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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Process, you must know that always just going for the
higher dollar amount or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Coach Hoffer is a kid. The best package.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Doesn't mean it's always the necessarily the best fit. I
know a lot of kids now they are going for
that dollar amount, and I respect them for it. I
don't disagree. I think as a kid, if I were
coming out of high school eighteen years old, I didn't
have a lot of money in my pocket and the
school offers me one hundred thousand dollars in a new car,
I'm probably gonna take it too. But for most kids,
it's a little bit different. And that's something else I
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want to dive into, is that they're gonna see a
big drastic change of tournament teams and teams win the
national championships over the next couple of years, even over
the next couple of decades until they get nil and
how the funding is distributed out more evenly.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's not where they're.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Throwing ten million dollars at Ajwasania that's going to BYU.
You know, a TAGA away. You get reportedly five to
ten million dollars from Alabama to sign there.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
From Kentucky, there's supposed.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
To be a twenty million dollar cap on a lot
of these schools, but nobody's seen the actual cap because
no one sees contracts on papers, so we don't know
how much they're actually getting paid. These are all just
assumptions or predictions. Also certain nil deals that they're getting
from different brandings, some that you're getting from school alumni donations,
whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But don't be.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Surprised if you see those powerhouse schools that used to
win those national championships don't win as much and don't
win as frequently at all. And I'm throwing this out
because I'm a Duke fan. It's going to be harder
for Duke to win national championships than it has been
in the last forty to fifty years. And the biggest
thing behind that is the transfer portal. In two Duke
gets a lot of one and done. Now the transferport
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we know now it does have a lot of twenty six,
twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Twenty eight year olds.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There are grown men that are in the transfer porters.
They're in their six and seven years eligibility due to
COVID injury and red shirts.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's just a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's going on in basketball right now that we haven't
ever seen before the NCAA itself after the next two seasons,
once you get the COVID players out, you get the
players with their six and seven of your eligibility years
out of NCAAA that you can kind of do more
of a mental reset and a refresh of the NCAA
itself because it's just it's kind of a mess right
now and it's making it difficult. But the powerhouse schools
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that used to go one and done that used to win,
like the Duke's unc is Kentucky's getting the number one
recruiting classes in the nations, they won't win as much anymore.
Duke made a push this year, probably one of the
best pushes that they've made with a freshman team an
overall freshman team in probably the last twenty years, honestly, other.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Than the design on RJ.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Barrett and Cam Reddish era. But it's gonna be hard
to win when you got seventeen and eighteen year olds
reclassifying up to go to college to hurry up and
play because they're getting offered so much money. Jadan Quintin's
played his whole freshman year at sixteen and seventeen years old.
That is unheard of to be a sixteen year old
putting up nine and a half points in four and
a half rebounds a game for a Power five school
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and doing well at sixteen years old. You can't throw
most sixteen year olds in the NCAA tournament setting with
these twenty eight year olds that are playing college basketball
and he do successful. So it's gonna be rough. As
a Duke family, I know we got a slippery slope
ahead because we're gonna be getting all the top fresh
ring coming in. We're gonna be battling against dudes that
are in their fourth and fifth year of transfer portal.
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We all know that the JUCO players now are they're
not counting JUCO as technically NCAAA years played, so they're
still they can come out of JUCO one of two
years and still get three to four years of eligibility,
which makes it even harder because we know certain schools
love the JUCO players. Rick Patino loves JUCO players. That's
all he goes after he said it in many press
conferences before. He said in one this year that he
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doesn't even look at high school players. He doesn't look
at him anymore. So I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Grison is a Rick Patino fan, unless he goes to JUCO.
He's probably not.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Getting recruited by Rick Patino unless he's just the number
one player in the country. And there's coaches that are
like that right now. And that's just something that I
wanted to emphasize because don't be surprised, even those UK
and U of L fans, they're gonna have better chances
than a lot of the other schools though, because they're
hopping into the portal grabbing kids. They have both done
phenomenal jobs so far, and they're off season going out
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and getting high level cruse from high school, getting kids
in the transferporter that did successful at lower schools in
mid majors last year. That's what builds the foundations of
a lot of these schools. We looked at it even
from Florida. Walter Clayton junior plaint came from Iona. Iona
wasn't even a team that you would have thought about
until Rick Patino went there and coached for a few
seasons getting back in the NCAA after he came back
from Greece. No one ever thought of Iona basketball ever
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in life. You had never been like, the Iona starting
point guard is going to be a national champion two
years from now. I didn't say that either. I didn't
think so. I didn't know who Walter Clayton Junior was
even last year when they got eliminated last year in
the round of sixty four to Colorado, Walter Clayton didn't
even start. He was on the bench. So that just
throws into perspective how waiting your turn and going to
the right situation can.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Play out in your favor.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Washer Clayton went from a regular just three or four
star recruit. He was better in football than basketball, which
a lot of people don't know he was basket. He
was a football player, but he liked basketball more. And
you think, I think he made the right choice to
where now he's going from a kid that was a
football phenomenon till he'll be a first round pick, maybe
even a lottery in the NBA draft this year. So
that's just a lot to put on people's mind to
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think about going forward with their own kids, and how
the NCAAA and how these championships and deep runs in
the tournament are gonna start to look out because every
team is going to start having a fair chance, especially
once they start putting in more exclusive rules and regulations
of how they're distributing NIL deals. So that's something I
just wanted to say because it's been wild lately. But
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even getting into that, a lot of people are excited,
even about the projections of the winners for the NCAA
tournament next year. The U of L right now is
in the top five for NCAA right now to win
the national Championship. I think they're odds on Lake Draft
Kings and Fanduels at plus fourteen hundred, which is crazy
to thin from a team that three years ago we
couldn't win a game. So now we're a top five
chance to be a contender in the Tournament's quickly how
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things have swung around. And I give props to Pat
Kelsey and U of L bring them in, because he
has really given us opportunity to go out there and
be a competitive team once again and kind of get
us out of that black hole that we've been in
for the last four five years as U of L
people and u of L fans.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But it's it's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I love sports so much. I could talk about rambling
on about one topic all day long.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I really could. This is sports is sports is.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Really my it is really my life. Honestly, I didn't.
I love to do it, but obviously, yes, we're getting that.
And then obviously we're got to get into the Masters,
and I know we're getting closer to our first break,
but I can't throw out there. I know something we
got talking more the Masters, because for those who don't know,
golf is golf and coach BSR second sport. We're thinking
about going semi pearl on the corn Ferry Tour. I
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just gotta work on my slice off the tee and
I think I'll be in business. My dad, on the
other hand, he just you know, he's he's likes to
be stubborn. He likes to play from the tips. We
all know he.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Needs to take advantage of his age and start playing
from the senior teas.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Look, look, we have been trying. I've been trying to
tell him that for about three or four years now.
He doesn't want to listen to me. You know. Is
the old the older he gets, the more stubborn he gets.
So he thinks he can go backwards on the T
box as the yard age off of t goes down,
not working in his favor right now. Now, he will
say that he almost beat my brother yesterday when they
played off Armony Landing. He said, if I called my brother,
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my brother says they tied, but my dad said he
won by one. So I don't know who's who's telling
me a fib right now.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But in respect, if they tied, your dad won by one, you.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Actually believe you one by one.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
No, if they if they tied, there's no way that
your dad should be competing with Frank your dad.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm not gonna throw I will throw it completely under
the bus. He has his days where he goes out
there and he plays phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
My dad's short game, but that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Short game five teen years ago, it was I won't
hype him up too much, but he had a pro
level short game from one hundred and twenty yards in.
