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Speaker 3: All right, let's see if I remember how to do this.
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Speaker 3: here Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk
Speaker 3: seven ninety with myself, Nick Coffee. I hope you guys
Speaker 3: remember me. It's been a while since I've been here.
Speaker 3: Does really feel like it's been a long long time?
Speaker 3: Just a week off, which, hey, most people who take
Speaker 3: a vacation it'll be a full week, but I feel
Speaker 3: like I've been gone forever. I don't know why, but
Speaker 3: that was that was my trip, which I'm sure none
Speaker 3: of you care about. But it was a great vacation overall,
Speaker 3: really enjoyed myself, had some great weather. But man, it
Speaker 3: just it feels like this was a year ago last
Speaker 3: time I was sitting in this studio doing this show.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if it's because, you know, it
Speaker 3: just I've been completely unplugged for the most part, or
Speaker 3: if it's because there actually was a lot to react
Speaker 3: to while I was gone, which I always try, and
Speaker 3: sometimes you can't control it right, Like you never know
Speaker 3: what's going to happen. But I feel like of all
Speaker 3: the vacations that I've taken where I'm gone for at
Speaker 3: least a week or maybe four days at minimum, I've
Speaker 3: been pretty lucky with with that, you know, with not
Speaker 3: missing out on something that I really really wanted to
Speaker 3: be on the air to discuss, or just something that
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, is a big deal that
Speaker 3: you know, I would want to be on the air
Speaker 3: to discuss and not have to do it potentially a
Speaker 3: week later. But that didn't really work out. This time around,
Speaker 3: because you know the tvt on Monday a week ago today.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's be honest, that's sucked for Louisville fans.
Speaker 3: But still just the fact that that played out the
Speaker 3: way it did Louisville players, Kentucky players, former players, of course,
Speaker 3: I mean, it just it still doesn't seem like something
Speaker 3: that really happened. But one question I asked myself, you know,
Speaker 3: like when you lose, it's not really the same meaning, like,
Speaker 3: you know, it's not like you're having to react to
Speaker 3: a season coming to an end and your team falling
Speaker 3: short of making the second weekend, because it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's not it's not that. Therefore, maybe it won't be
Speaker 3: such a tough pill to swallow whenever it all comes
Speaker 3: to an end, knowing that it's going to be your
Speaker 3: rival that does it to you. And I'll tell you
Speaker 3: it didn't hurt the same It wasn't the same thing,
Speaker 3: but it still sucked in a major way. It sucked.
Speaker 3: And I don't see a scenario where we will ever
Speaker 3: have a situation play out the way like the TBT
Speaker 3: did and it not sucked a loose to your arrival.
Speaker 3: So again, there's not a whole lot to discuss from that,
Speaker 3: But you know, I was hopeful that the villa would
Speaker 3: get it done, but they didn't. And I still love
Speaker 3: those guys, appreciate everything they did for U of L.
Speaker 3: Very glad they came back to be a part of it.
Speaker 3: I hope they do it again. But you know, losening
Speaker 3: to your rival always sucks. And what happened afterwards, you know,
Speaker 3: that sucked too. That was not a good look by
Speaker 3: any means, but still a lot of fun. And it
Speaker 3: was nice for me to be able to, you know,
Speaker 3: just turn off the TV, go to sleep, wake up
Speaker 3: the next day, and then just distract myself with the
Speaker 3: beautiful beach and a vacation to where, like, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't have to. You know, it's actually kind of
Speaker 3: nice to just be able to forget about it pretty quickly,
Speaker 3: knowing that, you know, I'm on vacation and not working,
Speaker 3: and I'm in Destin, Florida and not in Louisville, Kentucky. However,
Speaker 3: one thing I always say, you can never escape Kentucky fans.
Speaker 3: They're everywhere. We get down to the pool from our
Speaker 3: room on Tuesday morning, probably not five minutes. You know,
Speaker 3: we're sitting the cooler down getting things arranged at our chair,
Speaker 3: the kids are getting their swimmings on. I sit down
Speaker 3: to you know, put my phone and my wallet away
Speaker 3: to where I won't get wet, and some guy walks by,
Speaker 3: no clue who he was. He's like, hey, don't let
Speaker 3: last night get you down. And I'm like, what the
Speaker 3: hell is this guy talking about? And sure enough he's
Speaker 3: from Louisville, and I guess he's a Kentucky fan, and
Speaker 3: you know, he wanted to give me, not give me
Speaker 3: a hard time. He was actually a super nice guy.
Speaker 3: But like you know, here I am thinking I don't
Speaker 3: have to uh, you know, I don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about dealing with any UK fans. And one who was
Speaker 3: not into skuy I mean he was I shouldn't say
Speaker 3: he was in disguis, but usually you know there they
Speaker 3: only wear blue. But this gentleman, you know, he didn't
Speaker 3: give me a hard time necessarily, but he just wanted
Speaker 3: to jab me a little bit about you know, Kentucky
Speaker 3: knocking off Louisville in that in that event. And then
Speaker 3: you know, later later on that same day, sure enough,
Speaker 3: on the beach, UK fans and you know they were
Speaker 3: you know, they were, they were celebrating and you know,
Speaker 3: at my expense, which you know, it's if there's gonna
Speaker 3: there's gonna be a situation like that where I gotta
Speaker 3: deal with, you know, arrogant UK fans. I'd rather do
Speaker 3: it there than here. And clearly there's not as many
Speaker 3: of them there in Florida as there was, you know
Speaker 3: here in Louisville. But hey, that's what happens, right, It's
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a rivalry. And even though it
Speaker 3: wasn't like a real game between the schools, it's still
Speaker 3: there's there's clearly still a lot of rivalry energy there
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, it just sucks when you lose
Speaker 3: to them. By the way, there were a lot of
Speaker 3: people from this area there and I know it's it's
Speaker 3: it's been said for decades. It seems that destined Florida
Speaker 3: is Louisville's vacation spot. Like you're always going to run
Speaker 3: into Louisville people when.
Speaker 2: You go there.
