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Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety Holy crap, I don't know who
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Speaker 1: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
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Speaker 1: kidding me? Now? Here's nick coffee? All right?
Speaker 2: I was a little worried there for a second.
Speaker 4: Only one only sound was coming out of one of
Speaker 4: my headphones, not the other side. But we're good to go.
Speaker 4: I guess it didn't have it plugged in all the way.
Speaker 4: Little things like that, in a weird way, can set
Speaker 4: me in a panic. I mean, it wouldn't have been
Speaker 4: the biggest deal if I had to use just one side,
Speaker 4: the right ear only hearing things, and I could have
Speaker 4: grabbed another headset. But you know, I guess the nerves
Speaker 4: that are there before a show starts. I mean that
Speaker 4: always reminds me that I really do like what I do.
Speaker 4: I enjoy doing it, and I want to do as
Speaker 4: best I can, so you know, I was a little nervous,
Speaker 4: but I think my nerves, more than anything, are are
Speaker 4: for tonight where I'm gonna throw out the first pitch
Speaker 4: at the bats game. And I had not had any
Speaker 4: feeling like this at all until about an hour ago.
Speaker 4: And I don't really know why, you know, because it's
Speaker 4: not like I'm out there to impress anybody. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna throw a pitch that's gonna look like I belong
Speaker 4: on a baseball field. But I guess now that it's here,
Speaker 4: maybe I've just been like mentally trying to not overthink
Speaker 4: it to where just it'll be, it'll be, it'll be whatever.
Speaker 2: Right, it'll be fine.
Speaker 4: And then now it's here, and it's like, oh, let's
Speaker 4: let's try not to embarrass ourselves too much. Anyways, let's
Speaker 4: get it started. It's a Thursday coffee and company. We
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Speaker 4: Nick Coffey, that's me the company man, mister John all
Speaker 4: On alongside today. There's always a lot to get into.
Speaker 4: Are you good today, John? Yesterday you told me when
Speaker 4: the show started that you you honked at three different
Speaker 4: people on your.
Speaker 5: Way in I did say that, didn't I I'm a
Speaker 5: lot better. I don't think I was in a bad
Speaker 5: mood yesterday. But sometimes traffic on the way here, as
Speaker 5: you've expressed many time before as well, it can just
Speaker 5: kind of put you in a foul space for a
Speaker 5: few minutes. But I'm in a lot better headspace as
Speaker 5: we get things started today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rarely.
Speaker 4: I mean, if I'm like really late for something, that's
Speaker 4: like a totally different thing. But once I am away
Speaker 4: from traffic, it usually never even like reappears in my mind,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like, it's just once you're there,
Speaker 4: you're no longer sitting around or sitting in the road
Speaker 4: trying to figure out why the hell you're being delayed
Speaker 4: and why you're sitting in traffic. Which that's the worst
Speaker 4: that actually happened today. I didn't I didn't sit for
Speaker 4: a long time, but I guess there was just congestion,
Speaker 4: as they say, on sixty five north right as you're
Speaker 4: getting close to downtown. And I don't know why I
Speaker 4: have this obsession whenever I do sit in traffic, I
Speaker 4: have to know why. And sometimes you end up just
Speaker 4: kind of slowly making your way through, and then you're
Speaker 4: moving at the speed limit or faster and you never
Speaker 4: see as to what held you up, and it makes
Speaker 4: no difference. You were held up right, knowing what caused
Speaker 4: you to hit traffic. Knowing what might have made you
Speaker 4: late doesn't change anything. But for some reason, I think
Speaker 4: it is a worst case scenario to be in traffic
Speaker 4: and then not know what caused that. But the last
Speaker 4: time there was a big time traffic nightmare situation, we
Speaker 4: discussed it on the show. We then went to break
Speaker 4: and found out it was because there was a dead
Speaker 4: body laying on the interstate. So hopefully whatever did you know?
Speaker 4: I don't think it was anything crazy again, I didn't
Speaker 4: even see a rack or anything like that. It was just,
Speaker 4: you know, probably a lot of people at the same
Speaker 4: time in the same spot. That's usually how traffic works.
Speaker 4: I mean, we we've talked about this before, but when
Speaker 4: it comes to traffic, Louisville is pretty I mean, for
Speaker 4: as big of a city as we are, and we're
Speaker 4: not humongous, right, We're not you know, New York City, LA,
Speaker 4: or anything like that, But for the Louisville metropolitan area,
Speaker 4: I feel like you can get just about anywhere relatively quickly. Now, Obviously,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna go from the South end to the
Speaker 4: East end, that's gonna be a pretty big haul, right,
Speaker 4: That's not like you're just you know, you can't walk there.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to obviously make a trip. But if
Speaker 4: there's not construction or a wreck that has closed a lane,
Speaker 4: I feel like we're we got it pretty good here,
Speaker 4: And I have to remind myself of that pretty often, because,
Speaker 4: you know, any little inconvenience that makes me have a
Speaker 4: ten to fifteen minute longer commute, I just feel, I guess,
Speaker 4: like a victim and being in Atlanta traffic, before being
Speaker 4: in Chicago traffic, before being in Miami traffic, before you know,
Speaker 4: I gotta I gotta go back to there.
Speaker 3: Not me.
Speaker 4: I mean I I would love to go back to
Speaker 4: those places, but I gotta go back on those trips
Speaker 4: every now and then mentally just to remind myself, hey,
Speaker 4: it's not that bad. It could be a lot worse.
Speaker 4: So anyways, where do we start? I mean, I think
Speaker 4: the Amari Huggins Bruce situation is worth a quick little
Speaker 4: check in here. I mean, I can't lie to you
Speaker 4: and act as if I you know, if I know
Speaker 4: any major update, but it still continues to be very
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's real. I said yesterday, I
Speaker 4: didn't want to call it a rumor anymore.
Speaker 2: But there still isn't really.
Speaker 4: Any any type of official report that like they're trying
Speaker 4: to make this work or that here's the plan. Now
Speaker 4: they wait to see what the NCAA is going to do.
