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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in here our number three of
Speaker 2: our Election day edition of Coffee and Company, fueled by
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Speaker 2: company Man, mister John Alton, alongside one more hour to
Speaker 2: go as we finished strong here been a fun show
Speaker 2: so far today. I mean I've enjoyed myself. Hopefully you
Speaker 2: guys that have been with us have enjoyed yourself as well.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to keep that rolling along here.
Speaker 2: I will say this when it comes to you know,
Speaker 2: election day, we're not talking politics here. You wouldn't want that,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't want to do that, and certainly wouldn't
Speaker 2: be you know, wouldn't be fun. However, I will I'll
Speaker 2: say if you are someone that has found yourself yelling
Speaker 2: at people, maybe like in person, or maybe arguing with
Speaker 2: strangers on the internet, or maybe arguing with people that
Speaker 2: you know on the internet. I just check Facebook on
Speaker 2: my phone during the commercial break there, and I saw
Speaker 2: somebody who I'm friends with said that they've been they've
Speaker 2: lost three friends on Facebook today, not like you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully not like in real life, but like they've they
Speaker 2: were unfriended by people I guess because they were sharing
Speaker 2: political opinions. I mean, I guess that's not mean and nasty,
Speaker 2: but you know, let's be real, if you want to
Speaker 2: go find people yelling at each other about politics, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of places you can you can do it,
Speaker 2: but I'd say Facebook is probably and it's your best
Speaker 2: bet to start the.
Speaker 3: Entire Facebook generation, which I don't think it's quite your age.
Speaker 3: I think it may be ten or fifteen years older
Speaker 3: than you. Those people who are on Facebook for the
Speaker 3: most part, those are the ones who love to share
Speaker 3: their political opinions more than others.
Speaker 2: I think, Oh yeah, I mean, i'd say it's people
Speaker 2: older than just fifteen years older than me. Although you
Speaker 2: can that, I mean, I guess you could find you know,
Speaker 2: people of all ages can do whatever they want on
Speaker 2: the Internet. But I feel like there are people who
Speaker 2: were introduced to the world of social media and really
Speaker 2: the Internet a lot later in their life to where
Speaker 2: they just have a different way of utilizing the platform.
Speaker 2: Like some people will just get out the Facebook app
Speaker 2: and say took a shower last night. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have a snack. Like they'll just post that as a
Speaker 2: Facebook status and you know, you'll think, like, hmm, that's interesting,
Speaker 2: Like why wouldn't be you know, everybody, you know, you
Speaker 2: can utilize the platform that is Facebook anyway that you want.
Speaker 2: But in all seriousness, what do you think you're gonna
Speaker 2: gain by yelling at somebody rather it be somebody you
Speaker 2: know or somebody that you don't know that's a stranger,
Speaker 2: and maybe it's not yelling, But like, I just think
Speaker 2: at this point in the process, like the people are
Speaker 2: gonna vote who they're gonna vote for now if you
Speaker 2: want to, you know, And this is where I probably
Speaker 2: need to just move on and not keep discussing because
Speaker 2: it might, you know, it might because I've been pretty
Speaker 2: pretty vanilla today, right, Like, I don't think I've done
Speaker 2: anything to ignite either side here, just trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: not take things so serious and have some fun. I
Speaker 2: know the election is a serious thing, but why do
Speaker 2: people feel the need to share their opinions? Like are
Speaker 2: you trying to Like, if you're not asked and you're
Speaker 2: not a political pundit, why do you feel the need
Speaker 2: to just do you think you're gonna change somebody's mind.
Speaker 2: Maybe you do, Like I mean this when I say
Speaker 2: when it comes to the rivalry, I learned this way
Speaker 2: too late, but I'm glad I did learn it many
Speaker 2: years ago. There's no point in me going back and
Speaker 2: forth about U of L and UK with my closest
Speaker 2: friends and even some family members who are diehard Kentucky fans.
Speaker 2: What potentially could be the positive outcome from that experience. Nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to change their mind. I'm not going to,
Speaker 2: like I guess if you're just wanting them to like
Speaker 2: eat crow and take their medicine because their team lost,
Speaker 2: like whatever. But I mean, there's not anything you're gonna
Speaker 2: say in an argument that's going to change, like that's
Speaker 2: gonna Okay, you're right, You're right. I was wrong. I'm
Speaker 2: now going to be a UK fan Like that's never happened,
Speaker 2: and you wouldn't want that anyway. Like some of them,
Speaker 2: some of my best friends are Kentucky fans. It would
Speaker 2: be weird if they weren't and they became U OFL fans.
Speaker 2: I would say, no, this is this is weird, Like, no,
Speaker 2: not happening, Like my buddies who have kids. If their
Speaker 2: kids were U of L fans, and I know how
Speaker 2: die hard they are as UK fans, like I would
Speaker 2: I would think that was wrong. I wouldn't want them,
Speaker 2: you know. So when it comes to politics, maybe the
Speaker 2: same can be applied. Like we're never going to probably
Speaker 2: agree as far as which party, but we can still
Speaker 2: you know, be decent to one another, maybe even be
Speaker 2: like really good friends and like each other.
