11.13 - Champions Classic Reaction - Hour 3

I give my son a lot of credit because he you know, he saw it coming. And I don't know if it really was due to him being that that upset that Kentucky was gonna win the boot Cats what he calls him, but once it kind of looked like they were in a good position and he was up already way past his bedtime watching with dad and we were big Duke Blue Devils last night. That's I mean, my son's going to be a hater just like me and hopefully make me proud. But we didn't even have

to say anything. We could both kind of tell you, yeah, it looks like they're gonna win this thing. And he's sitting with me in the recliner. He looks up and says, I think I'm gonna go lay with mommy in bed. And I was like, all right, son, I get it might have been because he was tired, or maybe because like you know, he's smarter than me. I probably should have turned it off so I didn't have to see it finish. But you know, I knew going in that they could win, and I kind of felt like they

would win. I talked about that a lot yesterday, just because early on in the year. The way Kentucky is built is more beneficial at this stage of the season than it is to be reliant on super young, talented freshmen. Now, I could have easily gone the other way, but that doesn't mean Kentucky doesn't deserve a lot of credit. Did Duke struggle because of their veteran Their veteran guard got hurt and didn't come back. Yeah, the giant that Duke

has that I really don't know much about. I mean, I honestly I mean, I knew they had a loaded freshman class because John Shire has probably never had a freshman say no to him. I mean, has he ever missed on a recruit since he's been there. I'm sure he has. I say that sarcastically, but I feel like he gets anybody he wants. Just is effective or maybe even more effective than Coach k was doing it before he hung it up. But Ma Locke, I think that's how you say it. I mean he was, he was good,

impacted the game in a major way. He was cramping up, couldn't play. So yeah, A lot of Louisville fans on the text line mentioning that as a factor, and you're not wrong, but it really doesn't. I mean, I mean, Kentucky can't control that. And even if those guys would have fout, would have been able to play without either being pulled in and out because of cramps like the Big Fella, or leaving and not coming back like James the transfer from Tulane. I mean, Kentucky still. I mean,

it was a close game throughout. I think the lead got up to what twelve at one point, maybe, but not for long. It was a game throughout and Kentucky did exactly what Louisville fans wanted to see their team do on Saturday against Tennessee. And you know it, anytime Kentucky takes the floor of your Louisville fan, you'd prefer them to lose, because again, they're the rival It's how it works. Some people are way more into it than others,

and I get that. But to know that you had a similar test just three days before they did and you didn't get a good grade, you didn't pass, and they did, I mean, it's it's it's tough because look, the rivalry resetting with two new coaches has made it to where you mean, again, Kentucky hopefully, I'm sure they're hopeful that the rivalry resetting with new eras taking place at the same time, it doesn't change the fact that they're they're gonna be on top. But for Louisville, it

gives you a chance to say, hey, Caliperry. As much as he would lose in recent years to nobody's in the tournament, man, one thing he did pretty consistently.

be tough to beat them because they're just loaded. Like people can act like at times, Here's the truth. Louisville has had games where they just were they were tight, and they were not ready for the moment. They were aware of how big it would be to the fans and their coach, and they didn't play well. Patino, I think he was too tight at times, he overthought the matchup.

But the reality is this the biggest factor in why Kentucky and the Caliperi era really owned the rivalry is because they just had better players, more talented players.

in a long time. And I'm sure if you work with them, and maybe you're going back and forth every day at your job, or maybe it's a family member, it's an in law, you know what I'm talking about. I'm sure there are many people listening right now that are on one side of the rivalry or the other side. And when you think of the rival you probably have somebody in your life. Maybe it's a close for and maybe it's a loved one, or maybe it's somebody you hate.

I don't know, but like you know, you want to avoid them when it doesn't go your way in the rivalry, and you can't wait to see them if if it does go your way.

I think is good. Baylor's a good team, but they were coming off a fifty point beat down Tiggnzaga earlier in the week. So so far, Kentucky's got the lead in the breakup and I really don't see that changing. I wish I could say otherwise, because I'm not like a Caliperry fan, but like now that he's not coaching Kentucky, like I don't care. If Arkansas is good and in fact it ribs Kentucky fans, then hell yeah, let's go Cal.