Speaker 4: So I mean, I don't know, like if this ends
Speaker 4: up all being for nothing, then it'll end up being
Speaker 4: one of those things that we look back on and say, wow,
Speaker 4: we probably spent way too much time on something that was,
Speaker 4: you know, not real at all. But it sounds like
Speaker 4: the South Carolina folks have essentially accepted that he's no
Speaker 4: longer with them. I mean, I'm reading that right now
Speaker 4: from the South Carolina SI website, and you know, their
Speaker 4: headline here says South Carolina Football News, what's going on
Speaker 4: with the Mary Huggins Bruce And they go on to
Speaker 4: say that he has been missing from practice the last
Speaker 4: three days. Again, it's just, you know, when I say
Speaker 4: rumor and subliminal tweets, like, it's not like I'm calling
Speaker 4: anybody out for making stuff up or acting like they're
Speaker 4: in the know when they're just guessing like all of us,
Speaker 4: although that probably is the case with a lot of people.
Speaker 4: I mean, I saw somebody post that he's here, he's arrived,
Speaker 4: he's in Louisville, and maybe there's proof of that, like
Speaker 4: on an Instagram, but I don't think I follow him
Speaker 4: on Instagram or any social media. So it has certainly
Speaker 4: become a big talking point throughout the week, and I
Speaker 4: hope they can make it work out right, Why not
Speaker 4: give you some more depth at a position that you
Speaker 4: just lost a guy for potentially, you know, six to
Speaker 4: eight weeks. He knows the offense. He's not a star
Speaker 4: by any means, but he's been productive. I mean it
Speaker 4: would make sense if in fact you can make it work.
Speaker 4: But as we discussed yesterday, I just don't know how
Speaker 4: you could make it work. But if he's in fact
Speaker 4: here or on his way here, as some are saying
Speaker 4: or speculating, then I guess that means that you know
Speaker 4: they're gonna try to make it work. But to go
Speaker 4: back to yesterday's conversation, when it comes to like doing
Speaker 4: something that could get you flagged by the NC double A,
Speaker 4: I mean it didn't worth it, no offense. I mean, again,
Speaker 4: if you can make it work great, But I just
Speaker 4: don't see a scenario where you just, you know, put
Speaker 4: him on the field and hope the NC DOUBLEA doesn't
Speaker 4: notice or say something like, you know, as much as.
Speaker 2: We don't want to.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've said it many times in recent weeks.
Speaker 4: I don't think that the NC DOUBLEA has ever been
Speaker 4: less you know, feared when it comes to their constituents,
Speaker 4: those that, of course are underneath the ncuablea's umbrella. Not
Speaker 4: that everybody's out there just blatantly breaking rules and you know,
Speaker 4: double bird in the NC DOUBLEA, you know, in their
Speaker 4: face saying hey, you don't like it, come do something
Speaker 4: about it. Like it's not to that point. But it
Speaker 4: just doesn't seem as if people are worried about the
Speaker 4: NC doublea's wrath like they once were, because the recent
Speaker 4: trend is that you hire a lawyer, they're gonna lose,
Speaker 4: meaning the NCAA. I mean, heck, Congress has stepped in
Speaker 4: and be like, yeah, you can't do that. You're you're
Speaker 4: not You're not allowed to rule like that, Like what
Speaker 4: you're doing is in fact illegal. If you don't let
Speaker 4: these players make money, if you don't don't let these
Speaker 4: players transfer it's illegal. So anyways, and I'm already it
Speaker 4: started yesterday. I'm already to the point where I kind
Speaker 4: of feel like, I don't know, I kind of feel like,
Speaker 4: just because of this unusual situation where he just randomly
Speaker 4: decides he doesn't want to be at South Carolina, the
Speaker 4: guy who essentially replaced him on Louis's roster gets hurt. Like,
Speaker 4: I just think then the overall situation itself is interesting
Speaker 4: enough to where it would be, you know, something worth discussing.
Speaker 4: But I think it's also sort of put a little
Speaker 4: bit of a it's it's made people, I think, believe
Speaker 4: that this guy's actually gonna if he is here, that
Speaker 4: he's gonna be able to do more than what he'll
Speaker 4: actually do, if that makes sense. Like I don't want
Speaker 4: to I'm dancing around because I don't want to say
Speaker 4: that the guy isn't talented because he has made plays.
Speaker 4: But like, if it all works out, it would be like, Wow,
Speaker 4: that's awesome because of the timing, because of the circumstances,
Speaker 4: But as far as like what he brings, like, it
Speaker 4: doesn't change a whole lot in regards to Louisville's expectations,
Speaker 4: for their offense while they wait for Colin Lacy to
Speaker 4: get healthy. Now, maybe he proves me wrong and he
Speaker 4: ends up being a guy that is making plays, is
Speaker 4: really productive, and you think to yourself, Wow, it's gonna
Speaker 4: be tough for Colin Lacy to get that spot back
Speaker 4: because Mariy Huggins Bruce is killing it. So you know,
Speaker 4: still getting ahead of myself here because who knows what's
Speaker 4: going to happen. But if in fact it is true
Speaker 4: that he's here, I guess now you just wait to
Speaker 4: figure out if he's going to be able to walk
Speaker 4: onto the team and be able to play immediately without
Speaker 4: ever entering the portal because the portal is closed. I mean,
Speaker 4: you're an objective outsider here, John, You've heard me discuss
Speaker 4: this current situation. I mean, what are your thoughts on it?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 4: Take way like what he can do as a player,
Speaker 4: because obviously you're not real familiar with him, I'm sure,
Speaker 4: but just again, a guy practicing over the weekend at
Speaker 4: South Carolina and then four days later he's back at
Speaker 4: his old school trying to become eligible without actually getting
Speaker 4: released because he can't enter the portal.
Speaker 2: Like it's just it's a lot here.
Speaker 5: It's weird, and I know I shared a thought yesterday
Speaker 5: that I hope people didn't take the wrong way, and
Speaker 5: I hope it's not like a personal issue that like
Speaker 5: he just can't kind of get his mind straight with
Speaker 5: where he wants to be, how he wants to kind
Speaker 5: of I guess cement his legacy in college football in general,
Speaker 5: because whenever you're flip flopping around, and I know, you
Speaker 5: know you can transfer whenever you want, it just kind
Speaker 5: of shows indecisiveness, at least to me, and that maybe
Speaker 5: it's tough for you to kind of commit to where
Speaker 5: you want to be.
Speaker 6: And again, I'm probably overthinking.
