12.6: Waiting For The Weekend - Hour 1

supporter for for a long long time. So sign up to become a member of their Refreshing Awards program. If you haven't already, it's free. If you've got an Android or an iPhone, then you should. You should download the app and you will be You'll be good to go. My name is Nick Coffee, Austin Montgomery alongside today. You're an iPhone guy, right, I assume yes, Okay, huge iPhone guy. The major I'm not an Apple snob by any means.

Android operating system. I just don't see a lot of them. Yeah, you're likely to run into somebody with an Android phone, I'd say more so than an Android tablet.

But the first like smartphone I had that was you know, like touch screen where you didn't have to like actual punch actually punch buttons was an iPhone, so I've just stuck with it. I have an iPad, so like I think, to be an Apple snob, you really have to have like every device. Maybe you have an Apple tatoo. I don't know, but I will make a complaint. And John and I, the company man, used to used to go

back and forth because he's an Android. He's an Android guy, and he kind of just, you know, he lost the war without realizing he lost the war. And I guess there really is no winning and losing. Both phones can technically do the exact same thing, and it really is just whatever your preference is. I'll be honest with you. My wife, who was my then girlfriend, she bought me an iPhone for I think it might have been for

Valentine's Day, like many many, many years ago. There's some kind of a well she's awesome, which is why I married her and we share life together and we are madly in love. But there was some kind of a special to where she could get to so we both got iPhones and we ended up at that point. I mean, this was a big step in our relationship.

an Android guy. And again overall and some people like this is one of my favorite things that we talk about amongst each other in society, is that you could kind of be playful about it, but like, deep down, like you you really are loyal to whatever side you're on. Like there have been some people that you know, have have have switched, but then they go back to like what they're used to. What So nonetheless, it was me, I was an Android guy at first. When did you switch?

up as like a block on androids. So some of my iPhone friends or girls that I was talking to at the time would like send me an emoji and it would just be like kind of blocked out and they wouldn't get the same emojis that.

and it's just gonna happen. And he was like, Nope, no way. And then at some point the conversation shifted to where I was like, I'll have an intervention and he was like, well, that's already happened, and no joke. Seriously, I don't think it was something that they literally made like a big deal. But his family did like kind of corner him and schedule, like, hey, you're the only one of us that's not on Apple right now, Like everybody's got an iPhone. You're messing up all the group chats.

You're doing it only because you're stubborn. We have a phone plen to where you can get a new iPhone, and you won't do it. And you know, he was just like, Nope, I'm loyal. I'm sticking with Android. And but it was like proof to like, yeah, your family was on the other side, like you were Austin. Yeah, you made the change to the iPhone side, and like now you don't even remember life before it right now. And I've been trying to tell John it's the same thing.

And like you may feel dirty at first, you may feel like you're cheating on your Android platform.

all the time, probably more than I should be. So I found my first update that has happened to where I'm like pissed off every time I look at it.

life without it. But I found myself here lately, and I'm more mindful of it because you know, the company man himself is a good guy, John.

name is Maya. She doesn't have a cell phone, she's eight years old, so I can just type her name in and somehow like it knows to just pull up all the pictures of or whenever, like I guess because I've sent pictures and said, hey, here's a new picture of Maya. Yeah, or so the search tool, the search function is more useful than I realized. But as far as just like when I wanted to go to the photos app on my phone and use it like I have for the beginning of time since I've had an iPhone.

It's now different and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but I haven't haven't gotten used to it just yet.

and everything like that. And some people even have like I forget what it's called, but it's like the Apple version of Alexa. Some people's whole houses are hooked up via Apple and I think that's a little bit too far.

they're also like, why would you think that? But for the longest time, I thought an Apple TV was an actual TV made by Apple. I didn't realize that Apple TV is an app, is an app like like HBO, Max, Netflix. And I remember like we bought something that included Apple TV, and I called who what was it? Oh, it was some kind of we were we were doing something with Spectrum.

