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Speaker 3: or no excuse me, start New Year's Eve tomorrow night's Friday.

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Speaker 3: But four games coming up here in a few days.

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Speaker 4: I hit a Christmas reset my DraftKings account. The last

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Speaker 4: week has been absolutely brutal. I mean I am just

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Speaker 4: giving them money left and right. That's good Christmas spirit. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I hammered us to be to Ohio State. I took

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Speaker 4: So moving forward this Bowl season, I'm ready to get right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. By the way, the just for those of you

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Speaker 5: So is the format next week where there's one game

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Speaker 3: That's right, one on New Year's Eve. Yeah, so New

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Speaker 3: Year's Eve. Remember Kentucky plays on New Year's Eve. I

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Speaker 4: Boise and Penn States the game after Kentucky plays.

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Speaker 3: Yes, all right, so let's talk for a second about

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Speaker 5: One year ago, You're right, who would have thought that

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Speaker 3: Would you have ever imagined sitting here one year December

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Speaker 5: Not at that moment when we saw, like you said,

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Speaker 5: I think you're exactly right. You know, did the last

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Speaker 3: When he left.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, talking about in April after the Oakland loss.

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Speaker 5: I think the one unanswered question Mark could he recruit

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Speaker 3: two eight oh twenty excuse me, twenty two eighty seven,

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Speaker 3: day after Christmas. Energy. It's weird having Christmas midweek because, like,

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Speaker 4: I think people know if they bring their employees in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exactly right. One person rights, Matt. Since you're

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Speaker 3: Each of you get one choice. What's your favorite TV

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Speaker 5: I found Bear. I know I was a couple of

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Speaker 3: I didn't like season three, but there is one great episode,

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Speaker 5: That was a good episode. Yes, Also, I found Righteous Jimstones.

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Speaker 5: You guys have been recommending it for years, found it

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Speaker 3: Like he says, he found it. We've been recommending it

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Speaker 4: I feel like Apple TV had a good year of

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Speaker 3: What else did I watch them?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Chip Crazy, Chimp Crazy on HBO's That's that. That

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Speaker 3: I would say for me the show to the show

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Speaker 5: It's great. Oh you would like it too. Everybody will

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Speaker 3: You wonder that you're surprised people like that in the world.

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Speaker 4: It's an Elvis impersonator and then his brother became a

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Speaker 3: was like, first of all, I'm sure there is, but

435
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Speaker 3: my proof is my eyes. I saw them. I don't

436
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Speaker 3: have his receipt on me.

437
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Speaker 4: Yeah, produced what he ordered but I was there, and

438
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,760
Speaker 4: he was there, and he was there what Bob Huggins

439
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Speaker 4: looks like?

440
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Speaker 3: And then they of course lost, and I thought he

441
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 3: kind of looked tired at the end of the game.

442
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Speaker 3: He wasn't able to stop Kevin Knox when he went off.

443
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,639
Speaker 4: And if Bob Huggins is trying to be a little incognito,

444
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 4: I wouldn't wear the gigantic West Virginia pullover that he

445
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Speaker 4: wears for every game.

446
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 3: He wore that, Yes, he wears that everywhere. Must be

447
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,080
Speaker 3: his only outfit, you know, thinking.

448
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Speaker 5: About that weekend, that game though, was one of the

449
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Speaker 5: best college basketball environments I've ever been in at West Virginia.

450
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Speaker 5: It was awesome.

451
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Speaker 3: By the way, the Harrold Leader today reported what our

452
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Speaker 3: schedule looks like for next year basketball. Yeah, so we

453
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Speaker 3: talked about this the other day, but they had an

454
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Speaker 3: official So we play Louisville at the Young Center. We

455
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Speaker 3: play in the Champions Classic against is it Kansas? Michigan State?

456
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Speaker 3: Should be?

457
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Speaker 4: Can we just did what was it? It's New York Kansas?

458
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's Kansas. We play Indiana at RUP

459
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Speaker 3: on December thirteenth, So they announced that. So the first

460
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 3: Kentucky Indiana game will be at rupp Aerena. December thirteenth,

461
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Speaker 3: we will play Ucla in the Champions Classic, and then

462
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 3: we will play December second or third a home game

463
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Speaker 3: against an ACC team. So because of our schedule, we

464
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Speaker 3: don't get Duke or Carolina next year, so the thought

465
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Speaker 3: is we will get either Duke or North Carolina at

466
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Speaker 3: home next year. So that means you would have in

467
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Speaker 3: your non conference schedule next year either Duke or Carolina

468
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Speaker 3: at home against in Indiana, so you would get those two.

