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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick coffee?
Speaker 3: All righty, let's get it started, shall we doesn't feel
Speaker 3: like Wednesday, but it is one day closer to the weekend,
Speaker 3: in fact, one day away from the NFL season starting.
Speaker 3: That's exciting, right, Hopefully you guys are excited for the
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Speaker 3: I mean, I suppose if you've got things to do,
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Speaker 3: here on Sports Talk seven ninety Nick Coffee, that is
Speaker 3: me the company man, mister John all on alongside today
Speaker 3: and uh, I would say in the nearly two years
Speaker 3: we've worked together. I think you've missed the show because
Speaker 3: you were sick. Like maybe I think once, yeah, I
Speaker 3: was gonna I remember there being one day or one time,
Speaker 3: maybe it was more than one day, but like it
Speaker 3: rarely happens, and you know, it's happened to me, you know,
Speaker 3: probably a lot more than that, be honest with you.
Speaker 3: But I think my mind's playing tricks on me because
Speaker 3: I said this yesterday to John before the show started,
Speaker 3: that I got we got some we got some sickness
Speaker 3: within our home, the Coffee headquarters. Uh, my wife has
Speaker 3: My wife has strep throat and she's home. She's I mean,
Speaker 3: I hope she's okay. I mean she seems like she's
Speaker 3: just you know, in an off full, awful state of mind.
Speaker 3: I mean, she's just sleeping, she's she's coughing. She says
Speaker 3: she's she get tested positive for striped throat. And I'm,
Speaker 3: you know, being the worried husband, I'm like, you need
Speaker 3: to go get looked at for something else because this
Speaker 3: seems like you can't stop coughing, you can barely move.
Speaker 3: And she's usually I mean, she rarely gets sick, but
Speaker 3: she's usually you know, tougher than me when it comes
Speaker 3: to illnesses. I feel like, but my mind's playing tricks
Speaker 3: on me, John, because I don't feel ill. In fact,
Speaker 3: I had a good morning. I went out and got
Speaker 3: a good run in, and I'm but anytime I'm in
Speaker 3: the home, and you know, even though she's kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, off to herself in a bedroom, sleeping, you know,
Speaker 3: trying to stay away from us as best she can.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's inevitable when you live with somebody, like
Speaker 3: if they're unless you want to send them to a
Speaker 3: hotel for like a few days, Like it's gonna be
Speaker 3: almost impossible to not be around something. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: she's got two young kids that don't care that she's sick.
Speaker 3: They want to hug mommy, you know what i mean.
Speaker 3: Like it's just it's it's inevitable that, like there's a
Speaker 3: chance one of us, maybe all of us, end up
Speaker 3: getting what she has, and we're trying our best not
Speaker 3: to have that happen. But again, my mind is playing
Speaker 3: tricks on me because I'm starting to feel like I'm achy,
Speaker 3: I've got the chills. I mean, you I went and
Speaker 3: got a hoodie before the show today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and today is one of the warmer days of
Speaker 2: the week that we've had.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, it's probably just my mind
Speaker 3: and I don't have a great immune system, so therefore,
Speaker 3: like if I'm around somebody that's sick, I'm likely going
Speaker 3: to get sick. And depending on what you know sickness,
Speaker 3: it is like you know, the one she has is
Speaker 3: strip and if I was to get that again, it
Speaker 3: could cost some issues for me because of some other
Speaker 3: conditions that I have. So I'm going to let this
Speaker 3: show just be a distraction because I've been worried about
Speaker 3: it for the last twenty four hours. Like I don't
Speaker 3: want to get sick, and I don't want to end up,
Speaker 3: you know, like she is. So I hope you know,
Speaker 3: I know she's not listening. I hope she gets well soon,
Speaker 3: and you know, we can avoid anybody else in the
Speaker 3: house getting sick.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're a hypochondriac. I don't know
Speaker 2: if we've had this conversation beow, but I feel like
Speaker 2: I've asked you that.
Speaker 4: No, not at all.
Speaker 3: I usually am more on the invincible side that like,
Speaker 3: nothing's going to happen to me, nothing, like you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a worrier at you know, in general,
Speaker 3: like I am a paranoid person. I let my mind
Speaker 3: get the best of me a lot as far as
Speaker 3: worrying about things. But when it comes to health and whatnot,
Speaker 3: it usually is never a thing for me. But this particular,
Speaker 3: I mean, because of the other conditions that I have,
Speaker 3: I just know what I'm in for if I get strapped, bro,
Speaker 3: as we discussed yesterday, like me and you not on
Speaker 3: the air, but like it'll be bad for me. And
Speaker 3: that's what I'm worried about.
Speaker 4: So now you know.
Speaker 3: And I don't really have any symptoms, like I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean other than kind of feeling like I got
Speaker 3: the chills. You know, my nose is running, But I'm
Speaker 3: just chalking that up to terrible allergies because you know,
Speaker 3: we have terrible allergies in this area. Are you Are
Speaker 3: you a hypochondriac because I would never I would never
Speaker 3: know because you never get sick.
Speaker 2: I think I'm along the same lines as you, as
Speaker 2: I tend to worry that I'm going to get sick
Speaker 2: quite often, but at the same time, when I actually
Speaker 2: do get sick, I tend to always commence myself that
Speaker 2: whatever I have is not a big deal, and then
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna shake it off, kind of what I
Speaker 2: did last year the day that I ended up taking
Speaker 2: a sick day. I woke up that morning and said,
Speaker 2: you know what, I think I'll feel better in a
Speaker 2: couple of hours and end up getting worse than a
Speaker 2: couple of hours, which usually doesn't happen to me.
Speaker 4: It's called growth, John.
Speaker 3: Once you feel something coming along, you know, just say, look,
Speaker 3: I gotta go see the doc because it may be
Speaker 3: it is. There's a chance it might just you know,
Speaker 3: go away on its own, or I might need to
Speaker 3: get it looked at.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I mean hopefully neither of us get sick anytime soon.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I learned the hard way when I was
Speaker 3: probably I guess about thirty thirty one or I started
Speaker 3: to have some health issues and nothing crazy, nothing serious.
Speaker 3: But you know, I just assume we'll head Snowpeaki, it'll go,
Speaker 3: it'll work itself out, like everything is going to be fine.
