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Speaker 5: Jones, welcome back, Takey Sports Radio here at Media Day.
Speaker 5: I remember two. How great was Colton Price?
Speaker 6: There by the way, awesome, a lot of fun. I
Speaker 6: like Tim All an artist.
Speaker 5: I don't I will say, I don't know what she
Speaker 5: and why do people get married at twenty one?
Speaker 3: I mean during the season too, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 7: That's crazy during his season, during the bye.
Speaker 3: Weeks, but not get married, not in a bye week.
Speaker 5: But I mean, but twenty one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 5: Means he's focused on I mean, I'm still like heston
Speaker 5: on whether my age is the right du You're.
Speaker 3: Like fifty one.
Speaker 1: I don't know about fifty one.
Speaker 6: We like that from our fifty one.
Speaker 7: Thank you. That's nice.
Speaker 6: You come home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're if you're gonna be that's true. If
Speaker 5: you're gonna be married. On the team, I think you
Speaker 5: want your senner to be married. He's the stability of
Speaker 5: the team. Right. They were like, I don't want I
Speaker 5: don't want my my star defensive back to be married.
Speaker 5: He's got he's got oats to sell.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there was a year I think but I'm the center.
Speaker 7: Maybe I think it was ninety five when like they
Speaker 7: were like ten dudes on the team that were married.
Speaker 5: I feel like our offensive line is often married. Am
Speaker 5: I right?
Speaker 7: Didn't mind it Young got married before this senior year exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I saw it.
Speaker 5: I tell you, I saw him in the New York airport,
Speaker 5: did you, Yes, he was. I saw him in the
Speaker 5: New York Airport when we talked about he's on the
Speaker 5: Jets camp. He was talking to me about I was
Speaker 5: helping him find a place to live. Yeah, I was
Speaker 5: telling him the different neighborhoods of New York and New
Speaker 5: Jersey and yeah, I saw him in there.
Speaker 7: But he that is a big dude. That's a monster,
Speaker 7: because that dude had the.
Speaker 5: Biggest thighs I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 7: Well, this is maybe the best big blue wall we've
Speaker 7: had since that landing Young big blue way.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 5: I think that's probably correct. Yeah, yeah, don't you?
Speaker 7: I think so?
Speaker 5: Okay, Kenny Minche is on his way. So before we
Speaker 5: gets there, let's do one somewhat negative thing TBT loss
Speaker 5: law Familia. What an environment? Though, I do have to
Speaker 5: say I got there right, I came just to feel
Speaker 5: the pregame and what an environment?
Speaker 7: Was awesome, wasn't. You could feel the electricity in the air.
Speaker 7: There was a buzz.
Speaker 5: I just wish we could play a game in Memorial.
Speaker 5: I know we can't financially, but like there's that the
Speaker 5: energy in that building is so good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you could get that crowd, those people that
Speaker 6: don't get to go to RUP as much and give
Speaker 6: them a real game. I mean they are just giving
Speaker 6: it to the TBT refs who probably like, guys, it's
Speaker 6: the tvt right now.
Speaker 5: Well then one of them was the high stepper. He
Speaker 5: was like, we had the high stepper.
Speaker 7: They got down twelve to two, and just like that,
Speaker 7: the crowd and the buzz was gone.
Speaker 5: By the way, I'm gonna take responsibility. I was there
Speaker 5: at the beginning during twelve ten to two and I left. Yeah,
Speaker 5: well after that, I had.
Speaker 6: No role in it. It didn't feel right from the beginning.
Speaker 6: To David Steel's credit, they were playing hard. They like
Speaker 6: move the ball really well. It can get a little
Speaker 6: one on one ash in TBT. They looked like a
Speaker 6: real team and I felt doomed to the moment it
Speaker 6: started really and then, of course I.
Speaker 5: Will tell you though I haven't bought any Davis Steele
Speaker 5: since then, no steal everything in my in my studio
Speaker 5: to be wooden.
Speaker 6: I throw out my stainless still toots and pains, all
Speaker 6: of them out down the yard. Go pick them up
Speaker 6: if you want them going back to cast do we do?
Speaker 7: I mean they're right down the road in Russell Springs.
Speaker 7: They listened to ks R.
Speaker 6: Oh and they were so happy and they were ryan.
Speaker 6: They cried and they were crying.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Then I saw a video of them handing out cash
Speaker 6: in the locker room.
Speaker 5: They paid them in cash in the locker room.
Speaker 6: Were little spending money. I don't know if I don't
Speaker 6: think the two million hits they count yet, but yeah,
Speaker 6: they're passing cash.
Speaker 5: I would have exempt No, Yeah, I would have liked it.
Speaker 5: That reminds me of when we did the Barnstorming tour
Speaker 5: and we would pay Ramel and Joe in cash.
Speaker 7: And then they'd throw the cash at each other.
Speaker 5: Didn't know they would take There were like ten stops
Speaker 5: and so like we would do stop one we got paid.
Speaker 5: We didn't we didn't take credit cards. I mean, this
Speaker 5: wasn't before credit cards, but we were like, we're not
Speaker 5: dealing with credit cards. So you had to pay in cash.
Speaker 5: So we would take the cash home that night and
Speaker 5: like divvy it up.
Speaker 6: By the way, all.
Speaker 5: Reported from all my tax reported, all of them report
Speaker 5: and then the next game, I would hand Joe and
Speaker 5: Ramel their cash, their stack of cash, and they would
Speaker 5: be like children when they got it. They would hit
Speaker 5: each other over their heads with it. Ramel couldn't have
Speaker 5: kept that cash more than thirty minutes because he would
Speaker 5: just walk around tipping people. He would just like he
Speaker 5: would just be like he just wanted to carry it
Speaker 5: and just hand it to people.
Speaker 7: I remember you're telling those stories, like yeah, they would
Speaker 7: just throw their money at each.
Speaker 5: Other and he would they Romel and Joe, they would
Speaker 5: get that and you know sometimes it would be like
Speaker 5: two grand, twenty five hundred dollars in cash. I'll just
Speaker 5: hand it to them and they would just start smacking
Speaker 5: each other. And maybe more than that sometimes I.
Speaker 7: Think I'd leave their stack of cash at a restaurant.
