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Speaker 3: All right? You made it, ladies and gentlemen. It is
Speaker 3: the weekend. I mean not yet maybe for some, but
Speaker 3: it's a Friday, and we've got a big weekend on
Speaker 3: hand here in Louisville, and I'm certainly excited about it.
Speaker 3: Another beautiful day. I'm not sure we've had. I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess last week. Of course, it was terrible with
Speaker 3: just a ton of rain that just never seemed to end,
Speaker 3: that led to Louder than Life having basically a day off,
Speaker 3: just a gross weekend. But yet we've we've kind of
Speaker 3: bounced back here with the beautiful week of weather and
Speaker 3: should be a beautiful day tomorrow. So the vibes are
Speaker 3: strong as we get a Friday editions audition started here
Speaker 3: at Disc Coffee and Company. We are fueled by Thornton's
Speaker 3: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm I'm a little
Speaker 3: thrown off here. I made the mistake. I did literally
Speaker 3: just walk in maybe four minutes ago. Not because you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, we're ready to rock and roll today, but
Speaker 3: I you know, I had some arionster run and whatnot,
Speaker 3: so I got here not in time to check every
Speaker 3: level of every you know, everything on this board in
Speaker 3: front of me and my I mean, I don't know why.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to listen to, like if you're talking John,
Speaker 3: or if you're listening to sound or if it's a caller,
Speaker 3: Like I get why you may want to have that
Speaker 3: really loud. But what I don't get, And you have
Speaker 3: the ability to control it too, by the way, those
Speaker 3: who don't know, and you probably wouldn't unless you've you know,
Speaker 3: worked on a worked in a studio like this, with
Speaker 3: a board like this, I can hear there's there's one
Speaker 3: specific I guess knob here that controls how loud I
Speaker 3: am in my own headphones, and I like to keep
Speaker 3: that just loud enough to where like I can hear it,
Speaker 3: but I don't want it loud. Yes, that is how
Speaker 3: I am. Yeah, because then it distracts me. It's like,
Speaker 3: why are you yelling? Why do you you know? Like
Speaker 3: it just it throws me off. But Scott Fitzgerald and
Speaker 3: Shannon the dude, they they really like to hear themselves
Speaker 3: up loud and it and it threw me off there.
Speaker 2: I think everybody in the studio except us is maybe
Speaker 2: legally deaf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could be, I mean, because it seems like we're
Speaker 3: the only people who keep the boards quiet.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's not a lie either, I don't think. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I the one person I know, and I
Speaker 3: don't I've not I don't think I've ever followed him,
Speaker 3: meaning I come on after him. But Vanetti's like, and
Speaker 3: he's he's got to have it full blast, and he
Speaker 3: is I think. I mean again, I don't know if
Speaker 3: he's got diagnosed, but I'm pretty sure he is deaf.
Speaker 3: Shannon's probably close to it. Scott, I don't know, but
Speaker 3: he was the last one in here and it was
Speaker 3: it was up really loud. So now as we are
Speaker 3: three minutes in, I feel like I'm actually getting the
Speaker 3: party started here. It's coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's
Speaker 3: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you guys hanging
Speaker 3: out with us as we get you set for a
Speaker 3: big weekend starts tonight Louisville Live. Really looking forward to
Speaker 3: getting out there to the KFC. You'm center bringing the family,
Speaker 3: Not that any of you care, but this is the
Speaker 3: perfect event for little kids that don't quite have the
Speaker 3: patience to like watch a full game, although my son
Speaker 3: probably would, but you know, he'd be asking me questions
Speaker 3: every five seconds. He probably will tonight. He's at that
Speaker 3: stage where everything's a question, like why is that car
Speaker 3: going that way? I don't know, son, And I've had
Speaker 3: so many moments where I'm like, I have to tell him, like,
Speaker 3: you don't have to ask questions, but then I don't
Speaker 3: have the heart to do that. But it tonight's not
Speaker 3: about figuring out if louls any good or not right.
Speaker 3: It's about just tipping the season off, the first event
Speaker 3: really of the Pat Kelsey era, and I expect there
Speaker 3: to be a pretty good crowd there. They're gonna do
Speaker 3: not only a three point shootout, They're going to do
Speaker 3: a dunk contest. They're also going to introduce all the
Speaker 3: players who knows who knows who's going to be there.
Speaker 3: As far as former players, I mean, I don't I
Speaker 3: don't think we're expecting some surprise celebrity like Jack Harlow
Speaker 3: or Donovan Mitchell who've made appearances before. But you really
Speaker 3: never know when it comes to who may who may
Speaker 3: show up. And then they're also going to do like
Speaker 3: a three on three, but it'll be with some members
Speaker 3: of the women's team and the men's team, which should
Speaker 3: be kind of fun. So look, it's a party and
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to partying. So yeah, it starts to
Speaker 3: day o'clock. But there has been a lot of talk
Speaker 3: about the game the event because it's not a game,
Speaker 3: but the event not being streamed live. And you know,
Speaker 3: I don't usually go of my way to like because
Speaker 3: I don't feel the need to, and I don't really
Speaker 3: you know, like I'm not someone in a position now
Speaker 3: where I feel like I need to defend the folks
Speaker 3: that work for the U of l Athletic administration. There
Speaker 3: was a time where it was kind of you know,
Speaker 3: part of this, but I actually think it's insane with
Speaker 3: some of the things that people complain about and like
Speaker 3: blame u of L for and this will be live
Speaker 3: only in person, so like, if you want to watch
Speaker 3: it live, you got to be there. It will be
Speaker 3: available on ACC Network Extra, which of course is streaming,
Speaker 3: which I believe it's been on ACC Network Extra before
Speaker 3: in previous years live, but I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know that for certain. I don't think when
Speaker 3: they did it at Slugger was it was available to
Speaker 3: watch live. But I really don't know. It's kind of
Speaker 3: checked out then, as you could expect. But nonetheless, you
Speaker 3: can watch it after the fact, and that's what everybody's
Speaker 3: complaining about, Like u of L the official athletics department
Speaker 3: Twitter account, the UFO men's basketball Twitter account, like when
Speaker 3: you see them promoting it, you'll find at least a
Speaker 3: few responses from mostly you know, anonymous trolls on the internet,
Speaker 3: just bitching about it not being live to watch. And
Speaker 3: I mean, I get it if you don't live here
Speaker 3: and you don't have the ability to go, but you'll
Speaker 3: still be able to watch it after the fact. And
Speaker 3: of all things to complain about as far as it
Speaker 3: not being on TV, what are you worried about missing live?
