2025-01-24- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: All right, Matt Jones, Friday, January the twenty fourth, On a cold day in Lexington, It's still freezing.

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Speaker 3: What that's really nice of you to go ahead and get that final three dollars so that everybody get that. So there you go, three dollars off your vehicle. From John from Drew Franklin at Don Franklin here in Lexington. So big weekend. We've had a week without Kentucky basketball. But that goes back to being over On Saturday. Kentucky play Vanderbilt two thirty. Sort of an odd start time, but two thirty in Nashville, Ryan, I already know a bunch of people going. But more more importantly, the this could end up being, besides the Arkansas game, the most expensive Kentucky ticket on the market this year. I guess it's the small gym playing in Nashville, Western Kentucky on a Saturday, and he's been pretty good. They're kind of on the bubble of the NCAA tournament right now. I'm surprised by how hard it's gonna be getting in. But I can tell it's hard because I have random people sort of in the Nashville Are you going, hey, Matt, Now thing's been What do you think about our cats?

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Speaker 6: Got any tickets?

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Speaker 7: Wait?

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Speaker 3: What are you hearing about tickets Saturday? You know X's that they reappeared in my life, like people want to get into the game.

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Speaker 5: Kentucky has always had great crowds, and they played Memorial Gym just because although the Western Kentucky folks the fans, they're closer. They get to go to watch and play. But Yeah, it is amped up, and I think Drew hit it yesterday. Because it's a Saturday afternoon in Nashville. You can spend Friday night, go to the game, spend Saturday nights, have a whole weekend there.

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Speaker 3: I even with that, though, I mean I'm shocked, like I I'll look here in a minute on the stub hub, but like it's crazy, and I think that's going to lead to an awesome atmosphere tomorrow. I mean, I don't know what it'll be, maybe sixty forty Vandy, but we will have a significant presence in there. I think it's gonna be almost like I don't know, almost like an NCAA tournament game where the arena's kind of split and you're in one place.

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Speaker 2: You may see that tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's gonna be a great environment and not much of a surprise. One of my friends are already there. I was getting the where you're at? Are you here yet? Last night? So I think a lot of UK fans are gonna make the most of this and be very excited for that game. But on the Vandy end, even though they just lost that Alabama, the two games before that were at home, both big wins that came down to the final second. So the last two times Vandy's been at home, they've beaten Tennessee at the very end in South Carolina at the very end. So they got a little magic going there that I'm sure their fans want to keep going.

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Speaker 3: I know you're a fan of them, Shannon, but when I've seen Vandy this year, with the exception of that Alabama game, it's like every game is closed. They don't really beat I mean, Tennessee's number one team in the country. That game was closed and then they won. But then they also played South Carolina, the worst team in the conference, and that game was close, but they won. In the non conference, they barely beat a couple stinky teams, but then they did get one or two good wins. You've watched them. What is Kentucky gonna play tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Vandy's gonna play very physical. They don't have a whole lot of height, they don't have a whole lot of great shooters. If they get into a shootout with Kentucky, Kentucky's gonna win that every time. Vandy's gotta be physical, get to the line and win the game with the free throw line.

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Speaker 3: So give me some of their players, tell me what they what they like, because all the guys I knew on that team are now gone. So who's there.

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Speaker 4: Jason Edwards is their leading scorer. He transferred in. It's just like Kentucky, Mark Byington, their new coach brought into all transfers.

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Speaker 3: I would have never known his name, Mark.

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Speaker 4: Biden from James Madison.

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Speaker 3: From James Madison.

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Speaker 4: Aj Hilgard is a guy who played four years at Michigan State under Tom Izzo. He's another one of their good players. And then they have kind of like their version of Kobe Bray that comes off the bench. Tyler Nichols a good three point shooter.

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Speaker 3: So what do they do that can like? What is their strength? You know a lot of these teams we've played have been really good rebounding, etc. What is the Vandy.

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Speaker 4: Strength creating points off turnovers? Okay, they think average sixteen turnovers that they create on defense per game. So if they can get to that number, I think that that's their advantage over Kentucky. Create turnovers and then score points off of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I heard the announcer during the Alabama game, Drew say that Vandy.

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Speaker 2: Likes to kind of have a tempo.

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Speaker 3: This is not like the stackhouse Vandy teams that I thought kind of slowed it down.

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Speaker 2: That's what we want. We want to play teams like that.

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Speaker 3: I think if we can get into tempo, we're better than them, and that would be good for us.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they're similar. Adding to Shannon's point about turnovers. About Kentucky, their turnover ratios a lot of like Vandy's, like top twenty in both creating turnovers and not turning it over. So I think whoever protects the ball could be big. Kentucky's face. A lot of good rebounding teams lately. That's one thing Vandy doesn't do really well. They did well against Tennessee getting second chance points, but I think they might even be last in the conference in rebounds.