Speaker 5: And we went to Skyline in Cincinnati in not a
Speaker 5: great part of town, and they ordered their Skyline and
Speaker 5: then just set like three thousand dollars on the table.
Speaker 5: I was like, what are you doing. You're gonna get us?
Speaker 7: You could get us robbed.
Speaker 6: New to them and at nev N I l back then,
Speaker 6: So that was a big point.
Speaker 7: That's how I knew.
Speaker 5: That's how I knew we weren't cheating at that point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because they were. If we were cheating, they were.
Speaker 5: Too happy to have the money. They wouldn't have they
Speaker 5: wouldn't have like these guys now, they wouldn't do that.
Speaker 7: They'd like put it in R or something.
Speaker 6: Oh, we didn't get the money last night. But they
Speaker 6: still had their own section with the crowd.
Speaker 5: They want some people, that's right. I think they had
Speaker 5: to have been employees. That's the only thing I can
Speaker 5: figure because why would you why would.
Speaker 7: You be employees? And the kids of the employees.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry they lost. It would have been exciting, I think.
Speaker 5: I think when they played the little like in the
Speaker 5: with all the pictures of the young girl tiered up,
Speaker 5: you know what she's right? I get like that. I
Speaker 5: didn't get it last night because it was the TBT.
Speaker 5: But you get a big game, like if Kentucky's about
Speaker 5: to play Florida at home and they play that, sometimes I.
Speaker 7: Get a little tiered up there.
Speaker 5: There's just something like emotional and nice about it.
Speaker 7: Those great moments. You know the James Lee dunk at
Speaker 7: the end of the seventy eight tournament. You know, Kayshawn
Speaker 7: hitting one from the logo, and they put those.
Speaker 5: I mean it's all the great. They really do a
Speaker 5: good job. But they hit like every big UK moment
Speaker 5: and then they add them as they happen. I mean,
Speaker 5: oh ways, I'm sure he'll be on there this year.
Speaker 5: He shot against Santa Claara.
Speaker 6: Even as the season goes on, they try to get
Speaker 6: some of the current team at the very back end.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: It's it's one of the best things they do. They've
Speaker 6: done it a while. I mean everything from like Ed
Speaker 6: Davender's dunk to Anthony Davis in the final four. They
Speaker 6: include it all.
Speaker 7: Ed Davenders, you mean, excuse me.
Speaker 6: Devon probably had some good dunks, but Dirk Midfield's big dunk.
Speaker 7: I don't know if fed Devon could dunk Christy.
Speaker 6: It's it's a they worked him in. I don't know
Speaker 6: why I got this.
Speaker 5: Go you have you have all our players, Carson Price
Speaker 5: is dunk, Carson Stone Carson Stone's dunk. So anyway, all
Speaker 5: in all, TBT experience positive, don't you think very positive?
Speaker 7: I think, well, you know, everybody went had a great time.
Speaker 7: Just to the outcome. I think we had a couple
Speaker 7: of guys pick a really bad time to have a
Speaker 7: really bad game and it didn't help.
Speaker 6: Been a problem the whole tournament.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we I don't know what you do about TBT
Speaker 5: free throws. What are you gonna love him? But Archie's
Speaker 5: never been a free throw guy. Archie's never been a
Speaker 5: big free throw. Andrew was two of eight. I think
Speaker 5: Andrew was two of eight. Yeah, well he's pretty money
Speaker 5: when he.
Speaker 7: Had a good game. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Really, the thing that held him back it's the guys.
Speaker 6: Will he needed help, the guy will He really needed help.
Speaker 6: The guys that committed big men and didn't help. But
Speaker 6: they just had no size and it caught up to him.
Speaker 5: I did enjoy Billy's Batster party. We we We saw
Speaker 5: Willy calley Stein out and that was fun. Got to
Speaker 5: got to hang out with Willy cally Stein and talk.
Speaker 5: He's that dude if he wants to, He's a guy
Speaker 5: who could be We've always talked about like who are
Speaker 5: the former players that could do media here if Willy
Speaker 5: wants to? And I said this to him. He he
Speaker 5: We had a conversation as serious as conversation as you
Speaker 5: can have at one am outside.
Speaker 6: Of the vine after tequila Shi.
Speaker 5: After well, I didn't have any, but he did. I
Speaker 5: said to him, I was like, you know, if you
Speaker 5: want to do this, you could do it. You just
Speaker 5: have to, like you know, you're gonna have to put
Speaker 5: effort into it. And he was like, I do want to,
Speaker 5: but I also want to play golf. And I was like, well, okay,
Speaker 5: but you're gonna you know, because he could do it.
Speaker 5: He's very interesting and he has good insights on on
Speaker 5: the basketball.
Speaker 7: He's great for what TVT is all about, get the
Speaker 7: fans involved, and he loves it. He loves to interact
Speaker 7: with the fans. But that's why he would do good
Speaker 7: a media. He gets what it's like to be a
Speaker 7: fan of this university.
Speaker 5: Minshei. By the way, will be eleven thirty. We just
Speaker 5: got the text. It'll be a little bit later. What
Speaker 5: do you think of will Stein's interview?
Speaker 7: I thought he was fantastic. Well a matter of fact,
Speaker 7: every time he steps in front of the microphone, I think
Speaker 7: he's good.
Speaker 5: He gets it, you know, called out TJ Walker the
Speaker 5: sports talking he did. Yeah, but he doesn't like he
Speaker 5: I give him credit, like he's he says what he thinks.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think in today's world, authenticity matters
Speaker 5: like that. I think the it's the same politics, for
Speaker 5: better or worse. I'm not saying this is necessarily good
Speaker 5: or not, but the world has changed to where people
Speaker 5: want authenticity. They when we were a kid, what we
Speaker 5: thought of the way a coach acts, the way a
Speaker 5: politician acts.
Speaker 7: That's not what people want now, right.
Speaker 5: They want to know who you are really, and I
Speaker 5: think Will is very comfortable in his own skin.
Speaker 7: I think you might even be to say he's one
Speaker 7: of us.
Speaker 6: I mean maybe, yes, No, he is one of us. Yes,
Speaker 6: I do agree with that. Yeah, it was just like
Speaker 6: talking to one of the guys. I mean, he's starting
Speaker 6: his first season as a head coach, and it felt
Speaker 6: like we were just talking to a fan that pulled
Speaker 6: up to check out the team with the rest of us.