I stand by that. Maybe I'm wrong and Tom will tell if I'm right or wrong here, but I think the ceiling is not as high and the floor is a lot lower actually at Arkansas, and the chances of him really going down to Fayetteville and just you know, being the guy he was in his first five years in Lexington. The only scenario that was going to happen

would be if he reinvented himself. He no longer was the stubborn guy who just wanted to, you know, do it his way so he could ultimately have the I told you so, how you like me?

talent to Kentucky. Even they would acknowledge that if they're

being real, but that doesn't always matter. And Kentucky used to have to resort to playing the talent game, right, like, look at all these draft picks we got, look at these five stars we got, and I think they could slowly start to see that, Yeah, it's actually a self owned not a cell phone you know that you use to call somebody, but a self owned If you don't know what I mean, like that is you not realizing you're actually leading people to to to a joke at

your expense, Like cal bragging about all these NBA guys in twenty twenty four is just an invitation for people to realize, Wait a second, he's had that many guys in the NBA, Well damn, why a Final four in a decade?

guys got the campus. I still think you have the pieces to be a good team, good enough team to make the tournament. Now will it happen, I don't know, but Tennessee loss didn't change that for me as far as that being kind of the bar as far as where I'm at make the tournament. If you go to the Bahamas and it's a bunch of butt whoopings, then we got to then we'll probably have to reset that.

But the next two games for Louisville, they're probably going to be able to do what they want to do and do it well and win by a lot against

Bellerman and Winthrop next week. But when they get to the Bahamas and you get Indiana, who does have a big physical presence, bollow just like Tennessee did in their front court, and clearly Indiana can look at what Tennessee did and say, Okay, we're not going to reinvent ourselves, We're not going to change our identity, but man, we got something we can work with here that we know will work to kind of stop Louisville from being effective offensively.

So I'm sure they're going to implement some of that, and I hope at that point Louisville has an answer and they don't find themselves in the position that they were in on Saturday, where you've got a bunch of guys out there realizing, oh, this is the first time we're not able to really dictate this thing as far

as style pace. They're back in half court, eliminating anything for any eliminating any opportunity for us to get something quick or and train position even and now we got to just go beat our guys one on one, and you didn't have the guys that could do that. Now again, Tennessee, I'm hoping they were a bigger factor in that than Louisville, but only time will tell. And I'm glad two people mentioned this on the text line when we were talking hoops earlier in the.

That was a killer, and they did that multiple times. But that's the one that stood out to me more than anything. So look with Pat Kelcey, and it makes total sense when you're at the level mid major, right, Winthrop and Charleston, the majority of the teams, not all of them, but the majority of the teams are working with the similar level of talent, right, A lot of three stars and two stars. There's a lot more of those guys than there are high majors, four stars, five stars.

And that's why you know, what ninety percent of the division IE level of college basketball maybe maybe closer to eighty I guess that's mid major or lower. So when you have, you know, kind of an even level as far as talent for the most part, I mean, clearly, there's gonna be some guys that you can tell are better than most in your conference and even on your team.

But it's not just you're not going to be able to just say, Okay, we've got substantially better players one through five than everybody in the Colonial Athletic Association then everybody in the Sun Belt Conference. So you can put a system in place and know that if I continue to bring in this level of a player that maybe isn't a four star, maybe doesn't have you know, McDonald's all American athleticism, but hey, he can do this, and

he can do that. I can plug him in and he can execute what we need to do at that role, and we'll and we'll make it work. That makes sense to do it at that level you're at Louisville. There's gonna be teams that have talent they can just simply dictate if you're gonna be able to get into what you want.

they do that. But you know, I don't think they need to reinvent themselves or change their identity or start over and you know, start from scratch, not at all. And they would never do that, Nobody would expect him to.

