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Speaker 4: I was gonna say to a Monday edition of Coffee
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Speaker 4: but it's not Monday. It's Thursday, the day after Christmas.
Speaker 4: We've got two days left, and then we have the weekend,
Speaker 4: and then we kind of start like the same holiday
Speaker 4: schedule all over again, with New Year's Eve and of
Speaker 4: course New Year's Day both falling on a Tuesday and
Speaker 4: a Wednesday. So weird week. But hey, I'm happy to
Speaker 4: be back. I don't know if it's because I was
Speaker 4: so busy during the holidays, meaning both days I was off.
Speaker 4: Great time, celebrating family and Christmas and you know, well
Speaker 4: celebrating Christmas with family, a bunch of family, and it's
Speaker 4: been awesome. In fact, I still have some this weekend
Speaker 4: that I that I've got planned. So it was great.
Speaker 4: But maybe because it was so busy. I feel like Austin,
Speaker 4: the last time you and I did a show was
Speaker 4: like a month ago.
Speaker 2: Hey, it really does feel like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope you had a great Christmas.
Speaker 4: Yeah you too, man, I was, I was, I was
Speaker 4: a little bit under well, I'll just I was gonna
Speaker 4: try to not make it sound bad and I don't
Speaker 4: think it's terrible, but uh, Christmas morning was kind of
Speaker 4: a bummer for me. It was great to see my
Speaker 4: kids open up their presence, uh, and they were surprised.
Speaker 4: And Sanna did really well this year. But I talked
Speaker 4: about it on the show if you remember, not Austin,
Speaker 4: but I was my wife and I decided not to
Speaker 4: do presents this year, and she was, you know, she was,
Speaker 4: she was consistent. I was worried that I would actually
Speaker 4: not get her a gift, which I didn't, and then
Speaker 4: like she would think, like, well, I just had to
Speaker 4: get you something because I could not have you open
Speaker 4: a present, and then I would feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: because I was on her like, hey, be real, are
Speaker 4: we doing this.
Speaker 3: Like no gifts?
Speaker 4: And sure enough both did no gifts and you know,
Speaker 4: save us some money this Christmas time. And it's usually
Speaker 4: just been about I mean, since we've had kids, we
Speaker 4: look forward to most on Christmas is everything that comes
Speaker 4: with having young kids that are really into it, that
Speaker 4: love Santa, that kind of stuff. But I kind of
Speaker 4: felt like there was a little bit of a void,
Speaker 4: kind of an empty spot there because I didn't I
Speaker 4: didn't buy anybody like anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, it wasn't.
Speaker 4: About me getting gifts because I'm really hard to shop
Speaker 4: for anyways, because like I usually just you know, I'm
Speaker 4: a pretty simple man. I don't I don't need for
Speaker 4: much and if I do, I'll get it myself. And
Speaker 4: I don't spend a whole lot of money. I just
Speaker 4: spend money on things you know that I need to
Speaker 4: kind of keep me going. But I told her, no more,
Speaker 4: We're going to do Christmas with each other, and you know,
Speaker 4: if we if we want to just do like three
Speaker 4: gifts a piece or something whatever. But you know, I
Speaker 4: kept talking throughout the Christmas time that it didn't feel
Speaker 4: like it was really here. I think it's because I
Speaker 4: wasn't thinking about getting gifts for really anybody, because anybody
Speaker 4: else I get gifts for her she usually takes care
Speaker 4: of but because it's from us and the family. But
Speaker 4: she was kind of the person that I would usually
Speaker 4: shop for, and you know, I'd be procrastinating and scrambling
Speaker 4: a couple of days before at different stores, just trying
Speaker 4: to make sure I felt like I did a good job.
Speaker 4: I did good enough, and I didn't have to do
Speaker 4: any of that this year, which I guess was kind
Speaker 4: of nice. But I think I kind of miss that.
Speaker 4: I think that's just become part of, you know what,
Speaker 4: of what Christmas. Christmas is there.
Speaker 5: It can be like an empty void, especially if you're
Speaker 5: like not looking forward to like getting something on Christmas.
Speaker 5: That's kind of how it was for me. But the
Speaker 5: fiance did end up getting something for me, and we
Speaker 5: did too. We we still like to do the gift giving.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's a big it's a big part and
Speaker 4: I always knew that, but I think this year not
Speaker 4: doing it made me realize, Okay, no, that when I
Speaker 4: think of a great Christmas that's a part of it
Speaker 4: and I need that back.
Speaker 3: Did Santa do good with you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Santa the Big Man looked out for me good stuff.
Speaker 5: Got some Jordan's and got some whiskey that the new
Speaker 5: Chris Stapleton's got a whiskey out too, so nime of that.
Speaker 2: That was really cool.
Speaker 5: And actually this is fully grown up stuff that I love.
Speaker 5: The parents actually got me us a vacuum cleaner, okay,
Speaker 5: and that is so clutch because I've actually been going
Speaker 5: over there and kind of like stealing theres. My parents
Speaker 5: live like not even five six minutes away from me,
Speaker 5: so I'm always kind of going over there and stealing
Speaker 5: my mom's vacuum cleaner. So they just said, well, we
Speaker 5: know what you're getting you for this Christmas, and it
Speaker 5: was it's actually great.
Speaker 2: And I'm six.
Speaker 5: Seven years ago I would have been like a vacuum cleaner,
Speaker 5: but now, yes, look at.
Speaker 3: You growing up man.
Speaker 4: You know you need it and you know you'll utilize it,
Speaker 4: and you know this may sound crazy, but there'll be
Speaker 4: days where you kind of just look forward to using
Speaker 4: it and that's and that's life now, not because you're like, well,
Speaker 4: I'm glad I have this because I have to clean up,
Speaker 4: Like it'll be something that you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 4: with my schedule be in the way it is and
Speaker 4: and me getting home a little bit later than than
Speaker 4: than than my wife and kids do. I mean, I've
Speaker 4: kind of become the mister mom when it comes to
Speaker 4: straightening up the crib.
Speaker 3: And like I like doing it.
Speaker 4: Like it's kind of and I wouldn't say like it's fun,
Speaker 4: but it's productive. I like to see the job when
Speaker 4: it's all said and done, so you'll be you'll be
Speaker 4: using that vacuum more often than you probably even realize that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's something that you're just like me.