Speaker 3: That's the problem with the radicals on both sides, the
Speaker 3: act like those who support the side they disagree with
Speaker 3: are just not human being.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like in humane people. Yes, yeah, And you know,
Speaker 2: I hope and I do believe that the radical the
Speaker 2: far on each side is a small group and the
Speaker 2: vast majority of society is in the middle. Like I
Speaker 2: hope that that's the case, and I kind of think
Speaker 2: that it is. But either way, like what would be
Speaker 2: you're in Like do you think on election Day you're
Speaker 2: gonna you're gonna get into a Twitter fight or a
Speaker 2: Facebook fight and like actually change the election? Oh man,
Speaker 2: I was on my way to vote, but datis on Facebook?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: He really he really fired off something electric That's got
Speaker 2: me thinking differently. I'm gonna probably really have to to
Speaker 2: think about what I'm doing when I get to the
Speaker 2: when I get to the poll, like, you know, like
Speaker 2: it's not happening, so it's not worth your energy, and
Speaker 2: it can only I think impact you negatively if you
Speaker 2: use today as a day to yell and fight with people,
Speaker 2: regardless if it's on the internet, if it's in person,
Speaker 2: if it's people that you know, if it's people that
Speaker 2: you don't know, I mean, if it's people that you
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, you still probably won't benefit
Speaker 2: from it. But like, don't make today the day where
Speaker 2: you end up, like have a falling out with somebody
Speaker 2: over this stuff, because that's I mean, I don't think
Speaker 2: it'd be worth it. But you know, people make their
Speaker 2: own decisions. But Happy election Day, everybody, all right. So
Speaker 2: we discussed quite a bit throughout the show last night's
Speaker 2: opener for Pat kelsey first real game, and they looked
Speaker 2: really good. I mean, you can't ask for a much
Speaker 2: better performance. I mean, they won the game by forty
Speaker 2: eight points, ninety three to forty five. Was to score
Speaker 2: Morehead State score just fourteen points in the first half,
Speaker 2: missed twenty of their last twenty one attempts in the
Speaker 2: first half. I mean they were just suffocating defensively. You
Speaker 2: were able to see, Okay, yeah, this team does have
Speaker 2: legitimate depth because they can go to the bench and
Speaker 2: really get better. There's not a huge gap. But like
Speaker 2: if Cason Pryor keeps playing the way he's playing, your
Speaker 2: best player is gonna be coming off the bench, because
Speaker 2: I mean he was. He was the reserve last night,
Speaker 2: played twenty minutes. Again, really balanced when it comes to
Speaker 2: how minutes were distributed night, And that's what you want,
Speaker 2: like for Louisville to you know, to reach their ceiling.
Speaker 2: And I don't know for sure what their ceiling is,
Speaker 2: but the best recipe, the best case scenario for Louisville
Speaker 2: is that you see a team that does have a
Speaker 2: lot of shooters. They've got a lot of balance, They're deep,
Speaker 2: they play fast, their games end up with a lot
Speaker 2: of possessions, and they and they and they and they
Speaker 2: work their ass off on the floor like they are.
Speaker 2: Their energy and enthusiasm is top notch throughout. That's how
Speaker 2: their coaches, that's how he wants his team to be.
Speaker 2: And you have the ability to do that at a
Speaker 2: better level if you have depth then you can keep
Speaker 2: guys fresh because you can say, okay, yeah, Terrence Edwards,
Speaker 2: junior man, he's he's been, he's been working his ass off.
Speaker 2: He needs a breather. Let me put in, let me
Speaker 2: put in Javon Hadley. There's not a big you know,
Speaker 2: clearly different players, but like that's where you can really
Speaker 2: utilize the strengths that you know, we hope would be
Speaker 2: the strengths of this team. And last night, again it's
Speaker 2: morehead state. They're not a great team by any means,
Speaker 2: but I mean you did all you could ninety three
Speaker 2: to forty. I mean you dominated, and they did not
Speaker 2: shoot it great eleven of thirty six from three. And
Speaker 2: they're gonna have games like that where they shoot thirty
Speaker 2: six to forty threes, thirty five to forty. Maybe sometimes
Speaker 2: they shoot more than forty threes, and maybe they don't
Speaker 2: shoot it thirty percent. Maybe it's worse or maybe it's
Speaker 2: slightly better, and you still feel like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't call that a good shooting game. Well, if
Speaker 2: you make enough and your defense is as tenacious as
Speaker 2: Louisville was last night, and you can create twenty nine
Speaker 2: points from turning your opponent over and speeding the game up.
Speaker 2: Then that's that's how you can not really be impacted
Speaker 2: on the scoreboard by having a night where you did
Speaker 2: miss a lot of threes. I mean, again, eleven of
Speaker 2: thirty six, it's not the worst. But I know there
Speaker 2: were people watching last night that felt like, Wow, in
Speaker 2: the first half, they've missed eight straight threes, why don't
Speaker 2: they slow it down? Why don't they feed the post?