Speaker 3: That's like their that's their spot. And clearly that there's
Speaker 3: some truth to that. It's it's where I go. But
Speaker 3: we've been going now every year for like the last
Speaker 3: eight years. It's our annual vacation and we go roughly
Speaker 3: around the same time, and I don't remember seeing many,
Speaker 3: if any Louisville natives at least, you know, I saw
Speaker 3: the license plate, or they were wearing U of L gear,
Speaker 3: or maybe somebody you recognize, because that stuff's happened too. Like,
Speaker 3: I know people who've gone to vacation in Destin, however
Speaker 3: many miles away that is from here in Louisville, and
Speaker 3: they run into people that they know, like not just like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're from Louisville. No, hey, I know you. We used
Speaker 3: to work together, we went to high school. Like it's
Speaker 3: just it's it's been a thing, but I'd never really
Speaker 3: experienced it before until recently to where I feel like
Speaker 3: half of the place we stayed was were people from
Speaker 3: the Louisville area. Any guesses, John, as to which college
Speaker 3: fan base was represented the most in Destin.
Speaker 4: I would assume it would be one of the Florida schools.
Speaker 4: So you also have a lot of tours, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: may not be the case.
Speaker 3: No, it's mostly tourists, so you see very little, very
Speaker 3: very little. Uh. In fact, if you see people like
Speaker 3: the resort we stay at with a Florida license plate
Speaker 3: kind of like we had. It's just because of the rental,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Yeah, so a lot of
Speaker 3: times I just assume, oh, they're from Florida, although no
Speaker 3: they're not. They're actually just like us, they renting a car.
Speaker 3: But there was a ton, and I mean a ton
Speaker 3: of Georgia fans there.
Speaker 4: Really Okay, Yeah, I would have guessed Alabama before Jeordian.
Speaker 3: There's always there's always a healthy amount of Alabama fans
Speaker 3: because they're not that far from Deston and of course,
Speaker 3: you know, they've had a pretty good run to where
Speaker 3: they're going to be wearing their gear pretty proudly. But
Speaker 3: LSU Georgia, Alabama, I would say those three were you know,
Speaker 3: the flags were out on the beach, right, the flags
Speaker 3: were hanging from the cars, they have the license plate decals,
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, which I don't know, I just
Speaker 3: find it. It is fine. I find that interesting because
Speaker 3: you know, a lot of people in I'm not really
Speaker 3: sure if we are the South in Louisville, I've never
Speaker 3: really felt like we are. Kind of feel like we're
Speaker 3: not South. We're not South or Midwest, but either way,
Speaker 3: you know, like people in that pocket of the country
Speaker 3: you know, their passion for sports is usually affiliate is
Speaker 3: to the school, rather it be a school they went
Speaker 3: to or you know, the biggest school that's in the
Speaker 3: state that they live in. So it's always kind of
Speaker 3: a nice reminder that college football season is getting closer
Speaker 3: because we always go at the end of July early August,
Speaker 3: and when you get here, you know it's it's right
Speaker 3: around the corner.
Speaker 2: Were there any rogue Hoosiers in Deston.
Speaker 3: I did not see any Hoosiers, although I did see
Speaker 3: I did the first day we were there. I guess
Speaker 3: it would have been because we stayed seven nights. We
Speaker 3: didn't get back to last night, and we arrived Saturday
Speaker 3: of last weekend and that day slash night. And then
Speaker 3: the next day there was a family that was there
Speaker 3: from Terre Hate Musay in.
Speaker 2: It right, yes, where Indiana State is.
Speaker 3: But they were like, I think they were Notre Dame fans.
Speaker 3: Is that close?
Speaker 2: No, that's South Bend. Yeah, that's up in northwest Indiana.
Speaker 3: So they didn't claim the Hoosiers, but they were technically
Speaker 3: you know, Hoosiers because they were from from Indiana. So anyways,
Speaker 3: I missed out on a lot and I'm gonna try
Speaker 3: my best. I do this every time I'm on vacation.
Speaker 3: I don't want to come back and do a show
Speaker 3: that you know, you feel like is something being replayed
Speaker 3: from a week before, because you know that wouldn't be
Speaker 3: ideal for us. However, there's a lot I want to
Speaker 3: react to and discuss. I mean, I don't really have
Speaker 3: much more to add from the TVT loss other than
Speaker 3: you know, it sucked, and I learned the answer to
Speaker 3: my question, which was, you know, is it gonna feel
Speaker 3: the same, And yeah, it didn't feel exactly the same.
Speaker 3: Like I was able to quickly move on from it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like losing the Kentucky in anything sucks and
Speaker 3: unfortunately we've had that happen far too often, especially in basketball.
Speaker 3: But also, I mean, pack Kelsey's team. We got a
Speaker 3: chance to see the debut squad for Pat Kelsey here
Speaker 3: in two exhibition games. And look, I know the competition
Speaker 3: wasn't great. We knew that going in. Don't care. It
Speaker 3: was just a chance to see this team personnel we've
Speaker 3: never watched play before, different lineups, style of play, that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. And I just don't know how you can, like,
Speaker 3: I'm not telling you to make arrangements to travel deep
Speaker 3: into the tournament because you think this squad is going
Speaker 3: to make a run to the final four. I mean
Speaker 3: that's not at all what I'm saying, because I think,
Speaker 3: knowing competition level that kind of stuff, it's just impossible
Speaker 3: to really know how much it means as far as
Speaker 3: to beat those two teams as badly as you did. However,
Speaker 3: I think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody that
Speaker 3: wasn't extremely impressed with what you say saw from this
Speaker 3: group when it comes to the personnel that Pat Kelsey
Speaker 3: has to use the style of play. I mean, I've
Speaker 3: got a lot of thoughts I'll share with you from
Speaker 3: from the two games that I watched, uh and you know,
Speaker 3: I watched them live and I rewatched him. I had
Speaker 3: my phone out on the beach on Thursday and at
Speaker 3: the pool, you know, I was hitting pause every now
Speaker 3: and then, jumping in playing with the kids coming back.