Speaker 5: It's something that you could put your name on at
Speaker 5: the end of the day, Like, yeah, you've seen those
Speaker 5: nice floors. See how I you could like scrub the
Speaker 5: couch with the little extendo arm thing. That thing's pretty
Speaker 5: clutch too, and it's it's it's pretty it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 5: I absolutely loathe sweeping, so like vacuuming is like a
Speaker 5: good like substitute for that. Maybe there may be like
Speaker 5: a little bits of dust that I can't get, but
Speaker 5: that that helps so much, dude. And actually I did
Speaker 5: not what I was looking forward to most I guess
Speaker 5: and I avoided trying to buy socks the last three
Speaker 5: weeks because I thought that's just what every dude.
Speaker 3: Yes, I got crossed this year from some family members.
Speaker 5: Didn't I get any sock man? Yeah, now I actually
Speaker 5: got to go buy some damn socks and.
Speaker 4: Other And that's one of those things you probably weren't like, thinking,
Speaker 4: you know, can't wait to get some socks, but they
Speaker 4: didn't come this year, and you're like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I think that's gonna need to be staple. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to make sure somebody knows to get me some socks.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I had a great Christmas, and I hope
Speaker 4: everybody else did as well. And uh, my favorite gift
Speaker 4: it wasn't It wasn't a gift that that I got
Speaker 4: or that that that I gave to somebody, but it
Speaker 4: was so my uh and I forgot that my wife
Speaker 4: was doing this. But my my, my father is is
Speaker 4: going to be Mason, my son, his his first year
Speaker 4: playing basketball is actually in fact, he plays his first
Speaker 4: game next weekend, but he's he's in a four year
Speaker 4: old basketball league. And my dad, his grandpa, is going
Speaker 4: to be his coach and I'm gonna be I'm going
Speaker 4: to be kind of like the assistant.
Speaker 3: And I forgot that.
Speaker 4: My wife, she ended up buying a whistle because my
Speaker 4: my my son said that that he's his his pap
Speaker 4: Paul needed a whistle, so he opened up his his
Speaker 4: presence on Christmas Eve night, my dad did. And uh,
Speaker 4: seeing that my my little one got in my whistle
Speaker 4: was was really cool.
Speaker 3: Saw yeah, good stuff all right.
Speaker 4: Now, speaking of good stuff, yesterday the NFL decided they
Speaker 4: were gonna get involved and really take over what people
Speaker 4: watch when it comes to sports on Christmas or really
Speaker 4: maybe anything.
Speaker 3: And they did it with Netflix, and.
Speaker 4: I, I mean, I was pretty impressed with everything that
Speaker 4: came with Netflix's production and it just got me thinking,
Speaker 4: you know, one, the NBA already was in a tough
Speaker 4: spot this year with viewership being down and Christmas Day
Speaker 4: kind of used to be where, you know, you knew
Speaker 4: that was on all day, and now like I didn't
Speaker 4: even because I knew there was good football games on,
Speaker 4: didn't care if it was Netflix, if it was on whatever,
Speaker 4: and I wanted to watch, I forgot the NBA was
Speaker 4: even going on.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: And what happened is that because the game was on Netflix.
Speaker 4: Both both NFL games, you didn't see like like, you
Speaker 4: didn't see any promotion for for the NBA. So usually,
Speaker 4: you know, more often than not, I shouldn't say, well,
Speaker 4: a lot of big time sporting events are on ESPN
Speaker 4: right like Monday Night Football. I mean, ESPN is is
Speaker 4: the worldwide leader in sports, so they're gonna promote, you know,
Speaker 4: what they do throughout and you see a ton of
Speaker 4: NBA like that's what the NBA. Some people may be
Speaker 4: surprised that the NBA viewership is down. It's probably never
Speaker 4: been what you guys think it is, because despite it
Speaker 4: being shoved in your face NonStop by ESPN, and it's
Speaker 4: a big talking point on the roundtable shows that they
Speaker 4: have all day every day seemingly, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 4: that everybody's tuning in to watch it.
Speaker 3: It's just not a good product.
Speaker 4: So the NBA used to be able to claim Christmas
Speaker 4: was kind of their day, and I guarantee you they
Speaker 4: lost a ton of viewership because the NFL decided to
Speaker 4: have games on Netflix yesterday and I don't see them
Speaker 4: going away from that, and I don't I don't see
Speaker 4: why Netflix can't become it's like, why they can't include
Speaker 4: live sports as a huge, you know, a big component
Speaker 4: of what they do along with everything else. And I'm
Speaker 4: you know, there's way more that goes into it than
Speaker 4: I would ever know. But it's been sort of like
Speaker 4: a you know, a tech not tech I guess a
Speaker 4: media TV rights kind of thing. It's been talked about
Speaker 4: for years to where why does Disney want ESPN? And
Speaker 4: I assume a lot of people know that that that
Speaker 4: that Disney owns ESPN. But again I guess maybe there's
Speaker 4: people that that don't realize that. But it's been an
Speaker 4: ongoing thing really pre pandemic. But then once once the
Speaker 4: pandemic happened, and you know, it was quite clear which
Speaker 4: side politically, ESPN personalities were told to kind of you know,
Speaker 4: stay on and things that they were willing to discuss
Speaker 4: and things that they wouldn't discuss. I mean you could tell,
Speaker 4: like the Disney brand was very much visible throughout times
Speaker 4: when it comes to you know, ESPN. So you know,
Speaker 4: there's been columns written by people like why does Disney
Speaker 4: want ESPN? They could sell it and you know be
Speaker 4: fine without it, and ESPN actually would you know when
Speaker 4: it didn't have to kind of operate underneath Disney. I
Speaker 4: mean ESPN could you know, maybe let their hair down
Speaker 4: a little bit right, maybe unbuttoned the top button on
Speaker 4: their dress shirt and like, you know, be a little
Speaker 4: bit more entertaining and fun and not so PC and
Speaker 4: not so dare I say woke? And I just thought, like,
Speaker 4: why doesn't Netflix buy ESPN from Disney? Clearly they have
Speaker 4: the money to do it. I mean, I guess Disney
Speaker 4: would be like, well, it's not for sale. And if
Speaker 4: that's the case, that's then you know whatever. But I
Speaker 4: don't even think Disney has really put a whole lot
Speaker 4: of priority into ESPN. I mean they've made it when
Speaker 4: you make huge cuts from a company like they have
Speaker 4: over the years, and it's been you know, jobs that
Speaker 4: weren't really replaced. Not to say that that's not you
Speaker 4: know that happens everywhere, but you know, Disney also has
Speaker 4: to feed Disney all the other you know, everything that
Speaker 4: comes with it. It's not ESPN and sports. So like
Speaker 4: if if if ESPN had a little bit like if
Speaker 4: they were they were independently owned. I don't mean, I
Speaker 4: don't mean like a one person guy from the street
Speaker 4: We're not talking Dave port or Dave portn or in
Speaker 4: Barstool Sports, but if they were not under the umbrella
Speaker 4: of a company like Walt Disney. I feel like in
Speaker 4: really that that was the only priority was to make
Speaker 4: ESPN great. I feel like it could be way better
Speaker 4: than it is right now. Yeah, and to see Netflix
Speaker 4: be able to put together what they did yesterday with
Speaker 4: those two NFL games. You know, you could tell, like
Speaker 4: anybody who was out there part of it in any way,
Speaker 4: like see him Punk was on the it was on
Speaker 4: it in some capacity.
