Speaker 1: All right, let's get another week started here coffee and
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Speaker 1: Hopefully you had yourselves a good weekend, and I should
Speaker 1: also say Happy Veterans Day to everybody out there. Certainly
Speaker 1: a lot to unpack on a Monday here in November,
Speaker 1: that's typically the case.
Speaker 2: We are in.
Speaker 1: Uh, we're in what I think is really one of
Speaker 1: the best times of the year, where you've got college
Speaker 1: basketball now underway, college football. I mean, I cannot believe
Speaker 1: it's already Some teams have ten games in like where
Speaker 1: the I mean, the season went by so fast. Obviously
Speaker 1: for Louisville they're back in action this week, and they've
Speaker 1: still got a few games left. But I cannot believe
Speaker 1: that it's already November the eleventh. But nonetheless, Happy Veterans Day. Everybody.
Speaker 1: A lot to unpacked, specifically just from Saturday at the
Speaker 1: m Center, which we will. We will do that, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna get right to it in just a moment.
Speaker 1: I want to start though, before we kind of set
Speaker 1: the table and get you set for these next three hours,
Speaker 1: which I hope you stick with. Let's stick with us
Speaker 1: for the next three hours because that, I mean, why
Speaker 1: would you not taking you up till six o'clock. Take
Speaker 1: us with you wherever you go. Listen live on the
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Speaker 1: and I will certainly tell you how you can be
Speaker 1: a part of the show. But the atmosphere on Saturday
Speaker 1: was amazing. Uh, fans showed up in a major way
Speaker 1: and they were really into it. I I mean, I
Speaker 1: really can't feel I can't remember the last time I
Speaker 1: was at a Louisville basketball game with with so much
Speaker 1: juice if you know what I mean. Before the game
Speaker 1: obviously when it started, you know, it was a little
Speaker 1: tough to to keep the the the energy, but hey,
Speaker 1: fans tried. But the atmosphere was great. I mean I
Speaker 1: went with my with my wife and my son, which
Speaker 1: I really have never I mean since I've been going
Speaker 1: to the m Center, I've usually always gone with the
Speaker 1: credential and I and I and I and I typically
Speaker 1: and I'm still going to do that, but just with
Speaker 1: everything leading up to Saturday in the new era, I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, this will be a great
Speaker 1: experience to go as a fan. Take my take, my
Speaker 1: little one, and you know, my wife, she'll be into
Speaker 1: it and we had a good time. Other than, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, everything that played out on the court. But
Speaker 1: I still think there's value in knowing, Hey, there was
Speaker 1: a really big opponent in town, a really big opportunity
Speaker 1: for Louisville, and just the second game in this new era,
Speaker 1: and the fans did their part not only by being there,
Speaker 1: also probably the best I've ever seen a whiteout coordinated.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could find the occasional fan that wasn't
Speaker 1: wearing white, but overall that I mean, that stood out
Speaker 1: to me. I mean, I'm sure many didn't notice that,
Speaker 1: or I'm sure you don't care, but that that did
Speaker 1: that wasn't an observation for me that those that came
Speaker 1: were also well aware that it that it was a
Speaker 1: white out. There's been some times where you'll do a
Speaker 1: white out blackout and you can tell clearly the majority
Speaker 1: there were well aware of the instructions and they understood
Speaker 1: the assignment. But then sometimes you'll see, like, how can
Speaker 1: thirty percent of these people just not own the right color,
Speaker 1: not go buy something, or maybe just not know. But anyways,
Speaker 1: there's value in knowing that when you have that opportunity.
Speaker 1: When things set up the way they did going into Saturday.
Speaker 1: The fans did their part. They were there, they were loud,
Speaker 1: and they were trying. They were trying to, you know, utilize.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm trying to think of a moment in
Speaker 1: the game where it felt like, Okay, here we go,
Speaker 1: there's about to be a run, and we're going to
Speaker 1: find out on these next few possessions if this team
Speaker 1: is going to get back in the game. It had
Speaker 1: to be when Ziggler hit that shot at the very
Speaker 1: end of the shot clock early in the second half
Speaker 1: that I think took the lead right back to double digits,
Speaker 1: and then they never looked back. So again we can
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of discussion about basketball today
Speaker 1: and we'll get to it in just a moment, but
Speaker 1: shout out to those that came out because I thought
Speaker 1: the atmosphere was great. All Right, some other things we'll
Speaker 1: get into, Obviously, a wild weekend of college football. Five
Speaker 1: team in the top twenty go down, which this happens.
