5.22: Absolute Cinema - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick coffee.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And here to start the five o'clock hour.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Then we are out because the Louisville Bats will be
taken over. We'll hand it off to the voice of
the Louisville Bats, Nick Curran. But it is coffee and
company and we are fuel about Thornton's here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you hanging out with us on
a beautiful, yet breezy Thursday evening. I know the holiday
weekend's coming up, and that usually means really the unofficial
or maybe the official start of the summer for a

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lot of people. But the weather, I mean, it could
be worse. I don't think it's supposed to storm or anything,
but we're not gonna have very cold temes, although I
do see Saturdays high as now it's any one. But
you know, I think people probably are wanting to get
something closer to the eighties or maybe in the eighties
as we get the summer started. Which has talked about
it earlier this week, and I'm sure I'm not alone,

(01:10):
but this weekend, this holiday weekend always to me seems
like when the summer actually starts, this is typically around
the same time where a lot of kids are getting
out of school, which I know is going on. So
in fact, looking around our office here, I feel like
maybe the holiday weekends already started. I don't know if
we got an event going on or what, but it
looks like a ghost town in this place.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Which hey, that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean, if it din't look a lot of people
work from home anyway, So we go anyways, we'll make
the most of the time we have left here. So
if you have just now joined us, there is a
new change to the college football Playoff of the upcoming season.
This has nothing to do with the talk about expanding
to sixteen and automatic bids going to certain conferences and whatnot.

(01:54):
This is just simply about the amount of teams that
are or this is just about how the thing is seated.
So instead of giving conference championships to I'm sorry, instead
of giving automatic buys and the top four spots to
conference champions, they're now just going to seed it one
through twelve, which that's the way that it should be. Also,
I probably could have talked about it a lot more

(02:15):
than I did, but how about my Pacers last night?
What a phenomenal come from behind victory and all time
come back that I think it probably won't be remembered
because it wasn't, you know, an actual I mean, it'll
be remembered by Pacers fans for a long time for
good reason, and it'll be remembered by Knicks fans for
a long time as a painful memory. So I don't

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know where it's going to end up as far as
an ald timer. But they've now had not one, not two,
but three after last night, really legendary comebacks in the postseason,
and last night was just the first game of a
seven game series. But I kind of feel like the
way that that thing played out for the for the Knicks,

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like it wouldn't be a shocker if they kind of will,
especially now that I see on just looking back at
clips from last night that during the big come from
behind victory, as Aaron Nesmith went full Reggie Miller, they
were crumbling on the bench meeting the Knicks. I mean
you had og On and Obi, Josh Hart, Towns and

(03:15):
Brunson all bickering at each other. So, you know, easier
said than done as far as just thinking that they're
completely crushed. But if they are, I won't be shocked
because losing like that, I mean, if the and actually
that could be wrong here, but I kind of think
it's almost a little bit more demoralizing to then take

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it to Ot and lose because you were gifted by
Haliburton having that foot on the line. Yet you go
to Ot a chance to eliminate the all time melt
down from happening, and you couldn't quite do it. So
it was it was awesome. As a Pacers fan, I
loved it. I'm sure if you're not a Pacers fan
or a Knicks fan and you watched, you were probably

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still entertained. And the NBA Playoffs, I gave him a
a lot of crap before it started, just because I
was wanting to get excited. But I told myself, don't
do it again, Nick, don't lie to yourself and act
like the NBA Playoffs are going to be competitive and entertaining.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
But they have been. Yes, there's still been some blowouts.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Some of those blowouts have come in game sevens, which
you never want to see, right, if a series goes
to seven, you want it to be competitive to the
very end and you know, obviously that didn't happen every
step of the way throughout the playoffs up to this point.
But man, we've had some really really good series and
some really really good finishes, and last night again was
an Alzheimer for the Pacers. Here's what it sounded like

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on TNT as Halliburton hit what everybody thought was the
game winner, only to find out they had to go
to overtime. Hell, don't tree.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
From them, Reggie.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Selfishly, I mean I was, I was in heaven with
the way it ended. And then for Haliburton to be
pointing at ready like Reggie being a part of it
is such a gift to me that like I, and
I don't mean like me. To me, I see it
as a gift. Obviously, I'm sure others enjoy it too.
Maybe some people hate it, but like, I didn't want
it to sound like they're doing it because of me,

