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Get off our show, idiot. 17 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:43.719 The kids are playing or turn off one hundred cultures. 18 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:44.200 Are screwing it off. 19 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.479 Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, gold Play Inner Murals. 20 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.600 They're supposed to be mature adulls, but they're really not. 21 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:54.240 Who's the kid here, who's the kid here? 22 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:55.119 Are you kidding me? 23 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:56.079 Now? 24 00:00:56.119 --> 00:01:04.920 Here's nick coffee? 25 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:08.359 All right, let's get after it, ladies and gentlemen, boys 26 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.359 and girls, Welcome in to a Thursday edition of Coffee 27 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.159 and Company, Philbeth Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety Nick Coffee, 28 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:17.879 That is me. That's the voice you're hearing right now. 29 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:20.359 You'll hear many voices throughout the show today. I assume 30 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:21.799 we got a couple of guys going to join us, 31 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.040 and you guys may join in. 32 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:23.239 Right. 33 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:25.280 It's Coffee and Company, meaning you guys are part of 34 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:27.959 the company, and you know you need to kick back, relax, 35 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:28.959 make yourself. 36 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.799 At home, and you can you can be a part. 37 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.400 Of this, this great party that we have every day 38 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.120 from three to six. The other voice you'll hear throughout 39 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:39.079 the show is the one and only Austin Montgomery. 40 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:39.560 What's up? 41 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:41.640 How we feeling you've been You've been in the saddle. 42 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.079 This is your fourth straight day producing this show, and 43 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:46.480 of course there'll be many more to come. 44 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:48.840 God willing. Yeah. Are you feeling good? 45 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:49.159 Yeah? 46 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.719 I feel great. Listen, we're on the air. That's all 47 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:56.200 the matters. You're talking, Well, I'm talking. It's not all 48 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.000 that matters. But it's the first step. Well, yeah, it's 49 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:00.319 step one. Alright, Well, I guess too for be here 50 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.640 for a long term. Yes, it's really big, but no, 51 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.400 I feel really good. It's always fun being the producer 52 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.719 and kind of co piloting, right, that's kind of what 53 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:11.280 you want to call it, just kind of just getting 54 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.000 the show off the ground. It makes me feel a 55 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:14.000 little bit more important. 56 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:18.479 Well, you've produced this show many times over the years. 57 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:22.080 You've also produced in the mornings for me when I 58 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:25.400 was on a different shift. Yeah, but I feel like you, 59 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:27.400 you know, because you're kind of just the guy we 60 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.759 go to when needed, at least you have been previously. 61 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:31.680 It kind of was tough for you to maybe find 62 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:33.719 your groove, you know what I'm saying. And I think 63 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:36.800 each day that passes, we're getting more and more in 64 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.159 sync and we'n now, Yeah, we're having some fun. 65 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:40.400 So let's let's keep that rolling. 66 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:41.319 How are you feeling. 67 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:41.879 I'm good. 68 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.800 I'm in football mode and I want to I'm going 69 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:49.280 to clarify, so allow me to explain. It's just now 70 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:50.919 hit me that, you know what, it's been a while 71 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.840 since I watched this Louisville football team play, and they're 72 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.000 coming off of a monster win, and they could win 73 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.360 by fifty and I'd love watching every second of it 74 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.400 on Saturday they take on Stanford. But you know, I'm 75 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:02.759 not a whole lot on the line here. You got 76 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:05.680 a lot to lose, very little to game. But Clemson, 77 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:09.319 that win was such a big one for the obvious reason, 78 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.039 you've never beaten Clemson before. They hadn't lost a home 79 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.960 game on a Saturday night in a decade, so actually 80 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.439 over a decade, So you know, that's why it felt 81 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.479 great for the most part. But another part for me, 82 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.319 and I'm sure I'm not alone here, is that that 83 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:30.039 breakthrough win not for the program who'd never beaten Clemson, 84 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.000 but for this team in this season. It was a 85 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.319 breakthrough in two ways. Again because it was the first 86 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.919 time ever. But the secondary breakthrough was the fact that 87 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.360 this team, I feel like all year they'd make some 88 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.360 real boneheaded mistakes that you'd ask yourself, what the hell's 89 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:43.919 going on here? 90 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:44.560 How'd that happened? 