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Speaker 3: Welcome back, I remember too here Kentucky Sports Radio at

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Speaker 3: Barrelhouse Distilling Company in Lexington, part of the Moonshine Trail.

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Speaker 3: We are now happy to be joined on the phone

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Speaker 3: by Mitch Barnhart, Kentucky Athletics Director, And Mitch, I'll start

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Speaker 3: with this a very simple question. You have a new coach,

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Speaker 3: I assume and it's Mark Pope. Tell me how you

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Speaker 3: ended up getting there and why you ended up picking him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a long question.

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Speaker 5: The processes are I've complicated and all these things, and

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Speaker 5: they move rapidly, and obviously.

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Speaker 4: On Saturday night, we didn't anticipate being in this kind of.

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Speaker 5: Search this week, and so obviously you start on Monday

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Speaker 5: and when you get news that things are moving, so

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Speaker 5: you always you're prepared in terms of things that people

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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I.

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Speaker 5: Think people have this notion at the pool is massively big,

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Speaker 5: the folks that do it would could want to do

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Speaker 5: you would would surmise, And so you get to that

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Speaker 5: and then you begin the process of working your way

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Speaker 5: through availabilities and people that you want You've got a

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Speaker 5: lot of big personalities involved in these things, and that

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Speaker 5: includes not only the coaches, but the representatives as well,

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Speaker 5: and so you're working your way through all that, and

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Speaker 5: then obviously you've got the media and the public piece

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Speaker 5: sort of vetted a few, not a few several folks

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Speaker 5: which we've We've known Mark for years from the times

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Speaker 5: We had a chance to visit with Leanne. She was

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Speaker 5: And I felt like he had the energy and the

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Speaker 5: There's not a lot of people that can say they

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Speaker 5: He'll do that and more as a coach.

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Speaker 4: And he went to some really in.

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Speaker 4: So you know, it's I just.

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Speaker 4: It means a lot to him.

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Speaker 3: Then well, let me ask you this, because I'm going

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Speaker 3: I think the big you know, that school he was

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Speaker 4: But so I get off the phone with him last

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Speaker 5: Already talked to me about two players that he couldn't

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Speaker 3: Some of that was reported earlier. You can confirm that's true.

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Speaker 4: I can confirm that's true, gotcha. So that's right.

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Speaker 5: That's hugely that's hugely important for us as we go forward.

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Speaker 4: Everyone talks what we can.

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Speaker 5: We can say that these are weird conversations. This is

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Speaker 5: stuff we've really never talked about on the air before.

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Speaker 5: It's new, but it's real and so yeah, so that

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Speaker 4: We've got we've got more coming.

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Speaker 5: If people want to get involved, we can tell them

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Speaker 5: how to do that through our avenues.

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Speaker 3: Well can you, I mean, how can you do it?

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Speaker 3: You want to do that here?

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Speaker 4: You're club Blue.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you can do it through Club Blue if you

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Speaker 5: go to I put it on my social. There's a

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Speaker 3: I'll put it out later that way people can can

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Speaker 4: And we've become a.

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Speaker 5: Well, I certainly, you know, obviously those are coach's calls

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get you to put on your colonel, you know,

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Speaker 5: I don't know that you can ever describe what it

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Speaker 3: It's bart Art. Thank you very much. I appreciate uh.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you calling in and I will see you Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, Matt, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, Welcome back here

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Speaker 3: All Right, So you heard Mitch's comments what we should take.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we talk about coaches winning the press conference. I

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Speaker 3: Let me say this about the press conference Sunday, and

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Speaker 3: And while it seems the you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the narrative is gonna be Shannon Oh.

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Speaker 3: He's pretty monotone. That's the way it goes. But that's

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Speaker 3: not how Mark Pope will be. Mark Pope will be

440
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Speaker 3: like me, and he'll be his arms flapping around and

441
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Speaker 3: he'll be doing all that stuff. It'd be we need

442
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Speaker 3: to like give it a shot.

