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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, March the sixteenth,

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Speaker 4: probably one of my favorite days of the year, the

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Speaker 4: day after the bracket comes out, where you spend the

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Speaker 4: day sitting there, going through it and picking who's gonna win.

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Speaker 4: Ryan and drew her back in Lexington. Shennon is in Louisville,

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Speaker 4: and I'm in Bristol, Connecticut. I me at ESPN this

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Speaker 4: morning on a terrible, cold, windy, rainy day in Connecticut.

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Speaker 4: Came up here last night to do the ESPN Radio

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Speaker 4: Bracket Show with Myron and Tom Crean. Then when it

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Speaker 4: was over, you know, Ryan just spent some time as

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Speaker 4: Bros do hanging with Tom Crean and now ready to

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Speaker 5: I'm anxious to hear you some of your stories from

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Speaker 5: the Bracket Show, and that's a big deal for you.

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Speaker 5: Did you get the brackets early? Did you see him

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Speaker 5: at the as they came out?

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Speaker 4: You don't get them this year. We haven't gotten them

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Speaker 4: at all early. I see him on the TV. Our

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Speaker 4: direct feed from CBS is a little bit faster than

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Speaker 4: you all see, so probably I see him a minute early,

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Speaker 4: just so that we can say them on the radio.

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Speaker 4: But it is. It's a very hectic hour because I'm

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Speaker 4: having to look at them, write them down and try

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Speaker 4: to keep a radio show going. So like both right,

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Speaker 4: it's hard to talk. Drew say one thing while your

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Speaker 4: hand is writing another thing. I don't know if anybody's

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Speaker 4: ever tried that. That's not very easy to do, and

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Speaker 4: then you know, try to set up Tom and Myron

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Speaker 4: for analysis. But really exciting, and I'm glad that the

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Speaker 4: bracket announcement now comes quick. They used to try to

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Speaker 4: spread it over the entire hour, so it was all

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Speaker 6: I sat down at like six oh one, had a

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Speaker 6: just started naming teams. I was like, well, we got

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Speaker 6: to lock in and get focused. So I'm glad they

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Speaker 6: got that knocked out out of the way. But you know,

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Speaker 6: even though we're still not the most excited is Kentucky

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Speaker 6: fans selection Sunday is still just awesome. Wherever your team lands,

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Speaker 6: it's fun to follow along.

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Speaker 4: Well, I want to talk about that for a minute,

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Speaker 4: because I have gotten this since just sort of watching

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Speaker 4: NCAA tournament in a while, And on one level, I

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Speaker 4: get it. But I'm gonna make the case, Shennon why

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Speaker 4: we should be excited about this. Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna make the case. And if people don't want to

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Speaker 4: be excited, that's fine. But you know, this is in

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Speaker 4: about three weeks, two weeks maybe for Kentucky, maybe one week.

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Speaker 4: We're not gonna have major sports, Basketball, major sports for

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Speaker 4: going into it. I thought there were basically three teams

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Speaker 4: Kentucky could draw in the first round. They could either

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Speaker 4: draw Saint Mary, Santa Clara, or Central Florida. Those were

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Speaker 4: the three teams if you looked at all the bracketologies. Now,

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Speaker 4: these guys have gotten so good that you kind of

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Speaker 4: once Saint Mary's ended up being a lower seed, you

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Speaker 4: Central Florida. I prefer Santa Clair as a first round match.

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Speaker 4: Central Florida is very athletic, They're in the Big twelve.

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Speaker 4: They're used to playing very athletic teams. I thought that

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Central Florida also had the uh the Jordan Burks

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Speaker 6: So I that was another angle of go ahead, you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys probably have like a half second delay,

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Speaker 4: so you got the You end up getting like a

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Speaker 4: but that's ultimately on you, Ryan for not having a

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Speaker 4: I have watched them play only one time, but I

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Speaker 4: they lost to New Mexico by thirty, who didn't make

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Speaker 4: They lost to Saint Louis Gonzaga three times, and Saint

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Speaker 4: we are all year. And again, if you're a seven seed, Ryan,

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Speaker 4: I feel like playing a ten seed that hasn't beaten

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Speaker 4: a about as good as you can ask for, I think.

