2025-10-30- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday October the thirtieth day of the second UK Exhibition Game.

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Speaker 2: UK and Georgetown tip off tonight seven o'clock Our pregame show will start at four point thirty from here at the bar Cats and Hoya's ready to go second exhibition game. I'm getting pretty excited about it.

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Speaker 3: How about you? You're ready for a little rematch of eighty four.

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Speaker 4: I know we're gonna get to it, but after what we did yesterday, I am so excited about this upcoming season, especially tonight.

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Speaker 3: Me too.

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Speaker 5: And I'm just ready to get to Rapperena again. I know it's not the number one team, but if the crowd is anything like it was last Friday, it's gonna be a real game in there.

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Speaker 3: Ope, it's a good crowd.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's kind of nasty outside, and it's gonna be nasty.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 2: We broke the record for most rain in October. Here's an interesting stat all right, it was Matt's weather Stats. Okay, they broke the record for most rain in in October on in history.

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Speaker 3: But it's only rain six days. Wow, So it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: So the quantity of rain in those six days though, was something else.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that one day we got like six feet of rain.

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Speaker 3: We want to play with six feet, but it was it was a good.

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Speaker 4: Good amount of Arai it ended up my basement, so I knew we had a lot of rain.

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Speaker 3: Did you call serve pro?

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Speaker 4: They called me, Remember, they actually reached out to me. How good customer relation is that?

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Speaker 3: That's good?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Well, so we are excited after a Yesterday was I think I can speak for the group collectively, a very cool uh cool day for everybody. And we're gonna talk about probably spend a decent part of the first part of the show here talking about what happened, both the experience and then getting to actually watch the basketball team in a practice form, because I think for all of us that's the first time we got to do it in sort of a real practice, you know, not kind of the fake pro day practice.

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Speaker 4: First time for a pope practice for me for sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So for people who don't.

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Speaker 2: Know, they they basically opened it up for UK media members and their families. I'm gonna do a mia culpa. I may have screwed up it just a little bit. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 3: It was that. I wasn't supposed to say until after the event. Uh huh.

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Speaker 2: So I said it on Tuesday, and I think I'm well, I don't think I did mess that up. So I think maybe some people then contacted. There might have been more people there than were originally intended, and that's my fault, and I need to apologize. I need to drew read the emails a little long more.

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Speaker 5: I did see a lot of new faces that aren't normally covering the team. It was a thank you for covering the team event and saw a lot of new people.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's I apologize, that's okay, And I was made very clear that was not intentional. I was just excited, you know, And I didn't read the email, So it's something that's something you would do to Ryan that I did.

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Speaker 3: I guess on Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: Now it makes sense why there wasn't enough chairs for the press conference.

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Speaker 3: It was my fault.

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Speaker 2: But more people got to have a good experience, very true, A lot of people did. So they opened it up and it was it was just like, I don't know what's the best way to say.

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Speaker 3: It was just wholesome Ryan in such a sweet way.

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Speaker 2: So people could bring their kids, or they could bring one family member, and a lot of people brought their kids. The kids were so cute, very like kids just everywhere. So Pope does the press conference and he says media members. You cannot ask a question. Only the family members can. I ask a question, which means you got like little kid questions, but you also got wives questions. I think you get a couple of cases, maybe got dad's questions. I encouraged my mom to ask a question, but she wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: I wanted.

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Speaker 2: I thought that would be good. I joked with Larry before we got in there. I was like, Larry, you should, said Larry. When we get there, you should just go who is this? Like the person taught Mike Mark Pope and he laughed. What I didn't realize is that he would actually do that. And you know, he he's got his volume sometimes can be because he's you know, he's here and he's eighty eight years years old. So Mark Pope's talking, and all of a sudden, right in the middle of it, he just reaches over and goes, who is that?

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Speaker 3: And it was loud?

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Speaker 4: Did you hear it?

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Speaker 3: God?

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Speaker 4: Hear it? It was loud.

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Speaker 2: So my mom and I start laughing, and he's laughing because he's made every fluck, he's made us laugh. But we do all that, and then I just I really just want to thank Uk and Pope for making that happen, sitting over there with my parents. They'd never been to anything like that, right, I'm not sure they'd ever been on the floor of RUP. I kind of don't think they would have. They were just so happy throughout the whole thing. I mean, you know they're sitting there. Jack Gibbons comes and sits with him. That's like my mom's favorite player of all time. You know, my parents are so pro Trent Noah because he's from Harlem. Yeah, that it's out of control. Like Trent Noah is the only player that Larry knows. So what the drills would go on, he would commentate to me, but only what Trent Noah was doing. So he'd be like, he hasn't missed a three yet. Look at that pass. He hasn't missed a shot yet. Like that was constant. And then my mom she would cheer for Trent Noah like it was a game, but she didn't cheer for the other players. So he would make a shot and she would go yeah, and I was like, Mom, this is a practice. We cannot we cannot scream, And then we can't scream only.

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Speaker 3: For Trent Noah.

