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Speaker 2: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: It ain't Matt Jones as Black Jones. You know what

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Speaker 3: it is. On this mery Monday.

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Speaker 4: Myra Metcalf filling in on this wonderful Monday. Is beautiful

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Speaker 4: up here in Minnesota. I hope it's beautiful down there.

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Speaker 4: I wonder if you all have stopped partying yet, because

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Speaker 4: no last night and I'm watching right.

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Speaker 3: Because it was on late, I mean really late.

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Speaker 4: That was an all nighter, right, and like between innings

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Speaker 4: the stands. It's like they found you, and just what

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Speaker 4: a dramatic like. It's one thing to get to the

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Speaker 4: College World Series for the first time in program history.

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Speaker 4: That is amazing, but with the drama attached to it,

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Speaker 4: So how much fun was last night for Kentucky's fans.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be an all timer.

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Speaker 4: Myra.

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Speaker 2: I was there, as many people saw in my Cowboy hat.

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Speaker 2: I got there, I mean the games at nine. I

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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it. Then it's a mad

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Speaker 2: I mean, and the crowd had energy for that hour.

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Speaker 4: book him four, So that's a smart move. I thought

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Speaker 4: it was just an awesome moment in sports, right as

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Speaker 4: It was fun to watch man, And like I said,

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Speaker 4: But you know, Mason more struggling, and you know what,

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Speaker 6: To ah to two eight seven eight eight seven.

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Speaker 4: I'm guessing a lot of people to be last night.

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Speaker 4: Are we allowed to play the Nick Minjio on postkit?

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Speaker 4: Series it looked electric. It definitely looked electric. Do we

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Speaker 4: Let's take our first call on this, Mary Monday. I

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Speaker 3: On the line. Let's go to Brandon Brandon. How you doing,

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Speaker 3: Mary Monday? Man doing good? Good? How old are you? Brandon?

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Speaker 4: So Brandon, what has this been like for you? What

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 7: So, I live in Omaha and I'm a Kentucky.

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Speaker 7: Ohow, I went to the Regions last year. And then

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Speaker 4: I'm played baseball. Isn't that awesome? And you're right there,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was in New Orleans when they won

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Speaker 6: It definitely had that March madness feeling, you know, the yeah,

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Speaker 2: Watching McCarthy with that slide. It looked like he was flying.

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Speaker 4: You all are baseball guys. What is Oregon State doing

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Speaker 4: Isn't that like the fundamental? Isn't that what your little

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Speaker 6: Picture had a brain fart. I mean, he he knew

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Speaker 4: Well, and if you're McCarthy, that could only go one

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Speaker 7: So pumped? I cannot tell you. I am a UK graduate,

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Speaker 4: It was incredible and I appreciate the call and if

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Speaker 3: I'll get you out. I'll let them know. Listen, it

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Speaker 4: You get to enjoy this day and celebrate because I'm

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Speaker 3: Hell, that's what I'm talking about, y'all. Hear this.

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Speaker 4: That's the kind of Meason you jam too. After you've celebrated,

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Speaker 4: My daughter is going on a DC trip with her class,

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Speaker 2: I got a few hours. You know, some people got

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Speaker 6: I loved how ESPN kept the coverage of the celebration too, myrin.

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Speaker 4: Even if you end up losing and going home again,

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Speaker 4: bottom of it? Yes, because that was a full on

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Speaker 4: pile on bodies on top of bodies, and I'm going

440
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Speaker 4: someone's underneath there. It reminded me of you remember when

441
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Speaker 4: Nolan Ryan gets into the fight with Robin Ventura. Oh yeah,

442
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:11,840
Speaker 4: back in the day, it wasn't much of a fight.