Speaker 2: Uh has shirtless?
Speaker 4: I mean I saw people joking last week about how
Speaker 4: do they really need forty eight people to broadcast the
Speaker 4: football game? But that's what like Netflix could do because
Speaker 4: it's Netflix, meaning like they can bring in And what
Speaker 4: I don't understand is how the contract worked out with
Speaker 4: some of these, Like for example, Greg Olsen was your
Speaker 4: color analyst in the second game. Well, he works for Fox,
Speaker 4: so like he must have it in his contract to
Speaker 4: where he's like an into like because football is a
Speaker 4: very little component to what like CBS and Fox does.
Speaker 4: I'm sure these guys probably have it in their contract
Speaker 4: to where since they're only calling games like eighteen weeks
Speaker 4: a year. They probably have the ability to go work
Speaker 4: for some other networks, probably not ESPN, probably not Fox,
Speaker 4: if you work for CBS or vice versa. But they
Speaker 4: probably never thought I would. You'd have to worry about
Speaker 4: Netflix because you know, they'd never have been in this
Speaker 4: space before. So you could tell these were professionals, but
Speaker 4: you could also tell this was a one off, meaning
Speaker 4: that they've not worked together on set for years and
Speaker 4: they've not done a bunch of games together. I mean,
Speaker 4: I thought Ian Eagle and Nate Burlison with JJ Watt
Speaker 4: like those guys I think are fine, but like you
Speaker 4: could tell they've never worked a game together. And Nate Burleson,
Speaker 4: I think he's sharp, but like he's not on a
Speaker 4: talk show. He did what he did what I think
Speaker 4: a lot of time when you see somebody who's a
Speaker 4: studio analyst or maybe like a host of a show, radio,
Speaker 4: whatever it may be, and ESPN kind of throws them
Speaker 4: down to like do color commentary, they can't get out
Speaker 4: of their brain that they're not on a talk show,
Speaker 4: like I talked. I said that about Jay Williams a lot.
Speaker 4: Jay Williams, you know he did radio for a long
Speaker 4: time he was on Get Up. I mean, he's had
Speaker 4: a lot of different jobs, but when he went from
Speaker 4: you know, I think he's gotten a little more comfortable
Speaker 4: with it once again now. But when he started doing
Speaker 4: college basketball games for the first time in a while,
Speaker 4: I think it was back, you know, towards the beginning
Speaker 4: of the KP era, Like you couldn't it wasn't as
Speaker 4: if he was just over talking like it wasn't. He
Speaker 4: wasn't over talking to play by play guy. He wasn't
Speaker 4: you know, interjecting. But once he would start talking to
Speaker 4: give you know, calm terry, which is his job, it
Speaker 4: would turn into a radio segment and like that's not
Speaker 4: what that's for. So I noticed a little bit of
Speaker 4: that yesterday, but overall, like I was really impressed. You know,
Speaker 4: there seemed to be a real understanding, and some people
Speaker 4: probably thought it was laying whatever. And I didn't like
Speaker 4: seeing Kelsey and Mahomes out there in those big Santa coades,
Speaker 4: just you know, because I can't stand the chiefs. But
Speaker 4: like that was an added entertainment element that that you know,
Speaker 4: Netflix probably thinks about more so than you know than ESPN.
Speaker 4: So I'm not throwing it out there to say that
Speaker 4: this is gonna happen. I have no clue or I
Speaker 4: have no clue Disney would even want to sell ESPN,
Speaker 4: But I feel like if they did, there'd be a
Speaker 4: buyer in Netflix. Like imagine if everything you watch that's
Speaker 4: underneath the ESPN umbrella, rather it be ACC Network, SEC Network,
Speaker 4: anything on ESPN, anything on ABC, ESPN two, ESPN. You
Speaker 4: just think of you know how often times when you're
Speaker 4: watching sports content, rather it be a game or show,
Speaker 4: it's you know, even if you have good for ESPN plus,
Speaker 4: that's still within the ESPN world, right, Imagine if all
Speaker 4: of that just existed within Netflix. Everybody has Netflix. I
Speaker 4: feel like I could be wrong. It's one of those
Speaker 4: things that it's been around so long, it's so popular.
Speaker 4: I just assume everybody has it. But you know, maybe
Speaker 4: I'm way off there. Like Netflix is the one I
Speaker 4: think people keep a hold of because it's just been
Speaker 4: a constant when it comes to streaming. Maybe they don't
Speaker 4: watch as much on there as they used to. So
Speaker 4: we're going to get there at some point, Like at
Speaker 4: some point there will be there will be a streaming
Speaker 4: provider that that does decide to like you know, make
Speaker 4: a because they're all in bed with these leagues right now,
Speaker 4: right like Netflix, they this is their first this is
Speaker 4: the first time that they did something like this with
Speaker 4: the NFL, but you know they had the boxing match before,
Speaker 4: They've done something.
Speaker 3: With soccer and Tom Brady roast exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: And then you've got with Amazon prom Thursday Night football
Speaker 4: every single week.
Speaker 3: You've got Peacock. I think they've had an exclusive.
Speaker 4: And Peacock, by the way, has Big Ten games now
Speaker 4: that you did that you watch on the Big Ten network.
