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Speaker 2: So after last night's eighty five to sixty eight victory
Speaker 2: over col Louisville, they are one went away from finishing
Speaker 2: eighteen and two in the ACC which would easily be
Speaker 2: their best finish ever. But right now, when it comes
Speaker 2: to the win total increase for Louisville, the current number,
Speaker 2: let's see Louisville right now is at sixteen and by
Speaker 2: the way, they include not just regular season but postseason
Speaker 2: as well, But Louisville eight and twenty four last year,
Speaker 2: now twenty four and six. That's sixteen games up and
Speaker 2: the record is twenty Anybody have a clue who did that?
Speaker 2: Who had a twenty game turnaround? It's actually somewhat recently,
Speaker 2: and it's it's not really a trick question, but it's so.
Speaker 2: Iowa State in twoenty and twenty one, I guess that
Speaker 2: was the first year that as the year we tried
Speaker 2: to play college basketball with COVID going on. They went
Speaker 2: two and twenty two, and then the next year they
Speaker 2: hired Otselberger, who, by the way, apparently is in the
Speaker 2: mix for the Indiana job, which I don't know what
Speaker 2: to believe, but it sounds like maybe that's the guy
Speaker 2: Indiana's really really gonna come after, which he'd be a
Speaker 2: fine coach. I think if he can win at Iowa State,
Speaker 2: why can't he win Indiana. But anyways, they were two
Speaker 2: and twenty two in twenty twenty one, and then in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two they went twenty two and thirteen, so
Speaker 2: took him all the way to the Sweet sixteen, and
Speaker 2: he I would have, honestly, I think I if I
Speaker 2: wasn't looking at this, I think I would have got
Speaker 2: that right because I remember just you using that as
Speaker 2: a weapon for idiots who would act like Kenny Payne
Speaker 2: needed a lot of time to you know, not be
Speaker 2: the worst coach in the world. And then also in
Speaker 2: recent years like Duke Duke in two thousand, same things.
Speaker 2: So Duke went thirteen and eleven in the year where
Speaker 2: we again tried to play basketball and you know, had
Speaker 2: a lot of cancelations that kind of stuff. They were
Speaker 2: thirteen and eleven and the next year they went thirty
Speaker 2: two and seven, So they had the nineteen game bump.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot in fact.
Speaker 2: Kentucky is on here too at number seventeen or with
Speaker 2: seventeen game turnaround, because in twenty twenty one they were
Speaker 2: nine and sixteen.
Speaker 3: That was the year Cal.
Speaker 2: You know, that's what it really fell apart for Cal
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, because they were bad in
Speaker 2: a way that nobody ever expected and they shouldn't have
Speaker 2: been as bad, and you know, the pandemic was going on,
Speaker 2: and that to me, you know, I'm not an insider
Speaker 2: by any means, from what I understand is that he'd
Speaker 2: been such a made man for so long there and
Speaker 2: he did have another year where they were really bad,
Speaker 2: but then they bounced back the next year and were
Speaker 2: phenomenal in fourteen and fifteen, So you know, he'd had
Speaker 2: a down year, but like that was a different level
Speaker 2: down and there'd been a big drought already as far
Speaker 2: as making a final four to where he went twent
Speaker 2: he went nine and sixteen, and couldn't believe that, Like
Speaker 2: fans were upset, Like he thought, like how could they
Speaker 2: ever be upset at me? I'm Caliperry, Like, look at
Speaker 2: what I've done for you. I'm a rock star. And
Speaker 2: you know the next year would they do Yeah, twenty
Speaker 2: six and eight, So a seventeen game turnaround and then
Speaker 2: you know they end up losing to Saint Peter's, which
Speaker 2: was you know, very very fun night for me, if
Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you. So if Louisville ends up
Speaker 2: you know, to break the record, like I think Pac
Speaker 2: can do it, because keep in mind, let's say you
Speaker 2: know you went on you went on Saturday, that's seventeen.
Speaker 2: You win your quarterfinal game on Thursday in the ACC,
Speaker 2: which again you could lose, but you know, like right now,
Speaker 2: I think you might end up playing Virginia Tech. I'd
Speaker 2: love to get a shot at them againhim to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, because I think Louisville on any other
Speaker 2: night would blow them out.
Speaker 3: So that puts you at eighteen.
Speaker 2: So really, if you end up winning against Clemson, easier
Speaker 2: seven done, if it goes chalk, of course, that would
Speaker 2: put you at nineteen. And then from then on, really
Speaker 2: you've got the ACC title game. Of course if you
Speaker 2: get there, and then whoever you play in the first round,
Speaker 2: that those two opportunities will give you the chance to
Speaker 2: tie it.
Speaker 3: But like let's say Louisville.
Speaker 2: Goes all the way to the championship game and loses
Speaker 2: to Duke, but they beat Clemson again easier Seve than done.
Speaker 2: But let's say that plays out, that'll put you at nineteen.
Speaker 2: So then in the tournament, the first round, it's like
Speaker 2: it could very much position to where if you make
Speaker 2: the second weekend sweet sixteen, not only is that insanely
Speaker 2: awesome if that's what happens, but also that would break
Speaker 2: the record for the most, you know, the biggest win
Speaker 2: total increase from a prior season. All right, it's Coffee
Speaker 2: and Company. We are feel about Thornton's here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety. Thanks for hanging out us certainly appreciated,
Speaker 2: Nick Coffee. That's me the tribal chief alongside today and
Speaker 2: real quick. One more thing to throw out there about
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball, because you know, I love bragging on this team.
Speaker 3: It's been that fun. It's been awesome. With the thirty five?
Speaker 3: Was that what he had last night? Thirty six? Thirty five?
Speaker 2: I said thirty five, And I'm thinking, well, no, it
Speaker 2: must have been like twenty five, And then sure enough,
Speaker 2: like that's a lot of points, like like Chuck he
Speaker 2: had just under forty twice and Javon had thirty had thirty.