Speaker 3: It's not a game you're not gonna You're not gonna
Speaker 3: turn on the TV and oh man, I saw the score.
Speaker 3: Now there's no there's no point in watching. I already
Speaker 3: know who. Like, it's not a game, it's an event.
Speaker 3: And even if you knew who won the dunk contest
Speaker 3: or the three point shootout, I mean, I feel like
Speaker 3: you still want to watch it because it's not about
Speaker 3: like just winning, It's about how it looked, especially the
Speaker 3: dunk contest. So again, I'm not trying to be, you know,
Speaker 3: a company man, because I have no official affiliation with
Speaker 3: U of L in any way, we're no longer partners
Speaker 3: with them at all. But like that that is I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, I think everybody at this day and age
Speaker 3: understands that people are gonna complain about anything whenever they
Speaker 3: get an opportunity. You're never gonna make everybody happy. But
Speaker 3: like it just really it really irritated me to see,
Speaker 3: you know, and it wasn't as if like the entire
Speaker 3: but like people who I know that like live in
Speaker 3: Louisville that like could go are bitching about how why
Speaker 3: is it not live? Well, I mean and I don't
Speaker 3: honestly know why it's not live. I mean I have
Speaker 3: no clue. I don't know if it's because they don't
Speaker 3: have like the like you got to keep in mind,
Speaker 3: the ACC owns u of l's broadcast rights, so that's
Speaker 3: why it's gonna be on the ACC Network Extra. So
Speaker 3: that tells me that, like if they wanted to put
Speaker 3: it on the field, uh not the field of sixty eight.
Speaker 3: That's a That's why did I say that? Floyd Street
Speaker 3: It's what is it? Floyd Street's Finest?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 5: No, that sounds like something. It's something Floyd Street, Floyd
Speaker 5: Street Media. Yeah, Floyd Street Media. Floyd Street's Finest is
Speaker 5: Jeff Career's old old podcast. But Floyd Street's Finest not
Speaker 5: the name Floyd Street Media is the name apologies there.
Speaker 5: That's the media company that is essentially part of five
Speaker 5: O two Circle. If you remember, they're the ones who
Speaker 5: did a live YouTube stream for the games in the Bahamas.
Speaker 5: My guess is that one of two things, because this
Speaker 5: is actually you know, part of this is an event
Speaker 5: that is taking place at the KFC Young Center, and
Speaker 5: it's you know, it's actually on the schedule that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff. Like maybe they wouldn't have the ability to
Speaker 5: do that because believe it or not. They are kind
Speaker 5: of an outside I mean, they're affiliated, but they're not,
Speaker 5: if you know what I mean. Right, Like five O
Speaker 5: two Circle clearly is affiliated with u of L, but
Speaker 5: like it's it's a different company essentially, So maybe they
Speaker 5: didn't have the ability to do that, or they just realize, Hey,
Speaker 5: for what this is, we really need to make sure
Speaker 5: that you know the broadcast quality, rather it be recording
Speaker 5: it for broadcast or streaming it live, Like we need
Speaker 5: to make sure we've got you know, we've got a
Speaker 5: full crew that can make sure it looks good even
Speaker 5: if it's for after the fact it's not live.
Speaker 3: So again, like you also have to keep in mind
Speaker 3: that they're also having a volleyball game tonight at ellen
Speaker 3: And Arena on campus. And I'm sure when it comes
Speaker 3: to people who work for Jeremy nos Crewe, who you know,
Speaker 3: the u of L broadcast production team, you know that
Speaker 3: that studio that was that was put in whenever u
Speaker 3: of L joined the ACC part of a requirement, Like
Speaker 3: they've got a big team that helps you know a
Speaker 3: lot of the you know, a lot of the sports
Speaker 3: that you don't watch. Probably you don't even realize it,
Speaker 3: but they are on like ESPN Plus and or the
Speaker 3: ACC Network Extra, and the people who you know work
Speaker 3: the production to help make that available live, they they
Speaker 3: work for U of L. So like, there's probably not
Speaker 3: as many resources on hand tonight to get this thing
Speaker 3: live out there, But again, just go and if you
Speaker 3: can't go, so I wouldn't be shocked if within an
Speaker 3: hour after it's over. Don't quote me on this because
Speaker 3: I have no clue, but like I bet this will
Speaker 3: probably be up for you to watch relatively quickly after
Speaker 3: it ends.
Speaker 2: So it is kind of funny that it's called Louisville
Speaker 2: Live and it won't be live.
Speaker 3: Well Louisville Live. It's Louisville Live at the Yump Center,
Speaker 3: So you've got to get your ask there to watch
Speaker 3: it live.
Speaker 1: I do get why they're doing it.
Speaker 3: They want to lot didn't mean it's on TV. Love
Speaker 3: just means it's live, like you know. So anyways, that'll
Speaker 3: be tonight at eight o'clock, and then of course tomorrow,
Speaker 3: I mean tomorrow is a is a big day and
Speaker 3: I have absolutely I mean, I'm right on schedule when
Speaker 3: it comes to game week Monday, I'm just bitter and
Speaker 3: still just puzzled about what happened at South Bend more
Speaker 3: so than any other laws just because sometimes you're losing.
Speaker 3: You know, hey, we just we came out and we
Speaker 3: played a team that's a lot better than us, and
Speaker 3: that happens. We all know, we don't need to revisit it.