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Speaker 5: So, you know, the only thing I really knew about

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Speaker 5: Santa Clara was their coach, by Herb Sundeck, who's a

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Speaker 5: former patinal assistant here at Kentucky and he's a good coach,

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Speaker 5: and the fact that Steve Nash played there forty thirty

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Speaker 5: like they do some things we've had trouble defending. They

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Speaker 5: shoot a lot of threes, like to push up, up

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Speaker 4: Let's take that one that let's take that one about

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Speaker 4: the shooting threes, okay, because I saw that everywhere. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they shoot a lot of threes. Okay, fine, but the

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Speaker 4: question is not do they shoot them? The question is, Shannon,

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Speaker 4: do they make them right? That's a bigger question. Okay.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to know what Kentucky's three point percentage

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Speaker 4: is this season? Does anybody know what's our three point

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Speaker 5: Yes, I want to say low thirties.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's not a guess a number. Give me a game, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I see out the thirty one Drew.

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Speaker 6: I will say thirty four point two.

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Speaker 4: We are Drew's good if we are thirty four point one,

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Speaker 4: which no idea. Wow, wow, that's very very good. Gas.

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Speaker 4: Would you like to know, Shannon, what's Santa Clair's three

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Speaker 4: point percentages? Yeah? Yeah, thirty four point three. So we

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Speaker 4: basically shoot the exact same percentage they do. So everybody says, oh,

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Speaker 4: they're a great three point shooting team. Do you consider

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Speaker 4: us a great three point shooting team? I really don't know.

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Speaker 4: So we shoot the same percentage they do. I you

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Speaker 4: if you lose this game, then you lose it, and

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Speaker 4: a bad draw at all. Then you get to the

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Speaker 4: next round and you get Iowa State. All right, So again,

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Speaker 4: let's look at the bracket. What were our options? Our

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Speaker 4: options were Houston, Iowa State, Perdue, and Yukon. But here's

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Speaker 4: top ten pick. Iowa State is physical, Iowa State is tough.

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Speaker 4: But I look at Iowa State their last ten games,

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Speaker 4: for eleven games, they're five and six. They had some

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Speaker 4: great wins in the non conference, but in conference play

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Speaker 4: I have to say, are they better than us? Yes?

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Speaker 4: But can we beat them? They actually kind of have

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Speaker 4: round one. I'm I'm terrified of Iowa State. I'm glad

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Speaker 4: we avoided Houston. I wanted Purdue there.

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Speaker 6: I think the Big twelve is much much much better

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Speaker 6: couldn't get them because if you look at the bracketologs

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Speaker 6: again the way the NCAA does it. Once they put

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Speaker 6: And I'm talking about going into the Before they said anything,

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Speaker 6: as it comes out, we lose that option. But they

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Speaker 4: I I'm good with it. I am. I think that

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Speaker 4: in a perfect world, you have liked to play Purdue. Sure,

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Speaker 4: but once they did their little bracketing principles, then Iowa

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Speaker 4: State was who we get. And I'll also note this,

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Speaker 4: I believe Shannon in what is it mojo of the teams,

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Speaker 4: there are some years that you just there are certain

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Speaker 4: teams I just don't believe in in March because every

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Speaker 4: And two of those are Iowa State in Virginia. Virginia

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Speaker 4: did win the national championship ones, but they have lost

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Speaker 4: in early rounds virtually every year. Our two and three

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Speaker 4: would have been awesome to get a better bracket, but Shannon,

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Speaker 4: we didn't have a good year. So if we didn't

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Speaker 4: have a good year, yeah, then this is what you get.

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Speaker 3: You gotta play somebody.

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Speaker 2: You know, all the two seeds are going to be

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Speaker 2: good but if you told me before the bracket came

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Speaker 2: out you got to beat Santa Clara and Iowa State,

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Speaker 2: you're in the sweet sixteen, and then you maybe get

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Speaker 2: Virginia or Tennessee to get to the Elite A.

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Speaker 3: I'm taking that all day.

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Speaker 4: I like that me too. I like it too, Ryan,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not everybody else has, of course, can disagree.

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Speaker 5: That is experiencing some technical difficulties up in Bristol, Connecticut

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Speaker 5: So he's talking to Matt right now. But that could

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Speaker 4: Right now in the mic, there you go.

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Speaker 5: There he was there, he was We heard him.

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Speaker 5: Only lost by floor in gains four in Gainesville, and

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Speaker 4: This is on some levels still Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: As our football coach said, if you're scared, go to church.

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Speaker 2: But you gotta play somebody to play somebody who did

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Speaker 4: You want to play a Central Florida team that's bigger

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Speaker 4: if we lose, then we lose. But I've listened over

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Speaker 5: All right, and Kentucky will probably favored in the game.

