Speaker 1: All right, good afternoon, welcome in. And I'm sure within
Speaker 1: the first half of a second you were able to
Speaker 1: determine that this doesn't sound normal, and it doesn't because
Speaker 1: we're not connected the way that we would typically connect
Speaker 1: to you know, do this show. But here's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. I believe in the power of positivity.
Speaker 1: How about you, Austin, do you believe as well?
Speaker 2: That's all I'm about is positiveness. It's Thursday, Okay, good right,
Speaker 2: So it's Thursday.
Speaker 1: R Yeah, okay, it's Thursday. It's draft day. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have fun on the show today. It's gonna be great. However,
Speaker 1: I've had to connect remotely for just just because today,
Speaker 1: and usually that's never a problem. Ever, i mean that's
Speaker 1: usually not something that you would maybe even notice unless
Speaker 1: I brought it up. I'm sure you notice now because
Speaker 1: you know it actually probably doesn't sound terrible, but it
Speaker 1: also doesn't sound as if, you know, yeah, it also
Speaker 1: probably doesn't sound like I'm you know, in a studio,
Speaker 1: which is not great. I mean, we could get by
Speaker 1: with this, we're not going to We're going to believe
Speaker 1: in the power positivity in that we're going to get
Speaker 1: this thing situated, and everything's going to be you know, aokay.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I'm telling myself, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to be optimistic. So I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out the connection situation, and it stumped me. I'm
Speaker 1: usually pretty savvy when it comes to I mean, like
Speaker 1: technical stuff, really just kind of figuring stuff out through
Speaker 1: trial and error, having to teach myself how to do
Speaker 1: a lot of things over the years, I've just you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how I usually don't if I really
Speaker 1: can't figure something out, I'll ask for somebody, but usually
Speaker 1: I mess with it long enough to where I figure
Speaker 1: it out on my own. But I sat here for
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes, and I don't know what the issue is.
Speaker 1: And again, none of you care or would even know
Speaker 1: what type of stuff we use to get connected and
Speaker 1: all that. So I just I was very confident that
Speaker 1: at the buzzer meaning three o'clock, I was going to
Speaker 1: be aokay, And I really embraced the challenge because for
Speaker 1: some reason, I'm thinking, Okay, everything says we're good, Why
Speaker 1: is it not? You know, why is it not working?
Speaker 1: And you know, I wasn't able to figure out so
Speaker 1: I'm stumped. But again, we'll try to get it figured out.
Speaker 2: But did you try turning it off and then turning
Speaker 2: it back on? Seems to be the universal fix.
Speaker 1: Brother a lot of power down, power up, a lot
Speaker 1: of it, and unfortunately there was h And I mean,
Speaker 1: I I can't think of a comparison. I'm sure there are.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe maybe you're maybe you're thinking of one
Speaker 1: right now, meaning if you're listening and you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about to where there's nothing that indicates that
Speaker 1: things are not work are not supposed to be working.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about like connecting to you know,
Speaker 1: to do a lot of radio show, but just anything
Speaker 1: like technical like you know, let's just say you're in
Speaker 1: your car and for some reason, you have no you
Speaker 1: have no error messages, you have no alarms going off,
Speaker 1: nothing looks off, but your you know, your car will
Speaker 1: like start, but it won't move, Like I don't even
Speaker 1: know if that's the thing. I don't know much about cars,
Speaker 1: But like that's what's really got me stumped, because I
Speaker 1: would have made I would have made arrangements much sooner
Speaker 1: to try to get somebody to assist me. But here's
Speaker 1: what here's what happened. It's my arrogance or maybe my
Speaker 1: confidence and wanting to, you know, be stubborn and try to,
Speaker 1: you know, say no, I don't need help. I'll figure
Speaker 1: it out. Because it did like the challenge. But after
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes I probably should have realized, you know
Speaker 1: what you should call, you know, those that actually do this.
Speaker 1: So everything looks as if it should be working, but
Speaker 1: for some reason it's not. And that's that's why we
Speaker 1: are starting the show with me talking to you on
Speaker 1: the phone. But again, it's old school, right, it is
Speaker 1: old school, but I'm gonna I'm gonna believe it will
Speaker 1: get it figured out before before too long. But as
Speaker 1: you could expect, we'll talk a lot about the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft because you know, it's draft day and I I've
Speaker 1: always been a big nerd for the draft, not just
Speaker 1: the NFL obviously the NBA draft. I don't get into
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball's draft because I don't mean, don't they
Speaker 1: have like eighty seven rounds? Yeah it's high school kids? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's me. I actually think that's one
Speaker 1: of the issues for baseball, meaning that they you know,
Speaker 1: they they don't like you have these guys who typically
Speaker 1: would go through this car wash, as they say, with
Speaker 1: all this promotion marketing, because these guys are the new
Speaker 1: potential stars of a league. And when you when you
Speaker 1: have guys drafted, you know, at any point in baseball,
Speaker 1: you don't see them in the league. You know that
Speaker 1: they're being drafted in as far as like you know,
Speaker 1: the real the big leagues until they're three four years
Speaker 1: in sometimes. So that's my explanation as to why I
Speaker 1: just don't I can't get into the baseball draft. But NFL, NBA,
Speaker 1: I mean, drafts are fun in general. I mean, today,
Speaker 1: Austin and I are gonna draft. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: five round fast food item draft, meaning we're gonna go
Speaker 1: round for round and you know, he might take the
Speaker 1: quarter pounder, he might take the beef and scheddar. I
Speaker 1: might take the you know, take the the Gordida crunch,
Speaker 1: if that's even the thing anymore. So don't you don't.
Speaker 1: I won't. I'll leave it for you actually, just so
Speaker 1: you know that's not going to be on my on
Speaker 1: my board. But anyways, draft, the whole concept of of
Speaker 1: a draft is interesting, and that's why, honestly, when it
Speaker 1: comes to content on social media, podcast that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff like you oftentimes see. In fact, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a podcast I believe within like the Barstool Network that
Speaker 1: they just do snake drafts on different random stuff, like
Speaker 1: we did one on Valentine's Day, Austin and I did.