Speaker 6: I thought he handled you know, it didn't really give
Speaker 6: us much on the GM question. But you asked him
Speaker 6: about a GM leaving and he immediately turned it into
Speaker 6: lifting knockta up as opposed to really getting into what
Speaker 6: happened there.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's got to be it's it's I mean,
Speaker 5: it's not a positive.
Speaker 6: And he admitted that it was unexpected.
Speaker 5: And and I think that was the news part, that
Speaker 5: it was unexpected, that they didn't know that that was coming.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think they handled as well they could.
Speaker 5: And I think Knocked, I mean Knacta was doing a
Speaker 5: lot of that work as well. So I think if
Speaker 5: you're gonna have somebody to step in, he's the perfect
Speaker 5: guy to do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're not throwing in some rookie. That's what Pete's done,
Speaker 7: you know, the last fifteen years. He may be back
Speaker 7: in Louisville. He was kind of like acting.
Speaker 5: According to Will, Pete did the general manager job. Of course,
Speaker 5: someone else's signed the general manager job at Louisville. I
Speaker 5: kept waiting for the text. I didn't give one like that.
Speaker 5: But he may not know because they may be in practice.
Speaker 5: But he's gonna hear that, and I'm gonna hear from
Speaker 5: him either or I could see a tweet coming out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Could see a tweet a grown man, g roa and
Speaker 5: man tweet coming out. But I like that. I love
Speaker 5: you know, I can get I get the sense because
Speaker 5: I know obviously event's very well. I've gotten to know
Speaker 5: Will and Pete a little bit. I think they all
Speaker 5: like each other, but there is a rivalry there cool
Speaker 5: and they're not gonna hide it. I mean, it's kind
Speaker 5: of like I think they like it. So take when
Speaker 5: Calan We're at their biggest they didn't like each other,
Speaker 5: but they didn't really want to acknowledge.
Speaker 6: That they play nice when they had to.
Speaker 5: They play nice, but they didn't feel nice. I don't
Speaker 5: think they feel that way now right Like, I don't
Speaker 5: know that they've ever gotten over that. I think I
Speaker 5: do think Vince, Pete, and Will like each other, but
Speaker 5: I think they're going to acknowledge that there is a
Speaker 5: healthy It's a little bit like Shaman and Billy.
Speaker 3: What do you mean by that.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean you and Billy you like each other,
Speaker 5: but you both want to make sure the other one
Speaker 5: knows that the other one's better.
Speaker 1: Well, Billy knows that I'm better.
Speaker 5: I don't see Shannon just said Billy knows that I'm better.
Speaker 5: Billy's sitting over there. That's what I'm saying. There's a
Speaker 5: little bit of that. I think that's what you have
Speaker 5: with the UK Louisville, but.
Speaker 6: Also that's what you want from your rivalries. Like you're
Speaker 6: supposed to be putting L's down in the in the
Speaker 6: other fans face. Your coaches are supposed to have that banter.
Speaker 6: That's why it's a rivalry and what makes that game
Speaker 6: so much more fun when it comes around every year
Speaker 6: because you've had eleven months of firing off tweets or
Speaker 6: whatever it is, as long as you're having that little
Speaker 6: back and forth and keeping it somewhat respectful.
Speaker 5: Do you think, I guess, end of the day, all
Speaker 5: of this excitement. I don't think there's hype in the
Speaker 5: sense that people think we're gonna win nine games, but
Speaker 5: there is a sense of, Okay, this is gonna be
Speaker 5: really good. Do you think I mean, is the product
Speaker 5: on the field gonna meet that?
Speaker 7: I think so. I think you know we're still gonna
Speaker 7: be underdogs. We won't be like huge underdogs because I
Speaker 7: think we've shortened the gap with some of these top.
Speaker 5: Line so you're expecting to see it when placed absolutely Like,
Speaker 5: do you think when we play Alabama win or lose,
Speaker 5: is that game going to be competitive?
Speaker 7: I think so. I think I think will be with
Speaker 7: a lot of these games that are coming up, that.
Speaker 7: Like I said, we may not be favored, but we're
Speaker 7: gonna be in the game and be competitive. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think they're gonna be competitive in a lot of games.
Speaker 6: And they're gonna whether it's Alabama or Tennessee or Florida,
Speaker 6: they're gonna knock off.
Speaker 5: See, I'm with you. They're gonna beat somebody, but they're
Speaker 5: gonna win one of those. Big they're gonna beat some
Speaker 5: I look at that. Alabama L s U. Who's the
Speaker 5: other one? We have A and m Oklahoma, Florida, Florida.
Speaker 5: I think we certainly can be Yeah, but let's just
Speaker 5: say Tennessee, Alabama, L.
Speaker 7: S U.
Speaker 5: Tennessee, you're gonna win. We're gonna win one of those. Yes,
Speaker 5: they're all at home right, Yes, Tennessee, Tennessee's in Knoxville.
Speaker 5: Who are at home games? Alabama L s U. Van
Speaker 5: Dy Florida, Florida. See we're beating Well, we're gonna beat Florida.
Speaker 6: Do we count Louisville in this conversation?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean I think we're gonna be I think
Speaker 5: we can beat Louisville. I don't consider beating Louisville. Well,
Speaker 5: I think it's punching up a little bit considering the
Speaker 5: last couple of years. But to me, in Alabama or
Speaker 5: l s U win is a program changer. Yeah, right,
Speaker 5: A Louisville win, a Tennessee win is not a program changer,
Speaker 5: but it's close. A Louisville win is that would be
Speaker 5: really great to get. But Louisville to me, I mean,
Speaker 5: they're not gonna like this, but they can get over it.
Speaker 5: I look at Louisville like I look at Florida, maybe
Speaker 5: even like I looked at Mississippi State, which is that's
Speaker 5: South Carolina, which is that's how you measure where your
Speaker 5: program is. But it's not a changer if you win.
Speaker 5: Do you agree with that?
Speaker 7: I do agree with that, and I do like when
Speaker 7: you ask coach Stein that. I like how you answered
Speaker 7: the question. He's like, the Louisville win is important to
Speaker 7: us as any game on the schedule, and we're absolutely
Speaker 7: gonna go out and keep that.
