Speaker 1: All right, let's get it started.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Happy Friday, and welcome in coffee and company fuel.
Speaker 2: Beth Thorton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety A beautiful
Speaker 2: Friday afternoon as we get you set for the holiday weekend,
Speaker 2: and really I feel like we're going to get you
Speaker 2: set for the summer as well. This weekend always feels
Speaker 2: like these summer officially starts. I'm not sure if we're
Speaker 2: going to feel that with the weather, but hey, it's
Speaker 2: beautiful outside, a little cooler than what probably most folks
Speaker 2: would prefer, unless you know, maybe you're outside because you
Speaker 2: have to be outdoors for your job. If so, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure you could get a much more beautiful and
Speaker 2: pleasant day. But uh yeah, we got holiday weekend, and
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, as we get this thing started,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I have ever been in here at
Speaker 2: three o'clock on a on a I mean, any day.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say Friday, but it is a ghost
Speaker 2: town here at our studios, which that's okay. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised a lot of folks get out pretty
Speaker 2: early when you've got the long holiday weekend coming up.
Speaker 2: So as I made my way around the building once
Speaker 2: I got here about thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 1: I mean there's probably I think it's me.
Speaker 2: It's big Time Carl Bln and who's producing this afternoon,
Speaker 2: Gus Allen, who's producing for Terry Miners, And I think
Speaker 2: that might be it. Maybe one other person, maybe two
Speaker 2: other people, but if they're here, I didn't see them,
Speaker 2: so but that's okay. We'll take you up till six o'clocks.
Speaker 2: Mentioned get you set for the weekend. A lot to
Speaker 2: get into today, and you can take us with you
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Speaker 2: the show today. Be a part of it if you'd like,
Speaker 2: and I'll let you know how you can do that
Speaker 2: coming up here in just a moment. But I'm going
Speaker 2: to the Bats game that I'm excited. And I mentioned
Speaker 2: the weather not being maybe as warm as as everyone
Speaker 2: as a lot of people would. Oh, I guess what.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to people who are going to the lake
Speaker 2: this weekend. I'm talking to people who are going to
Speaker 2: want to be around a pool. I feel like there's
Speaker 2: a lot of folks that this is the weekend annually
Speaker 2: where they just make sure that they have the poll
Speaker 2: open by then. I mean, you can still enjoy your
Speaker 2: pool all summer without it being opened this weekend, but
Speaker 2: I feel like it's the target date for a lot
Speaker 2: of folks. So if that's you know, if you want
Speaker 2: to be around water, you want to be in water,
Speaker 2: You're probably gonna be pretty chilly this weekend. But again,
Speaker 2: the bat's played tonight, which of course you'll hear that
Speaker 2: game right here on Sports Talk seven ninety, but should
Speaker 2: be a good night. I've got a hoodie on, no shorts.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make sure when my wife meets meets us
Speaker 2: there at at the ballpark that the kids are not
Speaker 2: bundled up. I mean, I don't want to be dramatic,
Speaker 2: but I mean it's when the sun goes down and
Speaker 2: it's breezy like it has been today, it's going to
Speaker 2: be kind of chilly, but should be a good evening.
Speaker 2: And again I'm looking forward to the big holiday weekend,
Speaker 2: and this is the fifth after today, there'll be just
Speaker 2: four shows left for me here on Sports Talk seven ninety,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to drag that out. I'm sure
Speaker 2: I've probably made it a bigger talking point than a
Speaker 2: lot of people probably would prefer. But I also want
Speaker 2: to make sure that whenever this isn't here meaning coffee
Speaker 2: and Company fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety,
Speaker 2: when it is no more, starting June second, that you
Speaker 2: at least know where I'm at. You know, I didn't
Speaker 2: I didn't leave town.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. You know I didn't quit. I
Speaker 1: didn't get fired.
Speaker 2: I guess I could somehow get myself fired from now
Speaker 2: until then, I hope that doesn't happen. But I'm just
Speaker 2: going to be moving up your radio dial a lot
Speaker 2: earlier in the day. In fact, it'll be middle of
Speaker 2: the night morning, depending upon how you want to look
Speaker 2: at it. So I'm going to be taking over Tony Cruz,
Speaker 2: who will be retiring. His last show will be Friday,
Speaker 2: a week from today, and then June second, that's whenever
Speaker 2: a new world starts for me. And I was talking
Speaker 2: to Carl before the show started, and I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: telling myself next week, meaning the week before it becomes official,
Speaker 2: I need to I'm going to start getting up as
Speaker 2: if I'm needing to be on the air at five am,
Speaker 2: hoping that by the time we get to June second,
Speaker 2: I'll be a little bit more prepared. But I've also
Speaker 2: kind of thought to myself, well, why not just take
Speaker 2: advantage of like the days I still have left to
Speaker 2: sleep in, Because I've talked to Tony Cruz others that
Speaker 2: have been a part of the morning show in some
Speaker 2: former fashion over the years, and you really never get
Speaker 2: used to it. And then some tell me that they
Speaker 2: lose the ability to sleep in because after many years
Speaker 2: of just being programmed Monday through Friday to get up
Speaker 2: at probably three point thirty or maybe four o'clock at
Speaker 2: the latest, it just kind of becomes routine. And I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful you can go back to sleep after you
Speaker 2: wake up, but still you want to, you know, sleeping
Speaker 2: in For me, the best case scenario for sleeping in,
Speaker 2: which I don't often sleep in.
Speaker 1: I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Guess sleep until eight o'clock will be considered sleeping in
Speaker 2: moving forward in my new life. But usually you want
Speaker 2: to sleep in unbothered. You don't wake up, you just realize, hey,
Speaker 2: I got a few extra hours of sleep, more so
Speaker 2: than what I'm used to and I'm feeling refreshed. I
Speaker 2: hope I can still have that once I make this,
Speaker 2: make this transition. But the only person who has told
Speaker 2: me that they you know that told me two things
Speaker 2: that and I believe both. It never gets easy. You
Speaker 2: get used to it, but it's never easy to just realize, hey,
Speaker 2: it's three o'clock or three thirty or maybe even four
Speaker 2: o'clock and you got to get up and you got
Speaker 2: to start your day. That's really early. But also you know, you,
Speaker 2: you know, will you be able to sleep in? I
Speaker 2: don't sleep in now, even as someone who doesn't.
Speaker 1: Get up that early.
