded to twelve teams. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure you could have had a weekend that that
Speaker 2: anybody would have believed was possible unless you witnessed what
Speaker 2: happened on Saturday. I mean, that was insane, and I
Speaker 2: don't think it could have really went worse for the SEC,
Speaker 2: if I'm being honest with you. Now, what we don't
Speaker 2: know is will the Committee view it like everybody else
Speaker 2: views it, or will they continue to just you know,
Speaker 2: provide evidence that makes it quite clear that they are
Speaker 2: giving at the SEC program's benefit of the doubt favoritism
Speaker 2: brand bump really just based off of what has been
Speaker 2: done in previous seasons. Now, I can't tell you that
Speaker 2: I think that the teams that got upset this weekend
Speaker 2: are trash. But it's not about like what I think
Speaker 2: they can be. It's about what you do. It's about results.
Speaker 2: And there are a handful of SEC teams that were
Speaker 2: really looking like they were in pretty good shape to
Speaker 2: potentially have one of these last spots, but it probably
Speaker 2: would have been based off of some level of a
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt eye test, which of course is
Speaker 2: in the eye of the you know, in the eye
Speaker 2: of the beholder. So the way it played out though,
Speaker 2: like now you lost to some of these teams, lost
Speaker 2: to bad teams, to where like the we're gonna find
Speaker 2: out one way they're that what this is done, and
Speaker 2: we'll get into sort of all of the chaos, because
Speaker 2: what's what's crazy, but I think is true. David halo
Speaker 2: vesp bit's out there. There are actually twenty four teams
Speaker 2: that have somewhat of a shot to find themselves in
Speaker 2: the playoff as of today. Now, I think you you know,
Speaker 2: there's a few that the likelihood of it happening is
Speaker 2: really just not likely at all, in fact, very unlikely.
Speaker 2: But still technically there's there's a scenario that could play
Speaker 2: out to where twenty four different teams could you know,
Speaker 2: could make it in. So what the Committee's going to have?
Speaker 2: What the Committee's going to do here on you know
Speaker 2: following Well, I guess really it'll be next week, but
Speaker 2: the chaos just happened this past week, So technically this
Speaker 2: is what we're really going to see how they view
Speaker 2: what took place. Are they going to hold teams accountable
Speaker 2: for losing games that you really can't lose if you
Speaker 2: want just people to assume, oh yeah, well we're such
Speaker 2: and such in the SEC so like you know, you
Speaker 2: can't tell me we're not better than this Big ten
Speaker 2: team and that Big ten team. So we're gonna find
Speaker 2: out if the committee really got put in a tough
Speaker 2: spot here, because there's really not a lot of wiggle room.
Speaker 2: They're either going to do what most probably want them
Speaker 2: to do, which is really take these hold these teams
Speaker 2: accountable for losing late, or they're going to make it
Speaker 2: quite clear that they don't view any other league the
Speaker 2: way they view the SEC. And I think I have
Speaker 2: an idea what they're gonna do. It's not what I
Speaker 2: want them to do, but we shall see. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: Louisville has no chance of the playoff. I keep seeing
Speaker 2: people mention, well, the Stanford loss was really really tough
Speaker 2: because it eliminated I am not the only one that
Speaker 2: never thought there was any scenario Louisville was in the
Speaker 2: conversation for the playoff or even the ACC championship. I mean,
Speaker 2: I tried not to like insult people, and people want
Speaker 2: to dream big, and when you know there's like somewhat
Speaker 2: of a chance, you're gonna really get excited about it.
Speaker 2: You're not dead yet. But like I couldn't believe how
Speaker 2: many people reacting to the Stanford loss act as if, well,
Speaker 2: there you go, there's your chance at the playoff. Like
Speaker 2: what I mean, I thought Louisville's best case scenario before
Speaker 2: the Stanford loss was to win out and probably end up,
Speaker 2: of course, not making the AEC Championship game, but being
Speaker 2: able to maybe finish I don't know, top fifteen or something,
Speaker 2: which I guess would have been really tough because you're
Speaker 2: right there on the outside looking in and you could
Speaker 2: go back to the games that you lost and feel like, man,
Speaker 2: if we'd have just not done this or not done that.
Speaker 2: But anyways, you know, they're not in it. And I
Speaker 2: bring that up to say, I think you can be
Speaker 2: a college football fan and your team, you know, be
Speaker 2: terrible this year or maybe just you know, solid, but
Speaker 2: clearly not in the mix. That's Louisville, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you. And it's still been really fun to watch
Speaker 2: all this chaos that has taken place. So we'll find
Speaker 2: out tomorrow night what the committee makes of the results
Speaker 2: we got on Saturday. And it's not just the SEC. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Indiana took their first loss and that obviously changes them
Speaker 2: a little bit, but they clearly got all the help
Speaker 2: they could get. I feel like, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: most people look at Indiana actually as a big winner
Speaker 2: on Saturday because of everything that happened after they lost. Now,
Speaker 2: what we don't know is does the committee see it
Speaker 2: that way, and we'll find out tomorrow. Also when it
Speaker 2: comes to basketball, I mean, there's already some great basketball
Speaker 2: going on. I know I've been saying this for a
Speaker 2: long time, for the past month, really, it seems. So
Speaker 2: I'll continue to be a broken record. If you're not
Speaker 2: watching college basketball just because you've not gotten into college
Speaker 2: basketball mode yet, you're missing out. There have been some
Speaker 2: phenomenal matchups in November and December, or not December, but
Speaker 2: there are gonna be some really good non conference games
Speaker 2: in December as well. And I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: just noticing it more so. Maybe it's because I'm no
Speaker 2: longer a lifeless college basketball fan when it comes to
Speaker 2: my team, but I feel like that I was going
Speaker 2: to say, well, maybe I'm just noticing it, and it's
Speaker 2: actually been this way as far as scheduling in November
Speaker 2: for the last couple of years. But I've just been
Speaker 2: dead inside because of my team was you know, we
Speaker 2: we were lifeless as a fan base. But actually, no,
Speaker 2: when that happened, I should I mean, I was all
Speaker 2: in on you know, I was focusing on college basketball
Speaker 2: overall more so than my team because my team didn't matter.