Speaker 3: I mean, I couldn't, I couldn't stay away from it
Speaker 3: because I was enjoying it so much. So you know,
Speaker 3: we'll save that for probably in the four o'clock guy,
Speaker 3: or well, I'll give you and I'll give you some
Speaker 3: you know, some big picture kind of thoughts because I
Speaker 3: think everything for the most part, that we set about
Speaker 3: this group before watching them play, just meaning what you
Speaker 3: feel like you should expect with what we know about
Speaker 3: each of these players. We know, with what we know
Speaker 3: about Pat Kelsey and the style of basketball he coached
Speaker 3: at Charleston, I feel like we got exactly what we
Speaker 3: should have expected. Meaning they're gonna play fast, There's no
Speaker 3: way around it. They're gonna play fast. They're gonna get
Speaker 3: up a lot of three point shot, They're going to
Speaker 3: initiate tempo. He's got a lot of options. I mean,
Speaker 3: they don't have a big drop off at a handful
Speaker 3: of different positions. I mean, they've got shooting, they've got experience,
Speaker 3: they've got good size. And one of the things that
Speaker 3: is that is rarely ever mentioned when it comes to
Speaker 3: the value of going and getting mature players that have
Speaker 3: played a lot of basketball. I mean, the obvious value
Speaker 3: is that you know they've already they've already kind of developed,
Speaker 3: right they're they're they're not guys you've got to spend
Speaker 3: two years as a project to see if you can
Speaker 3: get this guy to become a great player. You kind
Speaker 3: of get a guy as is and he may not
Speaker 3: be an NBA All Star with potential like that, but hey,
Speaker 3: here's here's what he can give you right now, and
Speaker 3: it's going to be ready day one. Like that, There's
Speaker 3: there's a lot of benefits in going out and adding
Speaker 3: players in the portal that are experienced. It gives you
Speaker 3: the option to not be young if you don't want
Speaker 3: to be young, and most coaches don't want to be young.
Speaker 3: But one of the things that I love about this
Speaker 3: and it really stood out and watching nearly every one
Speaker 3: of these players, it's not to say that they can't
Speaker 3: develop and get better and become better defenders, better shooters. Right,
Speaker 3: You're always always working hard at your craft to get better.
Speaker 3: But because they've played so much basketball, they know who
Speaker 3: they are as players. Right, They're not out there figuring
Speaker 3: out who they are. They're not out there trying to
Speaker 3: you know, develop into you know, more of a more
Speaker 3: of a wing after they've played you know, in the
Speaker 3: post the majority of their time in high school and
Speaker 3: you know, on aau like these are dudes who are
Speaker 3: twenty one, twenty two, twenty three years old some of them,
Speaker 3: and they know who they are as players. They're not
Speaker 3: out there trying to you know, like it's they know
Speaker 3: what they can do and they and they stick to that.
Speaker 3: They don't really go outside their game. So I was
Speaker 3: really impressed. And I mean I think just about every
Speaker 3: single player that you got to see legitimate minutes out of.
Speaker 3: I mean, even if the stat line doesn't wow you, like,
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got I mean, this team should be good.
Speaker 3: Now does that mean making it to a Sweet sixteen?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I said it once the roster
Speaker 3: was put together on paper, that this is a team
Speaker 3: that should be in the NTUABLEA Tournament next year. Now
Speaker 3: if they're not, it didn't mean that we got a
Speaker 3: panic and act like the world's falling apart. But I
Speaker 3: said that whenever he assembled the roster right kind of
Speaker 3: felt like some of the last couple of pieces were
Speaker 3: really important. You know, Chucky Hepburn is different than really
Speaker 3: any guy you have here. Right not to say he's
Speaker 3: going to be the best player, but like you need
Speaker 3: a lead guard that has been sort of a quarterback
Speaker 3: of his team for years as a college basketball player,
Speaker 3: and then case in Pryor, you needed good front court
Speaker 3: play and then you ended up adding also Noah Waterman
Speaker 3: as well. So this is a team that should make
Speaker 3: the tournament. Now will they do it, We'll have to
Speaker 3: wait and see. But I have no problem in what
Speaker 3: I watched last week in saying that once again they
Speaker 3: should be a tournament team. So we'll talk more hoops
Speaker 3: coming up a little bit later on when it comes
Speaker 3: to Louisville football. We'll get into some things a little
Speaker 3: bit later on when it comes to camp, which started
Speaker 3: here recently. I mean, nothing crazy, right, camp is usually
Speaker 3: it's a good thing if things are quiet in camp.
Speaker 3: That means there's no injuries to report. You know, coaches
Speaker 3: won it quiet in camp, and it's been that way
Speaker 3: so far. But one thing that I didn't get a
Speaker 3: chance to discuss last week, and some people don't. I mean, heck,
Speaker 3: a lot of people probably don't care. And that's where
Speaker 3: Louisville finished in the ACC pre season media poll. And John,
Speaker 3: you may not remember, so I don't want to put
Speaker 3: you on the spot, but I'm pretty sure I guessed
Speaker 3: four that Louisville would be number four.
Speaker 2: And you were dead on the money, weren't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was. And I don't say that
Speaker 3: to say, hm, I was, you know, I was I
Speaker 3: was right, But even knowing that I said that and
Speaker 3: felt that way, I'm still I don't know why I care,
Speaker 3: because again, it's the preseason media poll. Nobody cares. Once
Speaker 3: the season starts you get games, it rarely ever gets referenced.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's nonsense. And by the way, they came
Speaker 3: in a number five, so you know it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: But I am annoyed knowing that, like the ACC media
Speaker 3: voted Miami in NC State ahead of Louisville when Louisville
Speaker 3: beat them last year, had better years than both those teams,
Speaker 3: and by all accounts, Lowell should be better. I mean,
Speaker 3: I know NC State added a really good transfer in
Speaker 3: the kid from Coastal Carolina who I feel like has
Speaker 3: been in college since the nineteen nineties. I can't even
Speaker 3: think of his name, but he's been around forever, and
Speaker 3: he transferred INCA State after a ten year run. It
Speaker 3: looked like at Coastal Carolina. And I know Miami's got
Speaker 3: cam Ward and they never are lacking talent, But I
Speaker 3: don't know man to see Louisville not in the preseason
Speaker 3: coaches poll in the top twenty five which came out today,
Speaker 3: and to see that they came in in number five.
Speaker 3: Like it's a stretch to say they're being like disrespected,
Speaker 3: but I kind of feel like if you really wanted
Speaker 3: to have that conversation internally meeting Jeff Brahm, you could
Speaker 3: because again, this guy, these guys bring back a first
Speaker 3: team All American in Ashton Jalatti. Quincy Riley's probably one
Speaker 3: of the most underappreciated defensive players in the ACC, maybe
Speaker 3: all of Power five Football or Power for Football. I
Speaker 3: should say, now, I mean, your portal class isn't number
Speaker 3: one in the country, but it's probably top five everywhere
Speaker 3: you look. And they got better at quarterback two they did.