Speaker 2: But Paul Rodgers, of course, the legendary voice of the
Speaker 2: Cards when he was doing the sports for Kentucky and
Speaker 2: his morning news for many, many many years. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was the sports anchor for Kentucky and his morning
Speaker 2: news for a long long time before I guess it
Speaker 2: was around twenty twenty when that came to an end.
Speaker 2: But he told me he never had any problem at
Speaker 2: any point sleeping in when he wanted to, which I'm
Speaker 2: hopeful that I can follow in that path because it
Speaker 2: would be nice to because really it's it's the mental component, right,
Speaker 2: like sometimes even if even if you know you don't
Speaker 2: have to get up early, but you probably will still
Speaker 2: wake up early. That's a much different evening than knowing, hey,
Speaker 2: now I got it.
Speaker 1: It's like a chore. It's a job. You gotta lay.
Speaker 2: Down and try your best to fall asleep because you
Speaker 2: got to get up before too long.
Speaker 1: Just the mental component of knowing.
Speaker 2: Hey, if I wake up early, cool, I can just
Speaker 2: roll over and try to go back to bed. That's
Speaker 2: a better mindset, I guess than having the well I
Speaker 2: better get to sleep, because three point thirty three, forty five,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, it's gonna come, it's gonna come early.
Speaker 2: So again, after today, there'll be four more shows because
Speaker 2: we're out on Monday for the holidays. So gonna make
Speaker 2: next week a fun week at least I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: my best to do that, and then of course we'll
Speaker 2: have some fun today. As mentioned, we're gonna take you
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Speaker 2: lot we can get into today. In fact, I probably
Speaker 2: have more prepared today to run through than I have
Speaker 2: in quite some time. It just kind of worked out
Speaker 2: that way with the recent change to the College Football Playoff,
Speaker 2: meaning they're no longer going to give buys to those
Speaker 2: who win the conference championship. They're just going to seed
Speaker 2: it one through twelve. That'll be this upcoming season. That's
Speaker 2: the way that it should be. And we have two
Speaker 2: completely different I guess ways to react to this from
Speaker 2: those who feel like, because let's be real, if you're
Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve, like Arizona State last year, you
Speaker 2: know you were not somebody that was probably worthy of
Speaker 2: a top four seed and a bye, but you got
Speaker 2: it because you win your league. Same thing for Boise State.
Speaker 2: Boise State last year ended up being I guess the
Speaker 2: highest ranked conference champion. They were ranked higher than the
Speaker 2: AC champ therefore they got they got that spot. So
Speaker 2: Boise State they're boohooin as if they're against it. Whereas
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve commissioner, Brett Yormack, he came out and
Speaker 2: said something that I'll give him credit because I'm going
Speaker 2: to just assume that he's being genuine. He's not, you know,
Speaker 2: just given us lip service here. But he said today
Speaker 2: might not have This was his comment from yesterday's news.
Speaker 2: He said that, and I'm paraphrasing here. I wish I
Speaker 2: had the quote directly in front of him, in front
Speaker 2: of him, but I don't. But he said, today may
Speaker 2: not have been a great day for the Big Twelve,
Speaker 2: but it's a great day for the future of college
Speaker 2: football and the playoffs something along those lines, which I
Speaker 2: think that's actually a good way to look at it,
Speaker 2: because I mean, you could lie to everybody and act
Speaker 2: as if you, as a Big Twelve champ are annually
Speaker 2: always going to be worthy of a top four seed
Speaker 2: and a bye, but that's realistically not the case. I mean,
Speaker 2: Kansas State and all these early rankings for next season
Speaker 2: or I guess the upcoming season, I should say for
Speaker 2: college football, Kansas State is the highest ranked team I've seen,
Speaker 2: and they're borderline twenty. So as much as I bag
Speaker 2: on the ACC in needing to be better and mostly basketball,
Speaker 2: but football certainly is behind the Big Ten in the SEC.
Speaker 2: But it also seems as if right now, like if
Speaker 2: the teams going into this season end up being as
Speaker 2: good as we believe they are, the Clemsons, the Miamis,
Speaker 2: the Louisville's, the SMUs, then I think the ACC should
Speaker 2: be firmly at number three. And then you know, you
Speaker 2: hope that there's the occasional year where maybe you can
Speaker 2: be competing better with the big dogs like the SEC
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. I just think it's going to
Speaker 2: be tough to envision, given that those leagues now have
Speaker 2: just so much depth. I mean, the SEC has already
Speaker 2: been a monster for so long, and then now they've
Speaker 2: added Texas and Oklahoma and the Big Ten. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think the Big Ten really got better with their
Speaker 2: additions more than the SEC did, because the Big Ten
Speaker 2: is Ohio State's conference. Penn State's been there, they've been consistent,
Speaker 2: they're really good. But Michigan had that run with Horrball,
Speaker 2: and we know what happened with that.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was Connor Stallion's. It was his work
Speaker 2: really that put Michigan in a different situation than they
Speaker 2: were throughout the first however many years it was for
Speaker 2: Harrball before he finally broke through and made the playoff.
Speaker 2: So the Big ten again, it's it's Ohio State, Penn
Speaker 2: State's usually really good, Michigan usually pretty solid. And then
Speaker 2: outside of that, I mean Michigan State they had those
Speaker 2: random years where they were really really good, but that's
Speaker 2: certainly been a long time since that happened. And then
Speaker 2: now you've got USC, UCLA, Oregon, Oregon, and Washington, which
Speaker 2: I mean, Oregon's a monster USC at any moment can
Speaker 2: be UCLA. I don't really know what the future holds
Speaker 2: for them. And then with Washington, clearly they took a
Speaker 2: step back when klen de Borr left, but you know,
Speaker 2: they're a program that's consistently been pretty good.
Speaker 1: So anyways, this.
Speaker 2: Move to re work the twelve seeded format where you
Speaker 2: don't give anybody any automatic bid, you just seed it
Speaker 2: one through twelve.
Speaker 1: That's the right way to go about it.
