WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:07.320 It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:25.800 Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee. 3 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:22.359 All right, five o'clock hour underway, as we are going 4 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.199 to get as much in as we can before we 5 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:26.120 hand it off to Nick Curran and the Louisville Bats 6 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:28.719 as they're set for action this evening, which again you'll 7 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:31.280 hear it right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Coffee 8 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:33.799 and Company, that's us, and we are fueled by Thornton's 9 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.520 save money at the pump every day, save twenty five 10 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.000 cents once per week as a member of the Refreshing 11 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.520 Awards program. So if you haven't signed up yet, you 12 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.399 certainly should, and if you don't, I mean at your loss. 13 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:47.079 It is your loss for sure. All right. 14 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.039 A bit of busy, busy show so far today, A 15 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:53.280 lot to kind of reset here before we at least 16 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.000 attempt to finish strong. With the amount of time that 17 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:56.600 we have, we should be out of here a little 18 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:57.520 bit around five thirty. 19 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.560 But I started the show just. 20 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:05.079 Acknowledge the real momentum that Louisville football seems to have 21 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:07.359 right now. And I don't mean that they're looked at 22 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:09.920 as some dark horse to win a national championship. But obviously, 23 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.120 I think after two years and as you get close 24 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:14.959 to heading into year three, you're getting a good return 25 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.959 on that investment and bringing Jeff Brom home and you 26 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:20.239 clearly are in a better place now than you were 27 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:23.200 prior to Jeff getting here. Kentucky, on the other hand, 28 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.840 they've taken a real big step in the opposite direction, 29 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.799 where they're coming off of a four and eight season, 30 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.799 the most disappointing season Mark Stoops has had at Kentucky, 31 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:34.319 I believe, just based off the fact that there were 32 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.760 real expectations, right like you can't go I mean, I 33 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:39.159 guess when they went two and ten or three and nine, 34 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.319 whatever it was in his first few years, I mean, 35 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:43.879 that was kind of the expectation because of what he inherited. Well, 36 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.200 he set a standard that was not elite, but clearly 37 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.000 better than what they were used to. Getting to Bowl 38 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.640 games was obviously something that just became a very normal 39 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:55.319 and regular thing. And you know, moving forward, I don't 40 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:56.640 know if that's the case. They were four and eight 41 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:58.879 last year. They had good players. All those players either 42 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:02.879 left to go to the or transferred out. And we'll 43 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.120 see if he's got a better squad on the field 44 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:06.680 next year. But I would not be shocked at all 45 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.360 if they are four and eight, three and nine once again. 46 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.680 And you're seeing it with the decline and season ticket sales. 47 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.199 That's where fans really some of them are probably you know, 48 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.120 thinking to themselves, Yah, they ain't get my money with 49 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:19.759 this train wreck that Stoops has right now and no 50 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.719 real positive signed to point to as far as it's 51 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:24.039 going to be okay and they're going to get back 52 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.360 to where they want to be. But some are just 53 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.039 like probably not even like they're just checked out because 54 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:31.439 the product has been bad and they don't believe that 55 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.479 it's going to be much better this year. According to 56 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:37.000 the Hair Leader, through May twelfth, Kentucky sold more than 57 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:41.199 twenty one thousand season ticket packages, but it's twenty five 58 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:45.039 thousand viewer tickets sold than what they're used to. I mean, 59 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.080 the forty thousand is I guess the maximum. And they've 60 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:52.080 sold out season tickets last two years. Now they're down substantially, 61 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.599 And again that's not a real surprise because I mean, 62 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.360 let's consider the big drop they had last year, and 63 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:01.319 I think fans are real real with themselves more often 64 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:03.960 than maybe we realize because I don't think you know, 65 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.520 many Kentucky fans would would tell you that they certainly 66 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:08.159 believe that they're going to be better than