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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, March the fourth. I'm
Speaker 3: Matt Jones here live in Lexington, Kentucky on an absolutely
Speaker 3: gorgeous day. Temperature is going to be up. I think
Speaker 3: a lot of this week, and it is started today,
Speaker 3: last home game of the year, and we are at
Speaker 3: the Chas Bar and grayl And I'm just gonna go
Speaker 3: ahead and tell you this is the last last home game.
Speaker 3: So if you don't come out for either lunch today
Speaker 3: or the show uh later, I think there's a very
Speaker 3: good chance you'll end up deported to Canada.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, I'm not trying to like threaten people.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, I think it would be a
Speaker 3: good idea because I feel like you're gonna send us.
Speaker 5: To our fifty first date.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well it's not only important though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the people people getting the whole Canada thing has
Speaker 3: become like they booed the national anthem at the at Toronto.
Speaker 4: Pat McAfee got all upset. Everybody. You told me they
Speaker 4: booed Reed Shephard.
Speaker 6: And they can he's not Canadian. But yeah, they continue
Speaker 6: to boo Reach Shepherd at Reparina, which is shocking.
Speaker 4: That's amazing to me.
Speaker 6: When they just they show all the NBA guys kind
Speaker 6: up before the game, they're still booing read he still
Speaker 6: gets some booh wow.
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Speaker 3: called TJ will make them pay. We're here until noon,
Speaker 3: so come on out have lunch with us. The pregame
Speaker 3: show starts at four thirty right here, and then the
Speaker 3: game is at seven. It is senior night, it is
Speaker 3: Kentucky and LSU. It is a must win game. I
Speaker 3: think for Kentucky I to get a bye. I think
Speaker 3: if you win this, you probably have still a pretty
Speaker 3: good shot of getting a three or four seed in
Speaker 3: the NCAA Tournament, maybe avoiding a trip out to Seattle.
Speaker 4: Ryan a lot on the line tonight.
Speaker 3: Against an LSU team that isn't good, but it's had
Speaker 3: one or two games where they look good.
Speaker 4: Hopefully it's not tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they've only won was it three or
Speaker 5: four sec game?
Speaker 7: It seems like they've been in a lot of game
Speaker 7: till going down to the final minutes.
Speaker 3: Didn't they beat Did they beat Florida? They beat somebody good?
Speaker 4: Didn't they?
Speaker 6: They beat Arkansas because Damien Collins blocked him at the buzzer.
Speaker 6: They beat Oklahoma, and then they beat South Carolina.
Speaker 4: Okay, well never mind. So they are three horse teams. Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: I mean in theory, they could have beaten somebody good.
Speaker 6: They played Florida, Okay, well they didn't win, but it
Speaker 6: was it was.
Speaker 5: Several games they've played pretty close.
Speaker 2: They played ale Miss to two points.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I was thinking. Of is the old
Speaker 4: miss game.
Speaker 3: Well Am nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
Speaker 3: Ryan Lemon and I we were we you and I
Speaker 3: were talking about White Lotus. People got mad when I
Speaker 3: talked about it a few weeks ago. They said that
Speaker 3: it was a spoiler alert. So we won't do that. Well,
Speaker 3: maybe I've considered going back to my TikTok to do
Speaker 3: my white Lotus theaters idea, but then I don't know
Speaker 3: how to do it, and you have to edit it,
Speaker 3: and you have to put in a floating head and
Speaker 3: Marios in Louisville today, So I can't do that.
Speaker 4: But what I can do? What are you lapping at?
Speaker 4: You're right?
Speaker 7: The floating head thing is becoming like the thing to do,
Speaker 7: like they do floating heads. You know are you're not
Speaker 7: on TikTok, No, but I see it on Instagram. They
Speaker 7: do it on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Oh here's the floating heads coming out in your world.
Speaker 3: Wait till it gets on Facebook. Shit, and then he'll
Speaker 3: really know about it.
Speaker 4: That's right, Yeah, that's right, once it gets there.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, So first of all, we're gonna make this and
Speaker 3: ask anything Tuesday, Okay, Since Wednesday, we're gonna be talking
Speaker 3: about the game. Ask anything Tuesday seven seven two seven
Speaker 3: seven four five two four on the text machine, or
Speaker 3: you can write whatever your question about UK sports. This
Speaker 3: is a good time to get the what really happened
Speaker 3: or about us If you want to ask that, that's fine.
Speaker 3: Yesterday the text machine blow up with two things. Probably
Speaker 3: seven hundred people wrote me and said do you see
Speaker 3: what Reed is doing against Oklahoma City? They were probably
Speaker 3: not the people that booed. And secondly, people talking about fairies.
Speaker 3: And those were the two things that I got the
Speaker 3: most of, including one man I wish I could find
Speaker 3: it said, I went home, told my wife about what
Speaker 3: you were talking about so we could laugh at it.
Speaker 3: And then she told me that after I go to sleep.
Speaker 4: She refilled.
Speaker 3: And I said, well, I'm sorry you had to find
Speaker 3: that out, Drew. Unfortunately, he said, thanks a lot, Matt,
Speaker 3: now that I know that.
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Speaker 5: Well, yesterday you meet that.
Speaker 4: Show, I tell you about your wives.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, yesterday you mentioned the Kentucky author who writes
Speaker 7: these books. Was it Kristin Lee or and then she
Speaker 7: tweets us she was. That's how I found out, is
Speaker 7: she tweeted this. I thought she tweeted after the show.
Speaker 4: No, No, she she tweeted me.
Speaker 7: Before that that that's kind of cool though, that it's
Speaker 7: that popular. She immediately the the one author you mentioned.
Speaker 3: Reason I knew about it. She tweeted during the show,
Speaker 3: and I thought it was interesting, so I said.
Speaker 7: It, and so she heard the topics. Somebody them must
Speaker 7: have maybe tagged her in it or something, and she
Speaker 7: she tweeted first, like she that's what started the whole conversation.
Speaker 4: Yes, she sent me a message, yes, saying that she
Speaker 4: doesn't understand she was the one that sent it.
Speaker 3: She was listening, heard us talking about this, and then said,
Speaker 3: I do books like this, but for athletes.
Speaker 6: I thought it gave it away when you told us
Speaker 6: that the author tweeted you and then you reather tweets.
Speaker 4: That's a good hint, That's what I was saying.
Speaker 7: And she heard us talking about it, so she tweeted
Speaker 7: you once, you finally said during this during the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, yeah, I thought that was cool.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: Well, all right, so let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 3: getting ready for tonight. Mark Pope had his Goodbye Senior
Speaker 3: press conference. Let's go over some notes. First of all,
Speaker 3: Kerkrisa was not mentioned. Will not be going through senior
Speaker 3: day Saramony. Do you think that means something?
