It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick coffee. I guess in the end, like it's a good thing, But isn't it fair to say that, like the expectation the predictions as far as like severe crazy weather, like that was a little over the top, right? I heard sirens on my way home last night, But whenever I heard them, I was looking around and I'm like,
what's going on here? So what triggers those sirens? Like? I don't think somebody sets them off manually like I would just but what the hell do I know? Maybe I'm wrong? I feel like it again, I could be completely talking in my rear end, which wouldn't be much different than what I typically do. But I just assumed that, like conditions are a certain level to where that goes off. Yes, maybe it's manual. I don't know. I think something has to be reported like what you were just describing
to the local weather service and that type of stuff. Yesterday on the way home, I was listening to eight forty whas Joe Elliott doing a phenomenal job filling infantry miners who's on vacation and they went live to our partners of WKY, who were of course live on television track, you know, given everybody updates. Jake rd Oci and I noticed throughout he kept mentioning, what I'm
seeing does not show a tornado. He wasn't, you know, he was being professionally, wasn't calling anybody out for being wrong, but he was basically saying, like, yes, they've issued a tornado warning, which is a super serious thing you can't take lightly, right, But what he was saying is that what I'm seeing does not track that, Like it's not to that level, which is good, right, It wasn't as dangerous, but yes, the sirens were going off, and man, it was wild. I
left here. It was sunny, and I think you and I left here at the same time. The sun was out downtown when we left, and there were like little patches. It's almost like, obviously this used to be a hurricane. And so you see the different breakups in the clouds, and it looks just very eerie the way that it was up in the sky, and the clouds can appear in a certain shape and form to where someone can take a picture and you will believe that it's a tornado, but it's not
like three different instances of that happened yesterday with me. And I'm not saying like somebody sent it and said it's a tornado, but I looked at I mean, I took a picture one myself, and I'm like, you know, it's not even Wendy, which in a way it kind of scares you because like, you know, the call before the storm, but you know, whenever we were leaving, it was I guess around the and I guess it started around Litchfield, made its way to eat Town, Radcliffe, and
then it kept saying, you know, northwestern Bully County, which I'm pretty sure that seems like exactly where I am, where I live. That's where I was heading. So I'm like, I guess I'm driving right to it. But it never I mean, it never did anything. It never even was Wendy, which again that's good. I'm not like bringing it up to blame someone. But you know, weather's tricky man, because you can never like you can never just say, well, hey, they've been wrong a
bunch of times. So I'm going to assume whatever they say is nonsense because you know, mother nature, she's not consistent. You know these guys who are in gals that are meteorologists that are paid to, you know, inform us of severe situations to try to keep us safe. I mean, I don't you know they're doing the best they can. They wouldn't you know?
They clearly have training. But it's not a perfect science, and it's just an odd industry to where you can be wrong and it is not and I'm not saying it should be, but you could be wrong, and it's never really looked at as if like you you you know, you aren't good at your job, or you did something wrong, because at the end of the day, if you if you thought something crazy bad was gonna happen and it didn't, everybody wins, you know what I mean, because it means it
wasn't severe. But do you think a certain meteorologist at WDRB was phoning up the bats last night? Oh? I don't know if the bats were playing, but I saw what happened last week. Yeah, I mean I don't know what he was doing. I mean I didn't see any clips of him.
I didn't I didn't see any tweets. But yeah, knowing what I know and knowing the pattern, like I would imagine he was a high alert, like, hey, I'm not saying you're about to die everybody, but you you might want to call your mom and dad and say say you love him or something like. He would never say that I'm exaggerating, but you all know what I mean. Like he again, when we really did get tornadoes that hit us in one rocked the Fern Creek area, in fact,
the Glenn Mary area. I remember my mother left my house and she was going back to where she lives and she'd literally cuts through on Barchtown Road through Glenn Mary that area to get to her home, and there was a tornado on the ground in Glenn Mary. Now, luckily she'd already made it back to the house and she was safe. But I didn't know that at the
time, and I'm freaking out. So I'm going back and forth to what to to stations and I'm on DRB listening to Mark with a CEA, and you know, I felt scared, and to be fair, like that was a severe situation to where, like you know, people should have been fearful, but it was a when I think of my preference in how a meteorologist should handle it, and really, I guess It's just a matter of your personality, right, Like I think what you see is what you get with
Mark with the C. I think that we have a good variety of personalities with me. You can kind of you got options, right, we have plenty. Yeah, And I remember I couldn't take it anymore because I was worrying, and I'm like, man, come on, like I I you know, even if you're not exaggerating, like there's a level to like do
it. And I didn't exactly know how to give him it. You know, I couldn't tell him what was bothered me so much, not that he was giving it damn about what I thought, meaning meaning Mark with the C. But I switched over to WKY and sure enough it was Ja card O C and he was kind of saying the same thing but saying it differently to where like I knew it was severe and I was worried, but you know,
I wasn't panicked as if we were all about to die. And even if you know that is the case, like let me go in peace, don't scare me. I would prefer to be wiped out and not like my mind would my mind if like I if if that kind of impending doom was coming. I would die before it happened because my head would explode because I'm such an anxious person that would lose my mind. So yeah, I ended up being I think, pretty mild. And today I don't know why.