they were 67 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:09.800 a year ago. Like maybe they are better, but like 68 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:14.000 the schedule is really tough, and I mean, I think 69 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.080 if you're telling yourself that you have better personnel and 70 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.080 you're going to be in a better place because you know, 71 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:20.960 they made some massive roster update, I mean, maybe you'll 72 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:22.599 end up being right, but I don't really know what 73 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.120 evidence that you would have that could support that. So 74 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.879 real opposite sides here, and the win total is another 75 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.800 indicator of that. Louisville wind total set it eight and 76 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:35.719 a half, which I mean a lot of that does 77 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.280 have to do with the schedule. Kentucky's win total set 78 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:40.360 it four and a half. A lot of that does 79 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.400 have to also do with their schedule because it's really challenging. Obviously, 80 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:45.520 the ACC schedule is not going to be as challenging 81 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.719 as an SEC schedule. We all know that, but like 82 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:49.719 you can't use that at this point, like, yeah, we're 83 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:50.400 basically the same. 84 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:52.560 It's just you know, we play in the SEC. No 85 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:52.919 you're not. 86 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.800 I mean that was pretty evident. Last year, and I 87 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:59.080 do think that Kentucky would have a different win total 88 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.879 and they would probably have a different record this upcoming 89 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.639 season if they played in the ACC rather than the SEC. 90 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:07.319 But if that's like, if that's the last thing you 91 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.280 can cling to as far as not acknowledging, you know, 92 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.800 kind of the mess that Stoops has created. I mean, 93 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.040 God bless you. And look, he may end up making 94 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.480 a big step forward because you know, crazier things have happened, 95 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:25.600 I suppose, but it just seems like A and M 96 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:27.879 pulling the plug at the last minute and not offering 97 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:32.079 him the job. I mean, I think last year is 98 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:34.839 almost as if he showed up for another season but 99 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:37.480 really had not, hadn't planned on being there, and maybe 100 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:39.959 really wasn't really quite there, if you know what I'm saying. 101 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.720 But again, he'll have the opportunity to prove everybody wrong, 102 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:45.920 and I think he's probably earned that. 103 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.199 I mean, last year is the one real like outlier. 104 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.519 But I feel like best case scenario for him would 105 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.120 have been to really be out in front, letting fans know, hey, 106 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.279 I understand the frustration. We did set a standard fell 107 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:02.680 below that it's unacceptable. We're gonna get better. We're gonna 108 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:06.199 get it done. We're going to work tirelessly to get 109 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.439 this thing turned around. I mean that may not do 110 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.480 a whole lot because it's just words, but you know, 111 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:13.800 you might have been able to sell a few more 112 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:18.000 season tickets, so we shall see. Football season will be 113 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:20.199 here before you know it. And that has me excited, 114 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:22.800 all right. We also let you hear some Pat Kelsey sound. 115 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.079 He is at the ACC Spring meetings and he was 116 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.720 on with Luke Hancock and Mark Packer of the ACC Network. 117 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.639 Did a little twelve thirteen minute interview. We played a 118 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.040 little snippet of it earlier. We'll play another coming up 119 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:39.480 here before too long. And anytime we get a chance 120 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:42.000 to hear Pat Kelsey talk about, you know, the program, 121 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:43.720 I mean he's pretty good at that, right, pretty good 122 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:45.519 at talking, and then we learned this past year he's 123 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:48.720 also pretty good at winning too, So we'll let you guys, 124 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:50.240 here's some more of that before we get out of here. 125 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.040 We also talked a little bit about. 126 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:58.800 The the college football Playoff, and we didn't really get 127 00:05:58.839 --> 00:05:59.839 into it. And that's kind of what I want to 128 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:03.360 do right now because it's not a surprise probably to 129 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:05.800 anybody to hear that there is as Ross Dellinger of 130 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:09.439 Yahoo Sports reports that the future of the college football 131 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.240 postseason is growing messy. The right up here that he 132 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:14.959 has and he's done a great job of following all 133 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.480 this potential changes to the college football playoffs. He's somebody 134 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:20.279 that I don't really know if I would say he's 135 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:26.759 like a big established name, like you know, the Brett McMurphy's. 136 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:30.519 Or even like the hell's his name? I can't think 137 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.879 of his name very he was just a Derby Herb 138 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:34.959 Street Herbie. 