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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now

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Speaker 2: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Where's Matt Jones?

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Speaker 4: Somewhere in the world. I'm not even sure, grease and

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Speaker 4: that's just it.

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Speaker 3: He's somewhere in the world. I'm Jeff Picoro. So it's

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Speaker 3: great to be here at KSR Bar and Drew. It's

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Speaker 3: great to have somebody sitting next to me instead of

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Speaker 3: be doing this flying solo. Of course, happy to be

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Speaker 3: here with you, so that's cool. Look, we're gonna open

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Speaker 3: that we're gonna talk to We're gonna talk to coach

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Speaker 3: Madison here just a little bit, the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 3: the great success that UK has had this year, and

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Speaker 3: and we were just talking about this trying to get

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Speaker 3: Band are you can't find them?

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Speaker 4: I was up early this morning looking on secondary markets,

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what it is really cool. It almost

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Speaker 3: it's almost like this is a new thing that people

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Speaker 4: No, I mean the Park's five years old, but its

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Speaker 4: first couple of years open right for cod it didn't

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Speaker 3: You know what I like. And you could expound on

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'll admit I attended more games since they

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Speaker 3: But dude, this is the most unbelievable fact that I

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Speaker 3: And Kenny from right here in Lesnon, Tates Creek. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to hear from him. I don't think we've

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Speaker 3: And I said, there's no way, and she was something else.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what, Why don't we take a

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Speaker 4: Let's do it all right, Let's let's run through. Uh,

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Speaker 3: What will what will we do?

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Speaker 3: Breakcome back in. I'm Jeff Picicoro along with Drew Franklin.

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Speaker 5: I'm great? Pick how you doing, buddy.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing fantastic. Thank you so much. I want to

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Speaker 5: Oh I'm talking about Yeah, I think I think this

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Like Coach Hall loved baseball and we would

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Speaker 5: drastically where you know, I don't want to see players

432
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Speaker 5: loyal to money instead of University of Kentucky. I'm really naive.

433
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Speaker 5: I'm I'm old school about stuff like that, you know.

434
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Speaker 5: And but at the same time, coaches leave for more

435
00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,239
Speaker 5: money all the time. And yeah, and that's uh and

436
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,520
Speaker 5: then and who does who does the grunt work the

437
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Speaker 5: players do? Right? Right? Right?

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Speaker 3: Coach?

439
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Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong.

440
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I was going to say, Uh, you know,

441
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 5: coaches work hard, don't get me wrong, But it's a

442
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Speaker 5: different kind of work. I mean, the the players are

443
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 5: leaving blood, sweat and tears on the fields and on

444
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Speaker 5: the courts every day.

445
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Speaker 3: Coach, I think anyone that listens when you're on with

446
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 3: Darren knows, or when you're on with Me or Dick

447
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,160
Speaker 3: or on the television side, knows how much you love

448
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 3: Kentucky and Kentucky baseball. But how excited are you for

449
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 3: this team, about what they're about to do and what

450
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 3: they're getting ready to get into here over the next

451
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Speaker 3: four days.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, my excitement and pride is off the

453
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Speaker 5: charts for this group. And it's a really classy group

454
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Speaker 5: of players. I mean, you might you might see him

455
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Speaker 5: doing all their shenanigans in the dugout, but it's the

456
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Speaker 5: phenomenal thing to me is that they compete. I mean

457
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 5: they're they're they're on every pitch where they're in between

458
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 5: the lines, They're focused, they're great competitors. And then at

459
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Speaker 5: least when I've been around them off the field, they

460
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 5: are absolutely great young men. Just a phenomenal group of

461
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Speaker 5: people that have really come together. You know, some Nick

462
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 5: recruited out of high school, some from the transfer portal.

463
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Speaker 5: But with Knick's leadership skills and his ability to bring

464
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Speaker 5: people together, these guys really care about each other and

465
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 5: compete for each other as well as for themselves. So

466
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Speaker 5: it's a special group and I'm very, very proud of them.

