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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome in to a Friday edition of
Speaker 4: Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk
Speaker 4: seven ninety as we close out another week here, get
Speaker 4: your set for the weekend. I feel like it's a
Speaker 4: big weekend. I mean, I would say that even if
Speaker 4: I didn't think it was a big weekend.
Speaker 3: But I'm just gonna go ahead and get it out there.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 4: We are one minute and thirteen seconds into being live here,
Speaker 4: and I'm really worried about tomorrow's game. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to be the guy that's saying, like I predict a loss,
Speaker 4: because one that would be a terrible way to start
Speaker 4: the show. And I've never been big on giving predictions.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's, you know, because I'm well aware that
Speaker 4: whatever I like, nobody has a clue, right. I Mean
Speaker 4: there's certain games where you know, hey, whenever a big
Speaker 4: time favorite has taken on a big time underdog. You
Speaker 4: know the result is likely going to be a big
Speaker 4: win for the favorite. But like as far as like
Speaker 4: you know, hey, what's your prediction, what's your score? Like,
Speaker 4: it's just never really been my thing because if I could,
Speaker 4: if I gave you a number, meaning a score, and
Speaker 4: a scenario how it finishes, I don't think I'd be
Speaker 4: able to sell you, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 4: you would you would you would know that as I'm
Speaker 4: sharing with you my prediction that I'm just guessing and
Speaker 4: we all are, and I can't do it very convincingly
Speaker 4: because you know, it wouldn't be genuine. So I've never
Speaker 4: been real big on like, hey, here's what's gonna happen,
Speaker 4: here's the score, here's how we got there. But with
Speaker 4: Louisville Virginia tomorrow, I'm scared. Not that I'm scared of
Speaker 4: Virginia because they're not a scary team. I mean, they're
Speaker 4: in a pretty good spot here and we can certainly discuss,
Speaker 4: you know, the matchup. We're going to talk to Alex
Speaker 4: Kupper coming up here at three point thirty, and I'm
Speaker 4: really interested in hearing his thoughts on how Louisville is
Speaker 4: here with losses that you know aren't terrible as far
Speaker 4: as you lost to, but how they lost and just
Speaker 4: how sloppy they've been. It's been a big conversation, as
Speaker 4: you could expect, but the lack of communication on defense.
Speaker 4: At one point you had fourteen guys on the field
Speaker 4: on defense.
Speaker 3: Like, I'm just.
Speaker 4: Curious if Cup can give us some perspective and like
Speaker 4: how that could ever happen? Like how can a team
Speaker 4: be so disorganized and have such an issue with communication?
Speaker 4: And he may not have the answer, but we're at
Speaker 4: least gonna ask him. He's gonna join his coming up
Speaker 4: at three thirty. So again, I'm not here to say, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm predicting a Louisville loss. Everybody prepare for the ultimate
Speaker 4: melt down from the fan base to lose three in
Speaker 4: a row and drop to three and three on the season,
Speaker 4: because I'm not here to tell you that I think
Speaker 4: that's what's going to happen. But I am comfortable enough
Speaker 4: to at least say, given the last two weeks, kind
Speaker 4: of given where Louisville is right now as a team
Speaker 4: and where Virginia is and knowing they're at home, like
Speaker 4: I'm I'm worried. I'm worried, and it's not because I
Speaker 4: think Louisville is terrible. I mean, that's what makes it
Speaker 4: even more frustrating is that I think they if they
Speaker 4: just come out more prepared, avoid the avoidable mistakes, have
Speaker 4: a better led defense as far as you know, scheme, execution,
Speaker 4: game plan, all that kind of stuff, then I think
Speaker 4: they're probably sitting at five and zero. And if they
Speaker 4: were five and oh, I guess the Notre Dame wind
Speaker 4: would be would be notable. But of course people would
Speaker 4: still bring up the fact that, well, Northern Illinois just
Speaker 4: did the same thing two weeks before and SMU, even
Speaker 4: though at this point it's you know, I don't think
Speaker 4: you can call that like a bad loss, as if
Speaker 4: you lost to a terrible team. But you know, I
Speaker 4: thought we were I thought we were at a point
Speaker 4: where you just didn't think you'd be losing many home
Speaker 4: conference games. And you got Miami coming to town next
Speaker 4: week and SMU despite them having I mean, they've got
Speaker 4: momentum right now, they're on a roll. But still like
Speaker 4: that was not a game. I don't think many expected
Speaker 4: Louisville to just come out and lose. So tomorrow three
Speaker 4: thirty Louisville in Virginia. It's not a big game in
Speaker 4: the grand scheme of things for the college football world
Speaker 4: and the slate that we have on Saturday. But it's
Speaker 4: just a weird situation because you win here, there's not
Speaker 4: a whole lot to gain. I mean, you're beating a
Speaker 4: team that you feel like every year you should just
Speaker 4: beat because you are better. But they've always given you
Speaker 4: trouble in certain spots that you know, they've been the
Speaker 4: head scratching opponent for Louisville the ACC. You know, overall,
Speaker 4: they've they've not been very good since Louisville's been in
Speaker 4: the ACC, but they've either beat Louisville in years where
Speaker 4: you know Louisville was down, or they play them close
Speaker 4: when they're not good in Louisville is and that happened
Speaker 4: last year. I mean twenty sixteen, Louisville needed a big
Speaker 4: time play from Lamar Jackson to Jalen Smith to avoid
Speaker 4: a big time upset. They gave Bobby his first ACC
Speaker 4: loss back in twenty fourteen. And I've never been somebody
Speaker 4: that believes what you see like trends are real, meaning
Speaker 4: you can track them right, Like, hey, this team's lost
Speaker 4: eight of nine to this opponent over twenty years.
Speaker 3: But I've never.
Speaker 4: Believed that it actually has anything to do Like whatever
Speaker 4: happened against Virginia last year, whatever happened against Virginia six
Speaker 4: years ago, has nothing to do with what's going to
Speaker 4: take place tomorrow. At least that's what I believe, But
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. So again, it's not
Speaker 4: a big game. It's a game you should just win,
Speaker 4: and if you do, we'll say, hey, they avoided a
Speaker 4: three game losing streak. A win should give them some confidence,
Speaker 4: even though it's a game they were supposed to win.
