Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: Although I'm still not at one hundred percent my voice,
Speaker 2: it's I think, slowly but surely getting better.
Speaker 3: It may not sound like it right now, but I
Speaker 3: feel better.
Speaker 2: I also feel better after getting it out of the
Speaker 2: way at the beginning of the show today, and that
Speaker 2: was just admitting.
Speaker 3: That I have some real jealousy.
Speaker 2: Because we all get jealous, some people probably get more
Speaker 2: jealous than others. I think how you deal with jealousy
Speaker 2: is really is the most important part of it, because
Speaker 2: nobody wants to be jealous. It's a pretty it's a
Speaker 2: pretty uncomfortable feeling, and it's never a good look to be,
Speaker 2: you know, letting your jealousy get the best of you
Speaker 2: to where you really act out in a way that
Speaker 2: is not you. But I'm jealous as hell of what
Speaker 2: the SEC has become as a basketball conference, and I
Speaker 2: just I wanted to get that out of the way
Speaker 2: early in the show today. And I feel better now
Speaker 2: that it's that it's out there, because last night I'm
Speaker 2: watching two really good games. I guess they weren't the
Speaker 2: Arkansas and Auburn finish was really really strong. Arkansas actually
Speaker 2: came back, took the lead with a few minutes left,
Speaker 2: and then sure enough just couldn't hold on and look
Speaker 2: loosen on the road at number one, Auburn, nothing to
Speaker 2: hold your head about. But I still think that Arkansas
Speaker 2: is one of those teams that I just don't really
Speaker 2: know how you could say they belong in the tournament.
Speaker 3: They would quite literally be it, like, let's see who
Speaker 3: they have the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: And again, I probably shouldn't have mentioned my voice was better,
Speaker 2: because it doesn't sound great now. But hey, slowly but
Speaker 2: surely I'm recovering and I feel fine. But I just
Speaker 2: I'm riding out the the failing voice and hopefully more
Speaker 2: rest and hydration can can get me get me squared away.
Speaker 2: But Auburn, I'm sorry, not Auburn, but Arkansas. They are
Speaker 2: fifteen and eleven overall. They are They have a game
Speaker 2: against Missouri, Texas, South Carolina, Vandy, and Mississippi State the
Speaker 2: rest of the way. I mean, even if they finish
Speaker 2: like let's say they lose to Missouri, beat Texas, beat
Speaker 2: South Carolina, beat Vandy, lose to Mississippi State. I mean,
Speaker 2: that would make them at the end of the season
Speaker 2: eighteen and thirteen. And if you put them in, you're
Speaker 2: only putting them in because they're in the SEC, Like
Speaker 2: that's all you'd be doing. And I just feel like
Speaker 2: the SEC can can at this time without any issue
Speaker 2: for me, which is not that they would care, but like,
Speaker 2: I don't have any problem with the SEC getting more
Speaker 2: teams than anybody in but like Arkansas needs to be
Speaker 2: where we draw the line because they just they haven't
Speaker 2: beaten anybody that would they would warrant them being even
Speaker 2: considered for the tournament. But yet their numbers as far
Speaker 2: as the NET are pretty impressive because they play in
Speaker 2: a league where night in and night out, they're playing
Speaker 2: really good teams. And that's what I'm jealous of because
Speaker 2: the Big East before it died, you know, it's still
Speaker 2: around now, but not what it once was the Big
Speaker 2: East days when it was the best basketball league ever.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was that was fun and it really
Speaker 2: watching the SEC kind of have that same thing going
Speaker 2: on right now. And look, how we evaluate which leagues
Speaker 2: are the best also includes what they do in the postseason.
Speaker 2: So if the ACE, if the SEC flames out, and
Speaker 2: gets like no Final four teams and one Elite eight team.
Speaker 2: Then then we probably still can be real with ourselves
Speaker 2: and say, man, the league is really good, but what
Speaker 2: you do in the postseason matters way more than anything else,
Speaker 2: to where if they flame out, some will still say, well,
Speaker 2: look it's a great league. They just beat up on
Speaker 2: each other and the actual more competition, the better tournament
Speaker 2: was not the Big Dance, it was actually the SEC Tournament.
Speaker 2: Like people will say those kind of things and they
Speaker 2: may not even be wrong, but like what you do
Speaker 2: in March, that's what really what makes college basketball special.
Speaker 3: So I'm jealous of.
Speaker 2: Watching my team play in a league that is just
Speaker 2: nowhere near as good as the SEC. And look, if
Speaker 2: Louisville was in the SEC, would they be a tournament team?
Speaker 3: Who knows?
Speaker 2: So look, I know, big picture, like louis has been
Speaker 2: able to take advantage of this, and they're doing all
Speaker 2: you can do when you play in a league that
Speaker 2: is going through what it's going through right now. I
Speaker 2: mean there's a reason Louisville is I mean, Louisl's got
Speaker 2: a really good record overall.
Speaker 3: They are in league play.
Speaker 2: I mean, was there five games Lefty like thirteen and
Speaker 2: two in the ACC right now, but yet they're barely
Speaker 2: in the top twenty five. And again it's because of
Speaker 2: where the ACC is. I think if Louisville was just
Speaker 2: getting by, you'd have more doubters out there as far
Speaker 2: as if they are good, but they're beating the hell
Speaker 2: out of teams to where they may get a six
Speaker 2: or seven seed.