But there's just gonna be times where you're in a similar situation to where you weren't able to dictate it, and you've got to figure out, you know, what you're gonna do to counter what the other teams doing defensively, and I think that there's enough when it comes to peace and you know, talent, there's some guys that have some legitimate strengths and skills that you can exploit on

the other end. But figuring it out individually and then figuring out how it all comes together, that's that's a process that you know, I would hope that they're trying to figure out, but you really won't know what's going to work and what's not until you find yourself against a really good team and unfortunately, or maybe you can say fortunately, if you want to quickly see if they're getting better. They play a lot of really good teams from now until the end of this year. And I

don't mean the season, I mean the calendar year. So we'll find out when they get to the Bahamas. And this text came in earlier. Again, I'm kind of refreshing here on the text line five OO two six five three zero seven nineties the number if you guys want to text in on the Ellen and Federal Credit Union text line. But this says Nick, correct me if I'm wrong. The two teams are similar as far as how they want to play. But man, I feel like Kentucky's players

just have better talent. Yeah, I mean I can't really say that I disagree at this point. Now, I don't think it's a mungous gap. But two things. One, we have an extremely limited amount of data to really assess that right now, because what was done against Bucknell and Wright State and Morehead State. I mean, those those were impressive performances a boy, both teams in those blowouts. But you're not really learning a whole lot. So we really

just have one game where you saw two teams. You saw the two local teams here play good teams, and clearly Kentucky looked like they had better talent than Louis and they probably do deep down. But as far as how big that gap is, we'll find out soon enough. Like Andrew Carr, you know, he's a really good back to the basket player for Kentucky that that you know, was a good ACC player.

he didn't do with anything. He played twenty seven minutes and did not produce anything at all, just taking up one of the five spots that you have to have filled on the floor. So again, we're going to continue to probably assess it every day, and that's what we do around here. But when we really get a feel for that loss to Tennessee, was it more about Tennessee

or more about Louisville. The next chance to kind of you know, reset that and see how we feel will be when they play Indiana in the Battle for Atlantis, which again is not too far from now. All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side. The committee, they made it clear that one loss big ten teams with you know, no resume to speak of, they're getting the benefit of the doubt over SEC teams that have

two losses. But outside of those two losses, they also have really good wins that some of these Big ten teams don't have. So I don't know, hard for me to say the committee got it wrong or right, because again it's you really know that at the end, but a lot of question marks surrounding some of these rankings as far as where teams came in, So we'll talk about that next.

doesn't exist within this frame of on. But if people just turned on, you know, maybe we were on a television station, or maybe we were just on a stream on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, people just like tuned in and saw what I was doing, they probably would think I was having a medical emergency, because that wasn't that wasn't dancing. But you know, sometimes the sometimes the you know, you just can't help it. Music will bring

certain things out of you. Yeah, and I don't know what you just play, but those were good vibes, something about like early mid two thousands dance music. It's just always gets me kind of hype, you know.

of course spoken word like our talk station here. But and you know, you're seeing people out there dance and maybe, you know, maybe Tony Venetti's showing us what it looked like when he was at Toy Tiger in the nineties. Maybe maybe Terry's he's more of a ballroom dancer. I don't know, Like, ma, I don't are you never like things that wouldn't really shock you. But I could see, you know, going in like now, there's no way John is out there dancing. That's just not really his bag.

It's not really his personality. But what if he went out there and he was the best dancer on the team in our company, no doubt. Like again, the initial shock would be there, but then you're like, you know what, he's a sneaky son of but you know what, like he of course he's had that in his bag the whole time and didn't tell us. Of course he's a phenomenal dancer. I could be wrong, but you know.

eight and one at number eight. Miami falls of course, they took their first loss of the season against Georgia Tech. They're now nine to one. They fall from number four to number nine, and then Alabama comes in at number ten. Your first two loss team ranked is the Alabama Crimson Tide. So I don't really like looking at that and seeing how it's laid out. Nothing jumps out at me as far as like wow, can you believe they did this

or did that? But if you really consider just the facts here, this is where I feel like the benefit of the doubt because when I you know, the reason I keep bringing up benefit of the doubt is because you have to decide based off of just your opinion and what you think knowing you can't prove it, Knowing you can't pull a metric or a fact that that justifies it where everybody understands and agrees. It's just that's

not possible. So one of the things that the committee can do that I think would actually, you know, it wouldn't. It wouldn't minimize the complaining and the griping, but it would just be people realize, like when they come on and I say they because it's not the same person every year. This year, I think it's Ward Manual, who's the ad of Michigan. He's the he's the spokesperson for the committee. He talks after each of these rankings are unveiled every Tuesday and tries in his best way to