Speaker 4: But a loss here would be I mean, I think
Speaker 4: it would be devastating. I mean, fans are already upset
Speaker 4: and disappointed with the record and knowing that, like, it's
Speaker 4: not really seemingly a talent issue when you play, you know,
Speaker 4: That's what I think. Maybe I shouldn't speak for anybody
Speaker 4: but myself, but I don't think louis a lost in
Speaker 4: Notre Dame because Notre Dame just has players you can't
Speaker 4: account for. You can't line up against those guys and
Speaker 4: make winning plays. I mean, Notre Dame typically is a
Speaker 4: program that would have a superior advantage there when it
Speaker 4: comes to talent, but I didn't see that in South Bend.
Speaker 4: And then last week. I give SMU a lot of
Speaker 4: credit because if you were objectively watching that game, without
Speaker 4: knowing anything about either team or either coach, you would
Speaker 4: just say that SMU is better. So you know you
Speaker 4: just got beat, but you also just are in a
Speaker 4: position defensively with your lack of organization making silly mistakes
Speaker 4: to where you know, if you'd have just tightened up
Speaker 4: a little bit, you'd probably end up winning that game.
Speaker 4: So tomorrow, in a weird way, I don't want to
Speaker 4: be dramatic within the first seven minutes of the show,
Speaker 4: and certainly I'm not doing it for effect, Like I
Speaker 4: don't you know, I don't want to turn this into Hey, everybody,
Speaker 4: let's be on the edge of our seats for the
Speaker 4: next three hours as we anxiously wait to see if
Speaker 4: we lose to Virginia and the season's washed. But you
Speaker 4: know I'm not trying to do that. I'm just being
Speaker 4: honest with you. Tomorrow, I feel like whatever happens will
Speaker 4: be a big time factor in the morale, the energy
Speaker 4: of this fan base, because again, a win, what it
Speaker 4: does there is at least you know, you've avoided the
Speaker 4: three game losing streak. You've reminded yourself as a team that, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, we can't win games against acc competition, and
Speaker 4: then you try to really get right against Miami. Easier
Speaker 4: said than done. But they're gonna be coming off a
Speaker 4: bye week. They've avoided two losses that easily could have
Speaker 4: gone the other way, and they could have been you know,
Speaker 4: they could have lost. But I think a loss here
Speaker 4: would get us to the point where fans are kind
Speaker 4: of just accepting, hey, we're halfway through and this thing
Speaker 4: has been wildly underwhelming, and we have not even played
Speaker 4: the best teams on our schedule yet. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you're three and three after six games and you still
Speaker 4: have Clemson on the road, Miami at home, Kentucky on
Speaker 4: the road, I mean, I think a lot of fans, potentially,
Speaker 4: you know, would be valid in saying, like, yeah, the
Speaker 4: season at this point, I'm still gonna watch, I'm still
Speaker 4: gonna go to games, I'm still gonna cheer for them.
Speaker 4: But we're halfway through, and at this point it's already
Speaker 4: kind of a I'm already underwhelmed. I hope they win
Speaker 4: as many games as possible, but this has been kind
Speaker 4: of it as based off of, you know, what expectations were,
Speaker 4: So let's not let that happen.
Speaker 3: Let's not lose.
Speaker 4: I mean, we have no control meeting myself and Austin
Speaker 4: who's producing today, Like we're not going to have an
Speaker 4: impact on the game.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 4: But I just really hope they can avoid a loss tomorrow,
Speaker 4: because you win, it's just what you're supposed to do
Speaker 4: to kind of get yourself set up for a big
Speaker 4: opportunity against Miami. You lose, and I you know, I
Speaker 4: just think you'll see this fan base in a way
Speaker 4: that they probably never felt like they'd be in with
Speaker 4: Jeff Brown. Not to say that they expected to go
Speaker 4: ten in two every year, but you know, losses to Virginia,
Speaker 4: those aren't Those aren't supposed to happen, and they shouldn't happen,
Speaker 4: and I hope they don't. I hope it doesn't happen tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And even losses to the last two teams that beat you,
Speaker 4: it's not like, how the hell did that happen?
Speaker 3: This is the biggest surprise ever.
Speaker 4: But to see how it happened, and to see what
Speaker 4: is keeping you from being able to hold on and
Speaker 4: win these games is just super disappointing. So tomorrow they
Speaker 4: got a chance to, you know, avoid this losing streak
Speaker 4: and or three game losing streak and get right. But
Speaker 4: I'd be a liar if I said I had a
Speaker 4: lot of confidence in it. But again, I don't want
Speaker 4: you to think that. I'm just saying, hey, everybody, prepare
Speaker 4: for a loss. I'm just going to say this. If
Speaker 4: we end up getting to the postgame show tomorrow, which
Speaker 4: will start as soon as the game ends right here
Speaker 4: on Sports Talk seven ninety, and we are reacting to
Speaker 4: a loss, I'm not sure I'm going to be that stunned.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to be that surprised because in games
Speaker 4: against you know, legitimate competition, and maybe Virginia in your eyes,
Speaker 4: is not a legitimate team, that's scary. They're they're not
Speaker 4: Jacksonville State, they're not Austin P And in games against
Speaker 4: teams that aren't Austin P and Jacksonville State, Louisville has
Speaker 4: put themselves in positions to lose to any of these
Speaker 4: other teams, and they've lost two of those three games,
Speaker 4: So I'm hoping they can. You know, I'm hopeful, That's
Speaker 4: what I am. I'm hopeful, But I just it hit
Speaker 4: me last night when I on my flight back from Charlotte,
Speaker 4: kind of getting back into football mode after a very
Speaker 4: busy couple of days. When it comes to basketball, you know,
Speaker 4: I think they'll win, but I'm not gonna be that.
Speaker 4: You know, to know that, I you know, and I
Speaker 4: can only speak for myself, and maybe you guys feel
Speaker 4: completely different, and that's fine, but to know that, like
Speaker 4: if they lose to Virginia, I can't say that I'm
Speaker 4: stunned is a real disappointment. And also it's kind of
Speaker 4: a scary thing because like it may have been like
Speaker 4: the first step in me as a fan realizing, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: this this isn't this is nowhere near what we thought
Speaker 4: we were going to get this year. But again, a
Speaker 4: win there sets you up for a big opportunity next week.