Speaker 2: And that's just not who they are, So when they're
Speaker 2: missing shots, they're not Pat Kelsey's I mean, I don't mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are shots where he feels like is
Speaker 2: is not a great shot, But this team has been
Speaker 2: trained and built to have a very short memory, and
Speaker 2: nearly everybody at almost any given moment has the green light,
Speaker 2: So you live with it. I mean, you don't have to.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can be upset and think that it's
Speaker 2: a faulty way to play the game, and you know
Speaker 2: that's your opinion. But I think last night, the way
Speaker 2: this team played is really exactly what Pat Kelsey wants.
Speaker 2: He wants his guys to make more shots, he wants
Speaker 2: them to be a little bit better at the free
Speaker 2: throw line. He probably wants them to limit some of
Speaker 2: the offensive rebounds that Morehead stayed got like they weren't perfect,
Speaker 2: but as far as style and really execution and energy,
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly what he wants. And again, ninety
Speaker 2: three to forty five was the score. And now you've
Speaker 2: got a big time opportunity in just your second game
Speaker 2: here of the Pat Kelcierra to get a top fifteen
Speaker 2: win in front of what I hope is a big
Speaker 2: crowd at the Young Center on Saturday works out perfect
Speaker 2: where the momentum is only growing. As far as you
Speaker 2: know this basketball program under Pat Kelsey. If last night didn't,
Speaker 2: you know, there's no way last night hurt as far
Speaker 2: as anybody wanting to, you know, be out there this season,
Speaker 2: especially for the big game on Saturday. It probably made
Speaker 2: you want to be there, or maybe it maybe made
Speaker 2: you want to go back if you were there in
Speaker 2: attendance last night. Obviously, Tennessee is a much different challenge
Speaker 2: than Morehead State. But I liked what I saw last night,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't expecting a letdown. I wasn't expecting a
Speaker 2: loss by any means. But I actually think everything about
Speaker 2: their performance as far as execution and energy was better
Speaker 2: than anything I've seen in those exhibition games. So really
Speaker 2: impressive last night, and now I can't wait for Saturday, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, Tennessee, I want to shift gears here
Speaker 2: and talk about the potential atmosphere Saturday, and also just
Speaker 2: about the whole you know, the conversation about lack of attendance,
Speaker 2: ticket prices, that kind of stuff. I do want to
Speaker 2: I do want to reset that in just a second.
Speaker 2: But this Tennessee team, I'm not here to tell you
Speaker 2: that they're overrated and that they're you know, because it's
Speaker 2: tough to know how good anybody really is right down,
Speaker 2: including Louisville. But last night, you know, Tennessee that they're
Speaker 2: coming off of a not a bad game against Indiana. Again,
Speaker 2: I didn't watch it, but I didn't hear anybody claim
Speaker 2: that they looked, you know, like terrible. It just was
Speaker 2: kind of a sloppy game for them where they probably
Speaker 2: you know, they didn't shoot well, and like a lot
Speaker 2: of teams, they're probably still putting it together. They've got
Speaker 2: a lot of new pieces as well. So they lost
Speaker 2: Indiana in that secret scrimmage, and then last night they
Speaker 2: beat Gardner Webb. But it was pretty close for you know,
Speaker 2: nearly half the game they won by sixteen. kN Palm
Speaker 2: projected that to be a twenty five point win for them.
Speaker 2: So either Gardner webs better than everybody thought after one night,
Speaker 2: or Tennessee just wasn't quite as impressive, you know. For reference,
Speaker 2: Louisville beat more or At State by forty eight points.
Speaker 2: Ken Pomp projected that to be an eighteen point win.
Speaker 2: So it's exciting because look, beating Tennessee when they're top
Speaker 2: fifteen in the country, that's huge. I mean, talk about
Speaker 2: a great way to mean. You couldn't you couldn't script
Speaker 2: a better start for Pat Kelsey if that's win ends
Speaker 2: up happening. But also, like, I don't know if they're
Speaker 2: top fifteen because stuff to know, right like, maybe Tennessee
Speaker 2: takes a big step back. But all I know is
Speaker 2: right now, when they come in on Saturday, the perception
Speaker 2: of them is going to be that they're really good,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to run with that. And if Louisville
Speaker 2: can pull off the win, it'll be I mean, it'll
Speaker 2: be I mean, try not to just say the same thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it'll be insane, Like.
Speaker 3: They don't have a line for that game yet do
Speaker 3: they I.
Speaker 2: Haven't seen one. It'll probably it'll probably come out on Friday,
Speaker 2: is my guess. But like that to me will be
Speaker 2: the moment where you you probably find yourself well I
Speaker 2: can only speak for me, but maybe I won't be
Speaker 2: alone here if they're able to win and get that
Speaker 2: kind of a win in just the second game for
Speaker 2: pat and that the atmosphere at them is really insane
Speaker 2: and it's a white out, and like you, you know,
Speaker 2: if this thing plays out perfectly as far as the scenario,
Speaker 2: I think that'll be the moment for me that I've
Speaker 2: referenced for about a year now, Like when it's over
Speaker 2: and you finally have something really good happen, We're going
Speaker 2: to probably react to it times ten compared to what
Speaker 2: we used to because I mean, even look, if you
Speaker 2: beat a top fifteen team, I don't care who Louisville's
Speaker 2: coaches or what era we're in, Like, you know that
Speaker 2: that's valuable and that's a big deal. But when you
Speaker 2: consider the recent years and just the Louisville program, you know,
Speaker 2: in the last four years or so, like it's going
Speaker 2: to feel like, you know, you did something that's you know,
Speaker 2: probably not. We try to try to. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: find my comfort zone here as far as like not
Speaker 2: acting like you want a national championship, But like I
Speaker 2: think people may react that way and we'll get made
Speaker 2: fun of. I'm sure because like you know, people will think, geez,
Speaker 2: I remember my first winning against the ranked team, and
Speaker 2: I'll be thinking, well, yeah, for Louisville, it's been a while.