Speaker 4: So every one of these streaming services has dipped their
Speaker 4: toe in. They they've done some trial and error to
Speaker 4: see kind of you know what, if they have the
Speaker 4: ability to do it more than they want to, if
Speaker 4: they're subscribers are into it, and does it generate more
Speaker 4: people wanting to subscribe and sign up. So one of
Speaker 4: these companies is gonna take a bigger swing and say
Speaker 4: we want a bigger piece of this pie. And I
Speaker 4: don't know if that's a move that you know, they
Speaker 4: acquire ESPN, but I just feel like it if there
Speaker 4: was one that was gonna do it, I would feel
Speaker 4: like Netflix would be the most inclined to do it
Speaker 4: because you know, I feel like there still are the
Speaker 4: bigger brand, and you know, they've had some competition on
Speaker 4: the streaming front, but last I checked, there's still they're
Speaker 4: still killing it as far as subscriptions and revenue and whatnot.
Speaker 4: And you know, I just feel like anybody watching sports
Speaker 4: right now probably already has Netflix. But again that's probably
Speaker 4: me just in my own bubble thinking that everybody you
Speaker 4: know is the same way as me, and that's that's
Speaker 4: not the case.
Speaker 5: But ESPN's now doing or yeah, ESPN's now doing the
Speaker 5: thing on Disney Plus where they they simulcasts a game
Speaker 5: with like like the Simpsons. You remember when they did that,
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the Monday Night Football a few weeks back.
Speaker 2: Well, yesterday they did that with the NBA.
Speaker 5: But it was like Goofy and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse kind
Speaker 5: of which I'm not gonna lie sometimes is entertaining because
Speaker 5: it's cool to watch Donald duck duck on somebody I.
Speaker 3: Heard that was actually pretty funny.
Speaker 5: Yesteryeary that might have actually been better than the actual games, But.
Speaker 4: It's not one of those things you think of like, oh,
Speaker 4: that'll be entertaining, and then you tune in and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this isn't bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not too bad.
Speaker 5: You just gotta have you it's not on the ESP
Speaker 5: and you have to go to the Disney Plus app
Speaker 5: to view that.
Speaker 4: And that's again, these are all things to like get people,
Speaker 4: just to get them there. Like if you don't have
Speaker 4: Disney Plus, you know, maybe that maybe that encouraged you
Speaker 4: to get it so you could watch it and then
Speaker 4: you're there right like and also that could potentially bring
Speaker 4: in people who you you know, again, I'm just thinking
Speaker 4: who the hell it and watching the NFL on Sundays.
Speaker 4: But it might be people who aren't into it, but
Speaker 4: if their kids heard about, Hey, there's gonna be something
Speaker 4: that's like cartoon related. You know, you're always you know,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get your base in the NFL has a
Speaker 4: monstrous base. That sounded dirty, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: did it sound like they have monstrous Like if if
Speaker 4: somebody said monstrous base and they're talking about me, I'm
Speaker 4: feeling pretty good good.
Speaker 2: But I've always got to count the base.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, But what I mean is, you know I've
Speaker 3: lost my train of.
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Speaker 4: I was mentioning, uh that when it comes to, you know,
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Speaker 4: take care of your the people that you know are
Speaker 4: going to be there, but you're also trying to do
Speaker 4: other things to bring in folks that maybe wouldn't be
Speaker 4: your regulars, right, And that's why I was saying that,
Speaker 4: you know, nobody has a better built in audience that
Speaker 4: is going to be there regardless in the NFL because
Speaker 4: it's the most popular sport in the country, which is
Speaker 4: why I mentioned that it's got a monstrous space. And
Speaker 4: then I just you know, realized that sounded kind of
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Speaker 4: switch up my game a little bit to you know,
Speaker 4: be a to be better suited to uh, you know,
Speaker 4: to to fill in for Tony.
Speaker 2: So well you've done that before, you to wake up
Speaker 2: that early when we do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that yes, and and that that I do
Speaker 4: have some familiarity with. But when it comes to like
Speaker 4: it being a news show and not a sports show
Speaker 4: and not I can just you know, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of nonsense that goes on here. I mean we were
Speaker 4: just talking monsters base. That's that's you know.
Speaker 3: I feel like the crew on news Radio eight forty
Speaker 3: whas what.
Speaker 2: Do you measure apace?
Speaker 3: They wouldn't be able to handle the monster space. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't know how.
Speaker 4: I think there's like a I think it's like a
Speaker 4: digital thing like you just it says monstrous ruler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 4: So anyways, uh, that kind of nonsense that we just
Speaker 4: got into there is something I probably won't be getting
Speaker 4: into on HAS and you know, unless they want me to.
Speaker 4: If you want me to really uh you know, trash
Speaker 4: up the joint, let me know, I can probably probably
Speaker 4: make that happen. So with me filling in for a
Speaker 4: few days tomorrow starting and then early next week, you'll
Speaker 4: still hear me, but it may just be a different version.
Speaker 4: And I do we are going to actually, in fact,
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to this in four o'clock hour, We're
Speaker 4: basically going to do a year in review, kind of
Speaker 4: like a best stuff thing where we just discussed, you know,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, what stood out best movies, we watched,
Speaker 4: TV shows, sports moment, that kind of stuff, and we'll
Speaker 4: have some fun with it and we'll repurpose some of
Speaker 4: that next week when we're actually off for New Year's
Speaker 4: So just wanted to give you guys a little bit
Speaker 4: of heads up on that. But if you are somebody
Speaker 4: in this, and I'm very content with where we are
Speaker 4: right now, I really like what this show is kind
Speaker 4: of has kind of turned into once we made the
Speaker 4: move to the afternoons. But I did love the mornings,
Speaker 4: and I had a lot of people when I made
Speaker 4: the move from mornings to afternoons tell me that, you know,
Speaker 4: they they hate that I did that, and it was
Speaker 4: kind of uncomfortable for a while because I really stopped
Speaker 4: knowing what I was supposed to say when people would
Speaker 4: mention that, like, well, okay, do you realize I, you know,
Speaker 4: wasn't really necessarily you know, it wasn't necessarily my call.