Speaker 3: I mean the only thing like on paper that I
Speaker 3: think you could look at Louisville and say, Wow, gonna
Speaker 3: be tough for me to pencil them in the top
Speaker 3: three in the league knowing that they went to the
Speaker 3: championship game a year ago because they don't have Isaa
Speaker 3: Garrindo and Juarr Jordan back there, which again, that's an
Speaker 3: understandable thing to think, oh, wow, that's gonna be tough
Speaker 3: to replace, which it is, But you don't need to
Speaker 3: have a duo like that if everything else works out
Speaker 3: the way that you hope it does, meaning where your
Speaker 3: quarterback is able to make throws that you know Jack
Speaker 3: Plumber couldn't consistently. Your quarterback's able to really give you
Speaker 3: that vertical threat to go downfield. Non existent position. Last
Speaker 3: year for louisvill football was the tight ends. No disrespect
Speaker 3: to the guys that did get reps and played tight end,
Speaker 3: but like Jeff Brown, last year, win won ten games
Speaker 3: and took Louis over to the ACC Championship game with
Speaker 3: a quarterback that was the weakness of the team and
Speaker 3: really no tight end position, no no real options or
Speaker 3: weapons at the tight end spot. And now you have
Speaker 3: a quarterback that's better, good receivers, and again you have
Speaker 3: a variety of options at tight end, including one of
Speaker 3: the best G five transfers, the kid from from San
Speaker 3: Diego State whose name is is escaping me right now.
Speaker 3: I'm rusty, I'm just fresh off vacation. I remember this
Speaker 3: guy's name. I was talking him up to somebody the
Speaker 3: other day, but yeah, he transferred in and is now.
Speaker 3: I gotta find his name because you know, it's gonna
Speaker 3: drive me crazy if I don't. But he's one of
Speaker 3: the many options you have at tight end via the
Speaker 3: transfer portal and again scrolling through here. Yes, I wanted
Speaker 3: to I was gonna say, I wanted to say Mark Madison,
Speaker 3: but that's that's the mad Dog who played, who played
Speaker 3: for the Lakers and is now Cal's basketball coach. So yes,
Speaker 3: Mark Redmond, he was an All Mountain West tight end
Speaker 3: last year. But he's not the only one. You also
Speaker 3: have Isaiah Cummins who came up, came over from Kentucky.
Speaker 3: I mean, heck, you've got Jamari Johnson, red shirt freshman
Speaker 3: who was an elite prospect coming out of coming out
Speaker 3: of high school in twenty twenty three. So look, I
Speaker 3: can't say, man, they were disrespected in a major way
Speaker 3: and the ACC media should be ashamed of themselves because
Speaker 3: I just it's I'm not there, meaning I don't feel
Speaker 3: that strongly about it. But also like it'd be different
Speaker 3: if we were trying to sell you, Hey, Louisville went
Speaker 3: seven and six last year, but man, they're gonna break
Speaker 3: through and win. Like, no, they won ten games last
Speaker 3: year and we'll bring back a better team when it
Speaker 3: comes to personnel, and yeah, the schedule is more challenging
Speaker 3: than it was a year ago. But like is that
Speaker 3: what you vote on. Like you could say, like if
Speaker 3: you felt like Clemson had the best team, but they
Speaker 3: had just an unbelievably tough schedule, which Louisville doesn't. By
Speaker 3: the way, man, I'm not like a little, but their
Speaker 3: schedule is tougher than last year because if you know,
Speaker 3: last year's schedule just was was a gift from the
Speaker 3: ACC to be honest with you, but let's just say
Speaker 3: Clemson's the best team, but they've got somehow a schedule
Speaker 3: that looks unfair?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: How did they get slotted with all the good teams
Speaker 3: and none of the duds? Would you vote them lower
Speaker 3: in your poll because of that? I mean, anyways, I'm
Speaker 3: getting worked up about it, and I don't mean to,
Speaker 3: but I guess it just you know, I feel like
Speaker 3: Louisville should be getting more love. That's what I feel.
Speaker 3: Are some other things I missed last week that we
Speaker 3: certainly will discuss today to some extent. How about Kentucky
Speaker 3: football getting hip with probation. As of right now, Mark
Speaker 3: Stoops has a losing record as Kentucky's head coach because
Speaker 3: they had to vacate every game from twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: They had to vacate the most successful season in program history,
Speaker 3: at least in my lifetime. And what I love about
Speaker 3: this one is that, like Stoops is, this happens all
Speaker 3: while Stoops is complaining that like he's about to tap out,
Speaker 3: he just can't keep doing it. It's just he doesn't
Speaker 3: know much longer he can go. It's unsustainable. But the
Speaker 3: rivalry component here is is something because Kentucky fans, like,
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna find a way to just tell yourselves
Speaker 3: and tell Louisville fans that you talk to within the
Speaker 3: rivalry that it is different. And yet like the title
Speaker 3: being vacated for Louisville really does mean it didn't happen. However,
Speaker 3: these football games in twenty twenty one, No, they they're
Speaker 3: not that vacation is not is not legit. Those aren't
Speaker 3: like that. That's still like there's gonna be some mental
Speaker 3: gymnastics going on because you know, it's it's not really clever,
Speaker 3: it's not creative, it's not funny. But Kentucky fans, how
Speaker 3: often do they tell us that, like twenty thirteen didn't
Speaker 3: actually happen, right, Like it's it's it's a jab they
Speaker 3: keep in their back pocket at all times to go
Speaker 3: back and forth, right, like Hookers in the Dorm twenty
Speaker 3: twenty or twenty thirteen didn't happen, Like if they ever
Speaker 3: just like get down to the tank being on e
Speaker 3: when it comes to ammunition, they just they just start
Speaker 3: blurting that out like a malfunction. Strippers of the Dorms,
Speaker 3: Katita Powell didn't happen. Didn't happen like things like that.
Speaker 3: So now that you and if you're like my age
Speaker 3: or we're a little bit older or younger, like, there's
Speaker 3: no doubt about it. The best season that you've ever
Speaker 3: had in your lifetime is now now doesn't exist because
Speaker 3: it's been vacated. So you know, I mean, I know
Speaker 3: that Kentucky won those games, but like you know, I'm
Speaker 3: just curious to see what, you know, how this becomes,
Speaker 3: you know, ammunition, because yeah, it does eliminate one of
Speaker 3: the recent victories that Kentucky had over Louisville in the
Speaker 3: Governor's Cup game. That like, I just not take the
Speaker 3: rivalry aspect out of it. Vacating anything is so stupid
Speaker 3: to where like I can never actually, well, well technically,
Speaker 3: I guess I didn't. I know, we all know that
Speaker 3: it happened. We all know that it happened. But I
Speaker 3: think it's wild for Stups to be such a made
Speaker 3: man and have maybe the best contract you find in
Speaker 3: college sports, and yet he's got now this on his resume, right,
Speaker 3: the best season he's ever had there. It technically didn't
Speaker 3: happen in the eyes of the NCAA because of violations,
Speaker 3: because of cheating, and yes, I used that tongue in cheek,
Speaker 3: but yet he still plays like victim, as if like
Speaker 3: he needs help. And it's just I don't know. I
Speaker 3: am fascinated with the dynamic with Mark Stoups and Lexton
Speaker 3: right now because he's got it made and yet unless
Speaker 3: he talked and I missed it last week, like he's
Speaker 3: all down on the dumps. I mean, he wanted to
Speaker 3: get out and go to Texas A and m and
Speaker 3: that fell apart, Like I don't It's just it's odd.