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Speaker 3: Coach. It's a bottom of the hour, and I got

468
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Speaker 3: to get to a break. I appreciate you coming on,

469
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 3: short and sweet, but I love talking to you and

470
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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see a Saturday evening.

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Speaker 5: All right, pick, I appreciate you talking to me and

472
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Speaker 5: we'll go cats.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thanks buddy, talk to you, so thank you. That's

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Speaker 3: the Hall of Famer Keith Madison. We'll be back with

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Speaker 3: the golf tournament and stuff. But uh yeah, every time

485
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Speaker 3: I hear the TJ. Smith commercial, I just see him

486
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Speaker 3: as the wildcat or as a cheerleader when he was

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Speaker 3: at UK. I can't take the dude. Seriously. He's a

488
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489
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Speaker 3: make you pay.

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Speaker 4: knows how to have fun. Yes, he does sponsor the show too.

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Speaker 3: Good guy all around. All right. We got a couple

496
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Speaker 3: of callers, so why don't we go to the line Shannon,

497
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Speaker 3: who we got?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 3: Let's start with Mickey, Mickey, what's going on Sun.

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Speaker 8: Hey guys, first time caller, a long time listener, I

501
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Speaker 8: want to talk a little baseball, if that's okay. Known

502
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Speaker 8: as coach Marshall around the city, I have coached a

503
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Speaker 8: long time and met a lot of great coaches. I

504
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Speaker 8: wanted to let you know, Jeff, at an early age,

505
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Speaker 8: I learned from one of the best watching and that

506
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Speaker 8: was your father, your father, coach, the legendary Southeastern Cubs.

507
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Speaker 8: I watched him do a play taught me two things.

508
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Speaker 8: He was intentionally walking a kid supposedly when the pitcher

509
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Speaker 8: threw the ball, the catcher squatted down and took strike

510
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Speaker 8: three and struck that kid out. And it taught me

511
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 8: that you had to one take a risk and two

512
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Speaker 8: have a trick up your sleeve. So I just wanted

513
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Speaker 8: to tell you that story that a lot of kids

514
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Speaker 8: learn as a youth about the love of the game,

515
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Speaker 8: and guys like your father taught a lot of kids.

516
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Speaker 8: So I just wanted to make that statement to you.

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Speaker 8: With baseball going on being so big this.

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Speaker 3: Weekend, well thank you so much, Vicky boy. He had

519
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Speaker 3: dad had a great time coach, and my father played

520
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Speaker 3: that I don't know if you knew this. He played

521
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Speaker 3: to Ohio State. The first baseman was a guy named

522
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Speaker 3: Frank Howard, pretty dark. Yeah, hall of famer. Second baseman

523
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Speaker 3: was a guy by the name of John hablechik Oh

524
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Speaker 3: Hall of famer in basketball. And my dad was the

525
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Speaker 3: backup catcher to Johnny Edwards, who was a great reds catcher.

526
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Speaker 3: Uh for the time. But yeah, I had some great

527
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Speaker 3: teams up there, and dad loved coaching. And that one year,

528
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Speaker 3: one year Mickey when that the All Star team had

529
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Speaker 3: Norton and and uh uh gosh, I can't remember all

530
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Speaker 3: these things, Ryan Sparks, Dusty Man. Yeah, and they lost

531
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Speaker 3: the are you ready for this? They lost in Tampa, Florida.

532
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Speaker 3: They would have gone to Williamsport. They lost to a

533
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Speaker 3: team that had Gary Sheffield and Derek Bell on the

534
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Speaker 3: same team that they lost in extra innings. Well, you know,

535
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Speaker 3: I'm twelve years old. Yeah, yeah, so man, that's crazy. Yeah,

536
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 3: there's some great There are some great coaches of Mickey

537
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Speaker 3: back there in Southeastern and in South Lexington. Mike Dotson,

538
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 3: who's a great friend of all of us. Here is

539
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 3: a wonderful coach over to South Lexington. Coach Austin Kerns

540
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Speaker 3: and all those guys. But you know that that's the

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Speaker 3: one thing, Mickey you brought up. There were some great

542
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Speaker 3: coaches here in the city for youth baseball and high

543
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Speaker 3: school baseball back in the day. Trip your a coach

544
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Speaker 3: Trip who just just passed away from Henry Clay. Uh

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Speaker 3: you know Ron Cole over at Tates Creek, Barry Pointer.