91 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.039 How can you expect to beat Miami and Notre Dame 92 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.400 and even SMU when you're making these kind of mistakes. 93 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:55.159 But yet, if you watched enough, you probably were convinced 94 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:57.520 that you know, this team is capable of being good, 95 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.479 Like I think we've got some good pieces here. So 96 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.639 the win against Clemson. Really, you know, it can all 97 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.800 be gone with a big upset if you lose on Saturday, 98 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:07.919 which I don't think it's going to happen. But the 99 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.120 way everything is played out in the last couple of weeks, 100 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:14.360 it really was perfect in regards to timing. With Louisville 101 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.319 getting the big win then getting the week off, it 102 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:21.000 let you really shift gears to basketball, and that was awesome. 103 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.560 But now they have a ten day break after that pretty, 104 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:29.519 you know, underwhelming loss to Tennessee. And I'm not in 105 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:34.240 any way like thinking we were foolish to get as 106 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:36.680 excited as we were about Louisville basketball in year one 107 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:37.959 of the pack Kelsey year, and none of us have 108 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:39.839 ever had any real clue as far as how it's 109 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.560 going to play out. But I was asked yesterday by 110 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:47.000 somebody if I think that because I was actually at 111 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.160 Roosters last night for a little birthday dinner and with family, 112 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:52.319 and I ran into somebody, just an acquaintance, and he said, 113 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:56.360 are you worried that because there was so much excitement, 114 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.040 the big game feel, the big game energy was there 115 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.839 against Tennessee and it was such a letdown that it's 116 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.240 going to be harder and take a little more time 117 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.319 to get people to kind of, you know, come back 118 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:09.360 because they don't want to be disappointed again. And I 119 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.759 thought to myself, that's a really good question. I don't 120 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:14.600 think that's a crazy way of looking at it. I 121 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.480 choose to believe that that won't be an issue because 122 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.560 as much as it was a real disappointment to see 123 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:25.319 Louisville in their first big Test struggle as badly as 124 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.639 they did. However, again, I think we're all numb to 125 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.720 losing now. The energy that you had, like there was 126 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:37.639 no letdown until the Tennessee game since Pat Kelsey got hired. 127 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:39.399 What I mean is really every step of the way, 128 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.639 the guy has executed and done exactly what he needed 129 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:44.879 to do to get people excited. And there it was 130 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.399 the moment and Tennessee came to town. You had a 131 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.759 chance to get a big marquee win, and you didn't 132 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:52.399 get the win, and at times it looked like you 133 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.319 didn't belong on the same floor. So it is, you know, 134 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:57.800 it was a wake up call. But when I say 135 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:00.639 that I'm numb to it, it's not like who cares 136 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:02.680 world going to lose the rest of the season and 137 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:04.519 I'll just be used to it because we've been losing 138 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:05.560 for the last few years. 139 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:06.959 I'm just stating that. 140 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:08.879 And he brought up the fact that I keep saying 141 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.399 I'm numb to losing, and maybe I need to to 142 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:13.920 clarify more so what I mean by that. It's not 143 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:15.920 like I just think, well, hey, who cares, We're gonna 144 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:16.600 always suck. 145 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:17.720 I'm used to losing. 146 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.120 What I mean though, is like the you know, all 147 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:25.360 of the good that happened from the day he got 148 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:30.439 hired until that that lost to Tennessee, that was still valuable, 149 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.920 it was still worse something. Now you can't live on 150 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.959 that forever, right, you got to go win. And I'm 151 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:37.480 hoping that they're going to do that. None of us 152 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:39.000 really know if it's going to happen or not, or 153 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.639 as far as what level they do win at, but 154 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.680 I hope that just because it was it was such 155 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.160 a high, and man, it's like you're it's like you're 156 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.720 coming down off of you know, a solid gummy or 157 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.639 you know, you get a little you get a little 158 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:59.399 day drunk, and you know you're in that you're in 159 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.199 that spot where it's like, all right, do I lay down, 160 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:04.959 do I sit down. Do I kind of just do 161 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:06.959 I just chill or do I keep going? Because I 162 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.120 got to make a decision. Either I'm going to I'm 163 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.480 going to ride what little buzz I have left and 164 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:17.079 make it a memorable evening responsibly, of course, or I'm 165 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:18.839 just gonna say, you know what, that was my fun. 166 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.319 Now it's time to just kind of settle down and 167 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:25.360 start maybe chugging some water, maybe pop some ibuprofen, maybe 168 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:27.160 get a little something to eat, and kind of just 169 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.639 try to you know, speed up the process of you know, 170 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:35.319 being hungover or losing your buzz i encourage people to. 171 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:38.040 Keep fighting. 