I think it was, yeah, some kind of an upgrade because we were going with faster internet, no longer needing any TV from them and no longer needing DirecTV or anything. And I was like, yeah, I thought you guys were gonna send me the Apple TV. I thought it was included in the bundle and they were like, sir, we

are not we don't know what you're talking about. It. I'm like, well, I need to speak to somebody because I was told I was getting Apple TV and I I mean, I can I'm getting cringe goosebumps right now from how dumb I was for that, and like I it was like it was next level dumb for me because I know a lot of you're sitting there thinking like this guy's a dumbass every day, but that was like next level, Like, man, I really feel feel like an idiot.

pick his brain as best I can. When it comes to the injury situation for Louisville, we do know that they're going to be without two guys the rest of the year, and that's not ideal at all. That's case in Prior and korin Johnson. But as far as Traiolray, when does he come back? Is there any chance at all that maybe Ali Khalifa and Kobe Rodgers could end up getting healthy and burn an a year because the

team needs them. So you know, those are questions he can't give direct answers to because he probably doesn't know, but he'll at least be able to tell us. Like on the injury side, if you know what the expected timetable would be for Trey Ora, and you know, depending upon what the specifics are, and what I mean is like when did Kobe Rodgers have surgery? When did Ali Khalif have surgery? And those are things we can easily

get the information from. And you never know, not every injury is the same, right, some guys can take a month longer to heal from the exact same thing.

it turns out not many people are. Because Tennessee is the is undefeated, They're going to be number one in the country. And every other team, like every other elite team that is in consideration for you know, I mean, I guess there's a lot of teams in consideration to be Final Four contenders. But what I mean is teams that have you know, remained within the top fifteen, top ten throughout the year thus far. They all have at least one loss, some have multiple losses. Tennessee is undefeated

and they're gonna be number one. So that was that was a test that was, you know, not a successful one, but doesn't look as bad now, I don't think. And then you go to the Bahamas because you had two nothing games in between with Bellerman and Winthrop, and then

in the Bahamas that was awesome. And then you lose Case in Pryor, you find out it's for the entire year, You find out Corn Johnson's not going to play it all this year the rest of the way, and then you get your butt kicked by Old Miss. So, I mean, I don't know what to expect against Duke I don't necessarily expect to win, and I think a lot of fans are kind of with me. But you know what, I said the same thing about Indiana because I just

thought Indiana was better. And the most recent result for Louisville when it comes to games against really good teams at that time was Tennessee and it didn't go well. So no clue what we're gonna get on Sunday. But well, mean, I was trying to give you something. I was trying to at the last minute there find some kind of like a positive thing to finish with before we move on.

going on this weekend. I kind of think they need to just figure out something here because it makes no sense to punish teams who lose in the championship game. It's an accomplishment to make it there, and yet there are teams that are going to be punished for making it and it just you can't really make any sense of that. So stick with us. Quick Break will come back here on the other side. Yes, this is earlier than usual, but we're working on clock management today and

we're gonna do better at it. I say we It's my fault.

we have enough time now. We've got to guests coming up here before too long, so maybe we'll do that later on In the four o'clock hour, but in the text line is always open twenty four to seven, three hundred and sixty five days a year, five oo two six five three zero seven ninety the ln N Federal Credit Union text line. And some good questions coming in

in regards to Louisville's injury situation. And I'm glad somebody asked this because I actually did look it up the other day, you know, doing a little research for the show. Believe it or not, folks, I do prepare for this show. You may not be able to tell, but there's a lot of hard, extensive preparation that goes into it.

they probably never thought possible. But as far as somebody transferring mid school year, mid season, because obviously the semester for college students will end here before too long and they'll be on Christmas break, and you can transfer then because you know you're at semester break, but you can't play sports in the same school year. In fact, it says there's no limit the number of times an athlete

can enter the transfer portal. The NCAA sent out memos to institutions twice during the twenty three to twenty twenty four stating that the multi time transfers could play immediately in twenty twenty four to twenty five without securing a waiver. But athletes cannot transfer midyear and play for a new school in the same athletic season, so the athletic season has already started.

