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Speaker 2: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 2: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get this thing started. Are you ready?
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Speaker 4: here on a wet Tuesday. I mean, we've had a
Speaker 4: variety of different substances falling from the sky. It was
Speaker 4: snow earlier this morning, and then I feel like it
Speaker 4: turned into kind of just to maybe they'll call it
Speaker 4: freezing rain, but to me, it just kind of seemed
Speaker 4: like rain. And then on my way in about fifteen
Speaker 4: minutes ago, when I was pulling in the garage here,
Speaker 4: it was it was do with something that made a
Speaker 4: noise when it hit my car. I don't know, I
Speaker 4: don't think that's considered hail. I don't maybe it's sleep.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what it is, but it's wet and
Speaker 4: it's gross outside. But the good news is that it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not freezing quite literally, it's above freezing thirty five
Speaker 4: degrees and that's good. Again, it's gross outside, but it
Speaker 4: doesn't look like we have any real fear. At least
Speaker 4: we shouldn't have any fear, I should say, as far
Speaker 4: as it getting real real dicey. I mean, you always
Speaker 4: need to be careful, even if it's warm and it's
Speaker 4: raining and the roads are wet and you've got elevated
Speaker 4: water to where you might have to worry about hydro planing, like,
Speaker 4: you need to be careful.
Speaker 2: But what we had earlier this.
Speaker 4: Year, the beginning of the year January, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't think I don't think this is anything like that.
Speaker 4: In fact, it looks like if we get above I
Speaker 4: mean even if it's getting cold at night, it doesn't
Speaker 4: look like it's gonna get below freezing.
Speaker 2: So that's good news. Again, everybody should still be careful.
Speaker 4: But I cannot imagine that we'll have kids out of
Speaker 4: school again tomorrow. I mean maybe we will, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean you never really know. Maybe they just still
Speaker 4: with the ability to just say, hey, we're gonna do
Speaker 4: school but we're gonna do it at home. Maybe that
Speaker 4: leads them to not want to risk it. I don't know,
Speaker 4: but today was one of those days where you know,
Speaker 4: we had to we had to call an audible this morning.
Speaker 4: We found out last night, I guess yesterday we found
Speaker 4: out that my daughter was going to be out of school,
Speaker 4: and then my kid's daycare, Moose's daycare, decided they were
Speaker 4: gonna close, I mean, and it was just really for nothing.
Speaker 4: I mean again, I don't get it out of the way.
Speaker 4: It's gonna it's gonna stew and I need to get
Speaker 4: it out of the way because I don't want to know.
Speaker 4: I want to have a good show. I want to
Speaker 4: have fun. I want good energy here today. But childcare centers,
Speaker 4: daycares that don't realize they become more.
Speaker 2: Needed they we we.
Speaker 4: Really need them, more than we ever need them when
Speaker 4: when kids aren't in school. And I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 4: I've said this before many times over the years. I
Speaker 4: love where my kid goes to daycare. He loves it there.
Speaker 4: He's got some of his best friends ever. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's literally grown up since he was, you know, a
Speaker 4: few months old. With a few few of his buddies
Speaker 4: that are still his best friends today, and it's awesome.
Speaker 2: He likes it. They take good care of my kid.
Speaker 2: But I'll never when you don't. We bring them to you. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's no buses.
Speaker 4: We have to worry about putting my kid on a
Speaker 4: bus and the roads being bad and somebody getting in
Speaker 4: a wreck.
Speaker 2: We bring them to you.
Speaker 4: And whenever we've got other kids that are out of
Speaker 4: school and we you know, you're needed more than ever.
Speaker 4: And the decision to follow the school system's closure makes
Speaker 4: no sense because again, you know why schools close whenever
Speaker 4: the roads are bad and it's gonna snow, because they
Speaker 4: they bring children to these places.
Speaker 2: In a bus. You don't do that.
Speaker 4: We do that, and we still have to go to work.
Speaker 4: So anyways, I just had to get that out of
Speaker 4: the way. If I didn't, it would it would it
Speaker 4: would linger. And I just I want to I want
Speaker 4: to get it out.
Speaker 2: Of the way, all right.
Speaker 4: So we got a lot to get into today. I
Speaker 4: mean a loaded night of college basketball. I mean, I
Speaker 4: think this is the time where college basketball gets the
Speaker 4: most attention, meaning I mean it gets the most attention
Speaker 4: in March madness. I guess what I meant to say
Speaker 4: was when it comes to the regular season. From here
Speaker 4: until really Selection Sunday on, this is where you start
Speaker 4: to see college basketball kind of move to the forefront
Speaker 4: a little bit. Because you're getting closer to March. Football
Speaker 4: season is officially over. The NBA, I mean, it's still
Speaker 4: going on, but man, the regular season product of the
Speaker 4: NBA is just trash. The people who I know that
Speaker 4: really like the NBA, that'll talk NBA with your NonStop,
Speaker 4: that'll just you know, they'll tell you about all the trades.
Speaker 4: They want to talk about what this team's doing this.
Speaker 4: They don't watch the games. They just they keep up
Speaker 4: with it because you know, it's active, there's drama, and
Speaker 4: I guess that's good for the NBA. But I think
Speaker 4: college basketball can benefit from it because you will see
Speaker 4: some good games. I think, I mean, I think you
Speaker 4: see good games all year. But the schedule set up
Speaker 4: nicely because just two days from Super Bowl, so I
Speaker 4: guess removed from Super Bowl Sunday, we have an insane
Speaker 4: slate of games. Tonight, you got Tennessee at Kentucky. That's
Speaker 4: number five verse number fifteen. We'll certainly talk about that
Speaker 4: match up.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 4: You've got Purdue at Michigan. That's number seven versus number twenty.
Speaker 4: You've got Florida on the road at Mississippi State that's
Speaker 4: number three versus number twenty two. So right there, you
Speaker 4: got three top twenty five matchups, three matchups that feature
Speaker 4: ranked teams, and then Auburn at Vandy. That's not big time,
Speaker 4: but hey, Auburn's the number one team in the country,
Speaker 4: and Vandy has shown they can knock off some big
Speaker 4: dogs whenever they are at home. They did it to Tennessee,
Speaker 4: they did it to Kentucky, and then Arizona.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a West Coast game.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how much people will care about this,
Speaker 4: but Arizona, who's done a really good job at getting
Speaker 4: it roll and once they got to Big twelve play,
Speaker 4: I was gonna say Pac twelve, I keep forgetting they're
Speaker 4: in the Big twelve. But Arizona, they've been easily one
Speaker 4: of the best teams in the Big twelve. And they're
Speaker 4: at Kansas State and Kansastate team that really struggled and
Speaker 4: has not had a good year, but they've at times,
Speaker 4: at least in the last few weeks, kind of shown
Speaker 4: they can still be dangerous. And then Indiana is at
Speaker 4: Michigan State. I mean, that's a big matchup with two
Speaker 4: big brands. But with Indiana, I mean, if you're an
Speaker 4: IU fan, are you just waiting for it to end?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know Woodson's moving on. I think fans
Speaker 4: are happy about that, right. I think they are excited
Speaker 4: to get a you know, a new start with a
Speaker 4: new leader that's not Mike Woodson. So if he wins,
Speaker 4: do you worry about maybe him deciding not to retire?