139 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:36.680 Like he's like those are guys that you know that, 140 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.439 like you know visibly and just the name, like a 141 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:40.720 lot of people know who they are. I'm not sure 142 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:42.360 how many people know who Ross Ellinger is. But he 143 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.040 is really really good. I encourage you follow him. 144 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:45.480 He has. 145 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:46.920 He's come on the show a couple of times, but 146 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:48.240 I kind of feel like he's gotten too big for 147 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:50.319 us now. But he's done a great job of covering 148 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:53.319 a lot of this. And he claims that the discord 149 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.639 lingers over the proposed sixteen team playoff granting the Big 150 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:02.360 Ten twice as many automatic bids as the Big twelve 151 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:06.360 in the ACC and I'm happy to hear this, because 152 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:09.279 if you're you know, I don't really even know what 153 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.319 power or control anybody has because again, who's in charge. 154 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:16.759 You've got, you know, representatives from each league, right, the commissioners, 155 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:22.319 Phillips from the ACC, Sankey from the SEC. 156 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:25.839 I don't. I can. I can visualize that. 157 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:26.120 I can. 158 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:27.920 I can see the guy's face from the Big Twelve 159 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.079 of your mac Brett, Yourmack of the Big Twelve, And 160 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:32.360 I don't even know who the commission of the Big 161 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.199 Ten is, to be honest with you, but like they're 162 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:37.240 all supposed to specifically be looking out for the best 163 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.839 interest of their league and not worrying about anybody else 164 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.480 because that's their job. There needs to be somebody over 165 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.160 top of the entire thing that is looking out for 166 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.680 everyone's best interest. And there's not a conflict of interest. 167 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:52.120 There's not you know, some favoritism going on. So I 168 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.680 won't be surprised if we end up with exactly that 169 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.600 a sixteen team playoff, that half of it is represented 170 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.560 automatically by the Big Ten in the SEC and then 171 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.319 the three at large spots. I mean, they'll probably go 172 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:07.519 to an SEC school, at least one or two of them, right, 173 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:09.720 Because that's just how it's gonna work out. And this 174 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.439 is not a conversation about is the SEC the best? Yes, 175 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:19.160 but you can't like locking in a postseason format that 176 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:27.000 quite literally is gift is Positioning teams based off of 177 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.759 what a conference has done in the past is idiotic 178 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.120 and insane, and I don't know why more people don't see. 179 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:33.320 It that way. 180 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.720 I hate to get so worked up, but before any 181 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.759 games are played in any season, you're gonna go ahead 182 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.240 and say that this league in that league, and this 183 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.879 league gets specific amount of spots guaranteed, Like there. 184 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.080 Shouldn't be any guarantee. I don't think. 185 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.519 I mean, if there is a guarantee, it should be 186 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.240 based off of the G five because they would get 187 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:53.960 left out about it, and I do think they at 188 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:57.840 least needs to be some representation from them. But even 189 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.639 that sets the president though of like we're gonna go 190 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:03.360 ahead and automatically say that. But again, the G five 191 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:06.759 is a whole level of football, Like it's not just 192 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:12.519 one com mean the scenario, like the scenario where you 193 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:16.120 would feel like there's not any team from the non 194 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.639 Power four and Notre Dame, not a one from the 195 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:22.120 outside group that wouldn't be worthy of one of the 196 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.360 sixteen spots. Like again, you may have a down year 197 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.679 in all G five as the rich get richer continuously 198 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.080 with the portal and nil, but there'll be one team 199 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:32.320 that you feel like, Okay, yeah, they you know, let's 200 