WEBVTT - 07-30-2026 KSR - Hour 1 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.280 Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes David Cross July twenty 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.600 fourth and twenty fifth, Then catch Jeff Allen July thirtieth 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.559 through August first, and don't miss Brent Turhoon August seventh 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.920 and eighth. 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If you call TJ, He'll make them pay. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.600 Today is Miracle Treat Day. It is for the UK 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.320 Children's Hospital, Golisano Children's Hospital at UK and Norton's Children 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:07.440 in Louisville and. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:08.280 Why does that matter? 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.720 Tell me today, if you buy a blizzard at any 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.120 of the sixty dairy queens across Kentucky, there will be 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.080 a dollar from every blizzard soul given to Children's hospitals. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.959 So all across Kentucky you want to get a blizzard, 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.080 get your coworkers, get your friends, get your family, go 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.520 out on the street by people blizzards. A dollar goes 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.800 to Children's Hospital for everyone in Kentucky. I hope there 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.000 are lines at all of them for these for the 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.320 good work of the folks at Children's Hospital. And in 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.760 order to celebrate that, Yes UK invited us to do 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.039 a show on a UK campus for the first time 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:45.959 in years. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.680 Can't remember the last time we were on outside. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:48.960 Of Media Day. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.120 It's probably been since before COVID, and they invited us 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.800 here and you, the fans, get a chance to do 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.920 something you would otherwise never do. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:58.200 Now. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.480 I know we weren't allowed to give notice beforehand, so 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.960 you're gonna have to be spontaneous. But if you can 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.559 get in your car and you can get to Kroger 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.600 Field by noon, you'll be able to come up to 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.280 the UK Football recruiting room, which the public is not 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:14.480 allowed in correct. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.200 You're gonna get to see what they do with recruits. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.760 You will get a little mini tour of this stadium, Mary, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.720 and you can come out here and take a picture 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.560 on the veranda in front of the field, which is 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.120 about as good of you as you can get. You 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.040 have until noon, and the first hundred people will get 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:30.960 a free blizzard from. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.120 Dairy Queen while they're here. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.320 While they're here, you look like you're genuinely surprised, like 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.280 you know, like you genuine I thought you were gonna 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.080 like sell that, but now I know that's not faking. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.640 You didn't know that was happening. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:46.880 Of course I knew it was had I'm trying to 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:47.440 play the part. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.800 Okay, it is at all right, it is radio. You 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.720 did look surprised, though. It was a good acting. Thank you. Okay, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.400 sold me. So there they are. They're right there. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.440 The blizzards are sitting in that cooler waiting for you 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.080 to uh to come. There are volunteers standing outside of 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.120 Gate twelve who will escort you up the elevator. You're 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.040 getting a tour that only the big donors get. But 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.600 as long as you're here by twelve, you will get 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.519 to do it. And you can meet us if you want. Yeah, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.480 very nice if you k to, ay, just let us 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:17.919 do the show here. But to open the doors of 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.959 the recruiting room to fans to come by, I mean 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.880 this is a nice area that you otherwise don't get 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.640 to see. You should absolutely take advantage of this. And 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.000 if you walk away with Blizzard, and if you get 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.800 here before eleven, you'll be able to meet Jay Batt, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.600 who's going to be joining us the new ad. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.480 So, so like, get in your. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.760 Car, I mean, don't wreck, Okay, like drive slow, but 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.560 if you can get here, Uh, it's very exciting and 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.480 I wish we could have announced it earlier, but they 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.720 didn't want to have, you know, a swamp of people. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.320 And so now uh to the victor go the spoils. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:45.200 So skip out of work? 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:46.080 Why not? 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:47.200 It's miracle tree. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.839 Tell you what, if you're a boss out there, bring 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.640 your whole department if you like give people the morning. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.320 Yeah, and bring your department. I'll give you a shout. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.280 Out there you go. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.520 Free publicity, yes, but only one hundred people will get 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:00.000 these Blizard. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.600 Well, this recding room is really cool. They you know, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.840 for a years we talked about how it was it 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.920 was the worst. They had some folding chairs and some 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.360 folding tables stuck over here in the Nutterfield house. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:10.120 But this is awesome. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.400 This is very nice. Yeah, and it's always packed every 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.120 home game day with recruits their families. You know, they 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.600 get to sit out here on the right here. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.159 Yeah, so, uh, Billy, I hope people will come by 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.480 and uh, you know, they'll even get to meet you, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.320 which is I think a great bonus. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.200 We'll shake some hands, kiss some babies if you'd like 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.159 me to h It is absolutely a beautiful day out here. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.760 Recruits actually can't be here. This is the one place 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.720 where recruits can't be. They have to sit down under 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.680 the deck, on the deck actually on game days. Yes, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.240 what do you mean they can't be per rules? Is 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.440 they actually can't be on this deck that you could 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:43.360 come out here. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.000 And experience before the game, to hang out here during 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.080 game during the game. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.560 They kind of NCA rules that I don't know. You 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.880 can't tell me there's not okay. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.760 There are people making five million dollars a place, Moore, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.760 and there's a rule they can't stand on the deck. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.520 Guess that'd be a recruiting violation. What a ridiculous rule 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.120 got get out here when he kicks off. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:02.919 But they can come up here before the game. They 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.800 can walk through it to go to the bathroom. There's 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.680 food in there when they during game day, but they 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.599 can't walk a dame deck. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.080 You cannot sit on the deck. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:10.520 Wow. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.520 Have you been in here many times with Dane? Dane 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.480 and Josiah both Ojojo Siah went like game day visits. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.360 You know, we come up here and we would sit 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:20.279 right down here behind the. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.560 Gold which you couldn't sit on the deck. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.800 I didn't realize that you committed recruiting violation. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:26.600 Maybe we did. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.520 I think the first time they bring us back here 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.039 in years and Ryan's already self reporting. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.440 I didn't know that the recruits could not be on 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:37.599 the deck during the game. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.760 There's a sign right there. I'm just reading the sign 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.840 of wow, okay breaking today. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.320 So the Children's Hospital of UK and Norton's Children in Louisville, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.039 every Derek Queen around the state, a dollar Mark Pope 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:57.279 is involved, will Stein, Jay Batt. Everybody is encouraging. Want 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.839 get to your dairy, queen. The machines are going to work. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.520 Everybody likes Blizzard, right, So if you just take the 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.200 day to go get it man, Today's your day. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.200 Today is the So Jay Batt will join us here 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.840 in a few minutes. Until then, I want to talk 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.680 a little bit about the TBT. Oh yeah, the Cats 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:22.240 to the finals. I need more exciting. Won the championship. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.039 He won the alumni Championship over an old Mario Chalmers 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.920 and uh and Carlton Bragg retired Civil War general and uh, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.240 what a great victory. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.080 Another fun night there. I've been to all of them. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.760 That might have been the most energetic. The crowd really 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.080 like from the start. They were into a lot of 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.960 trash talking, lots of trash talk. Kansas did lots of 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.000 jawing the refs. They're just giving it to the refs again. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.800 Those poor guys. They're thinking, why are you all yelling 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.240 at me in July? But Kentucky fans were locked in 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.440 from the tip and then had a pretty big blowout. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.480 I guess they narrated a little bit there at the end, 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.239 but it was mostly a fun night of just piling 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:56.919 on Kansas. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.120 It looked awesome. I mean I was watching I went 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:04.520 to the Reds game. Decision cut edwin Royo, but I 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.920 watched it on my phone and it was fun to watch. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.160 I mean we yesterday it looked like everyone on the 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.120 team was good. Like, we had a bunch of people 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.920 play good. I mean, Archie's the best, but a lot 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:15.920 of other guys stepped up. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.680 There was no doubt who the best team was. Last 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.240 night they destroyed Kansas. I mean it was more than 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.360 a twenty point game most like and a half felt 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.720 worse than that. But Drew's right. We talked about it. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.040 The crowd felt like almost like an SEC tournament crowd. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.600 They were so into every single possession. These are a 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:31.920 lot of fans that don't get to go to rupt, 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.680 you know, so they go to this game. So they're 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.960 enjoying themselves. I sat in the up arena and enjoyed 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.160 every second of it. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.960 Is this the football team, yeah, ty, Bryan, that's the 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.600 tennis team. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:44.800 If that's a tennis team, we're not gonna be very good. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.800 I don't think some of those guys have tennis builds. Okay, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.840 So that's another thing. If you come, I mean, don't 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.600 tell anybody, Billy, but it looks like you can watch 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:52.320 a little football. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:52.760 Yeah. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:54.840 I've been watching it ever since we got out here. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.320 I didn't first look at him for me. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.720 Why wouldn't you just get in your car and come here? 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.600 A blizzard in Kentucky insight, and now you're gonna get 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.600 to watch, Like, I haven't even watched the team. So 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:05.600 who are those people? 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.640 That's all of them? 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.720 Hors Ty Bryant is one of the ones in the front. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.240 There was up there leading. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.840 Oh he's yelling. Yeah, look at Todd Bryan. He's leading 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:15.480 the jumping jacks. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.880 Yeah, we're about to get okay if they can. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.880 If they kept jumping jack I was gonna make you 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.200 go out there and jumping Jacksonith. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.160 Well you know, I think they want me to kind 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.960 of go through the recruiting process while we're here. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.600 Well, you're on the deck, so that really that's really 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:31.040 the team? 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:37.160 Yeah yeah wow, Summer workouts camp starts this Weekend's huge. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.120 He could beat you up, Billy. Well yeah, probably all 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:41.400 of them. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.440 Yeah, not a fighter. I'm a lover. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.640 We're gonna get so again, you could watch workouts and stuff. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.360 I'm gonna be interested to see who the first person 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.120 is that they get to the door, comes see the. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.800 Door seeing the current football team. But back on TBT, 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.640 the current basketball team was just as into it. Last 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:57.720 night as the fans. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.959 Dude, they were sitting on the front row. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:01.720 Yeah, well four of them are on the front row, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:06.559 the Hawthorns, Alex Wilkins and Mason Williams. And they weren't 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.560 kind of into it. They might have loved it more 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.280 than anyone else. Archie's pointing out him every time he scores, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.160 they're pointing back. They're jawn with Mario Chalmers and they 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.040 weren't even born yet when he was playing. I couldn't 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.240 believe how much they were into it. They've attended every game, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.280 but last night they were all the way locked in. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:22.880 I'm ready to get job Obbs. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:28.200 The spot on the coaching coach Hooden is absolutely like 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:29.120 he's killing it. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.320 I mean, what and what and what a great job 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:31.920 he's done. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.640 Colin plays like the winning bucket. They tried to set 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.440 up play try to get Willy to have an Ally dunk. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.360 So he's trying to do the right thing. But you 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.280 mean he drew me into the former players, the old players. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.959 Shagary was as much as a sighty. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.439 Cam is maybe my favorite part of the games. I mean, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.640 he's out there and the picture which I went to 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.079 the game with the Turkey utter and he highlighted Shagary 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.120 standing over top of Kelly Kraft. Yeah, it is quite 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.360 a side Schregary gets into. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.000 Yeah, I've got like five minutes worth of video of Schregary. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.840 I record him while the game is going on directly 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.360 in front of me. I'm turning to getting Shaggari, but 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.120 he's just so into it. Wu was just a couple 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.080 of things down from him. I needed Wu to get 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.560 up and join him. If we had those two over the. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.240 Say, I remember when Shagari played. I feel like he 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.559 has a lot more energy now than when he played, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:16.120 don't you. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.320 There is no doubt, but he is. He is into 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.000 it as anybody standing up most of the game. Even 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.040 when we're up twenty he's up there standing up, talking 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.120 trash and. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.960 And like he's putting it himself in defensive posture. Yeah. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.840 Yeah, he's telling him stop ball, stop ball, stop ball, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.319 Like you have Hood coaching this end and he's coaching 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:33.199 the defensive end. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:34.280 Hood. Man. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.079 They're up twenty five, still still lighting them up for 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:39.280 you know, not guarded. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.800 What did you see Drew's clever little tweet? No, it 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.680 was he said coffee and Mayo. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.120 Will Levis would be proud because you get it. There 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.320 was like, we haven't guy coffee, ye, and he's guarding Mayo. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:54.480 Yeah, do you get it? 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.840 Hey, we got our first guy. Hell yes. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.840 My other one was Searon Collins, who coaches Kansas. He 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.640 only coached the team because he heard he could have Mayo. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.600 You don't know if you saw him. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.319 But I could not believe that was him. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.839 I mean, Sean Collins, as my great aunts would would say, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.120 got a side bit stout. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.440 Yeah, more than a side bit. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:15.440 Wow. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:16.480 I didn't know that was him. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.440 Yeah, he had that build when he played. He thought, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.120 you know, he could balloon up a little bit when 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:22.800 he retires. I didn't know that was him. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.200 Got a little got got a little you know, habit 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:25.680 all of us. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.160 You know, maybe we could use him out here to 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.000 stop the run, plug the gap. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.120 Also, like two of their players got kicked off Kansas, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.439 Billy Preston was in the FBI. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.120 I love that like that. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.560 I mean that would be like next year we bring 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.600 in Kerr. Yeah, Prust never played there. He got him 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.800 in trouble and then now he's on their alumni. There's 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.160 something the chaos of TBT makes me so happy. You 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.920 don't know what's gonna happen. People at any moment might 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.560 get in a fight. There is just absolute like the 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.880 rosters come and go, and like. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.400 The TBT is way more enterta every year. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.560 I think, well, now if the tbt's times passed, and 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.360 then Billy, they continue to make themselves entertaining. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:08.360 To me, that wasn't there last night, but they sat 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.840 on the broadcast. The Kansas team had to bust overnight. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.320 See that it's crazy. So they took a bus from Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:19.720 Kansas is fourteen days for me. I mean, it's the 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.280 worst drive we've done it. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:22.040 It's awful. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.360 And they bust, Yeah, bust overnight, got in at six 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.560 am and then had to shoot around at like eleven 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.040 that morning. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:29.760 Well, no wonder they look sleepy. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.760 Chalmers played ten years in the NBA, has several rings 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.800 on his finger. He's busting as a forty year old. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.480 But there's something kind of beautiful about that that he 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:38.240 wants to do. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.000 Yes, right, I mean I like that. I like that. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.200 These guys, I mean we talked about it. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:48.320 Khalil Whitney and Archie Goodwin have completely changed the way 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:49.280 fans will. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.200 Look at them, no doubt. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.000 And then Andrew Harrison playing I just I really am Willie. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.080 Willie's got one leg and he's out there walking around 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:57.840 like it's awesome. 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.720 But on the other side of it, I feel like 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.200 we've we've kicked some former players out of BPN for 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:02.959 not showing up. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.480 Yes, Marcus Lee can't ever come back. You know, if 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.960 you show up, you're good. But if you don't, we 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.360 want you to volunteer. Actually you can be better volunteer. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.600 But then when we do, I love it. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.400 I think it's great. And now they play Sunday at 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:17.800 what time? 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.920 One the one part of this is they've knocked out Louisville, Syracuse, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:24.880 Kansas in order, and now we might be playing the 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:25.600 local steel mill. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.720 Now we're playing a steel mill run by two brothers. See, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.920 that's another thing that's great about DVD. You get Mario Chalmers, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.040 you're out. You know, Louisville you're out, Syracuse you're out. Oh, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:42.600 by the way, here comes Davis Steele three Davis and 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.000 whoever his brother is. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.480 For Russell Springs, Kentucky. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.559 Well, we'll see they played tonight. Yeah, I kind of 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:48.160 hope we play it. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.560 We got that storyline we need UK versus the Steel 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.640 Company all right, we are here. We already have It 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.760 looks like four people have already showed up during the 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:56.439 first segment. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:57.520 You can join us. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.719 There's ninety six blizzards left for the next hour and 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.079 forty five minutes and get one. And the UK football 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.120 team is sprinting. They like to yell, don't they getting 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.200 fired up? Getting fine? I'm getting fired up. We'll take 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.760 a break of be right back. It is Miracle Treat 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.640 Day here at Kroger Field, working back. It is Kentucky 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.800 Sports Radio. Folks continue to show up. See I knew 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.200 if you if you build it and give away blizzards, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:22.880 they will come. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.360 Free food, wreathe the crowd out every single time. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.000 That's right, Are you UK or you you you work? Okay? 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.120 So he was our first visitor there. So eight five 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.200 nine two A zero twenty two eighty seven. First of all, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.920 a couple of things. This is a Miracle Treat Day 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.840 by blizzard. Today dollar goes to Children's hospital in Lexington 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.320 or Louisville. Jay Bad is going to join us here 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:47.680 in just a minute. I want to thank you K 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.360 for setting this up. First of all, letting us back 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:51.040 on campus. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.480 That was awesome. I think there's been a change of 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.440 the mine set. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.120 There, but they and Billy worked into the night last 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.480 night to get this to this idea came about it 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:06.600 like five o'clock yesterday and Billy and Jake with the UK. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.600 You guys worked and you I think you didn't get 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.480 it finalized till eleven o'clock last night. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:11.520 So thank you very much. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.440 Yeah, absolutely, thank you for having us out UK, and 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:15.840 thank you to Tom Leach who joined me on the 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:16.240 pre show. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.240 Each came Tom Leach. You had to wake him up 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.440 out of bed and tell him to come here this morning. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.520 No, no, he just had to change some plans late. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.520 But this is a really cool place to see and 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:25.680 happy we can get it done. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.800 I'm telling you we got an itinerary with a parking 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:28.640 map last night. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:29.040 Yeah. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.120 This is way beyond professional. He set this up. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:32.240 Yeah, so come on up. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.240 This is you're gonna you got a chance here to 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.920 see what you which you otherwise couldn't see. They now 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.520 have the players climbing the steps. Are you watching this? 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.720 They're look at these workouts we're doing. You're climbing and 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:43.800 walking the steps. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:45.720 Yeah, I think our fans are already here to get 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.440 blizzards are really enjoying the sneak. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.640 Yeah, this team honestly didn't know that the football sneak 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.080 peak was part of this, and adone was sitting there 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.600 watching them work out. I didn't Who knew that getting 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.320 to see the football team would be part of this? 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.800 Didn't tell me that they're had some chair backs up 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.400 there in the in the upper level. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.080 And the stadium looks really fiel you think, don't you. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.040 I mean, this looks really really it's beautiful. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.720 You know, everything's blue out here. But they've they've improvised 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.360 it and improved it so much over the years. It's 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.920 now one of the better places to go to. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.800 Do they make the play They still make the players 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.000 front of the steps. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:17.320 All conditioning stuff. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.680 Yes, boy, that would be terrible. I hate it. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.040 It's about to get real hard for him when camp starts. Yes, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.880 this is I guess the workout before you start leading 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.240 right up to it, and they are they're adding chairbacks. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.480 How much of this place is going to be chairbacks now? 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.080 Because it's what is that the first five rows of 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:33.840 the top. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.960 Section, so these two sections you'll have bleachers, right. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.280 Yeah, So the first five rows of the top sections 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.920 on both sides now look like they're gonna have chairbacks. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:43.920 I can't wait to get out here when it's official. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.560 This is just adding to it, And what a great 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.680 weather day. It already feels kind of like football weather 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:48.120 out here. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.560 One person says, Matt, I don't want to say it, 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.920 but I'm gonna say it. I think TVT games might 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.040 be more fun in person than regular games. I absolutely 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.240 love it. We bought our tickets for Sunday immediately. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.840 I'm not gonna agree with that, but I will say 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.160 several people came up to me last night and said 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.120 that it's not that one texture. Lots of people thought 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:09.840 I'm having more fun here than I did with the 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:10.280 real thing. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:10.840 I don't know why. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.960 It just maybe a little more loose Chigari's on the court. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.879 The elimning does add to it. If this was the 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.520 guy's dribbling out and shooting free throws, I don't know 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:20.520 it'd be nearly as fun. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:20.760 Now. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.439 The ad stress because even though we were up twenty, 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:24.679 You're like, well, we still got to score. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.760 Yeah, you still got to score the points. You can't 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:27.440 just stand around. 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.240 But if that fourth quarter had just been passing the 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.679 ball around and drawing fouls and going line that wouldn't 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:32.760 have nearly the excitement. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.040 There's definitely a buzz last night, And like we talked about, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.639 I think it's just fans. They don't get the opportunity 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.639 to come watch the current catch play. They got a 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:42.520 chance to come watch this game, and they're into it. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.520 Every single person was into the game last night. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.160 One person writes, the Davis steel team is a little 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.399 bit like the Simpsons episode where mister Burns loads up 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.959 the company softball team with Ken Griffy Junior, Jose Conseco, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.240 and Darryl Strawberry. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.520 They're a good team. They've loaded up. We can't sleep 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.680 on them just because they're the local steel. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.359 Well, first of all, we can't let the steel mill 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.640 that decided to change from Kentucky. 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:09.200 We can't let them win. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.880 They went and sponsored the team that beat us last year. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.359 I mean, how do you do that? How do you 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:14.720 do that? 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:19.400 But they listened to KSR. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.680 And I'm not mad at you, but I'm mad at 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.119 you through Monday. Yes we could, and I'm giving you 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.919 free publicity, David Steele, this is what you wanted. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.040 I mean, they're located on the right from Casey Canty's 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:29.720 on the right. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.480 And you know me, I'm on the left, that's. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.879 Right, and Ryan calling him out yesterday a little bit. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.320 So by the way, you just I like how you 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.800 just said, uh, good to see you guys. I like 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.479 how you just said that Ashley Davis was mad. You 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.560 didn't even know that to be true. Hurt feelings, you said, 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:50.240 hurt feelings. 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:51.760 You need to talk to me. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.760 I trust my source on my text machine that that's 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:55.560 exactly what happened. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:56.879 How you, first of all, you don't even have a 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:58.959 text machine. I have the text machine. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.080 We have the a vision glass alternate text machine. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:03.919 And you you take those even when oh, I. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.880 Think there's nothing but serious and truthful on there. Where 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.720 do you think I get all my scoops from? 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.760 It's always supposed to be one text machine. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.680 Yeah, but we were when you when you haven't asked 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.000 a question. I looked at the clock and it was 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.840 like fifty four, Like we just got a couple of minutes. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.080 We got to get right to it, and I know, 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.200 pussy footing around, We got to go after it. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.960 Goodness, grapeos, we're on campus. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.800 Yeah, but when it's this is by beat that next 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.880 to my parents, that might be the most religious man 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.399 I know, and you're just out here throwing words around. 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.879 It's it's football season. It's time to get nasty. Championship 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:38.320 week here. 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.080 Nasty is peakern women today. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:42.679 I love it. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.960 Somebody asked me yesterday literally they said, is Ryan Lemon 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.680 see like one hundred percent back? I think the answer 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.600 is now yes. I'm not sure if it was yes, 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.000 but maybe today it's yes. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:57.480 There's a lot of things I'd like to tell you, 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:58.040 but I can't. 0:19:59.280 --> 0:19:59.800 Please don't. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.040 I think there's some stories that will never ever be told. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.120 I think I think we can. We can leave it there, 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.480 all right. So Jay Bat's gonna join us here. Oh, 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:09.800 there he is. He's out there. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:10.040 Boy. 