Speaker 4: Like it'd be a really crappy situation to be in
Speaker 4: as an Indiana fan, because you're always gonna want your
Speaker 4: team to win. But any real sign of success, like
Speaker 4: if they got hot and really went on a roll
Speaker 4: and somehow found themselves in the NAA Tournament, I mean,
Speaker 4: wouldn't wouldn't that lead to likely Woodson not wanting to
Speaker 4: step down? And you want him to step down. You
Speaker 4: want him to walk away because if you if you
Speaker 4: can't convince him to walk peacefully, then you're gonna have
Speaker 4: to fire him and pay him a lot of money.
Speaker 4: Some other big games tonight Yukon at Creighton, Alabama at Texas,
Speaker 4: and then George's at Texas A and M, which I
Speaker 4: only mentioned that because Texas A and M happens to
Speaker 4: be a top ten team right now. So a loaded
Speaker 4: college basketball night.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: I said it a week ago, maybe even two weeks ago,
Speaker 4: So I've got a.
Speaker 2: Head start on you, guys.
Speaker 4: If you're not already locked in and taking advantage of
Speaker 4: what we have here a good college basketball season, you
Speaker 4: might as well. I mean, you need to buckle up,
Speaker 4: get ready because this season will be over before you
Speaker 4: know it. And I love college basketball maybe more than
Speaker 4: I love anything outside of you know, my family and
Speaker 4: other non sports things. So if you wanted to just
Speaker 4: dive in and consume college hoops at a high rate
Speaker 4: tonight regardless of rooting interest, tonight's a good night to
Speaker 4: get it started. We're gonna talk some college basketball coming
Speaker 4: up around four thirty with Kevin Sweeney, who covers college
Speaker 4: basketball for Sports Illustrated, so I'm looking forward to catching
Speaker 4: up with him. And there's all kinds of other stuff
Speaker 4: we need to get into today before we run out
Speaker 4: of times. So if you got want to take us
Speaker 4: with you wherever you go, just know that you can.
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Speaker 4: up the phone lines after we get to our first
Speaker 4: break here coming up in just a few minutes. Five two,
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Speaker 2: So shout out to them. All right. I got to
Speaker 2: get this out of the way.
Speaker 4: This is one of those things that I probably probably
Speaker 4: shouldn't mention, but I but I can't help it. This
Speaker 4: is a release for me to just get it out there,
Speaker 4: put it out.
Speaker 2: Into the world and and not hold it in.
Speaker 4: I mean, I can't make up for what happened on
Speaker 4: the way here, but I gotta at least talk about it,
Speaker 4: because I need somebody to tell me what you would
Speaker 4: have done if you were me.
Speaker 2: So I get off at the at the Broadway, No,
Speaker 2: not Broadway again.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna pull up the map here because I actually
Speaker 4: had it in front of me earlier, because I knew
Speaker 4: I was going to discuss this, and I know how
Speaker 4: to get where I need to get to downtown Louisville,
Speaker 4: just about anywhere. But I'm not very good at the
Speaker 4: you know, the the exits. So I get off at
Speaker 4: I guess it's I can't think of what the up
Speaker 4: on West Broadway. I take West Broadway down to fifth Street.
Speaker 4: That's that's that, and then I just ride Fifth. I
Speaker 4: ride Fifth Street all the way down because the Fourth
Speaker 4: Street Live Garage, which is where we are Fourth Street Live,
Speaker 4: the garage entrance is actually on Fifth Street. So I
Speaker 4: am I am on, I'm right about the Brown Hotel
Speaker 4: on Broadway about to turn right on Fifth. And you know,
Speaker 4: I hate driving downtown for a variety of reasons. The
Speaker 4: nobody really like lanes don't matter. You know, people just
Speaker 4: kind of hover wherever. I mean, people will just get
Speaker 4: out of their car and abandon it in the middle
Speaker 4: of the road if they got to run in somewhere
Speaker 4: like it downtown Louisville. At times, I feel like it's
Speaker 4: just like do whatever you want and see if anybody notices.
Speaker 4: So I'm often changing lanes trying to get to where
Speaker 4: I need to get to because my issue with downtown
Speaker 4: is even when there's very little to no traffic, you
Speaker 4: really can't get anywhere quickly because the lights suck. And
Speaker 4: I get why they do it, but I think if
Speaker 4: they reset and did I'm kind of an audit on
Speaker 4: the amount of people walking around downtown, they would understand
Speaker 4: they don't need to have it set up the way
Speaker 4: they've always had it set up, which means the lights
Speaker 4: are more set up for people walking than people driving.
Speaker 4: Way more vehicles on the road in downtown Louisville than
Speaker 4: people walking. I mean, I think that's been the case
Speaker 4: for a long time. But you see the light that
Speaker 4: it is green, and you're waiting for it to go red.
Speaker 4: So you get a green light like a four way stop,
Speaker 4: well it'll go red and you wait like five seconds
Speaker 4: before you get the green And it's because they just
Speaker 4: assume people are walking, and more often than not, they're not.
Speaker 4: So anyways, I'm running a little bit behind today. I
Speaker 4: mean I got here in time, but I'm not wanting
Speaker 4: to sit behind people. I mean, you've got so anyways,
Speaker 4: long story short, I end up getting over two lanes,
Speaker 4: had my signal and it wasn't really I mean, I
Speaker 4: wasn't driving poorly, but there's a bus stop area right past.
Speaker 4: I mean it's probably like one hundred yards is ish
Speaker 4: before you turn right on Fifth Street, and it's like
Speaker 4: something out of a movie. I've never seen it happened
Speaker 4: in real life. I've never been a part of it,
Speaker 4: good or bad in real life. But it happened today,
Speaker 4: and I am guilty of doing something that I can't
Speaker 4: stop thinking about. There was somebody inching out towards the street,
Speaker 4: not to walk on the street, but they were just
Speaker 4: getting closer to the curve because I think they wanted
Speaker 4: to see if maybe the bus was coming, the tarkbus.
