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Speaker 1: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now

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Speaker 1: here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Wednesday, November the twenty f I'm Matt Jones here at

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Speaker 3: the KS Bar and Grill in Lexington, Kentucky on a

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Speaker 3: partly cloudy day. It is wings day, dollar wings seventy cent.

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Speaker 3: Boneless had a guy write me and say, Matt, question

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Speaker 3: for you, my buddies and Iron in a debate. It

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Speaker 3: was like, college student, is wings day seventy cents? A

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Speaker 3: wing for Boneless or for all ten?

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Speaker 2: I was like, it's a week. If we were to charge.

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Speaker 3: Seventy cents for ten wings, I think it would be

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Speaker 3: hard to keep this place open.

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Speaker 2: That would be seven cents a week.

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Speaker 4: Not a very good businessman.

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Speaker 3: I've ben go ahead and say I wouldn't need a

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Speaker 3: seven cent wing, would you?

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Speaker 2: I think it would be from a seventh.

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Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, that chicken is only worth

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Speaker 3: what twenty eight cents.

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Speaker 2: Or fourteen cents? Like you know I would neat that.

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Speaker 5: I'm kind of with you there. I want to know

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Speaker 5: what was up with that show?

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Speaker 2: I want to know why is it a seven cent wink?

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Speaker 3: So yes, it is seventy cents ah wing still an

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Speaker 3: amazing deal, But I'm just saying Clark's pupping chop phone

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Speaker 3: Avis Auto Glass text machine seven seven two four five

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Speaker 3: two five four In this disition sponsored by the t

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Speaker 3: J Smith lowf you call Tj'll make them pay. Wake up, guys,

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Speaker 3: let's go both. Look like you're asleep. Let's go up

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Speaker 3: for three hours. I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: All right, what's going on? Nothing?

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Speaker 4: We're ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Well, why do you look like you're so tired? Wait?

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Speaker 2: What's wrong?

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Speaker 4: You know it's wind.

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Speaker 2: You look like you've I'm not say this with love.

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Speaker 2: You look like you've been beat up? Good? What? What

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Speaker 2: what happened?

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Speaker 4: It's funny. I mean I didn't sleep well last night.

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to beat like, but you look like.

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Speaker 4: You've been beat up. I was up from like two

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Speaker 4: to four last night. I could not go back to

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Speaker 4: sleep doing what just up? I just woke up, couldn't

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Speaker 4: go back to sleep.

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Speaker 3: About Seattle? Yeah that's what it was. Yeah, Well, I'm

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Speaker 3: excited about it. Should have been excited about that win.

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Speaker 3: Last night I was very.

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Speaker 4: Excited about listening to your post game show last night

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Speaker 4: to see what you guys want to talk about, because

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Speaker 4: I figure it wasn't gonna be much about the basketball game.

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Speaker 2: Well, we only talked about the best I know.

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Speaker 4: Usually when it's a blowout, he goes kind of got

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Speaker 2: Still excited.

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Speaker 3: There's no reason, in my opinion, to deviate yet. I mean,

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Speaker 3: win by thirty Drew game was never in doubt. It

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Speaker 3: wasn't like you had like a first half or a

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Speaker 3: ten minute stretch where you weren't sure. Honestly, we were

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Speaker 3: up almost forty and then uh, you know, at the

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Speaker 3: end they put the guys in and it got a

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Speaker 3: little closer. I think Pope was upset in the postgame

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Speaker 3: press conference that we did that because he goes, you know,

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Speaker 3: I try to keep him under thirty nine percent, and

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Speaker 3: him over thirty nine percent.

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Speaker 2: But I thought it was as good a night as

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Speaker 6: Yeah, very fun night, like we all wanted. Jackson Robinson

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Speaker 6: told everybody to eat it. Yes, don't you worry about me.

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Speaker 6: I'm fine. Wasn't that good to say his first twenty

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Speaker 6: have given him one hundred and kept them over fifty

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Speaker 5: But that's what makes it fun.

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Speaker 6: You've got where I sit there some kids around me,

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I like it.

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Speaker 6: When's the last time we've been Yeah, it just adds

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Speaker 3: So just let's go over some some parts about it.

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Speaker 3: First of all, Lips can miss their first thirteen threes.

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Speaker 3: Here's how you know. If you're a negative UK fan.