Speaker 1: It was for rom coms, and you know, that stuff's fun.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things that, like, more
Speaker 1: often than not, most people will have an opinion on
Speaker 1: said subject that you're drafting, because, you know, regardless of
Speaker 1: your rooting interests, regardless of like which team you're a
Speaker 1: fan of, even like regardless if you're even like a
Speaker 1: big sports fan. Like, it's such a broad thing that
Speaker 1: a lot of people have some opinions on. So anyways,
Speaker 1: we will do that a little bit later on. But
Speaker 1: also what I love about the draft is just I guess,
Speaker 1: the kid and me thinking about what it would be
Speaker 1: like to, you know, hear your name called and get
Speaker 1: drafted into you know, the NBA, the NFL, whatever whatever
Speaker 1: the sport is that you choose to you know, pursue.
Speaker 1: And you know, I did have the realization pretty pretty
Speaker 1: early in life that that was not realistic for me.
Speaker 1: You know there was not going to be a scenario
Speaker 1: where I walk across the stage and shake the commissioner's
Speaker 1: hand as I'm being drafted, because you know, I was
Speaker 1: I was pretty realistic about, you know, my upside. But
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here thinking today, imagine being one of these,
Speaker 1: one of these guys that you know, like you're there,
Speaker 1: like you're going to be drafted like the like, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's a lot to balance, But what I was
Speaker 1: thinking about today is I try to put myself in
Speaker 1: the shoes of these you know, twenty two twenty one
Speaker 1: year old dudes who clearly have already been famous, have
Speaker 1: probably now with nil, already made a lot of money, right,
Speaker 1: so like, you know, this is this is certainly a
Speaker 1: big deal to them, but you know, they're already pretty
Speaker 1: well established. And I just wonder if do you still
Speaker 1: have that feel like are these guys thinking about when
Speaker 1: they were throwing it across, you know, throwing it in
Speaker 1: the backyard or playing little league football, about how one
Speaker 1: day they hope to have this happen because it be
Speaker 1: such a special moment. I mean, you know, and I
Speaker 1: also think that if you're somebody like I don't know,
Speaker 1: should or Sanders and maybe he's not the best person
Speaker 1: to bring up, but he's the only he's the most
Speaker 1: talked about person in this draft on draft day, and
Speaker 1: it's really not even close. I mean I haven't done
Speaker 1: a full audit to see who, in fact is, you know,
Speaker 1: being talked about more because there's so much talk about
Speaker 1: the NFL in general, especially the NFL Draft when you
Speaker 1: get to draft day, but we know the number one pick.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know who it's gonna be Cam Wore,
Speaker 1: and we know that right after him, it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be Travis Hunter, and we don't really know where should
Speaker 1: or Sanders is going to be taken. And I think
Speaker 1: that's probably a factor in sort of the intrigue. But
Speaker 1: as much as I have been you know, anti Sanders family,
Speaker 1: I think they're I mean to me there there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's you know a lot of people talk about Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith and LeVar Ball in that realm of like you know,
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't say a lot of people I do,
Speaker 1: and I think others see it the same way, like
Speaker 1: they're characters, they're entertainers, like I don't. I don't really
Speaker 1: take a lot of what they say serious. I kind
Speaker 1: of look at Dion's the same way, although he is,
Speaker 1: you know, legitimately a football coach at a Big twelve
Speaker 1: school and you know is a former you know, it's
Speaker 1: a legendary athlete himself. So you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just part of me says that that in a way, like,
Speaker 1: regardless of what happens tonight, Deon Sanders and his son,
Speaker 1: they're winning like it. I mean, since Dion got to
Speaker 1: Colorado Austin, has he not been one of the most
Speaker 1: or maybe the most talked about person in college football?
Speaker 1: And it has not been based off results. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe they were talked about a lot early on because
Speaker 1: you know, they were terrible and he got off to
Speaker 1: a terrible start, and then last year they clearly took
Speaker 1: a big step forward. But like, regardless of what happens tonight,
Speaker 1: where you know, if he you know, he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: get drafted in the first round tonight, but even he doesn't,
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be talked about in a way that like,
Speaker 1: I just don't think you're gonna hear as much about
Speaker 1: anybody else. And it's not because everybody's gonna say that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a huge bust or they're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: whoever passed on him and let him get later on
Speaker 1: and you know, later later picks that are going to
Speaker 1: regret it. But I don't know. I just when I
Speaker 1: think of, Okay, here we go, it's a night's NFL draft,
Speaker 1: It's night one. I mean, the buzz name is shad
Speaker 1: Or Sanders and he may be awful. I mean, it
Speaker 1: may be great. You just don't know. But I just
Speaker 1: I can't think of anything in sports in recent years,
Speaker 1: let's go back, you know, two and a half three years.
Speaker 1: I just can't think of anything similar to what Dion
Speaker 1: Sanders Prime has done as far as just entering this
Speaker 1: world and regardless of what the results are. He's always
Speaker 1: talked about he's like Lebron in the NBA, He's like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the NFL. And I guess today was
Speaker 1: a day of me just accepting that. Like regardless, I
Speaker 1: think my hope was that you know, he would be
Speaker 1: humbled and they would, you know, they would realize that,
Speaker 1: you know, he's maybe not the worst coach in the world.
Speaker 1: But like all this was just publicity of his pr
Speaker 1: It was it was you know, it was more more
Speaker 1: of a TMZ kind of thing than it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go hire this football coach because he's gonna get
Speaker 1: us competing at a really really high level. And to
Speaker 1: be fair, they are an better spot now than they
Speaker 1: were before him, and he did have a big bounce
Speaker 1: back year in year two. But really, you know, as
Speaker 1: far as accomplishments, nothing substantial. And it would be easier
Speaker 1: for me to say, you know what, a lot of
Speaker 1: credit is due, a lot of credit is deserved because
Speaker 1: they were what three and nine in year one and
Speaker 1: now you know they're I don't know what their record was,
Speaker 1: but you know they were competitive at the top of
Speaker 1: the Big twelve. And oh that's true. But I don't
Speaker 1: even like think to like acknowledge that one because yes,
Speaker 1: I'm probably a hater. Two Also because they act as
Speaker 1: if they've already won national championships, right, they act as
Speaker 1: if like no matter what happens, if they get blown
Speaker 1: out by anybody, like they just carry themselves as if
Speaker 1: they have a trophy case full of national titles. And
Speaker 1: that's just you know, so when you do something that
Speaker 1: is better than being terrible and clearly taking this step forward,
Speaker 1: like because of how you carry yourself and because of
Speaker 1: the hype that you generate. I mean, and again maybe
Speaker 1: it's not their fault, right, clearly they're good at it.