Speaker 2: I mean, we knew pretty early last year that it
Speaker 2: was going to be a rough year, so I feel
Speaker 2: like we've been spoiled, and I just want people to
Speaker 2: know that if you are somebody that loves college basketball,
Speaker 2: like I think a lot of you do, if you
Speaker 2: go looking for games, and maybe that's what you don't
Speaker 2: want to do, Maybe you just want to see it
Speaker 2: on your guide, on your YouTube, TV or your spectrum,
Speaker 2: whatever it may be. But like if you've got ESPN Plus,
Speaker 2: if you've got Peacock, heck, the CBS Sports Network. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're the ones who had that tournament in the Bahamas
Speaker 2: that just I guess wrapped up over the weekend. So
Speaker 2: enjoy it. And Louisville, of course, will be part of it,
Speaker 2: as they are going to play their first game in
Speaker 2: the Battle for Atlantis on Wednesday at noon, so they're
Speaker 2: gonna take on Indiana and the next game will be
Speaker 2: against either Gonzaga or West Virginia. I would say if
Speaker 2: Louisville's able to win, there's a really really good chance
Speaker 2: they're going to play Gonzaga. If they end up losing,
Speaker 2: which certainly they could, they're gonna be underdogs, then they'll
Speaker 2: probably play West Virginia, which, to be fair, is still
Speaker 2: going to be a bigger challenge than everybody you've played
Speaker 2: outside of outside of Tennessee. But to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: they've looked more beatable than the majority of the teams
Speaker 2: that I've watched in the field so far this year.
Speaker 2: And I've not watched a lot of these teams super
Speaker 2: close because you know, I just haven't had you know,
Speaker 2: I really wanted to and have honestly haven't bet on
Speaker 2: them to where I would need to go watch them
Speaker 2: in if I do that, It's not like I'm watching
Speaker 2: the entire game. I'm just kind of keeping up with it,
Speaker 2: getting a feel for if my wager is alive or not. So,
Speaker 2: you know, exciting week. Obviously, the Governor's Cup game is
Speaker 2: a big deal. We'll talk a lot about that today
Speaker 2: and of course throughout the week, and then with Louisville basketball,
Speaker 2: we'll have our show Wednesday, which essentially our show will
Speaker 2: be the postgame show because we'll go live. At least
Speaker 2: the plan is to go live as soon as the
Speaker 2: game ends, which we of course will probably be before
Speaker 2: three o'clock unless there's some kind of crazy overtime scenario.
Speaker 2: But it's the first game of the day, therefore that
Speaker 2: you have to worry about being behind schedule when it
Speaker 2: comes to tip off. So we'll go on a little
Speaker 2: bit early, and then we'll do our show and react
Speaker 2: and react to whatever happens in the hoops game, and
Speaker 2: of course continue to get you set for the Governor's
Speaker 2: Cup matchup, and then we're out of here for Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: and of course the day after and the long holiday weekend,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna have to squeeze in a lot in
Speaker 2: these next few days, which you know, we've got a busy,
Speaker 2: busy week and only really three shows to kind of
Speaker 2: get into it. So we're gonna we're gonna make it work.
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Speaker 2: at LLENNFCU because I went to the game on Saturday.
Speaker 2: It was the third game this year that I got
Speaker 2: to go with the family, and we were in We
Speaker 2: were in some phenomenal seats courtesy of Llenn Federal Credit Union.
Speaker 2: So my wife, myself, the moose Man, and my nephew Luke.
Speaker 2: We we were cold, we made it work and we
Speaker 2: had a great time. And what a game, What a
Speaker 2: performance from lois we'll certainly get into that coming up
Speaker 2: here in just a moment, But yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: you could have asked for a better response than what
Speaker 2: we saw Saturday, given the embarrassment in Stanford a week prior.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I didn't really I wasn't really shocked
Speaker 2: by the result or really any specific play that was
Speaker 2: made for Louisville, whether it be offense or defense, because
Speaker 2: for a while Now, I've never really questioned Louisville when
Speaker 2: it comes to their ability. I just question are they
Speaker 2: going to be able to put a full game together
Speaker 2: or at least something close to it. And they've done
Speaker 2: it a couple of times this year, and man, is
Speaker 2: there no more of an important time to do it
Speaker 2: than this Saturday in Lexington. But the experience that was
Speaker 2: the first time I've ever gone to a Louisville game
Speaker 2: like that. Like I've gone with tickets a bunch of times,
Speaker 2: especially when I was grown up, but the majority of
Speaker 2: the games that I've gone to really gosh. In the
Speaker 2: last I'm probably the last eight years or so have
Speaker 2: been with the Credential and it's awesome to be able
Speaker 2: to be indoors when it's really hot outside and they've
Speaker 2: got ac and obviously the heat I'm sure in the
Speaker 2: press box was phenomenal for the guys up there, the
Speaker 2: guys in gals I should say, up there on Saturday
Speaker 2: when it was really really cold, you know. But when
Speaker 2: I would go to games with you know, with tickets
Speaker 2: when I was younger, with my family or just with
Speaker 2: friends like we had, we would get decent seats at times.
Speaker 2: But I was probably like seven eight rows up section
Speaker 2: one thirty five, and it was I mean, it is
Speaker 2: a different experience. Not to say you can't have a
Speaker 2: great experience and enjoy yourself if you're there and you're
Speaker 2: not sitting as close, but it was. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: And uh, there are I don't know how many cameras
Speaker 2: on the field that they're not on the game at
Speaker 2: any point, and I've never I've never really noticed these
Speaker 2: these folks because again I've never I've never set for
Speaker 2: an entire game where I was on Saturday, and even
Speaker 2: when I'm sitting elsewhere, I'm not close enough to where
Speaker 2: I can see them, or if I'm in the press box,
Speaker 2: I'm way far away and can't see them. But there
Speaker 2: are a handful of people that are running a camera,
Speaker 2: but the camera is just in the crowd the whole time,
Speaker 2: like they're just there's probably four or five of them,
Speaker 2: I guess around the whole stadium, field level, and you know,
Speaker 2: whenever they want to show people bringing the vibes and
Speaker 2: getting into it, you know, putting somebody up there that's
Speaker 2: going to hopefully enhance the atmosphere, They're going to find people.
