Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company. Fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: when we.
Speaker 3: Are get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 4: The kids are crying or turn off. Their coaches are.
Speaker 3: Screwing it up.
Speaker 1: Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play inter Murals.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
Speaker 3: kidding me? Now? Here's Nick coffee.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna, as I've said all throughout the last
Speaker 5: couple of weeks, try to make the most of what
Speaker 5: is left and six hours left here for me at
Speaker 5: Sports Talk seven ninety. Not to be dramatic, but I
Speaker 5: mean it's the truth. We've got today, we've got tomorrow,
Speaker 5: and then I make the move to eight forty, whas
Speaker 5: very excited. But also I've had some moments in the
Speaker 5: last couple of days that really kind of get me
Speaker 5: in the fields as far as just you know, this,
Speaker 5: this whole thing coming to an end. And this morning
Speaker 5: I had one and it was I was I had
Speaker 5: just dropped the kids off at daycare and at school,
Speaker 5: and I was listening to eight forty whas, which you
Speaker 5: should too all the time, and especially you know, starting
Speaker 5: Monday if you're not already listening in the mornings. But anyways,
Speaker 5: there's been it's been a fun week, not only for
Speaker 5: me as a as a person who works here. And
Speaker 5: you know, I'm a radio guy. Whatever that means, for
Speaker 5: better or worse, it's it's my it's my craft, it's
Speaker 5: what I do. So as there have been many many
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of how many, and if I
Speaker 5: tried to name them all, I would miss somebody and
Speaker 5: I don't want to do that. But there have been
Speaker 5: so many people that have been in this week to
Speaker 5: be a part of Tony Cruz, to be a part
Speaker 5: of Tony Cruz's show because he's he's retiring and tomorrow's
Speaker 5: his last show on AHAs. So it's been nice to
Speaker 5: hear from people who used to be a part of
Speaker 5: the station, used to be a part of his show,
Speaker 5: Legends that I never got to work with, but obviously
Speaker 5: they're a big factor in why has is what has is.
Speaker 5: And this morning John L. Smith, former Louisville football coach,
Speaker 5: was in studio and I could listen to that guy
Speaker 5: talk all day in fact, he used to be on
Speaker 5: this station many years ago. But whenever Venette came in
Speaker 5: to finish up the crew, Tony Cruz is Kentucky in
Speaker 5: the morning news show and they finished with John L.
Speaker 5: I think he was in for maybe the last hour,
Speaker 5: and it was a lot of fun. He's pretty good
Speaker 5: at the radio stuff, and I'm sure he knows that,
Speaker 5: but you know, he's got better things to do he's retired.
Speaker 5: But what I'm getting at is Tony had mentioned that
Speaker 5: John L should write a book, and he told him
Speaker 5: he because he can just tell stories. I mean, no joke.
Speaker 5: It could be a Joe By and Denny situation with him.
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know who would be the Joe b
Speaker 5: for him, but he's got some great stories. And Vinetti mentioned, well,
Speaker 5: you should write a book, and he said, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'd remember all these stories. Like
Speaker 5: if he just sat down and tried to think of stories,
Speaker 5: he may not be able to. Actually, you know, it
Speaker 5: may not be as effective. But in conversation, he's always
Speaker 5: got a story and they're usually pretty funny stories. And
Speaker 5: that was certainly the case this morning. But when Venette
Speaker 5: mentioned that he should write a book, he Venette said
Speaker 5: that he knows what he would what he should call
Speaker 5: the book, and he said that it should be called
Speaker 5: the players are playing the coach. The players are playing
Speaker 5: their tail off, and the coaches are screwing it up,
Speaker 5: and that he mentioned I think John LL mentioned, well,
Speaker 5: you would you'd had to bring that up, didn't you,
Speaker 5: you know, playfully, because I guess that wasn't a great
Speaker 5: moment for John L. But it's certainly a legendary moment.
Speaker 5: And then Bennetti, without even me really realizing it, I
Speaker 5: just wasn't thinking of it at the time, that that's
Speaker 5: a part of the intro for the show that you
Speaker 5: hear every year. Is so with that, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't know that that was from John L though.
Speaker 5: Yeah it was when it was when he was at
Speaker 5: Michigan State, I believe it was, and he's running off
Speaker 5: the field at halftime and the coaches were screwing it up.
Speaker 5: He was he was telling the truth, and in fact,
Speaker 5: he reiterated that today. And anyways, it just made me think,
Speaker 5: you know, because Venette said, you know our morning guy
Speaker 5: on seven ninety who's coming over to take over for
Speaker 5: Tony cruz Nick coffee, he has that in his opening
Speaker 5: for his show, and it's been there for many, many
Speaker 5: years and it plays every day, and I thought, you
Speaker 5: know what, that's true, and what happened with me there
Speaker 5: was this. There's a lot of things I'm proud of
Speaker 5: as far as what I've been able to do here,
Speaker 5: I mean just being able to do it is meeting
Speaker 5: having the opportunity. That's something I'm proud of and thankful
Speaker 5: for beyond belief. But I've always felt like the intro
Speaker 5: for this show, which really has not changed. I believe
Speaker 5: I created this intro in twenty sixteen when I got hired,
Speaker 5: and I believe we've changed the background music. Obviously the
Speaker 5: show name has changed from Red Zone to Coffee and Company,
Speaker 5: But other than that, as far as the montage of
Speaker 5: clips that I put together, it's remained. And just by nature,
Speaker 5: I'm someone that oftentimes will try to just mix things up,
Speaker 5: just to mix it up, which I shouldn't do sometimes.
Speaker 5: You know, if it's not broke, don't fix it. That's
Speaker 5: that's a saying for a real reason. But anyways, what
Speaker 5: I'm getting at is, of all the things, and there's
Speaker 5: many of them, I think the intro for the show
Speaker 5: is one of the things I'm most proud of because
Speaker 5: it I think it gives you a pretty good sense
Speaker 5: of what you're gonna get here. And I think the
Speaker 5: clips that you hear within are are pretty fitting for
Speaker 5: you know what it is that you get. Play it
Speaker 5: for me once more, Austin.
Speaker 2: You want me to roll it back again?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could fade it out once we get past
Speaker 5: just the just the clips, but I think, like you know,
Speaker 5: I'm proud of this and it's not gonna be there
Speaker 5: anymore because obviously you know, it's time.
Speaker 3: For coffee and company.
Speaker 1: Fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety Holy.
Speaker 2: Crap, I don't know who the hell we think when
Speaker 2: we are.
Speaker 3: Get off our show.
Speaker 4: Idiot, the kids are playing or turn off your tuntures are.
Speaker 3: Screwing it up? Gold play Inner Murals, brother, go play
Speaker 3: Inner Murals. They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're
Speaker 3: really not. Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: So with that, I mean it plays every day. It's
Speaker 5: it's in one ear and out the other for me.
Speaker 5: But I hadn't really stopped to think to listen to it,
Speaker 5: because again, it's just been a constant thing every single day,
Speaker 5: and I'm sure it's the same way for people who
Speaker 5: do start the show with us every day at three o'clock.
Speaker 5: But all those clips, most of them, I think nearly
Speaker 5: all of them are clips from coaches having a meltdown,
Speaker 5: either at the podium press conference or for John L
Speaker 5: when he was when he was running off the field. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: I saw John L earlier and oh he's I mean,
Speaker 5: he looks like a ball coach. God knows ball, he
Speaker 5: can talk ball. I was helping a Dwight limp into
Speaker 5: the office. Did you hear what happened to him? No,
Speaker 5: he tore his achilles? Are you serious?