Speaker 3: Something thirty two, right y, Yeah, that sounds about it.
Speaker 2: I went to yep, Cless game, that's right, Moos and
Speaker 2: Maya and then uh and then Rain had thirty just
Speaker 2: because he hit ten three. He hit more than thirty,
Speaker 2: but he had thirty something when he hit ten threes
Speaker 2: against SMU and then you know last night fat thirty five.
Speaker 3: So Louisville has had four players.
Speaker 2: With thirty or more in a game this year and
Speaker 2: there's no other team that's been able to do that.
Speaker 2: Which again, that alone, like that says a lot, but
Speaker 2: think about this, like these guys were given a lot
Speaker 2: more basically just responsibility, right, Like there's nobody to really
Speaker 2: spell Chucky. Hepburn that was supposed to be Corn Johnson,
Speaker 2: Like Chucky's got a run point Terrence. You know he
Speaker 2: was gonna be your off guard, that can you know,
Speaker 2: basically two to three guy. I don't know if they
Speaker 2: had a lot of plans for him to run point,
Speaker 2: but now he's had to be more of a distributor.
Speaker 2: And really your your your backup point guard because you
Speaker 2: don't have another guy outside of Chucky, So you know,
Speaker 2: he all these guys took on much bigger roles, not
Speaker 2: by design, but because it's what they had to do.
Speaker 2: And man, they have all I mean again I talked
Speaker 2: about it earlier. They won't get four guys on the
Speaker 2: All SEC First and the All ACC First and second
Speaker 2: team honors. I just don't think they will because that
Speaker 2: would basically Louisville getting forty percent. But you could make
Speaker 2: the case, man, all these guys didn't just you know,
Speaker 2: step up and help you. They were good players for
Speaker 2: a good team that really he was clearly in the
Speaker 2: top tier of this conference. And you put these numbers
Speaker 2: on anybody, and we're talking about a player that you know,
Speaker 2: you would think, is you know, deserving worthy of All
Speaker 2: ACC honors to an extent, maybe not first team or
Speaker 2: even second team, but Chuck, he's the best player in
Speaker 2: this league not named Cooper Flag. He's the best point
Speaker 2: guard in the league. Seventeen points per game I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: sixteen points a game in acc play, seven assists and
Speaker 2: two point four steals.
Speaker 3: That leads the league edwards.
Speaker 2: Seventeen points per game in acc action just under that
Speaker 2: overall of the season five games of twenty or more. Hadley,
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like he's criminally underappreciated when it
Speaker 2: comes to just like guys in this league that have
Speaker 2: been really good for the good teams. If he was
Speaker 2: putting up these numbers for a bad team to be impressive.
Speaker 2: Hadley's averaging twelve and a half points, seven point three rebounds,
Speaker 2: which is top ten in the ACC in league play
Speaker 2: fifty percent overall, forty percent from three to seventy eight
Speaker 2: percent from the line, Like that's I mean to me,
Speaker 2: that take out the fact that Louisville is likely going
Speaker 2: to finish eighteen and two in the league. It's a
Speaker 2: really good player, probably not first team, maybe not second team,
Speaker 2: but certainly third team at worst. And then rain thirteen
Speaker 2: point four points per game, one hundred and sixty three
Speaker 2: pointers may thirteen more than anybody in the ACC, by
Speaker 2: the way, leeds All, And by the way, he didn't
Speaker 2: make a three last night, didn't make a three on Saturday,
Speaker 2: at least I don't think he did. And he still
Speaker 2: has thirteen more threes than anybody in the conference. And again,
Speaker 2: he's averaging thirteen point four points a game for the
Speaker 2: second best team in this conference depending upon standings. So
Speaker 2: you know, these guys, I mean, I just put it
Speaker 2: this way. This is the best way I can really
Speaker 2: throw it out there as far as like how it's
Speaker 2: kind of stopped me in my tracks here with these guys.
Speaker 2: Let's say, for Louisville to even be like decent the
Speaker 2: rest of the way, these guys were going to have
Speaker 2: to have these these numbers all year. I've always liked
Speaker 2: these guys, but you'd have told me in November December
Speaker 2: that that like they were going to need to do
Speaker 2: that for Louisville to be even decent, let alone eighteen
Speaker 2: and two potentially in the league. I just would have thought, there's, like,
Speaker 2: as much as I love these guys, I just don't
Speaker 2: see how that happens. But sure enough, they got comfortable,
Speaker 2: they really solidified their roles, and they've been consistent for
Speaker 2: the most part all year. And when guys don't have
Speaker 2: a night like rain last night, couldn't go. He's dealing
Speaker 2: with some kind of a minor injury.
Speaker 3: Couldn't go.
Speaker 2: So you know what, It's not something you can dial
Speaker 2: up any moment on a moment's notice. But you got
Speaker 2: a guy that's not crazy to see him go for
Speaker 2: thirty five and Terrence Edwards. So again, I love these guys,
Speaker 2: love this team. One more regular season game left, and
Speaker 2: then we get to the real fun part, the postseason,
Speaker 2: which man, I guess Louisville did play in the postseason
Speaker 2: under Kenny Payne, but you know it was really it
Speaker 2: was a day of shame in the ACC tournament. That's
Speaker 2: not the case this year. All Right, what do I
Speaker 2: want to do coming up here on the other side,
Speaker 2: We'll let you guys hear what Josh Hurd had to
Speaker 2: say he was on yesterday with Terry Miners, the beautiful
Speaker 2: bald man that Isry Minors. You guys, you know where
Speaker 2: to find him. I'm not going to tell you because
Speaker 2: I don't want you to leave you. We need to
Speaker 2: stay here with me, right, I mean, he's already on
Speaker 2: the big stick, and he's already, you know, the living
Speaker 2: legend in Louisville media. I got tough competition here, but
Speaker 2: I don't feel like competition because he's he's my friend.
