WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.280 Here we go, five o'clock on a Friday, thanks for 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:09.279 hanging out with us. As we uh, we've got one 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:10.919 more hour before we get out of here for the weekend. 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.160 It's like the Bullet County just came out of me 5 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.280 right there. We got another r another hour, the show, 6 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:20.839 another are. Uh, there's no U in that ano there 7 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:24.640 are It's kind of like an area of Bullet County 8 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.679 Mount Washington. That's what a lot of people who love 9 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:32.640 Warshingtons call it. Yeah and uh uh, I remember it's stood. 10 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:34.119 It's one of those things where I kind of like 11 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.880 stopped in my tracks and tracks and realized, Okay, that 12 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:38.920 sounded really bad, and I kind of think that that 13 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:42.600 wasn't just like a slip up. I think that's kind 14 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:44.359 of how I say it. So now I'm really really 15 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:49.240 self conscious about a certain word oil, because I would 16 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:52.520 say old get go, get your old change, get you 17 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:53.359 old changed. 18 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:56.520 I feel like you gotta you really gotta go the 19 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.359 extra mile to say oil. It just comes out of 20 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:00.039 my mouth. 21 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:01.560 As all all all. 22 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:02.119 Yeah. 23 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:03.920 So they used to make fun of me in Arizona 24 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:04.560 for saying that. 25 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:06.319 All. They don't like that twang. Huh. 26 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:08.719 They're not huge on it. 27 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.920 Well, they are probably enjoying much better weather there right 28 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:13.599 now than we are. 29 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:16.359 Oh yeah, they're laughing at us. Yeah, I don't know. 30 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.400 They might be freezing in that that forty nine degree 31 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:25.840 fifty one degree weather. You know, those Arizonians, they're spoiled. Yeah, 32 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:29.359 I mean I saw earlier. I pulled out my phone 33 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:31.079 to look at the weather for the next week, and 34 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:32.879 I think next week we're gonna be like more so 35 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.640 in the forties, maybe one day in like the fifties, 36 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.359 which isn't like great, but man, it's a big upgrade. 37 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:40.799 Than what we've had the last few days. I mean, 38 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.640 I don't I mean, I'm getting soft man, because I've 39 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:45.840 always loved cold weather, not to where I'm like, yeah, 40 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.239 give me, give me negative wind chill. But you know, 41 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.480 this time of the year, the wind or the winter 42 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.640 and the snow, I just think it's beautiful. I love Christmas, 43 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.439 and I've usually been you know, not I don't walk 44 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.079 outside in ten degree temperature and say, hell, yeah, this 45 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:01.280 is great. I love it. But I've just been able 46 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:03.799 to kind of, like, you know, find the positives of 47 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.760 it as far as the Christmas season, and I think 48 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.240 snow is beautiful. I love snow days when I was 49 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:11.439 a kid, but man, this week has really kicked my 50 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:13.879 ass to where I'm like, yeah, I'm not built like 51 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.080 I once was. I'm not ready for this cold weather. 52 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:17.599 But we have actually had to be honest with the 53 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:19.000 last few days been crazy cold. 54 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:21.719 Yeah, and the wind doesn't help either. It's been a 55 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:22.479 wind chill. 56 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.360 Like last night, whenever I was leaving dinner with the family, 57 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:28.719 I mean, I realized I was the one visibly like 58 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:31.879 bothered by the cold more so than my young children 59 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.080 and my wife. And I'm like, damn, you gotta got 60 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.599 tough enough. It's gonna be. We're only at December. We 61 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.879 haven't even got to like the most brutal stretches of winter, which, 62 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.879 to be honest, though, I don't think we'll have many 63 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:44.960 days that could be as cold as we've had the 64 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:47.159 last few as far as windshield, because it's been in 65 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:49.159 like the twenties thirties, but the wind shill has been 66 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.000 even worse than that. So anyways, it's probably really cold 67 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:53.680 outside right now, and I'm happy that I'm here in 68 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.280 front of a a little cold, little little space here 69 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:58.120 all right, it's coffee and company. We are feel about 70 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.159 Thorton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety nit Coffee Thugh 71 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:03.039 Austin Montgomery alongside as we take him till six o'clock, 72 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:04.560 get you out of here for the weekend, A big 73 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:08.199 weekend it is. I found myself listening to the Pat 74 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:11.240 McAfee show earlier today, and I don't usually listen to 75 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.360 to Pat McAfee, not not because you know, I mean, 76 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.879 I have a lot of respect for what he's been 77 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:20.560 able to carve out, and his career has taken off 78 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.360 and he's a big time star. It's just not really 79 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.960 something I seek out when it comes to listening to 80 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.319 his show. But I did have it on on YouTube 81 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.199 earlier when I was down here in my home studio 82 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.560 getting some things rearranged, and Nick Saban was on with him, 83 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:35.879 and then SANKI Commissioner Greg Sankee if the SEC was 84 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:41.120 on with him, and I found myself really just wanting to, 85 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:44.439 you know, disagree with a lot of the things that 86 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:49.599 were said, especially by Sanki. But I'm torn because I 87 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:53.960 don't think that the SEC should get beneficial treatment based 88 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:58.280 off of the league just always being believed to be 89 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.000 the best league in college football, which it is. I 90 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.879 also don't think that any of that should matter. You 91 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:06.879 should not get the benefit of the doubt from what 92 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.879 you've done in previous seasons results in this current season, 93 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.439 it should all that is all that should factor into 94 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.839 the college football playoff. But I was a little torn, 95 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.759 as I mentioned, because I do believe that the teams 96 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.600 in the SEC that have taken two or three losses 97 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.120 are better than some of the teams that are in 98 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.680 a better position seemingly in these rankings, that are in 99 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:31.879 the Big ten, or maybe even you know, I don't know, 100 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:33.680 maybe even in actually I guess it's just the Big Ten, 101 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.000 to be honest with you, or Notre Dame, like Notre Dame, 102 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.439 you know, I feel like they've they've somehow Notre Dame 103 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:42.839 used to be the team that everybody would lose their 104 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.720 mind about when it comes to like they always get, 105 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.319 you know, special treatment, and why are we going to 106 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.279 put them in again? They're just gonna get the rest kicked, 107 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:52.560 And like, I feel like they've been just kind of 108 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:55.480 sliding under the radar as a team that has you know, 109 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:58.920 a decent win. They're winning against Texas A and M 110 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.480 is all right, but other than that, what's their best win? 111 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:06.120 Louisville USC. I mean us see them wants to get 112 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.040 rid of Lincoln Riley, but they can't. So like Notre 113 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.120 Dame has a loss to Northern Illinois and they've just 114 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:14.000 kind of been planted in there and nobody seems to 115 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.720 bring them up, which doesn't matter. You complaining about it 116 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.519 wouldn't change the committee's mind. But I think because they're 117 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:21.439 the only independent that's ever going to have a shot, 118 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:23.519 that they're kind of just penciled in now. And look, 119 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.120 they're not penciled in no matter what happens. But they 120 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:29.720 started out ranked in a good spot and they never 121 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.079 lost after the NIU game, and that's just led to 122 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.000 them being able to kind of just have a firm 123 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.600 spot in this playoff that nobody's questioning. But like, if 124 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.000 they get blown out in their first game, whoever they 125 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:42.560 end up playing, like, I wouldn't be shocked at all, 126 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.199 because I don't think Notre Dame is really that good. 127 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:49.439 So I don't think that the SEC is like a 128 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:51.600 fraud league and that people who claim that it's the 129 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.600 best league or out of their mind, because I think 130 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:57.639 it is the best league, but it shouldn't. You shouldn't 131 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.360 just like these coaches, I get while they're lobbying for 132 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:04.199 their school, Like I get all that, I got. Some 133 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:06.240 of the stuff that's put out there is kind of nonsense, 134 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:08.759 to be honest with you, Like Lane Kiffin doing Lane 135 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:10.399 Kiff and stuff. I mean, he's kind of in a 136 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.680 different different lane. No