He would throw a dart from any condition, sand, bunker, rough, humbleweed,
he's the middle of the fairway. It didn't matter. And
it used to piss me off because I used to
lose all these all the time, because I'd throw it
two seventy five down the fairway and then shanking into
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the woods, and he'd still beat me on that hole.
He'd get a par I'd get a double and this
is just kind of how it went throughout every hole.
But now since I've gotten that club a little bit straighter,
the tables have turned folks obviously, you know, so that
we had mister Greg Graham on with this yesterday or Wednesday. Obviously,
you know he's on my scrambled team because we only
recruit the best around here. You know, I don't have
a lot of nil money to dish out.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I used all of it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
On Greg Graham. So you know, Martin Dunbar, I love you,
but you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Know we we're the.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Cheap ones on the team.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We came We came in with two Mick Ultras.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And a sandwich. That's all we had to do to
get us on the teams.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But I'm gonna go ahead and get into our first
break and we're.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Gonna get into hopping some more hot topics that we
have going on. The time is seven twenty. It's gonna
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Speaker 2 (08:57):
We'll be back after this break.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Welcome back to EVE Sports Raidiers the Hills Anthony Evest
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Phone number is five h two five seventy nine hundred
something else I want to get into. I just want
to throw another little reminder out there for those that
did play in the tournament NCAA Brackett Tournament that we
did have going on. For those winners, if you didn't
call in, we still got you up here.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We're waiting for you. I know they might have gotten
you already taken care of if you have, but.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Just to reiterate that, for the men's side, we do
got first place with T. Lazier, second place it was
Kay Keilty, and then third place was tied for Jay
Oliver and J. Palmer.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And then for the women's.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Side we did that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
First place we had M. Brooks, in second place we
had T. Weber, and then third place we had M.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Fenwick. So if your name was called in that, please
just call into the show and let us know, give
us your address.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We can go ahead and get you paid out for
your winnings.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We loved it. We love our winnings. For those that
were in the false bracket, you know what, I'm sorry
you were in the wrong bracket. But the only thing
I can tell you we gotta just follow instructions on
that one. It's tough life because you might have won.
You probably won any other bracket, honestly, but I can't
pay you out in that bracket. I can only pay
you out in mind. So you have to have better
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luck next year and see if we can get you
into the right one. And for those making the fraudulent brackets,
please stop doing so. It's messing with a lot of
people's emotions and feelings and it's unnecessary. But getting into
our more juicy topics, goachd B.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I got a couple of questions for.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You coming up now. Big thing obviously we haven't spoken
about that is right around the corner is the NFL
Draft coming up now. With that being said, obviously, a
lot of teams have already hosted a lot of their
pro days, a lot of their combines, and pretty much
the projections have stayed pretty consistent, but some places have slided.
And one thing I wanted to bring up that my
dad and I actually watched downstairs. They're talking about ESPN.
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That kind of it irked me a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
As they're talking about Sredur Sanders.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
When he drops back in the pocket, he does the
tap on the ball before he throws a lot. It's
more of like a rhythm that a lot of quarterbacks do.
I hate this lander that they give him so much
for doing that, even though we've seen a lot of
NFL great to do that all the time. Tom Brady
did it his entire career, Aaron Rodgers has done it,
Drew Breeze has done it. I've even seen Peyton Manning
do it once or twice. So it's just like, I
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just want to get your opinion. Is this something that
they're being biased just because he's Deion Sanders' son and
he went to Colorado. Are they just hating on him?
Because I don't know. I just I really don't know.
I don't get it in that realm. I think I
don't know if that's jealousy or hate. But the tap
of the football quarterbacks across the NFL that are successful,
all the teams do the same thing, So you think
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it's just a little bias towards the jury Sanders comeing
out of the draft, I.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Think they're just trying to find something to talk about.
I mean, if you're going that far to just really
pick that piece of part of Just watch her here,
just slow this down and watch how he taps the
ball right before he throws. Come on, that's all we
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have to talk about out.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
He is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He is a very good quarterback and wherever he lands
like he's going to do very well, whether he whether
he taps the ball or not. And and let's look back.
You said one key name there is Tom Brady, and
who's mentored him tom Brady? So so you're you're telling
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me that tom Brady, Like we're why weren't we picking
apart tom Brady and him.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Tapping the ball?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Now we're going to go to somebody that he's mentored
for him tapping the ball, Like come on, Like that's
if we're we're running out of things to talk about.
If we're gonna break that.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Down, I'm like, man, I like if he if you
just if you just don't like him for who he is,
just saying that, don't be like, oh well his his
draft dock mind slide because of a handtaff that he's
doing when he drops back in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It hasn't changed his production that much. As much a
they hate them, they still got him going the second
pick to the Browns, which is a great picking for
the Browns. The GM came out and talked about even
the owner. They said that, you know, they kind of
threw a bullet in the dark sign of Deshaun Watson
on that big four year guaranteed contract and it didn't
pan out too well. So, but it happens in franchisees.
You know, every franchise goes through those times where they
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signed somebody that think they give them a chance or
they have an upside and it just doesn't work out.
It happens in every sport, basketball, baseball, hockey, whatever the
case may be. You know, sometimes it's a lot of
high risk, high reward and that was a high risk,
high reward and they struck out on that one. So
when they try to sign a new quarterback, obviously through
the draft, going through Sanders, Titans are trying to restart
and get cam Ward to get a new franchise quarterback.
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Travis Hunter is still in the top five position. Now.
They did at one point have him sliding down to
where he was going second, and he was actually going
above Abdua Carter who's supposed to be going third to
Penn State.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
The rest of the edge from Penn State.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Now we're not gonna talk about my team, the Panthers here,
you guys, everybody know I'm a Panthers fan. I grew
up in North Carolina and we gotta be one of
the world franchises in football history. Now we're one of
the youngest. I'm gonna give us a little bit slacked.
The Panthers didn't become a franchise until like nineteen ninety four,
so we're super young. We're not even a thirty year franchise.
But man, these last couple of years, it's been hard
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to put on a Panthers jersey. But we're supposed to
be going out and getting the superstar wide receiver from
Arizona McMillan. We're trying to excited about because everybody kills
my man Bryce Young for the passes he throws. Even
though we have the worst receivers in the NFL, and
it's not even close. Our wide receiver one last year
was Adam Deeling and no knock to Adam Thieling. But
he is also like thirty six years old. Like your
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wide receiver one can't.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Be thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm sorry, it's just you're not gonna be a good
franchise for that. He gets hit one time on the
slant route, he's out for the entire season. I don't
wish that on anybody, but it's football.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Football.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It is probably the most brutal sport in the world,
other than if we gonna say, like rugby or something
like that. But that's just kind of where I'm at
with it. Just I'm excited for the draft coming up.
I've actually never been to the draft. My dad's won
a couple time, so for I don't know, for those
NFL fans, is right around the corner, and so is
spring football too. Obviously a lot of the spring games
are kicking up, you know. Notre Dames had THEIRS. I
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think yesterday or today. U of L's got there coming
up as well. I know the weather is a little
bit a little bit iffy, but for those football fans,
it's right around the corner. It seems far away, but
August seeks up on you fast. Summer blows by. Between
June and July. You're taking vacations, Weather's beautiful and everything,
so everybody knows how fast the summer goes by on us.
