2025-07-01- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Off Broadway where we're we're Mattless, We're Drew Less, and we're Shannonless Billy. So it's just the two of us, and so we've got a kind of some special guest line up for today.

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Speaker 3: A little bullpen game.

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Speaker 4: Huh, it is a bullpen game. It's a good way to put it. As always, every episode of Texsports Radio sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office called DJ what happens, Billy.

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Speaker 3: He'll make them pay, He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 4: We'll have our whiskey thief call today.

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Speaker 2: The Avision Glass text machine is off with Matt But if you got my cell phone number, we'll use that as davision glastext machine. Today, Matt's due to travel day where we're to have another baseball analogy travel day, bullpen games. He's got a travel day. Drew and Shannon are both on vacation. Drew's in Denver, Shannon is down in his second home away from home, Panama City Beach. So we had to figure out a way to feel make the show kind of entertaining today, Billy, so back him up with a good idea to have a different guest every thirty minutes, kind of you know, refresh the show. Hit the refresh button every thirty minutes. We've got four special guests lined up to come in and join me at KS Bar. I'm actually on the patio at KS Bar and Grill this morning.

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Speaker 5: Well, I hope you have your journalism hat on or I hope you're gonna ask some tough questions today.

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Speaker 3: Who's our first guest?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know the big story this summer coming up in a couple weeks gonna be the TBT Tournament. Yeah, so Sean Woods is the new head coach of the TBT team, so we're gonna get him in. He actually, Sean got two new jobs this summer. We got talking to me about both of the new jobs he accepted. But he's the coach of TVT, so we're gonna start off talking about him talking basketball. Second half hour, we're gonna switch to football, and we've got former UK player Cisco Bryant, whose son is Ty Bryant, gonna be one of the leaders of the defense, maybe the leader of the defense this year at UK. So we'll have football in the second hour, and then the third hour, we've got an NFL player, guy currently playing in the NFL. We had him on the show last year, Devin Key. Uh, he's gonna come and sit join with us with the Denver Broncos. And then Billy I'm really excited about the last thirty minutes. Yeah, Rob Bromley, legend, Rob the KYT retired sports anchor, it's gonna come in. We could do I could do two hours with Rob easy, We're gonna do it in thirty minutes, and he's gonna he'll be our cleanup hitter.

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Speaker 4: Then today, how do you like the line up?

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Speaker 5: Okay, I like it a lot. It's got a lot of potential. Ryan, So let's let's let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Cause like face it this time of year. Matt talked about it yesterday, you talked about it on the pre show. There's nothing going on. I mean, it's kind of blank stares. But with the TVT tournament coming up, you know, tickets are going to go sell, and that's it's a big deal. This way they do it to get people to go because if you win, you get a host. Then the well, I guess they call it the Regional the following weekend, right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm hoping the Cats can win and meet Louisville again, even though I know if those two teams met it would be at Freedom Hall. As long as Drew doesn't get sucker punched, you know, and nobody gets spit on. I'm really looking forward to that matchup again.

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Speaker 2: Well, believe the rosters all finalized. I don't think they've been having any practice yet. So why Shawn he comes in here right now and talk about a little bit. Outside of that, Billy, there is really not a whole lot going on. And then Matt other than Matt complaining about the Reds every year every year, and he comes on every day when he comes on, except brother Shawn Woods is getting ready to join us. Now Shawn Woods number eleven from the University Kentucky Wildcats.

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Speaker 4: Unforgettable.

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Speaker 2: But but you're no longer a former player. You're an old man coach. You're a coach now. And you picked up two new jobs is and I won two new jobs this summer.

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Speaker 6: Uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah did did did did did well.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about the TVT job first, obviously, because that's that's coming up.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: That's like you guys playing, like what two weeks, two weeks you're playing two weeks a week from Friday.

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Speaker 4: It's about two and a half weeks.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen day yet July eighteenth, I think the day you guys play, have you had any kind of practices or have you seen your team at action yet?

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Speaker 6: No, we have, they don't. The guys don't report until the eleventh.

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Speaker 4: We got that.

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Speaker 6: We have a big time twenty twenty Beckham, who's done a great job. I think he needs to be in the NBA front office for somebody. But we have an extravaganza weekend weekend of champions where former players come come back and you know, giving away backpacks and things like that for starting up school. And then on Saturday there's an all star game where former players, especially.

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Speaker 4: Locally, will be playing in it.

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Speaker 6: And then the guys report on Sunday, our first meet and then we kick it off far as practice starts on Monday.

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Speaker 4: So the roster set though, right, is it? Right? Yeah? I don't. Willie's back.

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Speaker 2: Will He's back. The Harrison Twins are back. The Harrison Twins are had an Anthony Almanor from this past UK team. He's playing with you guys too, right? How about that? How about that?

