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Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's get it started. You
Speaker 2: made it. It's Friday. It is our last show before
Speaker 2: football season actually starts around here for the local teams.
Speaker 2: Good night at college football action. Last night, I mean
Speaker 2: I had my first loss, which you know I knew
Speaker 2: going in this year there's a good chance I was
Speaker 2: going to lose at least one bet week zero no losers.
Speaker 2: One bet last night, and it was a loser, but
Speaker 2: you know what, it was still fun. I stayed up
Speaker 2: late watching two teams I don't care about. I never
Speaker 2: felt good about it, but John and I both were
Speaker 2: in on Minnesota money line as soon as their quarterback
Speaker 2: fumbled late in the game and they had a chance
Speaker 2: to win it. Clearly they missed a field goal that
Speaker 2: you know would have won it. But it just I
Speaker 2: don't know, man, I just I didn't have bad energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah in Minnesota, Yeah game, very bad energy, and I, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I got the first loss out of the way.
Speaker 2: Now I'm ready to you know, get back in tonight
Speaker 2: and obviously all weekend, and it's exciting. It's exciting. So
Speaker 2: when it comes to Louisville football, today's the day where
Speaker 2: it really has kind of hit me, like, man, I
Speaker 2: don't care about Austin p I mean, I looked at
Speaker 2: their depth charter earlier today and I thought, Nick, what
Speaker 2: are you doing? You don't you don't need this. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna talk about this on the show. This is
Speaker 2: not relevant. This is this is the way time. And
Speaker 2: it's not that we really do a whole lot of
Speaker 2: breaking down depth charts from opponents anyway. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm trying not to let it impact my excitement and
Speaker 2: it hasn't yet, and I don't think that it will
Speaker 2: because I'm excited to see this team in action tomorrow,
Speaker 2: regardless of who they're playing. I just as I've mentioned
Speaker 2: many times, I got used to Louisville starting their season
Speaker 2: more often than not against an opponent to where you
Speaker 2: have a chance to like really learn something and I
Speaker 2: think you can be encouraged or you know, it could
Speaker 2: go the other way depending on what happens tomorrow. But
Speaker 2: for me, it's just about no matter what result is there.
Speaker 2: The only thing where you really feel like you learn
Speaker 2: something and you, you know, really took something away would
Speaker 2: be if you lost, or if it's like a really
Speaker 2: close game, and that's just not going to happen. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm looking here at different sports books to see what
Speaker 2: the spread is for this game, and the highest number
Speaker 2: I can see right now is at ESPN Bet, and
Speaker 2: Louisville is thirty seven point favorites right now, so you
Speaker 2: know they'll probably blow them out. And if they light
Speaker 2: up that scoreboard and they do something similar to what
Speaker 2: Bobby Buttrino did last night for Arkansas, then you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be super excited. I'm gonna feel encouraged. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna feel, you know, probably the same as I do
Speaker 2: right now. It's just I don't know, I when you
Speaker 2: play these kind of games, it's really just it mean,
Speaker 2: it's not an exhibition, it really counts, and you only
Speaker 2: get twelve games each year, so you know, I try
Speaker 2: to tell myself that as well, like, hey, even though
Speaker 2: there's not a whole lot of excitement for the opponent,
Speaker 2: you only get to watch your team play twelve times
Speaker 2: in the regular season. So I've done a good job
Speaker 2: of just being so excited to where it hasn't impacted
Speaker 2: my my vibe in regards to you know, this opener
Speaker 2: being against this opponent. But today's the day where I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: Austin P, come on, like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: What are we doing? In fact, it's one of the
Speaker 2: buy games. And I don't have the number as far
Speaker 2: as what Louisville is paying Austin P to come in
Speaker 2: here and bend over and take a butt whooping. But
Speaker 2: this right up from Front Office Sports. In Week one alone,
Speaker 2: thirty five million dollars is being shelled out across at
Speaker 2: least fifty five games with monetary guaranteed contracts. So think
Speaker 2: about that amount of money and knowing that's just to
Speaker 2: get somebody to come and play you. So they range
Speaker 2: from as little as three hundred thousand. That's Middle Tennessee
Speaker 2: State is paying Tennessee Tech. It's kind of an odd
Speaker 2: bye game because I think if you don't follow college
Speaker 2: athletics closely, you would just kind of assume Tennessee Tech
Speaker 2: and Middle Tennessee State are kind of in the same world,
Speaker 2: right They're not. Tennessee Tech is FCS. Middle Tennessee State,
Speaker 2: I believe, is a Conference USA team maybe something like that.
Speaker 2: Third G five And then again we talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 2: The biggest check is going to go to the Western
Speaker 2: Kentucky Hilltoppers. One point nine million is what they're gonna
Speaker 2: leave Tuscaloosa with after they probably get you know, bent
Speaker 2: over and whooked. Really emphasizing the bend over because I
Speaker 2: like how much it makes people uncomfortable. Yeah, because like
Speaker 2: if I say bend over and you have thoughts that are,
Speaker 2: you know, perverted in a sexual manner, that's you like
Speaker 2: I bend over to tie my shoe like bend over
Speaker 2: like bend over, like I mean, come on, like when
Speaker 2: I say, and when you get a spanking. I only
Speaker 2: got spanked like a handful of times whenever I was
Speaker 2: a kid. We talked about this the other day. I
Speaker 2: don't really remember having a bend over, Like there was No,
Speaker 2: it was just kind of like, I, you're gonna get
Speaker 2: a whooping, and I you know you ever have if
Speaker 2: you ever got one standing up, you know, like where
Speaker 2: you kind of like tense your back up and then
Speaker 2: it actually hurts more because you're like moving awkwardly. But anyways,
Speaker 2: a lot of money being paid for these schools to
Speaker 2: come in take a whooping and uh, you know, help
Speaker 2: fund their program. So that's what's gonna happen tomorrow. And
Speaker 2: I think the fact that there's so many new pieces
Speaker 2: to see that will that that'll help a little bit
Speaker 2: in regards to like, you know, even though we'll have
Speaker 2: to wait and see if it really is something that
Speaker 2: can be done when you play real opponents. But if
Speaker 2: Tyler shucks out there, throwing it all over the yard,
Speaker 2: John he's connecting to Jacorey Brooks, He's got Jayden Thompson
Speaker 2: in the slot taking one to the house. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe the freshman Isaac Brown from Miami who's super talented,
Speaker 2: maybe they let him get a carry in the first
Speaker 2: half and he turns the jets on and he's gone
Speaker 2: like that's because it's the first time seeing a lot
Speaker 2: of these guys. I'm hopeful that the whole component of
Speaker 2: who they're playing won't even enter my mind. But either way,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about it beforehand. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: it after because we've got the Louisville Football pregame Show
Speaker 2: starting at eleven tomorrow, hosted by Yours truly big thanks
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Speaker 2: got Pellow Windows and Doors of Central Kentucky as well
Speaker 2: as Jefferson Animal Hospital. So again eleven to noon, we'll
Speaker 2: take you right up to kickoff for the pregame show,
Speaker 2: and then as soon as it ends, we go live
Speaker 2: reacting to whatever happens, taking your phone calls. With the
Speaker 2: game being I guess it'll be dependent upon weather, but
Speaker 2: I have a feeling that with it being a nooner
Speaker 2: and likely being a blowout, like I could see people
Speaker 2: doing a lot of tailgating after the game in the
Speaker 2: parking lot if, of course, you know whether it's not terrible,
Speaker 2: and I can you know, hopefully those of you that
Speaker 2: hang out and tailgate at Ellen N Cardinals Stadium after
Speaker 2: the fact, you have us on for the postgame, you
Speaker 2: give us a call react. So we've had many people
Speaker 2: do that over the year, so that's kind that's kind
Speaker 2: of what I envisioned happening tomorrow. But you never know, right,
Speaker 2: You never know, And when it comes to being put
Speaker 2: on like upset alert, not because of like a matchup,
Speaker 2: not because the team you play is good, but when
Speaker 2: you have these Thursday night games that you have because
Speaker 2: I actually kind of feel like Thursday night of Week
Speaker 2: one is really like when it starts like Week zero,
Speaker 2: because there's so few games and very few teams that
Speaker 2: you really are familiar with play like you know, those
Speaker 2: games count, but it's like they're the again, it's the appetizer.