Speaker 3: But I think even even people who don't.
Speaker 2: Like Louisville, like I think even Kentucky fans would acknowledge
Speaker 2: they lo So they'll surely make fun of the ACC
Speaker 2: being down and get their ribs in because you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's how this stuff works within a rivalry. But
Speaker 2: I think they would even acknowledge objectively like Wolves a
Speaker 2: good team.
Speaker 3: Now, are they elite?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: How good are they tough to say because of the conference.
Speaker 2: But they're good and they're playing really well right now.
Speaker 2: And I just wish that when we would have games
Speaker 2: on SAT like we have Saturday, Florida State coming to town.
Speaker 2: I wish there was value there to where you could
Speaker 2: really get a big win that's going to change how
Speaker 2: that committee views you. On selection Sunday, you got pit
Speaker 2: coming to town before the season ends. Trying to think
Speaker 2: of where else Louisville ends up before the season's over.
Speaker 2: Let me see here, and that's you still play? Is
Speaker 2: it Stanford and col So you've yet to have your
Speaker 2: your West Coast games? Yeah, Florida, So it's Florida State
Speaker 2: at home, then Virginia Tech on the road Tuesday, Saturday
Speaker 2: pit at home, and then you play Callen Stanford both
Speaker 2: at home. So you only have one road game left
Speaker 2: this year and that's Tuesday Virginia Tech. So I just
Speaker 2: wish there was value there and I think the ACC
Speaker 2: is gonna get better.
Speaker 3: But this year, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, it's been such a fun ride, and I maybe
Speaker 2: in a way like it's it's really best case scenario
Speaker 2: because you can't control how good your league is.
Speaker 3: So maybe because.
Speaker 2: The early success here for Pat Kelcey, right, the whole
Speaker 2: story and what I mean by the whole story is
Speaker 2: that Louisville was so bad for a few years and
Speaker 2: now they're you know, they're they're fun as hell to
Speaker 2: watch and they're good.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe maybe if we didn't go through what
Speaker 3: we went through in.
Speaker 2: Previous years, I wouldn't be appreciating it as much as
Speaker 2: I do. So again, you can't really control it, and
Speaker 2: louis has been able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: But I just missed the.
Speaker 2: Days of having a week where you knew, Okay, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be tough for us to win both these games,
Speaker 2: because geez, you play two top ten teams, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be really tough. So if you split, best case scenario,
Speaker 2: if you split, man, you're still gonna probably not fall
Speaker 2: because the loss to a top ten team isn't going
Speaker 2: to hurt you if it's competitive, and if you beat
Speaker 2: one of them, that's humongous for you. It's just you know,
Speaker 2: I know I sound greedy because I've loved every bit
Speaker 2: of this season so far, and I'm I mean, they
Speaker 2: could play you coul play high school team, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna watch and I'm gonna enjoy it because I love
Speaker 2: watching these guys play. I love that they clearly appreciate Louisville,
Speaker 2: they appreciate being here, and you can tell that they
Speaker 2: are energized by fans kind of coming back to life.
Speaker 2: The revival is actually happening as we speak, and it's
Speaker 2: been a lot of fun. But last night I just
Speaker 2: felt like a jealous hater because I want I want
Speaker 2: to be able to tell you that I think the
Speaker 2: SEC's hype and all the love that it's getting is unfair.
Speaker 2: But I don't I think I think the league is
Speaker 2: that good and I don't think it's changing at all.
Speaker 2: So Austin's out tomorrow, so we'll talk about what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do tomorrow, just because I'll have a little bit
Speaker 2: more on my plate giving the fact that I won't
Speaker 2: have a key contributor to the show, so I'll I'll
Speaker 2: play a d tomorrow on the show. For the ACC
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hire new coaches for the jobs that we
Speaker 2: know are open Florida State, Miami, Virginia, and then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna hire coaches because actually I'm gonna have to. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to actually fire them because I don't know
Speaker 2: if their bosses are going to But I'm gonna play
Speaker 2: ad and I'm gonna fire Red Autry at SYRAC Houston,
Speaker 2: replace him. I'm gonna fire whatever the hell's name is
Speaker 2: at Virginia Tech, Mike Young, gonna replace him and hire
Speaker 2: new coaches. And I don't look in North Carolina and
Speaker 2: n C State. We talked about it that I talked
Speaker 2: about it this earlier mentioning that I was gonna do that,
Speaker 2: and Hubert Davis is not getting fired.
Speaker 3: He's not.
Speaker 2: He might next year, but he's not getting fired this year.
Speaker 2: And Kevin Keats isn't getting fired. I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be that crazy of a thing if he did,
Speaker 2: because there's that bad and it just it's really tough
Speaker 2: to see NC State being able to view their basketball
Speaker 2: program right now with Kevin Keats as the coach as
Speaker 2: if like they're gonna end up like in a good situation,
Speaker 2: because they the final four run was great, but man,
Speaker 2: it was an absolute fluke and it was an absolute outlier.