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Speaker 3: If when I wrote, hey, we're playing good defense, you go, well,

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Speaker 3: they're just missing open shots. Well maybe we gave it

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Speaker 3: you can't stop everything unless you're like, you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: Pope will give any long two free.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and he is okay doing what the sort of

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Speaker 3: you know you make it now. They did hit more

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Speaker 3: I thought Kentucky, Uh, second half they did a little

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Speaker 3: And then offensively, you know, Jackson Robinson Butler hits goes

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Speaker 4: So Reed Shepard just set the record last year for

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Speaker 4: highest three point percentage in a season at Kentucky. It

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Speaker 4: was like fifty two. It may last one year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, those two were one and two in the whole

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you historically, three of our top six

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Speaker 2: That's true, but you know, I think that's a good

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about this last night as I you know,

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Speaker 3: Dalton connect for Tennessee had this had this crazy, crazy game.

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Speaker 2: Lest I had thirty seven points, which is amazing.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: You know, as college basketball has become more like the NBA,

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Speaker 3: I mean more now the players aren't as good, but

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Speaker 3: The difference between what's a good college player and what's

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Speaker 3: right now, probably the two dudes who have had the

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Speaker 2: Zach Edies seniors.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, from lastyear.

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Speaker 2: When's the last time the two best guys in the.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you'd have to go way, way way back. Similarly, though,

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Speaker 3: but like these guys seem to fit in perfectly together.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of that's the spacing how the game's

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Speaker 6: all the motion they do, it's just so fun to watch.

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Speaker 6: And I know we all worried about a guy that

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Speaker 6: that's if you say, maybe they were missing something and

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Speaker 6: he's competition, you have to keep doing it. But so far,

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Speaker 6: I mean, he's shown he can go to the rim,

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Speaker 3: Always the leading scorer, Bray as the leading shooter. Uh,

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Speaker 3: Butler's probably the better best defender. Carr leads the team

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Speaker 2: And I just mentioned six different guys.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing. If you're an opposing coach, it's almost impossible

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Speaker 4: to gain plan to try to stop Kentucky because of

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Speaker 4: what we just said. I got so many weapons, so

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Speaker 4: many guys that can shoot outside. But last night I

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Speaker 4: was almost as more impressed with the defense. I looked

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Speaker 4: up late in the first half and Lipscomb had nineteen points.

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Speaker 4: You know, they just completely I think came out made

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Speaker 3: In the first half, we won the game from defense,

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Speaker 3: and then in the second half it was offense. Basically,

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Speaker 3: we our defense was really good in the first half,

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Speaker 3: and in the second half we turned up and scored.

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Speaker 2: Uh what do we score?

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Speaker 3: I mean halftime we had what forty two, So we

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Speaker 3: scored fifty five points.

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Speaker 2: In the second half. That's a lot that'll win most games.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and with about six seven minutes ago, you've already

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Speaker 6: putting in the end of the bench and have kind

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Speaker 6: of taken your foot off the gas a little bit

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Speaker 6: too pretty early into that second half. If they had

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Speaker 6: and it could have gotten real ugly.

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Speaker 2: I talked about this on the postgame show.

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Speaker 3: I won't totally repeat myself, but the Lipscomb coach said

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Speaker 3: after the game best offense he's coached against in a

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Speaker 3: Power four team basically said, you can't make one mistake

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Speaker 3: giving them an open three. And they have a team

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Speaker 3: full of guys who could all make it. That was

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Speaker 3: interesting to me. Yeah, that's what I say.

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Speaker 4: Math, if you're a posing coach trying to game plan

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Speaker 4: to stop Kentucky, you gotta it'll keep you up at

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Speaker 4: night because it's what you do.

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Speaker 3: Who do you I mean, I was sitting there thinking

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Speaker 3: I'd probably say I'm gonna make the bigs beat us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how you're gonna have to do it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna make a Maury Williams and Brandon

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Speaker 3: Garrison beat us. But you know, when Garrison gets going,

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Speaker 3: his little hook shot is pretty solid. So I don't

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Speaker 3: know if those dudes, we haven't seen a ton of

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Speaker 3: them going back to the basket a little bit, but

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Speaker 3: if they do that consistently, then I don't know what you.

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Speaker 5: Do be a hacking of Mari's strategy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I think you're probably right. But for me,

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Speaker 3: I mean, this to me was the ultimate uh Matt

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Speaker 3: Jones nerd game because of his comments after the okay,

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Speaker 3: you know, because I, like I said, I'm a little

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Speaker 3: mean just a little bit, like not not much like

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Speaker 3: it's not it's just like that much, just a little bit.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I take a book and read baseball game.

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Speaker 2: I read it halftime last night. What are you laughter

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Speaker 2: that we.

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Speaker 4: We Danny dork. There's no doubt about her.

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Speaker 3: My name is not Danny, all right, don't we call

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Speaker 3: me Danny. I did not look like Danny's got a

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Speaker 3: mullet and a Danny can fix your car and I can't.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's what a Danny could do. I was. I

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Speaker 2: read Jill Lapour book at Halftimes.

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Speaker 3: That's a great book. You know, here's completely off topic.

