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Speaker 4: Let's get it started as day one of the college
Speaker 4: basketball offseason.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sad.
Speaker 4: I mean it's I'm bummed that it's over, but I
Speaker 4: think we got a great final four. I don't know
Speaker 4: how great last night's game was, but I'm willing to
Speaker 4: admit that it could have been much worse if it
Speaker 4: is considered to be a game that wasn't of high quality,
Speaker 4: and I still would have loved every minute of it.
Speaker 4: But we got a close finish. But man, what a
Speaker 4: weird way for that thing to close out. And we'll
Speaker 4: get to it. We'll talk about it, no doubt. Obviously,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of reaction from last night but man,
Speaker 4: with free agency now existing in college basketball. As I
Speaker 4: was trying to get to sleep last night, I was
Speaker 4: checking to see the reaction from, of course, the National
Speaker 4: Championship game, and I'm on Twitter way more than I
Speaker 4: need to be, which I do have some thoughts on
Speaker 4: that later as far as just like I need to,
Speaker 4: I need to find a comfort zone, as far as
Speaker 4: how to utilize the platform, because it's really valuable for
Speaker 4: what we do here. It's just, you know, the engagement
Speaker 4: of it is dead, Like I just can't even I
Speaker 4: can't even go there when it comes to just you know,
Speaker 4: going back and forth with trolls and anyways, that's a
Speaker 4: conversation for down the line. But before I went to
Speaker 4: sleep last night, there were at least five or six
Speaker 4: like notable outlets that already had their early rankings for
Speaker 4: next season prepped for publish. And I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 4: willing to admit I was really surprised to see just
Speaker 4: how how much everyone seems to think Louisville is going
Speaker 4: to be really, really, really good. And I do too,
Speaker 4: I mean, trust me, I'm I'm as excited as can
Speaker 4: be about next year Year two for Pat Kelsey knowing
Speaker 4: that we still don't know exactly what the roster's going
Speaker 4: to look like.
Speaker 2: And that's that can mean.
Speaker 4: Is there a team out there right now that knows
Speaker 4: exactly like what their team is going to be? I
Speaker 4: would I would say no, right, Like, how could you
Speaker 4: so to have rankings this early? Let's just be real,
Speaker 4: it's stupid. But I don't know what it is about rankings, lists,
Speaker 4: those kind of things. I think drafts have become really
Speaker 4: really popular when it comes to just content. If somebody
Speaker 4: sees we're going to do a draft of like movies
Speaker 4: or restaurants, you know, it's it. Even though people realize
Speaker 4: it's it's not it's not the end all be all right,
Speaker 4: Like if Austin and I did a fast food restaurant draft.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just our opinions, doesn't change anything, but
Speaker 4: people would have strong thoughts because you know, it's something
Speaker 4: people can relate to. So we'll talk about it. But
Speaker 4: I just I don't know. Maybe it's maybe it's me
Speaker 4: getting older. I just I can't fake that. I've you
Speaker 4: know that I've got a strong reaction to these college
Speaker 4: basketball I mean, to be fair.
Speaker 2: Like it it's.
Speaker 4: Stupid or well, I guess I guess they're they're both
Speaker 4: really stupid. But like bracketology in in you know, June,
Speaker 4: like that's really stupid. But I think to give Joey
Speaker 4: Bracketts some credit here, he probably is not as his
Speaker 4: his brackets in the summer later in the summer although worthless.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess his brackets all the time are
Speaker 4: worthless because he doesn't have anything to do with seating
Speaker 4: the NAA tournament at all in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 4: But putting out rankings for teams and there's not a
Speaker 4: single team in your preseason top twenty five or top
Speaker 4: forty five, whatever you did that is fully set in stone.
Speaker 4: I maybe I'm off there, Like maybe there are teams
Speaker 4: that know exactly who's coming back and they have this
Speaker 4: many freshmen coming in and they've already filled the three
Speaker 4: spots they need in the portal. Like like, maybe I'm
Speaker 4: way off, And it's just me kind of getting caught
Speaker 4: up in what Louisville and Kentucky both did last year,
Speaker 4: because I mean, you had to build a roster from
Speaker 4: scratch to where it was a long process, much longer
Speaker 4: than most programs, because you know, you had to build
Speaker 4: really twelve thirteen pieces, and you know you.
Speaker 2: Started with Louisville.
Speaker 4: It was Terrence Edwards who was your first commitment, and
Speaker 4: I think the last one might have been Big Frank
Speaker 4: Frank anselom Ivy, who was you know, a late ad
Speaker 4: that you know didn't get a ton of attention. But anyways,
Speaker 4: Louisville believed to be very, very good next year according
Speaker 4: to those that have a platform to talk college basketball,
Speaker 4: a platform that of course is bigger than this one
Speaker 4: that I have here. John Fanta has Louisville at number
Speaker 4: three ESPNS, Jeff Borzello has Louisville at number three, and
Speaker 4: there's others out there that are really high on the cards.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to say that as if like
Speaker 4: it's some big surprise, because again, Louisville finished the season
Speaker 4: is a top twenty five team and they've landed three
Speaker 4: top fifteen proven players in the portal. I guess you
Speaker 4: could say maybe the Kinnesau State transfer Warley isn't as
Speaker 4: proven because he's only played one season of college ball
Speaker 4: and it was at Kinnesau State. But still, you know,
Speaker 4: he had a lot of suitors coming after him. And
Speaker 4: what I have noticed, and maybe this is something I
Speaker 4: shouldn't pay much attention to. But everyone that is putting
Speaker 4: Louisville in the top five, top ten wherever they're including
Speaker 4: that Caseon Pryor and Javon Hadley are coming back, which
Speaker 4: I hope they do. As I talked about yesterday, I
Speaker 4: have no reason to think that like they're for sure
Speaker 4: not or they're strongly like none of us know, and
Speaker 4: I guess until they say something, we should assume that
Speaker 4: they're going to be back. I just also am of
Speaker 4: the mindset that if they do decide to hit the
Speaker 4: portal and really just reset their value right like, check
Speaker 4: the market, see what's out there, see who'd be interested,
Speaker 4: see what kind of money they could get one, you
Speaker 4: can't blame them for doing that, and it just wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be a big shock.