Speaker 4: And as they're getting closer, I had just shifted over
Speaker 4: to the far right lane to go around somebody to
Speaker 4: turn you to turn right, and obviously a lot of
Speaker 4: water on the roadways right and I hit that puddle
Speaker 4: and I saw the water go up. I saw the
Speaker 4: person to my right move. I tried to look into
Speaker 4: my rear view and I couldn't see what happened. But
Speaker 4: I hope they got out of the way, because I mean,
Speaker 4: if not, it would have been again it was terrible timing.
Speaker 4: Timing is everything in life. This was bad timing. I
Speaker 4: had just gotten to the far right lane. They had
Speaker 4: just walked up. Just it's almost like they know that happens,
Speaker 4: because they probably that's the regular routine is to wait
Speaker 4: for the bus. So if it's wet and the roads
Speaker 4: are like they are today, they know that could that
Speaker 4: could happen. And I never would usually ride in that
Speaker 4: far right lane because honestly, it's really small, Like I
Speaker 4: feel like I'm gonna hit the curb or I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Hit a car.
Speaker 4: Like you got to some of these roads like broadways
Speaker 4: four lanes, I mean, you might as well stay in
Speaker 4: between the middle ones because the ones on the far
Speaker 4: left are far right.
Speaker 2: Like I don't I mean, I don't know how you
Speaker 2: don't hit people.
Speaker 4: So I hope that person didn't get hit, but I
Speaker 4: kind of feel like they did. But I don't know
Speaker 4: what I should have done. I mean, had I parked
Speaker 4: the car, I would have been the a hole that
Speaker 4: I just referred to.
Speaker 2: They just decides to stop their.
Speaker 4: Car and you know, hope somebody says something and what
Speaker 4: I was, What would I've said?
Speaker 2: I didn't have a towel.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, they wouldn't have wanted an apology, right,
Speaker 4: But I'm just thinking about some sad human being sitting
Speaker 4: on the bus. It's thirty four degrees outside and they
Speaker 4: might be soaking wet with dirty road water because of me.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a that's a that's a tough thing
Speaker 2: to carry, right, That's happened to me before. Like if
Speaker 2: I've been that person, oh man and it's got to
Speaker 2: be the worst thing ever, right, Yeah, Oh it's terrible.
Speaker 3: I mean a thing too. It's terrible, But also it
Speaker 3: isn't well. I don't know if it's a mental thing
Speaker 3: for me. I just feel like that person just hated me.
Speaker 3: But they couldn't have known. I think it was in
Speaker 3: New York when it happened. Yeah, I was in New York.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of hustle and bustle going on there,
Speaker 3: and I think it was it had just rained the
Speaker 3: night before, so there's puddles everywhere, and I guess, And
Speaker 3: I happened to be walking on that side of the sidewalk,
Speaker 3: and I had told myself, probably I should get on
Speaker 3: this side of the sidewalk because my fiance was on
Speaker 3: that side. And that's supposed to be the gentleman thing
Speaker 3: to do, right in the one and one hundred case
Speaker 3: that that happens, you have to stay on that inside
Speaker 3: of the sidewalk part. It's inside of the outside of
Speaker 3: the sidewalk, just so I that happens, And it did,
Speaker 3: and it happened to me.
Speaker 4: So so did it get did it go like over
Speaker 4: your head or just like your feet?
Speaker 2: What was it? It was?
Speaker 3: I think it's probably like from the waist down is
Speaker 3: where it got me.
Speaker 4: But that's just terrible luck, terrible timing. So it for
Speaker 4: it to happen to you, and I think when it
Speaker 4: happens to you, you would just assume that you were
Speaker 4: meant to be cursed or something.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's like that sucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And again timing like it couldn't have been worse
Speaker 4: because I accelerated to go around this car and then boom,
Speaker 4: there's there's this, I mean, and then as soon as
Speaker 4: I hit it and I saw them moving, I looked up.
Speaker 4: I looked up in my rear view in the mirror
Speaker 4: that's you know, right above me, and I didn't see anything.
Speaker 4: And then I looked to the to the driver's side
Speaker 4: mirror and I could see.
Speaker 2: That the I mean it was.
Speaker 4: I mean, you would have thought I was just looking
Speaker 4: at a new water ride they had at Hurricane Bay,
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: And so I don't think it just got their legs.
Speaker 4: I think I gave them a full on, like they
Speaker 4: just got drenched from head to toe because of again,
Speaker 4: like I accelerated and hit the puddle like I was
Speaker 4: trying to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it didn't catch the reaction.
Speaker 3: Your thing was just to just keep on going out
Speaker 3: of sight, out of mind.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm thinking from the I mean for the
Speaker 4: next one. I mean I haven't been able to stuff
Speaker 4: think about it since it happened, because like that would
Speaker 4: be terrible and and I think in a way they
Speaker 4: might believe I did it intentionally, but maybe, but I
Speaker 4: don't know the way they they kind of peeked out
Speaker 4: from behind the little the little I don't know what
Speaker 4: it's called, but it's where you can sit and you
Speaker 4: can be covered to an extent when you're waiting for
Speaker 4: the bus. They weren't inside that because it's not raining now,
Speaker 4: but they were kind of like behind it. It's almost
Speaker 4: like people who sit at that spot for the bus
Speaker 4: stop where you can actually, you know, like be covered.
Speaker 2: I can't, I can't think what it's called.
Speaker 4: But it's almost like they were afraid to even stand
Speaker 4: in there or sit in there because even then you
Speaker 4: could still get hit with water, right, And so they
Speaker 4: had they had safe distance. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: this person I think it was a woman too, which
Speaker 4: makes you feel even worse, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: she she's inching out towards the curb and then here
Speaker 4: I come boat. She tried to get out of the way,
Speaker 4: and I don't know. I think I might have wiped
Speaker 4: her out. I mean, I didn't hit her, but you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like I feel terrible. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm somebody that can can know that I had no
Speaker 4: bad intention. Sure, and I can know that the person,
Speaker 4: you know, this person doesn't know who I am. They
Speaker 4: would maybe know that I didn't have any bad intention,
Speaker 4: but like, I don't. I that's a helpless feeling. And
Speaker 4: here I am sounding like the victim.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I feel so bad.
Speaker 4: I'm not the one drenched in dirty road water, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like it just it's a it's
Speaker 4: a helpless feeling, and I don't I don't know what
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what I could have done.
Speaker 4: Right, Like if i'd have got out of the car,
Speaker 4: I mean, what would I have said, Oh, sorry, I
Speaker 4: didn't mean to.
Speaker 2: I guess sorry.
