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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is the local Toilet Dealers KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 1: The Cats see their season in seventy eight, sixty five

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Speaker 1: and the sweet sixteen with the loss to the dreaded

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Volunteers. We are here in Indianapolis. I got Ryan

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Speaker 1: and Shannon, Mario and my mom sitting around the table.

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Speaker 1: Drew will join us here in a little bit. The

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Speaker 1: Cats were kind of never really in this game from

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Speaker 1: the beginning, had one lead, but for most of the

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Speaker 1: game we're behind and got down ten early and just

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Speaker 1: never really were able to get it close again. Tennessee

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Speaker 1: dominated Kentucky on the boards, out rebounding them they had.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee had eleven offensive rebounds and Kentucky had twelve defensive rebounds,

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Speaker 1: which is not a recipe for success at the bench

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Speaker 1: points where they got twenty six points off the bench

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Speaker 1: and we got six, and there is the game. It

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Speaker 1: was a tough perform in what was otherwise a pretty

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Speaker 1: amazing night here with a ton of Kentucky fans who

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Speaker 1: made the trip. It was like old school Kentucky NCAA

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Speaker 1: tournament games in terms of how many people were here.

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Speaker 1: Crowd was ready. They wanted to be able to explode,

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Speaker 1: but they just never really got a chance as the

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Speaker 1: Cats were never able to get back in and get

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Speaker 1: the game. If a twenty two eighty seven, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: bring Ryan and Sheennon in, But I just want to

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Speaker 1: say something sort of big picture. We can talk about

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Speaker 1: the game, but honestly, you know, the season's over. What

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Speaker 1: else is there really to say? Big picture? I think

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Speaker 1: still an awesome season. Disappointing way to end, not the loss,

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Speaker 1: but just the fact that we weren't really in it

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Speaker 1: most of the game, but overall a great season. And um,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play a little bit later a couple of

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Speaker 1: clips from the postgame press conference, But you know, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna remember this year hopefully as the start

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Speaker 1: of something great, but I'm gonna remember it as a

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Speaker 1: year that sort of Kentucky kind of got the joy

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Speaker 1: in basketball back a little bit. Last few years have

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Speaker 1: been it seems like sometimes like a tedious march. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was some lot, there was some fun with some

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Speaker 1: of those dudes last year, Red Rob and Reeves, but

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Speaker 1: there was still it was like it was just fans

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Speaker 1: were always at each other's throats, and it seemed like

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Speaker 1: disappointment was around the corner. This was a team that

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Speaker 1: I thought sort of brought the joy of Kentucky basketball

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Speaker 1: back and a group of guys that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if we'll have a group of guys like

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Speaker 1: this again, like a group because I think Pope is

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Speaker 1: going to go. We saw this with his commitment today

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Speaker 1: from Cam Williams. You're gonna get a new set of

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Speaker 1: really athletic guys who can, you know, play defense and

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Speaker 1: get up and down the court. This is, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: not the kind of guys we have at Kentucky a lot,

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Speaker 1: But I love them. I mean I loved watching this group.

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Speaker 1: Lamont Butler, Kobe Brea Oway who hopefully comes back, Amari Williams,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Carr. You know, just just a special group and

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Speaker 1: a season that I will look back on very fondly.

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Speaker 2: I really think these guys will be beloved by our

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Speaker 2: fan base for the rest two lives. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: really do. Like yoga girl sent me a text, and

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Speaker 2: you know, they persevered through injury. They gave everything they had.

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Speaker 2: Jackson Robinson too, He's hurt, but yes.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely so.

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Speaker 2: I think the program is in much better shape today

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Speaker 2: than it was at this time last year, and these

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Speaker 2: kids deserve all the credit for getting the fan base

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Speaker 2: back in touch with the team.

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Speaker 1: Totally agree with you. And you know, look, they they

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Speaker 1: performed to their seed, which is something we haven't done

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Speaker 1: in the last few years in terms of I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're a three seed, this is where you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to lose is in the sweet sixteen, and they did.

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Speaker 1: I think they overperformed their talent. I genuinely. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I took some criticism early in the year

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Speaker 1: for I mean I don't I don't think there's any

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Speaker 1: NBA players on this team. Maybe one of them will,

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Speaker 1: but I'd be surprised. But they overperformed their talent, which

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Speaker 1: I think is part of what made them Shannon lovable

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it. I stuck around for the

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Speaker 1: It was don't do that a lot.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 4: The first time I've ever done it. It was kind of sad,

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Speaker 4: you know, the finality of all of it. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think Mark Pope has a lot to be proud of.

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Speaker 4: I think this team has a lot to be proud of.

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Speaker 4: I think the fans have a lot to be proud of,

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Speaker 4: and Pope said, you know, these guys will be talking

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Speaker 4: for what's to come with Mark Pope as the head

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Speaker 1: I agree with that, you know, Drew and I used

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Speaker 1: to always say, because I've been in a lot of

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Speaker 1: Last Game of the Year locker rooms and it's it's

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Speaker 1: a really sad place. Often you know you've been in

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Speaker 1: more than me, Like, it's it's a really sad place.

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Speaker 1: I can still remember John Wall bawling, you know, Darren

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Speaker 1: Bio crying, Brandon and I crimeing. I've seen all these

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Speaker 1: UDEs cry over the years. And you know the picture

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Speaker 1: of Amari Williams on the sideline while the game is

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Speaker 1: still going on. I don't think Mom saw it because

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Speaker 1: on TV crying in the last couple of minutes, sitting

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Speaker 1: walking backstage, which is a great shot. That'll be one

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Speaker 1: that I think people remember for a long time. Ryan, Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, those are tough scenes, but it also shows

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Speaker 1: how much the guys really you know, really cared that.

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Speaker 1: Just showed it to my mom. She's like about to

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Speaker 2: That's what led us to love these guys so much.

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Speaker 2: You know, we grew to love them as not just

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Speaker 2: a player, but as people. We saw what they were

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Speaker 2: doing for us, give mean everything. They had every night,

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Speaker 2: all the you know, the ups and downs they had

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Speaker 2: it this season with the injuries and who's gonna play,

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Speaker 2: who's not gonna play. But like I said, now, Coach

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Speaker 2: Pope is in a better shape to recruit.

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Speaker 1: You call him Coach Pope.

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Speaker 3: He's my coach, he's my coach's time.

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Speaker 2: Coach Coach Pope is in a better position for recruiting

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Speaker 2: now because of what these.

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Speaker 1: Guys in your car said in the postgame press conference. Hey,

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Speaker 1: if last thing he said, This is the last thing

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Speaker 1: any of the players said, Shannon, I guess you heard it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: if you're in the portal.

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Speaker 4: That's right. Yeah, you know Pope gets it. We've said

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Speaker 4: put on that jersey. He knows what it means to

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Speaker 4: on the players. You see that. You know they mentioned, uh,

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Speaker 4: me because I.

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Speaker 1: Think those are great quotes, Billy, pull those up. I

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Speaker 1: tweeted those two out. I'd like to play the car

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Speaker 1: in Braya comments. Let me know when you have them.

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Speaker 1: But you know that is it's we want. And let

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Speaker 1: me just say, I think the guys during the Cal

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Speaker 3: Sure they did.

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Speaker 1: I mean I I think in general that was something

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Speaker 1: I really give Cal a lot of credit for. He

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Speaker 1: but he did get them to love the place during

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Speaker 1: the year. And I agree. But this is a little

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Speaker 1: in terms of basketball, that really matters, and that gets

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Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, even if they I hope

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Speaker 1: there's something about you know, when you hear which will

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Speaker 2: Sure it does, because you know every one of us

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Speaker 1: I think you still think you are.