But also wrapping that up as well wrapping up our
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NBA regular season, so be I'm just want to get
your projection the teams. Obviously, we know kind of how
the East is that we've had a lot of teams
rise in the East, but the West is in a
tough predicament right now. When it comes to that three
to the eight seed, I think there's only a one
game or one and a half game difference between three
and the eight seed. Just your projections from that, who
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do you think have your favorites coming out of the
East and the West, not even to win the championship,
just the East and the West and make it to
the finals.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
In the East, it's gonna be tough to go against
Cleveland and Boston making it to the finals. Like if
anybody else besides them make it to the the Eastern
Conference finals, I'd be very surprised because they're just playing
too well. I mean, right now, just between second and
third place in the East, the Felatics have a nine
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game there's a nine game gap between them and the Knicks,
so them and Cleveland have definitely separated themselves. And on
that side is you know, the the old saying to
be the man you gotta beat the man. The Celtics
are definitely the man, and Cleveland's got to beat them.
So you know it's going to be tough with Cleveland
as well as they've been playing. The Celtics are still
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the champs and now coming out of the West, like
that's that's so crazy out there between like as as
far ahead as Okayse is from everybody else. The Rockets
have surprised everybody this year. I don't think anybody expected
the Rockets to play as well as they did. The Lakers.
It'll be interesting to see what they do. I mean,
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Lebron is crazy enough, he's still Lebron at forty years old.
But you know, though, I can see them making a push.
It's going to be really interesting with Denver being that
they just got rid of their coach, to see what
they're gonna do and how they're gonna play with all
the changes and everything going on there. That's so insane
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that that happened this far out in the year and
then being in the four seed right now. But man,
like you can't count out Golden State just because Jimmy
Butler's made such a big impact on their team and
they've been playing really well, and I mean, yeah, you know,
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I say, Dallas is you know, they're the ten seed.
I can't see them going anywhere. Sacramento, Minnesota could surprise
some people, Memphis could surprise some people. So the West
is just up for grabs. And even though like I said, said, okay,
he's just so far ahead of everybody, Like, I don't
know if they're the ones that are gonna make it out.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, I don't know. I know they're a little bit
of a younger team, not a ton of playoff experience.
That is kind of that's how like they're in the
same boat for me. I like him, but I'm just
not sold on them. Now with the Denver Nugget situation,
they need to release some more of a backstory on that.
Mike Malone has got to be one of the greatest coaches.
I love Mike Malone. He's I think he's a phenomenal coach.
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I think he holds a lot of integrity and he
holds his coaches and players to a high standard, even
if they don't like it. Because someone when you're that
high up, when you're running it's sports, but it's a business.
You're running a business. When you're high up in that
business where you have to be successful, you have to
win games keep your job position. I think he's done so.
Obviously they're fourth in the West, which is tough enough
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as it is. And I hate to say that Jamal
Murray has had a down year for him. He's kind
of teeter tottered a little bit the wrong way on
the slope. Westbrook's picked up a lot of slack from him,
help them coming out there being a triple double machine
once again, giving them that extra spark that they needed
off the bench sign in him, But firing the head
coach and the GM five games before the regular season ends,
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when you're fourth in the West and you won the
NBA Championship in twenty twenty three, it just doesn't make
a lot of sense to me that there's something that happened,
a backstory that we're missing, We're one hundred percent missing.
That's just That's like saying Dan Hurley wins the National
Championship two years ago, they make it to the sweet
sixteen and then they fired the entire staff and the GM.
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It's just like, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
There's got to be something that we're missing behind that.
Maybe it'll come out hopefully in recent days for an
upcoming days.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Just kind of give us an idea.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It may be something they had actual di dilemma between
all the people on the staff and they just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Restart and refresh. That could be the case.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
But for just going off with just straight statistics and numbers,
he was getting the job done. You know. He went
first in the West, but fourth in the West. This
is not horrible by any means necessary. They're like they
made a pass the so far playing and the playing
games are tough enough.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Or they are. They were tough last year the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
We saw what happened to them when they played the
playing game last year. The Warriors have won four national championships,
i mean for NBA titles in the last fifteen years.
So it's it can be. It can go either way.
It teeter totters either way when you're going into that.
And the funny thing is, my dad actually just sent
me this too, and he said it at perfect timing.
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It's actually that Alabama head coach Nate Oates is currently
in Denver. He said they're told that there's a possibility
of meeting with the Denver Nuggets owner and works with
kind enough deal for him to be the next head coach.
So Nate Oates could be Alabama, could be could be
at out of Alabama going to Denver.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
There's a possibility on that.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Obviously nothing is set in stone, but you never know
if he does end up making that move. I'm not
even trying to think off the top of my head
who would be good candidates to take that Alabama.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Job, because it's a tough job. I know.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We just talked about your buddy, the high Point head coach,
who's actually leaving, how he took High Point to the
tournament this past season, who's leaving to go back to
Creating to be an associate head coach in waiting behind McDermott,
which is something we talked about.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I was like, I was like, that's not had to be.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Something that they talked about with management if you're leaving
a coaching job where've run twenty to twenty five plus games,
took them to the NCAA tournament. For those who don't
know the people that all of our big fans in Kentucky,
we grew up in North Carolina, high Point coach Gott
and I coach Scott, Please just describe to them what
high Point is at the university and kind of what
their campus is, because people don't know how Christine high
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Point is.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I don't I don't know. If there's whatever the richest
area in Louisville is, that's high Point.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Pretty much.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It's a It's an unbelievable campus from an athletics standpoint.
You have every resource you need. Their facility or a
state of the art for being a low mid major college.
They have an arena with a hotel attached to it
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on campus, a practice facility. They have a steakhouse on
campus where all the students can eat for free once
a month, and you actually you have to have an
exit interview there at the steakhouse with one of your
professors as part of your classes. They have obviously everybody
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probably has a Starbucks on campus at all these different colleges,
but this college at high Point, they have airplane seats
in one of their Starbucks to where you have to
take a class and you have to sit in those
airplane seats with your professor and they teach you how
to talk to someone on an airplane. So if you
just happen to be sitting next to a Jerry Ease
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or someone who with a big, high status and you
know how to give your elevator pitch and sell yourself
to whoever you're sitting next to. So for him to
leave high Point, and I'm very surprised at high Point
didn't put a big package together for him to stay
at high Point until he takes over at Creighton, I'm
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very surprised. Or at the same time, Creighton probably brought
a lot of money to the table to where high
Point just couldn't compete with him. But that's very surprising.
And Nate Oates going to Denver, that would be very
interesting because let's look at all the college guys that
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made that jump to the NBA and actually were successful.
It's not a lot, and it's a different day and age,
and it would be very surprising if he leaves, and
like we're just talking about, like does Alabama not come
back with a contract that says, you know what, you
should stay at Alabama and not going to the NBA.
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So that it'll be interesting to see how that all
develops over the next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, one hundred percent, there's gonna be a lot of
movement going on this summer. We've had a lot of
movement in.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The last couple of years. But when you're gonna tell you, you might.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Have a completely different roster all the way from coaching
staff down to the managers. That's just how sports is
right now. It's you don't know who you're gonna see
on your team. A lot of the players are graduating,
some of them are going off to play professionally, even
if it's in the NBA overseas. I hope that works
out well for them. But in that transfer portal you
will have, I would be surprised fifty to sixty percent
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of a new roster next season. I can almost guarantee
that for a majority of the Power five schools. A
lot of the mid majors and even low level players
signing high school kids and juco players coming in trying
to build their resumes up to be able to compete
with these big schools.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But I just wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Throw that about out there about high Point, because I
think high Point is setting such a meccan, such a
high standard for I think what a lot of universities
to do, even the University of Louisville. I've been ul's campus.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I love U of L's campus.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I've been in University Kentucky, Western Kentucky, North of Kentucky.