But we didn't have once the once the once the decent weather got here, humidity seemed pretty low. And you know, again it's probably different now, but when I got here about an hour and a half ago, it was beautiful outside, which is which is what we want, right not you know, low humidity, not temperatures that are you know, near one hundred degrees.
So that's uh, that's that's what we want. And what John was referring to in regards to to last week, I mean, I sometimes need to just not like make it. You know, I can't help myself, and I should because I can tell I'm a I'm a jerk when it comes to some of this stuff. Like it's not personal, I don't insult, but like clearly, I mean I poke fun of our Kwanberg online. Again not in a nasty way, but like clearly the guy takes himself very serious,
and I'm somebody who does the exact opposite and whenever. He On July third, tweeted out, for those of the Louisville Bats game, I am in contact with the team and advising with storms approaching like that, Like that's just you wanting people to know your your power. So I tweeted out, and by the way, I got a lot of traction in case anyone was
wondering who calls the shots in this town? And then I shared that tweet because like that's like, hey, just so you guys know, I'm the one deciding what the little of bats are gonna do tonight, So just keep it locked right here on my Twitter account and on WDRB because I'm the one that's gonna determine what happens here. But like, you know what's crazy. I can appreciate a guy who's that into it. You know, it's a
little much when I'm actually scared about weather. But like one day, and to be fair, like he moves the needle WDRB, like you know, everybody knows who he is. He's the kind of guy you want to open a couple of bush lights while you're watching him. Yeah, I need a couple of I don't know if there's always a want for me to pound some bush lights. But yeah, like if I'm like if if he's the only option as far as getting some updates on a severe storm, I need to
pound a couple of bush lights before I can take his company. But he maybe I don't know. That's uh, I'm loyal to bush light. But if they didn't have any I would I'd probably take whatever. I'd probably take shots of something, just to kind of, you know, calm my nerves a little bit, because I I worry about things that are out of my control. And one thing that is out of all of our control, mother nature. Right, it's a scary thing. But you can take caution,
you can you can do whatever. But at the end of the day, she's undefeated. She wants to wipe us all out with with some crazy weather a tornado, a hurricane, tsunami. Like there's certain levels to it to where you can take cover and be safe, and you should do that, by the way, But like at the end of the day, like, there's we can do about it if he gets that bad. But again, yesterday wasn't bad, which is a good thing, all right. Coffee and
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you can do that too. Phone lines are now open five oh two five seven one seventy nine hundred. So a lot of people reacting to Rick Patino, which again confirms what I said earlier. Regardless of what you think Patino is a he's a polarizing talking point and in character, I guess that's
the better way to describe it. Like Patino is. When Patino does something, he finds himself in the news, he says something, it usually gets reaction out of a lot of people, which is why I started the show today by saying, look in radio, regardless of what kind of radio you do, if you're playing U Musick, if you're doing news talk, you're doing sports talk, whatever it is, play the hits. That's a radio cliche that is true and will always be true. And Ruy Patino's a hit.