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Speaker 2: Little bit about the sides as the Kai Ziggler.

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Speaker 3: So I think we about saying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, that was a big thing tonight.

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Speaker 1: Those guards who really had not played well against us,

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Speaker 2: And just like from the opening tip, just seems like

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Speaker 2: we were not in it. This was just not gonna

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Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? It didn't feel I

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like they weren't hustling. It just felt like

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Speaker 1: reminded me that old miss in Georgia games that we

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just not your night.

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Speaker 4: And Tennessee came out and they set the tone immediately,

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Speaker 4: and it felt like the entire game we were down

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Speaker 4: every single time, and every loose ball Tennessee got, probably.

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Speaker 1: The way Illinois felt the other night. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: So, since you're talking big picture, how do you view

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Speaker 1: It's an A to me? Yeah, I mean it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's still an A because I think you played your seed.

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Speaker 1: I think you also played to your talent or above

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Speaker 1: your talent. I mean, you know, you got to take

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Speaker 1: even this week. So think about where we are with

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Speaker 1: the portal. We we already have a portal commitment, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we didn't even have a coach this time last year, right,

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Speaker 1: And then he gets the job and in five weeks,

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Speaker 1: four weeks. He has to get a staff, yes, right,

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Speaker 1: he has to get a roster, and unlike you know,

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Speaker 1: the only other person that was in this situation was

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Speaker 1: and even Dusty May at Michigan, who they're still playing.

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Speaker 1: They had five or six guys stick around. Pope and

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Speaker 1: Kelsey had to start over, and they both did. And

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Speaker 1: And to do that and have them come together, and

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Speaker 1: It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Auburn

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt if I make it to eighty seven,

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Speaker 3: Just like Larry.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of Barnes.

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Speaker 8: Well, there's a story behind it, but that's okay for sure.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I don't know. I think uh,

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Speaker 1: I think if we it's all gonna be about who

438
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Speaker 1: they get over the next few weeks. In the portal,

439
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 1: you know they didn't that the one kid from New Mexico. Uh,

440
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:11,160
Speaker 1: he ended up picking UCLA. I would have really liked

441
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Speaker 1: that kid, but I was worried we were gonna spend

442
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,480
Speaker 1: too much of our budget on him. And he's going

443
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Speaker 1: to UCLA. They gotta get a good point guard. The

444
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Speaker 1: number one thing for me is they gotta go get

445
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Speaker 1: a good point guard. When we get the good point guard,

446
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Speaker 1: then i'll I'll make a judgment then, But I think

447
00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 1: there's more people still to come into portal. I'm gonna

448
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Speaker 1: assume we're gonna get a really good class and then

449
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,920
Speaker 1: it becomes can one of the if as one of

450
00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 1: these freshmen, great, you know, do we get We'll see.

451
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,239
Speaker 1: As far as the blue blood, I appreciate the call

452
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,520
Speaker 1: blue blood by its definition is not about what's just

453
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Speaker 1: happened in the last few years, true, right, Like it's

454
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,600
Speaker 1: it's history. You know, when I ain't got blue blood's

455
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Speaker 1: in college basketball. To me, there's five. There used to

456
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Speaker 1: be six and Indiana dropped out. Yeah, fair So for me,

457
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 1: the blue bloods are still Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas, and UCLA.

458
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:03,160
Speaker 1: You say waivers, but they're still good. And then Yukon's

459
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: in it now. Yukon is the new one, and I

460
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: think now you have to have Yukon in there.

461
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 2: Michigan State's close, Illanolva's probably close.

462
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I wonder how much of that's Jay Wright.

463
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,440
Speaker 1: You know, now, if you're talking though about new bloods,

464
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Speaker 1: to Auburn is one, Alabama is one, and you could

465
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Speaker 1: argue Tennessee is one, like so I think it's in Florida.

466
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Speaker 1: I think it's good for the conference that I think

467
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Speaker 1: we have a solid five basketball schools. Now. I think

468
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying over football, but Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Tennessee

469
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Speaker 1: and Florida are basketball schools. Arkansas will see what happens

470
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Speaker 1: with cow Maybe maybe they become one. We'll see, But

471
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,359
Speaker 1: I think we have five really solid.

472
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't you know, the last twenty five years

473
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Speaker 2: you could probably just say there's one or two solid basketball.

474
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Speaker 1: Oh it was Kentucky and then when Bruce Pearl was

475
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 1: there Tennessee and Billy was there in Florida. But like

476
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Speaker 1: we got we have five programs that I think will

477
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Speaker 1: go into every season expecting to be good. And that's

478
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Speaker 1: a really good quality to have.

479
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Speaker 4: And I mean, I would expect the SEC to be

480
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,880
Speaker 4: just as tough next season as it was this year.

481
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 4: I'll lot fourteen teams into the NCAA Tournament.

482
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Speaker 1: It looks like Buzz Williams though, may take of the

483
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: Maryland jobs. So really, yeah, that's probably a resources thing.

484
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: Like he probably is, like you know, A and M.

485
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 1: They just can't get them to care yeah, you know,

486
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Speaker 1: but I think he's a really good cause. Who's up next, James? James,

487
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: go ahead?

488
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Speaker 10: And James, Hey, you got me?

489
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Speaker 1: Yes, go ahead?

490
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Speaker 11: Hey Hey, Matt, long time, first time.

491
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Speaker 9: I'm sitting here.

492
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Speaker 11: I can't believe.

493
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Speaker 12: That we got our ass feat so bad by the

494
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Speaker 12: boss tonight.

495
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Speaker 9: And and to be honest, how do we feel about

496
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Speaker 9: Mark Pote moving forward?

497
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Speaker 12: Because he's a warm I appreciate the call.

498
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Speaker 1: I appreciate the like you got to get a goober

499
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Speaker 1: in here within within Uh that was a Tennessee fan. No,

500
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Speaker 1: I mean we did get beat though, Like we got

501
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 1: beat down. They did. I mean they were better than us. Yep,

502
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: they whooped us. That Just you know, it is what

503
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: it is. You do. Wonder how like you have those

504
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,919
Speaker 1: two performances in the regular season and then this, I

505
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Speaker 1: think the difference between the teams is smaller than what

506
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Speaker 1: it was in all three games.

507
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Speaker 4: But you know, well, say, we haven't seen too many

508
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 4: games where Kentucky's just handily beat I think the Auburn

509
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 4: game comes to mind, and then this one tonight.

510
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Speaker 1: But well, we had a few. I mean, we had

511
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Speaker 1: the Old Miss game, the Georgia game.

512
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Speaker 4: Auburn, But I mean like, but tonight I never felt

513
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Speaker 4: like we were even in the game.

514
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Speaker 1: Yeah. This this reminded me of the old miss in

515
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Speaker 1: Georgia games. If you remember, we fell down quickly in

516
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: both those games and we're just never in it.

517
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Speaker 2: Can you buy anything into the fact that maybe some

518
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Speaker 2: of the guys weren't ready for the moment?

519
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Speaker 1: No, I mean no, I mean these dudes are all experience.

520
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: Like what, I just think we were down twenty seven,

521
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: seventeen or you know whatever, and we just never seventeen seven,

522
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: like we just never.

523
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Speaker 4: If they weren't ready for the moment, they would have

524
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Speaker 4: lost Detroit in the first round that, you know.

525
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they weren't ready for the moment. When when

526
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Speaker 1: Illinois cut it to six, we.

527
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Speaker 2: Went out tonight sweet sixteen, little more, bigger prize at stake.

