2025-01-14- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Well, welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, January the fourteenth. I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill where tonight Kentucky and Texas A and M will be playing in another game. I think it's huge. In sec play, you can give sellon Clark's puppet shot fall line A five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five to four in this diition's answered by the TJ. Smith Office. If you call TJ He'll make them pay. Kentucky and A and M. Tonight Kats are a six point favorite, actually a pretty significant favorite. Tonight at Home. Georgia Amore, the women's basketball star from Australia, will be in here at ten thirty this morning to be on the show. First time I was thinking about it. I'm not sure we've ever had a women's basketball player, or maybe even a men's basketball player, who has been on the show live in person ever during the season. I don't you know. That's a new thing that just started last year. I don't you know. The women's team was not good last year and the men's team there was the whole col thing. So I don't think we've ever had a basketball player come in. We've had them on the phone occasionally, but had them come in and see us in season ever until today.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they used to have the rule no live interviews during the season. That has all changed now it'll change. So yeah, I'm trying to think. I think she may be the first. I don't remember even in one of the guys in here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she's an Australian. She seems funny like in the interviews I've heard with her before and she's really good. Like, if you haven't seen them play, I think they're like, you know, a restaurant you haven't discovered yet. I mean they're fourteen and one and they just pound people. They've won their four first They're four to zero in the SEC, and they've won every game by at least sixteen points. True.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't get to watch them much at all in the non conference. It's like they kept playing and at the same time as the men. But I've seen all of their SEC games and they've been so fun to watch. They had the one a few weeks ago where they got really hot shooting. She was a big part of that was fun. But even the Auburn game the other night got a little tight, but the end up winning by sixteen at home.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, she like gets the ball and she scoots. She's like and she just goes through. She crossed the girl over like I mean, I wouldn't taunt. I would feel bad haunting a young woman, but if it was a young dude, I would have haunted. I mean, she you did you see the crossover? She crossed over a girl and she went flying fifty feet in the wrong direct. I was just about to say his best point guard on campus. Well, yeah, why not? I mean, like she's good chance, she's got a chance of being All America. Yeah, everything, So so she's gonna be on here. And then of course the game to night, our pregame show will start at four point thirty. I know a lot of folks coming by tonight. This is a big game, you know, if you if you believe in my tier system. Yes, Tier one Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee haven't played any of those teams yet. But that tier two, which is the one I think we're in Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Ole miss A, and m we're now two and zero in that tier. You win this one, you could be three and oh. And we only have one other game in that tier, right, I mean, we only have one other game, and maybe if we were to win all the games in that tier, maybe then I even jump us up to the other tier. So you got a chance to be three and oh in that tier if you went at home tonight. And this is the only game in that tier left that we have at home because we go to.

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Speaker 6: Ole miss And this is a good opportunity, Like you said, you got Texas A and M at home. Wade Taylor looks like he's not playing, so he's out. Yeah, he's a hes been a cat killer, basically eliminated Cal from you know, being our coach last year at the SEC Tournament.

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Speaker 2: I think with that win last year, he was so good.

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, you're you're saying Wade Taylor. I think Wade Taylor ended Cal Perry's career. It was not KSR or Matt Jones, it was Wade Taylor.

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Speaker 6: I'm going to pin it on Wade Taylor instead of Matt Joer and Jack Goulki. Yeah, I think those agree with him.

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Speaker 7: I remember walking to halftime in Nashville. I saw you in the backs. You were talking to ESPN guys, and I said, this game is over. I don't care what anyone says, because I watched Wade Taylor look at the crowd and tell everyone to sit down, and every UK fan sitting down in that moment, and I thought, he has all.

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Speaker 5: Of us in his hand right now, and he was destroying Kentucky. First of all, I think he's been in college since like twenty ten. He's been there a long time. So when I mean, I don't want to see anybody hurt. But if he's not gonna play tonight, that's good because we have a better chance. You know, they've had two games they went on without him. They went on the road to Oklahoma and beat them, Yes, and then they played Alabama on the road and that was a close game.

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Speaker 2: Yet.

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Speaker 5: I mean they lost, but that was a close game. They were in it the whole time. So they've still ryan been good without him.

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Speaker 6: That's why I thought when they went and got that win at Oklahoma without him, I thought, Okay, these guys are legit, They're for real, So this is gonna be even without him. It'll be a tough game. These guys can play. I love the fact that it is at home. Because of these two games this week, you hold serve on both these games, you're sitting in a good position.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean hold serve would be pretty impressive. I mean you're playing the fourth ranked team in America and the eleventh ranked team in America. So I mean these are two back to back home games. I mean there'd be entire conference seasons where we wouldn't play two games that's good against teams at home.

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Speaker 7: And now we got two in the same week. Almost both top ten. A and M came in at eleven yesterday. Taylor being out a big deal. He's one of the best guards in the conference. But this dude that stepped in for him, Phelps, scored twenty four and thirty four in the two games Taylor didn't play. So it's almost like they just put in another tailor. I mean, Phelips has been incredible in the games without him.