So him two weeks after breaking the hearts of some Louisville fans and claiming that he you know, still loves Kentucky fans and loves his loved his time there, and he loves Mark Pope and will support him in any way, and that he donated money to the UK Football and IL Collective, which still is weird, but you know what Rick does weird things, Like two weeks after he did all that, he'd posts something on Twitter that has fans,
you know, probably in their fields a little bit. I mean, it didn't make me emotional, but it you know, regardless of the just let's just say the whole UK thing didn't happen, and he didn't go on pardon my take, not knowing he was actually going to be on KSR, and he didn't say what he said. I would still have the same feeling about seeing him sharing that picture of all his former players preparing for the TBT. So it was a tweet that said, let's see here. I just said
it pulled up here, Well here we go. Rick's tweet said this This was posted in the two o'clock hour. Warms my heart to see my guys together. Let's win this thing. He's referring to the TBT, the tournament that he mentioned Russ and said, sell your great bourbon, no drinking it. That's like a is that that's a dad jokes, Such a dad joke, and like Rick Bettino dropping dad jokes as his former players who gave us a national championship, as Louisville fans, at least a handful of them,
Like that's that makes you feel good? Right, I mean, at least it does me. And then the picture is his mop Luke Hancock. By the way, he still looks like a million bucks. He's not playing in the TVT but he looks like he could play right now. But it's Luke Russ Smith. One of the all time great players ever to play here and always will be Shane Behannon, who was on a national championship team. Earl Clark, who didn't win a title, but was a part of a great
run there back to back Elite eights. One of the most talented teams I've ever seen at Louisville was his last year here with him and t Will and those guys. Peyton Siva, legendary point guard now on staff here at Louisville, helped guide Louisville to a national championship, one of the best point guards ever play here. And then Reece Gaines, who was the holdover. You know, Reese played for both Rick Patino and Denny Crumb and he had success
under both and was a first round draft pick. And by the way, Reese is the one coaching the tv T team for those who didn't know. And then Chris Jones is in there as well as David Johnson, so you know that. I can hear Rick say what he says about Kentucky and their fans and his time there, and it doesn't change anything as far as how I feel about the Louisville experience for him, because even when he coached here, it was hard to even bring it up because he hated Caliperi. He
hated him. They were personal rivals. Take away Louisville Kentucky, they were rivals before they were coaching against each other in this state. They were there's
a history there. I think a lot of people know about that. So it wasn't even something we thought about because it was so like we'll never be able, in my opinion, to match the intensity and just the I mean you could feel and I mean it like you could feel the tension when watching Louisville and Kentucky play the first four or five games of the patinocal going up against each other here and in this state. I mean, it was down
and uncomfortable when they when they tipped it off. Whenever Eric Bledsoe got in was it Reggie Delk's face, And Cali Perry got in Reggie Delk's face too and said, you're you're messing with the wrong m effort. Like man there were. It was a it was a personal game for everybody involved. Fans hated each other. Of course, it's a rivalry. I mean, Louisville clearly had been bullying Kentucky a little bit under the Billy Gillespie era. That
was, you know, expected to change. And clearly Cali Perry his players knew that he hated Rick. And to be fair, you know, cal had a lot of success in Kentucky and one of the most successful things he did was beat Louisville. I mean, one of the things I guess he had the most success that I guess I can't speak today, but anyways, my point is this, like we never really thought about it because of the level of the rivalry, Like it was so intense and we didn't win much
when Rick was here and Cal was there. But if anybody else would have coached Kentucky, I wouldn't be shocked. Like let's say it's let's say Tubby, you know, never left, which, by the way, Tubby was there whenever. Well, yeah, Tubby was there when Rick was there for a little while and Tubby had success, and I don't really remember how, you know, how friendly they were with each other, but it hit a
different level when it was Cal there. So like I think it made people kind of just forget the fact that Rick really has no reason to be bitter about Kentucky at all. And when it comes to the way the fans treated him and the things that they said about him and the ks R coverage where every I mean that I think that website and I would say this to Matt,
and I don't think you would disagree with me. One of the biggest factors in the explo and growth of KSR, which, by the way, say what you want about those guys and Matt and and it's now been sold to a different company that's run I mean, it's not Matt really involved with the actual website. But my point is this, you can't recreate that. There's nowhere else that exists that. I mean, it's just insane. So, you know, their website really a huge part of the explosion is because
of the Rick Patino content that they did. I mean, and we gave him good content. I should say Rick gave him good content with the Karen Cipher and the Katina pal stuff. Right, So with all that said, like Rick doesn't get lost in the weeds on that. I mean, he probably, I mean, I know he knows who Matt is, and I know he was aware of some things that were said, but like he's not listening to a whole lot of fans. That's just not him. He's you
know, he's above that in his mind. So you know, I don't I don't think with a lot of people ever, you know, those who just still feel as if like he did some disgraceful thing by going on that show and talking up Kentucky, I just think you've never really given it a deep thought, and you never given it much thought. As far as the fact that like that's natural. It would be almost unnatural for him to, at this point in his career now at Saint John's to not look back at
Kentucky. Finally, Kentucky, let's be real, made him. I mean, he was with the Knicks and clearly was successful there. I don't want to say, but he became the larger than life future. I mean, he was the most talked about college basketball, one of the most talked about coaches of every level. Obviously Phil Jackson was doing the damn thing with the Bulls at that time, but what Rick did at Kentucky it put him on a different level to where the Celtics came in and offered him a job.