Speaker 4: I guess that would have been a courtesy, But I
Speaker 4: doubt they would have met me with oh it's okay,
Speaker 4: no big deal, have a good day, thanks for stopping.
Speaker 4: Could have been some cuss words. Yeah, Like it's what
Speaker 4: are you doing. Guy never reminds me of one time.
Speaker 4: This was when we were we were I prime, I
Speaker 4: don't know, it's probably twenty one, twenty two, maybe younger.
Speaker 2: I was about to admit to a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: I was about Yeah, I was about to meet to
Speaker 4: a crime because I think I was drinking at a concert.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't of age. Don't ask me how it happened.
Speaker 2: It just happened.
Speaker 4: But we were at This was when Kenny Chesney came
Speaker 4: to At the time, it was Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, right,
Speaker 4: And you might not even have lived here at the
Speaker 4: time because I was I was really young. But Kenny
Speaker 4: Chesney and then the the what's the band's name? That
Speaker 4: the little big town maybe that sounds about right. And
Speaker 4: then there was another I did been Toby Keith, like
Speaker 4: there was a huge concert at Cardinal Stadium, talking like
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight maybe, and I had a full
Speaker 4: you know, we're talking so think of like the crunt
Speaker 4: zone area of the football stadium so like. And by
Speaker 4: the way, they hadn't even they hadn't even expanded the
Speaker 4: stadium yet, that's how long ago this was. Wow, So
Speaker 4: we're you know, we're up towards I mean, we're probably
Speaker 4: as far away as you could actually be, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you, But because of how it was set up,
Speaker 4: it was great. And I was hammered. So I don't
Speaker 4: really remember like if it was a bad experience as
Speaker 4: far as seats. But anyways, my wife and I were
Speaker 4: walking to we weren't even married yet, but we were
Speaker 4: walking to our seats, and she was kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: she was a little woozy because of the steps.
Speaker 2: So I had both of our beers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I happened to quite literally drop an entire beer,
Speaker 4: a little plastic cup of beer, and it just fell
Speaker 4: right on somebody's head below me, and like they turned around,
Speaker 4: and I'm thinking, like what can I say? What? You know,
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking, all right, you're gonna punch me in
Speaker 4: the face, just do it, please, because like I don't
Speaker 4: know what I can say. I can't It was an accident,
Speaker 4: but you don't want to hear it was an accident. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're drenched in beer, so like it. You know, I
Speaker 4: it sucks. But again here I am complaining about it.
Speaker 4: Whenever the people who were the victims of my nonsense,
Speaker 4: they're the ones who you're.
Speaker 2: Going to be drenching anything.
Speaker 3: You'd rather be beer, right than some muddy.
Speaker 4: Snow wise And I remember briefly thinking like, well, maybe
Speaker 4: they'll understand and like we'll party together because it was
Speaker 4: a mistake and maybe they're drunk to where they don't
Speaker 4: even mind wearing beer. And then it wasn't that, and
Speaker 4: it was just an awkward thing where I just wanted
Speaker 4: to go crawl in a hole and die. Yikes, like
Speaker 4: a total lost lost my buzz too, by the way,
Speaker 4: Like I was just like I was. I was miserable
Speaker 4: the rest of the concert, feeling like such an a hole,
Speaker 4: like not knowing what I could do. You killed your
Speaker 4: own buzz, yeah, And you know I even offered to
Speaker 4: I think I offered to buy a beer, like after
Speaker 4: the fact, like to make it up, and like they
Speaker 4: didn't even answer me, like they just wouldn't look at me.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh, man, I would.
Speaker 2: Hate me too.
Speaker 3: Well, you should have some you should have some good
Speaker 3: conscience and knowing that you tried to do everything that
Speaker 3: you can, because I feel like that's the cursy, is
Speaker 3: it not. Yeah, that's got to be the courtesy afterwards,
Speaker 3: Like it's can I buy you a you know, like, what.
Speaker 2: Can you do? Do you want to hit me? Do
Speaker 2: you get one free shot? Yes? I mean it was
Speaker 2: it was rough.
Speaker 4: So if you are somebody, I don't know, maybe they're
Speaker 4: maybe they're listening now on the iHeartRadio app and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was me, you piece of scum. I mean, it
Speaker 4: wasn't intentional. And I feel bad. Kara's gonna get me.
Speaker 4: I know that I will pay for that in some way,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, just know that I'm sure it'll
Speaker 4: come back around.
Speaker 2: Even though it wasn't intentional.
Speaker 4: That was it was my fault and it and it's
Speaker 4: probably ruined your day and I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll roll along here and what we
Speaker 2: got to talk about it.
Speaker 4: On the other side, Pat Kelsey has added a player
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Speaker 4: Kelsey has added himself a freshman for next year's team,
Speaker 4: but it's not gonna be your typical freshman because this guy,
Speaker 4: he'll be twenty two years old when he becomes a
Speaker 4: freshman for the Louisville basketball program next year.
Speaker 2: So six ' eleven twitter and forty five pound forward.
Speaker 4: Frew is what I'm going to refer to him as
Speaker 4: because that's a cool last name, Fru. But his first
Speaker 4: name is Sonanda Snanda Frew, and I hope I'm saying
Speaker 4: that correctly. But he is from Germany. He's twenty one
Speaker 4: and again will be twenty two. I would imagine by
Speaker 4: the time he gets to Louisville, and he has played
Speaker 4: for a club in Germany that I guess is in
Speaker 4: some way professional, but maybe he wasn't compensated because I really,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, used to be able to
Speaker 4: get kids who played for these professional clubs overseas, but
Speaker 4: yet there had to be like like, for example, think
Speaker 4: in his canter meaning he's somebody that because he did
Speaker 4: take money from one of these clubs that he played
Speaker 4: for in Turkey, the NCAA ended up ruling that he
Speaker 4: was not eligible to play for Kentucky. Now a lot
Speaker 4: of things have changed since then, so I don't know
Speaker 4: if he's a guy who's actually played pro or what.
Speaker 2: Not really sure if it matters. I'm sure if I.