Speaker 3: I don't need to do this, do that, get lab
Speaker 3: work done. You know, I just assumed, well, it'll it'll
Speaker 3: run its course and I'll be fine. And then I realized,
Speaker 3: oh no, you can't do that nick, You're gonna have
Speaker 3: to be medicated for these things the rest of your
Speaker 3: life and you just need to deal with it. And
Speaker 3: if you don't stay up to date on my meds
Speaker 3: and getting check ups and all that stuff that you
Speaker 3: know comes with being an adult, I guess an adult
Speaker 3: with some health issues, like, then it's gonna be even worse.
Speaker 3: So one time I just stopped taking my medicine just
Speaker 3: for no real reason, just being a dumb ass, honestly,
Speaker 3: and it led to me having like about a six
Speaker 3: week not scare, but like I wasn't in a good
Speaker 3: place for a variety of reasons, and it was just
Speaker 3: me being a dumb ass like just yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna take it today, I won't take it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And like it was so stupid of me and in
Speaker 3: my own fault, but also selfish to me because like
Speaker 3: it was around the holidays, and I just remember being
Speaker 3: very not well thinking to myself like all right, don't
Speaker 3: be such an idiot like that that that was very avoidable,
Speaker 3: and you you know, you couldn't let your stupidity.
Speaker 4: That does suck to around.
Speaker 3: So that's what that's what really made it like terrible,
Speaker 3: is like I was miserable at a time I didn't
Speaker 3: want to be miserable, and the only person I had
Speaker 3: to blame was my So anyways, I'm I'm gonna believe
Speaker 3: in the power of positivity and this show could cure
Speaker 3: whatever illness has come in my way, and hopefully when
Speaker 3: I leave here today, I feel like I'm a okay.
Speaker 3: I keep hearing everybody has COVID, but then again, like,
Speaker 3: are the symptoms of that now the same thing as
Speaker 3: it was a few years ago?
Speaker 4: Like, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody currently that has COVID, But again,
Speaker 2: my circle of people is probably a lot different than your.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I mean, it's apparently going around at schools
Speaker 3: and stuff. I mean, probably nothing different than other you know,
Speaker 3: illnesses and viruses and whatnot. And that's still a very
Speaker 3: that's still a trigger word, right, Like, you know, even
Speaker 3: though it's never going away and will always be COVID
Speaker 3: that people get diagnosed with here and there, regardless of
Speaker 3: what they did from a vaccination standpoint, Like, it's still
Speaker 3: a word that probably honestly will always be for anybody.
Speaker 2: Who lived through it and was old enough to experience
Speaker 2: really all of the bad things that came from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Gosh, can you believe that was almost
Speaker 3: five years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like this this.
Speaker 3: March, I guess will be I mean, heck, it was
Speaker 3: the world shut down in March. But it really started
Speaker 3: to become like a big deal globally, like in January.
Speaker 3: I remember when I went to Boston in January of
Speaker 3: that year, twenty twenty for the Louisville Boston College basketball game.
Speaker 3: I remember when we got back hearing that, like the
Speaker 3: airport I was just in had like the fifth case
Speaker 3: that was on record in the United States, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, like this is this is getting crazy.
Speaker 3: And then she, I mean god, she feels like that
Speaker 3: was two bad years. Oh you were all gonna die? Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh my god. Like I remember thinking like if somebody
Speaker 3: that I, you know, love, gets it, like I'm probably
Speaker 3: never gonna see them again, because they're gonna be dead soon,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to be I can't be near
Speaker 3: them because then I'll get it and die like whenever
Speaker 3: we don't. Like, the fear of the unknown was crazy,
Speaker 3: and it is even more crazy thinking it is even
Speaker 3: more crazy now looking back many years later. How you know, Well, Anyways,
Speaker 3: I'll say those thoughts for a different day. Let's get
Speaker 3: the party started, shall we, Because it's uh, it's another
Speaker 3: week where we have an opponent that I can't lie
Speaker 3: to you and say that I care a whole lot about.
Speaker 3: I think we're going to be in for a very
Speaker 3: similar game on Saturday as we were this past Saturday
Speaker 3: against Austin p SO Jacksonville State. The most interesting thing
Speaker 3: I can tell you about them is what you probably
Speaker 3: already know, and that.
Speaker 4: Is the fact that they are coached about Rich Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: Other than that, I don't have a whole lot that
Speaker 3: I can share with you that I think you'd be
Speaker 3: interested in it all. They're coming off of a disappointing
Speaker 3: season opening loss to Coastal Carolina. They at times have
Speaker 3: been you know, viewed as a team that could potentially,
Speaker 3: you know, be the ace I mean, rich Rodriguez being there.
Speaker 3: Their success at the FCS level, I guess has made
Speaker 3: them somewhat of an attractive a SUN program as far
Speaker 3: as one that could really succeed, you know, in that level.
Speaker 3: But they did not get off to a good start
Speaker 3: on Saturday, whenever I guess, actually they might have played
Speaker 3: last Thursday. Now that I think about it, maybe I'm
Speaker 3: wrong there, but either way, they're owing one and they
Speaker 3: opened up as I believe, twenty one point underdogs to Louisville.
Speaker 3: It's now at twenty eight and a half, so the
Speaker 3: Cards are favored by twenty eight and a half. And
Speaker 3: once we get past that game, then we have a
Speaker 3: real game to focus on. And when I say a
Speaker 3: real game, I mean, you know, it's a conference game
Speaker 3: against a ranked opponent, so that you know, that's a
Speaker 3: big difference than what we've had the last you know,
Speaker 3: last week in this week. But hey, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try not to make it sound like I'm complaining,
Speaker 3: because you know, football seasons here, this is what I've wanted.
Speaker 3: It's just, you know, I could go without these games.
Speaker 3: I'd rather Louisville play anybody than not play at all.
Speaker 3: But I'm just eager to see what this team looks
Speaker 3: like when they get to a more legitimate opponent, which
Speaker 3: again Georgia Tech should be that next Saturday. However, if
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech loses to Syracuse this weekend, that would like
Speaker 3: take all the value.
Speaker 4: In that win away.
Speaker 3: If Louisville is able to beat Georgia Tech next Saturday.
Speaker 3: And again for those thinking like, well, we can't get
Speaker 3: ahead of ourselves, No we can't. As fans, we can
Speaker 3: get ahead of ourselves. We don't need to worry about
Speaker 3: Jacksonville State because you know they're not They shouldn't be
Speaker 3: a real challenge. And if they are, we got bigger problems.