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Speaker 2: You would have thought it was me out there playing the way they were with Trent Noah. But it went on through the whole thing, and then when it was over. This is what people need to understand about that about Mark Pope. When the practice was over, the players and the coaches not only came over, they came over and stayed ryan for a long time.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, they did.

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Speaker 2: Like the players interacted with all the children. Trent Noah went and Malachi Marino. I asked them to take pictures with my family. They could not have been nicer those two kids. You talk about two kids that get Kentucky. I'm sure Jasper the same way.

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Speaker 3: I just didn't get to talk to him.

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Speaker 2: And I watched those players. I've seen that look in other eras. We've had players go up in the crowd and sometimes the like. There'd be individual players that were nice, and then sometimes players wanted to go. Every single one of them not just went in the crowd, stayed in it, interacted with people, thank them, I mean, they thanked them.

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Speaker 3: For covering the team. That's not many people that will do that in this business.

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Speaker 2: And then just on a personal level, like it meant a lot to me, you know, as we were walking through the back my Mom, there's this there's this thing that's outside the UK locker room and it looks like a movie, you know when they have a movie and it'll say cook play next blah blah blah, and it'll be the next game. And then they have a picture of a famous UK player doing the why and they change it every game.

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Speaker 3: They actually changed it.

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Speaker 2: It was John Wall when we got there, and it was Tony Delk when we left. But my mom is seeing the quotes and seeing the pictures and seeing the locker room, and like she starts crying, and she said, I so wish my dad. That meant her father, so my grandfather could be here. And she's right, like he's the one that got me into the game, into UK basketball.

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Speaker 3: I mean.

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Speaker 2: The thought that I watched these games as a kid, and now I get to do this and I get to be back there from Middlesbroo, Kentucky. It's crazy and it made my mom emotional to be back there, it was, and then to go and do it, to watch a real practice, to have the coach come up after ask my mom about her the stuff she's doing with the doctoral with being the doctor of Religion and Wheaton College and all this and him be interested.

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Speaker 4: It was legit. He was interested, and.

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Speaker 2: You know, Larry looks at him and says, you know, my brother was the chaplain under Joe B. Hall.

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Speaker 3: And then like he could, he just goes with that and talks to him.

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Speaker 2: It was just a great night and it's something I always remember and I really really thank them.

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Speaker 4: It was a special event that Kentucky has never done anything like that ever before, and letting us invite our families and it was so cool for me. I took a moment and kind of watch you there, you are, You're sitting there with your mom and dad, Alan Cutler sitting here that his grandson looked my right, Jack Pilgrims there with his three month old. It was just all a three month old to Larry who was eighty eight, and everybody was like you could tell it was like Christmas Day almost. He was so excited to be there. I loved watching your parents fanboy over Trent Noah. That was really kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: My parents, I've never you know, my parents are not really sports people, Like I grew up a sportsperson, but my it was really all from my grandfather. Like my parents were not really sports people. But they were sports people yesterday. They were you know, and they were into it. And uh and then you with your son. That's what I gonna say, Like, you got to sit there with your son and your son was into it. I've been around your son a lot when he's not into things. He was into it. That was very cool.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't get to see much anymore since he's gone off to college, but then he and he goes man, it's kind of weird. I've played against Jasper Malachi, Trent and Rhese Potter and there they are. They're out there mouth playing and you Pope talk about this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so and he did that that conversation you all may have seen. Mario posted a video of my and my mom's interaction with Pope. But here's what you should know, because people have said really really nice stuff about that.

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Speaker 3: Everybody had that interaction that with that.

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Speaker 2: He did that with lots of different people and they all got to have that moment.

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Speaker 3: And the one thing I wish is I was wish there.

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Speaker 2: I wish there's a way that over time, other groups of Kentucky fans get to do something like that, Like other groups of Kentucky fans get to have that experience, because you know, it's it's what makes this place like really great. It's the days like yesterday or what. And Pope said that in the back he basically said, what makes Kentucky basket? I thought this was really articulate by him. What makes Kentucky basketball different from everything else? All right, even from your Dukes, your North Carolina's and your Kansas What makes it different is there is a connection to the people of the state that is stronger here. And somebody asked, you know, how do you get your players to realize that?

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Speaker 3: And he goes, it's the most important thing. He's like, you come here.

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Speaker 2: You can get this experience at these other schools, except that part. That's the part you can't get at other schools. And so I have to make sure they appreciate what they're getting. And Drew, I just thought that was really it's really smart by him and true absolutely.

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Speaker 5: And I thought, you today, going into it was gonna be awesome. I thought it was a great idea from the moment the email popped up, but I didn't realize just how much it was gonna affect people. I was excited as anyone to see a practice I can't even remember the last time I got to go just watch a practice. But I had just as much fun watching other people's family. I didn't even know a lot of them, like I. Set By Cuttler and his family had some other kids around me.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: There was a moment where Lee K. Howard's daughter hit a shot where the team didn't have to run the ball, and she hit a shot from this set.