Speaker 2: Or he ripped his Now I guess from what I
Speaker 2: heard he was helping move something.
Speaker 5: Okay, I was gonna say, like, I can't imagine, you know,
Speaker 5: Dwight having that happen when he's playing full court basketball
Speaker 5: or something not that he won't give buckets out to
Speaker 5: anybody who wants to challenge him. I'm just saying, like
Speaker 5: I would, I would be curious as to how it happened.
Speaker 5: But yeah, moving furniture, I can see it, just snapping.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was stepping out of the studio to
Speaker 2: run back into uh load some stuff in the in
Speaker 2: the radio car. And then I just see a guy
Speaker 2: on crutches and I look down at Dwight and the
Speaker 2: first thing that I think of is it's a joke, right,
Speaker 2: Dwight on crutches? I said, are you all right? He's like, no,
Speaker 2: Dorman Dam's And I'm like, did this just happen? If
Speaker 2: he yep, last night? If he was a fag.
Speaker 5: If he was a football player for John L. Smith,
Speaker 5: JoNell Smith, would I would have told him to get
Speaker 5: out there and play play through it. And Dwight would
Speaker 5: have done it because he's a team player. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: he'll sacrifice for the squad.
Speaker 2: He sure will.
Speaker 5: But uh, this is the this is I believe this
Speaker 5: is how it. Uh yeah, they I guess they let
Speaker 5: me see. I think I've got the clip in its entirety.
Speaker 5: This was in two thousand and five when he was
Speaker 5: in Michigan State, and I don't remember really the context
Speaker 5: of what led to him saying that. But let's let's
Speaker 5: take a listen.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Jack.
Speaker 2: As you watch John LL.
Speaker 5: He's losing his mind.
Speaker 3: By the way, cannot believe what is happening. Let's go
Speaker 3: to Jack his coach.
Speaker 6: Obviously a miscalculation there, and you're upset.
Speaker 3: Tell me about her?
Speaker 4: He upset and above then we're crass. Real goal for
Speaker 4: coaching center. Man, we're sure to sent it. Man, that's
Speaker 4: a Dan coaching mistake, that the kids are playing their
Speaker 4: tail life and their coaches are screwing it up.
Speaker 3: You don't have to say anymore than Matt Brent.
Speaker 2: No, you certainly don't check.
Speaker 5: I've missed John l coaching football. I also miss Brittain,
Speaker 5: how about that? So anyways, I hadn't thought of this
Speaker 5: until John El. So maybe I thank John Ll and
Speaker 5: Benetti for this because John Hill's been in the intro
Speaker 5: for the show forever. I just you know, it's not
Speaker 5: I don't If you asked me what's in my intro,
Speaker 5: I would be able to tell you. But it's just
Speaker 5: not something that's ever on my mind. And John ELL's
Speaker 5: a clearly a very memorable and special coach for U
Speaker 5: of L to where I don't think about my show
Speaker 5: When I think about John LL, I think about damn,
Speaker 5: I missed that guy. He was great, What a character
Speaker 5: and what a good ball coach and his success here
Speaker 5: that he had before leaving for Michigan State was one
Speaker 5: of the eras of Louisville football that is important for
Speaker 5: where for being where it is today. But with this,
Speaker 5: I went back and I'm so glad I did this.
Speaker 5: And I don't really remember doing it, but I remember thinking, know,
Speaker 5: you better do that, and I'm happy to find out
Speaker 5: that I did. My memory is a little bit foggy
Speaker 5: from the time we moved out of the old building
Speaker 5: into the new one, and I thought to myself, you know,
Speaker 5: you've got terabytes of sound on a drive that is
Speaker 5: attached to the studio computer at the old studios at
Speaker 5: our old building over there on Newburgh Road. And I
Speaker 5: at the time had taken everything to drop box that
Speaker 5: I used regularly, but like every day in the morning,
Speaker 5: I would cut up a bunch of sound every day.
Speaker 5: And then there's also times where if I heard something,
Speaker 5: whether it be like a you know, a coach and
Speaker 5: a press conference or just something. I mean, now, it
Speaker 5: would actually be a lot easier to do because there's
Speaker 5: so much you can just pull directly from TikTok, which
Speaker 5: will be easy to do as far as movie clips
Speaker 5: and what but I'll be getting at is I grabbed
Speaker 5: everything I'd ever cut up and put it on a
Speaker 5: drive that I still have, and it's now on this
Speaker 5: computer in here, and I'm not gonna play I mean,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be able to play it in its entirety.
Speaker 5: And a lot of it is just clips from a
Speaker 5: coaching press conference or uh, you know, Paul Rodgers highlights,
Speaker 5: those kind of things. But I did have a folder
Speaker 5: specifically for just sound drops that you used to hear.
Speaker 5: And I don't know why. I think just for the
Speaker 5: with the moved afternoon, I didn't feel and there's no
Speaker 5: rhyme or reason for this. It wasn't I don't remember
Speaker 5: making the decision. But once we moved here, despite having
Speaker 5: a nicer studio that is much more modern and better,
Speaker 5: I just kind of abandoned sound And I don't really
Speaker 5: know why I did that. But there are some that
Speaker 5: if you listen tomorrow for my final show, you will,
Speaker 5: I hope you will be entertained by some of these,
Speaker 5: if anything, just because you'll you'll heck, if you hear
Speaker 5: some of these for the first time, I mean these
Speaker 5: are clips that there used to just be a be
Speaker 5: a certain that there's there was certain things that would
Speaker 5: be said or certain tone of something said by either me,
Speaker 5: a producer, a guest, or we played sound and then
Speaker 5: I would just you know, I had I had a
Speaker 5: button bar essentially just set up to where I could
Speaker 5: I could just hit a button and it, you know,
Speaker 5: it would would tell you that, you know, you were
Speaker 5: so dumb, you were really dumb for real. From Antwine
Speaker 5: Dotson the guy who you know was what was the
Speaker 5: climbing in your windows snatching your people up? One of
Speaker 5: the early viral videos of YouTube as far as a
Speaker 5: news scene. So anyways, two shows left, and I've just
Speaker 5: spent eleven minutes of the two show of the six
Speaker 5: hours total, probably accomplishing nothing, but I don't really care.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've been overthinking it the last day or
Speaker 5: so as far as man, you really need to make
Speaker 5: the most of this and do something, go out with
Speaker 5: a bang, do something that is special, and I mean
Speaker 5: it's not anything extravagant. I do have plans for the
Speaker 5: rest of this show as well as tomorrow, and we're
Speaker 5: gonna have some fun with it. But I feel like
Speaker 5: the best thing for me to do is to just
Speaker 5: not even think about it being the end and just
Speaker 5: enjoy it, because I feel like if I overthink about
Speaker 5: I overthink it as far as just the little time
Speaker 5: that I have left and how amazing it's been here
Speaker 5: for the last nine years. And again, I'm not leaving
Speaker 5: the company. I'm just taking a different job within the company,
Speaker 5: and I'm still gonna be on your radio dial just
Speaker 5: a lot earlier than three PM. But I want to
Speaker 5: live in the moment with it and just enjoy it,
Speaker 5: because if I if I get to thinking about it,
Speaker 5: then I'm just gonna be in my own head. And
Speaker 5: that's really something I'm oftentimes not able to control. I
Speaker 5: get my own head to overthink things, but I'm gonna
Speaker 5: try my best not to. As we round it out,
Speaker 5: and today's Austin's last day with Coffee and Company because
Speaker 5: he won't be here tomorrow. He's out with some events
Speaker 5: that he's got to work. And then also he's gonna
Speaker 5: be he's gonna be going to a wedding. So we'll
Speaker 5: make the most of the rest of the show. Certainly
Speaker 5: gonna be a lot of fun. I guess I don't
Speaker 5: know if I mean again, One thing I need to
Speaker 5: say is I hope over the years you have at
Speaker 5: least some level of a radar for sarcasm, because that's
Speaker 5: always been something that a no, no, you everybody, everybody
Speaker 5: you do clearly that's why you're such a good fit
Speaker 5: for the show. But there you know, and I assume
Speaker 5: most people do. But I often, oftentimes am amused by
Speaker 5: the random the randomness of people who really don't understand
Speaker 5: like I was. It was a poor attempted humor for me.