So, you know, any expectation that he would hate, hate Kentucky and feel bitter and never acknowledge them, I think the rivalry component makes people like
believe that that would be realistic, but it's not at all. And Rick's a hard guy to like humanize because you know, he's not relatable to most of us, but he is human, that is true, and I think it's understandable and reasonable for him to still feel fondly about Kentucky and want Mark Pope to do well and As far as how he thinks about Louisville, I don't know if he wants them to do well or not right. He'd probably tell us that he does, but I don't know if he believes it,
because he still feels bitter about how it ended right or wrong. He's bitter. He says he's not right. What's his line, get better or not bitter? But he's bitter and he's he's He's shown that without saying it, and the people he I guess owes that bitterness towards are no longer around, but still doesn't. That doesn't make the feeling that he has go away. But one component to this that he's not bitter about as his players. He loves these guys. He loves it. And I remember it came up a
couple of weeks ago. Somebody asked, like, do you think the'll ever be a day where Rick Patino comes back? And I said, here's here's how that happens. Like if there's no like if there's no if nothing happens until this point on the fifteen year anniversary of that twenty three team national championship team, if these guys asked him to come back and be a part of it and he could do it, meaning he's not still coaching at Saint John's,
or maybe he has the opening on the schedule. If Peyton and Luke and Russ, if they asked him to come back and be a part of it, and he could, he would do it because of those guys, but not because of Louisville. And I don't think if you asked him that he would blame fans or even blame anybody currently involved. But he still feels as if his world got turned upside down unfairly, and he blames Louisville.
And again I think he'd tell you it's Pizza Boy, Papa John, It's Greg Postal, who is a UK fan, It's you know, David Grissom, who was clearly incompetent throughout his time in his position at u of L. And then who else was it? Oh a Bevin. I don't know if he's ever mentioned Bevan. I feel like he has, but like I think he knows it's geared towards them, But like, just because they're not around anymore doesn't make that a motion that he has, and that bitterness that
he has towards Louisville just disappear. So again, I'm not telling anybody to like feel a certain way about Rick. You can feel however you want. I just I think if you really gave it some thought and kind of put the rivalry emotion on pause for just a moment, you'd realize, like, this is like he didn't really do anything that crazy. The UK and IL football stuff is just weird. I'll never be able to really understand why he did that or wanted to do that, but you know, chalk it up
to Rick being Rick. A right quick break will come back. On the other side, we'll hear from the future of louisvill basketball. I mean, he's not the future coach, he's the current coach. It's Pat Kelsey. He did a really good interview with Andy Katz, which I want you guys to hear. We'll chop it up into two sections. We'll play the first half of it coming up here on the other side, and I think you'll enjoy it. So stick around. We're about halfway through here on a Wednesday
Coffee and company feel by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety right. So the text line five point two six five three zero seven ninety is the LNN Federal Credit Union text line and a couple of people A couple people have asked kind of the same question a little bit differently. Do you think somebody asked Rick Patino to post that picture? I would say no, I mean, maybe
they did. I'm not sure. Like, I think that's a I don't mean, I don't think he's doing that to try to like make Louisville fans happy because they were upset about what he said when it comes to Kentucky. I think I think that's a I mean again, I think it's a natural thing for him to feel the I mean not to defend Rick here, because you know, he's clearly going to say things that are just insane at times.