Speaker 2: Things have been have been bad. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to that atmosphere on Saturday, Pat Kelsey was asked last
Speaker 2: night at the end of his press conference about, you know,
Speaker 2: what he would say to fans as far as the
Speaker 2: you know, I guess basically, hey, you're on the spot here,
Speaker 2: what would you say to get fans to come out
Speaker 2: to the game. Here's what he said.
Speaker 4: I mean, people know, people in this town know. They
Speaker 4: they know. I mean Josh, Josh and Brian Cloman were
Speaker 4: the one that came to me and to go Game
Speaker 4: two Tennessee and I'm like, Tennessee Game two. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be at the city. The city. I'm telling you, PK,
Speaker 4: like do the game.
Speaker 2: Let's play it.
Speaker 4: They're gonna show up. Places gonna be packed. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be rocking. So I'm like, all right, So Josh promised
Speaker 4: me the place is gonna be rocking and almost packed.
Speaker 4: So uh, you guys gotta you guys, gotta have Josh's
Speaker 4: back and get there. And let's say, let's say have
Speaker 4: twenty thousand at them on Saturday. Play like I said,
Speaker 4: a great team, great team, phenomenally well coached, Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame All American point guard. They got, they got the
Speaker 4: Noah's Ark, they got two of everything, and you know,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna need the white out, We're gonna need
Speaker 4: the six man. And I know the Louisville fan base
Speaker 4: in the city of Louisville is gonna step up. Let's
Speaker 4: make Saturday really really special? Is that all right?
Speaker 2: So I have no clue what to expect as far
Speaker 2: as the actual attendance here. I really don't. And I
Speaker 2: usually am comfortable in saying that, like hey, because with Louisville,
Speaker 2: the one thing that really does surprise me at times
Speaker 2: with attendants is when there is like a big game
Speaker 2: and a big opportunity, and Louisville is also a good
Speaker 2: team with momentum and the crowds are really like that.
Speaker 2: I think that's a rare situation because I think we've
Speaker 2: shown that when there is a big game, louis fans
Speaker 2: will show up. Now, if it's a dud game, don't
Speaker 2: be surprised if there's a lot of empty seats. If
Speaker 2: it's if if it's middle of the pack, middle of
Speaker 2: the road, or whatever, then you know your guess is
Speaker 2: as good as mine as far as what ends up
Speaker 2: happening at that point, it probably depends on time, day
Speaker 2: of the week, you know, that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 2: I've said for a couple of years now that I
Speaker 2: don't try to I don't like to get into the
Speaker 2: whole conversation about attendance and tickets because I don't believe
Speaker 2: in shaming fans. But I also understand that, like it's
Speaker 2: not a good thing if you can't get people to
Speaker 2: come back to the Yum Center, if the UMP Center
Speaker 2: becomes the venue for Louisville basketball, moving forward to where
Speaker 2: if you get if you get eighteen thousand once a year,
Speaker 2: that's considered a big deal, like that wouldn't be ideal. So, like,
Speaker 2: I see both sides of it. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: really have a strong opinion because again, both things can
Speaker 2: be true. It makes total sense for fans to say, look,
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in going to a game on a
Speaker 2: Wednesday when you play a team I've never heard of,
Speaker 2: and it costs what it costs, Like I can still
Speaker 2: be a fan at home and I'll go to four
Speaker 2: or five games that you know, I see worth my investment.
Speaker 2: But again, if only, like you know, if there becomes
Speaker 2: just the if there's a core that only shows up
Speaker 2: for these kind of games you had last night and
Speaker 2: the exhibitions, I mean, it wouldn't be the end of
Speaker 2: the world. But that's not what you want. That's not ideal.
Speaker 2: So I see both sides of it, and I don't
Speaker 2: know the perfect solution. I really don't. So that's always
Speaker 2: why I've kind of stayed away from just getting into it.
Speaker 2: But it's clearly become a big conversation among Louisville fans
Speaker 2: because people want to go to games, but they can't
Speaker 2: afford it. And I think if U of L was
Speaker 2: able to simply make the prices for tickets on their
Speaker 2: website a lot cheaper than they are, I think they
Speaker 2: would do it. So like, I don't really blame them,
Speaker 2: like it's business, but I also understand fans saying, hey,
Speaker 2: I know you need me now, but I can't afford it.
