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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, March the twenty fifth.

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Speaker 4: The reason I say that drew the postgame show after

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Speaker 6: all anyone wants to talk about. All my text messages

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Speaker 6: are John Caliperry. As you know, just trying to watch

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Speaker 6: the Sweet sixteen. You got random people yelling at you.

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Speaker 6: You put it, stealing money? I'll put it that way.

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Speaker 6: I don't care. Stealing money is what is happening.

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Speaker 5: Any way they allow those two to return.

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Speaker 4: I had an assistant coach for a Power five program

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Speaker 4: They run the same stuff, they do the same things,

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Speaker 5: That's what he said. Well, it's catching it up to us,

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Speaker 6: Especially defensively. Last Thursday at the Sweet sixteen. A lot

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Speaker 5: And when it came crazy for the University of Kentucky

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Speaker 3: And when you get to the NCAA tournament, you can't

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Speaker 2: If you remember that earlier in the year, can you

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Speaker 4: So now the question is what happens. I think tonight

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Speaker 5: I still lean no.

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Speaker 6: I just know you said I said no. I said

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Speaker 6: I don't think he'd be the coach, Okay.

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 6: No, I just I think it's too broken around here,

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Speaker 6: all right. I mean there are fans that he could,

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Speaker 3: I'll just put it this way, I would be very

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Speaker 5: So you team, Well, no, that's not what I asked you.

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Speaker 5: I asked you will he be the coach?

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Speaker 2: Yes, you say yes.

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Speaker 5: I lean no.

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Speaker 4: But Aileen know, I don't think Mitch wants to firing,

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Speaker 4: Let me throw in a little point that somebody made

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Speaker 4: they're restructuring the seats down here at Roperena. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 5: April for the top six for the first six rows.

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Speaker 4: Those people's opinions are about to matter a lot more

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we thought this off season would be about that,

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Speaker 4: Now, Shannon, the people in those rows are the ones

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Speaker 2: Yeah, could you imagine paying that kind of mind?

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Speaker 4: Somebody mentioned that to me last night, and I forgot.

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Speaker 4: They're asking the biggest donors to make their biggest donation

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Speaker 5: You don't think Mitch is.

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Speaker 4: Gonna have to listen to them right now? I had

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Speaker 4: forgotten that, But I do think that'll be a big factor.

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Speaker 4: A five nine twenty two eighty seven. Shannon, go ahead

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Speaker 4: and open up the lines. We'll be talking about this

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Speaker 5: Plus.

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Speaker 4: One of the biggest errors I've ever seen a media

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Speaker 5: We'll take a break right back. Skiz. Oh wait a.

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Speaker 4: Minute, Shannon playing a little klay Walker. So let me

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Speaker 5: What are you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna sit down with them and say, look, we're

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Speaker 3: gonna give you one more chance. This happens again next

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Speaker 3: year you're done. Maybe that wasn't that what this year was?

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Speaker 2: Well, it was for.

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Speaker 3: Us, but I don't know that that conversation was happened

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Speaker 4: Okay, so, but it was for you. So he's already

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Speaker 4: it again?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm afraid of what's next, because look worse. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you how it could get worse right down the road.

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Speaker 2: What happened to Lomore and they won't happens.

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Speaker 4: But King hired arguably the worst coach we've ever seen

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Speaker 4: in Division one. They hired a guy with no experience.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're not going to hire somebody that. I mean,

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Speaker 4: we're it's Kentucky's not going to hire a dude who's

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Speaker 4: never coached before. No offense to Kenny, but he had

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Speaker 5: The FBI was involved over there. They had a lot

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying you can't have a coach

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Speaker 4: can Billy was. But isn't that a risk that it's Look,

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Speaker 4: doing this at some point soon.

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Speaker 5: Right. He's leaving at some point soon.

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Speaker 4: So the issue of well, you'll lose your recruits, he

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Speaker 5: I agree with all that. Maybe, but you.

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Speaker 4: Know what, that's gonna happen whether we like. He can't

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Speaker 4: coach into infinity. Right, So the question is only when

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Speaker 4: do you want to rip the band aid off. You

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Speaker 5: The recruiting class next year, Drew is not great.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's great for everybody else's standards, but for

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Speaker 5: And not much shooting and we've fallen in love with

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Speaker 4: Know, to to Seth's point, and this isn't a big

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Speaker 4: deal to me. I'm gonna be acknowledge you like it

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter a lot to me. But Seth, excuse me,

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Speaker 4: not Seth's point to every other people's point about him

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Speaker 4: working hard Shennon. On Saturday morning, a Kentucky commit, Travis Perry,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and had to head.