Speaker 3: But Saturday was not that. Saturday was a game more
Speaker 3: so where like, what the hell happened? Like we should
Speaker 3: be like, can we just stop hurting ourselves and we
Speaker 3: might win the game? So that lingered longer than it
Speaker 3: usually does, so like by Tuesday, I was still kind
Speaker 3: of bitter about it, but starting to turn the paged SMU,
Speaker 3: realizing the momentum they have, realizing that they've really turned
Speaker 3: their season around. And really that's probably an exaggeration to
Speaker 3: say they turned their season around. They were unimpressive, but
Speaker 3: yet they won against Nevada. Then they lost to BYU
Speaker 3: in a really low scoring game. We now know BYU
Speaker 3: is a certified top twenty team as we speak. I mean,
Speaker 3: maybe they don't end up having that same status at
Speaker 3: the end of the year, but I mean I think
Speaker 3: BYU is looking like a team that could be one
Speaker 3: of the best in the Big twelve. And then since then,
Speaker 3: they made a quarterback change, and they've played well. They
Speaker 3: embarrassed this Florida State team last week, which look, I
Speaker 3: understand Florida State has been embarrassed really since the start
Speaker 3: of the season every week. I mean, their only win
Speaker 3: is a near loss to Cal But SMU beat them
Speaker 3: in a way that like nobody else has, so they
Speaker 3: again they have momentum. And Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was
Speaker 3: kind of like here we go, Like I'm not scared,
Speaker 3: I'm not worried, but like realizing, hey, this is a
Speaker 3: team that is good enough to beat you if you
Speaker 3: don't play well. And now I'm to the point where
Speaker 3: I'm well aware that, like they're good, they're gonna bring
Speaker 3: more fans than I think people realize. I doubt you'll
Speaker 3: see and in fact, you may not even be able
Speaker 3: to notice because I'm not sure what color they're gonna wear.
Speaker 3: I know they're wearing white uniforms, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna have back to back weeks where
Speaker 3: Louisville football has just a beautiful game of uniforms on
Speaker 3: the field. I mean, last week, Notre Dame that green.
Speaker 3: It's unusual, but U of L's all Whites with that
Speaker 3: Notre Dame and Green. I thought it looked beautiful. Of
Speaker 3: course the result wasn't beautiful. But it's a big game tomorrow,
Speaker 3: and it's not like I'm telling you that I'm now convinced,
Speaker 3: no doubt about it, Louisville is gonna win. I think
Speaker 3: they will, but I'm just ready to actually see what
Speaker 3: happens here because this is this is a game where
Speaker 3: if you win it, it's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: We all know that it's certainly going to be great
Speaker 3: to see this team respond coming off of a tough loss,
Speaker 3: being able to not let one loss gets you twice,
Speaker 3: and that happens sometimes in football, and it'll be you
Speaker 3: beating a team that you know, as we speak, appears
Speaker 3: to be one of the better teams in the ACC,
Speaker 3: although I don't even know if that's true, Like I
Speaker 3: think they are, like from a talent perspective, like I
Speaker 3: think they've got some good players. I respect Red Ashley
Speaker 3: as a coach. I think they'll end up being one
Speaker 3: of the top five teams in the ACC when it's
Speaker 3: all said and done. But when it comes to this
Speaker 3: game having such an impact on the ACC standings, let's
Speaker 3: be real it all, it's only because of the schedule.
Speaker 3: Like SMU, They've got Louisville their last game against a
Speaker 3: ranked team as we speak in Louisville's you know, ranked
Speaker 3: twenty second, and then from for the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: They could slip up and lose to a few teams.
Speaker 3: They could lose to anybody, I suppose. But like they
Speaker 3: win this, they look at the rest of their schedule
Speaker 3: and say, look, we've shown we're good enough to win
Speaker 3: out beat Louisville. We can beat everybody else. And that
Speaker 3: doesn't mean because Louisville's elite. It's because their schedule is
Speaker 3: just very, very manageable, favorable, or as some people say, week.
Speaker 3: So I'm anxious to get this thing started tomorrow, and
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Speaker 3: So coming up in fifteen minutes, we'll bring an Alex Cupper,
Speaker 3: former Louisville cardinal who joins us each and every week
Speaker 3: to discuss the cards. And you know, I always try
Speaker 3: to get his perspective on things that obviously most of us,
Speaker 3: nearly all of us don't have, which is, you know,
Speaker 3: a former player's perspective who you know, played football for
Speaker 3: UFL and had a lot of success. But like every
Speaker 3: coach is different. But I'm just like, if you're Jeff
Speaker 3: Brawn and you're preparing for this game, like you've probably
Speaker 3: put this Notre Dame loss in the rear view, maybe
Speaker 3: since you walked out of the locker room in South Bend.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure they watched film and that's part
Speaker 3: of the process and all that, but like it's a
Speaker 3: it's it's it's a punch to the gut for fans
Speaker 3: and certainly players and coaches to all know that, like
Speaker 3: you came out with that loss, probably more so because
Speaker 3: you just made dumb mistakes more than anything else. But
Speaker 3: there's also the other side of that, which is, hey,
Speaker 3: if we can just tighten things up and not you know,
Speaker 3: hurt ourselves and make an avoid these mistakes that are
Speaker 3: easily avoidable. We're gonna be good. We're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 3: But again we'll talk to Cup coming up here at
Speaker 3: about three thirty. And then I just realized I've made
Speaker 3: a mistake here a double book, John, have we no? Well,
Speaker 3: I just got to figure out how I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: the how I'm gonna how I'm going to stretch the
Speaker 3: guests because we've got Jeff Greer coming on at some point,
Speaker 3: I believe around four thirty. As he is, uh, he's
Speaker 3: got a big weekend for uh, for for racing lou
Speaker 3: And of course we always love catching up with Jef career.
Speaker 3: He's our guy. And then also Brian Edwards from Vegas
Speaker 3: Insider is gonna join us and get us set for
Speaker 3: the weekend. Not a great weekend for college football as
Speaker 3: far as the big matchups, We've discussed that throughout the week.
Speaker 3: But I have circled in on a few games that
Speaker 3: I'm I'm like, I'm feeling confident about these bets.
Speaker 2: John, Hey, I'm going back to back three and oh
Speaker 2: parlay weeks.
Speaker 3: Three and oh, I mean three straight weeks. You mean,
Speaker 3: if you get this one it's impressive.
Speaker 2: It'll be second straight week of hitting a parlor.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought you meant three, like three, and.
Speaker 2: Oh I say three, and oh I mean three for three.
Speaker 3: It's probably the better way to put it. Okay, three
Speaker 3: for three meeting, all of your picks come in, all
Speaker 3: the yeah, yeah, yeah, well hey you've got you got more.