Speaker 1: They generate a lot of high But let's not be
Speaker 1: let's not let's not lie to each other here. Even
Speaker 1: if you are somebody that is very po Deon Sanders
Speaker 1: and you just you know, you want him to be successful.
Speaker 1: You think he's you know, he's he's he's edgy compared
Speaker 1: to what we typically see from coaches and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You know, it's not a surprise, and
Speaker 1: it's not it's not, you know, a coincidence that the
Speaker 1: majority of people who don't like Colorado or maybe just
Speaker 1: our big Deon Sanders fans like we we And I
Speaker 1: say we because I know I'm not alone. We enjoy
Speaker 1: seeing them loose and you know, talk to big talk,
Speaker 1: walk the big walk, and then you know, don't back
Speaker 1: it up. But I think two things I just have
Speaker 1: to accept. One, no matter what happens, the days of
Speaker 1: like Dion Sanders and his his his kids not being
Speaker 1: talked about at a high level. Really just I don't
Speaker 1: know when that's gonna happen, because I don't see any
Speaker 1: I don't see Deon leaving Colorado anytime soon. And even
Speaker 1: if Shadoor isn't great right out of the gate or
Speaker 1: doesn't start early, like he's gonna be somebody people talk
Speaker 1: about from this trap more than anything. So I just
Speaker 1: got to accept that. And also they're good at what
Speaker 1: they do, meaning they want people to talk about them.
Speaker 1: Like all Deon Sanders got the Colorado job, yes, because yeah,
Speaker 1: he was impressive at Jackson State, but like that wasn't
Speaker 1: a typical move, right, Like he didn't. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had really no previous head coaching experience at all before
Speaker 1: he got the Jackson State job. He's literally used every
Speaker 1: every step he's made as a coach, specifically, is all
Speaker 1: based off of what he did as a player many
Speaker 1: many many years ago. And it's not just because he
Speaker 1: was a great player, because he was.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 1: He was sensational, I mean he was, I mean, he was,
Speaker 1: he was, he was. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'd call him a legend, but not far from it
Speaker 1: if he's not one. But yet, even like where he
Speaker 1: is as a coach is not because of his playing career.
Speaker 1: It's because of his personality. It's because it like maybe
Speaker 1: what Dion is best at you know, and he's great
Speaker 1: at football. Clearly he was also great at baseball. How
Speaker 1: many people can do that? Alsin, we talked about thirty
Speaker 1: for thirties yesterday. Did you ever watch the one about Dion?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I remember it, though I probably can't remember too much
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: The only the only reason I'm bringing up is because
Speaker 1: it took me watching that to realize that Dion wasn't
Speaker 1: just somebody who was great at football and then got
Speaker 1: a chance to play baseball. Was good at baseball like
Speaker 1: he was good at it. So so bring all this
Speaker 1: up to say he was great. Yet I feel like
Speaker 1: every bit of Dion, as far as today, it's all
Speaker 1: about not production, And again he had production. He's a
Speaker 1: better player, and he will be a better player than
Speaker 1: his kids ever will be. I believe that. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: prove me wrong. But he's his personality, his charisma, his
Speaker 1: you know, whatever whatever words you want to use to
Speaker 1: to to to add him up, to build up to
Speaker 1: the word that is character slash charisma. He has that,
Speaker 1: and you know, I guess I just have to accept it.
Speaker 1: And I don't, you know, part of me says, well,
Speaker 1: that's just where we are. In sports, right, it's way
Speaker 1: more about drama and stories, like you know, stories that
Speaker 1: are in the drama world, controversy, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Clearly that's going to generate more attention than really anything,
Speaker 1: and that's not new. But I mean, I also he's
Speaker 1: there's not many people that could that could keep their
Speaker 1: name out there regardless of what's going on, than than
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders. And I mean maybe his maybe his kid
Speaker 1: is a great quarterback when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: And I look foolish for thinking that he you know,
Speaker 1: he's to me, he's a huge risk right now to
Speaker 1: draft early on here probably gonna happen regardless. But like
Speaker 1: if Deon Sanders' son was not named Shoud or Sanders
Speaker 1: and he was shit or Coffee and he you know,
Speaker 1: played at FAU, was decent, played at Colorado and you know,
Speaker 1: had some exciting plays, but really it would have been
Speaker 1: about Travis Hunter because obviously he's the elite player like
Speaker 1: the Sanders, like Deon Sanders has has has put him
Speaker 1: his son in this position, and you know, credit to
Speaker 1: him because you know, if I was a dad, maybe
Speaker 1: I'd be doing the same thing. So am I wrong?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 1: I mean, you follow the NFL honestly more than I do.
Speaker 1: Austin isn't should or Sanders the most talked about name
Speaker 1: right now, and it's not close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you you just mentioned something that just hit me.
Speaker 2: They the Sanders family is basically here to stay uh
Speaker 2: for for at least the time being, and they've elevated
Speaker 2: up to I mean, if they're not talking about Lebron
Speaker 2: or the Cowboys or insert New York team here, then
Speaker 2: it's Deion Sanders. And this year's draft is going to
Speaker 2: be shadoor. And I don't know if you would even
Speaker 2: I actually told you a couple of months ago. I
Speaker 2: was afraid that this would probably turn into like an
Speaker 2: Eli Manning situation. See, I thought that they would get
Speaker 2: so heavily involved, and because he was trending towards being
Speaker 2: the best quarterback the number one overall pick, and of
Speaker 2: course things happen. Obviously, cam Ward is the runaway favorite
Speaker 2: for it right now, but I thought he would just
Speaker 2: be in line to go to uh who has a
Speaker 2: number one pick? It's the Giants, right or the Titans.
Speaker 1: Number one overall pick? Is the Titan is a Titan
Speaker 1: taking Ward?