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Speaker 4: They're playing head to head in Lexington and then one

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Speaker 3: I felt like Caliperiy in the past, like the old

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Speaker 4: There are people telling me that they've had a staff

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Speaker 5: It's like a coaching convention. Really.

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Speaker 4: Yes, even when we weren't recruiting players in it, we

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Speaker 5: No one was there this weekend. And it wasn't just

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Speaker 4: We have a guy who's coming to this school playing

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Speaker 4: And it's down the road. And even if cows in

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Speaker 5: Of them was downtown? Was that not supposed to say that?

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Speaker 5: Say whatever you want, Shannon, I mean, like, isn't that worrisome? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: It is, it is.

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Speaker 5: But if I'm Travis Perry and I'm having this dream moment,

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Speaker 5: How often do we have a signee who was named

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Speaker 4: There was a coach from one of the other teams

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean there have been reports. Jack

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Speaker 3: We know that they don't know that, but they need

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Speaker 4: But then how do you not come down here? I

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Speaker 5: Him, all with their logos on lees.

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Speaker 4: I say, Scott Kenny, Great Crossing, all with their logos on.

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Speaker 4: You could sit and see him. Kentucky's not there, I mean,

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Speaker 5: Let me let me say something about that for it,

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Speaker 4: But for as frustrated as I was Thursday, Saturday was

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Speaker 5: Time since Ritchie.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Trent Noah, South Carolina's got a good player.

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Speaker 4: Played evangel Christian the smallest their student section Channing was

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Speaker 4: the finals, two small.

442
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 5: Rural schools playing each other.

443
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 4: The gym had thirteen thousand people, highest championship games since

444
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 4: like twenty fourteen. The first three quarters were a battle,

445
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 4: and then I thought Harlan just kind of wore out

446
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 4: there right at the end. But they were just back

447
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 4: and forth, guys making shots. The Harlan players mountain through

448
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 4: and through. I mean, we had a guy looked like

449
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 4: Sebastian Bach playing point guard shitning for Harlan.

450
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 5: I mean, it was and I just loved it.

451
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 4: I love seeing these two small schools going at each other,

452
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 4: two of the three all time leading scores in the state.

453
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 4: It was such a It reminded me of why we

454
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 4: love this And I have to say to the Sweet sixteenth,

455
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 4: that was as good a day of basketball as I've

456
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 4: seen in a long time.

457
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 5: You were there for it really was.

458
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Speaker 6: You know, one thing that stinks about this job is

459
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 6: we're usually out of town during the Sweet sixteen, and

460
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 6: because of the circumstances, we were able to make it.

461
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 6: And partially glad we are because that was an amazing

462
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 6: time and I'm really happy for Lion County and Travis

463
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 6: Perry's finishing that legacy for the time.

464
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 4: He'st versus West Kentucky third West Region. Well, you know

465
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 4: you win once thirteenth region in the second region.

466
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Speaker 5: It was it was awesome, it was great. We will

467
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Speaker 5: take your calls right for this KSR. TJ. Smith personally

468
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 5: injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

469
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Speaker 3: No more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

470
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Speaker 2: Here's Matt Jones.

471
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Speaker 5: I love that guy. I'm not I'm not kidding you.

472
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 5: At Harland. I mean, the hair was immaculate, Like he's

473
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 5: got to use good shampoo. What's the urbal escence for

474
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 5: the commercials? Oh? Oh, he's better. He's got better than

475
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 5: urbal license.

476
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 6: I'll admit when I saw him on the court right away,

477
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 6: I didn't expect him to be as good as he

478
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 6: Wasn't he good, great example, don't judge a book.

479
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 5: He was tough.

480
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 4: He looked like he should play in a band in

481
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 4: the eighties. He really did, Shannon, and yet he was

482
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 4: out there ball and I loved it.

483
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you look at what Jack Goldkie did

484
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 2: to Kentucky, didn't.

485
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 5: I love there. That's exactly I love Harlan County. I

486
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 5: love everything about it.

487
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 4: I love first of all, they had a ton of

488
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 4: people there, and I love the dude in the student

489
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 4: section just shirt open, just like literally chooting beach nut

490
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 4: like I mean, not worried.