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Speaker 4: They opened in two and a half, but now it's

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Speaker 5: I think, Shannon Dryt, I think we're just a little

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Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear your your confident about that one drew.

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Speaker 6: I think he should have his radio show, I hope,

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Speaker 6: but I don't know if that's official. I don't know

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Speaker 6: when he speaks for the media though, Yeah, what oh

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Speaker 6: you mean just taking questions? Yeah, yeah, I don't know

436
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Speaker 6: about There's been no comment, so he has as far

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Speaker 6: as I know, am my wrong? Has he said anything

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Speaker 6: about the bracket? Not that I've seen, And I think

439
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 6: it's very lame. They didn't do that event last night

440
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Speaker 6: that spans multiple coaches. It doesn't matter what seed they

441
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Speaker 6: were how they finished In Nashville. Coach Cal had a

442
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Speaker 6: sen some rough spots and he opened his living room

443
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Speaker 6: and said, come interview me, and coaches before him did

444
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Speaker 6: that too. I think it's lame that they didn't do

445
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Speaker 6: anything that's part of the experience.

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Speaker 4: In selection. Sunday, I talked to a reporter that said

447
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Speaker 4: joe By Hall started that tradition of having like it

448
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Speaker 4: used to be open to the fans, and then they

449
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Speaker 4: didn't stop doing it with the fans, and then it

450
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Speaker 4: was it was the media. But this is the first

451
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Speaker 4: time this porter could remember them not doing it since

452
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Speaker 4: joe By Hall. Now, I I think when when media

453
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Speaker 4: gets outraged, sometimes the fans don't care. But I also

454
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Speaker 4: think Ryan, for me, it's more symbolic than it is

455
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Speaker 4: like an outrage thing, which is it's almost like they're

456
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Speaker 4: trying to shut the world off. You know, last night

457
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Speaker 4: we had five coaches on my show. Other coaches went

458
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Speaker 4: on other shows. I think I saw virtually every big

459
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Speaker 4: coach on some show. Mark Pope is in hiding, and

460
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Speaker 4: I just I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: Football team did the same thing that didn't turn out

462
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Speaker 3: too well.

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Speaker 4: It's a bad I'm not mad about it. But I

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Speaker 4: don't understand why this athletic department just hides We'll be

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Speaker 4: right back. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll

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Speaker 4: make them.

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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones, Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: If I've nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, text message,

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Speaker 4: five four, A lot of good comments, I will say today,

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Speaker 4: coming in on different sides of issues, I like fake

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Speaker 4: David Beckham on Twitter. I don't think people think they're

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Speaker 4: going to lose to Santa Clara more than they're just

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Speaker 4: worried we'll simply lose in the first round. Considering what

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Speaker 4: happened with the results with the former coach, the perception

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Speaker 4: we're losing the divorce after Cal Perry won yesterday gives

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Speaker 4: more evidence for that. I get it. But if you're

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Speaker 4: worried about the if you're worried about the game against

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Speaker 4: Santa Clara because of what Cal did in Oakland and

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Speaker 4: Saint Peter's, then you can't also go. But also Cal's

482
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Speaker 4: winning the divorce, like Cal lost those games. Now Cal

483
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Speaker 4: won the SEC tournament. We'll talk about that in a

484
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Speaker 4: little bit. But I do think on some level, Ryan,

485
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Speaker 4: you judge Mark Pope on Mark Pope, and Mark Pope's

486
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Speaker 4: been in the NCAA Tournament with this once and he

487
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Speaker 4: handled Troy relatively easily and then we won in the

488
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Speaker 4: second round. Now we'll he'll be judged by what happens

489
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Speaker 4: this year, But I don't You can't blame Saint Peter's

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Speaker 4: in Oakland on Pope and say I'm worried we're gonna

491
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Speaker 4: lose to Santa Clara because we lost to Oakland and

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Speaker 4: Saint Peter's that had nothing to do with Mark Pope.

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Speaker 4: Totally agree.

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Speaker 5: And you know last year that was Mark Pope's first

495
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Speaker 5: ever win in the NCAA Tournament as a coach, and

496
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Speaker 5: he got us to the sweet sixteen, and I think

497
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Speaker 5: most fans were kind of satisfied with that. He drugged

498
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Speaker 5: that team to the sweet sixteen. If he's able to

499
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Speaker 5: pull that off this year with this team, I think

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Speaker 5: you have to pat him on the back and say, well,

501
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Speaker 5: job well done.