Speaker 3: It's odd. Also, at some point we got to discuss Michigan.
Speaker 3: Turns out, you know, the blatant cheating that like everybody
Speaker 3: knew happened with Connor Stallions, like, turns out they're probably
Speaker 3: not going to get away with that, right because we
Speaker 3: all know it happened, and now you see that Sharon More,
Speaker 3: the new head coach, there was deleting text messages that
Speaker 3: he had with Connor Stallions as that whole scandal was uncovered.
Speaker 3: Like I mean, I don't know what the NAA is
Speaker 3: gonna do, but I do They just went on to
Speaker 3: win a national championship like that never happened, and then
Speaker 3: probably would have never been discussed again until now we
Speaker 3: know that this documentary is about to come out, and
Speaker 3: it turns out like Michigan doesn't know what Connor Stallions
Speaker 3: told him, so he may he may drop everything, and
Speaker 3: they have to you know, safe face in some form
Speaker 3: or fashion. So again we're loaded. I'm happy to be
Speaker 3: back here from vacation. Hopefully you guys will stick with us.
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Speaker 3: four h five today to talk about some big news
Speaker 3: that came out from Soccer Holdings, which of course I
Speaker 3: reference Soccer Holdings because they are the parent company of
Speaker 3: both the local clubs here in Town lou City and
Speaker 3: Racing Louisville. But some big news that they announced earlier.
Speaker 3: I'm sure some of you've already seen it, but Jeff
Speaker 3: will join us around four o'clock to discuss that and
Speaker 3: some other things. Right, we always love catching up with
Speaker 3: mister Jeffrey Greer. All right in is Coffee and Company.
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Speaker 3: seven to one seventy nine hundred. So a couple people
Speaker 3: chiming in here on the on the text line. I
Speaker 3: guess we got some beach knobs out there, and I
Speaker 3: knew we would, you know, I mentioned destin that area.
Speaker 3: Really the Emerald Coast, like it's the most beautiful beach
Speaker 3: I've ever been to. I'll admit I've probably not been
Speaker 3: to that many beaches compared to other people. In fact,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you the beaches I've been to. I've been
Speaker 3: to Jackson, Florida's beach. I've been to Miami's Beach. I've
Speaker 3: been to Fort Lauderdale. I've been to Panama City obviously destined,
Speaker 3: did I say Jacky l alland Georgia. No, I've been
Speaker 3: never on a West Coast beach, never really been on
Speaker 3: a eat like I've never. Oh, I've been to hilton Head,
Speaker 3: went there a couple of times. I really like hilton
Speaker 3: Head cool spot. So like you know, I've been to Cancun,
Speaker 3: I've been to Riviera Maya, Mexico. But like, I've not
Speaker 3: gone to Greece, i haven't been to Hawaii. Like, I'm
Speaker 3: sure there are beaches out there that are the most
Speaker 3: gorgeous things you'll ever see. But I'm just basing it
Speaker 3: off of you know, what I know, and of all
Speaker 3: the places i've been, nothing beats the clear. I mean,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even call it crystal like, it's just it's
Speaker 3: just completely clear.
Speaker 2: Clearer, than when you were in clear water.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, and now I was I wasn't clear all,
Speaker 3: although that water was pretty nice too. It's just different.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, I I really really, we we've
Speaker 3: tried different places, and I'm not, like I'm not a
Speaker 3: beach snob at all. Like I'm not even somebody who
Speaker 3: really likes the beach that much, be honest with you,
Speaker 3: I don't dislike it. It's just I'd be fine with,
Speaker 3: you know, spend spending a little bit of time at
Speaker 3: the beach during the day, but like the majority of
Speaker 3: our time being spent at the pool or you know,
Speaker 3: out doing stuff. Like I'm not somebody who can just
Speaker 3: lay up on a beach all day. It's just not really.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can, but I don't really want to
Speaker 3: do that. So, you know, being out there in the
Speaker 3: water where you can be, I don't know, maybe I
Speaker 3: don't know. It's tough to know, like how deep the
Speaker 3: water is at any point sometimes and you've got spots
Speaker 3: in the ocean where you can you can be. It
Speaker 3: could be up to you know, your neck, and then
Speaker 3: you go out like ten feet further and for some reason,
Speaker 3: it's like as shallow as can be like you just
Speaker 3: never really know. But just to be able to completely
Speaker 3: see the floor of the ocean when you're that, when
Speaker 3: you're when you're in the water and see it that
Speaker 3: clearly is is awesome. So we have other people on
Speaker 3: the text line claiming the day agree and destined is great,
Speaker 3: and that's we know, this is our this is our trip.
Speaker 3: Every year we're going to go there spend a week.
Speaker 3: We already know kind of where we're going to go
Speaker 3: and eat and that kind of stuff because we've been
Speaker 3: there before. But and usually even if we do get
Speaker 3: some bad weather, which we did get a couple of
Speaker 3: days where it rained a little bit, it didn't last
Speaker 3: long because it never does. But for the most part,
Speaker 3: even if you got rain every day, at some point,
Speaker 3: I'd still say the majority of your day in most
Speaker 3: instances will be sunny and beautiful because it just doesn't
Speaker 3: stay gloomy that long, at least not when we've been there.
Speaker 3: We've been very lucky. Although apparently there's a hurricane head
Speaker 3: in that way. So I think we got we got
Speaker 3: back here a little uh, you know, right on time.
Speaker 3: I guess I don't know how bad it's going to
Speaker 3: be exactly where we were, But I know yesterday our
Speaker 3: flight left a little bit later in the afternoon, which
Speaker 3: worked out great because we were able to get up
Speaker 3: in the morning and we had to be out of
Speaker 3: the resort we were staying at by ten. But we
Speaker 3: just took you know, a change of clothes with us
Speaker 3: to the pool into the beach and had you know,
Speaker 3: another three four hours out, you know, enjoying the day before.