Speaker 4: So that that's the one thing that has kept me
Speaker 4: from just assuming that those guys are back. But look,
Speaker 4: if they're back and your roster is is is set
Speaker 4: with those guys included, I'm not even really sure how
Speaker 4: many pieces you have left to add when it comes
Speaker 4: to scholarships, and that I think would be a team
Speaker 4: that's worthy of this preseason praise. Now for Kentucky, obviously
Speaker 4: a lot of praise for them as well, but you know,
Speaker 4: not quite as much as Louisvill's getting in again.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 4: We can rivalry about that if you guys wont but like,
Speaker 4: I just can't go there with you if like you know,
Speaker 4: we're dunking on each other about preseason rankings and portal
Speaker 4: rankings in early in early April. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: have fatigue when it comes to the rivalry and you know,
Speaker 4: really getting deep into the weeds and just going back
Speaker 4: and forth battling anonymous you know, losers on the internet.
Speaker 2: But I just I can't. I can't. I can't do
Speaker 2: it and fake that. I really haven't had the energy
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that, Kentucky did add a player today that
Speaker 4: is a highly regarded player in the transfer portal, a
Speaker 4: player that both programs around here familiar with.
Speaker 2: Jaden Quaintance of.
Speaker 4: Arizona State, previously committed to Kentucky, decommitted when Kyle left,
Speaker 4: and he was shopped around. Arizona State became the biggest
Speaker 4: bidder and he ended up there and had a fine
Speaker 4: freshman season. I mean he wasn't I mean, he wasn't
Speaker 4: a freshman All American by any means. But you know,
Speaker 4: he played for a team that wasn't very good and
Speaker 4: then he got hurt towards ACL in March. So when
Speaker 4: he plays, I don't know, but that's going to boost
Speaker 4: Kentucky's expectations just because he is still living off of
Speaker 4: his five star billing that he had out a high school.
Speaker 4: And there's no reason to say that he won't turn
Speaker 4: into real good play here. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: he's someone that I would have assumed didn't have the
Speaker 4: same you know, ranking slash value after a year at
Speaker 4: Arizona State, because I won't lie and act like I
Speaker 4: watched a lot of Arizona State basketball because I didn't.
Speaker 2: They weren't relevant, they weren't good.
Speaker 4: But you know, he played the Big twelve, which of
Speaker 4: course is a good league, power five league.
Speaker 2: And he was he was.
Speaker 4: I but you know, maybe now that he's you know,
Speaker 4: there's a big jump that guys make from freshman a sophomore,
Speaker 4: So maybe that happens. But I've got some thoughts that
Speaker 4: I've already shared on Twitter that got uh Big the
Speaker 4: big Blue Bozos all riled up, which I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't want to do it, but I gotta do it.
Speaker 2: I gotta cook. I didn't come here with the apron.
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't bring uh, I didn't bring my George Foreman grill,
Speaker 4: my air frar. But I got I gotta cook. I mean,
Speaker 4: I got, I got to and I'll certainly have to
Speaker 4: do it because you know, you can't say anything about
Speaker 4: the other side of this rivalry, regardless of what you say,
Speaker 4: if even if you were to compliment them like it
Speaker 4: just turns into.
Speaker 2: Just just.
Speaker 4: I can't think of the right way to describe it
Speaker 4: where I'd be allowed to say it on the airways
Speaker 4: airwaves without you know, getting in trouble. But anyways, we'll
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Speaker 4: travel chief alongside and I guess just last night's game.
Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, congratulations to you, Austin. I
Speaker 4: mean you you won your bracket pool right.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the fiance's family bracket. Nice. I had the
Speaker 2: championship Houston and Florida.
Speaker 4: I did not think that that it was going to
Speaker 4: be Florida after watching the first really thirty.
Speaker 2: Minutes of that game.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the biggest come from behind victory in
Speaker 4: a national championship game. It never felt like it was
Speaker 4: out of reach in Florida. To their credit, they are
Speaker 4: a team that is absolutely built to quickly erase deficits.
Speaker 4: I mean they did it against Texas Tech. And they
Speaker 4: did it then also in kind of more of a
Speaker 4: of a last you know, last run kind of thing,
Speaker 4: like they tied it up and we had a close
Speaker 4: game last night for the last you know, few minutes
Speaker 4: and some change. But against Texas Tech, I mean they
Speaker 4: were kind of in desperation mode clawing back and they
Speaker 4: got it done. So clearly they've proven they can they
Speaker 4: can do what was what was needed last night to
Speaker 4: claw back in it. But I just, more than anything,
Speaker 4: I am, I am blown away by the last two
Speaker 4: possessions for Houston, like it just it seems so off
Speaker 4: and uncharacteristic for for for this team coached by Kelvin Sampson.
Speaker 4: I mean, to not get a shot at the end there,
Speaker 4: I mean, that was just I'm still kind of in disbelief.
Speaker 4: And look, whenever Florida had a late lead, I didn't
Speaker 4: have a whole lot of confidence that, you know, not
Speaker 4: that I if Texas Tech would have made a three
Speaker 4: late and won it or went to overtime and found
Speaker 4: a way to win, that wouldn't have shocked me at all.
Speaker 4: I mean, they were in control of that game for
Speaker 4: a lot longer than they weren't. But to see them
Speaker 4: just kind of unravel in those last two possessions, it
Speaker 4: was very shocking because it was very very uncharacteristic of
Speaker 4: Kelvin Sampson type teams. And you could tell at the
Speaker 4: end of that one. I mean, Kelvin Samson, I think
Speaker 4: he's pretty transparent like, I think what you see is
Speaker 4: what you get. I don't believe there's a whole lot
Speaker 4: of just you know, coach speak, and I think he
Speaker 4: was in disbelief more than anybody. And I give him credit.
Speaker 4: I think he did a good job of I guess
Speaker 4: channeling anger add this and disappointment to where he was
Speaker 4: still professional. But here are his comments after after last night.
Speaker 3: Just what's going through your mind right now? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just going through those last two possessions more than
Speaker 3: anything else. Yeah, it's incomprehensible in that situation. We couldn't
Speaker 3: get a shot, get a shot. We're down two, and
Speaker 3: obviously we didn't need a three, but you know, with
Speaker 3: the manual, we were struggling to score the entire second half.
Speaker 3: We got you know, good looks.