443
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Speaker 8: Might as well embrace it. He's our new guy. And

444
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Speaker 8: I will say the big Blue Nation is the best

445
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Speaker 8: fan base that there is, So I think that we're

446
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Speaker 8: gonna have a big crowd there on Sunday.

447
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Speaker 3: So let me ask you a question. TV cameras turn

448
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Speaker 3: off for this, because I don't want people being embarrassed. No,

449
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 3: I'm being serious. You can do it right after this,

450
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Speaker 3: all right? When the thing was announced last night, how

451
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,159
Speaker 3: many of you were like no, raise your hand? This morning,

452
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 3: how many of you are still like no? But how

453
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Speaker 3: many all right? And how many of you are like,

454
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna give this a shot? All right? So for

455
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 3: people who can't hear, eighty five to ninety percent said

456
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Speaker 3: no last night, and now it's about eighty five to

457
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 3: ninety percent saying let's give it a shot. Yep. That's

458
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Speaker 3: how I am. I was eighty five to ninety percent no,

459
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Speaker 3: and I was and now I'm like, you gotta give

460
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Speaker 3: it a shot. You can turn that camera back.

461
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Speaker 7: We just need a little sleep.

462
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Speaker 9: We need some sleep.

463
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Speaker 3: I had a friend last.

464
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Speaker 7: Night text me that he's going to go outside and

465
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Speaker 7: light himself on fire. And this morning when I woke up,

466
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Speaker 7: he put, we're so back next. He just needed some sleep.

467
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Speaker 7: That's all I mean.

468
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Speaker 3: That is That is the Kentucky fan base. That's why

469
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Speaker 3: we're crazy. And that's why I said Scott Drew no offense.

470
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Speaker 3: He would. Here's the thing. If Scott Drew had come here,

471
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 3: chances are we'd all be excited. But you know what,

472
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 3: if we scared him off, then he didn't need to

473
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Speaker 3: be here anyway. We certainly ain't gonna scare off Mart Pope,

474
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Speaker 3: right well, I mean we're just not like he's been

475
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Speaker 3: through it. So you know, we've said for a long time,

476
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Speaker 3: the program makes the coach said that, right, Well, now

477
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 3: it gets the ultimate test. There's gonna be a lot

478
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Speaker 3: of stuff put on the line here. Barnhart's putting his

479
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Speaker 3: legacy on the one with this one. Let's be real.

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Speaker 3: He's had a couple of huge successful hires Stoops in Cow,

481
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Speaker 3: He's had some failures with Joker and Billy. It's this

482
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Speaker 3: is gonna be the one that'll that'll decide it for

483
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Speaker 3: Kentucky as a brand. The national people say Kentucky's not

484
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Speaker 3: the brand it was. But if Mark Pope, who's won

485
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Speaker 3: no NCAA tournament games, comes and wins here, then guess what.

486
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 3: The brand was pretty big part of that, right, So

487
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 3: there's a lot of stuff put on the line, and I,

488
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Speaker 3: for one hope it succeeds. I'm not gonna say that

489
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna bet the world on it, but I'm gonna

490
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Speaker 3: do whatever I can to help make it happen we

491
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Speaker 3: need it to. We'll take a break and be right back.

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Speaker 3: turn this down a little bit because I can already

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Speaker 3: tell it's gonna echo eight five, nine, two eight oh

505
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Speaker 3: twenty two eighty seven. I'm gonna go the phones. I

506
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 3: want to hear more fans. But a couple of quick

507
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Speaker 3: news things I think are important from the cow thing.

508
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 3: So he already has a couple of people who said

509
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Speaker 3: I'll come play for him. Don't know who it is,

510
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 3: but that's interesting, uh to hear it is clear to

511
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Speaker 3: me he made it was very important to him to

512
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Speaker 3: say the name on the front of the jersey.

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Speaker 7: Uh huh. We really emphasized the word together. We're gonna

514
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Speaker 7: do this together. He said it like that.

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Speaker 3: He said that a number a number of times. Is

516
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Speaker 3: there anything else out that stood out from you in

517
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Speaker 3: that regard?

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Speaker 6: Well, his whole news conference, it seemed like he was

519
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 6: taking jabs I thought at Barnhart and UK administration. That's

520
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Speaker 6: just my take on it.