Speaker 2: Week one started last night with a bunch of games.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about some of those results because I actually
Speaker 2: do think there's some decent stuff to take from from
Speaker 2: last night in a couple of games, specifically Colorado. But nonetheless,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm getting at is usually you'll see somebody
Speaker 2: really scare you, like, Okay, hey, they thought they were
Speaker 2: thirty six point favorites, like Louisville and they almost got beat.
Speaker 2: That hadn't happened yet. But n C State, I mean,
Speaker 2: why they continue to be this darling seemingly every year
Speaker 2: like a sleep but a lookout man they Dave Dave
Speaker 2: Doran's got a chance to really pull off something special
Speaker 2: this year, and they were fine last year, But like
Speaker 2: them getting more love than Louisville heading into this year
Speaker 2: never made any sense to me. Louisll beat him last year.
Speaker 2: Louisville got a better quarterback in the portal from what
Speaker 2: it looked like last night. I mean, Grayson McCall. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's just one game, Maybe it's just nerves for
Speaker 2: him because he's jumped up a level from Coastal Carolina
Speaker 2: to NC State, But I mean, he had some throws
Speaker 2: last night that, you know, against Western Carolina, looked like
Speaker 2: he was not an acc caliber quarterback, which, to be honest,
Speaker 2: is not really a high bar. So anyways, we'll talk
Speaker 2: about some some of the takeaways from from last night
Speaker 2: here shortly. But on the Kentucky side, I won't lie
Speaker 2: to you and act like we're gonna do a whole
Speaker 2: lot of previewing their match up with Southern miss although
Speaker 2: we are going to be joined coming up here at
Speaker 2: three point thirty by Kent Spencer from WHAS eleven. I
Speaker 2: will get his thoughts on sort of what, you know,
Speaker 2: what he could potentially take from tomorrow's game for Kentucky,
Speaker 2: that would be you know, of value, like they're gonna win,
Speaker 2: probably win big and cover. But they're in a situation
Speaker 2: not quite like Louisville's because again, Southern Miss the last
Speaker 2: time they played Southern Miss did beat them, or maybe
Speaker 2: maybe it was two times ago when they played them
Speaker 2: they beat them. But either way, you know, they are
Speaker 2: playing at a comfort or a Sun Belt team, so
Speaker 2: therefore it's not like they're playing a FCS. But either way,
Speaker 2: I was on with Tony and Dave and Dwight earlier
Speaker 2: earlier today on has and Venetti brought up something that
Speaker 2: we have talked about on the show, and you know,
Speaker 2: I don't get the sense that like he took this
Speaker 2: from my conversation about Mark Stoops that we had a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago, but he kind of reminded me about
Speaker 2: what Stoops had said, like right or around the SEC
Speaker 2: media days. He might have said it in a sit
Speaker 2: down interview with the different reporters there. I know KSR
Speaker 2: and Adam Luckett had a story on it. I know,
Speaker 2: was it Darryl Byrd maybe that had another article on
Speaker 2: it at his website wherever that is where Stupent's just
Speaker 2: talked about like how he does not know how much
Speaker 2: longer he can do this, Like it's just I mean,
Speaker 2: he was just complaining about, you know, having to do
Speaker 2: his job. And it wasn't as if he said this
Speaker 2: will be my last year. I'm just not happy. But
Speaker 2: like what Venetti said was kind of my exact point
Speaker 2: whenever we were reacting to it right after that story
Speaker 2: had come out, and you read those quotes where he
Speaker 2: acted as if like he's just he's burned out, like
Speaker 2: he's having to do too much with nil when he's
Speaker 2: doing it all by himself and he just doesn't know
Speaker 2: how much longer he can do this. Those are all
Speaker 2: things that he said, and Venetti reminded me that that's
Speaker 2: an insane thing for a football coach to say getting
Speaker 2: set for a season, like it may just be true.
Speaker 2: And he's somebody that is now to a point where
Speaker 2: he's got this new contract, he didn't get the A
Speaker 2: and M job. He's just gonna put it all out
Speaker 2: there and one billion percent transparent. And if that's the case,
Speaker 2: then cool. I appreciate transparency. But even if he is
Speaker 2: just known as the guy that's always gonna be telling
Speaker 2: you what what it really is and not sugarcoating it.
Speaker 2: It's still crazy for a coach to have that. Like
Speaker 2: usually when you're getting ready for a season, you want
Speaker 2: your you know, you want to be energetic and enthusiastic,
Speaker 2: and you know say all the things other coaches say,
Speaker 2: like I like my team. You know, we're we're doing something.
Speaker 2: We feel like we could really put something special together
Speaker 2: this year, like all the stuff you just hear coaches say.
Speaker 2: But I get the sense that Kentucky doesn't really know
Speaker 2: what they're gonna like. I don't think they have like
Speaker 2: defined expectations this year as a program. And again I
Speaker 2: can't speak for their fans because I'm not one of them.
Speaker 2: I think they like what they have a receiver with
Speaker 2: Barrion Brown, Dane Key. The question mark, of course, is Vandergriff.