Speaker 3: Speaking of big problems, I know U of L has
Speaker 3: with UH. I don't know who they reach out to,
Speaker 3: if that's if it's the TV executives, if it's just
Speaker 3: somebody that's with the ACC. But with Bourbon and beyond.
Speaker 3: Next Saturday, I mean, it's all. I mean, it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 3: I believe, is it? They're actually Thursday too? I think, yes,
Speaker 3: Thursday through sund Yeah, Thursday through Sunday. And obviously it's
Speaker 3: a humongous music festival. The lineup for the entire event
Speaker 3: is amazing. But that's Saturday. I believe is Zach Bryan, who,
Speaker 3: of course I believe is still one of the most
Speaker 3: popular musicians on the planet right now. There's gonna be
Speaker 3: so many people in Louisville for that event, and there's
Speaker 3: gonna be so many people there on Saturday, which is
Speaker 3: what you know, how far away is Cardinal Stadium from
Speaker 3: that field where they have these shows. I mean it's
Speaker 3: not far at all, right, it's right, I mean it's
Speaker 3: I mean, I want to say it's like within a mile,
Speaker 3: but it's probably closer than that.
Speaker 2: So it is on kind of the other side of
Speaker 2: the Expo Center, I guess, adjacent from Kentucky Kingdom.
Speaker 3: If you're thinking, yeah, we like so yeah, so you know,
Speaker 3: the Fairgrounds is close enough to Cardinal Stadium where like
Speaker 3: people can walk. I mean, I don't know why you
Speaker 3: would you would do that, but like it's not crazy
Speaker 3: to walk from those two events, to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: I mean it is kind of crazy. I don't know
Speaker 3: why you would want to do that, but like you
Speaker 3: could and it wouldn't be the hardest walk you've ever had.
Speaker 4: But there's going to be so.
Speaker 3: Many people all weekend in that general area, and then
Speaker 3: you're going to try to, you know, get people there
Speaker 3: for a four to five hour window for a football game,
Speaker 3: and it's just gonna be I mean, they've requested to
Speaker 3: have a noon game that way, they could, you know,
Speaker 3: get that out of the way. I would imagine the
Speaker 3: show probably I don't know what time does it start.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's an all day thing. At these
Speaker 3: music places, the early acts usually performing around noon, as
Speaker 3: you just mentioned for the Louisville game. You know, most
Speaker 3: people who are there for the big acts, those usually
Speaker 3: don't happen till seven or eight o'clock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at the earliest.
Speaker 3: I would imagine that if this thing gets a noon kickoff,
Speaker 3: that's probably best case scenario. But then again, I could
Speaker 3: see it being an issue with people leaving, you know,
Speaker 3: and I guess if people are on their way out
Speaker 3: of Cardinal Stadium, whereas there's a lot of people on
Speaker 3: their way to the festival, like maybe that would be
Speaker 3: an ideal situation. But the biggest issue that I think
Speaker 3: you'd run into is that if everybody's like trying to
Speaker 3: get to ellen n Cardinal Stadium and the music festival
Speaker 3: at like the exact same time, And I think that
Speaker 3: would probably mean if that would probably be if you
Speaker 3: had like a four o'clock kick, like a three thirty
Speaker 3: kick like that, to me, I think would be the disastrous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, time to do it, So we'll see.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know U of L has requested it again,
Speaker 3: not even sure who they request that through. It's got
Speaker 3: to be somebody through the conference. But you know, the
Speaker 3: people who are in charge of the TV slots and whatnot,
Speaker 3: they don't care about our traffic. I mean, they don't
Speaker 3: care at all. So hopefully, you know, we just get
Speaker 3: lucky and get a nooner. But you know, if they
Speaker 3: get a night game, which I guess is probably still
Speaker 3: on the table like that, I think that could also
Speaker 3: be problematic.
Speaker 4: But what I'm I.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't say worried about because people are gonna do what
Speaker 3: they're gonna do. But I know many Louisville fans that
Speaker 3: are hoping that it's a neon game because if if forced,
Speaker 3: they're gonna go to the concert and not go to
Speaker 3: the game, which you know, do you know, people work
Speaker 3: hard for their hard earned money. Therefore they can spend whatever,
Speaker 3: spend it on whatever they want. I know, we only
Speaker 3: get you know, six Louisville home games on average a season,
Speaker 3: six or seven I guess, depending upon the season, which
Speaker 3: season it is. But like this is a big time.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a big concert and if you paid
Speaker 3: money for tickets, then you've probably paid a lot more
Speaker 3: money than you pay for a football ticket, so you know,
Speaker 3: I I don't. I mean, I hope we don't end
Speaker 3: up in that situation. But you also got to wonder
Speaker 3: if you're gonna lose some of your attendance to to
Speaker 3: the festival. I mean, you probably will in general, but
Speaker 3: if they're if they're like, you know, roughly around the
Speaker 3: same time, and you know you will. So anyways, that
Speaker 3: tells you how much I'm really, you know, anticipating this
Speaker 3: Jacksonville State game on Saturday. I just spent the last
Speaker 3: five minutes talking about potential traffic nightmares and logistical issues
Speaker 3: about a game next week or two.
Speaker 4: Weeks from now.
Speaker 2: Example, what was a bye week next week? And Bourbon
Speaker 2: and beyond is the following week?
Speaker 4: Okay, good good, Yeah that makes more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's still it's still it remains the same.
Speaker 4: But yes, we do have a week off. Yeah, man,
Speaker 4: I hate that. It's weird.
Speaker 2: So that obviously you were aware of the double bye
Speaker 2: weeks in this year of college football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I gotta be honest with you, I
Speaker 3: knew they. I just to have these two opponents then
Speaker 3: a bye week, like it kind of sucks.
Speaker 4: It does kind of suck.
Speaker 3: I mean because because I'm I'm just eager to see
Speaker 3: this team against you know, some legitimate competition. And look,
Speaker 3: it'll be great once these two games are over because
Speaker 3: there's nobody else on the schedule that is anything like
Speaker 3: what Jacksonville State in Austin p are. So again it
Speaker 3: is it's good to get it out of the way.