Speaker 1: I feel like every year we get the playoff rankings
Speaker 1: and once again you just assume, Okay, upsets are are
Speaker 1: gonna no longer happen from here on now, because all
Speaker 1: these teams now they know they just they're in the
Speaker 1: playoff picture, the committee. You know, they're on the radar
Speaker 1: of the committee. Now, they just got to take care
Speaker 1: of business and we forget that. You know, that's easier
Speaker 1: said than done. In fact, I think some teams probably
Speaker 1: play tight knowing that, Okay, we've been given the initial
Speaker 1: look from the committee, here's where we are. Let's just
Speaker 1: not screw up. We're in pretty good shape. If we
Speaker 1: take care of business, we'll be okay. And then, you know,
Speaker 1: you get tight and you don't take care of business,
Speaker 1: you end up losing. So a lot of shake up.
Speaker 1: But yet it's also a reminder that because the playoff
Speaker 1: is now a twelve team format, that there were teams
Speaker 1: that lost that still are completely in control of the
Speaker 1: you know, their fate. As for Miami losing again, does
Speaker 1: it mean anything for Louisville? No, but kind of. I mean,
Speaker 1: there is a scenario where Louisville could potentially be in
Speaker 1: the ACC championship game. But I mean, what you would
Speaker 1: need to happen, and it's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: would need to happen. It's just so unlikely that, like,
Speaker 1: I hate even acknowledging it, but technically there is there
Speaker 1: is there's there's some scenario. There's there's some scenario which
Speaker 1: we'll explain it later as far as how the tie
Speaker 1: breaker would work out to where Louisville could potentially be
Speaker 1: in Charlotte for the ACC championship, but I would not
Speaker 1: get your hopes up. I think it's ultimately impossible, despite
Speaker 1: again there being a specific scenario. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things where you say, well, you know, crazier things have happened,
Speaker 1: or the old dumb and dumber line. So you're telling
Speaker 1: me there's a chance, Like I can't even give you
Speaker 1: ad because it's just not gonna happen. But I guess
Speaker 1: only Tom will tell. All Right, Kentucky, they had a
Speaker 1: good weekend, right. You got to see Louisville lose, which
Speaker 1: I know you enjoyed. You didn't have to watch your
Speaker 1: football team, which probably saved you some sadness, and dominated
Speaker 1: buck Nell just like you know you were supposed to.
Speaker 1: And best of all, you got to see Cali Perry
Speaker 1: lose to Baylor. And I don't know if there were
Speaker 1: fans trying to lie to themselves on the Kentucky side
Speaker 1: that thought like they would be able to I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't believe most of them, but those
Speaker 1: that did say things like, well, I hope he does well,
Speaker 1: we really appreciate cal. No, you don't it. It was
Speaker 1: a breakup, mutually beneficial breakup, But you tell me there's
Speaker 1: not mutually beneficial breakups where you still don't have spite,
Speaker 1: where you still I mean, you clearly want him to lose.