Speaker 2: Can he be you know, can he be the guy
Speaker 2: to make plays and give them a vertical Because if
Speaker 2: you've got a quarterback who's lousy and I'm not saying
Speaker 2: Vandergriff will be, I don't think he will be. But
Speaker 2: if he is, then that makes guys like Dan Key
Speaker 2: and Barrian Brown much less of a factor for you
Speaker 2: and at running back, the guy they got in from
Speaker 2: Arizona State and Ohio State chip train him. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's banged up. He'll be healthy probably by the time
Speaker 2: they get to week three, but you know he's not
Speaker 2: Their running game is not expected to be you know
Speaker 2: what it was with Ray Davis or of course when
Speaker 2: they had Rodriguez. I mean, they had a great run
Speaker 2: there with some really good backs, and you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's the expectation this year. So when
Speaker 2: I tried to as we are one day away from
Speaker 2: both fan bases seeing their teams in a real game
Speaker 2: for the first time, I think Louisville fans are cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 2: Like last year at this time, I think we were
Speaker 2: just like, hell yeah, Brom's here. Expectations are kind of whatever,
Speaker 2: because we don't really know. We got a brand new
Speaker 2: team with a bunch of transfers. We know Jeff Bram's
Speaker 2: a good coach and he's clearly known for his offense.
Speaker 2: So it was more of just the excitement of Brom
Speaker 2: being here, the Brom era getting started. It was new,
Speaker 2: it was fresh, he's one of us. In that alone
Speaker 2: gave you, I think good energy and vibes heading into
Speaker 2: the season to where we weren'taught talking like nine ten wins.
Speaker 2: We were just thinking to ourselves, Hey, let's just see
Speaker 2: what happens. There's a lot to be excited about here,
Speaker 2: and even if we're not great this year, we feel
Speaker 2: like we're in great shape with Jeff Brahm for the future.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's fans out there that are expecting
Speaker 2: some kind of a massive drop off, but I get
Speaker 2: the sense that fans are hesitant to kind of look
Speaker 2: at this year as being as good as last year.
Speaker 2: And if you're basing it just off like a number
Speaker 2: of wins, that's you know, you could go to the
Speaker 2: You could be nine and three and still potentially find
Speaker 2: yourself in the ACC Championship game depending on what happens.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Again, I wouldn't recommend doing that if you want to
Speaker 2: play in the a SEC Championship, But I just think
Speaker 2: cautiously optimistic is the best way I would describe the
Speaker 2: Louisville fans when I, you know, do as best I
Speaker 2: can to kind of check the pulse of the fan base.
Speaker 2: Nobody's out there thinking they're going to take some big
Speaker 2: step back, but I feel like they're just not as
Speaker 2: much confidence, and maybe confidence isn't the right word, but
Speaker 2: what it probably all comes down to is the fact
Speaker 2: that we all realize when you have a bunch of
Speaker 2: new players that you've never watched play that are all
Speaker 2: coming in via the portal, it's the ultimate unknown. So
Speaker 2: on the Kentucky side, again, I can't speak for their
Speaker 2: fan base, and I certainly don't have the ability to
Speaker 2: check the pulse of BBN like I would have the
Speaker 2: ability to at least somewhat check the pulse of the
Speaker 2: Louisville fans. But if Kentucky is once again just this
Speaker 2: six and six, seven and five type team, that wouldn't
Speaker 2: mean they had a bad year, but like, does that
Speaker 2: ever become stale? With Stoops not meaning you know, from
Speaker 2: his perspective, I mean from fans, because wanting to like
Speaker 2: see something different from a guy who you feel like
Speaker 2: has has has capped out at seven and five, six
Speaker 2: and six is really you know, I think most most
Speaker 2: programs out there would fan bases, I should say, would
Speaker 2: feel like, yeah, if that's really, if that's really the
Speaker 2: best we feel like can be done. Now that the
Speaker 2: conference has gotten better, You've added Texas and Oklahoma, You're
Speaker 2: gonna have a really tough schedule every year, you're eventually
Speaker 2: gonna be playing nine games in he play like I
Speaker 2: think a lot of fan bases would say, we love
Speaker 2: this guy, but yeah, we should probably start something fresh.
Speaker 2: We should probably see if we can get somebody else
Speaker 2: in here that can maybe take us up a notch.
Speaker 2: But then again, when you talk about Kentucky, if Mark
Speaker 2: Stoops was a seven and five coach for the next
Speaker 2: ten years, which he won't be there ten years, I
Speaker 2: don't think, but if he was, that would make him
Speaker 2: still like the most successful coach at Kentucky football history.
Speaker 2: And he's the only coach in my lifetime that has
Speaker 2: been able to give Kentucky consistent, sustained success. And I
Speaker 2: don't mean success to where they're competing for the championship
Speaker 2: in their league. I mean success to where they're no
Speaker 2: longer the bottom of the barrel along with Vandy. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I always try to as
Speaker 2: we get to this day, because we've talked about I mean,
Speaker 2: everything you can talk about when it comes to personnel,
Speaker 2: the schedule, expectation and all that. I try to, you know,
Speaker 2: as you get closer, just kind of get a real
Speaker 2: sense of what fans not only I mean, we all
Speaker 2: know what you want to see, right. If you're a
Speaker 2: Louisville fan, you want to see a bunch of wins.
Speaker 2: You're a Kentucky fans, same thing, But like, what do
Speaker 2: you realistically see happening here? Because I think Louisville nine
Speaker 2: in three is what I is the safest guess I
Speaker 2: have for their record. I think ten and two is
Speaker 2: extremely doable. It'll just you know, you'll have to find
Speaker 2: You'll probably find yourself. If you would get to ten
Speaker 2: and two, I think you'll once again have games where
Speaker 2: you could have easily lost, but you had some breaks
Speaker 2: go your way. And there were a few of those
Speaker 2: games last year. Let's be real. And as I said
Speaker 2: last year during that time, yeah, you never want to
Speaker 2: be in that position. You never want to have to
Speaker 2: look back and say, man, that was that was so lucky.
Speaker 2: But also being able to stay locked in and win
Speaker 2: close games whenever the back your back's against the wall
Speaker 2: and it doesn't look good like that. That's a skill
Speaker 2: that teams develop and if that becomes part of Louisville's
Speaker 2: you know, DNA over the next few years under Jef Brown,
Speaker 2: that's a great thing. So ten and two I think
Speaker 2: is going to be much chuper to do this year
Speaker 2: than it was last year. But it's doable. Gonna have to,
Speaker 2: you know, have some breaks go your way. I also
Speaker 2: think eight and four is realistic, but I think eight
Speaker 2: and four would be looked at as a big step back.
Speaker 2: I don't think that means fans would be calling for
Speaker 2: Jeff brohmshead, acting as if you know, we're in big trouble.