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Speaker 4: Well, that game against Tennessee they were up by sixteen points. They don't close out well at all. The South Carolina game they nearly lost.

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Speaker 3: They so we could come back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So if Kentucky's down by let's say, double digits in the second half, I wouldn't be too concerned.

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Speaker 7: All right, So what's interesting thing about Vandy is they have a six nine two D and fifty pound point guard because everyone on the roster is listed as a point guard if you go to Vandy's website point guard.

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Speaker 3: I forgot about that that was his thing as he was putting every single player as a point guard.

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Speaker 7: I think Brandon Garrison and mari Williams are already in the portal.

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Speaker 2: Want to go to Vandy. I'll tell you yeah. Mariy Williams thinks he's a point guard.

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Speaker 3: Every single game he's he's clear out left hand, only dribble and go to the go to the rim right. So for me, this game is actually a really important game for Kentucky. Again, I really don't give us a chance of winning the SEC now, but I do think we can be a top I mean, my goal for the team at the end of the year, I like to see him be a top four seed. I don't think that's certain. I'm not even sure if it's likely, but I do think it's attainable. If you're gonna be a top four seed, you gotta win this game, right. If you want to be a top four, three or four seed in the NCAA tournament, I think you need to win this game. You're gonna There are still losses on the schedule. There are still hard games on the schedule. There's probably even still an upset on the schedule. But you win this one, you'll play them at home later, get a big win. I think this game Ryan at fifteen and four, what are we.

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Speaker 2: Set fourteen fourteen and four?

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Speaker 3: At fourteen and four, this is this is one I think you need to get, especially at Tennessee and the or Horizon.

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Speaker 5: I think it's very important because you know, if Vanderbilt is fifteen and four, I think we're fourteen and four. Kind of ironic, we're both coming up losses to Alabama. I thought that was kind of unique. But for vent, for Vanderbilt, they're gonna beat teams at home. They're good enough, they're gonna like they've already got Tennessee, they're gonna they're gonna get a lot of wins.

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Speaker 4: So if you can sneak in there and get this one, that.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely helps you at the end of the season.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Vanderbilt's been fortunate in the sense that their non conference wasn't great, so they have less room for error in the in the SEC than we do. But you know, just look at the games at Tennessee, at Alabama, home Tennessee home Auburn. You know, those are four extremely difficult games left. You still gotta go at Missouri, at Texas, at Oklahoma. I mean, you got tough, tough games going. This is one of those kind of like when we played at Mississippi State Drew a week or week or two ago, where you go, let's get this one and then put everything else to the side if.

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Speaker 2: You want to win.

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Speaker 3: I think you want to win half your road games. This is one you need to get.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And so far after the three losses, they've able to play a game afterwards. They've they've bounced back, haven't dropped to in a row yet they've always responded, well, you want to see them do that again. Also, just look at it, looking at the standings, I consider Kentucky and Tennessee kind of in a race for the same spot. With Tennessee just dropping this game at Vandy Reesey, I kind of see it as a way to get us light, you know, half a game edge on them in the race. How Vandy helped you out last week?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Florida.

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Speaker 3: You know, Florida's kind of in that group too, and they had a chance to drop that game at South Carolina and they ended up coming back. I also, you know noticed when you watch those games, Tennessee dropped it, but the couple other teams Arkansas was one of them, but then sept Florida was as well, where they were down the whole game and then came back and got the lead right at the end and won. Shannon, that might be what Kentucky has to do, because you're right, Vandy has quick starts, poor finishes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I could see that. And if that's the situation, comes down to free throws at the end of the game. Like I was watching Vandy Tennessee, they're guys tightened up, but.

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Speaker 3: We're surprisingly this team has not. Kentucky has not been great on free throws. I mean, it's weird to me for a team that's such a good shooting team, we really struggle on the line. It seems like, especially in close games. We actually did okay against Alabama, but some of those other games otega o Way will go up there, miss too, you know, Butler will miss them. I don't understand why this team is not.

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Speaker 2: It feels like to me.

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Speaker 3: With how good they shoot the ball, they should be like the team was last year that when the guards got the ball, the free throws were in.

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Speaker 2: It just hadn't been like that this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm starting to hear more and more that you're right, Butler Otega and Amari, those are guys.

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Speaker 6: He would beat the free throw line all the time.

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Speaker 3: I don't miss Oddly, I don't blame Amari a lot like he's I mean, he's a big guy. He's actually shooting what sixty eight percent from the line. That's probably better than I thought he would do, honestly. But it's the guards for me that that missed those free throws at the end. That's really frustrating.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Butler's been surprised to there yet. Well, I even think Gonzaga game we had a chance to club. Was that Andrew Carr at the line car Yeah, he made the defensive play right after missing it, but that was a chance to put it away. It rattled out. Another thing that surprises me with free throws. Although it's been like this his whole career, Kobe Bray has only taken like six free throws this season, maybe seven. I mean, that's just a guy that's a great shooter. That just I know it's not how he plays, but to never go to the line when you're that good as Yeah, he just.

