WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:07.040 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:38.000 Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick coffee. 3 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:29.960 All right? I remember too here on a Friday afternoon, 4 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:36.039 beautiful Friday, eighty degrees outside. It is sunny, it's warm. 5 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.119 In fact, some would say it's actually kind of hot 6 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.200 out there. But I'm not complaining. In fact, the only 7 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:42.679 thing I'm complaining about is when I look at the 8 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.439 forecast for where I'm gonna be next week on vacation, 9 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.200 it doesn't look as good as it's gonna be here. 10 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.640 It looks like it's gonna rain a lot. The temperature 11 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:55.520 is not gonna be that warm, and you know, we'll 12 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:59.679 still have fun. But I was packing today and I'm thinking, Okay, 13 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.240 I need I think I'm gonna need like hoodies, not 14 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.680 like you know, throughout the day, but in the morning 15 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:08.159 and probably like post dinner. It's I mean, it's gonna 16 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.760 be breezy out there. But you know, i'll be on vacation, 17 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:12.879 I'll be with friends, family, my kids, that kind of stuff, 18 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:14.680 so hopefully we have some fun. 19 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:17.519 A couple a couple of years ago, is around this time, 20 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:20.680 I went out to La me and my now fiance. 21 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:23.200 We had a week week spent out in La and 22 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:25.439 that was when we eventually ended up why I ended 23 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:28.000 up going to WrestleMania out there, But the whole week 24 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.959 leading up there, I didn't even really think to look 25 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.680 at the weather. And it was freezing in La I 26 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:38.280 guess a couple of years ago was uncharacteristically cold. And 27 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.280 all I remember bringing was like, you know, my my 28 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:44.239 hot boys summer shorts and my my what do you 29 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.799 call the Hawaiian T shirts? Right, and like sunglasses, like 30 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:48.879 we're going to the beach. 31 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.640 Laguna beach, I think in West Coast, like you'll never 32 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.680 need it. You'll never need like long sleeves or pants, right. 33 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:58.519 Not furroze my ass off, dude. And it made me 34 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.519 feel even more stupid because you know, I'm from you know, 35 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:03.799 I grew up in the West Coast, so like, well 36 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.680 not not West Coast, but I grew up on the 37 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:06.640 western part. 38 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:10.120 Of America, Arizona, yeh Ain and it's west coast, western 39 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:11.080 United States. 40 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.800 But I remember it getting a little bit chilly, but 41 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.840 just I don't know, maybe just not around like that, 42 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.479 like not around April when we're talking about like this 43 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:21.759 this time, and maybe it was like at nights and 44 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.439 in the mornings, but your whole days were straight. This 45 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:28.599 day it was ridiculously freezing. I remember freezing my ass 46 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.840 off out in Joshua Tree. The wind was awful. 47 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:33.879 Yeah, that's what. So Like, if we're on the beach 48 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:37.680 and the sun is not out and it's you know, 49 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:42.400 sixty eight or between sixty eight and seventy two seventy three, like, 50 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:45.000 it'll if the sun's not shine on you, it's probably 51 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:46.719 gonna be chilly. I mean, especially if you're wearing like 52 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:48.360 a swimsuit, like if you've got you know, like if 53 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.199 you're wearing regular clothes, it's probably fine and it's not 54 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.840 gonna be like freezing cold outside. But it's just anytime 55 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.360 I go to a beach, ninety nine percent of the time, 56 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:59.800 like it's insanely hot. So and look, I'm sure we'll 57 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.560 get I mean, I'm sure that Florida sun if it 58 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:04.159 does come out while we're there, even if it's not 59 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:06.400 you know, ninety to one hundred, it'll still be warm 60 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:08.599 and nice. But I'm hoping that the good weather that 61 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:10.280 we have here today can make its way down there, 62 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.439 because I'm not sure we'll have much better than this. 63 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.599 I mean, it's again, I think i'd have the ac 64 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:15.599 on them, they'll drive in. 65 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:18.240 I think like every time I've went down the Florida 66 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.879 the same thing when looking at the weather. Every time 67 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:22.560 I've went down, it always seems like it was going 68 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.400 to rain, and the whole weekly forecast didn't look good. Yeah, 69 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:28.039 