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:15.240 He does the blazer, the blazer, no tie, Yeah thing, 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.359 he does that very well. That's pattern blazer he was 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.359 wearing one last Yeah, they're gonna make you get up 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:21.359 here and he's gonna join it. 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.399 I think they're going over the last minute notes. Yeah, Brian, 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:24.720 do you. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.560 Have a question that you're wanting to ask We have 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.200 him for about twenty or twenty five minutes. 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.560 I'd love to ask him a question like what's his 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:31.480 forty times? 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:36.080 You're not going first, okay, we're trying to have Davis Steel. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:38.000 He's heard of them. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.280 See look, Amy's gonna see this is what I like. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.200 He walks in here. First thing he does, he goes 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:43.960 and shakes the hands of the people who's coming here 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.760 to get the fancy. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.640 I like that. That's a really you know what, that's 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:49.440 a really good start. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.399 It is also the sneaker blazer combo. 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.840 But that's me the sneaker blazer combo. I think is 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.200 is really good. But see so I I genuinely think 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.160 people who do that that is a that's a really 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.359 good sign. He was at TVT last night making the 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.120 rounds too, with the crafts. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.280 Setting between the crafts, knew where he needed to go 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.280 with the fansy. Mario already met him. You know, Mario 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:14.800 just walked right up introducing, wait, wait minute you I'm excited. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:20.320 This is going to be your first age nearly two 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.919 decades on the job, two decades on the job, this 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:28.239 will be the first Why do you they got war 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:28.679 a polo. 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:33.600 It's gonna be so exciting for you. But you would 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:34.680 get to Mario needs. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.080 To capture the moment, this historic moment. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.960 Yes we do. So I go for the hug. You know, 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:40.120 I think I go a long hug. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:40.959 Gott dap him up. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:42.880 I think I hold him for like three seconds, A long, 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:43.600 awkward hug. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.320 This is I think it's a combination of the sugar 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.120 from the blizzard and being here when we didn't think 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.040 we would be, and watching our new football team. Who 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.280 uh oh, I think they're headed off the field. So 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.639 see you had to get there early. But they may be. Oh, 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.520 they're saying they may be coming back at eleven. Okay, 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.560 I I two A twenty two eighty seven. If you 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.040 have questions that you would like to ask the new 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.479 athletic director, I'm going to look at the text machine 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.960 during the break. I certainly have mine. And this is 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.080 his debut in front of the state audience. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:16.880 It's kind of historic knowing that he's been on the job, 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:19.720 what now, two days, three days, and he's already gonna 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:20.480 come on KSR. 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:22.679 I know that that is very historic. 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.880 Could also remember miracle treat Day UK Children's Hospital, Norton's 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.159 Children's Hospital. If you buy a blizzard anywhere in the 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.440 state today, a dollar of it will go to the 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.800 children's hospital. We're going to take a break. Beautiful Kroger Field. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.000 This looks amazing today. The blue popping off the sun 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:41.000 and we will. 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:42.680 Be right back. This is KSR. 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:44.920 Welcome back. 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:49.480 It is Kentucky Sports Radio Miracle Treat Day and now 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.160 joined by athletic director Jay Batt. Jay, thank you very much, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:54.640 first time on KSR. 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:55.840 We appreciate you taking. 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:57.840 The time, glad to be here, fellas, appreciate you guys 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:01.879 having me and good day for all of it. So 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:04.119 appreciate you being here. It's a beautiful day, my goodness, 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:04.760 beautiful day. 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:06.439 And I liked you getting to meet some fans that 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.000 stopped by, well on short notice. We only gave them 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.639 thirty minutes notice, but that's BBN. They get here in 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:12.320 thirty minutes. 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:14.600 Well, I tell you what I got to experience a 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:15.480 little bit last night. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:16.520 We were talking about it. 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:21.000 All fair, but it's incredible BBN showing up in July 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:25.560 for basketball, thirty five hundred people, loud, intense, you know, 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:28.000 lot familiar gets a w a big one on Sunday. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:30.840 But that just speaks to the power of and the 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:32.120 importance of BBN. 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.280 It's awesome. So you decided to come here. 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:38.639 I interviewed you the day it got announced, and you 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.720 talked about what made you see the job as attractive. Okay, 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:43.840 now you've been here a little bit. I know you 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:46.320 just started, but you kind of see the Kentucky fan 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:50.359 base just in those last few weeks, your preconception of 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:53.000 what it would be to now what's happened. 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:56.679 You know, I think it's I think it's a promised, given, promised, 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:59.280 answered kind of thing, and that I think everything I 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:03.400 expected Big Blue Nation to be, you know, and again listen, 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:05.480 I got all of forty eight hours here, so we'll 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.800 say that you know, early, early, early and often, but 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:12.879 just you know, whether it's you know, externally, I walked 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:14.880 into my office, I had a whole stack of male 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.440 of welcome, hope you do great, glad you're a part 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:18.719 of it. 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:19.560 Pieces. 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:23.080 So I would say I expected it to be passionate, 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:26.359 expected it to be, you know, kind of give your 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:29.000 all for Kentucky. And that is what I have experienced early. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:31.800 I mean last night, first event I've been to on campus, 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:33.240 to your very. 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:35.320 First event was TBT. It was I love it, yeah, 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:38.240 show it was so yeah. 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:39.920 No, I mean it's it's great. 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:42.000 But even you know, I tell you what, whether it's 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.720 BBN our student athletes, like I was walking around the 0:24:44.760 --> 0:24:47.159 building last night whether it's meeting some of the football guys, 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:51.479 basketball guys, women's basketball, volleyball, over and craft center, like, 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:54.040 we've got great kids too. And So, to answer your 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:56.960 question directly, BBN's been exactly what I had hoped and 0:24:57.320 --> 0:24:59.040 what it's been billed to be so far. 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:00.640 Now you have a lot of have to do today, 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:02.359 So I kind of want to ask you some very 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:04.920 like specific questions that I know fans kind of want 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:05.639 to know the answer. 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:09.280 Let's start with football since we're here. Okay, the question I. 