Speaker 5: The way players do this type of stuff because I
Speaker 5: know they are kids, But that's just the way that
Speaker 5: I look at situations like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I I mean, it's just hard to
Speaker 4: see this just randomly aligning to where, Oh, wow, what
Speaker 4: do you know, He's unhappy at South Carolina, he wanted
Speaker 4: to come back to Louisville. Oh, Colin Lacey's hurt, He's
Speaker 4: just gonna walk on, and Nil is going to pay
Speaker 4: for his scholarship. I mean, it's just to me, it's
Speaker 4: just so far fetched to where you'd see him on
Speaker 4: the field next Saturday when Louisville starts their season. But again,
Speaker 4: I guess crazier things have happened. There's also the other question,
Speaker 4: which is, if in fact this does happen and he's
Speaker 4: he's he's good to go by the opener, would that
Speaker 4: sort of make people more concerned that by doing this
Speaker 4: they must really be worried about their offense because a
Speaker 4: guy who wasn't even close to being one of their
Speaker 4: best receivers last year, he's available and they're doing a
Speaker 4: lot to try to get him back. Somebody asked me
Speaker 4: that yesterday on the text line, and I think it's
Speaker 4: a fair question.
Speaker 2: However, I think it.
Speaker 4: Really like I don't I don't believe that Louisville was
Speaker 4: out there trying to Again, this is not me saying, well, no,
Speaker 4: they would never do that because they would never tamper,
Speaker 4: they would never break rules, and I'm I'm assuming they wouldn't.
Speaker 4: They don't, They're not out there trying to break rules.
Speaker 4: But me saying this is not to act like Louisville
Speaker 4: would never break rules. It's more so because like I
Speaker 4: don't think that they would. Like when Colin Lacy went down,
Speaker 4: I don't think there's anybody on Louisville's staff that went
Speaker 4: to to you know, to do a check in on
Speaker 4: the depth chart at South Carolina to see if this
Speaker 4: kid was starting or not as he first string, and
Speaker 4: if he's not, maybe we can you know, talk to
Speaker 4: his high school coach and see if he might want
Speaker 4: to come back. Like I would be really shocked if
Speaker 4: it was Louisville in fact that kind of put a
Speaker 4: plan in motion to pry him back here. My guess
Speaker 4: would be it would be more him wanting to come back,
Speaker 4: because again, he loved Louisville like this was I mean this,
Speaker 4: He had no bitter feelings when he left. On his
Speaker 4: way out, he made that quite clear. And from what
Speaker 4: I understand, he was really close to just accepting that
Speaker 4: he'd been recruited over and not leaving because that's how
Speaker 4: much he liked it here. Now he is from South Carolina,
Speaker 4: and obviously I'm sure he knew that he had a
Speaker 4: chance to end up on their radar if he hit
Speaker 4: the portal and you know, as they say, you know,
Speaker 4: going back home. So yeah, he's from Dylan, South Carolina.
Speaker 4: So maybe the only reason he hit the portal is
Speaker 4: because he knew that he could get he could get
Speaker 4: a scholarship, and he would be somebody that South Carolina
Speaker 4: would be interested in, and it's it's giving him a chance.
Speaker 2: To go home.
Speaker 4: So anyways, I I think people are on the edge
Speaker 4: of their seat trying to figure out if, in fact,
Speaker 4: you know, this is really happening, and if it does,
Speaker 4: it's wild. It's a crazy, you know, circumstance. But again,
Speaker 4: for me, it's not like, uh oh, everything's okay now,
Speaker 4: louisll was going to be just find a receiver. It look,
Speaker 4: they maybe just find a receiver. Regardless of Amari Huggins
Speaker 4: Bruce right, they maybe find a receiver, even if it
Speaker 4: takes longer to get Colin Lacy back than what you
Speaker 4: would have expected.
Speaker 2: So again, I.
Speaker 4: Feel silly even leading the show with that because I
Speaker 4: just it's I just still have I just still considering
Speaker 4: all the loops, the hoops that you got to jump
Speaker 4: through to make this happen. It to me, it still
Speaker 4: just seems as if it's something that will will probably
Speaker 4: not work out, Meaning if he is here, I still
Speaker 4: think it's going to be a really, really big hurdle
Speaker 4: for him to be able to get clear to be eligible. Now,
Speaker 4: if he's back and he wants to sit out, that
Speaker 4: just makes it even more weird, doesn't it. Like if
Speaker 4: he knew coming back that it's an extreme long shot
Speaker 4: to be able to play and that he would have
Speaker 4: to sit out a season because of the portal window
Speaker 4: and all that, then that makes it even more weird
Speaker 4: to me that he you know, he must really love
Speaker 4: it here, you know what I mean? Just does he
Speaker 4: just wants to be back in louisvill which isn't the
Speaker 4: craziest thing ever. But anyways, I don't feel like I
Speaker 4: have much more of an update today as I did yesterday.
Speaker 4: But again, it's still being talked about and there are
Speaker 4: there are more and more. I guess what's the best
Speaker 4: way to describe it. I guess subliminal texts or not
Speaker 4: text but subliminal tweets, like people sharing old videos of
Speaker 4: him catching touchdowns, like trying to give a I don't
Speaker 4: believe anybody truly knows what the hell's going on, but
Speaker 4: there's always going to be a desperation for people to
Speaker 4: want to make it clear that they're in the know
Speaker 4: and that they've talked to people, and I I don't
Speaker 4: do that because honestly, I don't talk to many people.
Speaker 4: I just I don't have those I don't have those
Speaker 4: those relationships and the ones that I do, it's just
Speaker 4: not really in my nature to, you know, go out
Speaker 4: of my way and ask or maybe even beg for info.
Speaker 4: So anyways, there's your update on Amari Huggins, Bruce. We'll
Speaker 4: see if there's any like legitimate update that is confirmed
Speaker 4: by one of the Capitol j's out there in regards
Speaker 4: to what's really going on. All right, So we're loaded
Speaker 4: today here on a Thursday afternoon. We're gonna be joined
Speaker 4: coming up here on three thirty by the one and
Speaker 4: the only, Kendrick Haskins, looking forward to catching up with
Speaker 4: him from Way three Sports. College football season is here.
Speaker 4: We've been saying it all week. Obviously, we've got another
Speaker 4: weekend until Louisville and Kentucky and Indiana the local teams play,
Speaker 4: but we've got week zero matchups in just a couple
Speaker 4: of days. And I don't know about you, but I'm excited.
Speaker 4: Not because you know, I can't wait to see Georgia
Speaker 4: Tech in Florida State play and SMU and Nevada, but hey,
Speaker 4: it's real college football and it's games that I can
Speaker 4: bet on and that makes me makes me very very happy.