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Speaker 4: Uh? You got the DeAndre Liggins is playing. We got.

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Speaker 6: Willie Carley Stein Archie Goodwin, who's one of the top five players in the in the in the tv T last year. Yeah, we got the Aaron I mean the the Harrison Twins. Of course, Khalil Whitney. Forgot about Khalil Whitney. He committed to play. And then we got you know, DeAndre Niggins, who's who's a monster. We got the Darron Lamb and we got Corn Cancer coming back, who's Ian's Cantor's brother, who was the MVP of the league last year.

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Speaker 4: He was a tv T.

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Speaker 2: You needed him because he's like a big, big butt, big brawler guy in the middle.

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Speaker 6: Do you need he's a guy that you can go to the well and go get a bucket.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And then we also uh got Dj Burns who played at Murray State and also played for me at at at Southern, who led the country and offensive rebound. So we got some We got a pretty decent team.

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Speaker 2: Man, you feel pretty good about when you look at the roster. It makes it as a coach.

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Speaker 6: Doubt about it. I think we're deeper. I think we got more guys that are gonna come in.

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Speaker 4: And in shape.

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Speaker 6: Uh that's been playing and Uh, I think we got some guys that you know, last year was it was was an experience for us, and Twiny did a great job and and also Tyler did a great job of just collaborating getting all these guys together. But what what what really gets you is the pride of Kentucky. Once these guys come back and they see that crowd and they see that man, these people still remember us and cheer for us and things like that, because those guys last year didn't know how relevant they are because you know, they only were here for eight months and then they hadn't been back since. And uh to come back and and and and only play at a university for a year and still get that type of you know, gratification and that love. It was an eye opener for them, and I told them, you know, uh, you know, I know we were just you know, this is a little deal. We were playing for a million dollars, but it's bigger than that, you know. It's is still whenever you put blue and white on and you're playing around, you're playing in the Commonwealth. It's like playing again when you're in school. And you never be more relevant than you are at the Universe of Kentucky. I don't care where you played professionally at. You know, I told Tyler, I said, Phoenix Suns don't remember you. I told Willie Kolinstein, the Sacramento Kings don't remember you. You know, but you're always going to be relevant for the rest of your life here at the Universe of Kentucky. So why not whenever you have a chance to represent this give it. You're all like you used to. I think that's why it was such a success last summer.

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Speaker 2: In fact, what you said, these guys came back felt the pride of putting that Kentucky jersey on, and the fans loved come in the Kentucky Jersey when.

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Speaker 6: They went to the game, no doubt about it, and they witnessed that. And then after the first game I told them, I said, hey, man, we're gonna stand out here and we're gonna sign every autograph until everybody leaves. And that's when it started to get back in their souls. Man, we are back at Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know it was really really like this because when those guys came here, they didn't have the University of Kentucky basketball tradition on their mind. They had this. They came in as a stepping stone. This is where I needed to go play for cow because he's going to have it give me an opportunity to play in the NBA. It wasn't about the sole impact of what they were giving people in the Commonwealth. It wasn't and as a young kid and you're not and that's not going through your souls, not being taught every day. They didn't get that, right, They didn't. They didn't, you know, they were trying to Oh my gosh, you know what I'm saying. And it was very surprising, but it was eye opening to me that not only is this a new generation Okay, But when we came here, and everybody up until then came here, it was about playing for Kentucky. I got an opportunity to play for Kentucky. Now, as you see, it's turn in full circle. Even though these kids are transferring in. Every last one of these kids didn't get recruited by Kentucky, but they wanted to. Now that they have an opportunity to play for Kentucky after going someplace else, it's like, Wow, I get my opportunity to play at Kentucky. You don't understand what I'm saying. Yeah, oh yeah, they're not freshmen. They're already seasoned as college athletics, I mean college athletes and college basketball players. They're better, they have more experience. But man, there's still a pride about there is. Wow, I'm playing at Kentucky now, you know what I'm saying. These guys didn't even recruit me coming out of high school. But man, now I get a chance to play at Kentucky. Oh my goodness. It's it's twofold now and we're getting some cads that you know that that are humbled enough to be so excited to put that uniform on. And now they're searching for the pride and the history and things like that, and you can't beat it in this day's society because of transferring. And I al, there's no pride nowhere, but the only place that you can get that pride from is right here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's probably why Willy Harrison Twins want to come back and play again this year, no.

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Speaker 4: Doubt about it.

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Speaker 6: I think, hey, WILLI wants to move here now, you know, because he you know he But but Willy for the most part, spent more time here than most of those guys. He did three years, remember, so he has more time of and more experience living here, becoming more appreciative of who he was as a University Kentucky athlete more so than those other guys.

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Speaker 4: And that plays a difference.