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But to watch my Pacers beat the Knicks in that fashion,
and Reggie Miller to be narrating it, like, that's heaven
for me, especially you know, six seven year old Nick,
who idolized Reggie Miller and pretended to be him when
I would shoot basketball in my driveway it was awesome.
And how about this, This is just an absolute all timer,

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something that I'll remember forever probably, and that is what
aaron NEI Smith did because in NBA history only two
players have had twenty plus points and five plus three
pointers made in the fourth quarter of a playoff game
on the road.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Both of them.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Were the Pacers at Madison Square Garden of the Conference
Finals on a Wednesday, which makes it really random. But
Reggie did it on June first, nineteen ninety four, and
then aaron Nie Smith did it last night, So yeah,
it was it was awesome to see another. Another crazy
stat that just makes it seem, you know, unbelievable, is
that NBA teams were owned in nine hundred and seventy

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in the playoffs over the last twenty seven years when
trailing by fourteen or more points with under three minutes
to go in regulation, and then last night it became
one in nine hundred and seventy because of the Pacers.
And this is something else I hadn't seen until just
now that since nineteen ninety six, ninety seven teams that
have trailed by seven or more in the final fifty

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seconds of the fourth quarter or overtime in the playoffs
are four and one thousand and seven hundred and two losses.
The Pacers have three of those wins all this year.
I think that's the best way to put in perspective
just how crazy this team has been with come from
behind victories. When most are dead and it's over, they

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have been able to claw back and find a way
to win again. Since nineteen ninety six ninety seven, teams
that have trailed by seven or more in the final
fifty seconds of a game are four one thousand and
seven hundred and two, and the Pacers have three of
those four wins, and they've all taken place in this postseason.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
And again those wins are down seven with forty seconds
left to the Bucks, they won, down seven with forty seven,
I'm sorry, down seven forty seconds left to the Cavs.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
They win.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
And then last night, down fourteen with two minutes and
thirty five seconds left against the Knicks. I mean, just
think about that, just saying that out loud, down fourteen
with two and a half minutes left, and you win
a game. Somebody asked this on the text line earlier,
and it's not a bad point. What's more, impressive, the
Knicks finding a way to win I'm sorry, the PACER's

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finding a way to win, or the Knicks finding a
way to lose.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
You may argue that the both impressive. I mean both were. Yeah,
both were were certainly impressive. All right.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Something else we discussed was the updated list of college
football coaches. As far as the rankings. CBS Sports does
this every year. We talked yesterday about the Mark Stoop's ranking.
He's at number thirty six. He's fallen quite a bit
over the last couple of years, and really, I mean
he went from I think twentyth to thirty six, so

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he's dropped substantially after a really down year last year.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
And it was the outlier year.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I mean it was, I mean it was absolutely the
year that you know, is different than any of the other's,
meaning they actually had some decent players and some legitimate
expectations and they didn't just fall short, they fell very
short of what those expectations were. So anyways, this the

(09:05):
latest and I guess the final part of these rankings
came out today is they gave us one through twenty
five and Jeff brom Is up from number nineteen to
now at number seventeen. And I don't need to run
through all the list of accomplishments and all the accolades
for Jeff Bram because I would imagine a lot of
you listening are well aware because you know he's our guy.
But when you consider what he did at Purdue, that's

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actually to me what makes him I think, I mean,
that's to me what makes him worthy of that top
seventeen ranking, because yes, he's done a phenomenal job in
his first couple of seasons at Louisville, but at Purdue,
you know, the same thing that Mark Stoops deservedly got
a lot of credit for winning somewhat, you know, winning consistently,

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even though it wasn't at a high level. Kentucky was
much more successful with Mark Stoops over the you know,
the vast majority of his time there than they really
ever been in my lifetime. So Jeff Bram, I think
when you you know, for those that may look at
him and say wow, because I wouldn't be shocked if
you know, college football fans across the country, maybe they

