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Speaker 2: So Mark Pope is the new coach at the University

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Speaker 2: of Kentucky. And it happened last night. It was a

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Speaker 2: for me personally, an absolute shock. I knew he was

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Speaker 2: one of the candidates, but I thought if he was hired,

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Speaker 2: I was, to be quite frank with you, completely taken

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Speaker 2: taken off guard when it occurred. But he is the coach.

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Speaker 2: He will be the eighth coach, only the eighth coach

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Speaker 2: there are graphics at say twenty third, but a lot

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Speaker 2: all time. So let's start with this. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: And then now I'm listen, well, I'm gonna give you

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Speaker 3: Everybody's free to look at their own way.

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Speaker 2: But let's just start with the reaction I was. I

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Speaker 2: I do think there's a path to success With that said,

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Speaker 2: I was shocked.

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Speaker 4: I think shocks the good word. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 3: Come on, you know, not Mark Mark.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: He checks a lot of boxes that Mitch Barnhart wanted.

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Speaker 4: Maybe not what the fans were looking for, but what

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Speaker 4: He loves this place, he wants to be here. He'll

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Speaker 7: When it was leaked that Pope was a candidate, I thought, okay,

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Speaker 7: But you know, it's good to maybe hear Pope's yes

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Speaker 7: I wrote my top ten and Pope was actually tenth.

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Speaker 2: Scott Drew told him no at like eight o'clock yesterday morning.

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Speaker 3: And I think they did talk to a lot of people.

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Speaker 8: But go ahead, well okay, but I would think maybe

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Speaker 2: They started with a list of about seven to eight guys.

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Speaker 2: And to be quite frank with you, I think it's

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Speaker 2: I think they talked to all three of those guys

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Speaker 2: I think they thought Drew was the most likely Danny

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Speaker 2: Get so they bring the family here, right, don't know

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Speaker 2: They offer him what I think was the largest package

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Speaker 2: point he told him yes and it ended up no. Right,

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Speaker 2: But but they decide not to wait. Personally, I would

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Speaker 3: Win the two play in games.

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Speaker 2: Now you're waiting another two weeks, and I don't think

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Speaker 2: Mitch Barnhardt wanted to do that. He's gonna be on here.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's gonna talk about other candidates.

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Speaker 2: My guess is he's not, because, like, you now have

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Speaker 2: I'm all asked about the process. But nevertheless, that's how

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Speaker 2: I don't know all the names that were on that.

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Speaker 2: it was decided we're not gonna be content, We're not

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Speaker 2: gonna be interviewed for background related reasons, all right, Pearl,

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Speaker 2: Miller Beard, So that I think is the debate, Like

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Speaker 2: So then the question is would you have called Bruce

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Speaker 2: so like even if Bruce Pearl broke rule, there are.

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Speaker 3: No rules now. So I don't know, Chris Beard.

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Speaker 2: I I don't think that ended up could have worked

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Speaker 3: So it's just do you want Bruce Pearl or not.

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Speaker 2: Once the decisions not to talk to them, they talked

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Speaker 3: And Ryan, I think that's how we ended up here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And like we said, you know, Mitch wants a

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Speaker 2: So my take on it is this everybody that most

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Speaker 2: there's also a view of he's our guy. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: this on Twitter. You may not have seen it. Two

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Speaker 2: pledge upfront four million dollars in NIL to help get

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Speaker 3: Well, that's a big deal.

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Speaker 2: I mean, say whatever else you want their team. There's

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Speaker 2: more money than four million dollars on the in IL

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Speaker 3: The highest NIL payroll. You know, there was some talk

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Speaker 7: I don't know if anyone knows BYU. They actually play

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Speaker 7: I was just worried he doesn't really have a recruiting pipeline.

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Speaker 2: I just want to say this for fans, when you're

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Speaker 3: But if he's gonna be the coach, even if you

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Speaker 2: We have to have it succeed Chucky fans. First, we

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Speaker 2: him come here and fail. Here's what he is as

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Speaker 3: For good and bad. It's good. They're gonna run out

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Speaker 2: They're gonna have drawn up plays, right, They're gonna have

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Speaker 2: They'll play five out. They led the nation in threes

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Speaker 2: thing we don't know is he was at a school,

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Speaker 3: It ain't easy to recruit there out immediately.