be a waste. You'd be mean, you don't have scholarship, and you don't have I mean, I don't know why you'd give anybody money, So you know, i'd say that, you know, there's no chance that they add anybody to the roster, and even if you could, I'm not sure if that's ideal for a for a you know, for

a for a coach to do that. I mean, clearly they need bodies, but it's just, you know, that's where we are right asking a crazy question like that, but also kind of knowing, like hey, like maybe you know, because they need bodies, they don't have players right now, which is just crazy because that was the one of the it was one of the things that you really felt like was going to be the strength of this team, which is depth, and now they don't have that at all.

So I mean, I guess maybe there's a scenario somebody could fight it, like we are at it. We are at a point where players are probably gonna like try anything like Diego Pavia the Vandy quarterback like he. I don't even I didn't see the final resolution, but he's in a lawsuit with the n c double A with some kind of protection order because he's claiming he should

get another year and I don't know what. Again, maybe he lost, but I feel like more often than not, anytime i've seen somebody challenge the NCAA, rather it be a player or a school, and they do it in court, the instatly loses. But I would not get your hopes up if you're expecting somebody to join this team during the season and help them out.

the portal, and they've already scheduled visits. But it's just another example that nobody follows rules or cares at all anymore, because like by setting up a visit, let me give you so Miller Moss, the quarterback from USC who lit Louisville up last year, he is going to enter the portal when it opens up. I guess is that today. Maybe maybe it's today, maybe it's tomorrow. I'm not sure. But he will visit Louisville next week. That was reported about on three Sports. He is going to visit both

Louisville and Missouri next week. And just think about this. The fact that you've already scheduled visits means you've probably already talked to somebody, right, I mean, I don't think you just show up and say, hey, nice to meet you. I'm in the portal, couldn't talk to you, but I just wanted to get a flight here and see if maybe I could be of service to you. Guys, Like,

it's not how it works. So there's clearly been communication going on and that's technically not allowed, but nobody gives a flying rats ass about the NAA rules anymore, because that's just that's just where we are.

because they weren't winning. But yeah, he ended up. I guess he got his first career start against the louivill in that Bowl game last year, and I knew he had a good game, but I forgot that he threw for three hundred and seventy two yards and six touchdowns against the Cards last year in the Holiday Bowl. So then, of course he became the full time starter this year.

Got off to a good start. They beat USC or not USM, sorry, USC beat LSU, and that looked like that was going to be a pretty valuable win, and I guess technically it was for USC, but they did not have a good season by any means. So he started the verse nine games and was completing about sixty five percent of his passes, threw for over twenty five

hundred yards, had eighteen touchdowns and nine interceptions. But then he threw I think it was three interceptions when they lost to Washington and he got benched, and then at that point he, I guess decided in his mind, well I'm done here. So no clue if he's going to be the guy Louisville really focuses on, because again, the portal hasn't even opened yet. But last year, Jeff Brom,

I mean, it was pretty early with Tyler Schuck. If you remember there was he was in the portal, he had scheduled to visit and it was done, I mean, and other guys later hit the portal, and I think fans were thinking, Okay, if this guy can stay healthy or you know, because health issues aside Shuck and I guess maybe the injuries keeping him from playing in a lot of games led to you being a little bit underwhelmed with his numbers. But it wasn't just the injury situation.

maybe he gets him here on campus and sells Miller Moss. Hey, I know what you can do with your arm, and I'm sure you know what I can do as a play caller and a guy that develops quarterbacks. Why don't

we make this happen? Because I don't think Miller Moss is gonna be close to being one of the most expensive quarterbacks in the portal, because you know there's gonna be other I mean, I shouldn't say that, because I don't know that for certain, but benched and then hitting the portal usually doesn't end up to where everybody's gonna be lining up to bring you in. And we've already had one person on the text line mentioned this, and