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Speaker 3: The end of practice.

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Speaker 2: Every day, apparently, what they do is they pick a player and they have to hit a free throw, and if they don't hit it, the team runs, and so it's to put them in the moment of difficult shot with a lot on the line, because the team is like, you better make it. In this case, they brought a little girl out there to do it, and then she made and she made it, and the place went absolutely nuts, and that was that was That was awesome. But the star, by the way of the entire event was later, no doubt. I mean, everybody was coming up to him. He It almost made me cry. He showed up in his little ks he did so I called him Larry the intern all day. I made him clean up after it, like he's low man on the totem Pole right.

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Speaker 3: He hasn't worked there very long, but he.

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Speaker 5: The first thing I noticed.

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Speaker 4: It was so cute to see them fanboy over Trent Noah. I can't believe they love.

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Speaker 2: Trent Noah more than me. I can just say, like Trent Noah and they're not the only ones. Like everybody from the Mountains has that Trent Noah thing. I wasn't really here when Richie Farmer was here, all right. I was a Richie Farmer stand as a kid, but I don't know. I didn't even go to a game I went. I saw him in the SEC tournament. That's the only time I ever saw him. So I don't know what it was like with Richie Farmer. And I'm sure in some ways it was like this with rich Chapman, but I've never seen anything like it is as great as as much as people loved Reed Shepherd, it's different with Trent no Especially for the people from the Mountains. They all act like Trent Noah is their son. My mom included, how did that happen?

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Speaker 3: There's a.

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Speaker 2: Jersey in the media. There were people wearing trenton like I. The Mountains connection to Trent Noah is something Ryan I've not seen.

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Speaker 4: In my lifetime. Is it just because he's from Harlan.

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Speaker 2: I think it's because harl That's part of it. He's from like the most mountain place. And then I think because he looks like a baby a little bit like he's got that red the red cheeks and all that.

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Speaker 5: God overlooked and then gets the state championships.

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Speaker 2: The scholarship from Pope takes Harlan County to the state champions It's part of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think that's part of it.

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Speaker 4: I want to go back to the press conference is for a minute. We did get a couple of really good questions. The one little girl asking about his hair.

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Speaker 3: You know, the little girl said, you're not bald, why don't Why do you shave your head? I like that question. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Then I think it was a mom or. A girlfriend asked about what he's gonna wear for Halloween tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: He said he didn't know, Jack, I don't. By the way, I don't like when coaches do that. You know it's Halloween.

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Speaker 3: Can gess you've seen the decorations up like you? I mean, I know you're focused, but you know it's Halloween.

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Speaker 5: Just lying so you're gonna be a ghost, like you know, it's Halloween.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a great day and it was fun having you all there, Mario documenting all of it.

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Speaker 4: It was very cool and it was good to kind of, you know, people got to see you in a different light. You were there as a sun. You weren't there as Matt Jones KSR. You were there. That's not a Matt Joe. Oh yeah, Like I don't do that. I'm Matt Jones, I'm KSR. You were there's Matt Jones the Sun yesterday. Kind of get to see you in a different light for people. We get to see that sometimes a lot of people don't get to see you in that light. You were so happy to introduce your parents to Mark Pope. We were so happy to introduce him to Trent Noa. You could just see it.

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Speaker 3: I was. You're right about that, but I'm normally very chill Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: That's your impersonation. Yeah, thank you very much. AF I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. Now I want to talk about the basketball actually, cause I thought it was very interesting to watch the practice and some of the things they were doing insane. I was kind of surprised they did us some of that in front of us where we were allowed to talk about it. So we will when we returned this KSR welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I just retweeted the picture of the little girl making the free throw.

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Speaker 3: That was kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: And then they, you know, they also broke down the huddle at the end of practice and let the little.

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Speaker 3: Girl do the thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they did. I wish we could have heard what they were saying, Like Pope went to every player in the huddle to say something, but then Cutler's grandson and Lee K's daughter let them say something also to the group.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 2: So let me let me say is as I talk about some of what we're gonna talk about with the practic, I want to say none of this is to say a criticism of the past regime. I just want to compare to you because the difference in the kind of practice I went to yesterday and the kind of practice we would go to with cal. I'm not saying one or the other is better. I just want to sort of explain the difference because I've now been.

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Speaker 3: To both, and so I think it's important to see that.

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Speaker 2: The first here's the number one thing that I took away more than any well, really two things I took away from the practice. Number one, they are studying and constant teaching Ryan every single thing that's done. Yep, literally every single thing. They are recreating situations in games. They are stopping after every play, each coach will go up to a different person and kind of tell them what they did and didn't do right. It is constant coaching, and it is very situational and play ouational, meaning like if you went to a cow practice. There was a lot of just going up and down the court, putting players in situations where they're like, all right, you're gonna have to make these decisions.

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Speaker 3: Just keep making them and eventually you'll get it right.

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Speaker 2: They're making a decision and then coming out and analyzing it and in the moment coaching.