(10:13):
see Bram at number seventeen and they're thinking, yeah, I
don't know, that seems to be a little bit high
for him, all right, we have good news.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
We have good news. We don't have an early dismissal today.
That was my fault. So do the Bats even play today? No,
they do. They just they're there. Their their broadcast starts
at sixtcha. Okay, so hey we got we got extra time.
It's I just read the whole Tuesday for Thursdays. We've
had that.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
We've had that a couple of times where we get it,
where we get it wrong. But hey, it's it's I
look at it as a as A as A as A.
I mean, now, this is like unexpected extra time, which
technically not extra time because you know, it's our normal
three hour formatted show. But here we are thinking we're
out early and we're not.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
So I'm glad. I'm glad you. I'm glad I caught that.
Did you go look at it? Did somebody tell you?

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Just because as soon as you as soon as I
was looking at how to time this out, I just
noticed that there was all the spots leading up to
the hour, and I thought to myself, hmm, that doesn't
look great. Did I read that email as Tuesday or Thursday?
And sure enough, I mean everybody else had it right,
our guy, Jim Benn had it right.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I just of course read it wrong. Of course he did.
He's Jim Fenn. What am I thinking? Come on, He's
Jim Finn. So I was ready to get out of
here early. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I mean, I guess if you hadn't looked at it
and we just you know, I guess somebody would have had.
Somebody would have had to have been there asking, hey,
Nick Kurran, are you there? Are you ready to get
it going? And then we would have realized, oh wow,
you know, we're supposed to be a yeah, we're supposed
to be on air.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
So anyway, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
But back to the College Football Coaches rankings, I mean,
when it comes to where, when it comes to where
Brahm ends up, I think when you look at what
he did at Purdue, that is probably more impressive than
a lot of people realize. And it's not because you know,
you would go and like, you know, hang a banner
or anything like that, because it's not as if it's

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some never before seen success and they didn't win any
conference championships or anything like that. But for him to
leave Purdue with a winning record in Big Ten play
after six seasons there when the guys who were there
the previous eight seasons, you had four with Darryl Hazel
who went three and twenty four, and then four with
Danny Hope who went thirteen and nineteen. So I think

(12:31):
that puts in perspective that the guys is a winner.
And again I'm not telling you anything that you probably
don't already know, but nice to see you know, objective
folks who cover college football, letting you know you got
yourself a really good football coach. All right, So this
isn't something we've talked about just yet, and I don't
really know how interesting it is to those of you listening,
but it is probably a pretty big deal when it

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comes to the future of UFL athletics because they've hired
a man by the name of Andrew Brand as a
strategic advisor. So this is somebody who used to be
the VP of the Green Bay Packers and.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
He has joined.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
It sounds like this is maybe like a he's like
a going to be like a contractor, but nonetheless he's
he's he's been brought in to help U of l
H and he's one of the most influential voices in
sports law and business. According to you know, the press
release that UFL sent out. So he is going to
serve as a key advisor in regards to the athletic

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department here and this is somebody has mentioned former VP
of the Packers. He is the current he's the current
executive director of the Mora ad Center for the Study
of Sports Law at Villanova, which for those who don't
understand the connection here, Josh Hurd was at Villanova prior
to coming back to Louisville and of course becoming the
full time athletic director.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
So this is a quote from Josh Hurd on this hire. Quote.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
As college athletics continues to evolve into a more professional,
professionalized model or positioning Louisville to Lee need not follow.
Andrews one of the most respected minds in sports business
and law. His insights give us a real strategic advantage
as we navigate this transformative period. So it says here
that his role comes at a critical inflection point for

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college athletics. Obviously, NIL has become a humongous factor in
the college sports landscape, and now you're going to have
revenue sharing, which is the framework of that is going
to be I mean, that's a big deal. It's a
really it's an entirely new, I guess component of how
you run your athletics department because I guess could choose

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not to. I mean, I guess I don't remember the
specifics of it, because anybody if they did give you
the option to choose not to share rev I mean,
you wouldn't get any players because players would not come
and just play for you for free when they could
go anywhere else and make money. So I don't even
remember what it was as far as how they laid
it out. But revenue sharing is now a whole new
component that you know, there's gonna be a lot that