but front from what I understand is it's just like ours, 70 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:29.840 Like ours can change on a dime, like it may 71 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.520 only rain there for ten to fifteen minutes, saying, well, 72 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:33.599 usually ruin your. 73 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.639 Day when it's not raining usually. I mean, it's very rare, 74 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.759 at least anytime I've been to that part of Florida 75 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.240 that you have like a whole day where it's gloomy 76 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:44.560 like that can happen here for days at a time, 77 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:47.360 you know what I mean. So the forecast is tricky, 78 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:49.400 and I should know this by now because I feel 79 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.280 like anytime you look at the maybe not any time, 80 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:53.599 but a lot of times, if you just reference the 81 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:55.840 weather app on your phone and you look at you know, 82 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.280 Destin or Panama City or Fort Lauderdale, whatever, you'll see 83 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.520 that it has like the rain, like you'll see the 84 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.879 you know, the rain like it'll it'll show you that 85 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.000 it's going to rain that day, but like it could 86 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.360 be a ten minute shower and then it's gone and 87 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.680 then it's beautiful and sunny out. So I've been misled 88 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.680 by the forecast when I go to Florida many times, 89 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.120 but it's still it's just never good to look at it. 90 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:20.720 The visual is what gets me, because you know, you 91 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.279 want to get away from whether that's usually you know, 92 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:25.519 not great like usually like this is very rare for 93 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.199 me to be leaving Louisville tonight. Well, I guess early 94 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.399 in the morning, and we have sunny and eighty degrees. 95 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:34.480 And when I look at the forecast of where I'm 96 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:36.199 going to be next week, there's not a day where 97 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:39.160 the high is eighty And it doesn't show any day 98 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:40.720 where it's just going to be you know, it's expected 99 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.600 to just be a sunny day. So but you know, 100 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:45.759 that's the biggest thing I got to deal with. And 101 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.240 you know, I'll be okay. It should be a good time, 102 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.600 all right, speaking a good time Sweet sixteen. Last night, 103 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:53.439 some good games, I mean I think, well blowouts, I 104 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:57.160 guess when you consider the Florida win and the and 105 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.519 the Alabama win. But I mean I was entertained by 106 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.279 watching out Obama, even though they were up big and 107 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.600 I was feeling good because that was the first leg 108 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.360 of the parlay. I mean, but like what they did 109 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.120 last night clearly had never been done before. Nobody had 110 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.079 made twenty five threes in a tournament game. I think 111 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.439 the record was twenty two, so they broke it. And 112 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.000 just to know that Bama is a team that could 113 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:20.720 make twenty threes in a game, and if they do 114 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.319 that would be yes, still unusual, but they're built to 115 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.199 do that, like that's what they do, that's how they 116 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.639 want to play. So that was a version of Bama 117 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.680 that is a reminder that they're They're as good as 118 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.800 anybody in the country when they're efficient. And what gets 119 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:37.279 me about Bama is that they know how good they 120 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:39.920 are offensively. They know they can score with anybody, and 121 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:42.160 they can get hot and put up points in a hurry. 122 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:47.360 That they don't really prioritize defense in any way. They 123 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.040 can play defense at times, like they've got personnel that 124 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.600 you know can defend. But I just think they're a 125 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.040 victim of their own success offensively because defense is never 126 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.120 going to be a priority to them, it seems. And 127 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.040 when that happens you're you're vulnerable, especially when you aren't 128 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:04.519 making shots. But like last night, they didn't really need 129 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.720 to be a team that was locking you up defensively, 130 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:12.600 because again they made twenty five threes. And then the 131 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.560 Duke Arizona game, I feel like Duke competed. Thought it 132 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:17.959 was a good showing. I'm sorry, Arizona. I thought Arizona competed. 