Speaker 5: I'm not being serious. It was a bad attempt at sarcasm,
Speaker 5: and the fact that you thought it was real actually
Speaker 5: amuses me. But then I have that fear of Okay,
Speaker 5: I've been doing this a long time with kind of
Speaker 5: the same shick, kind of the same style. I mean,
Speaker 5: you like it or you don't like it. Clearly you
Speaker 5: choose to listen or you don't. But I would also
Speaker 5: feel really bad if some of the things I joked
Speaker 5: about people thought I was serious. And I was about
Speaker 5: to do that right here, because I was going to
Speaker 5: say thank you to Pat Kelsey because I feel like
Speaker 5: he knew Nick's only got a couple of days left
Speaker 5: with Coffee and Company. So let's get a basketball commitment
Speaker 5: in addition to the roster, because we want to give
Speaker 5: him something fun to talk about on his last couple
Speaker 5: of shows, so thank you, p K. I don't I
Speaker 5: doubt there's any doubt there's any chance that that's actually
Speaker 5: how the timing worked out. But the timing worked out,
Speaker 5: and I'll believe the timing was for me just because,
Speaker 5: you know, because why not. But anyways, evangelists Zugris probably
Speaker 5: been having trouble trying to think of what it is
Speaker 5: to Vangalis evangelist or avangalists. I don't really see how
Speaker 5: it couldn't be that in the last name z O
Speaker 5: U g r I S Zugris. I'm guessing evangelist Zugras.
Speaker 5: And we'll get a we'll get a pronuncia and see
Speaker 5: if I see if I'm correct, or I guess see
Speaker 5: how wrong I may be. But he is another big
Speaker 5: man from across the pond. He has been playing in
Speaker 5: He's from Greece. He's six eight, two fifty, a big fella.
Speaker 5: And it looks like the news was broke by the
Speaker 5: director of scouting for Draft Express, John Chipikovic, and he's
Speaker 5: he put it out there about an hour ago that a,
Speaker 5: uh this so he is twenty one years old and
Speaker 5: uh he was Yeah, he's born in twenty two thousand
Speaker 5: and four, which means he's he's yeah, he's twenty that's old.
Speaker 5: He is he's twenty one years old. Uh wait a second,
Speaker 5: is that right? Yeah, twenty one years old, and or
Speaker 5: at least will be twenty one this year. So he's
Speaker 5: he's not some seventeen year old that you got to
Speaker 5: worry about. As he physical, as he grown, he's he's
Speaker 5: grown again. He's six eight, two fifty, and he's apparently
Speaker 5: just a you know your tip And again I'm I'm
Speaker 5: I should say this ahead of time. I'm just reading
Speaker 5: about what what what they're saying about his game. I'm
Speaker 5: not going to try my poor attempt to even rea
Speaker 5: about his game. I do not want it to make
Speaker 5: it sound as if I'm trying to act like I
Speaker 5: know anything about this guy, because you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: I think I found a pronunciation from at least one
Speaker 2: of these basketball videos.
Speaker 5: Let's hear let's hear it. What we got van jele
Speaker 5: zugrievanngely Zugrie. That sounds that's fun to say.
Speaker 2: It is actually a fantastic.
Speaker 5: I like that. I like that. So this guy, actually
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have remembered his name, but he he's been
Speaker 5: I guess rumored as somebody that may eventually come to
Speaker 5: play basketball in college. And to my knowledge, Louisville has
Speaker 5: been the only school that people have connected to him
Speaker 5: for quite a while now. And uh, you need him
Speaker 5: because again you you do. You don't know what's going
Speaker 5: to happen with Ali Khalifa. And you also lost James
Speaker 5: Scott and I don't think that was an expectation, and
Speaker 5: and and up until then, you really hadn't done much
Speaker 5: to replace that. So there have been two guys added
Speaker 5: to the roster in the last month or so that
Speaker 5: completely off the radar again, Grees Zugrie or zu Grese
Speaker 5: say with me, zu Grees or Zugree.
Speaker 2: Sounds like it's it sounds like they're saying, Zugria to
Speaker 2: play it on the air hold on, hold on.
Speaker 5: How easy would that be?
Speaker 2: I guess that'd be probably be the easiest thing that
Speaker 2: we've done to it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So they haven't said his first name, but if if,
Speaker 2: if it's like the bass is hidden on the Zugri part,
Speaker 2: I can only imagine it's Evangelie Evangeliz.
Speaker 5: So the last name is so fun to say, we
Speaker 5: can just call him, but you know, he's somebody that
Speaker 5: again he's just been on the radar as a guy
Speaker 5: that that could end up at Louisville and and now
Speaker 5: he's he's going to be here. So this was this
Speaker 5: was I guess his This was last October when he
Speaker 5: was playing in Because with with professional basketball overseas, you
Speaker 5: you're Mike. So the basketball basketball overseas it's a little
Speaker 5: bit like soccer as far as you'll just like there's
Speaker 5: a club element to it and you know, you have
Speaker 5: your you know, honestly, the leagues are very much similar
Speaker 5: to what you see in European soccer. So he played
Speaker 5: four games with I guess his club in October and
Speaker 5: was you know, twenty minutes per game. He averaged twelve
Speaker 5: and a half points, shot eighty six percent from the field,
Speaker 5: one hundred percent from the free throw line, and averaged
Speaker 5: about five rebounds. So again I'm not gonna act like
Speaker 5: I know a lot about him, because I don't. However,
Speaker 5: he is he's another piece to the front court, which
Speaker 5: clearly there's there's a need there. And even if you
Speaker 5: get good news with Ali Khalifa, which I hope that
Speaker 5: you do, you know you still you know, he still
Speaker 5: needs some depth. I mean last year Louisville because of
Speaker 5: injury more than anything, I guess with Casein and you
Speaker 5: did bring in Khalifa, but he couldn't play because of
Speaker 5: the injury that he already had when he arrived. I mean,
Speaker 5: you had a thin court or a thin front court
Speaker 5: last year, and I really do think you couldn't have
Speaker 5: done much better in the front court than how you
Speaker 5: did with what you had to work with. That's not
Speaker 5: to say those guys weren't weren't good. I mean James
Speaker 5: Scott wasn't really an offensive threat at all unless he
Speaker 5: was dunk in the basketball. And he gave you a
Speaker 5: lot of energy and effort, but obviously, you know he's
Speaker 5: not somebody the opposing team really has to guard unless
Speaker 5: he's right underneath the rim. And then obviously John Hadley
Speaker 5: stepped up in a big way. And I mean some
Speaker 5: of your guards, I mean they weren't post players by
Speaker 5: it he means, but you know, Chuck you, Eburn, Terrence Edwards.