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Speaker 3: Did you notice what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 4: A lot of coaching, a lot of teaching defense. They were working and coaching on defense. They work on the press, they work against the press, they work on out of bounds plays. I mean, they were just constant teaching.

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Speaker 2: And they would do things like when we make a basket and they imbound it, he would say to the point guard. I heard him say, you're gonna give one jab step to the point guard and if you don't get the ball, get back. His point was, you gotta either steal the inbound or get back. Do not steal, then try again, or you'll get beat down the court. Little thing, probably something everybody that played big time basketball knows.

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Speaker 3: Something might actually never hurt.

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Speaker 2: You can might why in the game he said, I want whoever's guard, whoever's guarding the point guard to the moment it comes in, make a quick movement.

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Speaker 3: If you don't get it, run back down the four.

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Speaker 2: We'll see We'll probably see that alone. Probably we'll see that a lot. Little things like that. He happened throughout. Then you mentioned the defense. They spent a lot of time on defense. I'm sure they've spent a lot of time on offense, but they probably spent fifty percent of the practice drew on defense. And like run, he had a group that was Colin Chandler, U O Way Noah, which surprised me a little bit for this Diabate and Garrison right, and they played I want to say, most of practice, but they were the majority of the court wouldn't you agree with the Blue team? They were the Blue team. Lowe and Aberdeen were out, so they didn't practice.

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Speaker 3: So that's what I think.

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Speaker 2: Aberdeen's probably in that group if he's not hurt. Well, I don't know if he's heard. He just didn't he didn't practice much. He would stop that group and go, you all can be the best group of five defenders in the country. He was like, this group of five, you all can be the best five and he's and later one of the staff told me it's because that's the one group they can put on the floor where everyone could switch and guard every man. They could switch on everything with that group, which is again away Uh, Oway, Noah, Chandler, Garrison and Diabate. He said, you all should be the top five group of defenders in the country.

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Speaker 3: And I just thought that was interesting. Who would have thought Triton Noah group.

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Speaker 5: You know, looking at Trentoa last year, I would have thought Pope's just being Pope, kind of doing the Patino hyperbly a little bit. But this new trent Noah, you can see how Pope could consider that. I still don't know that he's gonna be a lockdown guy, but as we've said from pro day and everybody seen him at madness and blue white. He looks completely different, and I do not stopped moving.

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Speaker 3: I don't even think it's lockdown. It's they they literally switch every screen.

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Speaker 2: When you do that, they don't ever get picked because they're just switching everything. And you know, I remember Bobby Knight many many years ago. I heard Bobby Knight say the perfect defense would be one where you could switch every pick. He was like, if you could have a team where you could do that, you could beat everybody. And I think that's his was his is his theory with that group, they're all versatile enough to guard all five positions.

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Speaker 4: And the only time Pope got mad the whole practice is whndya Bote didn't switch.

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Speaker 3: That's the only time I've ever I was thinking that I've ever heard him raise his voice.

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Speaker 2: I thought he yelled. I've never heard him yell. Diabate got the first yell I've ever heard from Mark Pope.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he was laid into him.

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Speaker 5: I remember I wrote down what he said. He said, you're joking around, and I've told you four times, but it was extremely loud and aggressive in his face.

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Speaker 2: Now, just how you were go back to cal There was one of those moments fifteen times of practice. But it probably works more in some ways the Pope because since you never hear it, when you do hear it, you gotta be like, oh.

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Speaker 5: Everyone around me kind of had a jump. They were all startled the moment. We looked at each other like did Mark Pope just snap?

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Speaker 2: It was also we saw from me the first Okay, this is what Cam Williams can be practice because Cam Williams was deadly in that first half of the practice.

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Speaker 4: He was maybe my biggest takeaway out of all the players. Joe saide I talked about on the way home, who's your one big takeaway? We both said Cam Williams, Hey.

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Speaker 2: That's the first time I've seen him, Like, okay, yeah, that's what they're talking.

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Speaker 4: That's why NBA guys, like why.

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Speaker 2: The NBA guys won him that Okay, now I see that was the first I mean you saw him.

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Speaker 3: He was talking trash the whole practice that.

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Speaker 2: I was so glad to see that because I've been really skeptical a little bit of him.

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Speaker 3: That was the practice where I saw, Okay, now I get it.

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Speaker 5: I kept up with the play by player road a full game recap on the site, and he's a big part of it. He had the stealing slam, then immediately almost another stealing slam, but they blew a whistle as he was on the fast break, and then late in the game hit a deep three that really mattered as they were getting intense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, really cool stuff.

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Speaker 2: So if you have questions, if I'm nine to two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, I have a couple more things. We want to talk about that, and then we also got to talk about what's going on in LSU. You think things are bad here, just be glad we're not at La shot right now. That's what maybe be fun. But be glad you're not. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 4: From the baschool basketball?

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Speaker 3: But like actual practice.

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Speaker 4: That they flat out get after it. I mean, those guys are competing they've got They were going five on five and acting like it was like in a big SEC game. They were getting after it. That was my big takeaway that in Cam Williams.