172 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.519 And maybe that's not the right way to word it, 173 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.959 but like, no, like let's still be very excited and 174 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.800 enthusiastic about this new era. Now, maybe we get to 175 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:52.680 early January and we learned that the Tennessee result was 176 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.720 not an isolated incident and that it was something that 177 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.600 maybe is happening not regularly. But look, they some really 178 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:02.600 good teams. And here's what scares me a little bit. 179 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:04.199 There's nothing you can do about it. And I'm gonna 180 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.199 choose to be positive until I've been given multiple examples 181 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.720 of how Louisville simply can't compete with really good teams. 182 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:13.839 But there's a scenario where Tennessee's maybe like the fourth 183 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.160 fifth best team you play before January first. I don't 184 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.360 want that to be the case. I hope that it's not, 185 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.000 but that doesn't worry me a little bit. So you know, 186 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:25.639 when I say I'm in football mode, it's not like 187 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.000 I'm saying the hell with basketball. 188 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.360 But you had to buy week. 189 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.039 You've got some momentum for the first time really this season, right, 190 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.360 I mean Clemson. That win was huge, and before that, 191 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.000 you didn't really have a win we're speaking of. And 192 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:37.840 you didn't just beat Clemson, you beat them down. You 193 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.639 embarrass them. I'm sure their parents were ashamed of them meeting, 194 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.639 you know, the Clemson players and whatnot. So you know, 195 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.840 they got Bellerman, they got Winthrop. Those are the two 196 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.279 games they're gonna play before they take off of the Bahamas, 197 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.159 and I'm gonna you know, we'll have postgame shows, will 198 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.399 give you, I mean basketball seasons here. 199 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:56.559 Now. 200 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.440 The ten day break is a little unusual for this 201 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.320 time of year. But like I can't fake to you 202 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:04.559 that I am looking at Bellerman on the schedule and 203 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.720 I'm looking at Winthrop on the schedule, and I'm thinking, man, 204 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.960 here we go because we got spoiled early that Tennessee 205 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.360 game and the lead up to it, the vibes, the energy, 206 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.440 I mean, it was the first time I could feel 207 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:19.279 it for a couple of days leading up where you know, 208 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:21.000 I mean, if you're a Louisville basketball fan, you know, 209 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.960 right when there's a big game and there's a lot 210 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.120 on the line and you feel good about your team 211 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:27.879 and you know that the Young Sinner is going to 212 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.559 be packed, which it was, I mean, that's awesome, and 213 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.919 then you're there and it's about to tip off, and man, 214 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.480 the energy is great, and then it was just such 215 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.799 a letdown. So I want to start the show today 216 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.639 by letting like just encouraging people, like, you know, not 217 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.159 just I don't want to tell you just forget about it, 218 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.279 because it's the only real test you've had and you 219 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.720 didn't come close to passing, and that's certainly a bummer. 220 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:53.000 But until we see multiple like, we haven't seen how 221 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.440 this team responds to any type of adversity at all. 222 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:00.320 And honestly, they've never experienced any level of adversity since 223 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.720 they all got here, So really, that ten day break 224 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:04.799 is going to be pretty huge for them to kind of, 225 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.080 you know, be in a they're in a different place 226 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:09.960 than they've ever been together, and how they kind of 227 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.039 navigate that I think will be important for how this 228 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.519 season plays out. Now, again, that doesn't mean that they 229 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.000 come out and beat Bellerman and Winthrop by sixty then 230 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:20.879 things are great, because the ultimate test is the next 231 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:22.600 test is ultimately going to be when you go to 232 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:23.159 the Bahamas. 