Speaker 4: All Right, some other things we'll get into today. Uh,
Speaker 4: there is a suspension for Kirk ferentz Uh and his
Speaker 4: wide receiver coach for I guess it's tampering and what
Speaker 4: I'm curious and we can get into it. Did they
Speaker 4: just decide to Okay, they probably got something on us
Speaker 4: that says we did, in fact tamper with our quarterback
Speaker 4: that we brought in via transfer. So let's just fall
Speaker 4: on the sword. We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll self impose
Speaker 4: a suspension here against you know, maybe they maybe they
Speaker 4: got a butt cracked state butthole tech on the on
Speaker 4: the schedule. I don't know, But this is this is
Speaker 4: sort of a counter to what I've been saying for
Speaker 4: a while now. Is anybody really fearful of the n
Speaker 4: c double A. Well, if Iowa decided to just self
Speaker 4: impose a one game suspension, you know, maybe that's a
Speaker 4: sign that the NCAA still can put people in their place.
Speaker 4: But I just feel as if the trend has been
Speaker 4: for a couple of years now, really, especially the last year.
Speaker 4: Hire a lawyer, take the n s Douaa to court
Speaker 4: and they're gonna lose or they'll just cave. Also, I
Speaker 4: don't I mean, drama is always interesting to me. And
Speaker 4: there's I wouldn't even call it drama, but just some beef,
Speaker 4: some tension here. I mean, some of the things that
Speaker 4: we now know that Lane that Nick Saban has said
Speaker 4: about Lane Kiffin, I mean tells you that, like those
Speaker 4: guys didn't like each other. And I kind of love
Speaker 4: that because I can see it happening. You know, there's
Speaker 4: gonna be a lot of lot of hype, a lot
Speaker 4: more attension, even more so than usual for Lane Kiffin
Speaker 4: this year at ole Miss, because they've got I mean,
Speaker 4: there are a lot of people are projecting them to
Speaker 4: be a playoff team this year. Well, now, Nick Saban,
Speaker 4: of course, he's he's working for ESPN cover in college football,
Speaker 4: and like I can see Sabin taking a jab here
Speaker 4: and there at Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss, and I
Speaker 4: can see Lane Kiffin firing right back, and I think
Speaker 4: that could be entertaining. In fact, I know it'll be entertaining. Also,
Speaker 4: Rick Patino has found himself back in the news because
Speaker 4: somebody broke into his office at Saint John's apparently a
Speaker 4: burglar and stole a bun to memorabilia and he's upset
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 2: He's sharing that on Twitter.
Speaker 4: But what in fact they took and the value of
Speaker 4: some of these things is what got my attention. So
Speaker 4: we can certainly get into that, and you know, we'll
Speaker 4: talk about a lot of things. Let you guys be
Speaker 4: a part of the show. We didn't get to finish
Speaker 4: all of these candid coaches stories that are out there
Speaker 4: at CBS Sports. We did talk about which programs are
Speaker 4: believed to be in the best shape when it comes
Speaker 4: to college basketball nil. But there's also a rundown of
Speaker 4: what college basketball coaches had to say when they were
Speaker 4: asked about who would be the best player in the
Speaker 4: country this year, who would be the best team in
Speaker 4: the country this year, and which programs hired the best
Speaker 4: coaches this past offseason. So again, we are loaded the
Speaker 4: rest of the way. Hopefully you guys will will stick
Speaker 4: with us. I mean, why would you not? What else
Speaker 4: are you going to do? I mean, I know there's
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of things you could be
Speaker 4: doing right now, but I mean, what's better than the
Speaker 4: coffee and company experience on a Thursday afternoon, another day
Speaker 4: where the weather is just absolutely beautiful outside.
Speaker 5: And I do believe, unfortunately, that that nice weather is
Speaker 5: going to come to an end. I don't know if
Speaker 5: you've looked ahead the next week, Nick, but the nineties,
Speaker 5: the mid nineties, as a matter of.
Speaker 4: Fact, coming back, I didn't see next week. I did
Speaker 4: see this weekend that we're looking at like ninety one
Speaker 4: ninety two, and that, you know.
Speaker 2: Is that that bad?
Speaker 4: Like I feel like that's hot, but for some reason,
Speaker 4: it doesn't seem like it's that hot.
Speaker 5: I think we are used to it at this point.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, when you add in if
Speaker 5: there's gonna be you know, a boatload of humidity, it's
Speaker 5: gonna feel like a sauna outside, then that adds, you know,
Speaker 5: to the misery of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And another thing is.
Speaker 4: The low seventies are perfect, right, especially whenever you get
Speaker 4: like low humidity and a breeze, or.
Speaker 2: When you get to the evening. I mean, it's perfect.
Speaker 2: Like last night.
Speaker 4: I went out to the State Ferrigan last night, and
Speaker 4: I mean it. I mean I had long sleeves on.
Speaker 4: I mean, like you couldn't. I mean, the weather is
Speaker 4: absolutely beautiful, but I feel like the seventy three in
Speaker 4: like seven. You know that's a five. There's five degree
Speaker 4: difference there, right, is it three?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I can't count today. I'll blame
Speaker 4: it on the nerves for my first pitch. But you know,
Speaker 4: low seventies and high seventies. Again, it's not a big difference.
Speaker 4: It's still in the seventies, but I feel like it's
Speaker 4: a world of a difference when it comes to like,
Speaker 4: like how comfortable you are. Yeah, that makes sense, like
Speaker 4: Sonny and seventy nine and Sonny in seventy one, even
Speaker 4: if the humidity is relatively the same, Like, I just
Speaker 4: feel like there's a big difference there. So here I
Speaker 4: am looking at like ninety and ninety one. I'm like,
Speaker 4: that's not too bad. But I'm sure I'll be sweating
Speaker 4: my ass off this weekend and I'll probably be complaining
Speaker 4: and wanting to get inside and be in air conditioning
Speaker 4: because I'm over the hot weather now.
Speaker 5: I mean, and we are officially right at a month,
Speaker 5: I believe, from the start of fall, if I'm not missing,
Speaker 5: But even when we get there, it can still be
Speaker 5: like it can points, but at least at that point
Speaker 5: you know you're on the downside. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean I'm look, bring me fall weather, Chili, football, leaves, Halloween.
Speaker 2: I want to all John, I want it now.
Speaker 5: I know you mentioned you saw somebody with a Jackie
Speaker 5: Lander and I saw somebody with somehow on their ports
Speaker 5: the other day too.
Speaker 2: It's grown.