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Speaker 6: He's not bringing that pledge with him, right.

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Speaker 3: We don't think they're gonna make the players sign that pledge.

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Speaker 6: Hen, Let people make their own decisions on that.

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Speaker 3: Coach shading you're not going there.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely not anywhere but there.

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Speaker 2: So we don't know if he can recruit. We don't,

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Speaker 2: and that to me will be the question. I want

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Speaker 2: but they are as we speak doing that. The question

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Speaker 2: for me Ryan is he's gonna be able to bring players.

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Speaker 2: We need to prepare ourselves. The players ain't gonna be

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Speaker 3: They're not. We're not gonna go get ten of or

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Speaker 6: But can they make the second weekend?

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Speaker 3: That's the question. No, I'm serious.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun to watch Reed Shepherd, Rob Dillingham,

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Speaker 3: But if we lose to Oakland and Saint Peter's, it

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Speaker 2: But what difference is about we're gonna have a different

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: On the basketball court, you know, he won at Kansas,

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Speaker 3: He led us at people forget this.

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Speaker 2: When he was at Utah Valley, he led us at

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Speaker 7: I had an assistant coach that has coached against him

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Speaker 6: He was even on your Twitter space.

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Speaker 7: But he's like having gone against that guy, he knows

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Speaker 2: I had a person who knows him very very well

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Speaker 3: And this is somebody that you guys would all know.

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Speaker 3: He won at Utah Valley.

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Speaker 2: He was disappointing a little bit at BYU, but then

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Speaker 2: He can coach like heck, he runs some of the

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Speaker 3: The issue for me is recruiting.

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Speaker 2: If he gets players that are a half as good

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Speaker 3: The question is can he get dudes? That's my tip,

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Speaker 4: Well talk about then that's where.

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Speaker 3: The nile comes in. To me, that's where the nile

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Speaker 2: And if I'm them, they gotta talk to the fans.

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Speaker 2: They gotta win you people. This is a huge crowd here.

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Speaker 2: The goal for this for Mark Popovitch Marthart has got.

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Speaker 3: To be to win you all over.

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Speaker 2: If they do that, some boosters that were not involved

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Speaker 7: You know that group too, Yeah, and part of it,

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Speaker 7: Mark Pope and not a Hall of Fame coach, but

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Speaker 2: If I tried to put myself in these shoes, I

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I try to do. I'm not a

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Speaker 2: I'm also not on the UK payroll, so I try

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Speaker 3: And here's what I thought going to bed.

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Speaker 2: The average fan loves Mark Pope the human being, and

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Speaker 2: because when the game start, none of this is gonna matter.

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Speaker 2: The national people that are mocking us, let them keep mocking.

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Speaker 2: If we win, it ain't gonna matter. If we lose,

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Speaker 2: If the Barrel House is still in coming, welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Take you sports radio. All right, let me go over

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Speaker 2: one of them, says Matt, You've always said, don't hire

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Speaker 3: Just because they went here. Isn't that this? Yes, it is.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you hire a person just because they

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Speaker 2: so now we gotta make it work, right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: Now John Shire that they're keeping getting good players. So like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I would have done that but

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you want it to be a Hubert David or

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well there's a ton of those over Patrick Ewing.

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Speaker 3: There's a ton of those over the years.

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Speaker 7: I keep seeing that comparison, though, Shire and Davis were

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Speaker 7: maybe in David like a decade, in Shire like six

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Speaker 6: You could look at it differently, like he's a head coach.

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Speaker 3: You can look at that.

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Speaker 7: I'm just saying it's not the same. Whatever you think,

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Speaker 7: it's a different It is different.

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Speaker 3: You're right.

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Speaker 2: You could look at it as better or worse depending

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Speaker 2: on one person. Writes Matt, he's never won an NCAA tournament. Game,

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Speaker 2: how do you hire a coach has never won an

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Speaker 2: NCAA tournament?

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Speaker 3: Game.

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Speaker 2: Fair question. I mean, that's a fair question. You just

448
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Speaker 2: have to determine that. And that's gonna be a question

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask ask Mitch. I will say, and I

450
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Speaker 2: know people don't necessarily what they were as good as

451
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Speaker 2: we were last year. I mean, to be honest with you,

452
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Speaker 2: they were pretty much. I mean, we had a little

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Speaker 2: better seed, but like they maybe even had a couple

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Speaker 2: wins that were better than ours.