Speaker 2: He's just down the hall, and sure enough we can
Speaker 2: play some of the great stuff that he has on
Speaker 2: his show. So we'll do that after this first break
Speaker 2: that we get to coming up here shortly but real quick.
Speaker 2: I want to switch to Kentucky because you know they're
Speaker 2: safely a top four seat as it stands right now,
Speaker 2: and I really you know, with the loss, put it
Speaker 2: this way, the only potential bad loss is now in
Speaker 2: the rear view because LSU was that. But again that
Speaker 2: was just a they won by like a billion, it
Speaker 2: seemed so now like right now, no matter where you look,
Speaker 2: you're going to see Kentucky I think anywhere between a
Speaker 2: three and a four, And I'm not sure that they
Speaker 2: could fall. I mean, if they get like blown up
Speaker 2: out at Missouri, maybe that would hit them to where
Speaker 2: they fall off the four line or something, or maybe
Speaker 2: fall from the three to the four. But like if
Speaker 2: they lose a close game doesn't hurt them. If they win,
Speaker 2: that's a really valuable win, that probably doesn't move them.
Speaker 2: I think the ones and twos I think are solidified.
Speaker 2: I think maybe you could see a two fall to
Speaker 2: a three, depending upon what happens in these conference tournaments.
Speaker 2: But you know, with Kentucky, whoever they play, Like, even
Speaker 2: if they played Arkansas in the first round and lost
Speaker 2: in the SEC tournament, that would be a nightmare for them.
Speaker 2: But if they did, that's probably not going to be
Speaker 2: enough to put a dent in their resume bad enough
Speaker 2: to fall on the seed line. So like, credit to them,
Speaker 2: they've done enough to where they really have no pressure
Speaker 2: when it comes to seating. But I just I don't know,
Speaker 2: because they've they've lost so many games. It's hard to
Speaker 2: still even though you know you're good and you have
Speaker 2: wins to prove that, even though you know you're losing
Speaker 2: to other really good teams or teams that are better
Speaker 2: than you, when you just start racking up the losses
Speaker 2: like they've done, they're now four in or five and
Speaker 2: twelve in, they're last thirteen I'm sorry, five and twelve
Speaker 2: in their last seventeen. So you know, you probably just
Speaker 2: start to slightly lose a little bit of not belief.
Speaker 2: But when you lose enough and you get to the
Speaker 2: tournament and you know you playing in the second round
Speaker 2: against a I don't know, Like if Kentucky ends up
Speaker 2: in the second round against a sixth seed, you know,
Speaker 2: that could be Clemson who's already beat them. It could
Speaker 2: be it could be Kansas, it could be Arizona, it
Speaker 2: could be you know, it could be even be why
Speaker 2: you could be Louisville if there's six or something. You know,
Speaker 2: like if you end up losing those games, I think
Speaker 2: even though you know you're playing a loaded league, I
Speaker 2: think you know, those teams that can potentially be on
Speaker 2: the sixth line and beat you are also good and
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be that big of a shock. So, like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to misrepresentatives if I feel like their
Speaker 2: fans are down on the dumps as we get closer
Speaker 2: to March Madness. But again, they've just stacked up more
Speaker 2: losses than you typically would see a team with their seeding.
Speaker 3: Being where it is.
Speaker 2: But a show that I really really enjoy is a
Speaker 2: Barstool Sports podcast. This is uh, let me make sure
Speaker 2: I've got the right. I want to give the proper
Speaker 2: credit here. So this is what's his name? I can't
Speaker 2: think of the here. I am telling you that I
Speaker 2: really like him, and I can't think of the damn
Speaker 2: guy's name, Mark Titus.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: The Mark Titus show on Barstool Sports. He talks college hoops,
Speaker 2: does College Hoops podcast, one of the many things he
Speaker 2: does for Barstool Sports. But he said this about Kentucky,
Speaker 2: and I don't think he's trolling. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: like insulting their team. But I thought, okay, initially, man,
Speaker 2: this guy's out of his mind. But then I thought
Speaker 2: about it. I'm like, you know what, maybe he's not
Speaker 2: way off here, and I'll let you guys hear it,
Speaker 2: because I think Kentucky fans would disagree with this, but
Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
Speaker 4: I think if Kentucky makes the Sweet sixteen really and
Speaker 4: loses by fifteen, I think Kentucky fans have to be
Speaker 4: happy with that. At this point in the year.
Speaker 5: I'm interested to hear from a Kentucky fan on that
Speaker 5: because I'm with you. They're they're beating up, they're injured,
Speaker 5: they're not playing as good as basketball, but they're also
Speaker 5: doing it. We say this every show against the SEC,
Speaker 5: night in and night out, and night in and night out.
Speaker 2: So I've got my hand near the dump button. This
Speaker 2: has got like twenty seconds left. I don't remember they're
Speaker 2: being cursing. But then again, like it doesn't really hit
Speaker 2: your radar when you listen to Barstool Sports, because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of cursing in there, more so than most
Speaker 2: content that's you know, like of the sports world, because
Speaker 2: they don't you know, they don't have to censor anything,
Speaker 2: so I don't think they curse here. But like I'm
Speaker 2: just if if you know, if you notice something off,
Speaker 2: it's because we had hit the dump button and they
Speaker 2: did curse.
Speaker 5: So anyways, they're gonna they should absolutely get to a
Speaker 5: Sweet sixteen, and then who are they gonna match up with?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but yeah, Mark Pope's had a great
Speaker 5: first year. But I think they have higher expectations.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think they can guard. I think
Speaker 4: they can't. They they can't play defense, and there's too
Speaker 4: there's too many question marks game to game of like
Speaker 4: who's going to step up? And yeah, I like I said,
Speaker 4: I think they're more they're more fun team than they
Speaker 4: are a good team.