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Speaker 3: Jill Lapour has a new set of essays. I recommend him,

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Speaker 3: not for you, but for other people. But you know

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Speaker 4: Your night is complete.

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Speaker 3: There's never been a basketball coach never, certainly in the

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's cheesy.

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Speaker 3: I don't like the rip something off on your calendar

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Speaker 3: And he explains his thought process with God going did

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Speaker 3: There's something about a guy who goes the neuroscience is

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Speaker 2: As you see what I did Tweak Drink tweek. I

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Speaker 4: This has been one of my favorite segments we've done

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Speaker 4: Welcome back, Danny Dork.

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Speaker 3: I just I just found the picture I just tweeted

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Speaker 2: We also found out I didn't realize this.

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Speaker 3: We interviewed her for Crackle Cracker Barrel versus out Back

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Speaker 5: We just went around asking anyone.

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Speaker 4: Of all of our that one still may be my favorite.

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Speaker 2: They gave us a lot more access.

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Speaker 4: We had complete access. We were kind of loopy and

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Speaker 5: Respecting the process, we were drunk.

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Speaker 2: You were drunk.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't drunk, one person, writes Matt on the morning

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Speaker 3: or excuse me on the pregame show, Cameron, I did

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Speaker 4: The players got to say three things about that player.

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Speaker 4: I heard Cameron talk about it. I'm like, I was

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Speaker 3: He was really good, Like I thought he was really good,

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Speaker 5: I was at the game.

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Speaker 6: I got home and caught the replay, but only the

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Speaker 2: He was on it.

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Speaker 4: I really I thought Cameron, Robbie and Travis, all three

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Speaker 6: He's like asking them about number forty one, what's he

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Speaker 3: Also, Jackson Robinson last night apologized for his body language

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Speaker 2: That was interesting.

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Speaker 4: What the guy so mature to stand up and apologize

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Speaker 3: Neuroscience neuroscience, I mean, I look, I haven't heard I

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Speaker 3: I don't remember a Sonny Smith or Wimp Sanderson.

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Speaker 7: The fresh sure of watching this team. I just hope

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Speaker 7: reminds This team reminds me of old teams under Patino.

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Speaker 7: Shoot the three, play good defense, mix it up. This

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Speaker 2: Joe with Cope here.

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Speaker 7: It's free at last year, body, free at last right,

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Speaker 2: Date, Appreciate it. Thirty.

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Speaker 3: He said he wants to take thirty seven to thirty

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Speaker 3: and he was like saying that like it was absurd.

444
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Speaker 3: Mark Pope is saying, yeah, me, we're gonna shoot those

445
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Speaker 3: threes thirty eight to thirty nine a game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: They were almost fifty percent last night, hit twelve of

448
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Speaker 6: twenty five, and I think he's disappointed that they only

449
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Speaker 6: took twenty four. He said he wanted to take more,

450
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Speaker 6: shooting forty eight percent from three, and he's disappointed that

451
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Speaker 6: they weren't shooting enough.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, like you said, Butler came out

453
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Speaker 4: Boom knocked down a couple, then Jackson Robinson knocked down

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Speaker 4: a couple. Every time Kobe Brayat throws one up, I

455
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Speaker 4: think it's going on.

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Speaker 2: Okay, is he the most money of all time? He

457
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Speaker 2: is right now?

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Speaker 3: I mean he's more money if it like, would you

459
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Speaker 3: rather have a layup from the other guys or.

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Speaker 2: Three from break?

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Speaker 5: Actually heard Travis Ford say that the braid at three is.

462
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Speaker 2: I'd rather have a brain lay at three.

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Speaker 3: He might miss a couple more, but you get an

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Speaker 3: extra point. So you tell me I got Lamont Butler

465
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Speaker 3: driving for a layup?

466
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Speaker 4: Or open three from Breya, give me the open three

467
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Speaker 4: from bra It's money. I mean it is. As soon

468
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Speaker 4: as it leaves his hand. I think everybody in the

469
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Speaker 4: arena is like, oh that's good because it just looks

470
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Speaker 4: so good.

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Speaker 2: He shoots it so easy, he doesn't even hit the rim. No,

472
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Speaker 2: like it's it is. It is splash from moment one.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 6: You know some guys that needs be a catching shooter.

475
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Speaker 6: They need to take a little step. He seems to

476
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Speaker 6: just throw it in. However, you're getting it to him

477
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Speaker 6: where he's running in transition catching shoot. He created that

478
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 6: time he's created his own a couple of times, like

479
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Speaker 6: a jab step the pump fig It's like, however you

480
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 6: want it, Kobe Bray can shoot it.

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Speaker 2: That's right, A nine eight twenty two eighty seven. I

482
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 2: love Mario.