Speaker 2: And once my son realized that they were on a
Speaker 2: kid like three or four rows ahead of us that
Speaker 2: was really really close, and he was dancing, He was
Speaker 2: you know, he was entertaining in hopes of getting the
Speaker 2: camera on him, and the kid did a great job.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if Moose felt at his competition
Speaker 2: orf he was just jealous, Probably a little bit of both,
Speaker 2: but he started really hamming it up, trying to get
Speaker 2: on the big screen, and he made it, and it's,
Speaker 2: you know, it's all he's been thinking about and talking
Speaker 2: about since it happened. I think he feels like he's
Speaker 2: part of the team now. I think he feels like
Speaker 2: his his his. He was doing the Isaac Brown go
Speaker 2: to sleep thing for people. Think some people thought it
Speaker 2: was Steph Curry, which I didn't even know Steph Curry
Speaker 2: does that, but I have seen the pictures and the
Speaker 2: jiffs that show that, you know, that's a Steph Curry thing.
Speaker 2: I guess after making big shots. He just does it
Speaker 2: because of Isaac Brown doing it at Clemson. So he
Speaker 2: just felt like that would be the you know, the
Speaker 2: one way to potentially get him up there. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if anybody knew what he was doing for sure,
Speaker 2: but you know, that was his movie. He was ready
Speaker 2: and he's feeling like a million bucks. It was pretty
Speaker 2: cool to see, just because you know, that's not something
Speaker 2: I've ever experienced before as a fan, to be that
Speaker 2: close and you know, to you know, to be that
Speaker 2: close to the action. So it was it was really awesome,
Speaker 2: and it men real quick with Louis Football, I just
Speaker 2: before we get into Kentucky, because we're gonna certainly do
Speaker 2: that on the other side, and there's some things obviously
Speaker 2: that we can discuss from Saturday that can probably make
Speaker 2: you feel should make you feel confident in the game
Speaker 2: on Saturday. But we've been there before, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is probably not a good tease to throw out
Speaker 2: there fifteen minutes into the show, but it's just the
Speaker 2: honest opinion. I'm now to the point where I with
Speaker 2: this game. It's happened enough to where like I really
Speaker 2: don't care about any result from any team because the
Speaker 2: cliches or cliches for a reason, and this one, I
Speaker 2: don't know if in other rivalries it is true, but
Speaker 2: I feel like in this one between these two teams,
Speaker 2: in football specifically, you really can throw everything out of
Speaker 2: the window, like whatever you have believed about your team
Speaker 2: or the other and whatever you you know, whatever you've
Speaker 2: looked at to try to maybe be optimistic or pessimistic
Speaker 2: about the matchup. Like where a certain team has a
Speaker 2: strength strength of schedule for each team, Well we played
Speaker 2: them and we beat them bad and then they lost
Speaker 2: to a team that you know then that then beat Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Like you can do those kind of things, but like
Speaker 2: it's I mean, if you want to do that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff, knock yourself out. And there's certainly some things
Speaker 2: like that we can reference, but like, I don't think
Speaker 2: it has any any factor in the game at all
Speaker 2: on Saturday. I really don't. So anyways, real quick, before
Speaker 2: we take a time out, let you guys react and
Speaker 2: just start, you know, getting into this matchup on Saturday
Speaker 2: Louisville football. I wish I could put it in words
Speaker 2: that don't make me sound as dumb. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if this is a dumb thing to say, but
Speaker 2: I just wish there was a better way to say it.
Speaker 2: But it's just it's just how I feel. It's been
Speaker 2: a weird year. This football season has been weird in
Speaker 2: a variety of ways. And I don't mean that like
Speaker 2: because of any specific result. I mean, it just kind
Speaker 2: of feels like the season never got started. I slept
Speaker 2: walk through the first two games, not because you know,
Speaker 2: I was down on the team, but like I get
Speaker 2: nothing out of watching them play Austin p and Jacksonville State.
Speaker 2: I mean, you had to schedule that because of Indiana
Speaker 2: buying out of the game, and it would have been
Speaker 2: a much different world had you played Indiana rather than
Speaker 2: playing Jacksonville State. But like you know, Louisville is not
Speaker 2: the only team that has those two type of games
Speaker 2: to start your season. It's actually pretty common. We were
Speaker 2: pretty spoiled, to be honest with you. And I say spoiled,
Speaker 2: I guess just from my perspective because I like when
Speaker 2: you play, at least in the first couple of weeks
Speaker 2: a team with the pulse that you've heard of. Well,
Speaker 2: you had two games against really nobody's and you know,
Speaker 2: then you beat Georgia Tech. Then you had was it
Speaker 2: a buye? And then it was Notre Dame and you
Speaker 2: played really bad, to be honest with you, yet you
Speaker 2: still could have won, probably should have won. Then you
Speaker 2: had Miami again. That was another setback, and I know
Speaker 2: the SMU losses in between there, but then you went
Speaker 2: like a whole month, in fact, you went over a
Speaker 2: month without having a home game. Like It's just been
Speaker 2: a weird year. And what makes it weird to me
Speaker 2: more than anything is that I believe this team is
Speaker 2: really good. I believe that. Now, that's just my belief.
Speaker 2: I know I'm not alone, but I'm only speaking for myself.
Speaker 2: I believe they're really good. Yet the results this year
Speaker 2: don't back that up. And unfortunately, you can believe whatever
Speaker 2: you want if you've got facts that tell you otherwise.
Speaker 2: That's what matters. Right, there's a win, there's there's a
Speaker 2: win and loss record for Louisville that does not confirm
Speaker 2: that they are as good as I think they are.
