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Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 3: How we feeling you've been You've been in the saddle.
Speaker 3: This is your fourth straight day producing this show, and
Speaker 3: of course there'll be many more to come.
Speaker 8: God willing. Yeah. Are you feeling good?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I feel great. Listen, we're on the air. That's all
Speaker 9: the matters. You're talking, Well, I'm talking. It's not all
Speaker 9: that matters. But it's the first step. Well, yeah, it's
Speaker 9: step one. Alright, Well, I guess too for be here
Speaker 9: for a long term. Yes, it's really big, but no,
Speaker 9: I feel really good. It's always fun being the producer
Speaker 9: and kind of co piloting, right, that's kind of what
Speaker 9: you want to call it, just kind of just getting
Speaker 9: the show off the ground. It makes me feel a
Speaker 9: little bit more important.
Speaker 3: Well, you've produced this show many times over the years.
Speaker 3: You've also produced in the mornings for me when I
Speaker 3: was on a different shift. Yeah, but I feel like you,
Speaker 3: you know, because you're kind of just the guy we
Speaker 3: go to when needed, at least you have been previously.
Speaker 3: It kind of was tough for you to maybe find
Speaker 3: your groove, you know what I'm saying. And I think
Speaker 3: each day that passes, we're getting more and more in
Speaker 3: sync and we'n now, Yeah, we're having some fun.
Speaker 8: So let's let's keep that rolling.
Speaker 9: How are you feeling.
Speaker 8: I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm in football mode and I want to I'm going
Speaker 3: to clarify, so allow me to explain. It's just now
Speaker 3: hit me that, you know what, it's been a while
Speaker 3: since I watched this Louisville football team play, and they're
Speaker 3: coming off of a monster win, and they could win
Speaker 3: by fifty and I'd love watching every second of it
Speaker 3: on Saturday they take on Stanford. But you know, I'm
Speaker 3: not a whole lot on the line here. You got
Speaker 3: a lot to lose, very little to game. But Clemson,
Speaker 3: that win was such a big one for the obvious reason,
Speaker 3: you've never beaten Clemson before. They hadn't lost a home
Speaker 3: game on a Saturday night in a decade, so actually
Speaker 3: over a decade, So you know, that's why it felt
Speaker 3: great for the most part. But another part for me,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure I'm not alone here, is that that
Speaker 3: breakthrough win not for the program who'd never beaten Clemson,
Speaker 3: but for this team in this season. It was a
Speaker 3: breakthrough in two ways. Again because it was the first
Speaker 3: time ever. But the secondary breakthrough was the fact that
Speaker 3: this team, I feel like all year they'd make some
Speaker 3: real boneheaded mistakes that you'd ask yourself, what the hell's
Speaker 3: going on here?
Speaker 8: How'd that happened?
Speaker 3: How can you expect to beat Miami and Notre Dame
Speaker 3: and even SMU when you're making these kind of mistakes.
Speaker 3: But yet, if you watched enough, you probably were convinced
Speaker 3: that you know, this team is capable of being good,
Speaker 3: Like I think we've got some good pieces here. So
Speaker 3: the win against Clemson. Really, you know, it can all
Speaker 3: be gone with a big upset if you lose on Saturday,
Speaker 3: which I don't think it's going to happen. But the
Speaker 3: way everything is played out in the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: it really was perfect in regards to timing. With Louisville
Speaker 3: getting the big win then getting the week off, it
Speaker 3: let you really shift gears to basketball, and that was awesome.
Speaker 3: But now they have a ten day break after that pretty,
Speaker 3: you know, underwhelming loss to Tennessee. And I'm not in
Speaker 3: any way like thinking we were foolish to get as
Speaker 3: excited as we were about Louisville basketball in year one
Speaker 3: of the pack Kelsey year, and none of us have
Speaker 3: ever had any real clue as far as how it's
Speaker 3: going to play out. But I was asked yesterday by
Speaker 3: somebody if I think that because I was actually at
Speaker 3: Roosters last night for a little birthday dinner and with family,
Speaker 3: and I ran into somebody, just an acquaintance, and he said,
Speaker 3: are you worried that because there was so much excitement,
Speaker 3: the big game feel, the big game energy was there
Speaker 3: against Tennessee and it was such a letdown that it's
Speaker 3: going to be harder and take a little more time
Speaker 3: to get people to kind of, you know, come back
Speaker 3: because they don't want to be disappointed again. And I
Speaker 3: thought to myself, that's a really good question. I don't
Speaker 3: think that's a crazy way of looking at it. I
Speaker 3: choose to believe that that won't be an issue because
Speaker 3: as much as it was a real disappointment to see
Speaker 3: Louisville in their first big Test struggle as badly as
Speaker 3: they did. However, again, I think we're all numb to
Speaker 3: losing now. The energy that you had, like there was
Speaker 3: no letdown until the Tennessee game since Pat Kelsey got hired.
Speaker 3: What I mean is really every step of the way,
Speaker 3: the guy has executed and done exactly what he needed
Speaker 3: to do to get people excited. And there it was
Speaker 3: the moment and Tennessee came to town. You had a
Speaker 3: chance to get a big marquee win, and you didn't
Speaker 3: get the win, and at times it looked like you
Speaker 3: didn't belong on the same floor. So it is, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a wake up call. But when I say
Speaker 3: that I'm numb to it, it's not like who cares
Speaker 3: world going to lose the rest of the season and
Speaker 3: I'll just be used to it because we've been losing
Speaker 3: for the last few years.
Speaker 8: I'm just stating that.
Speaker 3: And he brought up the fact that I keep saying
Speaker 3: I'm numb to losing, and maybe I need to to
Speaker 3: clarify more so what I mean by that. It's not
Speaker 3: like I just think, well, hey, who cares, We're gonna
Speaker 3: always suck.
Speaker 8: I'm used to losing.
Speaker 3: What I mean though, is like the you know, all
Speaker 3: of the good that happened from the day he got
Speaker 3: hired until that that lost to Tennessee, that was still valuable,
Speaker 3: it was still worse something. Now you can't live on
Speaker 3: that forever, right, you got to go win. And I'm
Speaker 3: hoping that they're going to do that. None of us
Speaker 3: really know if it's going to happen or not, or
Speaker 3: as far as what level they do win at, but
Speaker 3: I hope that just because it was it was such
Speaker 3: a high, and man, it's like you're it's like you're
Speaker 3: coming down off of you know, a solid gummy or
Speaker 3: you know, you get a little you get a little
Speaker 3: day drunk, and you know you're in that you're in
Speaker 3: that spot where it's like, all right, do I lay down,
Speaker 3: do I sit down. Do I kind of just do
Speaker 3: I just chill or do I keep going? Because I
Speaker 3: got to make a decision. Either I'm going to I'm
Speaker 3: going to ride what little buzz I have left and
Speaker 3: make it a memorable evening responsibly, of course, or I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna say, you know what, that was my fun.