483
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Speaker 3: He doesn't let anything get in the way of the game.

484
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Speaker 3: In the camera, there's one guy sitting right there. He

485
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Speaker 3: just stood right in front of him for that. This

486
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Speaker 3: whole restaurant he could have stood at. He just looked

487
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Speaker 3: and stood right because he's like, I'm getting the perfect

488
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 3: shot no matter what, even and if you can't see, sir,

489
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Speaker 3: that's just gonna be the way it is.

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Speaker 1: Who's up first the second?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, go ahead, Hey man, Hey man, I got my

493
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Speaker 8: swagger back. So what I mean by that is I

494
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 8: used to sing another one bites the Dust before and

495
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Speaker 8: after the game because that's what exactly what happens to him,

496
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Speaker 8: and they bike the dust. So I'm going to be

497
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Speaker 8: singing all the way until we lose.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, so how many how many do we win?

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Speaker 3: I mean we get do you think now? Do you

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Speaker 3: think we beat Clemson on the road? I feel like

501
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Speaker 3: this one of those two. That's a tough week at

502
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Speaker 3: Clemson at Gonzaga. I feel like one one of those two.

503
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Speaker 3: But if so, I don't care. We're too good. Yeah,

504
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Speaker 3: I don't think it really matters if you lose one

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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 2: All right, I appreciate the call. Do you what about you?

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Speaker 5: I think they'll split. Do you have a preference of

508
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Speaker 5: what you'd want to win?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think you'd want to win Gonzaga just because

510
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Speaker 3: it would be a better win for your resume.

511
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: I mean I I think if yeah, you'd want to

513
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Speaker 3: win Gonzaga of those two. We'll take a break. Very

514
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Speaker 3: back to Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: TJ Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ.

516
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Speaker 2: He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 1: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

518
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Speaker 1: Here's not Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Tekey Sports Radio. We're gonna get back to

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Speaker 3: basketball in just a second. But Justin Rowland, I guess

521
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Speaker 3: just reported that that Vince merrow had been a candidate

522
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Speaker 3: for the Southern Miss job. It looks like Justin said

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Speaker 3: that Vince was candidate for the Southern Southern Miss head

524
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Speaker 3: coaching job. Uh, and that they reached out, but that well,

525
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Speaker 3: he actually he did. He doesn't, he doesn't say so.

526
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Speaker 3: He just says that Vince was is a candidate for

527
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Speaker 3: I think I can add to that to say that

528
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Speaker 3: I think he was a candidate. I think he talked

529
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Speaker 3: with him, and I don't think he's going to do it.

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Speaker 3: I think it's fact their head coaching job is actually

531
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Speaker 3: less money than I think the job here. But there

532
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Speaker 3: there was I think some interest there. And there you go.

533
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to live in Hattiesburg, MISSISSIPI would you.

534
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Speaker 5: I got a good food down there, do they?

535
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Speaker 2: Oh?

536
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, great Cagun food, good seafoods.

537
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Speaker 2: What's your favorite Hattiesburg restaurant?

538
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Speaker 5: We've been to one together.

539
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Speaker 3: We went to We left Nick Rouse dancing on the

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Speaker 3: middle of an empty dance floor.

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Speaker 6: I do remember that happens in most cities, but Brad

542
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Speaker 6: White's name has been thrown around and in some coaching searches.

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Speaker 6: H it's you know, just getting to that time of

544
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Speaker 6: the year where we're about to hit the chaos.

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Speaker 2: It's there's speaking of chaos.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of chatter out there right now in

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Speaker 3: the the not the the official world, but the unofficial

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Speaker 3: UK world, So like the unofficial world, And what I

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Speaker 3: mean by that is, you know there are.

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Speaker 2: There are group chats, right, and they're like, you know,

551
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Speaker 2: there's just.

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Speaker 3: This this like sort of off the grid UK basketball

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Speaker 3: and football scene.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you've really ever talked about it on here.

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Speaker 3: I'm on some of them, but you know, they try

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Speaker 3: to keep me off that scene because like I'm in

557
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Speaker 3: the media, but you can't keep me off.

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Speaker 2: There's people on.

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Speaker 9: The scene sending me the scene. Okay, so I see

560
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Speaker 9: the scene. The scene, there's a there's a football. There's

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Speaker 9: at least one to want a big one kind of football.

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Speaker 3: Donor chat, right, there's that sounds like his crowd I'm

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Speaker 3: ry is like naked in its text in it you're

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Speaker 3: the reason the Texas agree.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was wondering what it was. Uh.