Speaker 2: Like I hated for Kevin Keats, but he's never been
Speaker 2: good there. I mean, I can't even think of what
Speaker 2: his best season was at NC State prior to him
Speaker 2: having an awful year last year and then somehow miraculously
Speaker 2: making it all the way to the final four. I mean,
Speaker 2: they were losing the Louisville Kenny Paynes Louisville at halftime
Speaker 2: of that first the Day of Shame game in the
Speaker 2: ACC Tournament, So Keats before, I mean, before last year, Austin,
Speaker 2: he'd never won a tournament game.
Speaker 3: He only made the tournament once. It's gross, I mean
Speaker 3: it's real gross. It's with that. I mean that that
Speaker 3: final four run saved his job.
Speaker 2: Well not only that, it it crushed n C State
Speaker 2: because again, it changed his situation. And I need to
Speaker 2: go look this up. I've just been saying it and
Speaker 2: I think it's true, but I will verify he didn't
Speaker 2: get a new deal because they said, look, we love you,
Speaker 2: let's do it. I'm pretty sure it was in his
Speaker 2: contract that if he made a final four his got extended.
Speaker 3: So I'll double check that because if not, like if.
Speaker 2: They went to him and gave him a new contract
Speaker 2: after last year, that's just that's malpractice. Because you can
Speaker 2: be intoxicated by the ride that March gives you. When
Speaker 2: you make a run like that, it's unexpected, it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem real. I mean, you know, I bet there's people
Speaker 2: that have named their children after somebody that was a
Speaker 2: big factor and their team making a magical run in March.
Speaker 2: But to then give him a new deal when you
Speaker 2: could literally look at that as the out like it
Speaker 2: wasn't a breakthrough, and everybody on that team that helped
Speaker 2: him go to the final four, you knew wasn't coming
Speaker 2: back like it was just it would be the most
Speaker 2: unnecessary contract extension raise ever. So I feel like he
Speaker 2: got more years on his deal because he made a
Speaker 2: final four, but it was already in the contract. So
Speaker 2: I'm sure those two look Hubert Davis and Kevin Keats
Speaker 2: won't be at their jobs long term. But I don't
Speaker 2: think they're going to give the boot after this year,
Speaker 2: but I could be wrong. Oh that's the first one.
Speaker 2: It's the first cough, first call of the day.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 2: I mean I had I made it two hours and
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes before I had to. I had to let
Speaker 2: one out. But real quick. If you missed it in
Speaker 2: the uh, I can think it was the was the
Speaker 2: four o'clock or three o'clock hour when we talked about
Speaker 2: the pranksters?
Speaker 3: Was that the three o'clock hour because we got it
Speaker 3: during the first break?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so are so we have somebody that is that
Speaker 2: is playing a prank on us, and I wish it
Speaker 2: was funnier. I mean, I'll just be honest with like,
Speaker 2: it's probably somebody that that you know, I think it's
Speaker 2: doing something harmless. They're not really trying to like, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, they're I don't think they're doing it to
Speaker 2: be jerks.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe they are.
Speaker 2: But over the last few weeks, when the phone rings,
Speaker 2: usually it'll show me a phone number or it'll show
Speaker 2: a name.
Speaker 3: So our call.
Speaker 2: Screener is is pretty I mean, I think it's awesome
Speaker 2: because if you call one time and we get your
Speaker 2: name and Austin puts your name through, if you call
Speaker 2: any other time, it's going to say that name. So
Speaker 2: like when the phone rings, if you've called before been
Speaker 2: on the air, I will see your name, which makes
Speaker 2: it easy. But then there's sometimes we don't get a number,
Speaker 2: or it's a number that doesn't have a name to it,
Speaker 2: meaning they've never called and been put on the air before.
Speaker 2: So here and there pretty consistently actually over the last
Speaker 2: few weeks, Austin will get a call and then they
Speaker 2: won't end up being on the air. And it's people
Speaker 2: who are working at car dealerships that have been told
Speaker 2: that Nick Coffee is really interested in buying a car
Speaker 2: from you, and you need to call five h two,
Speaker 2: five seven, one seventy nine hundred after three o'clock, and
Speaker 2: you know, they call, and they don't they don't know
Speaker 2: they're calling a radio show. They don't. I mean sometimes
Speaker 2: they've used my name. Sometimes they've used like today the
Speaker 2: tribal chief that's who wanted to buy a car and
Speaker 2: they were told to call five seven one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2: Apparently Jerry Eves was told or somebody called looking for
Speaker 2: Jerry Eves on the show because he was looking to
Speaker 2: buy a car. And I mean I get it, like
Speaker 2: you're you're trying to to have, you know, play a
Speaker 2: little joke, But I just don't know what the payoff
Speaker 2: is for you, Like did you were you?
Speaker 1: True?
Speaker 2: Well? You? Because here's the thing, if we never talked
Speaker 2: about it at all, and I never brought it up
Speaker 2: on the air, and yet people still called every day,
Speaker 2: these people that are selling cars, trying to make a living,
Speaker 2: being misled by pranksters on the internet, that are you know,
Speaker 2: just trying to get a joke off.
Speaker 3: I mean, like would you still do it? Is it over?
Speaker 2: And now you're going to keep doing it every day?