Speaker 4: People are ready for people are itching, people are riching
Speaker 4: for it. One of those one of those times where
Speaker 4: I just visualize somebody at that exact second tuning into
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Speaker 4: Louisville to see if Amary Huggins Bruce has returned. I'm
Speaker 4: assuming that's what you're doing right now this afternoon.
Speaker 3: We've put out the bat signal. We'll see if he responds.
Speaker 2: What do you make of all this stuff?
Speaker 4: Man, I'm not even sure if you're keeping up with
Speaker 4: it as much as you know, someone like myself is
Speaker 4: just because you know he's a good player. But like
Speaker 4: just the the the overall process of this actually happening
Speaker 4: to where he'd be back without going through the portal,
Speaker 4: walking on and being able to suit up, like it
Speaker 4: does appear that there's at least something going on, but
Speaker 4: I just met to me, it seems so far fetched
Speaker 4: for that to be able to happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's so much smoke that you gotta think
Speaker 3: there's fire somewhere.
Speaker 2: But oh, if it wasn't true at this point, we
Speaker 2: would be we would know.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it would have been debunked by now. It's
Speaker 3: just crazy how it just came out of nowhere. It
Speaker 3: was just one of those things out of that I
Speaker 3: was just scrolling through Twitter and just saw that, and
Speaker 3: I was like, where did this come from? But like, yes,
Speaker 3: it hadn't been debunked yet. But at the same time, though,
Speaker 3: there at the point now where they're tired of talking
Speaker 3: to us, Yeah, yeah, which I don't blame, so we're
Speaker 3: probably not going to really hear anything about it. And
Speaker 3: unless it actually happened, when it could be a thing
Speaker 3: where it's still semantics.
Speaker 4: And they And here's what's weird is that because the
Speaker 4: portal's closed, I mean, for U of L to even
Speaker 4: comment on him or acknowledge that he's a real human
Speaker 4: being that exists, he'd have to be cleared. And you
Speaker 4: can't really be cleared if you don't go through the portal.
Speaker 4: Like it just to me seems just so uni mean,
Speaker 4: as you said, I don't know, like it really did
Speaker 4: kind of come out of nowhere. But like right after
Speaker 4: the news of Colin Lacey's injury came out, if somebody
Speaker 4: would have just walked up to me and said, hey,
Speaker 4: well maybe Mary Huggins Bruce who transferred who played slot receiver,
Speaker 4: Like maybe he didn't win the starting job, and maybe
Speaker 4: he wants to come back to Louisville. I would say, well, yeah,
Speaker 4: but like that, that's not realistic. And sure enough, here
Speaker 4: we are four days later, and again it hasn't been
Speaker 4: debunked yet. What made me realize something was really going
Speaker 4: on was whenever the South Carolina reporters were acknowledging that
Speaker 4: he's not been at practice all week.
Speaker 3: That and going back to what you were saying, it
Speaker 3: could be a thing where they can't comment, yeah, because
Speaker 3: he's you know, he can't be in the transfer portal,
Speaker 3: and so how would he get on the team. Would
Speaker 3: it be a walk on situation? And how does that
Speaker 3: work with nil and all that stuff. So it could
Speaker 3: be a thing that it could be very well be
Speaker 3: true and everything's in the process, but they can't comment
Speaker 3: on it until I guess he's enrolled in school and
Speaker 3: how's that work as school's already started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're a world now.
Speaker 4: Where as it stands with college athletics, I think there's
Speaker 4: so many people that have been in that industry in
Speaker 4: college sports, with compliance and you know, coaching and all
Speaker 4: that for many many years that I think there's never
Speaker 4: been this type of you know, of I guess curiosity
Speaker 4: as far as like, Okay, what's against the rules and
Speaker 4: what's not? Like I think whenever Florida State got hit
Speaker 4: with a violation notice of allegation from the NCAA because
Speaker 4: a coach said, Hey, I can't talk to you about
Speaker 4: an IL. You're gonna have to go over the collective
Speaker 4: like whatever. They got in trouble for that, I feel
Speaker 4: like everybody within college sports said, wait a second, that's.
Speaker 2: What we're all doing, right.
Speaker 3: It's like there's no consistency in anything when it comes
Speaker 3: to rules, which is kind of been the n C
Speaker 3: Double a's m anyway. But I really wish, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure the coaches feel the same way, that there were
Speaker 3: some set guidelines, some set rules, because it feels like
Speaker 3: if something new comes up every day that either the
Speaker 3: nc Double A didn't plan for or what. But it
Speaker 3: feels like everything they went into everything with nil without planning,
Speaker 3: without a real plan of how to operate it. They
Speaker 3: just did it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they they fought for so long to try
Speaker 4: to keep that archaic, archaic amateurism model in place to
Speaker 4: where now you know they are trying to implement some
Speaker 4: rules and keep people in line, and then sure enough
Speaker 4: Congress steps in and says, oh, yeah, you can't do that,
Speaker 4: You're not allowed to. So they're they're kind of flying
Speaker 4: by just seeing what what they you know, they're putting
Speaker 4: things in place, at least attempting and being told they're
Speaker 4: not allowed to just because of you know how archaic
Speaker 4: it really is. So it's a it's a mess, no
Speaker 4: doubt about it. I want to question real quick on
Speaker 4: the louisvill football stuff before we move on. Obviously, Jeff
Speaker 4: Brown the last couple weeks not not been thrilled with
Speaker 4: his offense, was also very complimentary of defense. Can you
Speaker 4: get a read on Jeff as far as you know,
Speaker 4: does he do you think he's really concerned about the
Speaker 4: offense or do you feel like maybe this is more
Speaker 4: just a coach kind of you know, continuing to let
Speaker 4: his team know he expects more and he wants them
Speaker 4: to get better. I mean, because if I just read
Speaker 4: the quotes and even listen to the clips themselves of
Speaker 4: him talking about his offense, not necessarily as much the
Speaker 4: week before, but especially this past Saturday, it would be concerning.
Speaker 4: But I get the sense that, you know, that's kind
Speaker 4: of just what coaches are going to do at this
Speaker 4: point make sure that their guys know, hey, no matter what,
Speaker 4: we always got to be striving to be better.
Speaker 3: I think it's a combination of that. I think it's
Speaker 3: a combination of this is an offensive coach who's had
Speaker 3: spectacular offenses, so his standards are going to be extremely high.