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Speaker 3: I mean never goes the rim. And even when he does, he falls away. They did. I did see that. Mark Pope said they you know, he spent the whole week trying to draw fouls. So Shannon, we'll see do we do we do we do what these other teams are doing. Fly into guys, take a foul, you know, I mean we we have not done that.

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Speaker 2: I think it has hurt us.

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Speaker 4: We'll see if they do it this seeing other teams do this against Kentucky. The flop, I mean was a game of.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's a flop.

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Speaker 4: There was one a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: Ago that was definitely a flop, but I'm talking about that was on a rebound, right, I'm talking about the you go up for a layup. You can either put your shoulder into the guy. Keith Bogens is always a dude who I think used to do this. Put the shoulder into the guy and then and you can get the foul, or you could try to miss the guy go farther.

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Speaker 2: From the rim, and that usually you don't make the shot and you don't get.

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Speaker 4: The call right and Mark Pope's been studying the referee, so he should have an understanding on where they're gonna make calls and where they're not.

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Speaker 3: When I look at these games, I always like to think of famous ones so at Vandy Ryan over the years. Obviously, I think the one most people would think about if the Mahama under underhanded shot with Tubby running off the court looking at everybody while off the court, off the court. That was before the monitor reviews of different Yeah, get off the court, get off the court. There is the game. Often think of the Billy Glassie game where we lost by like a thousand with Ashley Judd in the stands, kick Dusty Mills off the team after the game because he and uh more at ken Yo Williams were laughing on the bench during that one.

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Speaker 2: I think of the John Wall game against what was the center?

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Speaker 3: You all had Ogilvy, aj A j Olivie and DeMarcus Cousins uh making fun of him. What other games at Vandy do you think of?

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Speaker 6: Those are the three top ones for sure?

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Speaker 5: I think I remember right it seemed like I think saw Smith that his best game ever at Vandy one team and had like over twenty points to come from behind them.

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Speaker 4: There was game I think it was two thousand and three where Kentucky came in and just blew them out in Dandy, Vandy's point guard couldn't even get the ball across center court because Kentucky just had so many turnovers.

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Speaker 3: We have had a couple of those games, especially in the last ten or twelve years, where we've just blitzed Fandy off the court. In those games, we get an early lead and it's just over. Is there one that six out me?

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Speaker 7: Last year they won by thirty five. Yeah, it was pretty impressive. The ninety six team, I think score one hundred and twenty something won by a million. Oscar had his career high there. He had like thirty and sixteen when he was just getting started. I think about the COVID team got to win there, like Daveon Men's had.

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Speaker 4: A big game.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Theact.

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Speaker 7: The very recent success or years have been very good for Kentucky there. I mean, they have some absolute blowouts against Vandy.

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Speaker 3: By the way, the game at Vandy during to Billy Glaspie year's was maybe the wildest game in UK history. We lost by a million. We kicked a player off the team after the game. They made George ride home, made George stay in the baffle room stall at halftime, and then made him ride home when the managers didn't even allow him to go home on the team plane. That was maybe the Billy Gillespie era at its native right there in the Vandy years.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you mentioned Ashial Judge. She set on the end of the bench. She was right there on the bench that game. I was there that game. That was horrible, awful.

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Speaker 4: Could you imagine if we had a show like this show back then? Oh yeah, I'd like to be able to talk about that. I mean when that game was over.

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Speaker 3: Just as a side note, when that game was over, I got a text message from one of the player's parents that said they made Josh Harrelson sit in a toilet stall at halftime. You have to put that on the website. And I was like, oh, what do I put that on the website? But that that happened right right during the sea right there in the during the season. If I'm nine to EIGHTHO twenty two eighty seven Kats and Vanderbilt tomorrow at as the old Dennis joke Tooth thirty two, turn on Tooth thirty.

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Speaker 2: That's no, don't don't shake your head man. Man, that was a that was a good You know.

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Speaker 4: If Ryan made that, you would have made him sit outside.

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Speaker 2: But exactly it's different. We'll take a break very back.

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Speaker 3: It's the kso wad image is Kentucky Sports Radio here at Franklin, Hyundai and Lexington.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, if you pull up, you can just park.

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Speaker 3: Anywhere here done Franklin and you'll be parking next to a great deal in savings. Oh nice, No, dude, how good was that? Eight five, eight oh, twenty two eighty seven where we're beat we're doing the old guy thing where we just remember games the uh digger Phelps telling us, uh, what was it? Listen to me, listen to me, listen. That was in twenty twelve. I forgot one year this this game at Vandy was a game that Bobby Knight called where he got confirmed or whether or not you remember that.