Speaker 5: They'd get in the paint, mix it up a little
Speaker 5: bit more so than they probably were used to. So
Speaker 5: there you have it. Another another edition of the roster.
Speaker 5: We'll try to see if we can get some more
Speaker 5: info on this on this guy before we get out
Speaker 5: of here today, because I'm interested. I mean, he's somebody
Speaker 5: that you know, you just you really never know what
Speaker 5: you're getting with any player, to be honest with you,
Speaker 5: I guess you have a better idea now with the portal. Right,
Speaker 5: if you bring in a guy who's been a consistent
Speaker 5: All American caliber player, I think you could expect him
Speaker 5: to still be that when he ends up with your team.
Speaker 5: But these are guys that most fans have never heard
Speaker 5: of until they commit at all, and you can reference
Speaker 5: what transfers you've never heard of, you can reference their
Speaker 5: numbers at the previous college and make you know, determine
Speaker 5: whatever you want to determine right come to come to
Speaker 5: your own conclusion with these guys, it's really unknown because
Speaker 5: it's this is new, Like there haven't been that many
Speaker 5: examples that I can think of in the last couple
Speaker 5: of years because it's new meaning now with college players
Speaker 5: making big time money, especially at big time programs, these
Speaker 5: guys are more interested in coming to college and getting
Speaker 5: a bag and realizing that they're eligible with four years
Speaker 5: despite being twenty one or twenty two years old sometimes
Speaker 5: so again it's the ultimate unknown. But what we did
Speaker 5: know is that without James Scott and also again with
Speaker 5: Khalifa situation uncertain, you need to add some pieces and
Speaker 5: they've done that. Some other things we'll get into today.
Speaker 5: We now know the kickoff time I think for a
Speaker 5: third of Louisville football schedule. We can certainly get into that.
Speaker 5: And then there's still some more to take away from
Speaker 5: the SEC meetings that went on. The Big twelve meetings
Speaker 5: took place today, and there's the conversation about what happens
Speaker 5: with the future of the college football playoff has not
Speaker 5: died down really at all, and yet I don't get
Speaker 5: any since there's any the progress made as far as
Speaker 5: what is going to work right, what everybody will agree upon,
Speaker 5: But we do know that you've got until I guess
Speaker 5: the end of November or the beginning of December to
Speaker 5: get it figured out as far as the deadline, and
Speaker 5: I guess the deadline is with the TV partners because
Speaker 5: they need to know sort of what they're going to
Speaker 5: have to work with because obviously this is this isn't
Speaker 5: made for TV event. I mean, this is just a
Speaker 5: tournament that was created that the NCAA has nothing to
Speaker 5: do with. And obviously it features the best teams in
Speaker 5: the country and it rightfully determines who's the national champion.
Speaker 5: But again, this is nothing to do with the nc DOUBLEA.
Speaker 5: So when you think about the college Football Playoff, heck,
Speaker 5: keeping your conference championships as well as any bowl game.
Speaker 5: I mean, those are just made for TV events. But
Speaker 5: you know, when you make billions of dollars seemingly with these,
Speaker 5: with the event that is the College Football Playoff, it's
Speaker 5: a pretty important thing to understand exactly what it is
Speaker 5: you're you're working with. Also, NBA Playoffs will continue to
Speaker 5: talk about that. Obviously, not much competition last night at
Speaker 5: all between the Thunder and the Tea Wolves. I mean,
Speaker 5: why they even show up. I mean, they got off
Speaker 5: to a decent start, they made their first three and
Speaker 5: got a couple of stops. It almost looked right at
Speaker 5: the beginning of the game as if this was gonna
Speaker 5: be like the OKC Thunder were gonna be. You know,
Speaker 5: they were gonna have their first off night at home,
Speaker 5: and I guess they've had off nights at home throughout
Speaker 5: the year. But obviously They've been good all season in
Speaker 5: the in the postseason as well, but especially when they're
Speaker 5: playing in front of their home crowd, and it was juiced,
Speaker 5: and they just got off to a slow start at
Speaker 5: the very beginning. And then it was all she wrote.
Speaker 5: They just turned it on. It was they beat the
Speaker 5: living hell out of out of the uh out of
Speaker 5: the Tea Wolves, And I was given given Moosa bath
Speaker 5: and and I had at the TV was on in
Speaker 5: the living room and I could hear it, and all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, I just I heard whoever was on
Speaker 5: the call because the ESPN coverage man, it's I don't
Speaker 5: want to pick on him because I.
Speaker 2: Think Doris Burke just doesn't do it for me.
Speaker 5: I think Doris Burke and Richard Hamilton are phenomenal as
Speaker 5: far as knowing basketball. I genuinely mean that Doris sit people.
Speaker 5: Can you know, maybe she's not an acquired taste, Maybe
Speaker 5: you just don't like women calling games. Whatever, I mean,
Speaker 5: you like what you like. I'm not going to try
Speaker 5: to lecture you, but I love what she brings to
Speaker 5: the table as far as her knowledge of basketball. It
Speaker 5: just doesn't work with the trio that they have. I mean,
Speaker 5: who is it, it's Richard Jefferson Herd, yeah, Breen and
Speaker 5: Breen's fine, But I mean I can't tell, am I
Speaker 5: really just that underwhelmed with it because it just doesn't
Speaker 5: seem to have the dynamic. It just doesn't seem to
Speaker 5: really work. He just works so much better with Van Gundy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Mark Jackson, sure, for sure, and that's what we think
Speaker 5: about when we think of him, right, But also I
Speaker 5: can't tell if it's you know, just that it doesn't
Speaker 5: seem to work, or if I just realized that the
Speaker 5: TNT crew is so much better that's what it is too,
Speaker 5: I mean you kidding me? I mean Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller,
Speaker 5: and I think Stan Van Gunny's been phenomenal. Yeah, he's great,
Speaker 5: He's got he's got some I mean the bar is
Speaker 5: set low as far as like character slash personality for
Speaker 5: a gig like that. I mean, he's not Charles Barkley,
Speaker 5: because nobody is. But he's got some personality to him.
Speaker 5: But also he clearly you know, he loves talking who
Speaker 5: so you know the thunder we're not. But anyways, back
Speaker 5: to the trio that was calling last night's games for ESPN,
Speaker 5: Breen made a comment and said, this is a type
Speaker 5: of deficits you just don't see very often this early
Speaker 5: in a game. And I went and looked at the TV,
Speaker 5: and I think within the time I put the little
Speaker 5: fella in the bathtub and sat down, you know, let
Speaker 5: him play with his toys in the bathtub, We're probably
Speaker 5: in there ninety seconds. And I feel like they went
Speaker 5: on like a ten oh run, like it was already
Speaker 5: bad and then it got really ugly, really quick. So
Speaker 5: we now know that the OKC Thunder are moving on
Speaker 5: to the NBA Finals first time since twenty twelve. I
Speaker 5: think Sam Presty has been maybe as good as we've
Speaker 5: ever seen as far as quietly building an NBA roster
Speaker 5: that is won phenomenal and took chances on guys that
Speaker 5: others probably wouldn't have taken chances on, like he I think,
Speaker 5: you knew, hey, we can go get Alex Caruso and
Speaker 5: he's going to be a phenomenal piece for us, and
Speaker 5: he is. He's probably one of the most valuable guys
Speaker 5: I can think of in recent years off the bench
Speaker 5: for a team. And sometimes it does show up in
Speaker 5: the statute, sometimes it doesn't because he's just out there.