528
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Speaker 1: So all I can think about is the first six

529
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Speaker 1: or eight minutes, And it felt like me in the

530
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 1: first six or eight minutes, they just out rebounded us

531
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Speaker 1: and just got the ball. You know, Andrew Carr had

532
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: two open threes, he just missed him. Yeah, now if

533
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: he makes them, maybe it's a little different. Maybe it's different,

534
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean like that that stuff he had,

535
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: But they were wide open. He just missed him. We

536
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: missed like two layups. We missed a layup to start

537
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: the game. You know, I mean every loose ball. Want

538
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: to tell us every loose ball. And I mean when

539
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: they they had one less offensive rebound than we had

540
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: defensive rebound. Like that's the stat, isn't it.

541
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Speaker 2: And you know we wanted to Mari to dunk one.

542
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 2: He goes to the dunk one and clangs it off

543
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 2: the back of the That's what I said to Mario

544
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Speaker 2: with that happened.

545
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 4: I said, you know we've been saying, Mario, why don't

546
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 4: you don't get That's that's why you don't.

547
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's up next? Rock Brock? Go ahead, brock.

548
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 9: Uh first time caller, longtime listener?

549
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: Who what?

550
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 9: Okay? Well, anyways, I just wanted to kind of get

551
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 9: your input on like what, like what you think Mark

552
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 9: Pope's expectations are for next year? Because friends, I'm very pointed.

553
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 13: Like.

554
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Speaker 1: Are you disappointed? I mean, are you really disappointed? Like

555
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: you really thought I am.

556
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 9: Let me say that, like sweet sweet sixteen, this year,

557
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 9: they have exceeded all of my expectations by far, and

558
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 9: like even after the lost time here, I'm here with

559
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 9: the Sweet sixt team. Some of my friends night, I

560
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 9: was like, next year will be the Empire strikes back,

561
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 9: and like, I mean, but again.

562
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: The tournament, and I appreciate the call the tournament. You

563
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: gotta remember there's a random That's why I always hate

564
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: when people go, are we a Sweet sixteen team? Are

565
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: we an e leit eight team? There's randomness in the tournament.

566
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Like Rick Patino had an amazing season at

567
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: Saint John's then.

568
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: They got beat.

569
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 1: Now was that not a good season because they got beat?

570
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 3: Still a great season?

571
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: They just got beat. Like it happens. I mean, Auburn

572
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: could lose tonight to Michigan. They were the best team

573
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,360
Speaker 1: in the country for most of the year the year,

574
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: and if they lose to Michigan, well, you know that happens.

575
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 4: When you say, what's Mark Pope's expectations for next season?

576
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 4: What do you think He's going to say? He's gonna

577
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 4: say National Championship.

578
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: Nine. So maybe they're gonna well I flipped switch pretty quick.

579
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's I gotta put a team together and go, oh,

580
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 4: this is gonna be our Sweet sixteen team that can

581
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 4: only reach the Sweet sixteen.

582
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 3: The goal is to win a national title.

583
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna know. I mean, this is gonna

584
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: go quick, Like we talked about this on the show.

585
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: I mean, because the judge meets on April seventh, and

586
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: could that day enact the settlement. I've read that there's

587
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: some thoughts. She might say it's enacted, it goes into

588
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: place in two weeks or three. But in theory she

589
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: could say it's enacted. These a lot of these dudes

590
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: are gonna make their decision before that. They will so

591
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: that it's not like the deals are not structured by

592
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: the settlement, meaning they can be paid to play before August,

593
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 1: before April seventh, which means a lot of these dudes

594
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: are gonna sign in the next week. Yes, So Mark

595
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: Pope's like got to get out immediately. He can't feel

596
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: sorry for himself because he's got like eight days to

597
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: go get a team.

598
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: My guess is tomorrow they're in the office on the

599
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 2: phone talking to people in the transfer portal. Well, the

600
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 2: next day after losing.

601
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, Houston's up for Auburn's up six. Who's up next, Thomas, Thomas,

602
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: go ahead, Thomas.

603
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 8: Hey, he's gonna crush it in this portal I guarantee it.

604
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 8: And here's the other thing. You guys gave this guyn

605
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 8: a minus?

606
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 11: Are you kidding me?

607
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: I give you a minus in the regular season, I

608
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: give him an A when you consider the fact that

609
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: we beat Illinois made the Sweet sixteen. My A minus

610
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: was I mean, we was just based on some losses

611
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: that I didn't think we should get. With the loss

612
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: of Texas, there was a hay, yeah there was. But otherwise,

613
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: I mean, mis still a good grade.

614
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:15,239
Speaker 8: The injuries though, the injuries really no athleticism, y'all make

615
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 8: the case. No athleticism, injuries, he's a plus plus. But

616
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 8: I'm really but I just say, I just love this guy.

617
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too. I I appreciate the call, don't.

618
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: I'm finishing the year with an A. You know when

619
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: I teach, I've told you, I say, I usually go

620
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: into the final with my students and I kind of

621
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: know they're between two grades. I hate Georgetown's gradings. Yeah,

622
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: so you said before instant because it's they should have

623
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: a A minus B plus B and they have a

624
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Speaker 1: A B B. I hate a B because there's a

625
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: big difference between A minus and B plus. And I

626
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: always think I hate a B. But anyway, I used

627
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: to go in the final and I'm like, if this

628
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: kid has a good final A, if they don't a

629
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: B except right for me, we came into this, I

630
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: was like between A and A minus. And even though

631
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: this game tonight was disappointing, I think getting the Sweet

632
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: sixteen for me gives a mis solid A. I'm not

633
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: giving you an A plus because we lost double digit

634
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: games and like you know, I mean I can't guess

635
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: save A pluses.

636
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 3: For like the you gotta win a title for that.

637
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: We're final four. I mean, you know, but an A

638
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: is still really good. Let's not quibble.

639
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 3: When I went to school and I got an eight minus,

640
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 3: I was happy. I was thrilled to death. I would

641
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 3: even take a B plus.

642
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: I mean, you know the reason I can't give it

643
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 2: a high eight because they did lose to cal at Home.

644
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: That was a bit. Yeah. Yeah, you can't get an

645
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: A plus if you lose the cal at Home.

646
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

647
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: So that's probably my biggest hesitation.

648
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: But I do think you know, when that bracket came out,

649
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: if we're being honest, I thought we were gonna lose Illinois.

650
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: I think most people I thought we were gonna lose Illinois.

651
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: I thought we were going I wanted Xavier Texas to

652
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: win because I thought if we play Illinois, they're gonna

653
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: beat us. Because because my view is when two teams

654
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: are norm You've heard me say this a lot, when

655
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Speaker 1: two teams are equal, give me the team that's got

656
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: the two best players. And I thought they had the

657
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: two best players, and we basically shut those dudes down

658
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: and we won the game. So I'm I think that

659
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: makes it.

660
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Speaker 4: In a road environment to environment, were really loud when they,

661
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 4: you know, trying to make a rally, so it was

662
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 4: it was an depressive win over Illinois just to get

663
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 4: here tonight.

664
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Speaker 1: That's right, let's do one more. We'll take a break.

665
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Speaker 1: Who's next? Bill?

666
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 7: Doing good?

667
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: Doing good?

668
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 11: What's up, gentlemen, I'm doing good. I hope, as always

669
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Speaker 11: you're doing well. I wish we would have pulled out

670
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 11: the win tonight, but I think overall, as far as

671
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 11: the season went, I'm a huge fan of how it

672
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 11: turned out. We had some great victories early in the

673
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 11: year that I don't think we would have if we

674
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 11: had kept our previous coaching staff. Intact. A huge fan

675
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 11: of Cal when he was here, but I think it

676
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 11: was definitely time for him to go. I think Pope

677
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 11: is absolutely the right person to lead us for the

678
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 11: next ten to fifteen years. Cannot wait to see what happens.