Speaker 2: And even though maybe your price point is to do
Speaker 2: with a mistake you made hiring the wrong guy last time,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to hold it against you. But I
Speaker 2: don't have the money, like I can't. I can't, I
Speaker 2: can't afford it. So you know, I don't know how
Speaker 2: they fix it. But one thing that that is starting
Speaker 2: to trigger me a little bit is whenever, And I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not worried about what other fans say. Like
Speaker 2: I know, last night, Matt said something that got everybody
Speaker 2: fired up, and that's that's I mean, he's good at that,
Speaker 2: Like that's that's probably what he was hoping to happen,
Speaker 2: and it worked for him. But he made some kind
Speaker 2: of a comment about how bad the attendance was for
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey, and you know, it let everybody up. And
Speaker 2: I really, you know, again, I don't I don't agree
Speaker 2: with that. I don't see it that I didn't see
Speaker 2: last night as like you know, a huge alarming issue.
Speaker 2: But you know, that's that's that's what rivals do. They
Speaker 2: go back and forth about this kind of stuff. I
Speaker 2: think it's a little unusual how much Kentucky fans. Not
Speaker 2: all of them, but you know, plenty of them. They
Speaker 2: were obsessed, not just with Louisville, but man, they want
Speaker 2: they want to they want to see, they want to
Speaker 2: see if there's empty seats, they want to see if
Speaker 2: they I mean, they want an audit of like who
Speaker 2: actually went to games. And I just think that's weird
Speaker 2: behavior to be, you know, that level. But again, they're
Speaker 2: that's that's how a lot of them operate. And that's fine,
Speaker 2: that's what makes the rivalry insane. But what gets me
Speaker 2: is Louisville fans shaming other fans of the same fan base,
Speaker 2: calling them soft and fair weather. Like that's legit to
Speaker 2: it extent, but that's also unfair. Like last night, I
Speaker 2: don't know what it costs to get into that game,
Speaker 2: but I know that if you want, if you want
Speaker 2: to go to the Spalding game and not a real game,
Speaker 2: and you wanted to sit in the nosebleeds, just you
Speaker 2: and one other person, it was gonna cost you over
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars just to get in the door. You
Speaker 2: throw in parking, You throw in a drink for each person,
Speaker 2: maybe a popcorn to share. I mean that that's that's
Speaker 2: a lot of money to a lot of people, and
Speaker 2: it's just something that one, you know, they can't justify
Speaker 2: it and they also can't really afford it like that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: That's why I think you're seeing for games like last night,
Speaker 2: the types of crowds that you're seeing now. I think
Speaker 2: it'll get better. Meaning if they keep playing this way
Speaker 2: when they play, especially they beat Tennessee the Winthrop game,
Speaker 2: maybe the Winthrop game, there'll be a twenty percent boost
Speaker 2: from what you saw last night. Maybe when they play
Speaker 2: I don't know some other teams they play that are
Speaker 2: you know, I can't think of it. I don't have
Speaker 2: the schedule in front of me, but you know, because honestly,
Speaker 2: a lot of their non conference games are against teams
Speaker 2: you've heard of because they're playing a pretty challenging schedule
Speaker 2: in the non conference, maybe one of the most challenging
Speaker 2: schedules in the country. So, like, I don't know what
Speaker 2: the perfect solution is, but I would just you know,
Speaker 2: I'll say this when it comes to Louisville fans that
Speaker 2: feel like, hey, the reason nobody's going is because our
Speaker 2: fan base is dying and we're a bunch of fair weather.
Speaker 2: We're posers. We claim we love college basketball, but no,
Speaker 2: if so it be a packed house twenty two thousand
Speaker 2: standing to play orhead state, like that's so off, Like
Speaker 2: that's just not reality. And I mean again, like maybe
Speaker 2: it's changed. In fact, I think it has changed, but
Speaker 2: like if you just go to again, and this is
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming the university because again I think if
Speaker 2: they could make it cheaper, they would, and I think
Speaker 2: they understand and they're not like there's a reason why,
Speaker 2: like they're not they want they want fans to come,
Speaker 2: but they also you know, understand that right now with
Speaker 2: the economy, with the price point, like you know, there's
Speaker 2: gonna probably be more empty seats than they want. But
Speaker 2: like if you just go to tickets at go cards
Speaker 2: dot com, like that, that's how a lot of people
Speaker 2: are probably programmed to get tickets and they see the
Speaker 2: price and they think, no, can't do it. It's not
Speaker 2: because they're they don't care. That's not apathy. That's just
Speaker 2: like making a financial decision that is responsible that if
Speaker 2: you can't afford it, you can't afford it. Hell I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to afford it. I mean not to
Speaker 2: say that if I can't afford it, nobody can trust me.
Speaker 2: I'm not made of money. I work in radio. But
Speaker 2: it's not a cheap thing to do. And that's the
Speaker 2: ultimate issue here. If it was easy to fix, I
Speaker 2: think UFL would have already implemented some kind of a fix.