Speaker 3: Now it's time to just kind of settle down and
Speaker 3: start maybe chugging some water, maybe pop some ibuprofen, maybe
Speaker 3: get a little something to eat, and kind of just
Speaker 3: try to you know, speed up the process of you know,
Speaker 3: being hungover or losing your buzz i encourage people to.
Speaker 8: Keep fighting.
Speaker 3: And maybe that's not the right way to word it,
Speaker 3: but like, no, like let's still be very excited and
Speaker 3: enthusiastic about this new era. Now, maybe we get to
Speaker 3: early January and we learned that the Tennessee result was
Speaker 3: not an isolated incident and that it was something that
Speaker 3: maybe is happening not regularly. But look, they some really
Speaker 3: good teams. And here's what scares me a little bit.
Speaker 3: There's nothing you can do about it. And I'm gonna
Speaker 3: choose to be positive until I've been given multiple examples
Speaker 3: of how Louisville simply can't compete with really good teams.
Speaker 3: But there's a scenario where Tennessee's maybe like the fourth
Speaker 3: fifth best team you play before January first. I don't
Speaker 3: want that to be the case. I hope that it's not,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't worry me a little bit. So you know,
Speaker 3: when I say I'm in football mode, it's not like
Speaker 3: I'm saying the hell with basketball.
Speaker 8: But you had to buy week.
Speaker 3: You've got some momentum for the first time really this season, right,
Speaker 3: I mean Clemson. That win was huge, and before that,
Speaker 3: you didn't really have a win we're speaking of. And
Speaker 3: you didn't just beat Clemson, you beat them down. You
Speaker 3: embarrass them. I'm sure their parents were ashamed of them meeting,
Speaker 3: you know, the Clemson players and whatnot. So you know,
Speaker 3: they got Bellerman, they got Winthrop. Those are the two
Speaker 3: games they're gonna play before they take off of the Bahamas,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna you know, we'll have postgame shows, will
Speaker 3: give you, I mean basketball seasons here.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: The ten day break is a little unusual for this
Speaker 3: time of year. But like I can't fake to you
Speaker 3: that I am looking at Bellerman on the schedule and
Speaker 3: I'm looking at Winthrop on the schedule, and I'm thinking, man,
Speaker 3: here we go because we got spoiled early that Tennessee
Speaker 3: game and the lead up to it, the vibes, the energy,
Speaker 3: I mean, it was the first time I could feel
Speaker 3: it for a couple of days leading up where you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're a Louisville basketball fan, you know,
Speaker 3: right when there's a big game and there's a lot
Speaker 3: on the line and you feel good about your team
Speaker 3: and you know that the Young Sinner is going to
Speaker 3: be packed, which it was, I mean, that's awesome, and
Speaker 3: then you're there and it's about to tip off, and man,
Speaker 3: the energy is great, and then it was just such
Speaker 3: a letdown. So I want to start the show today
Speaker 3: by letting like just encouraging people, like, you know, not
Speaker 3: just I don't want to tell you just forget about it,
Speaker 3: because it's the only real test you've had and you
Speaker 3: didn't come close to passing, and that's certainly a bummer.
Speaker 3: But until we see multiple like, we haven't seen how
Speaker 3: this team responds to any type of adversity at all.
Speaker 3: And honestly, they've never experienced any level of adversity since
Speaker 3: they all got here, So really, that ten day break
Speaker 3: is going to be pretty huge for them to kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, be in a they're in a different place
Speaker 3: than they've ever been together, and how they kind of
Speaker 3: navigate that I think will be important for how this
Speaker 3: season plays out. Now, again, that doesn't mean that they
Speaker 3: come out and beat Bellerman and Winthrop by sixty then
Speaker 3: things are great, because the ultimate test is the next
Speaker 3: test is ultimately going to be when you go to
Speaker 3: the Bahamas.
Speaker 8: So anyways, I just.
Speaker 3: Wanted to use the platform here to to try to
Speaker 3: keep people positive despite what happened. And I'll be honest
Speaker 3: with you, some people won't say it, some people know it,
Speaker 3: won't admit it.
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Speaker 3: Kentucky beating Duke made you feel worse about Louisville losing
Speaker 3: to Tennessee. People can act like, what does that help
Speaker 3: to do with anything? Hmmm, I can't why you know
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about, Like maybe you don't care as
Speaker 3: much as others, but like it does to see that
Speaker 3: they were able to pass what was viewed as it
Speaker 3: even bigger test and they won and they got it done.
Speaker 3: They've got a lot of momentum. You know, I'm not
Speaker 3: saying you have to, and I know people don't every
Speaker 3: day wake up and dictate how they feel about their
Speaker 3: team based off the rival, but to act like it
Speaker 3: didn't matter, like it does to a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Maybe not everybody, but it does. So they're back in
Speaker 3: action next week against Bellerman and man, I feel bad
Speaker 3: for Scotty D. They're off to a really rough start
Speaker 3: and last night it's pretty tough. Yeah, they were up
Speaker 3: double digits late. In fact, I think they might have
Speaker 3: been up nearly twenty points, and then Southern Indiana, a
Speaker 3: team who was winless, got him in the very end.