Speaker 2: So therefore, you know, you got to go win. Winning
Speaker 2: and losing is how you can determine if you are
Speaker 2: in fact really good or you're really not. So more
Speaker 2: than anything, I guess it's just that they're capable. So,
Speaker 2: you know, there's been a part of me that has feared,
Speaker 2: really since the SMU loss, that this could end up
Speaker 2: being one of those years where you think, man, what
Speaker 2: could have been? What could have been? Because maybe j
Speaker 2: Cory Brooks is like an NFL star. Wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 2: He's good. Maybe Tyler Shuck ends up finding a home
Speaker 2: in the NFL and has a decent career, wouldn't shock me. God,
Speaker 2: I hope Duke Watson and Isaac Brown stick around here
Speaker 2: for a long long time. But you know, nothing would
Speaker 2: shock me because those guys are elite. Ashton Julyattie probably
Speaker 2: going to be drafted on Day two of the NFL Draft,
Speaker 2: maybe even as high as a second round. Quincy Riley
Speaker 2: He's going to be drafted as well. Stan Kuon Clark,
Speaker 2: that guy's super talented. I mean, I think this team
Speaker 2: is really good, but it just hasn't worked out to
Speaker 2: where they've had. They have a record that proves that
Speaker 2: it's what it could have should have, so that I
Speaker 2: think they'll they'll always be for me, especially if they
Speaker 2: finish strong, and that's that's what you want. That's what
Speaker 2: we all want them to finish really strong. So if
Speaker 2: they finish strong and they get to ten, and would
Speaker 2: it be ten and three, I guess they got four
Speaker 2: losses now, so no, they couldn't be the case. They
Speaker 2: couldn't be ten and three. They could be nine and four.
Speaker 2: At best if they win on Saturday to win a
Speaker 2: bowl game, you know, I will always know that they
Speaker 2: could have been better. But if a what could have
Speaker 2: been year where you have games that you know you
Speaker 2: probably could have played just a little bit better against
Speaker 2: really good teams, and it would have changed everything if
Speaker 2: you just would have avoided the upset to Stanford. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to go there and say that that
Speaker 2: would have put Louisville in a potential path to the playoff,
Speaker 2: but I honestly have been so scared to have that realization.
Speaker 2: I'm not looking to find out because that would be
Speaker 2: the worst thing ever, is that Stanford lost being something.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I don't I don't think it would
Speaker 2: have been. Hey, they're in it. I mean maybe they
Speaker 2: would have been alive in some form or fashion, but
Speaker 2: like you know, it'll always be what could have been year?
Speaker 2: I think I just do because I believe the team's good,
Speaker 2: the players are good. Jeff Bram I think is a
Speaker 2: good coach. They just haven't been able to put it
Speaker 2: all together. And that's I think, not one person's fault.
Speaker 2: It's collectively everybody's fault, to be honest with you, But
Speaker 2: if the what could have been year instead of a
Speaker 2: oh man, we could have been really good, but we
Speaker 2: were lousy. We went four and eight. If what could
Speaker 2: have been year ends up in a nine and three
Speaker 2: or a nine and four season where you beat Clemson
Speaker 2: for the first time ever, you in this streak to Kentucky,
Speaker 2: not only will I be able to live with it,
Speaker 2: I'll be able to say, all right, that was good,
Speaker 2: Because to say I'll live with it, it almost sounds like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'll not, you know, lose my mind. No,
Speaker 2: I mean I'll be satisfied. Now, everybody's satisfaction levels are
Speaker 2: probably a little bit different, but there's still something to
Speaker 2: play for in a big way here to finish strong
Speaker 2: and give you some momentum heading into the offseason. We
Speaker 2: all know how it felt last year when you had
Speaker 2: no momentum heading into the off season. You lost your
Speaker 2: last three games really all an embarrassing fashion. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if anybody would sit back and say that
Speaker 2: because of the difference and finishes, that this year would
Speaker 2: be better than last year, because you played in the
Speaker 2: ACC Championship and that has a lot of value. But man,
Speaker 2: there's a lot to be said about finishing strong rather
Speaker 2: than starting strong and finishing poorly. So they've got a
Speaker 2: chance to do that on Saturday, and we'll talk a
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Speaker 2: All right, So currently, I know Louisville has been a
Speaker 2: small favorite in this matchup against Kentucky. I think really
Speaker 2: all year. I feel like when we've had early lines
Speaker 2: that you disappear and then they reappear after a couple
Speaker 2: of different weeks of results, they kind of give these
Speaker 2: sports books a better feel for where to set it.
Speaker 2: Louisvill's kind of always been I think a slight favorite
Speaker 2: and as of right now, that is still the case.
Speaker 2: According to DraftKings here, Louisville is currently favored by Where's
Speaker 2: it out here? Yeah, lowill favored by three and a half,
Speaker 2: which I thought last time I checked it was at three.
Speaker 2: But either way, three or three and a half, I
Speaker 2: feel like what it's been at for since these two
Speaker 2: teams finished up their games on Saturday evenings, So I'm
Speaker 2: not surprised that Louisville is a favorite, but that doesn't
Speaker 2: do anything for me. It just, I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: feel better about this matchup because Louis's favorite. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: feel worse about it if they were three and a
Speaker 2: half point underdogs. And this is again probably not a
Speaker 2: great way to, you know, really encourage people to stick around.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get you set for this kickoff. The rest
Speaker 2: of the week it's Governor's Cup week, It's Rivalry week,
Speaker 2: baby like, because I just you know we're gonna do that.
Speaker 2: But I like, there's all kinds of things you get
Speaker 2: through out there, But for me, I just don't think
Speaker 2: it's gonna tell you any real way of which which
Speaker 2: way this game is gonna go. I mean, I know
Speaker 2: Kentucky Kentucky right now, Like, and I'm seeing Louisville fans
Speaker 2: throwing certain stats out there in facts about how bad
Speaker 2: they were this year, and they're like they're preventing, like
Speaker 2: they're presenting like real numbers like facts, And I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that that means nothing, but it doesn't change how
Speaker 2: I feel about the game. Like, Kentucky only has one
Speaker 2: win against the team with a winning record, and that
Speaker 2: is that is All Miss, And then their other wins
Speaker 2: came against Murray's Date, Southern Miss and Ohio, and the record,
Speaker 2: the combined record of those teams, even like for who
Speaker 2: they are, like is really really bad. So yeah, that
Speaker 2: probably makes Kentucky look even worse than you thought they were.