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Speaker 5: I feel like they A and M just has these guys that just randomly come in and scored. What that one dude scored like sixty three points against us in RUP that time, Elston Turner. That was the only time I've ever remembered during the postgame show the crowd at RUP giving a standing ovation to a guy from another team. Elston Turner came out and our fans stood up and clapped, which you know, you don't see that in a lot of schools.

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Speaker 6: I was there that game. They respected, yeah, what he was doing, and they did. They gave him a standing ovation and that was that was a pretty.

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Speaker 5: Good cal team that lost at home. I can't remember which one it was, but like.

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Speaker 2: It was, yeah, one of the early good teams.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we lost at home to them.

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Speaker 7: Looking at up prayer here he had forty. That was uh Willie Nerlins Nerlins.

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Speaker 5: Was still healthy. Game I was a Nelans team, Okay, I mean they're playing well before Nels got hurt. Yeah, so that would have been a good team. Fourteen of nineteen from the field, I feel like A and M also has gotten some ones that frustrate me. There was that one last year in the tournament was a very frustrating game. I still am mad about the Isaact Humphreys technical because that was a great basketball game that they stole from us over a stupid technical that wasn't a technical. You may remember, I don't know how I remember this, but the Julius Mays year, which was that twenty thirteen team, we went there in a game and beat them in a crazy game after they had beat us here like he had like thirty or something on the road.

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Speaker 7: I can add to that he went to overtime and that was the first of five straight overtimes against excuse me, four out of five we played them in overtime. Maybe even the Humphreys game went overtime. There was a stretch where if A and M and Kentucky were it was going extras even he even had two overtimes in one of the games.

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Speaker 5: So uh so, anyway, always a good battle. Hopefully tonight though we get get the whip.

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Speaker 6: Get to see Buzz and he's three peat suit and his new hair and on the sideline.

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Speaker 5: What do you think about? Do you like Buzz? You like Buzz? What's his name, Buzz William?

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Speaker 2: Buzz William. Actually I do like him. Uh well, with.

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Speaker 6: That story came out last year, we talked about he he itemizes his entire day from start to finish, exactly what he's doing that day.

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Speaker 5: So he writes Shannon, he writes out a journal every day. Yeah, of what he's going to do every hour of the day. Is that cool? Or neurotic and kind of weird?

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Speaker 4: Neurotic and kind of weird?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like outside of the like, outside of these hours that I'm here, I don't know what I'm gonna do the next hour at any given day, do you.

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Speaker 5: I'm with you. No, I'll write down I'm having lunch with my mom.

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Speaker 4: And uh then anything could happen and then wild.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's like what kind of mood layer he's in, just how wild it gets. But but yeah, like, what do you think about writing down, drew every single thing you're gonna do the whole I've started doing this.

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Speaker 7: Actually I can't recommend it, not exact times, but little things like I had to bring Mario something. I have an app with the notes out, but another one I wrote down yesterday by ten o'clock, grab Mario's bag, and this was the one day I remembered it. I've forgotten over and over so like I have like write the pregame show post. It's not hourly by hourly, but I have a checklist where I hit him kind of chronologically.

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Speaker 5: I think a checklist though, I mean, I that's just that's what I have in my book. That's not I think. I think when you go, like if I remember correctly, he said, like he'll go eleven thirty, run, twelve thirty eight, lunch, one thirty. You know, like that's a little too, that's what that's what Buzz is doing. I think that's a little week. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: He even had like two o'clock read thirty pages of a book like it was very specific.

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Speaker 4: Think he had it down to the minute, like two oh six to two.

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Speaker 5: I think he did have it to a minute. Then he wears the three piece suits the vast. I'm a big believer that there's not a lot of people that can pull off the vest. But then if you can pull off the vest, it's a good look. Is Buzz Williams a guy who can pull because he'll go jacket off vest only. He'll be vest out. Do you like the vest out?

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Speaker 6: When I think of him, That's how I see him, jacket off vest only. He's one of maybe only a few people I think that I that can.

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Speaker 2: Pull it off.

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Speaker 6: You see a lot of like the talking heads like Damien Fishback, I think had one on. These guys are trying to maybe bring back the vest a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Then he also had no hair at all, and then like got all hair uh huh, which you don't see a lot. He like you'll see people fill in, you don't see them just go blank to full head of hair. I can't Has he gone back to bald or is he? Well?

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Speaker 7: He did an interview with Pardon my take, like four years ago, and I got admit, yeah, I did a full turnaround on my thoughts on Buzz Williams. Okay, this part I don't really believe. But he said he shaved his head when they first had kids, and didn't have much money to save on haircut.

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Speaker 5: Stop it. Now, he went on and got rich and he was still bald.

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Speaker 7: If that's true, that's pretty cool, but it's kind of hard to believe.

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Speaker 5: Wait, hang on, he said he shaved his head because he didn't have money for haircuts. He said, I didn't want to waste money on haircut. But then that sounds like but how does he explain now having a full head of hair? Does he meaning he always saying, now I got money? You know, come on, he got money what he bought hair? He's no.

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Speaker 7: I mean he would just shave his head off instead of going getting haircuts, so he was now going bald. Yeah, he would just buzz it because that was so easy to do in free Okay, this is what he said on part of my tank.