Speaker 4: I would hope it does.
Speaker 7: I'm hope it means that, you know, they're gonna maybe
Speaker 7: try to get a medical red shirt and keeping here.
Speaker 5: But of course there's nothing to say he can go
Speaker 5: and play someplace else or.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I think it
Speaker 3: means something. I don't know if it means staying here.
Speaker 3: I think it means he probably plans on playing another
Speaker 3: year of college basketball.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Pope said, I took the guys out and who've
Speaker 6: exhausted their eligibility, leaving creases out of that group. So
Speaker 6: I think he'll be playing college basketball next year. I
Speaker 6: don't know that I expected in Lexington, but that's why
Speaker 6: he's not going through it today, and didn't have dinner with.
Speaker 3: Them, So he's gonna have uh, they're gonna have Butler.
Speaker 4: What is it? Butler? Olmanor Carr Williams is that the
Speaker 4: group Robinson.
Speaker 6: It would have been with Kerr would have have been
Speaker 6: the most ever with seven but six times a te.
Speaker 3: Six guys and you know, six guys who all have
Speaker 3: really in their year here contributed to the program. I
Speaker 3: think we went from not having a senior night or
Speaker 3: only having it with walk ons, to this will be
Speaker 3: like a real senior night, saying goodbye basically to the
Speaker 3: vasman majority of the team.
Speaker 5: You're right, the only guys that stayed here four years
Speaker 5: during the calary A lot of time we're just walking.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's only a handful. I mean, can you
Speaker 3: name the seniors that played all four years.
Speaker 4: For John cal Perry, Alex Poyters. There's one, Derrick Willis.
Speaker 5: There's two, Dominique Hawkins, there's three.
Speaker 4: Can you name the other?
Speaker 5: There's another one, John Hood john Hood?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, anybody else you can think of?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Four years, four years.
Speaker 5: It was a scholarship players scholarship.
Speaker 4: Alex Poyter's he mentioned him, Jared Poulsen count Well, he
Speaker 4: went back.
Speaker 3: He started as a walk on and ended up. So
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I won't. I won't put him on there.
Speaker 5: Hmmm. No, I think I'm maybe.
Speaker 4: Are those the only four? That those may be the
Speaker 4: only four.
Speaker 3: I don't have the answer in my head, but that
Speaker 3: they might be, which is pretty amazing. There would only
Speaker 3: be four, uh in fifteen years teen years, but I
Speaker 3: I think that might be. And three of them are
Speaker 3: from Kentucky. So really it's just Alex Poyters.
Speaker 6: That was you know, yeah, we only there's one senior Day.
Speaker 6: It's like two years ago he had six. It was
Speaker 6: topping Oscar Wheeler Frederick. That was a big group. But
Speaker 6: other than that, we haven't really had that.
Speaker 3: Once the portal opened, we started getting a lot of
Speaker 3: those guys. But so let's go through some of these
Speaker 3: folks here. First of all, I always like to do
Speaker 3: this on Senior Day, kind of like what's your what's
Speaker 3: your memory of Let's start with Jackson Robinson, who Pope
Speaker 3: said burst into tears after the game against Oklahoma once
Speaker 3: he realized he couldn't play. That kind of made my
Speaker 3: heart flutter a little bit, they he said. Robinson knew
Speaker 3: as soon as he got to the bench that was it.
Speaker 3: He tried to hold it together during the game and
Speaker 3: then cried after it was over.
Speaker 4: What did you think of.
Speaker 7: That breaks my heart to hear that. Did she tells
Speaker 7: how much these guys really care. They're here one year,
Speaker 7: but they really care about this program and their teammates
Speaker 7: in the locker room. I hate to hear that. I mean,
Speaker 7: my biggest memory of him maybe the Gonzaga game. Yea
Speaker 7: played great Inack played great, have to move to point
Speaker 7: guard and played out stay after you know, Butler was out,
Speaker 7: Creasey gets hurt during the game, they moved Jackson over.
Speaker 5: One of his best games of the year.
Speaker 3: I mean that that to me will be his kind
Speaker 3: of legacy game. It canucky was that one, you know,
Speaker 3: I think I think he got like eighty five percent
Speaker 3: of where we wanted to go.
Speaker 4: Obviously if he wanted to play the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Didn't quite become a star star, but I still think
Speaker 3: consistently was our best score if when it happened when
Speaker 3: when he was going.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when he would get hot, you know, he'd pull
Speaker 6: up for him anywhere he'd go and runs, especially earlier
Speaker 6: the season. I know the competition wasn't the same in
Speaker 6: the non conference, but it felt like he had some
Speaker 6: games where he was just absolutely on fire and we
Speaker 6: were so excited to get a full year of him
Speaker 6: and unfortunately get robbed of vet Lamont.
Speaker 3: Butler obviously when he looked back to his whole career
Speaker 3: went to a Final four. But I think huge key
Speaker 3: to what happens for the rest of the time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean ye team is a different team when he's
Speaker 3: not the one bringing the ball up.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt.
Speaker 7: And we saw the difference with the when he was
Speaker 7: out with makes when late game situations we needed him.
Speaker 7: That Texas game comes to mind. My best memory of
Speaker 7: him is gonna be the Louisville game, though right he
Speaker 7: was perfect.
Speaker 4: He has that Louisville game forever.
Speaker 3: He joins the list of guys who went off against
Speaker 3: Louisville over.
Speaker 6: The years ten for ten and six for six from
Speaker 6: and there's like one point shot of the record for points.
Speaker 4: In the Louisville game. That's pretty much You're not gonna
Speaker 4: find a better game than that.
Speaker 3: Kobe Brea, I think we if you're thinking about one game,
Speaker 3: you think of the Florida game. I just think of
Speaker 3: a guy that when he's open and going, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure how many guys have felt more money than him
Speaker 3: when he's open and and going, like you just go, well,
Speaker 3: that's a layup.
Speaker 7: He has forced defenses to concentrate on him so much
Speaker 7: it's kind of helped everybody else because they're doing everything
Speaker 7: they can to prevent him from getting a look. Jay
Speaker 7: Bill is still causing the best shooter in college basketball
Speaker 7: right now. He did the other night, So Andrew.
Speaker 3: Carr, I think you go back to like what like
Speaker 3: the Duke game and as his big one, and and
Speaker 3: you know he's had.
Speaker 4: To deal with back stuff all year.