Speaker 5: You know, he's such a good player. I used to
Speaker 5: clown on Caruso a lot, but because he was balding,
Speaker 5: and then he just shaved it off. And now and
Speaker 5: now we're rocking with him.
Speaker 2: Right. He left the Lakers and when he came back,
Speaker 2: they did like a tribute video for him. I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, guys, are we doing this?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: He's well, So you know he for some reason, don't
Speaker 5: I never was. I never found him unlikable, but I
Speaker 5: get why. Like he was kind of easy to be
Speaker 5: a punching back for certain people, but that was whenever
Speaker 5: he was playing alongside legends, like with the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But now that he's the og with some young stars
Speaker 5: and he is so selfless and conceding to letting it
Speaker 5: be their team and he's just playing the leader role,
Speaker 5: doing the dirty work, being a great defender. I mean,
Speaker 5: like he's he's hard not to like.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's quite the role reversal, and I believe it's
Speaker 5: mostly due to the fact that you know, you're seeing
Speaker 5: him be a guy that is no longer the young
Speaker 5: dude just happy because he's a.
Speaker 2: Pre makes me feel old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you, hitn't he a perfect example of
Speaker 5: a guy though that when he was playing alongside Lebron
Speaker 5: in LA you just assumed that it was because, well,
Speaker 5: you know, he's a Norris Cole.
Speaker 6: Right, he's a he's a mare there. What now is
Speaker 6: Austin Reeds? Yeah, he get excited. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So
Speaker 6: he's really showing his value in OKAC. And I think
Speaker 6: if you realize the moves that have been made by
Speaker 6: the Okac Thunder in recent years, then I'll not only
Speaker 6: have the a roster that looks like they're they're gonna
Speaker 6: be the favorites to win the whole thing, that's for certain,
Speaker 6: but also they've got like really good draft picks coming up,
Speaker 6: like they've like he has done a phenomenal job. And
Speaker 6: it would get so much more attention if it was
Speaker 6: anybody but Oka. See.
Speaker 5: I mean, if it was the Knicks or the Lakers
Speaker 5: or something like that, it would be the only thing
Speaker 5: anybody talked about in the NBA. But it's okay, see,
Speaker 5: and it's just different. So anyways, let's take a quick
Speaker 5: time out. We'll come back, keep this thing rolling along,
Speaker 5: have some fun before we, uh we end the week.
Speaker 5: Keep a lock right here. It's coffee and company, and
Speaker 5: we are feel about Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Now back to coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 5: That's right, it's coffee and company. Feel about though. Jordan's
Speaker 5: here on Sports Talk seven ninety nit coffee, Austin Montgomery,
Speaker 5: the travel chief alongside and I haven't mentioned this just yet,
Speaker 5: but we did have a couple of people ask on
Speaker 5: the text line, and I mean, Austin's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5: He's still gonna be He's still gonna be around here
Speaker 5: at iHeart and around and he'll be producing other shows
Speaker 5: here and there when needed. And actually, I don't, I
Speaker 5: don't care. I'll say it. What are they gonna do?
Speaker 5: Fire me? Please don't. I'm not I'm not challenging you.
Speaker 5: This is not a this is not a dare. But
Speaker 5: there are there are plans. There are plans. We don't
Speaker 5: know what the plans are for sure just yet. However,
Speaker 5: they're gonna put local programming here. I just don't know
Speaker 5: when that's gonna happen and what it's gonna be. I have,
Speaker 5: you know a good feel for kind of what they're
Speaker 5: at least exploring. But and if that's the case, then
Speaker 5: then I would imagine that Austin will be a part
Speaker 5: of it here and there. And also I think you
Speaker 5: may hear Austin on forty whas here and there as well.
Speaker 5: You already do at times whenever he's he's in with
Speaker 5: Tony and Dwight on some of the remotes, or he
Speaker 5: just comes in studio with him. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: he gets here early, so heck, I probably will have
Speaker 5: him pop in with me every now and then on
Speaker 5: has and the.
Speaker 2: Saw earlier today, yea in the studio that's.
Speaker 5: Right in the eight o'clock hour. You know that'll be uh,
Speaker 5: that'll be you know, see you here and uh. Again
Speaker 5: I talked about yesterday. Just to be clear, I did
Speaker 5: say earlier within this show that at times I can
Speaker 5: be sarcastic, and I can, you know, I can just
Speaker 5: hope that I can. I can say something and it's
Speaker 5: a poor attempted humor, and I just hope you guys
Speaker 5: understand that I'm trying to be funny and not being serious.
Speaker 5: What I said yesterday was absolutely the truth. This guy
Speaker 5: has probably done more jobs again, all the jobs I listed,
Speaker 5: all the things he's done, riding our iHeart vehicles, in parades,
Speaker 5: producing shows, you know, giving away concert tickets, introducing artists
Speaker 5: at festivals that were a part of Like, he's done everything,
Speaker 5: so you know, even if it's fun, even if you're
Speaker 5: not looking for him, which I don't know why you
Speaker 5: wouldn't be looking from a man, I'm just saying, you'll
Speaker 5: probably just hear him or see him when it's something
Speaker 5: related to iHeart Louisville because they rely on it for
Speaker 5: just about everything.
Speaker 2: Right, You'll see me around somewhere. Yeah, and like I'm
Speaker 2: like a spider, I'm never more than like ten feet
Speaker 2: away from you.
Speaker 5: Well, even earlier today, I was walking out of this
Speaker 5: studio and you were in the other studio doing again
Speaker 5: one of the many things you do here, and you said, hey,
Speaker 5: what's up, And I'm like, who's that? And then I
Speaker 5: said before as soon as I turned around, I'm like,
Speaker 5: of course it's Austin. He's always here doing something. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's always working. So it's been a fun ride. I
Speaker 5: do want to thank everybody who's who's been a part
Speaker 5: of the show in a producer role, and there have
Speaker 5: been many over the years that have been a part
Speaker 5: of it to some extent, but those that really were
Speaker 5: around a long time. Again, this stuff doesn't doesn't work
Speaker 5: without them understanding sort of what I want the show
Speaker 5: to be and any scenario where I would have Again,
Speaker 5: I get why that it's always kind of been that way,
Speaker 5: but it's really not anymore. And that's the whey when
Speaker 5: I was hired. The guy who hired me forever grateful
Speaker 5: for him. But he comes from a little bit of
Speaker 5: a different era in radio, and he's a legend. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's a big factor in why the talk stations here
Speaker 5: at Ihart Louis Will have been so successful over many decades.
Speaker 5: It's Kelly Carl's again. He gave me the opportunity, and really,
Speaker 5: you know, that opportunity is why I'm still here today.