Speaker 3: So it could be a thing of where they're not
Speaker 3: up to his standards, but it's probably okay, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. Sure, it's like like the offense isn't
Speaker 3: gonna go out there and just put up one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty yards a game. But I think he has
Speaker 3: a standard that he wants them to live up to,
Speaker 3: and they haven't lived up to his standard yet. And
Speaker 3: it could be you know, a lot of coaches, nobody's
Speaker 3: ever going to live up totally to this standards. Like
Speaker 3: Rick Fotino, you know what, it never felt like the
Speaker 3: team ever lived up to what he thought they could be,
Speaker 3: which is a good thing because the team on the toes,
Speaker 3: nobody's getting too comfortable to get better, right, And it
Speaker 3: could be a little bit of that. But I do
Speaker 3: think he is wanting more out of this offense. You
Speaker 3: could feel it last year even though they had some success,
Speaker 3: but it's not the way that he usually has success
Speaker 3: on offense, because you know, this high flying and throwing
Speaker 3: the ball down field, getting chunk plays, and that really
Speaker 3: was in the offense last year, and I really think
Speaker 3: he wants to get back to that. Sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was successful last year, no doubt, but
Speaker 4: it did not You're right, it did not look the
Speaker 4: way you would have typically expected. You know, if you
Speaker 4: told somebody Jeff Brom's gonna come win ten games in
Speaker 4: his first year, I think a lot of folks would
Speaker 4: have said it would have been done by lighting up
Speaker 4: the scoreboard, and that really wasn't the case. They relied
Speaker 4: heavily on a good defense, and the running game was
Speaker 4: was really the strength of the offense. And I think
Speaker 4: also this is probably the best defense that Jeff has
Speaker 4: had his offenses go up against during camps as.
Speaker 2: A head coach. Ever.
Speaker 4: I mean, think about Western End Purdue like this, and
Speaker 4: that's not to say Lowell's defense is dominant, but they
Speaker 4: should be pretty damn good this year. And that's another
Speaker 4: component that I oftentimes just don't really think about. If
Speaker 4: the offense is struggling, yeah, that's never good to hear,
Speaker 4: but it could be because the defense is that good.
Speaker 3: That's and that's what makes this time of the year
Speaker 3: so hard to gauge.
Speaker 2: You said it, brother, Gabby.
Speaker 3: Hard to gauge on their end too, because it's like, okay, oh,
Speaker 3: the defense is played rate yay, But what's that say
Speaker 3: about the offense and vice versa? And so until you
Speaker 3: actually start getting out there in new games.
Speaker 2: It's so hard to gauge right now, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Kendrick Haskins of Way three Sports is our guest joining
Speaker 4: us here on Sports Talk seven to ninety. We found
Speaker 4: out earlier this week the date that John cala Perry
Speaker 4: is going to be returning to Lexington to take on Kentucky.
Speaker 4: It'll be February first, which is a Saturday. It'll really
Speaker 4: depend on I think what each team looks like in
Speaker 4: February when that game takes place. But just as of now,
Speaker 4: would you who would you?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 4: Would you say? There's more pressure to win that game.
Speaker 4: I think it's no doubt about and if you disagree,
Speaker 4: please tell me. But I think the pressure would be
Speaker 4: more so on col than Mark Pope as far as
Speaker 4: that of winning that game.
Speaker 3: Oh for sure, because I mean, at this point, it's
Speaker 3: Pope's first year, and you know, he's the Kentucky kick
Speaker 3: coming home. So he'll get that little bit of a
Speaker 3: grace period. Now he can't go out there and it's
Speaker 3: about twenty five points, but I think he'll get a
Speaker 3: little grace period, especially when Cal's team that he has
Speaker 3: coming in as you know, a lot of the kids
Speaker 3: that were at Kentucky and they were coming to Kentucky,
Speaker 3: which was gonna make them a top five seam coming
Speaker 3: into the country. And so I think the pressure is
Speaker 3: squarely more on Caw than it is on Pope.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I get the sense that that with Kentucky fans,
Speaker 4: you know, their emotions are probably you know, it's probably
Speaker 4: big question mark for them because although he is the
Speaker 4: enemy now at least because he's at Arkansas. I'm not
Speaker 4: to say the Kentucky fans are always gonna hate him
Speaker 4: or they hate him right now, but I mean, he's
Speaker 4: a competitor. He wants to beat your brains in. He's
Speaker 4: trying to, you know, get his legacy back on track
Speaker 4: and and win another title. And if he does that,
Speaker 4: I'm sure he'll it'll feel good for him, but it'll
Speaker 4: also feel good for him to be able to tell Kentucky,
Speaker 4: don't you don't you miss me?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Don't you wish I was still there because you didn't.
Speaker 4: You guys weren't happy with me. But I just if
Speaker 4: Arkansas is struggling and Kentucky is rolling at that time,
Speaker 4: I think it's really a toss up as far as
Speaker 4: what kind of booze and whatnot he gets. But if
Speaker 4: if if Col's being swaggy cow and he's he's you know,
Speaker 4: they're and they're rolling through looking like a potential one
Speaker 4: seed in Kentucky's you know, looking like a middle of
Speaker 4: the pack SEC team, I feel like at that point
Speaker 4: they're gonna boo his ass out of the arena.
Speaker 3: It is hard to gauge because on the one hand,
Speaker 3: you know, he did so much for that program. He
Speaker 3: made them the cool program for the time he was there,
Speaker 3: kind of like North Carolina was when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: you know, with Vince Carter and Shutaffs all those guys.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, he has his welcome had
Speaker 3: grown thin with so many people, and plus, don't forget
Speaker 3: Arkansas is a rival. It wasn't like, yeah, he left
Speaker 3: went to California, somewhere he went within the conference against
Speaker 3: the team that those are.
Speaker 4: I think those are the two biggest basketball program fan
Speaker 4: bases in the SEC. I don't even think there's a
Speaker 4: close third, to be honest.
Speaker 3: With you, you know, I hadn't thought about it like that,
Speaker 3: but she might be right.
Speaker 4: Maybe like musselm Like Musselman reminded us how much Arkansas
Speaker 4: does love basketball when they're good. They just had such
Speaker 4: a weird, like twenty years of just irrelevance, right, and.