Speaker 2: But you've got one side of it, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: the Mountain West and I honestly don't even know is
Speaker 2: Boise going to the new PAC twelve that's going to
Speaker 2: call itself the PAC twelve, but clearly just be a
Speaker 2: different version of the Mountain West. Either way, we can
Speaker 2: get intoto that a little bit. Also, we talked about
Speaker 2: the college football coaching rankings that CBS Sports gave us
Speaker 2: this week. They gave us one through sixty eight of
Speaker 2: the Power for Coaches This and I love list season
Speaker 2: off season rankings, summer stuff just because it gets me
Speaker 2: so excited for college football season. And it's a better
Speaker 2: scenario when you're able to get excited for the college
Speaker 2: football season and also see things about your team, your
Speaker 2: program that gets you even more excited. So, Jeff Brom
Speaker 2: being listed as the seventeenth best coach in college football,
Speaker 2: that was awesome to see. Not super surprising, but certainly
Speaker 2: nice to see your head coach getting some love. But
Speaker 2: also Louisll's running back room. There is a ranking from
Speaker 2: I Believe It's Pro Football Focus that ranks the best
Speaker 2: running back groups within college football for this upcoming season
Speaker 2: and not a surprise, but where Louisville ranked was pretty high.
Speaker 2: And I mean that just seems dangerous right a Jeff
Speaker 2: Brom offense. Hopefully Miller Moss can step in and be
Speaker 2: maybe not Tyler Shuck but something close to it. Fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: Will see if that ends up happening. But even if
Speaker 2: he can't you got some good running backs that can
Speaker 2: definitely help you move the ball down the field, which
Speaker 2: I feel like giving Jeff brom elite running backs like
Speaker 2: Isaac Brown and Duke Watson. I mean, I think that's
Speaker 2: like it's unfair, but I'll take it. Sticking with college football,
Speaker 2: the annual Athlon Sports Anonymous Quotes from Coaches is out.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the ACC, but the SEC has come out.
Speaker 2: I don't think they put out the ACC yet, but
Speaker 2: we'll tell you what anonymous coach has said about Kentucky
Speaker 2: football for this upcoming season. It probably won't surprise you
Speaker 2: when you end up hearing it. So we can certainly
Speaker 2: get into that, and also coming up a little later
Speaker 2: on Mark Pope was with the KSR crew this week
Speaker 2: at some point. I don't believe it was a live interview.
Speaker 2: I think they ended up going and recording it and
Speaker 2: then kind of just sharing it on KSR in chunks.
Speaker 2: But hearing Mark Pope talk about Pat Kelcey will just
Speaker 2: make It's just gonna make me give you a recycled take,
Speaker 2: which is that we can keep hoping and you know,
Speaker 2: believing that one day with these two coaches here within
Speaker 2: the rivalry, Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey. We can hope
Speaker 2: that one day there'll be some real contentious animosity where
Speaker 2: they don't like each other, and maybe they're you know,
Speaker 2: they're they're at each other's throats because of, you know,
Speaker 2: being a rivalry and something is transpired to where they
Speaker 2: don't like each other, somebody did something that made the
Speaker 2: other one feel a certain way, like maybe that ends
Speaker 2: up happening. Who knows, Only time will tell. But hearing
Speaker 2: Mark Pope talk about Pat Kelcey just confirms what I believe,
Speaker 2: which is that it's if you're at this point anybody
Speaker 2: talking about it being like a rivalry within those two,
Speaker 2: it's just a force. Now again, fans make a rivalry
Speaker 2: and that's all that matters. We're always going to be
Speaker 2: going at each other and that's what makes sports great.
Speaker 2: But when I hear Mark Pope talk about Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 2: when I hear Pat Kelsey talk about Mark Pope, I
Speaker 2: do think there's a level of genuine respect among each
Speaker 2: other and that they it'd be a real force if
Speaker 2: they had to speak sideways about one another. Also, I
Speaker 2: kind of forgot this was even a thing, but the
Speaker 2: iu UK basketball series back on, I guess we now
Speaker 2: have the official date for when Indiana is going to
Speaker 2: go into Rup and play And this is the way,
Speaker 2: Like this just seems it's like a really good offseason
Speaker 2: thus far in college basketball around here. When it comes
Speaker 2: to getting games on the schedule that should be played.
Speaker 2: Louisville obviously we know that. You know, they're going to
Speaker 2: play Indiana. That's been in the works I think for
Speaker 2: a while. But they're also now going to play Cincinnati
Speaker 2: in Memphis this year.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it should be.
Speaker 2: And with Kentucky, they played Indiana for a long time
Speaker 2: and then obviously Cal went to Bloomington and lost and
Speaker 2: cried and talked about how the atmosphere was too dangerous
Speaker 2: for his players, and you know he boohooed. And to
Speaker 2: be fair, Kentucky doesn't really need Indiana on the schedule
Speaker 2: because Indiana, to be fair, is not been really pulling
Speaker 2: their weight when it comes to the college basketball you know,
Speaker 2: blue blood status in quite some time. I mean Indiana,
Speaker 2: I always defend him, and I do think all it
Speaker 2: takes is a good coach and they'll be one of
Speaker 2: the best programs in the country. Now, does that equate
Speaker 2: to Final Fours? In titles. That's much different conversation. But
Speaker 2: if Darien Devrees is as good of a coach as
Speaker 2: I think he is, Indiana should be really good.
Speaker 1: Because they've got all the resources.
Speaker 2: All it takes is somebody to, you know, get it done,
Speaker 2: and they've just really since Bob Knight. They hired one
Speaker 2: coach who I think was really good, and then he
Speaker 2: got caught at the time doing something that was considered
Speaker 2: illegal by NCAA bylaws and that changed a lot of things.
Speaker 2: That was Kelvin Sampson. Tom Creane was fine, but they
Speaker 2: never broke through and he had too many seasons where
Speaker 2: they should have been better than they were. But now
Speaker 2: that this series is back on between Indiana and Kentucky,
Speaker 2: that's just.
Speaker 1: Good for college basketball. These are like these are the.