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Speaker 5: I find a hard time believing it. But that was his I thought he just got like a great transplant. He you're the expert on trump.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he obviously saw how handsome I became after my hair transplant. He wanted to follow suit, so he probably went to doctor Degennis got the same thing.

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Speaker 5: Okay, but I mean he got a full head like Brian Lurlocker is the only other person I've seen do that go from like no hair to full head of hair.

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Speaker 2: I saw a picture of Shaka smart of the day. He's got hair.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: He was always bald, but he's got hair.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Well, Buzz, as so said, he's kind of hard to believe that he would go to the Final four when he was broken, didn't have a job, and sleep on the lobby couches at the hotels.

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Speaker 5: Just listen, man, you don't have to try that hard. Like there's a level of I love the sort of rags to riches story, but I don't think they're gonna let you sleep in the hotel. We've been to the Final four hotels. They're nice hotels. They're not gonna let Buzz Williams sleep in the lobby on the on the couch.

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Speaker 7: And then I believe he said after the Final Four he would then write every coach a letter that he met, asking for an opportunity.

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Speaker 5: I think Buzz might have a little bit. I believe that. I can guarantee you they did not let him sleep on the hotel lobby at the Final Four. They did not let him do that.

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Speaker 7: I'm on your side. I'm just telling you the message he's betraying.

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Speaker 6: I think that's another story. He handwrites thank you notes and stuff all the time, like he sets it in his journal. Sit down for thirty minutes and write my notes.

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Speaker 5: So he pro or con buzz, I'm pro. The thing I do like that he did was when he beat West Virginia at Virginia Tech and all of those people were yelling at him, right, and he went in front of the student section and did what like the West Virginia waltz or something after he won. Oh yeah, Like he came out and he by himself just like waltz in front of the in front of the student section. I do like that level of trash talk. I do think that's funny. Yeah, Ron and I met somebody one time.

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Speaker 7: We won't say his name to tell on him, but he kind of told us the buzz might be pretty full of it is the one thing with all these stories that I keep in the back of my mind.

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Speaker 5: Well, tonight we need to get a victory. I think Texas and hum According to mart Pope, he believes Texa Aium is the best offensive rebounding team in the country. I feel like every team we play is I mean Missippi State was really good at it. Although we held a pretty good job against him, Florida obviously killed us on the glass. Are you worried about the According to mart Pope, best offensive rebounding team in.

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Speaker 6: The guy, I think the numbers may even back that up. I think I heard Tom this morning say their number one in the country or number one in the SEC and offensive rebounding like that's their forte right now. So box out finger butt, finger elbow butt.

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Speaker 5: If you finger butt, that's not to want.

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Speaker 4: That's totally a technical foul.

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Speaker 3: That's that assault that's gonna get you.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna get you kicked off the court. It's finger elbow butt, not not I think around like that one. Yeah, not finger but well, you're gonna take a break A five nine twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four This kise Walker back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I want to give the UK women and they're probably fifteen to one, not fourteen one. I missed one. No on gave him. Gotta give them all the wins.

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Speaker 6: Like you said, four and zero in the SEC already. Man, you know that's a tough when you're playing in the sec nor men or Women this year.

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Speaker 2: You're doing something.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. They still got some of the harder teams to come, but uh, I think they'll do great. George A. Moore has actually walked in here, so we'll have her on here in just second. What person writes Matt, what Buzz Williams does. It's called time blocking or diagramming your day. It is supposedly correlated with being highly successful. I'm surprised none of you do it. Well. We don't, not.

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Speaker 4: At all, and we're highly successful.

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Speaker 2: We don't do it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so you don't have to do it to be highly successful.

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Speaker 7: My thing with putting the exact times is if I got behind, I would stress myself.

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Speaker 5: Out, like I'm an hour. I was just already do this off schedule. Now you're just adding stress to your life. Yeah. One person rights, Matt, you're on the show. That's good. Does that mean the contract is done? No, we're making very good progress. I was there at the building last night for four hours, and I tell you who I didn't see Shannon, who was not there yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Because Shannon now gets here at six thirty in the morning, and I don't get to hang out all night long you're at the radio station.

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Speaker 5: Well, but it was good. I got to eat all the free snacks. That was nice during the con mix. Yeah, you know. I mean, if we're going to be doing all this, I gotta have a trail mix and all that. So so it was good.

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Speaker 6: I'm happy for you to have your trail mix. But how are you looking for a show tomorrow in the rest?

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Speaker 5: No, No, we're good. We got a little bit of time here. We've moved to a phase where now probably be another week or two, so you know, you at least got me. Let's see, my mom's birthday is next Tuesday, so you got me at least through this.

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Speaker 2: Oh, got it one more week?

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Speaker 5: Well, no, I think I think we're moving in.

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Speaker 2: So it went well for four hours.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, you know, like any conversation with me in a situation like that, it's not all the whole thing's not great. Really, part of it it's exactly right and flows. Their bumps go up, you go down, but you end up in a in a pretty good positive place. Right.

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Speaker 7: It's a bit of a bumpy ride, yeah, but you get to the same destination.