Speaker 1: It's natural. Don't fight it. So they lose to Arkansas.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the Arkansas loses to Baylor, what five days
Speaker 1: after Baylor got beat by like sixty points against Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: So here's what it actually does. And I'm I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I certainly not a legitimate psychologist here, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I know mentally what's going on with
Speaker 1: Kentucky basketball fans right now because Cali Perry losing to
Speaker 1: Baylor after Baylor ended up getting killed earlier in the
Speaker 1: week by a really good team Gonzaga. What it's done
Speaker 1: is Kentucky's got Duke tomorrow and I have no clue
Speaker 1: what what what to expect in that game. By the way,
Speaker 1: we'll get to it later because I'm kind of thinking
Speaker 1: Kentucky's gonna win, but I hope not. Anyways, with the
Speaker 1: Duke game tomorrow and the Champions Classic, what this does
Speaker 1: now that Cow lost to Baylor, it sets up to
Speaker 1: where you won't be quite as bummed to lose to
Speaker 1: Duke because you're going to compare the two. It's natural,
Speaker 1: that's how this works. You're gonna compare what you're doing
Speaker 1: with Pope and what Cal's doing with Arkansas just because
Speaker 1: again it'd be it'd be I think, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say be weird not to but like that's just that,
Speaker 1: that's that's natural given the situation. So again, Big by
Speaker 1: the way, Big Night tomorrow, the Champion Classic, and college basketball.
Speaker 1: I feel like had a pretty you know, rather eventful
Speaker 1: first week. It didn't get as much attention as it
Speaker 1: probably should, but because college football is still in front
Speaker 1: when it comes to attention and always will be during
Speaker 1: this time of the year. But you know, you had
Speaker 1: some pretty decent matchups in the first week of the season. Also,
Speaker 1: you have a wild story where Auburn they're they're leaving
Speaker 1: on Friday via you know, airplane, taking a chartered flight
Speaker 1: I would assume to to go and play Houston and
Speaker 1: they had to turn the plane around and change plans
Speaker 1: because of who knows what. We know there was either
Speaker 1: a fight that nobody could break up, horse play that
Speaker 1: just I guess hit a different level. But to know
Speaker 1: that they had to turn the plane around and go
Speaker 1: back to Auburn, I mean that makes you feel like
Speaker 1: there was something really scary going on to where they felt.
Speaker 1: When I say they, I guess the flight attendant and
Speaker 1: the pilot felt in danger and felt it was it
Speaker 1: was a big enough issue to where they had to
Speaker 1: go back. So then they end up leaving the next
Speaker 1: They end up leaving morning of game day without the
Speaker 1: two that apparently got into a fight that caused the
Speaker 1: flight to be turned around, and then Auburn goes in
Speaker 1: and beats Houston, which I will say leaning into things
Speaker 1: like that can probably offend some, but I did find
Speaker 1: it funny after Auburn won, the players, you know, it's
Speaker 1: celebrating on the court after knowing they were, you know,
Speaker 1: picking up a huge victory, but also involved in a
Speaker 1: story that embarrasses them in the program. Why not lean
Speaker 1: into it they're doing like the airplane thing, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, if you guys know I'm visually doing it
Speaker 1: right now. Only Austin can see it, but like they
Speaker 1: had their arms out, moving side to side as if
Speaker 1: you know, they were airplanes. Again. It probably irritated some
Speaker 1: Auburn fans or you know, anybody who just thought that
Speaker 1: was classless. But I thought it was kind of funny,
Speaker 1: you know, leaning into something that clearly you're going to
Speaker 1: be made fun of, and it's going to be a
Speaker 1: part of, you know, your story. Like if Auburn ends
Speaker 1: up being really good this year, people will still remember
Speaker 1: what happened as their season started, because what happened again
Speaker 1: was far from far from normal. All right, So look,
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Speaker 1: got Austin in the house today. John is out today.
Speaker 1: He has the day off, and John's going to be
Speaker 1: sort of in a hybrid role moving forward, which we can.
Speaker 1: We can get to that down the line, but he's
Speaker 1: just off today. So therefore we always go to the
Speaker 1: bullpen and bring in miss Drawston Montgomery soup. How you
Speaker 1: doing me, I'm good. It's good to plan to everyone listening.
Speaker 1: It's good to be back on here. Yeah, it's always
Speaker 1: good to have you, my man. Always good to congratulations
Speaker 1: a John too Big announcement on social media today. Oh
Speaker 1: did he make it published? Yes, yeah, he sure did well.