Speaker 3: But I think I think his big he's gonna have
Speaker 3: some big moments still to come because I think he's
Speaker 3: he's starting to get like we saw in that Duke game.
Speaker 4: In those early games in the year.
Speaker 6: Gonzaga too, I think he scored the bucket and regulation
Speaker 6: to help get its overtime, both the biggest wins of
Speaker 6: the season. He was a key part in the second
Speaker 6: half comeback. I mean, just same with Robinson. I wonder
Speaker 6: if he had a year of him healthy, what you
Speaker 6: could have seen.
Speaker 3: Out of car Yeah, I totally agree with that. Ansley
Speaker 3: Almanor standing in the corner hitting threes?
Speaker 4: Is that? Is that what you're Ansley Almanole.
Speaker 6: I don't know a player that's appreciated being in Kentucky
Speaker 6: more than Ansley almanor including guys that are from here
Speaker 6: and grew up with posters on their walls. That guy,
Speaker 6: any moment you look at him, he's smiling. When he
Speaker 6: gets to do interviews, all he wants to talk about
Speaker 6: is how much he loves being at Kentucky. I'll remember
Speaker 6: him just for his appreciation and that you did you
Speaker 6: thought he was gonna be the eleventh Man?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean is I'm always associating with Mario because
Speaker 3: I was sitting next to Mario at that day Pro
Speaker 3: Day and I was like, that dude's not playing here
Speaker 3: and he was like, yes he is.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, he's not. I said he's not,
Speaker 4: and then he's done it. And I have a theory
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 6: I think he was sandbagging on pro Day to show
Speaker 6: them that how much better he'd get throughout the year.
Speaker 3: I'll say this about appreciation. You know, one of the
Speaker 3: things I think the cow guys all appreciated being here
Speaker 3: more than our fans sort of realized the vast majority
Speaker 3: of not all of them, but most of them. But
Speaker 3: there certainly was sense amongst our fan base that these
Speaker 3: one and done guys are just here, they just leave.
Speaker 3: A lot of it was Cal would just say it.
Speaker 3: I mean Cal would say all the time, like they're
Speaker 3: here for the NBA, they're here for me. And it's
Speaker 3: sometimes made Kentucky fans feel like unappreciated. Annsley really this
Speaker 3: whole group, but Annsley Olmanor in particular sort of reaffirmed
Speaker 3: to people, Hey, the name on the front matters, and
Speaker 3: it matters more than you realize. And having a group
Speaker 3: of guys, and I think this is true of all
Speaker 3: six of these seniors who really felt like they had
Speaker 3: reached a goal. Just being here, I think really made
Speaker 3: the fans feel better. It wasn't a step to another goal.
Speaker 3: It was a very important goal in and of itself.
Speaker 7: I think as fans, we're only here for one short season.
Speaker 7: It drew us closer to these guys because of that,
Speaker 7: because we could tell his love of wanting to put
Speaker 7: on that uniform.
Speaker 5: We now appreciate except those guys I think even more.
Speaker 3: And then finally a Marii Williams. I'm not sure very
Speaker 3: many players have gotten better in the year the then
Speaker 3: Mario Willims. I think at the end of the year
Speaker 3: he could be frustrating, dribble too much, don't put his
Speaker 3: hands up on offense and rebounding. And in the last
Speaker 3: ten games he's been he's been awesome. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: been absolutely awesome. Difference between he's on the floor when
Speaker 3: he's not is exponentially different. He's a very unique player.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can see why Pope liked him. Those passes,
Speaker 3: his ability to run the offense from the top of
Speaker 3: the key.
Speaker 4: Really have enjoyed him.
Speaker 3: In the last ten games, I mean, he's gone from
Speaker 3: a player that, if I'm being honest, was maybe the
Speaker 3: most frustrating player to me early to get him back
Speaker 3: in we need to come back.
Speaker 6: When we got to interview all the players last June,
Speaker 6: I immediately knew and Mario Willims was my favorite. I
Speaker 6: didn't expect him to be as good as he is.
Speaker 6: I thought he might be the fourth or fifth best player.
Speaker 6: They played a lot of good defense.
Speaker 4: But I've been.
Speaker 6: Rooting that guy since, for that guy, since the moment
Speaker 6: he got on campus. And to see what he turned
Speaker 6: into with the fourth triple double in history and all
Speaker 6: these other crazy stats, with his per forty minute stats
Speaker 6: and things like that, it's been amazing to watch. I
Speaker 6: think he's not done yet. I think big things coming
Speaker 6: for him too.
Speaker 7: I hate to think what this team would be without
Speaker 7: Amario Williams. I mean, he's been the MVP of the
Speaker 7: SEC season so far, and he's, like Drew said, I
Speaker 7: think he's still got some big games to come and
Speaker 7: in in March.
Speaker 3: And Mark Pope and Oway seemed to suggest he's gonna
Speaker 3: look at the draft but still would come back, and
Speaker 3: it sounded like would come back here. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think if he comes back, it will be here. I
Speaker 3: think he'll end up back here because I'm not sure
Speaker 3: the draft will give him a response that would get
Speaker 3: him in the first round. Probably can make more money
Speaker 3: here next year than he can make in the pros.
Speaker 3: But I do want to say, with these six guys,
Speaker 3: you know, there might still be a special March run
Speaker 3: to come.
Speaker 4: But I do really appreciate all of these guys. This
Speaker 4: was a team.
Speaker 3: Thrown together, and you know, they've brought a different kind
Speaker 3: of special excitement back to the Kentucky teams. And we
Speaker 3: haven't had dudes like this. We might have had one
Speaker 3: on the team every year, but to have a whole roster,
Speaker 3: I just a really app for this group. I think
Speaker 3: fans will look back fondly at them kind of no
Speaker 3: matter what happens, don't you.
Speaker 7: I think there's no doubt that's We said this early
Speaker 7: on that this may be Mark Post's most important recruiting class.
Speaker 7: He has it during his entire career here for getting
Speaker 7: the program back to where the fans were excited again
Speaker 7: about watching the team develop.
Speaker 3: He also said that he talked about who was coming back,
Speaker 3: and then he said we have He said we have
Speaker 3: three freshmen four now, and he emphasized four now, which
Speaker 3: makes us think he probably still thinks he can get
Speaker 3: Nate Ament. And then he said, we're going to go
Speaker 3: get a couple of superstar transfers. He didn't just say players,
Speaker 3: he said superstar. That's good because we're gonna need him.
Speaker 3: But I thought that was an important comment.
Speaker 6: The word superstar really jumped out to me because I agree.