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Speaker 5: I mean the.

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Speaker 3: Really good coach. Yeah, great coaches.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we won.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate the phone call, thanks, Mickey, that was a great

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Speaker 3: first call. How about that? Thanks make appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: I want to butt in with a question from the

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Speaker 4: text machine because it fits in line with that. The

553
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 4: text machine, I have a Scott Woodhall who says he

554
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Speaker 4: knows Mickey and wants you'd explain why Creek, an alumnus

555
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Speaker 4: from eighty to nineties, ruled the world nineteen nineteen ninetyd

556
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Speaker 4: with all that Tates Creek over there, Well, I'll tell you,

557
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 4: especially in baseball, we won the state championship.

558
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Speaker 3: My sophomore and senior year. Had some really good ball

559
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 3: players who went on to play in college ball and stuff.

560
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 3: But Woodall and his brother, I think Scott's daughter just

561
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: won a year ago the Tommy Bell Award, which which

562
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 3: the Rotary Club gives away for the top female scholar athlete.

563
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 3: So I think she if I'm I don't. I can't

564
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Speaker 3: remember his lefe. She went to Lexan Catholic with Lexi Chrishner.

565
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 3: Maybe he was Sayir. I think it was Sair now

566
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 3: that I'm thinking, But anyway, you know this Creaker stayed together.

567
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 3: Man bat Well, you got to remember this too. There

568
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 3: were only four high schools back then. Well you include

569
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 3: Sayer in that, but Tate's Creek, Lafayete, Brian Station, Henry Clay.

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00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 3: They only Onesto played football. Lexan Catholic didn't have a

571
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Speaker 3: football team. They didn't start football till I think like

572
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 3: ninety or ninety one. So, and Dunbar wasn't around yet.

573
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 3: Frederick Douglass wasn't around yet, So it was it was

574
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Speaker 3: real interesting. Lafayette had an unbelievable basketball team. Uh. They

575
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 3: had five guys and I got college scholarships. Jeff Parrett

576
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 3: was the sixth man who played ten years Major League baseball. Uh.

577
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Speaker 3: So it was a great time to grow up in

578
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Speaker 3: the city.

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Speaker 4: And I want to be clear. The woodhalls are licensed Catholic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, all right, Uh before we go

581
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Speaker 3: to the callers, I think we got another Hall of

582
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Speaker 3: Famer is going to join us right now from the

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Speaker 3: UK football staff, Coach will Ward, how are you?

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Speaker 7: I'm doing good? How you doing?

585
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 8: So?

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Speaker 3: You got to tell me a little bit bit this

587
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 3: man we got We've we've already had one Hall of

588
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 3: Famer on now we got another. We congratulations.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate it, and I appreciate Irving Schools, Irving I

590
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Speaker 7: f B. Which is where I grew up in Texas,

591
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 7: for nominating me for that uh and giving me that

592
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 7: blessing in my life. Man, it was, it was. It

593
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 7: was nice to get back and touch friends and family

594
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Speaker 7: who I haven't seen in a while.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're going to see a lot more now that

596
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 3: Oklahoma and Texas or or are in the SEC, and

597
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 3: we're going to get a chance this year.

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Speaker 7: Right Yeah, well uh yeah, we go to we go

599
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 7: to Austin this year. But that's in Austin, not DFW.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're looking forward to that trip as well too.

602
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 7: I think our fans should be excited about that that

603
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Speaker 7: trip as well. Uh, hit me up, DM me if

604
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 7: y'all want to know where what place is to go eat?

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Speaker 7: That's that's uh, that's home.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of.