Speaker 3: You got more momentum than I do. Speaking of that,
Speaker 3: like last night, a great Thursday night football game in
Speaker 3: the NFL. We don't usually get that, but a pretty
Speaker 3: exciting finish between the Falcons and the Buccaneers. And of
Speaker 3: course I came out on the losing end of that.
Speaker 3: But that's just what I've come to expect, not just
Speaker 3: with betting on football, but in life, so much so
Speaker 3: that I'm now starting to really celebrate small victories in
Speaker 3: everyday life. Like I got my kids to school in
Speaker 3: daycare on time today and it looked like it might
Speaker 3: not be the case. I'm like, man, celebrate it. You've
Speaker 3: not had many wins lately. Celebrate So I felt good
Speaker 3: about that, And then I was sitting at a red
Speaker 3: light right near John Harper Highway and my heart sank
Speaker 3: as I felt like, oh am, I a criminal on
Speaker 3: the run, and I just realized it. Remember jury dude, right,
Speaker 3: I do? So I have to call a number every
Speaker 3: so many days and hear the jury reporting line and
Speaker 3: it's just a recorded message that tells you if in
Speaker 3: fact jurors are needed, because I'm in the pool, and
Speaker 3: then like, if your number is in this range, you're
Speaker 3: somebody that is needed. So I called on Monday, which
Speaker 3: was the was that the first day of Tuesday was
Speaker 3: our cav So October first was the day I was.
Speaker 3: Monday was the thirtieth, and you're supposed to call and
Speaker 3: they'll tell you. It'll it'll tell you. And it told
Speaker 3: me that, you know, there's no like, you're good. But
Speaker 3: then it said callback Thursday to see the schedule moving forward,
Speaker 3: like not only for the fourth which is today, but
Speaker 3: also next week and yesterday, you know, it being another
Speaker 3: day where I'm just running around town like a chicken
Speaker 3: with my head cut off, trying to figure out what
Speaker 3: the hell's going on with my car, all due to AutoZone.
Speaker 3: I totally forgot about it. So it's eight fifty eight
Speaker 3: and I met this red light and I'm like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I bet I had there's just given my
Speaker 3: luck given the way things have gone, there's no scenario
Speaker 3: that I that I that I was not supposed to
Speaker 3: be at the Judicial Center in Shepherdsville, Kentucky for you know,
Speaker 3: for jury. So I called the number and I was
Speaker 3: very happy to learn that there was no nobody. They
Speaker 3: didn't they didn't have a trial, So I'm good for
Speaker 3: this week and next week. So but I just assumed, like, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: now that there's probably there's probably a warrin out for
Speaker 3: my arrest and they're looking for me right now. They
Speaker 3: they may not find me though, because I'm not in
Speaker 3: a vehicle that is registered to me. I'm in a
Speaker 3: loaner from a dealership because my If I missed jury
Speaker 3: duty and they came after me, I would just tell
Speaker 3: the officer who or however that works. I doubt they actually,
Speaker 3: you know, cuff you and stuff. You can take you
Speaker 3: to jail because you missed jury duty. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: If they wanted to make an example out of somebody,
Speaker 3: it'd probably be me, just because of how things have
Speaker 3: gone lately. But I would tell them, you need to
Speaker 3: take this up with AutoZone. That's what you need to do.
Speaker 3: They need to be the ones on trial here and
Speaker 3: I'd love to be a juror deciding their fate. But again,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to to see the positives in life. And
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I got lucky, but I guess a
Speaker 3: break went my way. I didn't check. And if you
Speaker 3: don't go, then they do. There's something like a summons
Speaker 3: or something like.
Speaker 2: You know, let's see that as the beginning of an
Speaker 2: upward trajectory, right.
Speaker 3: Where things start heading in the right direction for me.
Speaker 3: I like your style, John, I appreciate that. I need that,
Speaker 3: all right. So some of the things we'll get into
Speaker 3: I want you guys to hear Pat Kelsey as he
Speaker 3: was talking yesterday to a bunch of former Louisville players.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize they were doing this until they posted
Speaker 3: it on social media, not that I would know, but
Speaker 3: they had as many any former players who could be
Speaker 3: who could be at practice yesterday were able to go.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of awesome pictures from you know, with
Speaker 3: guys who are currently on the team, with dudes who
Speaker 3: played here in the eighties and nineties and whatnot. So
Speaker 3: what Pat Kelsey said in that, you know, as he
Speaker 3: was addressing his team discussing all these former players.
Speaker 1: Was.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's to some you know, you might think, oh,
Speaker 3: that's horny, who cares, that's what he's supposed to say,
Speaker 3: and maybe you're right, but it was another reminder, and
Speaker 3: there's been many reminders that like Pat Kelsey obviously has
Speaker 3: to win games, and I think you will, but you know,
Speaker 3: we have to wait and see. Right, he didn't coached
Speaker 3: the game yet. It's it's very early in his in
Speaker 3: his tenure here. In fact, it really hasn't even started
Speaker 3: when it comes to like what truly matters, but we
Speaker 3: also know that other things matter along the way. Ultimately,
Speaker 3: you got to win. But he's checked boxes since he
Speaker 3: got here that I think are super important to the
Speaker 3: fan base being able to heal as quick as possible
Speaker 3: given what's happened the last couple of years. So you know,
Speaker 3: it's not like I'm going to share something that'll give
Speaker 3: you some insight into Pat Kelsey that you didn't have.
Speaker 3: But like I think, despite, I think you could have
Speaker 3: put it this way. I think you could have hired
Speaker 3: other guys that would give you reason to believe that
Speaker 3: you can you can get back to where you want
Speaker 3: to be and you're going to be you know in
Speaker 3: good shape a few years down the line. All that stuff. Like,
Speaker 3: it's not to say you couldn't have hired anybody else,
Speaker 3: and they wouldn't and they wouldn't be able to do
Speaker 3: what he's doing. But like the little things I think
Speaker 3: are really really important to it being a right out
Speaker 3: of the gate fans are back in, they're there at games.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna be selling out when you play you
Speaker 3: know more head State in the opener. But there's just like,
Speaker 3: put it this way, if you ended up getting a
Speaker 3: guy who was a super accomplished coach that was one
Speaker 3: of the big names that Louisville fans were kind of targeting,
Speaker 3: like a Mick cronin which I still thank god that
Speaker 3: didn't happen. But he wouldn't. He wouldn't be running around
Speaker 3: campus encouraging students to show up at Louisville Live. He
Speaker 3: would not. And look if he didn't do any of that,
Speaker 3: but he won big then ultimately that's all that matters.