Speaker 2: Kind of games that can only help when it comes
Speaker 2: to attendance in viewership issues that we've seen in college
Speaker 2: basketball prior to March Madness. I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: going to see sellout crowds for these games. Maybe you will,
Speaker 2: but long ago, there should have been a real push
Speaker 2: to say, look, let's stop playing Long Beach State and
Speaker 2: Montana Tech on a random November or December evening, Let's
Speaker 2: actually go out here and schedule games that fans want
Speaker 2: to see, because that will do what It'll get people
Speaker 2: more inclined to say, you know, I want to be there.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a good atmosphere, that's going to
Speaker 2: be a good game. And you're always going to have
Speaker 2: the games against the teams that a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't know much about or maybe you have never even
Speaker 2: heard of. But reducing as many of those as possible
Speaker 2: can only help you, because one, it's good for the fans,
Speaker 2: but also you'll be more battle tested. And yeah, you
Speaker 2: might take some losses, but I think we've learned recently
Speaker 2: with the NAA Committee, you beating nobody's by thirty doesn't
Speaker 2: do anything for you. If you lose to a decent
Speaker 2: team or a good team, that's still probably going to
Speaker 2: be a means a loss. It still counts as an
Speaker 2: l But I think we've seen recently with the committee
Speaker 2: that they don't really hold that against you if you're
Speaker 2: actually playing really good teams. And then, of course, how
Speaker 2: could I not mention this in our first segment. We've
Speaker 2: got Game two of the Eastern Conference Finals tonight. Hope
Speaker 2: full that my Pacers can carry momentum into this one,
Speaker 2: because man, they're riding some momentum after that come from
Speaker 2: behind victory just a couple of nights ago still doesn't
Speaker 2: seem real. But it was real and it was awesome,
Speaker 2: And if they get this thing, if they win tonight,
Speaker 2: it's a sweep.
Speaker 1: I believe that.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Pacers clearly can be beat They're not perfect,
Speaker 2: and the Knicks they're a good team. They were the
Speaker 2: better team in that game just a couple of nights ago,
Speaker 2: for what ninety eight percent of it maybe, So I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to get ahead of myself and get too
Speaker 2: confident here, but I think if the Knicks end up
Speaker 2: leaving Madison Square Garden to head to Indy for Game
Speaker 2: three in Game four and they don't have a win
Speaker 2: to show for their first two games, having home court advantage,
Speaker 2: I think they're just going to crawl in there and
Speaker 2: get beat.
Speaker 1: Down in Indie. Again.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong, trust me, I'm wrong often. We've
Speaker 2: been on the air twenty minutes. I've probably been wrong
Speaker 2: multiple times since we started the show. So I'm not
Speaker 2: guaranteeing anything. I just think if they win tonight, which
Speaker 2: again easier said than done. I think it'll be hard
Speaker 2: to envision New York rallying and being able to keep
Speaker 2: this thing a series, but we shall see. So also,
Speaker 2: one last thing, I want to make sure and mention
Speaker 2: that we get that make sure and mention because I
Speaker 2: don't want to get to it later. I think today
Speaker 2: was a big day for those of you that will
Speaker 2: work in college athletics that worry about sort of what
Speaker 2: this new revenue sharing world will do for you. We've
Speaker 2: got one school, a power school by the way, a
Speaker 2: school from the SEC that has already started laying off
Speaker 2: staffers and they're claiming it is due to the revenue
Speaker 2: sharing that is coming. So there's already been so much
Speaker 2: change in college sports in the last three four years.
Speaker 2: I say it all the time because it's you know,
Speaker 2: we're a college market. We talk about college sports here
Speaker 2: more than we talk about anything, and it is a
Speaker 2: different world now compared to what it was just a
Speaker 2: few years ago. But once you start having that annual
Speaker 2: twenty plus million dollar bill that you have because you've
Speaker 2: got to sheer revenue now, I mean it changes things.
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Speaker 2: All right, So the Pacers in the Knicks will take
Speaker 2: We'll get it started tonight in game two. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do a little I know yesterday I believe it was
Speaker 2: Pacers plus five and a half. They were underdogs, and
Speaker 2: I'm certain they still are. But let's see if there's
Speaker 2: been any change here in the spread. It wouldn't shock
Speaker 2: me if there hasn't, and there has been, but it's
Speaker 2: actually more so in favor of the Knicks. So now
Speaker 2: you've got Nick's. Mine is six, so the Pacers six
Speaker 2: point dogs. I don't think I'm going to touch this one.
Speaker 2: But I'm also not going to be surprised at all
Speaker 2: if the Pacers win this thing outright, because even if
Speaker 2: you didn't have the situation that you had on Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: which was just i mean, one of the best comebacks
Speaker 2: you'll ever see in the NBA playoffs ever, which you
Speaker 2: got to wonder if maybe maybe it didn't even seem
Speaker 2: as crazy because the Pacers had done it two other
Speaker 2: times in this postseason. Now again it wasn't quite a comeback,
Speaker 2: and against the Bucks or the Cavs like they were,
Speaker 2: I mean again, they would have four, they would have
Speaker 2: fourteen points with less than three minutes left and came
Speaker 2: back in one, which is just crazy to say. But
Speaker 2: Tyre's Halliburton. He has absolutely been the clutch player.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Aaron Nesmith is the reason. Halliburton was in the position
Speaker 2: to hit the big shot to at the time seemingly
Speaker 2: end it. But then we learned his foots on the
Speaker 2: line and obviously he you know, he only got two.
Speaker 1: Therefore they went to overtime in one.
Speaker 2: But Aaron Nesmith was in I'm not sure if he'll
Speaker 2: I mean, he may end up having a really good
Speaker 2: career the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Which he probably will. He's a good player.
Speaker 2: But what he did in the fourth quarter against the
Speaker 2: Knicks on Wednesday, I mean, you won't see that.
Speaker 1: Maybe ever.
Speaker 2: I mean, again, this sounds like hyperbole, This sounds like
Speaker 2: recency bias, sounds like a Homer Pacers fan, which I am.
Speaker 2: But the only other time that that has happened in
Speaker 2: the postseason, And I know I said this many times yesterday,
Speaker 2: but this just this is so crazy. Why not say
Speaker 2: it once again? But the only other player that did
Speaker 2: what Aaron Nei Smith that did on Wednesday was Reggie Miller,
Speaker 2: and he did it against the Knicks in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: four in the Garden. The only two players in league
Speaker 2: history to have twenty plus points and five plus three
Speaker 2: pointers in the fourth quarter of a playoff game on
Speaker 2: an opponent's home court. So credit to Nei Smith. But again,
Speaker 2: Haliburton has really just been the clutch player, and I
Speaker 2: felt it when he had the ball late with that
Speaker 2: chance to either tie or potentially when I mean, I
Speaker 2: had confidence that I don't typically have. I'm a pessimist
Speaker 2: by nature, That's just how I am. But currently Halliburton
Speaker 2: is an elite company because when it comes to the
Speaker 2: most game tying or go ahead field goals made in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Lebron James has eight, which is the lead.