Speaker 4: And if you can somehow win tomorrow and then win
Speaker 4: next week against Miami, who knows what that, you know,
Speaker 4: you're still going to be in a tough spot when
Speaker 4: it comes to like the acc but that'll at least
Speaker 4: give you a lot of confidence as you hit the
Speaker 4: last half of your schedule. But again tomorrow three point
Speaker 4: thirty Louisville and Virginia. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask, are you a big You may
Speaker 2: not be, but are you big? Like sports superstitious guy
Speaker 2: like you got to sit on like the same couch,
Speaker 2: where the same socks, because I always feel that I
Speaker 2: have that effect on my sports teams, like maybe and
Speaker 2: maybe the cards or the vikings will catch when that
Speaker 2: I'm still sitting in the same spot or I'm still
Speaker 2: wearing the same underwear from the win last week. Have
Speaker 2: you ever is that ever crossed your mind in your
Speaker 2: fandom at all?
Speaker 4: I'm glad you asked that, because I've never really believed
Speaker 4: in it. But I'm such a die hard fan and
Speaker 4: such a lunatic when it comes to watching my teams
Speaker 4: play Louisville of course, being the main one that like
Speaker 4: I've thought about Okay, Like, hey, I don't believe in it,
Speaker 4: but I'll do it with you guys, right, Like we
Speaker 4: are we burned? Are we burn in sage? Are we
Speaker 4: bringing out Grandpaul's old letterman jacket?
Speaker 3: Like it's right?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't believe it, but like anything that
Speaker 4: could potentially like put it this way, I don't believe it,
Speaker 4: but I'm willing to acknowledge I could be wrong. So,
Speaker 4: like if somebody was encouraging me to, hey, go back
Speaker 4: to the seat you were sitting in in the first
Speaker 4: quarter or whatever, like I may, I may do it,
Speaker 4: but I would be a phony to say like that
Speaker 4: you actually believe that has an impact. And I think
Speaker 4: more often than not, when you're in that spot trying
Speaker 4: to like bring in some kind of a superstitious thing
Speaker 4: to reverse momentum to go your way, isn't that like
Speaker 4: the ultimate sign of desperation that you realize like you're screwed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a desperate man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never I've never been big on it, but
Speaker 4: that's you know, I'll try it, Like, hey, if they're
Speaker 4: like if I gotta you know, if I gotta wear
Speaker 4: like that leather helmet that Jeff Brown wore when they
Speaker 4: beat Georgia Tech last year in Atlanta, every day for
Speaker 4: the rest of the season, even at work, even at
Speaker 4: you know, everywhere, like I will, like, I'm not I'm
Speaker 4: not against it. I'm not telling people they're wrong. I
Speaker 4: just have never truly believed in that kind of power
Speaker 4: from you know, a superstitious spot. But again, I'll try
Speaker 4: anything you fit if it avoids a loss to Virginia.
Speaker 3: I'll i'll uh.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, you would you would agree with me, Austin.
Speaker 4: You're a fan of Louisville in a major way, but
Speaker 4: you certainly lean maybe none of the I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't want to put I don't want to speak
Speaker 4: for you. But are you more of a pessimist?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm very oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm very much pessimate the whole world is falling if
Speaker 2: if one thing goes wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, so you know, and I thought that was the case.
Speaker 4: And the reason I bring it up is because you know, like,
Speaker 4: I'm not saying they're gonna lose. I'm I'm just preparing
Speaker 4: myself that if they do, Like, let's not act as
Speaker 4: if we didn't see some signs and they haven't shown
Speaker 4: us that they're vulnerable to lose to anybody with the
Speaker 4: way they play with their mistakes and this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: But given that you are sort of on that side
Speaker 4: of like the world's ending, and you know, you said it,
Speaker 4: not me, So I'm not trying to frame you in
Speaker 4: a way that that isn't legitimate. But like a loss tomorrow,
Speaker 4: I think as much as we've already had a lot
Speaker 4: of fans upset, disappointed, expressing frustration, and by the way,
Speaker 4: I think all the frustration and the criticism has been justified,
Speaker 4: but I think that goes up five notches if they
Speaker 4: lose tomorrow, Like I think it's it's it's you know,
Speaker 4: I don't want to say we're gonna ever be toxic
Speaker 4: again like we once were with some previous coaches around here,
Speaker 4: with both football and basketball. But you know, there were
Speaker 4: real expectations here this year. This wasn't like, hey, honeymoon
Speaker 4: Jeff Bram, We'll see what happens. He did a good
Speaker 4: job building a roster. We're just happy Sadderfield's gone and
Speaker 4: Brom's our guy, Like Brom is our guy, we love him.
Speaker 4: But this year, you know, I think there were more
Speaker 4: expectations than than last year. And that's one of the question.
Speaker 4: That's one of the things that I can't really like
Speaker 4: I don't know the answer to, and it's really just
Speaker 4: however each individual fan feels. But I'm aware that they
Speaker 4: could have easily lost many of the games they won
Speaker 4: last year. But I'm not going to look at that
Speaker 4: and say, well, you know what, now we're getting. Now
Speaker 4: we're getting it's evening out because if you really look
Speaker 4: at what's like the things that are going again that
Speaker 4: are you know, that are hurting this team in a
Speaker 4: major way, weren't there last year.
Speaker 3: Like last year it was just hey, you're right there.
Speaker 4: It's you know, you know, you put yourself behind ten
Speaker 4: points for whatever reason, or this dribe is super crucial
Speaker 4: because it's likely gonna determine who wins the game. You
Speaker 4: were just in close games for whatever reason. You didn't
Speaker 4: have like a lot of room for error. Last year,
Speaker 4: you had a quarterback that was subpar, and you know
Speaker 4: that at times can really hurt you. And occasionally you'd
Speaker 4: play a team that really found a way to you know,
Speaker 4: take advantage of some weaknesses that you have. But you
Speaker 4: were just in close games and you found ways to win.
Speaker 4: This year, they're in close games, desperate to find ways
Speaker 4: to win because they've shot themselves in the foot a
Speaker 4: bunch of times. So like, I you know, again, fan
Speaker 4: how you want to fan, you with the way you
Speaker 4: want to view it, But I'm not somebody that's like, well,
Speaker 4: you know what, I guess this is just our luck.
Speaker 4: You know, we got we had a lot of break
Speaker 4: scar away last year and now this is just us
Speaker 4: getting the other end of it. I mean again, I
Speaker 4: tell you to feel the way you want to feel,
Speaker 4: and here I am mocking you if you feel that way.
Speaker 4: But like, if you really go back and look at
Speaker 4: last year and this year, the issues we're seeing was
Speaker 4: with the you know, the miscommunication defensively, just not being
Speaker 4: organized penalties even like.
Speaker 3: That wasn't there last year.