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Speaker 2: Now, the last year the games were at rough moving the games memorial costume this year, and if I'm not mistaken, there's four games on Friday the eighteenth, and thank you, guys may play the Blast one the last.

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Speaker 4: So there's eight teams in this region.

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Speaker 2: You feel pretty good about getting out of the region and maybe enough people come by the tickets we can host the regional.

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Speaker 6: Then after that, well, I think so you know what I mean. And the good thing is we do have home court advantage. You never know because we don't know who the other rosters just yet of the other teams, But when do.

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Speaker 4: They have to be turned in?

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Speaker 6: Y doesn't have to be turned in for a little bit, so you know it's hard to do.

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Speaker 4: You got a good other guys added to your roster.

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Speaker 7: You think we may have one one more.

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Speaker 6: Really we may have one more.

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Speaker 4: Really they had one more.

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Speaker 6: So that that telling you what, man, twenty Beckham is the best. And I'm not saying this just because we're working together right now. Twenty Beckham is a really smart individual and I think he really would be good in the NBA and the front office for somebody. That that's how much I think of this young man. Well, everybody was here last year. They said the reason they were here was because of twenty twenty. Convinced me that this, well, I would have fun.

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Speaker 2: We get a good competitive team, because you don't want to come down here and not have you have a competitive group of guys exactly. But even the roster you just laid out, do you kind of know in your mind who you're starting five is probably gonna be already that's kind of tough.

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Speaker 6: But you know what, I'll tell you this. I got a bunch of toys in this Christmas time, and I'm gonna play with every last one of them.

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Speaker 2: I promise you that they do the battery right there now, not the thing that the batteries don't last very long in these guys. You know, guys are geting a little older now, exactly.

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Speaker 6: So you know last year when when they sustained left, that was a big blow. Yeah, because not only was he the best player on our team, he was the best locker room guy. He was everything for us, and when he left, it kind of killed him a rale going.

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Speaker 4: Out to Philadelphia. Yeah, but who's your locker room guy this year? Out of your roster? You think, who's that guy? I don't know yet.

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Speaker 6: I don't know. I have no idea, you know, because you gotta remember, now, besides the guys that I coached last year have coached last year, I don't know these guys. These guys are a lot younger than me, that's true. But that's the gratification that I'm getting because I get to meet these young guys and I get to hear their stories or their experience at the University Kentucky for the little time that they were here, and they get to hear mine, you know what I mean from from I mean, it's it's hard to say, and it's hard for me to swallow, but I am an older statesman. Now you're compared to these guys, the guys, so my history is enough to where they could capture their attention. And not only that, show my appreciation for those guys.

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Speaker 2: Also, he is Sean Woods. He's gonna be here for another second. We got to talk about your second job that you took this summer. You took not just one coaching job, you took two coaching jobs since you were last with us.

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Speaker 4: So if you got a.

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Speaker 4: They've been a good part with us for a long time.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back Ryan Leman here on the patio of Ksbar and Grill because we've.

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Speaker 4: Got a kind of a.

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Speaker 2: Carousel of special guest Sean, you're the lead off hitter. You're the first one. Shawn Woods is here. We talked that whole first segment about your new job being the TBT coach, which I can't leave you. Guys don't even start practicing until the eleven and then you play one week later.

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Speaker 4: On the eighteenth. I guess you could have three practices a day though, if you want to. Oh yeah, we're uh, we're gonna get after that problem. Shod that.

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Speaker 2: So your other job you picked up this summer, you were named the head basketball coach at Scott County high School.

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Speaker 4: So I've really not seen you since the congratulation. Appreciate it, Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: You know, Billy Hicks was a living langend out there at Scott County. Every time I can Scott County High School basketball, I think of Billy.

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Speaker 4: Sicks, know that about it. Did a great job.

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Speaker 6: You know, is one of the top coaches in all of Kentucky high school basketball and and created a tradition, uh and and an aura of you know at Scott County that that's unpeccable, especially in the state. I mean, you know, when you speak of Kentucky high school basketball, you gotta you gotta put Scott no doubt, no doubt. And he he created that and and you know it's I got some shoes to you know, some pig shoes to feel.

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Speaker 4: But I'm looking forward to it because you always, as a coach, want to.

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Speaker 6: Go somewhere where basketball is important and and you got backing, you got support. It's hard to go to a place where and be successful at a place that nobody really cares and turn that deal around. So I'm stepping into a great situation. I'm looking, you know, looking forward to it. You know, they haven't you know, been as successful as they have been the last three four years, but you know, the buzzes out and the excitement started, and I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: You're right, Scott County. They're in the late nineties, early two thousand run. They were in the state finals every year, won the state championship. Last couple of years, it hasn't been quite what Scott County basketball expects, So I guess that's a big part of what you're trying to do. Bring that love and tradition back to the fan base of Scott County basketball.