And by the way, nobody's ever really like if somebody fact checked and found out that he didn't actually donate money to the UK Football Like, would anybody be surprised if it wasn't true and it would just be chocked up as Rick being Rick. But you know, even if somebody did encourage him, Like, I don't think it's like a forced thing for him. I think he does feel strongly about all those guys that are in that picture that that he shared all right, let's see here real quick, I'll mention this just
because somebody had sent it in and I think it's it's worth mentioning. The Evan Maya Evan Mayakawa. He's college basketball analytics guy, kind of like a Ken Palm type of guy who has his own formula and does a really good job of crunching numbers for those that really get into the analytics side of college basketball. He has updated transfer portal activity class rankings, which is a lot that sounded just like a bunch of mumble jumble, but he's got updated rankings
here. I guess now that some of the dust is settled, or maybe he retooled something. I'm not quite sure because I feel like he actually did this not that long ago, but currently the top five programs in the twenty
twenty four transfer portal class and again he does it differently. Overall, transfer activity ranking is viewed in who you lost and who you added, right, Like, there's two of different There's a lot of ways to look at it, but the two that I think are both worth looking into, although I think the bigger, the most valuable one is to look at what you lost
and what you added rather than just who you brought in. Both both are important to an extent, but as far as overall activity, that's considering. You know, you didn't lose anybody. That's a huge loss, and you brought in good players. Saint John's is number one and both both overall activity and their incoming class, and it's really top heavy with Davion Smith who transferre from Utah and then Kadari Richmond I think it's his name. Was that the
guy who transferred from Seaton Hall to Saint John's. Yeah, I mean this guy entered the portal not super late, but I kind of feel like everybody knew this guy was a good player, but like it just didn't get Like. He's the number one player in the portal in college basketball and at least a couple of the rankings, and Rick Matino landed him, so that's why
he's at He's at number one in both. But Vanderbilt is number two in overall transfer portal activity, Louisville number three, Indiana number four, and then Kansas State's number five. They got who did They landed it the last Yeah, they landed coleman aginst the last minute, and got some other guys along the way. So that's your top five. Kentucky came in at number twelve.
So again, and I'll defend Kentucky a little bit here, Kentucky is being hurt in these rankings by something that I don't really think is legit, and that's this despite their production kind of being blah and certainly underwhelming given expectations, the fact that Aaron Bradshawn DJ Wagnertle left Kentucky and are still viewed as like really good players in the portal, They're being hurt. Kentucky's being hurt in these rankings because of that, and those guys may be great at Ohio
State in Arkansas respectively. But I don't mean I don't I mean I think Kentucky has added players that are better than them. To be honest with you, but if you look at just incoming transfer class ranking alone, meaning just where you rank as far as the guys you brought in, which is a little a little misleading with Louisville and even Kentucky because literally almost every single guy, I mean, everybody's new. However, Kentucky has, I think,
is it two freshmen. They have one freshman and Travis Perry a second freshman, and the kid who transferred from BYU but never played because he was on that mission trip. But Louisville is at number two with just the collective amount of guys they brought in, and Indiana is at number eight, which they got to be being held down by some of the last guys they got,
because I'm sure Langdon Hatten wasn't somebody that was highly touted. But I mean, not to guess up Woodie, but like everybody they added other than the other than the kid from Bellermne. That's his name, right, That's the guy I just mentioned. They're guys that I think like everybody wanted, so I don't really understand that. But they came in at number eight, and then Kentucky is at number six, so huge difference there. Kentucky's twelfth in
overall activity. Six then just when you rank the guys specifically they brought in, and again it's because some of the guys Kentucky lost don't look like big losses to you, and I get it. But yet in the eyes of these metrics they do. All right, let's talk about the little of Men's clinic again, Fellas I'm telling you, there's a lot of things they could do to help you. You may feel like you're good, right, you don't need any help. You're a man, you're tough, you're strong,
you're happy, you're healthy. And if that's the case, God bless you. But what if you could be even happier and healthier? And you'll never know until you go talk to the friends that I have at the Louisville Men's Clinic doctor, would you know, let him know? Say, Hey, Nick was talking about all the things you can do. Here's my situation. Do you think there's something maybe that you guys could do to help me out? And you know, there may be a situation to where you don't need
anything, and hey, you know, at least you tried. But I'd be willing to bet that if you had your levels checked, you may feel like you're the toughest, most masculine dude out there. But your levels may not be where they're supposed to be for somebody your age, and you've just been and you've just been chalking that up as being normal for years now. And then once you do get your levels where there need to be with testosterone treatment, you'll feel like a million bucks, just like I do. So
again, liblemnsclinic dot COM's the website. Fibo two four four four four thousand is the number if you guys want to give him a call. All right, Pat Kelsey on with Andy Katz, which Kats used to work for ESPN. Now I think he works for like everybody. He's on NCAA's website doing coverage. I think he works for the Does he work for the Big ten network too? He has, I don't know if he does currently, but I know he has before. He's done some like studio work for him.