Speaker 2: Okay, See, like when it was going to be Like
Speaker 2: in the Giants discussion when the season was was going on,
Speaker 2: I told you, I said, I would be afraid that
Speaker 2: there might be some drama caused by them during the draft.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem too far fetched for him. But no, no,
Speaker 2: you're right. They've entered a level to where they're they're
Speaker 2: not gonna there. No one's going to not talk about
Speaker 2: him because they are polarizing, and whether how you feel
Speaker 2: about him, they do make headlines. And whoever whoever does
Speaker 2: get Shador, they're also gonna have You're right, it's gonna
Speaker 2: keep following them. There's gonna be more following on them,
Speaker 2: and Chador's journey throughout the league, everything that he does
Speaker 2: in training camp, if somebody happens to come over and
Speaker 2: get ahead of him on the death chart, that's gonna
Speaker 2: be have more eyes on it. So, yeah, there's a
Speaker 2: lot you're right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and it's you know, and there's other
Speaker 1: things we'll get into when it comes to today's draft.
Speaker 1: I think the story of the I think it's the
Speaker 1: GM of the Yeah, the GM of the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: He's a teenager and on Instagram he posted what appeared
Speaker 1: to be a legitimate cinematic video that the giants had
Speaker 1: already pre put together because they know they are taking
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, which I mean, isn't that an old time
Speaker 1: Like I mean, that's like something you'd see in a
Speaker 1: movie that's about the draft. Yeah, Like GM's son leaks
Speaker 1: pick with social media because this kid, he's seventeen, I think,
Speaker 1: and he's already he's already gone to being tried it
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Now as if like uh oh he realized
Speaker 1: that he he you know, he probably had it on
Speaker 1: his story. He probably had a few hundred followers from
Speaker 1: kids that he knows from high school. And all it
Speaker 1: took was one person to realize I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think this this kid's just let us know that
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. And here's the thing, if they if
Speaker 1: they draft him, I mean, everybody's gonna know that that's
Speaker 1: what it was, right, Like it won't you know? And
Speaker 1: again if I guess there's no real harm in it.
Speaker 1: But again there's there's also some really good stories that
Speaker 1: come from the draft. I don't know if we're gonna
Speaker 1: get what we had many many years ago. Laramie Tunsel
Speaker 1: with the grass mask, the bong mask like that, that's
Speaker 1: an all timer. Like the NFL Draft has given us
Speaker 1: some great stories, and we'll see what we end up
Speaker 1: getting tonight. I'm I'm certainly excited for the draft, but
Speaker 1: we'll also continue to talk about some other things. I Uh,
Speaker 1: we had somebody ask yesterday and I kind of I
Speaker 1: kind of laughed it off a little bit, like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe Louisville gets involved with Travis Perry
Speaker 1: because you know, he's a really good shooter and Pat
Speaker 1: Kelsey really values that. But I thought, you know, they've
Speaker 1: already got many guards this year. He would never and
Speaker 1: who knows what the kid wants to do. But again,
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at is I shouldn't say I was
Speaker 1: wrong because I didn't really make a full prediction. But
Speaker 1: Louisville is one of the schools that has reached out,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they're seriously in the mix,
Speaker 1: but wouldn't that be something. And I actually have a
Speaker 1: thought about Travis Perry that I can't believe I didn't
Speaker 1: think of yesterday when somebody asked me that question. But
Speaker 1: we can certainly get into that, and more importantly, what
Speaker 1: we're going to do is figure out how the hell
Speaker 1: to get the connection stuff fixed because I think we've
Speaker 1: been able to make it work as best we can.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah, I mean we're I mean we're up in
Speaker 2: the air where we're good.
Speaker 1: But you know, obviously we don't want to do the
Speaker 1: show sounding like this because you know we're professionals, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. I mean, I promise we try to
Speaker 1: be sometimes maybe I don't know. All right, it's Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company. We are a feel about. Thornton's here on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety and we're going to try to
Speaker 1: get this stuff figured out during the break. So stick
Speaker 1: with us right here again on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: Coffee and Company, we're returning, kicking things off for a Thursday.
Speaker 2: That's right, it is Thursday. I am Austin Montgomery. I'm
Speaker 2: not Nick Coffee. He's at home. We're still having some
Speaker 2: issues trying to get everything running. So it doesn't sound
Speaker 2: like he's on the phone. Well he's been on the
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Speaker 2: War All professionals here. Sports Talk seven ninety brought to
Speaker 2: you by Thornton's our friends over there and it's draft day.
Speaker 2: As you heard our guy Drake. I remember when Johnny
Speaker 2: Manziel was such a big deal and that crossover was
Speaker 2: just absolutely insane. Now look at it, pretty fun stuff.
Speaker 2: But while Nick is kind of getting everything all set up,
Speaker 2: we're trying to connect to him here so we can
Speaker 2: sound a little bit more professional to you since it
Speaker 2: is draft day. Got some audio here from a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. We got to talk to Brian brom
Speaker 2: talking about the upcoming season, looking forward to the spring game,
Speaker 2: and of course some Tyler shuck talk shook of course,
Speaker 2: rising up draft boards today for the NFL Draft. A
Speaker 2: lot of fun talk going about him. So excited to
Speaker 2: see where that goes. But until we get everything connected,
Speaker 2: here is our interview from a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: with Little offense coordinator Rian Brown.
Speaker 1: Is getting big, just hits, no missing Brian.
Speaker 3: How are we doing, brother, I'm doing doing good? Looking
Speaker 3: forward to the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'll start by it sounds like there was
Speaker 1: really no consideration for for this program to consider not
Speaker 1: having a spring game. I know that's happened elsewhere, and
Speaker 1: I know you can speak for anybody but yourself. But
Speaker 1: you know, obviously you've been in this industry for a
Speaker 1: long time, you have peers, you have contacts. What would
Speaker 1: you say is the biggest reason as to why some
Speaker 1: of those programs would want to do that? Is it
Speaker 1: because they're worried about players getting posted, worried about egos
Speaker 1: getting hurt, because maybe these guys who transferred in aren't
Speaker 1: where they need to be on the depth chart. Again,
Speaker 1: I know you guys aren't going to do it, but
Speaker 1: it's just a surprise to me that you're seeing this
Speaker 1: thing kind of just not be a thing anymore at
Speaker 1: some programs.
Speaker 3: I think there's too that I think. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously not getting players post and not letting your opponents
Speaker 3: be able to get a glimpse at what you're going
Speaker 3: to look like come come fall, because we will will study.