Speaker 2: But again, for me, I know that Kentucky has good
Speaker 2: enough players to beat Louisville. I know that they have
Speaker 2: good enough players to beat a lot of the teams
Speaker 2: on their schedule that they lost to, some of them
Speaker 2: in which they got embarrassed by. So for Louisville, I
Speaker 2: know that they are good enough to go in there
Speaker 2: and beat Kentucky. And if Kentucky's the same team they've
Speaker 2: been at home this year against you know, comparable competition,
Speaker 2: like Louisville, Louisville. If they take care of business, they
Speaker 2: should win this game, and it probably wouldn't be close.
Speaker 2: But these games never play out like that, man, never ever.
Speaker 2: And Louisville, you know, to be honest with you, they've
Speaker 2: been super inconsistent. Kentucky's been the more consistent team. But
Speaker 2: I also know that they're not sitting here potentially with
Speaker 2: a four and eight season. They already fin one in
Speaker 2: seven in the SEC. You know you are what your
Speaker 2: record says you are, but they're not one in seven
Speaker 2: in the SEC because they just don't have players good
Speaker 2: enough to go win. And if Stanford's good enough to
Speaker 2: beat Louisville at home, Kentucky's good enough to beat Louisville
Speaker 2: at home despite how bad Stanford is. So you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to find my footing before we get
Speaker 2: to I guess the pregame show on Saturday, because I
Speaker 2: have no clue what's gonna happen in this game, not
Speaker 2: even like a gut feeling. I got nothing, which again,
Speaker 2: not a great way to start the week. Let's get
Speaker 2: excited about the Governor's Cup game. I got nothing to say,
Speaker 2: like that's that's probably not the good way to do it.
Speaker 2: But I'm just being honest with you. I have no
Speaker 2: clue what's gonna happen here. If you take the average
Speaker 2: type of performance that you've seen from these two teams,
Speaker 2: like every result, how they played, you get the average
Speaker 2: of that. You put those two teams together, Louisvill's better
Speaker 2: and Louisville wins, but they get and that's never how
Speaker 2: this has ever worked ever. So again, I'm sure as
Speaker 2: we get closer, I'll start to, I guess, you know,
Speaker 2: try to predict the future like everybody else is doing
Speaker 2: or is going to do. But I don't think any
Speaker 2: of us have a clue. And if you really give
Speaker 2: it some thought, take away just the history, recent history,
Speaker 2: I should say, of this rivalry series. Obviously, Kentucky's been
Speaker 2: on the winning side of it for far too long.
Speaker 2: LEISLLL the had won this game since twenty seventeen, as
Speaker 2: last year Lamar Jackson was here. So you know that
Speaker 2: is certainly on the minds of everybody Kentucky. They feel like, hey,
Speaker 2: as bad as we are, we know we can still
Speaker 2: go beat them. Let's go do that. For Louisville, I mean,
Speaker 2: I can only speak for myself, but I'm a Louisville fan,
Speaker 2: and I'm sitting here thinking, Man, I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 2: This has kind of built up to maybe being the
Speaker 2: worst potential loss to them ever, just given how bad
Speaker 2: they've been this year. So you know, the history, the
Speaker 2: recent history of the series is a factor when a
Speaker 2: lot of people are putting you know, I guess in
Speaker 2: their heads what they think is can happen, or if
Speaker 2: they're making a bet, whatever it is, but it really
Speaker 2: won't matter on Saturday, at least it shouldn't. If it does,
Speaker 2: I would say it's Kentucky coming out and not showing
Speaker 2: that they're a team that just went one and seven
Speaker 2: in their league and finished alone in fifteenth place out
Speaker 2: of sixteen teams. Everybody else in the league had two
Speaker 2: wins other than Kentucky and Mississippi State. Missisipstate didn't win
Speaker 2: a single game in league play. Kentucky only won one.
Speaker 2: So you know, if Louisville comes out and they look
Speaker 2: you know, offensively tight and you know, just uncomfortable, I
Speaker 2: can't say that if they're making mistakes and turning it
Speaker 2: over and just making boneheaded plays, I can't sit her
Speaker 2: and say, well, it's because they're overthinking the rivalry. They're
Speaker 2: in their own head. They know that this is the
Speaker 2: one year they can't lose to Kentucky because we've seen
Speaker 2: the world do that against anybody this year. But I know
Speaker 2: some will here we go again, always Crapp in the
Speaker 2: bed against Kentucky because you can look at I mean, look,
Speaker 2: Kentucky can live in the world where they're not as
Speaker 2: bad as they are. But I think they know this
Speaker 2: year like they had a DISASTERUS year. But again I
Speaker 2: think they probably agree with me that it's not really
Speaker 2: about talent. Like Mark Stoups at his press conference talking
Speaker 2: about how they've got they've got the resources better than
Speaker 2: they have ever been to be able to go to
Speaker 2: the portal and get players, I assume he's talking nil
Speaker 2: and go fix this roster. Dude. You get paid nine
Speaker 2: million dollars. You didn't need a roster to be fixed. Dude,
Speaker 2: you just had a bad year, Like your roster was
Speaker 2: not why you went one and seven, And he knows that.
Speaker 2: So you know right now the teams that Louisville did
Speaker 2: mess up and make mistakes against that sometimes those mistakes
Speaker 2: were you got to give the other team credit. They
Speaker 2: had a factor in that, right, like a couple of
Speaker 2: the turnovers against Notre Dame. You know, well, in fact,
Speaker 2: I think everything that went wrong against Notre Dame at
Speaker 2: Notre Dame Louisville was their fault. Like I don't want
Speaker 2: to give Notre Dame any credit. That sounds awful and
Speaker 2: that's sound like such a sore loser. But if you
Speaker 2: go back and watch that game the way Louisville lost,
Speaker 2: like the things they did, like if they snapped the
Speaker 2: ball over the punter's head, Tyler Schuck take it off
Speaker 2: for the longest run of his life probably and just
Speaker 2: coughing up the ball to Corey Brooks, just bobbling a ball,
Speaker 2: they take it go the other way and have a
Speaker 2: short field. The pass interference double pass interference call where
Speaker 2: they called offensive end defensive pass interference. So I mean
Speaker 2: lois made some mistakes, but you could also say, well, hey,
Speaker 2: those are the kind of mistakes that probably happen when
Speaker 2: you play a really good team like Notre Dame, Miami
Speaker 2: and as Si mute three of the teams that beat you.