Speaker 3: We changed clothes and headed to the airport. But it
Speaker 3: was beautif but man, the water was insanely rough. Like
Speaker 3: you couldn't if you were walking just along the beach,
Speaker 3: you know, where your feet get hit with water in
Speaker 3: the waves, like every so often you're close to the water,
Speaker 3: but like you don't have to worry about like your
Speaker 3: clothes getting wet or anything like that. Like a lot
Speaker 3: of people just walk the beach doing exactly what I
Speaker 3: just mentioned. But if you were doing it yesterday, like
Speaker 3: maybe every twenty thirty seconds, you were gonna be bombarded
Speaker 3: by a huge wave that you know wouldn't take you
Speaker 3: under and pull you away from the beach, but it was.
Speaker 3: It was brutal. And then sure enough, as I'm leaving,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I guess that makes sense. There's like
Speaker 3: apparently a very dangerous uh hurricane head in that way.
Speaker 2: I say tornado, you said hurricane.
Speaker 3: So anyways, I'm happy to be back. It's always nice
Speaker 3: to get you know, to get some rn R. And
Speaker 3: we did exactly that, despite airline people still being you know,
Speaker 3: the worst. And I shouldn't say airline people because I'm
Speaker 3: not even really sure what that means, because people who
Speaker 3: work for the airline, I guess would be who you
Speaker 3: would consider airline people, but you probably don't call them
Speaker 3: that anyways. But nonetheless, we talked about it recently on
Speaker 3: the show, so it was fresh on my mind John
Speaker 3: when I went to the airport last Saturday to leave,
Speaker 3: and then we went to the airport yesterday to come home,
Speaker 3: and I wasn't looking for, you know, somebody to be Yeah,
Speaker 3: I look over for trouble, but like the unpulled, I mean,
Speaker 3: the destined airport for Walden is tiny, Like there's not
Speaker 3: humongous long lines for anything, at least not when we've
Speaker 3: been there, like it's been busy, but busy, there is
Speaker 3: nothing because again it's a tiny airport. So you know,
Speaker 3: we're there yesterday going through and getting our bags. You know,
Speaker 3: checked in that kind of stuff, going through security and
Speaker 3: you know, then waiting to get on the plane to leave,
Speaker 3: and like at every every point where there was communication
Speaker 3: with somebody that worked either for the airline or for
Speaker 3: the airport or for the rental car peek place, Like
Speaker 3: they're just passive aggressive and like I don't know, Like
Speaker 3: it's they'll call you sir and ma'am, but like they're
Speaker 3: not happy to be doing It's almost like they're it's
Speaker 3: more of a how you say something than what you say,
Speaker 3: but like it's I don't get it, Like we're as unpleasant,
Speaker 3: we were as eager to work with you as you
Speaker 3: are us. Put it that way, like there's no need
Speaker 3: for you to be that angry. And maybe anger is
Speaker 3: not the right word because it isn't like people are
Speaker 3: losing their minds, although you can find that on the internet.
Speaker 3: That's one of my favorite things to find is people
Speaker 3: losing their minds at the airport. We've discussed that before.
Speaker 3: But like we had one suitcase that had a bum wheel.
Speaker 3: Let's put it that way. It worked, it didn't cause
Speaker 3: any issue, but like you could see this little bitty
Speaker 3: crack like next to the wheel and let's just say
Speaker 3: like if the wheel did break, I wouldn't be surprised,
Speaker 3: but it was still working, and this lady held up
Speaker 3: the line and to get our with the airline to
Speaker 3: get our bag checked because she had to like put
Speaker 3: this big obnoxious sticker on it that like we've been
Speaker 3: warned that the wheel is is potentially damaged. Which look,
Speaker 3: she may just be doing her job, but you would
Speaker 3: have thought that her day was ruined because we had
Speaker 3: a bum wheel on a suitcase. Like It's just like
Speaker 3: everybody has days at work, I'm sure where they just
Speaker 3: don't want to be there, they don't like it, they
Speaker 3: find themselves considering a different career path. Like that's pretty normal,
Speaker 3: I would say in most people's lives where they just
Speaker 3: feel like, man, this isn't ed. I got to think
Speaker 3: of something else I can do because I hate this job, this,
Speaker 3: this is too much, this isn't the right fit for me.
Speaker 3: Like I don't think that's that uncommon, but I feel
Speaker 3: like every time I'm at the airport, everybody I encounter,
Speaker 3: like that's on their mind their whole work shift, which
Speaker 3: you know, find something else to do. Geez. Anyways, so
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into ranking the best Kentucky
Speaker 3: football seasons of all time, because when I don't know,
Speaker 3: like I wouldn't even know where to start. But I
Speaker 3: don't feel like I'm I'm exaggerating when I say that
Speaker 3: their season that they had that is now now you know,
Speaker 3: non existent, didn't didn't happen? Wipe it out of your
Speaker 3: brain in two thousand and see what year was it
Speaker 3: in two thousand and twenty one. It's already been wiped
Speaker 3: from Wikipedia, by the way. Yeah, I mean they look,
Speaker 3: they went they went five and three. I think it
Speaker 3: was in in ACC play, which is unheard of for them.
Speaker 3: It's happened like what a handful of times ever in
Speaker 3: the history of their program, where they want they had
Speaker 3: a winning record in the ACC and then they went
Speaker 3: on and they beat a good a good team was
Speaker 3: it Iowa in the UH in the Citrus Bowl? Again
Speaker 3: there their ten win season from twenty eighteen. Maybe some
Speaker 3: could say that's that that was a that was a
Speaker 3: more special year because they also ten and three, five
Speaker 3: and three overall. I think they beat Penn State in
Speaker 3: in the Citrus Bowl. It's like, maybe that is a
Speaker 3: better look. But again, regardless, I used to say this
Speaker 3: all the time. When Mark Stoops was hired, like nobody
Speaker 3: knew what to expect. He'd never been a head coach
Speaker 3: before you knew his name. He came from Florida State,
Speaker 3: who at that time was role and they just won
Speaker 3: a national championship. But like to say that that Kentucky
Speaker 3: football would have two to ten win seasons in twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: whenever Stoops was hired, like, I would never believe you.