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Speaker 3: And their chatter is all about stoops. Yeah, in the

567
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Speaker 3: future of stoops. And there there's not a consensus. I

568
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Speaker 3: got sent a big flurry of messages and there's not

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Speaker 3: a consensus of people wanting him to stay or go.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think I don't think there is

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Speaker 3: any I've heard people go the boosters want I don't

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Speaker 3: think that's true. I think it's mixed. I think some

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Speaker 3: people are very very loyal to Mark very.

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Speaker 2: Loyal to him.

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Speaker 3: Some people really like Mark but are like eh, and

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Speaker 3: then there are a couple people who probably wish it

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Speaker 3: would go the other way. But I think there is

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Speaker 3: a general sense of among this group of people, many

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Speaker 3: of whom know Mark very well. There they don't know

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen, and they're like, what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: And I think there is a sense of Okay, let's

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Speaker 3: assume he comes back, does he really want to keep

584
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Speaker 3: doing this?

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Speaker 2: And there is an.

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Speaker 3: Uneasiness, let's put it. I think in sort of the

587
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Speaker 3: donor class of UK fans. I think if there are

588
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 3: people insinuating that folks want him to go. I don't

589
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 3: think that's true, at least from the people that matter.

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Speaker 3: But I do think there's an uneasiness about Okay, you know,

591
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Speaker 3: if he stays, what's this gonna look like?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Because, by the way, in three weeks we got to

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Speaker 3: sign people with their money?

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Speaker 2: True? So what do you make of that? Drew?

596
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Speaker 3: I know you hear some of this same stuff as well.

597
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Speaker 3: Ryan probably does too. We actually, oddly in the donor world,

598
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Speaker 3: have three different communities.

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Speaker 2: We talk to.

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Speaker 6: So what do you think, Yeah, i'd have on the

601
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Speaker 6: underground occasionally pop my head in some places see what

602
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Speaker 6: people are saying and that you're right. There's a lot

603
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Speaker 6: of a lot of speculating. There's a lot of debating.

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Speaker 6: Like you said, some people want Stoops to stay. Stoops

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Speaker 6: and Eddie Grand specifically have built a lot of good

606
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Speaker 6: relationships around town with some big donors, and even though

607
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Speaker 6: those people are disappointed.

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Speaker 2: Eddie's a huge party. I mean, they are.

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Speaker 6: Very good friends and they they might want to break up,

610
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Speaker 6: but you know they're hurt to do it because they're

611
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Speaker 6: so well like personally. So I think everyone just kind

612
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Speaker 6: of waiting. We all see Stoops press conferences and here's

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Speaker 6: interviews where he doesn't feel like he's all the way

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Speaker 6: in it. I think we're all just ready for some assurance,

615
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Speaker 6: like are we, you know, tying our shoes back up

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Speaker 6: will Cox and doing this again next year? Or is

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Speaker 6: it do we need to start shopping?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think that's right.

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Speaker 3: I mean there is I think everything you just said

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Speaker 3: there is exactly correct.

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Speaker 2: You know, the for many years, Ryan, I would say for.

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Speaker 3: Since the nineties, the donor class has kind of not mattered,

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Speaker 3: or they've mattered a lot less than they thought they did.

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Speaker 3: And then UK football kind of made some of those

625
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 3: people matter more and then brought in new people. But

626
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 3: in the NIL era, we're kind of back to the

627
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 3: eighties where the donor class does really matter because they

628
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: got to raise money from these people. You know, college

629
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 3: sports had made so much money, and cal specifically, but

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00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 3: Mitch as well had pushed donors away from running anything

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Speaker 3: that really they didn't matter for a long time. But

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00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 3: I think they kind of do again. And it's interesting,

633
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 3: like that train is out there now. Mark couldn't have

634
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 3: handled that class better. So probably no one has a

635
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 3: higher approval rating as a human being than Mark does

636
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,479
Speaker 3: with those guys. But he's still gonna have to convince him.

637
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 3: I mean, these are still people. They're gonna have to

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Speaker 3: write a check, and I think they've probably promised some

639
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 3: money out there that they still got to raise and

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Speaker 3: that there's a lot of concerns with that.

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Speaker 4: I think you're right. Mark Stoops is the main reason

642
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 4: a lot of these boosters have come over to football.

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Speaker 4: He's been great at it. Actually, he's done things that

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00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 4: with the booster class that we had never seen here before.

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Speaker 4: But I think there's also a little underlying talking like

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Speaker 4: these next two weeks may determine what he does.

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Speaker 3: I think these next two weeks are huge, you really do.

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Speaker 3: And I think they're huge also for how Mark is

649
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 3: personally gonna see. But I do want to note that

650
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 3: if you hear people say the donors or boosters want

651
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Speaker 3: stoops on, I think that's going to probably never be

652
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 3: true because they're just too good a friends. That's gonna

653
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 3: be like saying Matt wants Ryan or Drew Gunk. That

654
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 3: would never Now, there might come a day where Ryan

655
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 3: or Drew like does something where I just have to go,

656
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 3: but I'm never gonna want it, And that's how these

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00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 3: boosters are.