Speaker 3: But like when we haven't had any real success on
Speaker 3: the floor in such a long time, all this other
Speaker 3: stuff that Pat's doing, it matters. And that's why I
Speaker 3: think you're gonna, you know, you're gonna see a good
Speaker 3: group there tonight, a fan for an event that's you know,
Speaker 3: not a real not even a game, And I think
Speaker 3: you're going to see this fan base really really supporting
Speaker 3: this team. And to us, it's not really a surprise,
Speaker 3: because that's really what we've always done. But if you
Speaker 3: looked at the Young Center of the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: I mean that of all things that went wrong with
Speaker 3: U of L in the last you know, however many years, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not just the last couple of years
Speaker 3: with Kenny, it's the very end of the mac era
Speaker 3: and of course the way things ended with Rick and
Speaker 3: all that. The one thing when I go, like twenty
Speaker 3: years from now, let's say Louis of Basketball is in
Speaker 3: great shape. Maybe they've got another title, maybe they've they've
Speaker 3: been to a few final fours. I'm not saying that
Speaker 3: that's the case, but let's just say, hypothetically speaking, that happens.
Speaker 3: And I think back twenty years before and think of that,
Speaker 3: you know, really just the last three seasons prior, what's
Speaker 3: going to stand out, Like the visual in my mind
Speaker 3: is going to be how empty the Young Center was.
Speaker 3: Because I never thought i'd ever see it like that,
Speaker 3: and then it became every game. And I'm not blaming
Speaker 3: anybody who didn't go. I don't blame you at all,
Speaker 3: But like typically, I would say, it'll take a program
Speaker 3: a lot of time to get anywhere close to where
Speaker 3: they once were as far as fan engagement, fan interest,
Speaker 3: people showing up. And I feel like he's done a
Speaker 3: lot of things, meaning Pat Kelsey, since he got hired,
Speaker 3: that really have nothing to do with this team winning,
Speaker 3: but it matters, and I think it's gonna really be
Speaker 3: evident when this thing gets started. And I guess technically
Speaker 3: you could say maybe it get started tonight, although I
Speaker 3: think their actual first game of the season, the real
Speaker 3: game starts a month from to day. But just little
Speaker 3: things matter whenever you're coming off of what Louisville basketball's
Speaker 3: had the last few years. All right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 3: come back on the other side. Talk to Alex Kupper
Speaker 3: talk some louisvill football, get his thoughts on this matchup
Speaker 3: with SMU. It's Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's right
Speaker 3: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. It's right, It's coffee
Speaker 3: and Company, fueled by Thornton's here on Sports talk seven
Speaker 3: ninety on a Friday afternoon, beautiful Friday, as we get
Speaker 3: set for or a big weekend obviously Louisville Live tonight,
Speaker 3: as you get a chance to see a lot of
Speaker 3: these guys for the first time. I doubt many made
Speaker 3: the trip to the Bahamas, but either way, I mean,
Speaker 3: this is really the first, like I guess, official event
Speaker 3: for Pat Kelsey in front of Louisville fans other than
Speaker 3: the Bahamas, so you know, kind of a big deal.
Speaker 3: I don't want to overdo it. Obviously it's not a
Speaker 3: real game, but certainly, you know, Louisville basketball fans are
Speaker 3: are feen in for some good vibes and he's brought
Speaker 3: those since he's been here. Obviously they haven't played a
Speaker 3: game yet, but really looking forward to tonight and then tomorrow.
Speaker 3: SMU is in town for a big game for both
Speaker 3: sides and joining us to talk some Louisville football. As
Speaker 3: the one and only mister Alex cupper Cup, I'll start
Speaker 3: with this. When you were heading out of the game
Speaker 3: last Saturday in South Bend. You know, losing by a
Speaker 3: touchdown to Notre Dame at their place is something that
Speaker 3: I feel like in most instances you would say, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, that happens, but man, that was really frustrating
Speaker 3: to see how it played out. Just your quick thoughts
Speaker 3: on you know, the team just shooting themselves in the
Speaker 3: foot seemingly over and over.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean exactly that it was. It was one
Speaker 4: that you feel like got away from you, one that
Speaker 4: you can definitely could have gotten and should have gotten.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've told people, if you played ten times,
Speaker 4: I'm thinking we went at least six, probably seven of them.
Speaker 4: And I think that the Notre Dame fans kind of
Speaker 4: felt reluctant. You could feel that like it was when
Speaker 4: they needed to have to stay relevant, so they knew that.
Speaker 4: And it was also a when where they saw what
Speaker 4: happened on the field and it was like, oh god,
Speaker 4: we got away with one here. You know, when it
Speaker 4: comes to getting so many chances and getting to the
Speaker 4: breaks go their way. So yeah, it was a culmination
Speaker 4: of some unfortunate you know, bounce is not going our
Speaker 4: way and not holding on the ball and not taking
Speaker 4: care of the ball. So that's the that's the key
Speaker 4: to the game. The ball is the program.
Speaker 3: I know that every coach has a different style, philosophy,
Speaker 3: but I mean when you played and again I know
Speaker 3: you didn't play for Jeck Bront wasn't your head coach,
Speaker 3: But how do you how do you really? I mean,
Speaker 3: you're gonna watch film, You're going to try to, you know,
Speaker 3: learn from your mistakes and this and that. But man,
Speaker 3: these mistakes, not to say they were perfect in every
Speaker 3: other aspect, but really just avoidable mistakes that you know
Speaker 3: you can control. How would you guess that that coach
Speaker 3: brom kind of handled that just put it completely in
Speaker 3: the rear view, like, obviously you've got to get focused
Speaker 3: for a game coming up here, that that is a
Speaker 3: big one. But you know, it's not as if he
Speaker 3: watched his team play and feels as if he doesn't
Speaker 3: have the personnel or the pieces to have a lot
Speaker 3: of success. It was just, you know, just some head
Speaker 3: scratching mistakes. I'm just curious what you think practice was
Speaker 3: like this week? How much really that that was brought up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm if coach coach Brown true to form.