Speaker 3: I would say, you know, this is not I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't reuse this line as because I think it's
Speaker 3: like a funny a funny joke that's gonna get a
Speaker 3: lot of laughs out of people. But it's genuinely what
Speaker 3: I thought. If you'd have told me, hey, Kentucky football,
Speaker 3: they won ten games on two different occasions in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, they were a ten win team,
Speaker 3: I would have said, well, okay, if that's the case,
Speaker 3: then Nick Saban must have left Alabama and came to
Speaker 3: coach Kentucky because Kentucky would never ever have a ten
Speaker 3: win season in football. Won't happen. And it did, and
Speaker 3: that's a credit to Stoops. But now one of them
Speaker 3: didn't happen. Technically, do they have any competitive advantage? Absolutely not,
Speaker 3: no way because these players was eleven of them were
Speaker 3: working at a hospital, but not really working at a hospital,
Speaker 3: which in that like fraud, like can't could the hospital
Speaker 3: get in trouble, But they were working as employees and
Speaker 3: I think they call that like ghost ghost employment. So anyways,
Speaker 3: like there's no competitive advantage, right, and in fact, I
Speaker 3: don't even think the guys who were doing that were like,
Speaker 3: you know, that wasn't like how they were able that
Speaker 3: was now Kentucky landed a commitment from them. They were
Speaker 3: just guys who were able to you know, put some
Speaker 3: money in their pocket before an IL was legal. But
Speaker 3: it's just like the twenty thirteen Louisville National Championship, louisll
Speaker 3: didn't win a championship because of anything that happened in
Speaker 3: a Narti hall. In fact, now that this thing has passed,
Speaker 3: and this is not to minimize it or act like
Speaker 3: it wasn't a big deal, because it's you know, even
Speaker 3: if there's an ounce of truth to what Katina pal said,
Speaker 3: it's still just disgusting. We all know that. But it
Speaker 3: didn't help them. It only hurt them. Like even at
Speaker 3: the time, like when you had like what recruit came
Speaker 3: there and was like, yeah, look this is great. They're
Speaker 3: gonna have you know, these women if you want to
Speaker 3: call them that, I mean, like it didn't hurt It
Speaker 3: didn't help them in any way, and especially didn't help
Speaker 3: them on the court, Like they didn't win in the
Speaker 3: NAA tournament or during that season because of anything that
Speaker 3: happened previously, but because of the NAA stupid archaic rules.
Speaker 3: You know, that's the one thing they can do is
Speaker 3: they can go in and say, well, we're vacating your games.
Speaker 3: And it's really stupid, it really is, and you would
Speaker 3: always rather have that than have, you know, a potential
Speaker 3: postseason ban, because you know, you don't want anything to
Speaker 3: hurt you moving forward and technically vacating wins. Like the
Speaker 3: only thing that angers me about it is it's just stupid.
Speaker 3: But in the end, it actually doesn't bother you if
Speaker 3: you can like just live in a world where you
Speaker 3: know that it's nonsense and that you know what happened,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: The result was there.
Speaker 3: You know that whatever cheating is being alleged, you know,
Speaker 3: did not give you a competitive advantage. If you could
Speaker 3: live in that in that space mentally, you know, the
Speaker 3: real world then like, who cares? I think with Louisville though,
Speaker 3: when it comes to vacating theirs, it was because it
Speaker 3: was a national championship and it had never happened before
Speaker 3: and now. And that's why it was tough to watch
Speaker 3: some of those guys losing the TVT because they've moved
Speaker 3: on to become successful people in life, whether it be basketball,
Speaker 3: like Peyton who's had a great pro career now he's
Speaker 3: on the staff, Russ great professional career, still currently a
Speaker 3: professional and also has his own bourbon business. Montros Harold
Speaker 3: played roughly a decade in the NBA, won NBA six
Speaker 3: Man of the Year. So you know, these guys were
Speaker 3: part of a really special, special era of Louisville basketball,
Speaker 3: and I just hate to know that when that comes up,
Speaker 3: the twenty thirteen team losing a banner because of what
Speaker 3: happened in Minority Hall, all that kind of stuff, Like,
Speaker 3: I just hated for those guys to have that attached
Speaker 3: to them in any way, but we all know they
Speaker 3: still want it, and again, it had nothing to do
Speaker 3: with the actual results on the court. I'm sure Kentucky
Speaker 3: fans don't really care that they're having a full season vacated,
Speaker 3: especially knowing that, like, now, what you did is is legal.
Speaker 3: But what they got to figure out is are they
Speaker 3: going to keep using that in the rivalry banter? Right? Like,
Speaker 3: are you going to keep acknowledging the NCAA vacating a
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen title? Are you now removing that from the uh,
Speaker 3: you know, from the hulster because you now, you know,
Speaker 3: you'd be hypocritical because one of the best seasons you've
Speaker 3: ever watched for Kentucky football also technically was vacated. Which
Speaker 3: we'll get to this later when it comes to Michigan.
Speaker 3: This is for those who don't know that the the
Speaker 3: latest on this Michigan. I mean, can we call it
Speaker 3: a scandal? It is that, but I mean, to me,
Speaker 3: it was saying scandal doesn't seem fitting given the fact
Speaker 3: that like it, there's not really any controversy. Everybody knows
Speaker 3: what they did and knows that it wasn't It wasn't
Speaker 3: you know, technically you know, so in the same level
Speaker 3: of sign stealing that you see every day in college football.
Speaker 3: They had a full elaborate plan and it clearly worked.
Speaker 3: And one of the things that is wild to be about.
Speaker 3: This is that the results look bad for Michigan, meaning
Speaker 3: when this started happening, when they started utilizing Connor stallions
Speaker 3: to steal signs, that's when they started really winning at
Speaker 3: a high level, which doesn't look good on their part.
Speaker 3: But anyways, this is clearly a big deal. And now
Speaker 3: we know that there are text messages that were deleted
Speaker 3: by the new Michigan coach, sure On more former louisvel staffer.
Speaker 3: By the way, but this is from ESPN. It says
Speaker 3: let me see here. Yeah, this is from ESPN dot com.
