1.23: Bye Week - Hour 1

I keep mentioning Dustin when I talk about the South getting snow, because the visual of seeing snow there is just wild. But those people probably moved there to get away from it, and it may get chilly every now and then, but for snow to arrive probably not probably not not what anybody down there would want. But anyways, it is warmer and that has me feeling good. And we're with you for the next three hours. I say we because it's not just me. My name is Nick Coffee,

the one and only Austin Montgomery. Thank you alongside who he was. You were missed yesterday, We thank you well you were missed. I mean, well, what do you mean I was missed?

your your life, your hobby. You know, you go on the road and go on trips, but just to see like the brand new RVs and the brand new boats that come out every year, like tor Bus, I mean it, I mean it. I mean it's amazing, and every year they're they're newer and nicer, more modern, and yeah, it's uh, it's it makes me jealous at times because again, like maybe I would who knows, I'll never be filthy rich, but if I was, maybe I would go buy a boat.

seen exactly what you're talking about on TikTok. The newer RVs that are the newer campers that really have that like a back porch on the back of them. Yeah, and somebody who has a huge following now on TikTok they tell the story of their family and I would never I mean I would never want to do this. I'm not passing judgment, but to me, it just sounds it's just something I can never imagine doing as somebody

with a family. But they left their like, they left their jobs, they had, they homeschooled their kids, they sold their house. They have remote jobs where they can work from their camper, and they just travel across the country and they document it on TikTok and you know, I mean, they seem happy, they seem content. I feel like there'd be you know, I don't think that's a way for a kid to grow up. But hey, you know, so.

that you know, that's that's the way to go. But I know I have friends that will go and and spend a weekend with just a backpack in a crazy yeah and a and a sleeping bag, and I just I think, man, more power to you. I would I mean, I I don't know. I mean I would when I'd be scared. Also, I would. I would. I'm not built for the conditions, and I would dive boredom, like you know, like, dude, props to you if you can be out in the woods and just entertain yourself. Not I I don't, I

mean I would. I don't know what I would do. I'd be bored to death.

I were texting late night on Tuesday. Yeah, late night text because I think we were like both in all of this team, and we've been it's been a fun ride. We've been talking about it since they started playing well, and really since day one, Pat Kelsey has even when things weren't great and they were losing games. I don't think anybody at any point really felt like, Okay, we didn't hire the right guy. But to have them in

the position they're in now, it's amazing. And I feel like the game against SMU, probably because records were broken, they beat SMU as bad as they did in SMU. For what it's worth, they are at least one of the better teams in the ACC. It seems I feel like there's now more attention on Louisville than there has been at any point this season, and it's kind of been a gradual build because they're on a winning streak

right now. They're up to nine. But I think everybody's looking at the schedule the rest of the way realizing they've already gotten the tough games out of the way in ACC play and they only have one loss and that's the Duke. And I think Louisville now is in a position to where, if they don't screw up, they're gonna get a really good seat. I mean, and it's gonna kill me if they're not in the top sixteen by the time we get that early look at the bracket,

which they probably won't be. That's a couple of weeks away. They give you the top sixteen teams, so certainly there's a chance they wouldn't be there. But I just what it's all gonna come down to is how does the committee really evaluate the ACC And I can't. I mean, I have a feeling that they're going like what you see in bracketology as far as where the ACC stands with They've got one team, you know, that could lose every game and probably still make it. They wouldn't and

that's stupid. To even say, because it wouldn't happen. But Duke is firmly in and they're a one seat, so they're good and I don't think they're gonna lose another game, by the way. And then you also have Louisville, who is clearly really you've got two teams kind of by themselves in their own spots. Louisville is by themselves because they're firmly in, looking like a four to five six seed that range between four and six right now. Duke, of course by themselves as the number as the number

one overall seed. And then after that you're looking at teams that are probably I don't know, maybe an aid at best, and that's maybe Pitt and Clemson. So you know, I think all the bracketology that you see that reflects that I just just I mean, maybe I'm just a sheep here. I assume that that's correct. I assume that that seed range is where those teams would be if in fact that the selection committee put together the bracket today.

But maybe they're a little more higher on the ACC I don't know, maybe they actually don't think that the teams on the bubble are worthy. So I don't think we're going to really know until selection Sunday, and you know, you can't really go off of like previous years because this is this is an outlier. This season for the ACC is just it's a different level of being down.