233 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.559 So anyways, I just. 234 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.279 Wanted to use the platform here to to try to 235 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.519 keep people positive despite what happened. And I'll be honest 236 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:33.279 with you, some people won't say it, some people know it, 237 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:33.879 won't admit it. 238 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.240 It's just the truth, breaking news. 239 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.320 And this one is almost unbelievable. 240 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:41.320 Yeah, it's all about new customers at bet three sixty 241 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:43.720 five because they get one hundred and fifty dollars in 242 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.200 bonus bets when they bet five dollars, and even better, 243 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.799 bonus bets can be used on the spread totals and 244 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:49.639 player props. 245 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:51.639 There you have it. Bet five dollars to get one 246 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.279 hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets and see why 247 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:57.440 it's never ordinary. 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Hmmm, I can't why you know 271 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.120 what I'm talking about, Like maybe you don't care as 272 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.159 much as others, but like it does to see that 273 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.399 they were able to pass what was viewed as it 274 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.399 even bigger test and they won and they got it done. 275 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.559 They've got a lot of momentum. You know, I'm not 276 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.159 saying you have to, and I know people don't every 277 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.919 day wake up and dictate how they feel about their 278 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:39.759 team based off the rival, but to act like it 279 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.639 didn't matter, like it does to a lot of people. 280 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:47.919 Maybe not everybody, but it does. So they're back in 281 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.080 action next week against Bellerman and man, I feel bad 282 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.919 for Scotty D. They're off to a really rough start 283 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.919 and last night it's pretty tough. Yeah, they were up 284 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:58.720 double digits late. In fact, I think they might have 285 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.279 been up nearly twenty points, and then Southern Indiana, a 286 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:04.080 team who was winless, got him in the very end. 287 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:06.840 And you know, I don't want to I don't know 288 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.399 a whole lot about you know, the a Sun, and 289 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.480 I mean I still keep up with it to an 290 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.200 extent when it comes to lower level Division in basketball, 291 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.000 mid majors and even below that. But I'll tell you this, man, 292 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:20.879 the last few years, that level of basketball has been 293 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.480 harder to keep up than anything because they actually have 294 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.120 way more moving parts than any of the other programs 295 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.200 in college shoops. So I looked at Scotti's roster yesterday 296 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:30.679 just because I was trying to, you know, it was 297 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:32.240 going to potentially bet on the game. I did not, 298 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.159 and you know, just because I'm not super familiar with 299 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.039 the personnel on his team, and just because there's not 300 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.279 anybody that's there with a really great stat line from 301 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.519 their previous school or even at Bellerman, doesn't mean that 302 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.519 they can't potentially be good. But you know, I don't 303 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:47.240 know if he'd say it, because he's such a positive 304 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:52.120 person and he'll clearly maximize whatever he can with whatever 305 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.279 team he has. But you know, Bellerman's starting to look 306 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.240 like one of those teams as far as what I 307 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:00.240 can tell. But they jumped up to Division one at 308 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.039 a time where everything changed to where even if they 309 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:07.480 do have good players that are producing at a high level, 310 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:09.639 they're probably going to lose them to the portal, not 311 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.799 all of them, but you know it's already happened. Dylan Penn, 312 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:13.879 if you remember, was a guy who led them to 313 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.639 a conference championship in their first year at the Division 314 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.360 one level, only for the stupid decision I guess actually 315 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:21.360 might have been their second year, but the stupid rule 316 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:22.720 within the NC doa eight where you can't go to 317 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.360 the tournament unless you've been within the Division one status 318 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.759 for about I don't know, four or five years, whatever 319 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.320 it is. But he, you know, he helped lead Bellerman 320 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:33.919 to a title, couldn't play in the tournament and couldn't 321 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:35.360 play in the tournament for the next two years if 322 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:38.600 he stayed, so he left. So I think Louisville will 323 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:40.480 bounce back in a major way against Bellerman, and I 324 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.000 kind of, you know, it's not like I think they 325 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:44.960 should take it easy on Bellerman, but like I feel 326 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.320 like it could get really, really ugly because Bellerman right 327 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.320 now is sitting at zero to three and they lost 328 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:56.000 to VCU by twenty, lost a VMI at home by five, 329 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:58.639 and then lost last night to Southern Indiana who's actually 330 