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Speaker 4: He goes, what's this number?

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Speaker 9: Well?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what is this?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 4: This is the game clock? Well what's this one done?

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Speaker 3: Where are we?

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Speaker 2: Who am I?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 5: There was that was that was during this game one time I remember the incident for got completely was against the Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were down on the Billy Glasspie year at halftime forty one to eleven.

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Speaker 4: I was just asking you during the break, is that the lowest halftime point total for Kentucky?

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Speaker 6: You said, I think it was.

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Speaker 3: I think, like you know, back in the day, they'd played like the final score be like thirteen to ten. So it was before but the shot clock era for sure, and the shot clock era, I don't think we've ever only scored eleven points.

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Speaker 5: You gotta remember that that was a good Kentucky team had Romel Joe Patterson. I mean, they were good and with this guy smoked that night.

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Speaker 3: And then in three you were talking about that was the That was the game where we turned the season around. You remember Tubby, I think you might remember for people that time he got that look on the sideline where his eyes bugged out and he started ah And then they in that second half win Rowland and then they were great the rest of the year.

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Speaker 5: They came out and clamped down on Vandy that second half You're right, and carried that through where they did not lose another game until what was it got that Yeah, so Drew.

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Speaker 4: Had one more good one. Well was it Riley chance? Oh yeah, okay, well.

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Speaker 7: He choked twice. He choked there too, not the famous free throwing. But he had another game. We had a chance and didn't anything with it chanced.

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Speaker 3: All right, So if I'm not two thirty, that's really good. That's what time it is in a dentist office, Liam Cohen. So it turns out my text I almost really screwed it up because I almost like took it back in the afternoon I was rooting, and then he would have come back at night. I ended up I did not take it back. But Liam Cohen flips and ends up going to Jacksonville. The story is kind of amazing. So apparently he tells Tampa on Wednesday that he is going to sign a long term deal. Then they start calling him Wednesday night like, hey, man, haven't signed it yet, what's up when you come in tomorrow? No response? Thursday, no response. Apparently he's on a plane in Jacksonville meeting with the Jaguars the GM. He said he didn't want to work for that GM, so they just fired that dude. They fired the GM told Liam he could pick the GM. Think about that. They said, you can pick your boss, which is one of the more amazing things I've ever heard. You would think he's Vince Lombardi if they're telling him he can pick his boss. Still doesn't call Tampa Bay, looks like Tampa Bay. Goes to the media and is like, we haven't heard from Liam. We don't know what's going on. The media then leaks that out and he ends up signing last night with Jacksonville. Crazy story, and then I thought, all that different than what happened here at UK, might as well just say so when that was going on with him talking to Tampa Bay, you know, I'll just say I got a phone call that was like, why are you saying I'm going to Tampa Bay. I'm not going to tamp Tampa Bay. And I was like, Okay, I guess you're not going. I guess you're not going to Tampa Bay. And then the next day he was in Tampa Bay. So Liam Cohen Ryan, I just think that's how this dude rubbles like great coach, good dude.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you can't trust what he says in any given moment.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I can talk about it now. He bought my buddy's house the second time I was a listing agent. I was involved in the real estate deal where he bought. When he came back the second time and said, this is the house we're gonna raise our kids in. They just had a baby.

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Speaker 4: We are planting our roots, we are staying like you're gonna raise our kids in this house.

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Speaker 3: But I mean literally, And I again, I like Liam, So this is I'm not and I'm not just saying that like and I like you, but I do like Liam. But I was in I remember where I was was. I was walking down the street in New York City. He called me and goes, why did you tweet out that I'm looking at Tampa Bay. And I was like, wow, I'm not the one that reported it the Tampa Bay whatever. He was like, I'm staying here. Why did you tweet that out?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Man, it's just what they said, all right. And he goes say that I'm staying and I didn't because I was walking down the street in the cold. And two hours later he was in Tampa Bay like like like that that it's just how he is. I guess, yeah, that's weird.

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Speaker 7: Last night, his resume looks like he's running from the FBI. How he's in like one city every year and on to the next one.

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Speaker 3: Five years. Right.

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Speaker 7: I get that he's advancing his career, and you know he deserves this climb, But it seems like every time he's at a place, he's like the Joker walking away from the hospital, burning behind him, like he's blowing up everything as he leaves. Yeah, every place he's been, it seems. I think Mark Stoop still likes him. I think I think, hopefully not enough to ever bring him back to But I don't think.

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Speaker 3: It'll be a third time. I do think Mark likes him. But you know, I know, I know the I will say this. I know he told Mark, I promise you I will be here two years the second time, and then he wasn't, and so you just you just don't know with him. With all that said, he ends up in a situation where he's the head coach. He gets the GM fired, like and my text ended up still being true. It just twenty four hours after I thought it was.