Speaker 3: You know, in the past, we study the spring games
Speaker 3: that people put on TV and make sure that we
Speaker 3: see the personnel and what they're running. So that does
Speaker 3: get studied. So some coaches get paranoid about that. And
Speaker 3: then you know, the injury thing sometimes, you know, everyone
Speaker 3: wants to get through the spring healthiest. The biggest thing
Speaker 3: you don't want to get your guys hurt. So that's
Speaker 3: probably one of the reasons that the teams are are
Speaker 3: shying away from that as well.
Speaker 1: I wasn't planning on asking you, but you said the
Speaker 1: word which opened the door is college football coaching? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it true that it is a paranoid profession? Seems
Speaker 1: like it is, but you you would know better than me.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think a lot of coaches are very parannoyed
Speaker 3: about people stealing their stuff, stealing their signal, stealing what
Speaker 3: they're doing, getting the edge, and we're all working to
Speaker 3: try to get an edge. Yeah, the way we can
Speaker 3: so at some at some points it's justifiable. You know,
Speaker 3: we do so much on offense. Sometimes I tell you guys,
Speaker 3: I say, hey, I probably can answer my call sheet
Speaker 3: and you wouldn't really know what we're doing, So good
Speaker 3: luck figuring that out because we do a lot, so
Speaker 3: we don't worry about it too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like it'd be
Speaker 1: a little more difficult when it comes to that with
Speaker 1: with the system that you guys run. But for tonight's game,
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as formatter, we expected have just
Speaker 1: a typical type of spring game. Four quarters competitive rosters.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys may be planning to make some
Speaker 1: adjustments on the go just to kind of get some
Speaker 1: different looks. What's the plan for to night As far
Speaker 1: as what fans can expect.
Speaker 3: It's going to be very similar to what we have
Speaker 3: done in the past. So we're gonna go ones on
Speaker 3: good on good, ones, on one twos, on two threes,
Speaker 3: on threes. You won't see much tackling, if any tackling.
Speaker 3: Uh So it'll be thud, which means that the defender
Speaker 3: has to get to the ball carrier and and and
Speaker 3: give them a little something without taking them to the ground.
Speaker 3: Uh So the ball will beat down when when that occurs.
Speaker 3: But you're gonna see you can see all our players,
Speaker 3: all the best players. We're gonna be competitive. Uh there's
Speaker 3: a scoring system for the it's offense versus defense. So,
Speaker 3: uh there's a scoring system for the defense to get
Speaker 3: some points and make it a competitive matchup to to
Speaker 3: really have some fun out there and see these guys
Speaker 3: in some live action, see them in a competitive environment
Speaker 3: where the coaches aren't out there telling them what to do.
Speaker 3: I've seen them when they get out there in front
Speaker 3: of fans in the stadium. Sometimes when the lights him on,
Speaker 3: some guys play better, some guys play worse. It's good
Speaker 3: to know that going into the lost season, how they're
Speaker 3: going to react.
Speaker 1: Well with it, with the new world we're in with rosters,
Speaker 1: you know, turning over much more so than they used to.
Speaker 1: There'll be a lot of guys tonight playing in front
Speaker 1: of fans here at Louisville for the first time. One
Speaker 1: of them will be your new quarterback, Miller Moss. I'll
Speaker 1: go back to a couple of years ago. I guess
Speaker 1: it hasn't been quite that long, but two seasons ago.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there was no thought in your mind that
Speaker 1: whenever he was having a hell of a game against
Speaker 1: you guys in that Bowl game, that he would now
Speaker 1: be the guy kind of running the show for you guys.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't, you know, Yeah, that was It wasn't
Speaker 3: fun to be on the other end of that. But
Speaker 3: it's good to have him here. He's he's super smart,
Speaker 3: very intelligent. He throws a really pretty ball, very catchable football,
Speaker 3: and he gets the ball out on time. So very
Speaker 3: excited about him. He's been He's been tremendous this spring
Speaker 3: so far. He's done a great job of understanding the offense.
Speaker 3: He's a football junkie. He wants to watch film all
Speaker 3: the time. He's he's grabbing me for extra film work
Speaker 3: pretty much every single day. So he's done a great
Speaker 3: job of coming in, digesting the offense, learning it all,
Speaker 3: and then being able to go out and execute on
Speaker 3: the field. So really excited about him, and really excited
Speaker 3: for the fans to kind of get a glimpse of
Speaker 3: him in our uniform instead of in the opponents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I know, you know, you guys would keep
Speaker 1: a guy forever if he has eligibility and he wants
Speaker 1: to stay and he can have success for you guys.
Speaker 1: But obviously that's just not as common anymore. And I
Speaker 1: remember during the Notre Dame game, it was the broadcast.
Speaker 1: I remember Jason Garrett had mentioned that I guess in
Speaker 1: conversation with your brother Jeff, that that you know, he
Speaker 1: really wasn't against having to go get another and I
Speaker 1: shouldn't even say having, but like the ability to go
Speaker 1: get a veteran that has played high level college football.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of coaches they want to keep
Speaker 1: the same guy as long as they can. And sure
Speaker 1: you will if you can, But I don't get the
Speaker 1: sense that you guys as a staff are are worried
Speaker 1: about bringing in somebody, even if it's only for a year. Clearly,
Speaker 1: last season, even the season before that, it's it's been
Speaker 1: pretty successful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you try to adapt to whatever the
Speaker 3: rules are at the time. So, you know, obviously we
Speaker 3: want to get the best recruits in here that we
Speaker 3: possibly can and develop those guys to be great players
Speaker 3: and get them on the field, and at the same time,
Speaker 3: we want to win now. We've always kind of carried
Speaker 3: that m O going into every season that we want
Speaker 3: to win this season. We're not not as concerned about
Speaker 3: just getting guys in to get them ready for the
Speaker 3: upcoming years. We want to win now. So a lot
Speaker 3: of times, you know, there's good options out there in
Speaker 3: the portal. There are. It seems like every year so
Speaker 3: far there've been quite quite a few good quarterbacks that
Speaker 3: get out there and are are in the open market.