Speaker 5: I mean, we beat Louisville on the road two years
Speaker 5: ago and we weren't even good, right.
Speaker 6: So another one to watch. It's not as big of
Speaker 6: a name or logo, but going at South Carolina, that's
Speaker 6: a rivalry we've lost. That's when things started going on
Speaker 6: to decline because you weren't winning that game anymore. That
Speaker 6: could be a fun roadway.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that looks good.
Speaker 5: Hours away. Mario has got to get that lighting working.
Speaker 6: Who hung that baseball bat up? I know you didn't
Speaker 6: do it.
Speaker 5: It's gonna surprise you. I didn't hang any of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah as well, talk about right after this this is KSR. Yeah,
Speaker 5: balls to the wall, Burner back Tucky Sports Radio. If
Speaker 5: I'm note two eighth twenty two eighty seven. By the way,
Speaker 5: some of you have asked, like the last week or so,
Speaker 5: we really haven't taken many calls, in part just because
Speaker 5: of the way the shows have worked out. First one
Speaker 5: coming back and then we had interviews and we've had this.
Speaker 5: Starting tomorrow, we will be back getting ready for phone calls,
Speaker 5: et cetera, be back in studio more of a regular routine, uh,
Speaker 5: starting on on tomorrow, So hopefully we can we can
Speaker 5: hear from you guys, because I've kind of missed getting
Speaker 5: to talk to the callers.
Speaker 6: Haven't had the callers getting pretty comfortable here at Kroger
Speaker 6: Field been.
Speaker 5: I mean we've been here two of the last three shows.
Speaker 5: I don't know if we'll have us back for that.
Speaker 5: I think they're having an open practice for the media Thursday, though.
Speaker 7: Let's come back. We got our table.
Speaker 5: I think it's before we go on the are so.
Speaker 5: But but you'll start to get to see these players
Speaker 5: play a.
Speaker 6: Little bit, start getting the fall camp interviews they do weekly.
Speaker 6: The updates will be coming.
Speaker 7: But it gets you excited. Man, when you sit down
Speaker 7: here with the players and coach Diny, can I get
Speaker 7: you excited for the upcoming season. So we need to
Speaker 7: do a lot of that, a lot more of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So two quick things. First of all, the Reds,
Speaker 5: it's the trade deadline right today. I knew you would
Speaker 5: like this story. Tyler Stevenson, Yes, the catcher. Right in
Speaker 5: his first at bat six seven years ago, he hit
Speaker 5: home run with the first that bat with the red,
Speaker 5: first step bat in the Major's the Major's Okay, hit
Speaker 5: a home run. Then today is at six o'clock the
Speaker 5: trade deadline. There's a decent chance he might get traded.
Speaker 5: His contract aspires at the end of the year. They're
Speaker 5: probably not going to resign him. Last at bat last night,
Speaker 5: he hits a home run.
Speaker 7: He hit another home run.
Speaker 5: Shannon said earlier. I've said this many times, what's your
Speaker 5: most important days on the job, Shannon?
Speaker 3: First day, in your last day?
Speaker 5: First at bat, home run, last at bat, home run,
Speaker 5: Pretty nie, isn't it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think the Red Spans and will now remember
Speaker 7: him fondly because of that little fact you just put out.
Speaker 5: There, and they asked him after the game to comment
Speaker 5: on and he started crying, which like you want, I mean,
Speaker 5: we all want our players on the team to care
Speaker 5: so much that they cried, Drew So that was kind.
Speaker 6: Of not especially at a place like Cincinnati that's been
Speaker 6: rebuilding for two decades now. Yeah, I mean, but honestly,
Speaker 6: he doesn't have a lot of team success there other
Speaker 6: than making the playoffs. You're in there. For him to cry,
Speaker 6: it still shows how much he loves the connection to Cincinnati.
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Speaker 5: If you want to watch it, it's on the ESPN app,
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Speaker 7: Huh. We will be on there.
Speaker 5: They finished the construction of my studio at nine to
Speaker 5: thirty last night.
Speaker 7: You've supposted the picture of the wall though you had
Speaker 7: all your things up on the wall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they put so the guy first of all,
Speaker 5: Matt and Dale. Dale's a listener of show. Thank you guys.
Speaker 5: I mean they were in my house till late at
Speaker 5: night Thursday, Friday and Sunday to get it done. It's
Speaker 5: there's more stuff that's gonna go on that wall, but
Speaker 5: that's for now.
Speaker 7: I think it looks great.
Speaker 5: I put a little bit of everything in my life, right,
Speaker 5: so I'm putting a picture of us up there. We
Speaker 5: don't have that up there yet, but you know, you've
Speaker 5: got so the brown wildcat thing behind my head. So
Speaker 5: people understand, because a couple of people are like, it's
Speaker 5: not very modern. Shut your face. You don't even know
Speaker 5: why I have it up there, that brown wildcat thing.
Speaker 5: My grandfather had that picture in his gas station when
Speaker 5: he was working and then put it in his house
Speaker 5: and he gave it to me. See that's fifty or
Speaker 5: forty years old. Yeah, so that's why it's up there.
Speaker 5: It's a nod to my grandfather who made me a
Speaker 5: Kentucky fan. Makes it special, yes, and then the uk
Speaker 5: WWE belt. Yes, there's a Hurricane's puck. There's a bear's
Speaker 5: helmet my emmy, a Middlesborough High School sticker, a Transylvania
Speaker 5: Pioneers pinnate that looks like it came from the fifties,
Speaker 5: but I kind of like that, and a KSR baseball
Speaker 5: bat given to me by Louisville Slugger.
Speaker 7: You got a thirteenth region with Middlesborough and k Wood.
Speaker 5: And a k Wood Ledford bobblehead. Though the only thing
Speaker 5: missing is something from the Reds. I've got an Llie
Speaker 5: de la Cruz bobblehead, but it's in Louisville. I gotta
Speaker 5: get it and bring.
Speaker 7: It back and then you all set. You'll have it
Speaker 7: all up there.
Speaker 5: Then I'll have it all there. I'm gonna have a
Speaker 5: little picture. I'm probably gonna go to the bar and
Speaker 5: steal one of those pictures of the KSR crew and
Speaker 5: put it right there next to my shoulder.
