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Speaker 1: My name is Nick Coffee, Austin Montgomery alongside today. You're
Speaker 1: an iPhone guy, right, I assume yes, Okay, huge iPhone guy.
Speaker 1: The major I'm not an Apple snob by any means.
Speaker 3: Yeah me either. I'm not one of those guys.
Speaker 1: But actually maybe I am an Apple snob because like
Speaker 1: I don't have I feel like to be an Apple
Speaker 1: snob because having an iPad and an iPhone. I mean again,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the snob coming out in me. Like
Speaker 1: if you can choose that, then yeah, do that rather
Speaker 1: than getting an Android device or I guess whatever. I
Speaker 1: guess they make tablets like iPads that are on the
Speaker 1: Android operating system. I just don't see a lot of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're likely to run into somebody with an Android phone,
Speaker 1: I'd say more so than an Android tablet.
Speaker 3: But what I'm getting at the surface pros that they
Speaker 3: use in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to the the Apple snobs like
Speaker 1: people who I mean, they kind of make Apple products
Speaker 1: like their personality. I feel like, you've got to have
Speaker 1: the app the MacBook, yes, right, Like I'm a wind,
Speaker 1: I've got a Windows laptop. I've never had anything other
Speaker 1: than Windows. It's really all I've ever known. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: savvy with computers, so it's just something I'll always stick with.
Speaker 1: But the first like smartphone I had that was you know,
Speaker 1: like touch screen where you didn't have to like actual
Speaker 1: punch actually punch buttons was an iPhone, so I've just
Speaker 1: stuck with it. I have an iPad, so like I think,
Speaker 1: to be an Apple snob, you really have to have
Speaker 1: like every device. Maybe you have an Apple tatoo. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I will make a complaint. And John
Speaker 1: and I, the company man, used to used to go
Speaker 1: back and forth because he's an Android. He's an Android guy,
Speaker 1: and he kind of just, you know, he lost the
Speaker 1: war without realizing he lost the war. And I guess
Speaker 1: there really is no winning and losing. Both phones can
Speaker 1: technically do the exact same thing, and it really is
Speaker 1: just whatever your preference is. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: My wife, who was my then girlfriend, she bought me
Speaker 1: an iPhone for I think it might have been for
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, like many many, many years ago. There's some
Speaker 1: kind of a well she's awesome, which is why I
Speaker 1: married her and we share life together and we are
Speaker 1: madly in love. But there was some kind of a
Speaker 1: special to where she could get to so we both
Speaker 1: got iPhones and we ended up at that point. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was a big step in our relationship.
Speaker 2: Austin.
Speaker 1: We ended up on the same phone plan like that
Speaker 1: was you know, it was whenever I knew. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: getting pretty serious here. So if she would have gotten
Speaker 1: whatever the latest Android phone was, if it's a Samsung
Speaker 1: or a you know, no Key, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that does that no Kia still exist, It probably doesn't.
Speaker 3: The Google Pixel is the new thing.
Speaker 1: If it would have been one of those, I probably
Speaker 1: would have just got used to that and stuck with it.
Speaker 1: But because the first was an iPhone, it's just what
Speaker 1: I got used to, and you know, it's what I
Speaker 1: It's what I have stuck with. But John, you know,
Speaker 1: same thing happened with him to where he's always been
Speaker 1: an Android guy. And again overall and some people like
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite things that we talk
Speaker 1: about amongst each other in society, is that you could
Speaker 1: kind of be playful about it, but like, deep down,
Speaker 1: like you you really are loyal to whatever side you're on.
Speaker 1: Like there have been some people that you know, have
Speaker 1: have have switched, but then they go back to like
Speaker 1: what they're used to. What So nonetheless, it was me,
Speaker 1: I was an Android guy at first. When did you switch?
Speaker 4: Probably a couple of years after I moved here, it
Speaker 4: was more or less to try to like impress the
Speaker 4: girls just because like all of them, you know you like,
Speaker 4: oh you got the yeah, the green messages.
Speaker 3: I just kind of wanted to be, you know.
Speaker 1: So you felt that energy from others that like maybe
Speaker 1: there would be on level of a judgment on their
Speaker 1: end if you were not iPhone worthy you were more androids.
Speaker 4: Yes, right, yes, And that was during my formative years,
Speaker 4: still trying to find myself when I first moved here.