Speaker 6: I mean, as much as I like some of the
Speaker 6: guys he's gonna have back, he's gonna have to recruit
Speaker 6: over a lot of them to build what he needs.
Speaker 6: We've seen this year what he's missing. I think O
Speaker 6: Way is his number one must retain. But other than that,
Speaker 6: I think any of the guys could get recruited over
Speaker 6: stars is.
Speaker 4: A big comment. So that was interesting.
Speaker 3: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
Speaker 3: take a break, it's Ask Anything Tuesday here at ks Bars,
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Speaker 4: Working back at this Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
Speaker 3: text machine seven seven two seven to seven four five
Speaker 3: two five four ask anything uh Tuesday? One person right,
Speaker 3: Jordan writes Matt. It's Jordan from North Carolina. What's the
Speaker 3: rarest piece of sports memorabilia that each of you own?
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever said this on here. I
Speaker 3: own a pair of shoes that one of the UK
Speaker 3: players was wearing when they beat Louisville in the Final four.
Speaker 4: In twenty twelve. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say which one because I don't
Speaker 3: think they wanted me to publicize that. They they sold
Speaker 3: them to me. But uh, but after they finished here,
Speaker 3: I bought, uh they would they would. They didn't want
Speaker 3: to get part with the National Championship shoes. But I
Speaker 3: have the beat Louisville in the Final four shoes. So
Speaker 3: that's you got.
Speaker 5: Some kind of rare shoes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but not like I mean other people that
Speaker 3: this is something nobody else has this particular thing.
Speaker 4: What about you?
Speaker 5: Uh? You know.
Speaker 7: I've got part of the floor that the old Phantom
Speaker 7: Hickory High School Milond High School in Indiana. I got
Speaker 7: it framed with their team picture. I got a piece
Speaker 7: of the old Island High School real it's the real
Speaker 7: floor from the old Milan High School they took the
Speaker 7: movie Hoosiers from.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's very cool. You drew.
Speaker 6: You got something I'm trying to get, like a unique piece.
Speaker 6: I mean I have a squirt can Son by Katina
Speaker 6: Powell that's pretty unique. Mostly yeah, it's upstairs. Got it
Speaker 6: during the very.
Speaker 2: Those out there.
Speaker 6: I have a lot of good autographs, big names, got
Speaker 6: a couple of Jordan's like Joe Dimajo, Babe Ruth, but
Speaker 6: nothing like a piece that not many people have something of.
Speaker 3: One person writes Matt, don't be talking about Benedict Shephard.
Speaker 3: Me and my family are not Reed fans until you apologize.
Speaker 3: I mean, I am amazed how much that stuck. To
Speaker 3: be honest with you, I really am. I mean I
Speaker 3: thought it would be like a little thing, but it
Speaker 3: really I think if we had.
Speaker 4: Won, I think people would have gotten. But the fact
Speaker 4: we lost, I think makes it to where it just
Speaker 4: it just stuck.
Speaker 7: And I honestly think if he had worn a Kentucky
Speaker 7: shirt and Arkansas shorts, it wouldn't be near a big deal.
Speaker 3: The problem was it was reversed. I agree with you.
Speaker 3: I think if it had been the other way, people
Speaker 3: wouldn't have liked it. But at least because they were
Speaker 3: able to put out the picture shed and it's at
Speaker 3: Arkansas on top.
Speaker 2: That's right, yeah, you know, And it's just like one,
Speaker 2: you know, small little change that could have made a
Speaker 2: big difference.
Speaker 4: Don't know why it different can make a big difference.
Speaker 3: I mean, people will get over it, but it's lingered
Speaker 3: longer than I thought it would.
Speaker 4: To be honest with your who's up first, Mike, Mike,
Speaker 4: what you got?
Speaker 8: You all kind of tested on what I want to
Speaker 8: talk about earlier? About the roster next year. I think
Speaker 8: this year I kind of thought maybe they had an
Speaker 8: elite eight running them the way the roster was constructed.
Speaker 8: But the guys they're losing. None of those guys coming
Speaker 8: backer in my as kid as the guys we're losing.
Speaker 8: So and I you say, somebody's looking for a couple
Speaker 8: of superstars. I sure hope so, because I actually thought
Speaker 8: he might have some tenth seasons to have to send
Speaker 8: some people white Garrison start.
Speaker 4: He might.
Speaker 3: I think that's genuinely possible. I appreciate the call. I mean,
Speaker 3: first of all, O way coming back is big. Yes,
Speaker 3: if you get our way back, you're getting what was
Speaker 3: our most consistent scorebacks. That would be big, you know.
Speaker 3: I do think though, and I think Jasper Johnson is
Speaker 3: the level of freshman that's gonna come in and be
Speaker 3: really good. Okay, the other two guys I think will contribute.
Speaker 3: I don't know that they're starters right off the bat.
Speaker 4: Do you think No.
Speaker 6: I think he's gotta go out and get just about everything.
Speaker 6: But oh way, I think you gotta. I mean, I
Speaker 6: like Brandon Garrison, but I don't think you can go
Speaker 6: in next year with just Marino and Garrison. I think
Speaker 6: if you can find a good center that kind of
Speaker 6: matches what Amari does a little bit, you gotta have that.
Speaker 6: You gotta have a point, Guarden. I mean, the freshman
Speaker 6: will be decent, but you can't just go in thinking
Speaker 6: that they're gonna be it. You gotta go out and
Speaker 6: get some guys that you know, And I don't.
Speaker 3: Think he has to go get a whole roster, but
Speaker 3: I think he's gotta go get four or five guys
Speaker 3: and they all have to play like that. Like I mean,
Speaker 3: in some ways, it's gonna be the same thing he
Speaker 3: did this year, except he's gonna have an AH way
Speaker 3: and he's gonna have built some depth, hopefully through these
Speaker 3: freshmen coming through.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I think he wants to build the roster the way
Speaker 3: Danny Hurley does at Yukon, which one or two superstars
Speaker 3: freshmen coming through the program, go get me three or
Speaker 3: four transfers. I think that's what he wants to do.
Speaker 3: But that's a two or three year process.
Speaker 4: Probably.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's looking at He's probably got to think in
Speaker 7: his mind, I gotta go get four starters. I don't
Speaker 7: know if Garrison's gonna be one of those comedy thinks
Speaker 7: that he's gotta think that point thinking away.
Speaker 3: Is the only guy on the team that I'm certain
Speaker 3: could start the same year. Now, maybe some of the
Speaker 3: other guys work their way into starting, but he's the
Speaker 3: only one I think is certain can start.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's gonna be his mindset.