Speaker 1: I was gonna wait. Thank you man, thank you for
Speaker 1: jumping the gun my bad. It's fine. I mean, we
Speaker 1: will get to it later, but I don't want I
Speaker 1: want to utilize what's left here in this first segment,
Speaker 1: just to get right into the basketball side of stuff,
Speaker 1: because you know that sucked on Saturday. I mean that
Speaker 1: that was a humbling experience for everybody involved. Seventy seven
Speaker 1: to fifty five. I mean, I'll just say some obvious
Speaker 1: things that I know everybody's well aware of. Tennessee was
Speaker 1: just better. They came out and they were better in
Speaker 1: every aspect. Rick Barnes hell of a coach. Tennessee is
Speaker 1: a team that I looked at on paper and did
Speaker 1: not think there was a whole lot to be worried about.
Speaker 1: Not to say that I didn't see a scenario Louisville
Speaker 1: would lose, but clearly, I mean I was way off,
Speaker 1: and others were as well. Louisville was a favorite when
Speaker 1: this thing tipped off, and clearly they didn't look like
Speaker 1: they belonged on the same Floorward Tennessee at times, which
Speaker 1: again a very humbling experience all the way around. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure for many it impacted sort of how you
Speaker 1: viewed this season going. Maybe it impacted what you know,
Speaker 1: what you think this team can be. And I mean
Speaker 1: I would hope that there hasn't been much of a
Speaker 1: change for anybody when it comes to sort of what
Speaker 1: you think about Pat Kelsey and what he can do here.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be shocked if there are some that are,
Speaker 1: you know, panicking, because that's what we do around here.
Speaker 1: But I'll just say this right out of the gate,
Speaker 1: I said, as soon as this team was assembled on paper, right,
Speaker 1: we knew the pieces Pat Kelsey was going to have
Speaker 1: to work with. We knew enough about what he wanted
Speaker 1: to do as a coach as far as what type
Speaker 1: of style he wanted to play, the identity his previous
Speaker 1: teams have had so at that moment, I guess what
Speaker 1: roughly midway through the early summer I suppose is whenever
Speaker 1: it was all kind of all the pieces were in
Speaker 1: place and you knew this was the roster, this is
Speaker 1: a team that can be in the tournament. The pieces
Speaker 1: are there where you are good enough to be a
Speaker 1: tournament team. So therefore, if that is the bar, if
Speaker 1: that's the expectation in year one that hey, get to
Speaker 1: the tournament, you know, I don't think Pat Kelsey or
Speaker 1: anybody would would say, hey, let's slow down, let's not
Speaker 1: embrace that, because you know that's too much. This is
Speaker 1: a rebuild like none of that. So I still believe
Speaker 1: that the game on Saturday did not make me feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we need to back off of thinking this can be
Speaker 1: a team that makes the field of sixty eight. We
Speaker 1: need to, you know, hope they can get to double
Speaker 1: digit wins. I'm not doing that at all. Now. The
Speaker 1: reality of the reality of this is none of us know,
Speaker 1: none of us have a clue. So I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: bummed just like everybody else, but I'm not I mean,
Speaker 1: it didn't even enter my mind that we need to
Speaker 1: reset and start thinking about, you know, adjusting expectations. Now,
Speaker 1: everybody's expectations different, right. That's why I reiterate as much
Speaker 1: as I can for me specifically, because I can always
Speaker 1: speak for myself. If this team makes the tournament, you know,
Speaker 1: and again how they got there, that'll certainly factor in
Speaker 1: what expectations are if they're there. I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: never once thought, Okay, we should, probably, we should probably,
Speaker 1: you know, back off of thinking this team could potentially
Speaker 1: hear their name called on selection Sunday. But if you're
Speaker 1: somebody that now says, no, i've seen enough, they won't
Speaker 1: be in the tournament, then hey, we'll see. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: maybe you're right, now I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong, you're right,
Speaker 1: vice versa. Whatever. So I still think they can be.
Speaker 1: But I think what happened on Saturday it was a
Speaker 1: reminder that Rick Barnes has won a really good coach
Speaker 1: and I did. Look, I don't want to act like
Speaker 1: I was in any way feeling that beat down coming,
Speaker 1: because I talked about it really throughout the week that
Speaker 1: I felt good about this game. I thought was gonna win,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think I was really doing any kind
Speaker 1: of Homer type mental gymnastics upstairs in my brain to
Speaker 1: to to envision the scenario. But I did mention a
Speaker 1: few times man style of play, right like Rick Barnes.