Speaker 5: I mean I was able to leave my full time
Speaker 5: job and career and you know, take a chance and
Speaker 5: see if I could do this, and so far I'm
Speaker 5: still doing it and it's been a great ride. But
Speaker 5: his style of just putting shows together, programming talk radio,
Speaker 5: I mean, it's different than than it is now. So
Speaker 5: there was always a all right, well, utilize your producer.
Speaker 5: They're certainly going to be a part of the show,
Speaker 5: but you know it's you. It's you, And I'm thinking
Speaker 5: I get that, but I don't think there's many people
Speaker 5: that can be legitimately entertaining enough interesting enough to keep
Speaker 5: someone's ear if they're just Rush Limbaugh on an island
Speaker 5: with no other voice at any point throughout any part
Speaker 5: of the show. So Matt Allen was somebody that was
Speaker 5: with me for a while, and obviously he and I
Speaker 5: have a similar sense of humor, and we had some
Speaker 5: fun with that a lot of years with him. And
Speaker 5: then John Alden was in the seat for a little while,
Speaker 5: and man, that was something that really it wasn't rocky
Speaker 5: at any point it was. I mean, I always love
Speaker 5: working with John. John's a great, great guy, but he
Speaker 5: and I didn't really know each other that well whenever
Speaker 5: he became my producer, and then certainly over time we
Speaker 5: get to know each other a little bit more and
Speaker 5: it becomes a little bit more natural. And then he
Speaker 5: was taken from me to go to has which he'll
Speaker 5: now be my producer in the mornings. And then Austin
Speaker 5: was somebody that I already knew, was friends with, had
Speaker 5: a relationship with. I never had any worry at any
Speaker 5: point about it working, and certainly it has worked. It's
Speaker 5: been a lot of fun. I think everybody who has
Speaker 5: been a producer for this show has brought their own flavor,
Speaker 5: if you will, and yet I've still been able to
Speaker 5: make the show what I want to make it. But
Speaker 5: you and I, man, we've got a similar sense of
Speaker 5: humor in a way that I don't have with a
Speaker 5: lot of people. And I don't know what that says
Speaker 5: about you, man. I hope you hope you take that
Speaker 5: as a compliment, because I mean it as a compliment.
Speaker 5: So this show has just been going in different directions
Speaker 5: organically through our own way of doing it, and it's
Speaker 5: been a lot of fun. And you know, I can
Speaker 5: tell that clearly what we've been doing has been working
Speaker 5: because throughout the change there was no dropping listeners. In fact,
Speaker 5: we gained some more. And you know what I really
Speaker 5: really am gonna remember is that the season where Louisville
Speaker 5: basketball came back to life, we certainly didn't feel like
Speaker 5: we were working, you know what I mean, We were
Speaker 5: in the moment enjoying it. It was it was fun,
Speaker 5: you know, going to games together. So I'm acting like
Speaker 5: I'm saying good bye to you I'm still go to see
Speaker 5: you every day. In fact, i'll probably see you more
Speaker 5: just because I'm gonna be here during the day more.
Speaker 2: But in our promotions, closet is literally right next to
Speaker 2: that door, so you'll always see me popping in.
Speaker 5: And there we go, there we go. So again, big
Speaker 5: thanks to Austin and also everybody else who's been a
Speaker 5: part of the show in any way. And tomorrow, here
Speaker 5: is my plan. Tomorrow. I have got a total of
Speaker 5: six guests that are gonna come on that have been
Speaker 5: a part of this show somewhat consistently for nine years,
Speaker 5: and there aren't many that have been around where they've
Speaker 5: been a regular. There have been some that have been
Speaker 5: regulars for a long time and then they move out
Speaker 5: of the market. There have been some that are that
Speaker 5: are regulars, but it's more so whenever we're like in season.
Speaker 5: But if you listen to this show just a little
Speaker 5: bit over the nine years I've been on the air,
Speaker 5: rather it be mornings, middays or afternoons, then you'll you'll
Speaker 5: probably you'll probably remember these people. And I hope that
Speaker 5: you enjoy our enjoyed our conversations again because they are
Speaker 5: so consistent and yet you know, if you're a consistent listener,
Speaker 5: then they weren't. You know, clearly it was good enough
Speaker 5: to where you stuck around. So we'll have some fun
Speaker 5: and tomorrow. I mean, I'm I mean when I say,
Speaker 5: I have no clue really where like how it's gonna go.
Speaker 5: And I know what I'm doing at least what I'm
Speaker 5: gonna try to do, but it could go in a
Speaker 5: lot of different directions, and I'm gonna try my best.
Speaker 5: I mean, I can, I mean, Austin can attest to this.
Speaker 5: I just talked to him before the break. Please don't
Speaker 5: mention what I said potentially could happen, because I don't
Speaker 5: know if it's gonna happen. But like, I don't want
Speaker 5: to be emotional. I don't want to cry. I don't wanna.
Speaker 5: I don't want to not to say. I don't want
Speaker 5: to be that guy like it's some awful thing. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't know if many people have thought, yeah, I
Speaker 5: can't wait to get in there and just ball like
Speaker 5: a baby because I'm emotional. I mean, if you do,
Speaker 5: you do, you can't really control it or fight it.
Speaker 5: So I don't. I don't mean others get I now
Speaker 5: get why that's happened for people over the years. I mean,
Speaker 5: I remember Locl McClain doing his last show on Sports
Speaker 5: Talk eight forty. I remember the I mean, I remember
Speaker 5: Adam Neff leaving the Afternoon Underdogs with Tony Venetti and
Speaker 5: he couldn't speak. He was crying and he was so emotional.
Speaker 5: And now I get it, and I'm I'm an emotional
Speaker 5: person to an extent. I'm not like super sappy, but
Speaker 5: I'm I'm I'm very much content with my emotions, if
Speaker 5: that makes sense. Like you know, I'm not somebody who
Speaker 5: tries to fight off any emotion that comes my way.
Speaker 5: But I also am not super sappy emotional all the
Speaker 5: time like I'm you know, like I'm a crowdbaby or anything.
Speaker 5: But here's what I'm worried about. If there's ever a
Speaker 5: slight moment where I'm getting close to it, I think
Speaker 5: I'm gonna explode because i haven't had that moment yet,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, and it being the final
Speaker 5: day and you know, yeah, so if I do, I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna let people know this ahead of time. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go to break and I'm gonna gather myself because
Speaker 5: I just I'll have to do that because if not,
Speaker 5: I won't be able, Like I'm gonna need some time
Speaker 5: with a you know, give me a thirty second time out.
Speaker 5: Well probably not even I'm gonna tell Carl to not
Speaker 5: even have like a full splot not don't even if
Speaker 5: it happens, Carl, don't run a full spot block just
Speaker 5: hit me with a couple of PSA or is there
Speaker 5: just a couple of quick spots or hell carce car Yeah, Carl,
Speaker 5: you take the show, brother, I mean, you have, you have,
Speaker 5: you know, it's your time to shine. If I can't
Speaker 5: speak because I'm emotional and I don't, I don't know
Speaker 5: if it's gonna happen. But you know, I think most
Speaker 5: people would be a little self conscious about that, just
Speaker 5: because you don't. Like one of the best things about
Speaker 5: this is that people don't think it's work, and we
Speaker 5: don't think it's work. We work hard at it, we
Speaker 5: love it. It is something we're able to, you know,
Speaker 5: make a living doing right. But like I think, you know,
Speaker 5: taking yourself too serious is never a good look in
Speaker 5: what we do, especially on the sports talk. So I
Speaker 5: just my opinion, and maybe that's just my preference. Obviously
Speaker 5: you don't want to completely mail it in and take
Speaker 5: nothing serious. But I think being being able to be
Speaker 5: a punching bag yourself, being self deprecating to an oh
Speaker 5: that's my whole personality, it could go a long way. So,
Speaker 5: you know, I think, I guess my worry is that
Speaker 5: if I do get emotional, it'll be it'll be viewed
Speaker 5: as if what is this guy doing? He's just the
Speaker 5: sports talk host. Dude, your your life's not coming to
Speaker 5: an end, you know, So if that's the way you
Speaker 5: may take it, I get it.