I mean, you've had the same amount of teams kind of you know, flirting with with with you know, with the tournament or I mean, I guess in recent years the amount of teams that have made the tournament has has gotten lower. But of the four to five, usually they're safely in. They're just not great seeds. Right now, you've got, honestly, there's only two teams that I think you can say that you feel very comfortable that they're

gonna make the tournament. I Mean, Carolina keeps losing. Pitt went on a four game losing streak after Louisville beat him. Clemson is probably in, but you know, they slip up and lose to a bum team, then that probably puts some ripe square back on the bubble. So I'm loving just every everything that's coming with Louisville being in this position where they're just they're playing well, they're starting to get some attention nationally. It's a cool story too, by

the way, like Pat Kelsey really likable guy. I mean, if even Kentucky fans can admit they have a really tough time not liking the Louisville basketball coach, I think that speaks to how likable he is. He seems pretty pretty relatable and an easy guy to like and root for, so everything that comes with all that has just been fun. But now again I'm bum because we have to wait until we have to wait until you know, next Tuesday

to watch him play. And again, for what it's worth, that game against another team that's not a tournament team. Wake Forest is also pretty hot right now. They're going to play Duke before they play Louisville, so I would imagine they're going to be coming in here on a loss, which you know, doesn't mean they won't be able to beat Louisville if they play well. But I just here. I mean, it hit me yesterday and I was kind

of getting there the day of the SMU game. But I have no reason to believe this team is not going to come out and play really good defense and have balance scoring where maybe some guy gets you know, thirty like rain Smith or thirty two like Hadley got against Clemson, Like maybe that happens, but you know, you don't need anybody to do that specifically, Like if you have five to six guys getting around double figures, maybe three above double figures, maybe a couple with nine to ten.

I mean, that's really all like what Louisville is doing, not only to you know, to I guess Rain Smith's three point barrage and Chucky Hepburn getting sixteen assists, that's not I mean, those are records for a reason. Those that's the most amount of threes and assists that have ever been that have ever anybody's ever had for Louisville. Right, So it'd be foolish just said that that's like something

you could expect. But outside of those milestones, really the way they're playing and what has led to them having such a you know, a streak here and they really look like a good team regardless of opponent. Those are things that are easy to replicate. It's not like they're doing this with pure luck. And I'm aware that if they were playing the same way and the competition was a lot tougher, maybe they wouldn't be able to come

out with victories. And we'll never know, right, But they're also beating the hell out of some of these teams, and that matters too, And that's why they've jumped so much in these metrics, just because, yeah, they're beating teams that aren't in the top thirty or the top fifty even when it comes to the net, but they're beating them back and you can still you know, that doesn't really prove that you're great, but it's the best thing you can do when you play a team like that.

So it's been a lot of fun, all right. It's coffee and company. Feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I stopped in at Thornton's on my way in today. Had to get me one of these white Monster energy drinks. Got to have them. And you know, I went two three weeks without drinking on one of these energy drinks because I'm of the belief aston that energy drinks, like even though they tell you zero sugar and you know, ten calories, I'm just looking at this.

I just assume there's no scenario that it's good for me. Sure, you know what I mean, Like, it can't be healthy. But I went three weeks without drinking it, and I noticed no difference at all. I mean, in fact, I felt tired. I felt like I missed it, but like my body didn't like, you know, I didn't lose weight. I mean, so I'm just going to assume that these are in fact good for me because I didn't do them for a few weeks. And I said, I said,

do them like it's a drug, it's a drink. I didn't drink them for a few weeks, and I was you know, I would say, okay, now you're not a coffee drinker, right, No interesting, I will say this though, the what was your last name?

gotten that repeatedly. I'm not gonna make the pun joke like you know, but anyways, yes, I don't like coffee. But the company man, he's a big coffee drinker, and he a couple of times when I was dragging ass, he would give me he would make a cup of coffee, and I didn't enjoy the taste. For some reason, I'm just not real big on drinking something that's warm. It just it just weird to me, just kind of seems like I'm drinking something that's bad. But but it did

give me a nice pick me up. Like I mean, I at least felt the effect. That makes me understand a little more so why people have to have their coffee in the morning. It's like, oh, I'd eat my coffee and eat my coffee.

but there's a certain it's really not about that. There's not many soft drinks I've had that I genuinely like, don't like like big red. I'm not a big red guy, but but I'll drink it like it's fine, you know what I mean. But more than anything, it's just that carbonation that kick, the bite that you yeah, the bite that you get from a carbonated drink is delicious.