469
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Speaker 3: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Great schedule.

471
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Speaker 3: Kenzaga series is on in Nashville, and I think that

472
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Speaker 3: the problem is they don't they don't know when to

473
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Speaker 3: do it, so like it'll either be very early in

474
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Speaker 3: the year or it might be in between Christmas and

475
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Speaker 3: New Year, but we will play. It'll be like our

476
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Speaker 3: game this year. We'll get to play them in in Nashville,

477
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 3: and we control the tickets, so it will basically be

478
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Speaker 3: all Kentucky fans in Nashville. So really three home games.

479
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Speaker 3: You basically get Gonzaga, Indiana and then either Duke or

480
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Speaker 3: North Carolina all at home. So a good a good schedule, and.

481
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Speaker 4: It's Michigan State because we played one hundred dickets in

482
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Speaker 4: last year in the Champs.

483
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Speaker 3: So it's Michigan Stadia, all right, So there you go play.

484
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Speaker 3: We'll take a break. Rright back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

485
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Speaker 3: Water back Tucky Sports Radio here live at KS Bar

486
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Speaker 3: and grill text machine seven seven two seven seven four

487
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Speaker 3: five two five four. Remember if you're out here to

488
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 3: pick the winners of the games for the for the

489
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Speaker 3: playoff coming up sports, it's pretty pretty bad set of

490
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Speaker 3: sports here in the next couple of days. Tonight's like

491
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 3: the Seahawks and the Bears, and then there's nothing tomorrow.

492
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Speaker 3: But then Saturday you get full day of bowls, full

493
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Speaker 3: day of all that. So that's good.

494
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Speaker 4: There's one random bawl tomorrow Pitt plays somebody in the something.

495
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 4: But yeah, to your point, not not a lot happening.

496
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 4: I like, you're wearing a Bear's shirt and said, nothing

497
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 4: going on tonight.

498
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 3: We're terrible. I mean, we're absolutely terrible. The Bears are

499
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 3: gonna get destroyed. But the good thing is I wanted

500
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 3: to lose every game get a better draft pick. They can't. Pete.

501
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 3: I saw the everything about Pete picking Pete Carroll as

502
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Speaker 3: the coach. He's seventy three years old. Let's not do that.

503
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 3: Let's let's get somebody young, that sort of whipper snapper,

504
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 3: and let's let's I like Pete Carroll.

505
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Speaker 5: But no, And did you say they moved the Bengals

506
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Speaker 5: game to Saturday?

507
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 3: This Bingos game got moved to Saturday. I'm actually gonna go. Yeah.

508
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Speaker 5: Are you gonna go?

509
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 3: Yeah? Because I never get to go. I mean they

510
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 3: never I always have the NFL Show, so I never

511
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,959
Speaker 3: get to go. I think I'm gonna go. Saturday they

512
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 3: play the Broncos, big game for the Mingles.

513
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're Saturday off for us in the middle of

514
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Speaker 4: a basketball season. We don't usually have a Saturday without

515
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Speaker 4: a game.

516
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:53,479
Speaker 3: Draft Kings. They've got promotions all until New Year's but

517
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Speaker 3: you bet five, get one hundred and fifty, use a

518
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 3: code KSR. It's time for our Draft Kings picks. Let's

519
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 3: go through here the balls today, the Game above Sports Bowl?

520
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 3: What is Game Above? No, I was trying to pull

521
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,959
Speaker 3: that name out of my head. Didn't have it. Pit

522
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 3: versus Toledo. Next year we opened the season with Toledo

523
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 3: and there running back next year will be a guy

524
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,439
Speaker 3: named Chip Chip Tray and them who just who just

525
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 3: left Kentucky and went to Toledo by the way, a

526
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 3: little surprising. A big school didn't want him, ended up

527
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 3: at Toledo, and we.

528
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Speaker 4: Were focused on, oh, we might have to play Dane

529
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Speaker 4: at Georgia. We got Barryon could be in the conference. No,

530
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,239
Speaker 4: it's Chip that's gonna be first to me. Opening up

531
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Speaker 4: with Chip. They're seven to five. They played Pitt. Who

532
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Speaker 4: you got?