Speaker 2: Like what I don't understand is what do you get
Speaker 2: out of it?
Speaker 3: And I you know, I might be wanting us to
Speaker 3: talk about it, and if so.
Speaker 2: Like so you know, maybe maybe the payoff like because
Speaker 2: somebody asked earlier on the text line, if I believe
Speaker 2: that somebody like, if that they wanted somebody to get
Speaker 2: on the air, and technically there would never be somebody,
Speaker 2: like even if Austin didn't do his job the way
Speaker 2: he does, which is the right way, He's going to
Speaker 2: get your name and at least get so he's not
Speaker 2: going to screen your call to where you gotta like
Speaker 2: perform for him to get on the air, but he's
Speaker 2: gonna at least give me an idea of what direction
Speaker 2: you're going. So that alone makes it to where they
Speaker 2: know they're not going on a show. Like if he
Speaker 2: just said, hey, what's your name? You put it down.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if somebody, if somebody called saying, hey,
Speaker 2: giving you a call, I understand you're interested in buying
Speaker 2: this twenty twenty one Chevy Trailblazer, and you know, you
Speaker 2: just said, all right, what's your name? And then they said, uh, David,
Speaker 2: And then you just put David on hold, and I
Speaker 2: brought David on the show Like that that that scenario
Speaker 2: would just never happen in fact, in fact, because they
Speaker 2: called in And now I'm getting too deep into the
Speaker 2: weeds here, but by law, and I say, by law,
Speaker 2: I don't think they can arrest me.
Speaker 3: But f c A A f c AA is that
Speaker 3: what it is? Yeah, FCA isn't just f c A.
Speaker 2: I think it's fc A f c A like guidelines
Speaker 2: or whatever, C SCC, that's what it is. You would
Speaker 2: think I would that, But I'm loopy, man. This cough
Speaker 2: medicine is making me loopy. But anyways, like I am
Speaker 2: obligated to tell somebody they're on the air if they
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: For example, if I if I called, like let's just say,
Speaker 2: I had Austin, Hey call this number real quick, and
Speaker 2: we like the phone rang while we're all on the air,
Speaker 2: and then they answered it and I didn't tell them, hey,
Speaker 2: before you speak, you need you're.
Speaker 3: On the radio.
Speaker 2: And I just talked to them and they talked to
Speaker 2: me for three minutes and didn't know they were on
Speaker 2: the air. That's a big violation that they can, you know,
Speaker 2: can get us in trouble. So like the scenario what
Speaker 2: a long story show. What I'm getting at is, if
Speaker 2: you're if you're in goal is to get one of
Speaker 2: these salespeople on the air with them not realizing it. Well,
Speaker 2: they try to sell me this vehicle that's got all
Speaker 2: the bells and whistles like that just would never happen.
Speaker 3: So if that's the goal, then you know it just
Speaker 3: it's not meant to be my man, not getting past me,
Speaker 3: not past the tribal chief, that's right.
Speaker 2: So I just I was trying to, you know, figure
Speaker 2: out what do we think this person is going to
Speaker 2: get out of this, because I don't want to be
Speaker 2: dramatic about it, but like you are wasting someone's time
Speaker 2: who quite literally like this is their livelihood.
Speaker 3: This is what they do.
Speaker 2: They sell cars, and they need to make sales in
Speaker 2: order to be able to make a good living and
Speaker 2: of course feed their family. So if they get at
Speaker 2: you know, at noon an inquiry online because somebody said
Speaker 2: that Nick wants to talk about buying this car, you
Speaker 2: need to call at three o'clock, like they may be thinking,
Speaker 2: all right, well, let me do some looking into this person.
Speaker 2: Let me, let me, let me make sure I'm prepared
Speaker 2: for this phone call because I'm I got to make
Speaker 2: a sale. You've wasted I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 2: it works. I've never been in that business. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be good in that business at all. So shout out
Speaker 2: to all the people that are successful at selling cars,
Speaker 2: but like you're wasting their time and that's you know,
Speaker 2: like I hadn't thought about it, but it just came
Speaker 2: to my mind just a moment ago. If any if
Speaker 2: he like it wouldn't be a shocker if if some
Speaker 2: of these car dealership people that call in or the
Speaker 2: salespeople and doesn't sound like it's happy yet, but like,
Speaker 2: because this is a talk radio show and we clearly
Speaker 2: you know, we're not uh, we're not immune to doing
Speaker 2: childish and you know, stupid things, which again is with us.
Speaker 3: So they I would I would hate for.
Speaker 2: Somebody to think that we're messing with them like us, right,
Speaker 2: But I don't you don't get the sense that's the case.
Speaker 4: Right, No, I hope not. And honestly, before you said that,
Speaker 4: I never even thought. But you know what I mean though, right,
Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about, Like they think that
Speaker 4: we're trying to get one over on them. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: I don't know, or maybe it's at the beginning of it,
Speaker 4: I thought, or is this just their way of trying
Speaker 4: to get on the radio, or is this their way
Speaker 4: of trying to do business with iHeart as a whole.
Speaker 3: It's quite clear.