Speaker 4: But it was also like kind of more of it,
Speaker 4: like a community, and back then, like I don't even
Speaker 4: think the id say back then, it is only ten
Speaker 4: years ago. But even like the like the emojis time
Speaker 4: is the emojis that you'd get, like they wouldn't translate
Speaker 4: to other phones, Like you could send like the smiling
Speaker 4: or laughing face emoji, and like that would just come
Speaker 4: up as like a block on androids. So some of
Speaker 4: my iPhone friends or girls that I was talking to
Speaker 4: at the time would like send me an emoji and
Speaker 4: it would just be like kind of blocked out and
Speaker 4: they wouldn't get the same emojis that.
Speaker 2: I set back. Yeah, you can't have that. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: can't have.
Speaker 3: I had to. I had to make the switch.
Speaker 2: It makes sense.
Speaker 3: I talent Apple.
Speaker 1: So John, you know, he he's very stubborn and and
Speaker 1: I think he knows that, like because he could get
Speaker 1: an iPhone and he chose not to, and I we
Speaker 1: were I would just kind of rivet him about how,
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't know how anybody could make
Speaker 1: the argument that and Android is better. And I'm doing it
Speaker 1: just all in fun, and he's kind of laughing along.
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, one day I will, I will
Speaker 1: actually flip you. I'm gonna I'm gonna turn you out
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be an Apple guy like it or not,
Speaker 1: and it's just gonna happen. And he was like, Nope,
Speaker 1: no way. And then at some point the conversation shifted
Speaker 1: to where I was like, I'll have an intervention and
Speaker 1: he was like, well, that's already happened, and no joke. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was something that they literally made
Speaker 1: like a big deal. But his family did like kind
Speaker 1: of corner him and schedule, like, hey, you're the only
Speaker 1: one of us that's not on Apple right now, Like
Speaker 1: everybody's got an iPhone. You're messing up all the group chats.
Speaker 1: You're doing it only because you're stubborn. We have a
Speaker 1: phone plen to where you can get a new iPhone,
Speaker 1: and you won't do it. And you know, he was
Speaker 1: just like, Nope, I'm loyal. I'm sticking with Android. And
Speaker 1: but it was like proof to like, yeah, your family
Speaker 1: was on the other side, like you were Austin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you made the change to the iPhone side, and like
Speaker 1: now you don't even remember life before it right now.
Speaker 1: And I've been trying to tell John it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: And like you may feel dirty at first, you may
Speaker 1: feel like you're cheating on your Android platform.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you'll leave them in the rear.
Speaker 1: View pretty quickly because that life with Apple is just
Speaker 1: better now. I bring all this up to say, and
Speaker 1: I just now remember how we got here. I was
Speaker 1: telling people to download the Thornton's app or down with
Speaker 1: the Refreshing Awards app, regardless of what platform you have,
Speaker 1: Android or iPhone, Apple iOS, whatever.
Speaker 2: And I have a.
Speaker 1: Major complaint about the latest update if I ost Okay,
Speaker 1: So more often than not, I don't really notice a
Speaker 1: whole lot of eighteen point one right, Yeah, Like I
Speaker 1: don't notice a whole lot of differences, And if because
Speaker 1: the phone is such a constant thing that even if
Speaker 1: there is something that is visually a big change as
Speaker 1: far as when you open your phone, you get used
Speaker 1: to it really quickly. Because a lot of us, myself included,
Speaker 1: I'm probably worse than most. I am on my phone
Speaker 1: all the time, probably more than I should be. So
Speaker 1: I found my first update that has happened to where
Speaker 1: I'm like pissed off every time I look at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's the new photos thing. Have you seen it?
Speaker 1: Like how they're organized, Like if you just go to
Speaker 1: the photos app on the iPhone, like I'll get used
Speaker 1: to it. But like, I don't want you to give
Speaker 1: me recent days, people in pets, pen collection, memories, trips.
Speaker 1: I just want to go to the pictures that i've
Speaker 1: if I could just look at them all in order. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't need you creating collages with my sixteen thousand
Speaker 1: photos that I have on here now.
Speaker 3: No, that's annoying.
Speaker 4: And they have like my thing is I'm always deleting
Speaker 4: photos too. We're getting them out and like the recently
Speaker 4: deleted is even hard to find, you gotta it used
Speaker 4: to be all the way like at the the end
Speaker 4: of the album if you swipe right. But now you
Speaker 4: got to go through, like you said, all the collages
Speaker 4: and it's like buried underneath at like the very bottom.
Speaker 3: You're right about that.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that recently deleted was a thing
Speaker 1: until it until I was trying to free up some
Speaker 1: space because I had some really large video files and
Speaker 1: they do end up, i think, deleting themselves after a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time, but they stayed there in case
Speaker 1: you want to go back. So here I am freeing
Speaker 1: up all the space and nothing was It wasn't there.