Speaker 7: I gotta go in this portal and dead, you know,
Speaker 7: get my roster ready with four dish starters, look for
Speaker 7: each position, and go get that guy that will help
Speaker 7: us most.
Speaker 4: You think we get a foreigner.
Speaker 3: More?
Speaker 4: That sounded a lot more sort.
Speaker 3: Of maga than I wanted to do. You think we
Speaker 3: get a foreigner my fault? Do you think we get
Speaker 3: a European or a player from another international player?
Speaker 4: Be better than saying a foreigner.
Speaker 6: I mean there's been some mentions of guys, like there's
Speaker 6: two different Italian big men whose names have been thrown out.
Speaker 6: With the way Pope plays in the European game, it
Speaker 6: wouldn't surprise me if he had added someone.
Speaker 4: See, I think European big men would be exactly what
Speaker 4: he perfect.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like they like that is for
Speaker 3: his offense, like British, like that's you, that's European. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're not in the EU anymore, but it's still so
Speaker 3: maybe we maybe we just constantly occur yeah curs from Estonia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe he's a quoting he recruits the whole globe. Yeah,
Speaker 4: global traveler.
Speaker 3: But I think we might go get a guy who's there,
Speaker 3: maybe even because you know, now you can get dudes
Speaker 3: that play Pro Bowl. That's right, right, Like that whole
Speaker 3: in his cancer situation wouldn't happen now now you're allowed
Speaker 3: to just get a guy like that.
Speaker 7: I think that he'll put a lot of emphasis on that,
Speaker 7: getting a good five that'll play his style of basketball
Speaker 7: for his offense, and they'll do. I'm sure they're already
Speaker 7: scouting guys right now trying to figure out who that
Speaker 7: guy's gonna be.
Speaker 3: One person rights, Matt, I hope r UP is extra
Speaker 3: allowed for these guys. I haven't watched this much UK
Speaker 3: basketball since the Fox Monks season. It's been really fun.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of that out there. I
Speaker 3: think there are a group of fans that have watched
Speaker 3: more of this team than they've watched of a team
Speaker 3: probably since COVID. I think this team has, even though
Speaker 3: they haven't been like through the roof grat they have
Speaker 3: kind of reignited this fan base. And if you think
Speaker 3: about it, Beaten Duke, beaten Tennessee twice, beating Gonzaga, beating
Speaker 3: Florida Louisville. The only real down is if we had
Speaker 3: beaten Arkansas. But if you had beaten Arkansas. You probably
Speaker 3: would say he checked off every regular season box that I.
Speaker 4: Think a lot of us would have hoped he would
Speaker 4: have done. So.
Speaker 3: If I'm nine two eight h twenty two eighty seven,
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Speaker 3: I just told my wife you were on Bill Maher
Speaker 3: with Katie Kirk and Kelly and Conway, and she didn't
Speaker 3: believe me. Then I dug up the picture. What was
Speaker 3: that like?
Speaker 4: Behind the scenes? Surreal? The entire experience was absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I couldn't.
Speaker 3: It was the season premiere of Bill Maher. The guest
Speaker 3: list was Katie Kurk, Kelly and Conway and me, and
Speaker 3: of course no one there knew who I was. It
Speaker 3: was because of COVID. It was during COVID, so like
Speaker 3: there was no one in the studio, like everyone was
Speaker 3: working from home. So like you got there and there
Speaker 3: was maybe three people there when we met. They had
Speaker 3: me and Bill maher are exing me, Me and Katie
Speaker 3: Kirk and Kelly and Conway like all in dressing rooms
Speaker 3: next to each other. We all like hung out in
Speaker 3: the same dressing room. Katie and Kelly knew each other,
Speaker 3: so they were talking. I kind of felt left out,
Speaker 3: but then they brought me into the conversation. I was like, hey, everybuddy, well,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, it was like it was like
Speaker 3: two weeks after January sixth, so that was gonna be
Speaker 3: the topic. I just was thinking, please, don't say anything stupid.
Speaker 3: Then Katie Kirk called my mom yep, because I said,
Speaker 3: my mom really likes you, and she does, and she said, well,
Speaker 3: let's call her.
Speaker 4: So we just called my mom.
Speaker 3: Kelly and Conway was you know, said that I looked
Speaker 3: like one of her old boyfriends, which I thought was
Speaker 3: kind of strange. But they were both very nice to me,
Speaker 3: and the the whole thing was weird. I've said this
Speaker 3: before that I don't know that I'll ever have a
Speaker 3: more surreal moment in my life than sitting backstage. Bill
Speaker 3: Maher is about to get to his monologue. It's just
Speaker 3: me and Katie Kirk next to each other, just sitting there,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden that HBO thing comes on
Speaker 3: and it was likestatic yeah, and I went, I can't
Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm about to do this. I'm about
Speaker 3: to go on stage with Katie Kirk on HBO. This
Speaker 3: is the craziest thing in the world.
Speaker 7: My two big takeaways from that was one the Katie
Speaker 7: Kurk called your mom, and two Bill Mark kept trying
Speaker 7: to disagree with you and trip you up, and you
Speaker 7: held your ground against him.
Speaker 5: I thought that was good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like, no, don't you think you could
Speaker 4: overpower me? Bill Martin.
Speaker 3: When it was over, though, he said, you did great,
Speaker 3: we'll have you on again real soon. And then I
Speaker 3: still haven't been on it, but nevertheless it was he
Speaker 3: may made me feel good going on. But the COVID
Speaker 3: protocols were so strong back then. You had to get
Speaker 3: COVID tested twice the day before the taping and the
Speaker 3: day of the tape.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: So it was a whole It was a whole, big
Speaker 3: shabag put us up in a really nice hotel though.
Speaker 4: That was good.
Speaker 7: Well, we were all proud of you that night. That
Speaker 7: was kind of cool to gather around and watch you
Speaker 7: up there on that big stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it taped like two or three hours for
Speaker 3: it aired, So those two or three hours are really
Speaker 3: nerve wracking.
Speaker 4: Like I was just going on, what's this going to be?
Speaker 5: Like, you know, but you and Kate Katie now get
Speaker 5: together and go bowling or anything?
Speaker 4: Bowling?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, like what friends do you guys?
Speaker 4: Kind of?
Speaker 3: I don't know that she considers me great friends. She
Speaker 3: gave that I have her number, but like we've never
Speaker 3: like what we're going to.
Speaker 6: Talk about, Like, Hey, Katie, what's up next time we
Speaker 6: need to break a tie in a food bracket or something?
Speaker 4: You should call it? Now, that's a good idea, I did.