Speaker 2: And today I think was the day, which is why
Speaker 2: I decided to talk about it. But I think today
Speaker 2: was the day where the person you talked to, like
Speaker 2: they told you that somebody put in an inquiry to
Speaker 2: call after three o'clock about a car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's that's that's what Uh, that's what raised
Speaker 4: my hair.
Speaker 2: So again, if if I just you know, I would say, whatever,
Speaker 2: your end goal is here, like I don't you know,
Speaker 2: you had some fun, but like, can we stop because
Speaker 2: eventually there's gonna be one of these car dealerships that
Speaker 2: just thinks we're doing it. Yeah, and we're trying to
Speaker 2: get somebody on the air to play a prank on them,
Speaker 2: which one again.
Speaker 3: Even if we were we wouldn't be allowed to do that.
Speaker 4: Fine, if it didn't jump the shark. I think it's
Speaker 4: it's fine now where it is. Me selfishly, that's a
Speaker 4: payoff because it's a wrestling thing and haha, I'm the
Speaker 4: tribal chief.
Speaker 3: I get it. Had a good chuckle.
Speaker 4: But if it keeps going after this, I don't know
Speaker 4: what I don't understand.
Speaker 2: Well, well, to be fair, you are the best, Like
Speaker 2: I I'm glad you're the one that's like, I guess
Speaker 2: somebody's playing a joke, like, you know, sorry, Like I
Speaker 2: know some.
Speaker 3: Other people would be like, well, the hell do you
Speaker 3: guys keep calling?
Speaker 2: We don't want to buy your damn car, because again
Speaker 2: they're just doing their job, trying to make a living. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like that is that is That's a good silver lining here.
Speaker 2: I feel like you are the perfect person to kind
Speaker 2: of navigate this because if it was me, I would
Speaker 2: just assume these cold call and sons of bitches we
Speaker 2: don't want your car. But but they're not doing it
Speaker 2: because they're just you know, harassing us. These aren't robo callers.
Speaker 2: They think they've got a legitimate lead and they don't.
Speaker 2: So anyways, whoever's up to it, please stop, all right,
Speaker 2: stick with us. We'll finish strong here. Five o'clock hour
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Speaker 3: It's another Joe Dirt song for you.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah played at the very end, good soundtrack, Oh dude, fantastic.
Speaker 2: I always forget And he's a very memorable character. But
Speaker 2: when I think of the cast, I don't often think
Speaker 2: of him. But Christopher walking what a great.
Speaker 3: Uhh yeah, I mean Kansas. Uh and he gets hit
Speaker 3: by the mob like that's.
Speaker 2: It's just, uh, you're talking to my boy all wrong,
Speaker 2: like it's home. But again, I'll stab you in the
Speaker 2: best part was he would always slip up New York City.
Speaker 3: I mean Kansas.
Speaker 2: And then who how do to remember how he got
Speaker 2: Oh it was when they like replaced Joe Dere was
Speaker 2: in the hospital for something like infused his his mullet
Speaker 2: back together or some yeah, and uh oh no, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that did happen, and he was in there at
Speaker 2: the end of the movie. But where he gets caught
Speaker 2: is that Christopher Walkins saves some kid who's choking as
Speaker 2: the janitor at the school, and because he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to get you know, any notoriety, they recognized him and
Speaker 2: he says, no, he did it, Joe Dirt, He's the
Speaker 2: man who did it. So then Joe Dirt gets like
Speaker 2: this key to the city and he's like, I can't
Speaker 2: I can't take credit. It's this man right here, and
Speaker 2: he just walks away as if he knows he's going
Speaker 2: to die, and.
Speaker 3: Then sure enough they pull up and get him.
Speaker 2: But little subtle things that like I can't I can't
Speaker 2: tell you why that I think it's funny. But like
Speaker 2: me and my friends when we watched the movie as kids,
Speaker 2: like we were just randomly like one liners with the
Speaker 2: boys I mean Kansas because he's not supposed to be
Speaker 2: from New York.
Speaker 3: Is your mother? So yeah, he ask you a question,
Speaker 3: does your mother sew have a soul? At gosh, fantastic?
Speaker 3: So I want to watch that movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, this was a barber shop in the Highlands, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's been this has been done elsewhere before,
Speaker 2: but I don't know why. It's just like my perfect
Speaker 2: level of humor. They they wanted people to know that
Speaker 2: you could just come in, and they just posted a
Speaker 2: picture of Christopher Walkin's face and says we accept Walkins.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, again, that's like just.
Speaker 2: Very stupid humor that I that I find very very funny.
Speaker 4: So there's another one on Modern Family because Phil cell
Speaker 4: Or Is it Phil, No, it's it's the dad that
Speaker 4: sells closets and he and he he had he had
Speaker 4: like a voice and he said you get it.
Speaker 3: It's Christopher walk.
Speaker 2: In closet again, like things that people are probably listening thinking, Man,
Speaker 2: these guys got a pretty low.
Speaker 3: Bar for humor.