443
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Speaker 4: Nolan Ryan is just you know, hitting him with like

444
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Speaker 4: eight Haymakers, and then the bench is clear, everybody goes

445
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Speaker 4: down and there's a big pile. So what a lot

446
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,040
Speaker 4: of people don't know about that moment is Nolan Ryan

447
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,600
Speaker 4: is going from pummeling Robin Ventura. To the way he

448
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 4: tells it, he's suffocating at the bottom of this pile, right,

449
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 4: so like he can't breathe and suddenly he's panicking. After

450
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,360
Speaker 4: this viral moment, he's in the middle of it, he's

451
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Speaker 4: at the bottom and he said, all of a sudden,

452
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Speaker 4: Bo Jackson, who was playing for the White House at

453
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Speaker 4: the time, starts pulling bodies off of them and just

454
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Speaker 4: like tossing people aside, and that's how he kind of

455
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 4: got freed from the pile, which is pretty amazing. But

456
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,439
Speaker 4: I was like, bad, this pile on his lasted a

457
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,160
Speaker 4: little bit too long. Let's clear off to make sure

458
00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 4: everybody's good. I was happy to see everybody was okay,

459
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Speaker 4: and then to celebrate and have fun. And then again

460
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Speaker 4: for me, it was the Nick Minjeel moment of just

461
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 4: taking it all in, knowing that there had been a

462
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 4: journey that has to make it better, right, Like if

463
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 4: you're just someone who's there every year and this is

464
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:21,399
Speaker 4: just what you do versus you knowing how what you

465
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 4: had to go through to get there. You could see

466
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Speaker 4: the way that he appreciated and valued that opportunity.

467
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Speaker 2: I shared a video I caught it when everyone was

468
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,360
Speaker 2: dog piling and celebrating. I just looked over and Minjeon

469
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 2: was leaning against the dug out by and sell watching

470
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Speaker 2: his team. So then I just started watching him because

471
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty unique. And then the team

472
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,360
Speaker 2: starts and they go around the entire stadium, greeting fans

473
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Speaker 2: all the way around the outfield around the warning track,

474
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Speaker 2: all the way down the left field, and then he

475
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 2: was sitting there waiting for them, So it was probably

476
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Speaker 2: like like Oregon State, he probably sat there for ten

477
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 2: minutes and didn't participate in any of it. He was

478
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Speaker 2: just watching. And then he of course greeted him all

479
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 2: with big hugs when they did their lap. But I

480
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Speaker 2: thought that was interesting to see him not join it all,

481
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 2: set back soaking it in. I couldn't see his face,

482
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Speaker 2: but I imagine there might have been a few tears in

483
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 2: those eyes. But that was an interesting moment in the

484
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:07,120
Speaker 2: post game too.

485
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean just watching him post game, you could

486
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Speaker 4: just see him in real time just kind of going

487
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Speaker 4: through everything.

488
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he had experience to get to that moment.

489
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Speaker 4: And again I just maybe I sound like an old man,

490
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 4: but that instant gratification world we live in, where everybody

491
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 4: wants everything now and right away, you know, and they

492
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Speaker 4: just want to skip steps, it was cool to see

493
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Speaker 4: someone who had clearly gone through every single step. I mean,

494
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Speaker 4: he'd been an assistant coach for over a decade I

495
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Speaker 4: think right before this that.

496
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, old he's never been a head coach before this.

497
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Speaker 2: He said league nothing, No, level of head coach.

498
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Speaker 4: And just to grind and to get to that point,

499
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 4: what is he forty four, forty five or something like that. Uh,

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Speaker 4: and to have a team reached the College World Series

501
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Speaker 4: for the first time in franchise history, first time in

502
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Speaker 4: program history.

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Speaker 3: You gotta respect and appreciate that. We'll be back after this. TJ.

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Speaker 3: Smith personal injury attorney call. TJ.

505
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Speaker 2: He'll make them pay now.

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Speaker 6: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

508
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Speaker 4: I came into early day. I was so excited I

509
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 4: heard James Brown. I feel good. I wanted to jump in.

510
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 4: But you gotta feel good if you're a Kentucky fan

511
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Speaker 4: after what happened last night, College World Series, first time

512
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Speaker 4: in program history, the last SEC team ever to make

513
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Speaker 4: it to the College World Series. Omaha, it's gonna be

514
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Speaker 4: a lot of fun. What is the first game?

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Speaker 3: Is that? Saturday? What day is that? We don't know

516
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Speaker 3: what you do?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they played the winner of the Georgia North Carolina

518
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,360
Speaker 6: State game. Today they play that winner. But we don't

519
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Speaker 6: know what day they're going to play in Omaha yet.