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Speaker 7: You should go back and hit the thumbs up on your own. Tex No, I will let him know that.

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Speaker 3: That's a really good gon thumbs up the text, Like, see, I knew it all the time, Tony All you had to do was trust me. I knew he'd end up in your in your hand.

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Speaker 5: Was there one part of the story where he told Tampa Bay he didn't answer his funk because his kid was sick.

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Speaker 4: But his kid wasn't sick. He was in Even if this kid was sick, it doesn't have anything to do with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so what I don't like him?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you don't want any left the first the first time I gave him the benefit of the doubt, he came back, he lied again.

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Speaker 2: Done with that guy?

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Speaker 3: Wow, Shannon will not be sharing the meal with Uh, he wouldn't.

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Speaker 7: If you go the facts, What if you gotta go somewhere next year exactly.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Take your calls. Heiny, if I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven is KSR.

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Speaker 3: Watermack. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at Don Franklin Hyundai. Come on out before the end of the show. You got a chance to win UK tickets. UK Arkansas is eight days away, and the people just keep getting excited and excited about it. I got some news on that in just a second. Couple open lines. He if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, Matt, I really enjoyed your interview the other day with Jay Williams. But I have to tell you all my friends and I are talking about is the fact that he called you MJ. For some reason, it annoyed us. Yesterday I was in the pharmacy get medicine. Guy came up to me on the way out said, I loved your interview, but why did he call you MJ? Why Drew you said, I've got a text?

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Speaker 2: Why Why did that bothers people so much?

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Speaker 3: He called J?

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Speaker 2: Billis JB?

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Speaker 7: What was on minutes? I'd say the first ten minutes. I can't tell you what he said because I was just like, stop saying m J.

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Speaker 4: In my head, it was just like, but MJ, but MJ.

00:24:06
Speaker 6: But boy, we're boys?

00:24:08
Speaker 2: Were I noticed that? But is it just because m J is Michael Jordan?

00:24:16
Speaker 6: Is that what it is?

00:24:17
Speaker 3: You don't want to give?

00:24:18
Speaker 7: Let me be It's felt like a forced nickname that okay?

00:24:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if I what if I had said hey, it would have been already if I said hey, J will.

00:24:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, for whatever reason, I've heard that one. But I've never heard anybody call you MJ.

00:24:32
Speaker 4: Not one time.

00:24:33
Speaker 6: That's why it sounded odd.

00:24:34
Speaker 2: Well, clearly people did not enjoy it.

00:24:36
Speaker 9: Who's up first, Rick, God Grant up first, Grant, go ahead, grant.

00:24:42
Speaker 2: Corner.

00:24:43
Speaker 10: Matt, I have a question when it comes to the Arkansas game.

00:24:47
Speaker 11: Uh, I bet cal Perry this fair share beres and he comes into rep But yes, I understand because you know he's that for a conference rival.

00:24:55
Speaker 10: But the same time, you.

00:24:56
Speaker 11: Know he's trying to get Kentucky fans what they wanted because you know we needed an.

00:25:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm gonna let you make your second point, but let me say about the he gave Kentucky fans what they wanted. He didn't do that for us. He did it for him. He didn't sit around and go, this will be better for Kentucky fans if I leave. He sat there and said, I'm going to meet with these guys. I may go down there, or I think what he really thought is I'm gonna act like I'm taking this job and they're gonna give me more money, and that's gonna leave me to stay. And then Mitch called his bluff. So while we got what we wanted, or at least what some of the fans wanted. It wasn't like an act of benevolence. He was doing what he thought was best for him, and then it turns out that was also I think probably best for our fan base.

00:25:49
Speaker 10: Well, my second point was, you know when Rick Patino came back into upt with Louisville and he got food, Yeah, you know over time. You know, he came back to Big Blue Madness this year and he was like, you know, he was left and learn everybody loved it. How long do you think it'll be before the kind of towerness of that?

00:26:07
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that took twenty years. That took twenty years.

00:26:11
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call, but part of the reason it took twenty years, Ryan is he was at Louisville for ten or eleven of those years and he flipped us off and there was all this. You know, he sort of stirred the pot for years and years and years. So Cow will not take twenty years. Like, Honestly, if Cow wed to retire at the end of this year, he probably could get cheered in three years if he came back, But it won't happen while he's at Arkansas, and it'll still take a year or two. I do think this fan base will eventually embrace him. I don't know if it'll be as much as they embraced Rick last year, because part of why we embraced Rick was Mark Pope was here. I think if Mark Pope's not here, Rick would have still gotten applause, but I don't think he would have gotten as much applause.

00:26:58
Speaker 2: I think Mark Pope being here.