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Speaker 4: I think that's accurate that they're never.

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Speaker 3: Gonna want it because they're friends with him. I mean,

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Speaker 3: when he wins a big game, they're at his house

661
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 3: right like that. It's not like a theoretical friendship, it's

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00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 3: a real friendship. We were at Vince's wedding, it was

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00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 3: it was the whole Kentucky football world, like so that's

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Speaker 3: a key thing to remember as you're thinking about Stoops's future.

665
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: Who's up next, Derek, Derek, go ahead, Derek.

666
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Speaker 10: A lot of media and stuff about how this team

667
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 10: is going to probably perform at mediocre level and as

668
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 10: analytical and methodical as Pope has been. I think this

669
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 10: team have been built to suit him.

670
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt.

671
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 10: It's not filled with the scholarships. It's it's built, and

672
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 10: it's gonna be performed at that peak level like he's

673
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 10: performing right now. With that being said, I was one

674
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 10: of the guys that really wanted cow back for at

675
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 10: least one more year. I have been totally proved wrong,

676
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 10: and I am so glad he's Tarkansas and we have markin.

677
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 3: See, there's nothing wrong with him. But you see that's

678
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 3: a great call, because there's nothing wrong with being wrong.

679
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: Right, appreciate that wrong.

680
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 3: I mean I was wrong about like we all should

681
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 3: at some point confess our sins of wrongness.

682
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 2: I mean I was. I wasn't wrong about there needing

683
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: to be a change. By the way, a lot of.

684
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 3: You all who were hideously nasty to us, y'all ata

685
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: meant you were wrong. But I will admit I was

686
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 3: wrong about my initial reaction about Pope because my initial reaction,

687
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 3: which I got over in twenty four hours, but my

688
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 3: initial reaction was no. I remember when I got the

689
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 3: phone call. I listen, I'm You're gonna be you. You

690
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 3: listeners are gonna be my What is that? Catholics do

691
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 3: they go through confession? Y'all are gonna be my confession?

692
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: You know? Forgive me, father, I have sinned? Isn't that

693
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 2: what they say?

694
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: Isn't is that what they say about I'm saying it

695
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 3: to the pope.

696
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 4: You are saying to the pope.

697
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 5: Out of the pope.

698
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying to the pope, forgive me, father. I have

699
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 2: seen it.

700
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 3: When I got the phone call, which was about fifteen

701
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 3: minutes before it broke, to say it was gonna be him,

702
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 3: I just said no. And I think I was kind

703
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 3: of being told to maybe even break the news and

704
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 3: help like make it positive. And I thought, I'm not

705
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: gonna be I mean, how am I gonna convince people

706
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 3: of this? Everybody's gonna be upset. And I had about

707
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 3: a five minute conversation. I think then like I paused

708
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 3: and said, Okay, I know I've got ten minutes.

709
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: Do I want to break this or not? I did.

710
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 3: I still was like trying to process what am I

711
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 3: going to say? And then I think, goodman or somebody

712
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: put it out. And then when I put it out,

713
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 3: you know, the Internet just went nuts and I.

714
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 2: Did a.

715
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 3: Threads or whatever my Space, Twitter space and like, I

716
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know this is so that was

717
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 3: my natural reaction. I'm clearly wrong, and I think we

718
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 3: all chances are through this whole process. I'd like to

719
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 3: meet the person that wanted Cow gone and Pope was

720
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 3: their top choice was that you, ma'am from moment one

721
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 3: since Wisconsin. Okay, so there you go, So go, ma'am.

722
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 3: You're the only person that doesn't have to apologize. Okay,

723
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 3: you're the only one, like the people who said this

724
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: program will break down if we don't.

725
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 2: Have cow you you need to apologize.

726
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: The people like me who thought hiring Pope was the

727
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 3: wrong move on moment one, we need to apologize.

728
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 2: Ma'am.

729
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 3: You're the only person that doesn't need to apologize. You've

730
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 3: always liked Pope. Well, clearly it's work. Do you agree

731
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: with that?

732
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 2: Yes?

733
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 4: I remember exactly where I was when you called me

734
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 4: and you're like, you're not gonna believe this. It's gonna

735
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 4: be Mark.

736
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I called you before it got out.

737
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: I think I called you both.

738
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 5: You were like, what in the world is going on?

739
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 2: But then you couldn't believe it.

740
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were kind of talking it through with me, like, Okay,

741
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 4: how are we gonna do this? We gotta you know,

742
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 4: we gotta do this.

743
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: We gotta do this. No, I can.