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Speaker 3: By the way, shout out to the Scout team. Yeah, the Blue and White team trade off.

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Speaker 2: Scout team goes the whole practice, that group of five dudes, there's like it's it's Walker Horn, three the guys who look like they may have played last couple of years, and then the forty five year old band.

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Speaker 3: Like they go, he's a buck. He almost dunked up Brain and Garrison again. Yeah, he he almost got Hi McGinn.

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Speaker 5: I'll put our grad assistant saint somebody in the country, Dude, our.

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Speaker 2: Grad assistants can play. One of those guys played at Trancy, right, there's.

00:25:19
Speaker 5: A new one that was a Liberty last year that looked like Steph Curry for a few minutes yesterday.

00:25:23
Speaker 3: He was good.

00:25:24
Speaker 2: Larry at one point was like five on the Green team is really good.

00:25:28
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, he's not on the team. He played at Trancy.

00:25:31
Speaker 2: Last year, but uh, but those dudes are good and they go the whole practice like the Blue and White team come in and out they go the whole time.

00:25:39
Speaker 5: That's uh, sticking with your your changes from how it used to be. It used to be a table in the middle, Cow with a whistle, maybe aerobic, maybe Kenny. And they were leading practice, which was fine. Now Pope's got fifty dudes that are doing something. All of them are doing They're everywhere. Everyone has an assignment. At one point, Cody fingers leading and everybody else shuts up. Another point, other assistants leading a little bit. Guys that I've never even seen in my life have an iPad out there given instruction.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: And let me say, some of you all that really didn't like the way you'd go, Well, Cow didn't draw up offense, you would be in heaven because they called time out and he pulls up the little clip board and he's drawn plays for practice for the scrimmage, overdraw and played. The scrimmage went to overtime, so he was drawing plays for practice and Collin shit, they were right in front of us, And Collin Chaan was like, well, no, what if we backcut like they were.

00:26:31
Speaker 3: I was just thinking, this is so the opposite of the last time.

00:26:36
Speaker 5: And I'll note the blue team, which are your starters, needed a bucket. With twenty seconds left, they called time out and drew up a perfect play where Noah Pump faked and hit Garrison for an open dunk. I mean that looked like a just a perfect smooth like you said to be. October and early practice, they're out there running sets and also just simply practicing in reparina. They were pumping in crowd noise.

00:26:56
Speaker 2: Well, let's mention that UK did not practice in Reperena under cow, which is kind of crazy if you think about it. They've now set up where they're going to practice two days before most games this year, not all of them because they don't always have the arena, but most days.

00:27:13
Speaker 3: And you and they pumped in.

00:27:15
Speaker 5: Crowded it got loud, crow they had to go the free throw line and they turned up the volume. Diabata and Jasper Johnson both made one and one to hit their team in it with the with the noise pumping.

00:27:26
Speaker 3: One person rights, Matt.

00:27:27
Speaker 2: I love the video of you with your mom because you look like a proud dad talking about his kid.

00:27:34
Speaker 3: When you were talking about your mom.

00:27:35
Speaker 2: My wife said, I hope our son looks at me the way Matt looks at his mom.

00:27:40
Speaker 3: Now that's very sweet.

00:27:41
Speaker 4: And now I thought, I'm trying to say that we got to see you as a proud son, and you were introducing your mom and dad to a new world, your world that you live in that they don't get to be a part of most of the time. So that was kind of cool.

00:27:53
Speaker 3: It was all right, one more thing before we go to the phones.

00:27:56
Speaker 2: What about what's happening in LSU.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: Honestly, it looks like, oh, brother, where art that? Like?

00:28:03
Speaker 2: I thought we kind of I thought we were past this time in American history.

00:28:08
Speaker 3: So Brian Kelly gets fired.

00:28:11
Speaker 2: I think most people's presumption is, okay, the AD's gonna hire. Next thing, you know, the governor gets up there. Not sure who asked him, but he gets up there. First of all, how come nobody told me the Virginia or the Louisiana governor sounded like that?

00:28:27
Speaker 3: Did you hear him? Yeah? He sounds like fog hornleg ho hees.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: I mean like the kind of what you want from Yes, if you're gonna have a governor, it sounds like that he needs to be from Louisiana. I just didn't know that, I gotta be honestly, I didn't know there were still people like that, Like I thought that was all relics of movies about the nineteen thirties. You know, I've been around people would buy you accents. But he usually don't end up the governor. So I don't know how somebody didn't tell me he sounded like that. He gets up there and he's.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: Just going off about college sports.

00:28:58
Speaker 4: You know, he sounds like some.

00:28:58
Speaker 3: Of our callers.

00:28:59
Speaker 2: Sometimes he's like college foksing route and uh.

00:29:05
Speaker 3: Then they say are you gonna let that?

00:29:08
Speaker 2: Like when is the ad gonna make the higher And he just goes Brian Wood, what has He's gonna have no role in this?