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Speaker 4: Now, if he loses to Santa Clair Drew, that's a

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Speaker 4: different conversation. There's no way if they lose to Santa

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Speaker 4: Clara drew it's going to be a failure of a

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Speaker 4: year completely. But I mean, I guess if people want

506
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Speaker 4: to spend the next four days worried about Santa Clair,

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Speaker 4: I just don't get it. I guess is what I

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Speaker 4: would say.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we've been prepared to be the seventh

510
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Speaker 6: seed for a long time, so the that you could

511
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Speaker 6: lose round one has been in my head for a

512
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Speaker 6: month and a half. Now that it's Santa Clara, I mean,

513
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Speaker 6: they're a good team.

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Speaker 4: We know the coach.

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Speaker 6: They've got a player that might be like a yaxle

516
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Speaker 6: that goes to a big school next year. He's the

517
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Speaker 6: freshman forward that's been awesome, Alan Graves. I mean, they

518
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Speaker 6: have some powers. But it's Kentucky and Santa Clara. If

519
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Speaker 6: they lose this game, my goodness, that's a big Pope problem.

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Speaker 4: Honestly.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the year's already suckeding off. That'll just be

522
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Speaker 6: like all right, finally it's over. Yeah, there's a bigger problem.

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Speaker 6: One person rights Matt. The only people that seem to

524
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Speaker 6: care about them not having their event or the media people.

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Speaker 6: I know, I don't care.

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Speaker 4: I get that that individual event's not a big deal.

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Speaker 4: I would say this though, if that person that told

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Speaker 4: me last night that that's a tradition that goes back

529
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Speaker 4: to Joe B. Hall is true, and I don't know

530
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Speaker 4: that because I don't remember if like Eddie Sutton did it,

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Speaker 4: or Rick Patino or Tubby Smith. Ryan, do you remember

532
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Speaker 4: you worked during some of those years.

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Speaker 5: I've been here now for thirty years, and every coach

534
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Speaker 5: every year has done a postgame like a post bracket

535
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Speaker 5: news conference to talk to the media initial thoughts, maybe

536
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Speaker 5: see the reaction to the players. That's another like a

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Speaker 5: video opportunity that I think fans enjoy.

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Speaker 4: But none of that last night.

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Speaker 6: Separate of you all, someone that's covered the team since

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Speaker 6: early nineties told me he can't remember a year they

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Speaker 6: didn't do it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I mean, it's not the worst thing in

543
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Speaker 4: the world to me, but I would say to you,

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Speaker 4: Mark Pope respects tradition as well as any coach we've

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Speaker 4: had here. It's kind of weird that he would end

546
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Speaker 4: a tradition that goes back to Joe By Hall. It's

547
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Speaker 4: kind of weird. It's not the worst thing in the world,

548
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Speaker 4: but I think we just added to these things that

549
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Speaker 4: Pope's done this year that are kind of weird. It's

550
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Speaker 4: just kind of weird to not have that. It's a

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Speaker 4: big My bigger issue is with the overall UK lack

552
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Speaker 4: of transparency. I don't know if we'll get to it

553
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Speaker 4: today because it's tournament day, or if we'll do it tomorrow.

554
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Speaker 4: But the whole why hasn't UK said anything about the

555
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Speaker 4: fact that we have a new the ads leaving, hasn't

556
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Speaker 4: defended the contract, hasn't talked about the search process. There

557
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Speaker 4: continues to be this pattern of just not talking. And

558
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Speaker 4: I would say if you don't, if you're cool with that,

559
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 4: that's fine, But then when things flame out, you cannot

560
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Speaker 4: then say why didn't the media report on it. You

561
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Speaker 4: don't kind of get to have it both ways. If

562
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Speaker 4: you don't want to know anything about the team, fine,

563
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 4: that's okay, But you can't want to know something and

564
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Speaker 4: then also defend when there's no transparency. At least in

565
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Speaker 4: my view, I think that's those two things don't work

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Speaker 4: for each other. One person writes Matt, what's the worst

567
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Speaker 4: case scenario for Kentucky in this bracket? I think the

568
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Speaker 4: worst case scenario is you lose to Santa Clair, But

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Speaker 4: the second worst case scenario for me, Shannon is getting

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Speaker 4: to sweet sixteen and losing Tennessee again. No, yeah, that

571
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Speaker 4: would stink to do that two straight years.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes it would.