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:12.280 Get from fans the most in the new era is 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:17.119 do you think the revenue exist and the structure you 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:20.920 do this to make Kentucky not just a competitive football 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:24.200 program but a top level one. It's changed in the 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:26.440 last couple of years. I kind of think it makes 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:28.800 it easier for schools like Kentucky in some ways. 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:30.720 What do you do you think this is a place 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:31.359 that can do it? 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:33.640 Yes, I think for sure, I think I'm gonna answer 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:37.200 that emphatically. Yes, And frankly, I wouldn't be here, neither 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.800 would will Stein if that was if that wasn't the answer. 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:42.560 You know, I think it's it's a couple of things, right. 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:46.000 We have a tradition. We have championship excellence in this 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:49.320 athletic department broadly, that's the base on which all of 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:52.159 this is built. I think part of it is we 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:54.720 have already done some of the hard work to build structure. 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:57.520 Right we talk about champions blue you know, we can 0:25:57.520 --> 0:26:00.600 talk more about that, about the nimbleness that creates This 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:04.000 is constantly changing, right, you know, we're we're we're dealing 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:07.480 with everything from legislative things to rule making that's happening 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:10.000 on the fly, and NCAA is continuing to evolve in 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:10.840 its approach. 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:11.359 Right. 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:13.520 We just five for five just popped, you know, came 0:26:13.560 --> 0:26:17.880 out here shortly. All of those changes. The structure is right, 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:22.120 the tradition is right, the tradition of excellence is right. Yeah, 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:24.800 we're gonna have to lean in now and again. I 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:26.959 think part of the you know, when we were together, 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:29.800 I made the point to say, and I mean it, 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:33.440 big Blue Nation is the most important thing we have here. 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:36.640 It is the most important part of what we will 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:39.920 do to be successful in the future. And so part 0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:42.040 of it is like it's our job to build structure, 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:44.800 to to go and find and do. But at the 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:47.040 end of the day, like it's a partnership. And so 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:49.920 I think the answer to your question is absolutely positively. Yes, 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:52.280 We're gonna have to continue to evolve, and. 0:26:52.760 --> 0:26:54.439 So you could see a world that they host a 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:55.560 playoff game in this state. 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:58.040 I love that we took a walk today and we 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:00.680 were talking about one of my first big facilities. Walked 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:02.520 this morning six am. We had a great crew that 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:04.800 was walking with me. We walked the stadium and it 0:27:04.840 --> 0:27:06.879 wasn't just where's sec Nation going to set up? Is 0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:07.800 where's college game day? 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:10.160 Upset up? A right nice happened once. 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:12.639 Let's let's make that happen again, because that says is 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:15.000 we're in this thing and we're doing it, and that 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:17.680 at the end of the day, like we're thinking there, right, 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:21.360 And so I think to your point, yes I want to. 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:22.800 Come back to football, let's but I want to make 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:26.640 sure I get some other stuff basketball. Mark's Story had 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:29.879 a story yesterday that said, just historically, this has been 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:34.640 the toughest decade for UK basketball since its beginning. Do 0:27:34.680 --> 0:27:38.080 you think, in terms of basketball, what have you seen 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:41.760 from afar or that needs to happen to get Kentucky 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.040 to where it has been historically? 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:48.359 You know, I think part of it is, so we 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:53.680 talked about the same things, right, history, tremendous, standard of excellence, tremendous, 0:27:53.920 --> 0:27:58.359 big blue nation behind basketball tremendous. And I think Mark's 0:27:58.359 --> 0:28:00.960 got a great team on the floor. I've been to 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:04.119 a few practices, will say that. You know, I like 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.679 the fact that he's evaluating talent every day. Not me, 0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:09.359 but I think we're in a great spot to have 0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:12.040 that success. And listen, like, you know, I think Mark 0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:14.920 was beyond with you guys where he said he understands 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:17.320 the mission. He's not going to shy away from the 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:20.280 fact that the standard is the standard for Kentucky basketball. 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.760 And Mark knows that. And I also have that same standard, 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:25.360 right like, we need to be there. 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:30.359 The structure of both football as a gem, Yeah, basketball 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:32.000 does not, do you think it should. 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:35.560 I'll tell you this, it's high on my list to 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:40.080 dig into our player management strategy broadly. And so, you know, 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:42.160 I think part of what you look at is we've 0:28:42.200 --> 0:28:45.640 made this evolution in college sports from where that was 0:28:45.720 --> 0:28:48.520 never a part of the equation at all to today 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:52.960 where we'll call it broadly player managements super important. There 0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:55.280 is delta to be had, there there is margin of 0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:58.479 excellence to be had by investing in that space. And 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:01.280 so listen, I'm gonna ge with Mark, I've got with Will, 0:29:01.360 --> 0:29:03.640 We're gonna get with got with Kenny. And you know, listen, 0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:07.720 there's there is nil and revenue share across a bunch 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:12.360 of different sports, and so adding capability, expertise, value around 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:15.000 player management at the department level is important. 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:17.040 I'm sure you look from afar and decide whether to 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:18.680 take this job, and one of the things you look 0:29:18.720 --> 0:29:21.680 at is, Okay, what can I be of help for 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:24.680 You told me when we first talked, you have a 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:27.920 lot of comfort and experience generating revenue, et cetera. So 0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:29.920 let's put that piece to the side. Because you've talked 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:31.640 a lot about that. What are two or three other 0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:33.840 things you looked at and said, that's something that needs 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:35.840 to happen there that I think I can help happen. 0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:39.120 You know, I think part of it is one listen. 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:41.280 You look for spots where you can, you know, hopefully 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:44.560 help and have an impact. I think part of it 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:48.320 is my number one job today, yesterday and in the 0:29:48.360 --> 0:29:50.160 in the very new future is I got to go 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:53.040 listen and learn, right, And so whether that's meeting with 0:29:53.080 --> 0:29:55.480 every one of our head coaches meeting with our staff. 0:29:55.160 --> 0:29:56.040 Like this is Kentucky. 0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:59.280 We got great staff, and so absolutely there are places 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:01.560 where I'm gonna dig and get deep. But at the 0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:04.200 same point in time, you know, you've only got so 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:05.600 many hours in the day, and so we'll have to 0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:08.520 pick those as we go, Matt. But there are definitely places, 0:30:08.760 --> 0:30:12.080 you know, whether it's gaming experience, Listen, I've been to 0:30:12.120 --> 0:30:15.200 a lot of different venues across a couple of different leagues. 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:18.080 I think we can new different ideas. Certainly look at 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:20.280 some of those things. But you know, listen, this is 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:22.960 not a broken place. This is a great place. And 0:30:23.200 --> 0:30:24.760 I hope I can add to that, but this is 0:30:24.800 --> 0:30:25.680 a good spot. 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:25.960 Do you. 0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:30.720 I was looking. The baseball team has a top ten 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:33.640 recruiting class. The volleyball team is obviously the favorite in 0:30:33.680 --> 0:30:35.960 the SEC. The women's basketball team is going to be 0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:38.640 really good. There's been a concern I know from people 0:30:38.640 --> 0:30:42.720 in sort of the secondary sports, can't I mean schools 0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:45.520 to some extent almost have to choose do you agree 0:30:45.560 --> 0:30:48.400 with that statement or do you think you can be 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:51.160 excellent at all of these and do you think you're 0:30:51.160 --> 0:30:53.040 gonna be able to keep all the sports in the 0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:53.920 modern era. 