Speaker 3: I think I did text her and ask her to
Speaker 3: be in the NFL Celebrity League and she didn't respond,
Speaker 3: So I know, so that's the way it goes. Who's
Speaker 3: up next, Adam, Adam? Go ahead, Adam.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 10: I hate it for Jackson Robinson not being able to
Speaker 10: finish out the year, but also just hate it for
Speaker 10: the fan base, for me, it's it's like all the
Speaker 10: what if injuries in Kentucky basketball history. I'm thirty nine,
Speaker 10: so you know, my biggest ones are obviously Derek Anderson,
Speaker 10: Keith Bogan's Rodney death, Alex Boyterous. What are your all
Speaker 10: kind of biggest what if injuries?
Speaker 3: I think the biggest what f injury in my lifetime.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call is Keith Bogans because I think
Speaker 3: if Keith Bogans doesn't get hurt in two thousand and three, I.
Speaker 4: Think we win that national championship. Probably. I think we
Speaker 4: were the best team that year.
Speaker 3: You know, not having Willy in twenty fourteen, might have
Speaker 3: heard him in the championship game. But to be honest,
Speaker 3: they kind of found their rhythm even after Willie got hurt.
Speaker 3: So you know, I don't know that that would have
Speaker 3: made a huge difference obviously the Poythrus, but we should
Speaker 3: have beaten him anyway, like you know, we should have
Speaker 3: beaten Wisconsin regardless. But so I always think of the
Speaker 3: Bogans when and Derek Anderson again, they made it to
Speaker 3: the championship game, right, So I don't know that that
Speaker 3: cost him.
Speaker 4: The Bogans one in my opinion.
Speaker 7: We beat Marquette with Keith Bogue, and Bogans was hurt,
Speaker 7: but Tubby was so loyal to him, he went ahead
Speaker 7: and tried to play him as much as possible. And
Speaker 7: he was just having a hard time keeping up with
Speaker 7: Dwayne Wade. But Tubby was loved him so much he
Speaker 7: wanted to give him that chance to win the game.
Speaker 3: And he deserved that. You didserve serve the chance he
Speaker 3: had been He was awesome that year. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 3: the one for me.
Speaker 7: You have one, Well, Derek Anderson, there's all that conspiracy
Speaker 7: theory and you know, mystery behind that because he allegedly,
Speaker 7: you know, practiced that day and had a full practice
Speaker 7: and was perfectly fine. Everybody says, even he has said,
Speaker 7: I could have played and I Patino didn't play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one doesn't bother me as much because he
Speaker 3: was legitimately hurt.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and I think you know what about you?
Speaker 6: The Poythers one sticks out. Nobody could guard Sam Decker,
Speaker 6: I mean, and everybody thinks of Devin Booker now wanted
Speaker 6: to play more in that game. But Booker couldn't guard
Speaker 6: anybody in that game. And I think I think the
Speaker 6: outcome is different if Porthous is in to play defense.
Speaker 3: With all that said, I think the most devastating injury
Speaker 3: in UK history is Neurlin's noel. Yeah, because I mean
Speaker 3: Neurlin's noel. We went from a team that was maybe
Speaker 3: a Sweet sixteen team to missing the tournament, losing to
Speaker 3: Robert Morris. I mean that was Nerlin's Noel's injury probably
Speaker 3: affected the team as much as any in history.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no doubt because that team would have definitely
Speaker 7: been a team that could have done some damage in
Speaker 7: my arch.
Speaker 5: You know, if you go way back, even back. Jason Parker,
Speaker 5: big stud.
Speaker 7: Wow, that's a good Blue He's knee out in the
Speaker 7: locker room before coming out for the Blue White game.
Speaker 5: Oh it was their midnight madness?
Speaker 4: Is that right? Yes? Now he was good too. Remember
Speaker 4: the game he had at North Carolina. He was awesome.
Speaker 4: He was awesome?
Speaker 11: Was that?
Speaker 4: People? For That's a dude? You forget? Who's next? Richard? Richard?
Speaker 12: Go ahead, Richard, Yes, with what we got coming back,
Speaker 12: who do you think will start it to point for
Speaker 12: us next year?
Speaker 8: Matt someone not.
Speaker 4: On the team, someone not currently on the team.
Speaker 12: Her comes back, he won't start at the point no.
Speaker 3: Not if you want to win a national championship. I
Speaker 3: like Kerr, like I like Travis Perry. Maybe Travis Perry
Speaker 3: can start as a junior or senior on a team
Speaker 3: that can win the national championship. But if you want
Speaker 3: to be a contender next year, the point guard is
Speaker 3: not on the team right now in my opinion.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's all I wonder.
Speaker 4: I appreciate.
Speaker 6: I agree with that pletely agree. Gotta go out and
Speaker 6: get a good one. If that means Cursey's the riding
Speaker 6: on the wall. Sorry, I wish we would have had
Speaker 6: him this year, but he's gotta go out and get
Speaker 6: a good point guard that can defend, for one, because
Speaker 6: with freshmen and Kerr, there's no defense. But also I
Speaker 6: think gotta be a leader and maybe one of the
Speaker 6: superstars you mentioned last night.
Speaker 3: I think you got you know, if if Away comes back,
Speaker 3: you've got a two guard that can play. If Chandler
Speaker 3: keeps improving in Perry, that gives you some good depth
Speaker 3: with guards.
Speaker 4: I think Trent Noah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a starter, but I think
Speaker 3: he can still He could get to a point where
Speaker 3: he plays a lot of minutes next year.
Speaker 4: But I think you.
Speaker 3: I think there's a really good chance you gotta go
Speaker 3: get I think Jasper Johnson starts, so I think you
Speaker 3: gotta go get three starters next year. You gotta get
Speaker 3: three starters and a bench player in my opinion, in
Speaker 3: the port.
Speaker 7: And they looked at the transfer portal last year and
Speaker 7: they pinpointed Lamont Butler and went all out after him.
Speaker 7: That was the one guy. They'll probably do the same thing.
Speaker 7: They'll see who's available, find the guy they already know.
Speaker 7: They probably do already know.
Speaker 3: My guess is they already know. You know, I keep
Speaker 3: being told there's a kid from Kentucky that'll end up
Speaker 3: on the roster next what. I was watching the game
Speaker 3: last night, the Atlantic Sun Tournament has already started. I'm
Speaker 3: sure all of you had it on, and uh Queen's
Speaker 3: North Carolina was playing Florida Gulf Coast and one of
Speaker 3: the two.
Speaker 4: Teams I heard the announcers say had a guard from Eddieville.