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Speaker 2: But again, if we get to the sweet sixteen, I

574
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Speaker 2: think that that's kind of what we were talking about

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. What do you think the

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Speaker 2: selling is for this team if we get to the

577
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Speaker 2: sweet sixteen. I don't think you get to call it

578
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Speaker 2: a failure. If you lose to Santa Clara, we call

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Speaker 2: the season a failure. So as much as I would

580
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Speaker 2: hate to lose to Tennessee, I would rather get to

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Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen than lose this first game.

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Speaker 4: Which would you rather Ryan drew Sweet sixteen loss to Tennessee,

583
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Speaker 4: which is worse? I mean, obviously I think you'd rather

584
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Speaker 4: do that, But do you, I mean, do you agree

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Speaker 4: with me? As sweet sixteen loss to Tennessee would be brutal.

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Speaker 5: That would stink, There's no doubt about it. The fact

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Speaker 5: that it's Tennessee, a team you beat twice this year.

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Speaker 5: But just the fact that we would get to the

589
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Speaker 5: second weekend and get to the Sweet sixteen, I would

590
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Speaker 5: it would be less painful for me anyway.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, at least having that extra game another trip for

592
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Speaker 6: Big Blue Nation. I think Aloway State's a really good team.

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Speaker 6: Mark Pope could use that as Hey, look, we didn't

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Speaker 6: go as far as one a Tennessee Goddess, but we

595
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Speaker 6: beat a very good team in the second round. So

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Speaker 6: I mean it'd stink losing to the balls again, but

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Speaker 6: I would take that.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about Arkansas for a second. I think you

599
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Speaker 4: have to because our fan base talked about it a ton.

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Speaker 4: They win the SEC Tournament calipe, you know, which he

601
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Speaker 4: has a right to do. Kind of stuck his chest

602
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Speaker 4: out quite a bit, made a comment about, uh, he

603
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Speaker 4: talked about it. He was talking about Porter Moser at Alabama.

604
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Speaker 4: But I also think that, uh, this applied to probably

605
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Speaker 4: his former employer. He said, coaches win games, administrations win championships.

606
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Speaker 4: And then he said, I will always be about the

607
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Speaker 4: name on the back of the jersey. That's how I've

608
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Speaker 4: done it. Some people don't like it, that's fine, he said.

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Speaker 4: And then Shannon, I didn't understand this. You can be

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Speaker 4: peed off or peed.

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Speaker 3: On, Yeah, yeah, which I don't.

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Speaker 4: I thought that was a really weird frame. We don't

613
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Speaker 4: have to go into detail about that. One. But it's

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Speaker 4: like col maybe a different phrase in that scenario, but

615
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Speaker 4: you know, look, I my Cal won, he should he

616
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Speaker 4: gets the credit. If you were doing the who won

617
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Speaker 4: the divorce, you clearly I would say he's ahead. I

618
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Speaker 4: don't think he's his head by as much as everybody thinks.

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Speaker 4: We had a begger better regular season last year. Both

620
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Speaker 4: teams went the same place in the tournament. They've had

621
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Speaker 4: a better regular season this year. We'll see what happens

622
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Speaker 4: in the tournament. And they beat us last year and

623
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Speaker 4: we beat them this year. I will say, though, I

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Speaker 4: will continue to make the argument Drew that I don't

625
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Speaker 4: care what Caliperi does. Even if he wins a national championship.

626
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Speaker 4: I will hate it. It will bother me. I won't

627
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Speaker 4: like it. I'm not cheering for. But he would not

628
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Speaker 4: have done it here. That divorce was good for him.

629
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Speaker 4: I think it was good for us. Now if we

630
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Speaker 4: ended up making the wrong decision, that's a different conversation after.

631
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Speaker 4: But he wasn't gonna do that here, and I don't

632
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Speaker 4: know that he's gonna do it there. But I know, Drew,

633
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 4: it wasn't gonna happen here.

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Speaker 6: If I had more time I'd go find the clip,

635
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Speaker 6: but I said over and over and when he left,

636
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 6: don't get jealous. If he goes and does something there,

637
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 6: he probably will. He needs the reset, We need the reset.