533
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Speaker 3: I go Pitt.

534
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,919
Speaker 4: Pitt had a good run there for a while. This

535
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Speaker 4: season fell off at the end.

536
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Speaker 5: I thought Pitt was like top twenty five.

537
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Speaker 3: Ranks they were at one point. Lost a bunch of

538
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 3: pit all right, Pitt and then in the Rate Bowl.

539
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 3: I don't know why what that means? Rate our Ate,

540
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 3: Rutgers and Kansas State. What do you got? Ruggers good

541
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Speaker 3: at basketball? By the way, Two top five freshmen if

542
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Speaker 3: you ever watched him play yet? Dylan Bailey and is

543
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 3: it Ace Austin? Is that the name Ace Bailey? Who's

544
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 3: Austin Harper? I should remember that since that's my middle name.

545
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 3: Ace Bailey and Harper Austin are two top five picks.

546
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Speaker 3: Those guys are great. Who you got in the football.

547
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Speaker 4: Though, I want to say Kansas State with Avery Johnson

548
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 4: their quarter, I have no idea if he's playing, but

549
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Speaker 4: they they're pretty good.

550
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Speaker 3: I'll say Kansas State.

551
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Speaker 5: I have no idea, so I'll go Rutgers.

552
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Speaker 3: I'll go Kansas State. And then in the sixty eight

553
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Speaker 3: Ventures Bowl, shut your mouth ride Arkansas State in the

554
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 3: sixty eight Ventures Bowl against Bowling Green. This game's at

555
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Speaker 3: nine o'clock on ESPN. Any of you that are watching this,

556
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 3: you should find a hoppy if you're watching Arkansas State

557
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: Bowling Green tonight. Who you got?

558
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 5: Just one more Venture? That's all they needed was one more.

559
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Speaker 3: Who you got Bowling Green? Bowling Green?

560
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 4: Bowling Green lost a linemen to Kentucky. They're just in

561
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Speaker 4: shambles when you lose a player like that to the portal.

562
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Speaker 4: So are Arkansas State covers?

563
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Speaker 3: I'll take Arkansas State. And it's Dylan Harper, not Harper

564
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Speaker 3: Harper Austin. Harper Austin, not Dylan Harper Harper Austin. They're very,

565
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 3: very similar. Who's up next? Evan? Go ahead, Evan, first time?

566
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Speaker 3: Long time? Who what?

567
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Speaker 7: We're approaching conference play here and we've looked good so

568
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 7: far besides against Ohio State. I was wondering who you

569
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Speaker 7: all thought would be the most important player in conference

570
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 7: play for Kentucky.

571
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, our most important player is definitely Lamont Butler.

572
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 3: But our most important player going forward to me, Drew

573
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 3: is I still think for Kentucky to be really good,

574
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Speaker 3: Jackson Robinson's gonna have to take a leap. He's gonna

575
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Speaker 3: have to take a leap into that. Even if he

576
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Speaker 3: doesn't get to Antonio Reeves level, he's got. You know,

577
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 3: think about Antonio Reeves. You knew, no matter what, he

578
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 3: was gonna give you eighteen to twenty a game, right,

579
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Speaker 3: no matter what, even if he didn't play well, you

580
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: were gonna get eighteen to twenty. We gotta get Jackson

581
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 3: Robinson to where we know, no matter what, I'm getting

582
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 3: eighteen to twenty points from that kid. So that's why

583
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Speaker 3: I think he's the most important guy going forward.

584
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he still shotes away at time when he that

585
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 4: second half of Gonzaga Jackson Robinson that took over a

586
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 4: point guard and made some big plays to win that game.

587
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 4: To answer the question, though, Lamar Butler, if something happens

588
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 4: to him, he goes away, shut it down. I just

589
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 4: think he is so important to this team.

590
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 3: Is what happens if he were to get hurt? Would

591
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 3: we I mean, is he so important to the team

592
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 3: that if they if he got hurt, we'd have a

593
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 3: hard time making the tournament?

594
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Speaker 4: Oh, I mean if it happened early enough in SEC play.