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Speaker 6: Ranked ahead of us in the final day, so we were.

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Speaker 2: Probably similar teams. One person writes, what's it going to

457
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Speaker 2: be like for us to go recruit and not be

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Speaker 2: with the top top guys. Well, I'm not willing to

459
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Speaker 2: conceive we won't be with the top top guys, but

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Speaker 2: we don't know we will be right, But let me

461
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Speaker 2: just say, what if the top top guy's done for us?

462
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Speaker 2: Remember my comment the other day, You know, meny five stars,

463
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Speaker 2: we're in the final four this year.

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Speaker 3: Two?

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Speaker 2: You know how many started for one of the final

466
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Speaker 2: four teams one?

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Speaker 3: So I mean, it's a different world.

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Speaker 8: How many times do we heard fans say that they

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Speaker 8: wish that our players would be here for two or

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Speaker 8: three years.

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Speaker 5: We got this might be the type of roster that

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Speaker 5: he could put together.

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Speaker 2: Shannon, that's a great point. I've heard people for years

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Speaker 2: calling this show. I want guys who've been here for

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Speaker 2: a while. I want guys who love the name on

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Speaker 2: the front of the uniform, not the back of the uniform.

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Speaker 2: I want guys who know how to play, who are coached. Well,

478
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Speaker 2: you're getting all that. You're getting all that, and now

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Speaker 2: we'll see if we wanted it. I think something to

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Speaker 2: note Jeff Shepherd and Mark Poper college roommates. Okay, Jeff

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Speaker 2: Shepherd and Mark Pope are lifelong friends. If there was

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Speaker 2: ever gonna be a chance Ree Shepherd would come back,

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Speaker 2: this is it now. I don't think that kid should

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Speaker 2: come back because he feels an obligation, but if he

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Speaker 2: was gonna come back, this would probably be the best

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Speaker 2: way to make it happen.

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt that that helps that connection. Jamal Mashburn's

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Speaker 4: kids in the Transfer portal, James Blackman's kid in the

489
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Speaker 4: Transferred Portal. There's some good players out there with Kentucky

490
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Speaker 4: ties that maybe could get us all excited for the roster.

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Speaker 2: That there's a lot of stuff that happened under Cow

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Speaker 2: that it's impossible to know if this will be better.

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Speaker 2: I do think, however, and this is crazy, but I

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Speaker 2: do think there'll be a lot more money in the

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Speaker 2: program than there would have been otherwise. And I do

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Speaker 2: think you'll see a lot more former players. Now the

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Speaker 2: question is, well the.

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Speaker 3: Cow players, Yeah, and I don't know the answer.

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Speaker 5: It'll be interesting.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: is going to take as soon as Mitch cuts off

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Speaker 2: the air, because I don't want him drunk while Mitch

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Speaker 2: is on the air.

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Speaker 6: Disrespect mister Barnhart on such a significant day.

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Speaker 2: All right, so let's go. I've done a lot of talking.

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Speaker 2: By the way, here's the one part of news. Matt

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Speaker 2: Orlander reports cal Perry taking his whole staff to Arkansas,

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Speaker 2: same guys, replacing John Welch.

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Speaker 3: That was the X and O guy with Brad cal Perry.

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Speaker 6: All right, I'll have one. I'll drink to that.

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Speaker 8: Somebodies who are going to replace somebody. Welsh would be

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Speaker 8: the wrong guy.

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Speaker 3: You know what's the good news about that.

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Speaker 2: I'd heard some chatter that maybe Kenny would think about going.

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Speaker 3: That would have helped him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no offense that staff replacing Welch with Brad good luck,

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Speaker 2: great value can touch. Let me be clear, I do

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Speaker 2: love Orlando. I'll take like Orlando. I think he's great,

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Speaker 2: But for me all right, good luck.

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Speaker 3: That's that. I'll just uh, you took. You took.

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Speaker 2: The one thing that came in that was a positive

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Speaker 2: last year was that offense. And the guy who did

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Speaker 2: the offense is leave it. So that's a you know,

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Speaker 2: that is what it is.

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Speaker 6: Did you take the shovel with him?

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Speaker 3: All right? Who's up first? Got Joe up first? I'm

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Speaker 3: interested to hear what people say.