So this is from the NABC website, which is the I think the National Association of Basketball Coaches. I think that's what that stands for. But a sixteen minute conversation here. I'm not going to play the entire thing right now, but here's the first half of it as Pat Kelsey and Andy Katch chop
it up and welcome everyone to an off season ANYBC chat. I'm Andy Katz, pleased to be joined by Louisville head coach Pat Kelsey and Pat, I just want to go back a little bit here because you had so many opportunities. You've had great success, and you could have left a number of different times you chose to stay. You're a very loyal person. Why was this the right fit at the right time. I mean, Andy, it's Louisville, and I have to correct you. I'm so sorry, but I was
corrected probably eight or nine times before I finally got it right. Because in this town it's Louisville. You can't say Louisville. Oh you're right, Sorry, sorry, Louisville. I've been corrected so many times I can make it, thank you, But I think the best way to answer it is, it's Louisville. It's Louisville, basketball man. And I grew up ninety miles from here, so I was close enough, you know, obviously, to
feel the magic of the Louisville brand in the eighties. But even if I didn't grow up ninety miles from here, and I grew up a million miles from here, it's one of the most powerful brands in college basketball. It's one of the most tradition rich programs ever, so I think the power and
the mystique of this program's past was what was the biggest thing. Well, and you're coming in at a pretty crazy time, not just in the sport, But I don't think anyone could have imagined that Louisville would be toward the bottom of the ACC or whatever league it happened to be in. They've changed a lot of leagues during its history, and so you've got you know, you're here, and you've got the ability to take it up to where it's
been. How did you assess sort of the landscape of the program of where the ACC is at this point where there's a lot of movement, there's not sort of just these teams that you can't see at the top of the mountain that you can't you know, try to match, because we've seen a lot of different teams get up there with do Carolina and take their turn. How did you assess sort of the overall landscape of the job and the league. Well, you know, I started my career in the ACC. Skip Prosser,
the late great Skip Prosser, hired me. He used to say it was the biggest meteoric rise in coaching history. I went from the freshman basketball coach at Famed Elder High School in Cincinnati, and I was selling cars for my dad on the side to the ACC. I thought that was funny.
It was the mediorc eyes. But you know, so it's it's where I got my start in gosh, ACC basketball is is traditionally the greatest league in the history of college basketball, in my opinion, and you know, to be a part of this great league again and there's there's there's movement, and there's changes and but that's that's happening. That's happening everywhere. But you know, you talked about like kind of where the program has been the last couple
of years. That's not my focus. My focus is what we're doing from the moment we took the job I think one hundred and two days ago now, Uh, and moving forward. So what's happened in the past is the past, and what happens in the future is what we're all about. So, look, there's a different path in terms of roster management for everybody and and resources. Are you know good at Louisville. Uh, it's different than where you've been, that's just obvious. But what was your your mentality at
least in this first year. Maybe going forward, you pick up Chucky Hepburn, who had a great career at Wisconsin to try to manage sort of high school international transfer to get this thing going right off the bat. Yeah, you know, it was a crazy whirlwind of the first several months because you know, we started at zero, right, we had to build an entire roster. And I give my staff a ton of credit, and I think I have the best basketball coaching staff in the entire country. They make this
dude look smart, which is pretty hard to do. So they busted their tail. And I know it's boring interview speak, but we stuck to our process what we believe in. Obviously, we had to utilize the portal heavily, you know, getting the job kind of you know, in the spring and starting from zero, and we wanted to put together a team that can
compete from day one. So, you know, we have a process that we go about and how we identify guys in the portal that we want to recruit, you know, traditional recruiting, grassroots recruiting, underclass recruiting, high school recruiting obviously, or relationships built over a long long time, and that's always going to be at the center and the heart and soul of our recruiting
efforts in the portal. It's kind of recruiting on steroids. You know, what usually is a two year process sometimes becomes a two week process, so you can't skip steps. You have to make sure you're doing your due diligence and making your calls. But at the same time, you know, thirty
forty other schools are trying to recruit the same person. So all these things are going on at the same time, where you're building a relationships, selling your program, and that the ends at the same time checking all the box to make sure that the players you're bringing in that you're recruiting are great fits. I don't want to dwell in the past. I won't, but they're obviously you know, the us some apathy. I think that has changed dramatically
just with your hire, because of your passion and your energy. If I'm a Louisville fan, Louisville fan, Uh, what am I going to see on day one when I get to the YOUM center on the floor at both ends. Yeah, that's a great question. And I was asked questions similar to that at my press conference and what's this going to look like? And what are we going to be this year? And you know, I'm I'm
a big believer that those things will take care of themselves. If everybody in an organization, starting with me, all the way down to the student managers are doing their job every single day with excellence. We got a weightlifting session that's going to start here in three minutes, and the goal of that weightlifting session is to be the greatest weightlifting session in the history of our program.