Speaker 2: So again go back to the beginning of it when
Speaker 2: it comes to did he say if they get to
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen and then lose to fifteen, they should
Speaker 2: to be happy.
Speaker 6: I thought I heard he was predicting that, but I
Speaker 6: don't know. He may have said if they get to
Speaker 6: the sweet sixteen, because he's talking about a scenario really.
Speaker 4: And loses by I think if Kentucky makes the Sweet
Speaker 4: sixteen real and loses by Okay, so.
Speaker 2: They make the Sweet sixteen and then they get beat
Speaker 2: by fifteen, I that's one of those things where I
Speaker 2: think it'll depend on who it is, It'll depend on
Speaker 2: how it looks, because that's not like a crazy scenario.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I mean, Kentucky's weird. They have
Speaker 2: enough wins against good teams to where you look at
Speaker 2: the rest of college basketball and I think you'd be
Speaker 2: foolish to not say, well, yeah, I mean, you never
Speaker 2: know what's going to happen in March. We can tell
Speaker 2: you that firsthand. We lost to Saint Peter's in Oakland,
Speaker 2: but we have proven to be good enough to compete
Speaker 2: with the best of the best. So let's set expectations
Speaker 2: on a deep run. I mean, it is Kentucky. But
Speaker 2: then again, you also have to keep in mind that
Speaker 2: despite having and what I think Pope said this after
Speaker 2: their loss to Auburn. But when you look at the
Speaker 2: ap pole in college basketball right now, which again I'm
Speaker 2: only referencing this because Pope referenced it, we know the
Speaker 2: Ken Palm, and really the net is the actual ranking
Speaker 2: that matters when it comes to the selection process. But
Speaker 2: with Auburn, Duke, Tennessee, and Florida, I mean, Kentucky has
Speaker 2: four wins against the top five teams in the country,
Speaker 2: so like that that's valuable. That is one of the
Speaker 2: reasons why they really can't fall far at all. They
Speaker 2: can't fall much at all. In fact, when it comes
Speaker 2: to the seating, you know, you swept Tennessee, who's a
Speaker 2: top five team, could be a one seed when it's
Speaker 2: all said and done. You beat Florida, which is a
Speaker 2: really valuable win that seems to be only getting more valuable,
Speaker 2: and you beat Duke, only one of three teams. So look,
Speaker 2: all that is something that should give you some real
Speaker 2: excitement and some real belief in your team if you
Speaker 2: need it. But I think also in the back of
Speaker 2: your mind you realize, yeah, I wouldn't want to play
Speaker 2: Duke right now. That was in November when these guys were,
Speaker 2: you know, just getting to know each other, and now
Speaker 2: they look scary good. And then with Tennessee, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I can't explain it. Tennessee just you know,
Speaker 2: credit to Mark Pope, like he's the Tennessee volunteer killer,
Speaker 2: because Tennessee was bad in both those games. But I'm
Speaker 2: not saying that as if like they're overrated. No, they've
Speaker 2: proven to be really good. But Kentucky got them both
Speaker 2: times and then you know Florida. But again with Florida,
Speaker 2: you probably need it, Like to beat Tennessee's the only
Speaker 2: win you have here. Wins I should say that you
Speaker 2: have here where you can say, Okay, we did actually
Speaker 2: beat really good teams without a full roster, right like,
Speaker 2: do you beat Duke if Robinson's not there? He actually
Speaker 2: didn't really show up in that game. I don't even
Speaker 2: know if he scored, to be honest with you, but
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, same thing with Florida, right like,
Speaker 2: that was a shootout, close game. Florida's great, you guys
Speaker 2: outlasted them, But could you do that again on a
Speaker 2: neutral court, not at roup if you don't Jackson Robinson.
Speaker 2: And again, those are the kind of teams you're not
Speaker 2: gonna have to beat them to get to the Elite eight.
Speaker 2: I mean, those are the teams that you might you
Speaker 2: might play them in the Elite eight of the Final four.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just think as I try to check the pulse,
Speaker 2: which I'm not as good at it as others when
Speaker 2: it comes to Kentucky fans because I'm not one of them,
Speaker 2: and you know, I knew I do know a lot
Speaker 2: of them, but I think they they realize that they
Speaker 2: have a team that that you know, should be able
Speaker 2: to go and compete. Put it this way, if they
Speaker 2: end up losing in like the second round, or maybe
Speaker 2: they get to the sweet sixteen and they get boat
Speaker 2: raced again, it really depends on who it is and
Speaker 2: how it looks. But I can't tell if there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a collective Yeah, we probably should have saw that
Speaker 2: coming with the injuries and with all the losses, or
Speaker 2: if it's going to be a all right, Pope, pressure's
Speaker 2: on now, bucco, because this is Kentucky. You had a
Speaker 2: really good season, really good seed. We don't expect to
Speaker 2: be leaving early. And I don't know why I said bucco.
Speaker 2: That was a dad moment. Like I don't think I've
Speaker 2: ever said bucco before in my life. Have you ever
Speaker 2: hit me? Yeah, like you're you're probably thinking like, oh crap, Nick,
Speaker 2: is it happening. It's like those urges I get that.
Speaker 2: I don't know where they come from. I can't even
Speaker 2: really explain it. It's like an out of body experience
Speaker 2: where I just do something that's really corny on you know,
Speaker 2: dad brand.
Speaker 6: My dad always says buck Owens. But I don't know
Speaker 6: if I don't know if Bucco was short for buck Owens.
Speaker 3: That's a guy. That's a guy that likes to talk ball,
Speaker 3: is it not.
Speaker 2: That's a guy that's a guy who will sit on
Speaker 2: the he'll sit on the stool at the sports bar
Speaker 2: and just name random players with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's my kind of guy. Shut up, Kirk. So
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know why I said Bucko.