Speaker 7: Now, you always liked it when you will see somebody
Speaker 7: else and they would have a book Mitch Please behind it.
Speaker 5: I don't know if they I'm trying not to push
Speaker 5: the envelope yet, I'm not sure if they want, like
Speaker 5: I was, I have that picture of Mitch of the
Speaker 5: book in the New York Times bestseller list, but I
Speaker 5: don't know if ESPN wants a picture of Mitch McConnell
Speaker 5: behind me on the wall. So that's what I cause,
Speaker 5: you know, that's But what I might do is have
Speaker 5: a set of books and just have it to where
Speaker 5: you see Mitch Please, because then you would know, oh,
Speaker 5: that's my book.
Speaker 6: Jimmy Dike's on his home set. He has ten books
Speaker 6: and they're all the same book that he wrote. So
Speaker 6: you could put like ten Mitch.
Speaker 5: No, he does. He's got ten of his own books.
Speaker 6: Just lined up behind him.
Speaker 7: He put up ten Mitch pleases back there.
Speaker 5: That's really no.
Speaker 7: I think what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: I am gonna have some books, but I think I'm
Speaker 5: going to rotate the books based on what I'm reading.
Speaker 7: It's sort of like a Matt Jones book club.
Speaker 5: You need to put a little easter egg well you
Speaker 5: know what he Paige used to do the thing where
Speaker 5: he'd have a little sign behind him on around the
Speaker 5: horn and he'd write things. I'm thinking about doing that,
Speaker 5: like maybe one day just having like hey for a
Speaker 5: handsome Jimmy, right, one day having I got two questions right,
Speaker 5: like like no, if little easter eggs just for the
Speaker 5: keve like.
Speaker 7: Today, you could put carson Stone exactly.
Speaker 5: That's exactly what I would put up today, Carson Stone.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking about adding that behind it as well. But
Speaker 5: we had to get it working. And Mario, by the way,
Speaker 5: if you get there, if you turn it on today
Speaker 5: and the lighting's not good, that's because of him. He
Speaker 5: is in charge of the lighting. They just but to
Speaker 5: be fair to him. The light lights just came at
Speaker 5: eight o'clock last night. So we're excited to work in progress.
Speaker 5: We're excited for this is a big deal. Man.
Speaker 7: You get your own show on ESPN.
Speaker 5: It is a big deal midweek. So people keep asking
Speaker 5: me if I'm nervous. I'm not nervous about the show.
Speaker 5: I'm nervous about the technology in my house. Since it's
Speaker 5: just gotten put together last night, so I am nervous
Speaker 5: about that. But this also, the headphones they had me
Speaker 5: wearing are from a different generation. I have to get
Speaker 5: new ones. I looks like Drew in that one picture.
Speaker 5: We'll take a break. Kenny Minschie right after this. TJ.
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Speaker 5: I'm back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Before we gets
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Speaker 5: You can learn from that, Kenny, Like that's what you
Speaker 5: get to be a pity.
Speaker 7: That's professionalism right there.
Speaker 5: That's what you do right there, So you can I
Speaker 5: don't know what you're in il deals are right now,
Speaker 5: but if you need some help on the commercials, you
Speaker 5: can just learn from old main limit Kenny Minshei's here
Speaker 5: quarterback for Kentucky. I have to tell you, Kenny, for
Speaker 5: Kentucky fans, this is maybe the most mysterious quarterback we've
Speaker 5: ever had because we don't know a lot about you,
Speaker 5: but people are excited. So what do we need to know?
Speaker 8: I feel like you need to know. I was I've
Speaker 8: been in college for a while, so I'm not just
Speaker 8: a freshman.
Speaker 5: You're not just off the street.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I'm not off the street.
Speaker 8: But yeah, although I haven't, you know, started games, I've
Speaker 8: played a lot of football and I know what it
Speaker 8: should looked like. So you're getting experienced quarterback although I haven't,
Speaker 8: you know, been on the field too much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's one of the things people say
Speaker 5: that are around the Notre Dame program. You nearly won
Speaker 5: that job. I mean, you were right there and you
Speaker 5: decided to go in the portal, and lots of people
Speaker 5: wanted you. Welly Kentucky.
Speaker 8: Everything really from the coaches to the players who were
Speaker 8: staying from last year, the coaches that were bringing I mean,
Speaker 8: the players that the coaches were bringing in from the
Speaker 8: portal just very enticing. And and you know, Stein and Sloan,
Speaker 8: they got a really good thing going on here, and
Speaker 8: they're really smart, and I want to learn from the best.
Speaker 5: They are really smart. That's one of the things I
Speaker 5: hear about you. You're a really smart quarterback. Was that
Speaker 5: sort of connection in terms of like intelligence and just
Speaker 5: that was that part of what drew you to him?
Speaker 5: For sure?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think just talking with my family, you know,
Speaker 8: one of the major major points for me, he was
Speaker 8: playing for a really good coach, a really smart coach
Speaker 8: who knows what it should look like and who can
Speaker 8: make me a better player, because that's all I want.
Speaker 8: And you know that's obviously found out in in Stein
Speaker 8: and Sloan, and you know with the quarterbacks they've coached
Speaker 8: in the past, you can tell that they've done it before,
Speaker 8: and I know they can do it again.
Speaker 5: Got a big offensive line. We had Colton Price up here.
Speaker 5: I mean, his legs are as big as Ryan's head.
Speaker 5: I don't know how. I mean, you gotta be you
Speaker 5: gotta love that. The protection there right.
Speaker 4: No doubt. I feel really good about it.
Speaker 8: You know, that's one thing as a quarterback, you you
Speaker 8: want to be able to lean on probably the most
Speaker 8: important part of the offense. So having those big guys
Speaker 8: in front of me is really good. And I love
Speaker 8: those guys. And but yeah, not only protecting, but also
Speaker 8: just being able to run the football. That's a really
Speaker 8: really big part in college football and especially in the SEC.
Speaker 5: What he makes your best strength as a quarterback. If
Speaker 5: you were an NFL evaluator and you were saying, Kenny
Speaker 5: Minschi does this, what do you think that would be?