Speaker 4: But then again, I did have some influence and I
Speaker 4: was looking forward to challenge to move into afternoons, and
Speaker 4: I love that we're here, but you know, like people
Speaker 4: were mad at me, and I'm like, well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: we're not. I hate that you missed us in the mornings,
Speaker 4: but you can always check out the show on the
Speaker 4: afternoon or listen to the podcast from the previous show
Speaker 4: when you're on your way to work that next morning.
Speaker 4: You know, you can kind of still get me in
Speaker 4: the morning if you'd like. And I just feel like, I,
Speaker 4: you know, kind of let people down, which was you know,
Speaker 4: I'm sure people it was flattering more than anything. But
Speaker 4: after a while, I'm like, look, I'm not going back
Speaker 4: to mornings because people like you think there's any chance
Speaker 4: they put you back, and I'm like, no, we're not
Speaker 4: going back to mornings. This is this is the show,
Speaker 4: So please tune in the afternoons and understand that, you know,
Speaker 4: we need you as a listeners. So those people, if
Speaker 4: you've if you know, if you still want me in
Speaker 4: the morning, I'll be there. It'll just be a station
Speaker 4: down or I'm sorry, a station up. So you go
Speaker 4: from seven to ninety up a few notches on your
Speaker 4: dial to eight forty whas and of course you can
Speaker 4: also listen on the iHeart Radio app, which I'm sure
Speaker 4: a lot of you are listening right now. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I kind of want our regulars to listen in sample
Speaker 4: size and just kind of, you know.
Speaker 3: Give me some feedback.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll be tuning in.
Speaker 4: You know, and I'm not going to read it on
Speaker 4: the text line tomorrow, but like, give me some feedback
Speaker 4: and be harsh if you want, Like tell me if
Speaker 4: you think it sucks, tell me if you feel like
Speaker 4: it's too boring. Because I like the challenge of you know,
Speaker 4: and they've actually talked about this making has a little
Speaker 4: bit younger. I like the challenge of you know, giving
Speaker 4: has some younger flavor. I mean not to say that
Speaker 4: those guys over there now are ancient, but those guys
Speaker 4: over there now are ancient, you know, And I'm kidding
Speaker 4: they're not. They're not old geezers. But you know, there's
Speaker 4: a big demo that that, you know, we target, and
Speaker 4: on the younger side, there's nobody live on.
Speaker 3: Has that that is close to that as far as.
Speaker 4: You just start lineup, and that's not anybody's fault, that's
Speaker 4: just kind of how things have worked out. So if
Speaker 4: I can go over there here and there and help
Speaker 4: out and you know, make it a little bit more.
Speaker 4: You know, I got to find that balance of like
Speaker 4: younger a little bit more, I guess, you know, in
Speaker 4: touch with that demo, but also like where I can
Speaker 4: bring some nonsense and just not call it that, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So let me let me ask, is this like, has
Speaker 5: have you like a brainstorm with Tony Kruz a couple
Speaker 5: of things that you're going to talk about? Are you
Speaker 5: just kind of going in here just just just just
Speaker 5: doing it raw?
Speaker 3: So what I've been doing.
Speaker 4: What I've been doing is listening in on his show
Speaker 4: and pulling up podcast and just because I want this
Speaker 4: is just I'm literally just help filling in, helping them
Speaker 4: out when he's on vacation. And you know, I like
Speaker 4: the challenge and I like the I like the thought
Speaker 4: of doing this and knowing it's a little bit different.
Speaker 4: So I've been listening to just different different different parts
Speaker 4: of his show and figuring out, Okay, here's the structure,
Speaker 4: here's the format.
Speaker 3: What what I do differently here?
Speaker 4: What you know, what could I do to you know,
Speaker 4: not not necessarily not be Tony Cruz, but you know,
Speaker 4: put my own flavor on it, right, be original and
Speaker 4: you know, share the news that everybody you know has
Speaker 4: access to at any point on their phone, but you know,
Speaker 4: maybe add a little bit of entertainment value to it
Speaker 4: if I can. So yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: It'll be you know, just a few days, but you know,
Speaker 4: I'll have to get up early, and I'm sure when
Speaker 4: I get out of bed, I'll be like why did
Speaker 4: I Why did I volunteer to do this? But also
Speaker 4: you know, be able to get out pretty early, Like
Speaker 4: there's no way those people don't nap, right, And I
Speaker 4: guess I can ask them. I see those people like
Speaker 4: they're not humans. I mean they start their day at
Speaker 4: like three thirty in the morning, like the crew that
Speaker 4: does has because they're live at five every morning when
Speaker 4: it's not holidays, and you know, you got to get up.
Speaker 4: You gotta get ready, I mean you gotta get ready.
Speaker 3: For a show.
Speaker 2: So the company nds up.
Speaker 4: Really, yes, I don't know how you wouldn't squeeze in
Speaker 4: a nap or just go to bed at like seven pm.
Speaker 4: And I don't think anybody wants to do that. Yeah
Speaker 4: that's gross, very gross, very gross. So anyways, yeah, looking
Speaker 4: forward to it at four o'clock. We'll run through twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four. I can't believe it's already almost over, but
Speaker 4: here we are.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: So some breaking news earlier today that I don't know
Speaker 4: if this was something that people expected this, you know
Speaker 4: this this season, but Jim Laredega has has stepped down
Speaker 4: as the head coach at Miami.
Speaker 3: And you know it.
Speaker 4: He's always been a fine coach, but you know, it
Speaker 4: has been really really bad. I mean, Miami went to
Speaker 4: a Final four two years ago, and at that time,
Speaker 4: it would be crazy to tell you that Laronega, just
Speaker 4: a season and a half later would be stepping down,
Speaker 4: because that's how bad Miami is.
Speaker 3: I would have never believed.
Speaker 4: It, especially when you know that he still has one
Speaker 4: of his best players from that Final four team. So
Speaker 4: I don't know why that it's happening mid season. And
Speaker 4: I'll let you guys hear some sound from him in
Speaker 4: just a moment. But like, I don't know, people realized
Speaker 4: how bad Miami was last year. I mean, hell, Kenny
Speaker 4: Pyne beat him. Kenny Paint's only road win as a
Speaker 4: head basketball coach came against Kenny Payne or Kemmy Kim
Speaker 4: against Lernaig at Miami.