Speaker 3: So you know, the the rivalry we could take. You know,
Speaker 3: it goes back to Nolan Richardson back in the nineties
Speaker 3: with Nolan and Patino and all that stuff. And so
Speaker 3: there is a rivalry there because think about when Arkansas
Speaker 3: first came into the SEC. You know, they came in there,
Speaker 3: they was rolling at that point, and sure UK was
Speaker 3: the big dog at that point. So yeah, there is
Speaker 3: some rivalry there. So you wonder what it's going to
Speaker 3: be like, I do think, like you said, I do
Speaker 3: think a lot of it depends on how each one
Speaker 3: of them season is going. But if UK wins that game,
Speaker 3: no matter what's going on, ruff Arena going to be
Speaker 3: as loud as it's been in a long time.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
Speaker 4: All right, So you guys got have touchdown Friday night,
Speaker 4: getting started here with a high school football action, just
Speaker 4: to just day away from from the game starting. I'm
Speaker 4: curious how often do you guys get complaints from parents
Speaker 4: or maybe even coaches, not to like you directly, but
Speaker 4: you know, people calling Wave three wanting to know, hey,
Speaker 4: why didn't you put my son's touchdown in your highlight mix?
Speaker 4: Why wasn't the chopper, Why why didn't you have your
Speaker 4: reporters at this game like you guys do it. There's
Speaker 4: so much work that goes into it, and you know,
Speaker 4: it's all I mean, I think it's still so cool
Speaker 4: these kids get a chance to to you know, come
Speaker 4: home after the game and see if their highlight made it.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's I mean, it's corny to some, I'm sure,
Speaker 4: but I think it's really cool that these kids still
Speaker 4: get this experience and there's so much work that goes
Speaker 4: into it from everybody on your team, and yet you're
Speaker 4: always gonna have people complaining that, you know, why didn't
Speaker 4: you show us some love?
Speaker 3: Right if I and I will go on record like
Speaker 3: I've never had that complaint from a kid.
Speaker 2: Parent, right, an adult acting like a kid.
Speaker 3: Always, it's always apparent, because it's rarely even the coach
Speaker 3: his parents, and so usually what happens when that happens,
Speaker 3: it is a team that kind of came out of nowhere,
Speaker 3: and so they're like, nobody respects us, no worries, and
Speaker 3: no matter how much we show them, it's not enough.
Speaker 3: Because I'm not gonna call anybody out. But I can
Speaker 3: remember specifically a team that won state one year that
Speaker 3: we covered them more than we covered our major needs,
Speaker 3: and we still got calls and complaints.
Speaker 2: But that's you can't make everybody happy, right, right.
Speaker 3: And so you know you do your best, and it
Speaker 3: gets harder and harder every year because these teams are
Speaker 3: getting better, so you know you only have so many resources,
Speaker 3: so somebody's gonna get left out some weeks, and so
Speaker 3: it's harder every year, but you know, you make it
Speaker 3: work and most people are happy with it.
Speaker 4: So that's all you.
Speaker 2: Can ask for, all right, Kendrick.
Speaker 4: Tonight, I'll be throwing out the first pitch at the
Speaker 4: Louisville Bats game. As someone who has never played baseball competitively,
Speaker 4: I've probably thrown a base ball sixty feet maybe once
Speaker 4: or twice in my life.
Speaker 2: Been warming up the arm a little bit. Do you
Speaker 2: have any advice, being as I.
Speaker 3: Have never thrown out a first pitch, you should do
Speaker 3: it for me tonight.
Speaker 2: You should take my place so I don't embarrass myself.
Speaker 3: I say, just worry about getting it there.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the that's the ultimate thing.
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about throwing it right down the middle,
Speaker 4: just getting it across the plate to where the guy
Speaker 4: catching it doesn't have to do like some gymnastic move
Speaker 4: to catch the ball, like if it's just within the
Speaker 4: vicinity and he can he can get it in his mitt,
Speaker 4: then I feel like I at least you know, that's good.
Speaker 3: Enough for me, right, because no matter what you do,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna get caught up to the ridge tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so no scenario.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be going through a change when it comes
Speaker 4: to careers after tonight. So and if so, it would
Speaker 4: because maybe I embarrassed the brand here at iHeart so
Speaker 4: bad they just kick my ass to the curve.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 3: I say, just make sure you get it to the
Speaker 3: plate and you're good with that, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that I can do that.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna guarantee it anybody, because again, you never,
Speaker 4: you won't know until you're out there. You know, maybe
Speaker 4: my nerves will kick in and I'll just, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe throw it ten feet, which would be really bad.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I've got faith.
Speaker 3: I've seen I've seen you jump shot.
Speaker 1: I know you.
Speaker 2: I know you can.
Speaker 3: You can hit it from deep, you can throw it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 4: My confidence is growing as we speak real quick, since
Speaker 4: we're talking baseball. Last thing, I'll ask you some big news. Yesterday,
Speaker 4: legendary former Cincinnati read Joey Vado is going to retire.
Speaker 4: Uh just thoughts on his overall career, A guy that
Speaker 4: most people say is for sure going to be heading
Speaker 4: to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: My hope is he gets into broadcasting because he's one
Speaker 3: of the funnier baseball players we've had really in our time,
Speaker 3: because he never took himself too seriously. He was great
Speaker 3: whenever he had to come down. When you ever have
Speaker 3: rehab with the bats, I remember one time.
Speaker 2: It's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And he had to rehab with the bats, and
Speaker 3: you know, in the minor league, baseball. The bat as
Speaker 3: some kind of crazy jersey night going on, and you
Speaker 3: look over and you see the future Hall of Famer,
Speaker 3: naturally a MVP. It's when one of those crazy jersey
Speaker 3: arms and he takes it with stride. So he's always
Speaker 3: been one of the better guys in baseball just as
Speaker 3: a person. So wish him nothing but the best, And
Speaker 3: I'm praying just for our sakes and our entertainment that
Speaker 3: he gets into broadcast.
Speaker 4: It's hard to find people that are just naturally funny
Speaker 4: when they don't try, and he seems to have that
Speaker 4: type of sense of humor. And I feel like, regardless
Speaker 4: of who you're a fan of, because of the personality
Speaker 4: that he's shown throughout his career, like he's he's he's
Speaker 4: really likable, but just about everybody, which I actually think
Speaker 4: supports what you're hoping happens, is that he does get
Speaker 4: a call to maybe get into the broadcasting booth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just one of those guys that, you know,
Speaker 3: even Saint Louis Cardinals fans have to like him, you know,
Speaker 3: do us despite their rivalry. He's one of those guys
Speaker 3: that you just like, you know, the uku of l rivalry,
Speaker 3: like a UK fan will say they like Lamar Jackson
Speaker 3: even though they hate U of L. Sure, I think
Speaker 3: a lot of fans will say they love Joey Vodo
Speaker 3: either they didn't like the Rich.