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Speaker 6: Well, Scott County, Scott County, you know what I mean, And that's the history of Scott County. You know, they got a new school which we all know, you know, Great Crossing, who had a generational talent in Malicy Marino, you know who. It was kind of weird how it happened, you know, coach Hicks retired. The coach there now was the middle school coach who had those kids, and it was almost like a natural feeder to him because he had the relationship with those kids growing up and they all went with him to Great Crossing. Then he did a great job at Great Crossings, really taking advantage of the talent that he that he had, especially with you know, Malachymarno, And when you have a seven footer like that, who doesn't want to be involved and join that type of team because you know he's gonna get recruited by everybody in the country. So if he's getting recruited by everybody in the country, shoot, I just want his leftovers from the colleges that he's not going to consider that come look at me.

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Speaker 4: So it was timing big time.

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Speaker 2: Well, best of luck to you over in Scott County as well as TVT. But before you go out, we got to talk to UK. I mean, you know, you did some basketball pregame shows with us. You know you were still kind of involved with watching the team. Was what was the one thing you left most impressed about what happened with last year Mark Pope's first year at UK.

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Speaker 6: He solidified what Kentucky basketball is all about. He made Kentucky basketball fun for the Commonwealth again. He gave our team back to the Commonwealth and that's what that what has made Kentucky what Kentucky is. You know, you can't go away from the Commonwealth being at Universe Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: This is the Commonwealth's team.

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Speaker 6: This is what makes it Kentucky unlike any other place in America. And he brought that back. Not only that, you know, his first year. You know, no matter if you're a former player or not, no matter how good you are, you're still nervous because you're you're coming into the best place in all the collage sports to be the head. Even though you were a player here, you know, and you've been to BYU, you've been to the Utah Valley, but this is Kentucky. And I thought he learned on the fly, and he made adjustments on the fly. And I thought he maximized that team as much as he could given the circumstances.

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Speaker 4: I thought they were pretty good. I thought he had silent guys.

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Speaker 6: I thought he had solid personnel guys, and you gotta have that. I thought he had the right chemistry at the right time for his first year. You know, he didn't have any prima donnas. He had guys that were hungry and excited and really appreciative of putting that uniform on. And I thought he got everything out of them. I think he learned now that you got to teach defense, you know. And I think that's what he went and did this year. He got some guys not only that can run his system and can shoot the basketball, he got some tough guys that are defensive minded, that came from tough teams that defense was a fixture of their deal. And now, you know, I went over there one day last week and it was a different type of aura.

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Speaker 4: Really, it's a toughness era.

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Speaker 6: I thought last year was really just good old guys, won't shoot the basketball. You know, seventy five percent of your practices are really just shooting offense. And he really hangs his hat on, you know, their offensive system. But he realized this is the SEC, and it's a grinding conference, and if you don't play defense, I don't care how much how many points you score. Because you know, at the beginning they were scoring a lot of points, but once they got into the deep the think of things in the SEC, those ninety point games were not that you know what I'm saying. They came down to defensive possession things like that. So he made sure that that wasn't gonna be the case this year. He's playing defense more this year. Part of his summer this year is really implementing toughness on defense, how you play defense. They worked on that a lot, and that's who I am. So that's very, very refreshing to me to see these guys really really getting after from a physical standpoint. And you got some competitors. Last year, everybody wanted to be friends with each other. This year, this is getting pretty chippy. It's competitive situation. Ready, it's competitive, and these guys want to play. And he brought in some dudes, and he brought us some competitive dudes, so you know, and the biggest thing and God works some mysterious ways. Alway is going to be a twelve year pro. I think, I really do think that. I think he's going to I think because of who he is is work cat. I think he's a great locker room guy, and he's gonna be like a Keith Bogan's uh type type of kid uh that can that can just last in the NBA because the shot is gonna get better. But I think he's he's got all the other intangibles from as far as winning. He's tough, he defends, he offense, rebound, he'll guard the other team's toughest best player. And once he gets making that open jump shot, because in the NBA, you ain't got a breakdown no more. You know, you got to be good at one of two things. He's never gonna be the guy out there dancing with it, creating for others. He's gonna be the guy who's sitting there waiting on the shot and then guarding the other team's best player. He's gonna be the modern day Bruce Bowen. Remember Bruce bowing for the San Antonio Spurs. That's who I see that Totaga, that's Totega. Get a couple of minutes. But fans, are you know we're crazy?

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Speaker 4: Anyway?

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Speaker 2: Is this a roster that most fans believe can get to the Final four?

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Speaker 6: If he can get to the Sweet sixteen throughout injuries last year, yeah, okay, And if they can shoot the ball seventy five percent just as good as they did last year, I think they can. This team has the making to get to a Final four simply because I think they'll be tougher defensively, okay, which they can match the Houston's and the Saint John's and.