00:29:15
Speaker 3: We're keeping him away from it, And I'm like.

00:29:17
Speaker 4: Whoa, he is the athletic director.

00:29:20
Speaker 3: Why do you have an athletic director if he doesn't get to be part of the higher drew.

00:29:25
Speaker 5: It's the governor's in charge there something with the board.

00:29:27
Speaker 3: Help.

00:29:27
Speaker 2: Can you imagine Andy Basher staying standing up and going, Mitch Barnhardt will not be making this higher?

00:29:34
Speaker 3: Can you? I mean can you even picture that?

00:29:38
Speaker 5: No, not at all. I can't be doing that. What he say? What would even.

00:29:44
Speaker 3: Yet?

00:29:44
Speaker 2: Mitch can't be doing that. I mean he's up there. Wow, well, I say, I say it when I'm gonna have the wood one out now.

00:29:51
Speaker 3: And then uh so then he's They say, well, who's gonna do it?

00:29:54
Speaker 2: And he says, the Board of Supervisors, which is basically like our board of trustees.

00:29:59
Speaker 3: They're gonna do it.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's weird because like, how many of you even know who the chairman of the board of trustees is at Kentucky?

00:30:08
Speaker 3: Does anyone know? No, does anyone in here know? I don't, I don't know.

00:30:12
Speaker 4: Do you know who the chair? Do not know who it is?

00:30:13
Speaker 2: Okay, So imagine that was the person picking our next football coach. That's basically what they said. So they went to that guy. Yeah, now like, hey, so we're here, you're picking the new football coach.

00:30:23
Speaker 3: And he goes, oh, I didn't know that.

00:30:25
Speaker 4: The look on his face he didn't even know didn't know that was not an act. He didn't found.

00:30:30
Speaker 2: Out for the first time in front of the media that he was gonna be the dude picking the coach.

00:30:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, they said, you're heading up the committee, you know what you're looking for? Like, uh, first.

00:30:41
Speaker 3: I've heard this.

00:30:42
Speaker 5: I guess we're gonna go get a good coach.

00:30:44
Speaker 3: I was about to go home to Jamaica. I mean, what a what a show down there? Right?

00:30:51
Speaker 5: Obviously? Uh, this people debate which is the biggest job in the country. For me, it's not a question. This is the biggest job in the country that's open right now, and they do not seem to be on the same page whatsoever.

00:31:03
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:31:03
Speaker 5: Since moving on from Kelly, I.

00:31:05
Speaker 2: Mean, if you were Elaine Kiffin and you got like a pretty good situation at Old Miss and you out there seeing the government go I.

00:31:12
Speaker 3: Say, spa old Nanuel Flower hour like.

00:31:15
Speaker 2: I mean, would there be a part of you that say, maybe I just stay at Old Miss?

00:31:20
Speaker 3: Right?

00:31:21
Speaker 5: Oh, you don't want to go work for the guy who didn't know he was in charge of hiring?

00:31:24
Speaker 2: Is you or is you not my constituency? I would think you might move away.

00:31:29
Speaker 4: You definitely have found your next voice for the UK film credit. I just couldn't. I couldn't believe that guy. I couldn't let the let the governor do the governor things. Let the a D do the a D things.

00:31:40
Speaker 2: I mean, I listen, I like Andy Basher, But do I think Andy Basher should hire the next like football coach?

00:31:49
Speaker 4: No, not at all.

00:31:51
Speaker 3: That's not why you elect him.

00:31:54
Speaker 5: He's got other things going on.

00:31:55
Speaker 3: And the board, I mean, we don't know who the board is, like I mean, Mitch.

00:32:00
Speaker 2: Art for better or worse. There's the accountability of having a job and people know who it is, and if it doesn't work, people know who's at fault. I just I could not believe watching that scene yesterday. And you know, by the way, other governor's gonna do this. Oh yeah, like when's Ron DeSantis is gonna have his because I mean, Florida job's open. Florida State job might be open too, he might get two of them.

00:32:24
Speaker 4: Got a chance to get my name out there, get some people to support me. If I picked the.

00:32:27
Speaker 3: Right coach, it was crazy. Would it make you less likely to want to go there?

00:32:32
Speaker 4: If I was Lane Kiffin or another Yeah, if.

00:32:34
Speaker 2: You're not like a coach that that job would be the highlight of their career. But if you were Lane Kiffing, would you be like, yeah, I don't know.

00:32:41
Speaker 4: I don't know if I wouldn't want to tiptoe into that train wreck that's going on down there where Governor's trying to do the ad your your boss's job.

00:32:49
Speaker 2: I mean it might be good news for us, because if you're John Sumrall, who right now is the betting favorite for that job, there's a world in which he would say, well, it's a better job than Kentucky.

00:33:00
Speaker 3: But and Sheer's not gonna.

00:33:02
Speaker 5: Be calling me up like that, you know, and you could have a head start on getting some wrong while LSU doesn't even know who's supposed to call him. While they're tripping over their own feet. You have a little bit of an advantage if you want to give him a call.