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00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 3: You just took the words right out of my mouth.

608
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 3: The barbecue in Texas to try I love try tip

609
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Speaker 3: and you can't get that a lot of places, but man,

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00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 3: you can get it in Texas.

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Speaker 7: That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And then you know

612
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Speaker 7: there's some of the legendary guys. Aaron Franklin's restaurant is there,

613
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 7: and you got to get there super early, or you

614
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 7: got to order it before you go to doing the

615
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 7: town so that you can pick it up when you

616
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Speaker 7: get there. But it's I mean, that line starts at

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Speaker 7: six am, man, and they don't open to eleven.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome, that's awesome. All right, let's talk a little

619
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Speaker 3: bit of football, and obviously you were brought in here

620
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: and kind of throw it into a little bit of

621
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 3: a tough situation because a lot of people think football

622
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 3: games are offensive defense. But there's three teams. There's offensive

623
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Speaker 3: defense and special teams. And when you're a great team,

624
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 3: the difference between winning eight or nine games and ten

625
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 3: or eleven or twelve games a lot of times comes

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Speaker 3: down to special teams and you know, I'm just go

627
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 3: throw it out there. Special teams wasn't great before you

628
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 3: got here, but last season was phenomenal. And I'm not

629
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 3: just trying to blow you know what up your backside,

630
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Speaker 3: but you had the best returner in football. You had

631
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Speaker 3: a field goal kicker that was fantastic and he's coming

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Speaker 3: back this year. And the other thing that I see

633
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 3: when I come to practice, when Tom and I go

634
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Speaker 3: to practice and Drew, it's amazing. We used to have

635
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 3: kicking practice at the practice was over and then they say, okay,

636
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 3: kick a team pum return punt. That's not the way

637
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 3: you do a coach. You guys have a period right

638
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Speaker 3: in the middle of practice and you go after.

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Speaker 7: It, right, yes sir, yes, sir.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 7: We start off every practice with the special teams period.

642
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 7: That's where our field goal field gold and field goal

643
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 7: blocked teams get their work. So that's so we actually

644
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 7: start the top and then at the bottom, and then

645
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,959
Speaker 7: we don't have anything at the end. At the end,

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00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 7: it's just for offense and defense and then coach stops

647
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Speaker 7: called up. So it is a priority for us very much.

648
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 7: So we were brought in here to to change the

649
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,719
Speaker 7: trajectory of where our special teams were headed. And I

650
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 7: really feel like we did that. You know, we we

651
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 7: climbed up from you know, c AI is the analytics,

652
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 7: right everybody's looking at analytics. It's the book that we

653
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 7: all talk about. Well, we we went from eighty third

654
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 7: in the country to twentieth in the country. We were

655
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 7: third in our league. And special teams efficiency, that's what

656
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 7: it's all about. It's not about man. I want to

657
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 7: go out there and see you know, for example, I

658
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 7: read all the comments. Man, I see people talk about

659
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 7: I want to I want I want us to punt further,

660
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 7: and this that and the other. We messed our punter

661
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 7: up and all this, and you know, all this type

662
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 7: of talk. And I'm here to ask people right now,

663
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 7: you have any idea how many big plays that we

664
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 7: gave up last year with our same punter and eighteen

665
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 7: rollout punts, we gave up two thirty plus yard returns,

666
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. And this you know this

667
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 7: year he started for us full time. So if you

668
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 7: do the math, you know we had sixty something punts.

669
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 7: If I do the math, you know that's somewhere around

670
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 7: six or seven of those bad boys just explosive returns

671
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 7: against us. Well, that's not the way we do business.

672
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 7: That's not the way the University Ducky is. We want

673
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 7: to eliminate the big plays from our opposing teams. We

674
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 7: don't want to give teams any momentum. We preached E

675
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 7: four on our special teams. We want to have energy,

676
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 7: we want to energize our football team, play with an edge,

677
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 7: and we want to execute. And for the most part,

678
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 7: you know, we did that. We had a physical mentality

679
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 7: to us. You know, we went down to Mississippi State

680
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 7: and you know, I'm just gonna talk about our kickoff

681
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 7: team because our kickoff team was one of the areas

682
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 7: that let me down toward the end of the year.