Speaker 3: I mean, it would be a real kick to the
Speaker 3: you know what if you played one of these teams
Speaker 3: in like week seven or week eight or something like that,
Speaker 3: So they'll get it out of the way, get one
Speaker 3: of the bye weeks out of the way, and then
Speaker 3: you've got Then you've got Georgia Tech followed by Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: which again, two big opportunities there. And I look, I
Speaker 3: if Louisville ends up beating Georgia Tech next week or
Speaker 3: I guess not next week whenever they play on the
Speaker 3: twenty first, if Georgia Tech is still hovering around you
Speaker 3: know the mid or you know, the the low twenties,
Speaker 3: then Louisville beating them would probably knock them out of
Speaker 3: the rankings. And then people would act as if well
Speaker 3: that win really wasn't that impressive, but still, like I
Speaker 3: just want to see you start collecting acc wins. And
Speaker 3: I say that as if they've done something wrong. They
Speaker 3: haven't played an ACC team yet. But look, we all
Speaker 3: know the perception of the ACC, and it's out of
Speaker 3: our I mean, it's out of everybody's control. People are
Speaker 3: gonna say, they're gonna say about the AACC, so you
Speaker 3: might as well if you're Louisville, you know, just look
Speaker 3: at it as a chance to take advantage of a
Speaker 3: league that is for the taking. I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: even know if that's the if that's the case or not,
Speaker 3: but so far, these results that we've got in the
Speaker 3: first you know, I guess two weeks if you consider
Speaker 3: Week zero with Georgia Tech taking down Florida State, I mean,
Speaker 3: who scares you in.
Speaker 4: The ACC Florida State.
Speaker 3: You don't even have to play them in the regular season,
Speaker 3: and they put themselves in a position that they probably
Speaker 3: are gonna have a really tough time getting to Charlotte.
Speaker 3: So you know, Miami and I guess Clemson. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: Clemson is still a team you got to. I mean
Speaker 3: I knew they were on the schedule, but if you
Speaker 3: can get past Miami and Clemson or split those two
Speaker 3: and then try, you know, avoid the head scratching loss
Speaker 3: to teams you know you shouldn't lose to. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're right there with a chance to play for the
Speaker 3: a SEC Championship. And again they're one and oh they
Speaker 3: got eleven more games to play. Yes, I'm totally getting
Speaker 3: ahead of myself here, But when you see the chaos,
Speaker 3: if it's even accurate to call it chaos, I mean
Speaker 3: Florida State starting zero to two, I guess that's chaos.
Speaker 4: I mean it's it was unexpected.
Speaker 2: And the reaction is chaos. The people wanted to eat
Speaker 2: poop out of the Red Solo Cup run.
Speaker 4: Well, no, they didn't want to. They're not going to
Speaker 4: John That's true. That's right, They're not.
Speaker 3: They said they they said they would if they lost,
Speaker 3: and then they lost and then they ran. So anyways,
Speaker 3: I just I'm I'm not built for Jacksonville State and
Speaker 3: Austin p pre you know.
Speaker 4: Pre and then a body view.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but I'll have more fun with the
Speaker 3: bye week than acting like I care about Jacksonville State.
Speaker 3: You want some fast facts about Jacksonville State.
Speaker 2: Are they I'll give you one is are they the
Speaker 2: game cock?
Speaker 4: They are? Their mascot is cocky. The game Cock Cocky
Speaker 4: the game Cock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they are located in Jacksonville, Alabama, a city
Speaker 3: I did not know existed.
Speaker 4: Uh, it was founded.
Speaker 3: The school, I should say in eighteen eighty three is
Speaker 3: Jacksonville State Normal School.
Speaker 4: I don't know why it was called that.
Speaker 3: Enrollment nine thousand students at Jacksonville State colors red and white.
Speaker 3: And they have a campus that is over four hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty acres and it's divided into six colleges, john
Speaker 3: and the College of Arts and Humanities, College of Business
Speaker 3: and Industry, College of Health and Professionals, sorry, College of
Speaker 3: Health Professions and Wellness. And they are in the A
Speaker 3: Sun and their division I in every sport. And they
Speaker 3: also offer ninety five different academic programs, including strong nursing, business,
Speaker 3: and education programs. How about this, They've got the Marching Southerners.
Speaker 3: It's the jsu's renowned marching band. The Marching Southerners is
Speaker 3: one of the largest and most respected in the country,
Speaker 3: known for their high energy performances. They also experienced a
Speaker 3: natural disaster. In twenty eighteen, a tornado caused significant damage
Speaker 3: to to parts of the JSU campus, but the university
Speaker 3: has since rebuilt and continued to thrive. Take that mother nature.
Speaker 3: In football, they did win a nineteen ninety two FCS
Speaker 3: National championship. And when it comes to famous alum, how
Speaker 3: about Oscar winning actress Octavia Spencer. Are you familiar with her?
Speaker 3: The name sounds I mean, okay, hey, I don't know
Speaker 3: who the hell that.
Speaker 2: Is, So I feel like she was in a horror
Speaker 2: movie that I'm familiar with. Just because the name seems recognizable,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm totally throwing that.
Speaker 4: Out of left field.
Speaker 3: Quick Google search does confirm that I do recognize her.
Speaker 3: I have seen her in a variety of things, but
Speaker 3: there's not one particular movie that or show that stands out.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she was in Big Mama's House. That movie
Speaker 3: came out when I was a kid. She was also
Speaker 3: in Blue Streak, one of Martin Lawrence's best movies. But
Speaker 3: as far as like what she's known for, I don't mean.
Speaker 3: She's got a very impressive list of television shows and
Speaker 3: feature film she's been a part of. But you know,
Speaker 3: I can't really think of one specifically that I'm like,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's what I remember her from other horror
Speaker 3: movie I was talking about.
Speaker 2: She was in what was called ma came out back
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: Was it good? It was?
Speaker 1: In?
Speaker 4: Whatever?
Speaker 3: Who else do we have here for Jacksonville State, famous
Speaker 3: slum NFL player. Let's see sports figures like Ashley Martin,
Speaker 3: who was the first woman to score to score in
Speaker 3: a Division one football game. I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 3: Wait a second, Yeah, I had.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: There you go, and she's for a second, she's now
Speaker 3: I'm confused. Somebody scored a touchdown in a men's football game.
Speaker 3: There was a woman this I feel like. I'm felt like,
Speaker 3: there's no way this is real.
Speaker 2: I believe because it wasn't and this wasn't a touchdown,
Speaker 2: But wasn't there a female kicker on the Vanderbilt football team?
Speaker 4: A couple of lays.
Speaker 2: I know it's on the same thing as a touchdown,
Speaker 2: but it was something.