Speaker 8: I would say my accuracy, whether it be just sit
Speaker 8: in the pocket or be able to make not so
Speaker 8: much as off platform throws, but throws with maybe a
Speaker 8: guy in my face or with really tight coverage. Just
Speaker 8: being able to put the ball where I want to
Speaker 8: put it.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 5: I know you were at Notre Dame, so really good opponents,
Speaker 5: But I mean Alabama's on the schedule, LSU's on the schedule,
Speaker 5: Tennessee's on the sky. I mean you got to look
Speaker 5: at that and go there's so many great opportunities. Is
Speaker 5: that exciting for you? I know I don't want you.
Speaker 5: We're not looking past week one, but you sit there
Speaker 5: in Alabama's looking at you week two. It can't help
Speaker 5: but be exciting.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean looking at looking at the schedule way
Speaker 8: back when I got here is definitely definitely exciting. Just
Speaker 8: being able to look at all the really good teams
Speaker 8: starting from week one to week twelve that we're gonna
Speaker 8: be able to play this year. And like you said,
Speaker 8: I just view it as a really great opportunity to
Speaker 8: you know, play against the best, because that's all I
Speaker 8: really want to do.
Speaker 5: I mean the spotlight alone, I mean that second game,
Speaker 5: it'll be the whole nation watching you, and that's I
Speaker 5: would think that would be just an awesome opportunity, awesome opportunity.
Speaker 4: To you know, go out and do what we do.
Speaker 7: Hey, key, Ryan Leman, I'm from Kentucky's sports. You're known
Speaker 7: as a gunslinger. You throw it around. Yeah, in the
Speaker 7: spring game, you scrambled and scored a touchdown. Are you
Speaker 7: a dual threat guy? Are you gonna run the ball?
Speaker 4: Some?
Speaker 8: I think I can do both. Obviously, I'm a quarterback.
Speaker 8: I can throw the ball. I can make any throw
Speaker 8: in the field. But I think I do have enough
Speaker 8: athleticism to use my legs when I need to.
Speaker 6: We mentioned how you come from Notre Dame. That's obviously
Speaker 6: one of the biggest brands in the game with the
Speaker 6: history and tradition. Now you're kind of on a ground
Speaker 6: floor of what will Stun's trying to build. So he
Speaker 6: went from trying to maintain success to now start it.
Speaker 7: Is there a different.
Speaker 6: Feeling going into the games that you're kind of a
Speaker 6: part of something new and want to build it.
Speaker 8: I would say the main difference is, like you said,
Speaker 8: they're already being that sort of standard and then coming
Speaker 8: here with a bunch of new coaches, a bunch of
Speaker 8: new players from the state strength staff to even like
Speaker 8: the position coaches established and that the standard that we
Speaker 8: have for our team. I think that would be the
Speaker 8: main difference. So just being able to build that up
Speaker 8: with coach Stein, I think that would be Yeah.
Speaker 5: You don't even know you've done this, but you've created
Speaker 5: a little rivalry with Me with Us and the show
Speaker 5: Busting with the Boys.
Speaker 7: Do you know that show?
Speaker 4: Yes, I do know that show.
Speaker 5: Will Compton he thought you were going to go to
Speaker 5: Nebraska and then you came here, which led to some
Speaker 5: trash talking back and forth, which a lot of the
Speaker 5: listeners don't know has led to some occasional trash talk
Speaker 5: texting back and forth. So I don't even know him.
Speaker 5: I've never even met him, but we argue about you
Speaker 5: quite a bit. So I'm excited You've got to prove
Speaker 5: Will Compton wrong as you go out this year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't want to get in between your guys's beef,
Speaker 8: which it sounds like I already am.
Speaker 5: Well, yes you are the Bee.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I haven't seen too much of their show,
Speaker 8: but yeah, i'd probably say I like the show a
Speaker 8: little bit better.
Speaker 5: Big look at that. There we go. Then you're I'm
Speaker 5: completely on your side. All right. Let me ask you
Speaker 5: a couple of questions, just for fans to get to
Speaker 5: know you. Give me your favorite musician who you listen.
Speaker 4: To, Uh, listen to Zach Bryan. He's my He's my
Speaker 4: number one. Yeah, a lot of really, a lot of
Speaker 4: Zach Brian.
Speaker 5: That I didn't see Zach Brian. What's your favorite Zach
Speaker 5: Brian song? Just saw him in concert in Louisville a
Speaker 5: couple of months ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was there.
Speaker 5: You were there? Okay, well so they.
Speaker 4: Went, so it's a good time.
Speaker 5: What's your favorite song?
Speaker 8: Starved would probably be my favorite, probably not a fan favorite,
Speaker 8: but starved.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll we'll play it on the way back here.
Speaker 6: All right, listen to the Live Red Rocks album All
Speaker 6: My Homies Hate to Get Master.
Speaker 7: It's the best one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really really good.
Speaker 5: You know you have Will Stein like and Forrest Gump. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're a big Zach Brian guy. I think you're you're
Speaker 5: gonna be on the staff. Uh all right?
Speaker 4: Favorite movie Sandlot?
Speaker 7: Sandlot?
Speaker 4: Really good?
Speaker 5: I thought that was that? Was that not before your time?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, wait before my time? But I mean that's
Speaker 8: a classic. You gotta watch that growing up and then
Speaker 8: just turn into a movie I just kept watching.
Speaker 5: Okay, so saying Lot, Zach Brian, All right, what about
Speaker 5: your favorite television.
Speaker 4: Show I don't watch like you're streaming whatever. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: but growing up, SpongeBob. That was like SpongeBob that was.
Speaker 8: The only thing that was on the TV really before school,
Speaker 8: So it was just a lot of Spongebobs.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine drew the odds we could have gotten
Speaker 5: on our quarterback picking SpongeBob, Zach, Brian and uh uh
Speaker 5: saying a lot as the three I would not have gotten.
Speaker 6: I didn't have those. But that's why we're here. We're
Speaker 6: going to learn more.
Speaker 5: See, I'm glad. I'm glad to learn that.
Speaker 7: Do you Uh?
Speaker 5: Somebody asked me, do you play video games?
Speaker 8: I don't play video games. I left my console back home,
Speaker 8: but whatever, focus, Yeah, I gotta focus, and I'm just
Speaker 8: I'm not a big video game person, even growing up.