683
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 7: Once we got a bunch of guys heard guys were

684
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 7: talking about the transport port of the last two games

685
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 7: of the season, and so we we we missed some

686
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 7: of those guys, and we went on the road into

687
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 7: Mississippi State, the number one kick return team in our

688
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,719
Speaker 7: conference the year before, and every one of our stops

689
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 7: were inside the twenty yard line, every one of them,

690
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. And those got out did

691
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 7: it with a physical nature.

692
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 3: Man.

693
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 7: We took that on the road and dominated a really

694
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 7: good kick return team who a week later took one

695
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 7: to the house against Texas A and m yep yep.

696
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 3: We call that the hidden yardage. You know when you

697
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 3: talk you when you start a drive inside the twenty

698
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 3: or up at the thirty, those you know, that's a

699
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 3: first down. That's a whole first down that you're taking

700
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 3: away from that team that they have to earn against

701
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 3: our defense. Right, that's right, coach. Let me ask you

702
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 3: this question because a lot of people I'll say, you know,

703
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 3: you go out and get an Australian kicker, but you

704
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 3: wanted to stay in the pocket, so to speak. What

705
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 3: is the difference coverage wise for a punt team when

706
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 3: you have the whatever you want to call it, Australian

707
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 3: rollout kicker, whatever it is, and a guy that stays

708
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 3: in it, does it change things for the for the

709
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 3: coverage team?

710
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 7: Well, here's what changes things. Right, if you have a

711
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 7: great punter. You have a great punter. He can do whatever,

712
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. I mean, he can roll out,

713
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 7: he can pocket punt, he can do this, that and

714
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 7: the other. The difference for us is when I looked

715
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 7: at the tape on us from the year before. It's

716
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 7: not that we don't roll out punt, because we do.

717
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 7: We do have it in our scheme. We didn't do

718
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 7: it last year again because for that same reason. You know,

719
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 7: of the eighteen rollout punch that you know that we

720
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 7: had with our punter Wilson Barry last year, two of them,

721
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 7: had two of them with thirty plus yard returns, one

722
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 7: of them in the Iowa game. Right, think about that.

723
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 7: All the fans remember that I was hired already, I

724
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 7: just wasn't part of the I just wasn't coaching yet.

725
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 7: But I remember watching that man like man when that

726
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 7: dude caught that ball from Iowa. Man, he had nothing

727
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 7: but space. You know, we want to eliminate ball in

728
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 7: hand plus grass from the punk returners. And we only

729
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 7: had one situation last year where I felt like, you know,

730
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 7: oh man, he kind of got out out in front

731
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 7: of us a little bit in terms of against a

732
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 7: great returner against Georgia, but we got blocked in the

733
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 7: back and we were able to hold that one out.

734
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,439
Speaker 7: We didn't give up any thirty plus yard returns last year. Zero.

735
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 7: And that's that efficiency thing that you're talking about, just

736
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 7: because I can punt it further. You know what I

737
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 7: mean with lower hang time doesn't mean that's what we

738
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 7: should be doing. And that's what some rollout punts do

739
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 7: for you if you're not able to put the ball

740
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 7: in the air with their appropriate hangtime so your coverage

741
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 7: units can run underneath it. In this league, man, when

742
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 7: you get against some of these great return mans, you

743
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 7: have to be consistent at ball placement, hang time, and distance.

744
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 7: And if you're consistent with hangtime in distance which will

745
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 7: allow your coverage units to get downfield and make that play,

746
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 7: then you can eliminate whoever's across from you. You know,

747
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,720
Speaker 7: I've been in this league before, man, I mean Honey Badger,

748
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 7: Patrick Peterson. I mean, you know, be at the cob

749
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 7: kid here. I mean there's there's been some guys here man.