I've been to so many different universities from playing against them,
just visiting, through traveling, going to sporting events, whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But high point is a five out of five star.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
University to be able to give them the chance to
offer a class where you go into the steakhouse. You
go to one you can go one time for free
per month. But the thing is that when you go there,
it's not you're just going there just to eat some
steak because you live on a roma noodle diet. When
you go there, they show you how to eat fine
dining properly as if you were in a meeting or
a worth setting with someone else.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
The same thing that they do with the.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Airplane scenario in the Starbucks to where you go and
you sit down and it just gives you a better
recommendation on small talk, trying to get you into that
realm of being more social, getting out of your shell
and getting you comfortable with that. But the time is
seven forty one. I got to go ahead and get
into our second brave. We got some bills to pay,
so they don't come out of my check phone numbers five.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Oh two, five seven, one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
We'll be back after this break and dive a little
bit deeper into that. Well him back to the sports
Radiom time at seven forty five For those getting on
to work, get there on time and don't be later.
It's Friday, baby file phone numbers five h two, five seven,
one seventy nine hundred. Something I did want to dive
deep into because I know it is one of the newest,
hottest things on the market for U of L fans
is obviously coach Pat Kelsey's race. Now. After leading the
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Cardinals the twenty seven wins and an NCAA Tournament appearance
in his first season, PK is going to be received
a salary increase from two point three million to three
point three million dollars, which will be going through the
twenty twenty nine to twenty thirty season that he got
on his extension. Now, I think that's something huge for
U L and Coach Scott is kind of wanna get
your opinion on this. Do you think signing PK for
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that long of a deal in a race so immediately
was the right move for.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
U of l.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Absolutely, he turned that program program around faster than I
think anybody would have anticipated. I think coming in the
expert expectations were uh. I would say they probably weren't
set too high after you know, the past couple of
years before him and coming in, you know, so not
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a lot of pressure to do well, just do better
than the previous coach. So now that you know he
sets such a standard and he's coming and he's I
think from what I've seen, he's he has what the
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type of program that he wants to the type of
program he wants it to look like, and now he
can build around that. He's got a got his own
little niche going and it's well deserved. And now that
you don't have to worry about him leaving for a
couple of years, although it wouldn't surprise me if Alabama
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comes talking to him after the success he's had right here,
if NATO's leaves, but I think he'll do very well,
and it gives everybody peace of mind that he's locked
in for that long and now he can start to
really build a program that he wants and take Louisville
to the level that everybody wants Louisville to be at.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I definitely agree with that, and.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
We also got a call on that called in go
ahead and bring that caller onto the show for us,
we have the caller with us.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is he's still off the line.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yesterday Joshua spoke about that has a Dirk at Louisville Colignment.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Who's this guy?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I don't know? You can't who's you can't handle? The truth?
You can't handle.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
But it's bad enough that we have to deal with
your text messages through throughout the show now that now
we're going to call it, yes.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Have to streat you all out. But I do want
people to know with Coach Kelsey's new contract, you are
always talking about his million dollars, which is well deserved.
The bottom line, though, the elephant in the room was
josh Herd, the elect director, speaking about realignment. And you know,
I've caught a lot of flack guys talked about the
AEC and what has happened to it in the last
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five or six years? Five years, I'm not going to
say six. Definitely, last three, last five were questionable. That
there's still realignment possibilities and josh Hurt is doing the
right thing. He has to look to move a little
out of the ACC. It is a dire year for
the conference of the a SEC. They must improve basketball
wized drastically this year. Drastically. They're going to have to
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go out and find players, solicited players, and pay players
because they have to improve the product. It was embarrassing
last year period point blank. Four teams in the tournament,
three gone after the first game. Mcnee's State was the
most embarrassing loss ever. Louisville by double figures. North Carolina
gets beat. Now they try to make a comeback, but
it just was not a good look. Duke was the
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only and they were a quality team, the only team.
So now that you have that elector record, Louisville speaking
publicly publicly that he has to start to look and
realign when these TV deals are up. He's one hundred
percent correct. Josh Hurt has done a great job and
finally he's told the Louisville public what I've been telling
him forever. It's time to start to look to move
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on from this a SEC if it does not improve. So, guys,
that's all I got. I'm going to watch the Masters.
That is all there is to it today. Can't wait
eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'll be on it calling about that was the real
reason why he was up.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
He wanted to give us he had to throw two
cents and tell us he was watching the Masters. He's
been up since.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Five an exactly without a doubt of it. I've been
up since.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Just the truth, coach. I don't blame you, coach. I
just want to congratulate you on covering the spread against
Frank yesterday.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I covered without it from the tips. I want everyone
to know I'm sixty six. I was playing the tips
at Harmony Landy yes and covered. Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, Frank was Frank was the easy Frank was an
easy three and a half shot favorite yesterday and just
could not cover the spread yesterday. So Frank was very disappointed.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
He should give me six strokes aside. I got it,
and I told that Anthony, your next, got your next, bye.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Won your Your score card is almost like an ANIL deal.
We just have rejections but no real numbers.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Frank has the card, sure, I bet you.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If I called Frank, that card is nowhere to be found.
I think is probably the way you put it up.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's why. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
At in the back of one of his junkie Duncky Trucks.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Oh, we appreciation calling him Pops as always Tom sep
Fifty one. I'm gonna go ahead, and we're to go
ahead and run our last We're gonna go ahead, run
our last two breaks here.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And then we'll go ahead and finish off the show.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
The time seven fifty one. It's five oh two, five
to seven, one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
We'll be back after the breaks.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Welcome back to the sports radio time. It's seven fifty
five phone numbers, five oh two, five seven, one seventy
nine hundreds. Just one of the last things I wanted
to get into here, just a short thing. Obviously, I
know a lot of people might know him. He was
on the UFL's football team we're talking about in the
memorial and the passing of PJ.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Blue.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
He's a former linebacker.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Blue played for u.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Of L from twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen. He passed
away at the age of twenty seven. The cause of
death has not been disclosed, but they said he was
remembered by his teammates and coaches for his character in
contributions to the team. Now on my social media alone,
a lot of people are all around the same age.
Twenty seven is only only a year younger than me.
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But a lot of people know who PJ. Blue was
and or been speaking about. The passing of them is
lately at such a young age. No one knows how
it actually happened or what the cause of death was.
It hasn't been released, but I've been seeing it all
over my page. But no matter of the age, if
you were to play sports or you were the people felt.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
That you were super important or superstar. Not passing away
at the age.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Of twenty seven or something that's not easy on anyone's heart.
It's not easy on the family, and not easy on
the program. You just never want to see that happen.
I'd I'd be devastated if one of my teammates would
to pass away at such a young age, even if
it was after sports. It almost happened in one of
my teammates, but Roy season, when we were playing at
IU Southeast. He went in the cardiac arrest in our
intros to our game, just when we were all sitting
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down the bench getting ready to start, and we need
to have cancel that game and not even playing in
you know. Luckily we had people there that were giving
him CPR for about forty minutes until the EMS showed up,
and my mom actually helped take care of him while
he was at the u of L hospital here. So
I still talk to them very dearly. But keep those
loved ones in your heart. You know life is crazy,
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you never know what can happen, so just tell.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Them you love them.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Coach Scott, appreciate you coming out with me this morning
to help me out.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
With this show. Oh it's always for our producers.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Phenomenal as always.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You always make the.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Show easy and smooth for us.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I thank you as well.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You'll have a great rest of your weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Enjoy the weather, enjoy.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Washing the masters about the te off here in a
couple of minutes, this is Esports Radio and we'll see
you all next week. Have a great one.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Bye bye,
Process, you must know that always just going for the
higher dollar amount or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Coach Hoffer is a kid. The best package.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Doesn't mean it's always the necessarily the best fit. I
know a lot of kids now they are going for
that dollar amount, and I respect them for it. I
don't disagree. I think as a kid, if I were
coming out of high school eighteen years old, I didn't
have a lot of money in my pocket and the
school offers me one hundred thousand dollars in a new car,
I'm probably gonna take it too. But for most kids,
it's a little bit different. And that's something else I
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want to dive into, is that they're gonna see a
big drastic change of tournament teams and teams win the
national championships over the next couple of years, even over
the next couple of decades until they get nil and
how the funding is distributed out more evenly.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's not where they're.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Throwing ten million dollars at Ajwasania that's going to BYU.