Speaker 1: And then I went to recently deleted and saw that
Speaker 1: you got to delete it from there. But I'm still
Speaker 1: going to always be team iPhone. I just can't imagine
Speaker 1: life without it. But I found myself here lately, and
Speaker 1: I'm more mindful of it because you know, the company
Speaker 1: man himself is a good guy, John.
Speaker 2: He's one of the best guys I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm trying to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: open minded to where you know, he's telling me, Look, Nick,
Speaker 1: it's I'm telling you there's not a difference. In fact,
Speaker 1: this is where Android is better. This is where Android
Speaker 1: may be better. So I'm just kind of thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: what are some complaints here? So I used to ask him,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm mad about this with my iPhone, what does.
Speaker 2: The Android do?
Speaker 1: And occasionally I would find myself think, okay, score one
Speaker 1: for the Android users, but I don't know about their
Speaker 1: photos selection. But right now this iOS update, I hope
Speaker 1: whoever decided to implement this change, I hope they have
Speaker 1: a bad weekend. That's what I'm gonna say. Hope they
Speaker 1: have a bad weekend because I'm not happy with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can the search tool is pretty awesome
Speaker 1: because I can just put in like a name of
Speaker 1: somebody that I don't even like. For example, my daughter's
Speaker 1: name is Maya. She doesn't have a cell phone, she's
Speaker 1: eight years old, so I can just type her name
Speaker 1: in and somehow like it knows to just pull up
Speaker 1: all the pictures of or whenever, like I guess because
Speaker 1: I've sent pictures and said, hey, here's a new picture
Speaker 1: of Maya. Yeah, or so the search tool, the search
Speaker 1: function is more useful than I realized. But as far
Speaker 1: as just like when I wanted to go to the
Speaker 1: photos app on my phone and use it like I
Speaker 1: have for the beginning of time since I've had an iPhone.
Speaker 1: It's now different and I'm sure I'll get used to it,
Speaker 1: but I haven't haven't gotten used to it just yet.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's a little bit extra. And no,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't think that you're an Apple snob. I think
Speaker 4: the Apple snob. It's it's the Holy trinity, right, It's
Speaker 4: the iPhone, it's the iPad, and then it's the Mac,
Speaker 4: and then you could go in the next different way. Well,
Speaker 4: now I know that they have Apple TV, like actually
Speaker 4: on some smart TVs, but they just used to have
Speaker 4: the exterior plug in for Apple TV that you can buy,
Speaker 4: and that's how, you know, took advantage of the app
Speaker 4: and everything like that. And some people even have like
Speaker 4: I forget what it's called, but it's like the Apple
Speaker 4: version of Alexa. Some people's whole houses are hooked up
Speaker 4: via Apple and I think that's a little bit too far.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you something really embarrassing, and I
Speaker 1: promise you we'll get into what we're gonna do today
Speaker 1: on the show in this a second. But I have
Speaker 1: to admit something because I felt very dumb a lot
Speaker 1: of times in my life.
Speaker 2: Okay, probably on a.
Speaker 1: Daily basis, but I'm pretty savvy from a technological standpoint.
Speaker 1: Like that's I mean not to say like I'm a
Speaker 1: big brainiact, but I used to work in software before
Speaker 1: I was able to make this my full time career,
Speaker 1: and I've taught myself how to do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But' and I'll always remember this, and I'm nobody would
Speaker 1: know this if it wasn't me admitting it. And I've
Speaker 1: told like my my friends and whatnot, because you know,
Speaker 1: they're also like, why would you think that? But for
Speaker 1: the longest time, I thought an Apple TV was an
Speaker 1: actual TV made by Apple. I didn't realize that Apple
Speaker 1: TV is an app, is an app like like HBO, Max, Netflix.
Speaker 1: And I remember like we bought something that included Apple TV,
Speaker 1: and I called who what was it? Oh, it was
Speaker 1: some kind of we were we were doing something with Spectrum.
Speaker 1: I think it was, yeah, some kind of an upgrade
Speaker 1: because we were going with faster internet, no longer needing
Speaker 1: any TV from them and no longer needing DirecTV or anything.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I thought you guys were
Speaker 1: gonna send me the Apple TV. I thought it was
Speaker 1: included in the bundle and they were like, sir, we
Speaker 1: are not we don't know what you're talking about. It.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I need to speak to somebody because
Speaker 1: I was told I was getting Apple TV and I
Speaker 1: I mean, I can I'm getting cringe goosebumps right now
Speaker 1: from how dumb I was for that, and like I
Speaker 1: it was like it was next level dumb for me
Speaker 1: because I know a lot of you're sitting there thinking
Speaker 1: like this guy's a dumbass every day, but that was
Speaker 1: like next level, Like, man, I really feel feel like
Speaker 1: an idiot.