But like if I'm going to any place to get a soft drink and there's options can bottle, two liter fountain, I'm the last thing I'm probably gonna get is fountain.

think it reset for us. Yeah, so I put Initially I would just use the card itself, meaning like just the actual like there was a physical card, and then I realized, you know, hey, Nick, you should join everybody else in you know, the new world where you can just enter your phone number and it's the same thing. So I didn't add my phone number to it until a little bit later on in my time as a

member of the Refreshment Awards program. So since the beginning of twenty twenty, since like February of twenty twenty three, so coming up on two years from now, two years ago, that's when I started using my phone number. Two hundred and forty visits and check ins with my membership. I

feel like that's a lot. That's that's VIP status, okay, because I felt good because I saw the number, and I'm thinking, man, that that sounds like a lot, especially if you consider the reces that took place less than less. I mean, so again, if Thornton's ever wants to, you know, check on me to make sure I'm actually you know, showing love and and you know, put it this way, I bring up that number because it hit me, you

know what this is. This is easily the most natural endorsement I've ever had in my life, because it's truly a part of the brand. I'll never forget. At a football game a couple of years ago. Because we've been with Thornton's for a long time now, we certainly appreciate their partnership and it's kind of a part of part of me, part of part of part of my show where fueled by Thornton's. Everybody knows it. But I was

in a football game a couple of years ago. It was Centerfield's last year, and I remember there was this guy who introduced himself and just said, hey, I listened to the show. And he had his daughter with him, and she was probably, I don't know, like six, and she was she had no interest in like, she didn't care who her dad was talking to, and and and you know, he was like, hey, it's the guy from the radio. And she just blanks stare like, I don't give a damn. The six year old had no interest

in me at all. And then he said it's the Thornton's guy, and she was like, oh, okay, that's all talks about. And I'm like, will you call will you call Thornton's right now and tell him that, because that that's gonna make me look good. But you know, that's great. At least again it's working. I don't know if you're targeting six year olds, but if so, she at least knows about Thornton's because of our partnership.

I don't know. It's a it's a lot longer than an interview we would ever do, so we probably won't do that at Pat Kelsey, the man of the hour, the most popular man in this city right now, the guy that has brought this program back to life. He did an interview with the Field of sixty eight crew. My buddy John Fanta had a good back and forth with Pat Kelsey. So we'll let you hear's some snippets of that, and you know I've heard most of it, but I mean, he's the guy you want to hear

right now, right if you're a Louisville fan. I mean, we can't get enough of this guy. We can't get enough of this team. It's been a real fun ride. So we'll let you hear that. Also, big night in college basketball light last night, Cali Perry got his first win. A couple of teams, I mean had no business losing. In fact, three teams in the SEC had no business losing in all lost. It's wild. So we'll get into all that and a lot more. If you want to join us, you can five O two five seven one

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heard it if you're listening on the radio. If you're listening on the stream, it probably was different. But he when he's emphasizing sort of just how much we're into sports. He references, well, he says this something about soiled jockstraps. Yeah, and there's not that that's that sounds like the gros. Just hearing that is the grossest thing that happens to me on a daily basis, just because of how great me just think about the soiled jockstrap like just pretty gross.

It just I mean, I'm not trying to have to you know, like who even thinks to throw that in there? Really gross? But anyways, that's off. I feel like those are I mean, I think every sports station across the country probably has something like that. But I feel like, I mean, how many more times can they tell you

about my Mooky Wilson rookie cart Austin. I mean, like you know what I mean, I mean like that, how many times can they let you know that that that not only is is Nick Coffee a big sports fan and knows sports, but he's got a Mookie Wilson rookie.

fun of. Also, last week, maybe it was a week before I get my week's missed weeks mixed up because I feel like January's been the longest year of my life. But we were talking about the guy who like wants you to know. Look, apparently people been saying that I sound like a lawyer. You'll be over my dead body. I hate lawyers. The guy who hates time shares and lawyers. Somebody, somebody came up to me. This is actually after my son's basketball game. It was like, man, that guy, you

were right. I've noticed it every time I hear the commercial. He hates that people thought he might be a lawyer, and I'm like, well, now you know.