Speaker 3: A quick Google search I think may have utilized something
Speaker 3: called artificial intelligence that might have just given us a
Speaker 3: completely made up, fake thing that's not real.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna blame it on AI. I mean, this is
Speaker 4: what it says.
Speaker 3: Sports figures like NFL player Ashley Martin, who was the
Speaker 3: first woman to score in a Division one There's like
Speaker 3: there's not a woman in the NFL playing football, so therefore,
Speaker 3: like this can't be real, right.
Speaker 2: Not in the is this was not in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I mean at Jacksonville State.
Speaker 3: Anyways, Shout out to Jacksonville State. They're coming here to
Speaker 3: get a check and to get worked and you know,
Speaker 3: then we got a bye week and then you know, we.
Speaker 4: Get to actually start the football season.
Speaker 3: I'm jealous of Kentucky because they had a bum opponent
Speaker 3: in Week one and you know, they did what you're
Speaker 3: supposed to do against an opponent like that before mother
Speaker 3: nature got in the way. But like they've got a
Speaker 3: big game. I mean that it's not a game to
Speaker 3: where everybody who is into the college football season is
Speaker 3: on the edge of their seat to see what happens
Speaker 3: between these two teams, because it really doesn't have a
Speaker 3: whole lot of significance to like the SEC race, or
Speaker 3: at least it shouldn't, but for both of these programs,
Speaker 3: it's huge because they see themselves like they these two
Speaker 3: at least now I know South Carolina it didn't used
Speaker 3: to be that way, but Kentucky since Mark Stoops has
Speaker 3: been there, I think South Carolina and Kentucky are they
Speaker 3: not equals like they I think they kind of view
Speaker 3: themselves as like, okay, you know they that's the bar,
Speaker 3: let's be better than South Carolina. And now again, if
Speaker 3: South Carolina's two and ten, you obviously want to be
Speaker 3: a lot better than them. But like when the divisions
Speaker 3: used to be in place, and this is the first
Speaker 3: year without the divisions, I believe, or maybe it's the second.
Speaker 3: I think it's the first year without the divisions. You know,
Speaker 3: you had Georgia and Florida who run the East, and
Speaker 3: although Florida has taken steps back, clearly there's still a
Speaker 3: superior or like, you know, even if Florida's down, they're
Speaker 3: not gonna be down that long to where they're losing
Speaker 3: to South Carolina and to Kentucky consistently.
Speaker 4: At least, you know, they shouldn't be.
Speaker 3: And maybe that's one of the reasons why Florida keeps
Speaker 3: changing coaches, because you you can't slip. The standard can't
Speaker 3: fall that far. So anyways, I feel like these two
Speaker 3: schools in football, South Carolina and Kentucky. And I'm speaking
Speaker 3: with Kentucky mostly just in the March Stoops era, because
Speaker 3: let's be honest, he's changed how everybody used Kentucky football
Speaker 3: because he's given them in the first time in my lifetime,
Speaker 3: you know, legitimate sustained success, not success to where they're
Speaker 3: gonna be winning their conference, but you know, they're no
Speaker 3: longer what they once were. So they can look at Florida,
Speaker 3: Georgia and just know, hey, we're not that and we
Speaker 3: never will be. They can look at Tennessee and say
Speaker 3: there has been but man, they still have better resources
Speaker 3: than us, and more often than not, they're just gonna
Speaker 3: be able to They're gonna put dudes on the field
Speaker 3: that are better than our dudes. And then from there,
Speaker 3: I think next up is like, you know, they look
Speaker 3: at Missouri as the new QTc team that like might
Speaker 3: be decent or they might be terrible, and then it's
Speaker 3: South Carolina and Kentucky that I feel like, realistically speaking,
Speaker 3: they wouldn't pound their chest about it, but I think
Speaker 3: deep down they know in the old SEC East like,
Speaker 3: we're playing for fourth at best, and if we can
Speaker 3: get there, it's not where we want to be. But
Speaker 3: we can look at those ahead of us historically speaking,
Speaker 3: and know we're probably never going to be better than Georgia,
Speaker 3: Florida or Tennessee. So let's let's just, you know, consider
Speaker 3: fourth being this best we can do. And I'm not
Speaker 3: even really sure if that how it breaks down this year,
Speaker 3: because obviously Missouri is supposed to be good and there's
Speaker 3: no divisions. But my point is, you can you can
Speaker 3: feel the importance of this game within the Kentucky fan base,
Speaker 3: and I would imagine that it's the same thing with
Speaker 3: South Carolina. They're coming off an of an unimpressive victory
Speaker 3: in their opener against Old Dominion and I think their
Speaker 3: touchdown dogs here in Lexington taking on uh Mark Stoops,
Speaker 3: and I don't know, I get the sense that if
Speaker 3: Kentucky was to somehow slip up and lose this game,
Speaker 3: which I don't think they will, but if they did,
Speaker 3: I think that's the first time you start to hear
Speaker 3: people not calling for Mark Stoops's head because that's not happening,
Speaker 3: Like he's not losing his job ever at Kentucky, but
Speaker 3: they'll bring up the fact that he tried to get
Speaker 3: out of there and go to a and m weren't
Speaker 3: they like you. I can hear Matt's postgame show people
Speaker 3: calling I wish Stoops would have got his ass out
Speaker 3: of here, especially considering he was just crying. Like all
Speaker 3: Mark Stoops did was cry during the during the summer
Speaker 3: about having to work. He looked like he might he
Speaker 3: took that out of Sadderfield's playbook. Just cry he did,
Speaker 3: just crying about having I got a new all bum this.
Speaker 1: Hell, it's just me. I ain't coach football.
Speaker 3: It was the remix rejoining. I don't know what the
Speaker 3: hell happened there, but anyways, it is Coffee and Company.
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Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: Let's see who's up first here. Let's go to Dave. Dave,
Speaker 3: you're on Sports Talk seven ninety. What's happening my man?
Speaker 5: Hey about Huggins, Bruce. I know the NC double A
Speaker 5: has got some kind of stipulation bat Grade. Uh, you
Speaker 5: know fia l gout in an official transcript from see.
Speaker 4: Play he played the other day, So he's clear.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, yes, I understand that. But my question, you know,
Speaker 5: I feel paranoid was.
Speaker 4: About the NC double A for Dave, I got you.
Speaker 1: I hear you, Dave.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that was that was why I was calling.