You know, a TAGA away. You get reportedly five to
ten million dollars from Alabama to sign there.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
From Kentucky, there's supposed.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
To be a twenty million dollar cap on a lot
of these schools, but nobody's seen the actual cap because
no one sees contracts on papers, so we don't know
how much they're actually getting paid. These are all just
assumptions or predictions. Also certain nil deals that they're getting
from different brandings, some that you're getting from school alumni donations,
whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But don't be.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Surprised if you see those powerhouse schools that used to
win those national championships don't win as much and don't
win as frequently at all. And I'm throwing this out
because I'm a Duke fan. It's going to be harder
for Duke to win national championships than it has been
in the last forty to fifty years. And the biggest
thing behind that is the transfer portal. In two Duke
gets a lot of one and done. Now the transferport
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we know now it does have a lot of twenty six,
twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Twenty eight year olds.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There are grown men that are in the transfer porters.
They're in their six and seven years eligibility due to
COVID injury and red shirts.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's just a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's going on in basketball right now that we haven't
ever seen before the NCAA itself after the next two seasons,
once you get the COVID players out, you get the
players with their six and seven of your eligibility years
out of NCAAA that you can kind of do more
of a mental reset and a refresh of the NCAA
itself because it's just it's kind of a mess right
now and it's making it difficult. But the powerhouse schools
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that used to go one and done that used to win,
like the Duke's unc is Kentucky's getting the number one
recruiting classes in the nations, they won't win as much anymore.
Duke made a push this year, probably one of the
best pushes that they've made with a freshman team an
overall freshman team in probably the last twenty years, honestly, other.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Than the design on RJ.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Barrett and Cam Reddish era. But it's gonna be hard
to win when you got seventeen and eighteen year olds
reclassifying up to go to college to hurry up and
play because they're getting offered so much money. Jadan Quintin's
played his whole freshman year at sixteen and seventeen years old.
That is unheard of to be a sixteen year old
putting up nine and a half points in four and
a half rebounds a game for a Power five school
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and doing well at sixteen years old. You can't throw
most sixteen year olds in the NCAA tournament setting with
these twenty eight year olds that are playing college basketball
and he do successful. So it's gonna be rough. As
a Duke family, I know we got a slippery slope
ahead because we're gonna be getting all the top fresh
ring coming in. We're gonna be battling against dudes that
are in their fourth and fifth year of transfer portal.
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We all know that the JUCO players now are they're
not counting JUCO as technically NCAAA years played, so they're
still they can come out of JUCO one of two
years and still get three to four years of eligibility,
which makes it even harder because we know certain schools
love the JUCO players. Rick Patino loves JUCO players. That's
all he goes after he said it in many press
conferences before. He said in one this year that he
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doesn't even look at high school players. He doesn't look
at him anymore. So I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Grison is a Rick Patino fan, unless he goes to JUCO.
He's probably not.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Getting recruited by Rick Patino unless he's just the number
one player in the country. And there's coaches that are
like that right now. And that's just something that I
wanted to emphasize because don't be surprised, even those UK
and U of L fans, they're gonna have better chances
than a lot of the other schools though, because they're
hopping into the portal grabbing kids. They have both done
phenomenal jobs so far, and they're off season going out
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and getting high level cruse from high school, getting kids
in the transferporter that did successful at lower schools in
mid majors last year. That's what builds the foundations of
a lot of these schools. We looked at it even
from Florida. Walter Clayton junior plaint came from Iona. Iona
wasn't even a team that you would have thought about
until Rick Patino went there and coached for a few
seasons getting back in the NCAA after he came back
from Greece. No one ever thought of Iona basketball ever
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in life. You had never been like, the Iona starting
point guard is going to be a national champion two
years from now. I didn't say that either. I didn't
think so. I didn't know who Walter Clayton Junior was
even last year when they got eliminated last year in
the round of sixty four to Colorado, Walter Clayton didn't
even start. He was on the bench. So that just
throws into perspective how waiting your turn and going to
the right situation can.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Play out in your favor.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Washer Clayton went from a regular just three or four
star recruit. He was better in football than basketball, which
a lot of people don't know he was basket. He
was a football player, but he liked basketball more. And
you think, I think he made the right choice to
where now he's going from a kid that was a
football phenomenon till he'll be a first round pick, maybe
even a lottery in the NBA draft this year. So
that's just a lot to put on people's mind to
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think about going forward with their own kids, and how
the NCAAA and how these championships and deep runs in
the tournament are gonna start to look out because every
team is going to start having a fair chance, especially
once they start putting in more exclusive rules and regulations
of how they're distributing NIL deals. So that's something I
just wanted to say because it's been wild lately. But
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even getting into that, a lot of people are excited,
even about the projections of the winners for the NCAA
tournament next year. The U of L right now is
in the top five for NCAA right now to win
the national Championship. I think they're odds on Lake Draft
Kings and Fanduels at plus fourteen hundred, which is crazy
to thin from a team that three years ago we
couldn't win a game. So now we're a top five
chance to be a contender in the Tournament's quickly how
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things have swung around. And I give props to Pat
Kelsey and U of L bring them in, because he
has really given us opportunity to go out there and
be a competitive team once again and kind of get
us out of that black hole that we've been in
for the last four five years as U of L
people and u of L fans.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But it's it's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I love sports so much. I could talk about rambling
on about one topic all day long.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I really could. This is sports is sports is.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Really my it is really my life. Honestly, I didn't.
I love to do it, but obviously, yes, we're getting that.
And then obviously we're got to get into the Masters,
and I know we're getting closer to our first break,
but I can't throw out there. I know something we
got talking more the Masters, because for those who don't know,
golf is golf and coach BSR second sport. We're thinking
about going semi pearl on the corn Ferry Tour. I
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just gotta work on my slice off the tee and
I think I'll be in business. My dad, on the
other hand, he just you know, he's he's likes to
be stubborn. He likes to play from the tips. We
all know he.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Needs to take advantage of his age and start playing
from the senior teas.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Look, look, we have been trying. I've been trying to
tell him that for about three or four years now.
He doesn't want to listen to me. You know. Is
the old the older he gets, the more stubborn he gets.
So he thinks he can go backwards on the T
box as the yard age off of t goes down,
not working in his favor right now. Now, he will
say that he almost beat my brother yesterday when they
played off Armony Landing. He said, if I called my brother,
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my brother says they tied, but my dad said he
won by one. So I don't know who's who's telling
me a fib right now.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But in respect, if they tied, your dad won by one, you.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Actually believe you one by one.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
No, if they if they tied, there's no way that
your dad should be competing with Frank your dad.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm not gonna throw I will throw it completely under
the bus. He has his days where he goes out
there and he plays phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
My dad's short game, but that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Short game five teen years ago, it was I won't
hype him up too much, but he had a pro
level short game from one hundred and twenty yards in.
He would throw a dart from any condition, sand, bunker, rough, humbleweed,
he's the middle of the fairway. It didn't matter. And
it used to piss me off because I used to
lose all these all the time, because I'd throw it
two seventy five down the fairway and then shanking into
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the woods, and he'd still beat me on that hole.
He'd get a par I'd get a double and this
is just kind of how it went throughout every hole.