Speaker 3: And you know, I don't want to I don't know
Speaker 3: a whole lot about you know, the a Sun, and
Speaker 3: I mean I still keep up with it to an
Speaker 3: extent when it comes to lower level Division in basketball,
Speaker 3: mid majors and even below that. But I'll tell you this, man,
Speaker 3: the last few years, that level of basketball has been
Speaker 3: harder to keep up than anything because they actually have
Speaker 3: way more moving parts than any of the other programs
Speaker 3: in college shoops. So I looked at Scotti's roster yesterday
Speaker 3: just because I was trying to, you know, it was
Speaker 3: going to potentially bet on the game. I did not,
Speaker 3: and you know, just because I'm not super familiar with
Speaker 3: the personnel on his team, and just because there's not
Speaker 3: anybody that's there with a really great stat line from
Speaker 3: their previous school or even at Bellerman, doesn't mean that
Speaker 3: they can't potentially be good. But you know, I don't
Speaker 3: know if he'd say it, because he's such a positive
Speaker 3: person and he'll clearly maximize whatever he can with whatever
Speaker 3: team he has. But you know, Bellerman's starting to look
Speaker 3: like one of those teams as far as what I
Speaker 3: can tell. But they jumped up to Division one at
Speaker 3: a time where everything changed to where even if they
Speaker 3: do have good players that are producing at a high level,
Speaker 3: they're probably going to lose them to the portal, not
Speaker 3: all of them, but you know it's already happened. Dylan Penn,
Speaker 3: if you remember, was a guy who led them to
Speaker 3: a conference championship in their first year at the Division
Speaker 3: one level, only for the stupid decision I guess actually
Speaker 3: might have been their second year, but the stupid rule
Speaker 3: within the NC doa eight where you can't go to
Speaker 3: the tournament unless you've been within the Division one status
Speaker 3: for about I don't know, four or five years, whatever
Speaker 3: it is. But he, you know, he helped lead Bellerman
Speaker 3: to a title, couldn't play in the tournament and couldn't
Speaker 3: play in the tournament for the next two years if
Speaker 3: he stayed, so he left. So I think Louisville will
Speaker 3: bounce back in a major way against Bellerman, and I
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, it's not like I think they
Speaker 3: should take it easy on Bellerman, but like I feel
Speaker 3: like it could get really, really ugly because Bellerman right
Speaker 3: now is sitting at zero to three and they lost
Speaker 3: to VCU by twenty, lost a VMI at home by five,
Speaker 3: and then lost last night to Southern Indiana who's actually
Speaker 3: more recent to Division one than the So it'll be
Speaker 3: a good bounce back game. But also you know, I
Speaker 3: don't want him to beat down on Scotty too much
Speaker 3: because he's our guy. Yeah, you know, Bellerman's kind of
Speaker 3: our kind of our secondary team.
Speaker 9: So I mean just listen to like, I mean, just
Speaker 9: how you even approach that. It's when you said, you know,
Speaker 9: just kind of jokingly feel bad for our guys, Scotty
Speaker 9: Deeds because we now had the feeling that we're gonna
Speaker 9: come out and put a whooping on somebody, whoever it is,
Speaker 9: right after a game like that, as showing like that,
Speaker 9: and think of that feeling that's been restored. I mean,
Speaker 9: we talk about like the feeling in the YOUM Center
Speaker 9: and how everybody. Of course when we come back for Bellerman,
Speaker 9: it's not gonna be anything like how it was that
Speaker 9: Tennessee game. But this has been something that we haven't
Speaker 9: felt about Louisville basketball in such a long time. Usually
Speaker 9: like here we go, it's a losing streak or I
Speaker 9: wonder when we're gonna get it next. We feel confident
Speaker 9: in this team just because we will. I mean, we
Speaker 9: feel confident in games like this, which, yes, that doesn't work,
Speaker 9: That's what I mean, Yes, I understand that that's a step, right,
Speaker 9: it's a step from last time. It's a step from
Speaker 9: and that's that's what sucks about the conundrum that Louisville
Speaker 9: basketball has been put in the last couple of years,
Speaker 9: that now our faith is slowly being restored, Like at
Speaker 9: least we can go out and beat on this beat
Speaker 9: on this team.
Speaker 3: You're doing something that I don't like. And what you're
Speaker 3: doing is you are giving you too many moral victories
Speaker 3: so long well you're well, I don't know, I shouldn't
Speaker 3: say I don't like it, but Louisville could win by
Speaker 3: one hundred against Bellerman and Winthrop and that would be
Speaker 3: awesome to see because it would be insane.
Speaker 8: It's not realistic.
Speaker 3: But like, that wouldn't really tell me anything like that
Speaker 3: wouldn't And the one thing it would tell me is
Speaker 3: what you brought up that like should never be the
Speaker 3: standard or the bar. Well, hey, we used to potentially
Speaker 3: lose these games we've been, Yeah, but it was never
Speaker 3: gonna be whoever comes in and takes over for Kenny Payne.
Speaker 3: We're just gonna celebrate that he's better than Kenny, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like, yes, we did potentially lose
Speaker 3: those games, or we used to potentially. In fact, we
Speaker 3: did lose development they beat him in his first year.
Speaker 3: So I know what you're doing. I know what you mean,
Speaker 3: and I and I get it. And I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: tell tell anybody who is super excited if they beat
Speaker 3: both these teams that's next on the schedule by a
Speaker 3: bunch of points, and they look good doing it, because
Speaker 3: that's what you want. But it doesn't really tell us
Speaker 3: anything as far as was Tennessee an outlier. And that's
Speaker 3: one of the things about this is just a pet
Speaker 3: peeve of mine when it comes to college football and
Speaker 3: college basketball. It's such a waste of time to play
Speaker 3: these games because you're not getting better, you're not learning anything.
Speaker 3: And last I check, that's pretty important. Now you got
Speaker 3: a stacks and wins. So at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: if you know, you're not, you know, terrible. And that's
Speaker 3: why Louisville going four and twenty eight a couple years
Speaker 3: ago is just something we'll probably never see again. Think
Speaker 3: about the teams they had to lose to that were
Speaker 3: on the schedule for them to get four wins, right,
Speaker 3: So you know, it's how it works out.
Speaker 8: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just I want to fast forward to Thanksgiving so
Speaker 3: I can see what Louisville does against some really good teams.
Speaker 3: But that's not how it works, and they probably need
Speaker 3: the time to get better prepared for when they are
Speaker 3: tested once again. But yeah, basketball, it's kind of taken
Speaker 3: the back. You know, they got ten days off in
Speaker 3: November when college football season is rounded out the regular season,
Speaker 3: so I'm not ignoring it, like you know, it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter anymore. But Jeff Bram and his team are back
Speaker 3: in action, and Austin's going to be doing the postgame
Speaker 3: show on Saturday evening, so we'll have.
Speaker 8: Coverage for you.
Speaker 3: Our Louisville football pregame show will start at three no
Speaker 3: two thirty. We'll start at two thirty. Kickoff is at
Speaker 3: three thirty. So it's presented by Jefferson Animal Hospital and
Speaker 3: Pillow Windows and Doors of Central Kentucky. And then as
Speaker 3: soon as it ends going live for the postgame show
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Speaker 3: I won't be able to be there for it, so
Speaker 3: Austin's going to be filling in and John will be
Speaker 3: alongside and I imagine it's going.
Speaker 8: To be a big victory.
Speaker 3: So I caught a little bit of coach Bram's I
Speaker 3: listened to a little bit of his press conference after
Speaker 3: the fact.