Speaker 4: I mean there were there was airs made on It
Speaker 4: wasn't just the players. Sure, there was some coaching decisions
Speaker 4: that you wish you had back. You know, if you
Speaker 4: if you get those four downs, which are very questionable
Speaker 4: spotting of the football there at the end of the
Speaker 4: first half. But you get that, and you at least
Speaker 4: get three, you probably may get a touchdown that changes
Speaker 4: the dynamic of the game. That fourth and two when
Speaker 4: we had to burn a time out and then ended
Speaker 4: up not getting it. Defense Sudden Change played well and
Speaker 4: got off the field, so no damage was done. But
Speaker 4: that's a timeout that you wish you had there in
Speaker 4: the closing seconds of the game. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: I think it's a all around You know, you take
Speaker 4: ownership for the decisions you make, the plays you make,
Speaker 4: and you have to own up to them, fix them,
Speaker 4: correct them, and move forward and definitely can't dwell on them,
Speaker 4: that's for sure. And that's what we're about to find
Speaker 4: out how well this team can regroup, refocus, and get
Speaker 4: locked in in a home game against a tough opponent.
Speaker 3: So each week I felt better and better about this
Speaker 3: Louisville offense because of Tyler Shuck looking more and more come.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's to me, his numbers may not show
Speaker 3: it when you compare it to other acc quarterbacks, but
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like Louisll's got a prettydamn good quarterback.
Speaker 3: This year, he's continued to show that some of the
Speaker 3: plays he made in that game against Notre Dame were
Speaker 3: really really impressive. Obviously, Colin Lacy and his debut maybe
Speaker 3: made the catch of the year for the Cards. J
Speaker 3: Cory Brooks really a costly interception that was on him,
Speaker 3: but still you can tell this guy's got a lot
Speaker 3: of talent. And then Isaac Brown a true freshman, but man,
Speaker 3: he's super talented. I mean, I say all that, I
Speaker 3: guess ask you when it comes to the offense, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't have any real big concerns, not
Speaker 3: to say that they're perfect. They're going to make mistakes.
Speaker 3: Obviously at this point, you'd say turnovers in a big
Speaker 3: game would be the issue at this point. But how
Speaker 3: would you evaluate the offense here? I mean, I kind
Speaker 3: of feel like we have a chance to see the
Speaker 3: rest of the way a team that puts some points
Speaker 3: on the scoreboard, kind of like we we thought we'd
Speaker 3: see whenever Jeff first got here.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, And when you when you you know I'm
Speaker 4: gonna start where you started with the quarterback, When you
Speaker 4: have a guy hang in the pocket and make crows
Speaker 4: like he made, and those tight situations in the red zone.
Speaker 4: You're on the five yard line, it's third down, and
Speaker 4: you thread one in there and then both you know,
Speaker 4: great throw, great catch and you just make a play
Speaker 4: out of you know, the play breaks down and you
Speaker 4: make a play that and still, and we've talked about
Speaker 4: that puts so much confidence, should breed so much confidence
Speaker 4: within that offense that no matter what, all we have
Speaker 4: to do is lock in, lock in, do our job
Speaker 4: and and find and this guy's going to make something happen.
Speaker 4: If you give him a chance, he's gonna make it happen.
Speaker 4: And that's that's just it's hard. It's hard to articulate
Speaker 4: how much confidence that can instill in a football team,
Speaker 4: especially an offense, knowing that you've got a guy like that,
Speaker 4: so that you know, I'm I'm curious to see where
Speaker 4: they the next step that Tyler Shuck takes. You know,
Speaker 4: from a leadership standpoint, I know he's he's might not
Speaker 4: be the most vocal guy, but how is he going
Speaker 4: to back it up? You know? And how did you
Speaker 4: back it up and practice this week? How much? You know,
Speaker 4: how much can we move forward and really progress? Because
Speaker 4: that was a damn good, uh Notre Dame defense. You
Speaker 4: know you play, you played against a really good front,
Speaker 4: a good secondary that you were able to move the
Speaker 4: ball on. We're able to get points. You just couldn't
Speaker 4: hang on the ball. So there's you got. Your guys
Speaker 4: were able to get open, able to make throws. So
Speaker 4: there's the capabilities there. So now, how much you know
Speaker 4: do you rest on that and you say, yeah, we're
Speaker 4: really good. We're going to read our first clippings on
Speaker 4: how great we are. Are you going to take the
Speaker 4: next step and come out and show, you know, your
Speaker 4: home fan base that you're ready to take this on
Speaker 4: the next level.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned the defense that Notre Dame has clearly
Speaker 3: talented and one of the best you'll see all year.
Speaker 3: Do you think that had a big factor in the
Speaker 3: past protection Maybe not being you know what what they
Speaker 3: would have wanted. It's not to say those guys didn't
Speaker 3: do a good job, but you know, I guess as
Speaker 3: a former offensive lineman, how would you evaluate that unit
Speaker 3: up to this point?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you look at you look at Marcus
Speaker 4: Streeman and his his track record and how aggressive he is.
Speaker 4: I mean that front seven together and that's that's just
Speaker 4: really good football players all the way across the board.
Speaker 4: They might be young, they might not have a ton
Speaker 4: of experience yet, and they might be not they might
Speaker 4: not be ready for the next level yet, but I.
Speaker 3: Mean just watching on them for a reason, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're big, strong, fast, you know, and and smart,
Speaker 4: and they're able to able to disguise things and really
Speaker 4: bring some unique games and blitzes that that you know,
Speaker 4: tripped us up a bit. And Shuck had to take
Speaker 4: a few shots, which also breeds that, you know, that
Speaker 4: confidence layer that your quarterbacks to hang in there and
Speaker 4: make throws. So yeah, I think it was a gutsy effort.
Speaker 4: The ball just didn't didn't bounce our way.