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goes into that and how that works, and it's really
a new department probably within your athletic department. So it
sounds like this higher brand is going to be somebody
that is very much involved in that. This is a
quote from him in the press release. This is a
transformative time in college sports, and it's been a privilege
to work with Louisville Athletics. I guess he's already kind
of been working alongside without the official title that he

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has now, but he says, Josh Hurt is a visual
sorry as a visionary leader, and his team is smart, collaborative,
and proactive Louisville. Louisville isn't just preparing for the future,
They're shaping it. So again, having people who have this
kind of, you know, experience is going to be vital
as you continue to try to find your footing in

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this seemingly ever changing landscape of college sports. I mean,
I know I've said it many many times, why not
say it once more? Where we are now compared to
where we were just five years ago is really crazy
when it comes to just how college sports looks overall.
And speaking of that, I haven't seen any kind of
an update on the lawsuit, which I guess it wouldn't

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be realistic to expect an update like right away. But
what ends up happening with the lawsuit that sze KaiA Ziggler,
the former Tennessee point guard file, that's going to be
that's going to be huge. And I can't really see
a scenario where he has success with this lawsuit because
you know, I just can't. He's played four seasons of

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college basketball. I don't know why he would be entitled
to another. But his argument is I'm still a student.
Why can't I play. I'm still a student at Tennessee,
but now I'm in the undergraduate program. Everybody else has
a five year window to play four. Well, I'm still here,
it's within my five years. Why can't I play again?

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I just don't. I don't see that being a winnable argument.
But what do I know. I'm not a lawyer.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Maybe because there is a five year window, that's the
loophole here to where he somehow gets granted a fifth
year of eligibility.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
But if he does, I mean.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
That means guys like you know, Chucky Hepburn and rain
Smith could come back hypothetically, and that just doesn't seem
like realistic.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
But we shall see.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
I mean, there's been a couple of different lawsuits that
the NCAA has had in front of them that they've won,
and I'm not surprised by even though the majority of
the attention lately has been on them getting beat in court.
But like the JUCO ruling was a legitimate one. Like it,
I don't know if I agree that you can go
play two years at JUCO and then get four years
to where you basically get six years of playing college sports.

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But the argument was legit, meaning how are you counting
towards my eligibility when the first two years out of
high school I did not play in the nc DOUBLEA.
Doesn't make it right or wrong, But like, that's a
good argument because they're counting you as using two years
that you did not use within a NCAA member institution.

(18:02):
I guess the situation here would be well if others
get a five year window even though you've already played.
I mean again, here's where it gets tricky. He's played
four and yet he's he's he's within his five year clock.
And yet there's other guys that have played more than

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five that are with that are outside of their five
year clock. I mean, there's not a ton of them,
but there's You could you could find a handful of
examples of guys that are still playing college sports that
it makes no sense how they are. And now again,
every everybody's situation is probably a little bit different. So
I mean, I'm not monitoring this as like, here we go,
maybe he wins, because I just assume that he won't.

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But again, I guess nothing should surprise me in the
grand scheme of things.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
All right, let's do this.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Let's get to a quick break, we'll come back. We
actually have more time than realize, so we'll make the
most of that time. We'll finish strong. Here it's the
five o'clock hour on a Thursday afternoon, Coffee and company,
and they feel about Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Now back to coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Sports Talk seven nine day.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
So apparently there are some green flags that are signs
that you're aging well. I mean, you can be any
age and be aging right. I guess a lot of
people when you think of aging, you're thinking of I
guess like getting legitimately old. I'm not there yet, but
these are the five green flags as far as you