Speaker 4: So there's more to that, but I mean, it's just
Speaker 4: it is insane that they didn't They didn't end up
Speaker 4: getting a shot. I mean, and before the turnover that
Speaker 4: ended the game, you had the play where they have
Speaker 4: the I don't remember who it was that was driving
Speaker 4: for them that just lost the ball. I mean, just
Speaker 4: just lost the ball. And I feel like Houston and
Speaker 4: They'll get Florida a lot of credit for good defense
Speaker 4: in both instances.
Speaker 2: I mean, they.
Speaker 4: Deserve credit, but I just never thought we'd see Houston
Speaker 4: and Kelvin Sampson.
Speaker 2: Beat themselves like that.
Speaker 4: And I know times when you say you beat yourself,
Speaker 4: it's an insinuation that you know the opponent didn't have
Speaker 4: anything to do with that, and I'm not saying that
Speaker 4: at all, But those were avoidable mistakes as well, right, Like, well,
Speaker 4: they were well defended, but those are avoidable mistakes that I.
Speaker 2: Just did not expect to see Houston make.
Speaker 4: And I feel bad for the young man who and
Speaker 4: I'm terror and this is just another sign of like Houston.
Speaker 4: I mean, here, I am the guy saying we should
Speaker 4: give it more credit than they get. Nobody's saying they're
Speaker 4: not good. But man, like, is anybody paying attention what
Speaker 4: Kelvin Samson's doing here at Houston? And yet I don't
Speaker 4: know any of the players' names. I mean I do,
Speaker 4: I know LJ. But I wouldn't know him if it
Speaker 4: wasn't for his time at Baylor and him being a
Speaker 4: guy that last night. Had they won, he'd be the
Speaker 4: first player in college basketball history to ever win two
Speaker 4: championships with two different schools, but I think it was
Speaker 4: it was Sharp who elevated had to put the ball down.
Speaker 4: None of his teammates knew it. I mean, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of different ways to make mistakes that can really
Speaker 4: really impact your team's ability or inability to win a game,
Speaker 4: and I just think that one was, as you know,
Speaker 4: a walk, which I guess technically that's what it was, right,
Speaker 4: which I had. Maybe they didn'tven call it because he
Speaker 4: didn't grab the ball. He couldn't grab the ball because
Speaker 4: it would have been travel because he left his feet
Speaker 4: left the ground.
Speaker 2: So again, like you could.
Speaker 4: Have a double dribble, you could kick it off your foot,
Speaker 4: you could have an offensive foul. I mean, at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, if the end result is a
Speaker 4: turnover there, that's a disastrous But I think as a
Speaker 4: player in that position, a veteran in a national championship
Speaker 4: game on a thirty five and five team to leave
Speaker 4: the ground.
Speaker 2: And and and.
Speaker 4: Then mid air realize he can't get a shot off
Speaker 4: and just drop the ball. That's that's a level of
Speaker 4: bone headed mistake that you just don't see for many
Speaker 4: people in that moment. So again, I don't want to
Speaker 4: mean it's it's it's not the only mistake they made
Speaker 4: just to play prior there was a you know, a
Speaker 4: similar another mistake that again was a turnover, same result.
Speaker 4: But that's just like mentally not being ready in that
Speaker 4: moment and you can look, you can throw up a
Speaker 4: desperation three or get a drive and miss the shot,
Speaker 4: like for example, Cooper Flag he missed that shot against Houston.
Speaker 4: Didn't mean what ready, he just missed the shot. I
Speaker 4: mean he was a little bit short, he was well defended,
Speaker 4: and it's a shot he makes a lot and you
Speaker 4: didn't make it. Then sometimes you miss shots, but to
Speaker 4: have that happen leave the ground and then just crap
Speaker 4: your pants mid air, I mean that was bad, really
Speaker 4: really bad, and you just you just don't see Kelvin
Speaker 4: Samson type teams make those mistakes, and I think that's
Speaker 4: why he was in such disbelief. But I think both
Speaker 4: sides were very uncharacteristic last night, because I mean, Florida
Speaker 4: to me, they've looked like a cool customer throughout the
Speaker 4: entire season. Now, I mean they rolled through the SEC tournament,
Speaker 4: which was a very impressive thing to do this year, right,
Speaker 4: I mean they were dominant in that tournament, and they
Speaker 4: had a couple of tests in the tournament to get
Speaker 4: to the championship game that really showed that, hey, they
Speaker 4: were able to keep their cool and remain composed against Yukon,
Speaker 4: right they I mean they were up against it when
Speaker 4: they were going against Yukon because that game was played
Speaker 4: the exact way Yukon wanted it to be played. And
Speaker 4: sure enough, Florida hung tough, made tough shots, found a
Speaker 4: way to win. Same thing, go back to the Texas
Speaker 4: Tech game. But then early on, I mean Walter Clayton Junior,
Speaker 4: who was phenomenal in the second half as far as
Speaker 4: just scoring and making plays and not letting the first
Speaker 4: half impact his second half, because the.
Speaker 2: First half was was a disaster.
Speaker 4: I know he here, I was gassing him up for
Speaker 4: being able to take so many tough shots and make them.
Speaker 4: I mean, he looked like last night. There were a
Speaker 4: few times in the first half it looked like he
Speaker 4: was playing two K and he accidentally hit the wrong button, just.
Speaker 2: Just jacked up a shot, because what was that like.
Speaker 4: It wasn't even it was no way like it was
Speaker 4: just like he just like hot potato.
Speaker 2: So he looked a little nervous.
Speaker 4: And then Alex Condon, who has been really good for
Speaker 4: them all year, and his numbers were good last night,
Speaker 4: I mean twelve point seven boards, five of nine. I mean,
Speaker 4: he didn't have a bad game at all, but.
Speaker 2: He looked scared to death.
Speaker 4: He looked like he I mean he looked and I've
Speaker 4: never seen someone look so visibly just shaken.
Speaker 2: And it is the National Championship game.
Speaker 4: And I loved the interview from Kelvin Samson where he
Speaker 4: was saying, look, it's a National championship game, you're not playing.
Speaker 2: What did he say anything of what.
Speaker 4: He made up a team in his halftime interview when
Speaker 4: talking to I remember who it was for CBS. But anyways,
Speaker 4: you know, like both teams were like a little bit nervous,
Speaker 4: but Florida seemed more nervous than I would have expected.