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Speaker 3: I think I do think it would be kind of awesome, Shannon,

522
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Speaker 3: if we packed that place on Sunday after. I mean,

523
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Speaker 3: Arkans got it good crowd, but if we got a

524
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Speaker 3: packed house, that would be that would be something that

525
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Speaker 3: I have.

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Speaker 8: Some I say, that's what I would expect. I also

527
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Speaker 8: want to point out that Mitch said that, you know,

528
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 8: Mark Pope won a couple of games and beat a

529
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Speaker 8: couple of teams that Kentucky didn't last year.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if anybody noticed that or not.

531
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Speaker 7: He did say that, what are you gonna say I

532
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 7: have some friends that were very unhappy last night and

533
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,959
Speaker 7: this morning after hearing Mitch, they're already texting me. We

534
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Speaker 7: need everybody we can to go to rupt to show that.

535
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 7: I won't say what they said that blank that might

536
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Speaker 7: have left that this is still Kentucky. So I think

537
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 7: it is important that that crowd looks good. I mean,

538
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 7: you know what we had, but I think it is

539
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Speaker 7: important to you.

540
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Speaker 3: Know, I'm a big believer in let's only do things

541
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 3: that work right because you know, well this is a

542
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 3: big gamble now we got to make sure it works.

543
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 3: We can't be at Repperena and not have a lot

544
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 3: of people there, right, So like we gotta go that.

545
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Speaker 3: That's that you just need to Speaking of going Antonio Reeves,

546
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Speaker 3: you want to talk about relating to to UK players

547
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 3: Antonio Reeves tonight at six thirty. There was some questions yesterday, well,

548
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 3: with everybody doing this, should you cancel it? Antonio Reeves

549
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 3: is flying from Chicago, said I want to do it

550
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 3: and meet everybody. Good. Go out there tonight, Yeah, twenty

551
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 3: five dollars to get an autograph. I think it's important

552
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 3: that we stay connected to the kentuckt the cow guys too. Right,

553
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 3: this is gonna bring a lot of the older folks in,

554
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 3: but we need to stay connected to the young ones.

555
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 3: I was glad to see John Wall's comment the other day, Uh,

556
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 3: this is I mean, it's not that I know that

557
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,239
Speaker 3: I ain't getting a dollar from this Saturday tonight, but like,

558
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 3: I want to do it, and I hope everybody will come.

559
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 3: I think it would be good. Antonio was literally flying

560
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Speaker 3: in from Chicago to do it. So that's tonight at

561
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Speaker 3: six point thirty at Kasbar. It's just first come, first served,

562
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 3: but he's only scheduled to be there an hour. I

563
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Speaker 3: think if people are there and there's longer than that,

564
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Speaker 3: he will stay. And there's now a bird in this building.

565
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Speaker 3: Two birds in the building. All right, they're going, all right,

566
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Speaker 3: who's next?

567
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Speaker 4: Rick?

568
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Speaker 3: Mark is up next? Mark, go ahead and Mark.

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Speaker 9: Afternoon, guys. I'm kind of like what you all said

570
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Speaker 9: last night.

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Speaker 3: I got a.

572
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Speaker 9: Text hoped the new coach.

573
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 10: I was like, man, that's just.

574
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Speaker 9: A horrible hire. Didn't like it, didn't want to agree

575
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Speaker 9: with it.

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Speaker 11: I felt bad for Pope too. Barnhart put him in

577
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 11: a horrible situation. But then they tell you sleep on it.

578
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Speaker 9: Take twenty four hours and think.

579
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Speaker 11: About it, and you hear Barnhart talk about it today,

580
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Speaker 11: you hear other people talk about it. You go back

581
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Speaker 11: and you think, hey, reed, Shepherd wasn't the top five recruit.

582
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Speaker 9: He wasn't going to be the big guy.

583
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Speaker 10: He came in and rocked it.

584
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Speaker 9: Let's go with it.

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Speaker 3: It happened.