Speaker 2: So I'm hopeful that tenants gets better, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to continue to just understand that if it's not great
Speaker 2: or even good for games like last night, as far
Speaker 2: as the opponent, it's not because the Louisville fan based
Speaker 2: has some major issue. It's I think for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, keeple locked right here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to the conversation about getting more
Speaker 2: fans to buy tickets and show back up at at
Speaker 2: the m Center, right, if there was an easy fix
Speaker 2: where you snap your fingers and it's done, it would
Speaker 2: have already been done. I think it's a variety of things,
Speaker 2: but I think that if in fact tickets were cheaper,
Speaker 2: you'd still see empty seats and people would still have
Speaker 2: this conversation. But I do think you would you would
Speaker 2: also visibly see more more people that are there. And
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not blaming you of l I mean,
Speaker 2: you can if you want. But when I say this,
Speaker 2: it's not like it's it's all their fault. But when
Speaker 2: I mentioned if you just go to go cards dot com,
Speaker 2: because again, most people, I would say, if you are
Speaker 2: not somebody that buys tickets a lot, or maybe you
Speaker 2: just do it, I don't know, a couple times a year,
Speaker 2: you probably think, Okay, I want to go to the
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball game. Hm, I can just go to Ticketmaster,
Speaker 2: which is the you know, most known play. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're certainly not the best. They're the worst in my opinion,
Speaker 2: because of all the fees and whatnot that come with it.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are many competitors to Ticketmaster that are
Speaker 2: not nearly as known because Ticketmaster's been around a long
Speaker 2: long time that you can get tickets from. You can
Speaker 2: get tickets for louis games and other events for much
Speaker 2: cheaper without all the thieves. Which we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: in just a second. But again, I think right now,
Speaker 2: if you're not really just thinking, man, there's all kinds
Speaker 2: of options. Let me consider the eight different places I
Speaker 2: could buy a ticket. And I'm not saying that's a
Speaker 2: lot of work, but again, people who don't like people
Speaker 2: who are, oh wow, Louisville's pretty good again, they're playing
Speaker 2: good basketball. Let me go see if I can get tickets.
Speaker 2: You're probably gonna go to Ticketmaster, or you're gonna go
Speaker 2: to go cards dot com and click tickets and that
Speaker 2: through the school, through the school website, it takes you
Speaker 2: to Ticketmaster. And when you just click on that, I mean,
Speaker 2: when you do it that way, I mean it's it's
Speaker 2: not cheap. And I know that, you know, cheap to
Speaker 2: somebody may not be cheap to someone else. Everybody's financial
Speaker 2: situation is different. But yeah, you know, you don't even
Speaker 2: have to be like a blue collar person like you
Speaker 2: don't have to be somebody that maybe has you know,
Speaker 2: doesn't have a whole lot of extra income for entertainment
Speaker 2: like going to Louisville basketball games. I think it could
Speaker 2: be somebody that's probably doing decent for yourself that would
Speaker 2: still have a hard time paying what it would cost
Speaker 2: if you just go about getting tickets this way. So
Speaker 2: for Tennessee, there's a bunch of tickets available, I would
Speaker 2: assume right now, because you know, we're getting closer to Saturday,
Speaker 2: and I hope that many people get tickets, but as
Speaker 2: far as like you know, right now, you can still
Speaker 2: there's still a lot of them available. So in Tennessee
Speaker 2: is a big game. It's not just a you know,
Speaker 2: it's not just a you know, a random game against
Speaker 2: Winthrop or Bellerman or something like that. So if I
Speaker 2: wanted to go get tickets for me and John, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go upper level three h nine nosebleeds. I am
Speaker 2: eight rows from the very top of the Umcenter, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get these two tickets. I'm not really buying them.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've got plans and you don't want to
Speaker 2: go anyway, But I'm just saying I don't want to
Speaker 2: put you in a spot where you'd have to say, Nick,
Speaker 2: if you bought those tickets, Man, sorry, you can't go.
Speaker 2: I'm just hypothetical here. Yes, So if I go check out,
Speaker 2: that's one hundred and fifty bucks before morphees are added,
Speaker 2: before parking, before you know, a beer or even a soda,
Speaker 2: And that's three hundred bucks. It's a lot of I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, roughly three hundred bucks all thing is considered.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of money too many people. And it
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that like they are brought, like the fan
Speaker 2: base has a problem. That's not a problem with apathy,
Speaker 2: that's just like, hey, it's getting pricey. The economy is
Speaker 2: not in a great place. Like I just can't do that.
Speaker 2: I want to. I love Pat Kelcey, I just can't
Speaker 2: afford it. And I think UFL knows that. But this
Speaker 2: is the way they have to price it for, you know,
Speaker 2: reasons I don't know and don't really need to know.
Speaker 2: Like I don't think they're out here being greedy. And
Speaker 2: if you view it as hey, they're making us pay
Speaker 2: the price for their mistake by hiring Kenny Payne, well,
Speaker 2: I mean it's a business and they can't operate on charity.
Speaker 2: I mean, so I think there's been some clear messaging
Speaker 2: from those on the inside. They want you to come,
Speaker 2: They're going to encourage you. But Peyton Seve, of all people,
Speaker 2: I thought, did a great job last night on and
Speaker 2: I say of all people, I mean it's sarcasm, like
Speaker 2: he's a great dude and we need more. Peyton Seve
Speaker 2: is out there in this world. But he just said, look,
Speaker 2: appreciate everybody who came out the ump centers rock and
Speaker 2: also appreciate all of you who watched it home, you
Speaker 2: know great, you know, just basically hyping up the fans
Speaker 2: and making it clear like, hey, if you can't get it,
Speaker 2: if you can't come, we get it, right. So, I mean, even,
Speaker 2: let's go to Bellerman. I clicked on Bellerman and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get tickets for me and John in the Bellermin game.