Speaker 2: I still think Louisville had a big factor in those losses.
Speaker 2: But either way, I could be wrong, and those teams
Speaker 2: are really good and at least, you know, pretty good
Speaker 2: with Kentucky if you'd make those kind of mistakes, I mean,
Speaker 2: can we sit back and say, well, hey, what are
Speaker 2: you gonna do? It's Kentucky. No, not this year. They're terrible.
Speaker 2: So people will say, well, hey, here we go again.
Speaker 2: Crap in the Bedicans, Kentucky, no excuse to come out
Speaker 2: and have this happen. With so much on the line,
Speaker 2: this is your chance to get the cut back and
Speaker 2: restore bragging rights on this side of the rivalry. So
Speaker 2: you know, probably not a great thing to keep emphasizing,
Speaker 2: but just being honest with you, I have no clue
Speaker 2: what we're going to see on Saturday, but what I
Speaker 2: do know, and it's only my opinion. I can't speak
Speaker 2: for anybody but myself, the way this thing has played
Speaker 2: out all around As of now, I'm ready to say it.
Speaker 2: A loss here would be the worst loss ever for
Speaker 2: Louisville in this rivalry series. I mean that, I know
Speaker 2: others will say when you lost to Kentucky in two
Speaker 2: thousand and seven in Lexington in the third game of
Speaker 2: the year, the Stevie got loose game, and you may
Speaker 2: be you may be right when it comes to like
Speaker 2: the gut punch of that, because Kentucky had been had
Speaker 2: been little brother in football at Louisville for a little
Speaker 2: while there and Brian Brohm came back. I mean that
Speaker 2: was Crackdores' first year, we all, I think, because that
Speaker 2: team ended up actually underwhelming not I mean, what was it.
Speaker 2: A week later Louisville was thirty something point favorites against
Speaker 2: Syracusan lost So like that point, I kind of knew, hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: we lost to Kentucky and that's stunk, but like not
Speaker 2: so surprised now that we lost to them, because they
Speaker 2: ended up actually being pretty good that year in Louisville stunk.
Speaker 2: So for me, like the way this thing is played
Speaker 2: out to where you have no reason not to go
Speaker 2: beat them at their place. The only teams that beat
Speaker 2: the only teams that Kentucky beat at CommonWell Stadium this
Speaker 2: year are the bums they paid to come in and
Speaker 2: bend over the bye games. Murray State, Southern miss who
Speaker 2: didn't even get to finish the game. Who else, Ohio,
Speaker 2: like everybody else that they hosted beat them. So you know,
Speaker 2: I just this is a game that Louisville should win.
Speaker 2: I certainly know they can. It's not like we got
Speaker 2: a question do they have the ability to do it? No,
Speaker 2: they do, but like will they none of us know,
Speaker 2: and we'll find that on Saturday. But the reason I
Speaker 2: think it's now really not even not even a second
Speaker 2: thought for me as far as saying that this would
Speaker 2: be one of the most demoralizing losses for Louisville football
Speaker 2: in this series is because of year. It was the
Speaker 2: year to just get it out of the way, just
Speaker 2: break the streak, end it. Even if you get out
Speaker 2: of their ugly you at least can just say that, hey,
Speaker 2: brom he's ended it. And it was more of a
Speaker 2: crackthorpe thing than anything. As to how they've built this
Speaker 2: big of a lead in this big of a streak
Speaker 2: in the series. Well then you you know, they didn't
Speaker 2: even have any confidence about themselves. Now, they were worse
Speaker 2: this year than last year, but they limped in that
Speaker 2: game last year after getting their butts kicked at South
Speaker 2: Carolina against a bad South Carolina team, and you know,
Speaker 2: they were down on their coach, not to the level
Speaker 2: they are now, but like they didn't really have a
Speaker 2: whole lot of confidence. I don't think they were scared
Speaker 2: of Louisville, but they didn't feel great about their team.
Speaker 2: Well now they feel even worse. They want their coach
Speaker 2: gone again. They didn't beat anybody at home that they
Speaker 2: didn't pay to come take a butt wompan. They're alone
Speaker 2: in fifteenth place out of sixteen teams in the SEC.
Speaker 2: You know, Louisville went in and beat Clemson at their place, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, still is a win that has a
Speaker 2: lot of value. So like, if you don't do it
Speaker 2: this year, I don't even know what the hell I'm
Speaker 2: going to say on the postgame show, other than maybe
Speaker 2: just cry, which I wouldn't do that because you know
Speaker 2: I'll be more professional than that. But I don't know
Speaker 2: maybe I will, because I can't tell you for sure
Speaker 2: what kind of reaction, what kind of emotion I would
Speaker 2: have if Louisville loses this game, and I know they could.
Speaker 2: I know that there's probably some on the Kentucky side
Speaker 2: that feel confident in it, and I get it. But
Speaker 2: Mark Steve's announcing earlier today that he's going with his
Speaker 2: freshman quarterback Cutter Bowley as the starter. It made it again.
Speaker 2: That's what I was getting to and I got sidetracks,
Speaker 2: almost blocked out, thinking about the scenario of Louisville losing
Speaker 2: this game and like how to process it. But what
Speaker 2: this does is by starting a true freshman, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's another thing you can add to the long list
Speaker 2: of things that Kentucky can claim. We still beat you
Speaker 2: and this we still beat you, and we sucked, we
Speaker 2: hate our team. We still beat you, and we know
Speaker 2: we're terrible. We still beat you and we actually think
Speaker 2: you're pretty good. I don't know if they'd say that,
Speaker 2: but you'd throw that in the list. Throw that, add
Speaker 2: that to the list. We still beat you. We put
Speaker 2: out a freshman quarterback in his first career start. I mean,
Speaker 2: and I don't blame Stoops at all, because what this
Speaker 2: does is this absolutely gives them a spark. They played better.