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:55.240 Keep all the sports for sure. 0:30:55.440 --> 0:30:58.760 Okay, that would be you know, I've got history of 0:30:59.080 --> 0:31:00.680 when I was at the University of Maryland we cut 0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:03.880 seven sports. Worst day I've ever had in college athletics. 0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:06.320 I will do everything I possibly can and don't see 0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:09.640 a world in which that changes. I think, you know, 0:31:09.720 --> 0:31:11.760 part of the the insight question is part of what 0:31:11.920 --> 0:31:13.120 makes Kentucky. 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:14.960 Special is we have had that broad based success. 0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:18.200 We have built that championship standard of excellence more broadly 0:31:18.240 --> 0:31:22.600 than maybe in previous let's say, decades before it exists. Uh, 0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:24.800 my goal would be to keep that and so part 0:31:24.800 --> 0:31:27.600 of that, Matt would be But in order to do that, 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:31.560 we have to be hyper focused on driving ROI back 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:33.240 to the department, not just the sake of you know, 0:31:33.280 --> 0:31:35.120 we talked about how like you know, some things I've 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:37.520 done the past to drive revenue, that that will be 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:41.840 a focus of mine, certainly, but not simply just to 0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:44.920 drive revenue. You're gonna, you know, work with our tools. 0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:47.560 Right this big stadium we're sitting in, you can drive 0:31:47.640 --> 0:31:51.320 revenue here Rub Memorial. There's there's the ability to drive revenue, 0:31:51.320 --> 0:31:53.560 but not just to do it, but to do it 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:56.200 to spread and and build. You know, I think you 0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:58.760 know you talked about you know, was with with with 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:02.080 Menes morning listen, like top ten in the country eighth 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:04.480 and yes it's a tough neighborhood, but dog gone it 0:32:04.640 --> 0:32:07.600 like we can continue to have success in places like 0:32:07.600 --> 0:32:10.400 that volleyballs with Craig this morning as well, like that. 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:12.200 What an incredible program he's built. 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:15.600 What now it's going to continue to take more as 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:18.840 the as you know what that takes evolves. But we're 0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:20.520 in a really good spot for it. So yes, we 0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:22.760 can do it, and we plan on it. We'll have 0:32:22.840 --> 0:32:24.840 to keep pushing it. BBN is gonna have to step 0:32:24.840 --> 0:32:27.120 in there with us, which I know they will, but 0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:28.400 we it's it's very doable. 0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:31.040 You walked in here and the first thing you did 0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:34.200 was shake the hands of the fans, not your staff members, 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:36.000 not us, You shook the hands of the fans. 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:36.920 How do you. 0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:40.040 Generally monitor the pulse of the fan base when you're 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:41.080 that like director. 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:45.880 Good question, A great question. Yeah, who knew. 0:32:45.720 --> 0:32:48.360 I slept the holiday and expression that. 0:32:50.200 --> 0:32:53.040 You gotta listen, you gotta listen, and you know part 0:32:53.080 --> 0:32:55.960 of that is uh, you know to you know it 0:32:55.960 --> 0:32:57.720 it will not be the only time that I shake 0:32:57.800 --> 0:33:02.480 the hands of the fans, you know, whether it's inbound 0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:07.160 contact from emails or whatever. Listen, Like, I value very 0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:10.560 much what the fans have to say, and so people 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:13.520 will have very candid conversations with me, or they'll provide 0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:15.720 feedback that's okay. I'd like that, we want it. That's 0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:19.040 how we get better. But it'll be one on one. 0:33:19.120 --> 0:33:21.720 I'll listen when when folks are saying, you know, part 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:25.880 of that is we're really fortunate BBM will tell us 0:33:25.960 --> 0:33:26.840 what they're feeling. 0:33:27.440 --> 0:33:29.840 I do think in the past generations in this I'm 0:33:29.840 --> 0:33:32.520 not no dispersions to people, but a lot of people 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:34.120 in BBM didn't feel. 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.200 Like their voices could be heard. 0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:39.239 You know, how do you think you can make it 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.520 to where they don't feel that detachment? Because I know 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:43.080 a lot of our listeners over the years that was 0:33:43.120 --> 0:33:44.960 their biggest complaint to me, I don't feel like my 0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:45.760 voice is heard. 0:33:45.960 --> 0:33:47.800 Well, you know, listen, I think part of that is, 0:33:48.200 --> 0:33:50.600 you know, there's millions and millions and millions of voices, 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:52.640 so every single one we're not gonna, you know, be 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:57.880 able to immediately and irrevocably address. But I think listen, 0:33:58.000 --> 0:34:00.840 like this opportunity for us to be together and you 0:34:00.960 --> 0:34:03.239 just to communicate some of that even on behalf of 0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:06.240 I'm here to listen and to learn and listen. We'll 0:34:06.320 --> 0:34:09.480 make best efforts. Like we might not hit a home 0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:10.920 run every time, but we're gonna be up here and 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:12.000 we'll be we'll get to the plate. 0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:15.120 Before you're even a candidate here or even in being 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:17.960 an athletic director, maybe growing up, what was your perception 0:34:18.000 --> 0:34:20.280 of UK athletics or maybe a memory of watching Kentucky. 0:34:20.320 --> 0:34:21.960 I know you're from Virginia nearby. I went to you 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.400 and see did you have any early early thoughts of 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:25.719 UK even though you weren't a part of it. 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:27.360 I think what you think of when you think of 0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:31.080 UK is I'll say this one. You know, I was 0:34:31.080 --> 0:34:36.440 in Nashville for a SEC tournament and you know, was 0:34:36.480 --> 0:34:39.440 with a different team, lost early, and all of a sudden, 0:34:39.440 --> 0:34:41.640 out of everywhere, Big Blue Nations just showed up and 0:34:41.680 --> 0:34:44.520 took over the entire town. That that's what I know 0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:47.480 of big like it is the incredible passion in the 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:50.040 fan base, and that that permeates all of college sports. 0:34:50.080 --> 0:34:52.680 That's known across college sports. So growing up in a 0:34:52.719 --> 0:34:56.560 college town, in an acc town like Kentucky basketball and 0:34:56.640 --> 0:34:59.640 the fan base that goes with it, the football, all 0:34:59.680 --> 0:34:59.920 of ours. 0:35:00.480 --> 0:35:01.399 It is. It is known. 0:35:01.560 --> 0:35:03.839 Since you've been facing me, just look at what's shown up. 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:07.320 Since you've got now, you got now. You've had a 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:09.520 lot of people, a lot of people come right. I 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:11.719 got some questions from the audience, other people have asked. 0:35:11.760 --> 0:35:14.759 One person says, I would like to ask Jay Beatt 0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:18.080 when it comes to negotiating contracts. We've had some issues 0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:21.440 over the years where long term contracts have made it 0:35:21.480 --> 0:35:24.160 feel like we were trapped in situations. What is his 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:28.439 philosophy on contracts for coaches and whether to have them 0:35:28.560 --> 0:35:30.440 long with big biles. 0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:33.560 Well, that's a that's a that's a that's an interesting one. 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:36.319 You know, I think there's a I've had certainly a 0:35:36.320 --> 0:35:40.360 lot of experience across a lot of years with coaches contracts, 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:46.120 and you know, those coaches contracts that work well are 0:35:46.200 --> 0:35:50.480 ones where you are mutually incented for success, and so 0:35:50.640 --> 0:35:56.640 finding a way within those contracts to incent success provide 0:35:56.680 --> 0:36:00.640 that you do have some backside protection. That's important being 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:02.880 smart kind of what I talked about earlier in the 0:36:02.880 --> 0:36:05.040 player management side, you've got to be smart about it, 0:36:05.200 --> 0:36:07.120 and you've also got to have relationships in the business. 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:08.279 When we were able to deliver on. 0:36:08.200 --> 0:36:10.440 That, got some just have a few minutes. Got a 0:36:10.480 --> 0:36:12.759 bunch of questions about scheduling, So let me do both 0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:17.080 sports basketball fans. I hear two complaints on scheduling. One 0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:19.560 is can we play in a cool tournament? We don't 0:36:19.600 --> 0:36:21.359 ever get to play in these cool tournaments. Now there's 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:24.799 one starting I believe you may that we start in 0:36:24.840 --> 0:36:29.480 next year home up games, non conference. A lot of 0:36:29.480 --> 0:36:31.120 people say, can we get that schedule? 0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:32.719 Better? Thoughts on that, I'll just. 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:33.160 Tell you that. 