Speaker 4: Really worked harder, I could get a better understanding of
Speaker 4: what is and what is not allowed. But I think
Speaker 4: we're at a point right now when it comes to
Speaker 4: the NCUBLEA and what they enforce and what they try to,
Speaker 4: you know, try to police like it's as tough now
Speaker 4: as it's ever been in my opinion as far as
Speaker 4: keeping up with what you are. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: even coaches out there are not really sure if what
Speaker 4: they're doing is allowed or not. I mean, that sounds crazy,
Speaker 4: but it wouldn't shock me because I think in the
Speaker 4: early stages of them trying to police this world of
Speaker 4: the portal and nil. I mean it was a Florida State,
Speaker 4: I believe it was or Tennessee, one of those two,
Speaker 4: maybe it was both of them. They ended up getting
Speaker 4: and they filed a lawsuit and they won. And therefore,
Speaker 4: like now it's like, do whatever, hire a lawyer and
Speaker 4: you'll get away with it. But I remember Florida State
Speaker 4: got caught with some recruiting violations when it comes to
Speaker 4: coaches basically telling their players or the recruits like, hey,
Speaker 4: you need to go talk to the collective because I
Speaker 4: can't talk money with you. That alone was a violation,
Speaker 4: and I think just about every coach across the country said, well, wait,
Speaker 4: isn't that what we're supposed to do. We aren't allowed
Speaker 4: to talk money, so we go tell them to talk
Speaker 4: to somebody else about it.
Speaker 2: So anyways, this guy, he's gonna.
Speaker 4: Have four years of eligibility when he gets to Louisville
Speaker 4: when he's twenty one going on twenty two, and that
Speaker 4: I kind of want to there's something about the age
Speaker 4: that we're seeing college basketball players at now, some of them.
Speaker 2: And I want to, I mean, I want to, I.
Speaker 4: Want to say that for a little bit later, because
Speaker 4: there are certain dudes out here that are really having
Speaker 4: a great season in college basketball and really just you know,
Speaker 4: living their best.
Speaker 2: Life, as the kids say. But yet because they're.
Speaker 4: So old, like they're becoming like they're getting made fun of,
Speaker 4: like yeah, cool, Like you're old, dude, you should have
Speaker 4: been out of college a long time ago. Once you
Speaker 4: refresh that LinkedIn bio, bro, like, come on, you've been
Speaker 4: in the game forever. So anyways, we'll save that conversation
Speaker 4: for later. But this guy six eleven, two forty five.
Speaker 4: According to Jeff Goodman, he first appeared for this pro
Speaker 4: club in Germany in the two thousand and twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one season and twenty twenty two twenty one season, I
Speaker 4: should say, but he didn't play until the following year,
Speaker 4: so that was I guess two years ago, three years
Speaker 4: ago maybe. So. He is currently averaging twelve points, five rebounds,
Speaker 4: and one point three blocks while shooting seventy five percent
Speaker 4: from the field. He has started seventeen games, So it's
Speaker 4: a guy who really had never played basketball until I
Speaker 4: guess he got to be around eighteen years old, and
Speaker 4: now here he is. He's been with this club for
Speaker 4: four years, and he's a late You got a late start, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, this is somebody that started playing the game late,
Speaker 4: and it will start his college career as a freshman
Speaker 4: with four years left to play when he's twenty one
Speaker 4: or twenty two years old. Now, if you watch the highlights,
Speaker 4: and again it's just highlights. And I will admit, even
Speaker 4: though it looks as if he's playing relative competition, I
Speaker 4: have no clue, like if this is like the B
Speaker 4: or C version of whatever league he's playing for in Germany.
Speaker 4: But his highlights look really impressive. We're talking about a
Speaker 4: guy who's long, athletic, can rem run. I mean, looks
Speaker 4: like he's got a good amount of skill to him.
Speaker 2: I'm sure very much a raw prospect.
Speaker 4: But I talked about this yesterday when it comes to
Speaker 4: James Scott, and I'm not even making the comparison when
Speaker 4: it comes to James as a player, just because I'd
Speaker 4: be a fool to even try to act like I
Speaker 4: can compare anybody to Freu because never heard of him
Speaker 4: until about five hours of go when the news broke
Speaker 4: that he's coming to Louisville, but you know, he just
Speaker 4: looks like he's got a high motor.
Speaker 2: And I feel like you're always gonna want talent.
Speaker 4: And if you want to succeed at a place like
Speaker 4: Louisville to where you are competing for final fours and
Speaker 4: really one of the premier programs in the country, you
Speaker 4: need not just guys that are gonna work their tail
Speaker 4: off and fight for you need.
Speaker 2: You need guys that are really talented.
Speaker 4: And who knows, maybe this guy is, but I think
Speaker 4: coaches like Pat Kelcey and honestly even coaches like Mark
Speaker 4: Pohe And I'll give you another example.
Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl.
Speaker 4: Like Bruce Pearl is having a phenomenal season with Auburn.
Speaker 4: He's certainly one of the top candidates for Coach of
Speaker 4: the Year. And yes he has some good players, but
Speaker 4: he's taken guys who were hungry, hard workers, and that's
Speaker 4: the best recipe for guys who coach the way Bruce
Speaker 4: Pearl does. Right, like Jeni Broom's an All American, he
Speaker 4: legitimately has has a right to be the Player of
Speaker 4: the Year nationally over Cooper Flagg. In my opinion, I
Speaker 4: don't think you can go you can go wrong with either.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying like he's sensational. But he's a guy
Speaker 4: who has been in college a long time. He worked
Speaker 4: his tail off, he started his career Moorehead State. So
Speaker 4: I just think guys that are hungry, guys that really
Speaker 4: want to prove they belong and it's tough to find that. Right,
Speaker 4: you can think that a guy's got a good mindset
Speaker 4: about him.
Speaker 2: A guy.
Speaker 4: Let me give an example, and this is gonna sell
Speaker 4: like I'm picking on him, but I'm not like Big Frank,
Speaker 4: the guy who you know, Frank anslom Ivy probably the
Speaker 4: one player who's played the most minutes that gets talked
Speaker 4: about the least. And I mean, you know everybody else
Speaker 4: because of the injuries. I mean, you see guys that
Speaker 4: are consistently getting really the same amount of minutes. If
Speaker 4: you think about it, I'm gonna pull up the stats
Speaker 4: now because you've had anselom Iby get minutes here and there.
Speaker 2: He's played.
Speaker 4: You know, he played more the other night whenever James
Speaker 4: Scott was out. But he's somebody that is, Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: averaging three point nine minutes per game. He's the only
Speaker 4: scholarship player that is not really a legitimate piece to
Speaker 4: the rotation as far as like he's getting. I mean,
Speaker 4: for example, everybody else who plays Chuck, Terrence Hadley, Rayne, James,
Speaker 4: Scott Waterman, I mean, Trey Ouay can I those guys
Speaker 4: are all getting fourteen minutes plus Frank Anceler Iby's played
Speaker 4: eighteen minutes and he's getting three point nine minutes per game.
Speaker 4: So he at times he's out there, he'll get a
Speaker 4: block shot, he'll get a dunk. I mean, he'll he'll
Speaker 4: do exactly. He's the perfect piece for that role. And
Speaker 4: finding a guy that upstairs, and what I mean by
Speaker 4: that is I mean mentally is willing to embrace that.