Speaker 3: I mean I can't.
Speaker 4: I can't hate you for that because I mean when
Speaker 4: they make something that says Apple in front of an
Speaker 4: Apple iPhone, yeah, Apple air pods, and then you get
Speaker 4: Apple TV, you don't think of just a software Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I was like they said it because they
Speaker 1: did ship equipment like for us to do the upgrade ourselves,
Speaker 1: which was really easy to do. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: where's the TV.
Speaker 2: I felt like such an idiot.
Speaker 3: I thought you're about to say you thought it was
Speaker 3: a TV shape like an Apple.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought it was like I thought it was
Speaker 1: like a cool monitor that was like a TV right.
Speaker 1: That was all sleek and you know, had the Apple
Speaker 1: logo and all that, but I was I was right,
Speaker 1: way wrong. We got a lot to get into today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be joint coming up here at about three
Speaker 1: forty by Doctor k macroy was gonna be joining us yesterday.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's from Proriat physical therapy and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick his brain as best I can. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the injury situation for Louisville, we do know that
Speaker 1: they're going to be without two guys the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, and that's not ideal at all. That's case
Speaker 1: in Prior and korin Johnson. But as far as Traiolray,
Speaker 1: when does he come back? Is there any chance at
Speaker 1: all that maybe Ali Khalifa and Kobe Rodgers could end
Speaker 1: up getting healthy and burn an a year because the
Speaker 1: team needs them. So you know, those are questions he
Speaker 1: can't give direct answers to because he probably doesn't know,
Speaker 1: but he'll at least be able to tell us. Like
Speaker 1: on the injury side, if you know what the expected
Speaker 1: timetable would be for Trey Ora, and you know, depending
Speaker 1: upon what the specifics are, and what I mean is
Speaker 1: like when did Kobe Rodgers have surgery? When did Ali
Speaker 1: Khalif have surgery? And those are things we can easily
Speaker 1: get the information from. And you never know, not every
Speaker 1: injury is the same, right, some guys can take a
Speaker 1: month longer to heal from the exact same thing.
Speaker 2: It just depends.
Speaker 1: But we're probably going to be following this a little
Speaker 1: closer than at least right now, we're following it closer
Speaker 1: than we typically do because this team, I mean, they
Speaker 1: got seven scholarship players that they feel comfortable playing and
Speaker 1: that's just a scary, scary thing. And there's a big
Speaker 1: basketball weekend here locally, I mean, Louisvell's got Duke on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I know I.
Speaker 2: Talked about it yesterday, but what a roller coaster it's been.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: You got so excited at the start of the season,
Speaker 1: your second game of the years against Tennessee, and man,
Speaker 1: everybody was the wide out was awesome and it was
Speaker 1: such a letdown, not because you know, like I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a letdown. They they got blown out and
Speaker 1: it didn't turn into everybody just saying, Okay, louisve is
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible this year. But man, it was a
Speaker 1: wake up call that you're not on Tennessee's level, and
Speaker 1: it turns out not many people are. Because Tennessee is
Speaker 1: the is undefeated, They're going to be number one in
Speaker 1: the country. And every other team, like every other elite
Speaker 1: team that is in consideration for you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess there's a lot of teams in consideration to
Speaker 1: be Final Four contenders. But what I mean is teams
Speaker 1: that have you know, remained within the top fifteen, top
Speaker 1: ten throughout the year thus far. They all have at
Speaker 1: least one loss, some have multiple losses. Tennessee is undefeated
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be number one. So that was that
Speaker 1: was a test that was, you know, not a successful one,
Speaker 1: but doesn't look as bad now, I don't think. And
Speaker 1: then you go to the Bahamas because you had two
Speaker 1: nothing games in between with Bellerman and Winthrop, and then
Speaker 1: in the Bahamas that was awesome. And then you lose
Speaker 1: Case in Pryor, you find out it's for the entire year,
Speaker 1: You find out Corn Johnson's not going to play it
Speaker 1: all this year the rest of the way, and then
Speaker 1: you get your butt kicked by Old Miss. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect against Duke I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily expect to win, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: fans are kind of with me. But you know what,
Speaker 1: I said the same thing about Indiana because I just
Speaker 1: thought Indiana was better. And the most recent result for
Speaker 1: Louisville when it comes to games against really good teams
Speaker 1: at that time was Tennessee and it didn't go well.