Speaker 8: I didn't hear on Monday.
Speaker 3: I was busy doing stuff, but I listened to it
Speaker 3: earlier today just to kind of, you know, get my
Speaker 3: get the football feeling back going, because I don't know why,
Speaker 3: but man, doesn't it feel like that Clemson game was
Speaker 3: two months ago?
Speaker 8: I felt forever ago.
Speaker 3: Gosh, it seems like that was so long ago. And
Speaker 3: I guess it's because we really did go from our right.
Speaker 3: Everybody's locked in on football, let's go get it done,
Speaker 3: let's beat Clemson, and then you quickly just shifted to basketball,
Speaker 3: where you're welcoming in the number twelve team in the country.
Speaker 3: So we had big moments for both programs really at
Speaker 3: the same time. Now, one resulted in a big time
Speaker 3: win that was huge, and the other resulted in kind
Speaker 3: of a reality check as far as where you are
Speaker 3: and learning lesson that Tennessee's in a lot better shape
Speaker 3: than Louisville is right now. But still the emotions that
Speaker 3: come with both those things, good or bad, Like it
Speaker 3: just I swear to you, if you'd asked me, you know,
Speaker 3: earlier today, without me giving it much thought, when the
Speaker 3: Clemson game was, I probably would have told you it
Speaker 3: was at least a month ago. And in fact it
Speaker 3: hasn't even been two weeks. Yeah, that's just how quickly
Speaker 3: crazy the season is going. Now, we'll talk some football
Speaker 3: coming up here in about ten minutes or so, we're
Speaker 3: going to talk to the one and only mister Alex Cupper,
Speaker 3: former Louisville Cardinal, get his thoughts on a variety of things.
Speaker 3: One of those is when you go on the I've
Speaker 3: always heard players say that they want the game to
Speaker 3: start as early as possible. They don't want to be
Speaker 3: sitting around in the team hotel all day. They want
Speaker 3: to just get up, get ready for get you know,
Speaker 3: get the game prep started, and get out there for
Speaker 3: like a noon kickoff. This is a little bit later. Now,
Speaker 3: we'll be early on the West Coast, but I don't
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's happened with cut before and he'll be
Speaker 3: able to tell us. But they're going to be playing
Speaker 3: on Saturday on the West Coast in what is probably
Speaker 3: the emptiest stadium that they'll play in, maybe ever in
Speaker 3: their career. And I'm serious, if you've transferred in from
Speaker 3: an FCS or you know, a G five, then maybe
Speaker 3: it's a different situation. But Stanford will have very very
Speaker 3: little turnout, and that alone is probably an advantage to
Speaker 3: if there's if there's any advantage there, it's got to
Speaker 3: be an advantage for the team who's at home and
Speaker 3: is already used to it, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 3: if you're there and you're on the road and it's
Speaker 3: a road atmosphere like it could just be kind of awkward.
Speaker 3: So I think it's important for Louisville to get off
Speaker 3: to a good start here against Stanford, and hopefully if
Speaker 3: they do that, they can then they can then cruise
Speaker 3: all right. Coming up at four oh five today, we'll
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Speaker 3: I asked yesterday, and somebody has delivered. What I asked
Speaker 3: for was some scenario where it was legitimately possible. And
Speaker 3: I don't mean like percentage chance, because this the percentage
Speaker 3: chance of this happening is like probably zero point one,
Speaker 3: but they're there. Somebody did present me with the scenario
Speaker 3: where Louisville would be playing in the ACC championship game.
Speaker 3: So I'll get to that a little bit later on,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to try my best to lay that
Speaker 3: out and not make it as confusing as it is
Speaker 3: for me when I read it, Like I'm such an
Speaker 3: idiot at times, and maybe it's a lot of times
Speaker 3: when I read it, I have to say it out loud,
Speaker 3: like wait a second, like there's so many there's a
Speaker 3: lot of moving parts. But a lot of you guys
Speaker 3: are probably smarter than me to where it'll make sense
Speaker 3: to you. But you'll probably also realize, yeah, there's no
Speaker 3: scenario all these things end up happening. But I asked
Speaker 3: yesterday if somebody can present me some type because everybody
Speaker 3: was giving you the crazy things have happened, Well, maybe there,
Speaker 3: so you're telling me there's a chance and I'm thinking, okay, well,
Speaker 3: somebody present to me.
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Speaker 3: Even if it's a list that's a mile long of
Speaker 3: what would need to happen for Louisville to be in Charlotte,
Speaker 3: And it wasn't a mile long, but somebody did present
Speaker 3: the scenario where that could happen, So we'll certainly get
Speaker 3: to that. And I mentioned this yesterday, but I didn't
Speaker 3: really save enough time to get into it. But the
Speaker 3: Athletic every year they do it right around the time
Speaker 3: that the college football playoff rankings come out. They do
Speaker 3: a survey where I don't know where they get the
Speaker 3: one thousand college football fans from. I mean, there's a
Speaker 3: lot more than a thousand college football fans out there,
Speaker 3: but they find a thousand college football fans to fill
Speaker 3: out a survey, and I think the results in the
Speaker 3: last couple of years since they've done this are really interesting.
Speaker 3: One of them is just which network you feel like
Speaker 3: does the best job, if who on college game day,
Speaker 3: if they had to go, would you want to see
Speaker 3: get the boot? Just interesting stuff because obviously we love
Speaker 3: college football around here, and I think some of these
Speaker 3: results from the survey might surprise you. So we can
Speaker 3: certainly get into that, and I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: worth spending a ton of time on because we've kind
Speaker 3: of already done that yesterday. I think last night was
Speaker 3: like another reminder that Kentucky's winning the breakup and they're
Speaker 3: winning it by a big margin. Cal down to Troy Arkansas.
Speaker 3: When I say Cal, I think you guys know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about.
Speaker 8: But Arkansas trailed Troy.
Speaker 3: At halftime last night, they didn't come back and win,
Speaker 3: didn't cover, and they really just haven't looked very good
Speaker 3: so far this year. They kind of look exactly like
Speaker 3: Cal's teams in the last couple of years looked at
Speaker 3: times at Kentucky, but he once again is doing his
Speaker 3: crazy person postgame press conference stuff, and I feel like
Speaker 3: he did it when he was in Lexington, especially towards
Speaker 3: the end, where he really, I think wanted to just
Speaker 3: give off the vibe that he's in his own world.
Speaker 3: He doesn't even know what anybody's saying because he doesn't care.