Speaker 8: But whenever I do go home, sometimes I'll I'll get
Speaker 8: on and play with friends. But n C Double a Gun,
Speaker 8: n C double a game is pretty fun. I'll play
Speaker 8: that with my sister when I can.
Speaker 5: You're on it.
Speaker 4: You gotta like that one, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Do you play as yourself?
Speaker 4: Yes, you do sometimes because you don't.
Speaker 5: Want to play as an opponent, so you play as yourself.
Speaker 8: Right if Yeah, if we're picking teams, it's like, you know,
Speaker 8: if I draw that random team and it's Kentucky, I'll
Speaker 8: play with myself.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, now, uh do you. We don't really know
Speaker 5: the players. You know so many new guys. Uh here,
Speaker 5: So give us a little bit of the Kenny Minchi
Speaker 5: scouting report on the team as people who are like
Speaker 5: the funniest most, who's got the biggest personalities.
Speaker 6: On the team.
Speaker 8: Biggest personalities, I would say, Willie Roder, you guys okay, yeah,
Speaker 8: you guys know him, Bo Barnes, Hardley Gilmore.
Speaker 5: Hardly Gilmore will ask you for the ball.
Speaker 7: He will.
Speaker 5: He will look at you and say for me, I'm
Speaker 5: not you're acting like I'm not Hardly here, throw me
Speaker 5: the Ball's.
Speaker 8: Indeed, yeah, very very lively personality really in every position group.
Speaker 8: I feel like we got a really really funny team
Speaker 8: and it's it's a lot of a lot of energy
Speaker 8: floating around the line.
Speaker 5: Now, have you been told that you like have to beat?
Speaker 5: Have you been told that?
Speaker 4: I think that's expected. I don't know if those words
Speaker 4: have been.
Speaker 5: Had said that to you? I don't.
Speaker 8: I don't honestly, I don't know if someone's actually said
Speaker 8: that to me. But it's it's I think it's pretty understood.
Speaker 7: We're yeah, across campus hear.
Speaker 5: It every day. You've you've just learned that all right,
Speaker 5: I'll leave. I'll let you go with this. If you've
Speaker 5: got this will probably be the biggest platform of Kentucky
Speaker 5: fans that will hear you talk before the first game
Speaker 5: of the season. If you were to say to them,
Speaker 5: this is who Kenny Minschi is, and this is what
Speaker 5: I want you to know about me, what would you say?
Speaker 8: I would just say I'm a normal guy who loves football,
Speaker 8: loves playing quarterbacks, and I love the guys around me
Speaker 8: in the facility. I think very highly of the offense
Speaker 8: side of the ball, defense, and the coaching staffs during
Speaker 8: staff and I think we can be really special this year.
Speaker 5: You've been around a great program. You know what a
Speaker 5: great program and a great team looks like.
Speaker 7: Indeed, where is this one?
Speaker 5: Where is like, you know, on the scale of how
Speaker 5: good you need to be to compete at that level.
Speaker 8: Like you said, I've been around really good teams and
Speaker 8: this is a really good team.
Speaker 5: So I love it. That's all I need to hear.
Speaker 5: Nice to meet you can't Good luck to you. And uh,
Speaker 5: sand Lot, you know what if we if we beat Alabama,
Speaker 5: we'll have a showing of the saying Lot, well, well
Speaker 5: we'll get it. You can come and say why you
Speaker 5: like it so much?
Speaker 7: Exactly?
Speaker 5: All right, I'll be there, all right, Kenny Minchi, we
Speaker 5: will take a break, come back. Final segment here from
Speaker 5: Kroger Fields KSR. So this is the Kenny Minschie song
Speaker 5: he likes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Starved by Zach Brian.
Speaker 5: Starved. I hope they don't play this when he runs out.
Speaker 3: We need to pick up the pace a little bit.
Speaker 5: I think we're gonna need to begin injacked up and
Speaker 5: I need a little bit more energy when he comes
Speaker 5: out into play Vible for when he comes.
Speaker 7: Out, I would have guessed fifty artists before I would
Speaker 7: have guessed Zach Bryan is who he likes to listen to.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, you know, and.
Speaker 7: A TV show. I would not have guessed SpongeBob Square.
Speaker 5: You said it made you feel old that he likes SpongeBob.
Speaker 7: And he looks like he's twelve.
Speaker 5: He does look like a child.
Speaker 7: He's very very young, looking very young, and he says
Speaker 7: watching SpongeBob, I'm like, oh my goodness, I am one hundred.
Speaker 5: Is very He does look very very young.
Speaker 7: Yeah he does.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and a Nashville native that doesn't like the Titans.
Speaker 6: I thought we're gonna bond over that too.
Speaker 5: And I mean, I think, you know, knowing nothing else
Speaker 5: about him besides what we saw there, I think he's
Speaker 5: he's a very unique personality. But quarterbacks are like that. Quarterbacks,
Speaker 5: quarterbacks and kickers, they can be they can be unique.
Speaker 7: They can be very confident, boastful, and.
Speaker 5: Then there's he was actually seemed like pretty humble or.
Speaker 7: Mind me like Steven Johnson. Steph Johnson was kind of
Speaker 7: that way.
Speaker 5: That's that's a good analogy. Yeah, just coming eight five,
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Speaker 5: this weekend, did some cartwheels. Finally figured out how to
Speaker 5: get the bugs out.
Speaker 6: And the bugs just floating around.
Speaker 5: Apparently there's a thing called a pump.
Speaker 6: Yeah, those are usually with the pools.
Speaker 5: It might not have been on.
Speaker 7: Your filter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe that wasn't on. Yeah, probably should have done that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I still got a lot to learn about the pool.
Speaker 5: But then once you did it, it was interesting buggling away.
Speaker 6: Wow, you get it all figured out.
Speaker 5: You know, slowly, but surely. The blinds are now working.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: Now the only thing I have left is I have
Speaker 5: a fan and I can't figure out how to turn
Speaker 5: it all or turn it on, and so birds are
Speaker 5: staying at the top of it. I need to turn
Speaker 5: it on so they'll get away from me.
Speaker 6: Hopefully. This is an outdoor fan. It is an outdoor fan.