Speaker 4: Cost is that Riddick?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: He played with Uh.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah from Eddyville Kentucky was like yeah, and he was.
Speaker 3: He was one of their better players. I'm not as
Speaker 3: a freshman. Yeah, he's not the guy. I'm saying he's
Speaker 3: gonna get then I know who they who everyone thinks
Speaker 3: they're gonna go get.
Speaker 4: It's not him. But it was just interesting to hear
Speaker 4: that there was a good another kid.
Speaker 3: I mean, how about Eddieville having two guys, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: playing Division one back.
Speaker 6: If he didn't grow up share in a back court
Speaker 6: with Travis Perry, I think his name would be a
Speaker 6: lot more known around here.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they were a very good team last season. He
Speaker 6: was a big part of it.
Speaker 4: Dolly Parton's husband died.
Speaker 3: He'd been married. I think his name was Carl. They
Speaker 3: had been married. How about this.
Speaker 4: For sixty years. Wow, here's what I'm always fascinated with.
Speaker 3: For Dolly Parton to be what she has been, like
Speaker 3: an icon like for many years, like a sex symbol,
Speaker 3: like someone everybody likes.
Speaker 4: No one knew anything about her husband, Nope, Like somehow
Speaker 4: he ended up completely.
Speaker 3: Anonymous and she liked it like that.
Speaker 4: That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: And it for sixty years to have someone as famous
Speaker 3: as her and you have no idea who her husband is,
Speaker 3: isn't that weird?
Speaker 6: It isn't something about his name being Carl. I just
Speaker 6: picture a guy that's sitting on his porch waiting for
Speaker 6: Dolly to come home from her concert, just a very
Speaker 6: low key as he was. I don't even know what
Speaker 6: he looked like. But it's just such a weird dynamic
Speaker 6: that must have been with her being one of the
Speaker 6: most famous people that exists and Carl's just hanging out
Speaker 6: at home.
Speaker 4: Wait, do you have in your mind what Carl looks like.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say he's about you don't know. No, I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't either.
Speaker 3: I have and I'm a huge Dolly Parton fan, and
Speaker 3: I have no idea what he looks like.
Speaker 4: None.
Speaker 3: I just find that fascinating that you could have someone
Speaker 3: that famous.
Speaker 4: Married for sixty years and also that dude. That dude
Speaker 4: had to be a pretty confident dude. You know what
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 3: To sit there and have your wife be Dolly Parton
Speaker 3: doing Dolly Parton things and be like, she's coming home
Speaker 3: to Carl, That's just what's happening.
Speaker 4: When all is said and done.
Speaker 3: She may think Johnny Carson's hot, but she's coming home
Speaker 3: to Carl.
Speaker 7: Carl definitely has to have the right personality. You're right
Speaker 7: to be that kind of guy and be that confident.
Speaker 3: Yet you think you could have been married for sixty
Speaker 3: years anonymously to Dolly Parton.
Speaker 5: No, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're too jealous. What about you? Mine wouldn't have
Speaker 4: been jealousy.
Speaker 6: I'd want to be a part of it all, Like
Speaker 6: i'd want to be by yeah, because she's doing so
Speaker 6: much fun stuff.
Speaker 4: I'd be right by her side the whole way.
Speaker 3: I don't get jealous. I wouldn't be jealous. I'd be
Speaker 3: like you, though, I'd be like, I want to go
Speaker 3: to some stuff, like why do you take me here?
Speaker 3: Like you went to the Oscars? Why do I have
Speaker 3: to sit at home? I'm carl, I still got needs.
Speaker 3: I gotta go out and farm o farm out here.
Speaker 3: I can't go on the last And I feel.
Speaker 4: Like you could maybe do it. You're the one person
Speaker 4: I could see kind of be in the background for dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm with you, guys, though, I would want to
Speaker 2: be on the red carpet, and you know, like we're
Speaker 2: doing all the cool things that she gets to do,
Speaker 2: like living vicariously through her life.
Speaker 4: Seems fine.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's why they worked.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's why they were.
Speaker 3: You can't have You couldn't have a personality like Dolly's.
Speaker 4: With the male personality like that, they'd kill each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he'd always want to be in the spotlight.
Speaker 4: What are Carl could do it?
Speaker 5: Carl's okay, sitting on the front porch, whidling stick.
Speaker 4: You think that's what he does. Sits there and he whittles.
Speaker 4: You think that's his job.
Speaker 5: He does, maybe turn a little butter.
Speaker 4: You think he's turning. Butter could be You think they make.
Speaker 4: You think they have they have to make.
Speaker 5: Their home, maybe make some chairs while he's back there.
Speaker 4: In the so you think it's like you think Dolly's
Speaker 4: husband lives in Barrie.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be shocked, all right.
Speaker 4: There can only be one.
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Speaker 3: Shannon Running Non a basketball player. Clara Strack name SEC
Speaker 3: defensive player of the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Nice, Well she blocked the school record for blocks and
Speaker 7: uh probably it led the SEC and blocks.
Speaker 5: I'm sure, so good for her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's she was great, She's been great.
Speaker 3: The last couple of games, Kentucky's sort of position be
Speaker 3: a four seed in the SEC tournament. Their game, by
Speaker 3: the way, will be two thirty on Friday. We will
Speaker 3: air it here.
Speaker 4: The UK women two thirty on Friday in the SEC tournament.
Speaker 4: So that's exciting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got the top four season, they get it.
Speaker 5: They get a double by also go bye.
Speaker 4: Yes, so they get a double. Buy are you have?
Speaker 3: The new men's bracketology just came out hot off the
Speaker 3: presses off the Kentucky.
Speaker 4: They're a three seed. Okay, playing in Denver. I don't
Speaker 4: hate that. It's a bit of a drive. We enjoyed
Speaker 4: Denver Shannon loves craft.
Speaker 3: Shannon Shannon gets caught in this hotel room with smoke everywhere.
Speaker 4: What's the other way.
Speaker 6: I refuse to believe that they don't do this for attention.
Speaker 6: They have Kentucky opening up with Utah Valley Mark Pope's
Speaker 6: formersol where he never won a tournament game that people
Speaker 6: like to mention. From there, you could play either Indiana
Speaker 6: or Saint Mary's.
Speaker 4: Okay, Auburn's the one. I'm alright with that. I would
Speaker 4: totally take that. Draw. Two would be Iowa State. Love it,
Speaker 4: give me that draw, sign me up for that draw.
Speaker 4: And where's the regional Atlanta? Atlanta? I mean like South.