pun intended, because he's just he's 137 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.920 a character himself. But you know, seeing what the head 138 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.439 coach at South Carolina has been saying, Shane Beemer, like, 139 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.199 I get why coaches are gonna do that. Why would 140 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:25.360 you not use your platform to say something that might 141 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.319 actually impact the committee's decision, might impact their way of 142 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.759 looking at it, like there's no harm in trying, But 143 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.360 more often than not, they just throw out the well 144 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.959 you can't tell me, well, yeah I can, like I mean, 145 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:38.639 doesn't matter, Like I can tell you that you got 146 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:40.439 three losses and that's all that matters, Like you're you 147 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.079 know what it could have should have? And it all 148 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.879 comes back to if, in fact, these coaches that just 149 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.399 want to yell aloud, yell at the top of their lungs, 150 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:53.279 like look at our league, Look how great it is. 151 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:55.480 What do you mean you're telling me a Penn State 152 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.040 team and an Indiana team, they're they're better you you 153 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:01.800 know you're not wrong, but again, like why play the 154 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:04.439 games like you know you're in the SEC. You know 155 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:06.319 you're gonna have a tough schedule if you have three 156 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.959 losses and a Big ten team has one? Like sorry, 157 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.000 And they always are very selective about what they choose 158 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:14.839 to include in what they choose to leave out, like 159 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:19.120 Lane Kiffin. I mean, he went on his whole rant 160 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.560 about how the SEC you know, about how his team 161 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:23.959 should be in, and just kind of left out that 162 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.199 he lost at home to a terrible Kentucky team like 163 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:29.959 you have. And that's what's crazy is that, like that 164 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.360 lost to Kentucky for Ole Miss is substantially worse than 165 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.000 the Alabama loss to Vandy. It's substantially worse than the 166 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:40.000 Alabama lost to Oklahoma. Like your lost to Kentucky is 167 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.839 probably the worst power for loss of any team that 168 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.839 is in the top fifteen or twenty. No. I mean, 169 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:47.720 I notre name is in there, but they're not. I 170 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.000 mean they're a power they're a power team, but not 171 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.959 in a power conference. So I'll bring all this up 172 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:59.000 to say, I think the real issue here is that 173 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:04.439 people can claim that the AP pole is meaningless now, 174 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:09.839 it's worthless. It's not at all. I mean it. You 175 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:12.040 know how often times into life have you heard people 176 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:16.839 say that, you know, perception is reality. Well, the perception 177 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.160 of these teams is based off the preseason ap pole, 178 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.920 and teams just start out at certain spots, and the 179 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.480 committee isn't supposed to reference that, but you know they do, 180 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.399 or they maybe they don't pull it up in their 181 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.360 meetings and reference it, but like it's in their mind. 182 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.440 Penn State was a preseason top ten team, right, Penn 183 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.799 State hasn't done a damn thing this year to earn anything. 184 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.840 They've beaten teams on their schedule that they're supposed to beat. 185 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.200 I don't think they're a bad team, but Penn State's 186 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.519 the best example of a team that is quite literally 187 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:46.559 going to get into the playoff because of where they 188 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:47.399 started out. 189 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:47.840 In the rankings. 190 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:52.320 I mean, that's just the way it is now. They 191 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.000 did kind of fall into the Big Ten Championship game 192 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.240 because Ohio State lost to Michigan. But like I think 193 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:02.879 the ap pole, like we should have no ranking at 194 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:08.840 all of anything until we get the College Football Playoff rankings. 195 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.639 Whenever they give us the first edition of it, and 196 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:13.919 you can't stop anybody from putting out I mean, I 197 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:15.600 could put out a top twenty five every day. I mean, 198 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:17.480 I don't think anybody would give a damn and I 199 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:19.120 wouldn't blame them, But I'm just saying, like, you can't 200 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.480 stop the AP poll from happening. But that kind of 201 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:24.600 stuff that people just claim is meaningless, it is. It 202 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.600 isn't because again it creates there's not enough data points 203 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.120 within a twelve game college football season for there to 204 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.480 be a whole lot of shakeup. So again, Penn State's 205 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:34.919 the best example. They have remained where they are based 206 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:39.240 off of just being that highly ranked when it started. 