595
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 4: I think so, just with the physicality of the guards

596
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 4: and the SEC We saw what happened when he was

597
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 4: out of game or two, especially with kirbying out, just

598
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 4: not having a true point guard at all and the

599
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 4: roster there. I mean, he's so important. Got to keep

600
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 4: him healthy and playing well.

601
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Speaker 3: We have seen, really for the first time in the

602
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 3: last couple games, this major drop off from the starters

603
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 3: to the bitch. I mean that the top six are

604
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 3: a lot better than the rest of our team. And

605
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 3: I don't think we knew that at first, but I

606
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 3: think it's certainly shown itself to be true here recently.

607
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Speaker 5: Like we said, I look about the whole of the

608
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 5: mont Butler situation, but I did like when Jackson Robson

609
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 5: had to play the point he did seem to thrive

610
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 5: in that position.

611
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Speaker 3: Well, we did come back and beat Gonzaga without Butler

612
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 3: or Kurt I mean we did in that second half.

613
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: I mean, they didn't have either one of those guys

614
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Speaker 3: and they were able to do it.

615
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't have to see Jackson become more selfish though. Actually,

616
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Speaker 5: even if he's not the point guard, just I wanted

617
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 5: to be a little more selfish.

618
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Speaker 4: I do see a little of what we were talking

619
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Speaker 4: about with the Mario Williams where sometimes it's like you

620
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 4: forget he's even out there, when it's kind of like

621
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Speaker 4: you want to nudge him. You're Jackson Robinson, go get

622
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Speaker 4: a bucket. I think he has spans of a game

623
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Speaker 4: where he doesn't see him as all the way in.

624
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Speaker 3: How does it make you feel that probably the two

625
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 3: best teams in the country are Tennessee and all.

626
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Speaker 5: Gross makes you feel like I need to take a bath,

627
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 5: But I mean they are.

628
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Speaker 3: I mean personally, I think Auburn's the best team in

629
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Speaker 3: the country by a decent amount. I think Tennessee's gonna

630
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 3: struggle scoring enough to win a title, but Drew, I

631
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Speaker 3: think Auburn's good enough to win the whole thing.

632
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Auburn's not a surprise at all. Once Broom

633
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 4: came back and all the pieces they have, we knew

634
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Speaker 4: they'd be really good. What hurts with Tennessee is the

635
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Speaker 4: Lanier is playing so well and he's a guy that

636
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 4: was down to Kentucky and Tennessee. I'm not saying i'd

637
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 4: kick anyone off this roster that we love to add him,

638
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 4: but that's the guy Kentucky really went after and he's

639
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 4: really panned out Knoxville.

640
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 3: He's been great. And that's now if you go back

641
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 3: to Dalton Kanneck last year, you could make an argument

642
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 3: Tennessee's gotten the best transfer in the country two years

643
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 3: in a row. I mean, Chas Lanier may so far

644
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 3: this year be the best transfer in college basketball and

645
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 3: they got him last year. With now this one, you know,

646
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: it's it's annoying. But Tennessee Rick Barnes, they've still never

647
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 3: made a Final four though ever in history. But he

648
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 3: has got them. He's got that program to where they're

649
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 3: just kind of just turning it out.

650
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 5: Zegler, their point guard is back for like the seventh year.

651
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 5: He's solid. Also, I'm still in the boat that I

652
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 5: don't think Alabama is that far behind Tennessee and Auburn.

653
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 5: I think Alabama eventually is gonna be a really good.

654
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 3: Team, but it's gonna be a hard SEC. I mean

655
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 3: it's gonna be it's gonna be a really hard We've

656
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 3: got to win that first game. We got to win

657
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 3: that game against Florida. I mean they're good, and like

658
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 3: that's the kind of home game that if we're gonna

659
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 3: be good, we have to beat a Florida. I think

660
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 3: they're good. I don't think they're undefeated, top ten good,

661
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 3: but we've still do we have to win that game.

662
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're scheduled until playing North Carolina recently, who they

663
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 4: were up by million on he got close to the end.

664
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 4: They've been destroying teams with the opponents haven't been that good,

665
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 4: so it's hard to really get a good gauge on them.

666
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 4: But just the fact that they're undefeated and they're winning

667
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 4: games by twenty something points, they're they're bringing in a

668
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 4: very good team in here, and the SEC is so hard.