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Speaker 4: The people like that.

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Speaker 6: You know, at that level, that Ectly, that elper echeline level to the Connecticut's.

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Speaker 4: I think we'll be able to compete with him. From a physical and defensive.

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Speaker 6: Standpoint, I think his offense is going to take care of itself, and I think he's got a point guard that's a really good playmaker that doesn't.

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Speaker 4: He's got to be good, right, Low has to be good. I mean, I know Lowe's dad.

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Speaker 6: I've been knowing low since he's a little bit of kid because they come from the John Lucas Tree in Houston. If low can sustain and be the guy that we want him to be, he's got to be tougher. Though defensively okay, there's questions about him. But if he can be that guy, the the straw that stirs the coffee with what he brings, he's a He's a pick and roll jewel. If he can stay healthy and stay tough and match everybody's intensity. From a defensive standpoint, Kentucky is a player and has the potential just as much as anybody else to get to the final four.

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Speaker 4: We need to hear.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what we need to hear, Sean woods Man, best of luck to you next to the next couple weeks with the TVT team, and best luck next year at Scott County man. Thanks for coming out. Appreciate you, buddy, Shawn Woods number eleven. Talk you a while, Can I forget it?

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Speaker 4: We right back. Special Guest number two is here.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna bring you on. We come back r after this break. I recognize that voice, Billy, that's our boy.

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Speaker 3: It's our guy, Shannon the dude.

00:22:32
Speaker 2: Alice Blueground. This is the new song. This is bent correct, that's correct.

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Speaker 4: You know it sounds pretty good. You know.

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Speaker 2: We hate to brag on him too much, Billy, because then his head gets so big. But they're actually really really good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really proud of him, and I really liked this song too, So he keep it up.

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Speaker 3: Alice move.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you when they had that concert down at the Virginia in Somerset, something about the acoustics and the sound system and everything in that place was awesome. I told him, I said, dude, you guys have never sounded as good as you did tonight.

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Speaker 4: So, uh so, I hope they're.

00:23:04
Speaker 2: Enjoying their vacation down to Penna. We should probably call Shannon today to see if you think.

00:23:08
Speaker 3: You think he'd answer and enjoy.

00:23:09
Speaker 4: Well, let's let's try it one segment.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio, right and Billy here, we are live on the patio, Chaos Bar and Grill kind of got a uh a rotation of special guests come in. We had Sean Woods the first segment talking basketball. Now we're going to talk some football with Cisco Bryant. Cisco former Kentucky Wildcat, father of Ty Bryant, current Kentucky Wildcat. But we talked during the break. We're all three have Indiana tized very much. So, Yeah, Sean grew up in Indianapolis. I grew up around Jasper not well in Indiana. And your family is from Indianapolis. Yes, on the nap town that. But you actually went to high school on Bowling Green.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, bowling you're high and bowling your high purple.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know I got onto you before because Bowling Green has had to play Frederick Douglas. When your kid is on Frederick Douglas and you're kind of torn in the middle, I'm noting who am I gonna be with Frederick Douglas or the Bowling Green Purples.

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Speaker 8: I wasn't torn when they play in the state title. Blood is sticker than water, Yeah, I was all federate dodmis.

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Speaker 2: Well, I saw you before the game, like where you sitting that you sit on today. I've seen you at the Bowling Green games. Yes, and you're all Bowling Green one of and lets they're playing.

00:24:15
Speaker 8: Uh a family member, I'm a purple uh and and what it is is real quickly because first of all, thanks for inviting me, Layman.

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Speaker 4: It's your first time on the show.

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Speaker 8: First time because I'm I I'm not you know, uh d Key who gets invited all the time.

00:24:29
Speaker 7: You know your boy he's just you.

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Speaker 2: Know, he just retired. Yes, I know I heard that. I think he retired yesterday. So Lord help us. Look at hell be I can't get him out of my pool. He'll be in my pool every day.

00:24:39
Speaker 7: I don't blame him.

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Speaker 4: He deserved it.

00:24:41
Speaker 8: He deserved it. But yes, the first time I've been on the show. And again, thank you for the invite. When Bowling Green going real quick back to that, when Bowling Green plays anyone because Bowling Green administrators, uh coaches make formal players feel welcome.

00:25:01
Speaker 7: That's why I love Bowling Green.

00:25:02
Speaker 8: I say that the people let me show up or let anyone that's part of the program in the seventies, eighties, two thousand open arms.

00:25:11
Speaker 7: They make you feel proud to be a purple.

00:25:15
Speaker 2: When did you graduate bowling Green eighty two eighteen, So you were Kentucky from eighty three to eighty seven, Yes, eighty three to eighty seven. So you play your entire career for coach Clayburn.