586
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Speaker 11: Let's move on, Let's give the guys shot, and let's

587
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 11: sufford him.

588
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Speaker 3: Appreciate the call. You know mentioned somebody wrote me and said,

589
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Speaker 3: this is going to be like Billy Gillespie. I have

590
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 3: an odd opinion if Billy didn't have personal demons, I

591
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Speaker 3: think that could have worked. To be quite frank with you,

592
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 3: he wasn't a bad coach. It was everything else, Like

593
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Speaker 3: it was his it was everything else. He recruited weird

594
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 3: people too. I guess that's true. But like again, this

595
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 3: will be a good test of the brand, and it's

596
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Speaker 3: gonna be a test to Mark, and it's a testa Mitch.

597
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Speaker 3: A lot of people putting the next on the line

598
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Speaker 3: on this one. We'll see what happens. Who's next? Nate

599
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Speaker 3: is up next? Nate? Go ahead, Nate, what's up?

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Speaker 4: Matt?

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Speaker 12: So I think I've got a pretty good perspective of

602
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Speaker 12: like the whole one side or the other. We were

603
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Speaker 12: kind of part of the whole group of trying to

604
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Speaker 12: raise hell to say, hey, maybe we can stop this.

605
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Speaker 12: You know, I think like everyone we were in that

606
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Speaker 12: ninety percentile that was just shocked he went from Hurley

607
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Speaker 12: and Drew to this, and I think, you know, even

608
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Speaker 12: even to your your in your space. I think we

609
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Speaker 12: kind of laughed it off and we heard the name

610
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Speaker 12: late late last night that it was like, oh my god.

611
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Speaker 12: But like, here's the thing. We're not gonna go against

612
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Speaker 12: Mark Pope. This was never against Pope. I think there

613
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Speaker 12: was more along the sides of thinking this was irresponsible

614
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Speaker 12: by Mitch, but Mark Pope's the coach, and nobody should

615
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Speaker 12: ever go have a fire Mark Pope. You know sign

616
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Speaker 12: it's over, it's done with. And you know what, Screw Tennessee,

617
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Speaker 12: screw Arkansas, screw Duke, all those fan bay ases we

618
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 12: ride with Mark Pope, and I whole fifteen twenty years

619
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Speaker 12: from now, I have to go back and look at

620
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Speaker 12: some tweets and eat all kinds of crow because I'm

621
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Speaker 12: a big enough man to say I want this program

622
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Speaker 12: to succeed, and it doesn't matter who the coach is.

623
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Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. You've heard me say this before.

624
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 3: If you're more worried about being right than being successful,

625
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 3: that's where you lose. I think towards the end of

626
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Speaker 3: Cal's era, he was more worried about being right than

627
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Speaker 3: he was about being successful. If he had just changed,

628
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Speaker 3: I think he'd have still be here and he'd be

629
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Speaker 3: winning with me. I said that I was hoping for

630
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Speaker 3: a separation when it looked like Cal was coming back.

631
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Speaker 3: You know what I said the next day, I hope

632
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Speaker 3: I'm wrong. I'd rather be wrong and successful than right

633
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 3: and fail. If you were like me and you heard

634
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 3: this and you said no, no, that can't be it,

635
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 3: which was what my initial reaction was. I called both

636
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Speaker 3: of you guys when I heard it, and what do

637
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 3: we say what?

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Speaker 6: I've never heard that tone in your voice ever, I know.

639
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 3: I was like, no, but I want to be wrong.

640
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 3: I do. I want to be wrong. I want it

641
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 3: to work, like I want somebody to go, Hey, Matt,

642
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 3: you initially thought it was wrong. Guess what, that's what

643
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Speaker 3: I want. That's what I wanted for Cal for the

644
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Speaker 3: last two years.

645
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Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, I mean there were times when I felt

646
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 7: like there was a big disconnect with the fans in

647
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 7: the last group. I just want I want you to

648
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 7: just feel like you're with us. We are not gonna

649
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,719
Speaker 7: have a problem with Mark Pope being with us. There

650
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Speaker 7: are gonna be points where like, will you just please

651
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 7: put your shirt on and stop doing the catch chant

652
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 7: for a minute. I mean, he is gonna be no

653
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 7: some of our craziest fans, but he's the head basketball code.

654
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Speaker 3: I tell you what he well, I tell you what

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Speaker 3: he won't do. He ain't gonna tell us to stop

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Speaker 3: being us. He's not. He's not gonna look at the

657
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Speaker 3: Kentucky fan base and say stop being the Kentucky fan base.

658
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Speaker 3: Because he is one. He'll like heurd you like. Jeff

659
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Speaker 3: fox Worthy said, I can make fun of rednecks because

660
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Speaker 3: I is one. He is one.

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Speaker 8: But he can't tell us to not do the l's down.

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Speaker 3: When we have our first interview with him. You remember

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Speaker 3: he told the fans not to put the horns down.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at him and saying, you ain't telling me

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Speaker 3: not to.

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Speaker 4: Don't it is?

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Speaker 3: Does it? Who's up next? Brody is up next? Brody?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, Brody, hey Man, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 13: I've got a quick comment and a question for you,

670
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Speaker 13: basically echoing what other people have said last night went

671
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Speaker 13: from shocked to panicked to now just being I'm one

672
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Speaker 13: hundred percent all in. I'm excited. I can't wait to

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Speaker 13: see what the future brings with Pope. I think his

674
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Speaker 13: enthusiasm and energy are going to bring this fan base together,

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Speaker 13: and I think everybody is looking forward to the continuity

676
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Speaker 13: and stability that this program is going to experience. I

677
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Speaker 13: think we've all missed that in recent years.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. There, all right, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Hey, Rick, I just texted you a phone number.

680
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: Jack Gibbons texted me and said he wants to come

681
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Speaker 3: on and talk to the fans. So will you? Will

682
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 3: you call him here? Is that all right? We'll do

683
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 3: all right. While you're doing that, put somebody else out.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead? Who's next?

685
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Speaker 4: We have disgruntled up next? Oh uh? Oh, this might.

686
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Speaker 8: Be your negatives?

687
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 3: Maybe we wonder when we were gonna get one and

688
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 3: go ahead?

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Speaker 14: So I love Mark Pope as a coach, but not

690
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Speaker 14: Kentucky's coach. I feel like this was rushed, and I

691
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 14: felt like I was kind of talking myself into it

692
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 14: listening in the last hour, but then Mitch started talking

693
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 14: and I just the I'm not really sure what to

694
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 14: think anymore. I was, I'm still kind of kind of torn,

695
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 14: but it's just I'm I don't know if I'm mad

696
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 14: or sad, and I don't know anymore.

697
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Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you a question. I think those

698
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: emotions are completely reasonable. Both mad or sad is not unreasonable.

699
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Speaker 3: Now that it's happened, do you want it to succeed?

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Speaker 5: Yes? Do?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

702
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Speaker 14: For Mark's sake, because I feel like he was kind

703
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 14: of thrown in this and I feel sorry for him

704
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 14: too because of what happened last night, And I know

705
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Speaker 14: that didn't make him feel good because it was crazy

706
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Speaker 14: last night. But I just I can't get over Mitch

707
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 14: and the way he I just I'm not a fan.

708
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 14: I just uh And I'm sorry for ramling like this.

709
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 3: No, no, no, listen. I think what you expressing right

710
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 3: now is what a lot of people feel. I think

711
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 3: there are probably people sitting here in this building that

712
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 3: feel like you do. Okay, I think there's a lot

713
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 3: of people that are upset at Barnhart. They're still going

714
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 3: to be upset at Barnheart, but would you agree with

715
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 3: me that it still would be better for everybody if

716
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 3: you and my initial reaction last night were wrong and

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Speaker 3: he comes out and does.

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Speaker 10: Well, yes, yes, yeah, I mean I mean.

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Speaker 14: Everybody would everybody. I'm a UK, that's all fans of

720
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Speaker 14: the Bone. I mean, it's it's something that my whole

721
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Speaker 14: family were. We're just UK to the bone. And I

722
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Speaker 14: just after yesterday, I just did not think that it

723
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Speaker 14: would end with with Mark Cope and I loved him

724
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Speaker 14: to death as a player. I just I feel I feel,

725
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Speaker 14: like I said, I don't know how I feel anymore,

726
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Speaker 14: but just listening to Mitch it just kind of made

727
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Speaker 14: it worse for me for some reason, just the way

728
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 14: he talks about stuff. And I don't know, I just

729
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Speaker 14: I feel like we need a guy with's more fire

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Speaker 14: as an ad that won't you know.

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Speaker 3: Well, Mark fire. I will say this, I listen, Mitch

732
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Speaker 3: is not a raw ra appreciate the CA. I mean,

733
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Speaker 3: he's not a He's not a raw rock guy. I

734
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 3: thought for a long time the athletic department needed some

735
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 3: help in the PR world. Well, Mark Pope's gonna be

736
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Speaker 3: out there doing PR. I'll be shocked if Mark Pope's

737
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 3: not the most accessible coach we've had here since Joey Hall.

738
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Speaker 3: To be honest with you, that's my That's gonna be

739
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Speaker 3: my that would be my guess is Jack on? Uh

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Speaker 3: got Connor?

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Speaker 1: He's the one we have to Jack, don't have Jack.

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Speaker 3: I sent you Jack's number. If it's to Connor, we

743
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Speaker 3: probably I mean I'm gonna put I mean I sent

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Speaker 3: you Connor too, but I also sent you Jack. Did

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Speaker 3: you get it? Yeah, I just got it. Let me Uh, okay,

746
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 3: let's put Connor on while you're doing it. Connor Connor

747
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 3: played for Mark Pope at Georgia when Pope was an

748
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Speaker 3: assistant coach. Connor, you tweeted last night and I retweeted

749
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Speaker 3: your tweet. Tell people what he's like as a coach.

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Speaker 3: I know he's an assistant, but when you were there.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, no, thanks for having young guy. Coach. Pope is

752
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 15: one of the most energetic people.

753
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 10: I've ever been around.

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Speaker 15: And I'm not here to, you know, try to convince

755
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 15: you guys that this was your number one choice or

756
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 15: anything like that. But what I will say is what

757
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 15: you're gonna get, and I mean is the most infectious

758
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 15: energy you can find. I mean, he had quit he

759
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 15: quit med school and moved his family to Athens from

760
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 15: New York City and was doing laundry and he would

761
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Speaker 15: be the first person there. He popped out of the

762
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Speaker 15: pop out of the hall. You know, we're in there

763
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 15: seven in the morning, and he would be screaming, you know,

764
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Speaker 15: great day to be a dog type of stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 15: he's the guy that just would motivate me more than anyone.

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Speaker 15: And so it's like, it's super exciting for me to

767
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 15: think about him in this job, just knowing him as

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Speaker 15: a person.

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Speaker 3: So you play for him. You played for him at Georgia,

770
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 3: right Connor.

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Speaker 15: Yep, he was there for one year. And I mean

772
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 15: what really stood up too is you know, he played

773
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Speaker 15: in the NBA, and he was he's a guy that's

774
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 15: not gonna let talent go to waste. He was pushing

775
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 15: everyone because to even make it to the NBA, he

776
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 15: obviously had to, you know, work harder than anyone else.

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Speaker 15: He wasn't the most athletic person. He was tall, but

778
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 15: he was kind of always instilling that enough. And it's

779
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 15: just I mean, he's a great person. And yeah, if

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Speaker 15: someone doesn't like to hire, that's that's you know, their perspective.

781
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 15: But he's gonna be He's not gonna be out work.

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Speaker 10: I can promise you that.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he'll be able to recruit players. You

784
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 3: were there when he.

785
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Speaker 15: Was trying, Yeah, no, I do.

786
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Speaker 4: I mean he was.

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Speaker 15: He wasn't a recruiting assistant when he was at Georgia.

788
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 15: But I'm telling you this guy is so personable and charismatic,

789
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 15: and he has the resume, he has a national championship,

790
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 15: he played in the NBA. I mean he's gonna be

791
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 15: able to speak to kids and their families.

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Speaker 3: I guarantee you that, Connor, thank you very much. Come

793
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 3: to Lexington and then we'll host you for a game.

794
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 3: All right, let's do it. Thank guys, all right, appreciate

795
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Speaker 4: That's gonna be for sale.

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807
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Speaker 3: have somebody say to me, wouldn't it be funny if

808
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Speaker 3: you bought Cow's house. I was like, dude, I can't

809
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Speaker 3: do that. That's there's no way that's gonna work. Go ahead, but.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jack Gibbons, when we come back right after this,

815
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Speaker 3: this is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, welcome back Tucky

816
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 3: Sports Radio. Jack Gibbings voice, one of the two voices

817
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: of the Cats on the broadcast, is here. Jack. What

818
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 3: are your thoughts? I wish I had more time with you,

819
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,720
Speaker 3: but what are your thoughts?

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Speaker 10: Well, Matt, I am estatic with this hire. I really

821
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 10: really like what Mitch and his team has done in

822
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 10: this higher. One thing I didn't want going into this

823
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 10: process was I didn't because I am a former player

824
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 10: and because I love the University of Kentucky. I didn't

825
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 10: want to have a situation where we went out and

826
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 10: we bought a coach by writing them a bit check,

827
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Speaker 10: because my thought would be, why is this guy here?

828
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Speaker 10: Is he here because he wants Kentucky basketball or is

829
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 10: he here because we're paying him the most money? And

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00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 10: for former player, I still think Kentucky basketball is Kentucky basketball.

831
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Speaker 10: A lot of great coaches, and I wanted someone who

832
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 10: knew this situation inside out as opposed to outside in.

833
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 10: And Mark Pope. I had one other guy who I

834
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 10: thought would be perfect for this job ten years ago.

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Speaker 10: He would have been the man. And I'm not talking

836
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 10: Rick Potino, but I'm talking to guy by the name

837
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 10: of Dwayne Casey because Dwayne is like me. He's a

838
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 10: Kentucky boy. He loves the program. He learned it from

839
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 10: being here and from going through the rigors of what

840
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 10: can Tucky basketball this about? And on top of that,

841
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 10: he was a great basketball coach and he gets players

842
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 10: over at Steve. I think Mark Pope fits that perfectly.

843
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 10: So I'm I'm I'm thrilled with it. Man, I can't

844
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 10: race to get started. He'll get played me.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's what I'm gonna ask you. I was gonna

846
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 3: ask you. You've been around the program intimately in the

847
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 3: last few years, do you think because I think from

848
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 3: an ex and oh standpoint, I'm sold on him because

849
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 3: I've watched his stuff. I think he runs great stuff.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he can get players here?

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00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 10: I think he will. It's a different day now. These

852
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 10: this transfer portal has changed things and there are bunches

853
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 10: and bunches of players every year who have wanted to

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00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 10: come to Kentucky. But because of the personnel that the

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00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 10: players that coach Kyle had, they didn't think the opportunity

856
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 10: was here. Because he's committed to plan those guys that

857
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 10: he has, I think the great players out there that

858
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 10: would jump at the chance. And we'll see this real quickly.

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00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 10: I don't think it's gonna take long for Mark to

860
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 10: get players to come. He'll have supports.

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Speaker 3: By the way, right now that Jackson Robinson, who is

862
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 3: his best player, is looking at Kentucky, that's just kind

863
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 3: of come out in the last couple of minutes. Uh, Jack,

864
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 3: you know how much respect I have for you give me?

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Speaker 3: Give me thirty seconds of a message to the big

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Speaker 3: Blue Nation, to the people who weren't they sayers or

867
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 3: maybe still are that You think that why this will work?

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00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 10: Well, I think it'll work because I too have been

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00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 10: a Mark, a private Mark Folk fan. I've watched him

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Speaker 10: But he's gonna be able to coach guys to overachieve

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Speaker 3: Jack, Thank you very much. Appreciate it man.

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Speaker 10: Thank you Matt for letting me come on.

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