I hear you. I just I won't claim to know enough about the USC situation to give you a direct answer. But yeah, if Lincoln Riley's moving on from you at quarterback, and Lincoln Riley is kind of in that Jeff brom tier as far as maybe not accomplishments. Obviously, Lincoln Raley's been to a lot of playoffs. I'm just saying those are guys that are viewed as very, very innovative minds when it comes to offense. So yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say that it's a huge concern. Look, at the

end of the day, I trust Jeff Brom. But him getting benched and him knowing that and knowing that the guy who wanted to move on from him and put him on the bench was Lincoln Riley not great signs. But again, I think Jeff Brom has proven really with this past year was shucked that he's if he sees somebody and he likes what he and he likes what they have, and he feels like it can work, then

then you know we should trust him. Now on the Kentucky side, they I mean, they're losing everybody in the portal. And yesterday I was having some fun because I couldn't. I mean I could, but it was hard to have fun and troll and get into the weeds with you know, Big Blue Billy and you know RUP's rafters on Twitter.

I'm just making up non exiting you know those kind of names you see on Twitter Kentucky fans that you know, are anonymous and just you know, our our terrorists online honestly, and then and they've been you know, making fun of Louisville football in my mentions for years because.

it is, it's giving. Out of touch. I couldn't help myself when I saw a tweet from a UK fan about all the players they're losing in the poor and we're talking about Dain Key, Barrian Brown, Dion Walker, Menci, the five star Ligneman that was the first guy to

hit the portal, Jordan Dingle, their tight end Harston. I don't know if he's hit the portal just yet, but there's some speculation that he will, like they're losing the most talented players on their team, and as we discussed earlier in the week, Mark Stoops and Vince Mayor have kind of made it to well, hey, we need to value character more than talent. And they're not wrong, like

you need to have both. But the attempt here to spin that your program has no momentum and you're losing your best players trying the ability to spin that as a positive is really impressive. But what I was going to say, but I'm glad I asked because I would have said it incorrectly. It's giving Kenny Payne year two vibes.

What I mean by that is like, we saw what happened in the first year of Kenny payin and I knew and couldn't even fake it, that like this was gonna end really badly, and that even if they win out and brought in Michael Jordan and the Monstars from Space Jam with Kenny Payne coaching the team, it wasn't gonna work out.

what's gonna happen. You feel as if you're away like this is this there's the chances of this ending or I guess not ending, but this the chances of Stoop salvaging things in the next couple of years they're rolling in football and they're they're cocky again and they feel

like they've got something special. I'd say the chances of that are are much much slimmer than the chances of this being a really ugly exit because Stoops isn't gonna walk away from a crazy contract that nobody else would give him, and yet his fans.

do that. And maybe they do go out there and get some big names in the portal, but man, I'm telling you, momentum is a factor, and they have none. Now they've got money that matters too. But like if you've got guys who, well, I guess you are selling opportunity. I mean, if you're losing, you know, you're clearly losing your quarterback vandergriff But aren't you going with Cutter Bowlie, So like you're probably not even looking for a quarterback

in the portal. Yeah, you're gonna lose burying Brown dain Key. Therefore, maybe you can go sell receivers and receivers obvious one. Opportunity, Like the portal is about money and opportunity more than anything that matters. And I guess Kentucky could potentially sell both of those things, but the players that you would need to really get it turned around. I feel like they're going to also have opportunities and money elsewhere, and those teams probably aren't coming off of a one and

seven season in the SEC. Just just a hunch, so all is right in the world where we can be the you know, we can be the not the a holes, because I'm not. You know, it's not like I'm on social media being mean to people, but you know, just observing them crumbling as a football fan base is it is a little satisfying just knowing that they were so arrogant and so full of themselves for many years and it was really based off of more than anything that

they won. Weren't in the bottom tier of power football anymore, but also they were beaten their rival and we had to just take it. And now, you know, we don't quick break. We'll come back on the other side. Talk about these basketball injuries with the one and only doctor Eric McElroy of proraat Physical Therapy.