Speaker 4: But would you agree though like lost tomorrow would be
Speaker 4: you know, I want act like it's the end of
Speaker 4: the world, but I think you'll see a lot of
Speaker 4: fans start to say, hey, I'm gonna pull for him,
Speaker 4: but this season's already washed.
Speaker 2: I already put myself on the pessimistic side just so
Speaker 2: I can always feel pleasantly surprised when it goes the
Speaker 2: other way, and even just just.
Speaker 3: Kind of prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and just going back to the superstition thing. Not
Speaker 2: as much for me as I was when I was
Speaker 2: like a little kid, and I'm still a diehard fan now,
Speaker 2: but just as an adult I've just more or less
Speaker 2: went off vibes, either like the day before or like
Speaker 2: the day of, and I just kind of feel that
Speaker 2: pit of my stomach. That's where I just kind of
Speaker 2: went away from the All right, Austin, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: if you're wearing the same shirt during last week's winning out,
Speaker 2: whatever is gonna happen.
Speaker 3: So you are a superstitious guy.
Speaker 2: I definitely was, And you know, after going to games
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, I just found out it doesn't
Speaker 2: really matter where I sit or what kind of towel
Speaker 2: that I'm waving. But I just know from the last
Speaker 2: two weeks, I just felt the weird feeling in the
Speaker 2: pit of my stomach against Notre Dame and then especially
Speaker 2: it was even intensified last week when we had that game.
Speaker 5: So it I just don't know. It's it's just more
Speaker 5: or less off vibes.
Speaker 2: And and to be honest with you, I mean to
Speaker 2: spoil anything now, but I still have like not that
Speaker 2: great of a feeling for tomorrow's game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think having you know, not a great feeling,
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's understandable just considering like what
Speaker 4: we've seen and there are some and in you know
Speaker 4: this is this is a battle I try not to
Speaker 4: get in because I do understand, like there's no need
Speaker 4: to have, you know, a screaming match with people who
Speaker 4: see it the other Like if you're a fan, you say, well, no,
Speaker 4: I'm a that's my team, those are my cards. So
Speaker 4: hell yeah, I'm gonna say that that I think they're
Speaker 4: gonna win.
Speaker 3: Well, like again, do you But that's just like they
Speaker 3: could be.
Speaker 4: They could have lost every game for five straight seasons
Speaker 4: with that mindset, and you would still say, you know what,
Speaker 4: we got Bama this weekend, we got Georgia, we got
Speaker 4: Ohio State, But you know what, I think my cards
Speaker 4: are gonna win. And look, God bless you for having
Speaker 4: that love and that confidence, because you know that's because
Speaker 4: you care so much and you love them and I
Speaker 4: do too. But you know, I'm also gonna be real
Speaker 4: and be honest with myself. It's kind of what I'm
Speaker 4: supposed to do. So again, as much as it probably
Speaker 4: sounded like a very negative way to start the show
Speaker 4: when it comes to football, one of the things that
Speaker 4: makes this so irritating is that I don't think Louisville
Speaker 4: would have even had to have played that much better
Speaker 4: to be sitting here at five and oh. And if
Speaker 4: they would have come out this season and not had
Speaker 4: some of these issues that they've had now five weeks
Speaker 4: into the season, they'd not only be five and oh,
Speaker 4: they'd probably be talked about as a team that people
Speaker 4: should really be keeping an eye on. And that just
Speaker 4: feels like a big missed opportunity five games in.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: When I say big missed opportunity, I guess I'm, you know,
Speaker 4: acknowledging that, yeah, they've they've probably already kind of shot
Speaker 4: themselves in the foot when it comes to the playoff.
Speaker 4: But I will maintain what I've said throughout the week here.
Speaker 4: I'm never going to be somebody that says, if Louisville
Speaker 4: doesn't make the playoff and the seasons of failure, I
Speaker 4: think that's just silly, because even though the playoff has
Speaker 4: expanded to twelve and the ability to get there is
Speaker 4: totally different for everybody that's in a power for a
Speaker 4: league like I just think if that's the bar, that's
Speaker 4: you're gonna be very disappointed more often than not. And
Speaker 4: that's just not realistic for Louisville. I mean, like, let's
Speaker 4: be real, who we are as a program, you know,
Speaker 4: So three thirty tomorrow, that's when they're that's when they're
Speaker 4: going to kick it off. And this is probably as
Speaker 4: I don't want to say excited, but this is I mean,
Speaker 4: I I'm eager. I'm as eager as I've been all
Speaker 4: year to just watch what this team does, see how
Speaker 4: they respond here and what I believe is a very
Speaker 4: crucial part of the season. So again, we'll have pregame
Speaker 4: coverage starting tomorrow at two thirty. It's the Louisville Football
Speaker 4: Pregame Show presented by Pellow Windows and Doors of Central
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Speaker 4: it kicks off at three thirty, I guess soon as
Speaker 4: soon as it ends, it will kick off at three thirty,
Speaker 4: but as soon as it ends, we'll go live here
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Speaker 3: So tune in.
Speaker 4: You know, we've had NonStop call or interaction for the
Speaker 4: last two weeks, and that typically happens coming off of losses.
Speaker 4: But I'm hopeful that it's a big win tomorrow and
Speaker 4: we're trying to you know, get the momentum going within
Speaker 4: the fan base to get excited for next week, which, hey,
Speaker 4: having a win this week would be much better than
Speaker 4: having a loss, considering you've got a big opportunity next
Speaker 4: week against Miami, who again they've been vulnerable. They've shown
Speaker 4: that they could have easily lost these last two games,
Speaker 4: but they didn't, so maybe that means they're doing Louisville
Speaker 4: can take advantage. But we shall see, all right, before
Speaker 4: we get to our first break again, Alex Scupper is
Speaker 4: going to join us coming up here on the other side,
Speaker 4: we'll talk some more Louisville football. Also, basketball season is is,
Speaker 4: you know, it's almost here, and I'm still kind of
Speaker 4: in football mode.
Speaker 3: But also I just got back from Charlotte.