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Speaker 9: Let's go Joe, Hey, how's it going?

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Speaker 3: Guys? What's up?

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Speaker 9: It's a lot of my points got wind taken out

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Speaker 9: of him. But I think one thing ks R should

548
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Speaker 9: be excited about is there gonna be able to communicate

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Speaker 9: with somebody. It's probably gonna come on the show at

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Speaker 9: least once or more a week with your talk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me just say that's I think that will happen.

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Speaker 2: But that's not why I will or won't be happy.

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Speaker 2: I've said this over and over. It's all about winning.

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Speaker 2: If he comes on the show every week and we lose,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't make me happy, right, So you know I

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Speaker 2: I want him to win. I know Mark Pope, right,

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Speaker 2: and I appreciate you called Ryan.

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Speaker 3: You know Mark.

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Speaker 2: You knew Mark Pope is a player you worked with

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Speaker 2: Mark Pope on television for a couple of years.

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Speaker 3: What's he like as a human being.

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Speaker 4: He's an awesome dude. I mean, you talk about a

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Speaker 4: it's super smart too. Wasn't he a Rhodes Scholar?

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Speaker 2: I think he is, without question, in my opinion, the

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Speaker 2: smartest person to ever play a Kentuckey. He was a

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Speaker 2: finalist to be a Rhodes Scholar, and he went to

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Speaker 2: medical school for two years and dropped out to be

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Speaker 2: because he wanted to pursue his dream of coaching. I

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Speaker 2: always say there are people that are sports smart and

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Speaker 2: real life smart. Mark's the smartest real life person that

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Speaker 2: I've ever known to play here just being you know. Now,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean he'll be a great coach, but he

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Speaker 2: is very smart.

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Speaker 4: He's very funny too, just a great guy to be around,

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Speaker 4: you know. I covered him in ninety six, but then

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Speaker 4: in ninety seven he was part of our crew a

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Speaker 4: Wlax that we went on the road for March Madness.

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Speaker 4: Like he was took his shirt off on the ski

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Speaker 4: slope at Salt Lake City that year during one of

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Speaker 4: our live shots. I mean, he just kind of crazy

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Speaker 4: stuff like that. We all got to know him as

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Speaker 4: a person just generally a great, great guy.

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Speaker 6: Is that where you got the shirt thing from? Did

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Speaker 6: Pope started it off?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: He's very dorky, Shaman. I mean, there's a video of

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Speaker 2: him rapping to Hamilton. There's a video where he put

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Speaker 2: on his UK basketball uniform. You've seen the dorkiness. I

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Speaker 2: know you don't usually like dorkiness.

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Speaker 3: What do you think of that?

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Speaker 5: I think it's very dorky. As you said, I think

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Speaker 5: we've got Scott Drew. We're gonna get another dork. So

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Speaker 5: either way, we're gonna get a dork.

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Speaker 8: Look, he may crush it here, you know, and right

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Speaker 8: now we might as well just embrace it because it

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Speaker 8: is what it is. I just didn't love how quickly

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Speaker 8: he was. That's just kind of where I stand it.

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Speaker 8: But I'm gonna embrace him. I hope that he does well,

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Speaker 8: but we'll see. Tom will tell if he wins, everybody

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Speaker 8: will be happy. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 7: I have to stand up for one thing. We're not

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Speaker 7: gonna have Hamilton slander. Yeah me, love doesn't discriminate between

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Speaker 7: the Sinners and the Saints. Matt, I mean, at this

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Speaker 7: press conference, I'm ready to challenge him if he wants

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Speaker 7: to to go bar for Barrio.

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Speaker 2: There's an online Mark Pope versus Drew and Hamilton Berg.

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Speaker 2: I would like to see that.

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Speaker 3: Who's next? Randy is up next? Randy? Go ahead, Randy.

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Speaker 10: Good morning, guys. Hey, I'm not like everybody else. Last

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Speaker 10: night I was one of your twenty three thousand on

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Speaker 10: your Twitter space and was really kind of frustrated with

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Speaker 10: the hire because I felt like it was an emergency

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Speaker 10: or need jerk reaction. After listening to you and reading

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Speaker 10: and I think, you know, Danny Hurley hadn't done anything

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Speaker 10: before he went to Yukon.

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Speaker 11: Correct.