Speaker 1: His team's you know, they've played various different styles over
Speaker 1: the years, but his identity has always been, Hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be really physical, we're gonna play really good defense.
Speaker 1: We're going to limit our mistakes as best we can
Speaker 1: and really try to make you pay for yours. And
Speaker 1: I knew that, but I never really thought that maybe
Speaker 1: Rick Barnes might be the exact guy that could take
Speaker 1: you out of what you want to do. And he
Speaker 1: did exactly that. It was a masterclass on how to.
Speaker 1: And I really talked about this a lot on the
Speaker 1: postgame show. You know, Rick Barnes, you know, he knew
Speaker 1: what Pat Kelsey's teams are known for. It's quite clear
Speaker 1: what Louisville and Pat Kelsey are going to try to do.
Speaker 1: They want to play a game that's going to have
Speaker 1: a lot of possessions. They want a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of spacing, a lot of movement. They want an
Speaker 1: uptempo game. And I don't mean just like a tract me,
Speaker 1: but I mean just from a tempo standpoint, just think
Speaker 1: a lot of possessions. Think the ball moving a whole lot,
Speaker 1: guys catching it in rhythm with enough daylight to fire
Speaker 1: up an uncontested shot. And we've seen what it looks
Speaker 1: like when that works. But what we saw on Saturday
Speaker 1: was what it looks like when somebody has better talent
Speaker 1: than you overall, and he was able to dictate the
Speaker 1: pace of that game, in the style of that game,
Speaker 1: and it and it exposed really what happens when you
Speaker 1: aren't able to get in what you want to do.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing we knew that was going to
Speaker 1: happen at some point, right, Like we knew this team
Speaker 1: was going to hit some level of adversity because they
Speaker 1: hadn't hit any adversity really at all. And that's somebody's fault.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean somebody did something wrong, but like, at
Speaker 1: some point all of these guys collectively were going to
Speaker 1: hit that wall of like, uh oh, this isn't good.
Speaker 1: We underperformed. What we want to do isn't working. And
Speaker 1: you know, let's hope that we look back and ended
Speaker 1: up being really happy that this happened in game two. Now,
Speaker 1: no matter when it happens. It's never a good thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, now they got ten days off. Selfishly,
Speaker 1: as a fan, I hate that there's ten days without
Speaker 1: a game, but maybe it's the best thing for these
Speaker 1: guys because use you know what happened Saturday, And I
Speaker 1: don't mean like they should be demoralized in crying themselves
Speaker 1: to sleep every night, but it was nothing but a
Speaker 1: honeymoon party. I think the way Pat described that after
Speaker 1: the game was nothing but Ada boys, and that's like,
Speaker 1: that's that's true. That was just really the product of
Speaker 1: the whole process of hiring a new hiring a new coach,
Speaker 1: and him really trying to get everybody excited about the
Speaker 1: future with him as the coach, and he brought in
Speaker 1: a bunch of players who I still think, you know,
Speaker 1: you're lucky to have, you're fortunate to have. But you know,
Speaker 1: the ceiling for this group, I never really knew what
Speaker 1: it was, and I still don't, but Saturday's result is
Speaker 1: a is certainly a reminder that the ceiling may not
Speaker 1: be that high. As far as you know. When you
Speaker 1: play teams that have a roster full of guys that
Speaker 1: have played a lot of college basketball, maybe their numbers
Speaker 1: don't wow you, but you know what, they were five star,
Speaker 1: four star recruits coming out of high school and they
Speaker 1: played an as system with Brick Barnes for a long time.