00:33:16
Speaker 4: I love that video they the supervisor guy when they asked him, but you could tell a look at his face, he's like, what are you talking about?

00:33:24
Speaker 3: This is my prediction. I think that dude.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: I think that governor just got worked up, you know what I mean when he was talking, and I don't know if he thought the whole thing through, Like I can't imagine that he went on stage saying, i'most say the ad has no role in this, because then why don't you just fire the athletic direct Like why why is he the athletic director if you're not gonna let him hire the coach?

00:33:48
Speaker 5: It's a good point, why not.

00:33:50
Speaker 2: Just hire the dude who doesn't know what's going on as the athletic director. If he's gonna be the one hiring the.

00:33:54
Speaker 5: Coach, the governor's trusting his board and the board hasn't yet learned that that's part of me.

00:33:59
Speaker 2: Look, this is how wild it is. First take next segment. Louisiana governor to hire the FELLASU football coach. That's how you know it's crazy. The fact that they're going into a fi I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna take a break. Be right back to KOSR.

00:34:15
Speaker 4: Welcome back.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, So since we mentioned this, I guess you should know. We should know who the UK Board of Trustees are. First of all, if you go online to the UK website, looks like a group of partying people. I'm gonna speak up if you know any of these people?

00:34:37
Speaker 3: All right, ready to go? The chair is Brit Brockman, MD. Do we know? Do not?

00:34:43
Speaker 2: Claude Skip Barry the third who looks to be a nice guy. Do not Samuel Boone, Todd Case, David fig Ron, Gagan, Brenda god Knee, Jim Gray. Hey, there's one former mayor of Lexington, Janeye Greer, Lance Lucas, Elizabeth McCoy, Hannah Minor Myers.

00:35:11
Speaker 5: Oh shout out Madisonville you know her?

00:35:14
Speaker 2: Yeah wow, look at your too, Uh, Paula Leech, Pope.

00:35:19
Speaker 3: See Frank Shoop does he have a car dealership?

00:35:22
Speaker 4: Doesn't have a car?

00:35:23
Speaker 3: Shoop cars?

00:35:24
Speaker 4: Huh?

00:35:24
Speaker 3: All right?

00:35:25
Speaker 2: And then that's a staff member, faculty member and uh Bob Vance, I think he went to Trancy all right.

00:35:32
Speaker 3: So that those are your those are your UK board of Trustees.

00:35:37
Speaker 2: Those would be the people that would be hiring your your football coach in the.

00:35:40
Speaker 5: World, like l s u let's go win the SEC.

00:35:44
Speaker 3: You think that'd be ready for it.

00:35:46
Speaker 5: I think that's a good committee.

00:35:47
Speaker 2: Before we go the phones big game this weekend, Ryan Middlesbrough versus Sayer. Sayer High School is coming from the big city of Lexington, their little private you know, uniforms and and all that, and they're going all the way to Middlesborough, deep into the mountains. It's gonna be quite a culture shock for our folks at Sayer.

00:36:08
Speaker 3: The sort of you know down here in a.

00:36:12
Speaker 2: Rich part of town, gotta come all the way to Middleswoth Sayers eight and one Middlesborough's eight no final game of the regular season.

00:36:20
Speaker 5: What airport do you even have? They can handle there, there's gonna be Where are they who gonna farm?

00:36:24
Speaker 3: They're private gen. I don't know where they're gonna land.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: This could be the Class A state championship. These are two Class A powerhouse teams meeting down on the fields of Middlesborough. If you said Middlesborough's ain't no, must have been a hell of a recruiting year through the tunnel to get those recruits. We think we recruit well because you do. We do not recruit. Harriget, Tennessee has been good to Middlesborough.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: Harrigett has like three thousand people. Why do you act like there's so many people in here? They produce I guess a lot of good football.

00:36:53
Speaker 3: Tell it.

00:36:53
Speaker 2: Okay, So I was gonna I was thinking about this when I saw they were playing.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: Is there a bigger culture.

00:37:01
Speaker 2: Difference between two teams that could play each other than Sayer and Middlesborough?

00:37:07
Speaker 4: Well, when was it Martin County went to Louisville to play.

00:37:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, But the thing about Martin Care wasn't Martin, It was Jackson K Jackson, Jackson County in Iroquois is it at least the there is a cultural difference between West end of Louisville and eastern Kentucky, but they both are kind of economically similarly, very similar.

00:37:28
Speaker 3: I mean, Sayer is like, you know, champagne and caviar.

00:37:34
Speaker 4: It's Middlesborough. Middlesbrough is uh, chicken livers and beer. We do not our kids do not.

00:37:40
Speaker 3: Eat chicken livers and beer in Middlesbroo.

00:37:43
Speaker 2: I was gonna say loaded potato casserole and uh, but.

00:37:47
Speaker 5: But it all sounds good.

00:37:49
Speaker 2: So from that perspective, I mean, I would say Sayer is one of, if not the richest schools in the state.