491
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 5: About it at all.

492
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 4: And then when they won in the semi final sin

493
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 4: and they saying you'll never leave Harlan one.

494
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.

495
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 5: How cool is that?

496
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully somebody got that on video at all.

497
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, somebody did. I didn't, but somebody else did. That

498
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 6: was the perfect championship. You had Perry versus Trent and Noah.

499
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 6: You had two counties that aren't here very often. I

500
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 6: was sitting with the Lion County people. I know it's

501
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 6: an old joke, but I really don't know who was

502
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 6: back in Lane County. There were so many people there.

503
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 6: I think the whole town made the trip. And the

504
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 6: same on the other side of the arena with all

505
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 6: of Harland County, so you got the probably the two

506
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 6: best players and then maybe two of the most rabid

507
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 6: and excited fan base.

508
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,920
Speaker 4: For a thirteenth regioner. I mean, it's the first time

509
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 4: since Richie they've been in the finals. Since Richie. I

510
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 4: mean that's forty years ago. And then they're in uh

511
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 4: and it was tied going in.

512
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 5: The fourth quarter.

513
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 6: Now the score doesn't show how close it was. County

514
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 6: pulled away, Harlan had a chance. It's some big shots

515
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 6: to get in it late.

516
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, one person rights. I agree with Shannon. I'm a

517
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 4: cal supporter. He should get another year. But I do

518
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 4: have a question for Shannon. It has always seemed like

519
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 4: to me he was the most negative one among you

520
00:24:59,080 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 4: all year.

521
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 5: I had the change. Now good question.

522
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 2: I don't know it was I the most negative. I

523
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: don't know that I really will.

524
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 4: You and Drew were pretty consistently the most negative.

525
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 6: But but you wasn't negative this year. I was very

526
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 6: negative the last two years.

527
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 5: But you you would always make jokes about stuff, for.

528
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 3: Sure, But I joke on everybody though, But you're just

529
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 3: worried about what's the next. Yeah, I mean I felt like,

530
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 3: if you go back before the Texas A and M game,

531
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 3: it felt like everybody was pretty positive about this team,

532
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 3: right what they did before that, Yes, oh, no doubt.

533
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 2: And it's just I don't know, it's.

534
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: Just crazy how I guess everybody that's a coach, you

535
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 3: get judged on what you do, but it's based off

536
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 3: of was in one game.

537
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 2: That's true.

538
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 5: That's true.

539
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 4: Like Dusty May is the coach at Michigan only because

540
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 4: they got a tip in at the buzzer against men.

541
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 5: That's right.

542
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, if they don't get that tip in last year

543
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 4: and they lose in the first round.

544
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Speaker 5: He ain't the coach at Memphis. No, But Michigan.

545
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 6: We're positive in March because we are positive February because

546
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 6: we're excited about March, and then they went on two

547
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 6: and without having any game plan.

548
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 3: If col gets fired, I'm not going to cry about it.

549
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 3: But don't No, I don't think it's finally gonna be

550
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 3: too many tears.

551
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 5: Shit to you. Yeah, who's up personal.

552
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 3: We got to be very careful with the situation. That's

553
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 3: all I'm saying. Let's go to Donnie.

554
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 5: Donnie, go ahead, Donnie.

555
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. Listen, I'm seventy

556
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 7: five years old. I go back to reps of runs.

557
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 7: This problem with caw has it just started here in

558
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 7: the last four.

559
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: Or five years.

560
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Speaker 7: I mean, we're in a bad place of basketball wise

561
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 7: at UK. I remember the West Virginia game. That was

562
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,679
Speaker 7: the worst UK team I have ever seen since I've

563
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 7: been watching basketball as far as a perimeter game. We

564
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 7: couldn't throw it in the ocean all season long. We

565
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 7: get into the game against West Virginia and we take

566
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 7: like thirty two or thirty three threes, and you've got

567
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 7: arguably the best center in the middle and he doesn't

568
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 7: get the ball to me as a fan, that's where

569
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 7: it started. Then it's you go on to the Wisconsin game.

570
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 7: There's no way we should lose that game. I love

571
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 7: Cal he's such a great ambassador. But if he were

572
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 7: my brother, I would say, Coach, I love you, it's

573
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 7: time to go. It's just a sad day.

574
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 4: I agree with that, and I appreciate the call. I

575
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 4: am sad about it especially. I was especially sad Thursday

576
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 4: night and Friday because I kind of got the feeling

577
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 4: like this is it. His press conference genuinely was sad.