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Speaker 6: Whatever he does at Arkansas. You can't just say that

639
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 6: would have happened here, because that wouldn't have been the case.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 6: I won't say I was bothered by it, but I

642
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 6: couldn't help but grin and just kind of roll my

643
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 6: eyes that, you know, one of especially me. The biggest

644
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 6: complaint was nothing in the SEC tournament lately. Absolutely nothing

645
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 6: in the SEC tournament lately, and it took him two

646
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 6: years to go win the tournament he didn't care about.

647
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Speaker 6: So as the confetti was following, I did think, now

648
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Speaker 6: you care about it well.

649
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Speaker 4: And that's also very much him like he and I

650
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 4: get this because I have a little bit this sometimes

651
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 4: in my life, although less so now as I get older.

652
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 4: But there's a part of him that part of what

653
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 4: he needs is to be motivated by people saying stuff

654
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 4: or whatever. He didn't care about the SEC tournament, but

655
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 4: now he goes to a new school and he cares.

656
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 4: Had he cared here, Ryan, we might have had a

657
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 4: different result had he not done the I get to

658
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 4: go home to my dogs. Yesterday. He's very happy. I

659
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 4: would just say to say, if he had done that here,

660
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 4: we wouldn't have had this situation. But you know, good

661
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 4: for him. They the bracket opened up for him a

662
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 4: little bit. They had to beat Oklahoma and Old miss

663
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 4: Now Vandy's good, but they avoided Florida, avoided Alvima. But

664
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Speaker 4: they played the games they were supposed to play. They won.

665
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 4: Darius A. Cuff's a star, Trayvon Brazil has taken a

666
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 4: huge leap up and they've played very well. DJ Wagner

667
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,959
Speaker 4: hit three threes yesterday. But at the same time, I

668
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 4: am confident and I don't care if they win the

669
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 4: national championship. I'm confident Ryan. He wasn't gonna do that here.

670
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 4: It had fallen apart here, it had run its course

671
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 4: here at Kentucky.

672
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 5: It was a mutual party in to the ways that

673
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 5: we needed a break, he needed a break, So it

674
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 5: was a perfect time to do this. But man, I'm

675
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 5: telling when he said that about the name on the

676
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 5: back of the jersey, not the front of the jersey,

677
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 5: that was such a direct smack in the face at us,

678
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 5: because it's in.

679
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 4: Our opening before the every game.

680
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,479
Speaker 5: You know, when Pope repeats that when he gets introduced

681
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Speaker 5: as coach, it's about the front of the jersey.

682
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Speaker 4: That was a definite smack And that's fine. I can

683
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 4: see why he would do that, and that's okay. By

684
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 4: the way, a game, I think Bruiser Flint said something like,

685
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,719
Speaker 4: I don't think cow was treated right at Kentucky. That's fine.

686
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 4: This fan base loved him more than any coach in

687
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 4: my lifetime. They adored him. They adored him. This fan

688
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 4: base did everything possible. What changed it was the fact

689
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 4: that things didn't go well. But I think most Kentucky

690
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 4: fans would still say Caliperry is a good person, and

691
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 4: they appreciate the memories when he was here. But you

692
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 4: know what, it had run its course, and it's like

693
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 4: this shit. And I always used the analogy, but if

694
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Speaker 4: a man and a woman get divorced after twenty five

695
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 4: years and then the man goes out on the market

696
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 4: and decides to get himself in shape and like get

697
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 4: hair plugs and reignite his life, and he meets a

698
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 4: woman and the wife understandably goes, well, why didn't you

699
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 4: just do that here? Why didn't you just do that

700
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 4: with me. He changed who he was and good for him.

701
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 4: I'm glad for him, but that doesn't mean he he

702
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 4: had taken it for granted here and that's the way

703
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Speaker 4: it is.

704
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 3: This is Col's glow up right now. All of a sudden, he.

705
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 4: Is, this is Cal. This is Col's second wife.

706
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Speaker 7: Yeah.

707
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Speaker 4: And the thing about second wives is they make you

708
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 4: happy for a little while, but when life punctures you

709
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 4: in the face, you call the original wife and you

710
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Speaker 4: say I'm sad.

711
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Speaker 3: I don't think that works that way, but I.

712
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Speaker 4: Think it happens with some people because they know you

713
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 4: the best. Yeah, we're not even his original wife. Remember

714
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 4: where his third wife?

715
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 2: That's true, He's been on. He's on a lot of wives.

716
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 2: But Cal, at his core is a contrarian. You know,

717
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 2: like about the SEC tournament. He knew how much this

718
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 2: fan base loves the SEC Tournament, what it means to them,

719
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 2: and he would just write it off as well, no

720
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Speaker 2: big deals.