133 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:19.639 I thought it was a good showing. They just ran 134 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:21.360 into a team that's just got a lot more talent 135 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:23.839 and better, and that's what this Duke team is. I mean, 136 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.639 a Duke Florida title game would be phenomenal. But then again, 137 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.879 you know, maybe Bam is gonna have something to say 138 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.360 about that. And then, of course the last game, Cali 139 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:37.839 Perry had Arkansas rolling and then it all fell apart, 140 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:39.519 and we spent a lot of time talking about that 141 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:41.879 in the first segment of the show today, just because 142 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:45.240 Cali Perry. There's a lot of layers, I guess I 143 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.759 should say a lot of components. That goes into being 144 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.279 a coach. Right, x's and o's is clearly a factor, 145 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:54.079 but you can still if you're not great at that, 146 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:55.759 you can make up for it in other areas, and 147 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:57.879 Cow's always been able to do that. The guy not 148 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:02.160 only brings in loaded talent every year, not only with freshmen, 149 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.360 but also now in the portal, and I think he 150 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:09.480 gets those guys to play really hard. I think if 151 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.199 you were to take the same freshmen and they all 152 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.319 went to a different school and played for a different coach, 153 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:16.959 I just don't think they would be as good in 154 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:19.600 February March as most of the freshmen that Cal gets. 155 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.680 And I think that's a that's a skill, that is 156 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.800 that's a I mean, that is how he can be 157 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:31.920 as successful as he's been overall despite always lacking, you know, 158 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.279 the acumen when it comes to just strategizing. I mean 159 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.480 last night was a masterclass and really just a blatant 160 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:39.759 sign that that's an area where he's always struggled, and 161 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:41.120 more often than not, he's been able to make up 162 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:42.920 for it. But you also are reminded that man, this 163 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.519 guy he lost at Kentucky in the tournament against teams 164 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.279 that really had no business beating Kentucky. And yeah, look, 165 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.839 the tournament has upsets, right, like that's what makes it great. 166 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.279 But think about it, like Caliperry, he lost at Kentucky 167 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:00.399 in the tournament to Kevin Allie in the championship game 168 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:04.079 with Yukon to Kansas State when Bruce Weber was their 169 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:09.120 coach to I mean, I don't even remember the name 170 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.040 of the coaches that coached Saint Sheen Holloway at Saint Peter's. 171 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:13.759 I don't remember the name of the coach at Oakland. 172 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:19.000 Jerome Tang got him. And you know, it happened enough 173 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:23.160 times at Kentucky to where you could start to see 174 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:25.720 why people would say, well, hey, that guy's only got 175 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:27.839 one title. Kentucky fans when they were still defending Cow 176 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.000 they'd said, well, you know, the tournament's random. No, it is, 177 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.840 but it's not. The tournament could be random at times. 178 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.440 In fact, there are random teams that make final fours 179 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:40.519 that are not random national champions. And there's no program 180 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.519 that has more championship type teams with less rings to 181 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.039 show for it than John Caliperry. And when he was 182 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:51.639 in Lexington, so it clearly played out that way whenever 183 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:53.399 he was there, and then to see them lose the 184 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:57.000 way they did last night, it doesn't It doesn't erase 185 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:58.559 the fact that he still was able to get his 186 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.879 guys playing really well and beat Bill self, beat Rick Patino, 187 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.320 But had he just lost a close game and the 188 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.480 result is the same. I don't think there's really any 189 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.000 talk about him not being able to coach when it 190 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.279 comes to strategizing. But he didn't lose a close I mean, 191 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.000 he was a close game, but he blew a game 192 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.440 with the other guy just simply strategizing much better than him. 193 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.279 And that that doesn't again doesn't take away the two 194 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.480 wins that he had. They were valuable. But here we 195 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.240 are once again Cali Perry losing in the tournament, and 196 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:35.320 the most talked about thing is once again, man, this 197 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.519 guy great recruiter, coaches him hard, but man, you get 198 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.120 into relying on him to draw up something in a 199 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:45.480 huddle or you know, scheme up something, you're likely going 200 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:47.519 to be at a disadvantage. So I don't know. Like 201 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.039 for Cal again, credit to him. They came on late 202 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.200 and they played really well