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Speaker 10: I know he won some NCAA tournament games maybe, but

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Speaker 10: I thought if we didn't get the Tier one and

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Speaker 10: Tier two, maybe we went pod Golden at Florida.

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Speaker 2: I think there's some things that would I think there's

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Speaker 2: some things that would have made that impossible.

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Speaker 10: Right, Okay, But but I think this is our Todd

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Speaker 10: Golden Hier. He's fifty one. He's going to put energy

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Speaker 10: in the program and let's go.

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Speaker 9: It's all I can say, guys.

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Speaker 10: I'll be down there next to your chair in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. Look, let's put it like this. If

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Speaker 2: he doesn't do x's and oh's well, this will fail, right, Like,

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Speaker 2: he's not gonna be able to win by personality the

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Speaker 2: way in some ways cow was at times like he's

631
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Speaker 2: not gonna be able to just recruit the top ten

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Speaker 2: players in America and hope works. He's gonna have to

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Speaker 2: be good x and oh, every single person today should

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Speaker 2: watch that video I tweet out.

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Speaker 3: It's called uh they play basketball like a video game.

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Speaker 3: And the guy it's not the most well put together video,

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Speaker 3: he's kind of it's slow, but they show the way

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Speaker 3: they run offense.

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Speaker 2: And Kelvin Sampson, this is Kelvin Sampson's probably the best

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Speaker 2: defensive coach in the country. Kelvin Sampson in that video goes,

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Speaker 2: this is the hardest team to play against in the

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Speaker 2: country because nobody plays like they do.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and they've got that you know, for all you

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Speaker 7: shot chart people that would make those go viral. It's

645
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Speaker 7: threes and twos and they get wide open layups because

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Speaker 7: they cannot leave any of their shooters. So as long

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Speaker 7: as he can get the right personnel, and it's gonna

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Speaker 7: take a lot better than what he had with their

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Speaker 7: brand too basketball. It's kind of like that what everyone

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Speaker 7: likes with that NATO. It's it's a layup or a three,

651
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Speaker 7: and it's just a matter of getting the right people

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Speaker 7: to perform it.

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Speaker 6: At this level.

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Speaker 2: My biggest concern isn't can't he get a roster this

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Speaker 2: year because he's probably not gonna bring too many recruits.

656
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Speaker 2: They have one kid who was a top thirty five

657
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 2: player who went on a two year Mormon mission and

658
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 2: is now coming back. Does he decide to follow Mark

659
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 2: Pope or does he go to BYU?

660
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Speaker 3: I don't know, but you know, well, who's next? Darren

661
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 3: is up next? Darren? Go ahead, Darren, good morning?

662
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 5: May can you hear me?

663
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 3: Yes?

664
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Speaker 12: Mad, I'm not gonna lie.

665
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 13: I got up this morning.

666
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 14: I actually went to bed pretty early last night, and

667
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 14: I got up this morning, and I've been burning my

668
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 14: phone up the last twenty four hours wondering who he's

669
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 14: gonna get. But uh, my reaction was probably the same

670
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 14: as everybody else.

671
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 3: I was shocked. I was just like you.

672
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Speaker 14: But listen, let's give him a chance. I mean, he

673
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 14: he knows what it is to put that jersey on.

674
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 14: He knows what Kentucky is, he knows what it means

675
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 14: to us fans. He would played under probably the best

676
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 14: coach that we've ever had, you know, arguably, and.

677
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 3: Let's give him a chance.

678
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 14: I mean, you know, let's see what he can do.

679
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 12: I believe, and you know we got the nil to

680
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 12: back him up.

681
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 14: I mean, you know, hey, don't don't think he can't

682
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Speaker 14: get recruits.

683
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 3: We got money and we're Kentucky.

684
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 14: I mean, if John Shire can do it, we can

685
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Speaker 14: do it.

686
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. That's that's actually a fairly positive call.

687
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: So we got at least one very positive I will

688
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: say on the Anile money. I keep getting text during

689
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 2: the show. He's gonna have everything he needs to build

690
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: a roster. I think there's a really good chance we'll

691
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 2: have I don't this isn't guaranteed, but I think there's

692
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Speaker 2: a really good chance.

693
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 3: We'll have more in iow of money than anybody next year.

694
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 2: Now, it might take a year for that to work

695
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 2: itself out, right, because you still gotta he's not gonna

696
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 2: have anywhere, Like we're gonna be old next year, Like

697
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: I hope people rise, I gonna have the oldest team

698
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: in the country.