Speaker 1: So no clue what we're gonna get on Sunday. But well, mean,
Speaker 1: I was trying to give you something. I was trying
Speaker 1: to at the last minute there find some kind of
Speaker 1: like a positive thing to finish with before we move on.
Speaker 2: But like, Duke's really good.
Speaker 1: They have some insane talent, and you know, Louisville is shorthanded,
Speaker 1: not nearly as talented, and the last time we saw
Speaker 1: him it was a real wake up call that when
Speaker 1: it comes to case in prior like they really are
Speaker 1: gonna miss him in a major way. We'll talk some
Speaker 1: college tips coming up a little bit later on with
Speaker 1: the one and only Kevin Sweeney of Sports Illustrated. He's
Speaker 1: gonna join us around four forty, so stick with us.
Speaker 1: A lot to get to. We've got conference championship games
Speaker 1: going on this weekend. I kind of think they need
Speaker 1: to just figure out something here because it makes no
Speaker 1: sense to punish teams who lose in the championship game.
Speaker 1: It's an accomplishment to make it there, and yet there
Speaker 1: are teams that are going to be punished for making
Speaker 1: it and it just you can't really make any sense
Speaker 1: of that. So stick with us. Quick Break will come
Speaker 1: back here on the other side. Yes, this is earlier
Speaker 1: than usual, but we're working on clock management today and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do better at it. I say we It's
Speaker 1: my fault.
Speaker 2: It's me. I'm in control, so don't lump Austin into this.
Speaker 2: This is just me. So I'm gonna try to do better.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna quit yapping right now as we
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Speaker 1: in regards to Louisville's injury situation. And I'm glad somebody
Speaker 1: asked this because I actually did look it up the
Speaker 1: other day, you know, doing a little research for the show.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, folks, I do prepare for this show.
Speaker 1: You may not be able to tell, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of hard, extensive preparation that goes into it.
Speaker 3: But emphasis on the hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hard and extensive. That's that's me. In fact, that's I.
Speaker 1: If I hear those two words, I look around thinking
Speaker 1: somebody's talking about me. To be honest with you, but
Speaker 1: you could not add players mid season, so I didn't
Speaker 1: know the answer. It was asked among fans. I saw
Speaker 1: like on Twitter, and then I went and looked into it.
Speaker 1: And we've had a couple of people ask it this week.
Speaker 1: Because they need players, they need bodies in the portal.
Speaker 2: It's a free for all.
Speaker 1: It seems like players can do whatever they want, you
Speaker 1: can play for one team one night, the next night
Speaker 1: go play for somebody else. I mean, I'm exaggerating, because
Speaker 1: you can't really do that. But players have really in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, really been able to just
Speaker 1: challenge the NCAA and have success in a way that
Speaker 1: they probably never thought possible. But as far as somebody
Speaker 1: transferring mid school year, mid season, because obviously the semester
Speaker 1: for college students will end here before too long and
Speaker 1: they'll be on Christmas break, and you can transfer then
Speaker 1: because you know you're at semester break, but you can't
Speaker 1: play sports in the same school year. In fact, it
Speaker 1: says there's no limit the number of times an athlete
Speaker 1: can enter the transfer portal. The NCAA sent out memos
Speaker 1: to institutions twice during the twenty three to twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four stating that the multi time transfers could play immediately
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four to twenty five without securing a waiver.
Speaker 1: But athletes cannot transfer midyear and play for a new
Speaker 1: school in the same athletic season, so the athletic season
Speaker 1: has already started.
Speaker 2: Therefore you could.