Speaker 2: We're going nose bleeds again. Fifty bucks a pop. I mean,
Speaker 2: at least from where I'm at right now before fees, Well,
Speaker 2: it looks like I can get yeah, two in section
Speaker 2: three oh seven, two seats for me and you. It's
Speaker 2: fifty bucks apiece a hundred bucks. And I'm not even
Speaker 2: sure if that is if that includes the I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be an added fee as to what
Speaker 2: it is. I don't actually know. I have to check out,
Speaker 2: and whenever I do that, it asks me to log in,
Speaker 2: and I don't. I'm not logging in. So, you know, again,
Speaker 2: I don't bring this up to say, hey, it's all
Speaker 2: U of L's fault. I'm just saying, like I don't
Speaker 2: believe there's some deep rooted issue that Louisville basketball is
Speaker 2: never gonna have fans come to games anymore. Now, Will
Speaker 2: attendance ever be like it once was? Probably not, but
Speaker 2: more than anything, just because like things like there's not
Speaker 2: as much of an incentive to say that you were
Speaker 2: at a game like there was long long ago. I mean,
Speaker 2: now you can watch it at home and you know,
Speaker 2: only go to five six games a year because it's
Speaker 2: cheaper and you know you so, I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 2: So you know, with all that said, like I still
Speaker 2: stand by what I've said for a while now that
Speaker 2: like I see both sides of it. You do need
Speaker 2: more people to go to games. It's not ideal for
Speaker 2: U of L to have the type of attendance you know,
Speaker 2: regularly like you had last night. But I also totally
Speaker 2: understand that there's many fans that aren't going. And it's
Speaker 2: not because they're checked out, they don't carry anymore, they
Speaker 2: lost their love for Louisville hoops. It's because they can't
Speaker 2: afford it. And this became a really big thread of
Speaker 2: mine on Twitter today that I wasn't really expecting because
Speaker 2: you know, and again which people on Twitter that that
Speaker 2: doesn't represent the entire fan base. But you know, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of people who who simply you know,
Speaker 2: are making it clear, like, look, I want to go,
Speaker 2: but I just I can't. I can't justify it, like
Speaker 2: Brandon writes it and says, I paid Twitter and thirty
Speaker 2: dollars for three tickets eleven rows up from the court
Speaker 2: got them off seat gee, So you know that's somebody
Speaker 2: who's you know, that's that's to me, that's a lot
Speaker 2: of money. But hey, if you're eleven rows up from
Speaker 2: the court, that's not bad. This says cheapest ticket for
Speaker 2: last night was fifty bucks in the nosebleeds. If that's
Speaker 2: the case. You know, if that's the case, then again,
Speaker 2: like if you can't swing that, or even if you
Speaker 2: think to yourself, like I might be able to afford that,
Speaker 2: but like I'm going to spend my money a little
Speaker 2: bit differently, Like I totally understand that too. So there
Speaker 2: are some options to where you can go cheaper, and
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not an expert on this, but I
Speaker 2: know seat geek and tick pick absolutely have cheaper fees
Speaker 2: at times. Now they still have some fees associated, but
Speaker 2: it's not I mean, I think you will find that
Speaker 2: you'll end up spending less if you go through those
Speaker 2: platforms than you would if you use Ticketmaster. But if
Speaker 2: you go to the YOUM Center box office during the day,
Speaker 2: which is not convenient for most people. But if you
Speaker 2: really want to go and the price point is really
Speaker 2: just that difficult for you, and you can make it
Speaker 2: to the box office, they're open Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
Speaker 2: and you can, you can eliminate a lot of those fees.
Speaker 2: So Kyle, he mentions that forty three dollars. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see, so apparently he talked to somebody at the
Speaker 2: ticket office. And this is clearly a lot of hearsay,
Speaker 2: but it makes little sense that if you buy from
Speaker 2: the Young box office in person Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
Speaker 2: you will avoid all those fees that make your tickets,
Speaker 2: you know, substantially expensive. Now, sometimes even with no fees,
Speaker 2: you're still going to look at the price and say,
Speaker 2: man I can't swing it. So but if you are
Speaker 2: somebody that is saying, look, I want to go, but
Speaker 2: man I just can't afford it, there are some things
Speaker 2: you can do to potentially, you know, make that cost
Speaker 2: a little less expensive. And look, I'm not saying this
Speaker 2: to I mean, I really don't know if I stand
Speaker 2: a benefit from saying this. But like I've had tickets
Speaker 2: that I've had given to me to give away that
Speaker 2: you know right now, I feel like this would be
Speaker 2: a real time that if we were giving away free tickets,
Speaker 2: people would would really want them. I mean, heck, you
Speaker 2: give away tickets to the previous era of Louisville basketball,
Speaker 2: that's an insult to somebody had in the tickets to
Speaker 2: what we used to have. Now there's legitimately people that
Speaker 2: want to go, and the price is the issue. But
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming U of L. I'm blaming Learfield. Leearfield
Speaker 2: won't let me. Learfield says I'm not allowed to give
Speaker 2: away tickets to U of L games for free because
Speaker 2: I don't have like it expressed written consent and because
Speaker 2: we're we're not partners with lear Field. I mean, I
Speaker 2: left it alone, but like twice I've asked like, hey,
Speaker 2: I've got these to give away. Am I good? Or
Speaker 2: am I going to get hit with like a cease
Speaker 2: and assist? And I was told you can't do it. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm trying to help and give away some
Speaker 2: tickets to people who would want them, and I'm being
Speaker 2: told I'm not allowed to so, but I believe that's
Speaker 2: a Learfield thing. And I think if it, if I
Speaker 2: really wanted to raise this think about itrobably could get
Speaker 2: the green light. And maybe I will, But I don't,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not. I don't want to.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't like contentious situations and confrontation and all that.