Speaker 4: From the ACC tip off, and you know, I kind
Speaker 4: of want to share some belated thoughts, if you will,
Speaker 4: when it comes to just you know, the overall vibe
Speaker 4: of the conference right now and the perception that you
Speaker 4: know that that the league has about Louisville and Pat
Speaker 4: Kelcey because you know, I I'm sure it's just because
Speaker 4: of you know, the overall experience in Charlotte for the
Speaker 4: media days. But I'm excited about basketball season and I
Speaker 4: you know, I really think this team has a chance
Speaker 4: to be pretty damn good and that that has me excited. Also,
Speaker 4: Kentucky's got big blue madness tonight. If you have not
Speaker 4: seen the new like led system that they now have
Speaker 4: on their court, I'll admit it. It's the coolest thing
Speaker 4: I've ever seen. It's amazing. I'm jealous. I don't know
Speaker 4: of any other college program that has a court like that.
Speaker 4: I think they did it for the NBA All Star
Speaker 4: Game last year, but I saw that. Yeah, I saw
Speaker 4: the promotional stuff for it as soon as they announced
Speaker 4: they were doing it, and then they put out a
Speaker 4: video of Mark Pope out there on the court with
Speaker 4: all the lights. I mean it it, dude, it looks
Speaker 4: cool as hell. And I'm kind of jealous because I
Speaker 4: am jealous, But like I feel like the old fogies
Speaker 4: that sit, you know, behind the bench, that you know,
Speaker 4: don't get up for anything at rup, like they're not
Speaker 4: deserving of that atmosphere that's like a nightclub with you know,
Speaker 4: a full house of college basketball fans, and you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just I'm jealous, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: I'm just jealous because it looks cool as hell. I've
Speaker 4: been able to say, like rup is you know, it's
Speaker 4: a historic arena usually when they have big games, great atmosphere,
Speaker 4: but we've been able to kind of say the young
Speaker 4: centers nicer and cooler, and it's an NBA arena, it's
Speaker 4: more modern.
Speaker 3: But what they just did here with these lights like
Speaker 3: that was that was it was awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm watching it right now. He's pretty neat.
Speaker 3: How cool is that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I could have swore I thought Duke did something like
Speaker 2: that a couple of years ago, but I know it was.
Speaker 2: I know it was made big last year, like you said,
Speaker 2: during all start thinking, so I could have sworn I
Speaker 2: saw some sort.
Speaker 5: Of cram court design.
Speaker 3: Camon's a dump.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. I've never been there though.
Speaker 4: Oh I went, and I was you know, it's one
Speaker 4: of those venues you know, kind of reminds me of
Speaker 4: the old Notre Dame before they made their renovations. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you can call it historic, you can call it like
Speaker 4: a bucket list trip, but like, let's not let's not
Speaker 4: let's not muddy it up when it comes to describing
Speaker 4: something as historic when it's just old as hell and musty.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean like you might be giving
Speaker 2: them too much technological credit, but.
Speaker 3: Like if they did it, then cool.
Speaker 4: But like what I what what I've seen Kentucky promoting
Speaker 4: with their court it It's something I've never seen before
Speaker 4: and I'm jealous.
Speaker 5: CBN does it better.
Speaker 3: I mean he said it, not me, folks, they don't
Speaker 3: know your sarcasm radar yet all come together.
Speaker 5: I guess not. I guess you know, maybe you were
Speaker 5: being sarcastic.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe maybe we're being invaded.
Speaker 2: No, no, I haven't been taken over by a big
Speaker 2: blue demon yet.
Speaker 3: Good. I don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: They've got Vandy tomorrow, which is typically like the the
Speaker 4: throwaway game for them in SEC play, but Vandy's coming
Speaker 4: off a big win. I think Kentucky wins this thing
Speaker 4: without much trouble, and I'm just like, you know, you
Speaker 4: see their quarterback launching his new podcast with a big
Speaker 4: nil sponsor, and I'm like, look, Vandy beating Bama was great,
Speaker 4: but this ain't sustainable. Like they're still not gonna go
Speaker 4: to a bowl, yeah, bandy, And like it'll all be
Speaker 4: looked at as like the ultimate fluke, which doesn't mean
Speaker 4: Clark Lee's not a good coach, but like Vandy, I
Speaker 4: don't blame him for trying to capitalize in every way
Speaker 4: on what's going on here with this huge upset. But
Speaker 4: like they're gonna get pounded tomorrow probably, and I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be shocked if, like it just turns to everybody making
Speaker 4: fun of Alabama again, Like I think that's what's probably
Speaker 4: gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But we got to get to a break.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to Alex Cupper coming up here on the
Speaker 4: other side, former Louisville cardinal, get his thoughts on this
Speaker 4: Louisville team as they are head scratchingly three and two
Speaker 4: with issues I just didn't think we'd see this year.
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Speaker 4: Alex Cupper, former Louisville Cardinal cup I'll ask you this
Speaker 4: when it comes to the issues we've seen with this team,
Speaker 4: lack of community, just communication issues. Defensively, guys just kind
Speaker 4: of looking confused out there at all times. Twelve sometimes
Speaker 4: fourteen men on the field. I mean, if they could
Speaker 4: easily fix it, I feel like they would have done
Speaker 4: it already. But as a former player, when you see that,
Speaker 4: like I mean, are you you you're probably more puzzled
Speaker 4: than any of us because you don't see that happening
Speaker 4: a lot of other places.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's not really, I mean a couple of
Speaker 6: the errors have been just it's you're in the same personnel.
Speaker 6: There's just the wrong I guess the wrong body that
Speaker 6: you you know you thought you were going to have.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 6: So at same position, So same position. It's not like
Speaker 6: you were making a personnel change, like hey, we're going
Speaker 6: to take a big guy off and bring another little
Speaker 6: guy on. So we're gonna get we're e they're going
Speaker 6: to get bigg or we're gonna get small. That's typically
Speaker 6: the only way you go, right. So it's it is,
Speaker 6: it is, you're in the same personnel group. It's just
Speaker 6: the wrong person I guess that you had in there,
Speaker 6: and that stuff's handled on the bench, you say, you
Speaker 6: know every time. And offensive line was really easy because
Speaker 6: unless you were making a substitution, like you were going
Speaker 6: to get a run from, you know, one of your
Speaker 6: sixth or seventh linemen to get them some playing time,
Speaker 6: it was like, all right, starting five, we're going unless
Speaker 6: somebody gets hurt. Defensively, so like the defensive line group,
Speaker 6: for example, they would the coach or whoever coordinators says,
Speaker 6: all right, you four guys, three or four guys are up,
Speaker 6: Like next time we go out, you three or four
Speaker 6: are up. And it's just like simple things like I
Speaker 6: guess so and so forgot who you know, who was
Speaker 6: up and who was down? You know, like little things
Speaker 6: like that's just those are unforced and just really make
Speaker 6: make you look like you got a egg on your face.