Speaker 2: But again, the ultimate moment was whenever I was at
Speaker 2: a Mexican restaurant, and I would have loved to have
Speaker 2: had like surveillance footage on this because I think I
Speaker 2: was like abducted, I was possessed by uh aliens or something.
Speaker 2: Because I don't know why I said it. Where it
Speaker 2: came from wasn't me, I think, but some guy who
Speaker 2: worked at the restaurant. He was rolling one of the
Speaker 2: kegs up to the bar because they the keg was out,
Speaker 2: and without thinking and not even really noticing it, I
Speaker 2: just blurted out, hey, is that for me? Like he
Speaker 2: needed to leave the keg at my table and I'm I.
Speaker 2: As soon as I said it, I looked around, like
Speaker 2: what happened? And my wife looked at me like, who
Speaker 2: are you? And I'm like, I don't know. I guess
Speaker 2: I'm turning into that dad. That guy.
Speaker 6: It's it's like the Tim Allen like Santa Claus transformation.
Speaker 3: But Tim all was actually funny. That wasn't funny.
Speaker 2: That was that was funny, funny for corny, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: funny for like funny for that. Yeah, I mean, like
Speaker 2: you know, anyways, thank you for telling me that was funny.
Speaker 2: Makes me not feel as bad bucko. All right, quick break,
Speaker 2: we'll come back on the other side again. Josh Hurd
Speaker 2: was all with Terry Miners yesterday. We'll let you hear
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Speaker 1: Ninety on Sports Talk seven nine day.
Speaker 2: So according to the best Wager Twitter account, and I
Speaker 2: believe them, they usually crank out some pretty good info
Speaker 2: stats analytics when it comes to college basketball. But the
Speaker 2: four players, four different players with at least thirty points
Speaker 2: in at least one game. That has not only only
Speaker 2: been done by Louisville this year, but there's no ACC
Speaker 2: team that's done at this century. So again, it's not
Speaker 2: like these guys are gonna, you know, collectively score thirty
Speaker 2: a night each, But just to know that somebody doing
Speaker 2: that is within within their like, it's not crazy, right,
Speaker 2: It's not. It's not it's not likely, it's not it's
Speaker 2: not probable. It's clearly been rare. But like, if I
Speaker 2: tell you Louisville's going to beat a three seed in
Speaker 2: the second round, in the round of thirty two and
Speaker 2: Terrence is gonna get thirty or Chuck, he's gonna get thirty, Like,
Speaker 2: you're not really going to be surprised because that's not
Speaker 2: their average. We don't ever you know, expect that on
Speaker 2: a game by game basis, but like it, clearly they've
Speaker 2: shown they can do that. All Right, some football stuff
Speaker 2: really quickly here before.
Speaker 3: We get to some sound.
Speaker 2: The Steelers are hosting Tyler Shuck today. Now it sounds
Speaker 2: like their position to move forward with justin Fields and
Speaker 2: the Russell Wilson experience is now over. But man, that
Speaker 2: could be the like if Shuck ends up in Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: in I don't know, round three or something and the
Speaker 2: Fields experiment just like wasn't the right move because you know,
Speaker 2: he's never really at any point looked like a for
Speaker 2: sure thing as a starting quarterback that can succeed in
Speaker 2: the NFL. Like that could be how Shuck gets a
Speaker 2: chance to get out there and you know, do his thing.
Speaker 3: Also, two to at will.
Speaker 2: You probably heard this during the Fox Sports update during
Speaker 2: the break, but he signed a one year deal with
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Speaker 2: even if you suck, or even if you know, like
Speaker 2: I mean, guaranteed money is not a bad deal.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's good work if you can get it,
Speaker 3: very good work, if you can get it right, honest
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Speaker 2: So Josh heard was on yesterday with Terry Miners across
Speaker 2: the hall. I don't know, I've never, I've never. I
Speaker 2: don't know why this has been a pet pee for me,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if I've ever said it on
Speaker 2: the radio, but I'll say it now.
Speaker 3: Our sister station, why do we what do we call
Speaker 3: it that?
Speaker 6: I don't know. They're not our sister, No sister, not
Speaker 6: O brother either, meta minor miners. We're going away.
Speaker 2: Over top of everybody said here and I kind of
Speaker 2: love it, but but I'll stop.
Speaker 3: But yes, I could do that all day exactly. They
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 2: But but Terry had Josha on yesterday and as you
Speaker 2: could expect, just talking about this big turnaround in year one,
Speaker 2: and look, Josh heard, this hire was going to make
Speaker 2: or break him as the athletic director.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: I say that not really knowing if like it didn't
Speaker 2: work out, if anybody actually would take because for an
Speaker 2: athletic director to get heat, it's people who are not
Speaker 2: directly involved in sports having to kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: really go address it themselves and clean it up. So
Speaker 2: I don't know if he would have been fired if
Speaker 2: it didn't work out with Patt.
Speaker 3: And who knows. It's still early, but so far, so good.
Speaker 2: And Pat Kelsey looks like he's going to be very
Speaker 2: successful here, and you know what, Josh Hurt looks good
Speaker 2: for bringing him here. So a couple of things. One,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to hear you guys. I just wanted
Speaker 2: you guys to hear a little bit about Josh when
Speaker 2: it comes to kind of I guess, you know, getting
Speaker 2: the sense that this was going to be successful. But
Speaker 2: then also he was asked about, you know, heard needing
Speaker 2: more money and needing a new deal. And I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that Josh Hurt is requesting that, but if he did,
Speaker 2: it would be understandable. And I'm sure fans just want
Speaker 2: to know, hey, like, let's just make sure we get
Speaker 2: this guy taken care of, because you know what, we
Speaker 2: kind of love, we kind of like him.
Speaker 3: In fact, no, we love him.
Speaker 2: But here's a little bit from that conversation yesterday on has.
Speaker 7: The University of Louisville welcome back Josh? Good to have
Speaker 7: you glad to be.