578
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 4: He seems sad. Mitch I looked at him, seems sad.

579
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 4: You and I were sad. It did seem like this

580
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 4: thing that I do where I disagree with that caller

581
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 4: a little bit, is I think this has been a

582
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 4: positive relationship for the vast majority of it.

583
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 5: It's sad.

584
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 4: It reminds me of like a movie where you see

585
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 4: a couple shenn in the night before they're about to

586
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 4: break up, lying in bed, kind of crying Togain remembering

587
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 4: the good time, remembering the good times and being like

588
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 4: this is this is it? That's kind of how I feel.

589
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 4: What I worry about is you do another year and

590
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: we do this again. It goes from sadness to anger,

591
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 4: and I don't want that. I don't I don't want that.

592
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 2: I was going through the anger and now we're to

593
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 2: the apathy part of it.

594
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 4: No, it's not apathy. There's too many people who care.

595
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 4: It's not happening. I mean, we're breaking all these records

596
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 4: and everything. It's not apathy, Shannon. Apathy's what was it

597
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 4: Louisville the last two years.

598
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 5: It's not apathy. People care. But you risk apathy if

599
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 5: you keep this going long enough.

600
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, I don't think it's apathy. I got yelled

601
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 6: at getting out of my car at a restaurant last night,

602
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 6: just trying to go or.

603
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 4: I had a man literally, Shannon, you know where I live.

604
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 4: As I was walking home from the Sweet Sixteens Hariday night,

605
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 4: a man followed me in hubby and was screaming at

606
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 4: me as I walked into my backyard, screaming at me,

607
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 4: going keep cow, keep cow, and his buddy was young

608
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 4: at him, going get rid of cow.

609
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 6: And I was like, good folks, Like, I think it's time,

610
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 6: and I've voiced some frustrations, but I'm also in the

611
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 6: sad camp. There's a little bit of kind of dancing

612
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 6: on cow. I'm not a part of that at all. Like,

613
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 6: you know, there's a bar I like, and a guy

614
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 6: like the celebrated the shot and let's get rid of

615
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 6: some of it. I think it's a little over the top.

616
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 6: I like, I don't it. It hurts me that Cal's

617
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 6: leaving and it's ending. I want it to happen. But

618
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 6: there there's also some celebrating that he's there, and I think.

619
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 5: That's too fun. I mean, Cal gave us a championship

620
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 5: and a lot of great memories. This is not fun

621
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 5: for me. Totally with you.

622
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 4: I hope they finished the meeting tonight with a separation

623
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 4: and a shaking of haints.

624
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 5: That's what I want, because I'm with you. I don't want.

625
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think people should dance on his

626
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 5: This isn't a party, This isn't a party.

627
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 4: This has been great here, but all good things come

628
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 4: to an end, right And what worries me is you

629
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 4: bringing back?

630
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 5: Then it starts getting angry.

631
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 4: Well, if you come back and you have we have

632
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 4: a couple of friends who are pretty angry about I

633
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 4: don't want the whole fan base to.

634
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 5: Be like that.

635
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 6: I had a friend last night text me. We're in

636
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 6: a little group chat with three of us, and he

637
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 6: said I'd rather have Mick Cronin and two of us

638
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 6: and media applied. Dude, you gotta go outside, drink some water.

639
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 6: You're you're too far into the get go get vitamin C.

640
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 6: Like there are people there down that bad.

641
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 2: Who's next doing good?

642
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 5: Doing good? Go ahead, hello, gentlemen.

643
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 8: Uh just now hearing about the nobody from UK to

644
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 8: Sweet sixteen, that's that's inexcusable.

645
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 5: In my eyes.

646
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,479
Speaker 8: I've got a I got a quick point and then

647
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 8: a solution to this mess. I think I'm pretty disappointed

648
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 8: about just you know, Col's how he approaches the regular season,

649
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 8: uh and the SEC tournament, et cetera. I understand he's

650
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 8: trying to take some pressure off of the players, uh,

651
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 8: et cetera. But I mean, if you take it off

652
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 8: of the regular season and SEC tournament, you're putting it

653
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 8: all on them.

654
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 5: And yes, you are exactly. That's a really great point.

655
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 4: When you ever game in the regular season, act like

656
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter, and then act like the SEC tournament

657
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 4: doesn't matter, you're only making the NCAA tournament have more pressure.