Speaker 3: So each year we're just trying to put the best
Speaker 3: team out there that we can find the best quarterback
Speaker 3: that we can. And yes, if we if we get
Speaker 3: a young guy that does a great job and carry
Speaker 3: this thing for multiple years, that would be phenomenal. We
Speaker 3: would love depth, but a lot of times in this game,
Speaker 3: it's about opportunity. Sometimes guys get that opportunity early, whether
Speaker 3: it be through bad play or injury or whatever it
Speaker 3: may be. Maybe we knock on Wood, have not had
Speaker 3: to dive into our depth chart very far the first
Speaker 3: two years. Hopefully it continues that way. We keep our
Speaker 3: starter healthy and keep them off the ground and those
Speaker 3: type of things. But we definitely got to be prepared
Speaker 3: if we need to dive into the depth as well.
Speaker 1: Roan brom Is our guys joining us here on Sports
Speaker 1: Talk seven ninety getting separate tonight's Louisville football spring game.
Speaker 1: Last year's quarterback Tyler Shuck, he was. He was pretty
Speaker 1: damn good, and he's getting a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of buzz right now leading up to the NFL draft. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you spent time in the NFL, you played the game,
Speaker 1: your quarterback, yourself, I know you were. You guys have
Speaker 1: had been impressed with with with with Shucks since since
Speaker 1: he arrived, and obviously he had a really good season,
Speaker 1: But did you expect him to kind of wow NFL
Speaker 1: personnel the way he has? I mean, there's a chance
Speaker 1: he could be taken really pretty early in this draft,
Speaker 1: which I don't think any loisvill fan that watch would
Speaker 1: would be surprised that he's he's good. I mean, we
Speaker 1: saw with our own eyes, but it just seemed like
Speaker 1: the buzz really kind of came out of nowhere and
Speaker 1: it continues to be growing. It seems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Am not surprised. I think his talent is evident if
Speaker 3: you just if you watch him a stature, the way
Speaker 3: he throws the football, the way he moves, and then
Speaker 3: when you get to talk to him and see how
Speaker 3: smart he is, how articulate he is, what a great
Speaker 3: leader he is. He just has He really checks all
Speaker 3: the boxes. He has all the attributes you want in
Speaker 3: a franchise quarterback. So I would not be surprised to
Speaker 3: see him taking in the first round. I think he
Speaker 3: is a first round talent for sure. You know that
Speaker 3: the knocks on him would be the injury history, and
Speaker 3: sure he's a little bit older, so that might push
Speaker 3: him down a little bit. But I think he's as
Speaker 3: good as anybody out there. And I think once the
Speaker 3: evaluators start seeing him in person and start watching the film,
Speaker 3: they're all seeing that as.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not a body language expert, not I've never
Speaker 1: played the quarterback position, but one thing that stood out
Speaker 1: to me. I don't want to get your thoughts on
Speaker 1: about him, and also to me, he seemed just very
Speaker 1: sure of himself. Right, you could tell there was a
Speaker 1: confidence that was infectious. But it wasn't because of any
Speaker 1: type of you know, arrogance or I mean, he seemed
Speaker 1: calm and cool, but you could just tell he trusted
Speaker 1: his arm and made some big plays and it just
Speaker 1: seemed like that. I mean, again, I've never played the
Speaker 1: position myself, but it seemed like that. Really that really
Speaker 1: they can really boost your offense with everybody.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it is super calm. I mean just the maturity
Speaker 3: level that he had. Obviously he's a seventh year player,
Speaker 3: but with all the types of experiences that he has had,
Speaker 3: he's been through so many different things, and I think
Speaker 3: that built your character, built your confidence. He was very
Speaker 3: sure of himself. You know, he went to Oregon, he
Speaker 3: was in quarterback battles, He won quarterback battles, he lost
Speaker 3: quarterback battles. He went to Tech when he played for
Speaker 3: multiple coaches. You know, at Tech had the injury bug.
Speaker 3: You had to keep fighting through that, keep fighting through that.
Speaker 3: I think when you experience all those things as a person,
Speaker 3: mature as a quarterback, that confidence is going to show
Speaker 3: in the field. Man. I think it did last season,
Speaker 3: and that's why he was able to be so successful.
Speaker 1: You've already mentioned it, and I'm sure it's not something
Speaker 1: that people are surprised to hear, but hey, we want
Speaker 1: to win now that I like that motto, and it's
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have been winning since you showed
Speaker 1: up a couple of years ago. I don't see that
Speaker 1: stopping anytime now. But usually that's a pitch to transfers
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously freshmen as well, but freshman making
Speaker 1: a big impact in year one it still happens, but
Speaker 1: it's just really it's never been super common. But you
Speaker 1: had two freshman running backs on your offense last year
Speaker 1: that were insane. I mean, Isaac Brown Duke Watson, two
Speaker 1: of the best, maybe the two best freshman running backs
Speaker 1: in the country. Certainly in the conversation, you played alongside
Speaker 1: some really really good running backs. Tell me a little
Speaker 1: bit about these guys and really their upside, because I mean,
Speaker 1: if they just come back and have the same production
Speaker 1: the same season they had a year ago that would
Speaker 1: be phenomenal. But these guys, I mean they're still nineteen
Speaker 1: years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're really good. I mean they both are obviously
Speaker 3: a little bit on the small side of your running
Speaker 3: back frame, but both got really great speed. Isaac is
Speaker 3: got that home run hitting speeding time to give them
Speaker 3: the ball, you just know that it can possibly squeeze
Speaker 3: through there for for a huge play. So it's just
Speaker 3: so fun to watch him run. I think Duke is
Speaker 3: a little bit tight spaces, he has a little more wiggle,
Speaker 3: and he's phenomenal as well. So we're we're blessed. You know,
Speaker 3: getting those that makes the quarterbacks job easier, It makes
Speaker 3: the play college job easier, It makes everybody's job easier.
Speaker 3: We can hand it to these two guys and let
Speaker 3: them run the football and go get yards in ways
Speaker 3: where you don't have to really out scheme everybody. You
Speaker 3: just give it to your best player and players and
Speaker 3: let them go go get the yards. So we're blessed
Speaker 3: to have those two.
Speaker 1: A couple of quick questions and we'll let you out,
Speaker 1: and you've got to get ready for tonight's game. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to recruiting players and now the Nile
Speaker 1: component being a factor. Some times it's a big factor.