721
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Speaker 4: You are exactly right. This is the part of Col

722
00:34:54,920 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 4: that relates to you, Shannon, exactly. He's contrarian. He likes

723
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 4: to say, okay, all of you think this, then I

724
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 4: think that he likes that, and you know, so that's

725
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 4: the SEC Tournament I think was an example of that.

726
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 4: Skin cancer isn't rare. It's the most common cancer in

727
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 4: the US. One in five Americans face it, and you

728
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Speaker 4: need to go get catch it and get it treated.

729
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Speaker 4: And the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center can do that. Go

730
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Speaker 4: to Kentucky Skin Cancercenter dot com. They got your back,

731
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Speaker 4: your arms, your face, your neck, your ears. They'll look

732
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Speaker 4: and find the spots you don't even know exist. Go

733
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Speaker 4: to Kentucky Skin Cancercenter dot com to take care of

734
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Speaker 4: any issues. It's two seven eight four to two, nineteen

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Speaker 4: ninety nine, Kentucky Skin Cancer Center dot com. All right,

736
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Speaker 4: I want to take your calls about the draw SEC Tournament,

737
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 4: et cetera, and we'll do more. This is the day

738
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 4: after the bracket on KSR, Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio.

739
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven one

740
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 4: person rights, Matt. I think it's hilarious when you give

741
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 4: marital advice having never been married. It's my favorite part

742
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 4: of the show. Well, that's what makes it good, Shannon,

743
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 4: is I'm not class by actually having had it. Yeah.

744
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 3: I was asking, right, he's been married a few times.

745
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 3: I was asking if he's gone back to his original.

746
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, but clearly, but clearly, he doesn't know how to

747
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 4: do it. You and I are not sullied having made

748
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 4: it not work. You and I should do a marital advice.

749
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 2: We should right on the two single guys here, we

750
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: could tell you how to get married.

751
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 4: I feel like we would know better exactly.

752
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 3: Here's how you get married.

753
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 4: You don't exactly because you know, people think if you

754
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 4: if you've been debore, I mean, if somebody's been married

755
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 4: probably fifty years and and everything's been perfect all the time. Yeah,

756
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 4: that's a good opinion. But I think next to that

757
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 4: two people that haven't. We're not sullied by mistake. It's true.

758
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can give you a different proce.

759
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 4: How you look it's on. It's on how you look at.

760
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: It, that's right, and how we look at it the

761
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 2: best way to look at it.

762
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 4: I think that's the best way to to look at it.

763
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 4: That's exactly a question. Sure, did you hear Seth Davis?

764
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 5: Maybe throw you a little shade yesterday during the broadcast,

765
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 5: everybody I.

766
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 4: Heard that, people said it, but I didn't hear what

767
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 4: he said. And I looked online and couldn't find it.

768
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 4: What did he say?

769
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Speaker 5: They were talking about Perdue being a two seed, and

770
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 5: he said, yeah, for those people who think the conference

771
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 5: championship game doesn't mean anything, this obviously proves that it does.

772
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 4: Something like that. Well, then how do you explain Arkansas

773
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 4: seth Arkansas was a five and they won the conference?

774
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 4: So how do you explain that?

775
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 5: I don't know.

776
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 4: If he can't Portland, he doesn't. He doesn't have a

777
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 4: way of saying that. Now, the committee chair came on

778
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 4: ESPN radio and said that said, if Purdue hadn't won,

779
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 4: blah blah blah, but then what about Arkansas? If the

780
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 4: committee if it matters? Why is Arkansas five? No explanation? Yea, no,

781
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 4: there are actually a four. Well, then maybe it doesn't matter.

782
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 6: Alabama got Aansas, I said, Arkansas.

783
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Speaker 4: Saint John's is a five. So Saint John's Arkansas, That's

784
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 4: what it was. Sorry, Arkansas, afore Saint John's is a five.

785
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 4: So I mean that's the one where you might say,

786
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 4: and remember, sess argument was the last game matters? The

787
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 4: committee chair said that Purdue one, so they were a two.

788
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 4: They'd have been a three if they lost. If they

789
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 4: say so, I believe that. But you know, what, that's

790
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 4: not what they've done in the past. Go back to

791
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 4: that Kentucky, Texas A and M year. Look at their

792
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 4: resumes and try to tell me that conference game mattered.