744
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 3: We're going to go a little long here, but I

745
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 3: I can tell you exactly what my thought was. My

746
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 3: thought was, I gotta be honest with the fans about

747
00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:00,959
Speaker 3: what I think. Yeah, at the same time, this is

748
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 3: gonna happen, and I want to have a good fresh

749
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 3: start after these last few years of it being negative

750
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 3: with cal So how do I be honest with the

751
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 3: fans but then also not burn a bridge before it

752
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 3: even is built?

753
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 2: Yep?

754
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 3: And that was not easy for me, and I slept

755
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 3: on it all night, like what am I gonna do?

756
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 3: And then the next morning I had a phone call

757
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 3: from someone at UK who basically said, can we get

758
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 3: Mitch on. I talked to Mitch like to sort of

759
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 3: talk about you know, he want I understandably kind of

760
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 3: wanted to know how's this gonna go. Found out about

761
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 3: the donation from the craft and now I was like,

762
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 3: you know what, this is, what it is, let's go.

763
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: And then I think, as we've talked about, slowly over time,

764
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 3: other people did. And guess what, Mitch Barnhardt was the

765
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 3: most right of anybody. You talk about sticking your neck

766
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 3: out if he makes that high and it's a disaster,

767
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 3: like that's his legacy here and Drew, you gotta give

768
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 3: him credit.

769
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 2: That's gutsy.

770
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why it was cool seeing Mitch kind of

771
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 6: lead Pope in after the Champions Classic to the night

772
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 6: end of the celebration. I even wrote like Mitch kind

773
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 6: of earned that moment because his pick was the one

774
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 6: that was right after all, when many people doubted him,

775
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 6: and he made that hire knowing a lot of the

776
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 6: fans have already been saying, I hope it's not Mark Pope.

777
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 6: He went with it anyway, and now look what has

778
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,919
Speaker 6: he got one hundred percent approval rating? And that's because

779
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 6: Mitch took that chance. He deserves that sold.

780
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 3: Kenny Brooks was a great hire too, but like you

781
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 3: knew that, like he'd already had a lot of success.

782
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 3: This was a risk, was a risk, and so far

783
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795
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Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome back.

796
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

797
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 3: We got some good questions on the text machine about

798
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 3: that last conversation that may have been.

799
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: The most like behind the scenes nuggetsy we've done in

800
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Speaker 2: a while.

801
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it really was, and it just took me

802
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 4: right back to that moment where we all were honest

803
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 4: with ourselves, really were questioning where we were headed as

804
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 4: a program.

805
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 3: I remember one time I was talking to Scottie Basler,

806
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 3: former congressman, and he goes, people all think that Congress

807
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 3: like it's some mysterious thing. He was like, you just

808
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 3: I remember him going, you just gotta remember their people.

809
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 3: And he was like, people do stupid stuff, and he goes,

810
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 3: people can make decisions just cause a mad at you

811
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 3: and I look at some of it and think sometimes

812
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 3: we think there's always these master plots, and sometimes it

813
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 3: just comes down to who you like and who you don't.

814
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 3: So one person writes, Matt, I'm, I'm it's great to

815
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 3: hear that we may end up continuing to spiral in

816
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 3: football because of Mark Stoop's friends. Well, first of all,

817
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 3: I don't know if we're spiraling, but if we weren't,

818
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 3: you can't look at it like that, though, Drew. If

819
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 3: I was given a lot of money to a program,

820
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 3: wouldn't I want my voice heard? Yes, let's be real.

821
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 3: I mean, just be real. If you're writing a check

822
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 3: to a program, you're gonna expect to have some input.

823
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 2: Like That's just how it is, Drew, whether good or bad.

824
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 5: It's just true. Yeah, that's where we are.

825
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 6: And when Stoops moves on, whenever that is, those same

826
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 6: people writing checks, we're gonna need them to keep writing checks.

827
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 5: Is that's how you win in athletics. Now are the

828
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 5: rich people in your community and your fan base have

829
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 5: to keep sending those checks in.

830
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 3: That's right, that's why they now have more power than

831
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 3: they used to at least here. Another person writes, do

832
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 3: you think you all are getting ahead of yourself.

833
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 2: I'm saying Pope's a success. It's four games. Well, I

834
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 2: mean I can't.

835
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 3: I don't know if you can say like he's gonna

836
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 3: be a success the whole time, Ryan, But I think you.

837
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 2: Have to say it's a successful higher.

838
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 3: Like I assumed when Cal left, we were gonna be

839
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 3: a disaster no matter what, just because of the way

840
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 3: he builds programs.

841
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: The fact that we're this good it is successful.

842
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 4: Isn't it hugely successful in my eyes? Anyway? Because I

843
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 4: don't see how this team and how this program and

844
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 4: I don't see how he was gonna let it fail.