Speaker 1: Here, are Terry.
Speaker 7: Everything's beautiful, brother. I see you are getting a lot
Speaker 7: of input now from people around America saying this, Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 7: guys got to be the coach of the Year candidates.
Speaker 3: He'd get my vote.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's done a phenomenal job.
Speaker 7: And I don't have to tell anybody in Louisville that.
Speaker 8: But I don't know what the expectations were, but I'll
Speaker 8: say that he's exceeded him if he's If you would
Speaker 8: have told me when he was hired a little less
Speaker 8: than a year ago that going into what day is today,
Speaker 8: March fifth, that we had an opportunity to still win
Speaker 8: the ACC regular season and play for a one or
Speaker 8: a two seed in the ACC tournament, I would have said,
Speaker 8: where do I sign?
Speaker 7: At what moment did you get the feeling?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Boy, I did pick the right piece here game one
Speaker 7: prior to.
Speaker 8: It's easy for me to say that it felt good
Speaker 8: from the start, but from a wins and losses standpoint,
Speaker 8: I really think if you look at when they were
Speaker 8: six and five coming off of that UK game and
Speaker 8: how they just just.
Speaker 3: Played so well.
Speaker 8: And I know they didn't win that game in Lexington,
Speaker 8: but they didn't back down from At the time, I
Speaker 8: believe UK was ranked number four, and I think there
Speaker 8: was some real disappointment in that locker room that they
Speaker 8: didn't win that game and that they truly believed that
Speaker 8: they had an opportunity to do something special. And then
Speaker 8: if you look at what's transpired since then, you know,
Speaker 8: I think there's so many moments that you could point
Speaker 8: to where you're like, hey, this, you know, you feel
Speaker 8: really good about the higher But I think from just
Speaker 8: the overarching fan base, I would say that I think
Speaker 8: most of them would say after that UK game.
Speaker 3: That makes me feel.
Speaker 2: As if I was maybe smart for a moment, because
Speaker 2: I want to act like there was a ton of
Speaker 2: resistance from from listeners. But when Louisville was struggling and
Speaker 2: they were to lose in games because you know, they
Speaker 2: were playing good teams and then they were dealing with
Speaker 2: losing prior and also Koryn it was for sure he
Speaker 2: wasn't going to come back at all. They were kind
Speaker 2: of regrouping, trying to, you know, find find their new
Speaker 2: roles in the new version. Each player kind of had
Speaker 2: to become a different version than they were anticipated.
Speaker 3: And then then they were expected to be.
Speaker 2: But I remember they kept losing, and you know a
Speaker 2: lot of people said, well, hey, you know, probably not
Speaker 2: in the cards. No pun intended for Lois to make
Speaker 2: the tournament because you know the injuries, and it's just
Speaker 2: you know, this team, who knows how good they are.
Speaker 2: And I don't think anybody was like out on Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 2: But I kept thinking, yeah, despite the losses, Like I
Speaker 2: remember tweeting it out during the Duke game, and I
Speaker 2: remember it just because it got a lot of it
Speaker 2: got a lot of pushback from some but also plenty
Speaker 2: of support as well. But I said, look, I don't
Speaker 2: know what's going to happen in this game when it's
Speaker 2: all said and done, or really what happens this season.
Speaker 2: But like Pat Kelcey, like him still getting his guys
Speaker 2: to remain like they were never too high, too low.
Speaker 2: They would get beat sometimes bad, but they would come
Speaker 2: out ready to play, executing, and they were they were
Speaker 2: a reflection of him. And despite losing to Ole Miss,
Speaker 2: despite losing to Duke, despite losing to Kentucky there straight losses,
Speaker 2: I mean I still felt like, hey, they're getting better,
Speaker 2: Like they're they're starting to kind of round into a
Speaker 2: team that I don't know if they can make a
Speaker 2: deep run or even make the tournament, but like, there
Speaker 2: may be something to work with here despite no longer
Speaker 2: having some guys that you expected to have big roles here.
Speaker 2: And I guess Josh Hurd noticed it as well. And again,
Speaker 2: it doesn't prove anything, right like that that moment didn't
Speaker 2: guarantee you they'd be here where they are, just late
Speaker 2: in the year.
Speaker 3: But like.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a real notice of little things when
Speaker 2: it comes to a coach who's got a good command
Speaker 2: of his locker room, a guy, I mean.
Speaker 3: A coach is a coaches.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of ways to do it, but at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, you know what a coach
Speaker 2: is a leader and Pat Kelsey, to me, seems to
Speaker 2: be a very very good leader. And that was evident
Speaker 2: even when they were losing. That was evident, you know,
Speaker 2: even whenever it looked as if maybe they weren't going
Speaker 2: to have the type of season they're having right now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, again it felt weird because you know, you
Speaker 2: don't like to lose, but after the Kentucky game, I
Speaker 2: felt good about where Louisville was.
Speaker 3: You never want to lose to your rival.
Speaker 2: That just sounds gross, but I mean they competed in
Speaker 2: rough and really you know they were they were. I
Speaker 2: mean I think honestly they've played Kentucky better at rop
Speaker 2: than just about anybody, right. I mean, some teams have
Speaker 2: actually gone in and won it rough, right, like Auburn,
Speaker 2: But we're not talking I'm talking about like the SEC
Speaker 2: that's super loaded, even the teams that you know are
Speaker 2: good that lost it rough. I feel like Kentucky louisll
Speaker 2: was just as competitive. And of course that was when
Speaker 2: Kentucky was at full strength. So it felt weird to
Speaker 2: kind of prop that up a lost to your rival
Speaker 2: as a reason to feel good. But I couldn't lie
Speaker 2: to myself. I could tell that in that moment they
Speaker 2: were playing, they were playing well, and you know, hard
Speaker 2: to imagine. My one fear that I remember talking about
Speaker 2: on the show was that, you know, you were having
Speaker 2: Terrence and Chucky go off for like a total of
Speaker 2: fifty between the two, close to sixty sometimes and you'd lose.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, okay, man, you shot fifty something percent
Speaker 2: from three or roughly, that you had these two guys
Speaker 2: go off career high type numbers or at least around
Speaker 2: there is that sustainable. And you go back to what
Speaker 2: we've talked about a lot today. You know, thirty a
Speaker 2: night is not sustainable for any of these guys. But
Speaker 2: if you look at what they're at, like the guys
Speaker 2: who really had to absorb bigger roles with much more responsibility,
Speaker 2: they've been consistently as good as they need to be
Speaker 2: for Louisville to be.