Speaker 2: And you know what, you're probably right, yes, you're probably
Speaker 2: laugh at all. Right. So Rick Pattino, he had a
Speaker 2: quote that that it's that it's it's not controversial by
Speaker 2: any means, but I think it's, you know, him saying
Speaker 2: it is going to get more attention than most coaches
Speaker 2: saying it. And I just think that in the next
Speaker 2: I don't know, four or five years, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: players that in the previous world, if you're ranked in
Speaker 2: like the top seventy five, top one hundred, it's a
Speaker 2: no brainer you're going to a top school. But now
Speaker 2: with coaches having I guess different amounts of openings every year,
Speaker 2: they're just not going to prioritize freshmen. So what Rick
Speaker 2: said was, quote, this year, we're not even looking at
Speaker 2: high school basketball players. We're losing Daveon, Kadari and Aaron
Speaker 2: which those are three fifth year seniors, I believe, so
Speaker 2: he says, and you can't replace them with high school players.
Speaker 2: And I mean that's a no brainer. Like rebuilding and knowing, Hey,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be young next year. Give us a few
Speaker 2: years and we'll be right back. No, like, you don't
Speaker 2: have to wait anymore because you can go get experience
Speaker 2: more so, first of all, you can go get it
Speaker 2: now in the portal, which didn't even exist a few
Speaker 2: years ago. But now you got guys that can play
Speaker 2: in college or I guess they've always been able to,
Speaker 2: but now they're choosing to stay in college a lot
Speaker 2: longer because now they can make money.
Speaker 3: They can pick up and go to a new team.
Speaker 2: It any at any moment, seemingly so right now. The
Speaker 2: number of freshmen that are playing starter minutes on each
Speaker 2: top ten team Auburn has won Florida zero.
Speaker 3: Duke is the exception. They have three.
Speaker 2: But if you notice, Duke maybe has three of the
Speaker 2: top five freshmen in the country, and obviously Cooper Flagg,
Speaker 2: Kinnipple and the big fella who I always forget his name,
Speaker 2: but he's a very impactful guy, and they have really
Speaker 2: good veterans built around those guys. Like I think Duke's
Speaker 2: got some really good pieces to where you where Shire
Speaker 2: did not put a class together in the portal that
Speaker 2: really did a whole lot as far as generating buzz,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't a class that that anybody that I
Speaker 2: know have viewed as like a top ten type class
Speaker 2: as far as the portal class, but it was the
Speaker 2: exact kind of pieces that that I think can work
Speaker 2: really well with their with their roster and so far
Speaker 2: that's why the mean, that's why they are a one seed.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Alabama one one freshman getting starter minutes, Tennessee
Speaker 2: zero A and m zero Iowa State zero, Texas Tech one,
Speaker 2: Saint John's zero. So, I mean, I just think if
Speaker 2: you are coming out of the high school ranks and
Speaker 2: you're a Michale Brown junior, well you're a top ten player.
Speaker 2: You're gonna still be able to pick wherever you want. However,
Speaker 2: you're not, I mean, you're not the end all be all,
Speaker 2: Like you can miss out on an elite, top five,
Speaker 2: top ten recruit and know that you're gonna be just
Speaker 2: fine because you know, the Cooper Flags. Those guys don't
Speaker 2: happen very often, right, And Cooper Flag if he's at
Speaker 2: and we'll never know, so maybe it's a silly hypothetical,
Speaker 2: but if Cooper Flag was at Boston College, you know,
Speaker 2: because he's from the Northeast and he decided to you know,
Speaker 2: maybe there was a connection at Boston College where he was.
Speaker 2: You know, he had an assistant coach.
Speaker 3: His AAU club.
Speaker 2: That's his AAU coach is now an assistant in Boston College.
Speaker 2: They'd be better than they are now, but they wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, they wouldn't be It wouldn't be a tournament
Speaker 2: team or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at Rutgers.
Speaker 2: They had I mean, quite literally, Rutgers I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: signed two of the top three guys in the class
Speaker 2: last year. I'm gonna look it up because and by
Speaker 2: the way, I think Rutgers, I mean Rutgers. They're not
Speaker 2: a tournament team, are they. I've bet on them enough
Speaker 2: and they don't win, so I feel like there's no
Speaker 2: chance they're a tournament team. In fact, I feel like
Speaker 2: last I check, they were having like a dreadful season. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Rutgers signed two of Let's see last year's twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four recruiting rankings. You had Cooper Flag number one, Ace
Speaker 2: Bailey two at Rutgers, Dylan Harper three at Rutgers. And
Speaker 2: those guys are having good, good enough seasons to where
Speaker 2: they're still being viewed as top five picks. Their numbers
Speaker 2: are still pretty good, but I mean Rutgers is thirteen
Speaker 2: and four team six and ten in league play. So
Speaker 2: like getting the shiny future NBA player that's got a
Speaker 2: lot of hype, that's already got millions of followers, it
Speaker 2: does give you something off the court that is valuable
Speaker 2: as far as your brand. I think, even if you're
Speaker 2: not playing a bunch of freshmen, if you look like
Speaker 2: an ACE recruiter as a coach, there's at least some
Speaker 2: value there because it shows you, you know, you've got
Speaker 2: the juice people want to play for you.
Speaker 3: Hell, they'll be They'll be four fourth year.