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Speaker 5: One person writes Matt. I loved Willie yesterday. I thought it was one of the best interviews you all have done. He said some things though, that I don't think anybody focused on, like saying we had to do innil differently when I was there, and that was, you know, Mario could have put that one up on social media and he didn't. That was an interesting converse. That was an interesting part of the part of the thing.

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Speaker 7: I think if you watch the full video that Mario put on YouTube, when Willy says that my eyeball isn't about as big as they've ever been, I looked like a self park character because I didn't know he said that out loud.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, Mario like like, we got some criticism for putting the cow clip online with Willie. They were like, oh, you just want hits. If we wanted hits, there were two Mario clips he could have put up that would have had a lot more hits. What was that one? And then it was when he called cal soft. Yeah, Mario saved him not putting that one up complacent place, So, like, I thought that was kind of interesting.

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Speaker 6: It was he was being you know, honest and telling us things that we behind the scenes about cal I was hanging on every word when he was.

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Speaker 5: Talking about it, But what he said has been said a lot. Yeah, he's not exactly the same, goes Yea. Everybody also seemed to really like his interaction with the young woman here, and you know, we talked, we whispered and talked about it just a little bit. But that was one of the sweeter things Drew that I've seen. And Willie, let me tell you, when the show ended, there were probably I don't know, fifteen eighteen tables worth of people here. Willi soot and took a picture with every single person in here. He was here longer than I was. He stayed here, and he and every single person that was here, he took a picture with him. He took a picture with our staff that was here. Like, if he sounds like a really good guy, it's because he is. Like, that's not fake. He is a really, really good dude who is different than other basketball players. And that's not to criticize other basketball players. They can be really good dudes in their own way, but he is a different kind of guy. And I really appreciate that about it.

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Speaker 7: My favorite part of that, I had to stay here and work late. Ryan, you saw me, you all left. I was here another twenty close to thirty minutes. Willy was still here sitting with her. And my favorite part is when other people would come up and ask for a picture, he would pat her on the back say I'll be right back, like I'm not leaving this, I'm coming back to this conversation, gotta take a quick photo. Like he made her feel like she was the only person here.

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Speaker 6: And I think it was awesome what you we you had just talked about how Mark Pope pulled the chair to sit by the guy in the wheelchair at Georgia. Willie pulled a chair out and sat there and talked to her for Like Drew said thirty minutes after the show.

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Speaker 5: Yeah it was.

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Speaker 6: It was an awesome special moment to see that girl's face light up when Olivia when he did a great.

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Speaker 5: Job of capturing the whole thing too. It was actually, yeah, very nice the U. I have one question, what the heck you got a wife? Now? That was the highlight. That was funny.

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Speaker 7: I mean we all got a little teary eyed when she walked in, But the heck you got a wife now?

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Speaker 4: That was the who's up the Let's start with David.

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Speaker 5: David, go ahead, David.

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Speaker 8: Hey, guys think Mark Pope can girl hair.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean he had a great buzz cut when we were in when when he was in college.

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Speaker 6: He did, and when he first got here he had a mapa hair, yellow.

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Speaker 5: Hair out there. He does. I think he just likes to you know, he works. He's like, he works hard. He doesn't have time to mess with the hair.

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Speaker 8: Okay, well, hey, I got a quick comment in a question. So the story about him pull the chair out is awesome. I mean, I'm not comparing to God, to Jesus, but it does remind me of the story of the paralytic where they brought you know, the paralytic and they lowered him down, like he just comes to people's level. And I think people really appreciate that about the man.

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Speaker 5: Totally agree with you, you know, I mean, let's I appreciate the call. Let's look at the two basketball hires that uh that Mitch, that Mitch made. I mean, we've talked about Mark Pope, Kenny Brooks. I mean, first of all, I don't know, well, I get George's take when she gets on here, seems like the smoothest dude in the world, Like like he seems like, am I right about that? Like the clothes, the you know, the goatee is is trimmed perfectly every time when he talks like he's not like me. His voice he's very like bam the whole time. I just feel like and then you know the young women on the team, they're like doing dances on TikTok. They all seem smooth, like it feel like there's like kind of a class with him. And you throw those two coaches in and I feel like Mitch just knocked it out of the park, right.

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Speaker 7: I was a little worried about Kenny Brooks a big blue madness, not his coaching, but you're following Matthew Mitchell. I guess Kyra had a few years there, but you know, madness was Matthew Mitchell's state come out and dance. N I kind of wonder, you know, Kenny, this is a tough spot. That slow walk out was about the coolest thing I've ever seen someone do.

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Speaker 5: First of all, he walked really slow, like he took his time, like he he walked like I'm gonna, I'm gonna. He had on the ovo tight fitting jacket hit him just really It's like, you know, when the rock walks in into WW he takes his time. He doesn't feel the need to hurry. He took his time and he walked out and I thought that was one of the highlights of the whole event.

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Speaker 6: It was and he was smooth, like, yeah, here I come, get ready. Kenny Brooks are about to get under way, and White's wag.