going to fly. But anyways, welcome back, Coffee and company. Feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety as we take you up until six o'clock currently, and I want to plug this site, teamerankings dot com because it'srictually They've actually got a pretty cool story it's some guys who I think as an IVY League school might have been might have been Yale, but they all went to Yale together and lived in the same place when they were going to school. And clearly, if you go to Yale,

I would imagine you're pretty smart. Well, they've put together this website that has I mean, it's not super flashy, but it has really everything you want a reference when it comes to college basketball. You can go back and look at the against the spread record for teams in different seasons, and they've got a really cool tool that is that is called the Let me actually, let me pull it up to make sure. But yeah, the Team

Rankings dot Com is the website. But when you go to the college basketball section of that, you can you can click on a team and like for Louisville right here at fifteen and five, you can where's it at? Well, it was easy to find on on my phone, but now I'm on their actual website. But what it gives you is the projection for your team in the NCAA tournament. It's like it you know, every day, it updates every

time your team plays. It updates obviously, but it gives you percentage chance of making the tournament, a percentage chance of getting an auto bid, the percentage you know, the seed that you're most likely to get based off percentages, and you know it's it could be wrong. I mean, I would say Louisville not making the tournament. What would need to happen for that to happen seems really unlikely. Point So again, it's not It doesn't mean this is

exactly how it's going to play out. But I'm enjoying everything I find that I come across when it comes to bracketology or net rankings and all that kind of stuff, because you know, right now those things are getting better for the louis Well, clearly they're not looking like they're going to be like a one seed or anything like that, and that's certainly not possible given just you know where

they are. But right now, ninety nine point nine is the percentage chance of them making the tournament, eight point seven percent chance of getting an auto bid, which that means winning the ACC So I mean, they clearly can beat anybody in the league outside of Duke, and who knows, maybe they could upset Duke, But I wouldn't want to play Duke right now if I'm being honest with you,

I think I think they're really rounding into form. But Cel Brown brought a good point yesterday that Duke, they're the real They're the only team that anybody would believe is a real national championship contender in the ACC. But playing in a league like the ACC is this year, like maybe not getting tested for such a long stretch

of time could really could really hurt them. So the chance of Louisville getting at large bid ninety one point one, which that's basically making making the tournament, getting getting in without needing to win your conference tournament, and this is you know, this is a little bullish. Like this to me is I have a hard time seeing that that

that Louisville will be a four seed. But what I got to keep remembering and it's not like I forget it, but I guess more than anything, when I think seed line, it's just an unusual situation to be in for Louisville basketball, not to you know, be looking at at a bracket as far as bracketology, because this used to be what we do every year. There was really different conversations about are we going to make the tournament? In fact, during the awful years where it was just, you know, bad,

beyond belief. I remember going back and thinking like, there's probably only been in my lifetime as a Louisville fan, Like by the time we got to January, I can think of like three years where I was worried about bubble, like are they going to make the tournament? Like we were pretty spoiled for a long long time. So it's been enjoyable up to this point. But what I meant about the rare and unusual situation is that Louisville was in the It's been in the ACC for a decade.

They were in the Big East before that. I guess they had the one year holdover in the in the American Conference. But even the American Conference, the one year Louisville is in the American Conference in twenty fourteen, that league's better than the ACC is this year. It's not even close, to be honest with you. So what I'm getting at is, has there ever been a time where Louisville is a good team but certainly not an elite team. I don't think many are out there penciling them in

for a Final four or anything like that. So you know, you're good, But it's not like you are elite yet you are expected to win every game left on your schedule right now, and it's one because yeah, you're playing really well, you've shown and you've proved that you're good enough to do that. That should be the expectation. Easier said than done, of course, But everybody left on your schedule you know you can beat, doesn't mean it's gonna happen.

So it's just weird to know that Louisville the rest of the way from January twenty third on, they're gonna be in games that they should win, which means if they do, of course, wins just start piling up. And if Louisville ends up with that gaudy record of I don't know if they end the regular season, let me pull it up here, because if they in the regular season with a twenty six and five record, I mean, they're not gonna be a five seed, sixth seed. They're

probably a four seed or better, I would imagine. Again, it's just weird to look at the rest of the because then this is a long winded way of me

getting there. But when it comes to the seed that team rankings has for Louisville as far as the most likely seed twenty five point nine percent chance according to their numbers here is that they get a four seed, which I'm thinking right now, man, I don't know if they're a four seed, but you know what, if they keep playing the way they're playing, they're probably not gonna lose.