00:25:23
Speaker 7: Coach Jerry Clayburn was his first class that actually went ten to one. It would be tough o ten and one.

00:25:30
Speaker 8: Then the next year we came right back and end up losing in the Hall of Fame Bowl to West Virginia on a very cold day, and then the.

00:25:39
Speaker 7: Next day it was eighty degrees.

00:25:42
Speaker 2: You know, Freddy Magaret talks so a lot about Jerry Clayburn and like he became a father figure to you guys. I mean, his players loved playing for him. They loved that man.

00:25:52
Speaker 8: Well, let me phrase it the best way you can. When you're seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty, he got on on the herbs.

00:25:59
Speaker 7: Okay, that's okay. But once once.

00:26:02
Speaker 8: You realized and you got older, you realized that he was teaching you for not for seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty, he was teaching you for being a man twenty one on the whatever age that God blesses you to hand that with.

00:26:16
Speaker 4: So let's talk about UK football. Please.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: I want you to talk as a former player and a fan. First, we'll talk to you about a dad here in a minute. Okay, As a former player and a fan goes to the games, what do you think what was the problem last year?

00:26:30
Speaker 8: Well, as I looked at as a fan and having my tickets and I'm setting now I've been there before my son got there. To go back to that real quick, it was like pleasing, as I said, as a fan and a coach, and it looked like they were trying to do this, that and that, and there was no identity. And I mean that not negative toward anybody, but as a as a big time football program, you got to have an identity. Now, all the receivers at Alabama, not doing the comparison, but all the receivers that Alabama guy had in the NFL, they were a running team. There was no doubt they don't run the football. They had some guys that could do it. And I just thought that that that was different. And I thought that a lot of times it didn't geil together as a unit because if you play for the name in front and you a stud, you're going to get accolades. There's no question about it from my mind. And I looked at it from that perspective because we had some guys back in the eighties. I mean, you had a backfield with George Adams, Mark Higgs, Mark Logan, average o'hunter, NFL, the NFL all at the same time. So why did it all get along? Because everybody understood their role and you can't get four studs like that. And then you had myself as a receiver, Joker Phillips as a receiver, Cornell Burbrite as a receiver, h you know, Oliver White as a tied end I mean, and Eric Pitts also.

00:28:06
Speaker 7: As a receiver.

00:28:08
Speaker 8: You just have to jail, and you got to realize we're all good and we're all going to get paid sooner or later.

00:28:13
Speaker 4: Do you agree or disagree with the thought that a lot of people feel like the culture slipped a little bit in the locker room and the program and maybe that's led to a lot of the issues on the field.

00:28:24
Speaker 8: Yeah's actually that's a great question. It's actually a yes and no question. Culture, sometimes players.

00:28:32
Speaker 7: Has got to make it. They got to make it happen.

00:28:35
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:28:35
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:28:35
Speaker 8: You know, people look at coaches and I say that biasedly because I'm a coach, But players make plays, players may play.

00:28:43
Speaker 4: Sure.

00:28:43
Speaker 8: Uh, there's not one coach that I've ever known in my life that said I'm going to college play because I know it ain't gonna work. Every play that you call, you think it's going to work. So with that said, I just think that that right there was the biggest thing is yes and no in situations. I don't think it happened like all the time one way or the other. It just sometime it would happen in situation. Their culture is like Alabama, just keep going to Alabama because we're very familiar with their success. Sure Alabama to me is they get down to it. What is the biggest thing that Nick Saban used to do? He will Nick Saban his offensive coordinator, he will nick sable him, He'll go ring, yell at him.

00:29:26
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, we're running the ball.

00:29:28
Speaker 8: I think sometimes you have to say this is our culture, this is what we're going to do, and we'll go for now.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: Do you think with the roster that's like I think Phil Still just predicted Kentucky to finished fifteenth out of the sixteen the SEC team.

00:29:42
Speaker 7: I disagree.

00:29:44
Speaker 4: So do you feel like there's more talent on this team and the rosters better than we're giving them credit for.

00:29:49
Speaker 7: I do. And I said this on a previous show.

00:29:53
Speaker 8: I said, when I go and I watch their practices, and I've been to quite a bit before they have the break, it was nice.

00:30:02
Speaker 7: It was yes, sir, No.

00:30:04
Speaker 4: Sir, this is just this year.

00:30:05
Speaker 7: This year. It was amazing.

00:30:09
Speaker 8: It wasn't any negative emotion going on, you know, because you know, I'm gonna walk around and and and they they they allowed me.

00:30:17
Speaker 7: I say that, I appreciate that.

00:30:19
Speaker 8: Coach students, and I'm walking around, but I ain't saying nothing. I'm just taking all all in. And I just saw a lot of hustle, a lot of full speed. Not I didn't see Holly. I didn't see anyone.