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Speaker 2: Right, No, if they make it far enough, I might

521
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Speaker 2: revisit my plans supposed to be on vacation in Florida,

522
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 2: but you know, sometimes you got off Florida loy early

523
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 2: to go to Omaha for the moods, right, So we'll

524
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Speaker 2: see what happens. I wish I could go, but I

525
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Speaker 2: have a vacation that was booked and paid four months ago.

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Speaker 3: Can't get out of Yeah, that's all.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's difficult, right, I mean, you know, vacation

528
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 4: is important. I'm going to vacation next week for my birthday,

529
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Speaker 4: and you got to get out of town sometime. But

530
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Speaker 4: what a journeyman for that team and to be able

531
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Speaker 4: to do it the way that they did, that's awesome. Man,

532
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 4: that's incredible. I mean, never been a head coach at

533
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Speaker 4: any level, not at the t ball level and gets

534
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Speaker 4: an opportunity to be a head coach in the SEC

535
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Speaker 4: and they're like, you know, you're becoming a head coach at

536
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Speaker 4: some mid major, you become a head coach on the

537
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Speaker 4: biggest stage, and.

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Speaker 3: You do this. I mean, it's just that's the journey.

539
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Speaker 4: And it also shows a lot of people think that

540
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Speaker 4: you've got to check eight different boxes to be the

541
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Speaker 4: right guy, and the reality is, no one knows like like,

542
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 4: it's hard to figure out who the right head coach

543
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Speaker 4: is in any sport, and I think sometimes if you

544
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Speaker 4: gamble on someone who maybe has all the intangibles but

545
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily have the resume yet, this is how you

546
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 4: end up in this situation. And I think schools need

547
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Speaker 4: to look at situations like this when they're trying to

548
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 4: go out and get the perfect candidate, the guy who

549
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 4: fits every single requirement that they're looking for, when they

550
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Speaker 4: pass up guys like Nick MinJe O because they're going well,

551
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Speaker 4: he does not. He's never been a head coach, so

552
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Speaker 4: I can't make him a head coach if he doesn't

553
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Speaker 4: have that experience. But this is proof that if you

554
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Speaker 4: get the right guy, Fellas, and you put him in

555
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 4: the right position, a lot of special things can happen.

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Speaker 3: You know. Barnhard did that with Mark Stoops.

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Speaker 6: Mark Stoops had never been a head coach before, he

558
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 6: was just an assistant coach's whole life. Plucked him to

559
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Speaker 6: be the football coach here. Did the same thing with Minjeon.

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Speaker 6: Both have really have really worked and paid out so

561
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Speaker 6: that that that sound bites, that's the one that's gonna

562
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Speaker 6: resonate with everybody that's when we're all gonna remember of

563
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Speaker 6: how emotional and how much of a journey it really

564
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Speaker 6: has been for coach minj.

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Speaker 4: It's fun, man, it's fun to watch, and I just

566
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Speaker 4: you know, again, as an outsider, it's just cool to watch,

567
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Speaker 4: uh that hard work payoff and to see someone just

568
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Speaker 4: enjoy a moment like that. Are y'all following the Danny

569
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 4: Hurley stuff, by the way, Oh yeah, oh yeah, Today's

570
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 4: decision is wild right today? Apparently, Yeah, today, he's gotta

571
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Speaker 4: make a decision. I guess they wined and dined him

572
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Speaker 4: in LA last week and now he's gotta, I guess,

573
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Speaker 4: make a choice. My guess is it sounds like they

574
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Speaker 4: probably gave him the weekend to decide if he wants

575
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Speaker 4: to coach the Lakers or he wants to stay at Ukon.

576
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Speaker 4: I think it's an important conversation, not just because he's

577
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Speaker 4: the one of the premier coaches, the premier coach right

578
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Speaker 4: now in college basketball.

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Speaker 3: I think it's important.

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Speaker 4: Because I think there are more and more coaches who

581
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Speaker 4: are like, we don't necessarily know what's ahead in the

582
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Speaker 4: in the college landscape, there are a lot of unknowns,

583
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Speaker 4: and I think if Hurley leaves for the pros. That'll

584
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Speaker 4: be one of the factors. I think everybody's talked about

585
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Speaker 4: roster cavs and paying players and all these things that

586
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Speaker 4: I'm in favor of, but there's no structure around it yet,

587
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like, no one really knows

588
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Speaker 4: exactly how this is all gonna play out out. And

589
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 4: I think if Danny Hurley goes to the Lakers and

590
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 4: he cites that, that's one of the reasons. I think

591
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 4: that's something for everybody to pay attention to, because I

592
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Speaker 4: wonder if other coaches will think like that and we'll go.