Speaker 6: But I mean when it no, I mean it's when
Speaker 6: it comes to just overall strategy and and trying to
Speaker 6: trying to be in the perfect fit for what the
Speaker 6: offense has given you. I feel like they're just they're
Speaker 6: searching too much. They're not letting letting the defense play, like,
Speaker 6: just letting the guys go out there and make plays.
Speaker 6: Get them lined up and make plays. That was Coach
Speaker 6: Strong's biggest thing was just get lined up with your
Speaker 6: hand in the ground and be ready to play football.
Speaker 6: React and read and react.
Speaker 3: Do you do you think?
Speaker 4: And again, this may even be a stupid question, but
Speaker 4: it's something I've heard people bring up, is that maybe
Speaker 4: they realize they have some options when it comes to depth,
Speaker 4: So maybe they're substituting too much instead of just relying
Speaker 4: on a specific group to you know, kind of like, hey,
Speaker 4: these are the guys, we feel like, are the are
Speaker 4: the best at what they do, and until they show
Speaker 4: a sign of needing a breather or something like that,
Speaker 4: we're going to roll with it. Again, you want to
Speaker 4: utilize your depth, But it just seems like the defense,
Speaker 4: you know, they'll make timely plays, even though they've got
Speaker 4: guys that are injured that you clearly want to see
Speaker 4: out there playing. It doesn't seem as if their issues
Speaker 4: are a whole lot related to talent and ability, I.
Speaker 6: Would caution that statement from what you say and all encompassing,
Speaker 6: because when it comes to we have depth and we
Speaker 6: have a lot of guys that can play, I think
Speaker 6: you limit that to a few groups, and one of
Speaker 6: those being the defensive line, which I mean, do we
Speaker 6: have a ton of sacks? Do we have a lot pressures?
Speaker 5: No? None.
Speaker 6: That's why I say I cautioned the statement. But when
Speaker 6: when it comes to, you know, exposing some weaknesses, unless
Speaker 6: it's Quincy Riley like locking somebody down, I mean are
Speaker 6: out on the outside and and back deep, there's there's
Speaker 6: a lot of vulnerability and SMU expose.
Speaker 3: That and to make sure oh yeah, like I've never
Speaker 3: seen before something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can run guys in and out, but I
Speaker 6: don't I don't know if it's going to get you
Speaker 6: anything better than what we're getting. So you know, when
Speaker 6: when in first and second downs and you look back
Speaker 6: on that game last Saturday, he's just you never really
Speaker 6: won first and second down, especially to start a drive.
Speaker 6: How many drives in a row? Was there a big play,
Speaker 6: a big play, action play or run or or a
Speaker 6: ball thrown deep and it's like, man, this guy is
Speaker 6: just carving or you know, their their offense is just
Speaker 6: carving us up. There's no no to two fits about it.
Speaker 4: So whenever Jeff says it's got to be more simple,
Speaker 4: we have to simplify things defensively, is that going back
Speaker 4: to kind of what you said a moment ago as
Speaker 4: far as just hey, let's just get guys lined up
Speaker 4: and tell them to go to go play. I mean
Speaker 4: is I mean that doesn't seem like something that's just
Speaker 4: going to be, Hey, snap the fingers and everything's going
Speaker 4: to be better, because again you still have to go
Speaker 4: make those plays. But you know, whenever you hear, whenever
Speaker 4: I hear a non football mind like myself here that
Speaker 4: it's too complicated, I mean, is it because they've just
Speaker 4: got like is it just the game plan too complex? Defensively?
Speaker 6: I mean first and second down typically because you're because
Speaker 6: you're not trying to sneak anything, you know, you're not
Speaker 6: really trying to open up the playbook. You know, usually
Speaker 6: say bet and save all your energy and time for
Speaker 6: winning the money down third down. So first and second
Speaker 6: down is it's already should be pretty simple. Like some
Speaker 6: of those the substitutions coming out of a break, you know,
Speaker 6: which we've had too. Now that that's simply just not
Speaker 6: listening on the sideline, not being locked in and engaged
Speaker 6: on who's supposed to be in the game. So and
Speaker 6: and if it is a coach wanted to make a
Speaker 6: last second decision, that's on the coach.
Speaker 4: But uh, Cup, I was already scared going into the
Speaker 4: show today, and you're scaring me even more.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: There's there's price bus out there. Dude, trust me, there's
Speaker 6: there's enough. I mean, when we can get into it,
Speaker 6: there's there's enough good within those four walls of the
Speaker 6: locker room that we there's you should still have faith
Speaker 6: as a cardinal, I do.
Speaker 4: And that's what also just makes it so puzzling is that,
Speaker 4: you know, I think we've got to you know, we've
Speaker 4: got an offense that, although the offensive line clearly is
Speaker 4: is probably the weakness, I think you can even do
Speaker 4: some things schematically around it to where like the offensive line,
Speaker 4: I think it's fair to say that they've not been
Speaker 4: great so far, but I wouldn't put it on them
Speaker 4: as far as why we're in this position. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: it would be nice if they could you know, could
Speaker 4: get some extra push to where you're not you know,
Speaker 4: you're not you know, getting off the field on fourth
Speaker 4: down and turning it over. But like, you know, I
Speaker 4: just don't want to be in a position it would
Speaker 4: be devastating to know that we have this really good
Speaker 4: quarterback who I think is special, and Jacry Brooks who's
Speaker 4: clearly a talented guy, and then Isaac Brown he's a
Speaker 4: freshman and he's sensational. Like you know, like I'm with you.
Speaker 4: There's certainly a lot to like as far as what
Speaker 4: you've seen with big plays here and there, especially with
Speaker 4: the offense.
Speaker 3: But you know, like I just don't know why they
Speaker 3: have This is.
Speaker 4: Something I think I would say where they are now
Speaker 4: with this record and sort of the big things that
Speaker 4: stand out as to how.
Speaker 3: They have these these last two losses.
Speaker 4: It's just not something really anybody would have predicted as
Speaker 4: far as what plagues you five games.
Speaker 3: In you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, absolutely, And I think collectively, so this is
Speaker 6: where you, I mean, you lean back and I've always
Speaker 6: the many years that we've talked, is you got to
Speaker 6: do it collectively. They're not just going to be able
Speaker 6: to roll the ball out there and be good enough
Speaker 6: to beat anybody. Everybody's got nil deals, everybody's got paths
Speaker 6: of the future and thinks they're you know, the best thing.