Speaker 2: But I just I think even if you didn't win
Speaker 2: ten games last year, I still think people would look
Speaker 2: at eight and four this year and say, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: that's not a terrible year, but that was below what
Speaker 2: I expected. I think this team should have been better
Speaker 2: than that. And it's tough to say that right now because,
Speaker 2: you know what, there's so many new pieces and we
Speaker 2: haven't seen this team yet. Like last year, if we're
Speaker 2: being honest with ourselves, Louisville winning ten games they capped out,
Speaker 2: that was as good as they were gonna be. They
Speaker 2: had some games go their way that they you know,
Speaker 2: could have easily lost, but like ten wins was the
Speaker 2: ceiling for that group, and that's what they did in
Speaker 2: this year. I kind of feel like ten wins is
Speaker 2: the ceiling once again. I mean, you're gonna have a
Speaker 2: tough time going on the road and beatingson tough time
Speaker 2: going on the road and beating Notre Dame. Obviously, Miami
Speaker 2: at home is going to be a challenging game. Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech they clearly look like a more challenging opponent today
Speaker 2: than they did a week ago when we talked about them.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I'm not buying SMU. And then Kentucky,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a game that, let's be real, we
Speaker 2: learned the hard way. You can go in feeling really
Speaker 2: confident about the game and knowing you've had a season
Speaker 2: better than theirs, knowing that objectively speaking, everybody watching, I
Speaker 2: mean I didn't see a single person pitck Kentucky. Louisville
Speaker 2: was favored by more than a touchdown, and yet you
Speaker 2: still went in there and lost. So I think nine
Speaker 2: to three is most likely, but eight and four is
Speaker 2: certainly something that could end up happening, and anything lower
Speaker 2: than that, I feel like it would be viewed as
Speaker 2: not only hey, that fell below my expectation. I think
Speaker 2: a seven and five type year would be viewed as
Speaker 2: one that was not anywhere close to being good enough
Speaker 2: and saying that about our own Jeff Brohm, who I
Speaker 2: clearly you know, love and I'm so happy he's our
Speaker 2: coach here. Just things are he's one of us. You know,
Speaker 2: the examples are everywhere. But you know, like that would
Speaker 2: be I mean seven and five years would be would
Speaker 2: be a letdown. And I love knowing that we can
Speaker 2: say that and like know that the coach is not
Speaker 2: gonna be bothered by like Jeff would tell you that, right.
Speaker 2: So anyways, it's here. We're just a day away, less
Speaker 2: than twenty four hours for Louisville, Kentucky. They play like
Speaker 2: seven forty five tomorrow night. I think it's a late game,
Speaker 2: very late game, all right, John, last night, the loss,
Speaker 2: I mean you've already you got to you got to
Speaker 2: move on from it, I know. And you're not like
Speaker 2: you bring it. You bring a negative energy. He said
Speaker 2: something before the show started that makes me not want
Speaker 2: to tail any bets he does, because it's just bad
Speaker 2: energy that the kick just missed because you bet on
Speaker 2: it you can't. It's lame stuff to say. Is the
Speaker 2: sport's better?
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm getting back in the game. Tonight, I'm taking
Speaker 5: Michigan State to cover I think it's thirteen.
Speaker 2: But you don't feel good about it? Now you feel good,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna land one. You're taking Michigan State to cover
Speaker 2: thirteen thirteen and a half against FAU. Nope, you don't
Speaker 2: think so?
Speaker 1: Oh no?
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, you kid? You know who fa U's coaches.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm in my blanking. I don't know a guy that,
Speaker 2: you know, Indiana probably should have looked at before they
Speaker 2: got Signetti. Dude, FAU has Tom Herman, and Tom Herman's
Speaker 2: a pretty good coach, and Jonathan Smith from Oregon State.
Speaker 2: You know, they were eight in the Pac twelve last year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and now he's bringing over, you know, some of his players,
Speaker 2: and he's got a quarterback that you know, he brought
Speaker 2: with him that was a decent recruit. But like, this
Speaker 2: is a guy that's, you know, getting his first first
Speaker 2: crack at it. He's never played a lot of football.
Speaker 2: So I just think it'll be closer than thirteen and
Speaker 2: a half. I don't think they're going to beat him,
Speaker 2: but I think Tom Herman and FAU. You know, fau's
Speaker 2: the kind of school that will get some decent bounce
Speaker 2: back transfers, if that makes sense. Like if a guy
Speaker 2: goes to Texas, a guy goes to Florida, a guy
Speaker 2: goes to Miami and they were a high three star
Speaker 2: or a low four star, and like they've been there
Speaker 2: two three years and they just haven't really been able
Speaker 2: to jump up the depth chart. They can then find
Speaker 2: themselves at a place like FAU because they know they'll
Speaker 2: play because it's a lower level and they have talent.
Speaker 2: So I've been looking at this one for a while.
Speaker 2: It is getting smaller. I think when I first saw
Speaker 2: this game on the board last week, it was fourteen
Speaker 2: and a half. Now I think it's actually just thirteen.
Speaker 2: Have you bet yet on I haven't, But I'm not
Speaker 2: changing my mind. Yeah no, no, don't if you want no, no, don't. No,
Speaker 2: I'm not fading you. I mean I'm telling the listeners Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was gonna Why would they fade.
Speaker 5: You because I'm ote for one technically universal, we gotta.
Speaker 2: We got to work on the this sports wagering.
Speaker 5: Energy attitude, the sports wagering. I'm just in a funk
Speaker 5: because of the past weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that. That explains it. I'm glad you're reminded
Speaker 2: me of that, because that would be that's a mental
Speaker 2: bend over and take it right, because that's absolutely I
Speaker 2: can't think of many situations worse than that happening where
Speaker 2: you did pick and you didn't wager, and yet you
Speaker 2: would have had some real momentum there you live and
Speaker 2: you learn. But yes, that would be you know, that's
Speaker 2: what we're getting back at. Yeah, now now it makes
Speaker 2: a little more sense. Jean, I thought I thought you.
Speaker 1: Knew that, or or you were aware.
Speaker 2: I know you're aware of that. People thought you were
Speaker 2: already think because the first bet you actually I mean, look,
Speaker 2: you picked four winners that you didn't wager. That's a
Speaker 2: punch to the gut. Then the first one you actually
Speaker 2: bet on ends up not happening because of the last
Speaker 2: second field goal. Yeah, it's it's it's been yeah. So yeah, honestly,
Speaker 2: I would have been in the same position. I thought you.
Speaker 2: I totally forgot about what happened in week zero. So
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, it's one bet. We gotta be, you know,
Speaker 2: we got to be. We gotta believe in the power
Speaker 2: of positivity. Yeah, So look tonight we're going on different sides.
Speaker 2: But you know that's okay though, Yeah, I mean, are
Speaker 2: you what what did you base that off of?
Speaker 5: Just really just Jonathan Smith? Yeah, no, Oregon State wasn't,
Speaker 5: you know, like a world beater.