But now since I've gotten that club a little bit straighter,
the tables have turned folks obviously, you know, so that
we had mister Greg Graham on with this yesterday or Wednesday. Obviously,
you know he's on my scrambled team because we only
recruit the best around here. You know, I don't have
a lot of nil money to dish out.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I used all of it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
On Greg Graham. So you know, Martin Dunbar, I love you,
but you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Know we we're the.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Cheap ones on the team.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We came We came in with two Mick Ultras.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And a sandwich. That's all we had to do to
get us on the teams.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But I'm gonna go ahead and get into our first
break and we're.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Gonna get into hopping some more hot topics that we
have going on. The time is seven twenty. It's gonna
be a little bit rainy, a little bit cloudy today,
so if you're heading into work, be careful driving. This
is E Sports Radio five oh two, five seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We'll be back after this break.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Welcome back to EVE Sports Raidiers the Hills Anthony Evest
here with coach Scott Bolwich seven twenty four Eves Sports Radios.
Phone number is five h two five seventy nine hundred
something else I want to get into. I just want
to throw another little reminder out there for those that
did play in the tournament NCAA Brackett Tournament that we
did have going on. For those winners, if you didn't
call in, we still got you up here.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We're waiting for you. I know they might have gotten
you already taken care of if you have, but.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Just to reiterate that, for the men's side, we do
got first place with T. Lazier, second place it was
Kay Keilty, and then third place was tied for Jay
Oliver and J. Palmer.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And then for the women's.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Side we did that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
First place we had M. Brooks, in second place we
had T. Weber, and then third place we had M.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Fenwick. So if your name was called in that, please
just call into the show and let us know, give
us your address.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We can go ahead and get you paid out for
your winnings.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We loved it. We love our winnings. For those that
were in the false bracket, you know what, I'm sorry
you were in the wrong bracket. But the only thing
I can tell you we gotta just follow instructions on
that one. It's tough life because you might have won.
You probably won any other bracket, honestly, but I can't
pay you out in that bracket. I can only pay
you out in mind. So you have to have better
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luck next year and see if we can get you
into the right one. And for those making the fraudulent brackets,
please stop doing so. It's messing with a lot of
people's emotions and feelings and it's unnecessary. But getting into
our more juicy topics, goachd B.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I got a couple of questions for.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You coming up now. Big thing obviously we haven't spoken
about that is right around the corner is the NFL
Draft coming up now. With that being said, obviously, a
lot of teams have already hosted a lot of their
pro days, a lot of their combines, and pretty much
the projections have stayed pretty consistent, but some places have slided.
And one thing I wanted to bring up that my
dad and I actually watched downstairs. They're talking about ESPN.
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That kind of it irked me a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
As they're talking about Sredur Sanders.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
When he drops back in the pocket, he does the
tap on the ball before he throws a lot. It's
more of like a rhythm that a lot of quarterbacks do.
I hate this lander that they give him so much
for doing that, even though we've seen a lot of
NFL great to do that all the time. Tom Brady
did it his entire career, Aaron Rodgers has done it,
Drew Breeze has done it. I've even seen Peyton Manning
do it once or twice. So it's just like, I
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just want to get your opinion. Is this something that
they're being biased just because he's Deion Sanders' son and
he went to Colorado. Are they just hating on him?
Because I don't know. I just I really don't know.
I don't get it in that realm. I think I
don't know if that's jealousy or hate. But the tap
of the football quarterbacks across the NFL that are successful,
all the teams do the same thing, So you think
(11:33):
it's just a little bias towards the jury Sanders comeing
out of the draft, I.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Think they're just trying to find something to talk about.
I mean, if you're going that far to just really
pick that piece of part of Just watch her here,
just slow this down and watch how he taps the
ball right before he throws. Come on, that's all we
(11:59):
have to talk about out.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
He is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He is a very good quarterback and wherever he lands
like he's going to do very well, whether he whether
he taps the ball or not. And and let's look back.
You said one key name there is Tom Brady, and
who's mentored him tom Brady? So so you're you're telling
(12:25):
me that tom Brady, Like we're why weren't we picking
apart tom Brady and him.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Tapping the ball?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Now we're going to go to somebody that he's mentored
for him tapping the ball, Like come on, Like that's
if we're we're running out of things to talk about.
If we're gonna break that.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Down, I'm like, man, I like if he if you
just if you just don't like him for who he is,
just saying that, don't be like, oh well his his
draft dock mind slide because of a handtaff that he's
doing when he drops back in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It hasn't changed his production that much. As much a
they hate them, they still got him going the second
pick to the Browns, which is a great picking for
the Browns. The GM came out and talked about even
the owner. They said that, you know, they kind of
threw a bullet in the dark sign of Deshaun Watson
on that big four year guaranteed contract and it didn't
pan out too well. So, but it happens in franchisees.
You know, every franchise goes through those times where they
(13:18):
signed somebody that think they give them a chance or
they have an upside and it just doesn't work out.
It happens in every sport, basketball, baseball, hockey, whatever the
case may be. You know, sometimes it's a lot of
high risk, high reward and that was a high risk,
high reward and they struck out on that one. So
when they try to sign a new quarterback, obviously through
the draft, going through Sanders, Titans are trying to restart
and get cam Ward to get a new franchise quarterback.
(13:41):
Travis Hunter is still in the top five position. Now.
They did at one point have him sliding down to
where he was going second, and he was actually going
above Abdua Carter who's supposed to be going third to
Penn State.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
The rest of the edge from Penn State.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Now we're not gonna talk about my team, the Panthers here,
you guys, everybody know I'm a Panthers fan. I grew
up in North Carolina and we gotta be one of
the world franchises in football history. Now we're one of
the youngest. I'm gonna give us a little bit slacked.
The Panthers didn't become a franchise until like nineteen ninety four,
so we're super young. We're not even a thirty year franchise.
But man, these last couple of years, it's been hard
(14:14):
to put on a Panthers jersey. But we're supposed to
be going out and getting the superstar wide receiver from
Arizona McMillan. We're trying to excited about because everybody kills
my man Bryce Young for the passes he throws. Even
though we have the worst receivers in the NFL, and
it's not even close. Our wide receiver one last year
was Adam Deeling and no knock to Adam Thieling. But
he is also like thirty six years old. Like your
(14:36):
wide receiver one can't.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Be thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm sorry, it's just you're not gonna be a good
franchise for that. He gets hit one time on the
slant route, he's out for the entire season. I don't
wish that on anybody, but it's football.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Football.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It is probably the most brutal sport in the world,
other than if we gonna say, like rugby or something
like that. But that's just kind of where I'm at
with it. Just I'm excited for the draft coming up.
I've actually never been to the draft. My dad's won
a couple time, so for I don't know, for those
NFL fans, is right around the corner, and so is
spring football too. Obviously a lot of the spring games
are kicking up, you know. Notre Dames had THEIRS. I
(15:08):
think yesterday or today. U of L's got there coming
up as well. I know the weather is a little
bit a little bit iffy, but for those football fans,
it's right around the corner. It seems far away, but
August seeks up on you fast. Summer blows by. Between
June and July. You're taking vacations, Weather's beautiful and everything,
so everybody knows how fast the summer goes by on us.
But also wrapping that up as well wrapping up our
(15:31):
NBA regular season, so be I'm just want to get
your projection the teams. Obviously, we know kind of how
the East is that we've had a lot of teams
rise in the East, but the West is in a
tough predicament right now. When it comes to that three
to the eight seed, I think there's only a one
game or one and a half game difference between three
and the eight seed. Just your projections from that, who
(15:51):
do you think have your favorites coming out of the
East and the West, not even to win the championship,
just the East and the West and make it to
the finals.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
In the East, it's gonna be tough to go against
Cleveland and Boston making it to the finals. Like if
anybody else besides them make it to the the Eastern
Conference finals, I'd be very surprised because they're just playing
too well. I mean, right now, just between second and
third place in the East, the Felatics have a nine
(16:20):
game there's a nine game gap between them and the Knicks,
so them and Cleveland have definitely separated themselves. And on
that side is you know, the the old saying to
be the man you gotta beat the man. The Celtics
are definitely the man, and Cleveland's got to beat them.