Speaker 4: Well, we love Kendrick Haskins, and we appreciate you taking
Speaker 4: some time to join us each and every week. So again,
Speaker 4: and I thank you for giving me a little bit
Speaker 4: of confidence I needed that. I'm feeling much better about
Speaker 4: stepping up to the mound than I brother. Thank you, brother,
Speaker 4: take care of man, all right. See that's Kendrick Haskins
Speaker 4: from Wave three Sports. Always appreciate him making some time
Speaker 4: for us.
Speaker 2: I needed that. I need something I needed. I mean
Speaker 2: I could.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just what he said, John, you could You
Speaker 4: could tell by how he said it. He does, in
Speaker 4: fact have faith in need to get it done tonight.
Speaker 2: I need to get it done. I need Thank you.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 4: The power of positivity strong. All right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 4: come back on the other side. It's coffee and company.
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Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 4: Rick Pattino has been robbed of memorabilia. This is from
Speaker 4: the New York Post. That's Saint John's basketball coach Rick
Speaker 4: Patino's office robbed of memorabilia. Cop says, so uh, Apparently,
Speaker 4: two unidentified men ran off with three hundred and seventy
Speaker 4: five dollars worth of goods from Rick Patino's office at
Speaker 4: at Saint John's, including basketball, including a basketball, a bullhorn,
Speaker 4: which is odd, but I mean bullhorn, like is he
Speaker 4: using that in practice? And it just happened to be
Speaker 4: in his office? Says here that they did it at
Speaker 4: the Carnessa a Carnaseca arena, which is where his office is.
Speaker 4: It's the floor above the basketball court. According to two reports,
Speaker 4: there actually is a picture of these guys and it
Speaker 4: shows them carrying a small bullhorn. I can't tell what's
Speaker 4: in the hand of the other guy, but a signed
Speaker 4: basketball and a ceremonial dagger. This is an odd burglary.
Speaker 4: Do you think these guys just ended up in there
Speaker 4: and was seeing what they could find that would be
Speaker 4: valuable and it ended up being a random assortment of things.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is strange. I mean because you weren't
Speaker 2: they weren't.
Speaker 4: This wasn't a heist where they're planning, like we got
Speaker 4: to get in there and get that bullhorn, we got
Speaker 4: to get in there and get that ceremony, that dagger.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's no there's no chance this was staged right.
Speaker 4: Now, I mean, like, well, it's probably they Here's my guess,
Speaker 4: not that I've ever been a detective before, John, but
Speaker 4: my guess is that they are probably just roaming around
Speaker 4: in places they know they shouldn't be and seeing if
Speaker 4: anybody notices and stops them. Yeah, and then they realize, oh,
Speaker 4: we're in Rick Patino's office, let's see what's in here.
Speaker 4: And you know, wasn't like a safe full of cash,
Speaker 4: probably and they just happened to just grab what they could.
Speaker 4: And it's a bullhorn as signed basketball and the item
Speaker 4: that I couldn't seem to identify now I can tell
Speaker 4: it is a dagger.
Speaker 6: Could you imagine being caught by Rick Patino?
Speaker 2: Like, wouldn't you be scared, old ass man? But like
Speaker 2: you like he would be scary, wouldn't he He.
Speaker 6: Looks very ghastly as it is.
Speaker 4: And he always said it's like because there's always been
Speaker 4: this like belief that he's connected to the mob. I
Speaker 4: mean not really, but yet, like it's not like I
Speaker 4: don't think he's a mob guy by any means, there's
Speaker 4: never been like any evidence that shows that. But you know,
Speaker 4: he's a typical New Yorker, you know, an Italian guy,
Speaker 4: So like it's one of those things that people say jokingly,
Speaker 4: like just you know, and some people say it like
Speaker 4: trying to make fun of him. But like if you
Speaker 4: ever later did find out he was connected to the mob,
Speaker 4: like who'd be surprised? Probably nobody, right, So you're like
Speaker 4: I could just see him walking in and seeing these
Speaker 4: guys kind of ransacking the place, seeing what they can get,
Speaker 4: and they see him and they're kind of fearful, but
Speaker 4: he doesn't move. He just snaps his fingers and then
Speaker 4: like his goons appear and just take out these guys. Like,
Speaker 4: you know, but that's a movie scene, is it not. Yes,
Speaker 4: So it says here that Patino himself is listed as
Speaker 4: making the complaint to NYPDG this is like bizarro world,
Speaker 4: like Rick Patino picking up the phone calling NYPD saying, Hey,
Speaker 4: I've been burglarized, can you come down and make a report.
Speaker 4: So apparently the Post did reach out to him for comment.
Speaker 4: He declined to give him a comment, but he did
Speaker 4: post some stuff on Twitter discussing you know, his displeasure
Speaker 4: with being being burglarized, and he also says this is
Speaker 4: something he later clarified as a joke, but he said,
Speaker 4: taking my memorabilia is one thing. But the nineteen eighty
Speaker 4: five six l Petris Pomero has me like, what is that?
Speaker 4: I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 6: It sounds like if like again it's a car.
Speaker 2: It's wine.
Speaker 4: Okay, see it's wine from France that is three thousand
Speaker 4: dollars a bottle.
Speaker 2: So uh that.
Speaker 4: You know, Rick on Twitter is still relatively new, so
Speaker 4: like it's hard to know when he's joking when he's not.
Speaker 4: He has shown a sense of humor on Twitter that
Speaker 4: I did not know existed just from hearing him only
Speaker 4: you know, in press conferences and interviews, because he's never
Speaker 4: been a social media guy before. Now he's doing podcasts
Speaker 4: and stuff with people. I mean, he's he's rebranded a
Speaker 4: little bit. But he did later say I would never
Speaker 4: keep that at my desk, saying that one in a
Speaker 4: wine cellar to open after the Johnnies go to the
Speaker 4: final four.
Speaker 2: I like that. See Rick is He's he's still not.
Speaker 4: Relatable, but social media has made him appear to be
Speaker 4: slightly more relatable than he once appeared, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: But yeah, hopefully they catch these criminals who got away
Speaker 4: with a bullhorn, of signed basketball and a dagger. Very odd,
Speaker 4: very odd. We got two hours left, so stick with us.
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