679
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 11: If we had gone with with any other solution, which

680
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 11: would have, you know, included Cal being here through this season,

681
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 11: we would not have had the year that.

682
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: We did this year. No, we wouldn't, and then we.

683
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Speaker 11: Wouldn't We wouldn't have, and then we would have had

684
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 11: two years of somebody else trying to come in, build

685
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 11: up the program.

686
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Speaker 1: Et cetera.

687
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Speaker 11: For Pope to take us to the Sweet sixteen in

688
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 11: year one, I think is absolutely amazing. He had April

689
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 11: ninth of last year, he had no returning players whatsoever.

690
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 11: We've already got a good base of what we hope

691
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 11: will be a fantastic returning corps. We've got some really

692
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 11: good recruits coming in, and you're giving him a full

693
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 11: cycle through the transfer portal. Oh my gosh, I'm excited for.

694
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: What is Yeah, and I appreciate the call. I mean, like,

695
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: he's already got a kid. So clearly they had a plan.

696
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: It's hard got a commitment, you know what I mean.

697
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: Clearly they knew who they wanted to go get because

698
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: they went and got one immediately. So yeah, I agree

699
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: with everything he just said.

700
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: And we both know that they've been talking to people

701
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Speaker 2: for the past month.

702
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean, look, these conversations are not official.

703
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not Mark Pope talking to these people.

704
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: But you know, they've got one guy. I think they are.

705
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: I think there's a big guy. I think they're gonna

706
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: either get This is just my prediction. They're either gonna

707
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: get the kid from Davidson or the kid from Robert Morris.

708
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: I don't know which one it'll be, but they'll get

709
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: one of those two guys. That'll be their Andrew Carr

710
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: next year is one of those two dudes. Then they're

711
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: gonna go try to find a big man like a

712
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: like a you know, an Amari type, although I don't

713
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: think there's anybody like him, Like he's a very unique talent.

714
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: Then they're gonna go find a shooter and they're gonna

715
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: find that point guard, and then that's gonna be you know,

716
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna be what they get the guy. I think.

717
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: I I feel pretty I mean again, I could be wrong.

718
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: I never thought we were gonna get the Donovan Dent kid.

719
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, yesterday people were telling

720
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: me we were and then its switched. Yeah right. I

721
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: think basically Kentucky offered a substantial amount of money, everybody

722
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: else ran away. UCLA decided today to match it, and

723
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: that's where he wanted to go to school. So that's

724
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: where he's going. But I do think either the Davidson

725
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,239
Speaker 1: kid or the Robert Morris kid ends up here, and

726
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: then we'll see. I think they'll get a shooter. Maybe

727
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: it's a kid from sam Houston State. Maybe it's like

728
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: I said, I think there's a kid that's in this

729
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: crown thing or whatever. And I think there's a kid there,

730
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: considering that's was in the sweet sixteenth. And we'll we'll

731
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: see what happens. It's gonna happen fast. He's gonna happen fast.

732
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. We're gonna take a break. Drew Franklins

733
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: just walked up. We'll bring him on. I also we'll

734
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: play when we come back. I want to play the

735
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: clips from Car and Brea. This is the Little Toy

736
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: Dealers KSR post gam show looking back, it is the

737
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: Techi Select Chevy Dealers KSR. Or No, it's not it's

738
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: the local toy dealers KSR post game show, one person writes,

739
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: Matt Attorney only feels random for us. Look at Tennessee,

740
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: they've been to three elate, three Elite eights in a row. Yeah,

741
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: but I think the year before that, what they lose

742
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: to like Loyola in the first round and like and

743
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: you know, they've not been to a Final four yet.

744
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: It is random. Now, it's not ran. I've said this

745
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: all the time. It's not random over history, but it's

746
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: random in a given year. So for instance, when cal

747
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: lost to Saint Peter's there was a little bit of randomness,

748
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: but then when he lost to Oakland two years later,

749
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: it starts being stops being random. Yeah, right, Look at

750
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: Arkansas this year. If Hunter Dickson doesn't turn it over,

751
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: maybe they're out in the first round and it's a

752
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: completely different narrative. True. Or if the new Mexico guy

753
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: or excuse me, at Texas Tech guy misses the three,

754
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: they're in the elite. You know, there's a lot of

755
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: Randomnes's Drue Franklin's there. We gave our takes on the

756
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: year as a whole. What do you think?

757
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 14: Uh, First, I just I want to say I hate

758
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 14: this city, and if it were closer to an ocean,

759
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 14: I hope it would fall in and just sink to

760
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 14: the bottom, maybe with some Tennessee fans with it. I

761
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 14: hate Indianapolis. I don't want to come back here. I

762
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 14: know the final fource here next year, I hope they

763
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 14: move it somewhere else. But it's good to see you.

764
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 14: Guess this place sucks saw like half the game. I

765
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 14: hate this place anyway.

766
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: Why did you only see half the game?

767
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 14: I'm not gonna complain about media seat. I end up

768
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 14: watching with Rick Bosch on a TV with no sound

769
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 14: in the back.

770
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 3: That's why I watched it with him. We were at

771
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 3: the back of the back of the media.

772
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: I don't with Peyton Manning.

773
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 7: He can fall in the ocean too.

774
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 2: How many times they're gonna show Peyton Manning during the broadcast?

775
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 2: They showed him more than Traylor Swift and a chief trailer

776
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 2: trailer trash Swift?

777
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: Is that like? Is that the the country version? Yes

778
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: it is, but yeah, you know you don't seem very yet. No,

779
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: it's really the game's not. I'm fine with the game.

780
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: I think it helped that it was just a butt whooping.

781
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 14: It wasn't like you get beat at the end or

782
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 14: you question and should we have called the time out

783
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 14: or should this have happened? I mean, Tennessee just whooped him,

784
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 14: So it kind of it fills. Even though all season

785
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 14: ending losses suck, it doesn't feel like Oakland or Saint

786
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 14: Peter's or wiscond the real devastating ones. It hurts to

787
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 14: lose to Tennessee. But it was pretty clear withes left.

788
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, they were better than us. Issue.

789
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: I know we beat them twice, but like we were

790
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: just saying, Auburn looks like they're gonna beat Michigan, so

791
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: there's gonna be four SEC teams in the elite eight.

792
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: The reality is those are the four best teams. Issues. Yeah,

793
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 1: like they were. Now you could argue maybe we were fifth,

794
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: maybe Old Miss, maybe Arkansas a tiny or whatever. The

795
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:29,439
Speaker 1: four best were the four best.

796
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 3: They were all ranked number one of the k they

797
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 3: were all on.

798
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: Some point good, and so it's it's probably how it

799
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: should be to be on.

800
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 3: Go ahead, you're on a roll.

801
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: I paused so you could talk.

802
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 2: I think that this year for us to even beat

803
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 2: Florida the one time was amazing and Tennessee twice and

804
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 2: Tennessee twice. Amazing. Yeah, because really, those four teams are

805
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 2: just better. Their dudes are just better than our dudes.

806
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: It is worth noting that when you get to the

807
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: Elite eight, of those eight teams, we've beaten three of them.

808
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, was I tell you?

809
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna We're gonna beaten three of the

810
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: Elite eight, and we're I think, well, I guess we

811
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 1: lost Alabama three times, so we're like three and five

812
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: or whatever against the Elite eight. But we won three

813
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: games against them.

814
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 2: Nobody else can say that.

815
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: I mean maybe maybe Auburn or Alabama that would be it.

816
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: Who's next? Oh wait a minutefore you do this, let's play.

817
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: I'll separate these.