Speaker 2: Whatever, but yeah, the same anxiety as me. I swear, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is the type of conversation I would have definitely like,
Speaker 2: oh right, well, I mean if someone's going to say something,
Speaker 2: it's going to because of this and I it's I
Speaker 2: it's admirable things.
Speaker 5: Well, well I'll say this. I I have learned that
Speaker 5: without even really any attempt, I guess, just doing it
Speaker 5: long enough, and it just you know, like, there's not
Speaker 5: much different about what you hear at all on this
Speaker 5: show than what you hear when I'm not on the air,
Speaker 5: and that everybody wants to do that, but that's not always.
Speaker 5: You got to kind of find your own style of
Speaker 5: your own voice and really kind of find your footing
Speaker 5: as far as what you who you want to be
Speaker 5: on the air. And I've never been more comfortable with
Speaker 5: with with there being some real consistency with both sides
Speaker 5: of it. And again I think that's harder for some.
Speaker 5: But I now like what I just said that you
Speaker 5: mentioned You're the same way, and trust me, this is
Speaker 5: not a gas myself up kind of thing, But I don't.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of people wouldn't even like I mean,
Speaker 5: I have no problem telling people I have my own issues.
Speaker 5: I can get in my own head. I've had mental
Speaker 5: health issues to it to an extent, and I mean,
Speaker 5: like you know, regardless of what is going on in life,
Speaker 5: everybody's human and they have emotions. And I'm now comfortable
Speaker 5: in just saying whatever I really feel. For the most part,
Speaker 5: I don't want to give myself in trouble, but just
Speaker 5: being myself to a fault and if it turns you off,
Speaker 5: turns you off. And honestly, even if I was to
Speaker 5: share something about me, or you know, a side of
Speaker 5: me maybe that you didn't like as much, my hope
Speaker 5: is that even if that's the case, you would maybe
Speaker 5: find me a little bit more relatable because I'm human.
Speaker 5: I'm flawed like anybody else, right, And I don't mind
Speaker 5: admitting my own flaws and just being me here on
Speaker 5: the air and having the platform to do it and
Speaker 5: knowing that I can do it and people actually give it,
Speaker 5: damn and they listen like that's cool as hell. So anyways,
Speaker 5: quick time out, we'll come back wrap up at three
Speaker 5: o'clock hour. We'll let you know we've gotten now kickoff
Speaker 5: times for four of Louisville's twelve games. Football season will
Speaker 5: be here before you know it, and should be another
Speaker 5: really fun season for Coach brom and the boys. So
Speaker 5: and I didn't forget we're going to do the rest
Speaker 5: of the all time football player rankings. We've got to
Speaker 5: do wide receivers, and we've got to do defensive players.
Speaker 5: And I think that this one that's about it should
Speaker 5: be a lot of fun. Stick with us right here
Speaker 5: on Sports Talk seven.
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Speaker 5: All Right, So the Louisville football season will be here
Speaker 5: before you know it. I say that just to speaking
Speaker 5: into existence because a lot of times the summer goes
Speaker 5: by really, really, really slow because I'm just feeding for
Speaker 5: some football to watch, and we've had football over for
Speaker 5: quite some time now. Basketball season, as far as college hoops,
Speaker 5: has come to an end. We've got the NBA Finals
Speaker 5: coming up, and once that's over, then I'm really going
Speaker 5: to be just a just a fiend looking for a
Speaker 5: you know, a crack rock. In the crack rock is
Speaker 5: a college football parlay I can put together and probably
Speaker 5: lose but still enjoy the ride. That's what I'm feeding for.
Speaker 5: So it really isn't going to be here that soon.
Speaker 5: We've We've still got many months to go, but we
Speaker 5: now know at least the kickoff times for four of
Speaker 5: these games, which I think should you know that's at
Speaker 5: least part of the process is getting there, right Or
Speaker 5: maybe I'm just again saying that because it's what I
Speaker 5: want to believe. But when Louisville kicks off the season
Speaker 5: opener on Saturday against Saturday August the thirtieth against EKU,
Speaker 5: it's going to be on the ACC Network at three pm,
Speaker 5: and you will play the following week but on a
Speaker 5: Friday against James Madison at seven o'clock and then also
Speaker 5: Friday again, I don't know what's new here, and I'm
Speaker 5: not you know, I saw this earlier, and I got
Speaker 5: to be honest with you, I didn't realize the James
Speaker 5: Madison game is such a whatever game to me because
Speaker 5: I just you know, I watch and I'll probably go
Speaker 5: and I'll have fun and it'll be great and I
Speaker 5: hope to see brom light up the scoreboard. But you know,
Speaker 5: if FULLIVI wins by forty, I'm just gonna say, hey,
Speaker 5: team look good. But that's kind of what I would
Speaker 5: expect you to do against a team like that. So
Speaker 5: it's not like I'm not excited about the game. It's
Speaker 5: just I treat those kind of games as just really,
Speaker 5: I mean, hopefully entertainment, because if you do win, you
Speaker 5: win big. It's tough to know if it really meant anything.
Speaker 5: That's what you would hope you would do against those
Speaker 5: kind of teams. And if you end up winning and
Speaker 5: maybe you don't cover but it's close, you also shouldn't
Speaker 5: panic as if that's a reason to be alarmed, because
Speaker 5: human nature is a powerful thing. The human element in
Speaker 5: sports is really really an under talked about thing. Because
Speaker 5: Louisville could get up four touchdowns against James Madison if
Speaker 5: they're lucky enough, and like, you know, are you gonna be?
Speaker 5: Like you can tell yourself every play, keep playing hardkey,
Speaker 5: playing hard, key, playing hard, but like you know, maybe
Speaker 5: you take your foot off the guest a little bit.