00:26:59
Speaker 3: So if one day we made Tyler you list the coach and then they brought Cal back, that might be different. But I think the Mark Pope factor is a big part of why Patino got the reaction he did.

00:27:10
Speaker 5: I totally agree with that, and I also agree that one cow will get the standing innovation applause.

00:27:15
Speaker 6: Someday at Rupperna.

00:27:17
Speaker 5: Maybe it's after he retires and they do the twenty year anniversary of the twenty twelve team.

00:27:20
Speaker 6: There'll be a moment.

00:27:21
Speaker 5: Maybe there'll be a day where we'll welcome him back the way he's expecting. But it ain't happening while he's at Arkansas.

00:27:27
Speaker 3: I mean, we're gonna be talking about this obviously a lot next week, but he has not done anything to be fair to him, to like say, like take shots at Kentucky. To his credit, I think he's been pretty good about not doing that, so I think that has helped. But the love of Pope then contrasts with what happened last year. It's just natural that it's gonna take a little while.

00:27:55
Speaker 7: That And I think the booing isn't symbolic of you know, all of John Caliperry's way with Kentucky. It's that he's walking to Reperena to beat Mark Pope. He wants Kentucky to lose that day. He should be booed. I think every coach that comes in should be booted.

00:28:08
Speaker 3: It's not just because it's him.

00:28:10
Speaker 7: He is on the other team coming in and trying to give Kentucky a loss on a Saturday night in Reperena.

00:28:14
Speaker 4: Another I will say another part of that too is if Caliperry were good at Arkansas, that would make us, I think, hate him even more. But when he goes there and he loses that, I think a lot of you know, some people on the show kind of feel sorry for him. So I think that maybe some of our fan base too.

00:28:29
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:28:29
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm the one that feels sorry for him more than anybody, and I'm the one that gets accused of being the biggest hater Vice, so Vice Television they're doing a documentary series about Arkansas and cal So. He contacted me yesterday, Shannon, I need your advice on what to do here. Okay, So they contacted me. They're doing an in season documentary, but it's starting. The show is going to start with the game that's here.

00:28:54
Speaker 2: Okay.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: So episode one is going to be the Kentucky Arkansas game. So they actually have not done all that's led to this. They're doing now till the end of the year. It may ended up being a bad decision if Arkansas didn't go to the tournament or anything happen, but they are starting with this, so they're coming here. They asked me if they could come to the remote next week. I said that was fine. The Arkansas dude's gonna do his radio show from our bar for a little while, so he's gonna they're gonna come to that. But in the process they said, and I was a little nervous because they were like, we want They said, there's a lot of public clips of things people have said, so I'm assuming they mean me and we want to make sure we get like your side of it on this documentary, So I told him I'd talk to him, but it'd be interesting. I wonder if this Vice documentary, if the first episode is just gonna be like Kentucky fans versus Cow or even maybe me, because the way he talked about it was like, you know, we're doing Kentucky Arkansas and we just want to make sure we hear from both groups.

00:29:58
Speaker 4: Well, if you're asking me, should you do it or not, the answer is absolutely yes you should. And they do an amazing These are the same people that do that dark side of the ring, yeah wrestling, So this is gonna be must watch TV.

00:30:09
Speaker 2: It'll be very good. And they're turning around quick.

00:30:11
Speaker 3: Yeah. So like our Games February first, they said that episode will be out February tenth, so like it will come out. I mean, they are turning around quick, so so it'll be interesting to see, you know. I mean we did this with the Netflix show, so I kind of know how these things go. But uh, they're gonna come to the pregame show or like you know, the Games at nine, they're gonna come to the bar during the day. They want to talk to fans that are at the bar. So I would say, if you got things you want to say, you can probably find your way into it.

00:30:43
Speaker 6: You should be comfable with that role.

00:30:45
Speaker 5: Netflix kind of made you to portray you as somewhat of a bad guy the first couple episodes of Wrestler. Now that you thanks thanks a lot, do you think they'll try to portray portray you the bad flick trying to portray you.

00:30:55
Speaker 2: As a bad guy we did, thank you?

00:30:58
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean I can't think of anything I've said at any point about him that was not how I felt and was not fair. So so I'm okay with it, right, Like I mean, I you know, I think it's fine. What's gonna be interesting is what happens after Saturday, you know, after we play them. If we were to lose, this will be the same for the next however long. But I do wonder if we win, if it's like, okay, we don't think about them again for the rest of the year. Yeah, I mean, I think if we win, that would sort of help take some of the stuff off, do you know what I mean? I think so too.

00:31:39
Speaker 7: And if we were to win that one, and you know, if they were to lose tomorrow against to the point like they're not even in the conversation at all. Part of it was let's get a better seat than Arkansas, or we got to make it far of the tournament in Arkansas. If they're one and eight and not even in the conversation, it is going to be much easier to forget about them and move on and be excited about the rest of our team because they will literally be irrelevant to college basketball.