Speaker 1: Transfer, meaning they could go get somebody in the portal
Speaker 1: right now if they were to leave and enter the
Speaker 1: portal whenever it opens up because of the semester break,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't be able to play, which really just
Speaker 1: be a waste. You'd be mean, you don't have scholarship,
Speaker 1: and you don't have I mean, I don't know why
Speaker 1: you'd give anybody money, So you know, i'd say that,
Speaker 1: you know, there's no chance that they add anybody to
Speaker 1: the roster, and even if you could, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if that's ideal for a for a you know, for
Speaker 1: a for a coach to do that. I mean, clearly
Speaker 1: they need bodies, but it's just, you know, that's where
Speaker 1: we are right asking a crazy question like that, but
Speaker 1: also kind of knowing, like hey, like maybe you know,
Speaker 1: because they need bodies, they don't have players right now,
Speaker 1: which is just crazy because that was the one of
Speaker 1: the it was one of the things that you really
Speaker 1: felt like was going to be the strength of this team,
Speaker 1: which is depth, and now they don't have that at all.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I guess maybe there's a scenario somebody
Speaker 1: could fight it, like we are at it. We are
Speaker 1: at a point where players are probably gonna like try
Speaker 1: anything like Diego Pavia the Vandy quarterback like he. I
Speaker 1: don't even I didn't see the final resolution, but he's
Speaker 1: in a lawsuit with the n c double A with
Speaker 1: some kind of protection order because he's claiming he should
Speaker 1: get another year and I don't know what. Again, maybe
Speaker 1: he lost, but I feel like more often than not,
Speaker 1: anytime i've seen somebody challenge the NCAA, rather it be
Speaker 1: a player or a school, and they do it in court,
Speaker 1: the instatly loses. But I would not get your hopes
Speaker 1: up if you're expecting somebody to join this team during
Speaker 1: the season and help them out.
Speaker 2: They need it.
Speaker 1: But don't think it's I don't think it's possible. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's talk really quickly about the transfer portal. It
Speaker 1: hasn't even actually opened yet, but there are already players
Speaker 1: that have entered or have said they're going to enter
Speaker 1: the portal, and they've already scheduled visits. But it's just
Speaker 1: another example that nobody follows rules or cares at all anymore,
Speaker 1: because like by setting up a visit, let me give
Speaker 1: you so Miller Moss, the quarterback from USC who lit
Speaker 1: Louisville up last year, he is going to enter the
Speaker 1: portal when it opens up. I guess is that today.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's today, maybe it's tomorrow. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: But he will visit Louisville next week. That was reported
Speaker 1: about on three Sports. He is going to visit both
Speaker 1: Louisville and Missouri next week. And just think about this.
Speaker 1: The fact that you've already scheduled visits means you've probably
Speaker 1: already talked to somebody, right, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: you just show up and say, hey, nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: I'm in the portal, couldn't talk to you, but I
Speaker 1: just wanted to get a flight here and see if
Speaker 1: maybe I could be of service to you. Guys, Like,
Speaker 1: it's not how it works. So there's clearly been communication
Speaker 1: going on and that's technically not allowed, but nobody gives
Speaker 1: a flying rats ass about the NAA rules anymore, because
Speaker 1: that's just that's just where we are.
Speaker 3: Monday the ninth is when the portal opens.
Speaker 2: Up, Okay, so it'll be here soon.
Speaker 1: So he's already got his his trips arranged to Louisville
Speaker 1: and Missouri. But he you know, he technically isn't isn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be talking to anybody just yet. So he
Speaker 1: is you know, I trust Jef Brahm, I really do,
Speaker 1: and I know he lit Louisville up last year, but
Speaker 1: I feel like him getting benched at USC isn't really
Speaker 1: a great sign. Now. With that said, maybe it was
Speaker 1: just something thing that Lincoln Riley was trying to do
Speaker 1: because they weren't winning. But yeah, he ended up. I
Speaker 1: guess he got his first career start against the louivill
Speaker 1: in that Bowl game last year, and I knew he
Speaker 1: had a good game, but I forgot that he threw
Speaker 1: for three hundred and seventy two yards and six touchdowns
Speaker 1: against the Cards last year in the Holiday Bowl. So then,
Speaker 1: of course he became the full time starter this year.
Speaker 1: Got off to a good start. They beat USC or
Speaker 1: not USM, sorry, USC beat LSU, and that looked like
Speaker 1: that was going to be a pretty valuable win, and
Speaker 1: I guess technically it was for USC, but they did
Speaker 1: not have a good season by any means. So he
Speaker 1: started the verse nine games and was completing about sixty
Speaker 1: five percent of his passes, threw for over twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred yards, had eighteen touchdowns and nine interceptions. But then
Speaker 1: he threw I think it was three interceptions when they
Speaker 1: lost to Washington and he got benched, and then at
Speaker 1: that point he, I guess decided in his mind, well
Speaker 1: I'm done here. So no clue if he's going to
Speaker 1: be the guy Louisville really focuses on, because again, the
Speaker 1: portal hasn't even opened yet. But last year, Jeff Brom,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was pretty early with Tyler Schuck. If
Speaker 1: you remember there was he was in the portal, he
Speaker 1: had scheduled to visit and it was done, I mean,
Speaker 1: and other guys later hit the portal, and I think
Speaker 1: fans were thinking, Okay, if this guy can stay healthy
Speaker 1: or you know, because health issues aside Shuck and I
Speaker 1: guess maybe the injuries keeping him from playing in a
Speaker 1: lot of games led to you being a little bit
Speaker 1: underwhelmed with his numbers. But it wasn't just the injury situation.