658
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 4: And those guys have looked scared to death two of

659
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 4: the last three years on the court. They have, and

660
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 4: that can't be a coincidence. I think that's a good point.

661
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, this is Kentucky. You're gonna have pressure

662
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Speaker 8: every single game. If you make that a daily thing

663
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Speaker 8: that you have to fight through, then by the time

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Speaker 8: the NCAA tournament comes around, you're able to play three

665
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Speaker 8: and loose and the other teams, you know, let them

666
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Speaker 8: be the ones that have to play with pressure, et cetera.

667
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Speaker 8: This is a solution I thought of for the Col situation.

668
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Speaker 8: I appreciate everything that he's done. I don't really want

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Speaker 8: to see him go right now under these circumstances, I guess.

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Speaker 5: If they decided to make a.

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Speaker 8: Change, I'm I'm not gonna be you know, I'm not

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Speaker 8: gonna be.

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Speaker 5: Crying any tears.

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Speaker 8: But what about from a financial standpoint, letting Mitch Barnhart

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Speaker 8: go say thank you so much?

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's not nice. But why why is it

677
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Speaker 5: Mitch Barnhardt's fault that we've been back?

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Speaker 4: I mean, Mitch Barnhart, there are things to criticize him about,

679
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 4: but it's not Mitch Barnhardt's fault.

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Speaker 5: We lost these games. How's it his fault?

681
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Speaker 8: Well, I wanted to make sure we got ding PV

682
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Speaker 8: back here.

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Speaker 5: But let me well, but that's a different point.

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Speaker 4: But in all honesty and look, Mitch and I have

685
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Speaker 4: had our issues, But to fire Mitch Barnhart because John

686
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 4: cal Perry hasn't done well and then leave Cal, like,

687
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Speaker 4: what does that do? That doesn't do anything? That would

688
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 4: only give Cal more power? Like you think Cal and

689
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Speaker 4: I appreciate the call is unaccountable. Now imagine if they

690
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Speaker 4: fired the A D because he didn't do well.

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Speaker 6: I think if Cal or Mitch were to bring Cal back,

692
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Speaker 6: and you have a repeat performance, then next year we're

693
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Speaker 6: having to Mitch talking. That is, Mitch needs to worry

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Speaker 6: about Mitch's own job in the situation.

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Speaker 4: Glad you said that, because I was thinking about this

696
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Speaker 4: last night in a conversation Shannon. You and I both

697
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 4: know Mitch and Cow have not gotten along over the

698
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 4: the fan base, especially these donors, want to if Mitch

699
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 4: brings col back, he is sticking his neck out for Cow.

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Speaker 4: If you had an employee, Shanon, who for fifteen years

701
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 4: basically didn't do what you said and who you've had

702
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 4: an antagonistic relationship with, and then all of a sudden,

703
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Speaker 4: are you willing to risk your job to save him?

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Speaker 2: No, you're looking for an excuse to get rid of

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Speaker 2: that person.

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Speaker 5: I am. I mean honestly, like who like who would

707
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Speaker 5: do that? You know?

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Speaker 4: I mean it's not there are coaches I think. I mean,

709
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 4: think about this. Mitch had to get rid of Joker,

710
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Speaker 4: and he liked him very close.

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Speaker 5: You know. I don't know what they all need though,

712
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 5: is a clear cut hero drink.

713
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: Yeah that'll fix it.

714
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that will fix it.

715
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 4: Get one of these, you know, get the Nova orange

716
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 4: and sit and drink it. Everybody's gonna feel better because

717
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 4: when it comes to staying hydrated, you don't want mediocre performance.

718
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 4: You want clearcut Hero six electrifying flavors. Every bottle is

719
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 4: loaded with essential electro lights and get blue with cosmic

720
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 4: blue ras. There's one for you. Don't settle for second

721
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 4: right rate hydration. Go to Kroger or Amazon for clearcut

722
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Speaker 4: Hero Sports Drink. We'll take a break, come right back,

723
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Speaker 4: Chass Shannon. I just posted a new picture of the

724
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 4: Harlan County player's.

725
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: Hair that is so glorious.

726
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Speaker 5: What's amazing to me about that hair is that he

727
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 5: doesn't tie up when he plays.

728
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's just going everywhere.

729
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 5: It just it just flows everywhere.