00:32:01
Speaker 3: Who's up next? Rick Sawyer is up next?

00:32:03
Speaker 2: Sawyer?

00:32:04
Speaker 3: How are you? Sawyer?

00:32:06
Speaker 4: I'm doing good?

00:32:07
Speaker 8: First time, long time?

00:32:08
Speaker 3: Who what what's up?

00:32:11
Speaker 8: I just gotta say, you guys have been talking about feeling sympathy for cal and I just got to say, every time he loses, it brings me pure joy. I hate Cow, my family hates Cow, my friends with Cow. I mean, he he want us to national championship. I'm not attacking him as a person, but we should have won three or four. I'm my girlfriend surprised me with tickets at Arkansas game, and I'm gonna boo until my throat bleeds.

00:32:37
Speaker 3: So well, I hope you enjoyed being on the Vice documentary because I think they're listening today for calls, So there you go. You may end up on there with that with that comment.

00:32:49
Speaker 8: I hope they record me and they can put me on because I believe it in his house is the ugliest house on Richmond Road. That's all I gotta say.

00:32:56
Speaker 6: Whoa Slammity's house?

00:32:58
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00:34:16
Speaker 2: We have some breaking news Rick. Whenever you there you go.

00:34:22
Speaker 3: Rick's getting quicker on that trigger. Pete Carroll will be the new coach of the Oakland Raiders Las Vegas right, same thing, Las Vegas Raiders. Whatever tells you how? Yeah, I only host an NFL show on ESPN. Don't listen to me. He will be the new coach. He is, I believe, ninety four years old. So do you think that'll work.

00:34:48
Speaker 6: I don't see how that's gonna work.

00:34:50
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a great football mind, but man, they need they need to look elsewhere. I think that I'm trying to jump start that program.

00:34:55
Speaker 4: It's Tom Brady a part of the hiring process.

00:34:58
Speaker 2: Especially he must have been. Yeah, I mean that that was Uh, that's interesting.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: I didn't think about that angle because Brady didn't play for Pete Carroll. But Pete Carroll was the coach of New England right before Belichick, so uh so that's interesting.

00:35:13
Speaker 8: Yeah.

00:35:13
Speaker 7: I know Jerry Jones interviewed him for the Cowboys too, and I thought that was funny. I didn't think it was a serious candidate for any jobs, but I guess, you know, he's got a long hair through football. Maybe he can put the age aside and Vegas stay out late the culture.

00:35:26
Speaker 4: He would be coaching until he's seventy six if he goes throughout this three years that he just saw.

00:35:31
Speaker 3: We just we just we just swore in a president at seventy six. So if you could be president, I guess you could run the country, you can run the football team. Yeah, speak uh speaking of that, did did you all do what I told you a few weeks ago and go get your eggs?

00:35:46
Speaker 2: Have you seen what's happening across the country right now with eggs? As I predicted?

00:35:50
Speaker 3: Remember I told you, yeah, they're gonna run out of eggs here in a few weeks. And everybody goes, oh, you said the same thing about butter. Well, it's happening all across. Eggs are expected next week to be the highest price of eggs ever. Really, yes, wow, And in most of America, if you were to go to the grocery store right now, no eggs, because everybody is hearing there's going to be a massive shortage over the next few weeks of eggs. So I hope you followed the followed my advice Ryan and went and got your eggs. And if you didn't, you better go get your eggs now. They say again, I don't know that the price over the next two weeks might go up fifty percent of my gosh, because that's how because that's because of the combination of economy stuff but also the bird flu that the eggs we're about to get egg it's gonna be egg terrible, it's eggtrocious.

00:36:42
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna go out and buy a hen at the wait. I mean, how much there's a hand costs.

00:36:46
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't even know where you'd put a hen.

00:36:48
Speaker 2: You give it, you get out one on radio, all right, and just give you all the eggs.

00:36:53
Speaker 3: So watch out.

00:36:54
Speaker 2: I hope you went and got your eggs.

00:36:56
Speaker 6: I didn't. I think I still have some of my refrid fitter, but I think I should go buy some now.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: Well they showed I think they was in Louisville. Somebody took a picture.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: They went to like three different grocery stores and none of them, Wow, had eggs.

00:37:07
Speaker 2: It's amazing to me when things like that happen.

00:37:11
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's Facebook groups that tell each other, or like how everyone knows church.

00:37:16
Speaker 7: Potlucks, it just starts spreading around town that way.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: How does everybody know we better go get our eggs right now?

00:37:22
Speaker 4: I think I'm onto something here. A hen can cost between twenty and fifty dollars, So you got to play the long game. Here he's gonna give you a lot of eggs. I think they would be more cost efficient to buy a hen and still going where he's gonna keep a hen in your backyard in a cage.