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, maybe I I mean, might be
Speaker 1: the most important factor for most players. That wouldn't really
Speaker 1: shock me when you consider it. But is there something
Speaker 1: about the recruiting process now in this new world that
Speaker 1: is a challenge an obstacle that maybe? All right, so
Speaker 1: we've we've made some progress, folks, So I'm sure this
Speaker 1: is not perfect, but hey, we're again, we're making progress.
Speaker 1: I trust it in the power of positivity and and
Speaker 1: you know, again we're making progress. I will say this
Speaker 1: to defend myself. Maybe this is my insecurity that's really showing.
Speaker 1: As I was stumped before the show started to figure
Speaker 1: out why I couldn't what's going on here? Why can't
Speaker 1: I get this figured out? It turns out we're having
Speaker 1: like network issues within not just our company, but like
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of places, and that's the factor. So, hey,
Speaker 1: it's not all my fault. But let's get to a
Speaker 1: quick break. Thank you to Austin who was hustling to
Speaker 1: make you know, to make it work while we get
Speaker 1: it figured out. What I do we played some of
Speaker 1: the that's what you do, and you do a great
Speaker 1: job at it. So I really do appreciate that. Hey,
Speaker 1: we we we're a team and this is not ideal,
Speaker 1: but hey, it's time almost back. It's Draft Day. We're
Speaker 1: having fun and we'll take our last break here at
Speaker 1: three o'clock hour, come back on the other side, kind
Speaker 1: of get some things reset and keep this thing rolling along.
Speaker 1: So appreciate you hanging out with us. Again. It is
Speaker 1: a Draft Day edition of Coffee and Company, and we
Speaker 1: are Philbeuth Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: All right, we were wrapping up the three o'clock hour
Speaker 1: here on a Thursday afternoon, a Draft da edition of
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company. And yesterday we did talk a lot
Speaker 1: about James Scott and his decision. And I don't say
Speaker 1: this based off the fact that like I've heard any
Speaker 1: kind of new information or that you know, anything's changed.
Speaker 1: I mean, to be honest with you, I have no
Speaker 1: clue as far as what played out with James and
Speaker 1: the communication with him and the staff, and really just
Speaker 1: you know how it all played out, and really nothing
Speaker 1: would honestly shock me. So what I'm saying is that
Speaker 1: you know he's going to have options. And he's a
Speaker 1: perfect example of somebody that I think if you do
Speaker 1: wait late and you hit the portal, and there's going
Speaker 1: to be teams that did not feel like they were
Speaker 1: able to address the needs that they had at certain positions.
Speaker 1: If you're a late addition to the portal and you
Speaker 1: happen to fit what they need, there's going to be
Speaker 1: a level of like, all right, well we missed, we
Speaker 1: can't miss Now this guy we got it. So two things, One,
Speaker 1: they're going to really pursue you because they you know,
Speaker 1: you're like the gift they didn't know they were going
Speaker 1: to potentially get. But also, you know, they they they
Speaker 1: may have to spend more than they want to because
Speaker 1: they they just are in that position because they swung
Speaker 1: and missed early. So I've heard that both Texas Tech
Speaker 1: and NC State are are are bad, you know, fighting
Speaker 1: to you know, make an offer to James Scott, and
Speaker 1: I don't what. I don't know. And when I say
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean that I don't know, and
Speaker 1: so it could be one or the other. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Louivell is even trying to persuade him to
Speaker 1: stay and make match the offer, or if they've just
Speaker 1: accepted he's gonna move on. I have no clue but
Speaker 1: the worry that you would have if you're somebody that
Speaker 1: does hit the portal late. And you know, because again
Speaker 1: I think more often than not, there's gonna be good teams,
Speaker 1: Like there's gonna be teams every portal cycle of the
Speaker 1: Power for Power five level that did not hit on
Speaker 1: what they wanted to address. And if you become available late,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some desperation there. However, you know, depending
Speaker 1: on which program it is, do they have the money?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of money has probably been spent from these and you know,
Speaker 1: from the nil budget at this at this stage in
Speaker 1: the game. So I don't know what's gonna happen with
Speaker 1: James Scott. But uh, the one name that that Louisville
Speaker 1: fans have talked a lot about for good reason, because
Speaker 1: Louisville is one of the many schools that's recruited that
Speaker 1: is recruiting this transfer in the portal. I just have
Speaker 1: no clue if it's you know, and that's that's probably
Speaker 1: my biggest complaint about the portal is it's not a
Speaker 1: complaint as far as like what it's doing to the game.
Speaker 1: I'm I guess my complaint is more so just based
Speaker 1: off how it how it pertains to me, meaning like
Speaker 1: I would I would love to be able to talk
Speaker 1: about these players based off the fact of like are
Speaker 1: we wasting our time or is this somebody that Louisville
Speaker 1: is really pursuing. And then the industry is mutual. What
Speaker 1: happens is it's such a faster moving process compared to
Speaker 1: what you get with the you know, the standard recruiting
Speaker 1: process of high school players. So you know, you see
Speaker 1: a list from a reporter or a list from a
Speaker 1: from a player that just says, here's the schools that
Speaker 1: has reached out to me. That is a broad, uh
Speaker 1: you know, vague way of you know, laying it out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody called it to to you know, kick
Speaker 1: the tires and have a conversation. You know that they
Speaker 1: may after said conversation, they may move on and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're good. We don't we don't, we don't, We're going
Speaker 1: to go in a different direction. But there's no there's
Speaker 1: no way of knowing that, right, there's no there's no
Speaker 1: updates for fans like myself who want to follow it.
Speaker 1: So Bobb A. Miller is a transfer from FAU. Started
Speaker 1: his career at at Florida State in Louisville. Is again
Speaker 1: one of the many schools that has linked to him
Speaker 1: as far as just expressing interest. Don't know about visits,
Speaker 1: don't know about anything when it comes to that. But
Speaker 1: he would be a I mean, and here's the thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I when you look at his numbers, there's
Speaker 1: really no way to say that he wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: bigger addition than what James Scott is. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a better player. I mean, he's he's somebody that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm pulling up his numbers here. I know his numbers
Speaker 1: at at Florida State weren't weren't really impressive, but he
Speaker 1: was a big time recruit coming out of high school.
Speaker 1: And then again at Florida State. You know he was.