And although there's not a whole lot of value in beating some of these teams on their schedule who are really bad, if you beat them really bad, you can continue to climb. So maybe a four seed truly is what's most likely, not necessarily because they're that good right now, or maybe not necessarily because they're you know, they're gonna end up getting a ton of big wins of value. But I you know, they just and this just sounds weird to say, but they shouldn't loose another game. It

may happen. But what has me more confident than anything other than you know, the obvious watching them play, is that the things that they need that you would need to do to continue to run through this league are things that, like I would be highly stunned if those things go away, meaning, you know, showing up ready to play, being very physical, being really good defensively, having good balance where you're not needing somebody to give you twenty five

a night. You know that, Hey, your best players can have an off night here and there, and more often than now, there's gonna be somebody else that can kind of pick up the slock. Sometimes they do it in a major way, like Hadley with thirty two and rain Smith making ten threes. So maybe four seed is what

we should start. Kind of looking at three point seven percent chance to making the Final four right now, which you know, I'm not even thinking about that, but just to know that that's not like a zero point zero percent chances, I guess kind of exciting. I'm trying to find Kentucky's team sheet. While I do that, let's see here. While I do that, let me quickly update you on what I What I mentioned last night, just absolute chaos

in the SEC. And this is gonna sound made up like there's no way it's true, but it is, uh and it's it's it's crazy. There were three, yeah, three three SEC basketball games last night, and Georgia Ole Miss in South Carolina led for one one hundred and nineteen minutes and fourteen seconds of the one hundred and twenty minutes of the game time, and all three of those teams lost. Hear me out Georgia, olem miss In South Carolina all led for about ninety nine point nine nine

percent of their games and lost. I mean that is that not crazy? I mean Florida. I mean I saw them lose to Missouri at home, which I feel like was kind of a bad loss for them, although Missouri has played well and has some good wins. But they nearly lost to South Carolina, which I think would have been a bad loss, but they were able to come back from fourteen down to knock off South Carolina. Here is Florida down one with twelve seconds left. Be the decision maker, hedge out on Clayton.

South Carolina is the dad of that league. South Carolina's ten and nine and now zero to six in league plays. So but again, if South Carolina is the worst team in your league and they've got Florida on the ropes, they were leading Florida for ninety nine point nine percent of the game, doesn't that just speak to how good

the league is? Like, you know you're going to take some losses when you get into play in Auburn and Bama and Kentucky and Tennessee and Texas, A and M in Mississippi State, like, those are gonna be games that the likelihood of you beating all those teams just seems unlikely. Therefore, when you play a team like that, you gotta beat them. And that's where Arkansas last night really really gave Georgia

a tough l because Arkansas no boogey Flan. They're winless in SEC play until last night, and they ended up coming through, which not only was a wild finish, but a wild cover. So here is a it's a tie game, it's.

how it happens. I don't know. Like Georgia. Again, I hate saying this because it is a serious thing that he probably shouldn't joke about, because you know people might

run with it and think you're being serious. But it was one of those games, kind of like Louisville against Stanford that if I if I came in blind and you just presented me evidence and said this team threw a game, they shave points, I would have to believe you that was Georgia last night because after Theerro misses his first his second free throw, they didn't even try to get a rebound. He just got his own offensive rebound off the free throw and put the ball back

in at the buzzer. Therefore, Arkansas ends up winning sixty eight to sixty five. And if you you know, if you bet, if you bet Georgia, that's a bad beat for you, especially considering Georgia was winning the whole game and they were and they were underdogs. Like, that's a bad beat, absolutely what that is. But again, same example,

Arkansas was zero and five. If you're Georgia, yeah, you've got a good win against Kentucky, but you really haven't done much other than that, although you do beat You did beat Saint John's, which is a quality win for you out of conference. But you know, when you loo when you are Florida and you loosed and you were you know, you ended up beating South Carolina, but a loss there would have really been one that you just needed to avoid. And Georgia I feel like they desperately

needed to avoid one. ESPEC Actually they needed to avoid it more so because they're probably more like a bubble type team than Florida. Florida is seventeen and two now, so a bad beat. And then this was actually two good teams and if you're all Miss, I mean, what a choke job. You led the majority of the game like the other two teams here in the SEC did,

and sure enough, I mean just gave it away. Ole Miss is up to sixty two to sixty with nineteen point eight left, they're at the free throw line, and this is how it ended.