Speaker 5: I mean, did they I hope they got an official
Speaker 5: transcript that stamps and everything else, because, like I said,
Speaker 5: I have a good reason for being paranoia about the
Speaker 5: nc DOLA and screwing U of L.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dave, I appreciate the call. I can tell you this.
Speaker 3: There's no scenario that U of L compliance folks, Sid Rock,
Speaker 3: Go Gasparo, Jeff Bram even like they would not have
Speaker 3: had him on the field playing if they did not
Speaker 3: get full clearance from the NCAA that he was eligible
Speaker 3: to play. As far as how they did it and
Speaker 3: what loophole they may have found, I really don't know,
Speaker 3: And honestly, I guess it's not it's not relevant, But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean it was, Uh, it was what a weird
Speaker 3: few weeks it was there with Colin Lacy going down
Speaker 3: and just the unusual circumstance with Huggins, Bruce had Huggins
Speaker 3: Bruce talked about more among Louisville fans than he ever
Speaker 3: has and ever will be. Not to say he's a
Speaker 3: fine player, I mean, you know, but I think just
Speaker 3: the unusual timing situation all and nobody really knowing exactly
Speaker 3: what they were able to use in order to get
Speaker 3: him eligible. But hey, he's here, he's eligible, or he
Speaker 3: would not have been out there on the field. So
Speaker 3: that green light thumbs up, whatever you want to call
Speaker 3: it from the nc Doualea. It had to have come
Speaker 3: because they wouldn't risk that. I mean, I mean, and
Speaker 3: if they did, then that's one of the dumbest things
Speaker 3: you could do, especially for a guy that you know
Speaker 3: isn't still listed on your two.
Speaker 4: Deep depth chart. I mean, he's somebody that you know.
Speaker 3: And maybe I'm now now I'm second guess in it here,
Speaker 3: like he played, didn't he like I thought? I mean,
Speaker 3: I remember talking about it during the postgame show. But
Speaker 3: then again, like the postgame show is such a whatever
Speaker 3: because you know, it was a postgame show for a
Speaker 3: Louisville Austin b football game when Louisville one's sixty two
Speaker 3: to nothing. But now I got to go back and
Speaker 3: look because I'm paranoid here, like if I've been spreading
Speaker 3: fake news. I don't think I have. But let's let's
Speaker 3: let's find out. Yeah, if you go to the box
Speaker 3: score on Saturday, he caught. He caught one pass for
Speaker 3: nine yards, so he's eligible, he's cleared, he's good to go.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the call, day, I appreciate it. Again.
Speaker 3: We'll go back to the phone lines coming up here shortly.
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Speaker 3: five three zero seven ninety. This is not a sports
Speaker 3: story by any means, but certainly a story that I
Speaker 3: cannot imagine there's a single person listening right now, rather
Speaker 3: it be live or on podcast that's not not familiar
Speaker 3: with the Crystal Rogers murder investigation. So this came out.
Speaker 3: It looks to be within the last I don't know,
Speaker 3: thirty minutes or so, maybe right around the time the
Speaker 3: show started, that the FBI has started to search a
Speaker 3: Nelson County property in and you can assume that they're
Speaker 3: searching for her body. She's been presumed dead, but they've
Speaker 3: never found a body. And you know, I've not followed
Speaker 3: this as close as some others. I mean, I've kept
Speaker 3: up with it because it is a very awful, crazy
Speaker 3: story that's gotten some national intention. I mean, and there's
Speaker 3: like four different networks that have done stories about this case.
Speaker 3: Rather than be the oxygen channel, True Investigation, Discovery has
Speaker 3: done something. There was a podcast done on it that
Speaker 3: I think actually originated locally and became a big deal national.
Speaker 3: I think WHS eleven might have done it. So you know,
Speaker 3: with the latest as far as the arrests that were
Speaker 3: made and the others that, you know, there's two people
Speaker 3: that are associated well I guess they were associated with
Speaker 3: the ex who everybody assumes is responsible for this. But
Speaker 3: the property they're searching right now it looks like, well,
Speaker 3: I guess they haven't said it's actually on that property,
Speaker 3: but White Sides Road in Nelson County is where they
Speaker 3: are searching, and it looks like her boyfriend Halck, his
Speaker 3: grandmother owned a three acre plot on that road. It
Speaker 3: was sold a few years ago. Also his brother Nick Hauck,
Speaker 3: who who was a police officer, with the Bargetown Police Department.
Speaker 3: He of course, was fired for interfering with the investigation.
Speaker 3: He also owned property, it looks like on in that
Speaker 3: area on White Sides Road. So, I mean, I feel
Speaker 3: like we've been here a couple of times where they
Speaker 3: we find out that they're they're digging, they're looking for
Speaker 3: the body, and it doesn't I mean, at this point,
Speaker 3: there still hasn't been any recovery. However, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: this is maybe this is the uh, maybe this is
Speaker 3: the day where they actually figure out where her body
Speaker 3: is buried. Just a just a crazy story that you know,
Speaker 3: I could be wrong here. Yeah, I guess this is right.
Speaker 3: I feel like this was way longer than eight years ago.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, let's see, no, nine years ago,
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, nine years ago. I feel like this
Speaker 3: was in like two thousand and eight. It was twenty
Speaker 3: fifteen whenever this investigation began. So it's been a little
Speaker 3: more than nine years since they found her car left
Speaker 3: running on the side of Bluegrass Parkway with a flat tire,
Speaker 3: her phone and purse still inside. You know, she seemingly
Speaker 3: just vanished into thin air. She's a mother of five,
Speaker 3: and you know, obviously her her former boyfriend Brooks Hawk
Speaker 3: has been the guy that most just assumed has either
Speaker 3: been directly responsible for it or involved in some way.
Speaker 4: So, uh, yeah, I'm gonna again.
Speaker 3: I know not you don't come to this show in
Speaker 3: the station to hear about murder investigations here locally. But
Speaker 3: I'd be a liar if I said I'm not going
Speaker 3: to be checking in here and there over the next
Speaker 3: few hours to see if there are any updates or
Speaker 3: any reports coming from that, because it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a national story. To be honest with you,
Speaker 3: I don't have.
Speaker 4: A whole lot to add.
Speaker 2: But my wife, she was in high school and she
Speaker 2: went to Bartstown High School during the time when all
Speaker 2: of this was going on, so her perspective on all
Speaker 2: of this, she didn't really have a front row seat,
Speaker 2: but I guess she.