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aging in a healthy way, maintaining physical strength and mobility.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
I'm moving, I'm getting around pretty good. I mean that
to me seems more like somebody who might quite literally
be like getting up there in age. Being curious and
having a sharp cognitive function.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, yes, that's it. I mean the key, yeah, I
mean it's a big one in sharp.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
This this actually lists out like learning new skills and hobbies,
things like that, brain boosting hobbies. I mean I feel
like I'm I'm pretty pretty sharp there, having a positive outlook.
I mean, I'm pretty positive about about things. Yeah, this
is where I feel like maybe I'm not aging well
Austin keeping strong social connections.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Okay, you don't have strong social connections. I mean I don't.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
I don't seek out being social with like you know
what I mean, Like I'm not Actually yeah, I'll just
be honest, I'm not. I'm not super outgoing when it
comes to, you know, meeting people and being social. I
kind of find my I'm an introvert, which is a weird,
which is weird for people who do this, but I'm
I'm I'm very much introverted to where I'm not outgoing

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as far as meeting new people and making new connections.
But obviously I'm not you know, I'm not against it.
I'm not anti meeting someone. But the older I get like,
what are my buddies brought this up not that long
ago and I hadn't really thought about it, But it's
kind of true, and I guess really it comes down
to this, like making new like making new friends. I
have enough friends to where like I can meet new

(21:08):
people and they can be like considered acquaintances. But there
hasn't been somebody that I've met recently in my life
that I would say that's a friend. And friend is
such a loose, probably overused way to describe any relationship, right,
Like you could be friendly with somebody, but I don't
think that means that you're friends. But I think what's
happened now is if if I was to say, yeah,

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I know that person, I like them, but they're not
my friend, I think most people would instantly think, well,
you must you must not like them if they're not
your friend. Well no, I mean you can like being friends.
It's such a loose definition as far as your relationship level, right,
I have what's called friends, and they're like buddies. Yeah,
friends are like you know, like friends are like your

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friends people that's like in your day, like all your life.
You know that you can just you text other than
like out there to work or something like.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Then you got like buddies, it is, Yeah, I just
got a buddy at work, like you know, like we're
not like we don't talk all the time.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
What do you think of these three tiers? Acquaintances which
I think that's more a friend of a friend. We
know each other, but we don't really know each other.
We've hung out with, yeah, and then you've got buddies pals.
And then the next step is like somebody who you
do consider a friend, somebody that you've known for a
while and that you talk to like you like, it's
an unusual thing if a lot of time has gone

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by and you haven't talked right. Yeah, But then there's
also like what do you how would where would we
classify older friends? Because I have people that at times
in my life I was really close with, like growing
up when you're younger, like older like in age or old. No, no,
just just I've known them a long time, and and
we were like, there's people that I would like, there's

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somebody right now, two people I could think of that
I would. I would absolutely say that that is somebody
that is a close friend of mine. But I probably
don't talk to these I mean, in fact, I know
I don't talk to or see these people that often.
In fact, it's a rare thing to see them. But
because we were so close that I've known them for
twenty five plus years, I do. I would feel like

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I would feel wrong if I said that person wasn't
a close friend. I'm not close now, but there's still
a closeness to where I'll put it this, it's the
best way to describe it. When I'm around them, even
if it is rare, nothing's changed.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Right, So like you guys don't miss a beat exactly, Well,
then I would still at those those those are still friends, right,
stay in the friend zone.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, yeah, which isn't bad. Yeah, I mean I I've
got that kind of friend, but I don't.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, I guess now, like when it comes to like
friends that are super that I consider to be super
close to me to this point in my life, it's
it's people that have been a constant, if that makes sense,
Like they're not they're not. There's not a whole lot
of like it's actually a real rare thing if I
realize a few weeks have gone by and we haven't
actually either seen each other or you know, caught up
that kind of thing. So again, I think that's probably