Speaker 5: So what I'm getting at is I didn't realize that
Speaker 5: the three. I mean, it's obvious if you play out
Speaker 5: a Friday night, you're gonna play on a Friday night. You're
Speaker 5: not playing at Friday at noon or Friday at four
Speaker 5: pm or Friday at six am. So Friday's the first
Speaker 5: Friday game of the season will be against JMU on
Speaker 5: September fifth, and that's gonna be at seven pm on
Speaker 5: ESPN two. And then you also have October seventeenth, another
Speaker 5: Friday game where you will play Miami and that'll be
Speaker 5: at seven pm on ESPN or ESPN two. And then
Speaker 5: your home game, this is gonna be a party Clemson
Speaker 5: November fourteenth, on Friday night. That also happens to be
Speaker 5: the same week you play Kentucky and basketball, so that'll
Speaker 5: be a big time gaming. Look Clemson's supposed to be
Speaker 5: if Louisville is the team we hope, and I think
Speaker 5: most of us expect them to be a team that
Speaker 5: could compete for the ACC Championship. There's a scenario where
Speaker 5: that Friday, November fourteenth, if Clemson does their part as
Speaker 5: well and they're as good as everybody expects, that could
Speaker 5: be one of the biggest home games we've ever had
Speaker 5: here at ellen And Stadium. I mean, that's just it
Speaker 5: could not only be. I mean, the hope would be
Speaker 5: that both teams are really good. I mean, I don't
Speaker 5: know how realistic it is to both be undefeated at
Speaker 5: that point. Louisville does have to go to Miami and
Speaker 5: play on October seventeenth. Then they're gonna be tough to
Speaker 5: beat because they're always talented and just I understand the
Speaker 5: criticism of Mario Cristobal, but I actually think he's a
Speaker 5: better coach than a lot of people think. But anyways,
Speaker 5: that'll be huge because that could be if if Clemson's
Speaker 5: in a good spot and Louill's in a good spot meeting,
Speaker 5: they're clearly looking like the two best teams in the conference.
Speaker 5: Which again I'm sure teams like SMU and Miami are
Speaker 5: going to have something to say about that. But that
Speaker 5: could be monumental and the best case scenario is that
Speaker 5: you go in at that point looking as if and
Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to be the case because
Speaker 5: it's just hard to imagine. It's hard to imagine, but
Speaker 5: I would hope that it'll be. It'll be another scenario,
Speaker 5: not where you get the entertainment value that you got
Speaker 5: with Lamar Jackson versus Shan Watson in twenty sixteen. But
Speaker 5: if you remember the reaction of that game after the fact,
Speaker 5: outside of the emotional damage that Louisville fans went through
Speaker 5: with just knowing that you were right there, how'd you
Speaker 5: lose the James Quick situation? Right? We all know that
Speaker 5: we remember it. It's a nightmare. But after that game,
Speaker 5: the reaction from just about everybody, take away Louisville fans
Speaker 5: and Clemson bands, I think the consensus reaction everywhere was,
Speaker 5: all right, those are the two of the best teams
Speaker 5: in the country. They should absolutely be playing in the
Speaker 5: College Football Playoff or they should both still be a
Speaker 5: live of the College Football Playoff, and obviously didn't play
Speaker 5: out that way. But what I'm getting at is, if
Speaker 5: it looks that way this time around, now that the
Speaker 5: playoff is at twelve teams, it could be, it could
Speaker 5: be much more realistic. But I don't know why I'm
Speaker 5: gonna Why do I lie to myself? I mean, why
Speaker 5: do I lie to myself? Because Louisville. I mean, look,
Speaker 5: let's look at their schedule as far as that, I mean,
Speaker 5: we know the opponents, but let's look at the order
Speaker 5: of the schedule. So when they get to Clemson, I
Speaker 5: mean Clemson, so you play right before SMU in Kentucky.
Speaker 5: So I would say s CMU in Dallas is gonna
Speaker 5: be your second or third toughest game. I mean, you
Speaker 5: should start the season. I'm just being gonna be real
Speaker 5: with it. You should start the season without any issue
Speaker 5: at five. And oh, I know Pittsburgh has been good
Speaker 5: at times and they beat you a couple of years
Speaker 5: ago and it was a head scratcher. But louisll should
Speaker 5: beat Pittsburgh. They should beat Virginia and of course they
Speaker 5: start the season with EKU JMU and Bowling Green. So
Speaker 5: then you've got Miami. If you can get past my Miami.
Speaker 5: I like your chances against Boston College, Virginia Tech. You
Speaker 5: got to go to Blacksburg. That'll be a tough environment.
Speaker 5: But they've they're not. I mean they've not. Mean last
Speaker 5: time Lovell played them, they beat the hell out of them.
Speaker 5: And then you look at cal, who you know probably
Speaker 5: won't be very good. I don't think they come to
Speaker 5: lenn So I'm not saying you will be, but you
Speaker 5: could be undefeated in week nine against Clemson, going to
Speaker 5: be ten and zero, and I feel like even if
Speaker 5: you did have wins against Miami and maybe Virginia Tech's decent,
Speaker 5: the conversation once again will be about, well, you know, Louisville,
Speaker 5: I don't play nobody in the ACC. I mean, it'll
Speaker 5: probably be the same kind of conversation people were having.
Speaker 5: Actually to be worse, because if you remember when you
Speaker 5: were undefeated until late in the season in Brom's first year,
Speaker 5: you already had a top ten win against Notre Dame
Speaker 5: at home, and people were already doubting you. You won't really
Speaker 5: you probably won't have that this time around. And again
Speaker 5: I'm not saying they're going to be undefeated when they
Speaker 5: get to Clemson, but it's certainly possible, it's certainly realistic.
Speaker 5: And I just I now know why Brohm was very
Speaker 5: much trying to get a different game on the schedule,
Speaker 5: meaning Indiana canceling and you having to scramble to make
Speaker 5: up those games. Last year, I don't remember who it
Speaker 5: was you played instead, who was it it was? It
Speaker 5: was I think it was Jacksonville State who ended up
Speaker 5: on your on your schedule at the last minute because
Speaker 5: of the UH, because of the cancelation from Indiana. So
Speaker 5: now it's this year, this upcoming season, it is UH,
Speaker 5: it's JMU, and actually JMUS is a it's actually a
Speaker 5: return game from when they played a couple years ago.
Speaker 5: What I'm getting at is, I think you have to
Speaker 5: just understand that with the just like basketball, the ACC,
Speaker 5: they decided to get away from two conference games because
Speaker 5: they want their league members to go play other teams
Speaker 5: that aren't in the ACC, because they're having the self
Speaker 5: awareness of understanding that those other teams and other leagues
Speaker 5: willbably give you a better chance of having a better
Speaker 5: resume on selection Sunday, because the AEC has just taken
Speaker 5: that many steps back. In basketball, I mean, you can't
Speaker 5: control it if you're Louisville or you're anybody. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just what it is. In football, I don't think
Speaker 5: you need to make any changes to the amount of
Speaker 5: games you play. But if for some reason this year
Speaker 5: you have it play out where you're left out and
Speaker 5: it's just because nobody's giving you the benefit of the
Speaker 5: doubt based off of previous years what you've done in
Speaker 5: the non conference, then there should be a meeting with
Speaker 5: Jim Phillips to tell all the members, Look, you are
Speaker 5: now required to go play a really good team in
Speaker 5: the non conference from a power league. Again, maybe not
Speaker 5: even requirement as far as how good they are, because
Speaker 5: you can't control that year by year. But I mean,
Speaker 5: if the ACC continues to just not get any respect
Speaker 5: for winning in the league, and I'm not even saying
Speaker 5: they totally deserve it, I think the ACC has actually
Speaker 5: at times been picked on a little more in football
Speaker 5: than they should be. But I'm not going to act
Speaker 5: like that that the league's great and it's not been.
Speaker 5: It's not been close to the Big twit the Big Ten,
Speaker 5: or the SEC for that matter. I mean, to be honest,
Speaker 5: it would be nice if Kentucky didn't think. I wouldn't
Speaker 5: trade it for the world. I love knowing that they're
Speaker 5: gonna be awful next year probably and they were terrible
Speaker 5: last year. I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't change it.
Speaker 5: But you know if you did beat them and they
Speaker 5: were good, it would help you. So anyways, football season
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