669
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 3: You gotta win your home games.

670
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 5: You gotta hold serve every night on the road.

671
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 3: Whoever it is about.

672
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 5: You're gonna lose some of those road games coming up.

673
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 3: If I'm nine two eight oh, twenty two eighty seven,

674
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: we are here at KS Bar and Grill. It is

675
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 3: Kentucky Sports Radio. It is a post Christmas. It's weird

676
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: having one game in three week or two weeks or whatever.

677
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: But that's where we're at. We'll take a break and

678
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 3: be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back.

679
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 3: Final segment here Kentucky Sports Radio at the KS Bar

680
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 3: and Grill. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two

681
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 3: eighty seven, this segment Spont's are by Don Franklin. Tomorrow.

682
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 3: We are at Don Franklin in Glasgow. So love to

683
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 3: have all the folks there in the Glasgow area come

684
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 3: and join us. That is what two hour drive from

685
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 3: here in the morning, well over two.

686
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 4: But I'm so excited to give Brandon Stockton a hug and.

687
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 5: Just confirm that he's still They're still alive.

688
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 3: Yes, was he who the somebody called off?

689
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 5: Right?

690
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 3: We shouldn't do that. Uh, he will be there. He'll

691
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 3: be there tomorrow. Right, And we are at Don Franklin

692
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: in Glasgow. I just heard they're bringing uh free pizza

693
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 3: for everybody there and then they're giving away tickets to

694
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 3: something here at RUP like the water Willie Show or

695
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 3: something like that was coming through town. May not hang on,

696
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 3: it may not be water Willie. It's it's like some

697
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 3: kind of Uh, let's see Hot Wheels Monster Truck Glow.

698
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 5: Nice.

699
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 3: I don't know what hot wheels? What is Hot Wheels

700
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 3: Monster Truck? Is that like Monster Trucks? Yeah, but they

701
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 3: got the Hot Wheels brand. What makes it glow? The

702
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 3: lights that they put underneath the Oh, that sounds like

703
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 3: something I could wear my cowboy hat.

704
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 5: Oh definitely, you would fit right in with your cowboy hat.

705
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 3: You know, I've been trying to figure out where was

706
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 3: I gonna where is that gonna wear it? Maybe I

707
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: go to the Hot Wheels Monster Truck Cowboy Glow.

708
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 4: I was pretty disappointed that we can't do radio with

709
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 4: the hat because the headsets or I might.

710
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 3: Be wearing mine right now. Yeah, you can't headsets, you

711
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 3: can't do it. That's true. Duke Duke signed a quarterback

712
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 3: for next year. It's a guy from Tulane. They're paying

713
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 3: him four million dollars a year in nil. They think

714
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 3: that is the highest amount of football player has been

715
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: paid so far. If I had told you that there

716
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 3: was going to be a quarterback to make four million dollars,

717
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 3: you might not have been shocked by that. But what

718
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 3: if I told you there was a quarterback there's gonna

719
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 3: be paid four million dollars and it was at Duke.

720
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 5: Not a chance, Not a chance. I'm thinking Georgia, Texas

721
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 5: an SEC school for sure, not Duke, where football is

722
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 5: kind of secondary.

723
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,959
Speaker 3: There four million dollars at Duke.

724
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: Did someone just wake up one day the rich like

725
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 4: I kind of want football to be good now. I

726
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 4: would have thought Duke would have kept most with its

727
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 4: money towards basketball. And they went out there.

728
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 3: I mean they took a quarterback that was nine and

729
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 3: three this year. I mean Duke football was nine and

730
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 3: three and good, and they basically told him, you can

731
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 3: go somewhere else. We're gonna take this guy. I mean

732
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 3: they looked at nine and three at Duke and we're like, yeah,

733
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 3: we're gonna try to do better than that. I mean,

734
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 3: that's it'd be interesting to see. That feels like a

735
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 3: lot of pressure on this dude. I mean, the guy

736
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 3: they just kicked out with nine and three.

737
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had great numbers. The two A quarterback Mensa

738
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 4: is his name. He's got decent numbers. But you've never

739
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 4: really know how someone's gonna translate. To have someone in

740
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 4: your locker room that's already done it that's a big

741
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 4: jump to go throw a bunch of money at a

742
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 4: guy coming from the group of five.