Speaker 2: I mean they were good, but there, Yeah, they're good
Speaker 2: for the PAC twelve, and you know, he seems like
Speaker 2: a good coach. I just think, I mean, they were
Speaker 2: terrible last year Michigan State, I mean, god awful, and
Speaker 2: FAU I can't act as if you know they they're
Speaker 2: elite by any means. And again that's where you know,
Speaker 2: when I overthink bets like this, what it comes down
Speaker 2: to is like I clearly for I say clearly, like
Speaker 2: I've been talking about it, but it's been clear in
Speaker 2: the last five minutes that we've been discussing it. I
Speaker 2: really do like FAU to cover here as dogs. But
Speaker 2: as I get closer and overthink it, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: got to remind myself, Nick, you're not asking them to win,
Speaker 2: You're asking them to not lose by two touchdowns. And
Speaker 2: that's that's where it comes in. So last year, excuse me,
Speaker 2: last year at FAU not a good start for Tom Herman.
Speaker 2: But this year, you know, I mean, I think he's
Speaker 2: a good coach. He was thirty two and eighteen at Texas.
Speaker 2: I mean he won ten games and the Sugar Bowl
Speaker 2: at Texas. You know, he never I mean he got
Speaker 2: fired at Texas because Steve Sarkejian wanted back in Like
Speaker 2: that's that's how that happened. And I'm surprised it took
Speaker 2: him as long as it did to get another job.
Speaker 2: He was great at Houston, and I just think he's
Speaker 2: the kind of guy that probably will be better off
Speaker 2: at a place not named Texas right now, He'll probably
Speaker 2: if he has success at FAU, he'll jump back up
Speaker 2: and get another gig. Again, that's how it works. But
Speaker 2: I also think that he's somebody that you know. Again,
Speaker 2: they're in the American Athletic Conference now, and that league,
Speaker 2: of course, has lost any good team consistently for the
Speaker 2: last few years.
Speaker 5: So one last thing about Michigan State. I know they
Speaker 5: sucked last year, but other than Indiana, I think they
Speaker 5: have the most roster turnover, like in terms of what
Speaker 5: they're bringing that's different from the previous season. Oh really,
Speaker 5: so they I mean, they still could suck, but I
Speaker 5: think they'll at least look different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they're going to be better coach, because I
Speaker 2: do think Jonathan Smith's a good coach, but it's his
Speaker 2: first game. And you know FA used to cut Like again,
Speaker 2: think about all, like, if you look at the board today,
Speaker 2: last night, and tomorrow, Fau's not at State or not
Speaker 2: at Austin p they're not Southern miss Like they're actually
Speaker 2: a team. You know, they weren't good last year again,
Speaker 2: but like they're If I was playing a team from
Speaker 2: this level and not from the FCS or the bottom
Speaker 2: of G five, I mean I wouldn't be nervous as
Speaker 2: a Louisville fan because if you have expectations, you can't.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't be thinking you'd ever lose to these teams.
Speaker 2: You don't want to disrespect your opponent. But you know, again,
Speaker 2: as we've discussed, fans don't matter. We can disrespect whoever
Speaker 2: and it won't have an impact in the game. But yeah, anyways,
Speaker 2: let's get to a quick break. I'll quit yap and
Speaker 2: because we're gonna bring in mister Kent Spencer from WHAS eleven,
Speaker 2: he'll join us on the other side. You got any
Speaker 2: other picks tonight, any other games interesting to.
Speaker 5: But tomorrow I'm taking youga to cover because I think
Speaker 5: clymps I'm with you and Brian Edwards on what you
Speaker 5: all talked about yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean when I see eleven and a
Speaker 2: half now being the number there, I mean it's I
Speaker 2: mean again, this is how you lose. But didn't that
Speaker 2: just feel like free money? It does. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: but it does.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll keep it rolling along here.
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Speaker 2: seven ninety. It's right, coffee and company rolling along here
Speaker 2: on a Friday afternoon. We are fueled by Thornton's here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you hanging out with
Speaker 2: us as we take you up till six o'clock. Get
Speaker 2: you set for the weekend, the first football weekend here
Speaker 2: for the local fans. Obviously we had week zero and
Speaker 2: we had some action last night, but tomorrow NonStop action
Speaker 2: including both the local teams and joining us to discuss that,
Speaker 2: among many other things, is the one the only mister
Speaker 2: Kent Spencer from w h as eleven Kent. How are
Speaker 2: we doing on a Friday? My man?
Speaker 3: Man, I'm doing awesome.
Speaker 2: You I'm doing good. I'm just ready. I'm just ready
Speaker 2: for football tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean last night was great, some good action. But
Speaker 2: then again, anytime I think like man, I can't wait,
Speaker 2: I realize, oh yeah, they're playing Austin p. Uh. And
Speaker 2: there's really not a whole lot you can you can
Speaker 2: learn from that. Let's just say you were you were
Speaker 2: a staffer for Jeff Brohm, and you were you were,
Speaker 2: you know, associate head coach, knowing your opponent is who
Speaker 2: they are and you should win without much trouble. Are
Speaker 2: there are a couple of things that you would really
Speaker 2: hope to see that would that would be encouraging. You
Speaker 2: would know that it wouldn't mean anything big picture because
Speaker 2: of the opponent, but it would it would it would
Speaker 2: get your feeling like you did take steps forward from
Speaker 2: week one to week two.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, look, they have so many I'm not
Speaker 4: going to take away too much defensively, to be honest
Speaker 4: with you, Nick, because you know they'd have like, they
Speaker 4: have a lot of good players that are returning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of good players.
Speaker 4: That have snaps under their belts and they should be
Speaker 4: able to handle Austin P's offense. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: for me, everything kind of revolves around you know what
Speaker 4: Louisvill's gonna look like offensively? You know, I've never seen
Speaker 4: even though it's Austin p I've never seen Tyler shuck
Speaker 4: against another team before in a Louisville uniform.
Speaker 3: So what's he going to look like? Is he going
Speaker 3: to be able to spread the ball around? Is he
Speaker 3: going to be able to.
Speaker 4: Get the ball out our time hit the open man?
Speaker 4: What are some of those playmakers.
Speaker 3: Out wide that haven't really been in.
Speaker 4: This this position before outside of Chris Bell, what will
Speaker 4: they look like in a in a Louisville uniform against
Speaker 4: another team? The running back situation, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: other than Maurice Turner, everybody's everybody's new. Everybody is you know,
Speaker 4: not not everybody's new, but you know what I mean, like,
Speaker 4: everybody is not experienced. So they've they've got a bunch
Speaker 4: of They've got several new guys on the offensive line.
Speaker 4: What that's going to look like? They're tight end room Like?
Speaker 4: For me, everything just looks at offensively. I just you know,
Speaker 4: I think you want to see them be crisp. I
Speaker 4: think that you want to see them be sharp offensively
Speaker 4: and take care of business.
Speaker 3: I think that's what you know.
Speaker 4: If they struggle against Austin P's defense, Okay, now we've
Speaker 4: learned something.