Speaker 2: Seniors that'll see that you know, they're being recruited by
Speaker 2: a guy who typically is picking whichever high school kid
Speaker 2: he wants every year. There's still gonna be value there,
Speaker 2: but you don't need it to win, and coaches know that,
Speaker 2: and even if you do get them, you're not going
Speaker 2: to have them very long. So I just and let's
Speaker 2: be real, a guy that's coming from the mid majors
Speaker 2: or maybe even just you know, a not so successful
Speaker 2: team that is in a power league, like for example, Chucky,
Speaker 2: Like Chucky came to Louisville hungary. He didn't come entitled,
Speaker 2: he didn't mean. He came to prove that he's a
Speaker 2: lead guard. And he's been way better than anybody expected,
Speaker 2: even Pat Kelsey. I mean, Chucky's really exceeded expectations. But
Speaker 2: Chucky came from a mid Wisconsin team that you know,
Speaker 2: he took a back seat in his last year there
Speaker 2: because aj Stores was the man. So you know, Chucky
Speaker 2: I think, wanted to compete here and wanted to show
Speaker 2: what he can do. And if you're talking about okay,
Speaker 2: do I take the point guard who's played three years,
Speaker 2: been good but not elite. He's hungry, he's experienced, he's mature,
Speaker 2: he'll never be drafted. Or I could take this freshman
Speaker 2: who I know is eighteen and will probably be a
Speaker 2: lottery pick regardless of what he does for us. Which
Speaker 2: one you're gonna take? I mean, I still think they'll
Speaker 2: be coaches that would love to have the raw talent
Speaker 2: of the freshmen because they just feel like they can
Speaker 2: they can get more out of it. But I think
Speaker 2: a veteran that is mature and again has that experience
Speaker 2: and is hungry, like I think that that's a better
Speaker 2: scenario for you to win. And when it comes to
Speaker 2: like longevity, let's say you've I mean again, that's actually
Speaker 2: that's actually a really good scenario, you know, both, unless
Speaker 2: there's a really like unexpected situation. You know, you only
Speaker 2: get one for one year. Would it be worth taking
Speaker 2: a guy who may be as good as he's gonna
Speaker 2: get but he's twenty two years old and he's experienced
Speaker 2: and he's that good right now. Or a kid that
Speaker 2: you only coach for one season and he'll hurt you
Speaker 2: with freshman mistakes. He'll show, he'll show he's talented, you'll
Speaker 2: see why the NBA loves him. But like, is that
Speaker 2: gonna help your team? So look, those guys, the Michel
Speaker 2: Brown juniors and the you know, the other elite freshman
Speaker 2: they're still gonna be able to find their spot. But
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be some type of a cutoff
Speaker 2: line at some point, just because when I say cut
Speaker 2: off line, I mean I'm looking down here at the
Speaker 2: This is the top twenty five. Actually, this is the
Speaker 2: top one hundred of the twenty twenty four class, the
Speaker 2: class we just talked about with with Cooper Flag the
Speaker 2: freshman currently playing right now, I mean, can I russ
Speaker 2: Is at thirty eight? He went to Louisville, and I'm
Speaker 2: only I was gonna use him as an example, but
Speaker 2: he doesn't actually fit what I was trying to say.
Speaker 2: So let's just say, when you get to I don't know,
Speaker 2: try to find a freshman that would be a good
Speaker 2: example of this. All right, So there's a freshman at
Speaker 2: at Ole Miss. His name is John Bowl not to
Speaker 2: be not to be, you know, mistaken for the John
Speaker 2: Bowl here in Kentucky and a media you know he's
Speaker 2: a legend. But John boll is a seven foot center.
Speaker 2: He was the seventy two best player in the country
Speaker 2: and he.
Speaker 3: Was a four star.
Speaker 2: Chose Ole Miss in five years? If instead of choosing
Speaker 2: between Ole Miss, who else did he choose from Florida?
Speaker 2: You know, schools of that caliber, like instead of that
Speaker 2: in five years a guy that's ranked in that ragn
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked if the five schools he's choosing from,
Speaker 2: instead of being schools from the SEC, the ACC, the
Speaker 2: Big Ten, the Big East, he's choosing from either the
Speaker 2: lower level schools of that caliber, or he's going to
Speaker 2: a school in the Missouri.
Speaker 3: Valley or something.
Speaker 2: Like maybe I'm way off here, but I just think
Speaker 2: the smaller, like the mid majors who get poached, and
Speaker 2: they're still going to get poached, Like they could benefit
Speaker 2: from maybe getting recruits out of the high school range
Speaker 2: that they never used to get, and they'll have to
Speaker 2: know that they're probably gonna not keep them for long.
Speaker 2: But hey, if you can get him for a couple
Speaker 2: of years and they can average twenty points a game
Speaker 2: and they would have been closer to ten points a
Speaker 2: game as a freshman at a higher level, Like, I
Speaker 2: just think there's going to be a trade off because
Speaker 2: I love the idea of getting guys like mckel brown junior.