Speaker 2: Nobody has more than eight. Reggie Miller has five, Halliburton
Speaker 2: has four, Kobe Bryant has four, and this is random
Speaker 2: as hell. Chris Middleton has four, which I don't. I mean,
Speaker 2: I remember Chris Middleton, of course for his role in
Speaker 2: the Bucks when they were in a much different spot
Speaker 2: than they were in the last couple of years. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I would have never guessed it was Chris Middleton, but
Speaker 2: it is, so shout out to him, all right, So
Speaker 2: let's talk about the Let's see, let me make sure
Speaker 2: I'm given proper credit here. Yeah, it is Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: They do a.
Speaker 2: Lot of football content and a lot of analytics, as
Speaker 2: some would say, a lot of nerd driven content, but hey,
Speaker 2: I'm nerd out for it, especially when it's propping up
Speaker 2: the team I root for, which is Louisville. So they
Speaker 2: have given us their annual off season rankings for certain positions,
Speaker 2: and they now have the top ten running back rooms
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty five season, and Louisville comes in
Speaker 2: at number four. I mean, you got to keep in mind,
Speaker 2: they've got Isaac Brown and Duke Watson who were phenomenal
Speaker 2: last year as true freshman. I mean, Isaac Brown was
Speaker 2: one of the best freshmen in the country, was acc
Speaker 2: I don't know if they call it Freshman of the
Speaker 2: Year or Newcomer of the Year, whatever it is, but
Speaker 2: he was special and you could tell Lee as you
Speaker 2: got closer to the start of the season. I think
Speaker 2: they wanted to kind of play it cool, as if
Speaker 2: maybe they didn't realize they had something super special with
Speaker 2: Isaac Brown, but it was really hard for them to
Speaker 2: do that. I think anytime you'd have a coach talking
Speaker 2: after practice, during fall camp or even during the summer,
Speaker 2: I mean I think they it would be hard for
Speaker 2: him not to. When talking about the personnel on offense,
Speaker 2: mentioned Isaac Brown as a guy that's just a little
Speaker 2: bit different, and he showed that early on. And then
Speaker 2: really it was a Notre Dame game up in South
Speaker 2: Bend where I feel like it really stood out that
Speaker 2: he was he was a special talent even though he's
Speaker 2: a true freshman eighteen years old. He's a guy that's
Speaker 2: going to be a factor for you right away, and
Speaker 2: he was. And the Duke Watson if you remember, he
Speaker 2: didn't he didn't necessarily get a whole lot of action
Speaker 2: early on. But by the time this season was, this
Speaker 2: past season was winding down, it was you had you
Speaker 2: had two running backs that were really the core of
Speaker 2: your of your backfield, and they were both really good,
Speaker 2: and again they were both true freshmen. Because Duke Watson,
Speaker 2: he ended up I'm pretty sure I can go back
Speaker 2: and double check this, but he ended up getting enough
Speaker 2: carries because of just the workload he was given in
Speaker 2: the last three to four games to where he did
Speaker 2: qualify as far as this stat most rushing yards per carry,
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure he led the country in yards
Speaker 2: per carry. And then Kewan Brown. There's not really any
Speaker 2: stats specifically that I can think of that make him
Speaker 2: as good as I believe he is. And he's not
Speaker 2: proven quite like Isaac Brown or Duke Watson. But I've
Speaker 2: always felt like this kid's got a lot of potential.
Speaker 2: He's a really good athlete, strong, strong running back from Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I mean, he showed it against FCS opponents in the
Speaker 2: first couple of years, and then he's made some plays
Speaker 2: here and there. It's not like he's only done it
Speaker 2: against that caliber competition. But if he's your third back,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that speaks to how talented you
Speaker 2: are in your running back room. And I'd forgot that
Speaker 2: he initially hit the portal and it committed to Boise State.
Speaker 1: I believe it was.
Speaker 2: I guess he was going to be the potential replacement
Speaker 2: for their star running back who's now in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I can't think of his name, but
Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about, right, So, Kewan Brown
Speaker 2: being your third back again.
Speaker 1: That speaks to just how loaded you are.
Speaker 2: So the only other programs that have better running acts
Speaker 2: according to Pro Football Focused, You've got Texas at number one,
Speaker 2: Notre Dame at number two, and then Penn State at
Speaker 2: number three. And I know that Louisville's receivers, you know,
Speaker 2: there's some that think that maybe that's a spot that
Speaker 2: they really are gonna, you know, gonna have a question
Speaker 2: mark there, which I don't know if that's the right
Speaker 2: way to describe it, because I think everybody realizes with
Speaker 2: Colin Lacy coming back, that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a special player.
Speaker 2: And I mean right at the time he decided to
Speaker 2: opt out and just salvage a year of eligibility. I
Speaker 2: mean that was right around the time we realized that
Speaker 2: we had something special. But to get him to stick
Speaker 2: around here, that's big time. And you even saw it
Speaker 2: in the bowl game. He was able to play in
Speaker 2: that Bowl game without it counting towards him burning a
Speaker 2: year of eligibility. And then I think Corey Bell or
Speaker 2: not Cory Bell, Chris Bell, I.
Speaker 1: Think he's he.
Speaker 2: I think it's safe to say his season last year
Speaker 2: was a breakout type season. So I like what they've
Speaker 2: got at receiver. But I know some people aren't as optimistic.
Speaker 2: But even if you do take a step back at
Speaker 2: the receiver spot, because you do, you're gonna miss you
Speaker 2: Cory Brooks obviously. But if you've got these if you've
Speaker 2: got a line that can that can, you know, do
Speaker 2: their part. You've got some ball carriers that can can
Speaker 2: absolutely help you sustain drives and help you put some
Speaker 2: points on the board. All right, it's coffee and company.
Speaker 2: Phil about Thorton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. If
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Speaker 2: You can also text in five h two four three
Speaker 2: eight ninety seventy three. All right, So this text came
Speaker 2: in right as the show had started, and it was
Speaker 2: a question surrounding.
Speaker 1: The exhibition, the charity exhibition.
Speaker 2: Games that college basketball programs have been playing I think
Speaker 2: for the.
Speaker 1: Last few years.
Speaker 2: And I the question is, you know, is there a
Speaker 2: scenario where Louisville could end up playing one of these
Speaker 2: big time exhibitions that fans can watch and get a sense.