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Speaker 4: You know what, if I have a chance to go pro,

594
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Speaker 4: considering all the unknowns at this level, maybe I'll do

595
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 4: the same thing. But would you go if you were him? Right,

596
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Speaker 4: I'll start with you. Would you go if you were

597
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Speaker 4: Did you go to la?

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Speaker 6: He just won back to back titles at Yukon. I mean,

599
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 6: that's that's big. That's big. That's huge. I'm you know,

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00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 6: here in Lexington Myrin, we're all just glad that Kentucky

601
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Speaker 6: did not end up hiring Dan Hurley because now we

602
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Speaker 6: might be in this situation where Hurley's about to leave

603
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Speaker 6: Kentucky to go to the Lakers, you know, and then

604
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Speaker 6: they came after him like that.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I know the glitz and glamour of the Lakers got

607
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 6: to be attractive, but I don't. I just don't know

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Speaker 6: how he can leave Yukon after back to back titles.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a good time hard Yeah you do. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean you just gave him two titles. You can

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Speaker 2: look at him like, hey, I'm leaving, but look at

612
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 2: those two titles. Look at those shiny titles you just got.

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00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 2: You're gonna be all right. You're leaving on top. And

614
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 2: as you're saying, with so much going around in college,

615
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Speaker 2: if you can get a pro job and it's the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: I would make that move and say you're welcome, Yukon.

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00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 2: I'll always be a husky and won two titles with you,

618
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Speaker 2: But I've got to I want to see what else

619
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Speaker 2: I can accomplish.

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Speaker 4: See, and I value that too, because I think that

621
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Speaker 4: could be the case, right, I think that could be

622
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Speaker 4: What he's thinking about right now is how much better

623
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Speaker 4: does it get? People are talking about a three P

624
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Speaker 4: which hasn't happened since John Wood, Like, I don't know

625
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 4: that you can win three championships in a row in

626
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Speaker 4: this landscape because it's so competitive. But that's the pressure

627
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 4: he's kind of facing. I don't know if it's pressure,

628
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 4: but that's what people would want. But when does it stop?

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Speaker 4: And I think Kentucky has the two examples that if

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Speaker 4: you're Dan Hurley, these are the two people I call.

631
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Speaker 4: I call Calvin, I call Rick Patino right for different reasons.

632
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Speaker 4: I would call Rick Patino because that's the closest we

633
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Speaker 4: have to this situation. Wins in ninety six, right, loses

634
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 4: ninety seven, goes to the Celtics, Uh, and you can't

635
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Speaker 4: say no to the Celtics. And I think Hurley's in

636
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 4: a similar situation. It's not about going to the NBA.

637
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 4: If the Celtics or the Lakers call, you got to

638
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 4: take the call and strongly consider what they're offering. And

639
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 4: obviously Patino decided to make the move right, whereas cal

640
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 4: I would call cal because I think Cal's a good

641
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Speaker 4: example of you know what, if you have a chance

642
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 4: to kind of really soak it all in and things

643
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 4: are going well, that is the greatest moment of your

644
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 4: coaching career. But if you get away from that, if

645
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 4: you distance yourself if you know, kind of go into

646
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 4: your own world and then things kind of crumble.

647
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 3: That's a whole different situation, you know. I think Cal

648
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 3: experienced that.

649
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 4: I know people make it sound like whatever the fan

650
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 4: base was against Cal changed, right Like Cal changed dramatically

651
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 4: from the guy we saw from two thousand and nine

652
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 4: to twenty fifteen and then who he was when he

653
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 4: ultimately left the program. And I think, if you're Dan Hurley,

654
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Speaker 4: you got to go. You're beloved right now, and I

655
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 4: don't think that would change him going to Lakers Ukon

656
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 4: fans will love him forever. They'll build him a statue

657
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 4: even if he leaves today if you least seven years

658
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 4: from now, and you can't, you know, duplicate the same success,

659
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 4: and maybe the ego gets a little too big. Are

660
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 4: you in the same situation? So I think Dan Hurley

661
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 4: has a lot to consider in terms of what he's

662
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 4: gonna end up doing in a move that is gonna

663
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 4: set up an interesting domino effect potentially in college basketball.