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna be outmatched when it comes to those
Speaker 1: type of matchups. So you can grow from this and
Speaker 1: you can improve to where the next time you're playing
Speaker 1: this kind of an opponent that you know is a
Speaker 1: legitimate top fifteen team and they have better players than
Speaker 1: you overall, and they were able to keep you from
Speaker 1: getting into what you wanted to do, keeping you from
Speaker 1: dictating style, pace, all that kind of stuff, Like you're
Speaker 1: gonna have opportunities to see, Okay, did we get better?
Speaker 1: Did we learn? And you know, I would hope that
Speaker 1: the next time they're presented with this type of situation,
Speaker 1: which they're gonna play some really good teams from now
Speaker 1: until I mean, heck, the schedule is so loaded up front.
Speaker 1: I mean when they take off to go to the
Speaker 1: Bahamas and play Indiana, they're going to be playing a
Speaker 1: team that is very talented, that has the edge in
Speaker 1: that department. So at that point I hope to see
Speaker 1: that they've learned from the Tennessee loss to where, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a twenty two point loss again, so and
Speaker 1: I believe that they will get better from it to
Speaker 1: where they're not going to have that be a routine
Speaker 1: kind of outing when you play good teams. But what
Speaker 1: I don't know is is there enough to work with
Speaker 1: for Pat Kelsey and this team to where you can
Speaker 1: see yourself not just competing, but like maybe winning these games.
Speaker 1: And look, teams get upset all the time, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to have to rely on a good team
Speaker 1: to really just have such a bad night for you
Speaker 1: to feel like you have a chance of beating it.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's where we are, Like maybe we learn
Speaker 1: that throughout this season. So a humbling experience, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And now they got to sit ten days and we
Speaker 1: wait to see them play Bellerman, who I believe is
Speaker 1: the next opponent. So you know, I'm sure there's gonna
Speaker 1: be many that have issues with the all the three
Speaker 1: point shots, what were they doing offensively? This and that?
Speaker 1: And I don't want to beat a dead horse. And
Speaker 1: I also don't want to nerd out too much on
Speaker 1: like basketball, you know, I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: the weeds on stuff that people one don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about when it comes to basketball, or don't
Speaker 1: care because they don't think it's interesting, they think it's boring.
Speaker 1: But this is if there's ever a time to reiterate
Speaker 1: it again, I'll do it like. That's what he like.
Speaker 1: The guy that Louisville hired a lot of three point shots,
Speaker 1: even if it's early in the shot clock, even if
Speaker 1: it's not like a wide open look like that. That's
Speaker 1: that's what he's gonna do. Now, what I hope they
Speaker 1: find out is, Okay, what's the formula when that is
Speaker 1: that has been proven to not be working And only
Speaker 1: time will tell when it comes to that. All right,
Speaker 1: quick break, We'll go back on the other side again.
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Speaker 2: From the Fox Sports Studios in Los Angeles, Here's Nick.
Speaker 4: Coe after a third straight loss. Chicago Bears coach Matt
Speaker 4: eber Flus address the concerns with the team's offense.
Speaker 5: Just in the process of getting that done, there will
Speaker 5: be changes, adjustments being made. Again, I'm not going to
Speaker 5: disclose those right now. I'm not at that point in
Speaker 5: the process. Monday's a long day in terms of the evaluation.
Speaker 4: One change that won't be made is at quarterback. Iberflus
Speaker 4: added that Caleb Williams will continue as their starter. Brown's
Speaker 4: coach Kevin Stefanski said Jamis Winston will continue as their
Speaker 4: starting quarterback as they come off their bye week. In
Speaker 4: college football, Nebraska coach Matt Rule said recently hired consultant
Speaker 4: Dana Holgerson, the former Houston coach, will take over play
Speaker 4: calling duties as offensive coordinator for Marcus Sadderfield. That'll begin
Speaker 4: this weekend against usc. Rule added that he hopes Holgerson
Speaker 4: will can continue as the OC for the twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five season.
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Speaker 1: All Right. Were wrapping up the three o'clock hour here
Speaker 1: on a Monday afternoon Veterans Day, So shout out to
Speaker 1: all the veterans out there. Beautiful day two here by
Speaker 1: the way in Louisville, which hopefully that stays the same.