Speaker 2: And I'm paraphrasing here. I don't have the text in
Speaker 2: front of me, but to answer your question, I don't
Speaker 2: know if Louisville has any right I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: think they have any right now that have been announced,
Speaker 2: and maybe they're working on some from behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: But Kentucky, I know they're playing Georgetown that got announced
Speaker 2: earlier this week, where they're going to play them in
Speaker 2: an exhibition game. And I could be wrong, but I
Speaker 2: believe the format is this. It's not a real game,
Speaker 2: it doesn't count, but you can per you know, I
Speaker 2: think they I don't know if I don't remember if
Speaker 2: they let fans come or not. But even when they
Speaker 2: don't let fans come, it'll be available for you to
Speaker 2: watch in some way, And I think money, like if
Speaker 2: you pay in some of these games, if you pay
Speaker 2: to like buy the stream to watch it, that money
Speaker 2: goes towards charity. So you get a chance to actually
Speaker 2: play a good team before your season starts. It doesn't
Speaker 2: count against you if you lose. Also doesn't count towards
Speaker 2: you if you win, towards your resume if you win,
Speaker 2: but it gives you a chance to, I guess, kind
Speaker 2: of see where you stand before you actually get a
Speaker 2: season started. So yeah, I'm envious. I think a tucky. Also,
Speaker 2: maybe this is something I'm making up in my head,
Speaker 2: but I think, aren't they playing Perdue as well in
Speaker 2: one of these exhibition games?
Speaker 1: Maybe I dream that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, But either way, I would love for
Speaker 2: Louisville to have one of these games on the schedule.
Speaker 2: But as far as is it actually happening, I've got
Speaker 2: no clue, no clue at all all right, what I
Speaker 2: want to get to coming up here on the other side,
Speaker 2: the athletic they have put together it's really Stuart Mandel
Speaker 2: who does the bulk of the college football work for
Speaker 2: the athletic, and he has put together his top twenty
Speaker 2: five college programs of the two thousands, and I'll go
Speaker 2: ahead and give you a spoiler alert. There's no local
Speaker 2: team here mentioned, but I do want to take a
Speaker 2: look at sort of how it came together. We're not
Speaker 2: going to break it down one through twenty five, but
Speaker 2: I feel like Louisville was probably maybe just on the
Speaker 2: outside looking in. Maybe I'm wrong here, but when I
Speaker 2: see teams twenty one through twenty five, I feel like
Speaker 2: Louisville had it not been for the Bobby year of
Speaker 2: completely just falling apart, had it not been for I
Speaker 2: guess maybe the Crag years.
Speaker 1: And then I suppose, I mean, SAT.
Speaker 2: Never had a bad, bad year, but you really were
Speaker 2: just you were stuck in no man's land where you
Speaker 2: weren't really good, but you also weren't terrible enough to
Speaker 2: fire a coach. So we can take a look at that.
Speaker 2: And uh, we got a lot more to get into,
Speaker 2: including something that makes me happy that we can talk
Speaker 2: about later.
Speaker 1: The penny.
Speaker 2: Yes, the penny, the actual you know, the the coin
Speaker 2: that people probably just throw away now is dead. The
Speaker 2: US Treasury has announced they're going to officially stop manufacturing
Speaker 2: the penny in twenty twenty six, and My question is this,
Speaker 2: who's upset about this? I mean, who wants pennies? It
Speaker 2: is wild to think about that pennies may eventually down
Speaker 2: the line, like when I'm really, really old, god willing,
Speaker 2: I make it to be very, very old, that like
Speaker 2: a penny is going to be a rare thing to fined.
Speaker 2: But then again, there's so many of them, and nobody
Speaker 2: want like, nobody's keeping them as a I mean, nobody's
Speaker 2: keeping a penny any at any point. Now, hard for
Speaker 2: me to imagine it would be like a collector's item
Speaker 2: down the line, But I guess only time will tell us.
Speaker 1: So stick with us again.
Speaker 2: We'll take you up till six o'clock, getting you set
Speaker 2: for the holiday weekend. A lot of you seemingly have
Speaker 2: already started the holiday weekend, so cheers to you, but
Speaker 2: double take you up till six. Right here, it's coffee
Speaker 2: and company, feel about Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: That's right, coffee and company, fuel about Thornton's here on
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety, getting you set for the holiday weekend.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you hanging out with us, and we now bring
Speaker 2: in a special guest from Racing Louisville as well as
Speaker 2: Louisville City FC. It is the one and only mister
Speaker 2: Jeff Milby. Jeff, how are we doing, brother Nick?
Speaker 3: I am doing wonderfully, but not as wonderfully as I
Speaker 3: hear you were doing. I just wanted to be among
Speaker 3: the last to congratulate you on your move to the
Speaker 3: mothership over at News Radio eight forty. Whas really excited
Speaker 3: for you, man, what's cool news.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. And I ask you, what's it
Speaker 2: like getting up that early regularly? Because I know you've
Speaker 2: done it before, and and you know, I've yet to
Speaker 2: have anybody tell me it was gonna be easy, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure you probably aren't gonna do that either.
Speaker 3: No, I mean it's it's not easy, and especially for
Speaker 3: you because you are not a coffee drinker despite your name.
Speaker 3: Correct you in the coffee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, though it might be.
Speaker 3: I'd tell you when I was on that shift working
Speaker 3: that show with Tony Cruz, I don't know that I
Speaker 3: could have made it without some coffee. I mean, come,
Speaker 3: like Wednesday Thursday. You sleep in on the weekend, right,
Speaker 3: but Wednesday Thursday you start to feel it when that
Speaker 3: when that three thirty alarm alarm kicks in. So you know,
Speaker 3: my advice to you just live on the vibes of
Speaker 3: the show man, live on the vibes of the show.
Speaker 3: And I tell you what the biggest challenge of that
Speaker 3: show is making sure that you have an extra set
Speaker 3: of clothes for Dwight Whitten when it comes in. And
Speaker 3: I'll come in without a shirt, and you just got
Speaker 3: to be ready for him. So you know, maybe pack
Speaker 3: pack an extra set shirt, shoes, some underwear form just
Speaker 3: in case, because you never know when he's gonna when
Speaker 3: he's gonna turn up.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: And and I think you and I are relatively close
Speaker 2: to the same aide. So you're telling me that when
Speaker 2: you were doing the S Show with Tony Cruz and
Speaker 2: getting up really really early, like I'm about to start,
Speaker 2: you were still able to, like the mental alarm clock
Speaker 2: would be off. On the weekends, you could actually sleep
Speaker 2: in a little bit without like just waking up automatically.