818
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:21,439
Speaker 3: Let's play.

819
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: This is Andrew Carr talking about, uh, his last time

820
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: playing for Kentucky.

821
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's certainly, uh, very difficult. Don't wanna untie my shoes,

822
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 15: don't want to take off this jersey, you know, definitely

823
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 15: shout out a BBN and and all of the fans.

824
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 15: It's like nowhere I've ever experienced and really have just

825
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 15: had the most fun playing basketball this season, and you know,

826
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 15: I really appreciate them welcoming all of us in with

827
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 15: with open arms and really caring about all of us

828
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 15: more than just a basketball player and being a fan.

829
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 15: They really you know, you're welcome into the Kentucky family,

830
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 15: and it's a family for a reason. So definitely is

831
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 15: an amazing experience that you know it hurts right now,

832
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 15: but as we continue to get older, we'd just look

833
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 15: back and be more and more proud as time goes on.

834
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: See, that's what we want our players to say.

835
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 3: Right What a great SoundBite. I could have had everything I.

836
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 7: Can add to that.

837
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 14: There was a cool moment they the moderator said any

838
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 14: other questions in the room was silent, and Lamont Butler said,

839
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 14: can I can I say something?

840
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 7: They're like, of course you can say something, and he said, uh.

841
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 14: This group said a high bar for Pope moving forward,

842
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 14: kind of raved about Pope said, Kentucky's just getting started,

843
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 14: and then Andrew Carr chimmed in, it's a little more direct,

844
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 14: was like, if you're in the portal, come to Kentuck'.

845
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 14: But I thought it was very cool. You know, the

846
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 14: press conference is over. We were all about to wave

847
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 14: and Butler leaned forwards, like I want to get this

848
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 14: off my chest, knowing it's the last time he'd be

849
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 14: there speaking on half of Kentucky.

850
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,959
Speaker 1: So that was pretty cool. That is very cool. Who's

851
00:38:59,040 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 1: up next?

852
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 7: City still sucks though?

853
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 14: Really really just people screaming at me, valls, fans yelling

854
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 14: at me on their scooters and with a big daddy

855
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 14: and with a stick if I could find one, anybody

856
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 14: wants some wied to bix.

857
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: You stick out in your pocket?

858
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 7: I think I've had eight full bars of weied to bicks.

859
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Bill Skyler, Skyler, go ahead, Skyler.

860
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 13: Hey Skyler Skyler.

861
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 15: Here?

862
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,919
Speaker 13: Can I take like thirty seconds? Matter?

863
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 16: Is that?

864
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: Okay? Yes?

865
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 7: Okay?

866
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 13: So twenty seven to two thousand and seven, my oldest

867
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 13: son was born. Billy Clyde Gillespie led us on a

868
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 13: journey and it has just been such a joy in

869
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 13: my life to be able to watch basketball games with

870
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 13: my with my boys. We kind of journeyed through the

871
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 13: caliper years that crushing loss to Wisconsin. My oldest son

872
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 13: was ten years old. I think, no, no, seven years old,

873
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 13: seven years old, ten years ago, right, and it has

874
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 13: been a struggle. We moved to California as a family

875
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 13: about seven years ago. Listening to you guys and even

876
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 13: calling in. We can stay up late and call in.

877
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 13: We're sitting around a fire right now, my entire family,

878
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 13: and this year has just been so special. I think

879
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 13: over the past five years. I called in last year

880
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 13: and was worried. My boys were just so frustrated. They

881
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 13: didn't want to watch, they didn't want to listen. And

882
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 13: this year really reclaimed their love for UK basketball. And

883
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 13: even that Andrew Carcliff that you played. I think like

884
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 13: this team is really really, really really special. And and

885
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 13: my son's gonna go to college next fall, and we're

886
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 13: sitting around here kind of choked up, thinking like, man,

887
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 13: we just we got to we got to watch seventeen

888
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 13: years of games together and you're gonna move away and

889
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 13: it's gonna be different next fall. But this team, this

890
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 13: team was unique and super special. I want to appreciate.

891
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 13: I just want to thank you guys. You know, I

892
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,720
Speaker 13: know it's a crushing loss, but Drew Ryan Billy shout

893
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 13: out the South, holdom Colton, what turl what ten threes

894
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 13: broke the record in the state final tonight or so,

895
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 13: thank you guys, And I'm gonna hang up and I'm gonna.

896
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: Listen appreciate the call. Yeah, that's a uh you know,

897
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: I do think you could see it. We talked about this, Ryan,

898
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: there was a re igniting of big parts of the

899
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: fan base, including kids. Well, I mean, let's just use

900
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: the example tonight of just people I know right now,

901
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure driving on their way home is my college

902
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: roommate Nick and his wife Tiffany and their daughters. This

903
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: is the first NCAA tournament that game they've ever come to.

904
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: They wanted to get in the car and come up here.

905
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that his two daughters have ever been

906
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: to a UK game ever, but they wanted to come

907
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: up here. My parents they've never been to an NCAA

908
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: tournament game. They wanted to get in the car and

909
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: come up here like this. There is a whole segment

910
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: of the fan base that I think got their love

911
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: of Kentucky basketball reignited. And that is cool, like we

912
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: needed it. I think that happened in twenty ten when

913
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: John Wall got here. I think it happened in nineteen

914
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 1: ninety two when the Unforgettables were there, and I think

915
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: in some ways that happened with this as well.

916
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,439
Speaker 2: We've said it a many million times, the fans feel

917
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 2: like they got their team back and the core what

918
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 2: that collar was saying there, there's something about Kentucky basketball

919
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 2: that helps families just the love they have for the basketball,

920
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 2: and you translate that into your dad or your mom

921
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 2: or your grandpa.

922
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 3: For you, is your grandpa taking to the games. I mean, there's.

923
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 2: Something special about Kentucky basketball that draws these families moments

924
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: and memories together.

925
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: And when you see that group of ages which we

926
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: could see at ten Roof today, Yeah, from the eight

927
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: to nine year olds to eighty seven year old layer

928
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: tell that whole range of people. You know, it's just

929
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: it's really special to me that that happens. And it

930
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: did feel like for the last few years it was

931
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: slip a little bit. It wasn't gone, but it just

932
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 1: wasn't quite the same. And I feel like it kind

933
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: of got back to where it was.

934
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 7: Definitely felt different.

935
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 14: You know, Tennessee wins the game and they're moving on,

936
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 14: but they can't take the pregame fun. For me, we

937
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 14: met so many people, Lots of people said I wouldn't

938
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 14: have made this trip. You know, if we hadn't had

939
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 14: this change, wouldn't be here. If things hadn't changed the

940
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 14: excitement and the lead up to this, the excitement in Nashville.

941
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nashville was like that was the biggest Nashville's been

942
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: since pre Code. Yeah.

943
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 14: I mean, sure got knocked out of the tournament and

944
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 14: we go down as losers, but I mean you can't

945
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 14: take those pregame moments from me and all the fun

946
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 14: we've had with fans just coming back together and being excited.

947
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: And it's also worth noting like the various moments during

948
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: the year that we had great Like think about what

949
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: it was like the night after we beat Duke, that

950
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: was that was the moment for a lot of fans

951
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: where I think people said, hey, this is gonna work. Yeah,

952
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: like this Dude's gonna work, you know, because I'm sure

953
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: people were like it still a questioning whether Pope is

954
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 1: it's gonna work. Think about in Seattle the Gonzaga come back,

955
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, down eighteen games in the middle of the

956
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: night and we end up coming back and win that

957
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: game against Florida, which I think was one of the

958
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: best played games of the year by both teams. That

959
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: was the last time we were really fully healthy was

960
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: in that game. The first time we beat Tennessee. I

961
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: mean shorthanded, shorthanded. Nobody thought we were gonna win that game,

962
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: ten point underdog. Both went The win against Louisville at

963
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: the time wasn't as big but ends up being big. Yes,

964
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: they were good at the end. And then both wins

965
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: against Oklahoma, right, both the win on the road and

966
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: then the win in the SEC Tournament with o Way

967
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: hitting the shots. I mean, those are moments that we

968
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: will remember from this year, I think, no matter what.