for like eighty five percent 203 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.919 of that game last night, Arkansas looked phenomenal. Like I 204 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.879 kept saying throughout even last week, I didn't predict it necessarily, 205 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:00.799 but I said, look, that's Saint John's team. Arkansas's gonna 206 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.200 give them some problems just because they got some athleticism 207 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.000 and some size that they just can't account for. And 208 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.440 the same thing was happening last night to Texas Tech. 209 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.000 I mean, Arkansas was bigger around the rim, more athletic, faster, 210 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:17.279 guys were making tough shots like Janelle Davis when he 211 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:19.440 started getting buckets late in the year. He reminded me 212 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.919 of a really good of other really good guards that 213 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:24.320 cal had at Kentucky to where they're just playing with 214 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.240 the level of confidence that he that he can instill 215 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.360 in them. So again, Calip Perry is a really good 216 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.080 basketball coach. There are a lot of things that come 217 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:36.639 with what he does that he's better at than most recruiting. 218 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.000 As I talked about earlier, he doesn't baby these guys. Internally, 219 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.120 I think he'll he'll do the old they're young, they're young. 220 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:43.919 He'll do that in a press conference in an interview, 221 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.159 but that's just to probably piss off his fans or 222 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.480 just to you know, have his players back. But internally 223 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:52.559 he tells them I can't hide you. So I think 224 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.120 that's one of the things that makes him great. Like 225 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:57.639 these guys grow up pretty quickly with him, and by 226 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:00.279 the time you get to February and March. You know 227 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:02.639 the old saying they're not freshmen anymore. I know, by 228 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:04.480 the way, these guys aren't freshmen anymore. But they're also 229 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:07.440 like you know, future NBA lottery picks a lot of them. 230 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:10.279 So that's a skill. That's something that makes him better 231 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:14.960 than most in that aspect. So, like every coach, great, bad, whatever, 232 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:17.799 you've got strengths, you've got weaknesses. Cal has one big 233 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:21.360 weakness and it's a really important thing, and it's coaching 234 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:25.919 strategizing x's and o's. But he's been so good at 235 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.440 the other stuff. He's actually been able to kind of 236 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.440 hide that more often than than, you know, than most 237 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.000 would be able to hide it. But last night it 238 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:37.039 reared at ugly head that that's just not a strong suit. 239 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.240 Or let's go to the phone lines five two, five, seven, 240 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.080 seventy nine hundred is the number if you guys want 241 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.639 to join us. Let's let's go to Alex. Alex, you're 242 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:47.600 on sports Stock seven to ninety. What's happening, buddy? 243 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:48.000 What's up? 244 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:50.159 Hey man? How are you? I thought that might be 245 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:50.840 you good. 246 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.919 Yeah, So, looking back on the season and UH and 247 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.519 the tournament, you know, if you don't ask me preseason 248 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.519 what my expectations were for Cal. I would say we 249 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:04.720 would probably be a top twenty five team, maybe top 250 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:08.360 five in the SEC, and then we probably have a 251 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:13.399 first weekend March exit. So in that sense, you know, 252 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.840 regular season, I feel like cal underachieved. Tournament. 253 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.039 I feel like Cal overachieved for his. 254 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:23.559 Yeah, and Alex. It's crazy because this Arkansas team in 255 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.320 Calipari in his first season, it's the best example I 256 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.159 can think of right now in this current season with 257 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:33.879 college basketball. How if the joy and the success that 258 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.679 comes with March runs. You know, he wouldn't just get 259 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:38.240 into the second week and he beat Rick Patino, he 260 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:39.720 beat Bill self. I mean that, and they were a 261 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.240 ten seed. So it's not like you forget about the 262 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.639 regular season, but like you're not really dwelling on it, right, 263 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.440 Like the joy, like what happens in March just clearly 264 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:50.039 matters so much more. And that's in a way what 265 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.320 makes college basketball I think unique compared to a lot 266 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:53.639 of other sports. 267 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:54.360 Yeah. 268 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.240 Absolutely, Like you're not even gonna think about the regular 269 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:57.679 season in the offseason, right. 