Speaker 3: You know, Nick, I've never been a dude that just
Speaker 3: wakes up. I mean natural sleep in kind of person. Good.
Speaker 3: I didn't have a children right now, I would sleep
Speaker 3: into like noon every day. So for me, for me.
Speaker 3: It never reset, But boy oh boy, was it an adjustment.
Speaker 3: Those afternoon naps really hit. That's what I'll tell you
Speaker 3: after I get home from work. Those afternoon naps were
Speaker 3: really important, really much.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to embrace the nap and also found
Speaker 2: the balance to where it's not where I sleep so
Speaker 2: long to where then I can't sleep at night because
Speaker 2: then it just turns into a really bad cycle.
Speaker 1: But I'll adjustin.
Speaker 2: I really do appreciate you your kind words there. I'm
Speaker 2: excited and gonna make the most of these last last
Speaker 2: five shows i've got here on seven ninety. Let's get
Speaker 2: an update on how things are going. We'll start with
Speaker 2: Racing lou before we get to Lose City.
Speaker 1: How's the club been doing lately? I know they are.
Speaker 2: They're on the road this weekend against Angel City FC,
Speaker 2: but they'll be back in action here as we get
Speaker 2: June started at Lynn Family Stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, next home game opportunity for both teams is that's
Speaker 3: first weekend in June June sixth, June seventh, back to
Speaker 3: back nights of soccer Lynn Family Stadium, Racing on the
Speaker 3: Friday night, lou City on the Saturday night. But yeah,
Speaker 3: racing this weekend at Angel City. Where are they located?
Speaker 3: You might be asking, well, in the City of Angels,
Speaker 3: Los Angeles out in La California, Sunshine for racing this
Speaker 3: week and makes sense, right, some solid branding there from
Speaker 3: Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney who owns that team. Look,
Speaker 3: it's another game, Nick, This NDWSO league is so there's
Speaker 3: a glut of teams in the middle. There are like
Speaker 3: two teams that have separated themselves, Kansas City, San Diego's
Speaker 3: up there now, Washington they're in that group that separated themselves.
Speaker 3: And there are two teams at the bottom Chicago and Utah.
Speaker 3: But everybody else in the middle is a winnable game
Speaker 3: for racing Louisville right now, from second down to racing
Speaker 3: Louisville in eleventh place, only six points separate those teams
Speaker 3: from second to eleven, and six points is two wins,
Speaker 3: get three points for a win, So it is close.
Speaker 3: It is tight right now in the NWSL.
Speaker 1: Is that typical?
Speaker 2: Is that typical with the league for it to be
Speaker 2: that competitive that that you know you've got a lot
Speaker 2: of balance there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, it is typical of the league, would
Speaker 3: say Nick. Last year was a little bit of an
Speaker 3: outlier because there were a couple of teams that ran
Speaker 3: away with it, namely Orlando who won the title. But
Speaker 3: this this is the league that operates on a salary cap,
Speaker 3: and it's a really strict salary cap. I mean, you
Speaker 3: talk about the NBA, there's a lot of conversation about
Speaker 3: second second apron teams and teams spending over the cap.
Speaker 3: Not the case in the NWSL, and everybody spends pretty
Speaker 3: close to that cap limit. So there is a lot
Speaker 3: of talent spread across the league. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: parody spread across the league. Generally, year in and year out,
Speaker 3: it is a very competitive league from top to bottom.
Speaker 3: By design, that's what they want, right They don't want
Speaker 3: any team to feel like they're out of it in
Speaker 3: any given year. So that's the way the league typically is,
Speaker 3: and it's an opportunity for Racing Louisville. They've got four
Speaker 3: games left before they shut down for a month for
Speaker 3: summer international tournaments like the European Championships and other big
Speaker 3: international tournaments for the national teams get together, kind of
Speaker 3: like the World Cup. They're going to pause the league
Speaker 3: for a month in the summer for that. So there's
Speaker 3: four games to go for Racing Louisville before that pause.
Speaker 3: They've got angel City this weekend. They're in seventh place,
Speaker 3: Racing down in eleventh, so a gettable game and scene
Speaker 3: that's competing for that final playoff spot in eighth place.
Speaker 3: And then next week when they come or rather after
Speaker 3: this international break next week and they'll come home for
Speaker 3: that June sixth game, they take on Utah, who is
Speaker 3: one of those two teams in the bottom. They are
Speaker 3: second from last in the league. So it is a
Speaker 3: very winnable game, maybe a should win game for Racing
Speaker 3: Louisll when they come back to Lynn Famley Stadium on
Speaker 3: June sixth. So an important time right now with these
Speaker 3: four games leading into that month long break in July
Speaker 3: for them to get some points, make some hay, get
Speaker 3: into that playoff picture before they go on that break,
Speaker 3: and then the second half of the season will start
Speaker 3: in August. We're calling it the down the stretch part
Speaker 3: of the season. That'll be really when they make the
Speaker 3: difference for this playoff push. But an important crucial time
Speaker 3: right now to get some points in the bag, move
Speaker 3: up the standings before they take a little pause for
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 2: Well, so the last month they had to draw against Portland,
Speaker 2: and then they got two wins with the win against
Speaker 2: Houston as well as Gotham FC, and then fell short
Speaker 2: recently to to Seattle Rain. What has been I guess
Speaker 2: a theme with this group in the last month or
Speaker 2: so as they start I feel like, when you get
Speaker 2: to this point in the season, you certainly developed an identity.
Speaker 3: I would say, Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say, Nick.
Speaker 3: They have really honed in on what their identity is.
Speaker 3: You talked about those back to back wins. They'd be
Speaker 3: Houston on the road, then they come home and they
Speaker 3: have a win over Gossam in a nationally televised game
Speaker 3: on Amazon Prime. Is the team that's going to press,
Speaker 3: They're going to outwork the opposition. That's the idea of
Speaker 3: this team. They're going to run harder, run more, and
Speaker 3: work harder than the team that they're facing on the
Speaker 3: other side of the field. And in many ways that
Speaker 3: was the case last week and that lost to Seattle.