Speaker 2: You know, even when.
Speaker 1: Healthy, he was solid, but it never really it really
Speaker 1: was nothing within his five six years of playing elsewhere
Speaker 1: that you felt like, Okay, we know exactly what we're getting. Well,
Speaker 1: Jeff Brom knew at least what he liked about Shuck,
Speaker 1: and Shuck came here, played a full season healthy and
Speaker 1: he was a pretty damn good quarterback, a guy that
Speaker 1: I wish played here longer than just one year. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust Jeff Brohm. But if history repeats itself,
Speaker 1: maybe he gets him here on campus and sells Miller Moss. Hey,
Speaker 1: I know what you can do with your arm, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know what I can do as a
Speaker 1: play caller and a guy that develops quarterbacks. Why don't
Speaker 1: we make this happen? Because I don't think Miller Moss
Speaker 1: is gonna be close to being one of the most
Speaker 1: expensive quarterbacks in the portal, because you know there's gonna
Speaker 1: be other I mean, I shouldn't say that, because I
Speaker 1: don't know that for certain, but benched and then hitting
Speaker 1: the portal usually doesn't end up to where everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: be lining up to bring you in. And we've already
Speaker 1: had one person on the text line mentioned this, and
Speaker 1: I hear you. I just I won't claim to know
Speaker 1: enough about the USC situation to give you a direct answer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if Lincoln Riley's moving on from you at quarterback,
Speaker 1: and Lincoln Riley is kind of in that Jeff brom
Speaker 1: tier as far as maybe not accomplishments. Obviously, Lincoln Raley's
Speaker 1: been to a lot of playoffs. I'm just saying those
Speaker 1: are guys that are viewed as very, very innovative minds
Speaker 1: when it comes to offense. So yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say that it's a huge concern. Look, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I trust Jeff Brom. But him
Speaker 1: getting benched and him knowing that and knowing that the
Speaker 1: guy who wanted to move on from him and put
Speaker 1: him on the bench was Lincoln Riley not great signs.
Speaker 1: But again, I think Jeff Brom has proven really with
Speaker 1: this past year was shucked that he's if he sees
Speaker 1: somebody and he likes what he and he likes what
Speaker 1: they have, and he feels like it can work, then
Speaker 1: then you know we should trust him. Now on the
Speaker 1: Kentucky side, they I mean, they're losing everybody in the portal.
Speaker 1: And yesterday I was having some fun because I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean I could, but it was hard to have
Speaker 1: fun and troll and get into the weeds with you know,
Speaker 1: Big Blue Billy and you know RUP's rafters on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I'm just making up non exiting you know those kind
Speaker 1: of names you see on Twitter Kentucky fans that you know,
Speaker 1: are anonymous and just you know, our our terrorists online honestly,
Speaker 1: and then and they've been you know, making fun of
Speaker 1: Louisville football in my mentions for years because.
Speaker 2: They could, they had bragging rights, they had scoreboard.
Speaker 1: Well now we have scoreboard and it's nice to kind
Speaker 1: of get into the weeds a little bit, kind of
Speaker 1: get kind of get ugly. And I don't mean like
Speaker 1: on a personal level, but I felt a little bit
Speaker 1: of is this what the kids are saying now, Austin,
Speaker 1: you're the younger part of the show here, like it's
Speaker 1: showing or it's telling, Like, yeah, the way giving, it's giving.
Speaker 1: See I'm so old. I'm such a grandpa. I'm such
Speaker 1: a grandpa. It's giving. So last night with you, yeah
Speaker 1: it is, it's giving. Out of touch. I couldn't help
Speaker 1: myself when I saw a tweet from a UK fan
Speaker 1: about all the players they're losing in the poor and
Speaker 1: we're talking about Dain Key, Barrian Brown, Dion Walker, Menci,
Speaker 1: the five star Ligneman that was the first guy to
Speaker 1: hit the portal, Jordan Dingle, their tight end Harston. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's hit the portal just yet, but
Speaker 1: there's some speculation that he will, like they're losing the
Speaker 1: most talented players on their team, and as we discussed
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, Mark Stoops and Vince Mayor have
Speaker 1: kind of made it to well, hey, we need to
Speaker 1: value character more than talent. And they're not wrong, like
Speaker 1: you need to have both. But the attempt here to
Speaker 1: spin that your program has no momentum and you're losing
Speaker 1: your best players trying the ability to spin that as
Speaker 1: a positive is really impressive. But what I was going
Speaker 1: to say, but I'm glad I asked because I would
Speaker 1: have said it incorrectly. It's giving Kenny Payne year two vibes.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is like, we saw what
Speaker 1: happened in the first year of Kenny payin and I
Speaker 1: knew and couldn't even fake it, that like this was
Speaker 1: gonna end really badly, and that even if they win
Speaker 1: out and brought in Michael Jordan and the Monstars from
Speaker 1: Space Jam with Kenny Payne coaching the team, it wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna work out.