270 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.840 Yeah, nobody cared when must struggling in regular seasons because 271 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.840 we were built for March, and we'd make deep March runs. 272 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.000 But I think if you're an Arkansas fan and you 273 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.000 think Cal is gonna come in here. 274 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:10.960 And win a national championship. 275 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.480 I mean I think, why asked, Why would you think that? 276 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.799 Just look at his track record. The chances are very, 277 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:21.639 very low. But what Cal does bring is branding, and he. 278 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:25.360 Brings relevant He's bringing high level. 279 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:27.440 Talent, and you're gonna get a lot of a media attention. 280 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.799 But I just don't get why Arkansas would pay all 281 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:36.799 this money unless that's just their goal to Hey, let's rebrand, 282 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.519 Let's pay Cal this money. Let's throw all this nil 283 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.720 money out and see what happens. And but I think 284 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.879 if you think Arkansas is going to be a national contender, 285 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.600 I just don't think it's gonna happen under this contract. 286 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:51.399 Yeah, Alex appreciate the call. Man, Good to hear from you. 287 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.480 I think there's no doubt Cali Perry can win a 288 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:59.759 national championship because he's gonna build rosters that I think 289 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.799 will will always have the pieces to where you could say, yeah, 290 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:04.279 you know, I'm not picking them to win it. They're 291 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.679 not my favorite. But yeah, that's when it comes to 292 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.000 overall talent. There's not gonna be many Caliperry teams that 293 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:13.919 are going to be, you know, subpar. There's gonna be 294 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:15.919 teams better because you know, I mean, you can't be 295 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:17.360 the best every year, and they weren't the best this 296 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:19.759 year by any means. But he's always gonna have players. 297 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:23.279 He will recruit high school freshmen, and he'll recruit transfers 298 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.840 really well, and he's gonna have the resources to do it. 299 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:27.919 But it does kind of feel like, man, if that 300 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:30.320 guy was gonna have a second title, he'd have had 301 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.919 it by now, Like, how can you be that close 302 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.480 and not get it done that many times with so 303 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:40.240 many great teams, Like it's a little demoralizing, is it not? 304 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:43.879 Because again, like twenty fifteen, best team I've ever watched 305 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.879 in college basketball didn't get it done. I mean even 306 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.399 the twenty twenty ten team, I think it was John 307 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.360 Waldemarcus Cousins. I mean, that team was special. They could 308 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:56.039 have won a championship. Probably the best team in the 309 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:59.879 country that year. I mean in twenty seventeen, they were 310 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.960 really really good and they slipped they well didn't slip up. 311 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:04.360 They lost in North Carolina in the Elite had on 312 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.759 a buzzer beater, and that Carolina team won the whole thing. 313 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:10.559 And then in fourteen they were hot as can be, 314 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.000 and it I mean it was right there and right 315 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.519 there for him. I mean, you got a Yukon team 316 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:20.080 who nobody could believe was there a Kentucky team who 317 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.480 another example of what we just talked about with Alex, 318 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.279 that Kentucky team did not have a good regular season. 319 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:27.519 They got an eight or a nine seed, and it 320 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.120 made total sense because of the resume. But then they 321 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.720 turned it onto the tournament. They beat Wichita State in 322 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:37.240 the second round, beat Louisville in the Sweet sixteen, beat 323 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.799 I think it was Michigan in the in the Elite eight, 324 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.279 beat Wisconsin in the final four, and then beat I 325 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:47.039 may have that backwards. But then they lost to Yukon, 326 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.159 and like, there's no reason that Kentucky team should have 327 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:55.480 ever lost to Yukon. So he can win it, but 328 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.960 it just seems very improbable because you know the team, 329 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:01.480 some of the teams I just talked about, like he 330 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:04.720 will never coach teams that good again, not only because 331 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:08.480 you know he's no longer Kentucky, but like those teams 332 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.000 that good don't really exist anymore that way, right, I mean, 333 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:16.799 it's just different, it's different. So I do think Kentucky 334 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.879 fans today are feeling a little bit more loose and relaxed. 