Speaker 3: In this position.
Speaker 2: All right, So the question about Pat Kelsey, you know,
Speaker 2: needing more money, I'm trying to, Yeah, let me see
Speaker 2: if I can. Let me get it to the spot
Speaker 2: here on the uh and I'm playing this from the
Speaker 2: iHeart portal. So apologies for having to like let it
Speaker 2: load here we go because Terry asked him about how
Speaker 2: often he hears that, you know that Pat needs more money,
Speaker 2: and I thought, you know, it wasn't much of a response,
Speaker 2: but it's also what you want to hear in that moment.
Speaker 7: Women's team looks great too there at the tournament this
Speaker 7: week playing when Friday, here we go.
Speaker 8: Seed's going to be based on what they do in
Speaker 8: Green Girl this week, it right.
Speaker 7: DEA's all speculation same on the men's side, what seed
Speaker 7: they'll get and all that. And you're expecting great support
Speaker 7: too for the men's team in the tournament next week.
Speaker 7: It's really exciting, Josh. How many times a week does
Speaker 7: someone bad for you to pay Pat Kelsey more money?
Speaker 7: It's happening.
Speaker 3: I can promise you that.
Speaker 8: I can promise you that, and I can assure you
Speaker 8: we're gonna do everything that we need to do to
Speaker 8: make sure Pat and his family feel like they're welcome
Speaker 8: here in Louisville.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So again that's not like an official Hey, he signed
Speaker 2: a contract, but no brainer. Josh, Herd's well aware that
Speaker 2: we got to do whatever we got to do to
Speaker 2: keep this guy around. And Louisville has never in my
Speaker 2: to my knowledge, I don't know if Louisville's since Denny
Speaker 2: decided to not go back to UCLA, has Louisville ever
Speaker 2: been in a position where we were worried about losing
Speaker 2: our coach to another job. Like Rick would do the
Speaker 2: whole like floated out there to make people appreciate him.
Speaker 2: But I don't think Rick was ever leaving Louisville. He
Speaker 2: was a made man here, I mean, and where would
Speaker 2: he go that was better?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: It just it wasn't realistic.
Speaker 6: I remember when I lived in Arizona, people were literally
Speaker 6: thinking that that was a possibility. It was right afterlude
Speaker 6: Olsen retired, and people were people had their people had
Speaker 6: their eyes on Ricky.
Speaker 2: P Yeah, because I mean at that point Arizona, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, they haven't been to a Final four since
Speaker 2: Loude Olsen, but clearly they made their mark on the
Speaker 2: on the sport during that time. And you know, Rick
Speaker 2: Rick at that time, I guess hadn't been at Louisville
Speaker 2: that long, right, like he'd been here a little while.
Speaker 2: But like you know, I think once Rick, once they
Speaker 2: rode it out with Rick as far as like his
Speaker 2: off the court stuff with Cipher, I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like at that point it was going to be a
Speaker 2: no brainer that he that he that he stays.
Speaker 3: But anyways, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think louisvill would ever lose a basketball coach because again,
Speaker 2: like there's even though there are better jobs, and yes
Speaker 2: there are better jobs than Louisville, but not many, and
Speaker 2: you've got a good enough job to where like you know,
Speaker 2: it just wouldn't make a lot of sense unless like
Speaker 2: there's a connection, like if Pat Kelsey played at duke
Speaker 2: or something. They'd be a different situation. But Louisville, I
Speaker 2: hope has him for a long time because he's so
Speaker 2: far he's been great. All right, quick break, we'll come
Speaker 2: back on the other side, wrap up the four o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: and then we've got the five o'clock hour, and we're
Speaker 2: going to be joined by our buddy mister Dan Coob,
Speaker 2: who I missed dearly. He's got a really cool project
Speaker 2: that I think you guys are going to be excited
Speaker 2: to hear about.
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Speaker 2: That's right, we were wrapping up the four o'clock hour
Speaker 2: here on a Thursday afternoon. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: still sunny outside now, but it was on the way
Speaker 2: in and it was beautiful outside. I need to stop
Speaker 2: mentioning weather because yesterday, yesterday was a reminder that I mean,
Speaker 2: I knew it was cold, and it wasn't you know,
Speaker 2: wasn't you know beautiful outside? But I didn't know we'd
Speaker 2: be walking out to Oh and that's what happened. So anyways,
Speaker 2: not a lot of time left here, but I do
Speaker 2: want to mention the local high school basketball postseason tournaments
Speaker 2: that are going on. I know the sixth and seventh regions.
Speaker 2: I believe the semis are now set and I know, let's.
Speaker 3: See heret me.
Speaker 2: Just make sure I've got it correct here because I
Speaker 2: could be wrong, and I've not kept up with it
Speaker 2: super close, but I've kept it up with just enough.
Speaker 2: I've been really enjoyed. I really enjoyed watching my North
Speaker 2: Bullet Eagles. This year's my buddy, former teammate of mine,
Speaker 2: Jesse Curry's first year coaching the Eagles, and they had
Speaker 2: a good year. Nineteen wins. Did fall short in the
Speaker 2: regional tournament earlier this week to PRP, but I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure nineteen wins in the first season is the most
Speaker 2: any North Bullet coaches had in their first year, like ever.