00:37:35
Speaker 6: They you're gonna need a rooster to go along with that hen.

00:37:38
Speaker 7: Okay, you're gonna need an extra bedroom for that.

00:37:40
Speaker 4: No, they're saying, no, you don't have to.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: I like that.

00:37:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not how eggs work.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: They don't. I don't want to explain the anatomy.

00:37:54
Speaker 3: Let's give you that. Let's give you the chickens and the hens talk. You know that the hen just has eggs. The chicken cut that comes in, the rooster comes in. That's when they want to make more babies. But the eggs still which but you know the eggs are still coming.

00:38:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought, you know you want to keep these hand's gonna struck this business. He needs a roof.

00:38:14
Speaker 4: I don't want a family. I'm not I'm not starting Tyson's Chicken at my backyard.

00:38:20
Speaker 3: Right, and those are gonna come anyway, you know that.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: Right, he didn't know that.

00:38:24
Speaker 3: He didn't know that.

00:38:24
Speaker 2: He's gonna act like he knew that. He did not know what he thought.

00:38:28
Speaker 3: You know what he thought?

00:38:29
Speaker 6: He thought in a hen to make eggs?

00:38:31
Speaker 2: No, No, and you've had children.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: Who's up next?

00:38:38
Speaker 2: It's even Rix, Devin, go ahead, Devon.

00:38:43
Speaker 10: All right.

00:38:44
Speaker 12: I wanted to I wanted to bring up since you guys were talking about John call Perry last segment.

00:38:51
Speaker 3: Years ago.

00:38:53
Speaker 12: I thought this a couple of years ago. I wanted to see what you guys thought about it.

00:38:57
Speaker 3: Now.

00:38:58
Speaker 12: I compared John cal Perry jimbo Fisher. They won a championship around the same time they had to have the national player of the year they were at marquee programs to win this, and then they kind.

00:39:13
Speaker 3: Of, yeah, he was better than Jimbo Fisher, I mean to be better than to be fair to Cow, he was better than Jimbo Fisher.

00:39:24
Speaker 2: COL went to the final four.

00:39:26
Speaker 3: The amount of yeah, but that's not you can't just do it on that, especially in a one and done, a one and done sport like college basketball. Cal went to the final four a U mass Cow went to the final four and was one play away from winning the title at Memphis. COL went to four final fours in five years at Kentucky. All of those things, like Jimbo had like a two or three year amazing run and otherwise a fairly average career, CAL has been to. He's one of the only like two or three coaches to been to three fight to final fours at three different schools, including schools that once he laughed collapsed. I don't think you can. I mean, he in his prime. Yeah, how many other how many other teams did Jimbo Fisher take to a playoff.

00:40:15
Speaker 2: That?

00:40:17
Speaker 3: The answer is zero, So that's what that's well just about doesn't do it, so I appreciate the call he did. Again, if we're going to criticize, we got to be fair. In his prime, Cal was as good as anybody except the top three or four guys. So in his prime he's just not in his prime anymore. Right.

00:40:38
Speaker 5: He's a Hall of Fame coach for a reason. Man, He's one of the best we've seen in our lifetime. He deserves to be that in the Hall of Fame.

00:40:45
Speaker 3: When's the last time you thought about U mass basketball? Huh Marcus Camby and who was the coach that I mean, That's what I'm saying. I do think you you do? You do have to give him like his fair props.

00:40:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean the run he head of Kentucky those early days. We're not gonna forget that. And the issue is that his prime had fallen off. That's that's why things went south here at Kentucky. But when he was in his prime, he was as good as anyone.

00:41:08
Speaker 3: And in college basketball, I mean I sort of judged about how many years did you have the best team?

00:41:14
Speaker 2: I think we definitively had the best team three years.

00:41:17
Speaker 3: I think in twenty ten, twenty twelve, and twenty fifteen we were the best team, and in twenty eleven twenty seventeen we probably were one of the two to three best teams. Twenty fourteen we got kind of lucky and went on a run. And then I think last year we should have had one of the best teams, but it just didn't. It didn't end up happening.

00:41:41
Speaker 5: There's a run there that's hard to match what cal did here. I mean a few coaches can match what he did here. That's why he deserves all this high praise.

00:41:47
Speaker 3: He probably does. He probably should have gotten Shannon won more. Yeah. Yeah, we were the best team in the country three years. He probably should have won two of those three years, and we ended up winning one. Twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen, that one.

00:42:02
Speaker 2: There'll never be a title that a team should should have won.

00:42:05
Speaker 3: More than that one. That twenty fifteen team that should go down as one of the three or four best teams in the history of college basketball. And then we just let the shot clock, yeah, which did not require sex. Well, we will take a break and be right back. It's not Franklin the ks R