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Speaker 5: And even though he seems like a classy dude, he also feels like to me, he subtly talks trash sometimes like it's kind of it's kind of she's saying, yes, it's kind of low key, like I feel like I don't know this, but there's gonna be a coach either this year or next that he's gonna get into it with and they'll get upset, but he'll stay calm the whole time. I'm just pretty prey. I can see that. I want you to put that on the red there's gonna be some coach this year where it's kind of a little spicy going back like that.

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Speaker 7: I could see him walking back to the Kentucky bench kind of in slow motion with all the chaos behind him as he just walks that off.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know how the South Carolina coach don say, you know how she and cal Or, she and Matthew Mitchell had their little things.

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Speaker 2: You think Kenny's go I don't.

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Speaker 5: Think i'd be with her, but there's gonna be I could see Kim Bulky, I could see that being the one that maybe he's a little bit like all right, come on now, that's gonna be my for prediction. Georgia Amore from the UK Weaven's team will join us right for this KSR.

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Speaker 9: TJ.

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Speaker 4: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

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Speaker 9: He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. Happy to be joined by I believe the first time we've ever had a player here during the season live. I can't, I don't think because the rules didn't used to allow it. And now that's you Georgia Amore. Georgia, thank you very much for joining us.

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Speaker 9: Thank you on all and well.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if it's an honor, but it's an honor for us because you are you guys are killing it. Fifteen to one fifteen to one to start the season destroying the SEC. What's it been like so far here in your year in Lexington.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's been so much fun. Obviously, it's always fun when you obliterate teams the way we have been, but I think that's been, you know, kind of a perfect setup season wise. You know, we have a little feeler for the SEC with the teams we've played, and they have been challenging teams like you look at even last night, Vanderbilt, who we ended up beating pretty big, played LSU very close. So's it goes to show the SEC is just very very strong. And you know, our ladder part of our schedule is going to be very difficult. But the way that you know, a rebuild team I put that in.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you guys are ranked twelfth in the country. Beat Louisville at home. Talia Goodman wrote that she thought the Kentucky Louisville atmosphere was one of the two or three best atmosphere she had been to in college basketball this year. What was it like for you?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it was unreal.

00:24:31
Speaker 10: And you know, they talk about rivalries and I had never seen quite one like that before. You know, we being a new team. Granted, you don't know what you're going to expect. And we've played non conference schedules and it's always hard to get people out of those games. But randomly we play LSU I mean Louisville in the middle of our non conference.

00:24:47
Speaker 5: Guy, wait, we gotta work on this with you. Louisville.

00:24:50
Speaker 10: That's Louisville, Australia. And I've been taught, but you can't say Louisville.

00:24:55
Speaker 9: No, I just did.

00:25:00
Speaker 10: It was but you just did so like but I mean, you're not sound like an idiot every time?

00:25:06
Speaker 5: All right, fair enough, but go ahead.

00:25:08
Speaker 10: But like that atmosphere, everyone and the brothers, sister Auntie turned up and it was loud and it was hot. I was having hot flashes, but it was it was a really fun environment to be at.

00:25:18
Speaker 5: Auntie. I like that. So you're from Australia, Melbourne, is that right? So you spent your first three years in Blacksburg four.

00:25:26
Speaker 10: Years, four years actually four and a half because I came early because I'm international student. Okay, so I did like a half a semester of not playing, but I studied, which was great, but it was miserable.

00:25:35
Speaker 5: Well, so let me start We drew it out. Been to Blacksburg. We spent a week in there once, quite a weekend. Actually had to be a culture shock, right Australia to Blacksburg.

00:25:47
Speaker 10: It's a very small school and obviously like it is a college town. I mean, Kentucky has that feel. I mean, like the University of Kentucky has that feel. But there's a lot more to do, and it's a bit like wider and there's a variety of different people here, but Blacksbury was very much the people who have graduated and want to reminisce on the years and students.

00:26:05
Speaker 5: Well, there's some Australians here because of the horse industry and my family.

00:26:08
Speaker 10: I grew up on the horse industry, so I knew exactly what all this was about. And my mom actually came here before I came here to look at Keenlan and everything toll like a lot of the horse farms. So when they come back, they're going to sure do that. But this to me feels very reminiscent of the town that I'm from.

00:26:23
Speaker 5: Okay, gotcha, So have you have you enjoyed your time here? Yeah?

00:26:26
Speaker 10: I mean it's gone so quick, I can't believe it's even halfway through the season.

00:26:29
Speaker 9: But I came in here in.

00:26:30
Speaker 10: July and I was like, okay, yeah, one more year, and I've just blinked and it's almost gone quick. But it's been a lot of fun.

00:26:38
Speaker 5: So you get all these girls all from different schools, you know, I think only one was left from the last two from the last group, so really you're all meeting each other together. Has it been great? I mean, has it been a good bonding experience?

00:26:52
Speaker 11: Yeah?

00:26:52
Speaker 10: I think you know, everyone's come here and maybe at their previous school they didn't play as much, or maybe they just wanted a bigger competition, and everyone has come really determined and it shows because we are taught in the nation right now, and I think that every single game we play, we're trying to prove a point, which is why we have great outings. You know it we never take a game for granted, and you know, theoret like you probably should never take a game for granted. But being new and knowing that this is for me like my last year, like it's changed the perspective of every single game you play.