Speaker 2: But anyways, they fell to more in the district championship.
Speaker 2: Who has a really good team, and again PRP got
Speaker 2: them in the in the.
Speaker 3: Regional tournament earlier this week.
Speaker 2: But right now you've got really the final four here locally,
Speaker 2: and let's see. I know they're doing it at Valley
Speaker 2: and let me see, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 2: This website teasy to navigate. I'm just an idiot. But
Speaker 2: p RP and Butler will play on Saturday at noon.
Speaker 2: That's the semi one of the semi final matchups in
Speaker 2: the sixth region, and then More will play jay Town
Speaker 2: after that. And I've not seen all these teams play,
Speaker 2: but certainly sounds like jay Town has got a really,
Speaker 2: really good team. But I watched More and they you know,
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what their sealing is, but
Speaker 2: they got they got a bunch of bunch of bunch
Speaker 2: of defenders. Guys, they can rebound, and they look good
Speaker 2: against against North Bullet.
Speaker 3: When I watched him play.
Speaker 2: And then in the seventh region you've got Manual, who
Speaker 2: got past Mail the rivalry matchup earlier this week in
Speaker 2: the region in the first round of the regionals, they'll
Speaker 2: take on Trinity. Uh so that'll take place on that's
Speaker 2: tomorrow night at six o'clock. And then after that you'll
Speaker 2: have Ballard taken on Saint X, who, last I checked it,
Speaker 2: number one team is the number one team in the state.
Speaker 2: So Manual and Trinity and then Ballard in the st
Speaker 2: X and then I know we have some folks that
Speaker 2: listen from you know, just south of here. Fifth region
Speaker 2: they haven't started yet that actually starts. Let's see is that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they'll play tomorrow. It looks like in their first round games.
Speaker 2: But you got Bargetown, Caverna Ader County, Central Hard and
Speaker 2: North Hard and Bethlehem Green Green County who's really good
Speaker 2: this year in Taylor County, and then just north I
Speaker 2: guess it's north right up seventy one the Oldham Counties.
Speaker 3: That's the eighth region.
Speaker 2: They have yet to start their tournament either, but that
Speaker 2: that would take by the way, that when I was
Speaker 2: in high school, we used to be in the eighth region.
Speaker 3: The Bullet County schools did.
Speaker 2: They don't know what to do with us, because we
Speaker 2: could be in the fifth, we could be in the sixth,
Speaker 2: which we are. We were in the eighth when I
Speaker 2: was growing up. We wouldn't belong in the seventh necessarily.
Speaker 2: But and in fact they just made the recent change
Speaker 2: to her. Now for the first time in a long time,
Speaker 2: all Bullet County schools will be in the same district,
Speaker 2: which is the way it should be, but it hasn't
Speaker 2: been in a long time. But the eighth Region tournament
Speaker 2: has played at Henry County High School and they have such.
Speaker 3: An old, humongous gym.
Speaker 2: And when I say old, I mean I don't mean
Speaker 2: that in a bad way, Like it's old in a
Speaker 2: cool way. And I remember I got to play there,
Speaker 2: not in the regional tournament, but I got to play
Speaker 2: a game there, and like it just felt like Kentucky
Speaker 2: high school basketball in that in that gym. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they and and I I don't like that in the
Speaker 2: sixth and seventh the first round of the regional is
Speaker 2: a home game for the higher for the better seated team.
Speaker 2: Like again, you're gonna reward them because they won, but
Speaker 2: like it's the regional tournament. It should be a neutral
Speaker 2: site game at every round because like I just feel
Speaker 2: like if you know, if you make the regional tournament
Speaker 2: and you get like we got to we we won
Speaker 2: our district when I was a senior and we got
Speaker 2: to go to the Louisville Gardens to play and we
Speaker 2: got beat bad by Western when we got there. But like,
Speaker 2: you know how cool it was for kids for like
Speaker 2: like like us from Bullet County to go play at
Speaker 2: the Louisville gardens, Like that was a big that's a
Speaker 2: big deal, and it felt like, you know, we were
Speaker 2: it felt like we made the regional, like we even
Speaker 2: though we lost and we only showed up to get
Speaker 2: beat you know, we took the bus there. The school
Speaker 2: emptied out and everybody you know went down to the
Speaker 2: gardens and it was cool, like to have that same
Speaker 2: level as far as like how far you go were
Speaker 2: you just losing the first round? I mean the experience
Speaker 2: of playing in the garden would be cool. Going on
Speaker 2: the road to play PRP who won their district and
Speaker 2: them being the one that injured season. You know. Again,
Speaker 2: if you don't like it, beat them, I get it.
Speaker 2: But like I just feel like regional tournaments should should
Speaker 2: all be at the same location and not have like,
Speaker 2: you know, home games for teams that win their district.
Speaker 2: Because honestly, even if I was, you know, even if
Speaker 2: I was able to play a home game because I
Speaker 2: won my district, yeah that would beneficial, but like that
Speaker 2: would feel weird, like I would want to play, you know,
Speaker 2: and we don't really JCPS uses Valley for all these
Speaker 2: games now.
Speaker 3: They used to use the gardens.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm pretty sure the last event for basketball
Speaker 2: in the Gardens was when I was in high school,
Speaker 2: my senior year, and then they did it Bellarmine, which
Speaker 2: was kind of cool, but I just wish they would.
Speaker 2: I wish there was a venue that would host it
Speaker 2: to where like it was. It was like, you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't some teams playing on their home floor. But
Speaker 2: they even do that in college now.
Speaker 3: Which is stupid.
Speaker 2: Like some some conference tournaments like the the they're they're
Speaker 2: like the top seeded team gets to host it.
Speaker 3: It's stupid. All right, stick with USPAK. Another hour to go.
Speaker 3: We're a little late for the break here. Apologies