664
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Speaker 4: I think they'll hire come out of young probably if

665
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 4: he leaves, But man, that would be a big moment

666
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 4: in this sport.

667
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 6: You know, we talk about that a lot. What if

668
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 6: Cal had taken the cavalier's job, was it twenty fifteen,

669
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Speaker 6: twenty fourteen.

670
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we would, we would.

671
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 6: We would have had a statue of him and named

672
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,719
Speaker 6: the floor after him and everything else. But then the

673
00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 6: longer he stayed, the more that relationship got strained. So

674
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 6: I guess if you know, Herley's looking at it in

675
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 6: that aspect like when, yeah, this may be my one

676
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 6: chance to leave while I'm on top, right after the

677
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 6: glitzen glamor of Los Angeles.

678
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I thought, to me, it's one thing.

679
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: Kyle wasn't the first coach to win big and then struggle, right,

680
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 4: But to me, to change who you are, I think

681
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 4: that to me is when you go, okay, this has

682
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 4: created a disconnection with your faith. I probably I bet

683
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 4: I've been to more Kentucky games as a national reporter

684
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 4: than anyone who doesn't live, you know, within one hundred

685
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 4: miles of the city, right there are some national guys

686
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 4: who was live in the area. But I mean in

687
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 4: twenty fifteen alone, I think I was at fourteen to sixteen.

688
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 3: Games or something like that.

689
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 4: I mean I was in Lexington, or at games on

690
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 4: the road, or the sc Tournament or the NCAA tournament

691
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 4: literally all the time that entire season, and I remember

692
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 4: going to a charity softball game that out put on.

693
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 4: I think it was before that season or after, I

694
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 4: remember which one, but it was like the pie piper Man.

695
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 4: It was like watching the President or something. The way

696
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 4: that he was interacting with his fans, the way that

697
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 4: he was connecting with the people around him. There are

698
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 4: all these random celebrities who were at the game, and

699
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 4: you could just see the influence.

700
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 3: That he had. And I remember how accessible he was.

701
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 4: And I think that's probably the biggest thing Mark Polk

702
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 4: can take away is it wasn't just that Cal was

703
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 4: winning big in those early years. He was he was

704
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 4: kind of a coach of the people, right Like he

705
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 4: was accessible, you could get to him, you can touch

706
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 4: him if you will. And then as the losses piled up,

707
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 4: he kind of stepped back, kind of distanced himself a

708
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 4: little bit, and that always hurts people in the end,

709
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 4: Like there's no value ever unless you are just the

710
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 4: king of King and you win NonStop, and maybe you

711
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 4: can get away with that, but especially when they go south,

712
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 4: you want to put yourself in a position where you

713
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 4: have the support of a fan base because You've had

714
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 4: that connection because you've built up that relationship, and I

715
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 4: think Kyle got away from that in the end. But

716
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 4: if I'm Danny Hurley, I'm like, you know, what can

717
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 4: it get better than this? For Danny Hurley, I mean

718
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 4: that's the question.

719
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 3: For me.

720
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 4: It's like what can he do in order for this

721
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 4: to get even better than it is now?

722
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 3: Right?

723
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 4: Like how does he at Yukon in this modern era?

724
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 4: Like how does it improve from here? So, if I'm

725
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 4: Danny Hurley, man, I don't know.

726
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 3: I think it feels like he has to go, But

727
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 3: I can also.

728
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 4: See the value right of someone being like I'm coming

729
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 4: back and I turned down the Lakers. They would build

730
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 4: a statue for you tomorrow maybe if you did that right,

731
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 4: if you said no to the Lakers to come back

732
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 4: to Yukon. But it's gonna be interesting to see, like

733
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 4: what he ends up doing and kind of what he

734
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 4: he has to say. Do you think that the NBA

735
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 4: could tolerate a guy with that emotional delivery? I mean,

736
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 4: do you think the NBA would be okay with him

737
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 4: having that demeanor he has on the sideline where he's

738
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 4: so just kind of in your face, says what he wants,

739
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 4: wears his heart on his sleep. Do you think that

740
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 4: would go well in the NBA or do you think

741
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 4: people will get.