Speaker 2: Probably time to hanging up there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that alone was a big tell. And
Speaker 4: then this year they went out on the portal and
Speaker 4: they brought in some good players. They brought Nigel pack back,
Speaker 4: who's a really good guard. And they're terrible. I mean
Speaker 4: they're sitting at four and eight right now. They have
Speaker 4: losses to Mount Saint Mary's, they have losses to Charleston
Speaker 4: Southern Drake. I mean, they're they're really really bad. And
Speaker 4: that's a good job. And this is I don't mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know what Syracuse is gonna do, but Red
Speaker 4: Autry he's probably gonna be I would imagine he'll probably
Speaker 4: be let go after this year because Syracuse wasn't good
Speaker 4: last year and they're terrible this year. You know, Virginia
Speaker 4: clearly has an opening now and they're gonna hire a
Speaker 4: new coach. I doubt the interim guy has a real chance.
Speaker 4: And if so, that's crazy because he's not very good
Speaker 4: in virgin is a really really good job. So like
Speaker 4: who gets these jobs in Florida State? Like, at any moment,
Speaker 4: if Leonard Hamilton steps down, who can be surprised Florida
Speaker 4: State's not having a very good year this year. I mean,
Speaker 4: they're they're decent this year, but last year they were bad.
Speaker 4: Year before that they.
Speaker 3: Were really bad.
Speaker 4: It's just clearly run its course. He's not getting any younger.
Speaker 4: So like when those jobs open, who ends up getting
Speaker 4: hired and what these universities, what Florida State, Miami, Syracuse, Virginia, like,
Speaker 4: what they decide to do will have a big impact
Speaker 4: on if the ACC can get back to being a
Speaker 4: respectable basketball league. And I shouldn't act like it's not
Speaker 4: a respectable league now because it's still one of, you know,
Speaker 4: the top five leagues in the country, but like it
Speaker 4: used to be the elite league of college hoops. And
Speaker 4: even if the SEC, you know, because the SEC could
Speaker 4: have still gotten a lot better in the in the
Speaker 4: ACC still like maintained, you know, its elite brand.
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that.
Speaker 4: Is, you know, I'm not the SEC is you could
Speaker 4: you could learn from what they did. But it's just
Speaker 4: wild to say that about the a SEC because basketball
Speaker 4: it's always just been known to be a basketball league,
Speaker 4: and it wasn't necessarily just because they didn't have a
Speaker 4: whole lot to hang their hat on when it comes
Speaker 4: to football, although some would say that was why, but
Speaker 4: it was because they were just so good in basketball.
Speaker 4: With the elite programs that you know, we're talking Duke Carolina,
Speaker 4: you know Virginia, you now throw them in there as
Speaker 4: a title team. Obviously, you added schools like Syracuse and
Speaker 4: Louisville who have great history in tradition in basketball. N
Speaker 4: C State is a big time basketball program despite not
Speaker 4: being Carolina or a duke. So you know, these these
Speaker 4: these these jobs are really good jobs. And the SEC,
Speaker 4: when you go back to and I've talked about this before,
Speaker 4: when they decided to get serious about basketball, you could
Speaker 4: see right away that it was going to make an impact.
Speaker 4: They had a network, meaning their channel, the SEC Network launched.
Speaker 4: They knew they needed people to watch it. They knew
Speaker 4: that they needed the basketball product to be better for people.
Speaker 3: To tune in.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure it was one of the meetings they
Speaker 4: have annually with the athletic directors and the president and
Speaker 4: they basically told him, look, we are going to have
Speaker 4: to emphasize basketball and care about it more than we
Speaker 4: ever have, so let's invest.
Speaker 3: So what do they do. They go out there.
Speaker 4: They pay big money because they can afford it to
Speaker 4: go hire some big name coaches. Some of these coaches
Speaker 4: have kind of become bigger names while at the SEC schools,
Speaker 4: right Like, for example, Nat Oates was at Buffalo. You know,
Speaker 4: he took a jump up to Bama and now he's rolling.
Speaker 4: That was a good investment that Bama made in him.
Speaker 4: But then you also have Rick Barnes, who is at
Speaker 4: Texas gets hired by Tennessee. Tennessee's an elite program right now.
Speaker 4: I mean Texas A and M's not great, but I'll
Speaker 4: use them as an example. They've got Buzz Williams, who
Speaker 4: was at Virginia Tech and the ACC. When he left,
Speaker 4: a lot of people thought that seems like a lateral move.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, Texas A and M's,
Speaker 4: you know, they got a lot of money, they got
Speaker 4: good resources there. Why can't you win at a place
Speaker 4: that doesn't really have a whole lot of basketball tradition.
Speaker 4: So I don't really know who is going to be
Speaker 4: top in line for the Miami job or for the
Speaker 4: Syracuse job if it opens up. Same thing with Florida
Speaker 4: State VIRGINI. But it's important to make a big I mean,
Speaker 4: the only school I can think of. I mean, anytime
Speaker 4: you make a higher, you're gonna say that you know
Speaker 4: this is going to be a critical hire because it
Speaker 4: could set your program back big time if you get
Speaker 4: it wrong, and it could set you up for decades
Speaker 4: of success if you get it right. Like timing of
Speaker 4: a higher, I mean, there are some certain instances where
Speaker 4: like it's on you, like when Kenny Payne was higher,
Speaker 4: the timing of that in every way, which is weird
Speaker 4: because of the Josh wasn't even the full time ad
Speaker 4: Mack left mid year, Like it was just it was
Speaker 4: just different. But overall, like the timing when you're a
Speaker 4: big time program, timing is never really a factor. When
Speaker 4: you're hiring a coach and you have a good program
Speaker 4: that you want to you want to either sustain great
Speaker 4: success or you want to get it back to where
Speaker 4: it once was. Like it's always important to make the
Speaker 4: right higher. But I just feel like with a lot
Speaker 4: of these jobs kind of probably opening up in the
Speaker 4: same two three years, Man, if these guys get it wrong,
Speaker 4: like the AEC is going to be, it's gonna be,
Speaker 4: it's gonna take a long time to get it back.