Speaker 3: If they if they handle it, okay, you pass the
Speaker 3: first test. Now you move on to a second test.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Coach Brahm's offense is usually it's most dangerous when there's
Speaker 2: a lot of balance, and last year, I'm sure he
Speaker 2: was itching to be a little more vertical with the
Speaker 2: passing game than they were, but yet they had two
Speaker 2: really good running backs and at times didn't really need to.
Speaker 2: I just get the sense tomorrow, not because he's gonna
Speaker 2: try to run up the score or because he's going
Speaker 2: to try to prove a point, but I think, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe outside of later in the game when you
Speaker 2: are running the ball, maybe because you're up fifty points
Speaker 2: or something like that. Obviously, that's that's what you would
Speaker 2: hope for as far as late in the game. But
Speaker 2: I just feel like they're going to really let Tyler
Speaker 2: shuck air it out early on. Not only not because
Speaker 2: they feel like he has to prove that, but I
Speaker 2: feel like that's, you know, for him to get some confidence,
Speaker 2: to get some reps in those kind of situations. This
Speaker 2: is I mean that this is the opponent to do that.
Speaker 4: No, well yeah, but also like that's that's his natural
Speaker 4: feeling as a play caller, is to call plays in
Speaker 4: that manner, to be that way because you know, I
Speaker 4: think if you if you thought about it, you know,
Speaker 4: last year, that's the way that they really wanted to
Speaker 4: start out, you know, even against you know, Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: I mean, they they started out wanting.
Speaker 4: To throw the ball all over the field, and then
Speaker 4: you know, in a couple of the weeks ahead and
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, and Bryan Brohm actually talked
Speaker 4: about this on Monday, is you know, sometimes your offensive identity,
Speaker 4: you think you know what you're gonna be, but the
Speaker 4: games really dictate.
Speaker 3: What you are and so and sometimes that can take
Speaker 3: a little bit of time.
Speaker 4: So I think, like, yeah, the kind of game that
Speaker 4: he's gonna call, they're gonna be wide open, They're gonna
Speaker 4: try to throw the ball all over the field.
Speaker 3: Time will tell if if they can.
Speaker 4: Remain that way or you know, like look, they may
Speaker 4: not have Jamar Jordan and Isaac Grenda on that backfield.
Speaker 4: That's that maybe what they what they have to do.
Speaker 4: But you've got to kind of test the test the water,
Speaker 4: so to speak.
Speaker 2: Ken Spencer from w h A S eleven is our
Speaker 2: guest joining us here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's
Speaker 2: flip it over to the Kentucky side. They've got another
Speaker 2: opponent that's not like Austin p They're not fcs, but
Speaker 2: you know, Kentucky big favorites here. Southern miss has had
Speaker 2: some great teams over the years historically, but this one
Speaker 2: is not expected to be a great team. What what
Speaker 2: would you? I guess I'll ask the same thing about Kentucky.
Speaker 2: What could be seen because they have a big game
Speaker 2: next week, a crucial game against South Carolina in week two?
Speaker 2: What would you? What would you think? Or some things
Speaker 2: Mark Mark Stups is hoping to see to feel as
Speaker 2: if they are in a good spot heading into you know,
Speaker 2: a conference game in week two that again is a
Speaker 2: big one for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it kind of comes down to two
Speaker 4: different elements for me with with Kentucky. You know, it's
Speaker 4: it's always it's it feels like it's like every year
Speaker 4: we say the same thing, right, like we've never brought Vandergrift.
Speaker 3: What what is he? You know?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, at least with Tyler Shuck with
Speaker 4: with Louisville, there is evidence of him playing in games
Speaker 4: against real competition, you know, and competing rock Vandergriff. You know,
Speaker 4: you have this massively highly touted quarterback prospect coming out
Speaker 4: of high school but kind of has rode the bench
Speaker 4: at Georgia. Now he finally transfers and he gets his opportunities.
Speaker 3: So what's that going to look like?
Speaker 4: And then you know, for me, it's what's Kentucky's offensive
Speaker 4: line going to look like? You know, how are they
Speaker 4: going to perform? You know, they they a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago they were the Big Blue Wall, and that
Speaker 4: nickname kind of sticks around, but you know, at some
Speaker 4: point it's just a nickname. You know, it's not always true.
Speaker 4: And I think the last couple of years they haven't
Speaker 4: really been the big Blue Wall. So they need to
Speaker 4: get back to be in what they are offensively up front,
Speaker 4: and Southern miss will be a test and that you know,
Speaker 4: you've got to be able to do it against the
Speaker 4: Southern Misses of the world if you want to do
Speaker 4: it against the South Carolinas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you mean with with with brock fand Griff.
Speaker 2: I mean again, he's got a couple of really good
Speaker 2: weapons to utilize, as we've discussed with dan Key and
Speaker 2: Barry and Brown. You know, I just with the new
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator and I've already forgot the guy's name. I
Speaker 2: know he comes from Boise State. This is I mean,
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops has had a lot of different coordinators over
Speaker 2: the years, and a couple of times it's because guys
Speaker 2: have moved on and gotten promotions, which means they were
Speaker 2: you know, they were doing something right. But I mean,
Speaker 2: is this gonna be do you know again, if if
Speaker 2: Vandergriff has a really good arm, and you know, it
Speaker 2: looks as if they can really utilize the strength they
Speaker 2: have with receiver with those two guys we've talked about,
Speaker 2: like the Stoops completely hand over the reins. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know only he can answer that, and you can't
Speaker 2: speak for him, but I just I don't know, like
Speaker 2: it's a compatibility thing because if this kid's arm is
Speaker 2: really great, but the line is not as productive. And
Speaker 2: you don't mean right now, you don't have a Ray Davis.
Speaker 2: You've got Chip trainam who's banged up with the hand.
Speaker 2: I just I guess my question is, and I know
Speaker 2: I'm being long winded here is they may have personnel
Speaker 2: offensively to where their strengths are, not really the way
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops has ever. You know, he doesn't call plays,
Speaker 2: he's not the OC, but let's be real, he's had
Speaker 2: an influence. I just wonder if there'll be an identity
Speaker 2: crisis there for him.
Speaker 3: Well it's it's interesting, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean one of the things about like, you know,
Speaker 4: I'll go back to Louisville for a second. We know
Speaker 4: how Jeff Brown likes to call games. I don't know
Speaker 4: how Bush Hampden likes to call games, even though I've
Speaker 4: heard that. You know he he desperately wants to be balanced.
Speaker 4: You know, that's his thing, and I know Mark Stoops
Speaker 4: desperately wants to be balanced.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: They want to do they want to do it through
Speaker 4: the air, and they want to do it on the ground.
Speaker 3: So that's what they that's what they to do.
Speaker 4: But I would always say too, is if you're a
Speaker 4: football coach, you know if you can't you can't fit
Speaker 4: the round peg in the square hole or the or
Speaker 4: the square hole or the square peg in the round hole.