742
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 3: Annoyed by it?

743
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 2: There's not much like it out there in the NBA

744
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 2: right now. I don't know.

745
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be.

746
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: A little skeptical. Also, him potentially being with Lebron James

747
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 2: feels like a weird dynamic there, because, as we know,

748
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 2: Lebron has a little influence on his team's coaching, always has,

749
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 2: so as just an outsider who doesn't really care about

750
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 2: the Lakers or whatever's going on there, I would be

751
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 2: very interested if to see Danny Hurley and Lebron on

752
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: in the same organization. I'd be keeping a close eye

753
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 2: on that, just because I think it'd be a very

754
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 2: interesting side story in the NBA.

755
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 6: Man, if you're Danny Hurley Myron and in one summer

756
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 6: you say no to the Kentucky Wildcats and then you

757
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,280
Speaker 6: say no to the Los Angeles Lakers, I mean that's incredible.

758
00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 6: You put yourself in a position.

759
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would come back even bigger than you ever were,

760
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 4: even after winning back to back championships. We'll talk more

761
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 4: about this on the other side of this break. Get

762
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 4: up all of that thing. James Brown, the man, the

763
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 4: James Brown. Let me tell you something about James Brown.

764
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 4: I went to a James Brown concert. He must have

765
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 4: been sixty eight, seventy years old, and it was the

766
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 4: greatest show I've ever been to. He played for three

767
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 4: hours at almost seventy years old, and it was phenomenal.

768
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 4: And I was already a fan. But when I saw

769
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 4: him get on that stage at that age and danced

770
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 4: the way that he did and moved the way that

771
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 4: he did, I became an even bigger fan. I hope

772
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 4: a bunch of Kentucky fans are out there right now

773
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 4: listening to some James Brown celebrating the College World Series trip,

774
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 4: the journey to Omaha. After the historic moment last night, Drew,

775
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 4: I think you gotta read for us, though you gotta.

776
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 2: Read, I do BBN. What a great time of year,

777
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 2: with this nice weather. We're making travel plans, and as

778
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 2: we saw oh yesterday, baseball season is in full swing.

779
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 2: And at Kentucky Sports Radio, we want to tell you

780
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: now's the time to get your body healthy so you

781
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,040
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782
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Speaker 2: Court Physical Therapy can help you do that. Whether you

783
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784
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785
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787
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788
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Speaker 4: That's Court Big weekend man for obviously fans down that way.

789
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 3: I think we got a caller, we got a call

790
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 3: he we do. Let's go to David. David, how you

791
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 3: doing on this Mary Monday? First off? Was something that

792
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 3: made you smile, something that made you happy?

793
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you what a lucky James Brown. I'm

794
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 8: proud of it.

795
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 3: I see right, He'll do it to you, right, oh man.

796
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 8: But I want to make a comment on min g

797
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 8: oh and I think you're coming from the same playing field.

798
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 8: I am what a mentor. He showed his heart, he

799
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 8: showed his character, he showed what he's made of, and

800
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 8: he found out what life is all about. And I

801
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 8: mean it was moving. I mean it was really moving.

802
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 8: And I'm going to finish what a witness, What a witness? No,

803
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 8: what other coaches? I mean, I just I was very

804
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 8: touched by what he said because he showed his heart

805
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 8: and what he's made of. And I'll tell you this

806
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 8: will this will go a long way down the road

807
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 8: for Kentucky baseball.

808
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 3: Yeah. I appreciate that call.

809
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I just I think anybody, you don't

810
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 4: have to be a Kentucky fan, you don't have to

811
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,879
Speaker 4: be even a sports fan. I think to appreciate the

812
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 4: idea of someone who it wasn't handed to him right like.

813
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 3: It wasn't.

814
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 4: It wasn't like, you know, he was the son of

815
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 4: some legendary coach and he's thirty years old and he's

816
00:37:58,760 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 4: got his first job.

817
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

818
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 4: It wasn't that. It was a guy who literally had

819
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 4: to work his way up from the beginning. Never been

820
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 4: a head coach, not even a T ball head coach.

821
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 4: For those that don't know, here is his coaching career.