00:27:19
Speaker 5: You know. Yeah, you come here like you, I mean you, I guess it's all trust in Kenny, right, I mean he was your coach in college. When when you heard he was coming to Lexington, where you're like, well, I'm definitely doing that.

00:27:30
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it was a great opportunity, and I knew I had one more year of eligibility and I had draft aspirations last year, and then I was like, I can develop so much more under him in a new place, a new conference, show like show that we can get a team together and be successful, you know what I mean. He's put so much effort and dedication to me. It's kind of fitting that for the last year I go with him and we try and turn this program around and we have so far, which has been brilliant.

00:27:55
Speaker 5: That you've been on a final four team. Yeah, so you know what that's like. Does this team have the ability?

00:28:00
Speaker 9: I think so?

00:28:00
Speaker 10: I mean the ceiling, like, there's no ceiling to this team. And you look at the variety of us. You know, you have six five six four six three girls who don't play like they should be in the block. You know that probably want to run the lanes and shoot three.

00:28:12
Speaker 5: So but does it annoy you they're so tall because you're the shortest one on the team, But you like all you girls. You girls all are so tall.

00:28:18
Speaker 10: It annoys me that I probably bring down the average high like they're probably like Kentucky's average is five ten. Yeah, well, well it's because of me.

00:28:26
Speaker 5: It is because of you. You bring it down, but you are I'm just you know, I watched a lot in the Matthew Mitchell years because they were good, and I watch I loved watching Ryan Howard, but in the last year or two didn't watch as much. If I'm being honest, I've watched two thirds of your alls games. I love them, spent Sunday afternoons, turn them on. And you are one of the most fun players I've ever seen because you just and you are so you never stop moving. Is that is that kind of like your style? Yeah?

00:28:56
Speaker 10: I mean it's always been that I play with a lot of energy. But as you said, I'm on the show order side, so it kind of is. If teams are going to try and take away one thing, that I'm going to try and make their life miserable in another aspect. So if you want to pick me up full court, that's fine. I have the speed. If you want to try me, that's fine. No one wants to get as low as I get when I turn a corner. So it's just finding different ways to you know.

00:29:15
Speaker 5: You talk trash too, and I like, you know, we know Max, he's Australian. He likes to talk trash. Again, I think it's probably a little bit of an Australian thing. I see you out there, yeap.

00:29:28
Speaker 9: Yes, it's hard not to when you have a team like this, you know.

00:29:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, but do you feel like you need to have that role of like you're gonna be the confident word?

00:29:35
Speaker 9: Yeah?

00:29:35
Speaker 10: I mean, I mean you were talking about coach Brooks before and how he just exudes like the confidence in the swag walk, and obviously that follows through top down. So if I have the almost confidence, people are going to have trust in it. It's kind of a calming presence, you know. His confidence and his you want to call it swag is calming for me. So if I'm calming like that on the court for the girls, it's anything can happen.

00:29:55
Speaker 5: What makes Kenny such a good recruiter, I mean, first of all, one of your players was hurt preseason. You all could have another another player, and then you guy's got a ton of great recruits coming in. I know, you're not gonna be here, but I know, you know they're coming. What makes him get so many young women to want to come play?

00:30:13
Speaker 10: I mean he's just easy to It's none of it feels fake, Like you can talk to someone like, Okay, they're trying to sell a dream and trying to sell this, but when you talk to him, it's just very real, very natural, and you know, I think a lot of it and he says it too. He has three daughters, and he's coach women's basketball for a long time and he's been in the men's portion as well. But I think that the way that he just understands different people for who they are and you know, maybe the personalities they have. He does a very good job at, you know, kind of molding himself to connect with you like he doesn't have I don't think he has any issues at any troubles really trying to connect with different personalities, Like you could be the ladest on the team, the quietest on the team, like he's gonna find a way to get to you and to reach you.

00:30:51
Speaker 5: Feels like there are a lot of personalities on your tem Yeah, I mean like it's a it's a big personality team. Isn't it to your guy's ever like ever any inflicted at all or none at all.

00:31:01
Speaker 10: I mean, if you want to talk conflict like we can, we can have really good banter like Daijil. Lawrence will say things in a joking way that is like you mean that from the bottom of your heart. But the way you said that, it's so funny that we're just gonna laugh and ignore the fact that you might be.

00:31:18
Speaker 5: I love taking a stab. There's a great Now do you all do you coming from Australia, we have well, I guess Virginia Tech. The people there had country accents too, But you e were just listen to us and go, what are you all saying?

00:31:31
Speaker 8: No?

00:31:31
Speaker 9: But I listened to Cassidy Row and I'm like, what are you saying the right?

00:31:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's from Virgie.

00:31:39
Speaker 10: Yeah, she's so southern that it almost sounds like Australian, Like the way that she slurs everything together.

00:31:45
Speaker 9: I'm like, she is.

00:31:47
Speaker 5: Now I have to ask you, what did you think of the woman that that did the break dancing legend.

00:31:55
Speaker 9: I'm kidding, I'm with you.