207 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.440 The only losses that they have, in fact, do they 208 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:44.200 have one loss or two? I think Penn State has 209 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:46.799 just the one loss to Ohio State at just one. Yeah, 210 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:48.840 and the other wins. I mean, what's Penn State's best win. 211 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:51.759 I mean, we pull it up here. And I'm not 212 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:53.679 picking on them because you know, Indiana could be in 213 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:55.279 the same boat. Indiana has no win word to. 214 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:57.480 Speaking USC when they were ranked, that's like the. 215 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.399 Only yeah, and they should have lost they were I 216 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:01.960 think they were getting killed early down. Yes, yeah, Like 217 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:03.759 if you're propping up USC as your best win, like 218 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.240 that's kind of telling. But again, there's not enough to 219 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:09.159 move them out because in the same thing with Indiana, 220 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.919 Indiana doesn't have the same situation. They didn't start at 221 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:15.039 highly ranked, but Indiana just kept winning and having a 222 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:17.120 really gutty record and it wasn't that they were beating 223 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.039 teams that were jumping them up. But sure enough, you 224 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:20.559 get to the end of the year, there's only a 225 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:23.000 handful of teams that don't have a loss. They're one 226 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.720 of them, and they happen to play in the Big Ten. 227 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:28.799 So it's really there's really it's really nobody's fault. That's 228 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:33.480 just we put together this college football playoff with everything 229 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.000 being so subjective, and I know at the end of 230 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.080 the day, we're gonna get some really good football games. 231 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.039 We're gonna have teams playing on their state, on their 232 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:44.600 campus and their home stadium for a college football playoff game. 233 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:50.600 That's gonna be awesome. But also, I mean you got 234 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.360 to keep in mind, like I don't know if people 235 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:55.720 are gonna claim that the process and how they decided, 236 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.879 like how this all came together was the right way now, 237 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.840 well probably won't really care when it's all said and done, 238 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:07.279 because there's gonna be nobody left out of the field 239 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:09.759 of twelve that you feel like could actually win the 240 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.039 national championship. I mean, we won't know that for certain, 241 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:13.480 but I don't think you're gonna be able to make 242 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:15.960 a great case to where you can say they didn't 243 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.679 get in. In man, they could have won it all. 244 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.080 I mean, you might find somebody making that argument. So 245 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.320 I think just those that want to tune in and 246 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.759 watch and enjoy the college Football Playoff expanded to twelve teams, 247 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:29.919 I think you're gonna be entertained, and I think it's 248 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:33.360 gonna be great. You're gonna always find fans out there 249 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.000 that feel like their team didn't get a fair look 250 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.559 because of the bias towards the SEC or whatever it 251 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.960 may be. But I just, I mean, I want them 252 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.840 to revisit it. Not because I think, you know, my 253 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.080 team was screwed or any certain team was screwed. But 254 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:49.840 this was a real eye opener to just how subjective 255 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.440 this is, to where like, if you're gonna have a 256 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.279 committee to it, just tell us from the jump you're 257 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.519 not taking you know, You're you're just gonna base it 258 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.159 off of what you believe in, what you think, and 259 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:05.039 that's that's just it, because there are so many examples 260 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.080 of things you can't make sense of, and these are teams. 261 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.919 There's teams that I think are incorrectly ranked, but they're 262 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.960 not in the top twelve, they're not in the top fifteen. 263 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.720 They're like, you know, fifteen to twenty five. But it 264 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:17.480 still just shows that, like there's got to be a 265 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:19.679 better way to determine who is the twelve best teams. 266 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:25.200 But more people talking about it is better for the product. 