Speaker 1: It's one of those days where I'm kind of bummed
Speaker 1: that when I leave here later it'll be dark outside
Speaker 1: because you know, time changing all that. But again, happy
Speaker 1: Veterans Day, everybody. Not a whole lot of time left
Speaker 1: here in the three o'clock hour, but we will use
Speaker 1: this time to let you guys continue to be part
Speaker 1: of the show. We had somebody who called in in
Speaker 1: the second segment there that they didn't want to come
Speaker 1: on the air, but they just wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: that Austin let me know if I didn't already know,
Speaker 1: which I did, that Tennessee had twenty turnovers. Louisville did
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle. They had fifteen, Tennessee at twenty.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, but I don't really. I mean,
Speaker 1: what I would love to know is were you trying
Speaker 1: to say that that's what I should be emphasizing that
Speaker 1: Louisville forced twenty turnovers, so therefore we shouldn't be as
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm not even I don't think I've
Speaker 1: been that critical, to be honest with you, but like, yes, Louisville.
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Speaker 1: a twenty two point loss by emphasizing that, well, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, they had more turnovers than we did. I mean,
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Speaker 1: What's happening, Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 6: I know it's the end of the day for me.
Speaker 6: I was listening at the program. The callers made some
Speaker 6: good points. You know. I looked at the this basketball
Speaker 6: team of ours, and somebody has to be able to
Speaker 6: say this, the physicality, uh, you know, at our level
Speaker 6: at the ACC and the teams we're going to be
Speaker 6: running into. Not all I'm going to be in the
Speaker 6: category of Tennessee. I understand that, sure, but we have
Speaker 6: to find guys that can can bang in the paint.
Speaker 6: You know, you you basketball has changed so much right now. Man,
Speaker 6: You've got to be physical. You got to find somebody
Speaker 6: to put a body on, somebody to mix it up.
Speaker 6: And I just didn't see anybody on our team. It
Speaker 6: just seems like we shine a way when Tennessee flex,
Speaker 6: they muscle, you know, it just seems like we went
Speaker 6: into like this little light shell. Now we did cut
Speaker 6: the lead. I understand all of that, you know, like that,
Speaker 6: but I tell you, man, I don't know if this
Speaker 6: group of guys are gonna be the kind of team
Speaker 6: that can put down a physical in the paint battle
Speaker 6: with some of the teams that we're gonna be running into.
Speaker 6: And if we get deep in march, I mean you're talking,
Speaker 6: you know, running to seems like, you know, out of
Speaker 6: the in the sec and and down the road here.
Speaker 6: I don't know, man, unless he makes a complete turnaround
Speaker 6: and pull something out of the hat, I don't don't
Speaker 6: know if this team physically can take on this kind
Speaker 6: of problem we got right now, that's my comment.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it, appreciate the phone call. And
Speaker 1: I got to tell you when it comes to the
Speaker 1: physicality that you're exactly right. I totally agree. I don't
Speaker 1: like saying that they got you know, punked, or they
Speaker 1: got hit in the mouth and laid down, And I
Speaker 1: get why people say that, but I don't like. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like this group quit. I think there's certainly
Speaker 1: some plays out there, some moments where you can question, Okay,
Speaker 1: why weren't they locked in, Why weren't they ready to
Speaker 1: meet the physicality that Tennessee was bringing. How did it
Speaker 1: end up where somebody just ended up with a wide
Speaker 1: open layup. Why did they just throw it out of
Speaker 1: bounds instead of throwing it to a teammate Like there's certainly,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's all kinds of areas where you can criticize,
Speaker 1: But I didn't feel like I watched a team that
Speaker 1: you know was soft because of their nature, if that
Speaker 1: makes sense, meaning I don't think there was any way
Speaker 1: that Pat Kelsey could even closely replicate from a physicality
Speaker 1: standpoint what they were about to get when Tennessee came
Speaker 1: to town. And look, he may not have known just
Speaker 1: how physical they were. I'm sure knowing Rick Barnes, you
Speaker 1: don't really have to even look at the roster because
Speaker 1: if you just go off of the rosters that he
Speaker 1: typically has, his teams are going to be able to
Speaker 1: I mean they're not They're not soft. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: really they're gonna be physically tough. And it's really always
Speaker 1: been the case with him. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: these guys will respond, right. I think they know that
Speaker 1: when they're watching film that they they look like they
Speaker 1: got punk, they look like they were soft. And I
Speaker 1: think from what I know about the leader that is
Speaker 1: Pat Kelsey and the way these guys really throughout. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you can be somebody that's known as a guy that
Speaker 1: brings physical presence when you're playing at Long Beach State
Speaker 1: and when you're playing at you know, James Madison doing
Speaker 1: it at a place like Louisville, when you're taking on
Speaker 1: a top fifteen team, it's of different thing. So we
Speaker 1: may learn that, yeah, they did get tougher. They're trying, man,
Speaker 1: They're they're embracing the physicality, but they're just getting beat up.