Speaker 3: He'll say things that he knows probably aren't what a
Speaker 3: coach should say, but he knows he can say it
Speaker 3: because it's Cal being Cal. And if you're a Kentucky
Speaker 3: fan or even a Louis of fan, you probably know
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. Well, I think in Fayetteville he's
Speaker 3: turned that up ten notches, and I think it's because
Speaker 3: he's uncomfortable there. I think he realizes he's not at
Speaker 3: a place that is as I guess special as.
Speaker 8: Where he was.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe I'm wrong, and then Arkansas gets it
Speaker 3: rolling and they end up having a great season. But
Speaker 3: I think that the early signs are that Cal's gonna
Speaker 3: probably be the same guy that he was in Lexington
Speaker 3: that led to him kind of overstaying his welcome and
Speaker 3: fans wanting the mutual split up, which happened. I think
Speaker 3: he's going to be that same guy, but worse. Like
Speaker 3: I think the things that really led to it falling
Speaker 3: apart here to where his fans wanted to change, and
Speaker 3: it just became so stale his whole shtick. And of
Speaker 3: course when you have that stick and you're losing in
Speaker 3: the first round of bumbs, it becomes a really bad situation,
Speaker 3: very toxic, right, But I feel like he's doing it
Speaker 3: way worse there because he just doesn't like he wants
Speaker 3: Arkansas to know, like, Hey, you know, you were lucky
Speaker 3: to have me.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: Oh you want a press conference, Yeah, I'll send Kenny
Speaker 3: Paine's bomb ass out there. He'll talk to you guys.
Speaker 3: Oh you want me to. Oh no, sorry, we didn't practice.
Speaker 3: We had other things going on. Like he's just I
Speaker 3: found it very entertaining because he's kind of like a madman.
Speaker 8: Sounds like he's losing his mind.
Speaker 3: He does, and again he showed signs of that, and
Speaker 3: there are many examples of him doing cow stuff towards
Speaker 3: the end that really just burned up his fan base
Speaker 3: that just wanted him gone. But I think in Arkansas,
Speaker 3: like they don't really know how to handle right. This
Speaker 3: is the first thing they're getting, and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I guess this is what we have to deal with.
Speaker 3: But there's another compilation of just out of context things
Speaker 3: he yelled at, yelled about during his press conference last night,
Speaker 3: and again he sounds like a mad man. He sounds
Speaker 3: sounds like he's losing his mind. Also, I think that
Speaker 3: I think you might have said it best. He's going crazy.
Speaker 3: So we're loaded the rest of the way, and I
Speaker 3: hope you guys will stick with us. I don't know
Speaker 3: why you wouldn't. I mean, we have fun every day here.
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Speaker 3: talk some Louisville football, so let's bring him in. He's
Speaker 3: mister Alex Cupper, former Louisville Cardinal Cup. We haven't talked
Speaker 3: since the Clemson victory is certainly a big one before
Speaker 3: we get into the matchup against Stanford.
Speaker 8: What stood out to you?
Speaker 3: I guess maybe as the biggest surprise in that game.
Speaker 3: For me, it was the defense being on the field
Speaker 3: seemingly the whole game, and that was a different defense
Speaker 3: than really what we've seen, I think throughout the entire year.
Speaker 3: But maybe something else stood out to you. Obviously a
Speaker 3: big win for the Cards.
Speaker 10: No, absolutely, and it was it was one of those keys,
Speaker 10: you know when we were talking that Friday going into
Speaker 10: that weekend, you know, what's what are we going to
Speaker 10: be talking about after this on if we're going to win?
Speaker 10: And it was I mean, the defenses has to has
Speaker 10: to step up in a major way, that's right, And
Speaker 10: they didn't. They didn't force a bunch of turnovers, but
Speaker 10: like you said, they limited and made it very very
Speaker 10: challenging for Clemson to do anything offensively. They tackled much better.
Speaker 10: It felt like their their scheme and how they had
Speaker 10: how they got lined up to defend Clemson, I mean,
Speaker 10: sideline to sideline was was was excellent. So you eliminated
Speaker 10: some of those easy throws. It felt like every time
Speaker 10: they were Klubnick was looking down the field, there was
Speaker 10: guys covered up, so he check it down and then
Speaker 10: the team would rally and make tackles. So that was
Speaker 10: I mean, much better, much, much much improved defense that
Speaker 10: you wish, you know, you could have seen in the
Speaker 10: weeks before. But you would definitely definitely take in that
Speaker 10: scenario to beat Clemson down there, for sure.
Speaker 8: I was talking about it a little bit earlier.
Speaker 3: I think the breakthrough for when you say that about
Speaker 3: the winning Clemson, for most people, it's just okay, they
Speaker 3: finally beat Clemson for the first time since being in
Speaker 3: the league, and it is a breakthrough. But I feel
Speaker 3: like it was a breakthrough as well for just this team.
Speaker 3: They've been in close games against really good teams, and
Speaker 3: I think they know their ability and fans know it.
Speaker 3: I mean, you only are really evaluated by winning and
Speaker 3: losing in the grand scheme of things, But it was
Speaker 3: just an unusual situation to where the record really didn't
Speaker 3: indicate it. But I felt like, even despite some of
Speaker 3: their mistakes and some of their miscues earlier this year,
Speaker 3: that I felt like Jeff brom had a pretty good
Speaker 3: team and to see them actually go out there put
Speaker 3: it all together. I don't know what was said at
Speaker 3: halftime in Boston, but man, since since that second half
Speaker 3: and then last or two weeks ago at Clemson, it
Speaker 3: was really it's kind of all coming together for him.
Speaker 3: As a former player, how big is it to to
Speaker 3: know that you that you've just been falling short and
Speaker 3: really a lot of it is your own doing for
Speaker 3: the most part, or some questionable calls and some reversals
Speaker 3: and that kind of stuff. But I feel like for
Speaker 3: those guys, man, you know, wishful thinking on my end,
Speaker 3: but I feel like that that result has got to
Speaker 3: put them in going in the right direction to finish
Speaker 3: the season at a really really fast pace.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's there's typically a few moments in a season
Speaker 10: that can either you know, spark you in a major
Speaker 10: way and really just and and I can think of
Speaker 10: several in my playing days where it was like, man,
Speaker 10: we are we are? You know, it's almost like a
Speaker 10: pitcher on a no hitter. You don't want to jink,
Speaker 10: so you don't want to do anything different. You just
Speaker 10: want to keep rolling because it's everything you seem to
Speaker 10: be doing is clicking in a major way. And that's yeah,
Speaker 10: just just what you said, they've they've caught a little
Speaker 10: bit of fire here. You know this, this this weekend
Speaker 10: will be interesting because you do have that long layoff,
Speaker 10: so it's typically a bye week. Unfortunately, can kind of
Speaker 10: halter some of that. But you know, all it takes
Speaker 10: is one or two plays offensively and defensively to get
Speaker 10: those groups just re energized on like, Okay, we're we
Speaker 10: are dialed in on our game plan, We're dialed in
Speaker 10: on our technique, on what the coach is asking of us,
Speaker 10: what we're asking of each other, and this is this
Speaker 10: is going to result in winning football. We just got
Speaker 10: to trust it.