845
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna work and do everything he has

846
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 4: to to make sure this program does not fail.

847
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

848
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe it doesn't work, but it's about as

849
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 3: good as it can be six months into it.

850
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we'll see what happens. Who's up next?

851
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: Let's go to Rob, Rob.

852
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Rob.

853
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 11: Hey, guys, I'm on my way from Owensboro down to

854
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 11: Austin to watch the game thirday. I know it's the

855
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 11: spread changed a little bit. Do you think this could

856
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 11: be a chap game for Texas? Maybe since they got

857
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 11: their big A and M right next week, I think

858
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 11: we have a shot at all.

859
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 2: Good question, Drew.

860
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 3: Any chance this is a trap game for Texas and

861
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 3: we play him close in the fourth quarter, there's a chance.

862
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 6: If you want to be the optimistic fan, and he's

863
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 6: driving there from Owensborough, so I'd say he's pretty optimistic.

864
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 6: You can say they're looking at A and M. That

865
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 6: rivalry is back now through the SEC next week. The

866
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 6: winner of that game probably in the SEC championship. They

867
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 6: could be looking ahead. You can also say Texas hasn't

868
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 6: I mean, they've got one loss in their rank third,

869
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 6: but their wins aren't that impressive. Their biggest win might

870
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 6: even be Vanderbilt. So those those things could give you

871
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 6: optimism in addition to how Kentucky's been punching up in

872
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 6: these big games.

873
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas doesn't have a lot of great wins, right.

874
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 5: And I have to win this though, or they're out

875
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 5: of the SEC.

876
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 2: I think one of two things is gonna happen.

877
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 3: We're either gonna get get the doors blown off of us,

878
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 3: or we're actually competitive like the Tennessee game, right, I mean,

879
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 3: that was a competitive game. If we if we had

880
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 3: done a couple of things, we had a shot at

881
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 3: the end. I think it, Scot. I think you're either

882
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 3: going to be we're never in it, or we're like,

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Speaker 3: we're surprisingly in this.

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Speaker 4: So far on the road, they've played well. That's what

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Speaker 4: foreign player told me that this yesterday. He goes, man,

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Speaker 4: our best games we've played in the SEC all year,

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Speaker 4: Georgia at Ole Miss at Tennessee probably are three toughest opponents,

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Speaker 4: and those are the three games we played the best.

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Speaker 4: Inn I think it's probably right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean those, no doubt, those are probably

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Speaker 3: And even on the road games what we played pretty

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Speaker 3: well against Tennessee, I've beat Old Miss and didn't play

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Speaker 3: great against.

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Speaker 2: Floridam who's next, Jacob, Jacob? Go ahead, Jacob?

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Speaker 12: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Guys?

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Speaker 12: First time caller. I'm calling from Chicago, but uh, I

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Speaker 12: went to I'm from Kentucky. You went to undergrad and

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Speaker 12: law school at UK.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I just want to say. I think the two things

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Speaker 12: that Mark coperly gives us is that he embraces analytics

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Speaker 12: and modern basketball, and he's willing to make adjustments. And

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Speaker 12: I think that's what we've needed in Kentucky sports, not

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Speaker 12: just basketball, football and basketball. I think Stoops and col

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Speaker 12: have both reacted defensively to the push towards modern trends,

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Speaker 12: and they take suggestions for adjustments as kind of an

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Speaker 12: attack on their their legacy and their credibility because their

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Speaker 12: legacies are already cemented. But I think Mark Pope still

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Speaker 12: has a lot to prove and is more of a

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Speaker 12: student of the game. And it's just it's nice to

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Speaker 12: have a coach like that.

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Speaker 3: Always good to have somebody that has something to prove.

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Speaker 3: Totally agree with you about that, appreciate the call. When

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Speaker 3: somebody has something to prove, they tend to just It's

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Speaker 3: like my view about rich people.

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Speaker 2: The first generation makes.

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Speaker 3: All the money, right, the second generation blows it, and

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Speaker 3: then the third generation decides what your legacy is, right.

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Speaker 2: I think that's kind of how I think that's generally

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Speaker 2: how it kind of works.

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Speaker 5: Where are we in the coaching order of Kentucky with

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Speaker 5: the great Good?

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Speaker 3: We don't think maybe he's better than good. I don't

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Speaker 3: think Mark Pope's drunk, so I think I don't. I

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Speaker 3: think he's uh. I definitely think he's he's good.

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Speaker 2: To take a break.

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Speaker 3: It's Wings day here at Kspar. Come on out, Dollar Wings.

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Speaker 3: We'll be here, talk a little other stuff is take you.

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Speaker 3: Sports radio