969
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 2: That's what we talked about in our first segment. We

970
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 2: fell in love with this team for what they did

971
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 2: on the court. You know, the land of misfit toys.

972
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 2: These guys came from all these different places and yet

973
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 2: they came together and now we will be beloved.

974
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,959
Speaker 3: Forever by our fan base and just.

975
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: On a completely personal level. It also reignited some of

976
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: the joy of it for me that had kind of

977
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: gone away the last couple of years. It became this

978
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: became more of a job at times than like I

979
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: found the games to be slogs. I mean, especially in

980
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: the last two years. You know, I could sit in

981
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: the arena, not because I didn't care, but just because

982
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: it was like, here we go again. Yeah, well I'm

983
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: back to walking these you know, bank buildings because I'm

984
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: nervous again because I want us to win again. And

985
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: or I mean I always wanted to win, but like

986
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: I wanted like that. That excitement is back, even for

987
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: me personally. And so I think I said that to

988
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: Pope a few weeks ago. I thanked him for that,

989
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: because he did. I sent in his office back in

990
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: before I went to UH to Europe, and he said, well, no,

991
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: it's right after I got back when I went, and

992
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: he was like, you gotta stay. This is gonna be awesome.

993
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he was like he was trying to pump

994
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: me up, and you know what, he was right. He

995
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: was right, he was right. It was one more. Who's next? Mary? Mary,

996
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: go ahead?

997
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 17: And Mary, Hey, Matt the first time, and I'm so

998
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 17: happy to be the first time.

999
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: All right.

1000
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 13: I just.

1001
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 17: Love this team. They are very special. They have done

1002
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 17: something to bring Kentucky basketball back in the realm and

1003
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:42,720
Speaker 17: Coach Pope. I have been going to games since Coach

1004
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 17: Rupp back with dan Issel and Mike Pratt and Louis

1005
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 17: Dampier and all them. My dad took me and Memorial

1006
00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 17: Collie him back in the day and then when Rapperena

1007
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 17: first opened up, he took me there and said, this

1008
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 17: is what it is now, and it it's Kentucky basketball

1009
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 17: is life and blood and a fan base that just

1010
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,439
Speaker 17: cares and wants to be there.

1011
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 12: You're right, You're exactly right to see.

1012
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 17: I don't like Tennessee, I understand, but I like him

1013
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 17: better than a few other teams in the.

1014
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: Don't say nice about them, But you're right, ma'am. And

1015
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: that's it, and it's nice to have. It's nice to

1016
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: have that thread through the years. And Mary, thank you

1017
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: for staying up with us tonight.

1018
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 17: Hey, Matt, I love you and I hope you keep

1019
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 17: doing this because it needs so much to just listen

1020
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 17: to every night after a game on the radio just

1021
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 17: to hear you have to listen to everything just to

1022
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 17: hear you.

1023
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: Well, that's very sweet of you. Thank you, Mary, Bomb

1024
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: and I love all you guys.

1025
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 17: I love all you and everybody.

1026
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mary. Appreciate the call. It is the bomb.

1027
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: That's very nice. Uh you know what it was?

1028
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 2: It was those damn birds and the bird feeder.

1029
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,800
Speaker 1: Yeah that's the problem. Yeah, they went away and show

1030
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: we should have listened by the way SEC had the

1031
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: most teams ever in the tournament with fourteenth. Yeah, they

1032
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: had the most teams ever make the Sweet sixteen with seven. Right,

1033
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: they'll now have four teams in the Elite eight. That's

1034
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: only happened twice two thousand and nine, Big East twenty

1035
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: sixteen acc. So if one of these teams wins the championship,

1036
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: I think we'll have claim to be the best league

1037
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: of all time? Do you think? I think? So?

1038
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 7: I know one team I don't want.

1039
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: It to be. It's not Let it be Tennessee. Yeah.

1040
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,439
Speaker 1: Who do you want to win now? I mean, looks

1041
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: like Houston's gonna I mean, they're up ten on produce,

1042
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 1: so let's say they close it out. If you have

1043
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: Duke Alabama, Florida, Texas Tech, Auburn, Michigan State. Who am

1044
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: I missing? Houston and Tennessee. Who would you like to

1045
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 1: see win? I'd like to see Houston win, even though

1046
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean, I feel like Kelvin Sampson deserves one.

1047
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 14: That's who I have on my bracket. They're pretty far

1048
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 14: removed from me. I don't I don't know. I don't

1049
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 14: know one single Houston fan that would rub it in

1050
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 14: my face, not in the conference, not on the schedule,

1051
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 14: so it'd be the most harmless.

1052
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: I think, what if Duke plays Tennessee in the final four,

1053
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: who you're going to root for? I guess I might

1054
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: have to root for Duke. It just means more.

1055
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 7: I didn't want to think about that.

1056
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I would root for Duke, as

1057
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,720
Speaker 1: painful as that is to say I can't root for Tennessee.

1058
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: I think I'm on the Alabama bandwagon.

1059
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: Now that's what I want to Alba. Do you want

1060
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: to you want an SEC team to win this?

1061
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 3: I do, yep.

1062
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 14: They've probably got a little SEC dynasty brewing. I don't

1063
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,280
Speaker 14: want to just keep adding to their trophy cabinet.

1064
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I don't know. I think I want

1065
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: Houston is the most harmless of all these teams.

1066
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 7: Would you agree?

1067
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: Or is O or is OH get another one at Michigan.

1068
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: He's the only one one that would be Okay.

1069
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 14: Houston buy a wide margin. I could give a little

1070
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 14: Matthew Mitchell bump.

1071
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Houston would probably be would be that's right, Matthew Mitchell.

1072
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,399
Speaker 1: He could go to the take you something kind of funny. Yeah,

1073
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: it's twelve fifteen at nine, who cares. Uh, we were

1074
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 1: Mario and I were driving or no, it wasn't Mario,

1075
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: it was Hovey. Hovey and I were driving the Reds

1076
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: game last night, and you know, we leave and I

1077
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: never listened to All in Color Show, but you know,

1078
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: we were in the car, so I turned it on

1079
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,240
Speaker 1: and he was doing one of his like forty minute

1080
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: monologues right filter, and he broke in to say that

1081
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: Matthew Mitchell had taken the Houston job. And he goes,

1082
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: Matthew Mitchell is taking the Houston job. Wow. He was like,

1083
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, I used to text with Matthew Mitchell and

1084
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: then Matthew Mitchell just stop replying to my text. And

1085
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: I don't know why he stopped replying to my text.

1086
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: You know, the thing is, now he's going to Houston.

1087
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: I know people in Houston. I probably know some people

1088
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 1: that can help Matthew Mitchell, but I don't know if

1089
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm on texting because he hadn't texted me back and

1090
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: then he just switched topics. That was his analysis of

1091
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: Matthew Mitchell going to Houston, and I thought that's the

1092
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: best Alan Cutler analysis. He stopped. He he knows some

1093
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: people Ryan that could help him at Houston.

1094
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 2: That's why I love Alan. That's exactly the reason why

1095
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 2: I love He said it so seriously.