Speaker 4: And I really don't think that that Houston seemed jittery.
Speaker 4: They just had a tough time making some shots fall
Speaker 4: and but Florida looked uncomfortable even so much in the
Speaker 4: beginning of the second half, right, they tried to get
Speaker 4: more physical and they just kept getting called for fouls.
Speaker 4: So Florida was uncharacteristic as far as just you know,
Speaker 4: rolling through this whole season in the most difficult conference
Speaker 4: in the country and then just kind of not you know,
Speaker 4: just not really being in the moment like they were,
Speaker 4: just like the moment was kind of too big for him,
Speaker 4: it seemed, especially Walter Clayton, which I was surprised by.
Speaker 4: Now again he played well in the second half in Florida,
Speaker 4: did everything you need to do late to win a game,
Speaker 4: and that kind of proved that, you know, they can
Speaker 4: withstand struggles and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: But they two technical fouls.
Speaker 4: That's just I mean, you rarely ever see technicals inter
Speaker 4: national champions of game, but this is one that this
Speaker 4: is this is another staff that will really I guess
Speaker 4: it'll really confirm just how uncharacteristic they were in a
Speaker 4: lot of ways last night until they turned it on
Speaker 4: and won the game. Florida had one technical all year
Speaker 4: as a team at two last night, and I think
Speaker 4: both came in the second half. So again, both teams
Speaker 4: were a little uncharacteristic. Maybe it's the moment. Again, you
Speaker 4: are playing for a national championship. I mean that's a
Speaker 4: big deal. I mean, I think any tournament game there's
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure because it's winneror go home. These
Speaker 4: were teams that knew, hey, we're expected to win this
Speaker 4: thing now because look at where we are we've been.
Speaker 4: I mean, you get four number one seeds make the
Speaker 4: final four, so when you're there, it's not like you're
Speaker 4: surprised to be there, but there is that expectation that, hey,
Speaker 4: we're not just going to be satisfied to be here.
Speaker 2: We need to win it.
Speaker 4: So maybe that's why, you know, once you got to
Speaker 4: the final game, where it's, hey, this is it, maybe
Speaker 4: that's why they were Florida was a little jittery and
Speaker 4: not themselves. But man, I still can't believe that Houston
Speaker 4: didn't get a shot off at the end there. And
Speaker 4: you know, it's probably not the only time that a
Speaker 4: team has made mistakes late that you know, caution National championship.
Speaker 4: But the two mistakes that were made were just I mean,
Speaker 4: what's the word. I mean, boneheaded is the word I
Speaker 4: used earlier, but I'm not even sure that really hits
Speaker 4: to just be dribbling through not necessarily traffic, but just
Speaker 4: trying to head down drive and make a play. It
Speaker 4: just lost the ball out of bounds and then you
Speaker 4: leave the ground to take a shot, crap your pants
Speaker 4: as doing such and eat the game's over.
Speaker 2: I mean it was, it was. I shouldn't laugh, but
Speaker 2: I mean it was. It was crazy.
Speaker 4: It was crazy, and you guys are crazy if you
Speaker 4: don't stick with us for the next two hours and
Speaker 4: forty minutes.
Speaker 2: So a lot to get to.
Speaker 4: I mean again, we're going to talk a lot about
Speaker 4: rosters coming together for college basketball teams. Obviously a lot
Speaker 4: of excitement and expectation for the programs around here. There's
Speaker 4: a real obvious We've talked a lot about Louisville, Kentucky,
Speaker 4: what they've done, A real obvious, obvious approach for defrees
Speaker 4: in Indiana. My man's got a type in the portal,
Speaker 4: a real type. So we'll get to that. Mike Malone
Speaker 4: and the NBA was fired, which I don't know if
Speaker 4: anybody gives a dam about the NBA right now, but
Speaker 4: I think it's quite clear, like what this is telling us.
Speaker 4: If Mike Malone can get fired in Denver, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's the full on confirmation that NBA coaching is
Speaker 4: now a thankless job.
Speaker 2: It just is.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you fix it, either. So we'll
Speaker 4: get to that in a lot of other nonsense. We'll
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Speaker 4: four to three eight ninety seventy three. Some football news
Speaker 4: to get to. Not really about anything, you know, specific
Speaker 4: when it comes to the program, it's about the spring game.
Speaker 2: So uh.
Speaker 4: The UFL football Twitter account just posted that they will
Speaker 4: be moving up the kickoff for the spring game this
Speaker 4: Friday by an hour, so it's gonna start at six o'clock.
Speaker 4: And it says here on the tweet that they're trying
Speaker 4: to maximize daylight and kick off an hour early on Fridays,
Speaker 4: so hopefully there's a good crowd out there. Spring games,
Speaker 4: you know, still very very important. But my thoughts on
Speaker 4: spring games changed when Scott satdayoulb was here because I
Speaker 4: think spring games. I mean, I have no issue with them.
Speaker 4: I don't think you should not have them. I just
Speaker 4: to me it was a tease because I used to
Speaker 4: try to tell myself, we're gonna learn about this team
Speaker 4: in the offseason. We're gonna in the spring, we're gonna
Speaker 4: really we're gonna get a gay, We're gonna you know,
Speaker 4: but you just don't know. Like it's impossible to really
Speaker 4: know or get anything out of spring football because you're
Speaker 4: playing against yourselves. And the way Louisville used to do
Speaker 4: it with Bobby specifically, I mean he would have his
Speaker 4: first string offense go against his second string defense and
Speaker 4: vice versa to where you just had, like, you know,
Speaker 4: eighty to nothing scores. I mean, I'm exaggerating, but it
Speaker 4: was just impossible to really learn something about your team
Speaker 4: as a fan. Now it's clearly very important for your program,
Speaker 4: for your players and your team and all that kind
Speaker 4: of stuff. But now when I say Sadderfield, like Saderfield
Speaker 4: made me realize that if you just don't have one,
Speaker 4: which he didn't want to have one, they had to
Speaker 4: force him to have one, it's just a big miss,
Speaker 4: a missed opportunity to market your program and get people excited,
Speaker 4: and who knows what kind. I mean, you got to win,
Speaker 4: you got to have some good momentum. But you know,
Speaker 4: even if you don't, you could potentially, you know, use
Speaker 4: the spring to get people excited in some way to
Speaker 4: buy tickets and get it, you know, and it's it's
Speaker 4: important in that aspect. But with the portal now, I
Speaker 4: mean there's a lot of programs that have just flied out,
Speaker 4: canceled their spring game, or done something totally different. Last
Speaker 4: year at old Miss Lane Kiffett, if you remember, I mean,
Speaker 4: he had his team do like tugle war at midfield
Speaker 4: and they had some kind of like eating contests where
Speaker 4: they brought Joey Chestnut out and he later said that
Speaker 4: he did all of that because he did not want
Speaker 4: to have any depth chart out there where anybody on
Speaker 4: their rosters saw where they were, and he didn't want
Speaker 4: to have any any footage because there you're now required,
Speaker 4: at least in the SEC, I believe the ACC as well,
Speaker 4: to have your spring game on the network because they
Speaker 4: need content. So Louisville in a spring game a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago, if you remember Tyler Harrell, who a
Speaker 4: name I can't believe I just remember that off the
Speaker 4: top of my head. It came to me because I
Speaker 4: was thinking, I know, way, I'm gonna remember this guy's name.