00:30:33
Speaker 4: Uh.

00:30:33
Speaker 8: Second guess in the coach. Second guess in what it was called offensive, defensively or special team.

00:30:40
Speaker 7: And I think that's that's football. Winning football should say.

00:30:45
Speaker 2: How is the Vince Merrill departure gonna affect the team?

00:30:50
Speaker 4: You know?

00:30:52
Speaker 7: Again? Second great question, Leomon, that's why you get paid.

00:30:54
Speaker 4: But outdoor dashing in the evening. That makes some money.

00:31:01
Speaker 8: But I think that's a little different. I think people took it the wrong way. To me, there's a big difference if your OC been here twelve or thirteen years and he leaves, or your DC been here at twelve to thirteen he leaves. I think keeping that in cores is not as big as Vince leave. Vince leaving is a big deal, but it doesn't truly affect their offense or defense or special team because he wasn't a coordinator. And to me, people got to look at that. That makes the big difference. If White would have left, that would have been a problem. Yeah, because now you got to learn a whole new system. Now you got to learn a whole new scheme, which.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: Is kind of the offense went through. They had, yes, Liam Cohen, you know, they had some different the offensive coordinator three or four years in a row.

00:31:48
Speaker 8: It seemed like, yeah, you can't be successful unless you have a success system. And all you have somebody's coming up behind you that's running your system. And that helped, Like I'm a forty nine, forty nine ers defense has been awesome because each when the one defensive coordinator left the next one was the linebacker coach. Okay, yeah, he's with the we got far from the Jetz. The other one that's with Texas Texan excuse me. And and what that said is this past year has been tough because he was an outsider coming in running the defense. So going back to the Vince statement, it does affect because I'm a miss seeing him. Great guy, fantastic person, But it doesn't affect as much on the field based on offense, you know, offense and defensive coordinators.

00:32:34
Speaker 4: Were you surprised I was shot? I was shocked. I was shining of It was kind of odd to me.

00:32:39
Speaker 8: Thiman was very odd and the toiman could have a little bit adding onto your question, Lemon, the timing could have been worse for the kids who are embedded into him, who loves him.

00:32:50
Speaker 7: Yes, I think.

00:32:52
Speaker 8: That's what bothered me, because you know, you bring a kid to here and you set in the parents family. I've done that and I had that done, and all of a sudden, the person that brought you there is not there. Yeah, makes a difference, makes it. It does make a difference. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our break.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: When we come back, We're gonna talk to you about now you can put your dad hat on you had your former player had on. You already got a hat's gott number fourteen on it. Ty Bryant, your son. We're gonna talk about that and if you've got a question about UK football, we'll open up to you. The Clarks Puppy Shop phone number eight five nine two eight oh two two eighty seven. Ryan Leyman, Billy Religis was Cisco Bryant, we come back. Don't gona take a sports radio?

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Speaker 2: I guess that's Cormoradhim dot com code USA cormorated Kim the Good. So I'll leave at the USA. I think they messed it up there earlier in the cut in the copy. All right, welcome back, Ryan Levan, Billy Religie here Kentucky Sports Radio. We are live on the Patti Old Kas Bar and Grill today. Kind of got some every every the thirty minutes. We have a new guest and we've got Cisco Brian here now former Kentucky Wildcat football. We're gonna help you put your dad hat on. You've got a number fourteen hat on right now, the Tye Bryan hat. I mean, how cool is it to watch your kid play for the team you played for and I just play play very very well.

00:34:58
Speaker 7: Thank you.

00:34:59
Speaker 8: Well, I appreciate that. Uh, it's it's surreal, it really is. And I I'm I think the biggest part before he did as his freshman year and when he came in and he got on the field and I said in the same section for the last six years before he came and uh and my my wife, his stepmom, Terry, made it crystal clear to people around them, watch your mouth on fourteen because you know, when people get a little grown full strengths in him, they get a little to forget that's somebody's child.

00:35:33
Speaker 7: And uh, so it's been very good, uh.

00:35:36
Speaker 8: Just watching his development, watch his strength, watch his knowledge. But he's always had that and uh because he was you know, me being a coach taught that to him at a very young age and how to watch film and not just look at the film of watching how to break them down. So he embedded that when he came up to the University Kentucky and and then coach White and coach Pafano, they both saw that.

00:36:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I've got to watch him growing up over the years playing as well with Dane and you know you guys playing summer ball, baseball.

00:36:07
Speaker 4: He's a good baseball player.

00:36:08
Speaker 2: Yes, he's become a great leader, and I expect he's going to be the leader of definitely the secondary, maybe the defense this year.

00:36:15
Speaker 8: Well, I think so being a leader also knows you got to do what it takes on and off the field. You gotta and academically as well, because the leader has to lead in all three categories. And you know, he's got a four point zero gpa academics as well. And he's just uh, he just wants it and he wants to win for the University of Kentucky, not just for himself. So and no other kids see that. Other young kids see that.