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.240 more recent to Division one than the So it'll be 331 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.559 a good bounce back game. But also you know, I 332 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:05.559 don't want him to beat down on Scotty too much 333 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.519 because he's our guy. Yeah, you know, Bellerman's kind of 334 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:09.080 our kind of our secondary team. 335 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.440 So I mean just listen to like, I mean, just 336 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.919 how you even approach that. It's when you said, you know, 337 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.759 just kind of jokingly feel bad for our guys, Scotty 338 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.360 Deeds because we now had the feeling that we're gonna 339 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.799 come out and put a whooping on somebody, whoever it is, 340 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:24.120 right after a game like that, as showing like that, 341 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:26.759 and think of that feeling that's been restored. I mean, 342 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.279 we talk about like the feeling in the YOUM Center 343 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.120 and how everybody. Of course when we come back for Bellerman, 344 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.279 it's not gonna be anything like how it was that 345 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.080 Tennessee game. But this has been something that we haven't 346 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.440 felt about Louisville basketball in such a long time. Usually 347 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:42.879 like here we go, it's a losing streak or I 348 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.279 wonder when we're gonna get it next. We feel confident 349 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.080 in this team just because we will. I mean, we 350 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.360 feel confident in games like this, which, yes, that doesn't work, 351 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:53.960 That's what I mean, Yes, I understand that that's a step, right, 352 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.080 it's a step from last time. It's a step from 353 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.240 and that's that's what sucks about the conundrum that Louisville 354 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:01.240 basketball has been put in the last couple of years, 355 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.360 that now our faith is slowly being restored, Like at 356 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:07.399 least we can go out and beat on this beat 357 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:08.039 on this team. 358 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.279 You're doing something that I don't like. And what you're 359 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.440 doing is you are giving you too many moral victories 360 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.360 so long well you're well, I don't know, I shouldn't 361 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.360 say I don't like it, but Louisville could win by 362 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.240 one hundred against Bellerman and Winthrop and that would be 363 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:23.919 awesome to see because it would be insane. 364 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:24.759 It's not realistic. 365 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.200 But like, that wouldn't really tell me anything like that 366 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.360 wouldn't And the one thing it would tell me is 367 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:32.679 what you brought up that like should never be the 368 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.720 standard or the bar. Well, hey, we used to potentially 369 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:40.039 lose these games we've been, Yeah, but it was never 370 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:43.799 gonna be whoever comes in and takes over for Kenny Payne. 371 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.039 We're just gonna celebrate that he's better than Kenny, you 372 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.399 know what I'm saying, Like, yes, we did potentially lose 373 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:54.320 those games, or we used to potentially. In fact, we 374 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:56.440 did lose development they beat him in his first year. 375 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:58.279 So I know what you're doing. I know what you mean, 376 00:16:58.360 --> 00:16:59.879 and I and I get it. And I'm not gonna 377 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:03.799 tell tell anybody who is super excited if they beat 378 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:05.960 both these teams that's next on the schedule by a 379 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:07.640 bunch of points, and they look good doing it, because 380 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:10.240 that's what you want. But it doesn't really tell us 381 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.720 anything as far as was Tennessee an outlier. And that's 382 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.319 one of the things about this is just a pet 383 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.839 peeve of mine when it comes to college football and 384 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.279 college basketball. It's such a waste of time to play 385 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:28.279 these games because you're not getting better, you're not learning anything. 386 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:32.640 And last I check, that's pretty important. Now you got 387 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:34.559 a stacks and wins. So at the end of the year, 388 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:38.160 if you know, you're not, you know, terrible. And that's 389 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.000 why Louisville going four and twenty eight a couple years 390 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.799 ago is just something we'll probably never see again. Think 391 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:43.720 about the teams they had to lose to that were 392 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:45.640 on the schedule for them to get four wins, right, 393 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:47.880 So you know, it's how it works out. 394 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:49.319 But I don't know. 395 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.759 I just I want to fast forward to Thanksgiving so 396 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:53.960 I can see what Louisville does against some really good teams. 397 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.039 But that's not how it works, and they probably need 398 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:58.519 the time to get better prepared for when they are 399 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:03.519 tested once again. But yeah, basketball, it's kind of taken 400 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.039 the back. You know, they got ten days off in 401 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.799