Speaker 3: This was from Dan Murphy and Pete Famil. The link
Speaker 3: I'm reading does say they'll be updates to this, but essentially,
Speaker 3: sure On Moore, the new head coach of Michigan, could
Speaker 3: be facing instead of a penalties related to the Connor
Speaker 3: Stallion's case, according to a draft of the NAA's notice
Speaker 3: of allegations. So again, this is a draft of notice
Speaker 3: of allegations for Michigan for this whole thing. But does
Speaker 3: anybody actually feel like the NCAA is gonna do anything?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: It's never they have never seemed like such a useless
Speaker 3: organization to where like I think people are gonna break rules,
Speaker 3: cheat and just you know, fight them in court and
Speaker 3: if you want to vacate something, go for But like,
Speaker 3: we don't really respect you anymore. I don't know. I
Speaker 3: just if Michigan got hit hard in some way, Like
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of people that would actually
Speaker 3: like that because everybody knows they cheated. But I just
Speaker 3: I don't know. I can't. I just don't. I don't
Speaker 3: get the sense that we're gonna see the NCAA step
Speaker 3: in and really really punish people anymore. I just I
Speaker 3: don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. All right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 3: come back on the other side for a short segment
Speaker 3: before we wrap up the three o'clock hour, and uh,
Speaker 3: we're taking up till six o'clock, So hang out with
Speaker 3: us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm sure
Speaker 3: everybody knows what secondhand embarrassment is, where you are not
Speaker 3: involved in any way, but you feel a level of
Speaker 3: embarrassment or someone else who you know is embarrassed. I
Speaker 3: have secondhand nerves for Marty Polio, the superintendent of Jefferson
Speaker 3: County Public Schools, because obviously there's a lot of coverage
Speaker 3: on the back to School Plan and transportation with JCPS
Speaker 3: starting school on Thursday, and I mean I didn't forget
Speaker 3: about it, but to look at this right up over
Speaker 3: at WKY in regards to like just how bad of
Speaker 3: a debile. I mean, it was a national story last
Speaker 3: year that you know, JCPS started a school year and
Speaker 3: quite literally could not accomplish the fund. The first thing
Speaker 3: in the in the rule book, if there is one,
Speaker 3: as far as you know, how to have a school,
Speaker 3: how to have education, is to get the kids there.
Speaker 3: It couldn't do that, and it was just a complete mess.
Speaker 3: I mean they had to cancel school, like, hey, you
Speaker 3: got it. We're gonna give you guys a little bit
Speaker 3: more time during the summer here because man, we aren't ready.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have kids getting dropped off after ten pm,
Speaker 3: kids on the wrong buses. I mean, it was an
Speaker 3: absolute mess. And the first day of school is always
Speaker 3: hectic and a mess, especially when you're talking about humongous
Speaker 3: school districts like Jefferson County Public schools. I mean, even
Speaker 3: we're I grew up Bullet County, I'm sure they you know,
Speaker 3: the first day is just you're gonna have you know,
Speaker 3: maybe a new bus route or maybe you know, you
Speaker 3: got kids that get on the wrong bus because they've
Speaker 3: never been to school before. Like, you're gonna have hiccups
Speaker 3: along the way as everybody involved, from top to bottom
Speaker 3: gets acclimated on. You know, whatever the plan is, right,
Speaker 3: if it's a new transportation plan, new bus routes, all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. But with JCPS man, it just
Speaker 3: seemed like it couldn't have been much worse when they
Speaker 3: tried last last year. And you know, I'm telling myself, well,
Speaker 3: there's no way it'll be as bad as it was
Speaker 3: a year ago. But I guess we'll find out on uh,
Speaker 3: we'll find out on Thursdays.
Speaker 4: Isn't there And I don't know all the details of
Speaker 4: this obviously, but isn't there something to where if if somebody,
Speaker 4: if something doesn't go right, they could be out of
Speaker 4: school until like November. I've heard something very weird. I
Speaker 4: don't know how that works or what that is. That
Speaker 4: sounds very just glad.
Speaker 3: I am glad you brought that up, because I don't
Speaker 3: have an answer for you, but I have also I've
Speaker 3: also seen the Facebook posts from people like are we
Speaker 3: really going to have to keep our kids until November?
Speaker 3: Because you know when my daughters is the only child
Speaker 3: of mine that's in school. My son will start kindergarten
Speaker 3: next year, and you know, when she's not in school,
Speaker 3: we actually had a really good summer with her as
Speaker 3: far as finding the perfect people to help us out
Speaker 3: and watch her during the day. And when I say
Speaker 3: help us out, I mean, you know, we pay them.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not something that they do for free,
Speaker 3: as they shouldn't. So you know, it's a little more
Speaker 3: expensive for us in the summer because we have to
Speaker 3: pay for childcare for two people. Well, when she's in school,
Speaker 3: we don't have to worry about that, which is you know,
Speaker 3: which is good. But a lot of people it's it's
Speaker 3: not just financial. It's like, hey, I don't have to
Speaker 3: you know, I don't have to arrange for somebody to
Speaker 3: watch my kid. If they're in school. I know where
Speaker 3: they are and I know, hey, somebody's going to pick
Speaker 3: them up off the bus. So not having kids at
Speaker 3: home for the summer is really a convenience thing for
Speaker 3: a lot of parents, and I think a lot of
Speaker 3: us learn that the hard way when people tried to
Speaker 3: work from home during the pandemic while also being teachers,
Speaker 3: essentially for their kids like that was crazy. So I've
Speaker 3: seen that too, John, But I don't really know anything
Speaker 3: about it. I don't know why people are claiming like
Speaker 3: something till November.
Speaker 2: I just can't imagine that being the case for anything.
Speaker 3: Like Yeah, and look, they clearly have a big shortage
Speaker 3: of drivers with JCPS, and there's some new things they
Speaker 3: put in place to where if you take your kid
Speaker 3: to school every day, you're entitled to a certain amount
Speaker 3: of money per day, you know, to help cover the
Speaker 3: cost of transportation that kind of stuff. So look, I'm hopeful,
Speaker 3: I'm hopeful that they don't have another cluster, you know what,
Speaker 3: on their hands, and there's just no way it could
Speaker 3: be as bad as last year, right, fingers crossed. But
Speaker 3: I'm worried for Marty Polio because he's the guy that's
Speaker 3: got to get in front of the Cameron microphone when
Speaker 3: these kind of things happen. And you know, hope it
Speaker 3: goes well. All right, we get two more hours, and
Speaker 3: I hope those two hours go well. I mean they're
Speaker 3: going to right, We're gonna have some fun. We'll start
Speaker 3: off the four o'clock hour coming up here in just
Speaker 3: a few minutes by bringing in our own. I say
Speaker 3: our own. He's not mine. I don't own him, but
Speaker 3: he's my man. He's Jeff Greer. We'll talk some soccer
Speaker 3: with him coming up on the other side right here
Speaker 3: on Sports Talk seven ninety