Speaker 4: That's the best case scenario. So finding a guy like that,
Speaker 4: and this is where I was going to say it
Speaker 4: was sound like I'm picking on him. He's somebody that
Speaker 4: I think is the perfect player for Pat Kelsey will
Speaker 4: do whatever you want. Is all about the team power
Speaker 4: of the unit. Like he seems to really embrace that.
Speaker 4: But he doesn't have a whole lot of talent, right,
Speaker 4: he doesn't have a whole Like if he had to
Speaker 4: play twenty five minutes, he'd give you everything he has,
Speaker 4: but I'm not really sure how much he'd produced for you.
Speaker 4: So if you could find I mean, I think the
Speaker 4: best case scenario for Pat Kelsey is to find guys
Speaker 4: that are willing to embrace the we versus me kind
Speaker 4: of mentality, as he says, power of the unit, but
Speaker 4: also can really just develop and work their tail off
Speaker 4: and become really good. And that's what James Scott has done.
Speaker 4: So I don't want to fake take it an act,
Speaker 4: like I know a whole lot about this guy, but
Speaker 4: he is somebody Sananda Frew that from highlights looks like
Speaker 4: he's got some skill to him, and he's a grown
Speaker 4: ass man. He'll be twenty one or twenty two by
Speaker 4: the time he gets here, and he'll have four years.
Speaker 4: And you know, I trust Pat Kelsey when it comes
Speaker 4: to evaluating players that can fit with what he wants
Speaker 4: to do and that can thrive in his system. All right, So, Austin,
Speaker 4: you're a good person. Asked this about because the guy.
Speaker 4: There are many college basketball fans out there, and I
Speaker 4: don't want to maybe you're not this guy, but I
Speaker 4: know plenty of them that just are. You're not that guy, pal,
Speaker 4: But like, do you think it's less impressive and maybe
Speaker 4: players shouldn't be as arrogant if they're having a really
Speaker 4: good college season and yet they're very old compared to
Speaker 4: the other players, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if.
Speaker 3: Especially like in the last couple of years with all
Speaker 3: the transfer portals in that extra COVID history, and you're
Speaker 3: like twenty seven years old, like Hunter Dickinson, that that
Speaker 3: type of player something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So Hunter Dickinson's somebody that has been good every year
Speaker 4: that he's been in college, and he's been in college
Speaker 4: now for five.
Speaker 2: Years, beca because of the COVID years.
Speaker 4: Like, he's somebody that has he started his career quite
Speaker 4: literally whenever I'm pretty sure whenever we had our first
Speaker 4: season where you know, there was no fans there. So
Speaker 4: he's a guy who he seems like he's been in
Speaker 4: college for twenty years because not only has he been
Speaker 4: in college five years, which is more than what you're
Speaker 4: supposed to the only circumstance that led to that as
Speaker 4: a global pandemic, but he's played a lot since he
Speaker 4: got here, right right, So he to me, I feel
Speaker 4: like he kind of like he can read the room, right,
Speaker 4: like he knows that people are going to make the
Speaker 4: joke about, hey, the old guy, do you want to
Speaker 4: start your life after basketball?
Speaker 2: But then there's other guys.
Speaker 4: Let me give you an example, because Auburn they've got
Speaker 4: a guy on their team whose name is Chad Baker Mazara,
Speaker 4: and he's probably their best player outside of Jenna Broom
Speaker 4: and a lot of I mean, he's really good.
Speaker 2: He's really good for them. But he's twenty five years old.
Speaker 4: And he started his career at Duquane and then he
Speaker 4: went to San Diego State, then he went to junior college.
Speaker 4: Then he played a junior season at Auburn last year,
Speaker 4: and he was already old when he got to college
Speaker 4: because maybe he got held back a year, which isn't
Speaker 4: that uncommon, And now because of junior college, he will
Speaker 4: mean for those who don't know, and this has not
Speaker 4: been something we've brought up recently, but guys like honestly,
Speaker 4: two guys on Lois roster right now have an extra
Speaker 4: year of eligibility because of this rule. Cason Pryor may
Speaker 4: have two years because of the injury where he may
Speaker 4: get a medical red sheir. But if your eligibility is
Speaker 4: set to end this year and you had any year,
Speaker 4: could be multiple years. Any of your college career was
Speaker 4: spent at the junior college level. Because the Van Dy
Speaker 4: quarterback filed a lawsuit in one basically saying that the
Speaker 4: NCAA cannot count years where you played in JC Double
Speaker 4: A because it's not the same entity. Then they can't
Speaker 4: count that towards your eligibility. So while they try to
Speaker 4: work it out, what the NCAA's done is basically given
Speaker 4: a blanket waiver and said, look, if your eligible eligibility
Speaker 4: was going to be coming to.
Speaker 2: An end, then you get one more year. Because of this.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna file every we're not going to handle
Speaker 4: every every situation individually. It's just a blanket thing. If
Speaker 4: you were, if you're if you were in your last
Speaker 4: year of eligibility and one of your years was counted
Speaker 4: from JUCO, you get an extra year. So that's case
Speaker 4: from Pryor and Jabon Hadley. So this guy next year,
Speaker 4: Chad Baker Mazara, who's a really good college player, but
Speaker 4: I don't think he looks like an NBA guy. He
Speaker 4: could he could be a twenty six year old, sixty
Speaker 4: year guy in college and he's really arrogant.
Speaker 2: He's really like he's.
Speaker 4: The guy who he got ejected the other night because
Speaker 4: he like, like, I guess this is like a thing
Speaker 4: you can that they're really emphasizing, which makes sense. But
Speaker 4: I'm so, you know, I don't know what what players
Speaker 4: are doing this day and age to celebrate when they
Speaker 4: make a shot or they dunk on somebody, but like
Speaker 4: you lift up your jersey as if you got a
Speaker 4: gun in your waist, like you're automatically getting teed up
Speaker 4: for doing that, which makes which makes total sense. Well
Speaker 4: he did that, and he was just really you know,
Speaker 4: just kind of I mean, he's somebody that put it
Speaker 4: this way. He's somebody that you probably hate if he's
Speaker 4: not on your team. And I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 4: as much as I've watched Auburn play, I think even
Speaker 4: if he was on my team, i'd kind of hate
Speaker 4: him too. Like I think, if he helps my team,
Speaker 4: then great, But like he's just kind of a clown
Speaker 4: out there as far as just being really animated, really
Speaker 4: arrogant at times, can be a dirty player with certain
Speaker 4: fouls and whatnot. So he's now turned into like the
Speaker 4: punching bag for college basketball sick of fans on Twitter
Speaker 4: where they just like he'll post something or somebody will
Speaker 4: acknowledge that he had a big game or a nice
Speaker 4: stat line, and everybody's just walking right into the joke, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's twenty five years old, Like why don't you, you know,
Speaker 4: why don't you start your life like you've had a
Speaker 4: you know, you've had a good run kind of thing.