Speaker 3: Honestly, you couldn't ask for a better draw for Kentucky
Speaker 3: than that. Play in Denver, play Utah Valley State, then
Speaker 3: either Saint Mary's or Indiana. You should be able to
Speaker 3: beat those teams. If you don't, well, then you didn't
Speaker 3: need to move on. Then go to Atlanta. We'd have
Speaker 3: a million people play in Iowa State. And if we
Speaker 3: did play Auburn in the Elite eight, that would be
Speaker 3: they could sell out the Georgia Dome for that game
Speaker 3: if we did that, so I would totally take that
Speaker 3: as a draw.
Speaker 5: I would absolutely take that draw.
Speaker 6: Who was who's the four? Who could we try to
Speaker 6: root to beat all? Purdue and Clemson are up.
Speaker 3: There maybet scenario that one dude that looks like me
Speaker 3: could go score about forty.
Speaker 4: That guy versus Broom not really a great but you
Speaker 4: never know. That dude has a way.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is about that dude, but
Speaker 3: that dude has away. He did it against Duke, he
Speaker 3: did it against us. There's something about that dude. That's
Speaker 3: a dude. If he's in the portal, I wouldn't mind
Speaker 3: having that dude.
Speaker 4: He's the street. He's a weird guy. I actually love
Speaker 4: this draw, even with Auburn being there.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 4: If you get that far, that's yeah.
Speaker 5: That that dude killed us.
Speaker 7: And he looks like he can't jump, he's not athletic,
Speaker 7: can't run, and yet he had like what twenty rebounds
Speaker 7: against That's the.
Speaker 3: Thing about him. It's not like he's just a three
Speaker 3: point shooter. He gets rebounds and he's not even that tall,
Speaker 3: Like I.
Speaker 4: Don't understand how he does it. He's amazing.
Speaker 6: Tennessee's the one in Lexington in this bracket. So we'd
Speaker 6: have to put up with valls fans in our city.
Speaker 6: But that's all right, then come here and out.
Speaker 4: I'll yell at him. Who's next, Randy? Randy? Go ahead, Randy?
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, how's it going doing good?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 3: By the way, if we did that, Shannon, that would
Speaker 3: mean another trip across Kansas for you, so.
Speaker 4: You should excited around it. I don't think we can
Speaker 4: go ahead, Randy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: For me, the last six years been extremely taxing to
Speaker 9: watch UK basketball. So Mark Pope, I wasn't sold on
Speaker 9: him at first. Actually I got sold on him at
Speaker 9: his press conference. Introductory press conference was just two days.
Speaker 4: After he was hired.
Speaker 3: I mean, you say you weren't. So it was just
Speaker 3: two days. It was forty eight hours.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well I wasn't sure, but when he started talking,
Speaker 9: I was sold. I said, he's the gay. Yeah, but
Speaker 9: they have brought joy, brought the joy back to Kentucky basketball.
Speaker 9: For me, it has not been been enjoyable the last
Speaker 9: six years, and the joy even in the losses.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally agree with that. I appreciate the call. I mean,
Speaker 3: the joy has been there's no doubt that that's been
Speaker 3: a big part of Pope's success. And now you know,
Speaker 3: you get a year like this, Now, next year is
Speaker 3: gonna be a little different.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be a lot more pressure on him. There's
Speaker 4: gonna be a lot it's gonna be different.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be joyous unless you do have some success.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the crowds at Upperena are indicative of that.
Speaker 7: What the collor we're talking about. I think the crowds
Speaker 7: here for the pregame show are indicative of that. The
Speaker 7: fans are excited about the program again, we know they
Speaker 7: got the program back.
Speaker 3: Well, even just little things like I'll give you an
Speaker 3: example of watch parties. The last few years, when we
Speaker 3: would do a road weeknight game watch party, there'd be
Speaker 3: twenty people here, Like people just wouldn't come out to
Speaker 3: watch the team. Now we had a nine o'clock Oklahoma
Speaker 3: game and we had a lot of people here. Last
Speaker 3: year there would have been three people here for a
Speaker 3: nine o'clock Oklahoma go Just the way people are excited
Speaker 3: to watch the team. It's just dramatically different from the
Speaker 3: last few years. There's next, Tyler, Tyler, go ahead, Tyler.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've got one comment, one question. A comment is
Speaker 11: I hate to add Robinson out but I still believe
Speaker 11: with what we've got left Pope and this team to
Speaker 11: go together around. And my question is, I noticed that
Speaker 11: the women were black. Why do the men never work black?
Speaker 11: Because I think for.
Speaker 4: We worn black a few times.
Speaker 11: I don't remember it, but the.
Speaker 3: Women have done you know, the men have done it.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. I mean, the women with Forren
Speaker 3: pink right like the the men get a lot. It's
Speaker 3: a lot more scrutiny, Drew, I think when they try
Speaker 3: to do something different with the uniform. So I think
Speaker 3: the men men's teams that they're probably more hesitant to
Speaker 3: make big changes.
Speaker 4: But we've worn black before. It feels like we always lost.
Speaker 6: When we did it, but we have done it had
Speaker 6: n't been that long. I remember in Oscar wearing black.
Speaker 6: I don't remember the exact game or which of his teams,
Speaker 6: maybe the one with Casey Wallace for some reason, I
Speaker 6: have a memory of him wearing the black uniform. So
Speaker 6: it's only been a couple years since they've tried it.
Speaker 6: I think you're right though about the alternate jerseys. That
Speaker 6: doesn't seem to go well when they wear those.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a large section of our fan base that
Speaker 7: does not want them to wear anything but blue and white.
Speaker 4: For the guys, that is it. I don't like that.
Speaker 3: Take it like once twice a year do something crazy
Speaker 3: like wacky.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 6: I like they went back to the throwbacks last year.
Speaker 6: They had the ninety threes. They were wore those once
Speaker 6: this year, but I wish they'd work in more of that.
Speaker 6: They so many good old uniforms.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: What I mean, listen, this is not like. This is
Speaker 3: not you know, science class, this is not opera. It's
Speaker 3: supposed to be fun. Let's go out.
Speaker 4: Let's have some crazy jets on the georg So I
Speaker 4: thought we were gonna have those. Yeah, I thought we
Speaker 4: were gonna do the jeans, the denim.
Speaker 7: They got to wait next year on the anniversary of
Speaker 7: the championship team probably well.
Speaker 3: Either way, I'm I'm for it. I was at the
Speaker 3: when the women seem more pink. I'm not saying the
Speaker 3: guys teams should wear pink, but it was cool.
Speaker 4: It was just different. There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3: We will take a break come back our number two
Speaker 3: eight five, nine eighty sevens KSR