730
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Speaker 6: When he's kind of lean over, like going for a

731
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Speaker 6: loose ball, it looks like someone could step on it,

732
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Speaker 6: or he could trip over it. I mean it's so long,

733
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Speaker 6: it's so odd.

734
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Speaker 3: Imagine he's backing you down and that hair is going

735
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Speaker 3: all over the place, like you can't even see which

736
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Speaker 3: way he's going.

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Speaker 5: It does the hair, I know, Yeah, I just I

738
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Speaker 5: just put it up on Twitter. You gotta see it.

739
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 5: Like that's it at its most glorious, most glorious times.

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Speaker 4: A five nine two eight twenty two eighty sent We're

741
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 4: at KOs Bar, come out and have lunch all week Listen.

742
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 5: We had a great weekend here, but.

743
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 9: We'd love to have you, believe me, because you know,

744
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 9: we lost, so it'd be nice to have you come

745
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 9: out say hi, we'll be here this weekend or this

746
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 9: week for the show.

747
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 4: One person writes, Matt, do you think Mitch has made

748
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 4: contact with people in case he were to make a change.

749
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Speaker 5: It's hard for me to say.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it wouldn't shot me if someone from UK

751
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 4: has reached out to say, hey, would you be open

752
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 4: to it? I don't think Mitch would have done it.

753
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 4: I think that would probably. You know, it's a small world, right,

754
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 4: things could leak and that might not be good. So

755
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 4: I would think if they did that it would have.

756
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 5: Been like on the DL. But but I don't know,

757
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 5: to be honest with you.

758
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 6: I assume there's been a little bit of hey, Mitch

759
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 6: wants to know if you would have any you know,

760
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 6: just a very casual should we call if it gets

761
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 6: to that point. My hope has already been out there

762
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 6: because it's been three days. I hope Mitch would have

763
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 6: at least someone on his behalf gauged some interest on

764
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 6: the game.

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Speaker 4: You think there's been conversations about whether or not the

766
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 4: money would be there, And what I've been sort of

767
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 4: told is the money.

768
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 5: I do not Here's okay.

769
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Speaker 4: So there have been some like internet gossip that there's

770
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Speaker 4: a group of donors raising the money to get him out.

771
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,439
Speaker 4: I do not think that is true. Matter of fact,

772
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's false. I do, however, think it has

773
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 4: been said that the money is there if Mitch wants

774
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 4: to make a change. I think a lot of people,

775
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, Shan, and a lot of

776
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 4: people don't want to have as their responsibility the decision.

777
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 5: Right.

778
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't want to be honestly.

779
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 4: Do I would not want to be Mitch because the

780
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 4: two sides of it are this, you bring him back

781
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 4: the fan base, A lot of them are going to

782
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 4: be really upset and it's gonna be hard to win

783
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 4: them back. You fire, and you're probably I think he

784
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 4: will be if he were to be let go. I

785
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 4: think he would be the most successful college sports coach

786
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,720
Speaker 4: let go for a non disciplined reason.

787
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 2: Ever, I think you're right, it's gonna take Try to

788
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 2: think of one it's gonna take.

789
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 4: The only ones I can think of that have been Okay,

790
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 4: Bobby Knight discipline, Joe Paterno a form of discipline, Woody

791
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 4: Hayes punched the player. Bobby Bowden was kind of encouraged

792
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 4: to retire and did. There's been a lot of coaches

793
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 4: like that, but Shannon. I cannot think of a more

794
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 4: successful coach fired in college sports, basketball or football for

795
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 4: non disciplined reasons.

796
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Speaker 3: Than I'm trying to think of one, and nothing comes

797
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 3: to mant Rick Patino was another one that got what

798
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:33,919
Speaker 3: I'm saying.

799
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Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. I cannot think of one. So

800
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 5: do you want that?

801
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 4: That's It's It's hard, man, It is a It would

802
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 4: be a very very hard decision either way.

803
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: Who's next.

804
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: Uh, let's go to Bob.

805
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Speaker 10: Bob, go ahead, Bob, good morning, Yes, go ahead, well.

806
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 7: Said I go ahead ahead.

807
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 10: Under a Cayl came there under a cloud and did

808
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 10: we want to want and done coach. I think he

809
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 10: did a good job for the six years, but the

810
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,959
Speaker 10: game has passed him up. The players are not didn't

811
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 10: have fun after the five or six years they were there,

812
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 10: But they weren't, weren't really having fun, and that's got

813
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 10: to be a fun experience for the colleges.