Speaker 4: So my question is is it fair to take shots
Speaker 4: at guys who are really really thriving, but it's because
Speaker 4: they're at times. I mean, for example, whenever I can't
Speaker 4: think of a freshman in the SEC that's like a
Speaker 4: big let me give you an example for Auburn or
Speaker 4: not Auburn. For Boogie Fland, I mean, he is a
Speaker 4: freshman at Arkansas. He's hurt, so maybe he's not a
Speaker 4: good example. But Carter Knox or Billy Richmond, two guys
Speaker 4: that played big minutes for cal at Arkansas, that had
Speaker 4: big games against Kentucky a couple of weeks ago. When
Speaker 4: Arkansas plays Auburn and this guy's out here, you know,
Speaker 4: having a good game, meaning Chad Baker Mazara and he's
Speaker 4: given you know, he's talking reckless to Billy Richmond. You're
Speaker 4: talking to an eighteen year old and you're twenty five,
Speaker 4: like it does. Like again, I don't blame any of
Speaker 4: these guys for sticking around in college as long as
Speaker 4: they possibly can, because why would you not. First of all,
Speaker 4: it's probably a great experience in your life that you're
Speaker 4: always cherished. You know, by the way, now you can
Speaker 4: make really big money. So again, I don't know what
Speaker 4: I would do if I was one of those guys,
Speaker 4: but I would also Tomas feel a little insecure knowing that, yes,
Speaker 4: I'm still around at you know, mid twenties, and some
Speaker 4: of these guys I'm playing against are eighteen and nineteen
Speaker 4: to where it kind of makes sense that I would
Speaker 4: be able to be successful. But then again, when he
Speaker 4: get to the pros, it's different, right, Like, you got
Speaker 4: guys who I mean, it's not uncommon for two guys
Speaker 4: to be going head to head, right Like in any
Speaker 4: given night in the NBA when there's a really big
Speaker 4: matchup between two players that are you know, two of
Speaker 4: the best in the league, and you know that, hey,
Speaker 4: we've got this team and that team.
Speaker 2: Here's this star player, here's that star player.
Speaker 4: You don't really think of age, but it wouldn't be
Speaker 4: crazy to think that one guy's seven years older than
Speaker 4: the other guy. But this is also college and we're
Speaker 4: talking about like eighteen year old kids that are playing.
Speaker 4: But then again, it's not really college because quite literally,
Speaker 4: with guys being able to play this long because they're
Speaker 4: making money, I mean, it's pro sports now. So I
Speaker 4: don't know, I guess, long winded way of me asking,
Speaker 4: do you think it's lame for people to make fun
Speaker 4: of guys guys who are arrogant in college in blaming
Speaker 4: it on because they should have left long ago.
Speaker 2: They're too old, they need to move on.
Speaker 3: Well sometimes I do that on Twitter.
Speaker 4: So that's that's why I'm asking you, like, you know,
Speaker 4: is it then No, I'm not. I'm not asking you
Speaker 4: if that's not my question. My question is like should
Speaker 4: these like is it a normal reaction? Because I don't know,
Speaker 4: like I never think of anybody's age when I watched
Speaker 4: them play, but whenever you see somebody bring it up
Speaker 4: and I'm like, yeah, that is kind of odd. Like,
Speaker 4: think about it if you were in any other aspect
Speaker 4: of life outside of you know, college sports, I guess,
Speaker 4: or really I guess professional sports, and you were in
Speaker 4: a better position at twenty five than somebody at eighteen,
Speaker 4: and you were really just letting them have it.
Speaker 2: Like you'd look like a total loser, right, you look
Speaker 2: like the guy almost.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, trying to come back and stunt at
Speaker 4: the high school games when you're twenty two, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, Like it's it's it's yeah, it's got
Speaker 4: that kind of vibe to it. But again, I don't
Speaker 4: blame them, but we are at a point that nothing
Speaker 4: surprises me when it comes to what player. And what
Speaker 4: makes this just so wild to me is that for
Speaker 4: hundreds of years it seemed that I'm exaggerating, but the
Speaker 4: ncblea's archaic amateurism model was in place forever for generations,
Speaker 4: and then within a matter of you know, the last
Speaker 4: four years, really i'd say last three and a half.
Speaker 2: Four years, the players have all the power and.
Speaker 4: They can do whatever they want. It's just a totally
Speaker 4: different world. So I mean, if you're an NAIA player
Speaker 4: and you played at Georgetown College, which by the way,
Speaker 4: I think they're number one in the country right now.
Speaker 4: In nai they got some really good players. In fact,
Speaker 4: there's some D one guys playing right now. In fact,
Speaker 4: Chris Mack has one of them at Charleston that started
Speaker 4: his career at Georgetown College and now he's, you know,
Speaker 4: a legitimately all conference caliber player at the mid major level.
Speaker 2: So if a guy graduated this.
Speaker 4: Year from Georgetown College or something like that, and he
Speaker 4: challenged the NCUBA and said, look, I didn't play NCAA.
Speaker 4: I played NAI Why would you be able to tell
Speaker 4: me I can't. How would you be able to tell
Speaker 4: me that I'm not eligible to play when I've not
Speaker 4: played a single second under the NCAA umbrella?
Speaker 2: Like, he probably hire a lawyer and win.
Speaker 4: And at that point, you're talking about what we're talking
Speaker 4: about here, which is guys coming over from overseas that
Speaker 4: are late bloomers or whatever it may be. They just
Speaker 4: want to make money, and yet they end up being
Speaker 4: twenty two year old freshmen and they graduate when they're
Speaker 4: twenty six like that. I don't want to say it's
Speaker 4: going to be super common, but it'll be more common
Speaker 4: than it's ever been, really because previously was never possible.
Speaker 4: It's just wild to think about how different things are
Speaker 4: now in college athletics. In fact, a lot of these
Speaker 4: guys that would never entertain college because they can hide
Speaker 4: overseas better and then be drafted.
Speaker 2: The big Z brothers. There's you know, the Big Z.
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I just know him as Big Z.
Speaker 4: But he played at Kentucky last year and now they followed
Speaker 4: cald Arkansas. I hit that big three late in the
Speaker 4: game the other night. His brother plays for Illinois. Well,
Speaker 4: the story is that those two guys were NBA prospects
Speaker 4: because they were young, and they were up and coming,
Speaker 4: and they had a lot of skill. You know, they're
Speaker 4: the new age European bigs that can do a lot.