822
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 4: Florida Golf coach. He was an assistant in O two,

823
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 4: three oh five Mbury Riddle. He was an assistant where

824
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 4: he played in the nineties, six oh seven Kentucky, was

825
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 4: an assistant eight Western Carolina, he was an assistant. Then

826
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 4: at Missisippi State, he was an assistant from nine to

827
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen's and then in twenty seventeen he gets the job.

828
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 4: From two thousand and two to twenty sixteen, he was

829
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 4: an assistant coach. I cannot tell you how many people

830
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 4: want to be at the top in any business right

831
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 4: They want to do it right away. And I think

832
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 4: if Nick Minjeng gets that a decade ago, does it

833
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 4: feel the same.

834
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 3: Maybe.

835
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 4: But I think what I can appreciate is him soaking

836
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 4: in all the emotions because he understood the journey and

837
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 4: he was kind of just going through that in his mind.

838
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 4: You could see it going like, what a what an

839
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 4: awesome moment for you? How much does that add to it?

840
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 4: Knowing that this wasn't something that happened right away, He

841
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 4: didn't get here and get to this moment, that it

842
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 4: took him nearly a decade to reach this point.

843
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 6: He kind of touched on a little bit during the

844
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 6: interview last night where he said, we had to we

845
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 6: sat down as coaches and had to totally change our

846
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 6: approach and philosophy to what we want to do to

847
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 6: play in his ballpark.

848
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: And so they did.

849
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 6: They went out and got all these fifth year seniors

850
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 6: and got all these guys in the transfer portal. But

851
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 6: he picked the right personalities to match each other and

852
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 6: then he's found a way for them to buy into it,

853
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 6: because you know, this is an old veteran team. These

854
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 6: guys are tough, hard nosed baseball players, but yet they

855
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 6: found a way to play together.

856
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:48,959
Speaker 3: They play aggressive, they put pressure.

857
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 6: On the other team the whole game. So his change

858
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 6: in philosophy, I think is the main reason that they've

859
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 6: had this success the last two years.

860
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 2: And they missed the tournament. I forgot the exact year

861
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 2: a few years ago. I think it was kind of

862
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: a decision and that they were just on the wrong end,

863
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 2: went the wrong way on the NCAA's eyes, and he

864
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 2: said in that moment, he decided, we're gonna be the

865
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 2: aggressor in everything we do. We're not leaving up to

866
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: someone else. We're gonna be the one to strike first.

867
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 2: And that's why they are constantly stealing. They're going against

868
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: traditional baseball about it every turn. But it's also the

869
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 2: reason why they're heading Omaha is the way they play.

870
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,439
Speaker 2: So it just makes them so much more fun to watch,

871
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 2: and not just min Jones climb the Kentucky baseball not

872
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 2: a whole lot of history and tradition sharing the sec

873
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Speaker 2: this year that was the second time ever, you know,

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Speaker 2: the first time winning the Supers. So it's cool to

875
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Speaker 2: be in a conference where it's almost impossible to climb

876
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Speaker 2: up the sec everyone's so good. But we got the

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Speaker 2: Kentucky Wildcats. Yeah, representing Omahall this year after a long

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Speaker 2: time coming.

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Speaker 4: And I think you hit an important point, Drew, right,

880
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Speaker 4: because in order to steal, if you're McCarthy, in order

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Speaker 4: for you to be able to go off instinct, that's

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Speaker 4: not just you, that's you knowing that you play. You're

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Speaker 4: playing for a leader who's cool with that, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's you like being coach to if you got it,

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Speaker 4: go for it and just sort of that freedom you're

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Speaker 4: playing with.

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Speaker 3: And you can see that.

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Speaker 4: What I appreciated about watching that run was it looked

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Speaker 4: like all those guys were having more fun than anybody else,

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Speaker 4: you know, whoever they were playing. You could see how

891
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 4: tense even Oregon State looked at times and some of

892
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 4: the other teams they played. But it was cool to

893
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Speaker 4: watch a team almost have that Sandlot little league vibe

894
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Speaker 4: a little bit sure, where you're just seeing them soaking

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Speaker 4: the moment and remembering that baseball is supposed to be

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Speaker 4: fun and when you win big, it's even more fun.

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Speaker 4: We'll be back after this