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:33.679 give them a chance to at least see what they 201 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.240 can do. I mean last year it was Boise State, right, 202 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:42.000 so you know, maybe Boise maybe I don't know, maybe 203 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.679 a Memphis. Who else is kind of in that, you know, 204 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.080 maybe app State just because And I only bring them 205 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:49.399 up because they've typically been pretty good for for a 206 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.960 G five program. So this is a little This is 207 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.759 another little blurb from the ride up from Ross Dellinger, 208 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:02.519 and he's talking about highlighting the contentious proposal for the playoff, 209 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:04.240 which will start in twenty twenty six, with the Big 210 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.639 ten in the SEC would each get four automatic qualifiers, 211 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.879 the Big twelve and the ACC would only get two. 212 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:11.960 And then it. 213 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.759 Also says here in his article that political pressure is mounting, 214 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:19.000 with the Pennsylvania Congressman publicly criticizing the SEC and the 215 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.200 Big Ten for rigging the CFP, reflecting broader concerns about 216 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.919 power imbalances in college football as the Big Ten and 217 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.519 SEC leverage their dominance post. 218 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:33.840 Pac twelve collapse. So look, if you truly are. 219 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.080 The best two leagues, which I think you clearly are, 220 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:41.559 why do you need the guarantee? Aren't you going to 221 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.399 prove it? Like you're basically claiming that you are automatically 222 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.440 guaranteed four because you've been great forever. Well, if you 223 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:49.399 don't see that changing, why don't you continue to be 224 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.840 great and just get those spots without automatic guarantees? 225 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:55.159 Right, I don't think it's that. 226 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.080 I don't think it's and again, it's not even realistic 227 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.600 in any way to expect there not to be some 228 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.480 major representation from the SEC and the Big Ten. But 229 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.840 just to tell us that before a single team plays 230 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:13.360 a game, it's absolutely tiptoeing a line, maybe crossing it 231 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.279 as far as this being a popularity contest more than anything. 232 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:20.360 When you start hearing about people throwing out viewership as 233 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.559 part of the criteria for getting in, get the hell 234 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.639 out of here with that, I mean, that is insanity 235 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:29.240 and I don't know why it's not. Again, we could 236 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.440 end up probably getting the same amount of teams from 237 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.879 each conference, could be the same representation from each conference. 238 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.159 Even if they don't give autobids. So again that's not 239 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:39.879 what this is about, but just going ahead and saying, 240 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:42.720 regardless of what happens, like let's say the SEC falls apart, 241 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:44.240 it won't, but let's just live in a world. 242 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:44.639 Where it did. 243 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.720 They get four automatic spots. I mean, maybe the Big 244 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.159 ten starts eating their lunch, because, by the way, the 245 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:55.759 Big ten has a lot of potential too to be 246 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.759 a bigger I mean, because again, nobody would argue that 247 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:04.080 you're not dominant when it comes to history, alumni, base value, 248 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:05.919 when it comes to like, you know, the amount of 249 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.679 people who watch your games, but that should never in 250 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.960 any way be a factor in you getting a chance 251 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:15.559 to play in the college football postseason. I mean, it's 252 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:17.440 it's crazy, and I'll move on because if not, I'm 253 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.440 just gonna keep I'm gonna keep you apping about it, 254 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:21.039 and I don't think you guys want to hear that anymore. 255 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:24.159 But not a surprise, as Rosstellinger reports that there's already 256 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.720 some growing, growing concerns that this is gonna get messy 257 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:29.120 and they're not gonna be able to come to an 258 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.240 agreement because again, you're foolish if you're making an agreement 259 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.639 that is not looking out for your own league. They 260 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:40.879 I don't know what leverage anybody in the or in 261 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.720 the ACC or the Big twelve has, But like if 262 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.840 you're Jim Billips and you're like, yeah, oh, thanks for 263 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.960 giving us two spots. Oh we're so we're so grateful, 264 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:51.960 Like you're not doing your job. You don't have to 265 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.759 agree to this now. Again, if you don't agree, what happens. 