Speaker 3: They had a long break with the with the buye,
Speaker 3: which because of the new format of the playoff, now
Speaker 3: everybody's getting a couple of buys this in a season.
Speaker 3: And they're also gonna have a long trip. They're traveling
Speaker 3: across the country to take on Stanford. I'll start with
Speaker 3: this question as a former player, when you guys go
Speaker 3: on the road, is it preferable to not play at night?
Speaker 3: Is it preferable to play at noon? Just so you
Speaker 3: don't you're not sitting around the team hotel all day,
Speaker 3: You're not just buying you know, you're not just trying
Speaker 3: to fill time until you.
Speaker 8: Get to kick off.
Speaker 3: I've always heard that that when you're on the road,
Speaker 3: players and coaches would prefer just to get the game
Speaker 3: started as soon as you know they wake up and
Speaker 3: start prep But Cherie, I know you only speak for yourself,
Speaker 3: not everybody that's played college football, but I'm sure you
Speaker 3: had road trips where you guys played.
Speaker 8: Both at noon and in the evening. What was your preference?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean definitely, this is that's a different question,
Speaker 10: especially this week, because when you when you put in
Speaker 10: different time zones in there, your your earliest game is
Speaker 10: going to be, you know, at three point thirty, you know,
Speaker 10: East Coast times, so you're you're already putting it in
Speaker 10: your mind that you're not going to get home till
Speaker 10: really late the next day.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a good way of looking at it. So
Speaker 3: in their mind, I hadn't thought about it that way. Like,
Speaker 3: so they did prefer an earlier game, like it is
Speaker 3: early if they're still stand on East Coast time, right,
Speaker 3: because it'll be three to thirty three.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's I mean, honestly, a
Speaker 10: West coast travel trip. This is this is the preferred way.
Speaker 10: I think we did. We had Utah at night time
Speaker 10: out there. It was a super Bowl.
Speaker 8: I forgot about that game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I had Oregon State Charlie's first year where we
Speaker 10: I think we kicked off at like five or something,
Speaker 10: so it's eight o'clock East Coast.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 10: It was super leg getting home on that those trips,
Speaker 10: so you know, they're tough. It's it's tough to bounce
Speaker 10: back from it because you get your sleep gets all
Speaker 10: out of whack. But you know, it's that's something you
Speaker 10: can't worry about until the result. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 10: at the end of the day. Earlier, the better on
Speaker 10: the road is the general premise.
Speaker 8: This Stanford team.
Speaker 3: They they got to win against Syracuse earlier this year,
Speaker 3: which surprised me at that when that happened. I felt
Speaker 3: like Syracuse early on had shown that maybe with fran Brown,
Speaker 3: they were going to be a pretty good team this year,
Speaker 3: and they're not terrible, but Stanford knocked them off and
Speaker 3: then Stanford hasn't won game since then. The expectation is
Speaker 3: that the stadium is going to be pretty empty. Do
Speaker 3: you remember the emptiest stadium you played in on the road?
Speaker 3: Because the reason I ask is because I feel like
Speaker 3: that could be awkward. You know, you can't control it.
Speaker 3: You got to come ready to play. But it's one
Speaker 3: of those things like you can tell yourself, hey, we're
Speaker 3: gonna be out there.
Speaker 8: Just we got to do our job. But you know,
Speaker 8: the human elements, it's a powerful thing.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, And it was Rutgers in twenty ten again, Charles
Speaker 10: first year five and six going.
Speaker 8: Up against how about will Stein?
Speaker 10: Right, that's right, that's right. That was to become Bowl eligible.
Speaker 8: I remember the game.
Speaker 10: So we had a ton that we were playing for
Speaker 10: because we've been deproud of a Bowl for several years.
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Speaker 10: And uh yeah, records, I think it already had moved on.
Speaker 10: I think Cayl Flood came in the next year, so
Speaker 10: it was it was already you know, the toast to
Speaker 10: the season. So it was an extremely sparse crowd on
Speaker 10: Thanksgiving weekend. It was Yeah, that was that was different
Speaker 10: and very unique.
Speaker 3: I hate to say, I hate to say of it. Man,
Speaker 3: it kills me. How long ago that was. I feel like, oh,
Speaker 3: I remember that game. I remember what I was doing.
Speaker 3: I remember it was in my first apartment and Stein
Speaker 3: was starting for the cards to potentially get a ball.
Speaker 3: We hadn't had one in a long time. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was a few years ago, and it was not
Speaker 3: it was a long long time ago. We're getting old Cup.
Speaker 3: Where where has time gone?
Speaker 8: Now? One of the one of the new.
Speaker 3: Things here with college football this year is the expanded Playoff. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Louisville climbed up to nineteen after the latest rankings were
Speaker 3: updated on Tuesday, Still nearly impossible to envision them actually
Speaker 3: making it to the playoff. But what do you make
Speaker 3: of the expanded Playoff as far as what we've seen
Speaker 3: these first two weeks with the committee and how they're
Speaker 3: deciding to to to slot these teams. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: all gonna work itself out. We know that some of
Speaker 3: these teams that are arguing about where they belong, they're
Speaker 3: gonna some of them are gonna play each other and
Speaker 3: it's gonna be determined at that point. But I looked
Speaker 3: at it even more so yesterday. So the last couple
Speaker 3: of days just kind of looking at what the committee
Speaker 3: told us on Tuesday, I feel like this might be
Speaker 3: one of the most inconsistent ways they've gone about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, you just can't justify some of the ways
Speaker 3: they've slotted these teams.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and it gets real, real confusing when they when
Speaker 10: they throw in, you know, the automatic qualifiers for those
Speaker 10: first four slots, and then their ranking doesn't justify it.