699
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 3: Cause I don't know. I bet Travis Perry.

700
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 2: Stays, oh yeah, yeah. I mean, if I'm Travis Perry.

701
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 2: You just you just drew your dream coach for how

702
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: you play, don't you think?

703
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

704
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's him.

705
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 7: Also, the other guys even show up for his championship.

706
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 7: I'm sure he's I shouldn't say I'm sure I don't

707
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 7: know him, but I mean I would be excited for but.

708
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 3: We're I have an old team next year. The effect

709
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 3: on recruiting and Nile is probably gonna take a year

710
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 3: to really figure out one way or the other.

711
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 7: I think the staff, now that money is there, we

712
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 7: know Pope's got the energy in the UK connection. He

713
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 7: needs somebody with some actually recruiting contacts. Like I said,

714
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 7: Pope's been getting people in Utah. We need you to

715
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 7: start going to Texas, Atlanta, the Northeast. You need people

716
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 7: that already have these contacts recruiting.

717
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 2: It at b YU has one major advantage and one

718
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: massive disadvantage. The massive The major advantage is you get

719
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 2: the best Mormons. No, it sounds like I'm joking, but

720
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: there's usually one or two really good Mormons a year,

721
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 2: and you get him. One year, that Duke sto one

722
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: of their Mormons, and he was great, and then he

723
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 2: crushed him. You get the Mormons so every year there's

724
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 2: like one or two Mormons that are really good and

725
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 2: you get them right. But the hard part is getting

726
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 2: the non Mormons because, like Shannon said, I'm coming in

727
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 2: your house. You're top ten player, Shannon, great place here,

728
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 2: we got everything you need, great fan base, by use,

729
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: a massive university. All good you in Oh, I love it.

730
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: Man offensive style, you're gonna get a hundred. Okay, you

731
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 2: can't have sex.

732
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Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry, that's a that's a get.

733
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 3: Out of my house.

734
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Speaker 6: He'll kill her.

735
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 3: You can't drink no what?

736
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Speaker 15: No?

737
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Speaker 2: Right, So he's not gonna I don't think Mitch Mitch

738
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: Wherhart's religious.

739
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna make him do that here.

740
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 3: So you know our faith.

741
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 6: This listeners are laughing right now.

742
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 2: I don't know how you listen to faith this, but right.

743
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 2: But Drew and I have talked about I only bet

744
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 2: on Mormon teams.

745
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 3: Mormon.

746
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 2: Mormon Mormon teams cover more than any other team in

747
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 2: the in the country randomness. So Drew first thing he

748
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 2: texted me, goes, do we bet on Kentucky every game?

749
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 13: Now?

750
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Speaker 3: You're great?

751
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752
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753
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Speaker 2: two pairs, use a code KSR for fifty percent off.

755
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Speaker 2: They got him in Lexington and Louisville at the summit.

756
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757
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758
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760
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 2: Mitch Barnhart. At eleven o'clock. We'll take a break and

761
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Speaker 2: be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Tucky

762
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. Here at Barrel House.

763
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Speaker 3: Tociling. You know, those of you that showed up, didn't.

764
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: Know you all were gonna get to speak for the

765
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 2: fan base with these TV stations here. So there's gonna

766
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 2: be a lot of postgame interviews, I think, where people

767
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 2: will say, what do you think of the new hire?

768
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 3: We're go find out here in a little bit.

769
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 2: Mitch Barnhart will join us in the next segment, but

770
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: I want to give people a chance to talk.

771
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 3: So who's next up next to his hunter?

772
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 2: Rick's still going at his pace I love it, Hunter,

773
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Hunter, Hey Hunter.

774
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 16: Hey Matt for first time, first time call her?

775
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 3: Who are?

776
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Speaker 16: I'm a big Mark Pope fan, so I kind of

777
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 16: want to stick up for him a little bit. His

778
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 16: two best teams were actually his first two years, and

779
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 16: the first year the reason why he do any March

780
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 16: games was because he got upset by UCLA, who ended

781
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 16: up in the final four. So I wouldn't count that

782
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 16: too hard against him.

783
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 3: That's right.

784
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 2: They lost in the first four in Dayton, right in

785
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 2: that in my career.