266 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.639 I don't know, but there should be somebody over top 267 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.080 that just says, look, go earn it, and look, the 268 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.120 SEC and the Big ten have always gotten the benefit 269 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:04.919 of the doubt at times when they didn't deserve it. 270 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.679 So why do you need these four guaranteed spots? Again? 271 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:12.200 I promised this time I'll stop yapping, all right, real 272 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:13.960 quick before we let you hear Pat Kelsey. When it 273 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.240 comes to the playoffs, we talked just a moment ago 274 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:19.639 about the great finish last night between the Thunder and 275 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:24.440 the Nuggets, and that series has been phenomenal and I'm 276 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:25.440 going to continue to watch it. 277 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:26.679 I hope we get seven. I really do. 278 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:28.720 But just a couple of things to add when it 279 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:32.759 comes to last night's win from my Pacers, which ended 280 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:35.039 the series and ended the season for Donovan. 281 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.600 Mitchell and the Calves. The Calves are now. 282 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.399 The first team in MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL history to 283 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.159 start a season with a fifteen plus game unbeaten streak 284 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.720 but then be eliminated from the playoffs prior to the 285 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.759 championship round that year. I feel like that's from OPTA stats. 286 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:53.480 I feel like that's picking on the Calves, Like that's 287 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.039 a very to me cherry pig stat to let you 288 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:58.120 know that they were really good but didn't get it 289 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:01.000 done in the postseason. Also, so this is just a 290 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:02.840 bad look for the Pacers, I guess more than a 291 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:04.480 bad look for the Calves, but I guess more than anything, 292 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:07.480 it's probably a really good look for uh, for for 293 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:12.279 my for my for my Pacers. But Cleveland against the 294 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:16.519 against the NBA at home other than Indianapolis. So when 295 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:21.399 Cleveland's at home playing anybody in the league outside of Indiana, 296 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:25.639 thirty six and five Cleveland against the Pacers at home 297 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:30.799 this year, oh and five. I mean Indy just had 298 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:34.000 their number really all year. And also this was uh 299 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.960 Max Strus is a guy who, believe it or not, 300 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:38.960 played it to Paul and has somehow worked that into 301 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.000 an opportunity in the NBA, where he's played for a 302 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:42.360 couple of different teams. I think he played for the 303 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.559 Heat for a while and now he's with the Calves, 304 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:48.120 and uh, this story, this was, this was this, this 305 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:49.559 is I feel like I'm picking on this guy, but 306 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:50.639 this is actually funny. 307 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.480 Eight group text message was sent out to every single 308 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:58.360 Cavalier player from Max Strus. Shrews said simply, if you 309 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:02.039 don't believe, then don't show up for work. Shrew said 310 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.320 this morning that he doesn't think this group is done. 311 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:06.480 So that's a guy trying to rally his team, not 312 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:08.039 sure he's in a position where he should be the 313 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.279 guy sending out a group text and firing the team up. 314 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.159 I would imagine that would probably be a role for 315 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.879 Donovan Mitchell, not Max Streuce, but Max Drews. What did 316 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:18.919 he do after sending out that fiery message if you 317 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:23.000 don't believe, don't show up for work. Max showed up 318 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:25.799 for work and didn't do any work. He went zero 319 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:28.759 for nine, didn't score a point as the Cavs were eliminated. 320 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.200 That's that's a tough l to hold for Max s Drews, 321 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:32.639 but it happens. 322 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:34.960 It happens. I real quick. We only have a few 323 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:35.480 minutes left. 324 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:38.480 But here's a little more from the conversation Pat Kelsey 325 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:42.039 had with Mark Packer and Luke Hancock earlier today at 326 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:43.840 the ACC Spring meetings. 327 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:45.759 Well, you know, here you are at eighteen and two, 328 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.440 but that fan and you've played it for that crowd. Now, 329 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.480 Louisville basketball, when it's rocking, when it's kind of its 330 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:53.639 a game, they're not going to take a back seat 331 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:54.559 to anybody in the country. 