Speaker 3: Alex Cupper's our guest joining us here talking some Louisville
Speaker 3: football on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Before we get
Speaker 3: to SMU, I guess I'll switch it to the other
Speaker 3: side here. Defensively, you know, Louisville right now giving up
Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy one yards per game. Maybe those
Speaker 3: numbers are a little bit misleading given the competition in
Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks, but you know, the defense
Speaker 3: made some adjustments early on and when they did give
Speaker 3: up scores. Let's be real, I think the offense put
Speaker 3: them in those situations. I find myself, you know not,
Speaker 3: I'm well aware. I'm not as somebody who can see
Speaker 3: things on a football field quite like someone like yourself
Speaker 3: who played the game at a high level, even in
Speaker 3: the professional ranks. But I get the sense that sometimes
Speaker 3: they're kind of disorganized, like coming out with twelve guys
Speaker 3: on the field out of a timeout. They do, they've
Speaker 3: shown the ability to make adjustments and get timely stops.
Speaker 3: They do seem to come through when it matters the most.
Speaker 3: But there's just something so far this year that's looked
Speaker 3: a little off for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean from what from what I can diagnose.
Speaker 4: So it's just a lot of the errors they make
Speaker 4: are really unforced and they're they're mental more than anything.
Speaker 4: I mean, the substitution piece, you can you can throw
Speaker 4: that back on. You know. Coach had his his the lineup.
Speaker 4: He wanted the upfront guys because I think it was
Speaker 4: a I mean, we really made a D tackle change
Speaker 4: for a D tackle. It's like what I mean, were
Speaker 4: we in a were we in the wrong subgroup, or
Speaker 4: were we we just didn't have the right body on
Speaker 4: the field. That's that's just a mental, mental mishap all around.
Speaker 4: But when you when you look at you know, coach
Speaker 4: English in the defensive front, I mean these past two years,
Speaker 4: really you you can almost tip your cap and hang
Speaker 4: your hat on there. They will make the adjustments. You'll
Speaker 4: you'll get some yards. You know, you got those openers
Speaker 4: that they got drawn up. That one in particular where
Speaker 4: where Leonard hit hit that wide open post route, that
Speaker 4: was just that was just a really good design that
Speaker 4: they knew exactly how we were going to cover it,
Speaker 4: and that rotation took place on that play action and
Speaker 4: it was it was just a good, good play call.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they tried it again, but it wasn't open,
Speaker 4: would be my guess. And and how they're able to
Speaker 4: phase up and make their fits, make their correct fit
Speaker 4: adjustments in the run game, it's something that I feel
Speaker 4: like that's something again year after a year now we
Speaker 4: can hang our hat on. So that's comforting when you
Speaker 4: think of it as a fan, it's like, Okay, we're
Speaker 4: going to give us something, but we're going to lock
Speaker 4: this thing in and we're going to make the right
Speaker 4: adjustments to where we're going to get the ball back
Speaker 4: to our offense, and now our offense just has to
Speaker 4: put points on the board. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, we'll see what happens in this game. But
Speaker 3: I feel like if Louisville does control, you know, they
Speaker 3: can limit these They're not going to be perfect. Nobody
Speaker 3: is ever going to be They're probably gonna have some
Speaker 3: penalties too, that's just part of the game. But if
Speaker 3: they can limit some of these self inflicted wounds and
Speaker 3: just play to their full ability, which they really haven't
Speaker 3: done yet, so I guess it remains to be seen.
Speaker 3: If you if you if you know you've got ability
Speaker 3: and you never really put it all together, then you
Speaker 3: know that's that becomes your identity. But even though I
Speaker 3: respect SMU as a team, they've clearly got some momentum.
Speaker 3: I feel like Louisville is a better team. We got
Speaker 3: to go see them do it in this actual matchup.
Speaker 3: But what do you what are your thoughts on this
Speaker 3: SMU team. You know, they're new to the ACC. They
Speaker 3: they had a loss earlier that now looks like a
Speaker 3: quot pality loss. With the way b YU is playing,
Speaker 3: I know everybody's beating up on Florida State but they
Speaker 3: beat up on them worse than anybody has this year.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on this? On this Mustangs team
Speaker 3: making their way to Louisville.
Speaker 4: It was something nick where when I looked at the
Speaker 4: skill when the schedule came out and they were on
Speaker 4: it and they were at home, everybody scoffed at is like,
Speaker 4: oh this is you know, this isn't a very good
Speaker 4: home schedule, YadA, YadA, YadA. And I literally was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: I assume you wanted a lot of ball games last year,
Speaker 4: and I know they weren't in the best conference, but
Speaker 4: they they beat the people that were on their schedule
Speaker 4: very frequently and by a by a larger by a
Speaker 4: larger margin than you would expect. So I'm not shocked
Speaker 4: those three and one. I think they're very dangerous. If
Speaker 4: you slip on them, you're gonna be You're gonna be
Speaker 4: in for a long day and it's gonna be an
Speaker 4: uneasy feeling there in ellen and Stadium tomorrow. So you
Speaker 4: got to bring your hat, be ready to play top
Speaker 4: notch football because it's gonna be it's it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a hard fought win. If you need, if you want
Speaker 4: to go get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know when you when you think of
Speaker 3: sitting on a loss, coming you know, because that's what
Speaker 3: this doing. The LOUISVILLEAM they're coming off of a tough
Speaker 3: loss where you know, they can look at it one
Speaker 3: of two ways. As we've discussed, know that hey, if
Speaker 3: we just tightened some things up, we play clean football,
Speaker 3: we still have everything ahead of us. And it sounded
Speaker 3: like after the game hearing the press conference from the
Speaker 3: players and coach Brom, that that's that's the mindset. But
Speaker 3: you know, I just have a hard time seeing this
Speaker 3: group not coming ready to play tomorrow in this big matchup.
Speaker 3: And but again I said the same thing last week
Speaker 3: Cup like the way that played out, Like again, maybe
Speaker 3: it's not about being ready to play. It's more just
Speaker 3: about the game of football. And sometimes if you know,
Speaker 3: in any given moment, if you're not locked in, you
Speaker 3: know you'll you'll have a big mistake that'll cost you.
Speaker 3: But what are your thoughts on you know the way
Speaker 3: coach Brom Obviously he wasn't a head coach when you
Speaker 3: were when you were there at U of L, but
Speaker 3: he was there for a little while and I know
Speaker 3: you know him and his personality pretty well, Like, I'd
Speaker 3: be highly shocked if they're not ready to go as
Speaker 3: soon as this thing starts tomorrow. He loves noon games,
Speaker 3: He's told us that, and I think they're gonna be
Speaker 3: ready to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, And from a fans perspective, you can't lose sight.