786
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 10: No, no, they made it to the actual game. UCLA

787
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 10: played in the first four though, gotcha?

788
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 2: And was that the year the year U Sail had

789
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 2: played in the finals or whatever against the semi finals

790
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 2: against Zaga.

791
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, gotcha, go ahead team.

792
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 16: Then the second year they had three first team all WCCs,

793
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 16: so they were another great team. They were eighteenth and

794
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 16: the eight people and then COVID canceled the tournament. So

795
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 16: you're I believe he showed out at least one or

796
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 16: two wins out of that teams, and I don't think

797
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 16: he can blame him too much for that. Then, going

798
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 16: to recruiting, I think if you look at his transfers

799
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 16: he can recruit with about anyone considering it. It was BYU

800
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 16: he got Jackson Robinson from Arkansas. In this past year

801
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 16: he got Marcus Adams Junior from Kansas, a bunch of

802
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 16: non Mormons who were looking to go other places, but

803
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 16: still came to BYU. So I think a lot of

804
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 16: our fans who were giving him a lot of crap,

805
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 16: you know, need to give him a chance.

806
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I appreciate the call. I didn't know

807
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 3: any of that stuff.

808
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 2: You see, It's good to have people who he must

809
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 2: have worked.

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00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 3: He must be an agent. Who's next? Up next is

811
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Speaker 3: Joshua Joshua, go ahead, Joshua.

812
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 12: Hey, good morning, Cass.

813
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 3: Sorry thanks taking my call.

814
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 17: So my wife this morning took me to the d

815
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 17: MV here in Louisville to get my license renewed. Standing

816
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 17: next to a guy we're in a Kentucky shirt. I

817
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 17: gave him a little thumbs up and said Mark Poe.

818
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 17: He looked back at me and smile and says, man,

819
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 17: I'm pretty excited. And for the next ninety seconds.

820
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Speaker 12: We're just giddy about Mark Pope being our next head coach.

821
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 12: I'm super excited. I think he is not the sexy choice,

822
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 12: but he is the correct choice. If he can bring

823
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 12: Jackson Robinson, like the callers said before, with him, if

824
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 12: he can get a guy like Wade Taylor out of

825
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 12: the transfer portal, who announced fifteen minutes before the Mark

826
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 12: Pope news broke last night that he hit the portal,

827
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Speaker 12: if we can getting here too, I'm super excited. I'm

828
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 12: all in, I'm Mark Pope. God bless you guys. Go

829
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 12: cats well.

830
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Speaker 2: I will tell you we've taken four calls, and everybody

831
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 2: knows we don't screen calls. They've all been pretty positive.

832
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 2: I'm surprised. I was expecting some people to go go nuts.

833
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 2: If you go online, it's only people going nuts, So

834
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:46,959
Speaker 2: that's a good sign.

835
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 3: Who's next?

836
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 4: Chris is up next?

837
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 3: Chris? Go ahead, Chris.

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Speaker 15: Hey, guys, I I also am super positive. I am

839
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 15: thinking that Coach Pope's gonna restore us to our deserved

840
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 15: relevance and show the national media what we're really about, that.

841
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 3: It's not university at Cal. And then show Cal.

842
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 15: I think Mitch wants to show Cal that ads can

843
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 15: win championships, but coaches also got to be a part

844
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 15: of that. And then to all my friends who tell

845
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 15: me to stop calling so much. I hope you hear

846
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 15: my voice in your dreams.

847
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 3: Appreciate to call.

848
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 2: Oh, Chris, you know, we haven't talked a lot about

849
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 2: it because so much has been going on. But that

850
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 2: comment that Mitch or that cal made at the press

851
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: conference where he said administrations win championships like that was.

852
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 3: Clearly a shot at Barnhart there, didn't you think.

853
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 7: I don't know if how many people picked up on

854
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 7: it here, but he started saying Lexington just shortly after

855
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 7: the drama. We had a couple summers ago, and we

856
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 7: felt it then, and he took it to Fayetteville. So

857
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 7: it shows how strange that relationship really was.

858
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly. Well that's a whole nother drama for another day.

859
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 2: Right now, now it's Mark Pope. What's next?

860
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 5: Tyler?

861
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 3: Is up next? Tyler?

862
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 2: I mean I will be I'm telling you the fact

863
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 2: the first six calls of all be positive is not

864
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Speaker 2: what I saw coming.