00:37:55
Speaker 3: No doubt.

00:37:55
Speaker 2: In Middlesborough is probably one of the poorest schools in the state.

00:37:59
Speaker 4: And they both super football programs right now.

00:38:02
Speaker 3: So that's it's kind of that that's would be cool to see.

00:38:04
Speaker 4: Larry French kind of a blue blood football coach down there in Middlesborough. And then you got Chad Pennington, but that's another quarterbat.

00:38:11
Speaker 2: Pennington is the coach former Marshall and New York Jets quarterback.

00:38:15
Speaker 3: That's the Sayer coach.

00:38:17
Speaker 2: So anyway, I think Middlesborough at Bradner Stadium there'll be a big it'll be a big event this Friday.

00:38:24
Speaker 3: Who's next, Adam is a Adam? Go ahead, Adam?

00:38:28
Speaker 6: Hey, what's up? Mat? I really appreciate you sharing your story about your your parents getting to go to the besketball event meet Martin Pope. I kind of grew grew up in something similar that I was going to Kentucky football games very like four or five and just went with my grandparents and it just grew in me that I love Kentucky football so much because of that experience that I had with them. So I appreciate you sick sharing story.

00:39:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I thank you, and uh, you know, I appreciate the call for me.

00:39:08
Speaker 3: You know, when I.

00:39:10
Speaker 2: Growing up at the Mountains. The reason I love the state is through the basketball program, which was through my grandfather and just the you know I mean I had. I didn't go to Rapperina. I don't know that I ever went until college. I got to go see him a couple times in Thompson Bowling Arena. We would go watch Kentucky and I think we lost every single time we went. And then my grandfather and his friends would go to the SEC tournament, which became a tradition that I then continued with my friends thirty five years later. But uh yeah, there's something about being in Reperina, Drew, that's kind of like that. And you know you you were like you were there with life in a similar.

00:39:50
Speaker 5: That And I have the same connection with my grandparents. Their living room had a frame picture of Scott Pageant in ninety eight the Jack Given Sports Illustrated cover. It wasn't like family photos, but grandparents of living room was like a man gave from growing up. So I also think about them often when I'm doing stuff, like why am I here in the locker room right now?

00:40:10
Speaker 3: Yeah? I completely agree. Who's next? David is up there? David? Go ahead, David, Hey, Matt, what's going on? David?

00:40:22
Speaker 2: Good?

00:40:23
Speaker 7: I'm excited for the game tonight, and I just I just realized something last week. I was that this is the first time I think this is the first time Georgetown's been to up since they lost to Villanova nineteen eighty five.

00:40:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we talked about that yesterday, David.

00:40:38
Speaker 2: Not only is Georgetown not played Kentucky since eighty four, of course, this is.

00:40:42
Speaker 3: Their moment where they lost to Villanova.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: Here in Rupp Arena two in eighty five the.

00:40:47
Speaker 3: Uh probably the last.

00:40:48
Speaker 2: I guess that's the last time they've been to the national championship as well.

00:40:51
Speaker 3: So a lot of memories for both schools.

00:40:55
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess that's what them moving the up was Kara for beating us any eighty four is how I see it?

00:41:02
Speaker 2: Well, it was did did you go to You didn't go to the Georgetown Villanova game?

00:41:06
Speaker 3: Did you? No?

00:41:07
Speaker 4: I remember watching it on TV? Though, who is It's Saint John's? There were three teams in the Big East. Who's the fourth team?

00:41:11
Speaker 2: I know the answer? Do you do you want to guess? Do you want to know who? The fourth team in the Lexington Final four was? Georgetown, Villanova, Saint John's. And you may hear no, I know, I don't say it, David, I know. I'm okay, Well, I'll I'll let you gay if it's if if nobody hears knows that? Wait a minute, did you look it up?

00:41:29
Speaker 4: David? No?

00:41:31
Speaker 7: I just remember, I just remember it.

00:41:33
Speaker 3: Okay, what is it? Memphis?

00:41:36
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that Memphis, that's right, except back then it was Memphis State. Keith Lee. Yeah, could call well done? Well, David, and I I hope you enjoy the game tonight. All right, A five twenty two eighty six games big for both fan bases.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: They haven't been back to RUP since one of their worst moments, and we haven't seen Georgetown since eighty four when they knocked us out. So both teams Tames have some revenge to get you feel good about us winning tonight.

00:42:03
Speaker 3: I do.

00:42:05
Speaker 5: I'm not sure about Aberdeen because he didn't practice, but Georgetown's.

00:42:08
Speaker 3: Like, had they said something about him?

00:42:09
Speaker 5: No, I didn't.

00:42:10
Speaker 3: I mean he didn't practice at all.

00:42:11
Speaker 5: He was in uniform, but he nothing.

00:42:14
Speaker 2: He in low basically did the same stuff, which is not a lot during the practice. We'll take a break and come back out. Number two. I have a weird story to tell you right after this