Speaker 2: It sounds like when he came in the game against Texas,
Speaker 2: it sounds like he's got a lot of talent, a
Speaker 2: lot of upside, and there's no there's no risk in
Speaker 2: doing this right. I mean, you try it out, brought
Speaker 2: Vandergriff and he gives you the same thing he's been
Speaker 2: given you all year, and you end up losing Louisville then,
Speaker 2: like I mean that you kind of know what you
Speaker 2: have there. You put the young kid out there, see
Speaker 2: what happens, and it does kind of give you a
Speaker 2: chance to cleanse a little bit when it comes to
Speaker 2: the awful stinch that you have from the season for
Speaker 2: being a four and seven team that's one in seven
Speaker 2: in sec play. Like again, I think they all know
Speaker 2: that that. Let me give you the best, let me
Speaker 2: describe it the best, the best way I can give
Speaker 2: me a second here, because one of the things I
Speaker 2: talked about for weeks now about this the one thing
Speaker 2: that would make me feel really confident in this game.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's I just lie to you.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I ever would feel really confident
Speaker 2: in this game, given what's happened in the last five
Speaker 2: or six meetings. But if Kentucky, you know, finished the
Speaker 2: season the way they did, which they did, and Louisville
Speaker 2: didn't have the slip up to Stanford and they looked
Speaker 2: good and Kentucky was maybe even more beaten up than
Speaker 2: they've already been, and like maybe their losses were even
Speaker 2: worse than they were, then then I think the best
Speaker 2: case scenario for Louisville would be to just get off
Speaker 2: to a decent start, and they'll they'll be hit by
Speaker 2: the human element. They're gonna know, wey, We're we're gonna
Speaker 2: we're gonna just we're gonna turn it on. New season,
Speaker 2: rivalry game, Let's finish strong, let's get the let's keep
Speaker 2: the Governor's Cup. Like you can say that, But once
Speaker 2: you have any level of adversity hit you, when you've
Speaker 2: already played a full season and you've been this bad, like,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's not possible. It's almost not possible to
Speaker 2: just flip the switch and turn it around. But it's
Speaker 2: more possible to do it, I think when you've got
Speaker 2: a new a fresh start on offense, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's almost like they have new life now. And who knows,
Speaker 2: maybe this kid ends up being terrible in this game
Speaker 2: and he's a factor in the loss. None of us know.
Speaker 2: But I think it was a wise move for Stoops
Speaker 2: to do that because you've got nothing to lose, and
Speaker 2: it gives you a better chance to maybe be able
Speaker 2: to just kind of, you know, approach this game like
Speaker 2: the previous eleven games didn't happen. But again, I also
Speaker 2: think it makes more it adds even more pressure, I
Speaker 2: think for Louisville. All right, quick break, We'll talk some
Speaker 2: basketball coming up here before too long, because obviously there's
Speaker 2: been a lot of college hoops going on. Louisville did
Speaker 2: play on Friday. We haven't talked about it yet, but
Speaker 2: I think what happened against Winthrop a close, closer game
Speaker 2: early on than maybe a lot of people expect it.
Speaker 2: But still they won without a whole lot of trouble
Speaker 2: didn't cover. But I still saw some things that you know,
Speaker 2: I'm aware that if you see Winthrop doing it, you're thinking, oh, man,
Speaker 2: what's Indiana gonna do? What's good Zaga going to do?
Speaker 2: If we play them? And I get it, But I
Speaker 2: actually think in these last two games, it's tough to
Speaker 2: really know, but I feel like they took at least
Speaker 2: some small steps forward as far as just kind of
Speaker 2: getting a better feel for who they're going to be
Speaker 2: as a team, like their identity. So again, we'll talk
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Speaker 2: Text line five O two six five three zero seven
Speaker 2: ninety This says Nick. I know you said it jokingly
Speaker 2: on Saturday night, but I totally agree. Had Louisville not lost,
Speaker 2: wevill did lose. Think you misspoke? He said, Louisville not
Speaker 2: lost to Stanford, the Kentucky loss would actually hurt even more.
Speaker 2: Here's what I think you mean because when I know
Speaker 2: what I said, and it wasn't really like a planned
Speaker 2: thing to bring up and discuss, but it just kind
Speaker 2: of hit me on Saturday because if you listen to
Speaker 2: the postgame show, we had some fun. Obviously a great
Speaker 2: game for Louisville. I mean, you couldn't ask for a
Speaker 2: better bounce back performance from Jeff Brom and this team
Speaker 2: given what happened the week before. But what I'd said,
Speaker 2: because it quickly shifted to Kentucky right after, you know,
Speaker 2: the initial thoughts on the game, and we heard from
Speaker 2: Jeff Brom in the press conference and then it just
Speaker 2: kind of shifted and started. It just shifted to talking
Speaker 2: about Kentucky in the matchup. But what I'd said was
Speaker 2: that if there is a silver lining and losing to Stanford,
Speaker 2: was that if you do end up losing Kentucky despite
Speaker 2: their season being where it is, it's still gonna hurt.
Speaker 2: It's still gonna suck. But I think you probably don't
Speaker 2: have much like Louisville went from a team with their
Speaker 2: three losses to Notre Dame SMU in Miami. In that
Speaker 2: in that world they were viewed you know, you could
Speaker 2: you could easily view them as a team that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: They've just played a tough schedule and the three teams
Speaker 2: that they've lost to, those teams are actually pretty damn good,
Speaker 2: and Louisville was competitive and could have won those games.