1096
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: He was like, I can help Allan. You can help

1097
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: Alan Houston. Do We'll take a break right back. Final segment.

1098
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: It's a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Welcome Back.

1099
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: Final segment, Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. One person writes, Matt,

1100
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: I'd like to ask you, guys, what's your favorite memory

1101
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: of the year. Drew start with that. What do you

1102
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: think is your favorite? That's a tough one.

1103
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 14: I mean, the h the O Way buzzer beater in

1104
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,760
Speaker 14: Nashville was pretty special because it just it all happened

1105
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 14: so fast and it was a crazy party afterward. But

1106
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 14: I think my favorite I'm gonna go with was the

1107
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 14: eleven AM game against Florida. I mean, for such unique situation,

1108
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 14: playing that early Rupperina, that's about as good as I've

1109
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 14: seen it in a long time. You score one hundred

1110
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 14: and seven points against the team, it's probably gonna be

1111
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 14: in the final four of all of all the wins

1112
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 14: being in that building.

1113
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: Maybe the game we played the best too on Fire.

1114
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: I think that was our I think that was our

1115
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: best play. It was and it was the last game

1116
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: we were all healthy. This that was the last time

1117
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: everybody was healthy. What about you, Billy?

1118
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 14: It was definitely the postgame show after the Oklahoma game

1119
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 14: in the SEC Tournament that was.

1120
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: Very in the morning with with with Hovey, Bryan and

1121
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: Mario after they had the blood moon. That was That

1122
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. That's a good one to

1123
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: put the archives from that one. Now, what about you, Ryan?

1124
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,720
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the SEC Tournament because I took Josiah

1125
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 2: the first time he's ever been so kind of a

1126
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 2: father son thing. And we had great seats for the

1127
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 2: Oklahoma game, Thank you. Shout out to Stephen Horn. So

1128
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 2: we got to see that last second shot by old Way.

1129
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 2: And then we watched the second game against Alabama at

1130
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 2: Tin Roof and there was a twenty five year old

1131
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 2: grinding on my son and he thinks that Hen Roof

1132
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 2: in Nashville is the great.

1133
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: I didn't hear that, when did they?

1134
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 3: Sosiah?

1135
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: Thanks the first time you've talked about the twenty five

1136
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: year old grinding on your son after midnight.

1137
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:33,359
Speaker 3: We can talk about it now.

1138
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 18: Yeah, they it's a favorite membery of the season. I

1139
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 18: had to step away. I had to step away. I

1140
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 18: didn't want, you know, to.

1141
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: The great that that is a Ryane living line. His

1142
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: favorite moment this season was a twenty five year old

1143
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: grinding on his son at Tin Roofsville. That was a

1144
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: beautiful moment in history.

1145
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 7: That night, My good.

1146
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 2: There were some grandma's who were coming up to him

1147
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 2: and thought he was Dane Key getting their picture taken

1148
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 2: with him, and Joside just played it off, you know,

1149
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 2: he just played it off.

1150
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 3: And then I heard what I'm saying, where are you

1151
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 3: at now?

1152
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: And looked like they could be related. Oh yeah, I

1153
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 1: mean I can see that. What about the basketball, I'm

1154
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: gonna say, I'm gonna put us back to basketball and say, uh,

1155
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: for me, I actually think it's the Gonzaga. You know,

1156
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,879
Speaker 1: it was just because it was unexpected.

1157
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 3: I don't know how they still how they won that.

1158
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: I still don't really know how they won. Uh. Mario

1159
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: hit me like ten times every time they would score.

1160
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: He would punch me in the shoulder and say we

1161
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: were coming back. And then afterwards at that bar, uh,

1162
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, at three o'clock in the morning Eastern time.

1163
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: That was That was a lot of fun. And then

1164
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: we lost Max Duffy to it to a woman. I'm

1165
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 1: still not convincing we back to Australia. I think he's

1166
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: in Seattle. I think he's in Seattle with that woman.

1167
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: That That was a.

1168
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 2: Good experience, that trip out to Seattle.

1169
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a lot of fun. All right, it

1170
00:54:58,560 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: was next.

1171
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 7: I've always funda Mike.

1172
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: We'll do five and call tonight number one.

1173
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 12: Go Mike, Hey, how you guys do?

1174
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,720
Speaker 1: Doing great?

1175
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 3: All right?

1176
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 19: Hey a plus on not an a plus, but hey

1177
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 19: on the season, no doubt.

1178
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 12: Great bunch of guys.

1179
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 16: They represent a front of the jersey is what.

1180
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:24,720
Speaker 19: They were all about.

1181
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 1: Totally agree.

1182
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 19: Well, Mo Butler, well mom, Butler playing with one arm

1183
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 19: is amazing.

1184
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: That's true. And he played great tonight. By the way

1185
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: he did. He played great tonight. I mean this was

1186
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: a good for the seven for ten, eighteen points. He

1187
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: played great tonight.

1188
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 19: Yes, sir, That's all I had to say was this

1189
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 19: team and I'm looking forward to the future.

1190
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. Looks like we're gonna hit This should

1191
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 1: make everybody happy. Well no, wait a minute, I said,

1192
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: what looks like we're gonna hit produce cut it to four. Oh,

1193
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: I have a five team parlayd included women's basketball. Tonight's

1194
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: been on women's game, picked UCLA women to beat Old

1195
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: Miss and Duke women to beat North Carolina and that

1196
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: all happened, plus Michigan State Auburn, and now I need Houston.

1197
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: But now it's a three.

1198
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 3: Point game, so he need Houston.

1199
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: We need Houston to win. We can't have we can't

1200
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: have Purdue playing Tennessee to go to the Final four

1201
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: drew we need to do that needs to not happen.

1202
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 14: Yeah, we need Tennessee out of here quickly, and Houston

1203
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 14: can be the team to do it.

1204
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 1: That's right. Who's up? Net for four more? Who's next? Will?

1205
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:33,439
Speaker 1: Will go ahead? Will?

1206
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, This is Will from Dallas, Texas. So quick backstory.

1207
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:44,439
Speaker 10: I graduated from high school in twenty eighteen and went

1208
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 10: to SMU and since I've been here in Dallas, all

1209
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 10: of my friends of Minny is kind of the crazy

1210
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 10: Kentucky Wildcats fan and for having no valid reasons that

1211
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 10: I considering. We lost the Saint Tieves and then of

1212
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 10: course the the recent Open loss. So I was hoping

1213
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,919
Speaker 10: this year that we would kind of bring that back

1214
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 10: and that validation behind my my craziness. All that being said,

1215
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 10: when do you think I can have that uh, that

1216
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 10: reasoning behind the real catch run.

1217
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think there's you know, if I

1218
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: were to make a prediction and I appreciate the call,

1219
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: I think we'll be really good next year. I don't

1220
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: think next year is our championship run. I think I

1221
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: think we are a contender in two years. That's just

1222
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: my guess. I don't know that, but if you're just

1223
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: looking at at my guess, I think I think next year,

1224
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: you know, I think he still needs one more class

1225
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: to go get. He's got to figure out what the

1226
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: mix is of recruits, returners, portal. I think we're gonna

1227
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: be good next year. I need to see the roster first,

1228
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: but I feel like two years from now, you know,

1229
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: that's that that's the if I'm if I were betting

1230
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: with God, I.

1231
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 14: Do think they're gonna take another step forward this next season,

1232
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 14: even not knowing the roster. Maybe it could be special

1233
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 14: if you go out and some of these pieces really

1234
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 14: pan out, but certainly in the next two years they're

1235
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 14: gonna be in the mix of.

1236
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,479
Speaker 1: The SEC is gonna be a lot more gettable next year.