Speaker 3: It's one of those frustrating games. I talk about soccer
Speaker 3: being a game where there can be flutes. If this
Speaker 3: were a football game, Racing would have out gained the
Speaker 3: up the opponent like four hundred yards to one fifty,
Speaker 3: but still somehow managed to lose the game. That's the
Speaker 3: way the game went. They dominated possesion, They had over
Speaker 3: sixty percent possession, They had twenty shots, twelve corner kicks,
Speaker 3: and Seattle hardly had the ball on the other half
Speaker 3: of the field. But Seattle hit them on one fast break,
Speaker 3: one counter attack going the other way scored and Racing
Speaker 3: just couldn't break them down because after Seattle went up,
Speaker 3: they dropped everybody back and just sat outside of their
Speaker 3: box and said, here, Racing, you can have the ball.
Speaker 3: See if you can break us down. We're gonna put
Speaker 3: all eleven players pretty much in the in the mouth
Speaker 3: the goal of the goal of the mouth of the
Speaker 3: goals that I'm trying to say, and they just couldn't
Speaker 3: do it. It was just one of those unfortunate games. But
Speaker 3: still for a loss, a good performance and a performance
Speaker 3: you can take some positives out of and some confidence
Speaker 3: out of, and so they have an opportunity to take
Speaker 3: that confidence, maybe take a little a little edge after
Speaker 3: losing a game they felt like they should have won
Speaker 3: based on the performance and go out to California and
Speaker 3: get an important result against Angel City ten o'clock Saturday night.
Speaker 3: It's one for the late nighters, ten pm on nationally
Speaker 3: televised game, you know, for the night owls. This might
Speaker 3: be your last opportunity neck to be a night owl
Speaker 3: before you have to start right. No, so this is
Speaker 3: your your Saturday night opportunity here is, you know, get
Speaker 3: a few cold ones on the couch, watch the game
Speaker 3: on I for one in the morning. That's right, watch
Speaker 3: a little footy.
Speaker 1: I like it all right.
Speaker 2: So with Louisville City FC, obviously they had the close
Speaker 2: one that they fell just short in the Open Cup
Speaker 2: against Minnesota United and then since then a couple of
Speaker 2: a couple of draws. What kind of momentum do we
Speaker 2: have here? Again, we're spoiled when it comes to Low CITYFC.
Speaker 2: They've just they just went a lot. We're just used
Speaker 2: to that. But since that that close loss to Minnesota
Speaker 2: United FC, sort of, where where do we go from here?
Speaker 2: You mentioned the next chance to see both these teams
Speaker 2: will be next weekend. I'm sorry, once we get to June,
Speaker 2: so kind of I guess where they are as far
Speaker 2: as developing their identity again they win, But is it
Speaker 2: another year where we can expect and hope for a
Speaker 2: push in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I mean that's the standard for Louisville City, right.
Speaker 3: They are the winningest all time team in the USL Championship.
Speaker 3: They're the only team to win back to back titles
Speaker 3: in the history of the league in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: you know, with a nine consecutive Eastern Conference finals in
Speaker 3: the playoffs up until last year. This is a team
Speaker 3: that perennially wins. And so for that reason, back to
Speaker 3: back ties with a loss in that three game stretch,
Speaker 3: a loss and then two ties kind of feels like
Speaker 3: a downward swing, right, three games without a win feels
Speaker 3: like a downward swing. Based on the standards of this team,
Speaker 3: we are absolutely, we absolutely are spoiled. Yes, but it's
Speaker 3: a team that's struggling with injuries right now, especially up top.
Speaker 3: They're a little fin in the forward position. Uh, Philip
Speaker 3: Goodroom is healthy, but he's kind of battling a leg
Speaker 3: injury at the moment. And then Sam Glidal, the backup
Speaker 3: forward to him, is out for a little while right
Speaker 3: now with an injury as well. So it's injuries are
Speaker 3: playing a factor, and then there's travel. Last week they
Speaker 3: were at Hartford in Connecticut, all the way up in
Speaker 3: New England. This week they're at Monterey Bay, which is
Speaker 3: in a place called Seaside, California in northern California, so
Speaker 3: a California trip, And the next week they're going to
Speaker 3: be in Virginia to face Loud and United. So they're
Speaker 3: criss crossing the country right now while they're a little
Speaker 3: bit beat up. So I think for for lou City,
Speaker 3: the mentality right now is just survived this little stretch.
Speaker 3: Survived for the most try to avoid taking a loss,
Speaker 3: try to avoid having a few bad results in a
Speaker 3: row until you get your guys healthy, get your team healthy,
Speaker 3: and maybe get some reinforcements in the potential for a
Speaker 3: move in the works over the next week or so
Speaker 3: that you might keep your eyes peeled for if you're
Speaker 3: a Loose City fan, that would be a reinforcement in
Speaker 3: that attack in the in the offensive end. But they're
Speaker 3: just trying to survive right now and get home on
Speaker 3: June seventh, where they'll face the Tampa Bay Rowdies, typically
Speaker 3: a great team that's been a rivalry in the last
Speaker 3: five six years. They met in the Eastern Conference final
Speaker 3: two years in a row. But Tampa Bay is down
Speaker 3: on their luck right now, they're down in last place.
Speaker 1: We'll take advantage of just what the doctor, exactly.
Speaker 3: What they're going to do. That's exactly what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 3: They perhaps will need it when they get home after
Speaker 3: this road trip that's coming up. On June seventh, LU
Speaker 3: City against the Tampa Bay Rowties at Lynn Family Stadium.
Speaker 3: A chance for Lucity to maybe knock a few in
Speaker 3: against their old rival of years past when they're kicking
Speaker 3: while they're down. Kind of game against your rival. So
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. That's the mentality right now for
Speaker 3: LU Cities. Just survive right now.
Speaker 1: Good stuff.
Speaker 2: Jeff is always appreciate the time. Enjoy the holiday week
Speaker 2: in my man, and we'll talk next week.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, appreciate you that. Congrats again, man.
Speaker 2: Thank you, take care. That's Jeff Milby from Racing Louisville
Speaker 2: and Louisville City FC. Always appreciate his time. Good vibes
Speaker 2: as always from our man, Jeff. So again, we'll be back.
Speaker 1: Once we get June.
Speaker 2: Once we get to June, you'll be able to get
Speaker 2: back out there to ll In Family Stadium and see
Speaker 2: both clubs, Racing Louisville and Low CITYFC.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break.
Speaker 2: We've got two more hours left before we get out
Speaker 2: of here for the weekend, so stick around right here
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