Speaker 5: They're not.
Speaker 6: A problem.
Speaker 5: That would be a problem. But but yeah, I'm starting
Speaker 5: to learn stuff, and you know, I'm feeling a little
Speaker 5: bit like a homeowner. One person wrote about the space matt.
Speaker 5: That's a that's a lot of stuff on a very
Speaker 5: small part of your wall. Won't that look odd? No, goober,
Speaker 5: that's the part the camera sees.
Speaker 6: It's not like it's your kitchen.
Speaker 5: It doesn't do any good to have stuff in parts
Speaker 5: that they can't see.
Speaker 7: I thought, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Don't have plenty of room to add more stuff, all
Speaker 5: this stuff, like what you're seeing that little square we
Speaker 5: I mean, Mario was there Friday. We've measured what can
Speaker 5: actually be seen on camera. If I put stuff to
Speaker 5: the left or above or to the right. Now, well
Speaker 5: you won't be able to see it anyway. I mean
Speaker 5: I might do it eventually, just for life, but like
Speaker 5: that was for the back. What is going to be
Speaker 5: on camera? And then there's a little hole. But that
Speaker 5: hole is for me. That's right, that's that's my body,
Speaker 5: that will be right there.
Speaker 6: Sounds like somebody doesn't have a TV show the broadcasts
Speaker 6: out of their home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like I get it, but you gotta understand,
Speaker 5: like I gotta you know, there's gotta be space for
Speaker 5: me and my big head. That's why there's that little
Speaker 5: line in the center. That's from my head.
Speaker 6: All that stuff goes around. We get it.
Speaker 5: Sounds like he didn't get it.
Speaker 6: Clearly don't have a TV show?
Speaker 5: All right, So do you leave Media Day excited about
Speaker 5: the this UK group I do.
Speaker 7: I mean, all I had to hear was will Stein
Speaker 7: talk to us, and that got me excited. I mean,
Speaker 7: I love everything, everything.
Speaker 5: But we've been to a lot of these over the years.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is probably our fifteenth, go back to
Speaker 5: when I started the website, probably my twentieth, but fifteenth
Speaker 5: probably doing the show. Here the thing, here's the thing
Speaker 5: that I would take away as my biggest takeaway, Drew,
Speaker 5: what's up the class? And I don't mean class like Tody,
Speaker 5: but the status of everything has upgraded, Facilities nicer, you know,
Speaker 5: the sort of I guess what it was you call it,
Speaker 5: you know, arrangement of it, including like time is more precise,
Speaker 5: food is better. I know these are little things, but
Speaker 5: it suggests to me a group that's concerned about upgrading
Speaker 5: the look of something and details, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 5: I mean, it had gotten to the point that sometimes
Speaker 5: I felt like we were like going to a school
Speaker 5: cafeteria for stuff, and then it was just kind of like, oh,
Speaker 5: here we go, here comes to meeting again. There was
Speaker 5: a lot of thought put into today, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. And I think that's kind of symbolic of
Speaker 5: the whole thing as a whole.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is just one day and they're a year
Speaker 6: long operation. So if everything is running so smoothly here
Speaker 6: and so well done today, it tells me that every day,
Speaker 6: whatever they have going on in their meetings and everything
Speaker 6: behind the scenes, that all that's in a row, and
Speaker 6: every being very intentional with that too.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean when you to me, the big things
Speaker 5: in life are determined by the little things, right. So
Speaker 5: you remember many years ago, Drew when I would be like,
Speaker 5: we have a post every hour, and it would probably
Speaker 5: be like seven oh five and there wouldn't be a post,
Speaker 5: and I'd probably call and go, where's the post? And
Speaker 5: I'm sure people go, it's five minutes. Calm down. But
Speaker 5: there was a there was a detail part. Let's get
Speaker 5: the details right and then everything else will work. I
Speaker 5: get the sense that's how these guys are, that they
Speaker 5: are like, let's get the small stuff right and then
Speaker 5: the big stuff will work after that.
Speaker 7: And that's not just steying. Everybody underneath him seems to
Speaker 7: be there.
Speaker 5: I agree, Kurt Signetti. I've been reading about Indiana. That's
Speaker 5: what he is, right, Like, he's like, you get the
Speaker 5: details right. You know, it's the theory we've about the
Speaker 5: broken windows theory of policing, which some people don't like.
Speaker 5: It's a conservative theory. I actually agree with it. You're
Speaker 5: in a neighborhood and you see broken windows or you
Speaker 5: see graffiti, and you think to your self, else, well,
Speaker 5: nobody cares about anything here, correct, So I can do
Speaker 5: whatever I want. You clean up the graffiti, you you
Speaker 5: fix the windows, and it looks like this is a
Speaker 5: place that's nice. This isn't a place for havoc. Right.
Speaker 5: I think the same thing's true about a football program.
Speaker 5: You do the details, the uniforms look good, you've put
Speaker 5: a new code of paints, you put good food places,
Speaker 5: et cetera. And all of a sudden, everybody wants to
Speaker 5: upgrade to the environment where they're in.
Speaker 7: And I think the football program needed that. I agree,
Speaker 7: boost it got. I think they got a little stagnant.
Speaker 7: Stagnant's a great word. Yes, I think the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Towards the end of the cal air, the basketball program
Speaker 5: is stack. Towards the end of the Stoops air, the
Speaker 5: football program is stacked. Towards the end of the Barnhart area,
Speaker 5: A lot of the athletic department stuff was stack. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it feels like that sort of injecting the boost I
Speaker 5: think is needed. And you could kind of feel that
Speaker 5: Drew today in a way that I think has been
Speaker 5: interesting to watch.
Speaker 6: Yeah to that, I said, for many years it felt
Speaker 6: like they just run on autopilot over there, like let's
Speaker 6: do it just yes, that's the there's ideas and just
Speaker 6: working hard on everything and also just with the players
Speaker 6: and the coaches, the well Stein's got the little bit
Speaker 6: of arrogance, but there's a quiet confidence. This for many
Speaker 6: years is let's go see what we can do. Let's
Speaker 6: go to work. Well, maybe we'll surprise everyone. This is
Speaker 6: like no, we're good, and we're good, ready to go
Speaker 6: show it.
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