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pretty normal. I would say with people as you get older,
there's just with life and everything that comes with it,
you may not see or catch up with somebody as much.
But if if you do still consider them a close friend,
and when you're around them, you know you have miss
to beat.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
I'd say they still they're still worthy of that status.
But yeah, I don't. I just don't.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
I don't really, And honestly, it's probably just how we're
wired as we get older to where there's somebody that
there was never like, I don't go home to my wife, honey,
I made a new friend today, right, But you realize
over time you've been around them, whether it be for
work or acquaintance, whatever it may be, and then you've
become you know, they are somebody that you consider a friend.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
All right.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Last one here says being passionate about hobbies. I mean
that'll always be the case because this is something that
is a hobby that it's I've been able to fortunately.
I mean it is, but it's it's not a hobby.
It's my job. It's what I do for a living. Uh,
you know, I take it very serious, but it's not
a you know, it's not your typical nine to five
kind of jobs.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So me, you know, like your work, like your work
prep is literally watching the NBA.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
What perfect final perfectly said to where I'm fortunate to
where passion and hobby meets career and job, to where
I kind of need to be like, if I no
longer liked sports, that would be you know, that would
be an issue.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
You're going to be on news now, so I know
doesn't matter. I know, and I don't. I don't.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
I mean I keep up with news, but for what
it's worth, just just to you know, I'm glad you
said that because for those who've asked me, like, so,
what are you going to be doing on eight forty,
I mean, I'm going to be hosting Kentucky na's morning
news alongside a team that everybody has sort of their
own roles. So Scott Fitzgerald is doing sports updates, but

(25:41):
obviously that doesn't mean he and I won't talk about
sports throughout the show. And we've got traffic in weather,
which you will get every ten minutes because that's just
what people have come to know and expect, and we'll
still be able to expect in the mornings on eight forty.
And then there's John Shannon, who every thirty minutes will
give you a newscast that'll just that'll deliver news. So
that's how it's formatted. But the segments in between, like here,

(26:04):
here's what I'm hoping works out, Like Bill j In
with you every now and sure, yeah, they'll be they'll
be segments that I will use the seven minutes or
whatever it is to do an interview with somebody, But
it's not really me interviewing and having a Like when
I have a guest on Now, it's more of a conversation.
That's not what that's really going to be.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
In the mornings.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I'm going to be interviewing people who are there to
answer specific questions about a specific story that they're covering
because they work for ABC News or NBC News, whatever
it may be, to where I'm not really needed and
I'm happy that I'm not really needed to provide my
own opinion on set. Thing like that's going to kind
of work itself out, Nick lib Yeah, so I'm I mean,

(26:44):
I'm I'm maggot, Nick, Like, let me give you an example,
like what we're talking about right now and what we
talked about earlier with like the the top ten burger chains,
those kind of things like that. That's the type of
stuff you can probably expect to hear and it'll just
be broad relatability, hopefully interesting. And I mean my marching

(27:05):
orders are essentially, hey, don't screw it up. That's a
pretty successful show and has been for a lot longer
than you've been here on planet Earth. But also, you know,
make it a little bit more inviting and welcoming to
a younger demo than what they've typically got on eight forty.
Not to say that it's nothing but dinosaurs that listen
to that, but it is. It is and has been
for a long time more so catered to an older crowd,

(27:26):
and there's nothing wrong with that. I certainly need to
do whatever I can to keep those folks around, but
also add some youth along the way. So and by
the way, like if I've got a seven minute segment
and there is a big game from the night before
for U of L or UK, I mean, I think
I have free rein to share some thoughts on it.

(27:48):
It's a four hour show, and when it comes to
the things that you really need on that show for
what it's always been news, traffic, weather, you're gonna get
it regardless because it's just built in. Makes so like
I won't feel like, hey, if I veered off and
did a five minute thing about something just interesting to
me or something that's you know, maybe me telling a story,

(28:08):
because I like this tell I mean I like to
tell stories. I don't know how good my stories are,
but I liked I like storytelling, so like I can
do that and not feel like, hey, I've completely abandoned
what this show is because all the things that you've
come to know and expect are built into where I
don't like it kind of drives itself when it comes
to that.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
I mean, if I can, it's going to be like
the same show, but like you said, just more broadly
out on, like just talking about either world events or
more local events or so it's going to be the
same talk.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, that's my hope, because that obviously would make it most.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
People new friends over there, Like you said, John Joe,
going back with the company Man, company Man.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's right, That's right.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
So the reunion, it will it will be what I hope,
a lot of kind of what this is as far
as the style and tone, but won't be as sports heavy,
and it'll be much more structured because of just the
built in style that is there. As far as just
every ten minutes, you're gonna get an update on traffic
and weather because people care about that kind of stuff.