Speaker 6: But when you have a team that's put together with
Speaker 6: a solid roster, not you know, there's a few good pieces,
Speaker 6: but it's solid. You need all those pieces to gel
Speaker 6: and come together. You need the offensive line to work
Speaker 6: cohesively as a unit, be able to drive people offotball,
Speaker 6: like you said, be able to lock down. I mean,
Speaker 6: I do think that that SMU had some of the
Speaker 6: more talented guys that they're going to face on the edge.
Speaker 6: I mean those students were. They were good, big, fast, strong,
Speaker 6: quick off the ball. I guess everything you look for,
Speaker 6: and somebody setting an edge on defense. So I do
Speaker 6: think that our offensive line has a lot of quality
Speaker 6: football and then definitely good enough to beat the teams
Speaker 6: on your schedule right and defensively, Like when you when
Speaker 6: you put the different pieces together, you need all eleven
Speaker 6: guys on the same page, locked in with what the
Speaker 6: play call is, get lined up and play ball. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think there's enough good collectively to to be be
Speaker 6: in a good spot and being be in position to
Speaker 6: win the games. Now and then now it all comes
Speaker 6: down to the the you know, the ninety percent of
Speaker 6: it all, which is the mentality, the leadership. How tight
Speaker 6: and how how strong are those bonds that you have
Speaker 6: to start building? You know, it seems like every year
Speaker 6: you have to rebuild starting in January. How tight and
Speaker 6: how strong is this team going to be to stay
Speaker 6: together and go on the road and beat it be
Speaker 6: a conference opponent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And and I know as a player in your
Speaker 4: for or play yourself that it really is about just
Speaker 4: what's what's at stake today? Right? You're not thinking about
Speaker 4: games down the line, and fans of course do that understandably, so,
Speaker 4: but I, you know, do you feel as if, you know,
Speaker 4: I guess you, you know, to take a step back
Speaker 4: from your former player role and just look at it
Speaker 4: from a fan standpoint, Doesn't it kind of feel like
Speaker 4: tomorrow's humongous like for this season. Not to say that
Speaker 4: they couldn't eventually get better and win games and maybe
Speaker 4: pull off some upsets down the line, but I kind
Speaker 4: of feel like this is a pivotal moment in this season,
Speaker 4: and this is a.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent specula because it's a different era of
Speaker 6: college sports. In general football, especially where I mean, you
Speaker 6: can't get to this position halfway through and be essentially
Speaker 6: out of it and not have quote unquote anything to
Speaker 6: play for and think that your team's going to be
Speaker 6: able to consistently show up and try and win games.
Speaker 6: I just I hope that's not the case, because I
Speaker 6: hope that they're still I mean, at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, these guys put a whole lot of blood, sweat,
Speaker 6: and tears in it, and they should still have a
Speaker 6: lot of passion, a lot of pride. So regardless of
Speaker 6: what happens Saturday, you know, one Saturday after the next,
Speaker 6: we're always going to give it our all. The reality
Speaker 6: is that's just that I don't think that exists. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, and and again that's aspective because I'm not
Speaker 6: in that locker room. So I don't want to put
Speaker 6: this on anybody, but from from you know, what we've
Speaker 6: watched in the past, and you look around the landscape
Speaker 6: of college football. When when that sur you know, when
Speaker 6: that snowball gets rolling downhill, there's really no other means
Speaker 6: to stop it.
Speaker 3: And it's it's the human element of sports.
Speaker 4: You can tell yourself, hey, we're going to go line
Speaker 4: up out here and not think about what happened the
Speaker 4: last month and not think about what's in front of
Speaker 4: us the next two three weeks. But all it takes
Speaker 4: is a big play one way or the other. Could
Speaker 4: be a play that's positive, it could be a played
Speaker 4: that's negative. It's going to send you in a direction.
Speaker 4: And whenever you get sending that direction, it's hard to
Speaker 4: kind of just psyche yourself out of that because you
Speaker 4: know it sets in it like, hey, wow, this is
Speaker 4: really happening.
Speaker 3: We are we're an underwhelming team and we've.
Speaker 4: Fallen short of expectation and really, you know, at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, everybody's got to be held accountable.
Speaker 4: But like, in that moment, I think it's just life. Like,
Speaker 4: that's just how humans. That's how humans, you know, operate. So,
Speaker 4: you know, I think they're a better team than Virginia.
Speaker 4: But this Virginia squad is coming off of a good
Speaker 4: win for them. They beat Boston College by ten. They're
Speaker 4: four and one, one of their best starts, and quite
Speaker 4: some time they've they've got I wouldn't say they've got
Speaker 4: a ton of momentum in the grand scheme of things
Speaker 4: when it comes to college football. But for them, I
Speaker 4: feel like they're in a good spot and Louisville looks
Speaker 4: as vulnerable as they ever have. Doesn't mean that that
Speaker 4: Virginia is going to be able to get the victory here.
Speaker 4: But you know, here's one thing I just don't understand.
Speaker 4: From the game against Jacksonville State on so every game
Speaker 4: but the opener against Austin p It's been quite clear
Speaker 4: if you watch Louisville, they have a tough time limiting
Speaker 4: quarterbacks for being able to get loose with their legs.
Speaker 4: How are we still here where that's still happening? I
Speaker 4: mean again, I mean, if we had the simple answer,
Speaker 4: you probably call run English yourself, Cup and tell them, hey,
Speaker 4: here's what you got to do.
Speaker 3: But like, Virginia's got a quarterback who showed us last
Speaker 3: year he.
Speaker 4: Can make plays with his legs, Like, what do they
Speaker 4: need to do to keep that from happening? Jennings getting
Speaker 4: that long touchdown run out of a time out? I
Speaker 4: mean that was embarrassing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's you could then the way they
Speaker 6: set their splits, and it's just like it was obvious
Speaker 6: that the fart they essentially came out of the huddle. Hey,
Speaker 6: you four guys need to move as far away from
Speaker 6: the ball as possible to displace the defense in a
Speaker 6: certain manner that we can just run right up the
Speaker 6: middle and run a TV draw. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: there's there's a lot of a lot of like clear evidence,
Speaker 6: you know, Yeah he was. I feel like we I
Speaker 6: don't know how good that kid is. So he might
Speaker 6: look back on it and he might be just an
Speaker 6: absolute stud and and he goes on a you know,
Speaker 6: a hell of the college campaign. But yeah, there's there's
Speaker 6: a lot of kids that were were making look kind
Speaker 6: of magical, you know, at least in spots that that
Speaker 6: was the first time that we we never could stop
Speaker 6: the bleeding. It was. It was. It was a constant onslaught.