00:36:42
Speaker 4: Now.

00:36:42
Speaker 2: He came on KSR in April with Drew Franklin, right, everybody was just raving about what he had to say, how he handled himself. I know that has to make you feel proud as a dad. Yeah, he's a great athlete, but he's also a very respectful young man.

00:36:56
Speaker 8: Yeah, he very much so is when he was young. And I tell people this all the time. When he was young, every time we used to practice doing interviews when he was like five, six and seven years of age, and every time he would say, you know, and Jerry clay Worn used to say if they knew, they wouldn't ask the question. So I remember that. So we used to have to run for that for saying, you know, so I did the same thing. He had to do push ups. So every time when I would talk to him about an interview, and he got that down and know you knows, you know, just Paul's and uh and so and his major is in telecommunication. So he wants to be a broadcaster. He wants to be.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: He's gonna have He's gonna take our job someday. He's gonna come back after he finished his his NFL career, go Ty Bryant Radio.

00:37:45
Speaker 8: Yes, well, I think a lot of it to me has had a lot to do with uh with him is finishing, finishing what he's uh, what he's doing.

00:37:56
Speaker 7: And here at the University of Kentucky on.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: I got a couple of minutes. Why do you used to holler yankee at him? Yankee Yankee?

00:38:02
Speaker 8: Yankee, Okay okay yankee is if you remember that, I remember that I stood do. Yankee is a name that a friend of mine as a US marshall, and he said, when Tye was a little he said, you need to let Ty say a certain name. Okay, he needs to say something, so if somebody grabs him, you will automatically go and get him. Everybody, says Dad. And the example he gave. The example he gave was when a car alarm goes off, people just look first. By that time your child's gone. You need to react. So Yankee. He used to watch this show called Yankee Doodo. It was a baseball bat and that was his show. But Yankee is in Lexington. Nobody thinks of the Yankees. So if he says Yankee to me, I'm running. If I say Yankee, that.

00:38:51
Speaker 7: Means right now.

00:38:53
Speaker 8: So even today at twenty if I text him and I say Yankee, he knows I need to speak with him right now.

00:38:59
Speaker 4: It's urgent. Sorry, Dad needs to talk to you to say something. Yeah.

00:39:02
Speaker 7: So so here, I.

00:39:02
Speaker 4: Remember seeing you on the sidelines, Yankee, Yankee, Yankee.

00:39:05
Speaker 2: He'd immediately looked right at you and you're pointing out something to have him do or coach coaching on the sideline.

00:39:10
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, quite often, quite often, but you know, and and feeling up on the question you said, it's been very fun. I'm looking forward to him moving around on the defensive side of the ball and showing his talent. He's he's very talented. He's very aware of what's going on in the coach White's defense.

00:39:27
Speaker 2: I really think he's due for a breakout year. I think he's the guy in the secondary. He's due for a big breakout year. Proud of him, man, I appreciate you coming and joining us a little bit and work side to hell see how he plays out this year and in the NFL.

00:39:40
Speaker 7: God's willing.

00:39:41
Speaker 2: All right, Cisco Brant, appreciate you, brother. All right, we'll have another special guest coming up. He's already here, Devin.

00:39:47
Speaker 4: He you.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a little NFL football. Can you believe Devon's in the NFL? Let me that guy right there is in the NFL.

00:39:52
Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing, is on Devon. Okay.

00:39:54
Speaker 8: I didn't know his brother as much. I coached Devon at brian Stage station in the secondary, so it was very exciting and we.

00:40:04
Speaker 4: Heals everything to you his NFL career. You were secondary.

00:40:06
Speaker 8: He ran my defense at Brian's station and made me look good. I can tell you that right now. Well, thank you again, Okay, I appreciate it. Sischo, thank you.

00:40:13
Speaker 2: Before we go to break we do want to give a shout out Billy to Peanut. One of our callers calls the pre show calls a KSR involved in a really bad traffic accident. He's apparently, Billy, he's doing okay, but he's he's banged up pretty bad.

00:40:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be a long road to recovery. They had to use the jaws of life to get him out of a car accident. But I think he is doing better now. So sending our thoughts and prayers to Peanut and his family.

00:40:36
Speaker 2: Shout out to Peanut. Absolutely, hang in there. I kind of when he calls you, guys, you can't hear him. He's usually on some heavy machinery. He's trying to call in, you can't hear him. But he's become a good caller. And I know a lot of people down there worried about Gary and Orlando sent me a message about it, and I think Casey Hayfellers has got some information that you can reach out to him if you need to. All right, well, take our break, come back. Devin Key of the Denver Broncles will join us. This is Kaeky Sports Radio.