743
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 3: What about our quarterback, cal cal Zada. I see, I'm gonna,

744
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna wanna call him cal Zona cal Zada.

745
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 3: You know, now you've had a couple of days to

746
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 3: digest it. How do you think he's gonna do.

747
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,959
Speaker 5: Of course, I'm gonna end up being really excited about

748
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 5: by the time the season starts, just like I was

749
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 5: with vandergriff last year. You know, he's put up some

750
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 5: good numbers, he's got a good history. I'm hoping it

751
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 5: translates on the field this year. So you're fucking yourself

752
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 5: into I'll eventually talk myself into it.

753
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, what about you?

754
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 4: I have not talked myself into it. I mean it's

755
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 4: a good addition. You gotta go out and get someone.

756
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 4: I just have huge concerns with the all of the

757
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 4: things they're gonna have to do between now and the fall.

758
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 3: For all of it working out, I'm glad they got him.

759
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 3: He's got a good tape.

760
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 4: I hang on to that win against Number one Alabama

761
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 4: when they had a great defense and he drove down

762
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: the field, But getting me excited for next year's football

763
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 4: season is a big.

764
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 3: Task, do you. I mean, I just have no idea

765
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: how to evaluate this transfer class, you know, like you

766
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 3: could tell me they're good or not good, and I

767
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 3: have no idea. Like I don't know any of the players.

768
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 3: They're all from schools that don't really know. It's just impossible.

769
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 3: I mean, it's gonna be so hard to have a

770
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 3: feel on this team next year, no matter what happens.

771
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 3: I don't care what people say during camp. How are

772
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 3: we gonna have any idea if this team is good

773
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 3: until they play that first game?

774
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 5: We're not absolutely not. You know, when we had the

775
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 5: transfer portal guys like Ray Davis or Dumas Johnson, we've

776
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 5: seen those guys play. These guys coming in next year,

777
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 5: we don't we know really nothing about them, and.

778
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 3: We don't have a lot of dudes returning from last

779
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 3: year's team. I mean, our offensive line is going to

780
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 3: have five new starters. Now, I mean that's probably good

781
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 3: because the five we had this year were terrible, But like,

782
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 3: it's still five new starters, you know, I mean that's

783
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 3: gonna be and.

784
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 4: You don't really know till it's September whatever, and you're

785
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 4: lined up against Toledo and if it's like, oh crap,

786
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 4: he didn't work out, well, that's too bad too.

787
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 3: You're in it. Yeah, I think it's gonna be. It's

788
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 3: just it's gonna be so different this year going and

789
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 3: that Toledo game. Remember go back to the schedule, Toledo

790
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 3: then Old Miss. Yeah, in the exact in the next game,

791
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 3: that Old Miss game, there's gonna be so like, such

792
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 3: pressure on it because it's one of the few games

793
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 3: that you can even look at Drew at home and say, well,

794
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 3: maybe we could win that.

795
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 4: I don't want to scare anyone with Toledo, but they

796
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 4: went into Mississippi State last year won by thirty. Now

797
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 4: Missippi State's stunk, but that's a team that's not gonna

798
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 4: be afraid of an SEC school coming off going on

799
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,760
Speaker 4: the road and winning big just this season, so even

800
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 4: week one, I mean, you should be Toledo, but that's

801
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 4: not a pushover opponent.

802
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 3: One person rights Matt after the Ohio State loss, I

803
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: watched your ass video that had all the wins and

804
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 3: losses of the year. After the Ohio State loss, do

805
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 3: you have any changes on your SEC preview. I'm staying

806
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 3: twelve and six. I felt like people thought I was

807
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 3: conservative in doing that, but I think that's still about right.

808
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 3: I don't think we are as bad as we looked

809
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 3: against Ohio State, but I think we're gonna have some

810
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 3: bad losses. But I'm still gonna go twelve and six.

811
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: What about you? You had us at eleven and seven.

812
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 3: Eleven and seven. I don't think it's indicative of Kentucky.

813
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 5: I think it's indicative of how strong the SEC is

814
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 5: this year. You know, when you're going on the road

815
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 5: to places like Oklahoma, you may think you're gonna win.

816
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 5: Oklahoma's really good, Florida's really good, Missouri's good, LSU's good.

817
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 5: And that's the bottom tier of the conference. So I'm

818
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 5: sticking with it.