like that's not a bad loss by any means. But again, when you play in such a loaded league, you know you're gonna take losses and it still doesn't mean you're a bad team. So you want to make sure when you do get a night where you're playing one of

the bad teams, you take care of business. Or if you're playing anybody and you have a big lead, don't let it slip, because man, your wins you could be I mean, there's gonna be teams that finished close to five hundred and the sec that might be Final four type teams. I mean, that's how good I think the

league is. But I guess we'll see in March quick Break, we'll come back for a quick segment to wrap up the first hour, but we're taking you up till six o'clock, So stick around, hang out, make yourself at home right here with us on Sports Talk seven ninety.

So maybe I'm maybe I'm getting greedy here wanting them to update more often than they are. But actually, and here's here's another issue. I didn't realize. I wasn't following Joelnardi on on Twitter and he'll update, and I guess this is just how it works at publishing at ESPN dot com. But he'll he'll update like his he'll take like a screenshot of a document that shows seed lines,

that kind of stuff, overall stuff. But when it comes to like the actual ESPN dot com website and the ESPN app showing you his updated bracket, I don't know, maybe he's got to file it to somebody, then they've got to go in and publish. But yeah, he'll you can actually get a quicker update from him if in fact you are you know, following him on social media,

And I didn't realize it wasn't following him. So anyways, right now, the latest from him has the one seeds are Auburn, Iowa State Duke in Alabama, and the two seeds are Marquette, Florida, Tennessee, and Kansas, and Kentucky is the number one three seed along with Oregon Purdue in

Michigan State. So the reason I bring that up is because on the Kentucky team sheet, like I referenced louisll was earlier, you know, they got a ninety nine point nine percent chance of making the tournament, a four point six chance of getting in auto bid, which means that's the percentage chance of them winning the SEC tournament. But their most likely seed right now, it's really competitive because

well it could go either way. They've got an eighteen point nine percent chance to get a three seed, which is is the most likely seed according to this these numbers, But just under that at eighteen point two is the percentage chance of getting a four seed. The third most likely is a tie, where they've got a fourteen point nine percent chance of getting either a two or a five. So look, I think Kentucky's anywhere between a two or

a five. I really do, and the opportunity is there to get it to for sure if they keep rolling through the SEC or if they roll through the SEC, but that just seems unlikely. So that's like for Kentucky, you know, they're loss to Georgia as of now. It's not a terrible loss on the road, but it looks like a loss that you know you probably shouldn't have had because you know you're gonna like Alabama beating you

is nothing. I mean, that's a good team that will beat I mean, Alabama's one the best teams in the country. So you know, those are losses that suck. You don't want them, but like you just have to expect that's gonna happen. So Georgia not exactly. And Vandy, who they have this weekend. Vandy just beat Tennessee. Vandy's not a terrible team by any means, but they're clearly in the

bottom tier year of the league. And it's just it's weird how those games have so much significance now for these SEC teams because you slip up and lose to the bottom tier, and then you throw in all the losses that you get to the really good teams, maybe you get a couple wins against those teams to where

your resume is still pretty solid. But I just it's crazy to think about the worst record within SEC that's gonna be a tournament team because they play eighteen league games, you're gonna have a team with a losing record in that league that makes the tournament. I mean, I just don't see how you want. But anyways, with Lonardi, he does not have Louisville as a four as of right now,

which doesn't surprise me. I think five is probably the the ceiling for the Well see, five is probably the highest you're going to see them anywhere right now, and then I've seen some some still have them as a six, which I also understand. But again, it's just weird to being in this position where when you're projecting your seed on selection Sunday rather than you know, assessing where it

is right now. Well, you just have to consider that if this Louisville team continues to just do what they're doing, which I have no reason I think they won't, they're going to roll through the rest of their schedule and that won't give them a whole lot of chances to get big wins. In fact, they have none when it comes to getting big wins. But they're gonna start stacking up wins. And their strength of schedules is already pretty strong given the fact that they played a loaded non

conference schedule. So four to me sounds like, oh, let's pump the brakes. That seems kind of unrealistic, But no, I think it is realistic. All right, quick break, we've got two hours left. Stick with us right here. It's coffee and company and we are fueled by thorns. If you want to join us, you can't. Phone lines are now open BABO two five, seven, one seventy nine hundred. Keep it locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety