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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, March the
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, a Sweet sixteen edition of KSR Live from Merrillville, Indiana,
Speaker 2: wherever that is on the road to the Sweet sixteen
Speaker 2: with Clark's Puppetshop foam line eight five nine two eight
Speaker 2: oh twenty two eighty seven Avery's an autoglass text machine
Speaker 2: seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.
Speaker 2: In this edition sponsored by the T. J. Smith Office
Speaker 2: called TJ He'll make Them Pay. We are in Merrillville, Indiana,
Speaker 2: just south of Chicago and Gary, Indiana, where we stopped
Speaker 2: last night after a celebratory, celebratory drive from Milwaukee as
Speaker 2: Kentucky mates of Sweet sixteen for the first time since
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon the
Speaker 2: Dude Mario is here as well. We are a sleepy
Speaker 2: group as we rolled in here about one am Eastern time,
Speaker 2: but very excited as the Cats get a big win
Speaker 2: yesterday against Illinois. Now get ready to face Tennessee at
Speaker 2: seven point thirty in Indianapolis on Friday night. I got
Speaker 2: a text message this morning, Ryan from that my mom
Speaker 2: has already booked a hotel room in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: Wow, Karen's excited about this trip to indian.
Speaker 2: I gotta find tickets. That's when you're looking at.
Speaker 3: Those prices aren't cheap.
Speaker 2: That's okay, A loving son. Yeah, hopefully maybe somebody listening
Speaker 2: there is like I'd like mad his mom to get
Speaker 2: a couple of tickets. But we've got a few days
Speaker 2: to get brick it ready. And it's there because for
Speaker 2: the first time Sin's twenty nineteen, we go to the
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen thanks to Pope. In this group of I
Speaker 2: don't want to say ragtag vagabonds, but there is a
Speaker 2: little bit of vagabond nature. First team in the history
Speaker 2: of the NCAA tournament to go to the Sweet sixteen
Speaker 2: who returned zero points from the season before Ryan Limit.
Speaker 4: That's all makes I think this team so endearing to
Speaker 4: all of us. We know what we were getting into
Speaker 4: when this. When Mark Pope got hired and he put
Speaker 4: together this roster in two weeks, we kind of knew
Speaker 4: this ragtag bunch is kind of what they are from Direxel, Fairley, Dickinson,
Speaker 4: Dayton and look where they got us.
Speaker 3: They got us into Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: You know, when when Cal came, I remember saying this
Speaker 2: when he came, you do a you do as a
Speaker 2: it's a bet you're betting on you're gonna be good immediately,
Speaker 2: which happened. And the trade off for that is when
Speaker 2: you leave, you're starting over. And that's even more true
Speaker 2: in the transfer portal layer that even becomes and that's
Speaker 2: exactly what happened. And most people would assume, Okay, starting
Speaker 2: over is going to be a two or three process,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be difficult, and instead Mark Pope has this
Speaker 2: in the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think it's fair to call them what
Speaker 5: you all said, because They said it themselves at the
Speaker 5: podium yesterday. I don't remember if it was Butler or Mari,
Speaker 5: but they're like, we were overlooked. We didn't have a
Speaker 5: bunch of stars, didn't get a lot of offers. We
Speaker 5: had to work our way to get to this point,
Speaker 5: and that's what made it so much special for the
Speaker 5: guys themselves.
Speaker 6: So it's just not a fan opinion.
Speaker 5: They feel that way themselves, that they kind of were
Speaker 5: an underdog role until getting here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then, you know, I thought, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, when the season started, just make the tournament.
Speaker 2: I felt like that they had done a good job
Speaker 2: in the portal, but that they were probably one player short,
Speaker 2: and then their best player gets hurt and is out
Speaker 2: for the year, and so now in some ways your
Speaker 2: two players short, and yet you're still in the sweet sixteen. Shandon,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how. You can't be anything
Speaker 2: but thrilled about that.
Speaker 7: As soon as they got that win against Troy, I
Speaker 7: felt like there was a weight lifted at two all
Speaker 7: too right, Yeah, you've moved on to the second round,
Speaker 7: then you've win. Yesterday, I think that was the most
Speaker 7: impressive defensive performance of the entire season yesterday?
Speaker 2: Did you realize on that point that in the last
Speaker 2: thirteen games Kentucky is eleventh in the country defensively? That's
Speaker 2: crazy after being one hundred and fifteenth before that.
Speaker 3: But who saw that coming?
Speaker 2: Not me?
Speaker 3: Not me.
Speaker 7: But you know, I don't think this team's finished yet.
Speaker 7: And if Tennessee and go on to the Elite.
Speaker 2: Eight, well then you're legendary.
Speaker 3: It's legendary run, especially in the first year from our posts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, remarkable stock.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to do the remarkable tried
Speaker 2: early in the year.
Speaker 6: They're working their way into it.
Speaker 2: It was, you know, it was what are you laughing at?
Speaker 2: It was exciting. You know. Milwaukee was weird in some
Speaker 2: ways because it ryan wasn't as many UK fans as usual, right,
Speaker 2: the ones that were there were very excited. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, it's a it's a broader conversation about the
Speaker 2: way we do the SEC tournament. I think it hurts
Speaker 2: us in the first and second round with attendance was
Speaker 2: where we treat it as you know, comic con. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of how our fans treat the
Speaker 2: SEC tournament now. And then they take the first and
Speaker 2: second round off, and I think we'll treat it as
Speaker 2: Comic Con again in Indianapolis. But it made it sort
Speaker 2: of weird. It made it weird to be in an
Speaker 2: environment that was pro Illinois. But yesterday they never let
Speaker 2: those fans ever really get into the game. They had that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that arena was bustling with a line and
Speaker 2: they just couldn't get into it.
Speaker 4: It was almost a home game for Illinois. But every
Speaker 4: time Illinoi'd make a run, we had guys that come
Speaker 4: down and hit a big shot. Every every single time
Speaker 4: we would stop their run.
Speaker 2: Think about some of those Colin Chandler hit one. Braa
Speaker 2: hit one. Butler got the steal and the pass to
Speaker 2: Garrison for an an one. I mean, those moments just
Speaker 2: kept having it. He Andrew probably made the biggest one
Speaker 2: is they I'd forgotten until I saw the highlights. They
Speaker 2: cut it to six and then Carr got the end
Speaker 2: one that kind of put up put away the game.
Speaker 7: To Kentucky's credit, though they came out, they set the
Speaker 7: tone early and they never allowed those Illinois fans to
Speaker 7: get into it. If it had been you know, you
Speaker 7: flip that script and Illinois comes out, and you know
Speaker 7: goes on a big run. Think that that maybe could
Speaker 7: have changed the tone for the entire.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean they started the first and second
Speaker 2: halves drew great. I mean Brad Underwood said we lost
Speaker 2: the game in the first five minutes the first half,
Speaker 2: in the first five minutes in the second half, And
Speaker 2: I think that's right. I think, you know, coaching, I
Speaker 2: think it showcases itself to me, coaching at the start
Speaker 2: of games, start of halves, and then in the last
Speaker 2: two minutes, and when it comes to the start of
Speaker 2: the game, the start of the half, our guys aceed it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you said, they had an answer anytime Illinois
Speaker 5: got close. Maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like Gonzaga
Speaker 5: duke all the big wins, Andrew Carr had like a
Speaker 5: late and one like he just right. Numbers could prove
Speaker 5: me wrong, but I feel like I've seen him do
Speaker 5: that over and over this year. That and just defensively,
Speaker 5: I thought they were amazing. Once they got that lead,
Speaker 5: they were just able to protect it. Sure they had
Speaker 5: an answer on the other end when Illinois would get hot.
Speaker 5: But for Illinoid had fourteen turnovers and there were fourteen stills.
Speaker 5: That is a pretty crazy statistic. Well, first of all,
Speaker 5: you know Mark Pope, he shortened the rotation.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I think I think if O Way doesn't
Speaker 2: get in foul trouble, you would have had five guys
Speaker 2: playing thirty minutes, you know, which is what we've been
Speaker 2: calling for all year. But you know what, may I
Speaker 2: may you know there was maybe a plan to get
Speaker 2: these guys minutes so that because Colin Chandler played eighteen minutes.
Speaker 2: I mean again, think about think about a month ago.
Speaker 2: If I told you Colin Chandler was playing eighteen minutes
Speaker 2: in the second round of the NCAA tournament, You'd think
Speaker 2: I was nuts.
Speaker 3: He was the eleventh or twelfth man a month ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, back then he was afraid to shoot a three.
Speaker 5: If you told me he'd shoot from the logo, I'd
Speaker 5: be like.
Speaker 2: Well, what kind of logo shot that was? I have
Speaker 2: to admit the logo shot was when I had gotten
Speaker 2: nervous and walked away for a minute. I hadn't seen
Speaker 2: the logo shot till the highlights. That was a logo shot.
Speaker 2: He didn't have to shoot that. But how about him
Speaker 2: having to get it rupt that wouldn't shoot a three?
Speaker 7: Him having the confidence to day now, and then he
Speaker 7: does it so calm and cool.
Speaker 2: You know, Yes, he's gonna be good. Man, He is
Speaker 2: gonna be There's just something about his nature and his athleticism.
Speaker 2: Colin Chandler is gonna be good.
Speaker 4: We've seen him develop as years gone on. I don't
Speaker 4: know because he was two years off from basketball, but
Speaker 4: now he's like he's get as many minutes as anybody
Speaker 4: coming off the benches and six man.
Speaker 2: As we're sitting there and I expect him to come back,
Speaker 2: but as we're sitting there kind of waiting official words,
Speaker 2: oh wait, will be the one we wait for the most,
Speaker 2: probably meaning like it's the biggest, But I think Chandler
Speaker 2: might be second for me. No offense to everybody else,
Speaker 2: but I think when I'm sitting there, going all right,
Speaker 2: who's coming back, Chandler's maybe going to be the one that,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, I'm out there looking at his
Speaker 2: fiance's Instagram post saying we're gonna move our home to Lexington,
Speaker 2: and I'm like.
Speaker 3: Good for you, girl, Yeah you go girl, you go girl.
Speaker 2: There's good good, there's good opportunity in Lexington for you.
Speaker 6: Spare time to buy.
Speaker 3: It's not the mortgage help you with your financing.
Speaker 2: Uh, so we get the win, and you know, for
Speaker 2: Mark Pope, yeah, we talk. You know, you can see
Speaker 2: there's a video we put Mario put online in my
Speaker 2: speech last night about kind of the community of BBN.
Speaker 2: But there was you know, it was such a cool
Speaker 2: feeling on the court and I intentionally walked back. So
Speaker 2: for people who didn't hear the post game show, I
Speaker 2: watched the game at the Saint Kate Arts Hotel that
Speaker 2: I did not understand you more specifically in the bank
Speaker 2: lobby attached to the Saint Kate Arts Hotel.
Speaker 3: Because that's where that's where the TV was.
Speaker 2: Well, that was where a TV was without sound, no
Speaker 2: sound or people or people except the man telling people
Speaker 2: they couldn't go to the restroom. And uh, you know,
Speaker 2: there were a couple of times all I got nervous.
Speaker 2: What are you laughing at?
Speaker 3: You're just you're incredible?
Speaker 2: Why why I am? But why your mine?
Speaker 7: Well again I said this on the postgame ship when
Speaker 7: we drove from Kentucky to Milwaukee. Yes, you have the
Speaker 7: ability to go in and get really good seats, by
Speaker 7: the way, I understand, and you decide I don't want.
Speaker 3: To go into the arena watch the game.
Speaker 2: So I was in there before the game.
Speaker 3: I want I want to go to a bank watch
Speaker 3: it on a TV.
Speaker 7: And most people would say, I would like to get,
Speaker 7: you know, some audio so I can hear the game.
Speaker 3: You don't know, I want to know what.
Speaker 2: I gave my own audio. Yeah, I had my own
Speaker 2: my own commentary. So what is it about that? Are
Speaker 2: you just just being in there? There's just too many
Speaker 2: nerves and like I you know, and I thought I'd
Speaker 2: be able to watch this one, but I didn't.
Speaker 3: He watched the Troy game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that one was more nerve wracking in some ways.
Speaker 2: But but but but I decided to walk back because
Speaker 2: I wanted to be in the post game atmosphere. I
Speaker 2: was running. It was pouring ring. I mean, I just
Speaker 2: it was pouring ring, and I was running back and
Speaker 2: I'm too old to be running. These are not running shoes,
Speaker 2: these Jordan's eleven Low's. I don't know when they made these.
Speaker 2: They didn't make them for Milwaukee street environment. So I'm
Speaker 2: running back. I get there. I get there like right
Speaker 2: as the game ends. I mean, the game has just ended,
Speaker 2: and I run on the court. I'm dripping like a
Speaker 2: wet dog. Uh and I go in there and just
Speaker 2: seeing the post game ran environment was so cool. I mean, people,
Speaker 2: you know, giving me five and then you see, you know,
Speaker 2: you take these players and one player is with Pope
Speaker 2: on CBS, then one player is with Jack on the
Speaker 2: local radio, then another with Noah Eagle and Tom Creane
Speaker 2: on the national radio, and it's Butler Oway and and Brea,
Speaker 2: and then the other players are up in the crowd celebrating.
Speaker 2: It's just it was just a just an awesome environment
Speaker 2: and it was just such a great feeling. And I've
Speaker 2: had that feeling a few times over the years, right
Speaker 2: the twenty twelve National title game. You know, I remember
Speaker 2: when they in twenty fifteen when they just pounded teams
Speaker 2: the environment after the game, but nothing seemed to me
Speaker 2: to be that shared where the fans and the players
Speaker 2: and the coaches were sharing it together. Usually they run
Speaker 2: in the locker room, and to see that moment you
Speaker 2: have to go in the locker room. This was shared
Speaker 2: in front of everybody, and Ryan that was really cool.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I've ever seen that before, and
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Well, like we talked about on the postgame show, the
Speaker 4: other night. Not only did we need this as a
Speaker 4: fan base, that locker room needed that. They you know,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope needed that. You know, he looks over and
Speaker 4: he sees Arkansas and BYU in the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: And that shouldn't have mattered, but it probably would. It
Speaker 2: probably would act that b why you made it, which
Speaker 2: is where he was and John cal Perry made it,
Speaker 2: which is where who was here before. Sure they both
Speaker 2: had won the day before, and he matched it, right,
Speaker 2: so almost anything that happens next. You know, you got
Speaker 2: to the second weekend and he matched it, and I
Speaker 2: think which is more than both of those schools had
Speaker 2: done before. I think that's a big deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everybody likes to get online and bicker about who
Speaker 5: won or who's doing this, but I think we can
Speaker 5: all just look at each other and go, look, all
Speaker 5: we all one of those teams improved and got an
Speaker 5: upgrade however you want to look at it.
Speaker 6: So I think it's big that all.
Speaker 2: We all won. It was the very I always say
Speaker 2: when people break up somebody it's one person wanted it
Speaker 2: more than everybody else. But maybe that's not always true,
Speaker 2: because in this case, everybody won. You know, look at
Speaker 2: these three schools BYU ended up getting the coach that
Speaker 2: their biggest donor had won it and had kind of
Speaker 2: groomed so that when he got there, they got the
Speaker 2: nl in ile money to go get whoever they want.
Speaker 2: If you listen to my Orn Metcalf, he says they'll
Speaker 2: have the most in ale in the country and that
Speaker 2: dude was only gonna give it if that guy was
Speaker 2: the coach.
Speaker 6: They already have the number one player locked in.
Speaker 2: So it worked for them. Sure, then you look at
Speaker 2: cal he was done here, he was done. It was over.
Speaker 2: There was gonna be no in Ale. They wouldn't have
Speaker 2: had the money to go get John L. Davis. They
Speaker 2: wouldn't have the money to get jonas a do. There
Speaker 2: was no money here for him because people were done
Speaker 2: with it. They just were. And he was done. He
Speaker 2: was grumpy and he was angry and it was over.
Speaker 2: He goes, gets this big pot of money, takes him
Speaker 2: a little while, but gets reinvigorated and now uses the
Speaker 2: underdog roll to get a couple wins and then Mark Pope.
Speaker 2: The thing this fan base needed was to come together
Speaker 2: as one feel the energy of BBN, and you couldn't
Speaker 2: pick a better person to make that happen. Everybody won,
Speaker 2: and in our case, we won, and we won Ryan
Speaker 2: like we want to win, yes, which is as like
Speaker 2: a group feeling like we're a part of it. That's
Speaker 2: what we want. We want that more than anything. We
Speaker 2: like winning more than any We like winning. But when
Speaker 2: we can win the way we enjoy to feel it,
Speaker 2: it's even better.
Speaker 4: It's hard to explain, but you're exactly right. We want
Speaker 4: those guys. They're a different kind of one and done,
Speaker 4: but we want them to appreciate what that means to
Speaker 4: put that Kentucky jersey on and love for this program
Speaker 4: and love the fan base.
Speaker 3: And they've got that with this group.
Speaker 2: If you think about when Cow was here, the players
Speaker 2: that we beloved the most were the ones who seemed
Speaker 2: like they wanted to be here the most, even going
Speaker 2: to like DeMarcus Cousins, right, Michael Kidd, Gilchris Tyler Eulss.
Speaker 2: The guys that people felt like they're playing with this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know they're gonna leave, but they love this. And
Speaker 2: the ones that it felt like it was a pass through,
Speaker 2: people didn't feel the connection. This was the kind of group, though,
Speaker 2: that we really want. No, they're not like Richie Pelfrey
Speaker 2: feld House Woods you know from Kentucky or right here here,
Speaker 2: but they appreciate this opportunity. I had somebody close to
Speaker 2: otega Olways say to me, I'm almost certain he'll come
Speaker 2: back because he knows this place changed his life.
Speaker 6: That's what we want.
Speaker 2: It's pretty powerful. That's exactly what we want. And this
Speaker 2: is the group that has done that. If I'm nine
Speaker 2: eight twenty two eighty seven, we're just gonna be talking
Speaker 2: about this all day. We are here in Merrillville, Indiana,
Speaker 2: mall like we say, Marvell, it's Marraville. How do you know?
Speaker 2: You said you you said you didn't know where this was?
Speaker 3: You be eight hours? You think you're a local?
Speaker 2: Now yeah, you I literally said where are we gonna stay?
Speaker 2: And you said, I don't know anything about that place?
Speaker 4: And now you didn't like looked at it. But I
Speaker 4: know it's they pronounce it. I grew up in Indiana.
Speaker 4: It's when I.
Speaker 2: Asked you last night, you said you'd never heard of it.
Speaker 3: I knew I didn't know where it was. So it's Marvel, Marraville.
Speaker 3: It could pronounce it.
Speaker 2: Break can be right back. This welcome back. It is
Speaker 2: Tucky sports radio. We already had one listener figure out
Speaker 2: where we are. It's like it is amazing, well well
Speaker 2: done Maryvale. Is it Maryville or Merylville? I was right, Mayville.
Speaker 2: You act like you said Maryville? I did. He did
Speaker 2: check the taple say Maryville, Maryville, I said Merrillville. Oh
Speaker 2: I was right, Thank you, missus. I grew up in
Speaker 2: Indiana wanted to play for Bobby Ain't he was wrong.
Speaker 3: I was right.
Speaker 2: No five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
Speaker 2: text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two
Speaker 2: five forward Hillard huge head.
Speaker 3: What a name?
Speaker 2: No says as a daily listener since twenty twelve. I
Speaker 2: think I need to acknowledge that not watching the game
Speaker 2: in the arena then rushing back to get a photo
Speaker 2: op with Pope was lame.
Speaker 3: Oh, huge head foul.
Speaker 2: First of all, Harold huge head, I never watched the
Speaker 2: game in the arena. You know that.
Speaker 3: Why don't we go to be there? But you're not there?
Speaker 2: I am there in spirit.
Speaker 6: He likes the local banks.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I like to be there before and
Speaker 2: after the game. I did not try to get a
Speaker 2: photo off. He just was there and then I was accepted.
Speaker 2: See you can't even have a nice moment without somebody
Speaker 2: trying to ruin. That's all right, And I didn't even
Speaker 2: know there was gonna be a picture like Dylan and Mario.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know whobody was gonna be there. Don't
Speaker 2: worry about what hero well, Harold huge head trying to
Speaker 2: spoil my vibes, kind of like Ryan trying to spoil
Speaker 2: my pronunciation of this beautiful town.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he did tell you it was Marvel.
Speaker 2: I don't think that was.
Speaker 3: He's like Marvel.
Speaker 2: One person writes, Matt, do you think Travis Perry will
Speaker 2: end up not staying because he didn't play? I mean no,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be. Whatever happens is not
Speaker 2: gonna because of that, you know. I I think Colin
Speaker 2: Chandler developing will have an impact on what Travis decides
Speaker 2: to do. I have not heard that he would do
Speaker 2: something else. But Colin Taylor's good, and he's athletic, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if he ever considered playing point guard,
Speaker 2: but now he had to do it the way it worked,
Speaker 2: and I actually think he's pretty good at it.
Speaker 5: Drew, you know, yeah, uh, just with his athleticism. I
Speaker 5: don't want to get too far ahead. But if he
Speaker 5: continues to develop, he could see a chance at an
Speaker 5: NBA career because for a guard, the way he plays
Speaker 5: in the athleticism and and.
Speaker 2: He's big, He's got size, and he's athletic, and he
Speaker 2: can shoot, you know. I mean he was playing defense
Speaker 2: Ryan well before he started playing offense. He just looks
Speaker 2: scared to be shoot. Well, now he's not scared to shoot.
Speaker 4: That's how I earned his minutes with good defense. I
Speaker 4: I never envisioned him as a solid point guard, but
Speaker 4: he's proved me wrong. And the fact that he can
Speaker 4: hit the shot from outside that does make h a
Speaker 4: little more dangerous.
Speaker 2: What was your favorite moment of the game yesterday? What
Speaker 2: was there a play or something that was specific that
Speaker 2: you liked. Anybody can speak up here.
Speaker 4: Don't remember, Like, yeah, the Brandon Garrison at the end
Speaker 4: one because he walked right in front of us. I
Speaker 4: mean he was like two feet from us and he's
Speaker 4: flexing and he's saying things we can't say on the radio, and.
Speaker 2: That I think that was la. I mean remember we
Speaker 2: had turned it over, yeah, and we stole it right.
Speaker 7: Back from him and a Visa had a block three
Speaker 7: point shot by Mari.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that was. And then on the other
Speaker 3: end went to.
Speaker 2: Yeah that last night when I was watching the highlights,
Speaker 2: I think it's stan Van Gundy goes why did he
Speaker 2: shoot that? Ye? Like I Mari was right there. Did
Speaker 2: he think he was gonna be able to shoot it
Speaker 2: over him?
Speaker 5: Mario could have blocked him with his armpit he that
Speaker 5: so well defended. And Mario also had another coast to
Speaker 5: coast dunk. I know we were all a little frustrated
Speaker 5: to Mario early he couldn't make a layup, but the
Speaker 5: coast to coast in both games in Milwaukee were fun
Speaker 5: to watch him.
Speaker 7: Looks like Yanna's still a couple of times where he's
Speaker 7: dribbling the ball way too much, but you know what,
Speaker 7: I'll take that trade off for what you get on
Speaker 7: the other end.
Speaker 2: And you know, he had I thought a bad first
Speaker 2: half that he turned into a great second half, which
Speaker 2: is exactly what you want to see. I mean, you're
Speaker 2: not gonna always be good, so bad first half turned
Speaker 2: it into a great second half.
Speaker 4: Jack Gibbons walked in front of him at halftime. We're like,
Speaker 4: why didn't he just dunk it? Why didn't a Mariy
Speaker 4: just dunk it. He's right there in the basket, He's
Speaker 4: seven foot tall. Just dunked the basketball.
Speaker 2: I watched games on and off with Larry as a child,
Speaker 2: and he only had one analysis ever of games. Why
Speaker 2: didn't he just dunk it? He's been he's been doing that,
Speaker 2: like every time a big man would miss a layup.
Speaker 2: Going back to Jared Prickett, I like you, Jared, but
Speaker 2: you were the worst defender. Uh My, Larry would just
Speaker 2: go why won't he dunk it? And I think of
Speaker 2: that with Amari, Why won't you dunk it?
Speaker 5: Like I can tell you about everyone I know, we're
Speaker 5: sending me text people in the arena, why won't he
Speaker 5: do it? I mean, it was just lay up, lay up,
Speaker 5: and they're all misses. I tried to excuse it with
Speaker 5: the overfloated ball, but when it was like four or
Speaker 5: five in the first half, was.
Speaker 2: Well, what about what about that run by Kobe? I
Speaker 2: mean Kobe Brea. I mean he had the announcers, remember
Speaker 2: Kevin harland and and Stanvian Gunny your NBA announced Dan
Speaker 2: Bonner isn't but Harlan and they both were like, this
Speaker 2: dude is a flamethrower. You know, I was saying yesterday,
Speaker 2: I don't think any of these guys will get but
Speaker 2: playing the NBA, I should alter that conversation to say,
Speaker 2: I don't think any of them will be draft picks.
Speaker 2: But I could see a team trying to talk themselves
Speaker 2: into bray As shooting because he is a He is
Speaker 2: just a rifleman when it comes to shoot.
Speaker 7: When he gets hot. I don't think there's anybody better
Speaker 7: in college not shooting.
Speaker 2: There's nobody better shooting.
Speaker 3: The ball, and he's shipping.
Speaker 5: When he created he turned that one guy round, I
Speaker 5: mean he had him spinning completely lost to the finder.
Speaker 5: I think it was more of a mid range than
Speaker 5: a three. But he's been showing off some good ball
Speaker 5: handling and driving here lately too.
Speaker 2: I do think the story of the game, though, to me,
Speaker 2: is Butler.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're just talking an overall story, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's playing with one arm, right, they keep trying new slings.
Speaker 2: He's on like his fourth sling, and I guess this
Speaker 2: one work.
Speaker 3: I guess it did work. He has zero points against Troy, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and fourteen points, but controlled the game. He twice
Speaker 2: did that thing where he drives by guy, then Waite
Speaker 2: sleeves behind him and kind of sticks his butt into
Speaker 2: him to push him back, and then goes forward. He
Speaker 2: did it twice in that game last night, and it
Speaker 2: worked perfectly both times.
Speaker 4: We see how valuable he is of the team just
Speaker 4: doing that, just running the offense, keeping everybody in control,
Speaker 4: making the right decision and playing d playing great defense.
Speaker 2: I mean, he should have said thirteen points and six turnovers.
Speaker 2: He Casparis Yakachunas see, I got.
Speaker 3: It good, nailed it.
Speaker 2: He I'm wonna say he was a non factor, but
Speaker 2: he was completely harassed the whole game.
Speaker 3: He rattled.
Speaker 2: You add Will Riley and Casparras up. They had eighteen points.
Speaker 2: You take that any day. Those are two first round
Speaker 2: picks that you held the eighteen points. Will Riley didn't
Speaker 2: even play in the second half because he was because
Speaker 2: they shut him down so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Consparras was definitely rattled most of the game. You
Speaker 4: could tell, especially early on, missed some shots. Because I
Speaker 4: think but Butler deserves all the credit.
Speaker 2: Butler played a lot on him. Chandler played him a
Speaker 2: little bit. I mean, they they really did an amazing job.
Speaker 2: If I'm nine to eighth, twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 4: Who'd you say is from here? Greg Popovich and Dan
Speaker 4: your friend Dan Dockitch.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wish you'd told me that for a book.
Speaker 2: The hotel.
Speaker 3: Photos not walking through that door. He maybe let's let's
Speaker 3: call him Stevie. Want's come join us today.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back, Scaz, Welcome back Techy Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
Speaker 2: I got some got sent some pictures of the KS
Speaker 2: bar last night. Looked like it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: There was a guy dressed as like RoboCop, but a
Speaker 2: Kentucky RoboCop, which I have two. First of all, looked awesome, too,
Speaker 2: very awesome. You can see it on Ryan Lemon's Twitter account.
Speaker 2: But I have two questions. One where does one get
Speaker 2: one of those? Like like where do you find that costume?
Speaker 2: And number two like it's really cool to walk into
Speaker 2: KOs bar with that costume. You can get your get
Speaker 2: your picture, but then do you just sit there the
Speaker 2: whole night in that like how do you eat? Probably
Speaker 2: gets a little hot, probably gets a little hot, a
Speaker 2: little uncomfortable. I was helping, Yeah, who's going to the bathroom?
Speaker 7: It looks homemade. It looks more like a storm Trooper.
Speaker 7: To me, I'm not a Star Wars guy.
Speaker 2: It sounds like you are. It sounds like I'm Scarce
Speaker 2: scar It is not a RoboCop and it's a Star
Speaker 2: proper Chewbacca.
Speaker 3: There an extra hime.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean, I think you can't sit in
Speaker 7: that at the entire night. That's gotta be hot.
Speaker 2: I would think it was. And he was sitting on
Speaker 2: one of those hot seats with his little feet dangling
Speaker 2: off of it.
Speaker 7: So this is what we're gonna do now, Just encourage
Speaker 7: people to dress up like mascot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I mean, I'll say, Friday night at the
Speaker 2: bar will be exciting playing We're gonna play Tennessee. I
Speaker 2: want to focus on Tennessee starting tomorrow. I do want
Speaker 2: to enjoy this moment because I think this is an
Speaker 2: exciting moment. What did you you know? Illinois just they
Speaker 2: never really material We got that early lead, and I
Speaker 2: think we led they said thirty eight of the forty
Speaker 2: minutes of the game.
Speaker 5: They went up five to four, and then Kentucky led
Speaker 5: for thirty seven minutes and forty seconds.
Speaker 6: I think it helped.
Speaker 5: Illinois was pretty cold early, and then the second half
Speaker 5: they started hitting a couple threes, but the cushion was
Speaker 5: already too big for them to really be a threat.
Speaker 4: Yes, they only ended up shooting twenty five percent from three,
Speaker 4: and I think that's just because they hit a couple
Speaker 4: of late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, worse than that if it wasn't for little Z.
Speaker 3: Little Z.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Little Z had five threes.
Speaker 3: I just kept waiting for the run to come, and
Speaker 3: it really never did.
Speaker 2: Did they cut it to six right there at the end,
Speaker 2: and that was but that was only the still a
Speaker 2: minute and a half left when they cut it to six.
Speaker 5: Well, on the on the pregame, I said, they're very inconsistent,
Speaker 5: and they went forty percent the night before, and even
Speaker 5: those Illinois fans we talked to were like, we can
Speaker 5: never put two games together, and that proved to be true.
Speaker 5: They went from forty percent to twenty something percent. That's
Speaker 5: just kind of what their team's been this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. For people who
Speaker 2: watched it home, I think Havin uh Kevin Harland on
Speaker 2: the game had to be exciting, Like even last night
Speaker 2: when I was listening to the highlights, it was very cool.
Speaker 2: Listening to him call. I mean like he's got you know,
Speaker 2: he's got that voice, he's got that and we were
Speaker 2: used to seeing him on big NBA games. I mean, Mario,
Speaker 2: you want to talking about geek and half Yeah, he was,
Speaker 2: he was at I was trying to think, like we've
Speaker 2: talked about before, I in my lifetime, I don't really
Speaker 2: freak out about many celebrities, Like if you go through
Speaker 2: my life with people, I've been like, oh, I can't
Speaker 2: wait to meet So I met Obama though before he
Speaker 2: was Obama, like he was a senator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you did.
Speaker 2: It's really I wasn't like I would freak out if
Speaker 2: I met Oh. I did meet David Letterman and I
Speaker 2: kind of freaked out in a REDS game. I don't
Speaker 2: think I would freak out if I met Tony Kornheiser,
Speaker 2: but I'd be very excited if I felt like he'd
Speaker 2: be nice to me. I think I would freak out
Speaker 2: with Howard Stern, but I feel like he'd be meet
Speaker 2: I feel like he'd be a jerk, so I'd rather
Speaker 2: not meet him. So a point being, I don't think
Speaker 2: there's many people i'd be like. Mario has a list
Speaker 2: that starts with Kevin Harris, right, I mean my man.
Speaker 3: Like the broadcast to go get a selfhie.
Speaker 2: Well no, I mean he was like, I gotta meet
Speaker 2: Kevin Harley. I got to meet Kevin Harley and he
Speaker 2: broke away from me at one point and grabbed Kevin
Speaker 2: Harlan like a stalker and was like, I need you
Speaker 2: to take a picture. I've never seen Kevin Harlan has
Speaker 2: never had a bigger fan than he had with Mario
Speaker 2: last night.
Speaker 4: As soon as I got to the arena, Mario, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Rio rushed up to me and just show me his
Speaker 4: picture with Kevin Harley. He was so excited about.
Speaker 2: It, dude, he was so excited. Look at you. Get
Speaker 2: you a girl that looks at you like Mario looks
Speaker 2: at Kevin Hardy.
Speaker 5: I share a ruber barrio last night and I looked
Speaker 5: over and he was just in bed looking.
Speaker 3: At the front.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 6: If I went in there? But he was very excited.
Speaker 2: Who's up? Firest Rick got t o up first? How
Speaker 2: are you to o.
Speaker 8: Doing?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 3: Boys?
Speaker 8: God bless you. Good to hear from you today. God
Speaker 8: bless the cats as well. Call it from the job site.
Speaker 8: Putting the footer down and hiding in the port of
Speaker 8: party is usual to make this call, risking my job because.
Speaker 2: It's important today, a porter party call.
Speaker 8: I like it, Yes, sir, there are three men in
Speaker 8: America right now that are working to make things great again.
Speaker 2: Let me just get I don't want to know one
Speaker 2: of them, but give me the other.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'll give you two of them, one of them
Speaker 8: the young Mario. I'm telling you what injected fresh blood
Speaker 8: into this crew.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 8: I love y'all, but every now and then we get
Speaker 8: a little staff, need a little young blood to get
Speaker 8: in there. And even though he thanks Sonic Stock for
Speaker 8: a couple of days that time, he's a pretty good.
Speaker 2: Sailor, yes he is.
Speaker 8: And also mar Pope is making the NCAA tournament great again.
Speaker 8: Watching the game since since the boys Julius Randall on them,
Speaker 8: we're making that run.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I call from party, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I actually I totally agree with him. There is you know,
Speaker 2: there was just an excitement about about that victory. I
Speaker 2: was trying. I mean I was trying. I think the
Speaker 2: last time I was that excited about a tournament win
Speaker 2: it was probably when we beat UCLA in twenty seventeen
Speaker 2: because Dearon Fox had had that crazy good game against
Speaker 2: Lonzo Ball.
Speaker 6: You say they got him earlier that year.
Speaker 2: You see, there was I was really into that win
Speaker 2: and and uh, you know, but this to me, I mean,
Speaker 2: when we beat Houston on the last second shot, that
Speaker 2: was exciting. But I don't know, I don't know that
Speaker 2: I felt to say, there's just probably go back to
Speaker 2: that one and the Julie. I think the Julius Randall
Speaker 2: team is a good analogy because we didn't expect any
Speaker 2: of those wins, so each win got more and more exciting.
Speaker 2: I kind of thought we were gonna lose yesterday, to
Speaker 2: be honest with him, and so I think it was
Speaker 2: kind of exciting when we won.
Speaker 7: It's been a while since we've had anything to get
Speaker 7: excited about, so that's refreshing, first of all. And now
Speaker 7: you got your biggest, well one of your biggest rivals
Speaker 7: coming up this weekend in Tennessee. That's gonna be a
Speaker 7: crazy atmosphere, I think in Indianapolis on Friday night.
Speaker 4: I think really this kind of started with the last
Speaker 4: second shot over Oklahoma, just to win that first game
Speaker 4: in the ANC Tournament. And the way they won it,
Speaker 4: that last second shot. I think this that relief just
Speaker 4: lifted off your shoulders. And then you win your first
Speaker 4: game against Troy, more relief. Now you're beating on oil,
Speaker 4: going to be sixteen. I think it's just kind of
Speaker 4: building up. But I think it started with that Oklahoma win, and.
Speaker 5: You mentioned nough fun the celebration was. You know a
Speaker 5: lot of coaches they're almost too cool to celebrate. I agree,
Speaker 5: Like when Jay Wright hit that buzzer beater, he just
Speaker 5: keeps a straight face and goes to shake hands. Mark
Speaker 5: Pope was jumping up and down. If you watch that
Speaker 5: video UK put out, he's like Jack's get over here, Brady,
Speaker 5: get over here. I don't want to hear you, but
Speaker 5: he's jumping up and chess bumping every player on the team.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's fun to see a coach get
Speaker 5: that into it like he was.
Speaker 2: That he does that. I love that he does that.
Speaker 2: I never like when coaches do though we ain't want
Speaker 2: anything yet, No, take a moment and and enjoy it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I talked about last night that I
Speaker 2: really love. They're doing this thing now where they put
Speaker 2: the the sticker on the brackets for those guys. Take
Speaker 2: a moment to enjoy it. I mean Pope said something
Speaker 2: last night where he goes and this is true, Like
Speaker 2: you only have so many moments in your life where
Speaker 2: you have like elated joy about something. Take a minute
Speaker 2: to like soak that in before you immediately go, Okay,
Speaker 2: what's next. Enjoy that? And I think that Mark Pope
Speaker 2: is really good ryan about making his team take that
Speaker 2: moment and just celebrate and enjoy it. We can talk
Speaker 2: about Tennessee tomorrow. Let's just enjoy this and live in
Speaker 2: this moment that they'll remember for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 4: And to be fair, none of these guys probably would
Speaker 4: have experienced that if it hadn't been from Mark Popek
Speaker 4: bringing him here.
Speaker 2: You know, Lamon Lamon experienced it, but nobody else has, right,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I really like that. I love how much
Speaker 2: fun they have him. And you should see his wife
Speaker 2: how excited she gets. I mean, his wife is just
Speaker 2: running around like she I feels like she wants to
Speaker 2: be a cheerleader in those moments. And I feel like
Speaker 2: I've met his daughters and I think I've met seventy
Speaker 2: five different peoples. I just keep meeting his daughters, and
Speaker 2: I don't think they're the same people. I think he's got.
Speaker 2: I think he has an unending supply of daughters.
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell him apart Layla. One of them is Leayla.
Speaker 4: What's the other ones?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I keep meeting. I've
Speaker 2: met some of them like five times.
Speaker 3: Avery, Okay, she's one on a mission, Layla.
Speaker 2: And then there's fare others.
Speaker 3: There are two others, there's seventy three others.
Speaker 5: It is very neat how he's made it so like
Speaker 5: they're at every press conference. I mean, the family is
Speaker 5: with him at all times, going to everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They that his wife collapse at the end of
Speaker 2: the press conferences, which I think is kind.
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Speaker 2: This is KSR. Welcome back, take you sports radio. We
Speaker 2: got some folks on the phone. I want to go
Speaker 2: to it, but first we got to talk about pipe bombs.
Speaker 2: Derrek Piper.
Speaker 6: Oh I saw that.
Speaker 2: So Derek Piper. I didn't even know who this dude was,
Speaker 2: got nothing against him. He's got twenty eight thousand followers,
Speaker 2: so he throws from He says he gives hot takes,
Speaker 2: which he calls hashtag pipe bombs, so that a nerd
Speaker 2: him me hashtag to me hashtag pipe bomb. I will say,
Speaker 2: if I worked in Illinois media, it would be hard
Speaker 2: for me not to look at that dude all the
Speaker 2: time and go, oh, pie bomb. Yeah, you see, because
Speaker 2: he says like, you can't be he can't be real,
Speaker 2: putting that in his bio hashtag pipe bomb. Anyway, he
Speaker 2: works with twenty four seven Sports, which I guess is
Speaker 2: a right? Is a right? Is a twenty four seven site.
Speaker 2: It's not a rival site. He's twenty four seven site.
Speaker 2: And he made some offhanded comment about how uh he thought, oh,
Speaker 2: Kentucky media wears Kentucky gear. Oh is that how it's
Speaker 2: gonna be? Like, you know, like you know, he's Mike
Speaker 2: Wallace or something from sixty minutes working at pipe Bomb
Speaker 2: at the Illinois Insider or whatever. Now, I don't think
Speaker 2: that comment it was made it me, although it could
Speaker 2: have been, but I had normally, just as a side not,
Speaker 2: I don't wear UK gear. I do think it's kind
Speaker 2: of like you. I mean, I only it's a rule,
Speaker 2: but I just don't do it because like when I
Speaker 2: start was coming up, people weren't doing it. Now it's
Speaker 2: becoming much more common. I don't care. Normally, I don't
Speaker 2: do it. I did have on a KSR shirt, which
Speaker 2: is like my halfway ground right because it says Kentucky
Speaker 2: Sports right now. Yeah, now I had a UK had on,
Speaker 2: which I actually didn't mean to do. I kind of
Speaker 2: didn't rise I had it on. But whatever, point being,
Speaker 2: it's not that big deal. It's certainly not worth a
Speaker 2: pipe one, okay. But I saw that, and then I like,
Speaker 2: apparently maybe he saw Jack Pilgrim or something, and so
Speaker 2: I felt like I had to, you know, you got
Speaker 2: to take up for your people. Yeah, so I just
Speaker 2: uh so, first I responded Piper down, which I liked,
Speaker 2: but then I remember the voice from White Lotus Piper now,
Speaker 2: so I sent the gift of pipe or no from
Speaker 2: White Lotus, and then it just became I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna say, poor guy. He put it out there,
Speaker 2: but I looked up he had five hundred responses. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, all people send in their own pipe off,
Speaker 2: and it just I don't think it went well for
Speaker 2: him for the rest of the day.
Speaker 5: No, I think I was looking at his other tweets.
Speaker 5: They have like ten twenty thousand views. That would have
Speaker 5: like seven hundred thousand views. He was probably talking about
Speaker 5: Jack's Jack had a sweatshirt on, but I was near
Speaker 5: him and I had the brightest blue shirt I own
Speaker 5: and the UK had on. And I'm sorry when I
Speaker 5: got dressed in the morning, I forgot to consider Derek's
Speaker 5: feelings before I put on my outfit. But I think
Speaker 5: it's crazy. If he only knew how much money I
Speaker 5: had on.
Speaker 6: The game, he'd be really upset.
Speaker 2: A journalist, Yeah, I mean, look here, I've always had
Speaker 2: this belief going back to when I started. Everybody has
Speaker 2: their own personal views, right. I'm a fan of just
Speaker 2: say it right. I could sit there and act like
Speaker 2: I don't like Kentucky, but that's stupid because I do,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna come across. I feel this way about everything,
Speaker 2: like just be honest about who you are, and then
Speaker 2: people can make the determination whether they want to believe
Speaker 2: you or not. Right, Like, I'm not gonna believe a
Speaker 2: word Sean handed, he says, because I know what he is,
Speaker 2: but at least he says it. I think it'd be
Speaker 2: worse to act like you didn't and then do the
Speaker 2: same thing. Right, So I have no problem with Kentucky
Speaker 2: media wanting Kentucky to win. If Piper Knew is honest,
Speaker 2: he's gonna get more subscriptions if Illinois wins, so he
Speaker 2: wants them to win too.
Speaker 7: I have to admit I saw that tweet and I
Speaker 7: immediately looked at my left and gus he was wearing
Speaker 7: Kentucky gear, Ryan Lemon.
Speaker 4: I've always wondered where is this rule written? What he
Speaker 4: said media can't wear their school colors? Why where is
Speaker 4: it written?
Speaker 2: Belief for a long time that you had to act
Speaker 2: like you didn't care who won. But that's always been nonsense, Yes, right,
Speaker 2: that's always been nonsense, And so I'm just so when
Speaker 2: I A big reason for KSR success was I was
Speaker 2: open in Kentucky. I wanted Kentucky to win. But the
Speaker 2: thing is, I don't know if Jerry Tipton wanted Kentucky
Speaker 2: to win, but the Harald Leader wanted Kentucky to win.
Speaker 2: They sell more papers. Sure Kentucky wins.
Speaker 3: Tom Leach did't what Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Tom Lench, of course wants Kentucky win. Kentucky. Like, let's
Speaker 2: just be honest. Bill Simmons is, in my opinion, the
Speaker 2: one who changed this. Bill Simmons came around and said
Speaker 2: I want the Boston teams to win, and then all
Speaker 2: the sudden it became well, I kind of want my
Speaker 2: team to win. Yeah, I kind of want And as
Speaker 2: long as you know who that team is, person's team is,
Speaker 2: then you can judge whether they're fair or not. So
Speaker 2: Piper bomb like, it was not much of a bomb
Speaker 2: to me, except poor guy he got a lot. And
Speaker 2: then I kept thinking I was gonna run into him
Speaker 2: and how he was gonna be and I was just
Speaker 2: gonna go.
Speaker 3: Did any of the media run into him?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know we had a picture there, but
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure. But I just wanted to go piper name.
Speaker 5: I had an Illinois fan tweet me and they're like
Speaker 5: typical UK journalism school. You could drop me in UK's
Speaker 5: campus right now. I wouldn't know what direction to walk
Speaker 5: we find the journalism school.
Speaker 2: I don't know where it is.
Speaker 3: Here's a named.
Speaker 2: Probably four of the six most followed people UH in
Speaker 2: UK broadcasting are sitting on this couch and none of
Speaker 2: us went to journalism school.
Speaker 6: It's true.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 2: You may have even you may have taken a journalism class.
Speaker 4: I was a mass communications major at Kentucky Westley In College.
Speaker 4: That put me on the path where I am today.
Speaker 6: That's the closest You're the closest.
Speaker 5: Dinosaurs and disasters, not journalism classes.
Speaker 2: Disasters. I took Friendship Romance Love. There you go.
Speaker 3: It took what is it ale that you can't cheer for?
Speaker 2: You're not supposed to cheer on press. They say that I.
Speaker 6: Haven't written unwritten rule. Don't worry about what another grown
Speaker 6: man's wearing.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with friendship? Romance Love?
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 3: That was the name of the class? Friendship Romance Love?
Speaker 6: Is that A three?
Speaker 2: It was like it was I I learned about friendship
Speaker 2: worked well, learned about romance and love still got an
Speaker 2: a and it worked out. Who's next? Michael is up next?
Speaker 2: Michael Rix' laughing it Now we go ahead, Michael.
Speaker 9: Hey man, I just got two quick things. First, I
Speaker 9: really hope we don't have to play anymore of visitches
Speaker 9: those two brothers against us uh. And the second thing is,
Speaker 9: I just want to say I kind of teared up
Speaker 9: when I saw that video of you and Pope hugging.
Speaker 9: I know, these last couple of years with the previous staff,
Speaker 9: it's been a bit rough on you guys, and I've
Speaker 9: been listening to you all for years. I love this show.
Speaker 9: It's a part of my daily routine. And like I said,
Speaker 9: I know you've been through a lot, and I'm sure
Speaker 9: there's even more you haven't gone into detail with, so
Speaker 9: just and the coach embrace you. It was great to see.
Speaker 9: So I'm really glad you got to have that moment
Speaker 9: last night.
Speaker 2: Oll. Thank you man. I mean I I it was
Speaker 2: a great moment for me. It's you know, it was
Speaker 2: more it was more symbolic to me. I mean, I
Speaker 2: know my relationship with Pope was positive, but it was
Speaker 2: you know, what made the last couple of years. Hard
Speaker 2: was the way that the tension between the staff and
Speaker 2: us affected the way the fans looked at us, and
Speaker 2: it was the way it was really the reaction we
Speaker 2: got from the fans because of it, and you know,
Speaker 2: to that moment last night, to me is the culmination
Speaker 2: of a year that really began at the press conference
Speaker 2: when you started to see, you know, the haters are
Speaker 2: a minority. But yeah, that was really neat and I
Speaker 2: think Mark appreciates I told this story. You know, when
Speaker 2: I met Mark the first time, I said to him,
Speaker 2: you know, Mark, I really thought about not doing this anymore,
Speaker 2: and I don't. I guess he didn't understand me because
Speaker 2: he thought I was saying I still was that was
Speaker 2: thinking about not doing it, and he was like, you
Speaker 2: got to keep doing it. He was like, you're important
Speaker 2: to this, you are my connection to the fans. You've
Speaker 2: got to keep doing it. It's gonna be worth and
Speaker 2: he was like trying to taught me in to keep going.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to be like, at this point, I've
Speaker 2: already decided to stay. We're good. But it was like
Speaker 2: he really thought there was an important role for the
Speaker 2: media in this that it was a connection to fans.
Speaker 2: I mean he took a picture with all the media. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean we didn't get invioted, but he took a
Speaker 2: picture with everyone else. Yeah yeah. But seriously, like I said,
Speaker 2: this towards the end of cal when everything is connected,
Speaker 2: this place rolls the best. When the staff, the boosters,
Speaker 2: the administration, the media are all on the same side.
Speaker 2: You get nights like you got last night. Amen, and
Speaker 2: that's good to see. We'll take a break, come back.
Speaker 2: I remember two Scar