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:37.720 So we're really fortunate that this is a national brand 0:36:38.160 --> 0:36:41.200 and that we participate in some you know, one off games, 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:42.759 right we're playing you and C in New York, or 0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:46.120 we're in champions That that is a that is a 0:36:46.840 --> 0:36:49.600 say in some ways that that's a privilege, would be 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:53.440 a way that really helps us nationally from our brand perspective. 0:36:53.480 --> 0:36:55.960 So we're gonna have to figure out how to continue 0:36:56.000 --> 0:36:58.640 to maintain that. But big picture, what you'll hear from 0:36:58.640 --> 0:37:01.160 me is I want our best content in front of 0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:03.399 our fans in our venues, and part of what we're 0:37:03.400 --> 0:37:06.600 gonna do. Listen, we're in the football stadium. We spend 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:08.640 a lot of dollars in here to renovate suites, which 0:37:08.640 --> 0:37:10.600 you've seen. We've got plans on the deck that I'm 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:13.400 gonna look at here shortly around adding some additional spaces 0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:14.040 in the stadium. 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:14.640 Go forward. 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:17.200 Part of that is if we're going to ask people 0:37:17.239 --> 0:37:20.680 to step forward, take on new premium seats, give generously, 0:37:20.719 --> 0:37:23.719 et cetera. They want great content in the building, and 0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:25.440 so that'll be something we'll work on. 0:37:25.520 --> 0:37:25.680 Now. 0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:29.719 We can't walk away from really unique, incredible opportunities that 0:37:29.800 --> 0:37:33.360 drive our brand nationally. I mean Kentucky, as you guys know, 0:37:33.400 --> 0:37:36.600 I mean we are known nationally for who we are 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:37.120 and what we do. 0:37:37.239 --> 0:37:37.359 Well. 0:37:37.360 --> 0:37:39.400 You were at Michigan State. They do the Champions Classic 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:43.480 with us every year. That's obviously, that's obviously good. I 0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:46.160 think some people go, look, our only good home game 0:37:46.200 --> 0:37:47.880 is Louisville this year, because they're not a way to 0:37:47.920 --> 0:37:48.279 do that. 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:49.759 I think that's something we'll look at. 0:37:50.400 --> 0:37:53.200 And again i'll give you the without answering the hey, 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:56.680 we're gonna do X, Y and Z today or tomorrow. Philosophically, 0:37:57.440 --> 0:37:59.680 I'd like us to have our best content or some 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:02.319 of our best content in front of our home fans game. 0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:04.640 We're gonna ask BBN to step up and do more. 0:38:05.000 --> 0:38:07.200 We got to continue to deliver value for them in 0:38:07.239 --> 0:38:07.800 our buildings. 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:10.879 Foot football SEC is going to and goes to nine games, right, 0:38:11.320 --> 0:38:12.520 you got the Louisville series? 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:15.319 Yep, let's start with that. Are we going to keep 0:38:15.320 --> 0:38:17.520 the Louisville series? No matter where this goes. 0:38:17.560 --> 0:38:19.719 I've had no conversations where that wouldn't be that, that 0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:20.720 wouldn't be the direction. 0:38:20.760 --> 0:38:24.960 Okay, yeah, Do you see a world in which what 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:27.880 happens beyond that is it? Do you think the world 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:30.160 stays where the other two games are kind of less 0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:32.719 marquee but you know, and I understand why people play 0:38:32.760 --> 0:38:35.000 those games, or do you think there's a world I've 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:36.960 heard some people in the SEC say I think we 0:38:36.960 --> 0:38:38.920 should play all good twelve twelve? 0:38:39.120 --> 0:38:39.799 What do you think? 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:40.399 I think? 0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:42.480 You know, Listen, the SEC is the best football league 0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:44.680 in the country. I think we'll make Some of that 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:47.040 will happen as we go forward to figure out what 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:49.520 is that level? Right, and and and part of that 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:51.480 is at the end of the day, we will get 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:53.560 to that decision making as we go at. 0:38:53.560 --> 0:38:57.120 First forty eight hours. I'll get we're not to that point. 0:38:57.160 --> 0:38:59.719 But I think part of what makes the SEC so 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:04.400 rate is that one to sixteen is so quality, and 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:06.520 so as you know we're moving to the nine games, 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:10.040 we'll continue that that will create a certain say, evolution 0:39:10.520 --> 0:39:12.400 that will continue to and I think it's a positive 0:39:13.480 --> 0:39:16.000 having really great games, certainly those in this league, and 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:17.600 having more of them is a positive. 0:39:18.000 --> 0:39:20.359 They're telling me, you have like two minutes. I have 0:39:20.440 --> 0:39:23.280 two quick questions. One, I know it's been forty eight hours, 0:39:23.320 --> 0:39:26.840 but it's right now on it the bill before Congress? 0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:30.680 Yep? Are you for it? Against it? Do you not 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:32.200 know yet? I mean, what do you think? 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:36.440 What I would tell you is, I think one, I 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:39.440 very much appreciate the fact that we have such national 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:42.920 attention on an evolving college athletics landscape. 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:43.840 That's really important. 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:47.320 I think we as a college athletics enterprise, our elected 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:49.320 leaders have worked really, really hard to get us to 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:51.960 this point where we've got something that's in process. Now, 0:39:52.000 --> 0:39:55.480 what I would tell you, Matt is it continues to evolve, 0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:57.799 and so we can't tell you I'm not going to 0:39:57.800 --> 0:39:59.560 give you a one or a zero here that we're 0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:02.319 you know, supportive or not, but I think is we've 0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:05.600 got great leadership with the league Commissioner Sankie's working his 0:40:05.680 --> 0:40:07.920 tail off to make sure to put us in a 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:11.719 position to have that discussion, and I think, you know, 0:40:11.719 --> 0:40:12.640 we'll see where should we go. 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:15.280 Last question, I want to give you like a minute 0:40:15.280 --> 0:40:18.200 without answering my question, just to address that there's a 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:19.719 lot of people who are hearing your voice for the 0:40:19.719 --> 0:40:22.960 first time to address the BBN before you go. 0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:25.080 Gosh, that's an incredible opportunity, and thank you for that. 0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:29.200 What I would just say is, first and foremost, really 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:32.919 humbled and blessed to be a part of it. Our 0:40:33.000 --> 0:40:37.319 family is excited to be here. I'm ecstatic to be 0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:40.400 here and to be a part of this athletics family. 0:40:40.440 --> 0:40:44.399 So that's first and foremost. I think secondly, I think 0:40:44.440 --> 0:40:46.480 everybody should hear that we're in a really good place. 0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:48.400 You asked a question at the beginning. The answer is 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:51.920 emphatically yes. We are built for the fact that college 0:40:51.960 --> 0:40:54.719 athletics is changing and is going to continue to change. 0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:54.960 Right. 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:57.120 I think some of the questions we talked to today, 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:59.920 we asked about we're dealing with one set of facts that, 0:41:00.000 --> 0:41:01.840 but a month from now, six months from now, a 0:41:01.880 --> 0:41:05.520 year for now will be very different. Part of what 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:07.880 I think is so important is that we are prepared 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:09.760 for that. We've done a lot of the hard work. 0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:12.200 The third part of that is it's where you and 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:15.640 I ended last time. I want everybody in Big Blue 0:41:15.719 --> 0:41:19.799 Nation to know emphatically directly from me that whether they 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:22.520 come and they do I one ticket to one game 0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:25.880 a year, whether they never make it to RUP or 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:30.960 Kroger or Memorial, they matter. Because when I said earlier 0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:33.600 that the Big Blue Nation is our delta, that might 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:35.239 be that we have folks that step up and give 0:41:35.280 --> 0:41:38.240 dollars or buy new premium seats, or buy new season tickets, 0:41:38.360 --> 0:41:41.080 or add one more preseason ticket. But doing a little 0:41:41.120 --> 0:41:44.680 bit more for Kentucky Athletics, that's all that matters. And 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:47.479 Big Blue Nation as we go, listen, I look forward 0:41:47.480 --> 0:41:49.960 to spending more time with you guys in helping define Hey, 0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:52.560 what does that mean? How can I help? If I'm here? 0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:55.279 How do I get that one more notch up? Big 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:58.359 Blue Nation is the delta. And so I just want 0:41:58.400 --> 0:42:00.840 everybody in Big Blue Nation to hear for me directly 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:04.279 they matter the most. This place is special because of 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:06.799 them and because of the people, and I'm really lucky 0:42:06.800 --> 0:42:07.200 to be here. 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:10.239 Thank you very much for doing it, Jay Batt. We 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:10.719 appreciate it. 0:42:10.800 --> 0:42:12.680 Good luck all right, thanks Guysure to take a quick 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:14.840 break and be right back here at Crogerfield's KSR.