267 00:12:25.559 --> 00:12:26.679 And there's going to be a ton of people that 268 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.000 watch it, so they're probably not viewing this as I 269 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.480 mean if people are complaining about the process and complaining 270 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:35.159 about certain teams not getting in, but yet you still 271 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:38.919 got countless people watching it, and it's a huge success 272 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:41.480 when it comes to ratings and viewership. That's all they 273 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.639 care about. All right, quick break, We'll go back on 274 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.320 the other side. Talk a little basketball. Louisvill's got do 275 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:50.919 coming up on Sunday. Yikes. Hopefully they can win, but 276 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.519 I don't believe they will. But I was wrong about 277 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:55.120 the Indiana game. I thought that would be a loss, 278 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.559 and they killed them. So maybe we get the same result. 279 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:59.240 I doubt it, but we shall see Kentucky's guy Gain 280 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.840 Zagamar and I. That's a big game and something else 281 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:03.440 I want to get to. We'll get an update to 282 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:06.519 this drama. If you guys haven't heard, there's a standoff 283 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.320 between Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State Bill Belichick interviewed for 284 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.799 the North Carolina job. That's insane, So we'll try to 285 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:13.519 finish strong here on a Friday, it's Coffee and Company. 286 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.480 Feel about Thorton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 287 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.480 You're listening to Coffee and Company with Nick Coffee on 288 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:24.000 Sports Talk seven nine day. I am someone that is 289 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.639 very appreciative of everything that I have I do. You know, 290 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.240 I've got a lot to be thankful for. But at 291 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.320 times there are some things that I see that I 292 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:37.200 read about that really just remind me of how poor 293 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.200 I am compared to, you know, those that have an 294 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:44.399 insane amount of money. And this story here is one 295 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:48.120 of those things that has made me feel like, well, 296 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:50.440 I don't feel that poor. I just feel like I'll 297 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.320 never be able to relate to this. So I guess 298 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:54.679 more than anything, there's just some jealousy. But this story 299 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.799 is wild So ESPN dot com is reporting that there's 300 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:01.399 a better, a sports better in the state of Kentucky, 301 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:04.879 right here in our state, that has made an insane wager, 302 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:10.000 meaning an insane amount of money. There is a gentleman 303 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:14.679 here in Kentucky that is bet three point one million 304 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:19.200 dollars on the Eagles to defeat the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. 305 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.559 It's one of the largest bets ever reported on an 306 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:26.480 NFL regular season game. Circa Sports took the wager on 307 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:30.279 the Eagles money line yesterday afternoon at minus seven hundred odds, 308 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:35.720 which means this this person would net about four hundred 309 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:40.440 and forty three thousand dollars. So says here's the bet. 310 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:42.879 The bet for a Sunday's game in Philadelphia is believed 311 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.440 to be one of the largest ever placed on an 312 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:47.200 NFL regular season contest. There have been larger bets placed 313 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:52.240 on the Super Bowl, but not regular season. So just say, yeah, 314 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.759 I got to play here. Let me drop three point 315 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.960 one million on it. Like, imagine what kind of money 316 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:00.840 you have to blow Now, it is a safe assumption 317 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:02.960 that they will win that game. It may be the 318 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.000 safest money line bet you'll find on the NFL schedule 319 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.639 this week. But imagine if it doesn't hit and you've 320 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.799 just lost three point one million dollars. Also, just kind 321 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:14.799 of thinking out loud here, I wouldn't be shocked if 322 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:18.399 I mean, I don't know, I shouldn't have said. I'm 323 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:19.600 going to back up a second. I'll tell you what 324 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:21.080 I was gonna say. But I realize now that it 325 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.840 probably would have been maybe not foolish to say. But 326 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:25.480 there's a lot of people have a lot of money 327 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.720 that you wouldn't know about, like people who are really rich, 328 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:30.759 really wealthy, I should say, because I think wealth's a 329 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:32.639 little bit of a different level than just rich. And 330 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.399 I guess it's all subjective to what you think is 331 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.919 rich and what you think is wealthy. But I just 332 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:39.799 feel like that's somebody we may know, Like he may 333 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:44.080 be somebody that is because you could be one of 334 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:47.080 the top ten most you know, the wealthiest people in 335 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:48.879 the state of Kentucky, and there's a good chance people 336 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.159 know who you are because you've probably had a very 337 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.799 successful business, maybe you come from a very wealthy family. 