Speaker 2: You know, if you watch loutlever closely that even despite
Speaker 2: that pre Stanford lost, they still were you know, these
Speaker 2: still times would just make really crucial mistakes at terrible
Speaker 2: times and show signs of being undisciplined. But again, the
Speaker 2: committee said you were a top twenty team. You know,
Speaker 2: you still had results that you know, were respected by
Speaker 2: those that ranked these teams and whatnot. But if you
Speaker 2: lose to Stanford the way you did it kind of
Speaker 2: makes it to where, yeah, you know, like I put it,
Speaker 2: put it as way. I bet those other teams out
Speaker 2: there that had Louisville as a notable win when Louisville
Speaker 2: lost to Stanford, I'm sure they weren't happy because it
Speaker 2: wasn't a good look for Louisville. So the way they
Speaker 2: lost to Stanford, it's just I guess a refresher, a
Speaker 2: reminder that like they still can't do things like that
Speaker 2: even after a big win against Clemson on the road.
Speaker 2: So you know, I don't know for sure, and I
Speaker 2: don't want to find out, but I said it two
Speaker 2: days ago, forty eight hours ago, roughly, I still stand.
Speaker 2: I think there won't be any level of like shock
Speaker 2: or disbelieve if Louisville comes out and does kind of
Speaker 2: the same things they did against Stanford and the same
Speaker 2: things they did against these other teams, and it has
Speaker 2: a big factor in them being unable to win. Had
Speaker 2: they rolled Stanford by forty, wouldn't have meant much because
Speaker 2: Stanford's that bad, and then they did what they did
Speaker 2: the other night against Pittsburgh, I still would not be
Speaker 2: feeling like, oh yeah, Louisville's gonna cruise. There's no scenario
Speaker 2: that they lose this game because of what this game is.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think if there is any silver lining,
Speaker 2: I now am not necessarily you know, like, nothing's off
Speaker 2: the table for me when it comes to Saturday. And
Speaker 2: I mean this, and again, probably not a great way
Speaker 2: to really build up excitement for the game and get
Speaker 2: people interested in listening along with us for the next
Speaker 2: few days as we get you set for the game.
Speaker 2: But there's not a result out there that would shock
Speaker 2: me if Louisville lets it get away early or something
Speaker 2: and they implode, Like I hope that doesn't happen. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's likely to happen, but I can't say
Speaker 2: i'd be stunned. I mean, you saw what they did
Speaker 2: just the game before the Pittsburgh game. If they start
Speaker 2: clicking offensively and they've got Cory Brooks making plays, your
Speaker 2: freshman duo at running back, Brown and Watson, those guys
Speaker 2: are are getting loose. The defense, you know, is the
Speaker 2: good defense like what we saw Saturday, and Stan Kuon
Speaker 2: Clark's out there making plays, Ashton July's getting loose despite
Speaker 2: being held every play seemingly in Louisville roles. That wouldn't
Speaker 2: shock me. I mean, that's obviously what I hope to happen,
Speaker 2: But like a close win for either side also really
Speaker 2: wouldn't shock me. I thought about it yesterday and a
Speaker 2: lot throughout the day today. How can I put an
Speaker 2: interesting twist on this matchup? How can I provide a
Speaker 2: perspective that maybe you're not getting elsewhere as everybody's shifted
Speaker 2: gears to this Governor's Cup matchup, but I got nothing,
Speaker 2: Like nothing would shock me. I clearly have you know,
Speaker 2: wishful thinking on my end as far as what happens.
Speaker 2: But I really and honestly probably just me being a
Speaker 2: warrior as a human being. That's just part of my personality.
Speaker 2: It's an issue I have. I worry way too much
Speaker 2: about things at times. I try not to. But them
Speaker 2: starting their freshman quarterback like that made it even more so,
Speaker 2: Like Wow, I mean, who knows, Maybe Kentucky's a new
Speaker 2: team because this freshman who's never started a game he's
Speaker 2: getting his first start. Maybe he's the guy they should
Speaker 2: have been playing all along, and they'd have a way
Speaker 2: different year if he was their guy. I mean again,
Speaker 2: I hope that's not the case, but none of us know.
Speaker 2: What I do know is where you need to turn
Speaker 2: to when it comes to keeping your pets safe and healthy.
Speaker 2: That's the Jefferson Animal Hospital over there on Outer Loop.
Speaker 2: They've been around for a long time. In fact, since
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty that's forty four years, almost forty five years
Speaker 2: if you can count. And you don't stick around with
Speaker 2: a great reputation like that they have over there at
Speaker 2: Jefferson Animal Hospital unless you're doing what you claim you
Speaker 2: do and doing it really well, and that's taking care
Speaker 2: of your pets. Pets are family members, and they obviously
Speaker 2: can't communicate with us like humans can, so they may
Speaker 2: not even know they've got some kind of an ailment,
Speaker 2: some kind of a health issue going on. So you
Speaker 2: should always get him checked out. Don't wait for an emergency,
Speaker 2: don't wait for something to happen, some kind of sign
Speaker 2: that something's wrong. Just make sure. Hey, even if they're
Speaker 2: not showing any signs of something, we should go get
Speaker 2: a check up, just to make sure, just to be safe.
Speaker 2: So it's Jefferson Animal Hospital. Give them a call FABO
Speaker 2: to nine hundred pets. Visit them online at Jefferson Vets
Speaker 2: dot com. They're open twenty four hours at eight, three
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five days a year, folks, So even
Speaker 2: on a holiday, there's an emergency, they're there for you.
Speaker 2: All right. We're here for you too for the next
Speaker 2: two hours, So stick around. Let's talk to some college
Speaker 2: hoops coming up on the other side, as Louis's getting
Speaker 2: set for this battle for Atlantis. How you feeling about
Speaker 2: those Hoosiers, Johnny, I'm feeling good. Could be feeling better
Speaker 2: about them. People probably thought I was talking about football,
Speaker 2: but I was talking basketball because these two teams play
Speaker 2: the Hoosiers and the Cards on Wednesday at noon, which
Speaker 2: I don't feel great about the matchup on my end,
Speaker 2: but we shall see, We shall see, all right. Stick around, everybody,
Speaker 2: Two more hours left right here on Sports Talk seven
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