335 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:21.799 And it's okay. This is what I talked about earlier. 336 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.120 For those of you have missed the beginning of the show, 337 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:28.279 when Cal was getting past Bill self and Rick Pattino, 338 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:31.000 and that was easily one of the bigger stories of 339 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:33.559 the first weekend is that ten seed Arkansas got it rolling. 340 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.759 And here Cal is once again back in the second 341 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.799 weekend for the first time in you know, six years. 342 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:44.200 So I heard not not it wasn't like constant, but 343 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.399 you know, a lot of the oh, good for Cal, Yeah, good, 344 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.759 good for him. I'm happy looking at everybody's better off, 345 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:52.240 like I'm happy for him. Good for him, Like and 346 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:53.720 you didn't believe that, you just like you didn't know 347 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:58.440 what to say, right so to see the victory lapse 348 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.639 last night whenever he implodes as a coach and loses, Like, 349 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:05.440 don't don't try to discuss, don't try to convince yourself 350 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:10.279 that you're not feeling great joy from that. And it's normal. 351 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.200 It doesn't make you like obsessed doesn't even really make 352 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:16.359 you a bitter ex. I just think it's it's human nature, right, 353 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:20.119 because this is a divorce. You got divorced, and you've 354 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.599 you know, you've been kind of cordial. It got awkward 355 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.799 and kind of kind of toxic late. You know that 356 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:31.640 you're happy, and you know he wasn't happy, or at 357 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.160 least he wasn't winning, and then now he was like, 358 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.079 don't fight it. That's all I'm saying. It was a 359 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.759 natural thing for you to take joy in him losing 360 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.079 last night, because look, when you have an ex, you're 361 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:48.480 going to compare yourself or I guess your happiness to theirs. Right, 362 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:51.599 let's take a quick break. We'll come back on the 363 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.839 other side talk a little more about these these Well, 364 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.480 one transfer is already in the mix for Louisville. I'm 365 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.319 sorry for Kentucky. Cam Williams, the two lane freshman. He 366 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:03.799 committed to Kentucky earlier today. And then Louisvill's got a 367 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.640 visitor on campus, Adrian Wooley from Kennesaus State, one of 368 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.279 the top I mean again, I didn't know this was 369 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:10.880 the thing, but you now get a new ranking and 370 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:14.000 a new star level when you're a portal player rather 371 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:15.559 than just a recruit at a high school. And he's 372 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.119 a five star in the portal, so a lot of suitors. 373 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:20.359 Louis's got him on campus right now. There's a trend 374 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:22.839 here with these two guys that I think again is 375 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:24.640 going to become the new norm. So we can get 376 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:28.039 into that. Also, got to talk about this Tennessee Kentucky 377 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:30.359 game because I got like a pit in my stomach 378 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.079 because I think the easiest bet is Kentucky money line. 379 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.640 But I can't do it. I just I can't. I 380 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.200 can't force myself to do it. I don't think. And 381 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:39.920 then last, but not least, at some point before we 382 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:41.599 get to five o'clock, I do want to talk about 383 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.759 Kevin Willard's seeming departure, like it seems like he's not 384 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:49.680 coming back to Maryland. Right What a weird, weird few 385 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:51.799 days it was for Kevin Willard. So a lot more 386 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.759 to come. It's a Friday, We're feeling good. It's Coffee 387 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.519 and Company Filbeth Thorton's on Sports Talk seven ninety. 388 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.599 Now back to Coffee and Company uled buy Thornton's on 389 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:03.359 Sports Talk seven nine day. 390 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.079 So the transfer portal is I think nearly impossible to 391 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.440 keep up with, even for coaches. Pat Kelsey did a 392 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:12.119 random interview and I don't mean like this. I don't 393 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:13.480 mean this in a bad way. It's just not somewhere 394 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:15.519 I expected to see Pat Kelsey doing an interview, but 395 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.240 he was on with Dan Dakich on his digital show 396 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.279 on the OutKick Network. And when he says that they're 397 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:27.559 refreshing the portal like every every fifteen seconds, I mean 398 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.119 he's probably not exaggerating by that much. I mean, you 399 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.119 just got to you got to keep your eyes out 400 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.960 there for what players become available and who you think could. 401 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:39.000