Speaker 6: And I think that was the more so what he
Speaker 6: did with his arm than he did with his legs.
Speaker 6: But he was able to escape the pocket. And yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean it starts. It starts with your rush. I
Speaker 6: mean you can't. You've got to be able to rush
Speaker 6: smart and be able to stay in a lane and
Speaker 6: and and contain a dude like that, but also apply pressure.
Speaker 6: So if you're if you're rushing timid and you're just
Speaker 6: sticking to a block and letting the guy hold onto
Speaker 6: the ball. That doesn't help your your your secondary out.
Speaker 6: So there's that's where I'm talking about football is just
Speaker 6: so it's that's why it's the greatest game and the
Speaker 6: toughest game at the same time. Is all eleven guys
Speaker 6: have to give it. They're all and do their job
Speaker 6: the best to the best of their ability, every little detail,
Speaker 6: every single play. So if there's ever a you know,
Speaker 6: if there's a little slip up one place other or
Speaker 6: somebody somebody takes a playoff or what, you just get
Speaker 6: exposed so fast. So those those are the elements that
Speaker 6: you know, this team has had, you know, bite them
Speaker 6: in the butter quite a bit these last two weeks.
Speaker 6: And you know, you and moving on the road and
Speaker 6: playing on the road this weekend, it's almost a good
Speaker 6: thing because you you're you're going to be in a
Speaker 6: bunker mentality and all you have is each other. So
Speaker 6: that's that's the beauty of where we sit is we
Speaker 6: find ourselves, uh are back against the wall. But the
Speaker 6: beauty is also you got it. You got opportunity to
Speaker 6: go out and show the fan base, show yourself, show
Speaker 6: your team that that you're you're up for the task
Speaker 6: in this season. You are not writing anything off. We're
Speaker 6: still in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a win can go a long way here.
Speaker 4: Not because it would be a monumental accomplishment to knock
Speaker 4: off this Virginia team when your when your favorites, but
Speaker 4: it could really get it could really kind of calm
Speaker 4: this this whole mess down as far as just the
Speaker 4: you know, the disorganization and just kind of the you know,
Speaker 4: these last two losses are not terrible losses. Again, you
Speaker 4: expect to win every game you play. That's why you
Speaker 4: line up and you play. But you know, the grand
Speaker 4: scheme of things, I think SMU is actually a lot
Speaker 4: better team than I gave them credit for. Clearly Notre
Speaker 4: Dame always has very good talent and and you know,
Speaker 4: winning there is not easy for anybody. But a win
Speaker 4: here could get your right for Miami. And here's to
Speaker 4: hoping that's what happens. But Cup, I appreciate you making
Speaker 4: time for us as always, and uh, we'll see what
Speaker 4: happens tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, man, go Cards.
Speaker 3: Take care of Go Cards.
Speaker 4: That's Alex Cupper, former Louisville Cardinal, former nfl O alignment
Speaker 4: and of course a member of that very memorable Sugar
Speaker 4: Bowl run for Charlie Strong in the cards back Gosh,
Speaker 4: I always you know, I'm older than Cup, so I
Speaker 4: can say it, but like man, it makes I don't
Speaker 4: want to make him sound like an old guy. But
Speaker 4: it was a long time ago when that happened. Good
Speaker 4: times though, no doubt. All Right, we got to run
Speaker 4: quick break. We'll come back for a very quick segment
Speaker 4: before we wrap up the three o'clock hour. Two hours
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Speaker 4: we were wrapping up the three o'clock hour here on
Speaker 4: a Friday afternoon, getting you set for the weekend. Good
Speaker 4: stuff there with the one and only mister Alex Cupper.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's always great talking football with Cup, but
Speaker 4: you know, he can provide some perspective that I certainly can,
Speaker 4: and he was pretty honest. Like, you know, this defense,
Speaker 4: I think we all looked in again. They're missing their
Speaker 4: best player defensively. You could argue in Quincy Riley and
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on with Ashton. I'm just
Speaker 4: going to assume that it's schematic and like they're just
Speaker 4: doing a great job meeting the opponents of eliminating him
Speaker 4: from making a big impact in the game. But a
Speaker 4: lot of talk about talent and and they just haven't
Speaker 4: really shown that. And you know, he comes right like
Speaker 4: when it comes to the secondary, I mean, without Quincy
Speaker 4: Riley out there, it's pretty clear teams realize they can
Speaker 4: take advantage of that. And I know there's some things
Speaker 4: you can do, you know, which I mean, in fact,
Speaker 4: what you have to do. This is coming from somebody
Speaker 4: that will admit I don't know much about how to
Speaker 4: put a game plan together defensively for a high level
Speaker 4: college football team, but I would think that if you've
Speaker 4: got a very vulnerable secondary, especially with your safeties right now,
Speaker 4: you need to cook up some pressure that way that
Speaker 4: quarterback didn't have time to just sit back there and
Speaker 4: abuse you. And you know they've been doing that the lot,
Speaker 4: I mean, especially SMU. And we'll see what happens, but
Speaker 4: like I'm hopeful that SMU just ends up being like
Speaker 4: really good. I don't know if that's going to be
Speaker 4: the case, because you know, you just don't know, but
Speaker 4: they they were the they were just a better team
Speaker 4: than Louisville. Loisvill made some mistakes that I don't think
Speaker 4: I would chalk up to SMU doing anything to cause
Speaker 4: those miss But either way, you know, you lined up
Speaker 4: with that team that was just in the G four
Speaker 4: last year, and you know they were better and as
Speaker 4: a as a humbling experience and a tough pill to swallow,
Speaker 4: but hopefully that that's the kind of result they can
Speaker 4: get this team to really respond. You know, losing the
Speaker 4: Notre Dame was just weird because of all the little
Speaker 4: dumb things you did that killed you, but you still
Speaker 4: had a chance to win. I wouldn't go as far
Speaker 4: as to say embarrassing, but I would say the loss
Speaker 4: to SMU should be really humbling for this for this
Speaker 4: team overall. And there's a couple of different ways they
Speaker 4: can respond. Let's hope they respond in the good way tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But all right, let's yeah, we're up against it. Apologies here,
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