Speaker 2: Like I knew that, and I think that can tell.
Speaker 1: And I'm not at all comparing Kenny Paine as a
Speaker 1: basketball coach to Mark Stups as a football coach because nowhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't as much as this is a
Speaker 1: rivalry that is very heated and there's a lot of hatred,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't insult somebody like that because that's just crossing
Speaker 1: the line. Comparing anybody what they do to Kenny Payne
Speaker 1: being ahead basketball coach. Again, that's that's crossing the line.
Speaker 1: But you you know, the momentum is not there. You
Speaker 1: kind of know what's going on, like you can see
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. You feel as if you're away like
Speaker 1: this is this there's the chances of this ending or
Speaker 1: I guess not ending, but this the chances of Stoop
Speaker 1: salvaging things in the next couple of years they're rolling
Speaker 1: in football and they're they're cocky again and they feel
Speaker 1: like they've got something special. I'd say the chances of
Speaker 1: that are are much much slimmer than the chances of
Speaker 1: this being a really ugly exit because Stoops isn't gonna
Speaker 1: walk away from a crazy contract that nobody else would
Speaker 1: give him, and yet his fans.
Speaker 2: Want him gone. So you know.
Speaker 1: There's no momentum. You know you're losing all your best players.
Speaker 1: Momentum is a big factor. Yeah, you've got nil money
Speaker 1: to go, you know. But I guess I'll just read
Speaker 1: for you directly the tweet that I couldn't help but
Speaker 1: go back and forth with, because it says Kentucky just
Speaker 1: free up about seventy five percent of the nil by
Speaker 1: not having to pay all those players I mentioned, and
Speaker 1: then they mentioned, you know, this was a positive, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, like, wow, what a spin to have to
Speaker 1: do that. And maybe they do go out there and
Speaker 1: get some big names in the portal, but man, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, momentum is a factor, and they have none.
Speaker 1: Now they've got money that matters too. But like if
Speaker 1: you've got guys who, well, I guess you are selling opportunity.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're losing, you know, you're clearly losing
Speaker 1: your quarterback vandergriff But aren't you going with Cutter Bowlie,
Speaker 1: So like you're probably not even looking for a quarterback
Speaker 1: in the portal. Yeah, you're gonna lose burying Brown dain Key. Therefore,
Speaker 1: maybe you can go sell receivers and receivers obvious one. Opportunity,
Speaker 1: Like the portal is about money and opportunity more than
Speaker 1: anything that matters. And I guess Kentucky could potentially sell
Speaker 1: both of those things, but the players that you would
Speaker 1: need to really get it turned around. I feel like
Speaker 1: they're going to also have opportunities and money elsewhere, and
Speaker 1: those teams probably aren't coming off of a one and
Speaker 1: seven season in the SEC. Just just a hunch, so
Speaker 1: all is right in the world where we can be
Speaker 1: the you know, we can be the not the a holes,
Speaker 1: because I'm not. You know, it's not like I'm on
Speaker 1: social media being mean to people, but you know, just
Speaker 1: observing them crumbling as a football fan base is it
Speaker 1: is a little satisfying just knowing that they were so
Speaker 1: arrogant and so full of themselves for many years and
Speaker 1: it was really based off of more than anything that
Speaker 1: they won. Weren't in the bottom tier of power football anymore,
Speaker 1: but also they were beaten their rival and we had
Speaker 1: to just take it. And now, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll come back on the other side. Talk
Speaker 1: about these basketball injuries with the one and only doctor
Speaker 1: Eric McElroy of proraat Physical Therapy.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm totally wrong here. I got my guests mixed up.
Speaker 2: I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I just remember that we're not talking with Eric McElroy. Next,
Speaker 1: we're talking to Kevin Sweeney. Next, let's talk to college
Speaker 1: basketball with him. He covers college hoops for Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1: That's next right here on Sports Talk seven ninety