Speaker 4: Maybe it never comes back because I think it can
Speaker 4: like programs like Duke and Caro Line and I think, look,
Speaker 4: I know Louisville is a factor in the ACC being
Speaker 4: terrible lately because Louisville the last few years has been
Speaker 4: worse than anybody thought they would ever be. But Louisville
Speaker 4: is also a program that will always have to give
Speaker 4: a damn about basketball and they're gonna get with you know,
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey, he came here at a pretty affordable rate
Speaker 4: for Louisville, but like, maybe no mistake about it if
Speaker 4: he does well here and he's generating momentum elsewhere because
Speaker 4: people realize, yeah, he's at Louisville, but man, they're not
Speaker 4: paying him crazy. Louisville will do what they're gonna pay
Speaker 4: him crazy because they care about basketball and they're always
Speaker 4: going to And even that's not me saying louis Is
Speaker 4: gonna be great down the line. Who knows. I hope
Speaker 4: they will, and I think Pat's got the tools here
Speaker 4: at Louisville to where they could be phenomenal. But I'm
Speaker 4: just saying Louisville will always be a school that cares
Speaker 4: about basketball more than a lot. Same thing would do Carolina,
Speaker 4: even NC State, which they would have got rid of
Speaker 4: keats last year, they probably would have went out and
Speaker 4: knew they had to make a big spin. So I
Speaker 4: just hope these schools don't go cheap and they go
Speaker 4: and get somebody who, you know, can bring some sizzle
Speaker 4: back into the league, because it's something that I've said
Speaker 4: Louisville can benefit from this year, meaning winning maybe a
Speaker 4: lot of games. But it's still sad overall to know
Speaker 4: that the league is so much different now than it
Speaker 4: was ten years ago. So larenege is out at Miami,
Speaker 4: and it was kind of funny to hear his reasoning
Speaker 4: for leaving, which I mean, I think he's kind of
Speaker 4: a fraud with his answer, but well let's hear it
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Speaker 4: You know, I'm looking for something to bet on here
Speaker 4: today because you know, that's that's what I like to do.
Speaker 4: And we do have a few Bowl games. In fact,
Speaker 4: we've got one at half here. Toledo up twenty to
Speaker 4: twelve over Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I took Toledo plus six and a half
Speaker 5: in a little parlay.
Speaker 4: Not a good finish for a pit team. They got
Speaker 4: off to a phenomenal start. If they don't don't survive here.
Speaker 2: And they were seven and ol at one point.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they were ranked and then they they fell
Speaker 4: apart Rutgers in Kansas State plates tonight Kansas State minus seven.
Speaker 2: With like Rutgers to cover.
Speaker 4: I just with these man, I don't know who's playing
Speaker 4: who's not right, Like I don't know who's in the portal.
Speaker 4: I mean, I could easily look it up, but I
Speaker 4: just I haven't when it comes to bowl games, I
Speaker 4: just I feel I'm gonna give you an example, Like
Speaker 4: you like to play like slot machines, right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: so I've I've I've never been into it, although you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just not my cup of tea because
Speaker 4: I just feel like there's no like.
Speaker 3: It's just luck.
Speaker 2: Like there's random.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's totally random. And if I to me that
Speaker 4: that that doesn't have the entertainment value of even if
Speaker 4: I'm playing cards, like I know I'm making the decision
Speaker 4: and there's a lot involved, and you know I can,
Speaker 4: but the end, at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 4: all I think luck. Like for example, when I do
Speaker 4: well and betting on sports, you know, I like to
Speaker 4: tell myself that it's because I really knew something and
Speaker 4: I was I was right, and I took a risk
Speaker 4: and it was worth it and I trusted myself. And
Speaker 4: there is some truth too that knowing what you're betting on,
Speaker 4: But you know, at the end of the day, a
Speaker 4: lot of it's luck. If it wasn't, then if there
Speaker 4: was a you know, great way to do it, then
Speaker 4: everybody would do it make a ton of money, and
Speaker 4: that would make any sense for these sports books. So
Speaker 4: when it comes to the Bowl games, I mean, I
Speaker 4: just feel like I can't even convince myself that I've
Speaker 4: got I've got a tell here that you know that
Speaker 4: nobody else is seeing. I've got something that the sharps
Speaker 4: aren't realizing. Like, so I just it's like flipping a
Speaker 4: coin where I just feel like I'm wasting money. I'm
Speaker 4: probably wasting money on most things I bet on anyway,
Speaker 4: but like just not knowing who's playing because of the portal,
Speaker 4: I could go look it up, but like I just
Speaker 4: I feel like, you know what, that's probably not even
Speaker 4: gonna be worth it, because I could go study and
Speaker 4: get info as far as which team is being hurt
Speaker 4: more by guys in the portal for this bowl game,
Speaker 4: but like in the end, it may not even make
Speaker 4: a difference, so I may get involved later, But I
Speaker 4: wanted to bet on some college basketball. And I'm I'm
Speaker 4: kind of you know, who's in charge of scheduling around
Speaker 4: the holidays, because Christmas Eve should have.
Speaker 3: Been a day where you had more going on.
Speaker 4: The only game I think was a bowl game late
Speaker 4: at night where it was South Florida and and I'm
Speaker 4: not even sure who they played, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: but that was the only game that day. Yesterday, you
Speaker 4: had a full day of college basketball with that tournament
Speaker 4: going on in Hawaii. Chris Max team ended up going
Speaker 4: I think two and one, maybe three and one there
Speaker 4: depending on how many games they played. So you know,
Speaker 4: those weren't great college games, but there were college games,
Speaker 4: and of course the NFL was on Netflix. But today
Speaker 4: there's no college hoops, so and I'm sure it's because
Speaker 4: maybe families or players are traveling back for the holidays,
Speaker 4: but you know, I need some college hoops going on,
Speaker 4: and we don't have it, and it makes me, it
Speaker 4: makes me sad.
Speaker 5: And there's not much tomorrow either. It's we gotta wait
Speaker 5: till Saturday for some college I.
Speaker 3: Mean, I'm sure there's bowl games tomorrow.
Speaker 4: It looks like, yes, yeah, tomorrow, there's there's some decent
Speaker 4: games Texas A and M in USC Syracuse, Washington State, Arkansas,
Speaker 4: Texas Tech, Van. So these are teams I'm more familiar
Speaker 4: with just because I've I've watched them. So like if
Speaker 4: I know, you know, certain guys playing or not playing, Yeah,
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's slay to college football.