793
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 4: It didn't. But you know they can change it every year,

794
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 4: and maybe they did. In this scenario. Who's up first? Will?

795
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 4: Will go ahead? Will?

796
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Speaker 2: Good morning?

797
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 4: Good morning.

798
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Speaker 8: What do you think is going to the sweet sixteen

799
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 8: in the region that we have would be considered a

800
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 8: win for Mark Pope for this season and it would

801
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 8: further hit.

802
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 4: At this point is don't think it'll matter one way

803
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 4: or the other with recruiting, but in terms of the

804
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 4: fan perception, it will be a win considering the season. Now,

805
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 4: I mean, is it a win when you consider what

806
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 4: people hoped it would be preseason? I guess that's in

807
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 4: the eye of the beholder. But when you consider the

808
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 4: season they've had for the reasons Drew talked about, if

809
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 4: they beat IEWA State and they get to that sweet

810
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 4: sixteen play a second weekend, I think considering the season,

811
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Speaker 4: it would be a win. Okay, thank you appreciate the call.

812
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 4: Whether it's an overall win, like I said, depends on

813
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 4: kind of how you look at it, and I could

814
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: understand both cases. To be honest with you, who's next, Richard, Richard,

815
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Speaker 4: go ahead, Richard.

816
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Speaker 7: Well, thanks the kids for playing a good tournament. They

817
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 7: played hard, that's how you can ask go and won

818
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 7: two games, played far within a reason. I got no

819
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Speaker 7: complaints at all. I also want to congratulate Travis Perry.

820
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 7: I thought him at all this play that over tournament.

821
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 7: I watched him play too, and I'm happy for the

822
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 7: kid in fact at that time, but I wish we

823
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 7: had Brusis.

824
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 4: Right. Appreciate Richard. He had a great tournament. He didn't

825
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 4: have a great year, but he did have a really

826
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 4: good tournament, and I was glad to see it. Drew,

827
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 4: you know, you're a western Kentucky guy. I know you liked.

828
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 4: He played really well for them throughout the tournament. The

829
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,879
Speaker 4: year didn't really work out great for him, but I'm

830
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 4: glad he got to have that run there at the end.

831
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Speaker 6: Yeah, big tournament. I saw his dad around town a

832
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 6: few times. You know, Lin County's in the sweet sixteen.

833
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 6: He's the coach. They were kind of in a predicament,

834
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Speaker 6: maybe not expecting to go that far in the weekend,

835
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 6: but it was cool watching their run and he was

836
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 6: you know, we've always known him as a shooter, but

837
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 6: he was in there getting rebounds, I mean, taking elbows

838
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 6: from stampedo to the head, and he just played an

839
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Speaker 6: all around game that we never got to see here

840
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Speaker 6: a Kentucky.

841
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 4: In his freshman season, he got the game winning rebound

842
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 4: against Georgia. When I saw him lined up with the

843
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 4: free throw line, I was like, why is Travis Perryan

844
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 4: for rebounding? And then he got the rebounds, so uh uh,

845
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 4: good for him. I'm glad he played well. I pull

846
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 4: for that kid, and it's nice to see him do it.

847
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 4: Who's next? Grass, Bluegrass? He got about a minute.

848
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 8: What's going on, Fellas? To be real quick? Now, since

849
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 8: I found out we got Santa Clara, I've been going

850
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 8: back and watching, you know, everybody just tries to get

851
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 8: some menfo on him. And I tell you what, Fellas,

852
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 8: I like that we're going to be the most talented

853
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 8: team finally for a change. Like that's to your point, Matt,

854
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 8: I like being better. Like we match up at all

855
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 8: the positions. They'll run a lot of flair screens and

856
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 8: but they got that six y nine that Graves. Now

857
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 8: he's a hard matchup.

858
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 4: But he's the toughest matchup for us. They're power forward,

859
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 4: that'll be the toughest matchup for US.

860
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 8: I agree, and that makes mold, but at least we

861
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 8: do have mold, so we do. One of our best

862
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 8: defenders will be on him, so I do like that.

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Speaker 8: And if we can just bring the physicality. Did you

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Speaker 8: hear Oways say that we need to bring this lectality

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Speaker 8: against slow DA, against every team.

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Speaker 4: Totally agree with you. I appreciate the call. The power

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Speaker 4: forward is gonna be huge. Diabate's gonna have to play well.

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Speaker 4: I think that's a really good point out by Bluegrass.

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Speaker 4: We'll come back. I remember two K sor Ry