332 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:56.720 Pack You're right, I mean, it's one of the most 333 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.320 powerful special story brands in all of collegiate basketball. You 334 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.120 played for you'll go down as maybe the greatest of 335 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:05.679 all time. And coach Patino, which you have, Danny Crumb 336 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:07.799 or you kidding me. There's every once in while. It 337 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:09.679 probably happens once a month, and I did it today. 338 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.440 I'll send Josh Herd a text and I'll say, you know, 339 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.159 just thank you, you know, just just having that sense 340 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.960 of gratitude when I say I'm the head coach at 341 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:20.519 the University of Louisville. It's still kind of crazy. Sometimes 342 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:22.399 they have the type of season we had, you feel 343 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.759 like you're in in your keep a little bit. But 344 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:27.840 you know, you listen really close late at night, you 345 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:29.960 can already hear that ball starting to bounce in the 346 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:30.559 Young Center. 347 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.519 So walk walked through the gym when it's empty, and 348 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:35.399 you just kind of think about the ghost. 349 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:36.759 If you were one hundred percent Yeah. 350 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.320 Not to interrupt you, but I remember interviewing Bill self 351 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:43.159 a long time ago. I was up with serious XM, 352 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:46.600 and I said, you ever just walking you know, rock 353 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:48.559 Chalk Jay Hawky just sit there and he goes pack. 354 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.720 I hear the ghost, I see. You know, if you 355 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.080 go to some of the great places, it doesn't have 356 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.559 to be just hoop to be football, basketball, you pick. 357 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.440 You could sit there in an empty stadium and you're like, 358 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.840 you can hear the rules, you can remember the places. 359 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:05.000 And to me, Louisville basketball kind of falls into that category. 360 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:06.920 I do it all the time. I'm a I'm an 361 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.160 early guy, especially during the season. Am I going to 362 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:10.119 sleep crazy early? 363 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:10.880 I don't. 364 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:12.400 I don't require a lot of sleep. 365 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.799 But now I'll get up four four thirty in the morning, 366 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:16.799 and I'll you know, especially during the season we're practicing 367 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.039 at them, I'll go down to them Center and the 368 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.720 security's always there. And I always ask him to turn 369 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.400 the lights on when I walk in. Literally every single day, 370 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:25.960 I'll walk in there and sit in one of the 371 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.440 seats and just look around and go get the work. 372 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:29.480 So it's cool. 373 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:33.279 Yeah, So I mean does he does he know? He 374 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:35.119 makes us fall in love with him all over again, 375 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:38.160 Austin anytime he talks up the program like we needed 376 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.960 it majorly in a major way, I should say, given 377 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:42.079 the previous regime. 378 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:46.119 But like, you know, put it this way, it's just work. 379 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:47.839 I mean, it's probably a lot of people will be like, oh, 380 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:48.960 that's just what he's supposed to say. 381 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:50.720 He's he's he's great with words. 382 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.039 He's you know, he's being the politician saying what a 383 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.319 coach should say this and that, and maybe that's true. 384 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.559 But I do know we as a fan base, because 385 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:00.200 of how much we care about louis Basket. 386 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.240 Like it it. 387 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.319 It hits every time with us, right when he tells 388 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.279 us what he says. I sometimes just text Josh Hurt 389 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.240 and thank him because I'm the coach at Louisville. Like again, 390 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.119 you got to win to keep this job. 391 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:12.759 We all know that. 392 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:14.720 But when you win and you say things like that, 393 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.039 I mean That's why this guy is a fan favorite, 394 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.440 to say the least. That's our guy, Austin. That's our 395 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:23.160 coach right there, that's our that's our ball coach. 396 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.799 It's so refreshing and such a breath of fresh air 397 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.200 that every time you see him that he's he does 398 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.359 the things that he do. It might have I don't 399 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:36.119 know how it came off other casuals to start the season, 400 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.480 but like I mean, I knew I was sold after 401 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.079