338 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:54.799 But I'm just dying to know who this person is, 339 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:57.080 and maybe we find out, maybe it's already out there 340 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:58.559 and I just haven't seen it yet, but yes, three 341 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.879 point one million dollars slightly more than I've ever wagered 342 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:05.960 on on a game. I mean the most I've ever bet. 343 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:11.320 It's probably one hundred bucks and it was technically like 344 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.559 my money that I bet with, But that's money that like, 345 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:15.919 I'm betting after I've already been on a streak, like 346 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.240 when the when the the account has has has gotten 347 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:21.600 a little healthy, you know what I'm saying, gotten gotten 348 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.399 to where I can I can take that kind of 349 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:25.840 a risk, And yes, it is a big risk, but 350 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.799 it's not to the point where like I'm now gutted 351 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:29.039 and I have no money left in the. 352 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.320 Account, when you have some house money exactly. 353 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.759 Yeah, I like that house money. So yeah, I'm now 354 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.600 I mean, am I an a hole for wanting the 355 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:42.559 Panthers to win? Yeah, like I just you know, I 356 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:44.879 am a loser going to happen. I am a loser 357 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:46.480 for that because all that would do was mean that 358 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.320 the books are getting healthy and we're not. And technically 359 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:51.039 it's always going to be us against the books, right, 360 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.279 we got to ride and hope to take them down. 361 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.320 And so far, despite the fun and the enjoyment that 362 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:57.799 we get from wagering on sports and some of the 363 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:59.840 money we've been able to put in our pockets. There's 364 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:01.840 doing a lot better than us. It's a very profitable 365 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:03.639 business for those that are you know in the UH 366 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:05.039 in the sports betting world. 367 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:08.559 Did you did you win that one hundred dollars bet? Yes, okay, 368 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:09.440 I'll look at that. 369 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:14.559 I I had this was in never got that one. 370 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:18.079 I had two straight years. And I'll explain myself because 371 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:19.519 I don't I don't want you know, I don't. I 372 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:22.559 don't bet that. I mean usually I'm betting ten fifteen 373 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:26.279 bucks twenty occasionally, and it just depends on, you know, 374 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.359 what what the action is. But I for two straight 375 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:34.440 years in two thousand and twenty two. In twenty twenty three, 376 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.680 I had a really really good run in college basketball 377 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.240 where I was doing well in the regular season and 378 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:42.400 then I did really well in the tournament and then 379 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:44.759 I would just cash out. So before it was legal, 380 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:47.519 and I used to be UH, I used to be 381 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:49.960 affiliated with Fandel Sportsbook. We would go to the Beltaia 382 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.519 Casino do some shows. You came out and did a 383 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:52.039 show with this one. 384 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:53.000 Yeah, I remember that. 385 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.240 Uh. That was awesome, And I don't know if it's 386 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.119 it felt I don't know, this is weird, but for 387 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.839 some reason bet when it wasn't legal in Kentucky and 388 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:03.599 we had to cross state lines to do it, it 389 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.680 was more fun. It wasn't convenient. It was silly that 390 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:09.559 other states were benefiting from it. Like the convenience is 391 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:11.839 better now and I wouldn't have it any other way, 392 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.279 knowing I can just pop open an app and do 393 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.119 it from the comfort of my home, or go to 394 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:18.279 a sports book here and do it. But there was 395 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.319 something about like feeling like you were breaking the law. Yeah, 396 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.839 you know, you're doing something under your parents knows. Yeah, 397 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.799 I mean it just felt kind of awesome. When you 398 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.160 would win, It's like you were stealing money or something. 399 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.279 So what I did was I would build up to 400 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.839 where during the regular season I would have you know, 401 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.759