00:31:57
Speaker 10: I've heard so many conspiracy theories and that you know, she just wanted a free trip to Paris or her husband was like the chair of the breakdown. I have no idea, but look, any attention is good attention, isn't it?

00:32:08
Speaker 5: So yeah, So were people in Australia mad at her? Like they like some people thought it made it made him look bad. I thought it was kind of awesome.

00:32:15
Speaker 10: I thought it was like it explains Australia perfectly. So you just got to go out there and just do it. And I don't know a better word to use than a piss take, Like I.

00:32:27
Speaker 5: Don't know what that means, but I'll take.

00:32:28
Speaker 10: And google it lay though, But it's just I mean, she had fun and she made news and put Australia on the map.

00:32:35
Speaker 5: All right, So next for you when this is over, I mean, you're gonna get draft? Are you excited to get to the next level? Are you gonna is Caitlyn Clark got to look out.

00:32:44
Speaker 9: Kaitlyn Clark is one of one.

00:32:45
Speaker 10: She's incredible, but like the W is as exciting to be in conversations. But it's also daunting because as for women, it's very different to men in terms of like the draft process and obviously, well how.

00:32:57
Speaker 5: So explained well the money? Obviously how else is it different.

00:33:00
Speaker 10: I mean, first of all, women you just can't do like one and donee. Like I think that every single year, Like the draft is not. The men's is, like you can kind of tell, like one through whatever, who's gonna go work because it's best available. Women's is mock draft after mock draft, everyone's tossed up around and it's just until it happens, you never really know for sure.

00:33:21
Speaker 5: And I don't think people rive unless you are like.

00:33:23
Speaker 9: The Caitlin Clarks or yeah, the Page Beeckers.

00:33:25
Speaker 5: There are a lot fewer teams, so it's actually a very difficult league to get in. There's only like twelve fourteen teams something like mending. But yeah, but it's gonna be a little bit. So there's actually not a ton of jobs, right, or maybe it's sixteen, but it's not nearly as many as I think people think.

00:33:42
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's definitely low capacity, and you know, at any time you can be dropped or you can be picked up by another team. I had a girl that I played against and she ended up getting drafted to Indiana and then popped over to Connecticut. Was in Phoenix like in one season, like was just on ten day contracts just bouncing around, so it's very different two men's.

00:33:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, So you guys have five games coming up against top twenty five teams, including you're hosting LSU, You're hosting Tennessee. It's been the largest season ticket sales of games Kentucky's had. You know, I don't know if it's ever, but certainly in a long long time. I keep feeling like that energy in there is getting better and better. Are you excited for this next month coming ahead?

00:34:24
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be a whole lot of fun. And as you said, like the people are coming around is getting more and more energetic every game we play, you know, Mississippi State the first game of our SEC Conference, that was little electric in there. And then we go away. You play some away games, and then we have a contingency of top teams coming into Historical Worra Coliseum. So it's gonna be fun to bring a whole lot of people around the.

00:34:45
Speaker 5: Stoic Memorial College. You got it, You've been trained, we do that. I am a part owner of a wrestling company, and I call our arena Historic Davis Arena. Just seems to add something to me.

00:34:58
Speaker 10: It makes it grand. You step in there and you're like, I'm in here.

00:35:02
Speaker 5: You're You're not just a memorial cass. You're a historic memorial.

00:35:06
Speaker 9: She's an orr about it.

00:35:07
Speaker 5: It's just well, good, well, Georgia. I I say this all the time. This team is fun to watch across the board, one of the more fun teams to watch. I can remember. You, however, are as fun to watch as anyone. I mean, the way you play, the way you get your team involved. I'm trying to think men's player at Kentucky. Your mind, maybe like a quicker Travis Ford. Maybe that's that's pretty good comparison, because you're faster than he can shoot, like crazy. Yeah, I like that. She's she's probably yeah, tell you us. I like that. But it's it's a lot of fun to watch you. I hope you'll come back, maybe right before March. And good luck with everything.

00:35:44
Speaker 9: I appreciate it, guys, thanks for having and you have a class.

00:35:46
Speaker 5: You have to get to.

00:35:50
Speaker 9: Linguistics.

00:35:54
Speaker 5: All She's going to linguistics. Don't you worry about it. She would never miss right, you know what.

00:35:59
Speaker 10: I actually I'm a pretty good student, graduated with three point five nice yes, you heard that right.

00:36:05
Speaker 9: I've graduated. I do have a degree.

00:36:07
Speaker 5: Nice, Well, do not skip ls. We're gonna We're gonna take a break, George Amore, thank you very much. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. How great was she?

00:36:20
Speaker 2: She was awesome?

00:36:21
Speaker 5: She really was.

00:36:22
Speaker 2: She was fantastic.

00:36:23
Speaker 6: She's got like that magnetic personality. You're just drawn to her. At the same time, she's got some swagger.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: Got everybody uh on the text machine. It was like, you got to have her back. So we will. We'll wait till one of the big games and we'll we'll bring her back here, assuming they would let her. I thank Cammy at UK for helping make that happen. She uh, you know, I suggested that to her and she was totally in. So she's Georgia could do this. I could see her, you know, I could see her doing the media thing. I mean, she's got it. It's gonna be a player for a while first, but I could see it.