1237
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: A lot of these teams are not gonna be as

1238
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: good next year. Auburt's not gonna be as good next year.

1239
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: Oh very old. Remember, I mean you gotta remember. The

1240
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 1: best players in the SEC are guys that return for

1241
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: another year. Johnny Broome Ziggler sears like those guys are

1242
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: all gonna be gone, and I don't and the next

1243
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 1: group are not as good as those guys. So I

1244
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: do think the league will be more gettable next year.

1245
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 2: If you're telling me in two years we can make

1246
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 2: a run, I think every fan would take that in

1247
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 2: a second.

1248
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, three more. Who's next? Michael, Michael? Go ahead, Michael?

1249
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: What's that?

1250
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 16: Fellas Drew? I don't know if you did this or not.

1251
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 16: Did you end up staying in the same place in

1252
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 16: Indy from when we lost to Saint Peters.

1253
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 14: I haven't stayed there yet, but in about four hours

1254
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 14: I'll go to my room and pass out.

1255
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 16: So my friend Brock said you had mentioned something about that.

1256
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 16: Do you think maybe that gave us some bad juju

1257
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 16: for tonight?

1258
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: Yeah? Maybe true, Faul.

1259
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 14: Well, when I checked in, my room wasn't ready. They

1260
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 14: were doing maintenance on it, so maybe they were fixing something.

1261
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 14: Maybe they're bringing the curse back. I don't know, really,

1262
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 14: I hate every hotel.

1263
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 7: Everything.

1264
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: I've always disliked him, and you always just say it

1265
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: was good And now.

1266
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 14: Record, we've lost five in a row here, let's never

1267
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 14: come back. Move the final four somewhere. I'm moving to Atlanta.

1268
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 14: We forget with that.

1269
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 2: You know, in the ninety seven National Championship game we

1270
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 2: lost here in Indianapolis.

1271
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, sir. Two more, Who's next, Brandon? Brandon?

1272
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Brandon?

1273
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:51,439
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, first time, long time?

1274
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: Who what?

1275
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 13: Uh So?

1276
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 12: First off, I just want to say, like what a

1277
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 12: difference of year makes. I remember after the opening game,

1278
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:04,919
Speaker 12: like I just like just felt sick like the next

1279
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 12: day and like it's gonna be nice. I think just

1280
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 12: kind of waking up with some sense of optimism. I'm

1281
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 12: still obviously bummed about the outcome, but you know, I

1282
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 12: think everybody is like really pleasantly surprised about how successful

1283
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 12: the season was. And on a really like positive note

1284
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 12: to I finally converted my wife to you know, to

1285
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 12: you know, being a part of Big Blue Nation. I

1286
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 12: think this team was just really just fun to watch.

1287
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 12: A huge a haga away fans. So I'm really hoping

1288
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 12: he comes back next season and we can kind of

1289
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 12: keep this tradition going. We're actually planning on starting a

1290
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 12: family this year, and so I think, you know, just

1291
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 12: to echo what you said about like this season reigniting

1292
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 12: like the joy amongst the fan base, I think what

1293
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 12: I'm looking forward to is like making this like a

1294
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 12: tradition that I'm going to like pass on.

1295
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's I ask my question.

1296
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 12: You go ahead, you answer my question about kind of

1297
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 12: like the trajectory of the program kind of where you

1298
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 12: see it in that couple of years, trying to make

1299
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 12: it that championship run. So I just had comments and

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Speaker 12: that was it.

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Speaker 1: So sorry, Well I appreciate it, and I'm glad. Good

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Speaker 1: luck with good luck with the with the family eight five, nine, eight,

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Speaker 1: twenty two eighty seven. The story amount of people who

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Speaker 1: say reigniting their their face, I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: really is going to be the story of this year.

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Speaker 1: Let's do one more and then Mario and I are

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Speaker 1: going to drive the election. So are you? And Shannon?

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Speaker 1: If we pass you on the road, who's next? Honor Hunter?

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Speaker 16: Hey, Hunter, boys, how are we doing tonight?

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Speaker 1: Doing good?

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Speaker 20: Hey, kind of echoing what everyone saying about the Reignite.

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Speaker 20: It's definitely really noticing me this This season will go

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Speaker 20: down as a lot of first for me. I was

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Speaker 20: able to go to my first ever game. I was

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Speaker 20: able to call in to the show for the first time,

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Speaker 20: able to go to my first remote both in Kentucky

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Speaker 20: and Utah, which to me is like I have always

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Speaker 20: been a fan, but I didn't really follow it the

1319
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 20: last couple of years until this year, and this year

1320
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Speaker 20: really did kind of bring me back. And so I

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Speaker 20: will always remember this year and I'm so thankful for

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Speaker 20: I guess everything. I'm especially grateful for you guys, the

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Speaker 20: show again. Living in Utah, it's amazing that I can

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Speaker 20: like feel close to home, and especially with how I

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Speaker 20: work on concant podcast listener guys probably won't hear from

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Speaker 20: me till we do you know, postgame shows in October,

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Speaker 20: and so until then, love you guys, see you guys,

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Speaker 20: then go cats.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, appreciate it and listen. Thank you

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Speaker 1: all for listening this year. I always try to do

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Speaker 1: something to wrap up after the last basketball game, So

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Speaker 1: let me go through it real quick. First of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you, as always to my man Billy, who stays

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Speaker 1: up here with me at night and we do this

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Speaker 1: late into the evenings. Thank you Billy for all the

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Speaker 1: what I guess that's about fifty we've done if you

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Speaker 1: count football and basketball. Thank you, Matt. Appreciate that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you seem very excited about that at least, like let's

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Speaker 1: get out of there. Thank you, Matt. Big shout out Tomorrio.

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Speaker 1: First year with us. You were hired like one year

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Speaker 1: ago today, and you've been a great addition. It's been

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Speaker 1: awesome to be be with you. Thank you very much,

1343
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Speaker 1: you guys, the three of you. We've done this a lot.

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Speaker 1: I always love this time of year because we get

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Speaker 1: to go places together. We've been in the Nashville, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: and Indianapolis and it's been a blast. Thank you for

1347
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: now what sixteen years with Drew, like fifteen years with

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Speaker 1: you guys, it's been awesome. And to all the listeners,

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Speaker 1: you all, you know, I've said it so much it

1350
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: may sound tripe, but you really have kind of re

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Speaker 1: ignited not just my love with UK basketball, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I was burned out and after this year it's gotten me,

1353
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Speaker 1: you know, right back to where this job has always

1354
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Speaker 1: been for me, which is a lot of fun, and

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Speaker 1: thank you to everybody. Days like you know, the ending

1356
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 1: sucked with the loss, but days like today at ten

1357
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Speaker 1: roof seeing the amount of people, the energy. You know,

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Speaker 1: this thing started twenty years ago, like literally twenty years

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01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 1: ago this September, and it started like in a basement,

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Speaker 1: and to see what it's become, I just can't think

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Speaker 1: everybody enough. So with that, we will be back Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: Uh from ks Bar. It'll be probably talking portal and

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Speaker 1: getting ready and I got three shows and then hopefully

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Speaker 1: I will be able to sit up straight on a

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Speaker 1: plane because I'm going to Amsterdam with a with a back.

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Speaker 1: It's locked up.

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Speaker 14: But you know what, they got good stuff over in Amsterdam.

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Speaker 3: If you need, they gonna help you with that.

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Speaker 1: The caidnay, well, we'll see. Hey, thank you all very much.

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Speaker 1: Everybody have a safe drive if you're driving home. Cats

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Speaker 1: losing the Sweet sixteen, but Kentucky basketball back. This has

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Speaker 1: been the local toylet Dealers KSR postgame show