Speaker 4: I know it is SMU then you might not expect it,
Speaker 4: but this is this one. This game means way more
Speaker 4: than that game yesterday or last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds crazy, it's true.
Speaker 4: Game at home. You gotta win your conference games at
Speaker 4: home to even hatch out. So yeah, huge game for
Speaker 4: that for that matter, not not as big and prestigious
Speaker 4: of an opponent, but definitely means a whole lot more
Speaker 4: than that one last week.
Speaker 3: Well said Cup. I appreciate the time, brother, have yourself
Speaker 3: a good weekend. We'll talk soon, right, I have a
Speaker 3: good one. Take care. That's Alex Cupper, former Loovla card,
Speaker 3: and will always appreciate him and his insight. Good stuff there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, I said the same thing last week, and
Speaker 3: it's such like a it's it's something people. It's something
Speaker 3: you could say when you know nothing about anything involved
Speaker 3: in the game, the team, the matchups, if you just
Speaker 3: like or put on the spot. Yeah, I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna come runny to play, Like that's that's the most
Speaker 3: generic and empty thing you could say when it comes
Speaker 3: to discussing a matchup ahead of time. But like, I
Speaker 3: really do think they're they're they're gonna come out and
Speaker 3: and not just the players. And I'm glad Cup said
Speaker 3: that because it's well known. But you know, the staff
Speaker 3: has to feel as if they were, you know, just
Speaker 3: as responsible as the players for the way that thing
Speaker 3: played out. All right, quick break, we'll come back here
Speaker 3: on the other side of wrap at the three o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: Keep this thing going as we get you set for
Speaker 3: a big weekend here in Louisville. It's coffee and company, feelbouth.
Speaker 3: Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety so. One
Speaker 3: of the things that you heard there in our conversation
Speaker 3: with Alex Kupper, he mentioned SMU and just knowing they're
Speaker 3: a football team that is coming off of a season
Speaker 3: where they won a lot of games. They've been good
Speaker 3: under Red Ashley, and we know that. And yes, I'll admit,
Speaker 3: hand up, I kind of laughed at the thought of
Speaker 3: them coming in and being a legitimate like contender in
Speaker 3: the ACC, not because the league's great, but because you know,
Speaker 3: last year they did win a lot of games, but
Speaker 3: any team they played that was Power five, they lost,
Speaker 3: and they didn't lose close. And I still think that's
Speaker 3: worth mentioning now. But this year, you know, as we
Speaker 3: as we stand on October the fourth, their only loss
Speaker 3: this year was a close loss to a team that
Speaker 3: we now know I was pretty good, and they are
Speaker 3: playing with a lot of momentum. And regardless of what
Speaker 3: you think about a team as far as their overall personnel,
Speaker 3: and you can, you know, you being unimpressed with who
Speaker 3: they play and who they've beaten, because you know, last
Speaker 3: year they were in the American Athletic Conference. To keep
Speaker 3: in mind, that was the American without Cincinnati, Central Florida,
Speaker 3: and Houston. So you know, I'm willing to tell you, yeah,
Speaker 3: when you put together a great record and it's because
Speaker 3: you beat up on that league, you're good for who
Speaker 3: you are. But it doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot
Speaker 3: to me as far as playing against a higher level opponent.
Speaker 3: But there is still, you know, even with that said, though,
Speaker 3: there's still some value in being a football program that
Speaker 3: wins and finds ways to win and you're successful. Now
Speaker 3: you may get knocked in the mouth when you step
Speaker 3: up and play a team that you know is believed
Speaker 3: to be better than you with more talent. But you
Speaker 3: know they're not going to be coming in here wide
Speaker 3: eyed like they're playing some big you know, Juggernaut and Loivels.
Speaker 3: Not that. And trust me, I'm not saying they should
Speaker 3: be feeling that way, meaning SMU. But they're a team
Speaker 3: that will make you pay for your mistakes, just like
Speaker 3: Notre Dame did. So let's avoid those mistakes fingers crossed.
Speaker 3: And I just want to see this team play a
Speaker 3: clean game, meaning limit penalties as best you can. And
Speaker 3: you're gonna make mistakes, right, You're gonna make mistakes that
Speaker 3: really are just you know, boneheaded mistakes, but they don't
Speaker 3: make the crucial ones. Don't make the ones that can
Speaker 3: literally flip a game in the other direction as soon
Speaker 3: as it happens. All right, before we get to the
Speaker 3: top of the hour here, let's talk about Jefferson Animal
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Speaker 3: put down for blood, because obviously cats do need to
Speaker 3: be put down for those things sedated, I mean, and
Speaker 3: you know, you may just be scared for your dog,
Speaker 3: and I get it, that's normal. But they will show you.
Speaker 3: They'll demonstrate how it works so you can understand that.
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Speaker 3: Two more hours left here before we get out of
Speaker 3: here for the weekend. Big weekend. It is Louisville Live tonight,
Speaker 3: Louisville Football tomorrow. Kentucky's on a bye week. I feel
Speaker 3: like I knew that, but it's one of those weeks
Speaker 3: where I don't really I'm not consuming a whole lot
Speaker 3: of UK stuff, not that I typically do anyways, But
Speaker 3: you know, we're kicking ourselves for a big missed opportunity
Speaker 3: in South Bend. They're coming off of a huge win
Speaker 3: in Oxford. Although I am anxious to see what happens
Speaker 3: between South Carolina and Ole Miss this weekend, because you know,
Speaker 3: if South Carolina wins, I don't think that means oh
Speaker 3: that loss for Kentucky doesn't look like a bad loss anymore.
Speaker 3: I think if you're Kentucky, wouldn't you want Ole Miss
Speaker 3: to roll through the rest of their schedule, and that
Speaker 3: way it looks like it's valuable, and again you can't
Speaker 3: control that. But anyways, we're gonna talk about the games
Speaker 3: out there. I know it's a light week as far
Speaker 3: as big matchups in college football, but still it's a
Speaker 3: college football Saturday, and there's a lot of good games
Speaker 3: to bet on. So we'll get to that in a
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