Speaker 4: Like you have to do what you got to do
Speaker 4: to win football games. And so if you can't run
Speaker 4: the ball a lit then you're going to have to
Speaker 4: throw it all over the yard. Uh that's just the way.
Speaker 3: That's just the way it's going to go.
Speaker 4: So I think, you know so many things. Is will
Speaker 4: be dictator by how they're able to perform on game day.
Speaker 4: But you know, I do know from their OC from
Speaker 4: the head coach, what they've talked about. They desperately want
Speaker 4: to be a fifty to fifty type balanced offense that
Speaker 4: that could take your take shots and make big plays.
Speaker 2: So back to Louisvill real quickly. Here they are thirty
Speaker 2: six point favorites as we speak, according to I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: thirty seven point favorites according to ESPN bet right now.
Speaker 2: And every year there's an FCS opponent on the schedule
Speaker 2: where you have this type of a spread and just
Speaker 2: you know, you expect to just blow them off the field.
Speaker 2: Last year it was Murray State, and I think Louisville
Speaker 2: played ten quarterbacks in that game. In your years covering
Speaker 2: both Louisville football and Kentucky football, is there an opponent
Speaker 2: that you've seen like pregame on the field and you
Speaker 2: kind of felt sad for him, Like, man, I know
Speaker 2: they're here to get a check and it's very vital
Speaker 2: to the health of their program. But man, this is
Speaker 2: going to be bad because I you know, you just
Speaker 2: look at the sidelines tomorrow comparatively speaking, and you're gonna
Speaker 2: you're gonna be able to tell. But this team is
Speaker 2: from a much lower level. I just care over the
Speaker 2: years if there's one team that stands out that you
Speaker 2: felt like, oh, this is an every year thing, these
Speaker 2: kind of teams. But I feel bad for what these
Speaker 2: guys are about to get.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if I've ever I don't
Speaker 4: know if I've ever like just saw them on the
Speaker 4: sidelines and said, oh, here comes a whooping, But you
Speaker 4: definitely you know, like i'll, i'll, this is just funny.
Speaker 4: But you know, I've said this a couple of times
Speaker 4: this week, Like Louisville this week is playing against the
Speaker 4: team that I played against when I was in college,
Speaker 4: and that doesn't and that's probably not a great thing.
Speaker 2: Well, so I'm glad you said that. Why doesn't Morehead
Speaker 2: State end up getting these kind of games against Louiverller Kentucky?
Speaker 2: Like why is it always the Murray's or the Eku's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so any so any more Morehead State
Speaker 4: is non scholarship.
Speaker 3: Oh are they?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 4: Yeah so, and they you know, they've kind of dropped
Speaker 4: down a few notches.
Speaker 2: So those are the real players playing for the love
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 3: K Yeah, Morehead, every Morehead.
Speaker 4: Every now and then we'll play against EKU.
Speaker 3: They've done that a few times.
Speaker 4: But that's I'd say that's about as big as as
Speaker 4: they'll go these days.
Speaker 2: I know they're one to zero on the season, right and.
Speaker 4: By the way, and by the way, rightfully so I love,
Speaker 4: I love my alma mater, But rightfully so, they don't
Speaker 4: they don't need to be suiting up against the lot.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, do you think there's ever a point
Speaker 2: where these games don't exist anymore? I mean, because again,
Speaker 2: like I know that it's a big payday for these programs.
Speaker 2: That's something we actually talked about throughout the week and
Speaker 2: brought it up earlier. The amount of money there's thirty
Speaker 2: I think it's thirty five million dollars this weekend will
Speaker 2: be paid out to different schools just to go in
Speaker 2: and essentially take a butt whooping. And you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's a one, it's one win for a team, and
Speaker 2: everybody needs wins. And when you open up your stadium,
Speaker 2: you know, you you want to win and you want
Speaker 2: to have a lot of people there to make money.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I just there's a part of
Speaker 2: me that wonders if at some point, if there ever
Speaker 2: is maybe some separation from the NCAA itself, like, well,
Speaker 2: these games still exist?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, the the only way that I
Speaker 4: see that these games don't exist is if we end
Speaker 4: up in a super conference. Yeah, if you know, like
Speaker 4: you know, the big you know, four conferences, you know,
Speaker 4: if they all merge together and just form a super conference,
Speaker 4: then they're just gonna play against each other and they're
Speaker 4: gonna they're gonna pretty much outlaw anything probably outside of
Speaker 4: of you know, teams from that from that conference. And
Speaker 4: I can and I can completely see that eventually happening.
Speaker 4: So but I think that that's that's the that's the
Speaker 4: day that we get to that that these days these
Speaker 4: games don't happen because right now, especially now with a
Speaker 4: twelve team playoffs, like, does it does it behoove you
Speaker 4: to really schedule? I mean, if you're in a decent
Speaker 4: conference and you're gonna get, you know, the opportunity to
Speaker 4: have good wins in a decent conference, Like, does it really?
Speaker 4: Does it really, you know, play into your benefit to
Speaker 4: schedule really hard games all throughout your schedule. I don't
Speaker 4: think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean especially, I mean if you've got an
Speaker 2: eight team or an eight game league schedule, which the
Speaker 2: SEC and the a SEC both have, I mean, yeah
Speaker 2: you can, I mean just pick pick up the you know,
Speaker 2: in the non conference, you can honestly go almost as
Speaker 2: weak as you want. But if you go in there
Speaker 2: and you feel like you can compete in your league,
Speaker 2: take care of business, even if you haven't done anything
Speaker 2: in the non conference, you winning your league is gonna
Speaker 2: get you a spot there. So yeah, I guess that
Speaker 2: does actually make it to where you know it wouldn't
Speaker 2: you know, I could unless it happened, And I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I think if the potential super league that has the
Speaker 2: four power conferences, I think I could see that happening.
Speaker 2: But until then, I guess, you know, these games will
Speaker 2: probably still probably still take place. One point nine million
Speaker 2: dollars is going to Western Kentucky to go down to Alabama.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's for that athletic department that's a huge check.
Speaker 4: No, that's why, and that's why Tyson Hellt was so
Speaker 4: happy to talk about the game.
Speaker 2: I bet yeah, it's a it's a good a good
Speaker 2: check to put to put in the bank account to help,
Speaker 2: you know, fund a lot of things with. I mean,
Speaker 2: one point nine million can go a long way at
Speaker 2: a place like that. But Kent, thanks for making time
Speaker 2: for us, my man. Enjoy your enjoy your weekend. Keep
Speaker 2: up the hard work and we will talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: My friend.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks buddy, enjoy the games this weekend.
Speaker 2: Man YouTube brother that is Ken Spencer from w h
Speaker 2: AS eleven. Always appreciate him making time for us. Sorry,
Speaker 2: quick break, We'll come back wrap at the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: It's coffee and company on a feel good Friday. We're
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Speaker 2: Is this a karaoke version? No, it's I noticed the
Speaker 2: same thing playing it. I do so.