Speaker 1: He was decent. I think he averaged about he's Florida
Speaker 1: State for two years he did average seven points as
Speaker 1: a sophomore, and then at FAU last year's when he
Speaker 1: kind of broke out, averaged about twelve points a game,
Speaker 1: seven rebounds, shoots it pretty well, pretty versatile. In fact,
Speaker 1: he's a really good I mean, he's six eleven, two
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, not a real beefy physical presence, but he's big,
Speaker 1: and he's skilled and he can shoot it. And last
Speaker 1: I checked, that's that's the type of one Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 1: But the issue is that, you know, you could get
Speaker 1: him great one. I don't know if he would be
Speaker 1: like he's he's he went to Florida State for two
Speaker 1: years and then he's at FAU and what he's doing
Speaker 1: is a bounce back. In fact, a former Louisville player
Speaker 1: who was a teammate of Bobba Miller's last year, did
Speaker 1: the same thing, Caleb Glynn. Right, he went at Louisville
Speaker 1: and you know, had an awful well, he didn't have
Speaker 1: an awful season, the team did, and he, you know,
Speaker 1: he decided to transfer to a lower level. He did
Speaker 1: FAU and he had a really good season. And now
Speaker 1: he's playing at Michigan State for Tom Mezzo. So I
Speaker 1: just I find it hard to imagine that Bobba Miller
Speaker 1: would would want to jump back up but yet walk
Speaker 1: into a situation where he's clearly going to be playing
Speaker 1: probably behind Cason Pryor. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: throw these guys in the same position. They're different, but
Speaker 1: you know they could they're different players, but they could
Speaker 1: both play the three in the four. But like Javon Hadley,
Speaker 1: so you know, Louisvill's interest level is legitimate and meaning
Speaker 1: you know that they clearly would probably love to add
Speaker 1: this guy. I just one don't know if Louis if
Speaker 1: it's a compatibility kind of thing, because yes, he could
Speaker 1: be jumping up from fau to a place like Louisville,
Speaker 1: but he could also end up going to you know,
Speaker 1: Memphis or who else is after him, like Memphis, Indiana, Yukon,
Speaker 1: Like these are the schools recruiting him. So you know, Louisville,
Speaker 1: they've got an ay all money, and you know, I
Speaker 1: never want to count out Pat Kelsey when it comes
Speaker 1: to adding anybody, but I just you know, for those saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: not a big deal, James Scott, we can replace his production.
Speaker 1: He's one dimensional. All he does is dunk. We can
Speaker 1: actually go get somebody that's better and more skilled. This
Speaker 1: is you know, this is a good example to kind
Speaker 1: of lay out my point yesterday. James Scott. We thought
Speaker 1: at least was content and comfortable, you know, being a
Speaker 1: guy who just gave you everything. He had effort and
Speaker 1: dunked on people, and you know, he wasn't out there
Speaker 1: trying to get fourteen shot attempts a game. And I
Speaker 1: just assumed he would be willing to embrace playing, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, maybe off the bench. I don't think Bobba
Speaker 1: Miller is in any way looking for the kind of
Speaker 1: role that Louisville now has opened. And it worked again.
Speaker 1: I still felt like, even with Scott there, they would
Speaker 1: have probably benefited from adding at least another front court
Speaker 1: player that has some better and experience. But it worked
Speaker 1: out good because you know you've got Case and Pryor
Speaker 1: who could kind of more so be your I mean,
Speaker 1: he does shoot a lot of threes, but obviously he's
Speaker 1: a more polished offensive player in your front court, whereas
Speaker 1: you've got Sonny Fruits kind of the same kind of
Speaker 1: the same thing. And then with Ali Khalifa, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's a big physical presence, but he's more of
Speaker 1: a shooter and a passer than he is and he
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, get him the ball in the
Speaker 1: post and let him use his post moves. So James Scott,
Speaker 1: you know, he was he was a rare guy that
Speaker 1: I just felt like, yeah, the production won't always really
Speaker 1: indicate how valuable he is. But it's not just what
Speaker 1: he does, it's finding guys who will embrace that, and
Speaker 1: James did. But maybe I was wrong, you know, I
Speaker 1: kept saying, you know, James Scott, it's hard to find
Speaker 1: guys that are willing to do what he does. But maybe,
Speaker 1: like we learned that he didn't want to embrace that
Speaker 1: because he decided to leave. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: more about money and maybe being closer to home, that's
Speaker 1: my guess. But they could get Boby Miller great, but
Speaker 1: when he doesn't, he doesn't. What you lost with James
Speaker 1: Scott is valuable, and if you don't believe it is,
Speaker 1: I do. It's valuable and Bobby Miller doesn't doesn't check
Speaker 1: those boxes. Although he's a better player, he's bringing something
Speaker 1: that you just don't have as much of a need
Speaker 1: for because the other guys you have in the front
Speaker 1: court kind of do that too. So again, we'll see
Speaker 1: how it shakes out. I mean, I don't mean we
Speaker 1: can take a look at some of the best players
Speaker 1: that are still available in the portal as of right now.
Speaker 1: You know, I wish I had more info as far
Speaker 1: as who Louisville was like really going after who they
Speaker 1: were pursuing, But regardless, I just have a hard time
Speaker 1: seeing them not I mean, I think they were going
Speaker 1: to always try to fill the scholarships. But I thought
Speaker 1: once they got Casing back and Scott hadn't hit the
Speaker 1: portal yet, there was a chance that maybe they kind
Speaker 1: of hold onto those scholarships and maybe find some guys
Speaker 1: from overseas to come over, like they did with with Sonny.
Speaker 1: But now I think they're probably I mean, they'd be
Speaker 1: foolish not to try to find somebody to go replace
Speaker 1: James Scott as just a guy that's got some experience.
Speaker 1: They can give you some depth in the front court.
Speaker 1: But again, you know this late in the game, there's
Speaker 1: not as many players as available as there was a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. And also you're now having to sell
Speaker 1: a role that I think a lot of guys are
Speaker 1: probably thinking, you know, the money's right, I'll do it,
Speaker 1: but not all I want to go be your fourth
Speaker 1: best big man. I want to go play and look,
Speaker 1: you could tell them, hey, come here and improve it
Speaker 1: and show it, but you know, or they could walk
Speaker 1: into another place with decent money, maybe the same money,
Speaker 1: and know that like they've got a good chance to start.
Speaker 1: So anyways, we'll get to it. It's draft day. We
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