Speaker 3: So it's yeah, don't yeah, don't, don't give us just
Speaker 3: the rankings. Just show us a bracket, because you're right,
Speaker 3: it is confusing. You see like four big ten teams
Speaker 3: in the top four and you're thinking like wait, what right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 10: So yeah, showing and sparsean it that way, and it's
Speaker 10: trying and think of, you know, results and what would
Speaker 10: happen if if certain things happen, and it's like, man,
Speaker 10: I really don't know, you know, if if Indiana slides,
Speaker 10: how far how much further they're going to slide? And conversely,
Speaker 10: if they beat ohiose State, Really how much far are
Speaker 10: they going to go up, what's what's the benefit? You know? There,
Speaker 10: you find yourself in that situation where it's like, I mean,
Speaker 10: we're comfortable right now. All we got to do is
Speaker 10: go one on one and then we don't have to
Speaker 10: play in the Big Ten Tournament or Big Ten championship,
Speaker 10: and we find ourselves hosting the playoff game so right on.
Speaker 10: You know, So that that part is because there's so
Speaker 10: many different obviously variables and when you put twelve teams
Speaker 10: in it and results that so have to come. So
Speaker 10: it makes it for a ton of stuff to talk
Speaker 10: about and a lot of exciting football to play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it get for for those who think it's silly
Speaker 3: that they do it each week, I understand it because
Speaker 3: we all know that they don't matter and you know,
Speaker 3: do we really need an update from the committee? Not necessarily,
Speaker 3: but what it does the product that is the college
Speaker 3: football Playoff, now the expanded Playoff, when you've got more inclusion, right,
Speaker 3: there's now twelve teams that are going to get in
Speaker 3: it used to just before. It just has more and
Speaker 3: more people talking about the different scenarios and about the
Speaker 3: playoff itself, which is good for business. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know and obviously it gives us a lot to talk about,
Speaker 3: which is pretty pretty awesome for me because it's right
Speaker 3: in my wheelhouse as far as as far as far
Speaker 3: as what we do now. One thing though, that I'm
Speaker 3: not sure the conferences really gave this a whole lot
Speaker 3: of thought. Maybe they did and they were just willing
Speaker 3: to live with it. But with the conferences expanding so
Speaker 3: much over the years, you've got really four power conferences
Speaker 3: now in no divisions. It's leading to teams just simply
Speaker 3: with the luck of the draw having a really manageable
Speaker 3: schedule that is not a gift from the committee, and
Speaker 3: I guess it technically is. But like sometimes you're gonna
Speaker 3: guess what I'm asking is, do you think it would
Speaker 3: be beneficial if these leagues did go back to divisions.
Speaker 3: That way there was a little bit more consistency to
Speaker 3: where you know, hey, if we win the east or
Speaker 3: the West or the north of the South, then we
Speaker 3: find our way there. Because uh, now we're talking about
Speaker 3: tiebreaker scenarios and conferences like we never have before, and
Speaker 3: I don't think that's going anywhere.
Speaker 8: Like I think they may.
Speaker 3: Later look back and think they probably should have done
Speaker 3: divisions just to make it a little bit more you know,
Speaker 3: non controversial as far as who because there's gonna be
Speaker 3: teams that might actually be good enough to get in,
Speaker 3: but the reason they're not is just because of the
Speaker 3: schedule that their conference gave them. It's really nobody's fault
Speaker 3: and it's gonna it's gonna balance itself out.
Speaker 8: But I'm starting to think that maybe they they should
Speaker 8: go back to divisions.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you're you're you say that in the
Speaker 10: in the foresight of having the SEC because SEC is
Speaker 10: gonna find itself in this situation every year. Oh yeah,
Speaker 10: how I mean you can call it. I mean, results
Speaker 10: do speak for themselves, but how biased the preseason rankings
Speaker 10: would be. Every single one of those early conference season
Speaker 10: wins will just bolster one team up and the other
Speaker 10: team will drop back, and then they'll just topsy turby
Speaker 10: their way around and they'll always find themselves with you know,
Speaker 10: three or four teams that are vying for one spot
Speaker 10: to challenge whoever's the leader in the clubhouse in the championship.
Speaker 10: So yeah, no, it's it would it would make it
Speaker 10: more clear cut, but the conversation would be probably more straightforward,
Speaker 10: and I don't think they're they're about that. They want
Speaker 10: they want as much I won't say chaos, but they
Speaker 10: want as much conversation about it as possible. You know,
Speaker 10: I think when when you think long long term, it's
Speaker 10: it's setting itself up to be extreme. The know a
Speaker 10: lot like the NFL football when it comes to wild
Speaker 10: cards and and guaranteed guaranteed spots. So it's I mean,
Speaker 10: it's one of those things you're you're you're following the
Speaker 10: tea leaves here. It's it's just gonna mirror itself in
Speaker 10: the end, and there there will end up being divisions.
Speaker 10: It's just what's what does the conference over they look like,
Speaker 10: and and so on and so forth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and there's really no scenario they have a
Speaker 3: four team playoff, a twelve team playoff, and eighteen team
Speaker 3: playoff and there's not people complaining about getting screwed or
Speaker 3: or it being unfair to them and the committee not
Speaker 3: liking them and they're being biased. So like, there's never
Speaker 3: a scenario there's any perfect way to do it. And
Speaker 3: I think if people just kind of viewed it from
Speaker 3: and it's hard to do that, especially if you've got
Speaker 3: a motion, an emotional investment in your team and your
Speaker 3: conference that kind of stuff. But no matter what, there's
Speaker 3: gonna be people complaining that somebody got it wrong and
Speaker 3: somebody's getting left out, and that's never going away. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's existed as long as we've had any type of
Speaker 3: you know, college college football postseason. Right, last question for
Speaker 3: you here, Cupp when it comes to this matchup against
Speaker 3: this Stanford team, I mean, really, it's about taking care
Speaker 3: of business. This is the biggest that Louisville has been
Speaker 3: favored in a conference game this year, and it's really
Speaker 3: not even close. I mean I kind of feel like
Speaker 3: with what we've seen, like, you know, you don't want
Speaker 3: to go out there and make some of the mistakes
Speaker 3: you made earlier this year that kept you for being
Speaker 3: able to win games. And maybe I'm jumping the gun here,
Speaker 3: and look, if they win close and they win, you know,
Speaker 3: just get out of the West Coast, come back, finish
Speaker 3: strong with Pitt and Kentucky. But I kind of feel
Speaker 3: like Louisville may roll here and really put a beat
Speaker 3: down on a team that is right now the worst
Speaker 3: team in their league. I'm not saying that if they
Speaker 3: don't do it, we should be we should be let down.