justify what they're deciding to do. But if he just you know, mentioned he can continue to mention what he mentions, but always emphasize after you say how you got there, emphasize, this is what we believe, this is what we think. Because it's gonna come down too strictly you using your eyeballs and just assuming that this team is better than

that team. There's no way of knowing, Like there's no perfect science to it, and that's not I don't say that to defend the committee because I still think at times they make decisions that are kind of, you know, a head scratcher. But if they just tell us, among the many factors they take into consideration, one of the factors is just simply their opinion, and their opinion matters

when nobody else does. That's just how it works. Like everybody wants justification based off of some flawless process that doesn't exist. They just collectively have to decide where to slot certain teams and it's based off of their opinion,

not any proof. Another thing that they could do that I don't think they're doing, is they could they like I don't maybe they don't realize this or maybe they're just you know, trying to do it more so, you know, ethically and not because they can rank whoever they want wherever they want, from you know, one through I don't know, twelve, Like you can give us the top twelve, maybe the top fifteen, and then you can rank everybody else in

whatever order. Justifies why teams one through twelve or fifteen rank where they are. And they don't do that, you know what I'm saying, Like you can justify, well, we have this team here because they beat number nine. Well they're number nine only because you say so, Like you have the ability to put the puzzle together to an extent and then piece it together the rest of the way to where people are still going to complain about it. But like, you know, I just I don't think that

they There's no perfect way to do it. You could put the most respected college football minds on a committee. You know, they aren't ads and principles and chancellors at schools, and they'd still get criticized for what they're doing. There's no perfect way to do it. But the committee I think at times doesn't help themselves as far as as far as you know, make it clear that like maybe

these aren't the best people to make this decision. Like the fact that they're all sent iPads to watch compressed and condensed versions of games gives you the indication that they're not even watching college football other than their team in the school they work for, which I feel like that shouldn't be somebody that's on a committee. But you know what, they have really important jobs. We're talking about

presidents and athletic directors at big time universities. They don't have time to sit on their couch and watch football all hours of the.

recent years. I'll give him that. Also though ESPA and makes you think that he has a factor and who gets in the tournament when he doesn't. I mean, the ACC had Joelnardi come and talk to the basketball coaches in the league at the spring meetings to give them a better understanding of how they can get more teams in the tournament, which is so stupid. Joelnardi does not decide he does have any involvement in he say so

at all and who makes the tournament. But because he's in your face every night on ESPN, people think that it's really insane to me that like nobody ever just thinks, well, okay, cool, that he's got a bracket, but it's not the real

one and he doesn't have any say so. So again, as much as it sounds like I just crapped on Lonardi, he's probably a better guided to give us a bracket then you know, the dean of admissions at Rutgers, And I'm sure that's not somebody that's actually on the But again, we're talking about people who not to say that they don't have the mental capacity and they're not smart enough, but they're doing a lot of other stuff. How about somebody who literally that's their only job is to continuously

assess the field and determine who gets in. But anyways, that that's my rant for the day. But here are some things that just, you know, I understand why there's a lot of criticism for when it comes to these updated rankings. One lost Penn State is ranked number four ahead of number five Indiana.

you're guessing. I mean, there are let's see here three two loss SEC teams Alabama, Georgia, and Ole Miss And there's several spots behind those teams that just mentioned, and I mean, let's see trying to pull up the actual number here.

pimp out the SEC. But I'd be a liar also if I told you that I feel like those wins that Alabama has again, Alabama's four and one, against the top twenty five. George is two and two. Like again, losses are a factor, but you can't have no losses or one loss and no wins to speak of and be sitting comfortable in the top five.

with this? Texas they're ranked number three and they have one loss. By the way, they're not undefeated. Texas is number three with one loss to Georgia, which is not a bad loss, but you did lose at home. But you know how many victories against the top twenty five. Texas has.

there's no perfect way to do it. Sometimes you're just gonna have to acknowledge this is what we feel, but be ready to try to justify that when asked. And I don't know how you can justify why Texas got the benefit of the doubt at this point and the others didn't. So again, I know it'll all work itself out, and at that point, you know it's gonna be quite

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