Speaker 4: But he was the speedster who was a really really
Speaker 4: really fast receiver and at times, you know, he would
Speaker 4: just get touchdowns because nobody could catch him. Now, he
Speaker 4: wasn't a great receiver as far as you know, route running,
Speaker 4: and didn't have the best hands and whatnot, but he
Speaker 4: showed the Jets and went off in a spring game,
Speaker 4: and sure enough Alabama saw it and they Tamford somehow,
Speaker 4: and he ended up at Bama and never played, transferred
Speaker 4: i think to Miami and never played. So he probably
Speaker 4: would have been better off at Louisville. But two things,
Speaker 4: players don't or coaches don't want a guy that transferred
Speaker 4: in to see that he's second string in the spring
Speaker 4: and in bail. And it's silly you have to worry
Speaker 4: about that, but you do because they can and it
Speaker 4: happens pretty often. I mean, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 4: in the last couple of years that transferred midyear and
Speaker 4: state spring and then left in the summer and in
Speaker 4: it of elsewhere. So anyways, that's a factor. But also
Speaker 4: when it comes to keeping guys, you know, you don't
Speaker 4: want them to look to leave because they may be
Speaker 4: second string in the spring. But you also don't want
Speaker 4: programs that you know have more money and resources than
Speaker 4: you to see somebody they like in your spring game,
Speaker 4: because it is not difficult at all to let that
Speaker 4: player know that they're wanted by a said school without
Speaker 4: actually having a coach do it from a program. So anyway,
Speaker 4: spring game is at six o'clock on Friday, and they're
Speaker 4: going to have I mean, I'm looking here at the
Speaker 4: press release and it doesn't really give you a whole
Speaker 4: lot as far as what you can expect as far
Speaker 4: as like competition. But I will say that you can
Speaker 4: tailgate if you want. I mean, parking lots are going
Speaker 4: to open at one o'clock, So college football ban tailgating
Speaker 4: is such a big part of that overall experience. So
Speaker 4: that alone is reason to have a spring game. So
Speaker 4: enjoy the tailgating if you're going all right again, Coffee
Speaker 4: and Company. Feel about Thorton's here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 4: ninety It is wild to kind of see how everything
Speaker 4: came together for Todd Golden in the last I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't really remember exactly when it became news, but
Speaker 4: it was a big deal. But there was a four
Speaker 4: month investigation in allegations of sexual harassment and sexual exploitation
Speaker 4: stalking as well, involving multiple women at Florida, and I
Speaker 4: believe there were students or maybe just finished going to school,
Speaker 4: they're just graduated. And it was investigated and they found
Speaker 4: I guess, no evidence that supported any of the claims
Speaker 4: at all, and he set back silent, which I'm sure
Speaker 4: was hard to do. The school set back silent and
Speaker 4: just let that process play out. And I got to
Speaker 4: tell you that should be an example as far as don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, I kind of feel we have gotten to
Speaker 4: a point where people aren't so quick to.
Speaker 2: Just all right, bad pr got it, got it you.
Speaker 4: We got to cancel this guy, We gotta we got
Speaker 4: to completely distance ourselves and and and you know, eliminate
Speaker 4: this person's existence from from our program, our school, whatever
Speaker 4: it may be. And sometimes you need to do that,
Speaker 4: and sometimes it takes time to figure out, Yeah, we
Speaker 4: should do that, but you should always let things, you know,
Speaker 4: play out. I think other programs and I'm not even
Speaker 4: singling anybody out like I don't. I can't tell you
Speaker 4: which school would have would have quickly reacted. I'm not
Speaker 4: saying you've got a bunch of woke schools that wouldn't
Speaker 4: have let you know, the process play out, and they
Speaker 4: would have just canceled Golden and you know, kicked him
Speaker 4: out of town. But maybe not other schools this year
Speaker 4: or when this happened, but maybe three or four years ago,
Speaker 4: whenever we were so sick. I mean, I don't even
Speaker 4: want to use the word sensitive because you know, that
Speaker 4: makes it sound like you know people, Because if this
Speaker 4: stuff is true and it and you're bothered by it,
Speaker 4: you're not You're not sensitive.
Speaker 2: I mean that's a big issue. But I had this happened.
Speaker 4: Twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one in that in that
Speaker 4: window a time, I kind of feel like Flora would
Speaker 4: have just felt the need.
Speaker 2: Look, we have we can't. This is now out there.
Speaker 2: The student newspaper ran with the story, and it's it's
Speaker 2: national news. To cover our own ass. We gotta can
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 4: I mean to me, as I said that out loud,
Speaker 4: that would have been ridiculous to do that without looking
Speaker 4: into it. But let's be real, we weren't we society
Speaker 4: was in a time where that was like just the
Speaker 4: common thing to do, right. So and look, they probably
Speaker 4: took some heat from certain types of individuals that just
Speaker 4: assume that so you allow this kind of stuff. Well, no,
Speaker 4: we're going to look into it and figure out what
Speaker 4: went on. And since it was and this has been months,
Speaker 4: I feel like since it was you know, put out there,
Speaker 4: that they looked into it and everything's like that, there
Speaker 4: was no evidence that supported any of those claims. There's
Speaker 4: nothing that can that can back up anything that was alleged,
Speaker 4: at least not that it was appropriate as far as
Speaker 4: like communication, that kind of stuf of I mean, I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't feel like there was anybody because sometimes you know,
Speaker 4: you'll see a institution an employer side with somebody who
Speaker 4: clearly did something bad, like for example, Louisville took a
Speaker 4: lot of heat whenever they didn't get rid of Rick
Speaker 4: Putina after Karen Cipher, because that would mean we didn't
Speaker 4: know at the time, that would be one of a
Speaker 4: few Rick Putino scandals that we'd have to you know,
Speaker 4: deal with around here. But that was the one actually
Speaker 4: that there's really nobody else you can blame.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: He did get extorted and that woman was a named
Speaker 4: Karen Cipher. I mean, she she was held accountable, she
Speaker 4: went to prison. So you know, he was a victim
Speaker 4: in that aspect of it extortion. But like you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I've always been kind of torn on
Speaker 4: that because that's a really embarrassing thing to play out.
Speaker 4: But it is his personal life, you know, like it's
Speaker 4: not I mean, that doesn't really impact his job.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: With that said, he didn't have an everyday job like
Speaker 4: you and I to where he you know, if it's
Speaker 4: public that you're out there, you know, having sex on
Speaker 4: a table at an Italian restaurant since they closed the doors,
Speaker 4: I mean, not exactly a good look for the basketball
Speaker 4: coach at the University of Louisville. But anyways, if you'd
Speaker 4: have told Todd Golden the day that it became public
Speaker 4: news that the student newspaper ran that story and he
Speaker 4: was going to be investigated by the university, if you'd
Speaker 4: have told him at that time, let it play out
Speaker 4: because you're gonna be cutting down nets in San Antonio,
Speaker 4: I mean maybe he would have believed you. But like
Speaker 4: talk about a full circle moment there. And by the way,
Speaker 4: this dude, I mean Florida's gonna be good for a
Speaker 4: long time. He's a really good coach. I think he
Speaker 4: showed that in the last couple of years. Last year specifically,
Speaker 4: it felt like he really emerged as a guy people
Speaker 4: could tell this guy knows what he's doing, did a
Speaker 4: great job at San Francisco, and I love a guy
Speaker 4: that really just kind of gradually took steps up the
Speaker 4: ladder to where he is. I mean, just getting the
Speaker 4: Florida job was a big moment, I'm sure, But this
Speaker 4: dude ten years ago was a i think a director
Speaker 4: of operations at Auburn. He didn't even have a coaching role,
Speaker 4: like a basketball coaching role. He was just a staffer, which, hey,
Speaker 4: those are that's part of the process, right usual. You
Speaker 4: don't just walk into certain jobs you got to you
Speaker 4: gotta start as being, you know, a grad assistant director
Speaker 4: of ops, maybe the video coordinator, maybe assistant strength coach,
Speaker 4: just to get you on staff to where you can
Speaker 4: be around. But like, there's only a handful of basketball
Speaker 4: coaching positions, and ten years ago he didn't have one,
Speaker 4: and now he has had two San Francisco, Florida, and
Speaker 4: now within what his first few years, he's he's a
Speaker 4: national champion. So job well done from Todd Golden. All right,
Speaker 4: real quick, this is just something I found to be interesting.
Speaker 2: And worth sharing.
Speaker 4: The game last night did not have a single freshman
Speaker 4: play a second. So that's not to say like, hey,
Speaker 4: if you're expecting freshmen better, you know, better revoke their scholarships,
Speaker 4: because you know, there were teams this year, like, for example,
Speaker 4: had Duke, had Duke been able to not let it
Speaker 4: slip away or you know, collapse like they did against Houston,
Speaker 4: it would have been a team. I mean, had Duke
Speaker 4: won it, it would have been Okay, you can still win
Speaker 4: with elite talon if you get the right ones and
Speaker 4: you got some good supporting. I mean, it would have
Speaker 4: been honestly, it would have been Kentucky's twenty It would
Speaker 4: have been Kentucky's twenty twenty twelve title. It would have
Speaker 4: been Duke's twenty fifteen title all over where. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: prize piece clearly freshmen, right, I mean, Cooper flag easy
Speaker 4: to forget this now, but Je lil okafor was a
Speaker 4: problem as a freshman. Dude, the game literally just changed
Speaker 4: so much right around the time he became like a
Speaker 4: big prospect because you know that guy in nil world,
Speaker 4: he probably would have not trained. He'd have been Hunter
Speaker 4: Dickinson and he'd have gotten every penny he asked for.
Speaker 4: I think because he was so good, he just didn't
Speaker 4: translate to the NBA. But you could make money back then,
Speaker 4: so he was really good. And just like Anthony Davis,
Speaker 4: those were the stars of those teams. However, they had
Speaker 4: really good supporting cast. Some were freshmen, but then some
Speaker 4: were veterans, grown men. I mean, wasn't Quinn cook On
Speaker 4: that is that his name for Duke, wasn't he? Yes?
Speaker 4: I think he was on that title team. That's a
Speaker 4: senior point guard. I believe in twenty fifteen, Emil Jefferson,
Speaker 4: remember that guy, just a journeyman big, I mean, this
Speaker 4: guy who gives you energy, experience, a grown ass man
Speaker 4: playing a supporting role with freshmen and with Kentucky obviously
Speaker 4: Kig Gil Christen Davis. Those were the stars of that team.
Speaker 4: But let's not like Deron Lamb. Wasn't their leading scorer?
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: I think there's I think Terrence Jones is one of
Speaker 4: the more talented players that's easily forgotten at Kentucky because
Speaker 4: he played alongside.
Speaker 2: Of really he played on a really good team.
Speaker 4: Darius Miller was a senior, right, So you know those
Speaker 4: teams didn't win just with the one and done model.
Speaker 4: They had to have good pieces alongside that were experienced.
Speaker 4: And if Duke would have won, it's all what it
Speaker 4: could have should have. Yes, it would have been Flag
Speaker 4: and Cannipple and Mayok. I think it's how you say
Speaker 4: his name. But you know, when it comes to other
Speaker 4: pieces that may do really good. I mean Proctor is
Speaker 4: at least a junior, might be a senior now that
Speaker 4: I think about it. I mean the transfer that they
Speaker 4: brought in from Tulane, the senior guard Sion James. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's a guy who's played five years. I think it
Speaker 4: is of basketball. Caleb Foster, guy's been there seemingly for
Speaker 4: you know. Ever, so again, I don't bring up the
Speaker 4: whole freshman not playing since nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: I don't even have I said that.
Speaker 4: If there's not it was the first time you didn't
Speaker 4: have a freshman play at all in a championship game
Speaker 4: since nineteen eighty nine. Austin wasn't born. I was a
Speaker 4: year old, so that's not I don't bring that up.
Speaker 4: To say again, better not rely on any freshmen. I
Speaker 4: just think it's that it was a wild two team
Speaker 4: set up here that got us there. Because Houston they'll
Speaker 4: they'll rely on true like Kelvin Samson will play a
Speaker 4: true freshman if he's ready. But I think the way
Speaker 4: he coaches and what he does at his style, good
Speaker 4: luck being ready as an eighteen year freshmen, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you.
Speaker 2: And then with Florida, you know, they are so like
Speaker 2: not toast.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was gonna say not to nerd out
Speaker 4: in a basketball way, but like that's what they are.
Speaker 2: Like. They don't give it.
Speaker 4: They don't give a damn about rankings, high school kids
Speaker 4: portal like they they find guys that fit exactly what
Speaker 4: they want to do and they make it work. Like
Speaker 4: I don't know how many NBA guys are on Florida's team.
Speaker 4: I mean, I still think Walter Klayt Junior is gonna
Speaker 4: be a NBA player and maybe some of the other
Speaker 4: guys that they got some bigs that could develop into
Speaker 4: it because they play that style. But I don't know
Speaker 4: if they have NBA talent. It's more so a style thing.
Speaker 4: So anyways, just thought i'd share that quick break, we'll
Speaker 4: come back wrap up a three o'clock hour, and then
Speaker 4: in the four o'clock hour we'll talk a little more
Speaker 4: about the latest portal edition for Kentucky, because I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just where
Speaker 4: we are with mostly Twitter, but I think Kentucky fans
Speaker 4: are still programmed because of the way cal Ran recruiting
Speaker 4: the high school ranks for so long, especially like when
Speaker 4: the Internet became what it is today, where everybody interacts
Speaker 4: and yells at each other about stuff. They think that
Speaker 4: everybody's scared of them, and like, I just don't like,
Speaker 4: I don't like, I don't I don't think anybody is.
Speaker 4: And really, with the portal and you being able to
Speaker 4: flip it all in one year, you shouldn't be really
Speaker 4: scared of anybody, because in a year's time you can.
Speaker 4: I mean, Kansas was the preseason number one team in
Speaker 4: the country for good reason. With talent they didn't even
Speaker 4: find they didn't win a game in the tournament, and
Speaker 4: they also didn't even finish in the top twenty five.
Speaker 4: All right, quick break, keep it locked right here on
Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Now back to Coffee and Company. Fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 4: That's right, Coffee and Company rolling along here, finishing up
Speaker 4: the three o'clock hour, taking you up till six. So
Speaker 4: hang out with us, Nick Coffee. That's me Austin Montgomery,
Speaker 4: the travel chief alongside. And if you remember, there was
Speaker 4: a real concern when we thought we were losing TikTok
Speaker 4: for forever.
Speaker 2: I mean I I was.
Speaker 4: I'm willing to admit I did believe that that TikTok
Speaker 4: would be done, just because it got to that. It
Speaker 4: was actually kind of silly now that we look back
Speaker 4: on it, because I think some people were in disbelief
Speaker 4: that a platform that had becomes so popular and still
Speaker 4: is would just disappear, and that there was nothing anybody
Speaker 4: was going to do about it. And then as Trump
Speaker 4: was getting inaugurated, the owner of TikTok was going.
Speaker 2: To be there.
Speaker 4: It was just really it was just really weird. But
Speaker 4: I think a lot of folks were like, no, they're
Speaker 4: not going to get rid of it.
Speaker 2: They can't.
Speaker 4: And then they did only for like what a day,
Speaker 4: maybe not even eight hours. Yeah, it wasn't even that long.
Speaker 4: So all that did was was give you an extension
Speaker 4: to use TikTok until they figure something out. So, now
Speaker 4: that the tariff talk has become, you know, a big
Speaker 4: conversation nationally, Trump has apparently extended the deadline here for this.
Speaker 4: So he's announced a seventy five day extension for bite Dance,
Speaker 4: the parent company of TikTok, to divest its US operations,
Speaker 4: postponing the potential ban of the app that is the
Speaker 4: most utilized app, and it's not even close. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know there are still many that don't use it
Speaker 4: and don't you know, don't have the app, and that's
Speaker 4: you know, I get it, but I think like eventually
Speaker 4: you will, no matter how old you are, Like I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's a way for businesses to sell things now,
Speaker 4: Like it's there is a lot of value on there.
Speaker 4: And I do believe that the concern about like security
Speaker 4: is real. I mean, I don't think that's made up.
Speaker 4: I'm of the opinion though, like you know, this is
Speaker 4: probably stupid to say, but I mean I kind of
Speaker 4: think if they wanted to get any information on me,
Speaker 4: whoever they is, they could And I don't really have
Speaker 4: like it's not like I have a whole lot to
Speaker 4: you know, I don't want to get my identity stolen
Speaker 4: or have my you know, my bank accounts hacked, that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. But like that stuff happens, that happened
Speaker 4: before TikTok was the thing. So I know that sounds
Speaker 4: so like whatever, who cares, But I do believe there's
Speaker 4: a concern.
Speaker 2: But I mean, it's it's no.
Speaker 4: Longer because I kind of think this has faded a
Speaker 4: little bit because it became such Even if you didn't
Speaker 4: really know what it was or how popular it was
Speaker 4: and how how many different ways it can be utilized
Speaker 4: by different people in different worlds, you had to learn
Speaker 4: about it if you keep up with news because it
Speaker 4: was a it was a national topic for a while
Speaker 4: when it was the count and the countdown was on
Speaker 4: that it's about it's about to be over, like we're
Speaker 4: going to lose it. But there was a in Austin.
Speaker 4: I think you can attest to this for a while
Speaker 4: it was just oh, that's where people go and do
Speaker 4: stupid dances. Yeah, like that's I mean, I'm sure you
Speaker 4: can still you can still find that, but like there
Speaker 4: are different worlds within TikTok.
Speaker 2: I mean for anything.
Speaker 4: I mean, and and I'm sure the algorithm that that
Speaker 4: fits you is something that like, I mean, I appreciate it, right.
Speaker 2: I don't have to go looking for stuff.
Speaker 4: I just scroll endlessly and I end up seeing things
Speaker 4: that I'm interested in that I'm entertained by because it
Speaker 4: tracks that. Now, I'm sure they're tracking other things that
Speaker 4: I'm doing to know how to really hit me in
Speaker 4: the algorithm with what I want. And that's I guess
Speaker 4: part of the security concern. But I just I would
Speaker 4: challenge somebody now again, let me back up a second here,
Speaker 4: because I can also waste a lot of time on there.
Speaker 4: I do, in fact, waste a lot of time on TikTok,
Speaker 4: So maybe I shouldn't throw this out there. But if
Speaker 4: you are somebody that like wants a challenge, I'm going
Speaker 4: to give you a challenge from the misses me challenging you,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure there are people right now that think,
Speaker 4: no way, no way, no way, not me.
Speaker 2: I'm not a I don't dance. I don't like that
Speaker 2: stupid stuff.
Speaker 4: If you download a TikTok and you just like spent
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes just kind of scrolling through, and then you
Speaker 4: took a day off and tried it again, you would
Speaker 4: eventually find yourself continuing to scroll because it'll it's going
Speaker 4: to be giving you things that you're interested in. That's
Speaker 4: what it does. And you may think, well, look, i'm
Speaker 4: interested in gardening. There's a gardening world in there, if
Speaker 4: you're interest in cooking, if you're interested in like for me,
Speaker 4: I'm real big in like videography stuff, or you know, hell,
Speaker 4: TikTok is become I think a bigger player in the
Speaker 4: sports media game because you have a much better chance
Speaker 4: of somebody and you've got to be visual too as well,
Speaker 4: Like you can't just spit hot takes at one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty characters on X and Twitter. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you're not putting content on that platform, you're just missing
Speaker 4: out on a platform that is used by more than
Speaker 4: anybody in the world. Like people spend more time on
Speaker 4: the app that is TikTok than they do YouTube or Facebook.
Speaker 4: So I think there's still people that just think it's nonsense.
Speaker 4: But I think if you ended up, you know, downloading it,
Speaker 4: you'd realize, Okay, yeah, I get why people like this app,
Speaker 4: And what I also think is, like, let's agree on this.
Speaker 4: There's no platform that older folks. And when I say older,
Speaker 4: I mean people like older than me, like, and it's great,
Speaker 4: like I can keep up with relatives, like my mother
Speaker 4: is on Facebook, my father, my stepdad, Like it's you
Speaker 4: know my grandmother, uh was on Facebook before she passed away.
Speaker 4: Like Facebook is a super useful tool for people really
Speaker 4: of all ages, but it's not real big with the
Speaker 4: younger crowd. And that's probably for obvious reasons. They're going
Speaker 4: to places like Instagram and TikTok. But Facebook has reels, right.
Speaker 2: That's what TikTok is.
Speaker 4: But TikTok is better and broader, meaning TikTok is better
Speaker 4: at delivering you what you want to see. And I
Speaker 4: know a lot of people you know, maybe not listening
Speaker 4: right now, but I bet there's a few of you
Speaker 4: that probably do spend time looking at Facebook reels and
Speaker 4: you realize ten minutes went by and you're just scrolling
Speaker 4: through looking at something funny or looking at a news
Speaker 4: report or something that's the same thing TikTok is, but
Speaker 4: it's better. I mean, I'm not lying, right Austin, Like
Speaker 4: TikTok knows what you want to see, and again that's
Speaker 4: probably why.
Speaker 2: It's a security thread. Because it's it's picking up everything
Speaker 2: about you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy. There's, like you just said, there's a
Speaker 5: talk for everything, wrestling, TikTok. Yeah, there's a oh like
Speaker 5: you like you like to dive into BODYCM talk, Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: just fitness talk, conspiracy. There's there's something for everyone. And
Speaker 5: I was never really a huge fan of that when
Speaker 5: it first starts. I was always that guy that was
Speaker 5: kind of sat back and was I'm not downloading that
Speaker 5: take yep, because I did, and what do you what
Speaker 5: do you know?
Speaker 2: A lot of like I would say, there's been a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 4: Different ones that have you know, been that have had
Speaker 4: a run and like Snapchat is still a thing, but
Speaker 4: like I can tell you that that's just not me,
Speaker 4: Like I just never could really like that's just not
Speaker 4: It just didn't do it for me. It's clearly popular
Speaker 4: with certain people, but like even Instagram, like I'm on
Speaker 4: Instagram not super often, but like I can tell though
Speaker 4: that I'm not the tar like you know, I'm not.
Speaker 4: That just doesn't do it for me quite like the
Speaker 4: other ones do. And but that's okay because they clearly
Speaker 4: have billions of people on there and they're doing just fine.
Speaker 4: So you know, you may hate TikTok if you tried out,
Speaker 4: but I just think if you're somebody that just doesn't
Speaker 4: understand doesn't get it, if you download it and just
Speaker 4: at least you know, give it a chance, you may
Speaker 4: regret it later because you'll end up wasting way more
Speaker 4: time than you probably should. But you know, it's also
Speaker 4: entertaining and it's useful. I learned things like I've taught
Speaker 4: myself how to do things with TikTok. So anyways, we
Speaker 4: got to run one hour in the books, two more
Speaker 4: to go. Stick with us. We'll get back into the
Speaker 4: portal conversation on the other side. Also, we've got some
Speaker 4: NBA news I do want to touch on, not because
Speaker 4: we're going to talk a lot of NBA, but Mike
Speaker 4: Malone getting fired by the Nuggets is the real obvious
Speaker 4: sign if we needed one, that the NBA coaching positions
Speaker 4: are thankless jobs and you are super expendable. It doesn't
Speaker 4: matter how good of a coach you are, You're not
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