Speaker 1: Like that could just end up being what happens because
Speaker 1: of how the roster was built. But I think they'll,
Speaker 1: you know, I would. I would be shocked if you
Speaker 1: don't see a real emphasis on physicality and toughness moving forward,
Speaker 1: because they got they got exposed. But I'm hopeful that
Speaker 1: the reason it was so bad is because they really
Speaker 1: didn't have any way to like replicate or come close
Speaker 1: to seeing what they were going to get against Tennessee.
Speaker 1: So I hope that they learned from it and you
Speaker 1: get better to where it's not as much of a
Speaker 1: it's not as much of a of a weakness. Right,
Speaker 1: it's never gonna be a strength, and there's some things
Speaker 1: you can do to maybe kind of, you know, neutralize
Speaker 1: that a little bit. But yeah, teams that have the
Speaker 1: ability to play the way Tennessee is, even if they're
Speaker 1: not as good as Tennessee or as well coached, they're
Speaker 1: going to follow the blueprint that was put out there
Speaker 1: by Tennessee whenever they do play Louisville, and you know,
Speaker 1: that'll that'll be when we decide or that that'll be
Speaker 1: when we can determine did they make steps forward in
Speaker 1: that department. But yes, the lack of physicality, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's two there's there's really two different sides of it.
Speaker 1: One is that you just simply don't have like anybody
Speaker 1: who you'd say, okay, let's throw him out there. Man.
Speaker 1: He's just a big bull, right bowl in a china
Speaker 1: shop kind of guy. Just a guy that's just going
Speaker 1: to take up some space and when when he commits
Speaker 1: a foul, the other team's gonna remember they got fouled
Speaker 1: by him. There's not a guy on the roster at
Speaker 1: all that's close to that. So that's really a separate
Speaker 1: part of it. But the other is, okay, knowing that
Speaker 1: you still don't have a roster with a front court
Speaker 1: that has guys that look the same way as Tennessee's,
Speaker 1: you can still you know, hold your own a little
Speaker 1: bit better than they did when it comes to physicality.
Speaker 1: And again, I believe Pat Kelsey's the kind of coach
Speaker 1: and leader that will use this as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: really challenge his guys and they'll get better. I have
Speaker 1: no doubt they will learn and improve, and this will
Speaker 1: be a valuable loss when it comes to this early
Speaker 1: in the year, being able to see how a team
Speaker 1: like that can expose you. However, I will say, after
Speaker 1: watching what we saw in that game, with a seventy
Speaker 1: seven to fifty five loss, you know the ceiling for
Speaker 1: this group. That's where I at least as after Saturday,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to kind of think, Okay, how good can
Speaker 1: they be? And I don't mean, you know, we need
Speaker 1: to start adjusting to Okay, let's hope we get to
Speaker 1: ten wins. No, I mean I think this team can
Speaker 1: make the tournament. Saturday didn't change my belief that they can.
Speaker 1: But obviously, you know, they got to be a lot
Speaker 1: better than they were on Saturday, and I think they
Speaker 1: will be all right. We got two more hours left.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be better in these next two hours than
Speaker 1: we were in the first hour. I mean, I hope
Speaker 1: we did well, but you know what I mean, continuous
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