750
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 7: I mean you give that you put the ball in

751
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 7: their hand, plus some grass man, and it's it's over.

752
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

753
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 7: True, I got it's trouble.

754
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 3: You got one. You got one on your return team

755
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 3: number seven the same way too.

756
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, berry On Brown Man, let me tell you

757
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 7: what and and and and I don't want to take

758
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 7: anything away from him, but I do want to speak

759
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 7: on that whole unit as you know, as a whole right,

760
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 7: as a collective. Man, those guys, man, do you realize

761
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 7: the first two return mans? I think I even heard

762
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 7: you say it on on online. He wasn't even touched.

763
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 7: He wasn't even touched, you know what I mean? I mean, yes,

764
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 7: that's what you said. That's what you said. Man. It's like, man,

765
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 7: these holes that these guys are executing on that unit.

766
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 7: That's a great unit. That's not just a great individual.

767
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 7: Not saying that Burryon is not a great individual, because yeah,

768
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 7: these fastest men in college football, but there's a whole

769
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 7: bunch of teams that got fast guys all over their

770
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 7: team and can't can't do with that what that kickoff

771
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 7: return did team did last year? Three kickoff return teams

772
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 7: for touchdown deven teams all time in kickoff return average

773
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,439
Speaker 7: is what Barry arn Brown did last year. So that's

774
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 7: all time, you know, that's that's the history books, that's

775
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 7: what that's what was done last year on special teams.

776
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 7: And our guys realize that despite all the you know,

777
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 7: you know, we got to close out the noise, any negativity.

778
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 7: Anybody that wants to comment on what we're doing and

779
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 7: don't really know the fabric of our room.

780
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 5: Man.

781
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 7: You should see those guys. They all come up to

782
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 7: us all the time. Man, I'm excited to be back

783
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 7: on special teams. I love the energy. You make it fun.

784
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 7: You know, all those type of comments. That's when we

785
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 7: know we're playing winning football.

786
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep. I've always said you've got to want to

787
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 3: be on special teams to be successful.

788
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 7: Hey, that's exactly right. I'd rather have volunteers and hostages,

789
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 7: you know. I don't want anybody on those units man,

790
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 7: that don't want to do it. They don't want to

791
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 7: do it with everything that they got to represent the

792
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 7: University of Kentucky in a first class manner, and we

793
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 7: want to be the best in the country. I don't

794
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 7: care who we're playing against or who you know who.

795
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 7: That guy is back there, man, we want to drop

796
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,479
Speaker 7: that ball in his hands and set his butt down.

797
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 7: That's what we're all about.

798
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 3: Well, coach, I know you've got camps going on and

799
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 3: you got a scoot. I appreciate you taking a couple

800
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 3: of minutes with us, and I'll see you soon, all right.

801
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, y'all take care of appreciated.

802
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 3: Thanks coach coach Ja Boltware. He's a special teams coach

803
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 3: and running backs coach. You didn't eve get to talk

804
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 3: about chip training. But man, why do you see this

805
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 3: guy you talk about a body? Wow, this guy is

806
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 3: built like herschel Walker. I mean he's gonna be something else.

807
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 3: Telling you that the portal, it looks like he is

808
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 3: something else. All right, we got to hit a break.

809
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 3: It's ten forty coming out and join us. We open

810
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 3: up at eleven o'clock. Come in here. We got phones open.

811
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 3: We'll get to those when we return. Right after this.

812
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 3: On KSR Radio, we are back at KSR. I'm Jeff

813
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 3: Pickoor along with Drew Franklin, Shannon, the dude in the

814
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 3: studio running the commercials and everything. The only guy happy

815
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 3: about the game last night, I think was Shannon, Big

816
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 3: Boston Celtics fan. Hey, I know we have a couple

817
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 3: of callers, Emily and Brad. I think it is online.

818
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 3: I don't want to jipy out of any time because

819
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 3: we're kind of up against the top of the If

820
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 3: you hang on, we'll get to your first first thing

821
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 3: coming out. But Shannon, I guess you're pretty excited about

822
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 3: a win last night you won by twenty oh.