Speaker 2: But like, isn't that ridiculous again, I'm not. I mean,
Speaker 2: you don't have to answer that, John, because I'm gon
Speaker 2: to make it look like I'm having you defend me.
Speaker 2: But like, I'm just trying to like get more people
Speaker 2: to go to games. But because we don't have their
Speaker 2: games anymore and we're not I guess radio partners with
Speaker 2: them like we once were, they don't, like I guess
Speaker 2: they think I'm gonna use free tickets they were gifted
Speaker 2: to me to like prop up my show illegally that
Speaker 2: I you know, it makes no petty. Oh, it's really petty.
Speaker 2: It's super petty. So anyways, there are cheaper ways to
Speaker 2: go than just by going to the school website clicking tickets,
Speaker 2: but it's still probably not going to be affordable for
Speaker 2: some and you'll probably have to look a little harder
Speaker 2: or put a little extra work in, like going you know,
Speaker 2: actually going to the going to the to the box office.
Speaker 2: But man, I hope that there's a big crowd there
Speaker 2: on Saturday. I think there will be a great crowd
Speaker 2: in the lower bowl. I think you'll see empty seats
Speaker 2: up top, but they'll still there, still will be up
Speaker 2: there that are noticeable and hopefully loud. And if that's
Speaker 2: what it is, you know, as long as those people
Speaker 2: are rocking, man, it's going to be a great atmosphere
Speaker 2: that this team should be able to really build from
Speaker 2: or build lean on. I should say, all right, quick break,
Speaker 2: we'll come back on the other side and wrap up
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Speaker 2: All right, So some final thoughts here. Just on election day,
Speaker 2: One thing that really has stood out to me is
Speaker 2: how confident both sides seem, almost as if like they're
Speaker 2: laughing that the other side thinks that there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a chance they win. And that makes this to me
Speaker 2: like entertaining. I mean, that makes it to where, like
Speaker 2: I mean, it confirms probably what a lot of people
Speaker 2: were assuming, and that whatever ends up happening, the losing
Speaker 2: side's gonna blame the refs, meaning like you know, somebody cheated, right,
Speaker 2: Like that's probably what's gonna happen. At least those that
Speaker 2: are that you know, vocal and that loud. But it's
Speaker 2: not just like, yeah, we'll see what happens. But I'm
Speaker 2: confident in who I voted for and I feel good
Speaker 2: about it. It's not that it's like, oh, wow, they're
Speaker 2: panicking over there. I mean, that's that to me, even
Speaker 2: as somebody who does not follow like politics that closely
Speaker 2: and don't have a lot of memories of previous elections
Speaker 2: that stand out, this to me seems often where it's
Speaker 2: it's this level of like, you know, seemingly thinking the
Speaker 2: other side is delusional to think they have a chance.
Speaker 3: Without saying who I voted for. I don't think the
Speaker 3: person I voted for is gonna win. Okay, that's kind
Speaker 3: of the opposite of what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're also not, you know, a lunatic on
Speaker 2: the internet, like a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not trying to say, yeah, that's interesting that
Speaker 3: I have that other perspective.
Speaker 2: I know what you mean. Yeah, I'll admit I have
Speaker 2: no clue. I wouldn't. I have no clue. We'll find out,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna wake up tomorrow and probably have the
Speaker 2: same day I would regardless. That's just how I see it.
Speaker 2: And if I'm an idiot, you know, I guess I'm
Speaker 2: guilty of that. One thing I don't understand, though, is
Speaker 2: paying so many celebrities to endorse certain candidates. Like celebrities
Speaker 2: are people themselves, but like talk about getting advice about
Speaker 2: who you should vote for with somebody who's insanely not
Speaker 2: relatable to you, like they're they're not relatable to the
Speaker 2: vast majority of society. And there may be great people,
Speaker 2: but like, I can't imagine having like a celebrity be
Speaker 2: the be the final you know, the final factor, and
Speaker 2: me coming to a decision or something like that. But anyways,
Speaker 2: happy election to everybody. Let's let's all have a good
Speaker 2: evening and and be be good to each other. Have
Speaker 2: a good night.