So you know it's going to be tough with Cleveland
as well as they've been playing. The Celtics are still
(16:40):
the champs and now coming out of the West, like
that's that's so crazy out there between like as as
far ahead as Okayse is from everybody else. The Rockets
have surprised everybody this year. I don't think anybody expected
the Rockets to play as well as they did. The Lakers.
It'll be interesting to see what they do. I mean,
(17:02):
Lebron is crazy enough, he's still Lebron at forty years old.
But you know, though, I can see them making a push.
It's going to be really interesting with Denver being that
they just got rid of their coach, to see what
they're gonna do and how they're gonna play with all
the changes and everything going on there. That's so insane
(17:23):
that that happened this far out in the year and
then being in the four seed right now. But man,
like you can't count out Golden State just because Jimmy
Butler's made such a big impact on their team and
they've been playing really well, and I mean, yeah, you know,
(17:45):
I say, Dallas is you know, they're the ten seed.
I can't see them going anywhere. Sacramento, Minnesota could surprise
some people, Memphis could surprise some people. So the West
is just up for grabs. And even though like I said, said, okay,
he's just so far ahead of everybody, Like, I don't
know if they're the ones that are gonna make it out.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, I don't know. I know they're a little bit
of a younger team, not a ton of playoff experience.
That is kind of that's how like they're in the
same boat for me. I like him, but I'm just
not sold on them. Now with the Denver Nugget situation,
they need to release some more of a backstory on that.
Mike Malone has got to be one of the greatest coaches.
I love Mike Malone. He's I think he's a phenomenal coach.
(18:28):
I think he holds a lot of integrity and he
holds his coaches and players to a high standard, even
if they don't like it. Because someone when you're that
high up, when you're running it's sports, but it's a business.
You're running a business. When you're high up in that
business where you have to be successful, you have to
win games keep your job position. I think he's done so.
Obviously they're fourth in the West, which is tough enough
(18:50):
as it is. And I hate to say that Jamal
Murray has had a down year for him. He's kind
of teeter tottered a little bit the wrong way on
the slope. Westbrook's picked up a lot of slack from him,
help them coming out there being a triple double machine
once again, giving them that extra spark that they needed
off the bench sign in him, But firing the head
coach and the GM five games before the regular season ends,
(19:12):
when you're fourth in the West and you won the
NBA Championship in twenty twenty three, it just doesn't make
a lot of sense to me that there's something that happened,
a backstory that we're missing, We're one hundred percent missing.
That's just That's like saying Dan Hurley wins the National
Championship two years ago, they make it to the sweet
sixteen and then they fired the entire staff and the GM.
(19:35):
It's just like, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
There's got to be something that we're missing behind that.
Maybe it'll come out hopefully in recent days for an
upcoming days.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Just kind of give us an idea.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It may be something they had actual di dilemma between
all the people on the staff and they just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Restart and refresh. That could be the case.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
But for just going off with just straight statistics and numbers,
he was getting the job done. You know. He went
first in the West, but fourth in the West. This
is not horrible by any means necessary. They're like they
made a pass the so far playing and the playing
games are tough enough.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Or they are. They were tough last year the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
We saw what happened to them when they played the
playing game last year. The Warriors have won four national championships,
i mean for NBA titles in the last fifteen years.
So it's it can be. It can go either way.
It teeter totters either way when you're going into that.
And the funny thing is, my dad actually just sent
me this too, and he said it at perfect timing.
(20:30):
It's actually that Alabama head coach Nate Oates is currently
in Denver. He said they're told that there's a possibility
of meeting with the Denver Nuggets owner and works with
kind enough deal for him to be the next head coach.
So Nate Oates could be Alabama, could be could be
at out of Alabama going to Denver.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
There's a possibility on that.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Obviously nothing is set in stone, but you never know
if he does end up making that move. I'm not
even trying to think off the top of my head
who would be good candidates to take that Alabama.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Job, because it's a tough job. I know.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We just talked about your buddy, the high Point head coach,
who's actually leaving, how he took High Point to the
tournament this past season, who's leaving to go back to
Creating to be an associate head coach in waiting behind McDermott,
which is something we talked about.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I was like, I was like, that's not had to be.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Something that they talked about with management if you're leaving
a coaching job where've run twenty to twenty five plus games,
took them to the NCAA tournament. For those who don't
know the people that all of our big fans in Kentucky,
we grew up in North Carolina, high Point coach Gott
and I coach Scott, Please just describe to them what
high Point is at the university and kind of what
their campus is, because people don't know how Christine high
(21:35):
Point is.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I don't I don't know. If there's whatever the richest
area in Louisville is, that's high Point.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Pretty much.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It's a It's an unbelievable campus from an athletics standpoint.
You have every resource you need. Their facility or a
state of the art for being a low mid major college.
They have an arena with a hotel attached to it
(22:09):
on campus, a practice facility. They have a steakhouse on
campus where all the students can eat for free once
a month, and you actually you have to have an
exit interview there at the steakhouse with one of your
professors as part of your classes. They have obviously everybody
(22:31):
probably has a Starbucks on campus at all these different colleges,
but this college at high Point, they have airplane seats
in one of their Starbucks to where you have to
take a class and you have to sit in those
airplane seats with your professor and they teach you how
to talk to someone on an airplane. So if you
just happen to be sitting next to a Jerry Ease
(22:52):
or someone who with a big, high status and you
know how to give your elevator pitch and sell yourself
to whoever you're sitting next to. So for him to
leave high Point, and I'm very surprised at high Point
didn't put a big package together for him to stay
at high Point until he takes over at Creighton, I'm
(23:15):
very surprised. Or at the same time, Creighton probably brought
a lot of money to the table to where high
Point just couldn't compete with him. But that's very surprising.
And Nate Oates going to Denver, that would be very
interesting because let's look at all the college guys that
(23:37):
made that jump to the NBA and actually were successful.
It's not a lot, and it's a different day and age,
and it would be very surprising if he leaves, and
like we're just talking about, like does Alabama not come
back with a contract that says, you know what, you
should stay at Alabama and not going to the NBA.
(23:59):
So that it'll be interesting to see how that all
develops over the next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, one hundred percent, there's gonna be a lot of
movement going on this summer. We've had a lot of
movement in.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The last couple of years. But when you're gonna tell you, you might.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Have a completely different roster all the way from coaching
staff down to the managers. That's just how sports is
right now. It's you don't know who you're gonna see
on your team. A lot of the players are graduating,
some of them are going off to play professionally, even
if it's in the NBA overseas. I hope that works
out well for them. But in that transfer portal you
will have, I would be surprised fifty to sixty percent
(24:34):
of a new roster next season. I can almost guarantee
that for a majority of the Power five schools. A
lot of the mid majors and even low level players
signing high school kids and juco players coming in trying
to build their resumes up to be able to compete
with these big schools.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But I just wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Throw that about out there about high Point, because I
think high Point is setting such a meccan, such a
high standard for I think what a lot of universities
to do, even the University of Louisville. I've been ul's campus.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I love U of L's campus.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I've been in University Kentucky, Western Kentucky, North of Kentucky.