Speaker 2: That's a statement type of recruit that Pat Kelsey brought
Speaker 2: in and I'm excited about it, absolutely, But I'm watching
Speaker 2: this current louisvill team play and I think outside of
Speaker 2: like a guy like that, or maybe a guy that's
Speaker 2: kind of in Canai's range top forty and a guy
Speaker 2: that's mature, willing to embrace that he's the young guy
Speaker 2: and he'll have to wait his turn. Essentially, those guys
Speaker 2: are gonna be hard to find too, by the way, Like,
Speaker 2: if you told me Pat Kelsey has six roster spots
Speaker 2: to fill this year, and the other spots are you
Speaker 2: know what you have back? Right, Like James Scott, Ali Khalifa,
Speaker 2: Kobe Rodgers is going to be eligible. I mean technically,
Speaker 2: Javon could be back if you wanted to. Cason Prior
Speaker 2: could be back if they wanted to. So if there's
Speaker 2: like five spots left and you've got a Michael Brown
Speaker 2: junior and then the other four, like, am I gonna
Speaker 2: go get more elite freshman or would I rather go
Speaker 2: get a guy in the portal that you know is
Speaker 2: like a Terrence Edwards or Javon Hadley. I mean, I
Speaker 2: probably want a guy like that, just because I think
Speaker 2: that that gives you the better chance to be successful.
Speaker 2: You might get a four star, top seventy type recruit,
Speaker 2: but he'll probably be behind the other veterans and after his
Speaker 2: freshman season he might stick around or he might leave
Speaker 2: and it would have been just a waste. Then you
Speaker 2: don't know if anybody, I mean, you never know if
Speaker 2: anybody's gonna leave anymore. You can't predict the future. But
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just I think high school freshmen
Speaker 2: that aren't the elite of the elite are going to
Speaker 2: have a much different path moving forward because of what
Speaker 2: has changed so much in college sports. That's that's probably
Speaker 2: not ideal for them, but I just think that's the
Speaker 2: way it's going to be. And more than anything, it's
Speaker 2: because guys stay in college way longer and the portal,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's that that is a product of
Speaker 2: what we're going through right now. All right, quick break
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Speaker 2: I love that Joe Dirty has kind of been like
Speaker 2: a low key theme today on the show, and I
Speaker 2: just remembered and this makes me feel good because we
Speaker 2: were really kind of reminiscing on the great classic comedy
Speaker 2: that is Joe Dirt, which I mean we were probably
Speaker 2: the demo right like the oh yes, I mean, what
Speaker 2: do you think.
Speaker 3: It's Rotten Tomatoes review.
Speaker 4: Is I'm gonna I'm gonna say they crap all over it.
Speaker 4: If I'm going to say about five out of ten.
Speaker 3: Let me look it up here, because it's probably not good.
Speaker 4: Rotten Tomatoes, likes, over dramatized, and way too.
Speaker 2: None percent Tomato Meter sixty four percent with the audience score,
Speaker 2: which isn't that the popcorn Meter is the audience right? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know better than I thought, But yeah they do.
Speaker 2: And I forgot that they made a second one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one was kind of that what was you see it? No? Right,
Speaker 3: So here here's what happened this.
Speaker 2: This scared me when it comes to like Happy Gilmour
Speaker 2: that they're having a sequel Dumb and Dumber. They did
Speaker 2: a second one and did Joe Dirt two. It was
Speaker 2: a Crackle original Crackle. Yeah that doesn't even exist anymore.
Speaker 2: It's a streaming platform that doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this came out in twenty fifteen, and I remember
Speaker 2: it was in February twenty sixteen. My daughter was just born,
Speaker 2: and you know, we just brought a newborn home from
Speaker 2: from the hospital. We're not sleeping at all. Even whenever
Speaker 2: she's sleeping, we're still like scared to go to sleep
Speaker 2: because you know, we're having to take care of a
Speaker 2: human being for the first time. And I remember I
Speaker 2: did fall asleep briefly on the couch and woke up
Speaker 2: Scared to Death and Joe Dirt two was on because
Speaker 2: I had started the movie before I fell asleep on Crackle,
Speaker 2: and Joe Dirt was sitting in a dentist chair and
Speaker 2: Baron Davis, the former NBA player, was the dentist, and
Speaker 2: I remember thinking, what.
Speaker 3: World am I in? Is this real? Like fever dress?
Speaker 2: And I remember thinking like, Okay, I'm not this is
Speaker 2: really stupid and it's it is one of the worst
Speaker 2: ever sequels for a movie that, you know what, did
Speaker 2: have a good run there many many years ago. So
Speaker 2: but I now know that I can think because I
Speaker 2: forgot when we were talking joey early, I forgot they
Speaker 2: even made a second one. So clearly the second one
Speaker 2: did not ruin the original for me, and I'm hopeful
Speaker 2: that that's what happens with Happy Gilmour as well. I've
Speaker 2: seen some clips that they're showing, and I mean skeptical.
Speaker 2: I hope it's gonna be entertaining and nostalgic and it'll
Speaker 2: just be a fun watch that doesn't do anything for me,
Speaker 2: because honestly.
Speaker 3: That's the way it should be. That's way it probably
Speaker 3: will be.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that I'm gonna think less of the
Speaker 2: original regardless of what happens with the second one.
Speaker 3: But we shall see, all right.
Speaker 2: Have a good night, everybody Austin, have a good weekend
Speaker 2: and find something cool with the flea Margaret, I sure
Speaker 2: will see you guys,