819
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,959
Speaker 4: Okay, I think I said six. I'll keep it there,

820
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 4: But my confidence level has dipped a little bit. I

821
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 4: read a lot of kN Palm. He's not high in

822
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 4: Kentucky this year, and that system has its flaws, but

823
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 4: he's dropped the prediction to nine and nine with his analytics.

824
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 3: Oh wow, So I mean, think about it. If we

825
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 3: went nine and nine. I mean, that's first of all,

826
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 3: very plausible. I mean, nine and nine is very possible,

827
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 3: and if you went nine to nine, you would still

828
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 3: make the tournament. We would still make the tournament. At

829
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 3: nine and nine, we'd probably be like seven seed, maybe

830
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 3: at nine and nine something like that. How would you

831
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 3: look at the year if we went nine and nine

832
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 3: and we were a seven seed.

833
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 5: I still feel like, you know, just the fact they

834
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 5: beat Duke Gonzagon Louisville is gonna help me ease the

835
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 5: pain if we lose some games in the SEC that maybe.

836
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 3: What if you after you beat Duke Gonzagon Louisville, you

837
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 3: lost twice to Tennessee, twice to Alabama and once to Albert.

838
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think you're gona say Arkansas, well we

839
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 5: win that.

840
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 3: Arkansas, we gotta win the Listen, We're not not necessarily

841
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 3: even thinking an Arkansas loss into existence. That's not happening.

842
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: No, Like Ryan said, one game shouldn't carry as much

843
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 4: weight as it does. But beating Duke went a long

844
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 4: way with me. Because if I'm being honest, if you

845
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 4: told me in October before all this started, that they

846
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 4: beat Duke Gonzaga Louisville and went nine to nine in

847
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 4: the conference, I'd go I'll take it.

848
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 3: Sign up for that. I think if you said before

849
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,720
Speaker 3: the year we're gonna go twenty and eleven with those wins,

850
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: people take it. But I think when you start and

851
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 3: you're the number four ranked team in America and then

852
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 3: you get there, I think there would be some people

853
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 3: who would be disappointed with that. But look, I think

854
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 3: we're gonna go twelve and six. I think we're gonna

855
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 3: play well, but I do hope people are prepared. We're

856
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 3: gonna take some smackdowns in conference play. We just start now.

857
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 3: I think we'll give a couple too. Yeah, but we're

858
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 3: gonna take a couple and and you know, the Ohio

859
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 3: State game kind of proved that to me, Ryan that like,

860
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 3: we we're gonna throw a couple of clunkers up.

861
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,280
Speaker 5: As poor as this team is defensively in the spots

862
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 5: we're gonna have to outscore teams. There's gonna be other

863
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 5: games where we have trouble scoring. Just be ready for it.

864
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that's gonna happen. With that said,

865
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Speaker 3: I still I mean, I mean, I don't know about

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to play in a conference where every game

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Speaker 3: is gonna be good, you know, I'm excited to play

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Speaker 3: where every night. I mean maybe our two easiest games

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Speaker 3: are two of the first three. Right then, I mean

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Speaker 3: there's this periods there's a stretch where they play six

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Speaker 3: straight ranked teams, brutal, six straight ranked teams in conference play.

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Speaker 3: You never would have thought that would happen at Kentucky

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Speaker 3: and the SEC. So I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: We got over the expectations a little bit with what

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Speaker 4: the record looks like. Not selling a paid Ken palm guy.

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Speaker 4: He has Kentucky losing the first three games in conference play,

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Speaker 4: Florida at Georgia at Mississippi State, and his little predictions

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Speaker 4: of scores.

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Speaker 5: Georgia, misisip stated arewo of the easiest games.

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Speaker 3: Well, Mississippi State's good, Georgia should be one of the Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's gonna be quite a battle. Hey, thank

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Speaker 3: you all very much for coming out. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Nice to see people from all over the state who

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Speaker 3: come in. Nice to see my parents and my uncle

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Speaker 3: over there. Thank you all. We will be in Glasgow tomorrow. Remember,

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Speaker 3: Kentucky plays Brown at two o'clock on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 3: Our morning show that day will also be our pregame show. Uh,

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Speaker 3: for the game. Thank you all very much. We will

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Speaker 3: see you later. This has been in Kentucky Sports Radio.