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00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 5: I got the kids this year, Bob though, had fun.

815
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Speaker 3: I do.

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00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 10: I think this was this was an exceptional year. Yeah,

817
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 10: but uh, for his platform was very low till he

818
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 10: got to Kentucky and he got all his in six

819
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 10: years that he was there. And for a coach to

820
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 10: take from Kentucky what he has and to hold him

821
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 10: up for thirty three million dollars because he's not doing

822
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 10: the job. Sent me the cornbread gummies.

823
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Speaker 5: I need a lot of them, Bob. I love you.

824
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Speaker 5: It's good to hear from you, sir. Well.

825
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 10: I like I listen to your show. It's addiction because

826
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 10: I can't get by the day without listening to Thank you, Bob.

827
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 4: That's very nice of you. I appreciate the Bob's got

828
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 4: jokes sometimes, you know, got a sly sense of humor,

829
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 4: that fella.

830
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Speaker 5: And we needed it today we did. Here's next.

831
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Speaker 2: Shannon's go to Jason.

832
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,959
Speaker 5: Jason, go ahead, Jason, Hello, Hello.

833
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 11: My My opinion is coach cal is not going to

834
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 11: be the coach. And I really enjoy listen to you

835
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 11: all Every weekday morning I turn on my radio and

836
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 11: I listened to you all.

837
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 5: Well, thank you, Jason, I appreciate it, sir, you all

838
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 5: have a great day you as well.

839
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Speaker 4: I uh, you know, he talks about having Bob, talked

840
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 4: about having fun. I think this year's team, here's what's tough.

841
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 4: This is why it's hard for me to sign on

842
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 4: to Shannon's play. Because Shannon's plan on the surface is

843
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 4: not an unreasonable one, and it might be what Meant

844
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 4: says Mitch says, you're gonna do X, Y and Z,

845
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 4: and you got one year that that could very well

846
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 4: be the result of tonight's.

847
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 5: Me Here's why it's hard for me to sign on

848
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 5: to that.

849
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 4: Last year was a pretty miserable year. I think for

850
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 4: the kids on the team, would you agree with that?

851
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 4: I think they were very unhappy. There were a lot

852
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 4: of divisions, and I think it was I think Cal

853
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 4: was at his lowest point in terms of how he

854
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 4: dealt with that team.

855
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 5: The way the team got along, it was, it was

856
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 5: not good.

857
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 4: You could do a documentary about last year's team and

858
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 4: I feel sorry for really everybody involved, including Cal.

859
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 5: It was that was a tough, tough year.

860
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 4: So then Shannon to me, this year was what you're

861
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 4: talking about you bring in a team full of guys

862
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 4: that the guy that the players, the fans love, Shepherd

863
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 4: from Kentucky. All the top twenty five recruits, they're here, right,

864
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 4: You got two seniors, including an All American. Like, it

865
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 4: seems like everything is set up for this year. This

866
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 4: year was supposed to be the palette cleanser from last

867
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 4: year and then it failed. So so next year, think

868
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 4: about this. We have a recruiting class that's probably not

869
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,959
Speaker 4: as good, certainly not as good shooting, and we don't

870
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 4: have an Antonio Reeves returning.

871
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 5: Why do we think it's going to be better that

872
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 5: this was the year?

873
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 6: The year before that, you return to National Player of

874
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 6: the Year and did the same thing, Like, how many

875
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 6: next years do we need?

876
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had the that's a great point. Two years

877
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 4: ago we returned the National Player of the Year. I

878
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 4: thought that was the bounce back year, and then we

879
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 4: gave it an extra bounce back year. This year, will

880
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 4: we return a future All American, a number one recruiting

881
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 4: class and the best player of the state of Kentucky

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Speaker 4: has produced.

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Speaker 5: In thirty years and we lose to Oakland?

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Speaker 4: How do I all of a sudden get excited for

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Speaker 4: next year when we were maybe return Almost no.

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Speaker 6: One remember the T shirt with all their names. We're back, Kentucky. Good,

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Speaker 6: We're at Drake's house. This was that year and we're

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Speaker 6: already home.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And remember, if we didn't have Antonio Reeves this year,

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Speaker 4: I don't even want to think about it. Right, Oakland

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Speaker 4: would have won bout forty.

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Speaker 5: So we'll come back. I remember two. This is Kentucky

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Speaker 5: Sports Radio.