And then as we turn the page to the next thing we do, and the next thing we do, and the next thing we do, that'll be our focus and always been my way. Right. I let the guys like you right make all the prognozers a lot, But what style of play? What? What will what will me and everyone else? What will we see in time? I want to play well. First of all. I think, you know, Skip Pross used to say a team usually takes on the personality of their coach. So you're gonna see a high energy team, you
know, that plays hard. I like to think that our teams, our staffs, teams, my teams play with grit, play with tenacity, play with passion, play with fire. We're always going to play stinking hard. Our teams are usually from an offensive standpoint, dynamic in terms of our pace, how we play, we push the ball, we play downhill. There's a lot of possessions in our game. We value ball movement, people movement. Uh. We value three point shooting typically one of the you know,
uh towards the tops of the country, and three point volume rate. We're also usually very very good in offensive rebounding, so we go and pursue our own missus as well. On the defensive end. You know, we're going to be a tough, nasty, tenacious I like to think Manda Man team predominantly all right. So we'll get to the rest of that a little later on. And a lot of that, of course, is things that you've already heard from from Pat Kelsey and his other interviews that he's done, including
when he joined us on the show here. But I know Louisville fans have to appreciate him already, feeling I mean, he is clearly one of us. He's leading the basketball program. He's the guy that has been tasked to get this thing turned around. And I think he's got a lot of support here so far. But obviously we have to wait and see what happens. However, he feels as if it's his duty to correct people who don't say Louisville correctly and say what Andy Kat said, which is Louisville I don't know.
That's the fact that he's already doing that is I think a good sign. All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side, and to wrap up the four o'clock hour, I want to talk about something at some point. I don't if we're gonna have time to do it before we get to the five o'clock hour, but at some point I do want
to talk about something that I'll give credit where it's due. It was somebody a former NBA player on Instagram had posted this, but like it's a very obvious thing to bring up in the always played out lebron versus MJ thing, but it has something with Bronnie James. I think it's a really good point
that I haven't heard many people talk about. So we'll get to that in a lot of other things throughout the rest of the show, So stick with us right here, Coffee and Company feel about Thorton's on Sports Talk seven ninety as we wrap up the four o'clock hour, A couple things on the football
side to share with you. When it comes to the on three rankings of the G five transfers only meaning guys who are transferring into the ACC from a non Power five, they've got a top ten and Louisville's got some major presence here. In fact. Number one is Colin Lacy, the receiver from South Alabama, which you know we talked about him really since he decided to transfer Louisville because he was one of the big gets in the portal, but he did not have a I don't want see he had a good or bat spring.
It just was you didn't hear a whole lot about him, and I'm not sure if that's for any reason, but he is still somebody that has proven to be a pretty I mean, I'm pretty I'm trying to find the number here, but there may be only one player in college football that's returning this twenty twenty four season that has more receiving yards than Colin Lacey. So, yes, he did it at South Alabama. That's a lower level.