865
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Speaker 3: Janda. We'll be honest with you, Tyler. Go ahead, Tyler.

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Speaker 11: I'm keeping the train rolling. So first off, thanks for

867
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 11: all the extra coverage. This week has just been a

868
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 11: roller coaster and you know, being able to listen to

869
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 11: you on the extra times is great, but no, so

870
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 11: I've talked to myself into now overnight that I am

871
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 11: excited as well. First off, like with the the hardest

872
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 11: part about Kentucky is the circus that is Kentucky. And

873
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 11: I don't think anybody in the country we could guarantee

874
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 11: that they would know that other than Mark Pope, so that,

875
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Speaker 11: I mean, he already has that going for him, and

876
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Speaker 11: that's the hardest part.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 11: And with recruiting, I mean, I get it, but we're

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Speaker 11: Kentucky now. We only need to get one or two

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Speaker 11: solid recruits a year that you know, It's not like

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Speaker 11: cal We don't need that every year. So that's that's

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Speaker 11: another positive. And also it just kind of lowers the

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Speaker 11: expectations for next year, which is a good thing because

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Speaker 11: if we did get at Danny Hurley, at Billy Donovan,

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Speaker 11: you know, we would be expecting the world like we

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Speaker 11: have in the past fifteen years, and if we were

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Speaker 11: let down again it would hurt even worse. Now we

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Speaker 11: we know we might not get that the first year,

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Speaker 11: so that's that's another positive. And and just my last

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Speaker 11: point is with Danny Hurley, the caller hinted at it earlier.

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Speaker 11: If you look with. You know, everybody thinks he's the

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Speaker 11: top coach now, which he is, but he felled at

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Speaker 11: Yukon before. I mean, it took him a while, and

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Speaker 11: he they missed.

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Speaker 3: Determined their first four years he was there. You're right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're right.

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Speaker 11: And then he lost in my first round.

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Speaker 3: Let somebody else cope and I appreciate the call. I will.

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Speaker 2: That's good stuff, I will say. All right, I know

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Speaker 2: there's more people negative than are calling.

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Speaker 5: I will saving all of our negative calls with the

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Speaker 5: second album.

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Speaker 2: Maybe so, but let me say this. I want everybody

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Speaker 2: I like to think positively sometimes. So let's just dream

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Speaker 2: about what would be an awesome moment, all right? For

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Speaker 2: anything else you think? Mark Pope's a Kentucky guy, right,

907
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Speaker 2: Mark Pope loves this place. Mark Pope wore our uniform

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Speaker 2: on the BYU floor to make a to make a video.

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Speaker 2: I want you to picture next January or February when

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Speaker 2: Arkansas comes into town. All right, Cow's gonna come into town.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be wearing red. He's gonna have with him

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Speaker 2: on the sidelines a staff that I think some of

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Speaker 2: whom at times didn't help him out. And they're gonna

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Speaker 2: come in here, probably with some big name recruits. What

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Speaker 2: if Mark Pope coming there with the ninety six team

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Speaker 2: sitting there on the sideline.

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Speaker 3: With him, What if we were to beat their ass

918
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Speaker 3: here and Rubberena next year?

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Speaker 6: Can we wear dinnam?

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Speaker 3: I mean it would be kind of awesome ride, wouldn't it?

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Speaker 4: You march out the ninety sixteen before the game or

922
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Speaker 4: at halftime, maybe even Coach Patino comes out and he

923
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Speaker 4: voices his support for Mark Bope.

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Speaker 2: That way, the drama here will never end quickly? One

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Speaker 2: more before they Who's next?

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Speaker 5: John?

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Speaker 3: Is next? John? I just got like a minute.

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Speaker 12: Thirty, real quick thirty. I think the pressure.

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Speaker 13: I think the pressure is off, and I'm looking forward

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Speaker 13: to this. The one thing I think is different now,

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Speaker 13: this is a real Kentucky person, a real guy who

932
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Speaker 13: understands the one thing that makes Kentucky different from everybody

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Speaker 13: else is us, Me, You, Drew Shannon, everybody that listens

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Speaker 13: and watches, that lives this twenty four seven, three sixty five.

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Speaker 13: Pope understands that better than anybody.

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Speaker 3: All right, Mitch, thank you very much. Mitch Barnhart.

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