823
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 2: Look great, Porzingis could not be stopped. I mean he

824
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 2: had been out for quite a while and came back

825
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 2: in didn't miss a beat. So yeah, very happy. They're

826
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 2: up one to oh and hopefully they could take care

827
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 2: of business for the next game, which is again in Boston,

828
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 2: and then we'll see where it goes from there. But

829
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 2: the duror of the DraftKings, Yeah, he's not happy.

830
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 3: Not happy. Yeah, And I think there's a lot of

831
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 3: people listening that aren't happy.

832
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 4: Before I'm aware, I'm not I had to cast blame

833
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 4: on anyone else. This is on me. I made the

834
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 4: picks and it didn't win. We lost money because of me. However,

835
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 4: this is two games in a row, a blowout has

836
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 4: thrown things off, and a former Cat didn't make a

837
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 4: three pointer. There you go, Shannon, remember this moment. It

838
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 4: is June seventh, at ten to fifty five, am. I

839
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 4: Drew Franklin will not put former Cats hitting threes and

840
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 4: he parleys moving forward. This is two in a row.

841
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 4: We've lost his former cats and three pointers. Specifically, I

842
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 4: knew better on this one. I did it anyway, hand up,

843
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 4: This is all on me. Anyone that bet it. Do

844
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 4: not blame PJ.

845
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 3: Washington.

846
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 4: He had nothing to do with this. This is on

847
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 4: Drew Franklin. No more former Cats than the parley is

848
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 4: moving forward.

849
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 5: I like that.

850
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: I'm not mad at you because yesterday I fully backed it.

851
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 3: We know we went through this leg by leg.

852
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 2: It looked good, it sounded good.

853
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 4: Got his assists by halftime. Yeah, I mean they were

854
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 4: gonna blow by that over if they didn't put the

855
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 4: the end of the bench in. But no excuses. Will

856
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 4: be better next time. It's a tough loss for the parley.

857
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 3: So yesterday was the real deep day and then last

858
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: night was we Unfortunately.

859
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 4: Man, I'm glad she had team one. It's not all

860
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 4: about gann his team one. That's more important. Gambling's just

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Speaker 4: fun entertainment purposes. Use Draft King, do it responsibly. But

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Speaker 4: I am sorry for including a former Cat. No more

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Speaker 4: moving forward, Shannon, you remember this you.

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Speaker 3: Cat something today?

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Speaker 4: We'll have something for game two. It won't have a

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Speaker 4: former Cat, but it'll be on Draft Kings, crown as yours,

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Speaker 4: all that good stuff. Use promo cok sor if you

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Speaker 4: sign up. Did you have a team in the you

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Speaker 4: got an NBA guy? You team care about Celtics or MAVs.

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Speaker 3: I was never a Celtics fan growing up, only because

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Speaker 3: I love the Sixers back when Julia Servine and all

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Speaker 3: those hits. And then I love the Lakers when it

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Speaker 3: was Michael Cooper and Magic first got in there and stuff.

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Speaker 3: I just thought they were kind of cool, you know.

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Speaker 3: And then when Moses Malone and Darryl Dawkins and Irvine,

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Speaker 3: I mean that that was just they were cool, and

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Speaker 3: the Celtics were like, come on, man, they were just

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Speaker 3: kind of square, you know, and their fans you just

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Speaker 3: hate it. It was like I had all the time,

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Speaker 3: I hate the Steelers because of that. They're too good

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Speaker 3: at Boston was too good, so I always wanted them

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Speaker 3: to get beat. So anyway, yeah, so there you go.

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Speaker 3: All right, Hey, one hours of the Books. That was quick.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to Kenny mcpee coming up this hour, and

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Speaker 3: you the callers too when we come back. Come on

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Speaker 3: out and join us here at KSR Bar. We'd love

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Speaker 3: to have you, of course. Be yep. Hour number two

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Speaker 3: coming up after this