(29:02):
And again, here's what I talked about. I did an
interview with somebody who works for Barrett Media who did
a little write up on the move, And I mean,
I really look at it as a chance to you know,
I don't know. I mean, people are going to continue
to get what they what they've always got, but I

(29:24):
can kind of make it a little bit more relatable
and a little bit more interesting. Not to say that
it wasn't that with the guys that are there now,
but you know it, My hope is that it doesn't
feel like I'm doing a completely different job and I'm
in a completely different world, even though it kind of
is that. But yeah, it'll be It'll be fun looking
forward to it, but I'll certainly miss this in a

(29:44):
major way.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
All Right, let's get our last breakout of the way.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
We'll come back finish strong with one more segment before
we hand it off to Nick. Current of the Louisville
Bats stick around right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
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Speaker 2 (30:02):
This sounds like a wrestling intro? Is it wrestling theme song? No?
This is this is just a Lincoln Park song?

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Does it sound like Cody Rhodes music a little bit
or maybe a little bit Okay, got it. It's got
a little bit of the rock because because my uh
my son moves.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
You know, he's a big he's a big wrestling fan
now and he uh he plays the w W E
two K or the w whatever they call it. Yeah,
so he plays that and he's oftentimes Cody Rhoads and
uh does.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
He do the woe with him when he does like
his arms at the Oh.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, he does it like he's he picked That's the
stuff he picks up on more than anything. It's like
the gestures and things that wrestlers do.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Like I didn't realize until we turned on Raw when
it was in Louisville last week last Monday that like
he because he played the video game, he knew like
the whatever Jay Usso does. They're like, yeah, the yeah,
he was doing that, And I'm like, how do you
know this? Like okay, because you play this game and
you're obsessed with it. So yeah, some reason it sounded

(31:04):
like Cody Rhodes's music.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
But again, what do I know? Just just old Lincoln Park.
They all by the way, Lincoln Park.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
I mean, that's phenomenal that's big in my time, phenomenal,
huge ire we That song is actually at the end
of Transformers.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
If you remember that movie. Oh yeah, I mean the
movie one of the best movies.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, the best, like two movies here, like is the
fell Off once like Shia and Megan Fox left. That
last one was amazing that they did together.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think it's wild that that. I always felt like
it was wild that the lead Lincoln Park's lead singer's
name was Chester. Yeah, Chester, mister Bennington.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
You wouldn't exactly expect a rocker to be a Chester,
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But real quick for those like myself who are wanting
to see the ACC get better as a basketball league,
and last year I think was the wake up call,

(33:38):
and I think the ACC deciding to eliminate two conference
games and move from twenty to eighteen league games, that's
really the proof that they are aware that they they
they're not where they need to be, and they're letting
two more games go so they can have their league
members go schedule tougher games to hopefully have a better
resume on selection Sunday. So it's been a big talking point.

(33:59):
We'll have to see, but I do think some hires
were made that will instantly make the ACC better. How
much better that remains to be seen. I think Ryan
Ryan Odum at Virginia will definitely get them headed in
the right direction. And then obviously, the biggest higher I
think as far as the ACC goes this cycle is
will Wait at n C State. I think it's the

(34:19):
legitimate expectation that he will absolutely make the league better.
But how quickly that's up.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
In the air.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
But I will say they just landed Will Wade in
NC State just landed a big time transfer from Texas Tech,
Darien Williams, who you know, he probably didn't watch a
lot of Texas Tech basketball last year, but we all
know they were really good. And obviously their best player
is JT. Toppin, but outside of topen it was Darien Williams, who,
in fact, I think had a better tournament than Toppin did,
unless my memory is just completely messing with me. So

(34:46):
he's picked n C State, picked them over Kansas, and
Duke landed a five star recruit today, which is pretty
routine for Duke, but Texas. But in n C State,
if they can come out and be a top twenty
five caliber team this upcoming season, I mean, that won't
make the league loaded by any means, but man, it
would certainly be a big boost because last year it

(35:07):
was Duke Clemson, Louisville. And that's pretty much Yet, if
we're being honest, that's saying something. All Right, we're out
of time. Enjoy your evening. We're back at it tomorrow
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