Speaker 4: Kind of did at the same time.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of weird that I'm with you in
Speaker 2: thinking that it seems like it's been going on a
Speaker 2: lot longer than eight or nine years, but I guess
Speaker 2: it is. It's good that they're finally making some headway.
Speaker 3: With Yeah, and you know, I hate to say this,
Speaker 3: but I'm just being honest with you, the former police
Speaker 3: officer Jason Ellis. I mean, that's another controversial. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's CONTROVERSI he was murd I mean he's murdered. I
Speaker 3: mean he's killed. That happened in twenty thirteen, and those
Speaker 3: were huge stories, not only locally but nationally in regards
Speaker 3: to I mean, just Bargetown is quite literally one of
Speaker 3: the most beautiful small towns that you'll ever see. And
Speaker 3: I mean when I was at Saint Catharine College, we
Speaker 3: were just down the road between Bargetown and Springfield, and
Speaker 3: you know, it's a beautiful, beautiful place. I know a
Speaker 3: lot of people from there. I know a lot of
Speaker 3: people who I grew up with around where I you know,
Speaker 3: where I still live, that moved to Bargetown because that's
Speaker 3: where they wanted to live and raise their family. Again,
Speaker 3: it's it's it is. It's been named, They've won some
Speaker 3: kind of an award at some point where they were
Speaker 3: they were recognized as one of the most beautiful and
Speaker 3: best small towns in America. And if you've been there,
Speaker 3: you can totally see it's beautiful. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: location wise, it's close enough to Louis but you also
Speaker 3: kind of have that rural small town Kentucky field to it.
Speaker 3: But they have these two stories specifically, and some people
Speaker 3: still think they're connected. I guess I wouldn't. I mean,
Speaker 3: I have no clue if that's legit or not, but
Speaker 3: I know some people have said there's got to be
Speaker 3: some kind of connection because these are just unexplainable things
Speaker 3: that happen in a small town and how could nobody
Speaker 3: know what happened. So anyways, we'll move on. No like
Speaker 3: easy way to transition from that. But anyways, with the
Speaker 3: NFL season starting tomorrow, here's what I want to do
Speaker 3: a little later on. We don't have enough time here
Speaker 3: because I want to get to a break before too long.
Speaker 3: But the athletic they talked to looks like twenty seven
Speaker 3: different coaches and executives within the NFL and asked the
Speaker 3: same seven questions that they've asked I guess now for
Speaker 3: the last few years. And it's you know, I find
Speaker 3: these write ups to be very very you know, telling,
Speaker 3: because not to say that if you're a columnist or
Speaker 3: a radio personality, or you know, just somebody that has
Speaker 3: a platform within the media, your opinion is valuable, especially
Speaker 3: if people are tuning in or you know, reading to
Speaker 3: hear it because reading it or you know, listening for
Speaker 3: because you know that. I hate to give the notion
Speaker 3: like if you didn't play the game, you're not involved
Speaker 3: in it to this day, then your opinion doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: But I also will acknowledge hearing what gms and coaches
Speaker 3: will tell, you know, knowing they're gonna be, you know,
Speaker 3: off the record, like who they think is gonna win
Speaker 3: the MVP, what quarterback they would start a franchise with
Speaker 3: right now, who's the best defensive player in the league,
Speaker 3: Who's gonna have the biggest drop off the most disappointing season, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just found that stuff to be interesting.
Speaker 3: So I want to get to that coming up here
Speaker 3: for too long because I think there are some surprises
Speaker 3: as far as what these coaches and executives within the
Speaker 3: NFL are expecting for the for the upcoming season, which
Speaker 3: again starts tomorrow, which has me super super excited. I mean,
Speaker 3: I hope like hell that the Ravens can can knock
Speaker 3: off the Chiefs. Gonna be really tough to do because
Speaker 3: you know, the Chiefs are a dynasty. I have no
Speaker 3: problem saying, and I don't like the Chiefs, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: root it. I find myself rooting against them just because
Speaker 3: you know, they've kind of become I mean, that's like
Speaker 3: the Patriots. The Patriots did some things that made them
Speaker 3: very easy to hate, but they were also hatable because
Speaker 3: they were great and they were arrogant about it. I
Speaker 3: don't find the Chiefs to be that arrogant. And I
Speaker 3: actually think Patrick Mahomes is a pretty likable superstar within
Speaker 3: the sports world. But like you know, I've had enough
Speaker 3: of the Chiefs. I want him down. I want them
Speaker 3: to be, you know, taken down a notch. But I
Speaker 3: have a feeling that won't happen for quite some time
Speaker 3: because when you've got that trio that is Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey, Andy Reid, and look, we can throw in
Speaker 3: Chris Jones in there as well as well on the
Speaker 3: defensive side. Like, they were really, really, really good and
Speaker 3: I don't see them slowing down anytime soon. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the NFL season starts tomorrow and that has me super
Speaker 3: super pumped. Some other things we'll get into today. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you guys have seen the situation with the
Speaker 3: Memphis basketball program. Penny Hardaway as school has started, has
Speaker 3: gotten rid of his entire coaching staff. Like something happened
Speaker 3: there right Like they had a press release that they're
Speaker 3: gonna go to a different direction, trying to disguise it
Speaker 3: as if they, you know, actually just decided, yeah, we're
Speaker 3: gonna go look like look for new coaches because we
Speaker 3: just decided this isn't gonna work. No, something happened, Like
Speaker 3: you're not getting rid of all of your assistant coaches
Speaker 3: as school starts because you're just wanting to go, like
Speaker 3: are you're gonna go higher?
Speaker 2: And one of those guys is former WKU had coach
Speaker 2: Rick Stansbury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so something. I don't know what's going on there,
Speaker 3: but certainly something is going on that's not in any way,
Speaker 3: even if you hated every one of your coaches, when
Speaker 3: you get to September, you hate starting over with a
Speaker 3: staff unless you have to for reasons that have you know,
Speaker 3: nothing to do with personality differences or whatever they're calling it.
Speaker 3: And we've said this before, but if you listen to
Speaker 3: DeVos Wheney's press conference yesterday, which I don't why would
Speaker 3: unless you're a Clemson fan, But there's some clips I
Speaker 3: want to share with you. This guy's lost it, like
Speaker 3: I think, I mean, I don't see him making any
Speaker 3: kind of a change, but like I think he's got
Speaker 3: the weight of the world on his shoulder. No, that
Speaker 3: like everybody's looking at Clemson's downfall and blaming him, not
Speaker 3: because they think he's allows he coach, not because of
Speaker 3: like you know, one big goof, but because he's a
Speaker 3: stubborn old man.