Speaker 3: I can. I can.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm gonna win, but I can
Speaker 4: get into it and have fun and you know, hope
Speaker 4: to win money. But yes, we need college hoops before Saturday.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't look like a don look like we're
Speaker 4: gonna get it now. The Louisville game, just looking here
Speaker 4: at this is at DraftKings currently favored by two.
Speaker 3: And a half.
Speaker 4: So I think I think it's been around there for
Speaker 4: a while. I think even after the Louisville had some
Speaker 4: guys opt out, you still you know, you saw that
Speaker 4: spread kind of hovering right around two and a half.
Speaker 4: And speaking of louisvill football, this is this is worth mentioning.
Speaker 4: The the quarterback room got a little deeper for this
Speaker 4: for this upcoming bowl game because Brady Allen has decided
Speaker 4: to withdraw from the transfer portal, so he will be
Speaker 4: your third scholarship quarterback there and that gives you, you
Speaker 4: know more, I don't know. Brady Allen's a mystery. He
Speaker 4: came with Brahm from Purdue and was a big time recruit,
Speaker 4: I believe, you know. Clarkson of course was a big
Speaker 4: deal because of the West Coast and he was bringing
Speaker 4: and he did bring a handful of of guys from
Speaker 4: California with him, but I'm not sure if any of
Speaker 4: those guys ever really worked out now that I think
Speaker 4: about it. But anyways, there was a lot of hype
Speaker 4: surrounding Pierce Clarkson for a variety of reasons. One of
Speaker 4: it because he was a pretty highly ranked quarterback. He
Speaker 4: was a four star, you know, had a lot of
Speaker 4: offers interests from from big time schools and Brady Allen actually,
Speaker 4: and I think the previous class was rated just around
Speaker 4: the same area. So you know, I remember thinking a
Speaker 4: year ago there's gonna be a good scenario where one
Speaker 4: of those two guys is not here next year, because
Speaker 4: it's just how it works now with quarterbacks in the portal.
Speaker 4: Guys want to transfer where they're gonna an opportunity to play,
Speaker 4: and both of them ended up hitting the portal. But
Speaker 4: I guess now that there's a little bit more room,
Speaker 4: Brady Allen decided to remove his name and sit back
Speaker 4: and look, maybe he's gonna end up being your backup
Speaker 4: if something happens with Miller Moss. Maybe he feels like
Speaker 4: he couldmpete with Miller Moss. I don't know, but you know,
Speaker 4: now you don't have to as much worry about you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, Brady hadn't played a whole lot, and I
Speaker 4: know the what's the young man's name, the kid from
Speaker 4: Texas that's a true freshman this year. He has no experience,
Speaker 4: So you know, if something happens to Miller Moss, obviously
Speaker 4: you're you're, you're, you're, You're probably worried, and most teams
Speaker 4: would be if they're starting quarterback goes down and they
Speaker 4: become a differ and team that's just not it's not
Speaker 4: it's not ideal, but having more options is certainly a
Speaker 4: you know, a good thing to have if somebody does
Speaker 4: get hurt. And Brady Allen, I'm not sure we've ever
Speaker 4: seen it or we'll see it, to be honest, but
Speaker 4: he is somebody that did have a lot of hype,
Speaker 4: have a lot a lot of hype coming out of
Speaker 4: high school, and somebody that brom still speaks really highly of.
Speaker 4: So don't know if we'll see him, but he has
Speaker 4: decided to remove his name from the portal and come back.
Speaker 4: Also some more commitments to UH to get to here
Speaker 4: for Louisville football from the portal UH. And this guy's name,
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe that his name was pronounced the way
Speaker 4: I heard it was pronounced, but I believe it is
Speaker 4: pronounced demon. Maybe his mother just knew he was going
Speaker 4: to be a bad kid.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, when your name is Demon, I have just
Speaker 4: there's there's a chance you're a great young man and act. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but like you know, I just don't know how you
Speaker 4: come up with that name. Like I don't know if
Speaker 4: that like, I don't know why you like when you
Speaker 4: said when you chose to name your son demon, there
Speaker 4: has to be some kind of a story to it
Speaker 4: that makes it not sound as bad as it is.
Speaker 4: But Demon Clowney is a transfer from Charlotte, and yes
Speaker 4: he is a cousin of Jadavian Clowney, right, who you know,
Speaker 4: So clearly some good genes there. But he started his
Speaker 4: his career at Ole Miss, didn't play a whole lot there,
Speaker 4: ended up then transferring to Charlotte and was productive for
Speaker 4: them in this past season and hit the portal and
Speaker 4: he will be uh, he'll be transferring to Louisville. So uh,
Speaker 4: I feel like they're in fact, maybe I'll say this
Speaker 4: for a little bit later because I don't have a
Speaker 4: whole lot of time now, but I sense a trend
Speaker 4: here with the guys that Jeff Brahm is bringing in,
Speaker 4: and uh, I think there's there's a good reason for
Speaker 4: him to be targeting certain types of guys coming from
Speaker 4: certain programs, And I think it's it's it's it's something
Speaker 4: you know other coaches may end up doing as well,
Speaker 4: just because you got to be able to figure out
Speaker 4: if dues are here because they just want another payday,
Speaker 4: or if they're here because they feel like, Hey, I've
Speaker 4: never played at this level and I want to prove
Speaker 4: that I can be a power for or cornerback or
Speaker 4: defensive lineman of something like that. And I think there's
Speaker 4: more value there than people realize. And Jeff got burned
Speaker 4: by that last year, and I think there's been a
Speaker 4: clear type if you will, that he's had not not
Speaker 4: to say they're not they're open to anybody. They feel
Speaker 4: like they can come in and help them. But a
Speaker 4: lot of these smaller schools that are producing guys that
Speaker 4: have now committed to Louisville to transfer in. I think
Speaker 4: there's a reason for that when it comes to you know,
Speaker 4: I don't think that's a coincidence.
Speaker 3: That's what I'll say.
Speaker 4: All right, let's do this quick break, we'll come back
Speaker 4: and two more hours left. We'll spend the next hour
Speaker 4: kind of looking back over the year that was twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four coming to an end.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know everybody said it.
Speaker 4: I've said it for like, how would his time and
Speaker 4: go by as fast as it does? How are we
Speaker 4: starting twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: It's that's insane, it's crazy, But here we are.
Speaker 4: So we'll talk about it and a lot more for
Speaker 4: the next two hours. Right here, Coffee and Company, feel
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