I've been to so many different universities from playing against them,
just visiting, through traveling, going to sporting events, whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But high point is a five out of five star.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
University to be able to give them the chance to
offer a class where you go into the steakhouse. You
go to one you can go one time for free
per month. But the thing is that when you go there,
it's not you're just going there just to eat some
steak because you live on a roma noodle diet. When
you go there, they show you how to eat fine
dining properly as if you were in a meeting or
a worth setting with someone else.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
The same thing that they do with the.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Airplane scenario in the Starbucks to where you go and
you sit down and it just gives you a better
recommendation on small talk, trying to get you into that
realm of being more social, getting out of your shell
and getting you comfortable with that. But the time is
seven forty one. I got to go ahead and get
into our second brave. We got some bills to pay,
so they don't come out of my check phone numbers five.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Oh two, five seven, one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
We'll be back after this break and dive a little
bit deeper into that. Well him back to the sports
Radiom time at seven forty five For those getting on
to work, get there on time and don't be later.
It's Friday, baby file phone numbers five h two, five seven,
one seventy nine hundred. Something I did want to dive
deep into because I know it is one of the newest,
hottest things on the market for U of L fans
is obviously coach Pat Kelsey's race. Now. After leading the
(26:19):
Cardinals the twenty seven wins and an NCAA Tournament appearance
in his first season, PK is going to be received
a salary increase from two point three million to three
point three million dollars, which will be going through the
twenty twenty nine to twenty thirty season that he got
on his extension. Now, I think that's something huge for
U L and Coach Scott is kind of wanna get
your opinion on this. Do you think signing PK for
(26:41):
that long of a deal in a race so immediately
was the right move for.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
U of l.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Absolutely, he turned that program program around faster than I
think anybody would have anticipated. I think coming in the
expert expectations were uh. I would say they probably weren't
set too high after you know, the past couple of
years before him and coming in, you know, so not
(27:09):
a lot of pressure to do well, just do better
than the previous coach. So now that you know he
sets such a standard and he's coming and he's I
think from what I've seen, he's he has what the
(27:31):
type of program that he wants to the type of
program he wants it to look like, and now he
can build around that. He's got a got his own
little niche going and it's well deserved. And now that
you don't have to worry about him leaving for a
couple of years, although it wouldn't surprise me if Alabama
(27:54):
comes talking to him after the success he's had right here,
if NATO's leaves, but I think he'll do very well,
and it gives everybody peace of mind that he's locked
in for that long and now he can start to
really build a program that he wants and take Louisville
to the level that everybody wants Louisville to be at.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I definitely agree with that, and.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
We also got a call on that called in go
ahead and bring that caller onto the show for us,
we have the caller with us.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is he's still off the line.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yesterday Joshua spoke about that has a Dirk at Louisville Colignment.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Who's this guy?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I don't know? You can't who's you can't handle? The truth?
You can't handle.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
But it's bad enough that we have to deal with
your text messages through throughout the show now that now
we're going to call it, yes.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Have to streat you all out. But I do want
people to know with Coach Kelsey's new contract, you are
always talking about his million dollars, which is well deserved.
The bottom line, though, the elephant in the room was
josh Herd, the elect director, speaking about realignment. And you know,
I've caught a lot of flack guys talked about the
AEC and what has happened to it in the last
(29:27):
five or six years? Five years, I'm not going to
say six. Definitely, last three, last five were questionable. That
there's still realignment possibilities and josh Hurt is doing the
right thing. He has to look to move a little
out of the ACC. It is a dire year for
the conference of the a SEC. They must improve basketball
wized drastically this year. Drastically. They're going to have to
(29:51):
go out and find players, solicited players, and pay players
because they have to improve the product. It was embarrassing
last year period point blank. Four teams in the tournament,
three gone after the first game. Mcnee's State was the
most embarrassing loss ever. Louisville by double figures. North Carolina
gets beat. Now they try to make a comeback, but
it just was not a good look. Duke was the
(30:12):
only and they were a quality team, the only team.
So now that you have that elector record, Louisville speaking
publicly publicly that he has to start to look and
realign when these TV deals are up. He's one hundred
percent correct. Josh Hurt has done a great job and
finally he's told the Louisville public what I've been telling
him forever. It's time to start to look to move
(30:35):
on from this a SEC if it does not improve. So, guys,
that's all I got. I'm going to watch the Masters.
That is all there is to it today. Can't wait
eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'll be on it calling about that was the real
reason why he was up.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
He wanted to give us he had to throw two
cents and tell us he was watching the Masters. He's
been up since.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Five an exactly without a doubt of it. I've been
up since.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Just the truth, coach. I don't blame you, coach. I
just want to congratulate you on covering the spread against
Frank yesterday.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I covered without it from the tips. I want everyone
to know I'm sixty six. I was playing the tips
at Harmony Landy yes and covered. Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, Frank was Frank was the easy Frank was an
easy three and a half shot favorite yesterday and just
could not cover the spread yesterday. So Frank was very disappointed.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
He should give me six strokes aside. I got it,
and I told that Anthony, your next, got your next, bye.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Won your Your score card is almost like an ANIL deal.
We just have rejections but no real numbers.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Frank has the card, sure, I bet you.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If I called Frank, that card is nowhere to be found.
I think is probably the way you put it up.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's why. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
At in the back of one of his junkie Duncky Trucks.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Oh, we appreciation calling him Pops as always Tom sep
Fifty one. I'm gonna go ahead, and we're to go
ahead and run our last We're gonna go ahead, run
our last two breaks here.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And then we'll go ahead and finish off the show.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
The time seven fifty one. It's five oh two, five
to seven, one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
We'll be back after the breaks.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Welcome back to the sports radio time. It's seven fifty
five phone numbers, five oh two, five seven, one seventy
nine hundreds. Just one of the last things I wanted
to get into here, just a short thing. Obviously, I
know a lot of people might know him. He was
on the UFL's football team we're talking about in the
memorial and the passing of PJ.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Blue.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
He's a former linebacker.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Blue played for u.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Of L from twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen. He passed
away at the age of twenty seven. The cause of
death has not been disclosed, but they said he was
remembered by his teammates and coaches for his character in
contributions to the team. Now on my social media alone,
a lot of people are all around the same age.
Twenty seven is only only a year younger than me.
(32:59):
But a lot of people know who PJ. Blue was
and or been speaking about. The passing of them is
lately at such a young age. No one knows how
it actually happened or what the cause of death was.
It hasn't been released, but I've been seeing it all
over my page. But no matter of the age, if
you were to play sports or you were the people felt.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
That you were super important or superstar. Not passing away
at the age.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Of twenty seven or something that's not easy on anyone's heart.
It's not easy on the family, and not easy on
the program. You just never want to see that happen.
I'd I'd be devastated if one of my teammates would
to pass away at such a young age, even if
it was after sports. It almost happened in one of
my teammates, but Roy season, when we were playing at
IU Southeast. He went in the cardiac arrest in our
intros to our game, just when we were all sitting
(33:45):
down the bench getting ready to start, and we need
to have cancel that game and not even playing in
you know. Luckily we had people there that were giving
him CPR for about forty minutes until the EMS showed up,
and my mom actually helped take care of him while
he was at the u of L hospital here. So
I still talk to them very dearly. But keep those
loved ones in your heart. You know life is crazy,
(34:05):
you never know what can happen, so just tell.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Them you love them.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Coach Scott, appreciate you coming out with me this morning
to help me out.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
With this show. Oh it's always for our producers.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Phenomenal as always.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You always make the.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Show easy and smooth for us.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I thank you as well.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You'll have a great rest of your weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Enjoy the weather, enjoy.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Washing the masters about the te off here in a
couple of minutes, this is Esports Radio and we'll see
you all next week. Have a great one.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Bye bye,
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