Speaker 5: The original version of this song, which is the flow
Speaker 5: Rider version, has guest vocals from somebody who is not
Speaker 5: the original singer on this version, which I didn't even
Speaker 5: know existed. So whoever singing the chorus in this version
Speaker 5: sings the real version of this song, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: No, I've might.
Speaker 5: I tried to explain that the best that I could.
Speaker 5: But this song samples a different song. Oh okay, but
Speaker 5: that's odd though I've never heard this version with the
Speaker 5: original singer.
Speaker 2: I only know of one version, and it just sounds
Speaker 2: different than what I'm hearing now. But it's good stuff.
Speaker 2: When did this song come out like this?
Speaker 5: Whenever I was in high school, I believe, or maybe
Speaker 5: even before twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's before. I'm now I'm now to the point
Speaker 2: where it is music that actually is the thing that
Speaker 2: makes me feel older than anything else, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Because like this song's four or five years old, No,
Speaker 2: it's actually twenty years old. And that one specifically, I
Speaker 2: know it's not twenty years old, but that's just the way.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm where's time gone? Summer went by pretty quick, though,
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest. Now the football season's here, you know,
Speaker 2: I look back and feel like that was one of
Speaker 2: the quickest off seasons. And I don't mean just football season.
Speaker 2: But as I've discussed over the years, you know, for me,
Speaker 2: I'm in my happy place whenever We've got football and basketball,
Speaker 2: and you get it from late August really until mid April,
Speaker 2: and then Derby's right there. So that's fun. So that
Speaker 2: you know, there's a void in my life when we
Speaker 2: hit the end of Derby season until we get to
Speaker 2: here where we are right now, and it's not like,
Speaker 2: you know, I go into like depression, but like it.
Speaker 2: I mean, sports is a great It's a big part
Speaker 2: of my life. You know, maybe that makes me a
Speaker 2: pathetic person because you know, I just get sad and
Speaker 2: feel like, you know, bored all the time during the summer.
Speaker 2: I mean, I go on vacations and I enjoy doing
Speaker 2: stuff with my family. It's not like I just sit
Speaker 2: alone and do nothing. But man, just everything is better
Speaker 2: for me in life whenever I know we got football,
Speaker 2: we got basketball coming before too long. So it is exciting,
Speaker 2: no doubt.
Speaker 5: I'm ready to put the summer behind us. And I
Speaker 5: think this week and all the heat has made that
Speaker 5: one of it's made me want that to happen even
Speaker 5: quicker because it's I hate it.
Speaker 2: And there's something about college football, the pettiness, just the
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I mean, I don't need to tell
Speaker 2: anybody why college football is great. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people around here agree and enjoy it just as
Speaker 2: much as I do. But you know, let me just
Speaker 2: give you an example. Like the pettiness of college football.
Speaker 2: I think it's great and it's pretty con I mean
Speaker 2: it's everywhere. This story out of Miami is or Florida
Speaker 2: should say, Gainesville is one of the many examples you'll
Speaker 2: find to where you clearly like, this is not a coincidence.
Speaker 2: This is the petty that you see within college football rivalry.
Speaker 2: So Florida they're hosting Miami, and Miami has been put
Speaker 2: on upset alert by a lot of people. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if I'm ready to go there just yet, but uh,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a packed game in Gainesville, and Florida
Speaker 2: announced it was gonna be a white out for their
Speaker 2: for their fans. So Florida will be wearing their home blue,
Speaker 2: you know, their traditional blue with the white and yellow trim.
Speaker 2: And usually when Miami goes on the road, from what
Speaker 2: I understand, uh, they don't wear white. They'll wear you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, they got a lot of different uniform combos
Speaker 2: they can wear at Miami. But Miami has now said
Speaker 2: they're gonna wear all white uniforms because Florida's doing well.
Speaker 2: I mean, they haven't, like what in the press release,
Speaker 2: we've decided to switch to white, but that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: And I just think that's it's it's not a huge deal,
Speaker 2: but it's just it's clearly petty and their their rivals,
Speaker 2: and you know that's what rivals do. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: of ault and we'll get into it in the second
Speaker 2: hour here. As far as just the slate of games
Speaker 2: tomorrow outside the local teams that are of you know,
Speaker 2: of interest, and this Clemson Georgia game, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bet on it, but I just what I don't
Speaker 2: know is that is Debo Sweeney. Is this like has
Speaker 2: he put himself in a spot to where he realizes
Speaker 2: there's no pressure, nobody expects them to win, and if
Speaker 2: they do mess around and compete and are competitive, that
Speaker 2: like they'll be actually viewed as an zero to one
Speaker 2: team that kind of got more love than other teams
Speaker 2: that won a game in Week one, if that makes sense,
Speaker 2: because they fallen not to where they're irrelevant. They're the
Speaker 2: fourteenth ranked team in the country right now. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if that's deserved. But you know, Clemson never has
Speaker 2: fallen to where they're just a bad program. They just
Speaker 2: used to be up there with one A, one B.
Speaker 2: It was Bama and Clemson for a little while, and
Speaker 2: now they've clearly dropped off to where this is, you know,
Speaker 2: two three years ago, John, this is a humongous matchup
Speaker 2: that everybody is on the edge of their seat to
Speaker 2: watch because they expect this to be you know, two
Speaker 2: really really really good teams. And now I think, you know,
Speaker 2: it's viewed as a game that people probably think Clemson's
Speaker 2: a good to you know, people may look at Clemson
Speaker 2: and say they are the fourteenth best team in the country,
Speaker 2: but they're gonna get beat by twenty seven to Georgia
Speaker 2: because George is that much better. I guess what I'm
Speaker 2: asking is, is this more about Georgia more about Clemson?
Speaker 2: My takeaway, maybe this is just me being an acc guy.
Speaker 2: I feel like just to see this matchup not have
Speaker 2: the sizzle. It's just another reminder that Debos Sweeney not
Speaker 2: adapting to the big changes in college football to where
Speaker 2: like nobody even thinks they have a chance tomorrow. I mean,
Speaker 2: I would love to see what the money is going
Speaker 2: to be on, because don't you think everybody's betting on Georgia.
Speaker 2: I would think so. As the line shifted, I mean
Speaker 2: right now it is minus eleven and a half. So
Speaker 2: in fact, I can take a look at sports line
Speaker 2: and it'll tell you as far as the amount of money,
Speaker 2: as far as you know, how much money is on,
Speaker 2: you know, to cover that kind of stuff. So we
Speaker 2: can take a look at that, among many things. We
Speaker 2: got two more hours to go, so stick with us.
Speaker 2: It's a Friday. We made it football seasons here. It's exciting,
Speaker 2: so hang out. We'll be here till six o'clock right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven to ninety
Speaker 4: HM