But you know the top receiver leisvel had last year also came from that level, right, I mean, Jamari Thrash was a pretty successful G five transfer to the ACC and hopefully Colin Lacey is the same thing. Number two is justin Jolly, the tight end to transferred from Yukon to NC State, but Number three is louisvill was tied in Mark Redman, who was an All Mountain West performer at San Diego State. And then at number five is Thor Griffin of Griffith. I should say who I this guy is. You know,
there's a lot of hypes surrounding him. He already had some NFL buzz after a great successful run there at Harvard. But you know, if it does translate like seventy five percent, he's gonna make a really big impact. He's He's one of those guys that you see on the Freakly the Freakalist every year from Bruce Feldman, just guys who physically and athletically are are different. You know, you never know what you're gonna get from the Ivy League. That's
a much different level than even G five. But this guy had a lot of options transferring from Harvard, and you know, Jeff Brown feels really good about his d line and I would imagine Thor Griffith is is a part of that. And then the only other leus of a guy mentioned here in the top ten is Jordan Gerard, who was kind of a late addition in the portal. He transferred from well I don't think he was that late, but
he just didn't get mentioned a whole lot. But FIU is where he transferred from, and obviously they weren't very good last year, but he graded out as one of the best defensive linemen in the G at the G five level, was an all conference performer there at FIU. So again, obviously there's always the question mark is just how much of that will translate from the lower level to the power for previously power five, and you really never know until
you actually get out there and see results. But again, last year, I think Louisville was able to see that. Just because somebody you know, played below the power four or five doesn't mean they can't come up and help you in a major way. I mean, I think tomorrow Thrash might have been better at Louisville than he was. Was it Georgia State that he transferred from. I think that's right. Also, really quickly before we get out of here at the top, you know we're not leaving. Yeah, we
another hour, so make sure you guys stick around. But another football thing here to Brent to mention the the what's the what's the award? Let's see here. I want to make sure I get it correct, because if Jeff wins this, we're going to be talking up this award like it's the biggest award ever. Yeah. So it's the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year preseason watch list, which Jeff Brawm was one of the twenty one coaches on that
list, So shout out to him. Not a surprise. I mean, he wasn't gonna win National Coach of the Year and he didn't even win acc Coach of the Year last year, But still doesn't mean he didn't have a great I mean, he totally took advantage of his first season and really gave the program a lot of momentum. But these preseason watch lists, like we all know, they don't mean a whole lot because you cannot be on it and then be added once you actually, you know, have results within the
season. Like I'm not really sure, Like John, what do you what do you think they would tell us as far as why they choose to even put out a preseason watch list. Yeah, I've never really finished a value yourself, because I mean, I guess you're basing all of it off of potential or maybe past results, especially when you're thinking about guys who have already
played a couple of years the college level. So what to me, it's it just gives people an example to like say either that you left somebody off, which wish they did here, or that you know, like, wow, you really showed us that you were way way wrong here because you had five guys on this list coaches or play depending on what the award is, and like none of those guys were nearly as good. They might as well
just let big Game Boomer make these things exactly exactly. So again, like I I'm not surprised that all the Jeff's on the list, and I have no reason to think that if Lowell has a good season he won't be considered for that award. But they left off a guy who I think you could argue has I mean as far as a name that a lot of people didn't know recently in the last few years. I think this guy now is a known name and has a lot of momentum. That's Dan Landing at Oregon,
Like, how could he not be on the list? Yeah, he was, Like, that's just clearly one of the top candidates to be Alabama's head coach. He turned him down, right, I mean, like, I just I don't know. He's been at Oregon since two thousand and twenty two, so he's entering his fourth season. They went twelve and two, eight and one in the PAC twelve last year, won the Fiesta Bowl. He
was ten and three in his first in his first year. I mean, like, I think it's clearly like cause again it's not just because he's a good coach, but like, this guy's got momentum like this guy's is. I mean, he's the only guy that, like pretty much everybody who covered this coaching search for Bama, Like there's other guys that got extensions right and acted as if they turned Bama down, which I don't believe all these guys
did, but I believe Dan Lanning did. Like it was quite clear that's who they wanted, and within twenty four hours, like you know, he said he's staying at Oregon. So yeah, I mean, I'm not bitter about Jeff not winning those awards last year because the Coach of the Year award,
like there should be two of them. There should be the coach who has the best season, coach of the year did the best job coaching, because the results tell you that and there should be the Overachiever of the year because they're two different things, and sometimes, you know, the award just goes to one of those two, and it's really two different types of criteria. And last year Florida State exploded through had an undefeated season the until the
uh you know, to the bowl game where they got killed. But Brohm, last year, I mean that was I mean, Louisville was seven and one in the acc All right, quick break, we got the five o'clock hour coming your way, so make sure you stick around right here on Sports Talk seven to ninety