Speaker 3: But I kind of feel like they're going to go
Speaker 3: out there and really put on a good showing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, just what we talked about following that
Speaker 10: cleansing game where it's you've put together, you know, now
Speaker 10: six straight quarters of Man, if we do these things,
Speaker 10: you know, these little things right, everything else is going
Speaker 10: to kind of take care of itself.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we've been saying it for weeks. So they
Speaker 3: just clean up some stuff and just put together a
Speaker 3: complete game. Man, they've got a lot that the ceilings
Speaker 3: a lot higher than what we've seen.
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, So I mean that's it seems very remedial.
Speaker 10: But you know, there's there's so many things that could
Speaker 10: happen and in different variables of the game, and it's
Speaker 10: going to be you know, funky atmosphere. So they're going
Speaker 10: to have to really lock in. But yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 10: If they do the little things right, they should let
Speaker 10: the other stuff take care of itself.
Speaker 3: Cup, you are the man. Thanks is always for making
Speaker 3: time with us. Enjoy your weekend, enjoy some louisvill football, and.
Speaker 8: We'll talk soon. Brother.
Speaker 10: All I mean you too.
Speaker 8: Take care.
Speaker 3: That's Alex Cupper, former Little of the Cardinal. Always enjoyed
Speaker 3: chatting with him.
Speaker 8: And look, the the.
Speaker 3: Things that are just you know, they sound like cliches,
Speaker 3: just things people say when they don't really have an opinion.
Speaker 3: But you got to you gotta limit turnovers, you gotta
Speaker 3: you gotta do the little things, you gotta not hurt yourself. Well,
Speaker 3: the reason those things have been said a billion times
Speaker 3: is because they are important. All right, quick break, don't
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Speaker 3: All right, so very little time left here in the
Speaker 3: three o'clock hour before we get out of here once again,
Speaker 3: and uh, we're gonna finish strong though. Two hours left,
Speaker 3: and we'll start off the four o'clock hour with a
Speaker 3: conversation like we have each week on Thursdays with Kent
Speaker 3: Spencer from WHAS eleven, curious to get his thoughts on
Speaker 3: both Louisville and Kentucky on the basketball side of things.
Speaker 3: After we were able to see both teams tested for
Speaker 3: the first time, and obviously one team had a much
Speaker 3: different result than the other when it comes to those games.
Speaker 3: But when it comes to the college football Playoff rankings,
Speaker 3: and I don't have as much time right now to
Speaker 3: get into it, but trust me, I want to make
Speaker 3: sure I do it at around four point thirty today,
Speaker 3: and it it's one of those things where I kind
Speaker 3: of feel like it's really a waste of time and
Speaker 3: where people will think will realize, well, yeah, Nick, I mean,
Speaker 3: we all know that these rankings don't matter right now,
Speaker 3: and the committee can do whatever and it'll all play
Speaker 3: itself out, and you may be right. And when I
Speaker 3: consider that, it makes me feel like it's maybe not
Speaker 3: worth really spending much time on it. But if you
Speaker 3: look at the specific comparisons, and really there are some
Speaker 3: teams that you can't really compare. Yeah, they have the
Speaker 3: same record or similar record, but as far as resume,
Speaker 3: one team should be way higher than the other, and
Speaker 3: it's the other way around. And the committee, I feel
Speaker 3: like maybe this is just going to be the norm
Speaker 3: with the expanded playoff, twelve teams getting in, but they've
Speaker 3: really put themselves in a spot where now that you're putting,
Speaker 3: you know, more teams in to compete for the national
Speaker 3: championship and you have no divisions in.
Speaker 8: These big conferences.
Speaker 3: Also, I don't know if you've ever had a year
Speaker 3: in the playoff era, and obviously this is the first
Speaker 3: year of it being expanded, but you go back ten
Speaker 3: years ago when you started the four team playoff. This
Speaker 3: is without question the most wide open that it's ever been.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody knows who, in fact is the
Speaker 3: best team in the country. I still happen to think
Speaker 3: that it's going to be one of the regulars that
Speaker 3: ends up winning the national championship this year. I don't
Speaker 3: know which one it's going to be, but I mean,
Speaker 3: who is the best team? I mean, Oregon's ten and
Speaker 3: oh number one, don't. I don't think that they're the
Speaker 3: best team, but I could be wrong. You know, you
Speaker 3: look at last year, and this is something that makes
Speaker 3: Indiana even more intriguing to me, because there's no way
Speaker 3: around it. Indiana has a resume that you can easily
Speaker 3: look at and say, I mean, there's really no evidence
Speaker 3: they're even decent. They haven't played a single good team.
Speaker 3: Their best win is against Nebraska, and in the other
Speaker 3: teams that they've played and Bean aren't very good. That's
Speaker 3: not their fault, doesn't mean they're not good it's just
Speaker 3: their resume. So if Indiana is as good as they
Speaker 3: think they are, if Indiana is legit, then it'll work
Speaker 3: out and they'll they'll be competing in the College Football
Speaker 3: Playoff and if they beat Ohio State then that settles it.
Speaker 3: It'll only give them one win, but either way, it'll
Speaker 3: work itself out. But Michigan last year they got the
Speaker 3: benefit of the doubt because they had gone to the
Speaker 3: playoff two straight years, and then last year they were
Speaker 3: really in the same situation Indiana was. They didn't play
Speaker 3: anybody worth a damn until the very end of the season.
Speaker 3: They played two good teams and won both those games,
Speaker 3: and then they went on to win the national championship.
Speaker 3: Indiana could do the same thing, but there's not as
Speaker 3: much belief because it's Indiana. It's not Harbaugh and Michigan.
Speaker 3: So I think some people want to bring up the
Speaker 3: Michigan thing to defend Indiana, but it falls flat. It's
Speaker 3: not the same thing. But with sign being a guy
Speaker 3: that nobody probably even heard of a year ago unless
Speaker 3: you're like a real big college football fan, I mean,
Speaker 3: Indiana doing what they're doing this year and Signetty being
Speaker 3: the guy in it being his first year at a
Speaker 3: big school. I mean, it's one of the more fascinating
Speaker 3: things I can think of that's happened in college football
Speaker 3: in a long time. I don't know if they're going
Speaker 3: to fall flat and lose to Ohio State, and you know,
Speaker 3: maybe they do sneak in the playoff and they get
Speaker 3: humbled because again, Indiana right now hasn't really been tested.
Speaker 3: And that's not their fault. Doesn't mean they're not great,
Speaker 3: it's just how it's worked out. All right, quick break,
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