Speaker 4: It's wild.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to make it a bigger
Speaker 3: deal than what it really is, but I just find
Speaker 3: it fascinating. I can't think of anything comparable where this
Speaker 3: guy is just refusing to adapt with the profession that
Speaker 3: he works in, and it's clearly impacting him and his
Speaker 3: program in a negative way, but he doesn't care because
Speaker 3: he's gonna do it his way.
Speaker 4: It's wild to see that.
Speaker 3: Also, Jasper Johnson gonna make his decision, I believe tomorrow
Speaker 3: all signs still point to Kentucky, but they've got it
Speaker 3: not Tenerary, and they've also closed it off to the public.
Speaker 4: Does that have.
Speaker 3: Kentucky fans worried that maybe he doesn't want bb In
Speaker 3: invading Woodford County High School because he doesn't want you
Speaker 3: guys harassing him for picking Alabama. Maybe he wants to
Speaker 3: go play for Nate Oates. All right, stick with us.
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Speaker 3: Ellen and Federal Credit Union text line. So a couple
Speaker 3: of different questions, a couple of different questions, well, a
Speaker 3: couple of different texts that are kind of the same questions.
Speaker 3: One came in yesterday towards the end of the show.
Speaker 3: This one came in about twenty minutes ago, and it's
Speaker 3: just about Louislle basketball recruiting. So obviously they had some
Speaker 3: visitors on campus here recently. In fact, the kid from
Speaker 3: the kid from Jeffersonville, who make sure I get his
Speaker 3: name right because you know, he's somebody that obviously is
Speaker 3: a pretty big dealer around here.
Speaker 4: Tray Singleton. I knew that was his name. I just
Speaker 4: don't want to mess it up.
Speaker 3: But he's a four star kid from jeff who is
Speaker 3: kind of a you know, borderline top eighty ish type player.
Speaker 3: Depending on where you look, he's a three star in
Speaker 3: most services, but he is a four star I believe
Speaker 3: in one of them. Clemson, Xavier, Purdue, Louisville, Northwestern, those
Speaker 3: are the kind of schools going after me. He has
Speaker 3: some other offers, but he did take a visit this
Speaker 3: past weekend. He's one of the official visitors, which still
Speaker 3: counts as an official visit. But you know, he's not
Speaker 3: traveling because he's you know, he's from here, lives right
Speaker 3: across the river. So but there were some other other
Speaker 3: guys that were on campus as well for unofficial visits.
Speaker 3: And I know in the write up that I read
Speaker 3: over at Cardinal Authority by Jody Demmling, they you know,
Speaker 3: these guys clearly are enjoying their visits. So for those
Speaker 3: asking like when is Pat Kelsey gonna get his first
Speaker 3: commit I don't know. I mean, I don't think they're
Speaker 3: in a hurry. I mean, I think having a lot
Speaker 3: of big name visitors in the mix is sort of
Speaker 3: what you're exactly what you're supposed to do right here.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you get to you know, mid to
Speaker 3: late October and you haven't gotten one of these guys
Speaker 3: to commit to Louisville, then maybe you could be a
Speaker 3: little bit worried. But I mean i'd be lying if
Speaker 3: I said that would give me any reason to panic,
Speaker 3: because I'm not going to flip out over any recruit
Speaker 3: that doesn't come to Louisville because the portal has made
Speaker 3: it to where, Yeah, you're gonna want to try to
Speaker 3: get the best talent that you can, but missing out
Speaker 3: on a high school kid is not going to keep
Speaker 3: these coaches awake at night like it once did. In fact,
Speaker 3: if you get burned by high school kids long enough
Speaker 3: as a coach, you're probably gonna say, I don't need
Speaker 3: to do this. I don't need to be talking to
Speaker 3: these sixteen seventeen year old kids and their parents. Let
Speaker 3: me go talk to a twenty one year old who's
Speaker 3: played three years of college basketball. He knows what he's
Speaker 3: looking for as far as a role, he knows what
Speaker 3: he's looking for as far as money, and I can
Speaker 3: negotiate with him and.
Speaker 4: We'll get it worked out.
Speaker 3: Like I just I never want to act like high
Speaker 3: school recruiting is just gonna go away, because it's not,
Speaker 3: and it's important. And trust me, this is not me,
Speaker 3: you know, trying to tell people don't worry about any
Speaker 3: of the of these guys visiting because they're probably not
Speaker 3: gonna come here and it's gonna be okay. I'm sure
Speaker 3: they're gonna put together a class that they feel really
Speaker 3: really good about. Let's not forget Pat Kelsey and his
Speaker 3: staff landed one of the top ten recruits of all
Speaker 3: time within a couple of months on the job. So
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not worried about recruiting, and I probably
Speaker 3: won't be, to be honest with you, because I think
Speaker 3: they're gonna get three four maybe in this class, and
Speaker 3: they'll also have another big poral class. Because you got
Speaker 3: to keep in mind this roster, given how I was
Speaker 3: put together all from scratch. I mean, you're gonna lose
Speaker 3: a lot of guys who are playing in their fifth
Speaker 3: and sixth year of eligibility. So Singleton visited recently. It
Speaker 3: sounds like that that went really well. And then it
Speaker 3: does appear that Caden Magwood, the Louisville native who's now
Speaker 3: at Oakhill Academy, it does appear that that I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, in fact, I have a pretty good idea
Speaker 3: of what of you know, kind of how it played
Speaker 3: out this way, but Louisville no longer involved there, and
Speaker 3: I you know, I truly believe it was a mutual thing.
Speaker 3: Which rarely is that the case. Usually it's well mutually
Speaker 3: deciding to part ways. That's the person who wants to
Speaker 3: claim it's a mutual thing is usually one who got dumped, right,
Speaker 3: But I actually think for a couple of reasons, both
Speaker 3: sides just decided that, you know, they don't need each other.
Speaker 3: And that's Kate and Magwood in Louisville. So we'll see,
Speaker 3: maybe things change. But anyways, there's your basketball recruiting update.
Speaker 3: Not a great one, right. I don't know if I
Speaker 3: really shared much info, but hey, I shared with you
Speaker 3: what I know.
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