Speaker 4: But they didn't want to go play college because if anything,
Speaker 4: all it does is potentially expose you. But there's so
Speaker 4: much money being paid to college players now, they were
Speaker 4: full of Big Z got a big amount of money
Speaker 4: to come to Kentucky last year. And look, he may
Speaker 4: never be drafted, right because he may have shown in
Speaker 4: college that he's not good enough to be like an all,
Speaker 4: he's not good enough to be an NBA player. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying he won't be, but I'm just saying it's
Speaker 4: worth that risk to potentially put enough film out there
Speaker 4: to where they realize you're not good enough to be
Speaker 4: in the NBA. Because in college Now you can you
Speaker 4: can go get paid big money, and you know, just
Speaker 4: the way in which guys stick around longer, or the
Speaker 4: way in which you can add players that you typically
Speaker 4: wouldn't be able to add in college basketball and really
Speaker 4: college football. It's fascinating to me. All right, quick break,
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Speaker 4: A big night of college basketball this evening in Kentucky.
Speaker 4: They'll take on Tennessee at seven o'clock. This game, I
Speaker 4: think it opened up Tennessee favored by a point. And
Speaker 4: then Mark Pope on his show last night mentioned actually,
Speaker 4: I'm not even sure if you mentioned it or not.
Speaker 4: I just know that it did come out with the
Speaker 4: injury report that that Jackson Robinson is not going to
Speaker 4: be he's not he's not playing, he's out dealing with
Speaker 4: the wrist injury. And that Lamont Butler, I guess, is back.
Speaker 4: So obviously, without without Jackson Robinson, Kentucky is is not
Speaker 4: as good. I mean, they can still win. And that's
Speaker 4: what is wild about Kentucky. They've been able to win
Speaker 4: some games that really have value, right, Like absolutely are
Speaker 4: going to keep them up on a certain seed line
Speaker 4: because you know, winning in Knoxville like they did a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, that's going to be as valuable
Speaker 4: as any win anybody can get in college basketball. So
Speaker 4: they did that without Butler and without was it without
Speaker 4: car too?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 4: So anyways, they are underdogs at RUP tonight, which isn't
Speaker 4: a surprise considering the circumstance and considering how good Tennessee is.
Speaker 4: But this has to be a real rarity for them
Speaker 4: to be underdogs at home. I mean, I know it's happened,
Speaker 4: and maybe it even happened earlier this year, and I
Speaker 4: just forgot about it when they played Florida. I kind
Speaker 4: of feel like at that time, given where both teams were,
Speaker 4: Kentucky was probably probably still favored in that game. But
Speaker 4: either way, the kin Pom projected score, which I don't believe.
Speaker 4: I mean, kin Pom does not factor in, does not
Speaker 4: factor in injuries. Guys who have you know who just
Speaker 4: played one game and then won't play the other but
Speaker 4: for what it's worth, the projected score, assuming everybody plays,
Speaker 4: which again they're not, would be a win for Kentucky
Speaker 4: seventy four to seventy two. So this I'm fascinated to
Speaker 4: see this game because to me, it comes down to
Speaker 4: who's going to be able to get into what they
Speaker 4: want to do and Kentucky's gonna do what they want
Speaker 4: to do, and meaning they're gonna they're gonna play with
Speaker 4: a real intent to have as many possessions as possible.
Speaker 4: They should shoot more threes than they do, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you, But either way, like they have a
Speaker 4: style and it's.
Speaker 2: Worked pretty good for him.
Speaker 4: I mean, they've had games where they got blown out
Speaker 4: like Ole Miss, but keep in mind Kentucky being down
Speaker 4: twenty three to twenty five points in that game and
Speaker 4: yet clawing back to get it within eleven or something.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't celebrate that. It's not like won, you still
Speaker 4: lost by double digits. But because of the way they play,
Speaker 4: they can at times get hot and dig themselves out
Speaker 4: of a hole. I mean they've shown that in many
Speaker 4: games this year. So my point is Tennessee when they
Speaker 4: lost at home, which who knows, maybe that's the only
Speaker 4: home lost Tennessee ends up taking this year wouldn't shock
Speaker 4: me at all. They got into I don't want to
Speaker 4: say they took the bait, because that's probably not the
Speaker 4: best way to describe it. But they shot more threes
Speaker 4: than Kentucky and they're not built for that at all.
Speaker 4: And they've got a really good shooter. The kid that
Speaker 4: transferred from North Florida that actually picked Tennessee over Kentucky
Speaker 4: Chad Lanier, I believe it is his name. He's a
Speaker 4: really good shooter. In fact, he was right behind Rayan
Speaker 4: Smith as far as three pointers made per game for
Speaker 4: a good for a good stretch of the season. So
Speaker 4: I think if Tennessee does what Rick Barnes wants to do,
Speaker 4: where they just they they they they get back and
Speaker 4: don't try to play the same game, right they don't
Speaker 4: put it this way, Kentucky wants as many possessions as possible,
Speaker 4: that Tennessee has the mindset of, no, we're gonna make
Speaker 4: it to where we have fewer possessions than you'd ever want.
Speaker 4: I think that's where Tennessee could really find a good find,
Speaker 4: find a style in a situation where they could get
Speaker 4: out of up Arena with a win.
Speaker 2: But if they start, if they.
Speaker 4: If they keep going possession for possession and they fire
Speaker 4: up a bunch of threes, they may still win because
Speaker 4: they're good at Kentucky's without Jackson Robinson. But I just
Speaker 4: don't know how so many teams have not figured out that,
Speaker 4: you know, Kentucky can be beat at that in that
Speaker 4: situation in those kind of games, because it happened with Alabama.
Speaker 4: But Alabama just so happens to be the number one
Speaker 4: team in the country right now. Who else got them
Speaker 4: in that situation? I mean, Florida Kentucky one, But it
Speaker 4: could have gone either way.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: If that's not who you are, right, if that's not
Speaker 4: your brand, if that's not like a part of your DNA,
Speaker 4: I don't know why you would want to get into
Speaker 4: playing their style whenever you could still win, but you
Speaker 4: know you're playing in a way that they are going
Speaker 4: to potentially be at their best. And I think Rick
Speaker 4: Barnes and Tennessee probably learned from that and their.
Speaker 2: Loss to Kentucky. So we'll see.
Speaker 4: But big game, no doubt. We got number four, and
Speaker 4: when it comes to the kin pomp Tennessee is number four.
Speaker 4: Kentucky's at number twenty two, so big time. One of
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