00:36:56
Speaker 7: I actually feel bad sitting here because I assume our listeners would want to hear more of her and me.

00:37:00
Speaker 5: She was so good, she had a great person Oh, I've had to go to class to kempt going. But you know, with Willie and her back to back, that's that's been really good. I was thinking about Willy. You know, on the SEC network, if you've been watching, I think they actually now have a really good set of former players doing commentary. Like I think Ron Slay's really good. I think Damian Fishback's really good. I think the Dane Bradshaw's good, Pat Bradley, Patrick Young. I actually think all those guys are good. But there's one thing missing. There's no Kentucky person. Like we're the biggest basketball people on the conference in there no Kentucky people. But I'm not really sure who the Kentucky person would be, to be honest with you, I mean probably, I mean Jack does the official games, right. Rex was really good, but like Rex makes people mad because of the political stuff. But I actually think Rex is pretty good. But we don't really have anybody sitting there thinking with Willy, like, you know, Willy might be a guy one day who could do that.

00:38:05
Speaker 6: You know, I've had this exact same conversation before. You know, they tried Antoine Walker for a while.

00:38:09
Speaker 5: That didn't really work.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: They tried even Tony Delk.

00:38:12
Speaker 5: For Tony just doesn't get into it. And although I think he says good stuff, he just doesn't get into it as much.

00:38:18
Speaker 6: So we were trying to spitball. Looks like Travis Ford is trying to tiptoe into that visites.

00:38:22
Speaker 5: I think Travis was good doing the games. I'm not sure if he's a studio guy.

00:38:27
Speaker 2: Studio guy, you gotta have person that personality.

00:38:29
Speaker 5: You gotta have a big personality. And I was, and I just was yesterday with Willy. I was like, if he got in the groove Drew, I could see him. Because we need a Kentucky guy. I mean Ron Slay. Ron Say's gonna be a star at it. And I know people remember when he played, he was very annoying. You didn't like Ron Slay. He is of ball, but he's there's a big personality there and that's a big and that's a big part of it. But we need a Kentucky guy. I don't know who it's gonna be, but we need to find one. We do, and you're right, Slave's been good.

00:38:59
Speaker 7: But every time I see him, I just think about that stupid headband all the way down on his forehead and all those teams that had like six Smiths on the team, they're also good.

00:39:07
Speaker 5: When he was you know, here's a little secret he I know what, but he was one of those dudes. If he had been on our team, we would have loved of course, like he's cur but he was really good. Like people forget how good he was. And he would wear it I always had. He'd take the headband and then put around his neck. You remember that he would like pull it, need to have it around his Chisholm did that too. Both those would just where they would all wear those.

00:39:33
Speaker 7: I think with the Kentucky guys, a lot of our favorites when the NBA and got rich and don't need to do it.

00:39:37
Speaker 5: Totally agree with you. That's part of the problem is that a lot of them have so like, have so much money, they don't need to be on television sure enough. They don't have to reach out to sec and try to hear. You're exactly right.

00:39:47
Speaker 4: Who's next, Brian and Franklin?

00:39:49
Speaker 5: Brian, go ahead, Brian.

00:39:51
Speaker 11: How good would Boogie be in that position?

00:39:56
Speaker 5: Would be really good if he could control himself. There's a line that you can't cross, and Bookie would just have to make sure he didn't cross it. So I don't know if he could do that. I think he'd be good, but go ahead.

00:40:09
Speaker 11: So a couple of questions. With the success of baseball men and women's basketball and the fans love for both of those, for all those coaches, do you think coach Stoops feels any additional pressure for a successful season also beneficial? Would it be in the eyes of BBN for him to come back on the show?

00:40:33
Speaker 5: And he will, he's he is recovering from an ankle surgery. I expect him to be on next week. Well, we're going to try and do it this week, but it just hasn't worked out. I would expect next week. You know, next week, Kentucky doesn't have a game during the week, so we'll probably bring him on and bring him on that. I appreciate the call. There's no doubt that when the other programs are doing well, it puts pressure on right. I mean, when Cal was struggling and Stoops won ten games, there's no doubt that was part of the tension between them. Is that is that I think you go back in the day when when Cal got here and then Jokers struggling, that puts down I mean, there's no doubt when one of the programs or two of them are doing well, it puts pressure on the other one.

00:41:17
Speaker 2: I agree with you.

00:41:18
Speaker 6: I don't think there's any doubt at all, especially if you're one of the coaches in your high profile programs. You want the spotlight as much as the other guy.

00:41:24
Speaker 2: So yeah, I.

00:41:25
Speaker 6: Think coach Doops probably sees what's going on with the other program, like, man, I want to get back to that.

00:41:29
Speaker 2: We gotta do someth let's get back.

00:41:31
Speaker 5: And there's some jealousy that happens when one of them gets a lot of nil donation money and the other one doesn't.

00:41:36
Speaker 7: But you know what people are going to give to what they think's working. Yeah, and I think that's human nature. I think most people in that spot would look across campus and if the other program, including baseball, women's men's basketball, I think if they're killing it and fans are just building them up and so excited, you couldn't help but fill it a little bit.

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